Chongzhen Undergraduates

Because he is a famous official in the dynasty, it is easy to break through the search. He is not included in the arrest list of the Nanjing arrest operation this time, but Wang Duo has also found out that one of the targets this time is Huang Shu.

Wang Duo was not so calm when he returned home. Since the arrest of Huang Shu had already begun, and he had just killed Huang Shu, it was only a matter of time before it was his turn to be arrested.

Running became Wang Duo's only choice, and he had to leave immediately.

Wang Duo, a famous official of the Ming Dynasty, fled Nanjing in such a panic, just like Huang Shu fled back then.

The difference from Huang Shu is that the famous official can also run away with his teenage concubine, leaving his wife in his decades to guard the house, and by the way, fooled a group of scholars to their so-called dream land. Revenge went.

Two days later, Wang Duo's name was on the arrest list.Huang Zongyi held the memorial and remained silent for a long time. He began to wonder if he had made a mistake, how could his respected teacher be involved with Huang Shu.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, Huang Zongyi bit the bullet and walked into Zhu Youjian's office, and reluctantly handed the memorial to Zhu Youjian.

"This Wang Duo is your teacher, right?" Zhu Youjian glanced at the list and asked casually.

"Hmm!" Huang Zongyi snorted.

Zhu Youjian picked up the small pen, Zhu Hongyu criticized it, and then gently blew on the ink.

"Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to intercept the Yangtze River Estuary?" Huang Zongyi asked suddenly.

"Forget it, since you don't want to live with us anymore, and they are all a group of people who are determined to leave, why stop it. It's going to rain, and my mother is going to marry, let him go!" Zhu Youjian quoted cheekily After reading a famous saying of the later Taizu, I learned about the case.

And at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Fang Jinnan was happily dispatching more than 200 people to the northbound team in batches according to different tasks.

Daming started the second wave of traitors surrendering.The first time it was the nobles, this time most of them were scholars.

Chapter 282: Fujian Zheng Family

In July, after Zhu Youjian dealt with the first wave of rebel forces in the south of the Yangtze River, the political situation in the whole of the south of the Yangtze River had stabilized a little. Although there were still some small-scale battles in other places, generally speaking, the first half of the year was an Peaceful years.

In the Baguazhou Shipyard, a repaired British warship is staying in the dry dock, with a gray color that is new or old.No one, whoever it was, was much curious about such a ship.

For the technology of this era, the difficulty of reverse research is not high, and it is not a too sophisticated instrument.As long as you invest in reverse research, you will train a group of craftsmen, which is faster than letting masters lead apprentices.

Zhu Youjian's request is very simple: just be able to take it apart and put it back together.

The person in charge of the technical department of the shipyard is Liang Jiu, the number one carpenter in the Ministry of Industry, and he is a student of Feng Qiao.Feng Qiao is the designer of the Hall of Zhonghe and the Hall of Preserving Harmony among the first three halls of the Forbidden City.That is to say, the chief architect of the reconstruction in the 42nd year of Ming Wanli (1614).

(ps: Again, I will try my best to use historical figures from the late Ming Dynasty. The less fictitious names the better. Liang Jiu presided over the reconstruction of the main hall in the Forbidden City, the Hall of Supreme Harmony. He made a wooden model of the Hall of Supreme Harmony with a proportion of [-]. Its shape, structure, and decoration are exactly like the real thing. It was built according to it, which was hailed as a unique skill at that time. The Hall of Supreme Harmony he rebuilt has been preserved to this day.)

This person can be said to be a master of architectural design, and he is very skillful in making models. It is just right to use him to supervise the shipyard.

At first, Zhu Youjian didn't know there was such a person, but Wang Chengen was familiar with Daming's affairs and strongly recommended it.

"Liang Gong, can you just make a new ship according to the drawing?" Zhu Youjian's address to Liang Jiu adhered to the style of later generations, which confused everyone present.

"My Majesty, it is no problem to build a new ship according to the pattern." Liang Jiu was sincerely pleased with the emperor's address to him, which sounded better than calling him an official position, and he was willing to accept this title.

"Then what if you want to create a brand new ship type?" Of course Zhu Youjian knew that this British warship was not perfect, and he still wanted to change it, preferably a battleship that was removed from the 19th century.

Of course, there are many artifacts in time travel: the flying arrow ship.Whether it is the big flying arrow of the five-masted sail or the small flying arrow of the two-masted schooner, it is a sharp weapon in this era.

"That's not going to work. We need to make a trial ship and test the water for a year, and then..."

Before Liang Jiu finished speaking, Zhu Youjian basically understood in seconds.Building a new boat will encounter many problems. Only by putting the boat in the water can the problem be found.

Mature ship types do not need this process. For example, in the Longjiang Shipyard in the early Ming Dynasty, there were more than 3000 craftsmen in one shipyard, and the division of labor was very detailed. The shipbuilding had uniform specifications and strict material standards.In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the annual shipbuilding volume was generally more than 3000 ships, which can be described as a unique annual shipbuilding volume in the world.These are all available.Of course, the more than 3000 ships here are definitely not all large ships. If there are such a large number of large ships, I am afraid that they can fight the national war.

"Is there any problem with the use of wood?" Zhu Youjian is most concerned with whether the wood dried in the drying kiln can be used.

"The wood delivered at the beginning was not very good, some were too dry and some were too damp. Later, the wood that was delivered gradually got better and could basically meet the needs of shipbuilding. It may not be as strong as the one from Fujian."

Liang Jiu spoke more truthfully, explaining the mystery in one sentence.The main reason is that Zhu Youjian pressed too hard on the construction period, and he didn't dare to hide it.

"Are those foreign vassals easy to use?" Zhu Youjian pointed to the ship repair craftsmen brought from Nanyang.

"If the emperor wants to build new western ships, they are indispensable. If the emperor wants to build our big Ming ships, they are mostly useless."

"What if I send you to supervise the construction of new Western ships?"

"I will only ruin the emperor's important affairs." After Liang Jiu finished speaking, he directly lowered his head.

Zhu Youjian was taken aback, such a great craftsman, can't he solve a small ship shape problem?Those who travel through time can just find a good carpenter, and they can get everything done.

Of course not, the construction methods of Chinese civilization and Europe are basically two different systems. Liang Jiu could build the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but he could not build the Palace of Versailles.

That's the difference!

If Zhu Youjian wants to improve the warships of this era and develop into a European style, he must grab a group of European shipbuilders.Now European craftsmen are either in Europe or in America.There are none in Southeast Asia, only ship repairers.

The road ahead has a long way to go!

"Then according to this type of ship, ten ships will be built first." Zhu Youjian said depressingly.He knew that Liang Jiu had tried his best, and he still had the ability to follow the gourd.

"Your Majesty, the cannon on the ship..." Liang Jiu asked hastily.Western battleships without cannons are a target, and Liang Jiu is obviously a sensible person.

"How many cannons does each ship need?"

"Each ship needs 36 cannons." Liang Jiu was surprised when he heard Zhu Youjian's plan to build ten warships, because he knew that such warships needed to be equipped with a lot of cannons. It means that the emperor is about to open the sea ban?

"Let's build the ship first!" Zhu Youjian was taken aback. He could afford to build ten ships, but he couldn't take out 360 bronze cannons now, even though his current cannon-building technology was very mature.

But if you don't start accumulating technology to participate in the sea hegemony, what's the use of returning to the Central Plains?Even in front of him, Fujian Zheng's Daming couldn't handle it.

It is still necessary to solve the technology of gun steel first.

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In the 19th year of Chongzhen, whether it was in the north or the south, the summer harvest was bumper. A large amount of new grain eased the plight of food shortage in the entire Central Plains, and the price of grain fell accordingly.

Later Jin's foreign trade in purchasing grain came to an end, and with it, the rate at which the Zheng family made money decreased sharply.

The Dutch attacked the Zheng family's merchant ships more and more times, and then Jinshui Division also frequently tested the Zheng family's bottom line.Zheng Zhilong, who has to support tens of thousands of sailors, is quite struggling. No matter what era it is, the navy is always a money-burning army, and the Nanjing court has always ignored the Fujian navy.

Not long after Zheng Chenggong returned to Fujian, he learned of Zheng Zhilong's plan to negotiate with Houjin.

In the early stage, Zheng Zhilong couldn't say that he was preparing to drop the gold. According to him, he was preparing to negotiate with Dorgon to expand the business of the Zheng family.

In this way of thinking, the other generals of the Zheng family could not refute Zheng Zhilong.Although the Zheng family is headed by Zheng Zhilong, in fact the Zheng family is an alliance and has not yet formed a power group with centralized power.

Shibazhi itself is an organization in the nature of an alliance, but the brothers of the Zheng family slowly defeated other maritime opponents in the end, forming a family-style force with Zheng Zhilong as the core.Among them, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Cai, and Zheng Hongkui are all powerful soldiers.

After Zheng Chenggong returned to Fujian, Zheng Zhilong revealed his thoughts like the eldest son, but Zheng Zhilong tried his best to dissuade him, but to no avail.The eldest son of the Zheng family was taken care of by Zheng Zhilong.

The time dragged on until the end of July, and Zheng Zhilong finally couldn't drag it any longer.If the trade issue is not resolved, the income of the Zheng family will be greatly reduced this year.Especially last year's grain trade, this year will not see a tael of silver.

At the beginning of August, Zheng Zhilong withdrew all his naval forces and returned to Anping (Anhai Town), Jinjiang, with five or six hundred ships.