The Far Fire Bureau has achieved a technological breakthrough, but there are still many problems they need to solve.
The cavalry can be said to be the top branch of arms in this era. No one can underestimate the cavalry!
Although Yuan Ting was driven out of the customs, he still had tyrannical power, the shame of failure, the awakening of the bloodline and Wang Baobao's efforts to turn the tide, which brought about the "ZTE". Although the Ming Dynasty had unparalleled military generals, it suffered from not having enough war horses to pursue it. Fight deep into the grasslands.
Passive infantry, if they want to deal with the cavalry roaring like a strong wind, they can only work hard on firearms.
Historically, the "three-line tactics" pioneered by Mu Ying in Yunnan were suitable for fighting the natives and harassing and killing elephants, but were not suitable for dealing with lightning-fast cavalry unless the firearms could achieve multiple rounds of killing and complete destruction as the cavalry rushed forward. Destroy the cavalry!
The key to victory or defeat is time.
Gu Zhengchen held the firegun, looked at Tao Chengdao and others who looked embarrassed, and said solemnly: "There is no end to the improvement of firearms. Once you conquer a mountain, there will be another higher mountain waiting for you. When you climb over Looking back across the mountains, the Ming Dynasty’s frontier will become extremely peaceful because of your wisdom and dedication.”
"A sergeant can stand on the city wall and watch the setting sun peacefully. A farmer can sit in the field with a pot of water and wait for the evening wind to blow. A businessman can walk in the wild without fear. Can peace come to every day in the Ming Dynasty? An inch of territory will protect every citizen of the Ming Dynasty. It depends on whether you can create powerful firearms."
"Don't be afraid of improvement. You have mastered the method of experimentation and testing. Be brave and try it. The medicine chamber is here. How to fill the gunpowder faster? Can we consider it from many aspects, such as redesigning the medicine chamber and whether it can be improved to be closed up and down? Or a side-opening lock type. Can we design something similar to a spoon to determine the amount of gunpowder and avoid the problem of loading more or less gunpowder when we are in a hurry..."
Tao Chengdao, Shen Ming and others looked at Gu Zhengchen deeply.
Although most of the people here are great craftsmen with rich experience, when it comes to ideas, no one can compare with Gu Zhengchen. He can always find new ways creatively and make people shine.
After Gu Zhengchen discussed with the craftsmen, he looked at Shen Ming'er: "How is the research on flint?"
Shen Ming'er was a little troubled: "After testing, flint can indeed ignite gunpowder, but the success rate is too low. Seven out of ten times, the gunpowder cannot be ignited to achieve firing."
Gu Zhengchen smiled and was not in a hurry: "Being able to ignite gunpowder means that this path is correct. It's just a matter of the success rate of flint firing. If you find ways to improve materials and friction, you will always succeed."
Shen Ming'er nodded heavily: "I will arrange for the craftsmen to study it carefully."
There are no fixed "commitment and off-duty" times in the Yuanhuo Bureau. They are more casual, and Gu Zhengchen does not forcefully restrain them. However, these people are very conscious and consciously work until midnight, almost every day.
Tao Chengdao looked at Gu Zhengchen who was walking around and couldn't help but ask: "Gu is directing Qian's affairs, but there are other important things. It's getting late..."
Gu Zhengchen waved his hand: "Nothing, I can't go back tonight, so I'll stay here."
He couldn't go back, lest Zhang Xiwan ask about Taizu and have to hide for a night before he found a good reason.
But I was hiding in the Yuanhuo Bureau, and I couldn’t hide from the county government...
Gu Zhengchen still had to go back to Dian Mao and deal with the paperwork. The days were the same as before, but Zhang Xiwan seemed to have forgotten about it and did not ask any questions, which made Gu Zhengchen breathe a sigh of relief.
With Zhang Xiwan's memory, Gu Zhengchen didn't think she had forgotten, and made it clear that she was giving him a chance to confess. But it’s better not to talk about things that can’t be explained clearly.
The county government will handle some paperwork and reconcile the accounts in the morning.
The summer harvest is over, and the people still have to plant crops in the autumn. No one will beat the drum of the government at this time.
Gu Zhengchen was enjoying his leisure time, holding a "pencil" in his hand, preparing to design Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes.
It was made of graphite and clay by Gu Zhengchen at the craftsman's workshop. As for the pencil shaft, it was cut open, a groove was carved in the middle, and the two halves were closed and bonded together.
There was really no other way. The last time I drew the blueprint of the treasure ship, I almost went crazy with the brush. It was difficult to follow a straight line with the brush, and it was difficult to grasp the lines. Sometimes there was too much ink and not enough ink. It was always inconvenient, so I had to make this pencil.
With a pencil, the corresponding ruler, set square, and compass can naturally be made. These are not difficult.
If he didn't intervene, a large banknote that could break the Guinness World Record would be born.
People use banknotes because they are simple, easy to carry, and easy to hide. Lao Zhu is good. The banknotes he makes are larger than the A4 paper of later generations. If you carry a stack of banknotes, you may mistake them for a book.
Although there were also large banknotes in the Yuan Dynasty, most of the time the banknotes were smaller in size, slightly larger than the red grandpa. When you get to Lao Zhu, you need at least four red grandpa sizes.
The design of this thing is big, won’t you increase the cost?
It’s not easy to carry either.
For such a big thing, you can stuff it into your sleeves or clothes. You can only fold it and fold it again. After hundreds of foldings, this thing will become worn out.
Who wants to use worn-out money, even if it is marked with a hundred pennies, but if you take it out, people will not want it, saying that your money is too old and can only be worth eighty pennies, or you can use copper coins.
That's another problem - losing money.
The meaning of faint money is old money.
It stands to reason that if you don't deliberately mess with the treasure money, it will take at least two or three years to become useless money. But the Ming Dynasty treasure money is better. You fold it in your sleeve, take it out, unfold it and hand it to the merchant. The merchant looks at it and folds it. Stuff it back into the sleeves, unfold it later and put it in the account. The next time you purchase goods, it will be folded by another person...
Within half a year, or even less than half a year, the problem of money shortage began to appear. The imperial court lacked the means to deal with the lost money and chose to recycle it at a reduced price. As for the reason, it was nothing more than charging a "cost of production". It was tiring to destroy the lost money, but it had to be interesting...
This move also aggravated the depreciation of Baobao, making it difficult for Baobao to be recognized by businessmen and people. However, due to pressure from the court, they had to use it fearfully while silently suffering the pain of depreciation.
Gu Zhengchen didn't want to think that one day, after Jurong's three major hospitals issued treasure banknotes, these people would not be able to buy things with marked value with the treasure banknotes. If he wanted to fundamentally eliminate these problems, he would need to create relatively smaller, portable More convenient treasure money.
"You can write Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes on the header, write the same denomination, and skip the flower pattern. Use the Chinese watch pattern instead. Lao Zhu doesn't have the national emblem. As for Lao Zhu's head, it is designed on the right..."
Gu Zhengchen thought about the RMB pattern and sketched the Ming Dynasty banknotes.
As for whether Ming craftsmen can make Lao Zhu's beard look even slightly, that's not something Gu Zhengchen can consider. Making treasure banknotes has its own anti-counterfeiting technology, such as high-difficulty mulberry paper, which is extremely difficult for people to make by themselves. There are various complex patterns that cannot be copied by ordinary craftsmen. In addition, there are color printing and so on.
Coupled with legal follow-up, all those who forged treasure banknotes were killed. Anyone who caught someone forging treasure banknotes would be rewarded 250 taels of silver, and all the property of the prisoner would be inherited.
If this girl is successfully arrested once, she can make a fortune and marry Bai Fumei...
Designing drawings is a tedious task, but it became much simpler for Gu Zhengchen. He just used rough outline techniques and then handed them over to the painters of the Craftsman Academy. It didn't matter if he didn't know what Lao Zhu looked like. He just painted the rest. , just fill in the color.
The biggest advantage of being an official is that you can have someone to work for you. Especially in a feudal society, there are not so many protections of human rights and labor laws. There is always someone to take care of everything arranged.
Gu Zhengchen shook his head. It seemed that after staying in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, he had been poisoned by feudalism...
Luo Shao came over and put a stack of contract documents on the table: "Your Majesty, the contract documents for retting fertilizer application have been delivered. The people in each township who signed the contract documents set up wooden signs in the fields as required, and measured the words. The husband wrote 'fertilizer application field'."
Gu Zhengchen looked at the contract that was full of fingerprints and motioned to Luo Shao to file it: "This is the first time that fertiliser, bean cake, etc. have been used. Whether the production can be increased depends on the autumn harvest. I heard from the elders that many people will have many kinds of crops this autumn. On the contrary, less cotton and autumn rice are planted, is that true?”
Luo Shao nodded slightly: "Jurong Textile is a big business, with good quality and sufficient shipments. The price is only 10% lower than that of Songjiang Prefecture. The textile compound has been steadily harvesting cotton, and the people have seen more profits from cotton than from cotton. Rice, they have expanded the number of acres of cotton planted. In previous years, people mostly planted half an acre or one acre of cotton, but this year there are many two acres of cotton."
Gu Zhengchen looked at Luo Shao seriously: "There is no problem with two or three acres of cotton on ten acres of land, but there cannot be ten acres of cotton on ten acres of land. Jurong has little land and does not produce much food, so it crowds out rice fields. Too much food will be detrimental to the stability of the people. Although a large amount of food can be purchased, if it is sent to the court, it is putting the cart before the horse."
Luo Shao understood.
People regard food as their first priority, not cotton as their first priority.
Jurong can appropriately expand the number of acres of cotton cultivated, but not excessively. Besides, if the imperial censor wrote a sentence in the book saying that the people make a living by growing cotton and not working in the rice fields, then everyone would be doomed.
After processing by craftsmen, except for the portrait area of Zhu Yuanzhang, the carefully carved Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes have been produced.
Gu Zhengchen wrote a long letter, explaining the gold and silver standard, the problem of faint banknotes, and the consideration of the size of banknotes, etc., and then handed it to Gu Cheng, who was going to Jinling to deliver goods, and asked Gu Cheng to write the letter Transfer it to Mu Ying, who will transfer it to the East Palace.
Jinling, Huagai Hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang examined a document from the Ministry of Punishment, stared at the name on it, frowned, and ordered his chamberlain: "Inform Liu Weiqian and Li Yan, the ministers of the Ministry of Punishment, and also bring the guilty minister Fei Zhen."
The chamberlain got the order and sent someone to summon him.
The Criminal Department is located outside Taipingmen, far away from the Zhongshu, Hubu and other government offices.
It took Liu Weiqian and Li Yan less than half an hour to arrive at the palace.
Fei Zhen dragged his chain with his feet and stepped into the canopy hall with a clatter. He looked at the majestic Zhu Yuanzhang, knelt down and saluted: "Fei Zhen, the sinner, has seen your majesty, long live long live!"
