Zhu Yuanzhang was called to dinner by Empress Ma at noon. A letter came from the village about the Ming Navy.
He hurried home, took the envelope, pulled out a piece of paper, read, read, read, and gritted his teeth after reading: "Just one sentence? Why use such a big paper?"
The meaning is easy to understand. In the future, the navy will go out to find food by himself, without the court paying for it.
He just needs to find reliable people to lead the navy. Like Zhu Wentian, the first thing he thought of was Fu Youde.
Fu Youde is very good at fighting. He has participated in wars time and time again, with great achievements and high official titles. He is not at home now, so he went to fight Ming Yuzhen's son.
"I'm afraid we need to find someone else to do it, so we can form an army this year."
Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he should first find someone who knew how to fight on the water. He mainly knew how to build ships and build sea-going ships. First, he should build smaller sea-going ships, which would be faster to build.
He knows the difference between sea boats and river boats. One has a protruding bottom and the other has a flat bottom. River boats can easily capsize in the sea.
Since we rely on trade to support our troops, we should quickly send out a group of soldiers to exchange for things, slowly exchange them, and use the extra money to build bigger ships and recruit more sailors.
"Biao'er is getting married, let's tell him and see what his plans are."
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about the naval affairs for a while, and then thought about the marriage of his great son, in the month of winter wheat harvest.
"I will write a letter when the team returns this afternoon. Since we have arranged for some people to form an army first, it is better to use the ships confiscated in the forbidden sea for first use."
Zhu Biao suggested that there are still ready-made ships, they are just not big enough. There was maritime trade in the Yuan Dynasty.
Zhang Shicheng used to make money to fight wars through overseas trade, but was later caught and died.
Fang Guozhen was even more powerful. He gathered thousands of people to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, robbed shipping grain, and then surrendered, rebelled, surrendered again, and rebelled again...
They had boats outside and could always hide on the island. Otherwise, why would the Yuan Dynasty court accept Fang Guozhen's submission after he rebelled again and again? no way.
Fang Guozhen is still alive, and Zhu Yuanzhang will never let him command the navy. His current official position is Zuocheng of Guangxi Province, so he just stays in Nanjing in name.
"Very good! Write a letter and ask if the palace can be built on what is used to build houses in the village?"
Zhu Yuanzhang agreed that the old ships should be used first, and the new ships would be built slowly, and the wood used in the construction of Zhongdu would be used first.
Didn't Xiaqiu Village come up with new things to build houses and save wood? Let's see if they can be used in the construction of Zhongdu.
By the way, let's test the expert to see if he is opposed to the establishment of Zhongdu, or has other thoughts. What's wrong with Zhongdu?
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Zhu Wentian didn't know that someone was going to test him. He was busy rolling steel wires into sheets, using tools like pressing sugar cane juice to roll steel.
Heat the steel wire first and then roll it, otherwise you will waste that little equipment.
He wanted to make a music box, which required a clockwork spring and a gear inside that would rotate and hit the pronunciation piece to produce sound.
This thing is so complicated that you can choose songs, and there are several songs in each.
Zhu Wentian didn't have much time to do it. It was too cumbersome. Just one song would do, not a cylinder, a box with a little figure.
The villains are two people in ancient costumes who raise their eyebrows and present them to the prince and the princess, both of whom are poor people.
Zhu Wentian has a small converter for steelmaking, which can hold more than a hundred kilograms of material at a time. The material comes from the iron he smelt.
In conjunction with the small converter, there is a small iron smelting furnace with a height of 2.6 meters. It is very compact. It is difficult to operate and useless when it is built.
It is so small that the village can produce whatever it needs, and the villagers have to dig the ore.
There used to be no blacksmith in the village, but now there are four people who specialize in making farm tools and knives.
When you encounter a place where you don't know how to do it, go to the blacksmith shop in the county to learn. If you pay enough, people will be willing to teach, and you will directly learn the practical skills when teaching.
Zhu Wentian can solve the steel problem without learning the technology of forging steel, which is passed down from one person to another and from one person to another.
"Actually, making this into a watch requires high technical requirements. It is relatively easier to make a desk clock than a watch. That way we don't have to look at the sun and stars to compare the time, and we also save hourglasses and water leaks."
Zhu Wentian led his friends to handle the materials as if they were playing a game, explaining the purpose of the spring and just adding an escapement. This kind of design has been around for a long time, and the ancients were very powerful.
It’s just not used to make a universally usable clock, otherwise daily life would be more convenient.
"Brother Hanhan, what else can I use it for?" The little girl has become carefree now. The year before last, her family had even discussed marrying her.
Everyone got married early, and Zhu Yuanzhang's daughter, who was thirteen or fourteen years old, was married off. Zhu Biao and the Crown Princess were both born in 1355, and this year is 1371, sixteen.
Zhu Wentian came, and he did not agree that people in the village should continue to get married early, whether it was a man or a woman.
You are a child yourself, and if you start having children soon, you will be involved in it for the rest of your life. The key is to give birth to a child, which is dangerous.
When the village has money, it is not so anxious about it and can always find something satisfactory.
People who are not married are now working hard to learn to read, write, and do arithmetic. Not only Zhu Wentian's friends, but also the villagers take the time to learn.
The single ones study harder and miss the scholarly family outside.
For example, when recruiting a son-in-law, see which family has a scholar but is poor. If the son-in-law is of good quality and good at studying, he will be willing to pay more.
After being recruited to the village, let the other party take the imperial examination. If he passes the examination, he will immediately be changed into a live-in son-in-law and become a normal son-in-law.
If you don't pass the exam, you can help in the village, learn slowly, and you can continue to take the exam. The exam comes every three years. If you have children, you should raise them.
If you want to marry a daughter-in-law, you should choose someone from a family who is an official, and you should also observe the quality. If you get married, you will be given generous gifts, and the money for being an official is not much. Unless you are corrupt, don't look for that.
Both the village chief and the village elder think that the people in their village are worthy of anyone. With Hanhan here, no matter how powerful outsiders are, can they compare to Hanhan?
The accounting method given by Hanhan must be learned by the imperial court! The big money-making business in the village was sent to the palace, and the prince wrote a letter asking the Ming Dynasty how to build a navy.
Under such circumstances, the little girl was not in a hurry to get married. She had an extra frog in her hand. It was made of paper and jumped up and down with each press.
"After making the music box, I will make a winding frog for you. Twist it a few times and then jump around on its own."
Zhu Wentian knows how to use a clockwork, iron frog, which does not require a blacksmith to slowly knock, make a mold, put the iron piece on it, and hammer it into half a frog, install the spring and other small parts, and put the two pieces together. Use rivets.
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Early the next morning, just before dinner time, a boat coming back from Nanjing arrived at the village, bringing two boatloads of good iron ore.
The villagers moved over, and Zhu Taiyi washed his hands and face: "The palace knew that after the village smelted its own iron, it was afraid that good ore would be hard to find, so it sent some. In addition, people from Zhou She came to see if there was anything they could do to help. of."
Zhou Zong came, with ten of his men, who had just finished moving the iron ore.
