The solution for the Dachu Empire was to invest in a large number of hydraulic machinery and replace unstable manpower with more stable mechanical equipment.
Even so, in fact, the processing level and performance of the artillery built by the Da Chu Empire were actually worse than those hand-made by senior craftsmen.
This is also the direction that many technicians in the Dachu Empire have been working hard to improve.
Whether it is the technicians in the machinery factory or the technicians in the artillery factory, their main job is not to design better artillery, but to improve the production process and enhance the accuracy and processing capabilities of the equipment.
It was Dai Xinhan who led a team of engineers to solve the mass production problem of the 18-pound naval gun. In addition to the mass production problems of the 14-pound naval gun and the 9-pound naval gun that he had previously solved, Luo Zhixue was convinced by him. Look higher.
At the same time, in order to stimulate other engineers to use their talents and contribute more to the industrialization of the Chu Empire, Luo Zhixue was also preparing to set an example.
And Dai Xinhan is more suitable.
He has excellent research skills and can keep up with the times. While doing research, he can also participate in the compilation of various mechanical textbooks for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology. At the same time, he is also very interested in mathematics and geometry, and serves in the Department of Ethical Education. Song Yingxing was very talkative and often exchanged letters to discuss various technical issues.
Moreover, he is relatively pure as a person and has no political ambitions. Even if he has a fifth-grade rank and good political treatment, his life style is still relatively simple, and he does not take the opportunity to make money or gain power.
In the end, Luo Zhixuecai chose Dai Xinhan as a model to let the world see: someone who specializes in various sciences and technologies can not only be an official, but also be knighted!
This indeed caused a huge response. Many people on the spot had blank faces. As the news of Dai Xinhan's knighthood was spread to other places through Di Bao, it was known to the civil and military officials in the Da Chu Empire system. , everyone was stunned!
After all, in the eyes of many people, Dai Xinhan is just a senior craftsman.
Previously, Luo Zhixue said that senior engineers should be awarded grades and included in a unified official management system. Many people had objections in their hearts, but they also accepted it.
After all, this is a senior engineer, and all he does is build guns and work for the empire.
You must know that even those officials were serious and high-ranking before.
From ancient times to the present, the Chu Empire has truly broken down the distinction between officials. All officials of the Chu Empire are all loyal to the emperor.
Not to mention the distinction between officials and local staff, Luo Zhixue even threw the traditional system of six ministries into the garbage dump and created a highly centralized political structure on his own.
Unfortunately, Luo Zhixue had already figured out these things a long time ago, even when he was still squatting in Nanyang Mansion. Many officials who joined later, especially those who surrendered in the former Ming Dynasty, were very unhappy.
When they first came here, many people would have this thought: Oh my god, this is simply a chaos of demons... all kinds of institutions and systems are nondescript... but there is nothing they can do about it.
Many of them want to bring order to the chaos, but these systems have been finalized a long time ago and have even been integrated into the blood of the Chu Empire. If they want to change them, it will basically deny the current system of the Chu Empire. Political system, if this is the case, without Luo Zhixue taking action, a group of ministers will first tear up those who want to bring order to chaos!
You said that tax collection is the responsibility of the Ministry of Accounts. The Tax Department must be abolished and then a Ministry of Accounts should be created. The tax patrol police are even more rebellious and must be abolished altogether.
What do you want the tax officials to think? What do you want the Minister of Counsel Chen Xingkai to think?
The tax officials will find you every minute. After a little investigation, you will be found to be a tax evader who will confiscate your home and exterminate your family without any negotiation.
You say that agriculture, industry, and commerce, whether industry or business, are just small lanes. If you want to focus on agriculture and suppress business, you can eliminate the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce... You let the Minister of Counselor be in charge of the economic development of industry and commerce. What does Yuan Gaofeng think?
He is also the Minister of Industry.
Therefore, many things, even for latecomers, especially the officials who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, were not used to many things by later scholars who participated in the imperial examination, and even felt that they were contrary to their three views, and even felt that they were rebellious.
However, they are powerless to do anything about it and cannot change it at all.
Because after they really entered the system of the Dachu Empire, they themselves became a part of these systems. If this change happened, their own interests would also be harmed.
As a result, you can see a traditional scholar who used to regard the Four Books and Five Classics as classics, and extremely rejected mathematics, science and engineering, thinking that it was just a strange and obscene technique, or even a traditional Chu official with a traditional background, who even had to suppress his nausea to take the initiative Learn these things that they looked down upon and rejected in the past.
Why?
Because if you learn these things, you can become an official and be promoted!
This was especially evident in several of Sun Qinian's fellow villagers... In order to be able to enter high school in the examination, they devoted themselves to various science books that they thought would stain their eyes at a glance.
Not only these candidates, but also one of their examiners, Mr. Zhang Zijin, deputy director of the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Ethnic Education, is also immersed in elementary mathematics, which is a headache...
Because our Lord Zhang Zijin was ordered to serve as the examiner of the Gewu Department.
The conscience of heaven and earth, Mr. Zhang has not had much contact with these things since he was a child, and like many scholars, he despises these things.
If you ask him to write all kinds of eight-legged articles and play with poetry, it is definitely easy to talk about and can be picked up easily, but if you ask him to do math problems... that is really embarrassing and disgusting at the same time.
However, even so, Zhang Zijin still had to ponder these mathematical problems.
Although there are reference answers for grading at that time, and the corrections are carried out directly against the reference answers, the specific grading work is also carried out by a group of people, and he, the examiner, is responsible for the management.
But you can't understand everything... He is also a pioneer in the implementation of Gewu Science in the Chu Empire!
After Zhang Zijin finished reading another math problem, he couldn't help but sigh, walked to the window and stared at the Qinhuai night outside the window.
It's so fucking difficult to be an official. I really want to resign and go home, so I don't have to deal with these disgusting people about math, physics, and chemistry anymore...
What the hell is this!
But when he thought about what the minister above him said to him a few days ago, he gave up the idea.
The Vice Minister made it clear to him that he should continue to work hard and do a good job in the Gewu Science Examination. As long as nothing goes wrong, the Ministry of Personnel Affairs will come to him after this spring boudoir is over. He talked.
Talking to the Ministry of Personnel Affairs is a great thing, and it often means promotion.
The Ministry of Personnel Affairs of the Great Chu Empire had a tradition and would often conduct investigations and interviews with officials before they were promoted.
Even in normal situations, there would be no such formal investigation and conversation procedures.
This makes Zhang Zijin look forward to it!
After he surrendered to Chu last year, he first became a so-called inspector in the Ministry of Ethnic Education. At that time, he mainly did some things about Enke.
After ascending to the throne of Enke, he was promoted to a higher level and sent to Xiangyang Prefecture in northern Chu. He supervised the imperial examinations and official school affairs in Xiangyang Prefecture, Yunyang Prefecture, Junzhou and other places with the title of fourth-rank Chubei Right Counselor.
Subsequently, Chubei was officially established as a province, and he was promoted to the director of the Supervisory Department under the governor's office of Chubei Province, and his rank was upgraded to the fourth grade.
After the Great Chu Empire moved to Jinling City in Yingtianfu, the Great Chu Empire held the second trial after Dengji Enke smoothly, and it was also the first large-scale formal trial.
He also specially transferred Zhang Zijin back from Chubei to serve as deputy director of the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Ethnic Education, and his rank was promoted to the third grade.
This can be regarded as officially entering the ranks of senior officials of the Great Chu Empire. Under the chief envoys of each province, those who assist the chief envoys in handling the administrative affairs of the province and participate in politics from the left and right are only from the third rank.
As for the left and right political parties in the Chu Empire, in the administrative system of a province, their political status was basically second only to the governor and chief envoy, and they were the serious third-in-command and fourth-in-command.
And this third grade is only a local third grade. According to convention, it is still half a level lower than the third grade in Gyeonggi.
Zhang Zijin has done quite well in this position, and his superiors have also seen his efforts. In addition, there is a shortage of people in various places, so naturally they want to put Zhang Zijin in a more important position.
But no one would have thought that in his heart, Zhang Zijin actually disliked the current imperial examination system of the Chu Empire, especially the emphasis on the Gewu subject and the Legal Affairs subject, and placed these two subjects on the same level as the Jinshi subject.
There are just some things that no one knows unless he tells them. Now in the eyes of outsiders, he is a pioneer in promoting Gewu Science!
People, unknowingly, end up living the way they hate the most!
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On the sixth day of March, the weather was clear and cloudless, and the warm sunshine had somewhat driven away the cold that had lasted for several months.
However, Zhang Zijin, who has never been in good health, still wore a thick leather jacket, an ear hat and a hand warmer when going out.
Zhang Zijin's health has never been very good. After all, he is a weak scholar in the traditional sense, the kind who cannot lift with his shoulders or lift with his hands.
In addition, when he was working in Chubei, he traveled for a long time, visiting every county to inspect and guide local industries. Later, he had to hold local college examinations to select students, which almost failed him. So exhausted.
Later, when he served as the director of the Chubei Supervisory School Office, he was exhausted from holding the rural examination. As soon as the Chubei Township Examination was completed, he was transferred to Jinling City and was busy with the examination of the Gewu Department, from topic selection to the beginning. He is involved in the detailed evaluation of admission criteria and even venue selection.
After several months of continuous high-intensity work, Zhang Zijin felt more and more that his body could no longer hold up.
But, even if you can’t hold it back, you have to hold on and get through this trial!
After all, after he can try it, he is expected to go further!
If nothing else goes wrong, a third-grade official will be obtained. However, whether he is transferred to a local government as chief envoy, or he is appointed as director of another department in Gyeonggi Province, it is a position of high authority.
In the face of promotion, mere fatigue is nothing!
However, Zhang Zijin still overestimated his body... Halfway through the exam, he developed a fever, but he still focused on his promotion after the exam and continued to grit his teeth and hold on!
Whether you can be promoted or not depends on this wave. You must not retreat, even if you are burned to death, you have to hold on!
Then……
This person actually fainted when he tilted his head during the imperial report meeting after the examination, while reporting on the examination and admission status of the Gewu subject...
Luo Zhixue was stunned for a moment, and the others were also dumbfounded!
Bumping into pillars and yelling in front of the emperor are nothing new. Even if you have never seen it, you have heard of it. But in front of the emperor, you fainted from exhaustion. And you are not pretending. You really have a high fever that will not go away. To be honest, it is really rare to faint as a result...
After many people heard about this, they felt like 10,000 grass-mud horses running wildly in their hearts: Damn, this is a cruel person!
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