My Daming New Empire

Now every military expenditure that my Ming Dynasty spends comes from our treasury.However, different policies have been implemented. The British government will win this battle even if it loses everything. The money we spend now will be returned a little bit in the future. Why not do it? "

Zhu Di pondered for a while and said: "The enfeoffment has both disadvantages and advantages. This is the foundation of the country, so you must not be careless. If you want to ensure absolute control, you must not relax. I am afraid that once this example is opened, people's hearts will be unstable."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "If everyone can make such contributions like the British Duke, and there is no seal, then, wouldn't splitting the seal be the best way? We control the situation and formulate rules, and everyone can only follow our rules. If you act according to the rules, you are already invincible. My grandson forgot which book he read a pair of couplets, and he would like to share with grandpa.”

Zhu Di nodded, and Zhu Zhanji took out the couplet written by Lin Zexu hundreds of years later.

"If your children and grandchildren are like me, what do you do with your money? If you are wise and rich, it will damage your ambition; if your children and grandchildren are not as good as me, what should you do with your money? If you are stupid and rich, you will increase your mistakes. Although this is a folk game to enrich the people, but It also makes sense."

Zhu Di revisited the couplet again and laughed. "He is indeed an open-minded person, and his ambition is commendable. However, the continuation of the country is more important than some floating wealth, and it cannot be generalized."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "There is no sustainable dynasty in the world. No matter how good the system is, there will always be a day when it is out of date. If we can consider the current affairs, the next 20 years will be great. If you want to be sustainable The country depends not only on a rich treasury, not only a powerful army, but also not only on a good system, but also on our careful management from generation to generation, and then to cultivate qualified successors."

Zhu Di was happier at this time, and said with a smile on his face: "I have a grandson like this, and I feel at ease. As the king of a country, you must not be afraid of problems. The world is so big that anything can happen. There may be accidents. What I am afraid of is that there is no means to solve the problem, or even make a stupid decision. At least in your generation, I don’t have to worry about it. Since all the officials are waiting to see my decision, then I will not Let them down. If you want to be the second British Duke, it depends on whether they have this ability!"

Entering the Wenhua Palace again, Zhu Zhanji nodded casually in the direction of Concubine Jing, and she immediately lowered her head excitedly so that no one could see her expression.

During the luncheon, Zhu Di was obviously in a good mood, and smiled and encouraged Zhu Gaochi, which flattered him a bit.

And after lunch, Zhu Di didn't want to wait for a moment, so he asked people to arrange guards and paddle boats, and called most of the civil and military ministers of the imperial court to go to Fangshan Kiln together.

Zhu Gaochi was wondering what happened at first, but after hearing Zhu Zhanji's explanation, he didn't understand what cement was, and his expression was somewhat disapproving.

Zhu Zhanji was too lazy to correct his thinking. It was useless to say more to such a rigid-minded person.

On the side of Fangshan Kiln, Habayashi Youwei, who had been notified in advance by the internal supervisor, strictly protected the entire Fangshan Kiln.

But Kong Cheng was a little anxious, because the lime in the second kiln had just been fired, and he hadn't had time to test it yet.

On the side of the cave dwelling, a few round low walls in the style of Wubao were built, and they haven't had time to test it yet!

The emperor came over at this time, do you think they didn't do their best!

In fact, Zhu Di hasn't thought about too many functions. As long as the cement can build roads, bridges, and embankments, it is enough for him to be satisfied.

The firmness of the cement also amazed the officials who had never seen it before. Thinking of the stones everywhere, they can be ground into powder after firing, and then add water and sand to condense, and they can turn into stones at will. Hard stuff.

In their chattering discussions, someone even mentioned to build a statue of Zhu Di with cement that was higher than the mountain, and Zhu Di was also very moved.

This made Zhu Zhanji a little ashamed.In the absence of enough steel reinforcement as the bone, building a sculpture of hundreds of meters all in concrete is afraid that it will collapse if it is not completed. At that time, I don’t know which one is the unlucky one.

So hearing such a proposal, Zhu Zhanji immediately rejected it because the performance of cement has not been fully studied.

In addition, Kong Cheng was asked to study iron bamboo that can replace steel bars as bones. In Zhu Zhanji's impression, it seems that there has been a history of using bamboo to replace steel bars in the construction of buildings.

At present, this primary portland cement can only be used for basic purposes such as building roads, bridges, and embankments.And it is only a small bridge, because there are not enough labels, it is impossible to build a Yangtze River bridge as big as later generations in the Yangtze River.

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Since returning to Beijing at the beginning of March, except for the necessary entertainment, Zhang Fu has closed the door of the mansion tightly and thanked guests behind closed doors.

Although on the surface, Zhang Fu's excuse was to fight for years and recuperate, but anyone with a discerning eye knew what the reason was.

Since he returned from Jiaozhi, the rumors about his entrustment to Jiaozhi have been rampant, and even everyone in the capital knows about it.

If it was in other dynasties, the ministers at this time would definitely be in panic all day long. If it was in the Song Dynasty, I am afraid that the officials would have committed suicide to apologize.

But this is the Ming Dynasty, and 30 years ago, there was another example of the same enfeoffment.

Although Qian Guogong's mansion did not explicitly confer kings and lands, but Qian Guogong's lineage will always be in Yunnan, which is not much different from the actual title of king.

Even the Qian State Duke's Mansion is now called Mu Wang's Mansion in Yunnan.

Therefore, in this era, enfeoffment is not a taboo topic.

As long as you don't know the name of the king, you can also get the honor of being the king after death.

Zhang Fu is very clear that he has become a typical example, and a bargaining chip has been pushed to the fore.

Not only the generals, but even the civil servants are now mustering up their strength, wanting to push themselves to fight the emperor.

Enfeoffment was not just a matter of Zhang Fu alone, but became a weapon for ministers of civil and military affairs to fight for more power space from the emperor.

Zhang Fu didn't even know that, as the grandson of the royal family and the future emperor, Zhu Zhanji also put a lot of effort into this matter.

In Zhu Zhanji's view, enfeoffment is the ultimate dream of being a minister of civil and military affairs. With this hope ahead, those ministers of civil and military affairs also have one more direction to fight for. It can make the atmosphere of the court better.

Although Zhang Fu could only avoid suspicion on the surface, secretly he also stepped up contact with all parties.

This opportunity does not come often, no matter how much you have to compete, even if you fail, the worst thing is to keep a low profile like now.

Zhu Di is not Zhu Yuanzhang, he is extra tolerant towards heroes.

And if it succeeds, the Zhang family can become a real family of the first generation.

"Eldest young master, Concubine Jing has sent a message from the palace that the grandson has convinced the emperor."

In this family, the only one who can call him the young master is Zhang Yan Zhang Bo, who became the chief steward of the Duke's Mansion when his father was alive.

Zhang Bo, who is almost 70 years old this year, has served four generations of the Zhang family, and even the Zhang family's ancestral hall has reserved a place for him.

In the past, the news in the palace was passed on by Concubine Zhaoyi, but today it was passed on by Concubine Jing.Although he was pleasantly surprised, he suppressed his excitement and asked, "Why did Xi'er send the news, is it reliable?"

"It was Lianyi who accompanied Concubine Jing into the palace. This girl is still acting calmly. Today is the birthday of Princess Jiaxing, the emperor came to Wenhua Palace, and had a secret talk with His Highness Taisun in Dongyuan for half an hour before dinner. There should be no mistakes in the transmission from Taisun."

Zhang Fu sighed and asked: "Uncle Zhang, you are very knowledgeable and have lived in the capital for a long time, so you can see the grandson's intentions? As the royal family, you are so active in promoting this matter. What is your intention?"

Uncle Zhang, who was standing at the bottom, still had a calm expression on his face. "I've lived for almost seventy years, but I've never seen someone like my grandson. It's really hard to comment. This person is young and sharp, enjoys the emperor's favor, and has a different way of doing things. There has never been a trace. Xie Jin, Hu Guang can be regarded as a rare talent in the world, Yao Shaoshi is even more knowledgeable about heaven and man, all three of them can't say anything wrong about this disciple who doesn't respect Confucianism and doesn't like Buddhism."

Of course, Zhang Fu was no stranger to the grandson, and it would be a joke if he was negligent about this almost certain heir to the empire.Although the Zhang family is rich and prosperous, that is just the past. If the Zhang family wants to prosper in the era, the relationship with the emperor has always been the most important part of the Zhang family.

Hearing Uncle Zhang's words, he pondered for a while and said: "Enjoy the emperor's favor, but not conceited, sharp-edged, but not arrogant, three famous teachers teach, but not follow blindly, obviously there are hills and valleys in his chest."

Uncle Zhang nodded and said: "At the age of 16, I personally killed deserters, and at the age of 17, I went to battle and beheaded the enemy. The young army is not like a soldier, but more like a miscellaneous family. The Beizheng discovered a huge copper mountain, and now there are globes, research institutes, machine tools, etc. Waterwheel, including his donation of 43 million taels of silver, and the establishment of a research institute. When the ministers of the Ministry of Industry met, they summarized the seven categories of agriculture, literature, science, geology, astronomy, medicine, and geophysics. Although the so-called patent right It has not yet been implemented, but it has directly won the hearts of craftsmen all over the world. Although the so-called personal legal asset protection law seems to be difficult to implement, it has won the hearts of most of the poor in the world. This grandson has been walking, and no one has ever left And all his actions seem to have only one purpose, which is to win people's hearts."

Zhang Fu said at this time: "I thought that Taisun's move was more like reforming the Ming Dynasty and directly digging out the foundation of Confucianism."

Zhang Bo said with a smile: "I thought so before, but Taisun has no aversion to Confucianism, and now he has prepared a clear path for Confucianism in advance. Since Taisun prefers miscellaneous studies, no matter agriculture, Neo-Confucianism, geology, astronomy, Medicine, Gewu, these are all Confucian people who have more advantages. As long as Confucian students put down their faces, Confucianism can also seize the position of other disciplines. Taisun built a research institute on his farm, although it was only transferred from the Ministry of Industry. People, but recently, there are countless Confucian students who want to enter the research institute set up by Taisun!"

Zhang Fuda asked with interest: "What does this research institute do for a living?"

Before Zhang Bo could speak, he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and immediately looked outside the door.

I saw Zhang Fu, the third master who was in charge of Jinyiwei's affairs, ran in quickly, and when he saw Zhang Fu, he said loudly: "Brother, it's great news that His Majesty actually awarded the fifth-rank member of the Ministry of Industry, Kong Cheng, a lifetime Viscount Wu An, this is a violation of the court's law!"

In the Ming Dynasty, there were Wen Xun, Wu Xun, and Nobility.

Wen Xun has ten levels of honor, 42 scattered steps.Anyone who enters the officialdom and becomes an official of the imperial court can obtain Sanjie according to the grade, and the name of Sanjie is related to the grade.Those above the fifth rank are conferred in the form of edicts, and those below the sixth rank are conferred in the form of edicts, but there is no salary.