My father is Jiajing

Chapter 210 Good News from Li Shizhen
Winter goes and spring comes, and another year has passed.

But spring in the north is always a little later than spring in the south.

Zhu Zaigui was wearing a black mink coat and stepped on the snow that had not yet melted. The snow that was stepped on made a "chi, chi, chi" sound, as if he was stepping on a lifeless screaming chicken.

"My Lord, why did you come here in person?"

Teng Xiang, Chen Hong, Li Fang, Zhang Tianci and others in Shunyi Industrial Park hurried to the gate and bowed to Zhu Zaigui.

Zhu Zaiqi laughed, "Why? You don't welcome me?"

Teng Xiang and the others quickly apologized again, "We dare not, it's just that the weather is too cold, and we are afraid of freezing the prince's body."

Zhu Zaigui smiled again and said, "Don't worry, I am not that weak."

When Teng Xiang and others heard Zhu Zaigui's laughter, they also laughed.

Yes, the prince is the bravest of the three armies. He can scare the Tatars to death by holding a sword on a horse. How can he be weak?

"Don't just stand there like an idiot. I came here today to see Doctor Li. He sent me a message saying that he had good news, so I didn't waste a moment and hurried over here."

Zhu Zaigui rushed to Shunyi Industrial Park this time just for Li Shizhen.

After so much hard work and research, Li Shizhen finally made a breakthrough.

So he immediately passed the good news to Zhu Zaigui.

After receiving the good news, Zhu Zaigui was also very surprised. He immediately left the palace and left the capital to come to the Shunyi Industrial Park.

Walking on the avenue in Shunyi Industrial Park, Zhu Zaihui looked at the clean road surface and orderly pedestrians in the park, and he felt extremely happy.

This is his place of hope!

"Director Zhang, are you used to being in Shunyi? Do you want to go back to the Ministry of Works? You are a hereditary fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Works, which is unique in the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Zaigui looked at Zhang Tianci who was following behind him and couldn't help but make a joke.

After hearing Zhu Zaigui's joke, Zhang Tianci quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, no, I know my own worth very well. Without your support and trust, how could I be so successful today? I really like being in Shunyi!"

Zhu Zaigui laughed again: "I'm glad you like it. After you finish supervising the engineering design of Phase III and Phase IV of Shunyi Industrial Park, I may transfer you to the capital for a while. Now you just work hard here, and I won't treat you unfairly!"

Zhang Tianci excitedly bowed to Zhu Zaigui and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After chatting with Zhang Tianci for a few words, Zhu Zaigui finally arrived at the location of the second phase.

The second phase of Shunyi Industrial Park is more like a functional area. In addition to the "Medical Institute" led by Li Shizhen, the design institute managed by Zhang Tianci is also here.

In addition to this, Zhu Zaigui also consciously placed some scientific research of an experimental nature in this area.

The purpose is to create a motivated working environment where people can compete with each other and encourage each other.

However, the foundation of some things is really too poor. The thinking of these ordinary craftsmen is too rigid, and most of them can hardly read.

Old craftsmen who have skills like to keep them secret and be wary of others, for fear that they will teach their apprentices and starve themselves to death.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui did not hold much hope for such a group of old craftsmen. He now focused on training some new craftsmen with strong hands-on skills and their own ideas. The main source of these new craftsmen is currently concentrated in the children of workers in Shunyi, Tongzhou, Huairou, Miyun and other places.

Their foundation was extremely poor, so in order to enable them to realize their value, Zhu Zaigui had to invest heavily in education costs to further educate and screen the elite talents among them.

Therefore, sometimes Zhu Zaigui couldn't help thinking, how great it would be if he could recruit a group of scholars who had nothing to do in the south but liked to invent and create!

It’s a pity that these people were from gentry families who had no worries about food and clothing, and they tinkered with these inventions mostly out of boredom after studying.

Those who really devoted themselves to research were those who were neither good enough nor bad enough to pass the imperial examinations or become Jinshi.

These people are even more difficult to deal with. Without sufficient fame and fortune as an inducement, it is impossible to trick them into coming to the capital to invent and create.

Because in their view, they make these inventions purely as a hobby, and if someone regards them as craftsmen instead of scholars, they will definitely turn hostile.

Therefore, if Zhu Zaigui wanted to win over these knowledgeable and talented people, he would have to promise them enough fame, fortune and a status that would bring honor to the family.

Otherwise, they would rather entertain themselves in their hometown in the south than leave their hometown and come to the capital to serve Zhu Zaigui.

Therefore, if Zhu Zaigui wanted to change this problem, he either had to have the power to reward and the precedents to show favor, or he had to make great efforts to fundamentally change the concept and improve the status of craftsmen.

But this is not something that can be achieved in one day.

After all, after more than two thousand years of Confucian consciousness baptism, the hierarchical order of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans has been deeply engraved in people's bones.

At this time, it is absolutely difficult to make them understand that "work" can be more valuable and have more prospects than "official".

After all, in this era, no scholar who has passed down the family tradition of farming and studying would want to leave a "working" stigma on his family.

Once a family that relies on farming and reading is branded with the stigma of "working", they may never be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives, and may even feel sorry for their ancestors.

The reason why such a distorted social phenomenon occurs is, after all, due to the fundamental ruling structure of Confucianism on the outside and Legalism on the inside.

This social model naturally divides people into different classes, and naturally links the class of "scholars" with scholars.

It’s difficult for my grandson to change the current situation!
The only way is to revolutionize yourself, but this is obviously unrealistic.

And this reform may not necessarily succeed...

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui would naturally not be stupid enough to do such a thing as "picking up the bowl to eat and putting down the bowl to curse one's mother".

After all, his current status is that of a distinguished prince second only to the emperor, and he seems to be living a good life without any grudges.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui decided to put aside those inventors who valued the reputation of "scholars" more than their lives, and wait for the right opportunity and method to get them.

At this stage, the focus is on training himself. Anyway, Zhu Zaigui can still afford to support hundreds or even thousands of young people who specialize in learning technology.

When they arrived in front of the Medical College, Li Shizhen and his disciples came out to greet them.

Li Shizhen now knew the existence of "bacteria" and "viruses", so he paid great attention to cleaning and disinfection within the Medical College. For this purpose, he even asked one of his disciples to lead the development of disinfectant.

Zhu Zaigui also strongly supported Li Shizhen's arrangement. He directly set up a special group for Li Shizhen, allowing him to concentrate on the research of disinfectants.

(End of this chapter)