Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 509 The first step of industrial take-off

"An Guojun Wang's trip to Shandong was inappropriate, and he punished Guo Zijian to copy the book of rites in front of the statue of Confucius for self-reflection.

Retreat! After finishing speaking, Chongzhen disregarded the officials and walked off the throne to leave, leaving only a group of ministers saluting and seeing off Liu Hongjian with a surprised expression.

Why did you act inappropriately?When we went to Shandong, didn't we tell your old man to explain it clearly?

If there is no food, but you still want to provide disaster relief, you don’t want to die, and you don’t want to rob big households, what else can you do? It’s hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!

Also, when I went to the Guozijian to copy the Book of Rites, not to mention what kind of eyes the group of judges should look at him, I vomited blood from the anger of the descendants of Confucius, and the old man felt uncomfortable seeing us, so why bother?
More importantly, the Book of Rites has [-] characters in eloquence, so cute to write [-] characters with a brush?Damn it!

After retiring from the imperial court, officials from all ministries went back to their own yamen to handle errands. Although Liu Hongjian had many official positions, he had nothing to do, and he didn't want to go to the Imperial College to code, so he had to sneak away to the Qianqing Palace to beg for mercy.

"Your Majesty, hehe, are you in good health recently?" After entering Qianqing Palace, Liu Hongjian walked all the way to Chongzhen after he saluted. Seeing Chongzhen raised his eyes, he didn't move anymore, so he had to walk forward by himself. close to.

"Don't waste time here, go to Guozijian and confess to Confucius, I won't let you!" Chongzhen said in a deep voice.

In fact, Chongzhen was not angry because Liu Hongjian robbed the landlord, but because Liu Hongjian not only played with Kong Yanzhi, but also kept Chongzhen in the dark by the way.

He is not a political idiot, so he naturally saw Kong Yanzhi's tricks of defecting, and then thought of the crime that Cao Huachun handed over, if Cao and Liu didn't have a PY deal, he wouldn't believe it if they were killed.

Chongzhen just felt uncomfortable, and he had fined Cao Huachun [-] boards just now.

If Liu Hongjian knew what Chongzhen thought in his heart, he would definitely yell that he was wronged. This was all Lao Cao's idea. Who knows that he didn't explain it to you, why did we also suffer from this unreasonable disaster.

"Your Majesty, I have other important matters to come here, and I will go to the Guozijian after I finish talking." Liu Hongjian saw that Chongzhen was not up to the trick, so he had to put this matter aside for now.

Wang Erxi came with two cups of tea, Liu Hongjian took one and put it in front of Chongzhen, and took a sip himself.

Chongzhen still looked at the memorial, but raised his eyebrows, and Liu Hongjian immediately knew that the uncle was listening seriously.

"For more than a year, I have been fighting everywhere. In addition to the bravery of the soldiers, firearms and other armaments have also made great efforts. However, the inheritance of our Ming skills depends entirely on the teaching from master to apprentice. Reasons, leading to the loss of unique knowledge.

I thought about it for a long time, and wanted to build a school in Xishan, hire craftsmen with engineering expertise as full-time professors, and train various craftsmen in batches for our Ming Dynasty. "Liu Hongjian frowned and expressed his thoughts seriously.

Most of the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were illiterate. The craftsmen trained in the form of schools, supplemented by teachers who taught and read, and some patriotic education, after completing their studies, would be the pillars of Daming industry.

For 300 years, the imperial court has not paid much attention to craftsmen, but they do not know that the role of craftsmen is no less than that of soldiers, farmers, and Confucians.

Craftsmen can develop higher-end and more powerful firearms, so that Ming soldiers can remain invincible in the face of powerful enemies.

Craftsmen can build pavilions, weave cloth and cut clothes, and only the so-called upper class can live in comfortable courtyards and wear gorgeous clothes.

Artisans make the foundation of this world, and the so-called four great inventions, which one is not the work of artisans, Bi Sheng, who improved movable type printing, was still just a small artisan in charge of printing pages before his death.

Confucianism divides people into three, six, and nine grades, and the old Zhu family put a shackle on the head of a craftsman. He has been a craftsman all his life, and has been a craftsman for generations.

"This belongs to folk studies, you can do it as you see it." Chongzhen put down the memorabilia in his hand, picked up the tea and said.

The achievements of the Ordnance Institute in recent years are obvious to all. Although Chongzhen didn't know much about engineering, he knew that Liu Hongjian would never make false claims.

"Then the proceeds from the Ordnance Institute in the second half of this year will be used to build this folk school." Liu Hongjian said happily.

In the second half of the year, the Ordnance Institute finally turned losses into profits. Only the order of the North Korean leader Li Ji made a full net profit of 20 taels, plus the profits from the glass workshop, spinning workshop, and coal business in Shanxi.

Excluding the cost of building new cement workshops and steel workshops, there are at least three to four million taels.

It doesn't cost much money to build an engineering college. After all, Ordnance has its own exclusive construction team, and all kinds of craftsmen get together, and the efficiency is high.

The real money is spent after the college is built.

Craftsman is an inferior profession, and only poor families with no power or influence, or generations of craftsmen have no choice but to follow it.

The common people are already poor and can't get enough to eat. How can they have extra money to go to school?

And who in a rich family would learn such a lowly profession, otherwise Fang Xing wouldn't be angry because his son was obsessed with engineering.

According to Liu Hongjian's plan, in order to encourage engineering studies, this college will be open to males of the right age in common people's homes free of charge.

That is to say, from the construction of the college, to the hiring of instructors, to recruiting students, food, drink, lodging, and the consumption and provision of various materials, all were paid for by Liu Hongjian himself.

In such a calculation, Liu Hongjian himself did not know exactly how much money would be spent.

But it is imminent to improve the status of craftsmen. The take-off of industry requires craftsmen, so craftsmen must rise up. For this reason, it is worth spending more money.

"Well, if you have any difficulties, you can ask me to solve them." Chongzhen didn't understand, but out of trust, he always said this to Liu Hongjian's suggestions.

In a word, he is not short of money now.

Liu Hongjian liked the uncle. He first helped the common people, and then he helped Daming, and this was closely related to Chongzhen, and the three did not conflict.

His heart to serve the country with all his strength, finally has the support of the supreme ruler of the royal family, unlike other traversers who serve the country, but in the end they have to run into walls everywhere.

"Hehe, the minister is going to discuss this matter." Liu Hongjian stood up and planned to get out of the way.

"Well, let's go." Chongzhen said almost subconsciously, completely forgetting what he said just now.

"The Imperial Prison..."

"The Book of Rites can be waived, let's go to the Guozijian to burn incense sticks for Sage Kong!" Chongzhen finally let go.

The idea of ​​governing the country with Confucianism is deeply rooted in Chongzhen's heart, which has blasphemed the sage of Confucius. Chongzhen is still worried that this man will go astray.

Being too deviant is always bad, if he hadn't had to count on Liu Hongjian for too many things, he would really have asked this man to go to the Imperial College to study Confucian classics.

"That's great! I obey the order!" Liu Hongjian almost ran out of the Qianqing Palace as if he had been pardoned.

Now he really wanted to rush to the ordnance workshop and tell Song Yingxing and other craftsmen of the ordnance workshop the good news.

The Institute of Engineering will be the first step in the rise of artisans, and this is just the beginning...

　Thanks to book friends The Forgotten Sea, and Qianshang who moved the train station here, thank you for your love!Thanks!

　　
　
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