My Daming New Empire

Ma Zhicai had a house in Yingtian Mansion, and the Ma family lived in his house temporarily, but Zhu Zhanji also allocated a piece of land by the riverside of the farm for his family as their future residence.

In Zhu Zhanji's overall plan, this farm will be a scientific and technological research center.It's just because it's too close to Ming Xiao Mausoleum to break ground at will, so if you want to build a kiln, you need to choose another site.

After Zhu Di canceled the plan to move the capital, Zhongshan stretched from the foothills on the north side of the imperial palace to the east. This piece of sunny foothills, which is about ten square kilometers, was determined to be the royal mausoleum.

In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Xu was also buried here, and Zhu Di also built a mausoleum for himself.

Because the area of ​​Zhongshan is small, the southern foot is only ten square kilometers, so the mausoleums here are not very large, which indirectly reduces the burden on the people.

More importantly, because the place is small, Zhu Zhanji once deliberately said in front of Zhu Di that all the descendants of the Zhu family would sleep in Zhongshan, so no empress and concubine of great importance could not be buried in Zhongshan.

Although he didn't mention the bad habit of canceling the burial of concubines, that's pretty much what he meant.

Since Emperor Qin, the emperor has gradually canceled the bad habit of burying concubines, but when it came to Zhu Yuanzhang, he picked it up again.

This can be said to be one of the most disgusting laws of this era. Burying a living person is definitely the greatest insult to the right to life.

Although Zhu Di didn't express his opinion, Zhu Zhanji thought it was a good thing that he could consider this matter.After staying for a few years, his health is not good, and when he gradually gains power, he will definitely abolish this law.

In addition, there is foot binding. Although the current foot binding is only to modify the shape of the foot, under the development of those disgusting rotten scholars, the foot binding eventually develops into deformity.

This is also a great injustice to women and a great waste of social productivity.

These two laws are the most disgusting of Zhu Zhanji, and they are also laws that must be amended after he takes power.

In Zhu Zhanji's plan, the planned farm will be built into multiple research institutes.Industries that meet the current technological level of Ming Dynasty will be vigorously promoted.

For example, the ones he has determined to establish include the Institute of Geography, the Institute of Mineral Resources, the Institute of Iron and Steel Casting, the Institute of Gewu Basic Research, the Institute of Machinery, the Institute of Chemistry, the Institute of Medicine, the Institute of Textile Technology, the Institute of Shipbuilding Technology, the Institute of Architecture Water Research Institute.

Although these ten research institutes cannot represent all the fields today, they can conduct research on the existing basis and use them directly.

In this era, there is no shortage of cutting-edge technology applications, but they all serve a small number of people.

When the promotion is unprofitable, the wide application of many technologies is limited to a small range.

For example, astronomy, comets, and satellites. Learning these knowledge among the people is a violation of the law and can only serve the royal family.

In addition, some technologies are deliberately monopolized.The firing of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty was divided into official kilns and private kilns, but the technology of the official kilns should not be leaked to the private kilns, and those who violated it would lose their heads.

In today's entire society, the economic operation is not holistic, but an intricate single-line economic model. This is also the biggest symptom of the Ming economy today.

It is not easy to change everything, so Zhu Zhanji just wants to use his own strength to slowly promote and gradually improve the entire economic environment.

At the end of this year, he received a dividend of about 10 taels of silver from the silver building. In addition to the less than 20 taels of silver he had left before, he planned to directly spend 5 taels for infrastructure construction, and the other more than 20 taels of silver , will be used to promote basic science.

Although the expenses are not small, he believes that as long as these research institutes have research results and then forcefully promote them, they will definitely earn more money back.

The key is still a problem, and that is to establish a mature, regulated economic environment.

"Your Highness, Song Shangshu and Wu Shangshu have arrived..."

Zhu Zhanji took Ma Zhide to check the location of the house by a small tributary of the Qinhuai River on the south side of the farm. Since he wanted to take his daughter into the house, Zhu Zhanji also made a special show of it, putting on a humble look appearance.

Hearing the guard's report, Zhu Zhanji froze for a moment. "Both Master Shangshu are here?"

"Yes, the two Shangshu adults have come together."

Just to take a look at the base where the house was built, Zhu Zhanji, the great-grandson, accompanied him, which had flattered Ma Zhicai and his brothers a long time ago.Hearing the words, he immediately said: "Your Highness, go and entertain the two adults, there is no need to waste time with us."

Zhu Zhanji looked at Ma Zhicai and said with a smile: "Deputy Ma is also a member of the Ministry of Industry, so come with me to meet the two ministers!"

Ma Zhicai looked at Zhu Zhanji in surprise, almost unable to stand up excitedly, but he was still humble. "Your Highness, is it appropriate for me to be a humble minister?"

Ma Zhicai was only a ninth rank before, and now he is only a technical officer of the seventh rank, and there is still a big gap between the two Shangshu who are the second rank.

If it weren't for Zhu Zhanji's support, he would not be qualified to speak up on this occasion.

"It's okay, just come with me."

Today's Ministry of Industry has two ministers, regardless of size, which was rare in the early Ming Dynasty.This is also because the two ministers have worked hard and are rare technical officials in the Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Di couldn't bear to treat any of them coldly.

Song Shangshu's surname is Song Mingli, and his character is Daben.Born in Yongning, Henan.In Hongwuzhong, he was promoted to Shanxi as the son of the state, and moved to the left to be the head of the household department.At the beginning of Jianwen, he was recommended to be appointed as the inspector of Shaanxi Province, and he was reinstated as Wailang, a member of the Zuoqian Criminal Department.Chengzu ascended the throne, ordered the Ministry of Rites to be in charge, and promoted the Minister of the Ministry of Rites with agility.In the second year of Yongle, he paid homage to the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.Please give the breed of cattle to Tuntian in Shandong, and invite those who are criminally unable to work and move to Beijing to work for the people, and report it.For seven years, Ding's mother was worried, and she ordered to stay to see things.

The reason why Zhu Di attaches great importance to him is because he is the most famous water conservancy expert in the court today.Almost all of the rivers dredging in the Ming Dynasty today are credited to him, and it was he who opened up the Yangtze River waterway to transport the wood out of the huge logs from Sichuan to build the Ming Palace.

And Wu Shangshu's surname is Wu Mingzhong, and his character is Sizheng.A native of Wucheng, Shandong.He is a well-known architectural expert in the Ming Dynasty. He is responsible for the restoration of the Ming Palace and the construction of cities in various places, including the mausoleum built by Zhu Di for himself and Empress Xu.

Although these two ministers are in the same position, both of them are often dispatched abroad, so in most of the year, only one minister is in Beijing.

In addition, both of them are technical officials, and they cherish each other, but there is no embarrassment between other officials, and the relationship between the two is very good.

Zhu Zhanji has always admired technical officials, but he can't get in touch with the government, so even if he knows that these two ministers are very good, he has never had any contact with them in private.

This time, he recruited a large number of manpower from the Ministry of Industry, almost taking less than half of the technical talents of the Ministry of Industry.Therefore, even if Zhu Di had already given the order, the two ministers had to ask Zhu Zhanji's plan clearly before releasing him.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji's farm construction, including the construction of the industrial zone, also needs the advice of these two ministers.

However, he never expected that these two ministers would come hand in hand today.

Obviously, the two of them also attach great importance to this opportunity to get in touch with his great-grandson openly, so they both want to meet Zhu Zhanji in person and get in touch with him up close.

If it wasn't for this reason, they would not be able to contact Zhu Zhanji at all before Zhu Di allowed Zhu Zhanji to be in charge.

Military power Zhu Di can delegate power, because as long as the people want it, the system is perfect.For any marshal, the general's right to lead troops is limited, and he can only execute the orders that should be executed.

They only have their own soldiers who can obey everything. Besides, it is difficult for even a small soldier to move.

But the government is different, because the formulation and implementation of any system affects the foundation of the country.

Sometimes even if you know that a decision is wrong, in order to maintain the face of the court, you can't change it overnight, you can only make mistakes.

A wrong decision may require countless costs to make up for.

Therefore, in any era, even if the emperor can release some military power, he will never allow people to interfere in the government.

During the New Year, the machine tool in Zhu Zhanji Farm became famous. A machine that can process wood with manpower was spread in the capital as a grandson who could borrow the power of ghosts and gods, which made people laugh and cry.

But in this way, the people are more convinced of Zhu Zhanji, the grandson, which is also a good thing.

When Zhu Zhanji returned to the farm, the two ministers and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry were surrounding the machine tool to study its principles.

Many things are just a layer of membrane. When you don't understand it, you can't think of it. When you pierce it, you will find that it is so simple.

These professionals have already figured out its principle after observing it for a while, and everyone is talking about the role this machine tool can play.

More people are more interested in bearings, because the functions of machine tools are still relatively simple, and further research is needed to be practical.

But the function of this little thing is obvious and practical.Today's Daming has countless ox carts and horse carts. Just adding this thing can increase the loading and transportation capacity by more than half, and save labor.