Daming Military Empire

Chapter 470 Amazing Progress
In the capital city in October, the blue sky is thousands of miles away, and the warm sunshine shines on people, which makes people feel relaxed and happy naturally.

Zhu Cijiong's mood at this moment is even more joyful, because he finally saw the son he misses day and night, and not one, but two sons.

During his expedition, Princess Anna also gave birth to another prince, which made Zhu Cijiong very happy, and the empress dowagers of the two palaces laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths.

In the past two days since he came back, he almost didn't take care of anything, he didn't even go to court in the morning, he just devoted himself to being with his family and enjoying the family happiness.

The empress dowagers of the two palaces have a tendency to take the Kunning Palace as their home. Since Pan came here, they have not returned to the East and West Palaces, and have always lived in the temporary bedroom of the Kunning Palace.

The temporary dormitory at this moment is no longer like the residence of the elderly, but like a children's playground, with children's toys everywhere, even the floor is covered with fluffy carpets, like a children's paradise.

Every morning, Empress Qin Mingyue and imperial concubine Princess Anna would consciously bring their son over to play with the two empress dowagers. This company lasted basically a day.

There are two live treasures that make people happy, and the Kunning Palace is full of laughter almost every day.

Princess Anna's son was just born, and he only knew how to lie in the arms of Queen Mother Ren, but his appearance was really pleasing, with big eyes, a high nose bridge, delicate oriental skin, and western With a fair complexion, the appearance is as cute as it needs to be, so Zhu Cijiong specially named him Zhu Hexuan, hoping that he will be extremely handsome and chic for a lifetime in the future.

As for the prince Zhu Heji, it is even more likable, because he can already crawl away now, and he has begun to understand the words of adults, put him on the carpet, no matter who calls him, He will crawl over, always attracting a lot of laughter.

Happy days are always short. On the third morning, Zhu Cijiong was full of joy and wanted to tease his two sons. Cao Huachun came to report, and Bi Maokang, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, asked to see him.

When Zhu Cijiong heard the news, he had to stop. This Bi Maokang was one of his cronies, and he was an upright official. He never took pride in being favored. So he rushed to the study without hesitation, and Xuanbi Maokang came.

By the way, since the last Zhenzhenhewei meeting, Bi Maokang hurried back to the capital. It seems that the development of precision machine tools is almost done. At that time, Zhu Cijiong was completely focused on the war with Tsarist Russia. , I don't know how they are progressing.

The relationship between the two monarchs and ministers for more than ten years has always been extremely harmonious, and Bi Maokang was not out of sight. After some greetings, he did not talk about business first, but complimented: "The little prince is a member of the two royal families of Daming and Habsburg in Europe. Long, long must be very cute, right?"

Does the offspring of these two royal families have anything to do with cuteness?But Zhu Cijiong likes to hear this right now, he nodded dotingly and said: "Yes, yes, very cute, so I specially named him He Xun."

Bi Maokang followed suit and said: "He Xun, yes, yes, the little prince will definitely be very handsome in the future."

It's impossible for this guy to come here just to flatter, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but joked: "Menghou, you came here in a hurry, didn't you want to see Xun'er?"

Hearing this, Bi Maokang coughed chokingly, sometimes the emperor loves to joke around with those close to him, how could he come here to see a newborn prince when he is so busy.

He couldn't help smiling awkwardly: "Well, I want to invite the emperor to have a look at the new machine tools and new weapons."

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard the words: "Oh, has the precision machine tool been successfully developed?"

Bi Maokang said with a modest smile: "This has to be checked by the Qing emperor. If the emperor says it is done, then it is really done."

Zhu Cijiong actually attaches great importance to precision machine tools, but in the past few months, the prince was born, the grand master passed away, the war with Tsarist Russia was organized, and a cute little prince was added. He really has no fantasy Regarding the matter of precision machine tools, hearing Bi Maokang's tone at this moment, it was definitely a success. He couldn't help but stood up happily, patted Bi Maokang on the shoulder and said, "Great, let's go and have a look with me."

Generally, when not in court, Zhu Cijiong wears formal attire, not because he wants to show his martial personality, but mainly because the official attire is similar to the clothes of later generations, and it is comfortable to wear. He is really not used to wearing dragon robes. .

He directly asked Cao Huachun to take an ordinary cloak without a golden dragon, and then recruited a group of Jinyiwei masters, just dressed in unrecognizable military uniforms, and rushed to Wang Gongchang with Bi Maokang.

He did this mainly because he wanted to see the actual operation effect of the precision machine tool. If he ran over in a big way, the workshop would probably be blocked, and there would be no one to open the bed.

Bi Maokang also knew the emperor's temper, so he didn't dissuade him, and the group came to Wang Gong's factory soon without saying a word.

With the development of Ming Dynasty, the Wanggong factory has also changed a lot. When Zhu Cijiong first entered, he was a little unrecognizable. There are buildings with several floors or even ten floors everywhere. Is this still in ancient times?The small county towns of later generations seem to have only this appearance!

With Bi Maokang leading the way, everyone was naturally unimpeded. Soon, they came to a factory building with a reinforced concrete structure. Looking at the appearance, they knew that it was newly built.

This factory building is not very high, it seems that there are only three floors in total. As soon as everyone walked into the first floor, they saw two rows of huge machine tools. Even Zhu Cijiong seldom saw it in later generations.

Of course, it doesn't mean that machine tools that are more advanced than later generations can be made at this moment. The reason why this machine tool is so large is because it cannot reach the advanced technology of later generations.

Zhu Cijiong walked up to the machine tool and took a look. Like, really, the appearance was [-] to [-]% similar to the machine tools of later generations, but the size was a bit exaggerated.

Like the motor, the head is about the size of a person, and the reducer is about half the size of a person, but they are all horizontal, and the height is not that exaggerated.

But the processed things are a bit exaggerated:
The lathe turned out to be a barrel as thick as a bucket;

The milling machine turned out to be several meters long rails;

There is also a large plate rolling machine, and the rolled steel plate is two or three meters wide;
There are also shearing machines, punching machines, boring machines, etc., all of which are big and scary. Even Zhu Cijiong was surprised from ear to ear. My God, this, is this still in the Ming Dynasty!
Seeing the surprised look of the emperor, Bi Maokang was not to mention proud, and then he took Zhu Cijiong up to the second floor.

The machine tools on the second floor are not as exaggerated as those on the first floor, but the motors and reducers are a bit bigger. The size of the machine tools is almost the same as that of ordinary machine tools in later generations.

Zhu Cijiong randomly picked up a good gun barrel and looked at it, and couldn't help being in a trance for a while. The quality of this gun barrel looks the same as the gun barrel of later generations!

No need to look any further, the precision machine tool must have been successfully developed. Rubbing the smooth barrel in his hand, Zhu Cijiong felt a bit like a dream. It has only been a few months, and such an advanced machine tool has been developed by them. The progress is too fast!
(End of this chapter)