The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 741 Technology Is the Primary Productive Force

Shanghai County.

The place is already ready to welcome the holy car.

Rows of officials, big and small, stood respectfully on the pier and waited. Even after half a day, they did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

This is His Majesty, the grandson is here in person.

Let alone half a day, even if you stand for a whole day, you still have to wait.

"Everyone cheer up and send a message from the front that your majesty and grandson will arrive soon."

Speaking at the forefront of these dozens of officials was the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture.

After hearing the news two days ago, he rushed over to see the saint.

And organized a large number of officials.

Although this is Shanghai County, it can be seen that the county can only be regarded as the lowest among these officials.

Basically, all the officials with a slightly higher rank nearby came.

About two more incense sticks passed.

All I could see in the distance was a ship shining with metallic light and emitting thick black smoke, traveling at a speed far exceeding normal ships.

"The iron boat is your Majesty's grandson."

"It really is an iron ship, a rare sight in this life!"

"There is no other ship in the world comparable to such a speed."

"It's covered in armor, it's on the sea, how can there be a ship that dares to confront it."

Songjiang Prefecture has a lot of water.

Therefore, all the officials here know about ships.

A large part of the tax revenue itself also comes from water transportation here, shipyards and the like, which are basically related to water transportation.

Therefore, we all know the significance of this iron ship.

On the river, when he could see clearly, Ding Haijian's speed gradually slowed down.

Many sailors began to pull the sails.

This is to turn off the steam engine, turn and dock with the power of the sail.

"Your Majesty and Your Majesty, Your Highness Grandson."

"Long live your majesty, long live your majesty, and your highness grandson!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying disembarked, many officials immediately bowed down.

"Exemption, flat body." Zhu Yuanzhang said loudly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After the process was completed, other officials were naturally not qualified to come forward to talk. Only the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture walked forward in small steps, waiting for His Majesty's order.

"I'm a little tired, let's go to rest first."

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered.

When he first got on the ship, Zhu Yuanzhang still felt very novel.

But as nearly three hours passed, no matter how fresh it was, I no longer had the energy.

The Dinghai ship is fast, but can be bumpy like other ships.

Zhu Yuanzhang is now old, and he still feels a little floating after getting off the boat.

Zhu Ying watched carefully, and hurriedly went over to support him in two steps.

"Your Majesty, a carriage is prepared ahead." The prefect of Songjiang Prefecture said respectfully.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "Take a few steps for now."

He was bumped all the way by the boat, but now he got on the carriage and continued to bump, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his bones were about to fall apart.

After all, he is already 72 this year, and his body is strong and strong, but his resilience is much weaker.

Just like that, with Zhu Ying's support, it can be regarded as a walk.

On the outside of the officials, there are a large number of soldiers.

The nearby Songjiang left guard and right guard had already been waiting in advance to escort His Majesty and grandson to safety.

Coming from the capital, there was only one Dinghai ship, so it was impossible to say that a large number of palace guards followed.

One is that there is no room for so many people, and the other is that even if you take a boat, you can't keep up.

The commanders of Songjiang's left and right guards came to see him.

Zhu Yuanzhang just waved his hand.

Zhu Ying said: "Your Majesty is a little tired, so you can accompany him and protect him."

"Follow the order."

The two commander-in-chiefs were first-rate officials in Songjiang Mansion, but to His Majesty and Taisun, they were just minions.

After walking for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang basically recovered.

In fact, like the emperor traveling, basically there is no public opinion.

The road that Zhu Yuanzhang took has been blocked by officers and soldiers, and ordinary people can only watch from afar.

As for private visits on microservices, it is basically an extremely rare thing.

The private visits of Kangxi in microservices in later generations are completely nonsense. In history, the emperors of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had no possibility of private visits in microservices.

After all, from the establishment of the Qing Dynasty to its demise, civil uprisings have never stopped.

On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang likes private visits in micro-services.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a farmer, and it is extremely easy for him to blend in with the common people. That is not acting, but his true colors.

However, the private visit of the emperor's micro-service is a very dangerous thing.

Zhu Yuanzhang would not do this easily.

The situation has improved a lot in recent years. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were still many people who were loyal to Meng Yuan.

Looking at all dynasties throughout the ages, at the time of the country's subjugation, the number of literati who committed suicide and died for the country was the largest in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.

During the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties, among the Han Jinshi, as many as [-]% died for the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties.

There are also a group of people who choose to live in seclusion and never work for Ming Dynasty.

You must know that when the establishment of the early Ming Dynasty, officials at all levels were re-determined, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have many talents, and urgently needed the assistance of scholars or Yuan Dynasty officials with management experience.

They can transform themselves from Mongolian Yuan to Ming officials.

But many people refused, and even quit their official careers for this reason.

For example, Zhang Chang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was a talent at the time, and wanted to stay with him.

But although Zhang Chang received Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, importance, and many rewards, he was not happy in his heart.

He originally came to recruit Zhu Yuanzhang to surrender, but now he is working for him.

Later Zhu Yuanzhang broke through Hangzhou and arrested a group of Mongol officials.

In order to show his tolerance, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered them to find Bei Yuan with some money and food.

First, Zhang Chang entrusted these officials to investigate whether his son in the desert was still alive, and second, he wrote a seal and asked them to help pass it on to the Northern Yuan Emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang never relaxed his surveillance of these Meng Yuan officials. Although there were no Jin Yiwei at that time, the prototype of the original team was already in place.

The memorial was also intercepted naturally.

In the memorial, there is a sentence that really hurt Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

That is to say: living in the south of the Yangtze River, thinking about the north.

This is Zhang Chang's self-proclaimed Guan Yu who was in Cao Ying and his heart was in Han, expressing his loyalty to Bei Yuan.But Zhang Chang is not Guan Yu, and Zhu Yuanzhang is not Cao Cao.

After intercepting the memorial, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately ordered that his body be cut into thousands of pieces, and then thrown into the water to feed the fish.

In addition to Zhang Chang, there are many such talents. After the Central Plains changed hands and the Ming Dynasty was established, they committed suicide one after another to protect their loyalty.

This seems odd.

What about expelling the Tartars and restoring China?
In fact, it is not surprising, because the joys and sorrows of people are not the same.

For many literati and aristocratic families, they don't have any concept of Han nationality, but only care about their own class.

In their view, loyalty to the monarch means loyalty to the monarch of their own class.

If the monarch is gone, the country will be ruined and the family will die.

In the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, a minority of Mongols ruled the majority of Han people. The Mongols themselves were nomads. After occupying the huge Central Plains, they did not form a perfect system, so the management was loose.

This allowed the landlords of the subordinate classes, the gentry, to have great autonomy.

For many county magistrates and landlords, they are the local emperors. No matter how they go to fish and meat the people, the higher-ups will not say to investigate their corruption.

In the past hundred years of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, many bundled interest groups have emerged. From top to bottom, they have become accustomed to freedom without any constraints.

This is a sense of superiority that all families, landlords, and gentry have never had in any dynasty in history, as well as that coveted power.

If life and death are truly achieved, it is completely impossible for the people at the bottom to have a place to redress their grievances.

As long as the most basic taxes arranged by the Mongolian and Yuan court are completed, you can do whatever you want locally, and the Mongolian and Yuan court will not care at all.

This is the era when landlords are masters of their own affairs.

It is conceivable that everyone originally followed the Mongolian nobles to bully and dominate the market, fish and meat the common people, domineering and domineering, without any scruples.

At this time, a man named Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly appeared, who was born as a beggar.

Leading a group of refugees to start an uprising, to overthrow the Mongolian court and break this rare time of tranquility.

How can any landlord be willing to do this? This must be suppressed, severely suppressed.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in fact, it was not the Mongolian court that attacked the uprising armies from all walks of life the most fiercely and bloodily, but the landlords and gentry and Han officials from all over the place.

These people spontaneously organize money, food, and troops to fight against the rebel army. Compared with those Mongolian lords, they are much more attentive.

This kind of behavior is similar to that after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

Those who supported the unification of the Central Plains by the nomads, whether it was the Mongol and Yuan dynasties or the Manchu and Qing dynasties, were the so-called scholars, landlords and gentry classes.

In fact, this also has a lot to do with Confucianism.

Because in Confucianism, there is only small loyalty, but no great righteousness.

What national righteousness, how can it have its own interests.

The scholar-bureaucrats of any dynasty never cared how the monarch treated the people, good or bad, what they cared about was how much power the monarch had over themselves.

Song Lian drafted the "Edict to the Central Plains" for Zhu Yuanzhang.

It is said in the article: "An ancient saying: 'Hulu has no luck for a hundred years', today's test, it is true!
However, in history, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were basically 270 years old. Even if there are some calculation differences, it is only a deviation of about ten years.

In fact, when the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, it never considered itself an invader like the Mongolian Yuan.

They never thought that they destroyed the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Ming Dynasty was overthrown by Li Zicheng, they went to the Central Plains to obey the will of the people and set things right.

This is a bit of nonsense, but it was able to rule the Central Plains for so long because the system of the Qing Dynasty almost completely inherited the system of the Ming Dynasty.

Be it Qianlong or Kangxi, what they did as monarchs was completely opposite to the characteristics of the nomadic people. Instead, they actively integrated into the Han culture and learned to care for their people like the Han emperors of the past dynasties.

For example, dividing people into acres, punishing corruption, building rivers, etc.

After the Mongols entered the Central Plains, they treated the people as cattle and sheep, and they themselves were the masters.

After the Manchus came to power, they regarded themselves as Han Chinese.

In fact, from the perspective of the feudal dynasty, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty did basically the same things as the emperors of other dynasties.

Especially in terms of system, it can be regarded as the continuation of the Ming Dynasty.

The corruption at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the corruption at the end of the Ming Dynasty were about half a pound to half a pound.

Of course, starting from Zhu Ying, the Ming Dynasty will undergo great changes.

The matter of the nomads will be completely ended in Zhu Ying's hands.

On the way, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had basically recovered, said to Zhu Ying: "This Dinghai ship is fast, but it is too restrictive."

"If there is no coal, the steam engine will not be able to move, and it is not much different from other ships."

"In the cabin, you can only put coal for a few days, how can it go to the ocean."

Thinking of what he said about expanding the territory before, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed a little.

What he lamented was not that steam ironclad ships would not be able to reach such a level in the future, but that it would be difficult to see them in his lifetime.

After all, things like steam engine reform cannot be improved in three to five years.

He asked Dasun that even if the expeditionary force brought back the tree that could shed tears, it would not be able to make a big change in the steam engine in a short time.

When Zhu Ying heard this, she felt the sigh in the old man's tone.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Ying replied: "Actually, there are supplementary methods."

"First of all, on the Daming Waterway, you can set up a lot of transfer stations like post stations, and store a large amount of coal. When the coal in the steam iron-clad ship is almost used up, you can replenish it at these transfer stations."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flashed, and he added: "Not only domestic waterways, even overseas, as long as the coal loaded by the steam ironclad ship can reach the place, the navy can first let the navy set up a transfer station. "

"This time, all the way to the past, it is also possible to make the steam iron-clad ship reach the ocean faster."

"Seconds, seconds!"

Zhu Ying smiled slightly.

He only needs a little guidance, and the old man will naturally know.

Speaking from the mouth of the old man in this way, the old man will naturally feel much happier in his heart.

In fact, speaking of it, this is similar to the gas station of later generations.

In this way, the defects of steam ironclad ships can be avoided to the greatest extent.

"Now if we want to complete this transfer station, the biggest problem is the collection of coal. From now on, we will vigorously exploit the coal deposits."

"This steam engine can't just be used on ships. It has more uses in other places."

"It is foreseeable that coal and steel will be in urgent need of our Ming Dynasty in the future."

Zhu Ying analyzed and said.

This is the inevitable result of industrial reform. The demand for steel and coal will far exceed imagination.

Like coal, if you only rely on the official, the collection efforts will inevitably be reduced.

As for steel, nowadays it is even more necessary to use the power of the entire Ming Dynasty to manufacture it.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Since it's about the country of Ming Dynasty, no matter how much the price is, it's worth it."

"After we go back, we, grandpa and grandson, will have to think about this matter, how can we make more charcoal and steel."

Zhu Ying agreed.

From now on, Daming has truly stepped into the first industrial revolution.

The foundation laid in the past few years will now help Daming climb to a higher level.

This is more than 300 years ahead of Europe.

It will truly determine the changes in the pattern of Ming leading the world.

In addition to industrial reform, ideological reform is also very important.

After all, technology is the primary productive force.

(End of this chapter)