Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 545 Fulfilling the Mission
Xu Zhengming never dreamed that the magistrate would say such a thing. Immediately, he couldn't react for a while, and he was a little stupid there.

His wife and children were relatively close, so he could hear the prefect's words clearly, and he was also stupid.

The speeding car can only fly so high and so far, it is really useless.As for flying over the roof, not to mention Xu Zhengming's wife and children didn't believe it at all, even Xu Zhengming himself didn't have the slightest idea.

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..." "

The magistrate smiled slightly after hearing this, and interrupted his stammering words: "Your Majesty, Shengming, when teaching the crown prince a few years ago, he encouraged the people of the Ming Dynasty to explore the spirit. For this reason, he also issued a decree to set up special departments in the northern and southern capitals. Reward. This officer appreciates your spirit of inquiry and learning, and I can help you apply for your special reward, how about it?"

If Xu Zhengming can really get that reward, it means that Xu Zhengming is affirmed by the emperor.In this way, as the chief official of the local government and Xu Zhengming's recommender, he will certainly win the favor of the emperor, thus adding confidence to his official career.

Regarding this point, after watching Xu Zhengming's flying car performance, he was actually sure.At least when the emperor taught the prince, he gave the example of Feitian, and even mentioned the matter of Wanhu Feitian.As for Xu Zhengming, he really flew up, and he was fine.The emperor has said that if there are difficulties to solve the difficulties, and if there are deficiencies to solve the deficiencies, there will definitely be a day when you can truly fly to the sky in the future.

In addition, there is another key point. If the emperor makes such a big move, if he is the first to respond, the emperor must have a strong heart, and it will be easier to be accepted by the emperor.

He was thinking about it, but Xu Zhengming was surprised and delighted when he heard it, and quickly asked: "My lord, this...is there still money in this? How much money?"

In order to improve the speeding car, he devoted all his attention to it, so he could do carpentry work to support his family. In this way, not only will his family’s wealth be exhausted, but his wife and children will also starve. To be honest, he certainly doesn’t want to see such a situation Condition.If he can still make money by doing what he is interested in, not only will his family no longer have to go hungry, but it also means that he is not doing nothing wrong with this flying car.No matter from which aspect, this is very important good news for him.

The magistrate looked at Xu Zhengming in front of him. He had a very good attitude related to his official career. He smiled and raised a finger and said, "I should have 1 taels!"

"What?" Xu Zhengming was a little dumbfounded, and couldn't help confirming again, "1 taels?"

Now Daming is Guotai Minan, converted according to purchasing power, 1 taels of silver is almost 500 million RMB in later generations, this amount is not too much!

Those who were listening to the conversation between the magistrate and Xu Zhengming were all whispering, some expressed surprise at this matter, and some said they had heard of this matter, at least this matter has long been known to Ying Tianfu. What.All of a sudden, when the magistrate said that there was a reward of 1 taels of silver, the scene suddenly became very quiet.

When they came back to their senses, they all turned to stare at Carpenter Xu with envy in their eyes.If you engage in this thing, you can get a reward of 1 taels of silver?
Especially Xu Zhengming's daughter-in-law, her eyes were looking at her own man, and then at the speeding car that she hated so much before, and suddenly she felt very pleasing to her eyes.

After all, they would definitely not have doubts about the words of the prefect.

"It should be about the same!" The magistrate introduced to them, "The emperor took 100 million taels from the internal treasury and deposited them in the banks of the northern and southern Beijing respectively. He stated that the interest will be used to reward those who explore the laws of nature and apply them."

Having said that, he turned his head to look at the crowd, raised his voice a little and said, "Go back and have a look, if anyone else has similar things, you can report them to me!"

He came to see Xu Zhengming's speeding car in person. Apart from being related to his official career, it actually also meant "a thousand pieces of gold".The magistrate personally came forward and was keen on this, so it must spread faster.As for the district of Suzhou, there were originally many skilled craftsmen, and maybe more things would be discovered, and if the recommendation was favored by the emperor, it would have a bright future in the officialdom.

Needless to say, after the news of Xu Zhengming spread, the news about the reward offered by the emperor in Suzhou Mansion also began to spread to everyone.For a while, at the Yamen of Suzhou Prefecture, craftsmen, even scholars, could be seen coming every day, holding their inventions and trying their luck.

In the end, the prefect of Suzhou checked and selected seven of them, including Xu Zhengming's speeding car, and sent them to Yingtianfu together.

This kind of thing happened almost everywhere in Ming Dynasty during the 18 years of Chongzhen.But generally speaking, there are far more examples received by Ying Tianfu than by Jingshi.In the first few months of the 18th year of Chongzhen, the matter of offering rewards was the hottest topic in Ming Dynasty, not one of them.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally learned about this situation from many sources. He was pleased with this, but also lamented that innovation from top to bottom is often effective in getting twice the result with half the effort.If you are just an ordinary citizen, even if you are a feudal official, it is not easy to promote scientific and technological knowledge and encourage exploration of nature.However, when the emperor comes to do this, especially if 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 already had a plan. No matter what works are presented in various places, as long as they can meet his original intention, at least there should be some in both Beijing and the South, and then they will make a big publicity, and come to a "Thousand Gold City Bone" , to encourage more Ming people, including scholars, to participate in this exploration of natural science.

Just like that, the time soon came to the 18th day of February, [-]th year of Chongzhen, and the selected works from various places were also gathered to the Emperor Chongzhen.Xu Zhengming's flying car naturally caught his attention, and he immediately clicked this as Ying Tianfu's selected work, and Yubi made a comment.

The key to this flying car lies in the strength of the power to provide rotation. If only relying on manpower, there is not much room for improvement. No matter how clever the mechanism is, it is impossible to rotate faster.

Emperor Chongzhen suggested that the focus of research could be to consider how to find alternatives to manpower, which can have more reliable power.For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen even introduced the steam power test and electromagnetic induction test, and roughly explained the principle.

Emperor Chongzhen did not express his hope for whether the folks could do it.However, he believes that many folks will start to study in this direction.

As for the experiments and application of the steam engine and the seriousness of electricity, it still depends on the Bingzhan Bureau.When encountering problems, Emperor Chongzhen himself could give advice.

During this period, the imperial court also announced that North Korea, an unclaimed land, became a part of the Ming territory under the strong demands of the Korean people.The imperial court even sent a county magistrate to set up a county first to resettle the remaining Korean people.

However, few people in Ming Dynasty care about this matter.

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At the beginning of March in the 18th year of Chongzhen, the weather in Liaodong began to improve, and everything began to recover.For Jianlu, those who did not starve to death after the cold winter had survived 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 Yibao.

Although Anshan Post Fort is located between the east and west Anshan Mountains, and the east and west are only about one mile away from each of the two mountains, it is still built on the cliffs, so it can be said that one man is in charge of the gate.If you want to go to Liaoyang through here, you must win this dangerous pass.

If it was changed before, it would be really not easy to take down this Anshan Post Fort.But now, even if Anshan Post Fort is a brick city, the Ming army lined up the red barbarian cannons, and they are not in a hurry to take down the city, bombarding the city every day.Just a few days later, there are basically no battlements on the east side of Anshan Post Fort, and a large part of the height of the city head has been cut off. under long-range fire.

In this regard, Jianlu has no power to fight back at all. If this continues, it will be a matter of time before Anshan Yibao falls.

Therefore, they could only urgently report to Shengjing, asking for help while preparing for street fighting.In this way, the Ming army's firearm advantage could not be brought into play, and they still had a chance to fight.

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On Shengjing's side, in the Chongzheng Hall, several slave chieftains were there, including the Queen Mother and the little emperor.

At this time, the atmosphere in the hall was rare and relaxed, they were all listening to Yingerdai's report on going to the Wa country just after returning.

"The Japanese were tempted at the beginning, and their so-called warriors came to provoke them at every turn. Later, when a random warrior of the Qing Dynasty made a move, they knocked down ten of them in one go. This surprised them..."

Ying Erdai cheered up the atmosphere, took out the alliance letter from his arms, and then offered it with both hands, and continued: "In the end, the slave has fulfilled his mission and has concluded an alliance with the Japanese country, and the Japanese country will send troops soon. North Korea, and will transport food to the Qing Dynasty through the land of Yezo..."

Because the queen mother was present, the regent did not take the initiative to ask for it, so the letter of alliance was first presented to Bumbutai.

But on Dorgon's side, Ying Erdai was a little apologetic after all: "The covenants were all signed on the bottom line given by the master, but there is one thing..."

Hearing this turning point, Hauge and Yuetuo immediately stared at him, among them Hauge shouted sharply: "Why, shouldn't you have sold Daqing?"

"No, no..."

Yingerdai's denial was not over yet, when Bumbutai, who was reading the alliance letter, said "ah".

When everyone heard the sound, they saw that the Queen Mother looked at Dorgon with a strange expression on her face.

(End of this chapter)