Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 496: New firearms are released!
The Empress Dowager's matter of setting up a weaving factory quickly caused a sensation in a small area.

Under the promotion of Queen Ma, a trend of "knitting sweaters" emerged among the female relatives of the Ming Dynasty.In the past, most of these noble women were simple ordinary people. Now, although they are poor and rich, they all have people around them to take care of them.

But they are all people who have been busy all their lives, and now they are Mrs. Hou Ye and Mrs. Guogong, and they can't take time off.

Most of their men also have a good face, unlike Lao Zhu who does not forget his roots.I feel that it is detrimental to the image of the nobles if the mother-in-law makes a piece of field weaving cloth at home, and usually shuts these ladies at the door of the house and does not leave the house, but this kind of big-footed mother-in-law is very boring.

Now it's all over, the empress has mastered the sweater knitting technique, two bamboo needles shuttle back and forth, can weave clothes of all kinds of colors, not tiring, but also relieves boredom.A group of old sisters got together and knit sweaters while chatting and chatting. The day passed like that, not to mention how pleasant it was.

Even women from poor families have become popular as a "new activity" of knitting sweaters.After all, wearing this sweater will not affect your work and keep you warm, just like wearing a little sun.The most important thing is that a ball of wool only sells for a penny, which is cheaper than the air-tight linen clothes, but it only takes some time to weave the clothes.

It only takes some time to weave fit and warm clothes for the husband and children at home at such a low price.When in the world has such a good thing happened?
This is obviously because the empress cares about us poor people, and she helped us add new clothes in this way!
Because of this incident, Empress Ma's reputation among the people was unparalleled for a while.Even Lao Zhu's reputation has been improved a lot.Everyone in the officialdom sighs because of the empty seal case, but the emperor and queen are praised by everyone in the folk, and there is a tendency for thousands of families to become Buddhas.

This also makes many scholars who only know how to read books suddenly realize that the common people do not need scholars to "speak" for their public opinion.The high officials in the court did not speak for the people as they usually showed.

The family members of the criminal officials rescued by Zhu Su from the imperial edict were packed up and sent to Liaodong by Lao Zhu.Liaodong was chosen because the terrain of Liaodong is more critical than that of Yunnan. It is adjacent to Koryo and Beiyuan, sparsely populated, and separated from the Central Plains for a hundred years.

The use of these prisoners can just make up for the disadvantage of the lack of manpower and talents in Liao, and it can also be regarded as sending some useful manpower to Xu Da who is actively operating in the North.

However, Fang Xiaoru and Zheng Shili were saved by Zhu Su.Although the two are also family members of criminal officials, they are specially allowed to be monitored by the Imperial Son because of the preparations of the newspaper.The first newspaper of the Ming Dynasty, "Da Ming Times", was released half a month later.This emerging method of information dissemination quickly caused waves in Yingtian. Newspapers analyzed current affairs and explained news, especially the series of various story books written by the author Luo Guanzhong, so that the people flocked to the newspapers immediately.

The contents of the newspaper quickly dominated the conversations of the people in Yingtian's various teahouses and taverns.

The affairs of Xinxue and Guozijian were left to Song Lian and Liu Bowen.Song Lian is worthy of being a master of learning. Starting from the "master's true meaning" expounded by Zhu Su, he published many articles eloquently, denouncing Cheng Zhu's Confucianism as a "false Confucianism" and "a partial Confucianism". The great revival of the ancient sage is the "ultimate true meaning" of the words of the ancient sages.

For this reason, the old man actively compiled Guozijian teaching materials and developed new learning with 12 points of enthusiasm.At the same time, Fang Xiaoru, as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, also took the lead in publishing many debate articles in the newspaper.He has outstanding talents and knowledge, and those old Confucianism views can always be refuted by him one by one, and then in the newspaper, the gap between the old and new theories is presented to the readers of Quan Ying Tian in the form of articles.

Among the group of young scholars, there was an uproar.

With the help of newspapers, disciples of the new learning sprung up in Yingtian. These people called themselves "true Confucianists" and imitated Zhu Su's attire at the "Qixia Wenhui". In terms of clothing, they are clearly different from the "Confucians of Cheng and Zhu". They pay attention to the practicality of the world and oppose the style of boasting and extravagance. They also compete with the old Confucians who like to talk.

Most of the "true Confucians" are young scholars, and they admire the "six arts of gentlemen" including "riding and archery". There may be conflicts on weekdays. It looks like, often before you speak, you will be persuaded by three points.

In the eyes of others, this means that the "old Confucianism" has no strength of character to bully the weak and fear the strong, while the "true Confucianism" is thriving and has the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Isn't it true that what the former Song Dynasty admired was the knowledge of these "confucians who were partial to peace", and the way of the former Song Dynasty was not in the same strain as these "old Confucians" who bullied the weak and feared the hard?
As a Confucian scholar in China, whether I want to reappear the weak Song Dynasty, or I should go straight to the Han and Tang Dynasties, and fulfill the unfinished ambitions of the previous generations, but all those who have hills and valleys in their hearts should make a choice.

The "true Confucianism" group is growing stronger, while the "old Confucianism" is getting weaker.If the two meet on a narrow road, those old Confucianists who are dressed luxuriously but have no strength to restrain a chicken will often be as panicked as a bereaved dog, with no character at all.Seeing this, the common people gradually began to cast aside these Cheng Zhu Zhiru who only knew how to play tricks.

In addition, the number of people in the Imperial College began to fill up day by day.Liu Bowen and Song Lian were very pleased with this.

When these Confucianists with the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties grow up and fill the court, they will definitely bring a new burst of vitality to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Su, on the other hand, was single-minded, and together with Zhu Yan, Mu Ying, and Xu Yungong, plunged into the effort to break through the technological barriers.With the money of the old Zhu Neiku and the support of Empress Ma, Zhu Yan built more than ten blast furnaces in one go, and recruited many craftsmen, and began to toss large-scale steel production.

Mu Ying also began to study the method of using these new steel materials to cast cannons.He has a deep research on firecrackers and artillery, and he also took a post in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, so he simply took the title of the Military Construction Bureau.Traditional cannons are mostly cast from copper with good ductility, but in Daming, copper coins were widely used among the people, and copper can be directly equated with coins.

If copper cannons were used, the cost would be appalling, and it would not be possible to equip them on a large scale.If the three of them can break through the technical barriers of using new types of steel to cast guns, Ming's military strength will be able to jump several steps in one fell swoop.

However, this barrier is not so easy to overcome.Even though the existence of Zhu Su can prevent the development of science and technology from detours, the gap between the times and the industrial base is not so easy to make up.

After studying for several years, it is considered a small success.The first batch of new firearms in the Ming Dynasty that could constitute a generation difference finally came out.

(End of this chapter)