Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 79 The Royal Plaque, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote it himself!

"Open the sea?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned cold visibly with the naked eye.

"Why are you talking about opening the sea?"

The Ming Dynasty was a country that banned the sea. At least during the Hongwu period, there was always a sea ban that said "no one is allowed to enter the sea."

Moreover, this sea ban was personally promulgated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor, in the early years of Hongwu.

At this time, Cao Wei suddenly mentioned Kaihai, which was tantamount to questioning Zhu Yuanzhang, which made him unhappy.

Cao Wei felt the coldness in Zhu Yuanzhang's tone, so he could only bite the bullet and replied:
"Your Majesty, calm down. The grassroots are not causing trouble here for no reason, but because opening the sea does have many benefits for Daming."

"Your Majesty is worried that the expenditure of the national treasury will be unsustainable. However, huge benefits can be obtained by opening up sea trade. Your Majesty should know that our silk and porcelain from the Central Plains are hard to find in overseas countries, but at home they can only be said to be mediocre. .”

"As long as the sea trade is opened, merchants can easily make a lot of profits when they go out to sea for trade, and then the tax revenue of the imperial court will also rise with the tide. This alone will give Ming a reason to open the sea."

"Besides, in the early years, Caomin met an expert who traveled all over the world. He traveled all over the world and saw various high-yielding crops overseas. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other grains can yield up to a thousand catties per mu!"

"Such a high-yielding divine food should be introduced into the country in the Ming Dynasty and vigorously promoted to ensure that people all over the world will never suffer from hunger and cold."

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a daze.
"What did you say? A thousand catties of grain per mu?"

Cao Wei nodded confidently, "Exactly!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped talking.

If he only looked at businessmen doing business, Zhu Yuanzhang could not care less about the increased tax revenue, because he did not want to see those businessmen become bigger.

During the war, there were salt merchants who took advantage of the policy to make a lot of money and made a lot of money.

However, after these salt merchants became rich, they did not do human affairs, maliciously driving up the price of salt all day long, squeezing the hard-earned money of the people, and living a life of luxury and money.

This is still under the circumstances that Zhu Yuanzhang has been deliberately suppressing business and promoting agricultural development.

If Kaihai encourages merchants to trade at sea, will another powerful merchant group be born?

Zhu Yuanzhang came from a poor background, and he couldn't see these wealthy businessmen being proud. Even if he didn't increase the treasury tax, he definitely didn't want to see the businessmen being proud.

But food is different.

After the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to the fundamentals of agriculture, formulated national policies, established the Farming Department and the Farming Department, and encouraged the people to reclaim wasteland.

However, even with such vigorous development of agriculture, the Ming Dynasty still did not have enough food.

During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, rents and taxes were waived 49 times in different places in the Ming Dynasty, and when local disasters struck, the court provided food and organized relief 25 times.

This frequency can be said to be quite high, but the Ming Dynasty has never lacked refugees. The main reason for the problem is insufficient food!
Zhu Yuanzhang, the immediate emperor, became cautious in using troops after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and fought with Bei Yuan in Mobei for more than 20 years!

It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have enough troops to destroy Beiyuan, but that he didn't have enough food to support the soldiers of the army.

Marching and fighting are fought for money, and to put it bluntly, they are fought for food.

If Daming had enough food, Zhu Yuanzhang would never have tolerated the barbarians of Beiyuan jumping around all the time, and would have pointed at Beiyuan's lair long ago!

After all, food is the lifeblood of a country. If you have food in your hands, don’t panic!
Cao Wei said that opening up the sea could improve the economy of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about this. Anyway, life was not unbearable now. Since the founding of the country, everything in the Ming Dynasty was developing in a good direction.

But when it comes to the development of agriculture and food, Zhu Yuanzhang can't turn a blind eye.

The yield per mu is as high as a thousand catties...

This is exactly what Ming Dynasty needs!

Cao Wei could see that Zhu Yuanzhang was beginning to hesitate. He was hesitating whether to reopen the sea ban.

At this point, Cao Wei doesn't mind taking another dose of strong medicine!
"Your Majesty, that expert also told the common people that there are many gold and silver mines overseas, and those gold and silver mines have not been mined yet. There is an inexhaustible mine in the Japanese country east of the Ming Dynasty coast. The inexhaustible huge silver mine can be said to be full of gold and silver!"

After saying this, Cao Wei felt that Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is this true?"

After all, what Cao Wei said was only what he heard, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help doubting its authenticity.

But only Cao Wei knew that there was no expert outside the world, that was just an excuse for him, otherwise it would be too bizarre for him to be a farmer who had never been to sea but could know about overseas affairs.

"Your Majesty clearly knows that so far, the theoretical knowledge of gear sets and pulleys, steam engines, trains, and other strange objects developed by the grassroots were all passed down by that expert, and they have all come true to this day. It is expected that what he said about overseas affairs Things must be true and not false!”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. Cao Ying mentioned in the letter to him that Cao Wei told Cao Ying more than once about that extraterrestrial expert, and now it seems that it is probably true.

In other words, there really is a thousand kilograms of grain produced per mu overseas!There are truly inexhaustible gold and silver mines!
Zhu Yuanzhang breathed a heavy sigh of relief!In this way, he really has to reconsider the issue of opening the sea.

Those musculoskeletal grains, those inexhaustible gold mines and silver mines, in the hands of overseas barbarians are really a waste of heaven!
They should all be attributed to the Ming Dynasty!
But...how to bring up the issue of opening the sea?
Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he kept his word. He was the one who promulgated the ban on the sea in the first place. Now that he wants to open the sea again, wouldn't it be contrary to his promise?
……

It was already late at night when Cao Wei came out of the imperial city.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not explicitly state whether to open the sea, only said that he would consider it, and asked Cao Wei to start sorting out the steelmaking method tomorrow.

Cao Wei felt that Zhu Yuanzhang had already moved his heart. He wanted to open the sea. After all, there were thousands of catties of grain per mu overseas, and a large amount of gold and silver mines.

But the opening of the sea is not just talking about it. Opening the sea means that the court must disperse its energy to develop the navy and build merchant ships and warships at sea. normal.

But as the saying goes, wealth is gained through risk. If you want to obtain benefits, you must have corresponding investment output. Zhu Yuanzhang should understand this truth...

Cao Wei went south all the way out of the imperial city, and arrived at Zhengkan Village after a while.

Some time ago, in order to develop the train, Cao Wei did not go home for many days. Now that the train development has come to an end, Cao Wei has to go back and see Cao Ying.

At the door, Cao Wei patted on the door, and the next moment there was a voice from inside.

"Who?"

"It's me, Ying'er." Cao Wei answered outside the door.

The sound of footsteps came closer and closer, and the door opened.

"Father, why are you back so late today?" Cao Ying was wearing a coat and was very happy to see Cao Wei back.

Cao Wei walked in and said, "After the train is built, I can rest for two days for my father."

"The train is built? Can I go see it?" Cao Ying suddenly became interested.

"Okay, it's in the western suburbs. I'll take you there tomorrow."

After a few brief words, the father and son went back to their houses to sleep...

The next day.

[Countdown to return: 294 days, 16 hours, 24 minutes and 12 seconds]

Cao Wei opened his eyes, got up and stretched.

Hmm...I still sleep comfortably at home.

After getting up, I found that Cao Ying was already up, and even breakfast for the two of them was ready.

It seems that Cao Ying has changed a lot during the past few days when he was not at home.

"Father, practice boxing?" Cao Ying asked Cao Wei after putting away the food.

Cao Wei nodded, and the two went to the courtyard to fight a set of boxing techniques, and then began to eat.

After breakfast.

Cao Wei took Cao Ying out and headed towards the manufacturing workshop in the western suburbs.

When they came to the workshop, the craftsmen greeted Cao Wei one after another.

Because of Cao Wei, these hard-working craftsmen have also become the people who lead the court Lumi, one counts as one, and they are all grateful to Cao Wei.

"Sir, who is this young master?" Some people felt unfamiliar when they saw Cao Ying.

"This is my son, his name is Cao Ying." Cao Wei grinned and said to them.

A group of people immediately gathered around.

"It turned out to be Master Cao's son, disrespect and disrespect."

"Mr. Cao is really a good-looking talent. At first glance, he looks like a young man with aspirations."

"These eyes and nose are exactly the same as Mr. Cao's."

Cao Wei coughed and said, "Okay, you guys are busy with your business. Come two people and start practicing the train and let Ying'er take a look."

When entering the courtyard of the manufacturing workshop, Cao Ying had already seen the sleeper track laid out in a circle around the courtyard, as well as the train parked on it, and the carriages connected behind it. At this time, Cao Ying could not help but move forward and take a closer look. .

I saw Song Ping and two craftsmen put a lot of coal into the iron bucket under the boiler, lit it, and stepped aside to wait.

After a while, the water in the boiler boiled and the steam engine started to operate.

"Ah-"

"Ah-"

"Ah-"

The train began to drive slowly on the track. After a while, the speed of the train increased significantly...

This was the first time Cao Ying saw such a magical scene, and her eyes widened immediately.

This train obviously has no one to pull it, but it can run by itself.

Is it true that what my father once said is that machines replace manpower?

Cao Wei came to Cao Ying's side and said, "The three carriages at the back of the train can accommodate about [-] people. If the steam engine of the locomotive is made bigger and has stronger power, it can carry more people. Hundreds of people can go on board." It is possible for thousands of people, this is what Weifu told you before, the meaning of technological development."

Cao Ying stared at the running train in a daze.

Can a train accommodate hundreds or thousands of people?
What kind of scene would that be?
If Ming Dynasty had trains running across the country, wouldn’t people be able to go wherever they want?

"Father, can the train that can carry a thousand people really be built?"

Cao Wei nodded, his eyes were a little deep.

"It can be built if it can be built, but before that the problem of practical application of the train must be solved."

"What's the problem?" Cao Ying didn't understand the characteristics of the train yet.

Cao Wei pointed to the sleeper track laid on the ground, "You see, these sleepers are used to guide the train, but the wood is very perishable, so the subsequent train tracks need to be made of steel, and the tracks must be laid. …”

Cao Wei repeated to Cao Ying almost verbatim what he said to Zhu Yuanzhang in the palace last night.

After hearing this, Cao Ying was dumbfounded.

Then wouldn’t this train be unusable?
He looked at the train moving in the field and murmured: "What a pity..."

Cao Wei knew what Cao Ying was thinking, and said with a light smile, "What a pity."

"Ying'er, remember, except for life and death, all problems in this world have corresponding solutions. When encountering difficulties, never give up easily."

As he said that, Cao Wei crossed his arms and said in a very relaxed and casual tone: "For the problem of steel, my father has a steelmaking method to solve it. For the problem of terrain, as long as you put in enough effort and survey enough terrain , can also be resolved."

"Sooner or later, I will make this train run in Ming Dynasty!"

Cao Ying looked at Cao Wei who was looking ahead, and instantly felt that his father's figure was so stalwart.

"Father, I remember!"

After the coal was burned out and the train slowly stopped, Cao Ying went up to observe the braking mechanism, and Cao Wei explained it to him one by one.

At noon, a big pot of rice was cooked in the manufacturing workshop. It was still a pot of vegetable soup. Cao Wei and his son had big cakes and each drank a big bowl.

at this time.

There was noise outside the door.

"Master Cao, Yan Shangshu is here." A craftsman came to announce.

Hearing this, Cao Wei led Cao Ying to the door, and saw a large plaque carried by several people outside from a distance, covered with a red cloth.

Zhu Yuanzhang said yesterday that he would give a plaque of "Jinling No. [-] Manufacturing Bureau". Cao Wei did not expect that it would be delivered so soon.

Seeing Cao Wei, Yan Zhen bowed his hands to congratulate him: "Congratulations, your reputation as a manufacturing bureau will be completely established in the future."

Cao Wei grinned with joy, "Lao Yan, I need you to take more care of me in the future."

"That's nature, that's nature, hang up the plaque quickly." Yan Zhenzhi said, taking off the red cloth on the plaque behind him.

Suddenly,

On the huge plaque, there were several large gilded characters. Cao Wei narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Jin Ling, No. [-], Make, Make, Bureau!"

Yan Zhen smiled and said: "The words on this plaque were written by His Majesty himself, and then they were burnt on with gold paint."

Cao Wei almost popped his eyes out.

"This, is this your Majesty's handwriting?!"

After saying that, he stepped forward and took a closer look. Sure enough, in the lower corner, there was Zhu Yuanzhang's inscription.

Be nice!

Lao Zhu, this is so interesting!

This plaque can be passed down as a family heirloom!
"Quick, quick, hang it up for me. Once this plaque is hung, my No. [-] Manufacturing Bureau will truly deserve its name!"

Several craftsmen took the plaque carefully, moved the ladder, and hung it firmly at the door of the manufacturing bureau.

Cao Wei took a few steps back, raised his head, and nodded while looking.

From now on, Cao Wei will be considered a famous person in Yingtian.

It's just that Cao Wei has less than a year left, and I don't know if he can leave his name in the history books.

"It's a pity that I don't have a camera. I should have taken a group photo..."

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