Li Yongfang and Liu Aita both lowered their heads and glanced at each other, waiting for the other to reply first.
The Jurchen situation in Jianzhou is getting worse and worse, which not only makes many low-level agents of the Donglu who were sent to the Ming Dynasty unwilling to continue serving the Donglu, but even upper-level figures like Li Yongfang and Liu Aita are now interested in the Donglu. Luo also had little confidence in his future, and neither of them knew how to respond to Nurhachi.
"speak!"
Nurhachi kicked over the desk in front of him, yelled, and then said: "Li Yongfang, you speak first!"
"twitter!"
Li Yongfang knelt on the ground and kowtowed first.
Then, Li Yongfang said: "Back to the Great Khan, yes, now not only the refugees in the Ming Dynasty's capital area have been reorganized into households, but the nearby villagers are also a lot richer because of their business. I thought, the craftsmen we sent must feel that they are here because of this." It is better for Ming Dynasty to be a common man than risking his life to deliver news to me, Dajin, so I did not take the initiative to bring news out."
Liu Aita didn't wait for Nurhachi's instructions and hurriedly answered: "That's right, Great Khan. Now that the Ming Dynasty has called for taxes from Jiangnan, its food prices have begun to fall. Many ordinary Han people rely on what they earn from a day's work." You will be able to have enough to eat all day long, and it will look like it was back to the Wanli period. Presumably the people we sent will not be willing to go hungry when they return to Dajin."
"Bastard! Who are the people you chose! If I had known that these slaves would be like this, Ben Khan should have killed them all instead of letting them live to work for me, Daikin!"
Nurhachi pointed at Li Yongfang and Liu Aita and cursed.
The agents sent by Donglu to the Ming Dynasty were basically captured Han people, the so-called undercover slaves in Nurhachi's mouth. After all, only Han people who were agents could survive in the pass.
There are so many Han people in the world, and there is little national sentiment in this era, so there are many undercover slaves seeking information about the Jianzhou Jurchen represented by Nurhachi.
If the power of Donglu has been on the rise, these coated slaves will naturally work actively for Donglu in order to improve their status in Donglu.
But now that the power of the Donglu is in decline, and the domestic economic environment of the Ming Dynasty is getting better and better, these slaves are naturally more willing to become the people of the Ming Dynasty again.
Huang Taiji understood the reason behind this, so he took the initiative to stand up at this time: "Father Khan, son ministers believe that the reason for this situation is that the power of our country is not as strong as that of the Ming Dynasty, and before In my opinion, the reason why our army was defeated was not because our Dajin banner soldiers were not brave enough, but also because our Dajin country was not as powerful as the Ming Dynasty. Since the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao came to the throne, he has been suppressing The gentry from the south of the Yangtze River come to increase the revenue of the treasury, and then use it to win over the morale of the military, help the people, and strengthen the strength of the factory guards, making it impossible for me, Dajin, to compete with them!"
"So, my father, from my perspective, we also need to strengthen our national strength. Now that it is impossible to plunder Liaodong, we should set our sights on North Korea and Mongolia, capture their people and conquer their lands, in order to strengthen our Big gold national power!"
Huang Taiji continued.
He Heli agreed at this time: "Sibeile is right. Our country, Dajin, has lost to the Ming Dynasty many times now, and it is because the country's strength is not as good as the Ming Dynasty!"
With that said, He Heli also knelt down in front of Nurhachi: "Great Khan! Now because of the lack of food in our country, all the banners are starving. The price of rice has increased more than twenty times. It can be said that our country is Jin has reached its most dangerous moment, so the slave also believes that the top priority is not to retaliate against the Ming Dynasty, but to plunder Mongolia and Korea, as the Great Khan said the day before yesterday."
Nurhachi nodded: "Pass this Khan's order to bury all the old, weak and sick slaves alive!"
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"It seems that Donglu was really besieged by our Ming Dynasty, and he actually made such a cruel move, and even wanted to incarcerate the old and the weak alive."
Zhu Youxiao received secret news from within Donglu.
Zhu Youxiao, who had paid special attention to intelligence construction since he came to the throne, had naturally gained access to Ming Dynasty's informants within Donglu, and even instigated some people who had access to Donglu's core secrets.
Therefore, not long after Nurhachi issued the killing order, Zhu Youxiao learned the news from Tian Ergen.
"For your information, Your Majesty, they plan to plunder Mongolia and North Korea next."
Tian Ergen replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao laughed and said to himself: "That's great! How can I find an opportunity to control the Mongolian tribes and North Korea!"
"How long does it take for Xiong Tingbi to arrive in the capital?"
Zhu Youxiao asked at this time.
Wei Zhongxian hurriedly walked up from behind: "Back to the emperor, Dongchang came to report that Da Sima had left Lushunkou on the fifth day."
Zhu Youxiao said nothing more.
After Xiong Tingbi returned to Beijing, he planned to let Xiong Tingbi and the ministers of the DPRK and China upgrade the entire Liao strategy, not only against the Donglu, but also against North Korea and Mongolia.
"This is the final product of the crucible steel-making technique that I asked them to make according to His Majesty's instructions. Now they have begun to smelt pig iron. The smelted steel is indeed harder. The drill bit made by this crucible steel-making technique is indeed good for drilling gun barrels. It is faster and sharper, which has made the gun barrel processing speed of the Firearms Bureau of the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing much faster. I now plan to let them use this crucible steelmaking method to make larger drill bits for processing gun barrels."
Before Xiong Tingbi returned to Beijing, Zhu Youxiao visited the Ordnance Manufacturing General Administration in the Royal Forbidden Garden to get a feel for the current progress of Ming Dynasty's technological research and development.
What Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that Bi Maokang, Minister of Industry, and his team actually followed his instructions and figured out the technological process of the crucible steelmaking method.
Of course, this is also related to the difficulty of the crucible steelmaking method. The basic principle is to use the naturally occurring mineral graphite to isolate a large amount of sulfur impurities in the molten iron when coal is burned, thereby achieving higher strength and hardness in the smelted steel. The purpose of high carbon steel, so Bi Maokang and others can also explore this technology.
At this time, Bi Maokang told Zhu Youxiao about the blast furnace in front of him that used the crucible steelmaking method.
Zhu Youxiao nodded after hearing this: "The Ministry of Industry remembers to ask for rewards in time for the officials and craftsmen involved in this craft, and Aiqing will also receive a generous reward."
Zhu Youxiao said: "Pass the decree, Bi Maokang will be awarded the crown prince Shaobao."
"I thank your Majesty for your kindness."
Bi Maokang replied, then pointed to the craftsmen frying molten steel with wicker sticks and said: "Your Majesty, please see, this is the wicker steel frying process designed by me based on your instructions. The molten steel comes out of the crucible steel-making furnace. , after frying the wicker in this way, steel materials with different hardnesses can indeed be obtained. I am thinking, as Mr. Xu Ge said, maybe the steel is actually fused with wood elements due to burning."
Scholars such as Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang who belonged to the Ming Dynasty did not know the periodic law of elements, so they only classified wicker as wood.
Zhu Youxiao just smiled slightly. He did not forcefully instill the periodic law of elements into Bi Maokang and Xu Guangqi, because he knew that for people of this era to understand some of the theories of later generations, a certain foundation was needed.
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