Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 107

Cinchona cream, as the name suggests, is derived from the alkaloids on the cinchona tree.

Zhu Youjian knows about the cinchona tree, which is a tropical plant and is more common in South America and India.

But Zhu Youjian naturally wouldn't let Xu Wenjue go so far to find the cinchona tree.

Daming himself has a tropical rainforest!

That is Xishuangbanna in the south of Yunnan.

Zhu Youjian doesn't know if it is called Xishuangbanna now.

Zhu Youjian only knows that Daming currently has relatively strong control over Yunnan.

The ancestor of the Mu family in Yunnan is the descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son Mu Ying.

As Mu Ying and Xu Da were both relatives of the Ming Dynasty, it would not be difficult for Xu Wenjue to go to Yunnan to find cinchona trees.

However, what made Zhu Youjian overjoyed was that.

Zhu Youjian actually found this species in the garden of Xu Wenjue's Wei Guogong Mansion.

According to Xu Wenjue, this is because the Mu family in Yunnan liked this kind of plant as a landscape plant and cultivated it in the garden. According to the local people in Yunnan, this kind of plant does have the medicinal effect of reducing fever.

Therefore, after the Mu family learned about it, the Xu family also imported some from Yunnan.

"Your Majesty said that this thing is indeed from Yunnan, but now the scholar-bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River will plant this thing. Some of these things are as tall as pine, and some are as short as shrubs. I asked someone to take the bark and smash it. In other words, wouldn’t it be better to grind it into powder first, give some to Duke Bi, and then find a way to make the Cinchona cream that His Majesty mentioned?”

What Xu Wenjue said, Zhu Youjian also agreed very much. He originally wanted someone to use some Artemisia annua to rescue Bi Maokang, but now that there is cinchona tree, it is naturally better: "Very well, it seems that you, Wei Guogong, are not all It’s useless, I know how to draw inferences from one instance.”

Zhu Youjian handed over the task of developing Cinchona Cream to Xu Wenjue.

As the emperor, he can only send out all the tasks as much as possible. It is impossible for him to conduct various experiments by himself like the protagonists in other time travel novels.

In that case, he would be too busy and exhausted.

Zhu Youjian didn't know if Bi Maokang's illness would be cured.

But the manufacture of firearms in the Ming Dynasty cannot be delayed.

"Your Majesty, this servant remembers that you once said that Xiyangfan was ahead of us when you said that the firearms were on the way. Now that Bi Gong is suffering from an illness, we might as well let Xiyangfan make guns for us. Have you forgotten that there is Tang Ruowang in the Qin Tianjian, your majesty There is a special order for Mr. Fan Ge to take him to the south."

When Wang Chengen reminded him, Zhu Youjian remembered that there was a Westerner among the officials who went south with him.

"Thanks to Aiqing's reminder, I almost forgot about this person, so I immediately called him to the ordnance station to see me!"

After Zhu Youjian said it, he ordered to drive the ordnance station.

Coincidentally at this time, Wu Mengming, the commander of Jinyiwei, also came to Zhu Youjian and replied that the [-] Portuguese soldiers hired from Macau, that is, the Frangji, also arrived in Nanjing after half a month.

At this time in Ming Dynasty, most of them couldn't tell the difference between Portugal and Spain. Of course, Portugal and Spain in this era were not separated, and they were all in harmony with each other.

When it comes to Frangji, in addition to Flangji cannon, it is natural not to mention Macau.

As the emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian naturally couldn't just sit back and watch the territory of Ming Dynasty be taken over by outsiders.

Fortunately, the current ownership of Macau is still vague, and Zhu Youjian is too busy dealing with the Tartars to pursue this.

What's more, Taiwan is still controlled by the red ghost, that is, the Netherlands, and Zhu Youjian is beyond his reach at this time.

Although he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his control over the sea is not as good as that of the Zheng family.

At this time, the Daming Ordnance Institute was located in the lower reaches of the Qinhuai River, close to the outer city and outside the inner city.

Zhu Youjian didn't dare to directly set up the ordnance station outside the city. After all, no one knows whether Nanjing will be attacked by Tartars in the future.

The Ordnance Institute is an important place for the manufacture of military equipment, just like a flower girl can't go out of the boudoir and let people look at it casually, and people can't get close at will.

Zhu Youjian has even decreed to set this place as a forbidden area.

Except for the technical craftsmen and the officials of the ordnance department in charge of the industry, they all had to enter here, and the Second Army of the Great Ming Guards also directly stationed a battalion here.

Xu Shilin, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was not dismissed by Zhu Youjian in the end. At this time, he was in charge of the construction of the building complex of the Daming Ordnance Institute.

Song Yingxing, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, was responsible for the re-recording and distribution of more than [-] craftsmen and grassroots officials such as the former Military Weapons Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and the Neifu Military Bureau.

Because the production workshops of each bureau of the Ordnance Institute are still being rebuilt, like the Huai'an Lecture Hall, only some blue-tiled bungalows can be built as temporary workshops.

At present, the Daming Ordnance Institute has five bureaus and one factory according to Zhu Youjian's preliminary determination, namely the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau, the Fire Gun Bureau, the Artillery Bureau, the Gunpowder Bureau, and the Wang Gong Factory.

Song Yingxing, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, who is currently in charge of the management of the Ordnance Institute, mainly focuses on the remanufacturing and assembly of iron and steel equipment in the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau.

The other four bureaus and Wang Gongchang are still in a state of confusion.

Only more than [-] craftsmen were re-selected.

According to Song Yingxing's report, there were a total of 42 official artisans in the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the craftsmen who participated in iron making and iron making accounted for about half, and the craftsmen who were proficient in using serial frying to make steel were more than [-].

Song Yingxing divided them into 20 groups, with about [-] people in each group, and selected a skilled person as the group leader and two deputy group leaders.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian also promised that the team leader will enjoy the treatment of a seventh-rank official, the deputy team leader will enjoy the treatment of the eighth-rank official, and the skilled craftsmen will be divided into grades according to their skill level. High-quality treatment, apprentices are not popular.

In this way, it is equivalent to Zhu Youjian giving the craftsmen official titles, which is equivalent to improving their political status and changing the low treatment of handicraftsmen.

In addition, Zhu Youjian also stated that craftsmen were allowed to leave the imperial armory to find their own way out, while those who chose to stay in their jobs also adopted the employment system and had the right to leave.

This is not considered to restrict the personal freedom of the craftsmen, but Zhu Youjian gave the craftsmen of the Ordnance Institute the status of origin, and not many craftsmen wanted to leave.

What's more, Zhu Youjian has decreed to abolish the low-level nationality system, and the imperial examination process has no threshold for birth control, and even does not limit nationality.

The craftsmen are naturally more willing to stay in the armory than to go back to be ordinary people.

Next, the Fire Gun Bureau accounted for [-] craftsmen, but Song Yingxing hadn't had time to group them into specific groups. This was related to the fact that the manufacturing direction of large Ming firearms was too complicated.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were a variety of firearms such as bird guns, three-eyed guns, Lumi guns, and kidnapper guns.

Zhu Youjian has already decided to change the way of thinking about the development of Daming firearms. From development to production, it is necessary to clarify what firearms the current Daming army will mainly equip, and then the main direction of the development of firearms.

Therefore, when he came to the armory, he first came to the fire gun bureau.

At this time, three hundred Portuguese soldiers and Tang Ruowang also arrived here.

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