The Ministry of Industry has been doing its best to expand the scale of ore mining and smelting, including the open-pit coal mines in Shanxi, and are working overtime to meet the needs of the country.

Zhu Jianji was originally reluctant to exploit domestic resources on a large scale.

But the imperative must be met.

However, the mining on the Indochina Peninsula is still in its infancy, and the output has not yet risen, so it is necessary to increase the scale of mining and smelting in China to meet the demand.

When the resource exploitation of the Indochina Peninsula is on the right track, the domestic production capacity can be reduced.

Coal and oil, these non-renewable energy sources, or use foreign countries first!

Zhu Jianji talked to this point, but he never mentioned Yu Qian's matter, the meaning was already very clear, and Yu Qian didn't say much, after all, His Majesty was kind.

The monarchs and ministers drank, talked about family and national affairs, and looked forward to the future, and were very happy.

After the meal, Zhu Qiyu went to Shoukang Palace.

Empress Dowager Wu's health has been getting worse and worse recently, and she can't hear it at all, and she is in a daze there all day long, and even except for the Zhu family, she no longer knows the palace maids around her.

And his hands are shaking lightly all the time.

The Imperial Physician was helpless about it.

I can only watch her grow old day by day.

Zhu Jianji was helpless.

If nothing else, the imperial grandmother should be Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and now she has just forgotten about the palace maid and the chamberlain, and in a few days, I am afraid that she will not even know her two fathers and sons.

After all, he is a seventy-eight-year-old man, two years older than Yu Qian.

Yu Qian returned to the house.

He is not very willing to stay in the military department now, he is old, and He Jian and others on the side of the military department are in charge of the overall situation, although everyone in the military department is still only Yu Qian's first sight, but Yu Qian wants to leave the opportunity to young people.

So I simply didn't go to the military department, so as not to make He Jian and the servants of the military department afraid.

At the moment, the Ming Dynasty is less than one less than Shaobao, and the impact is not great.

Zhu Jianji took Li Shunda out of the palace and went straight to the Donggong Military Research Institute, which was restructured in the armament supervision and is now completely privatized and belongs to Zhu Jianji's royal industry.

The original officials in the Donggong Military Research Institute, if they wanted, could directly go to the National Military Research Institute to serve.

Remuneration and rank remain unchanged.

After all, the officials of the National Military Research Institute belong to the imperial court officials, so there are many people who go, including Gasol, a gunpowder expert.

Of course, most of them still stayed in the Donggong Military Research Institute.

Nowadays, there are basically no people in the Donggong Military Research Institute and the National Military Research Institute, because there are too many firearms projects in the two academies, and the manpower was once very tight.

So no matter where it is, there is a good development.

In order to let the Donggong Military Research Institute retain talents, Zhu Jianji raised everyone's treatment during the restructuring, and the expert talents of the Donggong Military Research Institute still enjoy the country's "academician" treatment.

Nowadays, there is an academician system in the two academies.

And academicians belong to state officials!

However, only the most skilled and the oldest group of people can be included in the academicians, these academicians are the leaders of various projects, and in addition to the original salary, they also enjoy an academician allowance of thirty taels of silver per month.

The pay is quite high.

Therefore, the annual income of the academicians of the two academies is converted to nearly 1,000 taels of silver, which is higher than that of most local officials.

Of course, now the year-end performance bonuses of all officials in the Ming Dynasty are very high, almost half a year's salary, which has been implemented for several years, laying the foundation for high salaries and honesty.

When the expansion of the Ming Dynasty is over, it is time to rectify the rule of officials.

And the food of the king, the worry of the king.

The academicians of the two academies did not disappoint Zhu Jianji, so that the level of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was continuously improved, and even created a cross-era artifact such as the steam engine.

Arrived at the East Palace Military Research Institute

In the hospital, Shi Xin received Zhu Jianji and Li Shunda in the official room was Huang Lingsheng, the deputy president of the Donggong Military Research Institute, who was already loyal to the country at work.

In fact, over the years, the Donggong Military Research Institute and the National Military Research Institute have really exhausted a group of people.

There are also many professionals who have fallen ill due to fatigue.

Huang Lingsheng is the same.

Although he was born as a Jinshi, and he is also a Jinshi of Jingtai's sixteenth year, he is only in his thirties this year, but he is already like a little old man in his forties, but don't underestimate his old age, in terms of the comprehensiveness of the theory, he ranks second in the entire two houses, and no one dares to call him the first.

This is the advantage of Jinshi in scientific research.

The absorption of knowledge is particularly fast!

Huang Lingsheng listened to Zhu Jianji's intention, his face was not very good, and he sighed, "Your Majesty, Weichen is not whitewashed, the research and development of firepower heavy artillery proposed by His Majesty is actually not difficult, in fact, the principle of firearms is mostly the same, especially my Ming Dynasty's current mastery of the technology of flowering bombs, which can be said to be groundbreaking, but the kind of firepower heavy artillery used by battleships needs primer gunpowder, the demand performance is too high, and it is currently stuck in the gunpowder process of primer fire, as for the barrel of firepower heavy artillery, it is a problem of the Ministry of Industry Steelworks, and I heard that it has not been solved."

The firepower heavy artillery needed more than a thousand catties of shells.

What kind of gunpowder is needed to use this as the primer, and the gun chamber has to withstand the destruction of the heat generated by so many tens of catties of gunpowder and the powerful energy waves, which requires the performance of steel to be extremely high.

Zhu Jianji bowed slightly, "In terms of principle, you have already figured it out?"

Huang Lingsheng said: "In terms of principle, it is the principle of the flowering shell, but it has been optimized and improved, but it is the same, and the bottom fire is always needed to provide the flight energy of the shell, and the performance of the gun chamber is also a hard technical indicator."

Zhu Jianji hummed.

looked at Li Shunda, "Look, it's not that I don't want to, it's that the Donggong Military Research Institute and the steel mill haven't overcome the technical difficulties yet, so let's not bother Shi Xin, let's go home."

Li Shunda sighed and asked Huang Lingsheng, "Huang Yuanling, can you give me an approximate time, and my side can also arrange according to your schedule."

Huang Lingsheng smiled helplessly: "Master Li, how can I have a definite time for this thing, maybe a year or two, maybe tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!"

The matter of scientific research is uncertain.

Zhu Jianji's heart suddenly moved, and said to Huang Lingsheng: "At present, the black powder we use is actually very advanced, and if we want to improve the performance, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, so the performance of the gunpowder will not be done for the time being, let's modify the index parameters of the shells, because I suddenly found that the shells of the firepower heavy artillery I said before have thousands of catties, now think about it, it should be wrong, it should not be 500 catties, probably only 3400 catties, in this way, the current black powder should be able to meet the performance needs of the primer, At the same time, the steel mill needs to further find ways to increase the weight of the steel used in the shell casings to reduce the overall weight of the shells."

Huang Lingsheng: "......"

After thinking about it, "Actually, I didn't tell Your Majesty, the Military Research Institute has already revised the parameters given by Your Majesty, and the weight parameters of the shells of the firepower heavy artillery developed this time are set at about three hundred and fifty catties."

After a pause, "But just like that, the gunpowder still needs to improve its performance, and at the same time, the gun chamber materials in the steel mill also need to be improved, so please ask Your Majesty to let the Dengzhou Shipyard wait patiently."

He added: "But the good news is that more than 100 pieces of heavy artillery have already been qualified for testing and can be installed at any time."

Zhu Jianji: "......"

Your sister!

You're kidding Lao Tzu!

At present, the Dengzhou Shipyard is about to be completed with two cruisers, one shell and more than 100 heavy firepower guns, which are completely sufficient, and even exceed the standard.

Because the cruiser wants the intensity of firepower, not the strongest destructiveness.

He glared at Huang Lingsheng angrily and said, "Don't say it earlier!"

Huang Lingsheng was not afraid, and raised his neck and said stiffly, "Your Majesty didn't ask either."

Zhu Jianji: "......"

Yes, you are an expert, you have backbone.

He said to Huang Lingsheng: "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, 48 pieces of such heavy artillery were built and delivered to the Dengzhou Shipyard and equipped with corresponding ammunition, can the Military Research Institute do it?"

Huang Lingsheng, "Where's the money?"

He is the deputy of the Yuan, of course, for the sake of the Military Research Institute, since it is not a state institution, it is impossible to make weapons for the country for free.

Zhu Jianji almost had a heart attack.

Get......

I have to find Chen Xun.