Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 19 Rename
"At this moment, great changes are coming. We are already on the cusp of the storm. Now, it is our turn to risk our lives for ourselves and for future generations!"

"Everyone, this is the time for us to work hard, and there must be no slacking off."

"Don't ever regret it when your descendants ask you, grandpa, why you didn't work hard back then!"

"At that time, even if you regret it, it will be too late!"

Pan Dazhu loudly encouraged his subordinates.

The eleven people under him all turned red and excited by his words.

At this time, they already had pictures in their minds.

He is training hard now and will make great contributions to the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield in the future. It is logical that he will become a hero of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

I am risking my life to fight now, in exchange for the opportunity that my children and grandchildren will have no worries about food and drink and enjoy glory and wealth when they are born in the future.

For the sake of future generations, they must fight hard!
Seeing this, Pan Dazhu nodded with satisfaction.

Of course, with Pan Dazhu's level of education, he would definitely not be able to speak to such a level.

The speech he is giving to his subordinates actually comes from Zhu Jingan's teachings.

Generally speaking, Zhu Jingan gave the speech to the officers several times first, and then asked the officers to repeat it to the soldiers after the officers had memorized it.

In an era without electric speakers, if you wanted to give a speech to the people below, you could only use this stupid method.

Zhu Jingan could only use such stupid methods to boost the morale of the Ming army and conduct ideological propaganda, or brainwashing, for the soldiers of the Ming army.

It is very clear that when Zhu Jingan carried out ideological propaganda, the central idea he showed to the Ming army was not to overthrow the oppressors above everyone and create a fair and just new world.

Rather, he wanted to lead them to overthrow the Manchus, the damn oppressor, and then replace them with them.

That’s probably what Qi means!
It sounds reactionary, and it is.

But it definitely works!
At the very least, the ideological propaganda work carried out over several consecutive days is very effective.

The morale of the Ming army has always been maintained quite well.

The training is also quite hard!

People are selfish. You say you want to fight for the people of the world, but who are the people of the world? Why should I go to the battlefield to fight for a group of strangers?

People in this era are not so aware!

Only when they are fighting for their own glory and wealth, and have real interests in front of them, will they have the motivation to fight.

this is the truth!
Everything, in the final analysis, is profit.

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The Ming army is stepping up its formation and training, and is receiving ideological education while training.

The scale of the camp also began to gradually expand.

Simple thatched houses were built one after another, and a wooden fence was erected around the camp.

Although such a wooden fence will most likely be useless after the war breaks out, it can give people a certain amount of psychological comfort.

Talk is better than nothing!
The iron-smelting craftsmen in the mine were arranged to continue production and could not stop the iron-smelting furnace and continue to smelt iron ore into iron materials.

Whether the steel produced is used to make weapons, or whether it is transported out of the mountains and sold for various materials, it is definitely more valuable than a pile of ore.

At the same time, Zhu Jingan also began to instruct the craftsmen to try to build a small blast furnace for iron-making to test the technology of blast furnace iron-making.

Although small blast furnaces have many shortcomings such as high energy consumption, serious pollution, and poor quality of the iron produced.

But its advantages are equally obvious, that is, large output and high production efficiency.In this era, it can definitely be regarded as a black technology.

In ancient China, iron materials were a hot commodity. As long as they could be produced, there was no need to worry about selling them even if they were of poor quality.

Zhu Jingan is now preparing to operate the iron business as a major financial source for Ming Dynasty.

Although there are no coal mines in the Bauhinia Mountains and there is no way to make coke, there is no shortage of trees. It is the same with charcoal for iron making.

In southern China at this time, the use of charcoal to make iron was still the mainstream.

Although the technology of coke ironmaking was invented as early as the middle Ming Dynasty, 300 years before the British.

However, in China, the technology of coke ironmaking is only popular in the north where forest resources are scarce and coal resources are abundant.

The South, which has no shortage of forest resources, is still accustomed to using charcoal to make iron until now!

Whether it is Fujian Iron or Yue Iron in Guangdong, charcoal is used in smelting.

Therefore, why does Zhu Jingan have to go to the coal mine to get coke instead of using charcoal?
Do you think you haven't done enough recently and want to put more burdens on yourself?
As for where Zhu Jingan learned the technology of building small blast furnaces?
Needless to say, of course the famous ex-girlfriend technical school!

Under Zhu Jingan's guidance, a simple small blast furnace was built in just three or two days.

Zhu Jingan personally lit the first fire of the small blast furnace.

After the furnace warmed up, the workers began to pour the crushed iron ore, limestone and other materials into the silo.

As the small blast furnace heats up, the materials in the silo begin to gradually melt.

It becomes semi-solidified, similar to magma!
A wave of overwhelming heat hits my face!

But it will take some time before the iron material comes out of the furnace.

Zhu Jingan was not prepared to stay in front of the stove all the time.

Narrowing his eyes, he opened his mouth and gave instructions.

"Let people keep an eye on the stove and remember to pay attention to safety. I will go to the council hall. If anything happens, I will send someone to report to the council hall."

After giving instructions here, Zhu Jingan took two personal guards and strode towards the meeting hall in the camp.

Zhu Guochang just sent someone to convey an order to Zhu Jingan to go to the council hall as soon as possible to discuss matters.

As soon as Zhu Jingan finished handling the matters at hand, he set off without stopping.

It is said to be a meeting hall, but in fact it is just a rammed earth room.

It used to be the canteen where the mine supervisors gathered to eat every day.

After the Ming army captured the mine, they turned the dining hall into a meeting hall and put tables and chairs in the hall for discussion.

When Zhu Jingan arrived at the meeting hall, he saw Zhu Guochang sitting at the top, still wearing a costume.

Obviously, the embroidered ladies who belong to his prison haven't been kicked out yet.

"My son, please see my father!"

Zhu Jingan came to Zhu Guochang and bowed down.

After Zhu Guochang raised his troops, he called himself the Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty. After arriving at the mine, he racked his brains to come up with the title of King Xing.

Therefore, the current official full name for Zhu Guochang should actually be "Zhu Jianzhuo, the king of the Ming Dynasty who oversaw the country's prosperity."

Yes, in order to prove his legitimacy, Zhu Guochang has chosen to give up his pseudonym and changed his name back to his real name Zhu Jianzhuo, no longer deliberately hiding his identity.

(End of this chapter)