Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 178 This Is Life
In the 11th year of Hongwu, at the beginning of January.

Snowflakes are fluttering, the north wind is blowing, and the world is vast.

And among the white clothes, a young man in a python robe, with a dangling little figure, was standing in the snow, looking at the little snowman in front of him.

"Xiaozhu booger, isn't the snowman that Dad made looks good?"

Zhu Qi looked at his son Zhu Jixu who was dangling in front of him, and asked.

Little Zhu Jixi naturally didn't understand the question of whether the snowman was good-looking or not, after all he was only about eleven months old.

Just learning to stand up, Zhu Qi took him out for a walk.

Of course, Zhu Qi would not be like those wolf dads on the Internet who would not dress his son, but his son was dressed quite warmly.

And after Zhu Qi returned to Yingtian Mansion from Guangdong and Guangxi, he managed to attend the Great Court Meeting in time, and then took his wife and children to warm up the kang in the palace, having fun every day.

People say that there are three women in one play, since Zhu Qi brought Bai Tang Yu'er and Lan Xian'er back.

The two of them and Xu Miaoyun, these three women really formed a drama.

But this drama is not a palace fight drama, but a drama of sisterly love.

Zhu Qi has made a lot of fun things, such as novels, comics, board games and so on.

And women are naturally interested in these things, especially board games.

For all three girls, the attraction is quite large.

These three women played board games together every day and every night, eating, drinking and having fun, and playing everywhere. On the contrary, Zhu Qi, a big man, was left alone, and he was still taking the baby with him every day.

Today is not the day to take little Zhu Jixi out for a stroll.

I said, can you just play with me?
As for the nickname "Little Pig Booger", it was naturally Zhu Qi who just helped him get it.

What's the point of having a baby if it's not for fun?

But after playing with making snowmen for a while, little Zhu Jixi wanted to hug again.

For Zhu Qi, the father whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he obviously still had a very affectionate feeling.

Although it was a little strange at first, after getting along for a day or two, you can hold him in your arms and rub your face without refusing.

Maybe this is blood relationship!

Zhu Qi naturally liked his son very much. In his previous life, he had never had a girlfriend. In this life, he just married a wife, and married three together.

The children are already 11 months old, and it will be fine to use soy sauce in a year or two.

This life is really incomparable.

However, although Zhu Qi really wanted to live a leisurely life, those officials obviously didn't want him to relax. The first thing was the review and calculation of tariffs.

I am responsible for this matter, and I can't just act as a shopkeeper. It is necessary to go to the government office to handle it every day.

In addition, even the research institute also needs various materials.

As I said before, Zhu Yuanzhang actually knew what Zhu Qi was doing.

As for the research institute, Zhu Qi had already shared the research results with Zhu Yuanzhang and Prince Zhu Biao.

After all, there is nothing to hide, so why hide it?Don't you want to rebel yourself?
As for Zhu Qi's inventions and creations, Zhu Yuanzhang has already attracted enough attention.

Leaving aside the importance of antibiotics and cement, even the ongoing research on gunpowder and firearms in the research institute is enough to attract attention.

For example, landmines, the principle is very simple, but not many people can think of it, and Zhu Qi just told the craftsmen about this principle, and then asked the craftsmen to realize the landmines.

When Zhu Qi was running around outside, these craftsmen had already carried out many experiments, and Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew the results of these experiments. Needless to say, the horror of landmines.

After the ambush in advance, as long as the enemy can be led into the trap, there is no need to send troops to besiege, and the use of landmines alone is enough to blow the enemy to pieces.

Lethality is one aspect, and the scene of damage caused by explosives is very bloody and violent.

These bloody and violent scenes can crush the enemy's will to fight in an instant.

In a war, this collapse of will will cause a chain reaction.

Otherwise, how can we say that fighting in ancient times was all about morale?
In addition to landmines, the burst of fire is also the most important experimental result of Zhu Yuanzhang.

If this burst of firecrackers can be tested successfully, then there is no need to say much about the improvement of military strength.

The current gunpowder needs to be filled once a bullet is fired, and all kinds of tools are used, which is very troublesome, and there is also the worry that the gunpowder will be damp and unable to fire after it rains.

But Zhu Qi's continuous fire gun does not have most of these troubles.

And in terms of power, it is not comparable to ordinary firecrackers.

In addition, rifled artillery is also a big killer for siege.

Of course, this kind of artillery is very particular about the crafting materials. The inferior metal produced by the current assembly line must not be satisfied. The hundred-refined steel that must be hammered manually can withstand the power of gunpowder.

This kind of artillery is not only powerful, but also has a range that is more than double that of existing artillery.

What is this concept?

If there are ten such artillery pieces in the army, before the enemy sees you, they will directly fire a round of volleys, directly blinding the enemy.

Soldiers may not be afraid of death, but it is this kind of unexplained death that they are afraid of.

Who wants to fight such a battle when they die suddenly without even seeing the enemy?

However, these craftsmen also have only a half-knowledge of these things, and they only took the blueprints given by Liao King Zhu Qi.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very interested in these things, and wanted them to be included in the army as soon as possible, so he could only urge Zhu Qi to work.

But what the hell does Zhu Qi know?
He just gave the craftsmen directly based on the drawings in his computer,

He doesn't know anything about these things, but these things don't make sense to Zhu Yuanzhang, so he can only bite the bullet and go to the craftsmen once a day in a daze to see the craftsmen at work.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang's side, of course, it is prevaricated by saying that research takes time, there is no way, please don't urge.

I don't know when they will research these things out.

Zhu Qi was like this, fishing every day, watching those craftsmen banging and banging over there.

I don't know if it's because I looked at them, but it really produced results soon.

It's a rifled cannon.

I said this thing before, if it can be made, the range is very terrifying, and those craftsmen took more than half a month.

It can be regarded as hammering with the hammer in my hand, and it was created for it.

Naturally, there is no need to tell the outside world about the hardships involved. It is not something ordinary people can do to master this kind of steel-making process.

They also finally came up with this rifled cannon after countless failed attempts.

Now that the weapon is produced, it is natural to test it first. Soon, the cannon was dragged to the hillside outside Yingtian Mansion for testing.

Facts have proved that artillery with rifling is indeed different in power, and the range of Fanxiang is also theoretically similar.

After seeing the range and power of this artillery, not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but also the whole person was dumbfounded.

The accompanying civil servants and military generals also had a confused expression on their faces. Have they ever seen such a terrifying artillery?

If the Ming army had such artillery before, it would be faster to conquer the world, right?

Not to mention the siege battle, just pull the artillery, pull a few more doors, and slam it against the city wall.

It doesn't matter what famous general you are, you will suffer if you defend the city here.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy, he not only rewarded Zhu Qi with a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.

And even the craftsmen under him were rewarded, and besides that, he personally named the cannon—Ming Zun Run!

This name is really powerful and domineering, and Zhu Qi also likes and is pleased with this cannon.

The only problem is that there is no way to mass-produce it.

Even with Zhu Qi's indigenous steelmaking method, the steel produced by the indigenous method cannot withstand such a powerful artillery.

However, those firecrackers made of steel made by local methods are more than enough.

Firecrackers like the small pistol in Zhu Qi's hand can now be mass-produced on a small scale.

It's not that they don't want to mass-produce on a large scale. The main reason is that the steel produced by indigenous steelmaking methods is really limited. The output of coal is too low on the one hand, and the raw materials of minerals have too many impurities on the other hand.

Now sieving is also done manually, and most of the time it depends on the vision of the sifter?

Not to mention that when refining steel, there is no professional machine to control the temperature. It all depends on the feeling and experience of the steelmaking master to judge. Naturally, the quality of the steel produced in this way cannot be guaranteed, and every furnace is the same.

The waste and scrap steel rate generated will naturally be much higher.

However, even so, the steel produced is much higher than the previous output.

It couldn't be better news for Zhu Yuanzhang. Although Zhu Qi saw some flaws, they were within acceptable limits.

Now Daming's technology tree has far surpassed those surrounding countries.

And if you want to go further, you can't just rely on craftsmen to do things, you must carry out scientific and systematic reforms in teaching and education.

Although Guozijian has taken the first step, it is not realistic to change Guozijian's admiration and unshakable status for the Four Books and Five Classics at once.

Even with Zhu Qi's psychology and mathematics being popular in the Imperial College.

But it is still not out of the scope of Confucianism.

And the reform Zhu Qi wanted didn't stop there.

It is the reform of natural science from beginning to end, which is even more systematic and scientific than those universities in the West.

For example, from elementary school to receive education in natural sciences.

But it is absolutely impossible for this kind of thing to be carried out in Yingtian Mansion.

The foundation of a feudal dynasty is these scholars. If you tell these scholars now that the Four Books and Five Classics you read in the past are no longer useful, and you need to learn new things, the world will definitely be in chaos.

So if you want to realize such a thing, you can only start it after you return to Liaodong.

Because of this, Zhu Xu did not tell Zhu Yuanzhang about these things, even if he did, it would be useless, and he might be criticized.

Don't look at Zhu Yuanzhang's mercilessness in killing those corrupt officials, but Zhu Yuanzhang is still a feudal emperor in essence.

As a feudal emperor, he naturally needs to maintain the rule of his own dynasty, and to maintain rule, he needs the help of Confucianism.

What could be more stable than Confucianism?
Now Zhu Qi can be regarded as resigned to his fate, and he no longer has the idea of ​​not wanting to go to Liaodong as before.

He has already seen through that he is all credit for this, if he does not go to Liaodong, no one will go, Zhu Yuanzhang will never let himself be a happy prince in Yingtianfu.

Since hiding is impossible, let's face it honestly. Zhu Qi has even begun to plan how to build his palace after arriving in Liaodong.

As for the station, it must be Liaoyang.

The entire Liaodong Peninsula is also Liaoyang City, which is the most suitable place for Zhu Qi to live in. After all, Liaoyang is the largest, and the location is also excellent. There are city guards in the front and back, and the estuary is next to it. It can be said that it is a very suitable place for development. .

The only problem is that it's too cold in there.

And to completely solve the cold problem, the current cold protection alone may not be enough, Zhu Qi misses his cotton quilt very much.

Cotton, on the other hand, was not cultivated on a large scale until the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

But now there is cotton, and it has been planted in the Ming Dynasty, but it has not been widely promoted.

Naturally, Zhu Qi did not recommend using these cottons to promote and plant them in Liaodong, and the land in Liaodong is actually very suitable for growing cotton. If you take those small rice and wheat, it may not be easy to survive.

But there are still some crops in Liaodong that are very suitable, first of all, potatoes and corn, these two are really a panacea.

Potatoes and corn can grow almost anywhere they can be grown, and they also provide rich nutrition and satiety.

It can be said that it is a necessary artifact for raising a large population, but it is a pity that this thing is still in America.

Although Wang Chuanqi has already led the fleet to explore the Americas, but there is no news about Wang Chuanqi's third expedition.

I don't know if he has arrived, but he has already touched the strait of the Arctic Circle. I believe it is only a matter of time before he goes to America.

Even if you wait until winter, you should be able to get there if you walk over the bungalow in severe cold weather, right?
The only thing to worry about is to hope that they will have a safe and smooth journey, and then bring back all the seeds and information they need, Zhu Qixin thought inwardly.

As for when to go to Liaodong, it depends on how Zhu Yuanzhang arranged the time?

But looking at it now, the time to go to Liaodong is obviously not very urgent. For Zhu Qi, now is the time to enjoy life.

Looking at the son who was still shaking and learning to walk in front of him.

Zhu Qi's heart warmed up, this is life.

(End of this chapter)