"Chen Tao Chengdao, see Your Majesty!"

Tao Guangyi, who is now in his fifties, has been respectful since he entered the Huagai Palace, bowing his head and not daring to raise it.

Tao Guangyi is his real name, and his enlightenment is given by Zhu Yuanzhang, as for the ten thousand households, he is the official position of the old Yuan, and now he has become a vacant position, leaving only a thousand households and a hundred households.

But his name Wanhu has somehow spread, and it is louder than his real name.

"Tao Guangyi."

The saint sitting behind the desk called him by name.

Tao Guangyi corrected with a smile: "Your Majesty, you forgot, you gave your ministers a name and became enlightened." ”

"Tao Guangyi."

The saint still called him by his name, making him break out in a cold sweat all of a sudden, knowing that something was wrong.

"I've heard that you've met an immortal before?"

“……”

Tao Guangyi knelt on the ground and didn't dare to move, his mind was spinning wildly, but he really couldn't figure out why the Holy Lord knew about it.

"Is that true?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "You invite him over, I will see with my own eyes, whether it is your Daoist who is above the poor stars and distinguishes the mountains and rivers with higher mana is stronger and stronger, or is it the true monarch who I respect to protect the country is more mysterious." ”

In layman's terms, let your master stop the Taoist from fighting with the Chu Zhenren of my seal.

"Your Majesty——!"

Tao Guangyi kowtowed and begged for mercy in a trembling voice:

"The minister should die, the minister has not met the immortals, the minister has a master, but he is not called a Taoist, let alone an immortal! It can't be compared with such a mysterious thing as Chu Zhenren taking out lychees in winter! ”

So far, he can only tell the story of the year.

In fact, the process is also very simple, Tao Guangyi met an old Taoist priest in Yiguan, this old Taoist priest is proficient in alchemy and is also familiar with gunpowder refining.

Tao Guangyi originally stayed in the Taoist temple to assist the old Taoist in alchemy, but after seeing the master take the pill with his own eyes, his face turned purple and foamed at the mouth, he no longer dared to alchemy.

Converted to a fire refiner.

coincided with the chaos in the world, so he came down the mountain and joined Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-Yuan team as a firearms craftsman.

"Not a god?"

Zhu Yuanzhang took out a book and motioned for the eunuch to take it to him: "Who is the yellow-crowned Xuanfu and the blue-eyed and long-haired Taoist you met in the book?" ”

"In the book?"

Tao Guangyi trembled and took the book in the eunuch's hand, opened it and looked at it, his face suddenly turned pale, and finally raised his head and looked at His Majesty.

Zhu Yuanzhang almost couldn't hold back his face and laughed, this guy's face was obviously freshly scrubbed, and it was estimated that he was studying firearms, and was forcibly called into the palace by the eunuchs in the palace.

"Your Majesty!"

Tao Guangyi kowtowed again, and said respectfully: "Chu Zhenren is really boundless, the book has not yet been written, but it is in the hands of His Majesty, this is really ......"

"You did leak it, didn't you?"

"Damn it!"

Where does Tao Guangyi dare to defend half a sentence?

He didn't know the people in the preface of this book, but all kinds of firearms in the book were his proud works, and some of the previous contents were also written by him.

Leaking secrets in the army should be beheaded.

But His Majesty called him to the palace for questioning, proving that he still had a little way to live.

Sure enough, His Majesty reprimanded him first, and he also cooperated with kowtowing and begging for mercy, and soon, His Majesty said:

"I wanted to kill you, but I remembered the past feelings, and Chu Zhenren saw your book and recommended you to me, so I spared your life."

"Thank you for your grace!"

Tao Guangyi kowtowed again, and finally let go of his hanging heart.

Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a book again: "This is a book passed on to me by Chu Zhenren, which records the methods of purifying, manufacturing, and transporting gunpowder, as well as the correct ratio of gunpowder, you go back and develop it, and see who Chu Zhenren is stronger than you." ”

"Your Majesty!"

Tao Guangyi hurriedly said, "How dare the criminal compare with Chu Zhenren? ”

The unfinished books were all taken out by that Chu Zhenren, how could he dare to compare?

Tao Guangyi respectfully took the book, kowtowed and retired, and went out of the palace under the two guardians, and went to the Ministry of Industry to copy the book.

In addition, he was actually a blessing in disguise, and was "promoted" by His Majesty from an idle official position to the head of the Ministry of Works, responsible for supervising the manufacture of gunpowder.

This is so much to his heart!

……

On the second day, Chang Chao.

Hu Weiyong, a scholar of the cabinet and secretary of the ministry, followed the example of the Song Dynasty's conscription law and the Fangtian tax law, proposing to measure the land of the whole country, abolish the Junyao, Lijia service, and miscellaneous generals, and change them to pay money and grain, and then recruit personnel to serve at the government's expense.

"The suffering of the people is nothing like servitude, and now all the grain in one province is sent to one province for conscription, and if there is more land, pay more money and grain, and if there is less land, pay less, and there is no hidden field anymore!"

Hu Weiyong is righteous and awe-inspiring, and he makes suggestions for the poor families in the world, which makes people unable to find fault.

But there are still many opponents, including many officials who originally followed Hu Weiyong.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered a renegotiation and retreated.

Day 3.

Li Shanchang, the Korean prince who had been away from the court for a long time, went to the court, stood in the first place, and did not say a word in the court, watching the ministers arguing about the allocation of acres and the official gentry's grain.

After the end of the early dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the Huagai Hall to deal with political affairs and summoned Hu Weiyong and others to discuss matters.

About half an hour later, Hu Weiyong came out and saw Li Shanchang standing outside the door waiting, but he didn't come forward to see the Korean duke.

Half an hour later, Xue Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Zhang He, the governor of the capital, and others came, and saw Han Gong standing alone outside the hall, his face red from the cold wind.

Xue Xiang and the others waited with Han Gong, and waited for another quarter of an hour before they saw the commander of the Xinjiang Jiangkou Navy Division coming with ten craftsmen.

Only then did the eunuch come out of the palace and shout at the top of his voice:

"Xuan Han Gong, Xue Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Tao Chengdao, the director of the Ministry of Industry, and the craftsmen of the water division are here!"

Skipped the Ministry of Workers and others, and ordered Tao Guangyi and the craftsmen.

Han Gong Li Shanchang didn't say a word, and after bowing his hand to the eunuch, he walked into the hall with stiff steps.

There was a stove in the canopy hall, and as soon as he entered the door, the heat came to his face, relieving Li Shanchang's frozen hands and feet.

Behind the desk, Zhu Yuanzhang was reading with a book in his hand, looked up, and when he saw that it was him, he showed a look of surprise, stood up to greet him, and said with a smile:

"It turns out that the benevolent chief is here, sit down!"

"Minister Li Shanchang, see Your Majesty."

Li Shanchang bowed, and after the chair was brought, he also sat down.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him twice, and only then asked a few words, and after Xue Xiang and the others came in, they didn't ask anymore.

Ten craftsmen stand on the edge of the main hall.

Xue Xiang reported on the results of yesterday's discussions.

"Can you build a first-class sail battleship in five years?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked him again.

Xue Xiang was a little flustered, and hurriedly replied: "If it goes well, maybe it can be built in three years, the shipbuilding book given by Chu Zhenren is very detailed, and the ship diagram is also lifelike." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang no longer asked him, but asked Tao Guangyi instead: "Wanhu, you also saw the battleship map yesterday, how long do you think it will take?" ”

“…… Your Majesty, the minister does not know how to build ships. ”

was called ten thousand households, Tao Guangyi was originally flattered, but he didn't expect His Majesty to ask him something unfamiliar.

"Well, you have developed the gunpowder in Chu Zhenren's book, which is already a great achievement."

Zhu Yuanzhang let him go, and turned to ask the craftsmen who were standing at the end, and ordered them to come forward first, closer than Li Shanchang, before asking:

"You are all skilled shipbuilders, how long will it take for you to build it?"

Xue Xiang's face was ugly.

Li Shanchang looked at these people, from the Ministry of Works, to the craftsmen of the navy, to the governor Zhang He, all of whom came for one person:

Chu Zhenren.

On the first day of the first lunar month, Chu Zhenren suddenly appeared in Yingtianfu, and the first news Li Shanchang heard in his hometown was that Queen Ma distributed lychees to the harem concubines.

At the beginning, he also reprimanded the person who reported the news for talking nonsense.

How do you know that there will be more and more news from Ying Tianfu after that, such as the ban on foot binding, the ban on opening the sea, the map of the Ming Dynasty, the opening of the imperial examination, etc., all of which are related to Chu Zhenren.

Li Shanchang couldn't sit still.

Even if he was not summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, he wanted to come to Ying Tianfu to take a look in person.