Wang Qian's face turned red, seeing that everyone else was laughing, he wanted to ask loudly: What are you laughing at!

"The minister is stupid." Wang Qian didn't roar in front of the emperor, the ceremonial officer would tell him the etiquette, he asked a little confused.

Why everyone is laughing.

"The idea of delegating the power to build Chi Road to the local government, and the local government has no financial resources to solve it, so it is bought to the powerful right to undertake the construction and accelerate the construction of the Daming Chi Road, which seems to be extremely perfect in terms of institutional design." Zhu Yijun smiled at Wang Qian and said: "The only problem is that the gallop road that is bound to be built by the heroes is their gallop, not the gallop of the imperial court. ”

"Guess what they're going to do?"

"What do you dare to do? Isn't it just to make money with Chidao? Wang Qian shook his head and said, he stood on the position of being powerful and arrogant, what else can this road be used for business after it is built?

Zhu Yijun leaned back in the chair, shook his head and said: "You haven't fully figured out what the gallop means, if you want to understand the gallop, you must understand the meaning of the iron horse." ”

Wang Qian really didn't think about this problem, in his opinion, this is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, but in the eyes of the imperial court, this is the most convenient condition for the division of the feudal town.

Whoever controls Chidao owns the territory.

The horsepower of the first steam engine in the Ming Dynasty is a horse, that is, a horse works continuously for four hours, and a total of 720,000 catties of water are lifted by one zhang, and the steam engine has done this under the same working conditions, this steam engine does not even have a name, because it is the first reciprocating steam engine trial-manufactured by the Gewu Academy.

At first, the steam engine was two pots, the left was a cylinder, the middle was a lever, the right was a pump cylinder, made of cast iron, the sealing was very poor, the principle was exactly the same as the water press, the cylinder heated the steam, pushed the pump cylinder to drain the water, the cylinder added water to cool down, and the piston was pulled to pump water, and the steam engine with only one horsepower needed four people to take care of it, and it had no practical value, because whether it was animal power winch pumping or manpower, it was more efficient than the steam engine.

A one-horsepower steam engine, but it takes 5,000 taels of silver to install properly, and no one will install it during the Wanli period when a horse is only six silver.

A few years have passed, and with the efforts of Dr. Gewu, with the reciprocating steam engine of the power of three horses, it only costs 50 taels of silver to install a steam engine with the power of three horses, including later maintenance.

The annual coal mining volume of Daming Xishan Coal Bureau surged to 560 million catties, an increase of 11.3 times compared with the first year of Wanli, and the crude steel output of Daming reached 2.07 million catties, while the output of iron reached 19.4 million catties, an increase of 5.4 times compared with the first year of Wanli, so that the woolen woolen tweed of the official factory reached 450,000 horses, and the worsted woolen woolen tweed reached 75,000 horses, which increased by 3.5 times compared with the three years of Wanli.

This terrible growth is the result of the change in the relations of production that has mobilized enthusiasm, and it is also a direct manifestation of the improvement of productive forces.

With the billowing smoke roaring steam engine quietly appeared in people's lives, affecting all the people of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, most of the Ming people are the same as Wang Qian, and did not realize what kind of changes the steam engine brought to the Ming Dynasty, at this time, the vast majority of the Ming people, have never seen the appearance of the steam engine, because the reciprocating steam engine has been used as a reliable power source.

Lin Fucheng saw that he was a southerner, came to Beiya, and was surprised by the changes in Beijing, he saw the ravages of the soot and turbid dragons, and also saw the actual progress of the productive forces of the Ming Dynasty, and also found a solid foundation for his freedom theory, the great abundance of materials can change the relations of production, and all people can be free.

Over the years, the Royal Academy has been working the airtightness of the cylinder, the overall weight reduction of the steam engine, and the higher thermal efficiency.

Zhu Yijun knows more, the latest reciprocating steam engine that has been trial-produced by the Royal Academy of Martial Arts has a horsepower of 7.5 horsepower, and the reciprocating steam engine under development is 16 horsepower, which is expected to be officially trial-produced next year, and in the long run, in five years, the horsepower of the steam will be increased to 125 horsepower.

When the horsepower of the steam engine reaches 125 horsepower, how many goods can be produced? And how much cargo can be towed? How long can the high construction cost of Chidao be shortened from 30 years to recover the cost?

This is one of the reasons why luxury buyers are willing to subscribe.

"So, when the horsepower of the steam engine reaches 125 horsepower in five years, the gallop is as important as the blood vessels of people, and what will they do if you ask for it from the roads that the luxury families have built?" Zhu Yijun explained this problem clearly.

In the court discussion before, the Ming princes had a heated discussion around this issue, and Zhu Yijun was just summarizing.

"Rebellion takes control of social resources that do not belong to oneself, and it will inevitably encroach upon usurpation." Wang Qian said sincerely: "But now that the Beijing camp is strong, if they rebel, then it will be pacified." ”

"Isn't this a robbery? Monkey business. "Wan Shihe heard and admonished Wang Qian, Wang Qian's thinking is still a typical idea of the right to be strong, I am stronger, I can rob you openly, this is not feasible in the political practice of the Ming Dynasty, the country loses great trust, and the people's hearts are suspicious, that is, the world is boiling and the sky is over.

It is also a situation that no one in Daming wants to see.

"What Uncle Zong said is reasonable." Wang Qian understood the loophole in his own thoughts, Jingying is not always strong, and the open robbery will cause a great social crisis.

"Wang Yushi, have you studied yourself?" Zhu Yijun asked Wang Qian if he had observed himself every day.

"The minister is stupid." Wang Qian shook his head.

Zhu Yijun asked in a different way: "Your logic of robbing is actually no problem in your position, because the right is like this, I ask you, do you say that you can not eat people?" Or can the powerful right not merge and ruthlessly peel it down? ”

"I can't." Wang Qian replied after thinking very seriously: "If you don't eat people, you will be eaten by others, so in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, those good people who don't want to eat people have long been eliminated..."

"Xu Zhenming, the Baoqi Sizheng who is now farming in Hetao, and his teacher Ma Yilong are because they refuse to eat people and settle displaced people, and all their achievements are in vain after their deaths." Zhu Yijun also found an example, Ma Yilong led the people to reclaim the wasteland, and after the people died, all the wasteland was barren again.

Zhu Yijun does not have high requirements for liberals, and if they can advocate the dissolution of this strong personal dependency relationship and advocate personal freedom, Zhu Yijun will allow them to exist.

Wang Qian suddenly realized, and finally knew why his way of thinking was different from that of Ming Gong, and the court regulated social contradictions above many classes, if the rules set by the court repeatedly went back on their word, and the promises made could not be accepted again and again, then the court would not have any credibility at all, and the court that was widely disapproved would not be the court.

In all dynasties, the cycle is not stopped, and the demise of the dynasty has always been accompanied by a high concentration of means of production, accompanied by the inability of the imperial court to regulate social contradictions, and with the gradual decline of the reputation of the imperial court, and even became a negative number.

Wang Qian reported some news, with the threshold of private trade will begin to appear, these private trade will gradually become the trading house of the bookmaker, for the emergence of this kind of bookmaker, the imperial court has long expected, Wang Qian to do, the Ming court is the largest owner of the trading house, has a decisive influence on the trading house.

Exchanging liquidity for stability is the choice of the imperial court.

The government-run glass factory wants to change the glass for the Tonghe Palace where the Ming Emperor lives, the main purpose is to let the Ming Emperor bring the goods, and the emperor said that it was good.

The new process of flat glass, is really Zhu Yijun's eye-opener, the new process of glass, the degree of transparency has been close to the natural crystal, the speed of replacement is very fast, it only took a morning, the official factory to replace all the windows.

Daming's glass is on a large scale, and will soon form a new industrial advantage, Zhu Yijun used a thousand taels of silver, bought out this technology, and then increased the price to two thousand taels of silver, peddled in Huangzhuang, after buying in Huangzhuang, you can get the complete technology, but it can not be used for dissemination.

At the beginning of November of the ninth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun received news that Mang Yinglong of the Donghu Dynasty had died.

In October last year, Mang Yinglong was defeated in the naval battle of Madaban Bay, defeated by the Portuguese captain Gonzalo Vaz, was wounded in the war, and dragged on for nearly ten months, Mang Yinglong still failed to survive a life, after Mang Yinglong's death, Mang Yinglong's unsuccessful son Mang Yingli succeeded to the throne, and civil strife broke out.

This is not surprising, Mang Yinglong has been fighting all his life, can be called a poor army, many times Siamese soldiers, recruited a large number of people, the land lacks strong men to cultivate, aggravated the grain harvest, the Donghu Dynasty in the territory stabilized, should recuperate, but when Mang Yinglong died, he was still crusading against the king of Rakhine, and the peak of the army reached the capital of the Rakhine kingdom, Miaowu.

Mang Yinglong's death was not sudden, the Miaowu front line collapsed directly after hearing about the death of the king, and then the violent internal contradictions caused everyone to deviate from morality and become a pot of porridge.

Mu Changzuo, the Duke of Qianguo, led his troops to move to Erhai, and Liu Shizeng, the governor of Yunnan, also led his army to move to Chuxiong, and quickly recruited tens of thousands of Han Chinese and local troops to prevent the Donghu Dynasty from taking risks.

There is one of the best ways to restrain people's hearts in the reckless Ying who succeeded to the throne, that is, to provoke the Ming and defeat the Ming.

Internal contradictions and external relief are a common practice, and if you win, you can win everything you want, and if you lose, you will lose completely.

In the eyes of Mang Yinglong and Mang Yingli, Daming is a broken house, and it will collapse with one kick.

"Jump, jump higher, I'll kill him, Mr. said, the battle in the Strait of Malacca is not over, and it is not time to attack, so play tricks with him first, have you seen it from the hospital?" Sir's illness, are you sure that there is no root cause of the disease? Zhu Yijun inquired about Zhang Juzheng's condition.

At this point in history, Zhang Juzheng has begun to be sick in bed, unable to have children, and keeps playing the beggar bones to return home.

Now, Zhang Juzheng is jumping around, still working in Wenyuan Pavilion, working as a cow and a horse.

"The chief doctor said that he recovered very well and there was no problem." Feng Bao answered this question, such a big matter, the big doctors will not talk nonsense, Zhang Juzheng is really recovering well.

"Call Mr. Shang, let's go to the Royal Gewu Academy." Zhu Yijun stood up, before the end of the Battle of the Strait of Malacca, the southwest policy of the Ming Dynasty could only be a strict battle, because there was no attack in the north and south directions of land and water, and it was a false proposition to want to Buwu Southwest, and all attacks would be ineffective attacks.

Zhu Yijun wanted to see a 7.5-horsepower steam engine, and the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu invented a few small things and asked the emperor to read them.

The Imperial Gewu Academy has to take nearly one million silver from the Ming Emperor a year, and it is also a silver coin with higher circulation embossed by the War Bureau, so every year the imperial uncle will take the Gewu doctors to report on their work, so that His Majesty can see that they are not taking silver for nothing and not working.

The 7.5 hp steam engine, which can produce 1,000 units a year, is the auspicious fortune of the Royal Gemono Academy this year.

Zhu Yijun called Zhang Juzheng, as the first assistant of the emperor, such an important moment, naturally to witness together, not long after, Zhang Juzheng took Wang Daokun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to Tonghe Palace, and then followed the holy car, to the royal academy on the other side.

Zhu Yijun walked into the wide gate with a group of people and saw the line of vermilion words on the shadow wall stone, [Walker 1, Faithfulness only-Zhu Zhongxing], this is Zhu Yijun's request to Dr. Gewu, for so many years, Dr. Gewu has practiced this principle.

Walking through the shadow wall stone, walking through the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, Zhu Yijun came to a townhouse in the Gewu Academy, this is not a place to produce steam engines, but is responsible for experiments, Zhu Yijun specially arranged a Xun Wei sparring partner, responsible for the safety of the Gewu Academy, the Gewu doctors studied it, forgot to sleep and eat, Xun Wei sparring took Ti Qi, and the most thing he did every day was to let Dr. Gewu eat on time.

Gewuyuan is not engaged in production, and the realization and implementation of all technologies are realized by the Ministry of Industry.

"This is a bore boring machine, at the beginning, it used water power to cut the inner diameter of the bore, which was used to process the inner wall of the cast gun bore and gun bore, and now it is also used to boring cylinders." Emperor Uncle Zhu Zaiyu first opened the first red silk cloth, and under the red silk cloth was a boring machine.

This boring machine is not so easy to make, Zhu Zaiyu didn't want to say how difficult the invention of this boring machine was, His Majesty studied under Zhang Juzheng, and all he wanted was the result.

There are three boring machines, a long rod is used for boring the gun chamber, a short rod is used for boring the barrel of the fire gun, these two boring machines can be used for manpower, animal power, and iron horses, and one is an extra-long rod, which is used for the boring machine of the cylinder.

"The machining accuracy of the cylinder is the key problem of the steam engine, Dr. Gewu visited the mountain people and found a method called pyrotechnics, which is powered by a foot pedal, and there are a total of seven kinds of knives, which are used to process jade, stone, diamond, and the stone of other mountains can attack jade, which is diamond." Zhu Zaiyu talked about the origin of the boring machine.

(pyrotechnics)

The power of the boring machine of pyrotechnics is limited, and there is no cooling, the processing of jade is still possible, but the processing of metal needs to be improved, and the rapid boring of the boring cutter will make the temperature rise sharply.

The diamond production of the Ming Dynasty is not abundant, and many of them are bought seafood, and the red hair fan sells it as a gemstone.

From foot pedaling to hydraulic power to steam power, Daming craftsmen have carried out several upgrades, and the boring machine has become what it is now.

The boring machine is also a necessary tool for the production of cylinders, if the inner wall of the cylinder can not be smoothed, the air tightness can not be guaranteed, the thermal efficiency of the steam engine can not be improved, thermal efficiency and fuel saving, miniaturization, weight reduction and so on are closely related.

When the boring machine in front of Zhu Yijun processes the cylinder, the error of the inner diameter of 100 inches is no more than two points, which can already meet the needs of the 7.5 hp steam engine.

"Good, good." Zhu Yijun circled around the boring machine several times and asked how to use it, it was not that Zhu Yijun was attracted to this kind of machinery at a young age, Zhang Juzheng was also interested in discussing with the emperor what this thing could do.

Zhu Zaiyu came to the second red silk cloth, slowly pulled it open, and said: "Thread lathe, used to process threads, this lathe comes from France, a craftsman named Besson, invented a lathe for making screws. ”

According to Zhu Zaiyu's explanation, Zhu Yijun knew that the Ming Dynasty did not get the real thing of the Besson thread lathe, but got a drawing, Besson in order to promote this kind of lathe, with his drawings to sell around, but in the end it was unsuccessful, the Ming envoy went to Paris twice, and did not refuse all kinds of documents, and the drawings were found from a religious book.

Zhu Zaiyu seeks truth from facts, where the technology comes from, is where, the boring machine is the original Ming Dynasty, and the thread lathe is invented by Besson, when in the hands of the Royal Gewu Academy, the thread lathe has been able to accurately process 6 kinds of pitch, and the error is not more than two points of 100 inches.

Zhu Zaiyu introduced a total of seven tools for processing steam engines, and then walked to the last red silk cloth and slowly pulled it open and said: "Your Majesty, we have increased the thermal efficiency of the steam engine by three times, a steam engine with 7.5 horsepower. ”

Zhu Yijun looked at this steam engine, compared with the previous three-horsepower steam engine and a one-bedroom room about the same size, the new steam engine is actually smaller, one and a half zhang long, less than one zhang wide, about three feet high, compared with the previous steam engine, the integration of the entire steam engine is higher, the original three-horsepower locomotive has a special boiler room, and now the boiler is concentrated on the steam engine.

"High-pressure?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhu Zaiyu and asked.

Zhu Zaiyu bowed his head and said: "Back to Your Majesty, you can't break through the shackles of three horsepower without high temperature and high pressure. ”

Generally speaking, the high-pressure and high-temperature steam of the high-pressure boiler is used by the steam turbine, while the reciprocating steam engine uses 100° steam, which is considered to be low temperature and low pressure in comparison.

As the president of the Gewu Academy, as a master, he did not hinder the development of the reciprocating steam engine, but also used his research experience to improve the reciprocating steam engine.

"This year, the government-run lathe factory has been built, and an annual output of 1,000 units is not a problem." Wang Daokun immediately bowed his head and said.

The steam engine of Sanma Power used to produce only 200 units, but now the Ministry of Industry is 1,000 7.5 hp steam engines, which is related to the continuous maturity of technology and market demand.

A 7.5 hp steam engine costs the same as a three-hp steam engine.

"Please also give your name to Your Majesty." Zhu Zaiyu bowed his head and said, the current steam engine is finally qualified to ask His Majesty for a name.

"Let's call it Shengping No. 1." Zhu Yijun patted the steam engine, named the steam engine, asked about the steam engine, he was very curious about the centrifugal pendulum governor, Zhu Zaiyu explained its principle in detail, and also made a live demonstration.

When Zhu Yijun left the Royal Pavilion, he was in high spirits and was enthusiastic about the changes that the steam engine might bring to the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Ju was the kind of person who thought of it, and he immediately decided to list the steam engine as a prohibited thing, and strictly prohibited the technical outflow of the steam engine.

The steam engine is assembled one by one, and the craftsmen of the lathe factory only know how to make parts according to the requirements, and do not know how to assemble them together.

Even if it is a banknote law, it requires a continuous inflow of silver.

Zhu Yijun stopped suddenly, that is the direction of the martial arts school, there is a willow tree planted there, it is winter, the branches have long been green, this tree is the tree that Yu Dayou built the demarcation of the martial arts school, Yu Dayou planted it himself, it was just a sapling at the beginning, and it has grown so much in a trance.

"Your Majesty?" Zhang Juzheng was a little strange, His Majesty was suddenly silent as he spoke, and suddenly stopped.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "It's okay." ”

The impeachment of the traitors Wang Daokun and Wang Guoguang did not end because of Lin Fucheng's tongue and Confucianism, but some intensified, even the liberals recognized the profits tax, the expansion of Yanxinglou and the ambiguity of the Ministry of Industry on the Xishan Coal Bureau, but the attack on the two Ming Dukes by the Kedao Yanguan never stopped.

Since the profits tax was forcibly levied on October 10, there have been waves of opposition, but fortunately, soon no one will discuss the profits tax, and everyone has aimed at the gap between human nature and evil.

It's no wonder that the doctors sprayed wildly, and Zhu Yijun was also black after reading it.

On October 24, the Yanxinglou trading house suddenly circulated a news, that is, Suiyuan Chidao was forced by the wind of the central government, will not collect tolls, Daming no longer added banknotes to draw branches, on the same day, Suiyuan Chidao tickets, from five silver each, directly plummeted to four silver, a drop of as much as 20%, panic began to spread, but the price did not continue to fall, but stabilized at four silver fluctuations for three days.

Then the news was falsified by people in the know, it was false, it was a rumor, although the official was indeed admonishing, but the imperial court had no intention of changing the order, and the ticket rose again, rising back to five silver on the same day, and soared again to five taels of silver the next day, this time the increase was because of the establishment of the 7.5 horsepower steam engine and the government-run lathe factory.

Three days later, the Chidao ticket rose to six taels and five dollars of silver, and then plummeted again, because the production capacity of the lathe factory is only 1,000 units per year.

tossed around, and finally returned to five taels of silver.

This time in this chasm lost money at least more than 200 people, they have more than one ticket in their hands, as little as ten, more than 100, sold in four silver, buried in six and a half silver, inside and outside, each Chi Road ticket lost two and a half of silver, it can be said that it lost the wife and the soldiers, resulting in a fierce rise in the ship ticket, compared with the future of the war, or the ship ticket is more reliable and stable.

It is not an unreasonable duty for speculative culture to be angrily denounced as a gap between the inherent evils of human nature, because Wang Qian soon discovered that this time the sharp rise and fall was artificial.

A private transaction will be deliberately made, they spread the news to cause panic, after buying a large number of tickets, and then spread good news to pull up, clear the Chi Road tickets in their hands, and then spread negative news, causing the ticket price to return to normal, buy again.

This is the dealer, who wields the sharp sickle in his hand and harvests the leeks twice.

This private trade fair, not only the Xitu City to cover the luxury households, but also the Jin merchants and Jin people, in less than fifteen days of operation, this private trade will make a profit of more than 23,000 silver in this shock.

This is obviously malicious manipulation, if this kind of behavior is not restricted, the trading house will soon lose its rationality, completely become a casino, a feast for speculators, can not play its role, the purpose of raising funds for important projects will be frustrated, but to be punished, and there is no written legal basis.

In the end, Zhu Yijun had no choice but to use non-criminal justice, confiscate the proceeds of this manipulation, and prohibit everyone in this private trade fair from entering the trading house to buy and sell tickets, which is to restrict their entry, and this punishment is not light or heavy.

Since ancient times, money is moving, if it is just a small business of a few dozen taels of silver, this gang of powerful people can still find a brokerage comprador, with a vest to continue trading, but the ticket business, often thousands of taels of silver, that is, to test the hearts of the brokerage comprador with silver, which brokerage comprador can withstand such a test?

The criticism of the Yanxinglou trading house has never stopped, and most of them will extend from criticism of the trading house to criticism of the big Situ and Shao Situ of the household department, after all, it is the two of them who initiated the expansion.

"Your Majesty, Wang Cifu is waiting outside the palace." Feng Bao reminded His Majesty in a low voice that the discussion between the court and the central government on the trading house in the past two days was quite intense, and His Majesty was also a little upset.

"Xuan."

Wang Chonggu and Lu Guangzu, the secretary of Dali Temple, came together, and the intention of the emperor's announcement this time was very clear, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple formulated detailed regulations to fill the gap in this regard.

"Before, it was not forbidden by law, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple should seize the time to fill in the gap." Zhu Yijun made a clear instruction, the emperor's non-punishment is one of the means to fill the gaps in this era, but there are still clear regulations that are more appropriate.

Lu Guangzu, the secretary of Dali Temple, opened his mouth and said: "It can be regarded as a crime." ”

Lu Guangzu felt that His Majesty's punishment was too light, that is, confiscation of income and prohibition from entering the market, this is just an administrative punishment, and it cannot have the effect of intimidation at all.

"What does Wang Cifu think?" Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu, the attitude of the second assistant of the criminal department.

"Minister... I think it's better not to be punished. Wang Chonggu told the truth, that's what he thought, on the road of reforming the old and making the new, he was never afraid of problems, he was afraid of knowing that there was a problem and choosing to dodge, Wang Chonggu's words were a bit of a suspicion of avoiding problems.

The expansion of the Yanxinglou trading house is to increase the liquidity of silver, if the law is too strict, how can any big player be willing to enter? The source of water will inevitably dry up, and if there are no new players entering the Yanxinglou trading house, it will inevitably become a pool of stagnant water.

(End of chapter)