Xu Zhengming never dreamed that the prefect would actually say such words. Suddenly, he couldn't react and felt a little stupid.
His wife and children were relatively close, so they heard the prefect's words clearly, and they were also dumbfounded.
In fact, the flying car can only fly so high and so far, and it is really of no use. As for flying over the roof, not to mention that Xu Zhengming's wife and children didn't believe it at all, even Xu Zhengming himself had no confidence at all.
Therefore, after coming back to his senses, Xu Zhengming felt a lot of pressure, so he stammered a little: "Big... Sir, little guy is not sure... what if... what if he can't fly high..." "
After hearing this, the prefect smiled slightly and interrupted his stammering words: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, when you taught the prince a few years ago, you encouraged the people of the Ming Dynasty to explore their spirit. For this reason, you also issued a decree to set up special research institutes in the northern and southern capitals. Reward. I appreciate your spirit of exploring knowledge and can help you apply for your special reward. How about it?"
If Xu Zhengming can really get that reward, it means that Xu Zhengming has been affirmed by the emperor. In this way, as the local chief official and Xu Zhengming's recommender, he would definitely win the favor of the emperor, thus adding confidence to his official career.
Regarding this, he was actually confident after watching Xu Zhengming's speeding performance. At least when the emperor was teaching the prince, he gave the example of flying to the sky, and even mentioned the matter of thousands of households flying to the sky. As for Xu Zhengming, he is indeed flying and is still fine. The emperor has said that if you solve the difficulties when there are difficulties and solve the shortcomings when there are shortcomings, there will definitely be a day when you can truly fly into the sky.
There is another key point. If the emperor makes such a big move, if he is the first to respond, he will probably have a lot of money in mind, and it will be easier for him to accept it.
While he was thinking about it, Xu Zhengming was surprised and happy, and asked quickly: "Sir, this... can this person be rich? How much money is there?"
In order to improve the flying car, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to it, and he did not care about working as a carpenter to support his family. In this way, not only the family wealth was depleted, but his wife and children were starved. To be honest, of course he did not want to see this. Condition. If he could still make money while doing something he was interested in, not only would his family no longer have to go hungry, but it would also mean that he would not be considered derelict in his job. No matter from which aspect, this is very good news for him.
The prefect looked at Xu Zhengming in front of him. His attitude was very good when it came to his official career. He smiled and raised a finger and said, "I should be able to get ten thousand taels!"
"What?" Xu Zhengming was a little dumbfounded and couldn't help but confirm again, "Ten thousand taels?"
Now the Ming Dynasty is in peace and prosperity. Calculated according to purchasing power, ten thousand taels of silver is almost five million yuan in later generations. This amount is not a small amount!
The people who were originally listening to the conversation between the magistrate and Xu Zhengming were all whispering, some expressed surprise at this matter, and some said that they had heard of this matter. At least this matter has long been known to everyone in Yingtian Mansion. What. Suddenly, when I heard the prefect say that the reward was ten thousand taels of silver, the scene suddenly became very quiet.
When they came to their senses, they all turned to stare at Carpenter Xu, with envy in their eyes. If you work on this thing, you can get a reward of 10,000 taels of silver?
Especially Xu Zhengming's daughter-in-law, her eyes were looking at her man, and then at the speeding car that she had hated so much before, and suddenly she felt that it was very pleasing to the eye.
After all, they would definitely not have any doubts about the prefect's words.
"It should be about the same!" the prefect introduced to them, "The emperor took one million taels from the inner treasury and deposited them in the banks of the north and the south respectively. He stated that the interest would be used to reward those who explore the laws and principles of nature and can apply them."
Having said this, he turned to look at the crowd of onlookers, raised his voice slightly and said, "You all go back and take a look. If anyone else has similar things, you can report it to me!"
He personally came to see Xu Zhengming's flying car. In addition to being related to his career, it actually also meant "a piece of gold worth a thousand dollars". If the prefect personally comes forward and is keen on this, it will definitely spread faster. As for the area under Suzhou's jurisdiction, there are originally many skilled craftsmen. Maybe more things will be discovered. If the emperor is favored by the recommendation, the official career will be bright.
Not to mention, after the news about Xu Zhengming spread, the matter about the emperor's reward in Suzhou Mansion began to become known to everyone. Suddenly, craftsmen and even scholars could be seen coming here every day at the Suzhou government office, taking their inventions and wanting to try their luck.
In the end, the Suzhou prefect checked and selected seven, including Xu Zhengming's flying car, and rushed them to Yingtian Mansion together.
Such things happened almost everywhere in the Ming Dynasty during the eighteenth year of Chongzhen. But generally speaking, there are far more examples of reception from Yingtian Mansion than from the capital. In the first few months of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the matter of bounties was the hottest topic in the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Chongzhen naturally learned about this situation from many channels. He was pleased with this, and at the same time lamented that top-down innovation often has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort. If you are just an ordinary citizen, even if you are a feudal official, it will not be easy to promote scientific and technological knowledge and encourage exploration of nature. However, when the emperor comes to do this, especially when the emperor with high prestige comes to do this, it is such a grand occasion now!
Just as the prefect of Suzhou thought, Emperor Chongzhen had already made a plan. No matter what works were presented from various places, as long as they could meet his original intention, at least there should be ones in the northern and southern capitals, and then they would be widely publicized to create a "thousand gold market bones" , to encourage more Ming people, including scholars, to participate in this exploration of natural science.
Just like that, the time soon came to February 16th, the 18th year of Chongzhen, and the selected works from all over the place were gathered to Emperor Chongzhen. Xu Zhengming's speeding car naturally caught his attention, and he immediately selected this work as Ying Tianfu's selection, and gave instructions with his imperial pen.
The key to this speeding car is the strength of the power provided for rotation. If it relies solely on human power, there is not much room for improvement. No matter how clever the mechanism is, it cannot spin any faster.
Emperor Chongzhen suggested that the research focus should be on how to find alternative manpower that can provide more reliable power. To this end, Emperor Chongzhen even introduced steam power experiments and electromagnetic induction experiments, and roughly explained the principles.
Emperor Chongzhen had no hope as to whether the people could do it. However, he believes that many people among the people will start to study in this direction.
As for the serious experiments and applications of steam engines and electricity, we still have to rely on the War and War Bureau. When encountering problems, Emperor Chongzhen himself could also give advice.
During this time, the imperial court also announced that the unclaimed land of North Korea would become part of the Ming Dynasty due to the strong demand of the North Korean people. The imperial court even sent a county magistrate to set up a county to settle the remaining Korean people.
However, few people in the Ming Dynasty cared about this matter.
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In early March of the 18th year of Chongzhen, the weather conditions in Liaodong began to improve, and everything began to recover. For Jianlu, those who did not starve to death after the cold winter were finally able to survive and could go out to find wild vegetables to eat.
However, at this time, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops out of Haizhou and began to attack Anshan Post.
Although Anshan Posthouse is located between the east and west Anshan mountains, and the distance between the east and west mountains is only about one mile, it is still built on the cliff. If you want to go to Liaoyang through here, you must overcome this dangerous pass.
If it were in the past, it would really not be easy to conquer this Anshan Inn. But now, even if Anshan Posthouse is a brick city, the Ming army has Hongyi artillery lined up in a row, but they are not in a hurry to take over the city and bombard it every day. After just a few days, there were basically no battlements on the east side of Anshan Posthouse, and a large part of the height of the city head had been cut off. Without the protection of the battlements, the prisoners on the city head were all exposed to the Ming army. under long-range fire.
In this regard, Jianlu had no power to fight back. If this continues, it will be a matter of time before Anshan Posthouse falls.
Therefore, they could only report to Shengjing urgently, asking for help while preparing for street fighting. In this way, the Ming army's firearms advantage would not be brought into play, and they would still be able to fight.
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On the Shengjing side, in the Chongzheng Hall, there were several slave chiefs, including the Queen Mother and the young emperor.
At this time, the atmosphere in the palace was rarely relaxed. They were all listening to Ying Erdai who had just returned and reported the situation of going to Japan.
"The Japanese were tempted at first, and their so-called warriors came to provoke them at every turn. Later, a random Qing warrior took action and knocked down ten of them in one go, which surprised them..."
Ying Erdai livened up the atmosphere with a pleasant voice, took out the alliance letter from his arms, and then presented it with both hands. At the same time, he continued: "In the end, I have fulfilled my mission and signed an alliance with the Japanese country. The Japanese country will send troops soon." North Korea, and will transport food to me through the land of Ezo to the Qing Dynasty..."
Because the Queen Mother was present and the Regent did not ask for it, the letter of alliance was first presented to Bumbutai.
But on Dorgon's side, Ying Erdai was a little apologetic after all: "All covenants are signed on the bottom line given by the master, but there is one thing..."
Upon hearing this turn of events, Hauge and Yue Tuo immediately stared at him. Among them, Hauge shouted sharply: "What, could he have sold the Qing Dynasty?"
"No, no..."
Before Ying Erdai finished denying it, Bumubutai, who was reading the alliance letter, let out an "ah" sound.
When everyone heard the sound and looked around, they saw the Queen Mother looking at Dorgon with a strange expression.
