"People who advocate old rites should not be allowed to have the hope that the old rites will be restored if the emperor changes."
"So, after the evacuation of overseas Chinese is over, we must use troops against Luzon as soon as possible."
"Although the Han merchants and people who refused to return to their country and were massacred by the Western Yi were themselves to blame, the Western Yi's actions must be condemned! In any case, these people are descendants of the Yan and Huang people. In this case, according to the new etiquette, we must ask! "
"What's more, according to the new etiquette, let alone the descendants of Yan and Huang, even if other barbarians were slaughtered in this way, it is unkind and against etiquette. As the lord of the world, Huang Ming, as the dynasty of the world, must not but ask!"
"Therefore, we still need to issue an edict to denounce the behavior of the Folangji people. In addition, we also want the Western missionaries in the country to express their stance on this."
"Also, we need to order the construction of a monument to the Huangshan Incident on Huangshan Mountain and Sheliao Island. Monuments should also be built in places where the tragedies of Western barbarian invasions and Japanese pirate invasions occurred in the past!"
"More ancestral halls to commemorate the fallen soldiers and civilians and statues of heroes who fought against these invasions must be built, and the local government offices must regularly send people to offer sacrifices and assign dedicated personnel to take care of them!"
"We have to use this method to make the consciousness of the country and nation more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."
Xiyuan.
Zhu Yijun told Shen Shixing and Qi Jiguang some of his next thoughts.
Shen Shixing and Qi Jiguang raised their hands and said yes.
Then, Shen Shixing said: "Your Majesty, in my humble opinion, if we want the new ritual to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that everyone in the country will know the friendship between compatriots and have conscience, we should pay more attention to the development of practical learning."
"Because of the current promotion of new rituals, if we want the world to accept this ritual, the most important thing is to see whether the imperial court can continue to promote the development of external profits to enrich the country and benefit the people, and then make the country rich and powerful, so that a large number of people can receive education. Improve intelligence.”
"If you want to continue to develop external profits, you must keep improving your skills. Naturally, land transportation must be developed. Qi Gong's four-wheeled carriage makes transportation easier, which is of great help; at sea, ships must be fast and convenient. , at the same time, the artillery must be more powerful in order to dominate the sea and develop external profits, but now in navigation, the Ming Dynasty is no longer as good as the Western Yi, this needs to be noted."
"I believe that we should attach great importance to the development of practical learning. The country's talents should not only be good at literature and martial arts, but also have skilled craftsmen and even talents who are well versed in the principles of all things. Fortunately, your majesty has set up a lordship award for those who have meritorious service in various fields. system."
"But in my humble opinion, this is not enough!"
"The imperial court needs to cultivate more talents in this field, instead of just encouraging people all over the world to go into this field for the sake of the Lord. Some academies should open courses specifically to cultivate this kind of talents."
After Shen Shixing said that, Zhu Yijun said: "Then the cabinet will directly start building a group of schools specifically responsible for cultivating practical studies based on the actual situation! Divide into engineering and science. Engineering will focus on technology, and science will focus on inquiry and operation. We also regularly allocate funds to carry out some technical and theoretical research.”
"As the emperor, I will also provide internal funds to support some practical talents to do research in this area. It can be called a project."
After Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at Qi Jiguang: "I remember that Qi Changguo was planning to build the steam engine I mentioned. I asked him to request a decree to recommend a few people to form a team to do this as an imperial envoy. By the way, he told me that he needed to do this experiment. I will give him any amount of money from my own funds and will not let him pay it out on his own."
Qi Jiguang raised his hand and said yes.
As descendants of honorable nobles, people like Qi Changguo have a lot of money but little to do. They have plenty of time to do things they are interested in.
Now the Emperor of Heaven advocates that wealthy and idle people like them do some research work in science and technology.
Therefore, Qi Jiguang could no longer stop Qi Changguo from doing these things.
After Qi Changguo learned that the emperor not only verbally supported him in doing these things, but also planned to invest money in support, he became even more motivated and hurriedly said to Zhao Shizhen, who was planning to build a new iron-making furnace:
"His Majesty has decreed that I recommend those who are interested in steam engines to form a team to develop this as an imperial envoy, and they can directly ask for money from internal funds."
"Really?"
Zhao Shizhen was also quite excited after hearing this.
Qi Changguo said: "Of course it is true. My father brought it himself."
"In that case, I will immediately draw the new iron-making furnace I envisioned, and then ask Your Majesty to use internal funds to hire workers to build it."
"If the effect is good, build a few more and test the impact of air and charcoal on the quality of the molten iron. Since the horse-drawn copper ball experiment appeared, it also made me believe that there is a gap in our world. The place looks empty, but it is actually filled with air. So we need to explore whether this air will also have an impact on ironmaking."
Zhao Shizhen said with excitement.
Qi Changguo nodded: "It makes sense! You should hurry up. Your Majesty has enough money now and is not short of money!"
While Qi Changguo and others were beginning to develop steam engines, his younger brother-in-law Qi Xingguo was also asking Japanese slaves to collect thunder and lightning for him.
After Qi Xingguo made a capacitor bottle for collecting lightning and a metal pole that collected lightning but was not grounded and insulated, in the summer of the 17th year of Wanli, every time there was a thunderstorm, he forced the Japanese slaves in his house to hold a copper-wrapped rod. Use the silk glass rod to touch the metal rod and collect the lightning into your own capacitor bottle.
What was smoother for Qi Xingguo was that because he was following Zhu Yijun's instructions, he successfully collected thunder and lightning for the first time, and immediately informed Zhu Yijun about it.
Zhu Yijun was very happy about this and issued an order to reward him.
Because Zhu Yijun supported the development of practical learning, many descendants of the clan became more enthusiastically involved in scientific and technological research, and even many bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats began to become more interested in this.
One governor even reported that he had a skilled craftsman here who built a two-hundred-meter ship. This made Zhu Yijun very excited and asked the governor to submit the drawings.
This can be regarded as the benefit of centralization.
As long as the emperor is good at science and technology, the enthusiasm of the people below him will also skyrocket.
But this made the Confucian scholars quite disappointed, and they felt as if the empress in the palace was about to fall out of favor.
Even more astute Confucian scholars realized that the emperor was completely destroying the foundation of the old rituals, and in order to strengthen the court's ability to expand externally, they paid special attention to practical learning, and even intended to use people such as nobles and relatives of the clan as the main force to develop practical learning.
"Shenwu County has far-reaching intentions. In order to gain the benefits of the world, he did not hesitate to seduce the emperor to be a poor scholar and a good worker like Zhang Taiyue!"
Zhao Zhihan sighed.
Huang Juan asked: "Is there really no way to eliminate the unhealthy tendencies in the court?"
Zhao Zhihan said: "Of course there is. Gaoxin Zheng is ruining the world's maritime affairs, and the methods used by the upright people in the court may be used."
(End of chapter)
