My Daming New Empire

Zhu Zhanji was not afraid that he would do something wrong, but he was afraid that if he did not do something, he would muddle along and delay the development of Daming.

So Zhu Zhanji's attitude became amicable, he took the memorial with his own hands, supported his arm and said: "Please come up, Yuanwailang. Let the great-grandfather learn about heaven and man. Although Zhanji can't see it, he still admires it. Please hurry up." I will talk to you after I read the memorial."

Liu Jie didn't dare to ask Zhu Zhanji to help him, so he quickly got up from the ground and put half of his butt on the edge of the chair.

Zhu Zhanji opened the memorial and read it carefully.

Liu Jie's memorial is a work report, which is completely different from the memorial of admonitions. It does not have so many elaborate formats, gorgeous words, and no need for parallelism.

However, Liu Jie's work report was also written brilliantly, explaining the problems he encountered in a very elegant way.

However, this gave Zhu Zhanji a headache, and he had to guess in many places.

He still can't ask others, and if he asks, he will expose his shortcomings.

However, even so, he did not regret that he did not learn ancient Chinese well. When he ascended the throne, in addition to literature, he must promote vernacular Chinese and simplify complicated things so that ordinary people can understand it and understand the official language. official document.

There are also punctuation marks. Now Daming also has some books imported from foreign countries with punctuation marks. However, it is impossible to promote them.

First of all, these punctuation marks are immature, and secondly, Confucianism relies on monopolizing academics to control the right to speak, and they are the last thing they want the common people to understand culture.

Liu Jie’s memorial mainly addressed three issues. One is that wealthy families and businessmen apply for a large number of patents. They are afraid that patents will become a weapon for them to monopolize academics and even technology in the future, which will be detrimental to the development of people’s livelihood.

The second is a large number of repeated applications, causing many patents to overlap, leading to the unknown which one to grant the patent to.

The last point is the lack of staff in the patent department and the lack of communication between the state capitals, resulting in repeated patent applications.Some geographically restricted patents cannot be compared at all, and there have been many cases of repeated approvals.

Zhu Zhanji had already thought about these things, put away the memorial and said: "There is no need for anyone to apply for a patent. Before that, you just need to investigate the source of the patent and see if there is any robbery of the patent. Pay attention to prevent these wealthy businessmen from continuing to monopolize technology by continuing to apply for relevant patents.”

Liu Jie was very clever, and directly grasped the meaning of Zhu Zhanji's words. "Your Highness is saying that after giving everyone ten years of tossing, the real development of Daming will be after ten years?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded with a smile and said: "Secretism from generation to generation is a Confucian habit, and this habit has penetrated into everyone's bones. Patents are a monopoly on technology, but they are also an important means to change this concept.

As long as these ten years pass, the internal supervisor will definitely make extensive use of these patented technologies and spread them.But as long as you know about this matter, don't make it public. "

Liu Jie quickly agreed.

Zhu Zhanji also said: "Those patents with overlapping technologies can allow applicants to make physical objects, compare them with each other, and grant the patent to the best one. But other companies can grant exclusive rights, which does not form a contradiction with patent monopoly."

"As for the last point..." Zhu Zhanji thought for a while before saying: "The patent department is short of staff, so we can continue to expand the scale and increase funds. The patent department should be earning a lot of money now, right?"

Liu Jie replied: "The Patent Department is only in charge of approvals, and all accounts are still under the unified management of the Ministry of Industry."

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "This matter is inappropriate. The special funds are used for special purposes. The patent department should not be a profit-seeking government office, but should be a technology promotion government office of Ming Dynasty. After you go back, write a strategy and prepare carefully. I will negotiate with the two ministers at the right time."

He was waiting to thank you, but he heard Zhu Zhanji say again: "Li Shaojian, give Yuanwailang a piece of Taisunling. In the future, if you have any difficulties, just come to me. As long as you work hard, it will not be difficult to restore the honor of Uncle Chengyi. "

Liu Jie knelt down on the ground with a plop, his eyes were red, his lips trembled for a long time, and finally he buried his head deeply. "The minister will die after bowing his head and doing his best."

Coming out of the living room, the engineering department of the smelting field and the person in charge of the internal supervisor stood guard at the door. After saluting, after a short greeting, Zhu Zhanji was welcomed into the smelting workshop.

However, no one dared to let Zhu Zhanji go to the melting furnace in person, and he could only observe the fire of the melting furnace from a distance away from the crowd.

Furnace temperature was the biggest constraint in ancient steelmaking. Ordinary flames only had a temperature of a few hundred degrees, and the temperature of a steelmaking furnace had to be at least a thousand degrees or more.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Huaxia invented a high-temperature iron-making furnace that could reach a temperature of 1000 to 1000 degrees, but for more than [-] years since then, this technology has been stuck here.

No matter what kind of raw material is used, the temperature of the furnace is difficult to rise.

Therefore, ancient steelmaking is not a steelmaking furnace whose temperature can reach [-] degrees in later generations. Whether it is iron or steel, they are semi-liquid, not real molten iron or steel.

Then, these irons need manpower to stir, forge and press, increase the carbon content, and make it into steel, so this process is also called frying steel.

This process has been going on for more than 1000 years, and the biggest difficulty is how to increase the oxygen content in the flame to raise the temperature.

Although the Han Dynasty had already learned to use water drains to add air to the steelmaking furnace, this air was ordinary air, and the oxygen content was far from enough.

Before the invention of oxygen purification equipment, the furnace temperature could not be raised.If the furnace temperature does not increase, the molten iron cannot become a real liquid, because the melting point of iron is above [-] degrees.

Zhu Zhanji has no way to solve this point, he can only remind these craftsmen to test various gas supply equipment more.

Although it is just an ordinary steelmaking furnace, the top-blowing, side-blowing, and bottom-blowing tests are repeated, and even the three methods are implemented together to increase the temperature in the furnace.

Now this downdraft furnace is equipped with three water rows, and blows air into the furnace at the same time. This method is indeed effective, because the melting degree of molten iron is better than before.

The downflame furnace is a new type of steelmaking furnace developed in the Song Dynasty. It is divided into two parts. The frying chamber is built below the ground, and the combustion chamber is built above the ground.

The two chambers are stacked up and down, the bottom of the combustion chamber is facing the center of the frying and refining chamber, the wind blows in from the upper part of the combustion chamber, and then directly enters the frying and refining chamber through the burner at the bottom of the combustion chamber.The top opening of the combustion chamber is closed with a cover plate to keep the temperature.

Almost all the bronze cannons in Shenjiying are cast by this method, but the melting point of the pasted ones is higher, so the process of frying steel is indispensable.

Today, I tried two methods again, but neither of them could achieve the desired effect.

Zhu Zhanji was not discouraged either. Before leaving, he proposed another way, which is to use cement to cast a combustion chamber underground, and then use refractory soil to insulate the heat, and add another combustion chamber under the current frying chamber.

There are combustion chambers up and down, and two water exhausts are used to blow air, which should have a certain effect.

He moved his mouth, the people below will be exhausted and their legs will be broken, and it will be difficult to complete the renovation of the furnace room in less than a month.

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After exiting Miyagi from Xuanwu Gate, the right side was originally the residence of Habayashi Zuowei, and the left side was the residence of Habayashi Right Guard.However, after the two branches of the Habayashi guards were allotted to Zhu Zhanji, this place became the Shenji Camp on the right and the Sanqian Camp on the left.

Then pass through Bei'anmen, the city gate of the imperial city, where the left guard of the government army and the guard of Jin Wu are respectively stationed.

Then there is a small area of ​​residences of high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the east wing of Taipingfang, and Ji Gang's home is on the shore of Lake Biwa not far from the imperial city.

At these ages, power is at the mercy of the government and the public, so his family is naturally not small.He is greedy for money and lustful, and has many beautiful maidservants in his family.

At this time, the night was getting dark and the lights were coming on. Although his mansion looked the same as usual, there were many hidden secret whistles in the streets and alleys.

Zhu Zhanji stepped off his horse, and had his own Jinyiwei flag to lead their horses away. Zhu Zhanji took the lead in walking into the gate that clearly exceeded the regulations.

Ji Gang led more than a hundred people to wait in the courtyard. When he saw Zhu Zhanji coming in, he knelt down neatly and bowed down. "Linyi Gang and Ji's full family of one hundred and two other people pay homage to His Majesty the Grandson..."

Today's big ceremony is not only because Zhu Zhanji came to the door for the first time, but also because of the intention of entrusting him.For Ji Gang to go to Dongying, it will take a year at the earliest, or two years at the slowest, before he can establish a world in Dongying.At that time, it was the time for the rest of the Ji family to follow to Dongpu.

During this time, Zhu Zhanji will naturally help him guard the backyard.

In fact, this is just a formality, as long as Ji Gang does not fall, the rest of the people will not dare to take actions against his Ji family.

However, since he has been away for a long time, some of his enemies will inevitably be less polite to others.

For example, Xue Lu of Yangwuhou, who has now been promoted to General Hussars and Governor of the Right, if he returns to the capital and Ji Gang is not around, he will definitely attack the members of the Ji family.

In the sixth year of Yongle, Xue Lu, who was still the governor, competed with Ji Gang for a stunning female Taoist priest who was beautiful and looked at the capital, which angered Ji Gang. Ji Gang smashed his head with an iron melon and almost died.

In the following few years, the two were in the same situation. Fortunately, Xue Lu was now stationed in Beiping, otherwise the two would fight whenever they met.