My Daming New Empire

He pondered for a while, then calmed down and asked, "Where is the prince?"

"Your Highness has not been out of the palace for three days. He is not in good health these days and has been taking medicine."

Zhu Di directly denied him. "It can't be him. To put it nicely, Zhai has a kind heart, but to put it bluntly, it's stupid. Even if he wanted to fight against the King of Han, he wouldn't use such means."

He asked again: "Where is the grandson?"

"His Highness Grandson went to Xiamaqiao Farm yesterday, and he is still looking up the naval information."

Zhu Di pondered for a while and said: "I may not have left the palace for a long time, and I'm going to inspect the grandson's young army."

Chapter 84 Machine tools

Xiamaqiao farm is the closest farm to the imperial palace, not one of them.After leaving the Xihua Gate, not far away is the Chaoyang Gate of the inner city. To the north is Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Xiao Mausoleum, and to the east is the Xiamaqiao Farm close to the imperial city.

Because the Ming Palace is in the southeast corner of the city, it is much closer to Zhu Zhanji's farm than to enter the city.

Zhu Zhanji, who was filling up the naval structure little by little at the farm, heard that Zhu Di was coming, and immediately asked four hundred sergeants to sweep the floor and sprinkle water to welcome the holy driver.

None of the officials in the internal prison knew that Zhu Zhanji was favored, and they were especially fawning on Zhu Zhanji, the grandson.Before Zhu Zhanji asked, they explained clearly why Zhu Di came to Maqiao.

Regarding Zhu Di's thoughts, Zhu Zhanji thinks he can feel it quite clearly.This incident did touch his nerves, even though he deliberately arranged this battle for the succession, but he must control this struggle in a state that is easier to control.

However, this time the action was a bit over the line.

It was a humiliation for Zhu Di who was used to domineering to expose the matter of King Han with Deng Wengu's situation, forcing him to make a choice.

However, Zhu Zhanji is also quite sure that Zhu Di will never lose his temper with him until he has a direct handle.

Because Zhu Di is proud, if he wants to punish himself, he will also produce evidence to make himself admit his mistake convincingly.

As for why I am sure it is me, it is actually very simple, because only I have this idea, I am a person with vested interests, and only I have this ability.

Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui has recently been obsessed with doing business, and has sent two batches of royal servants to Beijing in succession.One team placed a huge order for four seagoing ships at the Xinjiangkou Shipyard, and the other went to various places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to purchase various goods that are best-selling in North Korea and Japan.

Zhu Zhanji's earning millions of taels of silver over the years has completely stimulated him, and he has already put his energy and interest in making money.

As for his father, the prince Zhu Gaochi, from childhood to adulthood, his label is the Confucian set of benevolence and filial piety.Although he knew that Zhu Gaoxu wanted to compete with him for the throne, he still treated Zhu Gaoxu as a real brother.

Even if he is unwilling to do this in his heart, his personality has been fixed for decades, and it is impossible to change it.

If Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui were removed, there would be only one Zhu Zhanji left who had a reason to attack Zhu Gaoxu.

Moreover, now that Zhu Zhanji has Jin Yiwei as his assistant, and Ji Gang, the king of conspiracy, it is so easy to embarrass Zhu Gaoxu.

Therefore, Zhu Di came here this time not for the military parade.No matter how strong this young army is, it is impossible for an emperor to come to inspect it just after one year.

He didn't want to punish Zhu Zhanji either. If he really wanted to punish Zhu Zhanji, it would be enough to exercise family law directly in the palace. He would never embarrass Zhu Zhanji, his grandson, by mobilizing his troops in such a way.

Therefore, there is only one possibility for his appearance, and that is to warn Zhu Zhanji not to go too far.

After thinking about these links clearly, Zhu Zhanji didn't have the slightest worry, and waited for Zhu Di's arrival.

The palace was too close to the farm, and the eunuchs who had notified in advance arrived less than an hour before Zhu Di's guard of honor arrived at the farm as soon as the pots and stoves prepared for the army were built.

Since he was here to inspect the young army, no matter whether Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji cared or not, Zhu Di personally set up a question to test the young army's geography test ability, and then announced the reward with satisfaction.

The weather has entered winter.At this time, the farm was not worth seeing, so Zhu Zhanji simply led Zhu Di to his warehouse, and introduced his "technological invention" to him by the way.

As long as his use value is greater than Zhu Gaoxu's, even if Zhu Di finds evidence, he will not punish himself for it.

Zhu Di has also been hesitating, although he guessed that Zhu Zhanji was behind this incident.But if you punish your grandson for the sake of a son, but there is no substantive punishment, it will only make the relationship between the two worse.

Therefore, he has been thinking about how to warn this grandson.

From childhood to adulthood, Zhu Di liked this grandson more and more. He valued literature but not Confucianism, and valued martial arts but did not use martial arts to deceive others.He is methodical, decisive and resolute in his actions, and he is also brave on the battlefield.

This is the real heir in his mind, not the foolish eldest son and the brave and foolish second son.

"Grandfather, please look at this artifact. Don't look at this artifact as inconspicuous, but my grandson is sure that as long as this object is successfully developed, from now on, my Ming's land transportation capacity can be increased by at least [-]%."

Zhu Di didn't care at first, but he became a little interested when he heard what Zhu Zhanji said.If you look closely at this utensil, it is just a ring of steel balls stuck in the inner and outer steel grooves, and the outer periphery of the steel balls is stuck with iron plates.

In this way, the inner and outer steel channels are connected as one and can be rotated separately.

"What is this? What is its function?"

"The grandchildren named this bearing, which means the bearing of the shaft. If the inner ring is fixed, the outer ring can rotate; Small, used to rotate the wheels. Installing bearings, whether it is an ox cart or a horse cart, can increase the load by more than [-]%, and it can save labor and reduce wheel damage.”

He beckoned, and Madi who was waiting at the side immediately brought a scooter with four bearings installed.

Zhu Zhanji put the scooter in front of the warehouse door, on the flat road paved with blue bricks, stood on it with one foot, kicked the other foot, and his men quickly jumped out.

Zhu Di and a group of internal eunuchs, Jinyiwei officials were stunned, this is much faster than people walking.

At this time, Ma Zhicai drove an ox cart over, and the ox cart was filled with bags of grain.

Zhu Zhanji jumped off the skateboard, and the skateboard was still jumping forward.Regardless of his appearance, Ma Di trotted after him and picked up the scooter again.

Parked the ox cart more than ten meters away from Zhu Di, Zhu Zhanji said loudly: "It was the speed just now, but now it is the load. Ordinary ox carts can only carry eight to fifteen shi of goods, no more , either the oxen can’t pull it, or the cart’s bearings can’t bear it. However, an oxcart with bearings installed can easily carry nearly [-] shi of grain, and one ox can easily pull it. Even one or two people can pull it.”

Zhu Di was shocked, and went to the side of the ox cart himself, and took a closer look at the rice on the ox cart. This bag was half a stone, and there were sixty bags on the ox cart.

As an emperor on horseback, no one knows better than Zhu Di how much impact such an increase in transportation will have on the logistics supply of the army.

If there had been such a thing, there would be no need to mobilize 50 civilians for this Northern Expedition, only half of the number would be enough.

With more than 20 people missing, how much food can be saved!

"Is it possible to mass-produce this item?"

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "It's not enough now, my grandson is working on process improvement, and I hope to mass-produce it in the future. Grandpa, please come with me..."

Back in the warehouse again, Zhu Zhanji brought Zhu Di to a simple and amazing lathe.

It is an exaggeration to say that it is a lathe. These are five polished square irons, and the two ends are fixed on a frame.

The three in the middle are in the shape of a character, and a fixture is fixed. In the middle of the fixture, there is a hollow through groove, and two bearings are fixed.

Then, there are large and small gears, one by one, connected from the top to the bottom.These nearly twenty gears form an alternative shock of the industrial age.

In the middle of the bottom gear, a reverse iron rod is riveted, and a slightly smaller iron column is placed across the top of the iron rod.

Except for Zhu Zhanji and the others, no one else could understand what it was.

Zhu Zhanji said to Ma Di: "Put down the pulley and go up and pedal a few times."

Immediately Maddy sat excitedly on a triangular cushion, stepped on the iron rod above the gear with both feet, and kicked his legs quickly.