First Minister of Ming Dynasty

This seat is not originally made of hardwood, but light woven rattan. People sitting on it can also manipulate the wings through ropes.

As long as it is released at a high place, it can soar in the sky for a period of time with the help of the wind.

With the continuous improvement, the time is getting longer and longer, and Tao Chengdao is getting more and more excited.

He is only one step away from success.

The imperial court's bonus is a trivial matter. It is true to be able to fly nine days, look down on the earth, and realize your dreams.Of course, that 30 guan bonus must be very fragrant.

But just when Tao Chengdao was full of confidence, a huge sphere suddenly rose from the west of Yingtian City, and there was a simple and honest man on it, rubbing his hands constantly, his wrinkled face was full of joy.

Become!

It really did!

"Father, someone is fighting against Tao Chengdao!" Zhang Chengtian said excitedly.

Zhang Ximeng was startled, "Who is it, do you know?"

"I don't dare to say about the Ming Dynasty, but I know everything about Yingtian City. This man is a veteran of Wucheng Bingmasi."

Zhang Ximeng was taken aback, "Why does he want to invent?"

"I heard that he is usually in charge of water trucks, fighting fires all over the city. He wants to be condescending and able to see clearly, so that he can send water trucks there in advance to avoid burning innocent people."

Zhang Ximeng's heart moved, he nodded and said, "This man is virtuous!"

Chapter 873 Let's vote for Emperor Hongwu

Tao Chengdao, who wanted to fly to the sky, lost to a veteran of Wucheng Bingmasi... And this veteran's original idea was to climb high and look far, to be able to overlook the entire Yingtian City, to issue early warnings, mobilize water tankers, and avoid The fire spread.

In a mega-city like Yingtian with a population of one million, various problems emerge one after another, and if any one is not resolved, problems will arise.

For example, food, drinking water, and sewage discharge all require great effort to solve.

In addition, things like firefighting are also very scary.

Since Yingtian is generally one-story houses, only wealthy families can build small buildings.

The common people piled up a lot of wood around the house.The roads in the hutongs of some blocks are narrow, so once a fire occurs, it will spread quickly.

The so-called poverty on the day of the fire, no matter how many people, will be defeated by the fire.

Absolutely not sloppy.

In the past few years, on average, there are hundreds of fires in Yingtian every year, and the number of people who died in the fires ranged from hundreds to as many as two to three hundred, and the losses were very heavy.

Therefore, in Yingtian City, fire prevention is also very important. For example, every block has to dig wells and set up water collection points. Some families have to prepare a row of water tanks under the courtyard wall to put out open fires at any time.

But even so, it's hard to say that every time it can be prevented.

There are thousands of soldiers and horses in the five cities, who are responsible for fire prevention. Every year, soldiers are burned to death...

Knowing this, I also understand the original intention of the veteran to invent the hot air balloon.

I just want to warn in advance to reduce losses.

Moreover, his source of inspiration is also the life and death of the fire scene. He found that every time a fire occurs, the rising heat will blow dust and tulle into the sky.

Every year because of the Kongming lanterns, there will be fires, and the Kongming lanterns are burned by flames, and the heat they bring will fly into the sky... Maybe it is a reminder.

Make the Kongming lanterns big, and people sitting inside can fly into the sky, and standing in the air, they can observe the situation in Yingtian City. Where there are fireworks, they can give early warning and notify the people below.The Wucheng soldiers and horses immediately dispatched to verify...

After the veteran's hot air balloon test was successful, it was immediately used in firefighting.

First of all, the huge Yingtian City was divided into eight blocks, and a hot air balloon was placed in each of them, and it was lifted into the air to observe from a height.

Once a fire is detected, use the semaphore to notify the people below.

The people below notified the Wucheng Bingma Division nearby, and the Bingma Division arranged personnel according to the fire situation, and decided to allocate the number of personnel and water tankers...

Immediately after the launch of this system, miraculous results were achieved.

Because standing on a high place, you can see clearly, and you can dispatch personnel effectively.

In three months, hundreds of fires were extinguished in advance, and no soldiers or civilians were killed because of the fire for a full three months.

This hot air balloon early warning system was immediately sought after.

Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and even Peiping were all introduced into the past, and a large number of workshops producing hot air balloons soon appeared.

The veteran who invented the hot air balloon also won a bonus of 30 guan.

It's just that he didn't ask for the money, but donated the money to the brothers who died in the fire over the years. He is still just an ordinary veteran of Wucheng Bingmasi, pushing a water cart, busy on the street.

Perhaps the only difference is that there is an extra Great Ming Meritorious Medal on his chest.

It is this golden medal that makes veterans unique.

Even the highest-ranking nobles in the capital would not dare to make mistakes casually when they met him.

Otherwise, once it gets out, it will be a terrible thing!

In this Great Ming Dynasty, although there were honorable clans, the background of the country was still the common people. Those ordinary people who had made contributions would receive high-standard treatment.

Manuel, the prince of Fulin Kingdom, has lived in Daming for a while, and he has gradually begun to understand Daming and understand some of the country's characteristics.

He would get up in the morning to buy some soy milk and fried dough sticks, and occasionally go to the roast duck restaurant to get a plump maroon roast duck and eat it wrapped in pancakes.

There seem to be many Western businessmen like him.

They not only wear the clothes of Ming Dynasty, eat the food of Ming Dynasty, speak the language of Ming Dynasty, but some people will carefully trim their beards, grow their hair and tie it into a bun.

All in all, turn yourself into a Ming person from the inside out.

Manuel would look up at the sky, looking at those hot air balloons like eyes, and gradually, a different feeling would arise.

He seemed to understand something... When he first came here, what Zhang Taishi mentioned to himself, and the secrets taught to him by others... In fact, it is really very simple.

It is nothing more than treating every ordinary person as an adult and treating the people sincerely, just like this hot air balloon... What a miracle, what a great invention.

But this invention was created to prevent fires and protect the safety of civilians.

Not for the enjoyment of noble gentlemen.

Daming treats its own people like this, so it will naturally win the support of the people. The reason why the Ming Dynasty is invincible is here!

Take a look at their Byzantines in turn... What is the difference between common people and slaves?

The upper classes of Rome live in Rome, and the lower classes of Rome are not as good as mules and horses!

If benevolence and righteousness are not applied, decay will be sluggish.

No wonder it will go to perish!

Good guy, this guy actually got enlightened in the merit camp... He decided to write down all his experiences and perceptions and send them back to Constantinople. If necessary, he would also return to Constantinople to save himself. The country... use Daming's method!

In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, news from the east was constantly spreading westward through sea routes... It's just that at the beginning, it was a mess, with everything, and there were a lot of distortions and fabrications.

But in recent years, there have indeed been a group of Westerners who are proficient in Chinese, and there have also been Eastern talents who have mastered the Western language.

In this way, a large number of classics were translated, then traveled across the ocean and sent to the West.

Coincidentally, at this moment in Europe, the sky is being shrouded by a god of death.

The terrible Black Death is raging, and tens of millions of people have died from this terrible plague.

Interestingly, in this plague, the clergy representing God, in order to appease the poor lamb who was tortured, also continued to be infected with the plague and died one after another.

Their death rate is even higher than that of ordinary people!

God doesn't work!

The cross cannot bless peace...

Something began to collapse, and then something even more terrifying broke out. In order to find an explanation for this plague... someone blamed the black cat and started killing cat owners all over the world.

Some people thought it was the witch's curse, and then started a vigorous witch hunt...

All in all, all kinds of absurd things have popped up, everything that didn't exist before has happened, and what happened before has become more serious now.

They are more like venting than real problem solving.In other words, they are incapable of solving the problem.

Just letting out the demons inside is enough.

Chaos, disorder, no self-confidence from top to bottom, including the Holy See, they are also helpless, except for useless prayers and angels, no one can save them.

The whole Europa seems to have been abandoned by God!

When things got to this point, it was almost over at once.

It is different from the people in the east, who unite as one, open up mountains and control floods. This kind of nation, which pins its hopes on the favor of the gods and grants an ark to escape, will appear more panicked and helpless in the face of disasters.

The gods abandoned them, the kings and lords only cared about themselves, and the doctors had no other skills but bloodletting.

Going to the doctor for help is better than waiting to die, at least it can be more decent.

In this dark age, some books from the East and the knowledge of some businessmen have spread to the West one after another.

The effect produced simply exceeded everyone's expectations.

Western scholars read eagerly, not letting go of any piece of information.

Soon, a prosperous, prosperous, peaceful, happy, disease-free, no-one hungry, with a wise monarch, and ruled by a philosopher king, Daming suddenly appeared in the Western public opinion field.

In their view, in the eastern world, there is a mighty emperor who, as the guardian of the country, protects his country like a god. People regard the emperor as the son of heaven.

But in the specific governance process, people will respect the opinions of another philosopher king, and this philosopher king is a recognized teacher in the entire Eastern world, and has a special title called "Taishi".

In this oriental world, they are unified, strong, civilized, rational, treat everyone fairly, pay lightly, and love peace. They create countless wealth, but they do not use this wealth to start wars, but distribute wealth fairly distributed to everyone.

They have unparalleled technological inventions, they have eyes that can look down on the earth, and they can warn of water and fire disasters and all disasters.

In the east, there is no war, no hunger, no plague... everything is like heaven... no, to be precise, the east is heaven!

There is all goodness there, all morality.

A businessman sent back Daming's currency, and by coincidence, there was Lao Zhu's face on it.

Soon, people regarded this avatar as a god.

Someone even knelt down and begged for blessings.

There are also people who find master sculptors and painters to make sculptures and draw scrolls according to this head, and then enshrine them and pray for blessings.

If Zhang Ximeng found out, he would definitely laugh three times. Fortunately, he didn't print his own head on the banknotes, otherwise he would end up with Lao Zhu.

But things actually developed in a more weird direction. It is said that on the night when the sculpture was made, someone dreamed of a god in golden clothes. He told the local nobles to love your people and give them food and clean water. , you will get blessings.

The local nobles really did as they were told in the dream, and sure enough, not long after, the local Black Death was greatly reduced.

All of a sudden, the surrounding cities were all detonated.

Some people even rushed into the church, took out the cross inside, burned it on the spot, and finally enshrined the statue of Zhu Yuanzhang in it solemnly.

What God, we have turned to Emperor Hongwu!

Chapter 874 I want to hug my grandson

Overthrow the cross and enshrine Zhu Yuanzhang.

This incident happened in Italy... Of course, to be precise, there is no country called Italy yet, but it happened in a small city near Venice.

The so-called aristocrat did not dream of Zhu Yuanzhang, let alone Zhu Yuanzhang's reminder, but he did get a copy of health regulations from the East.

It was originally written by Zhang Ximeng in the army, and later republished in one edition, and it is widely distributed among the people.Large-scale infectious diseases rarely occurred in Ming Dynasty, and there were not too many plagues, which had a lot to do with the health regulations.

It can be said that this booklet has more than ten million living people!

Merchants from Xiyi got it, and after translation, it spread to the West.

At this time, this booklet has lost a lot of things, and what is left is about maintaining hygiene, clean drinking water, and some simple prescriptions.

Surprisingly, such a crude thing really worked.

The nobles took the lead in bathing, and began to drink hot water, and strictly washed the food.For dead animals and people, bury them and disinfect them with lime.

After these measures, the plague miraculously disappeared, and the number of people who got sick dropped by more than [-]%... Even the dysentery and skin diseases that usually plagued them were much less.

Facts have proved that Emperor Hongwu is indeed more useful than any god.

Obviously, this humble little nobleman made the right bet. He began to spread the teachings of Emperor Hongwu like a messenger who had obtained the Shangfang sword... Around him, a group of scholars quickly gathered and proposed to Rome. a strong challenge.

In the face of the plague, you have no countermeasures, and your clergy have suffered countless casualties.