Daming's craftsmanship has room for growth.

For example, during the Xuande period, the masonry Lu Xiang, with the landscaping technology of stone blocks of square inch size, made the Ming garden technology develop rapidly, and then became the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, and his son Lu Hua worked as a general translator in the Siyi Pavilion, and also mixed a drought and flood to ensure income;

For example, during the Yongle period, Kuaixiang, the chief engineer who supervised the construction of the Ming Dynasty Jingshi Beiya, and finally the official went to the Ministry of Industry;

In April of the 36th year of Jiajing, the central axis of the palace caught fire, and the carpenter Xu Gao completed the restoration of the central axis under a very limited budget, and built the Yongshou Palace, which eventually became the secretary of the Ming Ministry of Industry;

Give the Ming craftsmen a chance, the Ming craftsmen, will really give the emperor countless miracles.

During the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty improved the treatment of shipwrights based on the demand for the Western Ocean, and the Ming craftsmen created the Fortune Boat, a sea monster, to power the South and Western Oceans (Indian Ocean).

And Zhu Yijun gave the Ming craftsmen the opportunity, the surging power of the Ming Dynasty to open the sea, is the Ming Dynasty's official factory group building, this is the core of the Ming Dynasty, to maintain the Ming Dynasty to maintain the advantage of commodities and then use high added value to plunder.

The treatment of the craftsmen themselves is second only to the soldiers of the Beijing camp, and there are all kinds of treatment, such as starting silver, New Year's silver, and all kinds of rice, flour, grain and oil, and the children of the craftsmen can study in the regiment, and even women can study, read and learn arithmetic in the weaving academy girls' school.

Cast it with a peach, repay it with a plum.

And today, Wang Daokun entered Beijing, and Zhu Yijun got an auspicious rui.

Wang Daokun is a foreign official into the court, he is not promoted by Jingtang, for Jingtang, he is a foreigner, he did leave from Jingtang and went to Songjiang to be a governor, but as soon as he left Beijing, he became a foreign official, and his identity is more multiple, he should be the Zhejiang Party in terms of background, but he has been crying out for Hu Zongxian all the year round, and he has taken refuge in the Zhang Party, and Kaihai is His Majesty's arbitrariness, and he belongs to the Imperial Party.

The reason why Wan Shihe can be a panacea is because he is an extremely pure emperor, and Wang Daokun has a very, very unsightly title with a multi-faceted background, three family slaves.

Such a complex identity made it difficult for him to move forward.

So he needs a credit to sit in his place, simplify his complex background, and try to go further.

"Your Majesty, please see." Wang Daokun slowly pulled open the red silk cloth, which was not covered with an assembled model, but a large number of parts.

Wang Daokun first took out the mainmast and keel, and said: "The hollow steel mainmast and the pure steel keel, as well as the beams, the turbulence at sea exceeds the limit of the wooden boat, especially in the case of high speed. ”

"The water is soft, but in the case of extremely fast speed, it will become as solid as a rock, and it is beyond its strength to hit the stone with an egg, but if it hits a stone with a very fast egg, the stone will also break."

The force is mutual, and the warhead fired by the Ming firearm is lead, and even if it hits the rock, it will make a big hole.

How to solve this problem, Daming craftsmen have given a solution, that is, steel, not iron, but steel, mast, keel, beam, hull will be wrapped with a layer of steel to prevent disintegration.

Wang Daokun held the keel beam, a bit like a fish bone, a beam from the keel extension, Wang Daokun said that the new type of ship, is the Ming Dynasty in order to adapt to the current maritime trade environment of the fast sailing ship, the structural strength of the ship has a hard requirement.

Wang Daokun installed all the masts on the keel, and the prototype of a ship appeared, and then he picked up the hull and said: "Our hull is a double-layer design, with a layer of beech wood on the outside and a layer of steel plate on the inside. ”

The power of the sailboat is still wind power, the keel beam and mast have been made of hollow steel, so for faster speed, the hull is more reasonable, everything is for greater cargo capacity, everything is for faster speed, time is money, and the growth rate represents greater profits.

After Wang Daokun assembled the hull, he lifted the model that had begun to take shape, pointed to the hull and said: "We have canceled almost all the cabins on the deck and put them into the interior of the cabin, on the deck, only the captain's cabin is retained, and the entire hull is a three-layer design, because of the steel keel design, we no longer need ballast stones at the bottom layer, from the bottom to the top, the three-story cabin, each of our floors can accommodate more than one million catties of cargo." ”

This design is very, very bold, with a lot of simplification above deck, which is from Taixi's shipbuilding experience, and the three-masted plywood ship and the five-masted sea-crossing ship are all references to this design, while the new ship shown by Wang Daokun goes a step further and retains only the captain's position.

Compared with the current artillery on the deck, the gun position of the new ship is below the deck, and the hull of the ship's three-deck has a gun mortar for cannon shooting.

With Wang Daokun's gradual explanation and assembly, a model of a five-masted ship with a very flamboyant shape appeared in front of Zhu Yijun.

(Youlong - Five-masted flying shear fast sailing ship)

And the sail of this ship is no longer the traditional hard sail of the Ming Dynasty, but the horizontal sail, that is, each piece of the hard sail is cut to become a separate sail surface, the entire cabin, all are covered by the sail, the bow, stern, both sides of the ship have different small sails, the shape of the hull is very beautiful.

The ratio of the length and width of the waterline of the Ming hull is constantly increasing, from the initial three to one, to the current six to one, its underwater shape, designed to have less resistance, the overall center of gravity of the ship and the hollow bow, so that the ship is easier to raise its head during the voyage, which can ensure the stability of the ship's navigation.

At high speeds, the ship is positioned with its hull almost touching the sea, with long, pointed hull curves, like a sharp pair of scissors cutting through the sea.

"The length of the ship is thirty-three zhang, the shape is three zhang eight feet one inch, and the depth is one zhang nine feet six inches, the freeboard of the ship is extremely low, and when sailing on the sea, you can almost only see the sail surface, and the length of the mainmast is more than twenty-four zhang, which is three-quarters of the length of the ship, and the expected load is 3.4 million catties." Wang Daokun put the assembled ship on the table.

Zhu Yijun stood up and came to the front of the ship, if according to Wang Daokun, it only takes three months to cross the Pacific Ocean, then it only takes about six months to start from Songjiang Province, cross the Banda Sea from the south of Java to the Cape of Good Hope, cross the Atlantic Ocean, reach the Strait of Magellan, and then take the equatorial current to Luzon, and finally return to Songjiang Province.

The expected load is 3.4 million catties, a pound of Daming is 596 grams, and the carrying weight is about 2,000 tons.

"How much does it cost?" Zhu Yijun looked at the ship and asked.

Wang Daokun knew that the most critical place was coming, and he said in a low voice: "It costs 100,000 silver to build such a ship, which is about twice as much as the current five-masted ship." ”

Ordinary people seem to be stingy, but Wang Daokun has always been at the forefront of opening the sea, and His Majesty's investment in opening the sea is extremely generous, but the cost of this ship is really too expensive, 100,000 taels of silver, one-fifth of the tomb of Emperor Longqing.

Zhu Yijun's brows furrowed when he heard this, he was not reluctant, it was this boat, and it was still a big cake painted by Wang Daokun at the moment, and if he wanted to eat this big cake, he would need at least 1.5 million silver.

This ship from the drawings to the real thing, at least need 1.5 million silver research and development and improvement costs, the design of the Ming Dynasty from the degree bypass, began to gradually accurate, the five-masted ship D type from the drawings to the sea, it cost the imperial court 720,000 silver, before the final trial production was successful, the process of trial production more than three years.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "If this is sold, a ship sells for 90,000 taels of gold, I think, Felipe and Akbar will be very interested, including the Queen of England, of course, if they want to buy this thing, I can't sell it to them." ”

One tael of gold is about equal to fourteen to sixteen taels of silver, which is the listing price of the Ming Dynasty's current material abundance, and a ship that occupies the advantage of commodities is not too much to earn fourteen to sixteen times in the context of the current great voyage.

In the history of humiliation in the past century, the whole world has formed a consensus that advanced ships will form a substantial ban on Taqing, and even the ships built by Taqing themselves will be restricted by various means, including but not limited to restricting the import of raw materials (teak), Tatar-registered ships cannot be guided, cannot be cleared through customs, are not allowed to replenish and trade in colonial ports, purchase and annex local shipyards in Taqing to prevent free trade in Taqing, and so on.

The closure of the Tatar Qing after the Opium War was a system of the Tartar Qing court under the Manchu and Han dynasties, and it was also a blockade of the world.

It is not a question of whether to open up or not, it is a question of national security and sea power, and the five-masted ship is still the category of Taixi galleys, which are bloated, have a small cargo capacity, are slow to navigate, not easy to turn, and not flexible enough.

After the appearance of the new ship, the five-masted ship became Mrs. Niu, to which Zhu Yijun could only say: loved.

"How long?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Wang Daokun bowed his head and said, "Three years." ”

Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "I will give you two million silver, and I will make this thing for me in three years, and I will allow him to slow down and carry less cargo, but I want to see this thing." ”

Zhu Yijun took the booklet in his hand and read it for a long time, many of the data are most similar to the clipper in his impression, but the clipper is not as good as the thing in front of him in some aspects, especially the strength of the hull.

"A million silver is enough, enough." Wang Daokun hurriedly said, he has not yet become the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, so he let His Majesty explode two million silver gold coins, he is not worried about the errand is smashed, since he dares to carry the model to the Wenhua Palace, he is confident, if he deceives the monarch and fools the emperor, it is to underestimate the fetters of the nine clans.

There really isn't a need for so much silver, and the purchasing power of silver is now very strong and strong.

"Two million, capital out of the internal funds, Feng Daban, do you still have silver in the internal funds?" Zhu Yijun looked at Feng Bao, and had to ask the big housekeeper how much he had in his small treasury.

"Yes." Feng Baoyan answered His Majesty's question concisely, the cash of the internal treasury is about 4.72 million silver, and two million is less than the point of breaking the muscles and bones, and the Huangzhuang, Kaihai Houli, and the tariff of the Municipal Shipping Division are continuously injected into the internal treasury, and there will be 5 million silver by the end of the year.

"Thank you, the emperor." Wang Daokun saluted again, he knew that as long as he built this ship, the position of the Ming Duke would be stable, and it was not an unattainable dream to enter the cabinet, which official didn't want to climb up, didn't want to progress, what kind of official?

Zhu Yijun took out a year's military salary in Beijing, and one-fifth of the annual Ming military expenditure to promote this matter, and it was Zhu Yijun's insistence that thrift, but where the money should be spent, it still needs to be spent.

The first broad young man in Beijing is he Zhu Yijun!

"Your Majesty, the state treasury can come up with a million silver." Wang Guoguang hurriedly said when he heard this, the household department has also figured out one thing over the years, follow His Majesty, eat meat and drink soup, the emperor's internal money wants to get rid of the state money and invest, don't even think about it!

After the results are obtained, to build a boat, the household department is afraid that it will have to give an extra 100,000 silver to the internal treasury!

"These ministers are all indifferent to fame and fortune, regard the glory and wealth as a passing cloud, call the money vulgar, and do not bend their waists for five buckets of rice as noble, and when they hear that they have the opportunity to make a fortune, they immediately pounce on it? What is this called, this is the eyes of the money! Feng Bao teased Wang Guoguang in a weird way, and slapped Zhang Xueyan by the way.

These two guys, more than once, slapped the table against His Majesty, slapped the table with Kaihai investment, slapped the table with military expenditure, it was simply lawless, seize the opportunity, Feng Bao, the emperor's minions, of course, have to bite twice.

"Your Majesty is the son of the great tomorrow, how can you abandon the country and ignore it?" Zhang Xueyan immediately said loudly, face? How can silver matter? There is no silver in the household, the dog is disgusted when he sees it, and the household with silver has to be slapped twice by the dog passing by, and no one dares to put his beak yet!

Zhang Xueyan is responsible for collusion, when he encounters the opportunity to make a fortune, he naturally wants to charge into battle, such a good opportunity to be the owner of the original stock, Feng Bao is to scold the sky, and it is impossible for the household department to miss it, this new type of ship is a big meat, the Ministry of Industry can eat it, the internal government can eat it, and the household department must also eat it!

"Then the state funds and the internal funds should be halved." Zhu Yijun glanced at Wang Guoguang, Wang Guoguang had no deference!

If the internal funds are invested separately, all the profits will go to the internal funds.

It's a pity that it's getting harder and harder for state money to fool.

"Your Majesty, please give the ship a name." Wang Daokun bowed his head and said.

"Dancing like a frightening dragon, graceful like a dragon, the first high-speed sailboat, let's call it a dragon." Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and gave a name, and it was a very serious name, not as casual as a landlubber, this is a big event to open the sea, not a toy like a pedal rail car.

This ship will go down in history, and if it has a name, it is better to be serious.

"The name! All right! Your Majesty is really Wenjiang Xuehai, as the so-called: the water country is tens of thousands of miles, and the end of the world is endless. What is the reason for the closure of the boat? Across the ocean like flat land! The name Youlong, good! After hearing this, Wan Shihe immediately sent four sycophants, and in order to praise the name, he composed a poem on the spot.

The name of the emperor, this ship can be regarded as the emperor's name of the boat, the overseas country of Fanyi on the ocean is far away to tens of thousands of miles, just like the end of the earth is extremely far away, after getting the name of His Majesty to seal the boat to the sea, what kind of performance will it be? Crossing the ocean is like walking on flat ground.

This is the blessing and expectation of Daming Kaihai.

The courtiers of the Ming Dynasty looked at Wan Shihe with disgust, ashamed of being together, His Majesty gave a name to be able to shoot various styles of sycophants, it was really a flattering minister, but I have to say that Wan Shihe has never photographed the horse's legs, this is the great ability of the Ministry of Rites.

Zhu Yijun waved his hand, signaling Wan Shi and the convergence point, he asked if there was a model like Wang Daokun, if there was only one, then Zhu Yijun would collect it himself, and not give Zhu Yijun it, if there was any superfluity, it would be okay to give Zhu Yiyi one.

Wang Daokun is very deferential, he brought two models, and Zhu Yijun gave Zhu Yijun one, which can be regarded as the noisy friendship of the courtiers.

Guo Chaobin will leave in February, this is a matter that has been finalized before, the Ministry of Industry will be handed over to Wang Daokun, and the court discussion can continue to be carried out, the content of the court discussion is very much, the Ming Emperor, the courtiers, determined the direction of the empire, just like a fleet, a good captain, can lead the fleet through danger and obtain huge profits.

To Zhu Yijun's special surprise, the Ming Dynasty lost thirteen ships in the direction of Ryukyu to Mexico, seven of which returned smoothly and arrived at Songjiang Prefecture, although there was not much cargo on board, but these seven boats broke into a bad sea and caught a large number of crabs, this kind of crab is huge, the size of ten adult palms, three pairs of extra-long feet and a pair of chelicera, the body is purple-red, and the meat is extremely delicious.

Zhu Yijun only received frozen crabs, he tasted a bite, did not eat more, because frozen crabs are dead things, as the emperor can only eat fresh ingredients, this is also part of the etiquette, for food safety, he gave the remaining six to Zhang Juzheng, Wang Chonggu and Tan Lun, and even Wan Shihe got one.

After the New Year, Zhu Yijun took Queen Wang out of the city, saying that it was Zhu Yijun who went to Miyun to reclaim the wasteland, and Zhu Yijun took the officials of the Baoqi Division to work in agriculture.

Reclamation is a very tiring thing, Zhu Yijun wants to reclaim the plot of land has no natives, and there is no dense forest, it is not hard, if there are natives in the dense forest, then the difficulty of reclamation will be infinitely higher.

The first enemy Zhu Yijun has to face is the withered grass, which has burned the wilderness last autumn, as the spring flowers bloom and the temperature rises, the ice and snow in the fields melt, and the land becomes dry.

The grass roots of the wasteland are extremely developed, the perennial barrenness leads to the wasteland is very porcelain, every time you wave the pickaxe, you have to use force, and the price of force is to knock on the stone, in the wasteland, there are not only grass roots, but also stones, after the pickaxe turns over the loose soil, and then use a nail rake to gather the stones and grass roots in the wasteland to the ground, spread it between the road and the ditch and the ridge, and then use the hoe to break the grass roots, and then use the hoe to break the grass roots, and repeat three times, this is deep ploughing.

After that, there were no stones, grass roots, and grass seeds in the field, and this thing needed a small hoe every three days, and a big hoe every five days.

Zhu Yijun is busy with state affairs, he is the easiest first step to open up the wasteland, tired and tired to work all day, and it is the appearance of less than a cent of land, as the Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun can go to the field is already a great luck, but also wear short brown under the shirt and pants, and work hard in the field to turn over the stones and weed the roots, harrow the ridges, this is already called the family of agriculture.

It is true that the symbolic meaning is greater than the practical meaning, but Zhu Yijun really knows the hard work of the poor coolies.

But these are only a small part of the farmland, and it takes at least three to five years for a piece of land to go from wasteland to permanent land, and once it is abandoned, it needs to be cultivated again.

"On the afternoon of hoeing day, sweat drops into the soil, who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard work." Zhu Yijun returned to the big jade chariot and was ready to return to the palace, he was the emperor, wearing the stars and the moon, just embarrassing the soldiers defending the city.

Wang Yaozhuo leaned on Zhu Yijun's body, she caught more than a dozen grasshoppers today, she was pregnant, she just went out to play, His Majesty likes to take her out to play, because the eldest son was born, the mother is expensive by the son, and even the Empress Dowager Li can't take care of this little couple.

Wang Yaozhuo shook his head and said: "The poet Li Shen, who wrote two poems of compassion for farmers, is a good official, but no, no, after his death, his reputation has become worse and worse, and some people say that he has to eat 300 chicken tongues in one meal, which is really ridiculous." ”

Wang Yaozhuo reads poetry, her husband likes to work with farmers, this farmer Wang Yaozhuo has read it, and after understanding this poet, he is pitiful for the dirty water that was splashed on his body after Li Shen's death.

Zhu Yijun looked at the barren suburbs of Beijing after the ice and snow melted, and said with emotion: "The people of the Ming Dynasty are always so tenacious, and the reclamation is so difficult, they are not afraid, they are only afraid of the corrupt officials and corrupt officials' clever names and miscellaneous taxes, and the tenant rents and private demands of the village sages, and the harsh taxes and tenant rents are parasitic on the imperial grain, that is, on the taxes paid by the imperial court." ”

The taxes of the Ming court are not heavy, but this layer of apportionment, coupled with tenant rent, has become the natural enemy of the Ming people.

It is difficult to open up wasteland, but it is difficult to make it difficult for man-made disasters.

Zhu Yijun has been eating better over the years, in a word, just to reduce man-made disasters and make people eat people.

In the spring of March, the box of the Taibai Building of the Ming Dynasty is quite lively.

The luxury households in Xitucheng went in one after another to toast, and then the oiran and the beauty lined up to toast, but the nobles in the box did not leave a single person, and it was okay to push the cup and change the courtesy, but when it came to the facts, it was not to talk about it, and the beauty was even more useless, and the nobles in the box highlighted an oil and salt not to enter.

The guest inside was the son-in-law of Wang Chonggu's younger brother Wang Chongyi, Yao Guangqi, the official of the Ming Mizhou City Inspector, who had a terrifying scar on his face, and an extremely arrogant person, Wang Qian.

Yao Guangqi betrayed the wealthy family of Xitucheng and became the son-in-law of the Jin merchants, Yao Guangqi returned to Beijing for the kelp business, he went home, and his father Yao Changzhen saved this banquet, hoping to pull Yao Guangqi back to the camp of Xitucheng.

Without him, the current Yao Guangqi is no longer the minion who lost to Wang Qian and left Beijing in embarrassment, but the famous kelp king!

"Uncle Yao, I'm very happy that Uncle can set this table today, but I, Wang Qian, am very unhappy that you arrange these things."

"You have connections in Xitucheng, my father has, the beauties you can give in Xitucheng, my father can give more! You are digging into the corners of our Jin people in front of me, you can't say it! "Wang Qian, who has returned to Beijing, is even more arrogant! This Yao Changzhen is also an elder no matter how he said it, and he was scolded by Wang Qian pointing his nose.

This Wang Qian went out of the door, ran to Sichuan, and got a great merit in a solid way, even promoted to three levels, and became the fourth grade of the imperial history, Wang Qian, who had a seat at the banquet, was really arrogant, and as soon as he returned to Beijing, he set up a three-day flowing water seat, announcing that the second master of Beijing had returned to Beijing.

According to Wang Qian's meaning, this flowing water mat should be placed for ten days, Wang Chonggu also agreed, his son went to Sichuan to do the errand well, and the credit of Dujiangyan also fell on the head of the Jin Party.

The ten-day flowing water banquet was only held for three days, it was not that there was no money, it was Yao Guangqi who returned to Beijing, Wang Qian immediately put away his showing off face, his achievements were made by relying on the power of the Jin Party, and compared with Yao Guangqi's struggle, it became a little lackluster.

In the past, Yao Guangqi was not Wang Qian's opponent, but now Yao Guangqi, who does practical things, then Wang Qian is no longer Yao Guangqi's opponent.

In three years, the kelp business presided over by Yao Guangqi brought a profit of 170,000 silver to the Wang family and more than 800,000 silver to the entire Jin Party.

The king of kelp is well deserved.

Therefore, Yao Changzhen's behavior of openly digging into the corner of the Jin Party made Wang Qian very unhappy.

Yao Guangqi, as a son, turned a deaf ear to Wang Qian's scolding of his father, and he didn't even bother to persuade him, because today's banquet was for business, not father-son friendship.

In the kelp business, he didn't make much money, and he earned 30,000 taels of silver in three years, which was still a dividend forcibly given to him by Wang Chongyi, or in the name of being afraid that his daughter would suffer.

In the entire kelp business, Yao Guangqi's incorruptibility is about to catch up with Hai Rui, but as long as Yao Guangqi masters some bureaucratic corruption and substitution methods, it is not a problem to annex tens of thousands of acres of land.

The boom in the kelp business is mainly because of the sales of just need and salt, the dining table of the people of the Ming Dynasty for the winter, in addition to cabbage, there are more kelp, and the kelp stew is one of the supreme delicacies of the New Year, and the Ming Emperor said that it was good to eat.

"The shaft is rampant! Is that how your father taught you to deal with people? Yao Changxing slapped the table and said angrily, Yao Changxing is Yao Changzhen's younger brother, the eldest brother wants to try to do kelp business, and it is not easy to turn his face, so he has to teach his younger brother a lesson.

The folding fan in Wang Qian's hand for pretending to be forced suddenly closed together, and he said loudly: "Rampant? Father Wang Chonggu! If you say this, I'll tell my father when I go back, can you bear it? Teach me to do things?! ”

Fight for family history? Unless Zhang Juzheng's sons who don't go out behind closed doors and spend all day studying strange and tricky skills in the Gewu Courtyard come out, who is he Wang Qian afraid of?

"Okay, okay, let's talk about this kelp." Yao Changzhen smiled and played haha, it seemed that he didn't care about being hit at all, businessmen, mainly business, and the word is bigger than the sky.

"Isn't my uncle disgusted with kelp?" Wang Qian changed his face and said with a smile faster than turning a book.

Yao Changzhen said quite seriously: "The kelp is thin, but this seafood is profitable, but I was short-sighted at the beginning, I didn't expect this stubble, the Jin Party is mainly in the northwest, this Nanya, Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou, etc., it still depends on us, right?" Business still has to be discussed, otherwise Wang Gongzi would not have come over today. ”

Yao Changzhen has a treat, is he Wang Qian coming?

It's not that the hand of the Jin Party can't and doesn't dare to stretch that far.

"This is Your Majesty's business, has my uncle thought about entering the game? At that time, the gang of luxury households in Xitucheng beat their uncle to the traitor rank, and I am afraid that the Yao family is in a worrying situation. Wang Qian asked with some curiosity.

Yao Changzhen smiled, His Majesty is excited about the Ming Dynasty, and if he lives in the Ming Dynasty, he can't get around the emperor's will.

If you don't buy shares, you will go into the ground.

(End of chapter)

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