There are talented people from generation to generation. Life is not a story, life is an accident. Only through hard work can you live up to the fame and dust. The world is not about settling down, the world is far away, and only by traveling thousands of miles can we see ourselves clearly. The future is not years, it is a gift. Only by reading thousands of books can you see the bright moon and stars clearly. Youth is capital, but it is worthless without hard work. "
Zhu Di said calmly, "Don't fool me. I asked you to supervise the country before, and Su Wu was in the imperial study room to assist you in handling state affairs. Although this son is young, the Ming Dynasty needs such energetic young people with talents. , I feel wronged by asking him to come to the cabinet to work."
Zhu Gaojie was stunned, wondering why the old man suddenly became a philosopher.
However, no matter how hard the old man deceived him, Zhu Gaojie did not fall for the trick: "Father, Su Wu has no merit and fame. It would be too much to directly promote him to a cabinet bachelor."
Zhu Di saw that he had been deceived like this, but this little kid was still as slippery as a loach, and he said angrily: "Good boy, you are really good at it."
Zhu Gaojie showed his white teeth and said, "It's all my father who taught me well."
A son who is unfilial depends entirely on his father's unkindness.
A smile suddenly appeared on Zhu Di's lips: "I heard that there is an open-air mining area in Kongshan. I see that you are so free, so go to Kongshan to dig... and inspect the mining area."
Zhu Gaojie: "..."
Regardless of whether he is a human being or not, he must still be your old man!
All in all, don't you feel comfortable if you don't cheat on your son for a day? Just leave it to your own son to dig coal?
Zhu Gaojie still wanted to struggle: "Father, I think that there are so many talents in the East Palace, why not select talents from the East Palace to inspect the Kongshan mining area?"
Zhu Di shook his head: "How can the East Palace compare to your Prince Qi's Mansion? I don't trust leaving this matter to an outsider. It has to be you, Prince Qi."
"My nanny..." Zhu Gaojie almost couldn't help but spit out the fragrance.
"What?" The emperor raised his eyebrows.
Zhu Gaojie choked back the words "My darling" that came to his lips and took a deep breath: "I have a good friend named Gini. Gini is so beautiful. My father's kindness to me is as beautiful as Gini. I thank you." My father appreciates me and I will definitely live up to his high expectations."
"It's inexplicable." Zhu Di waved his hand, "You can get out and don't care about the food today."
However, Zhu Gaojie stood motionless, looking at the old man eagerly.
"Well, what are you still doing here?" Zhu Di was a little confused.
Zhu Gaojie asked tangledly: "You really don't care about food?"
It had been a long time since he had eaten from the old man, and he thought that he had been cheated by the old man so badly today, and he would be sorry if he didn't eat two more bowls of rice.
The emperor was extremely angry and laughed: "If you don't care about the food, get out!"
Zhu Gaojie was helpless and was about to leave when he was suddenly stopped again.
"Don't leave yet!"
Zhu Di suddenly remembered something and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Did you know that there is a kind of fire gun with mysterious craftsmanship. The ammunition is not iron sand or gunpowder, but conical copper pellets. The best thing is that this fire gun can be connected hair."
Zhu Gaojie was stunned for a moment: "The gun my father mentioned is called AK...or is it M4 or Type 95?"
You Zhu Di, you still say that you are not a time traveler!
Cone-shaped copper pellets... Mysterious craftsmanship... Repeating fire blunderbuss... Isn't this an automatic rifle? !
Why would the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the early fifteenth century know this stuff!
Is the next step to develop nuclear weapons?
The Mongolian man riding a horse in the grassland, holding a crossbow and wearing a scimitar at his waist, fell into deep thought while watching the intercontinental missiles flying in the sky.
Is there something wrong with this technology tree?
As expected of you Judy, you are having a great time!
"What Aka, Aimus, 95th style?" Zhu Di was a little confused.
He only learned about this strange fire blunderbuss by simulating the weapons of Prince Qi's palace in later generations. Now he tried Prince Qi's hand to see if he could detect anything. As a result... he actually tested it.
It's just that Zhu Di didn't quite understand what King Qi said.
What is this Nine-Five Style and why is its name so strange? Does it have any special meaning?
Seeing the doubtful look on the old man's face, Zhu Gaojie had some guesses in his mind and immediately changed his mind and said: "Ah haha, that's so strange. What did I just say? Why has my father never heard of the continuous fire blunderbuss? Fire blunderbuss." Can we still fire continuously?”
Zhu Di calmly stared at King Qi who was pretending to be stupid, feeling that his IQ was insulted.
King Qi can say words like the Nine-Five Style. Even if he doesn't know how to develop a repeating fire blunderbuss, he must know some information about what he has hunted.
Zhu Di has always been inexplicably fanatical about firearms, and even set up a Shenji Camp for this purpose, using firearms to beat the shit out of the Wara cavalry. Now that he knew that there was a strange and powerful firearm, the old man was naturally unwilling to let it go.
And the root of everything lies in King Qi.
Seeing that he was very close to the treasure he wanted, the treasure was locked in a box, and the key only belonged to King Qi. However, King Qi still pretended to be stupid and said that he did not have the key, which made Zhu Di angry. toothache.
"Fourth brother, do you really don't know what that continuous fire gun is?" Zhu Di was a little reluctant and wanted to talk more.
But Zhu Gaojie, who had already been fooled once, would not be fooled again. He said categorically: "I really don't know."
To be honest, Zhu Gaojie was a little uneasy in his heart.
He really couldn't understand how the old man knew the concept of automatic rifles. This was no longer a problem of the era. This was centuries ahead of his time!
Zhu Gaojie could conclude that the whole world could not think that far ahead. In the fifteenth century, the Ming Dynasty was a big country in firearms, and their most powerful firearm was just a "swarm of rockets." As for Europeans, they were still playing with fire portal guns.
How did a group of people who studied "swarm rockets" come up with the concept of "automatic rifles"?
If it's just a continuous fire gun, that's it, but that "cone-shaped copper pill" is purely a modern bullet... Is this reasonable?
But when Zhu Gaojiu saw Zhu Di's demeanor... he really didn't look like a time traveler.
It’s quite outrageous!
Zhu Gaojie racked his brains and couldn't figure out which link was the problem?
"Forget it, since you really don't know..." Zhu Di smiled slightly, "Then just go and inspect the coal mine honestly."
Okay, since you don’t want to say it, then go dig coal!
Hey, Zhu Di has always been so unreasonable.
Zhu Gaojie was also happy. He was a man of little skill. If you tried to be soft with him, he would be tough with you. If you were tough with him, he would be tougher with you.
"I accept the decree." Zhu Gaojiao cupped his hands and said, "I just have something to ask for."
Zhu Di nodded: "Just tell me."
"Kongshan is our royal property, right?" Zhu Gaojie asked, "If you are brave, please ask your father to grant the land deed to Kongshan to me."
Zhu Di was a little confused: "You want that broken ground... Ahem, what do you want this coal mine for?"
Zhu Gaojie also started to play tricks: "The palace is too poor to support the family."
He just plainly told the old man whether he would give it to me or not, and I wouldn’t go if he didn’t. Throwing me to Kongshan to dig coal, can't you give me some benefits?
Zhu Di didn't care about it and waved his hand: "Okay, I will have Kong Shan's land deed delivered to your house today."
This was said arrogantly, but in fact, Zhu Di really looked down on this coal mine.
Due to technical limitations, a large part of the coal mining in the Ming Dynasty was basically open-pit coal mines where coal was extracted from the soil. Secondly, people rarely burn coal. The main reason is the quality of coal, and secondly, it is easy to be poisoned. It took a long time to dig coal, but the output was low-cost and the profit was pitiful!
China has used charcoal to make iron since ancient times. Although it switched to coal to make iron after the Song and Ming Dynasties, it was the first country to use coal to make iron. But in fact, the essential reason is not technological progress, but due to the increasing depletion of forestry resources in the north, the increasing price of charcoal, and the significant increase in iron-making costs. Coal can only be used in large quantities to make iron.
Under the influence of this raw coal with high phosphorus and sulfur content, the quality of the iron produced deteriorated sharply. Since the Song and Ming Dynasties began to use coal to make iron on a large scale, although the output of steel has greatly increased, its quality has been greatly reduced, and the time and cost of forging superior weapons have also increased significantly. Therefore, there are also some rumors, such as the saying that "the performance of swords passed down in ancient times is better than that made by craftsmen today."
Zhu Gaojie showed a fox smile: "That's very good."
Anyone who has received nine years of compulsory education knows that iron is made with coke. The purpose of simmering coal into coke is to remove impurities such as phosphorus and sulfur that may affect the properties of steel during iron and steelmaking. But in the Ming Dynasty, iron-making, either using charcoal, coal, or coke, was basically non-existent.
Before burning coal into coke, there is a coal washing process. But in the Ming Dynasty, the coal washing process was just to pick out the visible defective products by hand... Coal preparation is of great significance, but such a simple coal washing process is really embarrassing.
This also allowed Zhu Gaojie to find an opportunity. This thing was obviously inappropriate for people's livelihood, but it was particularly important when used in military industry. There were many difficulties, but Zhu Gaojie felt that he was still capable of solving it.
Zhu Gaojie's thinking has been extended and he has successfully assumed the identity of "Jinling Coal Boss".
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(End of chapter)
