My Daming New Empire

It is absolutely impossible for Shanxi merchants who have cheated the entire Ming Dynasty to allow them to develop again.

Controlling finance is equivalent to controlling the stability of the entire country. As the future emperor, he will carry out the financial monopoly to the end.

As for economic development, it has nothing to do with financial monopoly. It is impossible to develop into the electronic age of later generations.In addition to the agricultural economy in Ming Dynasty, it was mainly the real economy, and the tertiary industry was out of reach.

To give a simple example, it's like the tourism economy.Later generations have high-speed rail, airplanes, cars, trains, and a complete supporting system, so that tourism can develop.

Now people rely on walking everywhere, and most people have never even been out of the county in their entire lives.Especially women, they may not even go fifty miles away from home in their whole life. If you develop tourism, who will go!

As for the imperial government's control of finance, as long as there is a corresponding comprehensive industrial development support plan, even if the development is slower, it is definitely better than financial chaos that everyone can use and chaos.

In his previous life, he controlled and participated in several world-class banks. Zhu Zhanji is very clear about the role banks can play in industrial development.

Anyone who wants to play tricks with him in this regard is really playing tricks, and he has to kill chickens and scare monkeys.

Silver coins are used for official salaries, silver coins for project settlement, and silver coins for trade transactions. Now there are checkpoints between states and counties in Daming, and a large amount of cash is blocked and cannot be circulated. It will not take long for the circulation of silver coins to develop. Come.

Daming at that time will be much more stable than it is now.

After explaining these issues, Zhu Zhanji took a box of silver coins and was about to leave.

As for the safety precautions here, including how to prevent craftsmen from stealing silver privately, the Banking Bureau has very complete regulations, so he doesn't need to worry about it at all.

As soon as he left the compound, Zhu Zhanji saw Ma Zhicai who was guarding the door. Seeing Zhu Zhanji coming out, Ma Zhicai immediately raised a half-meter-long steel pipe in his hand and said, "Your Highness, please look at the barrel of this gun. ..."

Zhu Zhanji jumped off the horse, took the steel pipe, and put it in front of his eyes.

This is not the same as the steel pipe that today's craftsmen wrap it with iron sheets, but an iron rod with small holes that were drilled out with a drill.

The iron rod is to cast the semi-melted molten iron into the pre-made steel form.In the center of the steel fan, there is an iron wire wrapped with refractory clay.

Solid iron rods are really difficult to drill, so this method can only be used to leave a hole between the iron rods.

The iron wire is wrapped with refractory soil, which can keep a straight line. After the iron rod is formed, the refractory soil can be crushed to pull out the iron wire, leaving a small hole.

Now the Ministry of Industry not only uses manganese steel to make Qianfan, but also makes drill bits with manganese steel.The drill bits are polished bit by bit by craftsmen, and then heated and quenched many times to increase the hardness of the drill bit.

Starting from a small hole, the diameter of the hole was enlarged with a thin drill bit, and after three times of drilling and expansion, the current style was formed.

At present, there is no ability to produce seamless steel pipes, and only by relying on this local method can a suitable gun barrel be obtained.

After listening to Ma Zhicai's introduction of the processing procedure, Zhu Zhanji thought about it, but there was no better way to improve it.He simply asked, "How far can the barrel be drilled now?"

"Drilling from both ends, you can only get a barrel of one foot and eight inches. If the drill bit is too long, the shaking will be severe, which will affect the size of the barrel."

"It's still a bit short. The gun barrels used by the Shenji Battalion today are all four feet long. Such barrels can only be made into short guns." He thought for a while and said, "You can make a few strong barrels. , let the craftsman make me a few short guns. Make me a single-barreled, double-barreled, and three-eyed gun."

Although the short gun is not very useful on the battlefield, it is still very good as a self-defense weapon.In the future, if all my guards are equipped with this kind of short guns, they will attack twice as many people, and they will not be their opponents.

After Ma Zhicai agreed, Zhu Zhanji asked again: "How is the research on the spring machine and gunpowder cap I mentioned last time?"

Ma Zhicai shook his head in distress and said: "It is still very difficult to meet His Highness's request. Now we only solve the problem of returning the spring mechanism, but how to automatically ignite the gun to the barrel without leaking air has baffled everyone. "

Zhu Zhanji had seen Brown Bass with his own eyes, but he didn't pay attention to the design of the ignition cap or the gas-holding device of the barrel at that time.So although he knew that the flintlock would definitely replace the matchlock, he couldn't give any advice on how to do it.

However, when he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something.He picked up the steel pipe and looked at it again and said, "Since it is difficult to drill longer with a drill, have you ever thought about using a whetstone?"

Ma Zhicai was stunned for a moment and asked, "How can a millstone do it? It's too brittle and can't be drilled at all..."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "You have someone grind the millstone, and then glue it to a thin iron rod to make a circle, slightly thinner than the gun barrel. Now the iron rod is drilled with a thin drill bit. Afterwards, I used a grindstone to grind out the gun barrel. Such a whetstone rod can be made to be four feet long, and the longer gun barrel can be grinded out, right?"

Ma Zhicai slapped his thigh and said, "Look at my pig head, your Highness means the same as making a pencil, and a whetstone is easier to make than a pencil. I will immediately arrange for someone to make a trial..."

Zhu Zhanji smiled, although it would be a waste of grinding stone rods, but at least, it can solve the drilling problem.

As long as the refractory soil in the middle of the iron rod is made thicker, it can be drilled with a thin drill bit first, and then it can be slowly ground with a whetstone rod.Now that there are machine tools, no matter how slow it is, it will be easier than manually building the barrel.

After sending Ma Zhicai away, no one stopped Zhu Zhanji this time.However, he hadn't entered the city yet, and when he arrived at the Qingliangmen wooden bridge, the wooden bridge was blocked.

The guards of Wucheng Bingmasi on duty saw Zhu Zhanji riding over, and immediately knelt down in front of Zhu Zhanji in fright. "Your Highness, please wait a moment, the little one will clear the road immediately."

There were too many people, and I didn't know what happened. Zhu Zhanji asked, "This is the gate to the city. How could it be blocked?"

The guard said disapprovingly: "A countryman came to Beijing with his family. For some reason, he clamored to beat his concubine to death at the gate of the city. Therefore, they were all watching the excitement..."

Zhu Zhanji turned his head and said to Yang Zhangde: "Go and catch him! There are such violent people in this bright world, who keep saying they want to kill people!"

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Yang Zhangde clamped the horse's belly and shouted: "Stop..." Then he drove the horse straight into the crowd.

Because of the reminder, everyone was on guard and quickly dodged, so although they were turned on their backs, but no one was hurt, he broke into the crowd.

At this time, the spectators saw Zhu Zhanji's cavalry, and hurriedly pushed the people around them to get out of the way in the middle.

"It's His Royal Highness...don't kick my persimmon..."

"Bastard... ah..." This is a person who was unprepared and was squeezed into the river by the retreating crowd.

Several children were frightened and cried, crying and calling for their mothers, and there was chaos.

After most of the people retreated to the side of the road, they automatically knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Zhu Zhanji who was riding on the horse.

Although Zhu Zhanji wanted to be close to the people, the guards of the Habayashi guards would not allow it. They immediately formed a protective circle to protect Zhu Zhanji. An overturned cart pulling wheat bran was lifted up, and two other people went to the bamboo pole to rescue the unlucky guy who fell into the river.

At the other end of the wooden bridge near the city gate, a strong man about 25-[-] saw this scene and couldn't help opening his mouth.He was still holding a wooden stick in his hand, but at this time it also stopped in the air, not daring to move.

Yang Zhangde drove his horse to his side, glared at a few guards who were watching the excitement, and shouted: "Why don't you stop such a careless thing about human life?"

Zhu Zhanji rode his horse and walked onto the bridge. Wherever he passed, everyone knelt down and bowed their heads, only daring to take a sneak peek.

Several guards saw the flying fish uniform and ribbon on him, knew that he was Qianhu, dared not argue, and knelt down to admit their mistake. "Reporting to Qianhu, Biaoxia tried to stop it, but this person took out the concubine's deed, and claimed to be the eldest son of Master Yang, the imperial servant, so Biaoxia didn't dare to stop it."

I also knew that after taking a peek, Zhu Zhanji had already driven the horse over, so he stopped questioning them, jumped off the horse, and leaned over to look at the woman who had been beaten, bleeding, and passed out.

"Your Highness, it should be just fainting, and there is no danger of life, but I don't know if there are other injuries on the body."

Zhu Zhanji nodded, he took out his sweat towel and tied it on the woman's bleeding forehead.As for the body, men and women are different, but he can't check it.

Zhu Zhanji's horse didn't move fast, but the sound of horse hooves put tremendous pressure on Mr. Yang. He trembled all over, and the wooden stick in his hand fell to the bridge with a bang.

Zhu Zhanji's horse went all the way in front of Mr. Yang. Zhu Zhanji looked at him, and then at the carriage beside him. The children on it were crying.A woman about 25 or [-] years old looked up at Zhu Zhanji, then lowered her head in fright.

As for the four servant-like guards beside the carriage, they didn't even dare to raise their heads at this moment.

Zhu Zhanji opened his mouth and asked: "Since he is the servant of the Hanlin Master Yang, is he the son of Yang Yu Yang Shiqi?"