Daming: From the Son of Heaven to the Leader of Comprehensive Martial Arts

Officials like Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry are blindly arrogant and have a natural sense of national superiority. Zhu Qizhen knows that they are no longer in the minority.

The Ming Empire was number one in the world, and everything was number one in the world.

They take it for granted that this is a must!

Of course, Zhu Qizhen does not completely deny this arrogance.

However, what he hopes is that the officials of the Ming Empire, and even every common people in the world, have a sense of national pride.

but……!

It is by no means arrogance in technology!

"Qizou Your Majesty, Governor Zheng Chenggong's memorial seems to be dissatisfied with the results of this naval battle. He seems to hope that the navy of the Ming Empire will have more advanced warships and artillery."

After a moment of contemplation, Minister of the Ministry of Industry cupped his hands and said.

"That's right. In fact, Zheng Chenggong's biggest purpose in submitting this memorial is to hope that the navy of the Ming Empire will be equipped with more advanced warships and artillery."

Zhu Qizhen paused, and emphasized: "I hope so too."

"At present, I have an idea, Ai Qing, you can listen to it."

"My minister respectfully listens to the hadith." The minister of the Ministry of Industry cupped his hands.

"The battleship is made of steel. With the current technology of the Ming Empire, is it feasible? Will the power of the battleship be affected?"

Zhu Qizhen asked.

"A battleship made of steel?!"

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's words, Minister of the Ministry of Industry couldn't believe his ears, he exclaimed, his eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

How could His Majesty have such a fantasy idea?

"Your Majesty, is there something I don't understand?" Minister of the Ministry of Industry held his hand.

Zhu Qizhen said: "You can say it bluntly, now there are only two of us, the monarch and his ministers, so there is no need to be jealous."

"My minister has the audacity to ask Your Majesty, how does the steel go into the water? If the steel goes into the water, won't it just sink to the bottom of the water?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry clasped his fists and asked, his face full of doubts.

"Not necessarily."

Zhu Qizhen smiled, then turned his head and ordered: "Wei Zhongxian, go get a golden bowl, and besides, get another basin of water."

"The slaves obey the order."

Outside the hall, Wei Zhongxian promised, and trotted away.

After a while, a golden bowl and a basin of water were brought.

Zhu Qizhen took the golden bowl and put it in the water.

The golden bowl actually floated on the water!

"I want to ask Ai Qing, if this golden bowl can float on the water, can't the steel warship float on the sea?"

The minister of the Ministry of Industry was stunned and shocked.

Although this is just a common sense of life, it contains a great truth, and as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he is in charge of all the crafts and technologies of the Ming Empire.

For decades, I didn't even notice it!

After a while, Shangshu's eyes suddenly lit up, he stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your reminder, I understand."

"Very good. After three months, I hope to see an iron boat that can be launched."

Zhu Qizhen said: "You also take this golden bowl, and I will reward you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty Ron."

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry bowed, raised the golden bowl high above his head, and confidently led the decree: "This humble minister will live up to His Majesty's trust."

He is a smart man, knowing that this is a gift from His Majesty, and it is also a reminder from the emperor.

Then, Zhu Qizhen sighed again: "I asked Zheng Chenggong to send a royal warship on which the sun never sets, which can be used for research by the Ministry of Industry. Although the Ming Dynasty's navy is very strong now, I dare not slack off. It will be surpassed by other countries."

"The humble minister does not dare to slack off in the slightest."

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry bowed his hand in awe.

"Ah."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, and then asked: "What is the current progress of the research on shells?"

Minister of the Ministry of Industry Zhan Yan said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, great progress has been made, which is very gratifying. Although the range has not been increased, I have developed a shell with amazing power and violent explosion, which is more than ten times the original."

"good."

With a compliment, Zhu Qizhen waved at the Minister of Industry and asked him to step down.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry held the golden bowl and left the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Qizhen gave instructions to Zheng Chenggong's memorial.

"I already know what Aiqing played."

"The Ministry of Industry has developed a new type of cannonball, which is more than ten times more powerful than the original, and will continue to research a steel warship. Ai Qing has ordered a British cannon to be sent to the Ministry of Industry immediately. This time, the victory against the British fleet, I am very pleased that Ai Qing did not live up to my expectations..."

After Zhu Qizhen gave instructions on Zheng Chenggong's memorial, he ordered the Ouchi guards to send the memorial to the Fujian Navy Governor's Mansion.

"Qizou Your Majesty, the Minister of Rites is asking to see you."

Wei Zhongxian came to report again.

"Announce him in."

Zhao Hengchen, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, entered the main hall, bowed to the emperor, and reported: "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, the provincial examination has been completed for the imperial examination, and candidates from all over the country have come to Beijing to take the exam. Your Majesty, please write questions for the candidates from all over the world and select talents for our Ming Dynasty."

Zhao Hengchen handed over the memorial and reported: "Your Majesty, this is Jie Yuan from the provincial examination."

Zhu Qizhen took Zhao Hengchen's memorial and looked through it.

This is a list of seventeen people.

Daming has two capitals and fifteen provinces, and the No.1 in each province will be handed over to the imperial court. These seventeen people are the No.1 in the provincial examination, called Jieyuan.

Juren enters the capital and takes a palace examination in the Palace of Preserving Harmony in the Forbidden City.

The palace examination is presided over by the emperor himself, and after high school, he is called a Jinshi, and the No.1 among the Jinshi is the number one scholar.

Zhu Qizhen was looking forward to it.

This time the imperial examination will provide the Ming Empire with many good ministers for governing the country.

"Your Majesty, please come up with questions for the imperial examination."

Zhao Hengchen handed over a specially made red book.

Zhu Qizhen took the red book and wrote a neat line of lowercase characters: On how to develop the navy and Ming Dynasty technology?

"Let's take this as the topic."

"According to the order."

After receiving the examination questions, Minister of Rites Zhao Hengchen bowed out of the Qianqing Palace.

Before the exam starts, no second person can know the exam questions. After the exam starts and the candidates enter the venue, the chief examiner will tell all the candidates about the exam questions to prevent cheating.

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Chapter 48 The Panic of the Ladies

Ten days later, the Fujian Navy Governor's Mansion.

Jin Yiwei came at full speed, holding the imperial order in his hand, and said loudly: "Governor of the Ming Navy, Zheng Chenggong stepped forward to accept the order."

"Wei Chen accepts the order!"

Zheng Chenggong led a group of naval generals, kneeling on the ground in order to listen to the order.

Jin Yiwei unfolded the imperial decree and read Zhu Qizhen's instructions to Zheng Chenggong aloud.

Meanwhile, in a naval prison.

More than [-] British prisoners were all hopeless. Although they knew that the Ming Empire was strong, they never imagined that the Ming Dynasty's navy was so powerful that it was so terrifying.

These Britons have always been victorious in the sea.

They never expected that in front of the navy of the Ming Empire, they would be defeated for the first time.

Moreover, this defeat was a complete fiasco!

In the past, they firmly believed that the imperial warship on which the sun never sets was the undefeated god of war in the ocean!

However, in front of the Ming Navy, they are vulnerable!

After Zheng Chenggong received the imperial decree, he immediately ordered someone to transport a royal warship on which the sun never sets, from the water transport channel of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the capital, and hand it over to the Ministry of Industry.

Over the months, the second and third fleets were gradually built up.

Zheng Chenggong divided the navy into three detachments, the Liaodong detachment, the Bohai detachment, and the South China Sea detachment, which patrolled the sea areas where they were located.

Compared with the previous dynasties, the defensive power of Daming's coastal defense has increased by more than a thousand times.

It has to be said that the naval battle with the Japanese Empire greatly deterred the Japanese pirates around Daming.

After that battle.

The pirates who used to harass the Ming sea area frequently, as long as they saw the flag of the Ming navy from a distance, they would flee at the wind, slipping faster than the mice on the water.

In the capital, three thousand craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry are busy, because the Minister of the Ministry of Industry has given them a new order

Build a steel battleship!

In the Qianqing Palace, after several days of busy work, Zhu Qizhen could finally relax. The Ming Navy had begun to take shape, and defeated the royal warship, which was known as the strongest in the world on which the sun never sets.

Why does the sun never set?

The battleship does not sink, the sun does not set!

However, within the borders of the Ming Empire, there was only one way for the British warships to go, and that was to sink to the bottom of the sea forever and become ruins.

However, Zhu Qizhen was not satisfied with this.

He believed that in the near future, the navy of the Ming Empire would not only be large in scale, with many warships and powerful guns, but also develop an ocean-going fleet.

Even a fleet of aircraft carriers!

Zhu Qizhen walked out of Qianqing Palace, and the spring breeze was blowing on his face.

The spring breeze has already greened the world, and the spring plowing has already started vigorously. Now the arable land of the Ming Empire is full of green seedlings.

Ruixue is a prosperous year.

Last winter, there were several heavy snowfalls, and this year is bound to be a bumper harvest year.

Zhu Qizhen strolled in the imperial garden.

Led by Wei Zhongxian, a group of eunuchs and maids followed closely behind the emperor, holding a porcelain plate with melons and fruits, and serving them carefully.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know that when he was taking a happy walk, in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, his mother, Empress Sun, was frowning.

The seventeen beauties from Xiwan Lake stood in the Compassion Palace in an orderly manner, listening to the Empress Dowager's lecture.

"Look at you, you have been in the palace for nearly half a year, right?"

"But I haven't even seen the emperor's face once. Let's look at Murong Xian, he entered the palace with you, and he has already been canonized as a concubine."

"You girls, are you not in a hurry?"

The queen mother showed a look of hating iron but not steel.

To be honest, these seventeen beautiful women were all carefully selected by her. She liked each of them very much, and sincerely hoped that each of them could become the emperor's concubine.

No matter what.

"Ugh……"

The Queen Mother sighed heavily.

Seventeen court ladies, including Murong Xian's sister Murong Shu, and Jiang Yuyan, who had seen the emperor once or twice, were all aggrieved.