Controversy is not necessarily a bad thing.
Every coin has two sides, let alone an opinion?
Since Yao Guangxiao threw up this copper coin, when the copper coin lands, the pros and cons will also be separated.
Zhu Yunwen agreed with Yao Guangxiao's proposal and said: "The people were affected by the disaster and are eager to improve their lives. The imperial court will fund the expropriation and use work instead of relief. This can relieve the people's worries about survival and relieve the difficulties of Fengyang Mansion. I think it is feasible."
"emperor……"
Zheng Ci still wanted to dissuade him.
Zhu Yunwen raised his hand, stopped Zheng Ci, and said: "I know that there will be many problems for the victims to enter the capital, but this move is beneficial to the people, isn't it? Since it is beneficial to the people, it doesn't matter if the court loses some money. Order the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate funds One hundred thousand taels of silver were used to find sites outside Dongshui Pass, Jubao Gate, and Jinchuan Gate, and to build simple residences first to provide comfort to the victims."
"As for what you are worried about, let the victims decide for themselves. I have issued an order to Yuxin and Fengyang Prefecture to express the imperial will and not to force it. Those who are willing to come will protect their capital, and those who do not want to come will be allowed to do so. If it stays in place, what worries do all my dear friends have?"
After Zheng Ci, Zhuo Jing and others heard about it, they couldn't say anything more and had to accept the order and retreat.
After the court meeting, Zhu Yunwen returned to Wuying Hall. Before he had approved the three memorials, Xie Jin asked for an audience outside the hall.
Enter the palace and salute.
Xie Jin took out a memorial from his sleeve and said: "Your Majesty, the list of the prince's teachers has been initially drawn up. I have selected eight people. Please take a look at it."
Zhu Yunwen held the brush in his hand and did not look at Xie Jin.
Xie Jintuo held up the memorial, feeling a little scared and uneasy.
The atmosphere was a bit depressing and dull.
Jie Jin began to sweat on his forehead and secretly glanced at Zhu Yunwen. He seemed to have forgotten that he was here and was only focused on correcting the memorial.
As time passed, Xie Jin became more and more uneasy, and his hands trembled a little.
Zhu Yunwen put down a memorial, looked up at Xie Jin, and asked softly: "How did Zhang Ge see this list?"
"Zhang Yan?"
Xie Jin took a deep breath, turned a little pale, and said in panic: "Wei Chen misunderstood the order and thought he was asked to draft a list, so he didn't ask Zhang Ge for his opinion."
Zhu Yunwen picked up a memorial, looked at the approval in it, and said: "Zhang Zhen is also a member of the cabinet. Why is it that none of the more than 20 memorials were approved by Zhang Zhen? Is it because Mr. Zhang is old or... Is he lazy?"
Xie Jin quickly knelt down and shouted: "I, I am guilty."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Xie Jin with a cold face.
Yes, Xie Jin is a talented person and knows his own thoughts. It is very suitable to use him as a cabinet minister.
But Xie Jin also has a side that makes Zhu Yunwen uncomfortable, that is, arrogance and increasing arbitrariness.
Arrogant, Zhu Yunwen can understand it. For a capable person, it's okay to be a little arrogant.
But Zhu Yunwen will never allow it to be arbitrary!
At present, there are only three people in the cabinet. Yu Xin is out for disaster relief and is away from the court, so only Xie Jin and Zhang Yan are left.
Zhang Yan is also a peacemaker, calm-minded and smiling at everyone. He does not dare to make up his mind on some key issues. As long as Xie Jin insists, he will give up his views.
In other words, Xie Jin is the dominant one in the cabinet at this time. Even some memorials, Xie Jin wants to monopolize them. So the next step is to cultivate his own powerful party?
Zhu Yunwen said solemnly: "The cabinet is not named Zhang, nor Yu, nor Jie. It is named Gong. We study together, make decisions together, and work together for the Ming Dynasty. I hope you understand this, re-draw the list, and go on. "
Xie Jin kowtowed and carefully exited Wuying Hall.
The wind blew, and Xie Jin couldn't help but tremble a little, and then he realized that he was covered in cold sweat.
The emperor is warning himself!
Xie Jin knew what this warning meant, and he clearly remembered how he left the capital many years ago.
Ministry of Industry.
Zheng Ci summoned his officials to study how to resettle the victims.
Ministry of Industry
The minister Yan Zhen looked at the map and exclaimed: "The emperor has chosen an excellent place. Please see, sir, this Dongshui Pass is the only ship lock wharf in the capital, and the Qinhuai River is divided into two. One branch enters the city, and there are ten miles of Qinhuai River, and the other is the moat. The prosperity of merchants from the north and south here is no less than that of Jiangdong Gate."
"My ministers have heard that there has been a shortage of transport workers there. If the disaster victims arrive, there will be a ready job. And outside the Jubao Gate is Tianjie Temple, Baoen Temple and the Heroes' Monument are located here, and there are many people employed. Jinchuan The granary outside the door is under construction and also needs manpower. It seems that the emperor's vision is extremely wise."
Zheng Ci sighed and said, "You think things are too simple. If you drag your family with you, how will you deal with it? Women, children, the elderly and the weak are staying outside the city. If something unexpected happens, how will you explain it to the emperor?"
"Sir, that is a matter that the inspection, governor and security bureau are responsible for. We only need to build a simple residence so that they can live in it."
Yan Zhenzhi believes that the Ministry of Works only handles the work of the Ministry of Works, and other people are responsible for other matters.
Zheng Ci nodded helplessly, and had no choice but to assign tasks and recruit craftsmen and civilians to build a residence three doors away, close to the water source.
After Zhu Yunwen reviewed the memorial, he walked in the Daming Palace under the light of the setting sun.
"How is Mr. Luo's health?"
Zhu Yunwen asked.
Shuangxi smiled and chatted: "Your Majesty, Mr. Luo just occasionally felt cold a few days ago. Someone reported it yesterday and said he was fine."
Zhu Yunwen looked in the direction of the factory, thought for a moment, and said, "That's all, send someone to visit on my behalf. If he needs anything, I'll let him know."
"According to the order."
Shuangxi arranged for other directors to go on a trip to the factory.
"Your Majesty, do you want to go back to Kunning Palace?"
Shuangxi asked.
Zhu Yunwen looked at the sky and said, "Take me to the War Bureau to have a look. I heard that they have improved the fire blunderbuss. I want to see it."
Bingzhan Bureau, the core supplier of firearms to the Ming Dynasty court.
In fact, the unit responsible for manufacturing firearms in the early Ming Dynasty was called Baoyuan Bureau.
Listen, Baoyuan Bureau, no matter how you sound or look at the name, it sounds like a money printing factory.
That's right, Baoyuan Bureau is a banknote printing factory, and its first responsibility is to create copper coins.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang may have switched to using banknotes. He felt that the Baoyuan Bureau craftsmen had nothing to do, so he asked them to switch to firearms manufacturing. At the same time, he worked part-time as a bench, a washbasin, and designed an anti-theft lock.
At that time, the Baoyuan Bureau's responsibilities were too complex, and firearms manufacturing was only one part of it, so it was difficult to scale up. Think about it, here they are studying firearms, and in the next room they are discussing how to repair the wheel, and there are people sawing outside the door. If you want to make a torture instrument out of wood, why don't you let people concentrate on making weapons?
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
In the thirteenth year of Hongwu's reign, due to the Hu Weiyong case, Zhu Yuanzhang banned the munitions depot and established an arms bureau to be responsible for weapons manufacturing.
However, the Bureau of Ordnance was not responsible for firearms at first. It was only responsible for the manufacture of cold weapons such as bows, guns, knives, helmets, and armor, such as cross-belly bows, black lacquer arrows, fish belly gun heads, reed leaf gun heads, and Ma Jun Yanling knives. Infantry waist sword, general sword, water-milled helmet, water-milled lock top helmet, red paint waist-length armor, water-milled waist-high steel armor, water-milled willow leaf steel armor...
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a military strategy.
The Bingzhan Bureau was an internal government organization, subordinate to the twenty-four yamen in the palace. Its initial position was to be a manufacturing organization that combined firearms and cold weapons.
In terms of firearms, Bingzhan Bureau produces as many as 27 types, mainly as follows:
Divine blunderbuss, horse-killing blunderbuss, hand-held copper blunderbuss, hand-held iron blunderbuss, bowl-mouth blunderbuss, divine spear, swarm of bees, divine machine arrows, blunderbuss arrows, general, second general, third general, gate-stealing general, Xiangyang cannon, ocean Divine machine cannon, small prototype divine machine cannon, bowl-mouthed cannon, bronze cannon, big cannon, small cannon, whirlwind bronze cannon...
Judging from the complex styles, firearms manufacturing in the Hongwu period has formed a system.
When Liu Ju, the eunuch in charge of the military battle bureau, saw Zhu Yunwen arriving, he hurriedly saluted.
Zhu Yunwen sat down and said: "I heard that the fire cannons in the military battle have been improved, so I came to take a look.
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Liu Ju was frightened and said: "If the emperor wants to see it, all he has to do is send someone a message and the War Bureau will send it over for demonstration. How dare you let the emperor go there?"
"Stop flattering and take it out."
Zhu Yunwen said calmly.
Not long after, a guard walked in with the two of them, and the guard followed closely, with the knife unsheathed.
Liu Ju also knew that this was a war situation. If he didn't take precautions, if someone with blind eyes came at the emperor with a blunderbuss, everyone would be buried with him.
The guards are on the side, just in case. If there is any deviant intention, they can be killed in an instant.
Liu Ju walked aside and introduced to the emperor: "This is the master craftsman Chen Youcai, and this is the military craftsman Cui Yu. The transformation of the fire blunderbuss was completed by the two of them."
Zhu Yunwen looked at the two people who were kneeling and worshiping, and his eyes stayed on the long wooden box in front of them. He stood up and walked over, opened the wooden box himself, and couldn't help but be startled when he looked at the iron guy lying inside.
"Is this a firecracker?"
Zhu Yunwen asked doubtfully.
"Back to the Emperor, this is the Hongwu Fire Gun."
Teacher Chen Youcai has a loud and powerful voice.
Zhu Yunwen blinked and looked at the so-called fire gun. Why was this thing different from what he saw on TV?
"Where's the butt?"
"Well?"
"Where's the trigger?"
"Gah?"
"There is nothing, you call this thing a firecracker?"
Zhu Yunwen was very depressed. Could it be that the fire blunderbuss in history were just iron lumps that were thick in the middle and thin at both ends?
Judging from its length, it is probably about the same height as a later thermos bottle, and its diameter is about the same as a thumb. Where is the firecracker? Isn't it just a large iron pipe?
"I will never dare to deceive you."
Liu Ju quickly knelt down.
Zhu Yunwen frowned and said, "Get up and tell me."
Chen Youcai introduced: "Your Majesty, this fire gun is divided into three parts. The front cylinder is the gun tube, the relatively thick middle part is the medicine chamber, and the rear cylinder is the tail gun."
"how to use?"
Zhu Yunwen asked.
Chen Youcai turned sideways, gestured with the fuse, and said: "First install the gunpowder and fuse in the medicine chamber, install the tail, and then insert stones, iron sheets or iron rods from the mouth of the fuse, and just light the fuse. Knock out stones and other objects and kill the enemy fifty steps away."
"Fifty steps?"
Zhu Yunwen was a little depressed. This distance was not as good as a crossbow. Could it be that Zhu Di relied on this thing in history to give a vivid firearms practice lesson to the Oara leader Mahamu?
"Your Majesty, after improvements, this fire gun can kill enemies at a hundred steps, and it is also accurate."
Chen Youcai saw that the emperor looked unhappy, so he explained.
"Oh? Tell me."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Chen Youcai with interest.
Chen Youcai pointed to Cui Yu, the military craftsman on the side, and said: "When Cui Yu was developing the gunpowder, he found that the medicine chamber was thickened, which could accommodate more gunpowder and was not easy to explode. After filling the gunpowder, a wooden horse could be set up , build strong gunpowder to increase the effect of tightening the plug. After such improvements, the fire blunderbuss can fly two hundred steps with one blow, and its killing power can also reach a distance of a hundred steps."
"Cui Yu?"
Zhu Yunwen shouted with some admiration.
"Xiaomin is here!"
Cui Yu quickly knelt down.
Zhu Yunwen signaled Liu Ju to pull him up and asked, "Have you ever thought about how far a firearm can kill?"
Cui Yu lowered her head, not daring to look at Zhu Yunwen, and said in a low voice: "I think the fire cannon can kill up to three hundred steps away, and the artillery should be five miles away, but I haven't found a way yet."
"Be careful!"
Liu Ju scolded him, then smiled and said to Zhu Yunwen, "Your Majesty, he is prone to telling lies."
Zhu Yunwen narrowed his eyes slightly, walked to Cui Yu, and said seriously: "I tell you, there is no limit to the killing distance of firearms. If you find a way, let alone three hundred steps or five miles, it will be three hundred miles or three thousand miles. Thirty thousand miles, you can do it!”
