"Chen Xun?"

Zhu Zhanyan looked at Chen Xun, his eyes were full of meaning.

"I think you're in a hurry, isn't the cabinet chief assistant not busy enough for you, and you need to add more burdens?"

"By the way, you don't have an heir, right? Not only did he have no heirs, but he didn't even have a family. ”

"Hu Hui, this matter will be handed over to you, you pick Chen Xun and see if there is a suitable one."

……

Seeing that the topic was gradually drifting away, Chen Xun hurriedly lowered his head.

"The minister's matter is a trivial matter, after all, the minister only needs an eldest son to pass on the incense, but you can't do it, Your Royal Highness."

"You said before that if you want Daming to stop following the old path, you can only divide the kings, at least those areas where the transportation is not very convenient."

"When the time comes, it will be the same as Emperor Taizu Gao thought, no matter how chaotic the world is, this meat will still rot in his own pot."

"But what about you now? Although this family is completed, it has been almost ten years, and you still have no heirs, which is not in line with the strategy you prepared in the first place. ”

"Even if you plan to cultivate His Royal Highness King Jiyang, this is not enough."

"Well, you don't have to worry about this." Zhu Zhanyan waved his hand.

Talking to Chen Xun's subordinates about these things, although he had long known that when he reached his height, the concubines, heirs, and even sexual affairs would become official affairs of another situation, but he was still a little unaccustomed to it.

"How's the craftsman I asked you to gather going?"

"Back to Your Highness, the news has already been passed on, although it is not possible to reach all the states and counties of Daming now, but the ones close to Shuntianfu and Yingtianfu have probably arrived."

"As for the final result, the minister has not yet estimated, after all, there is no precedent for this."

A few years ago, Zhu Zhanyan once asked Chen Xun to order to convene craftsmen from all over the world, and the initial quota was about 10,000 people.

However, it is not the same as in the past, when craftsmen were called in the past, there was a high probability that there was something to do, such as building the Great Wall and digging canals.

But this time, Zhu Zhanyan summoned not only craftsmen, but craftsmen and their families, that is to say, let the craftsmen bring their families over.

"However, His Royal Highness, the Prince......" Chen Xun looked at Zhu Zhanyan, who was very satisfied, and stopped talking a little.

"What's wrong? Straight to the point. "Zhu Zhanyan was a little strange.

Chen Xun's thoughts...... How so? It is said to be novel, but in fact, it is also old in Zhu Zhan's opinion, because Chen Xun's novelty is compared to this era.

But this novelty is the most common thing for Zhu Zhanyan.

"It's a bit ...... to educate craftsmen."

Chen Xun wanted to find a suitable wording, but he couldn't find it after thinking about it.

Speaking of which, Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhanji, the two cousins, are really somewhat similar, because the first thing Zhu Zhanji did after ascending the throne was to reuse eunuchs, and even prepared to teach eunuchs to read and write.

You must know that in the Hongwu Dynasty, the eunuch can be said to be the lowest person in the palace, although he waits by the emperor's side, but in fact, his status is not as good as that of the palace maid, and only a few who can please the master will be respected by those palace maids.

In the Yongle Dynasty, the status of eunuchs has improved, but it is also absolutely forbidden for eunuchs to study, because eunuchs have the task of passing documents, and it is likely that something will go wrong.

But when he arrived at Zhu Zhanji, he began to teach eunuchs to read and write.

Zhu Zhan Yan does not agree with this approach, although it can be said that nine out of ten people in this world cannot resist the corrosion of power, but compared with others, the group of eunuchs is more likely to be corrupted.

They have no offspring, and when they have no status, the eunuchs' only hope is money, but when there is a possibility of going further, almost all of them will try their best to climb up.

In Zhu Zhan's view, eunuchs are more dangerous than other groups of people, because from other people's perspectives, family members, heirs, relatives and friends may be a weakness, making them throw into the mouse, but eunuchs do not have this weakness.

Especially at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, many eunuchs didn't even have family members, and there was no deterrent effect on them at all.

After Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Zhanji began to teach craftsmen again, which couldn't help but surprise Chen Xun.

"Chen Xun, what do you say, how about white phosphorus eggs?"

Chen Xun didn't hide it, and Zhu Zhanyan had already expected this situation, so he guessed Chen Xun's thoughts very easily.

"Good."

Although Chen Xun also thinks that the white phosphorous egg is a little suspicious of hurting the heavens and peace, if it is from the perspective of war, I have to say that it is a very useful weapon.

For now, white phosphorous eggs can be said to be dimensionally reduced, and it cannot be said that they will win, but they are not far behind.

"Then what would you think if I told you that the invention of the white phosphosphere egg was actually based on the craftsmanship of craftsmen?"

Chen Xun lowered his head, and Xia Yuanji and Hu Hu also looked at each other.

They...... No, it should be said that Xia Yuanji and Hu Hu didn't understand Zhu Zhanji's words very well.

"This minister agrees." To everyone's surprise, even Zhu Zhanyan thought that Chen Xun would give this answer.

"I didn't care too much about it before, but now that I think about it, didn't the gunpowder get it from those alchemists? Later artillery and muskets were similar, even catapults. ”

"So ......," Chen Xun raised his head.

"Do you have that in mind? However, the minister did not agree very much. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it. Zhu Zhanyan asked with interest.

It was the first time he had talked about it since he could remember, and he had never told anyone about it, not even his father.

You know, if a person's idea is half a step ahead of the times, it is called a genius, but if it is one step ahead, or even more than one step, it is a madman.

"Pardon your courtesy, do you want to make more inventions like artillery happen? But in Chen's view, these inventions have too many coincidences, compared to the investment......"

"Not proportional."

"I'm not going to say anything else." Zhu Zhanyan smiled when he heard this, and gently knocked on the bookcase.

He had to reverse Chen Xun, and all Han Chinese who thought about it.

"If all this investment I make ends up with something like the current artillery, or even white phosphoryl eggs, is it worth it?"

Chen Xun was silent when he heard this.

There is no doubt that it is worth it, the artillery is relatively normal, at least it is not impossible to defeat, but the white phosphor is really not good.

Burning extremely fast, like a maggot on a tarsal bone, it is also poisonous, and the burning flames can not only block the mainstream infantry and cavalry of this era, but can even deal damage even without direct hits.

Of course, the main reason is that this era is too backward, but you have to admit that white phosphorous eggs are now the weapon that occupies the top position.

If this kind of weapon can really be developed, it will undoubtedly be worth it, but this is not what Chen Xun wants to say.

What Chen Xun wants to say is that this kind of thing is full of too many uncertainties, first of all, it is not sure whether there can be a result, and secondly, even if there is a result, I don't know if it can be useful, and finally even if it is useful, the lethality or other effects may not be comparable to the investment.

But now he can't convince Zhu Zhanyan, because the white phosphorous egg is what Zhu Zhanyan took out, and it is a weapon with a dominant position.

(End of chapter)