The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Back to my good hometown,

Cheng Minzheng paced in front of the hut, looking anxiously at the intersection of the path. After a while, Liang Xiaoyi and Liang Xiaoer came back.

"gentlemen!"

Liang Xiaoyi and Liang Xiaoer bowed and saluted.

Although they are refugees, after being taught by Cheng Minzheng, the two children are as polite and polite as the scholars in private schools.

Cheng Minzheng knelt down and said with kind eyes: "Mingzhao, Ying Ning, tell me sir, are you willing to take the exam?"

Liang Xiaoyi and Liang Xiaoer looked at each other and nodded.

"Okay, sir, let's talk to your great father."

At night, Cheng Minzheng was in the house, waiting for Liang Zhong to bring food. After coming to Liangxiang, his food was provided by the Liang family and he never opened fire.

As usual, Liang Zhong came in with a smile and dinner: "Qingshan, I bought some wine today. It's getting cold. Please warm yourself up. It's just warm."

"From tomorrow onwards, Ming Zhao and Ying Ning will not go to the shipyard."

Liang Zhong was confused: "Who are Ming Zhao and Ying Ning?"

Cheng Minzheng's face turned slightly red. He had not yet obtained Lao Liang's consent to choose names for the two of them.

"It's Xiao Yi and Xiao Er. They are very smart and will win the first place."

Liang Zhong was a little embarrassed. He never expected these two little bastards to win the first place.

"this……"

"I have disciples all over the world, how could I lie to you?"

The science courses in Liangxiang started. Song Jing taught three subjects: "Song's Tiangong", "Mechanics" and "Arithmetic" alone. Professor Yan Chengjin gave him the lectures, and he gave lectures here again.

"Master Yan, why don't you tell me in person?" Song Jing asked ashamedly.

"There are a lot of inconveniences."

Most of the people who came to attend the lectures were the children of local officials, craftsmen and untouchables, and there was not a single scholar.

As the president of the Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce, Xie Yu came to listen to a math class and was very interested.

Yan Chengjin listened for a while, and he spoke quite well about addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

After class, the craftsmen dispersed and the junior staff members went home.

"It's easy to build a shed, but the difficult part is the shipbuilding materials. The water transportation has stopped, and the wood from the south cannot be transported to the north." Song Jing was embarrassed.

Shipbuilding requires nanmu as the main body, as well as iron, nails, tung oil, jute, coal, brown wool, lime, reed mats and other necessary materials.

Nanmu is produced in Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

Wood is usually transported by water, but now in winter, all the canals in the north are frozen, making the waterways impassable.

Zhang Xian hesitated: "Sir, are you too eager to start preparing the wood now? Why don't you start the spring tomorrow?"

"It's not early. The time it takes to transport the wood can be half a month or more than a month." Transporting huge wood takes time, so we need to start preparing the wood now.

The material of the hull is nanmu as the best material, followed by chestnut wood.

It is only found in the southern area of ​​Nanmu.

Wang Busui was in a dilemma: "It's freezing cold, where does the wood come from?"

"There is wood in the capital."

Yan Chengjin knew where the wood was.

Ministry of Industry!

The Ministry of Industry is renovating the palace. The load-bearing pillars are made of nanmu, as well as the wooden frames of the roof, tables, chairs, benches, beds and chests in the palace. These wood are not purchased now. A certain amount of wood is stored in the treasury of the Ministry of Industry. .

Returning to Beijing from Liangxiang,

Yan Chengjin came to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry to look for Zeng Jian. Zeng Jian said: "I have the wood, how much does my nephew want?"

"all."

Zeng Jian spit out a sip of tea.

"The wood is for repairing the palace. You want it all. How can I deal with those eunuchs!"

The Ministry of Works was responsible for repairing palaces in the Ming Dynasty, but the supervisors were often eunuchs.

In this way, the emperor knew how much money was spent on repairs.

"Even if I make it clear to Your Majesty, even the eunuchs who oversee the work will not dare to stop it."

"Your Majesty has always been thrifty and would not agree to this." Zeng Jian looked straight at Yan Chengjin: "Opening a treasury is not an easy task, so be careful what you say, nephew!"

Dongnuan Pavilion,

The weather was cold, and Emperor Hongzhi rarely summoned the cabinet and the six ministries. The world was stable. There were fewer sparse reports from the Thirteen Roads in the two capitals, and more tribute matters were dealt with.

At the end of the year, Duoyi paid tribute, and as soon as the Korean envoy left, the Ryukyu envoy came to Beijing.

"Your Majesty, the Ryukyu envoys came to the capital and brought a large number of merchants with them. They want to trade with our country, so they must not be allowed to go to Liangxiang." Ma Wensheng, the Minister of Civil Affairs, looked worried.

After finally recovering a few books, Yan Chengjin put them in the library again.

Zhang Sheng stepped forward and said, "The old rule is that after the Yi people pay tribute to the pavilion, they are released once every five days. Why not send them back within these five days."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded and said: "The barbarians are paying tribute to take advantage of the opportunity to trade. How could I not know this and just turn a blind eye?"

At the door, two young eunuchs were shivering from the cold. Seeing Yan Chengjin coming, they smiled and said, "Master Yan, do you want to meet the emperor?"

"Well, please excuse me, father-in-law."

The little eunuch went in with a smile and reported: "Your Majesty, Yan Chengjin wants to see you."

"Let him in."

Several ministers from the cabinet and six ministries filed out and met Yan Chengjin at the door.

"Hello, gentlemen!"

Li Dongyang nodded and strode away.

When Ma Wensheng met Yan Chengjin, his old face smiled like a twisted face, "It's cold, wear more clothes."

"Lord Ma, too."

When he became the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Ma Wensheng's temper became extremely good.

Yan Chengjin stepped into the main hall. His Majesty was working diligently day and night. He would not let himself be lazy in such a cold weather.

"I still thought that the money from the new commercial tax would be reserved for military pay. If the land is blocked by heavy snow, Shuntian Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture will come to me again to waste it." Emperor Hongzhi sighed.

Your Majesty, there will be many more days like this in the future, just get used to it.

Emperor Hongzhi glanced at him: ‘Why did you come to me? ’

"Your Majesty, I have come to ask for wood from the Ministry of Industry." Yan Chengjin bowed and saluted.

"What is it used for?" Emperor Hongzhi asked lazily.

"Building canals."

Build you a canoe for free?

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyelids and glanced at him, then his eyes fell on the book again, casually saying: "The wood from the Ministry of Industry is not allowed to be used to repair the palace."

"But Your Majesty...according to the wood currently stored by the Ministry of Industry, if it were made into a canal, it would be worth thirteen thousand taels of silver."

Emperor Hongzhi is sitting up.

Half an hour later,

Yan Chengjin came out of the palace and went straight to the Zeng Mansion. "I have received your Majesty's oral instructions, asking Mr. Zeng to send someone to transport the wood to Liangxiang."

Zeng Jian opened his eyes wide and looked at him deeply. This boy must have a deal with His Majesty.

"I know."

Early the next morning, the Ministry of Industry sent the hoarded wood to Liangxiang one after another.

Song Jing asked the craftsman to drag him into the workshop of the factory.

To build a ship, you must first build it from the bottom of the ship, then set up ship walls on both sides of the ship bottom, and then the ship walls support the pallets above, and then build up layer by layer.

The beams and walls of the ship are made of nanmu and camphor wood, and any wood can be used for the bottom and deck of the ship.

But the mast must be made of straight fir.

This requires allocating craftsmen to handle various types of wood.

Han Simen sat in front of the shipyard gate with a sad face.

There is a wooden pavilion here. As a hostage, he can't eat rice for nothing. Since his carpentry skills are not good, Wang Busui asked him to watch the door.

Yan Chengjin wrote a letter and asked someone to send it to Qiongzhou, Hainan. There are nanmu trees in Hainan. The snow will melt in the spring next year, which will be just in time for Li Kang and Xu Jinzhong to return.

Counting the days, the corn should be in buds.

After checking the information, I will post the first and second chapters together. Sorry, it’s a little late.