Daming: I help my wife be the empress

In the second year of Zhaowu, June [-]st.

On the outskirts of Nanjing, Longjiang Shipyard.

Today, the first thousand-material iron-clad warship built by Longjiang Shipyard and Nanjing Steamship Manufacturing Bureau was launched. Zhu Yuxi came here to show the importance she attaches to the warship and also to know the situation of the warship personally.

Accompanying him were Li Yan, Governor of the Military Affairs Academy, Zhu Dadian, Ma Ke, Ye Tinggui, Assistant Directors, Liu Linchang, Minister of Industry, and Song Yingxing, doctor of the Ministry of Industry.

Speaking of which, since Auntie Zhu registered last year, she has set up many military factories and bureaus inside and outside Nanjing, and Longjiang Shipyard has been allocated funds to build warships with more than a thousand materials.

After the Nanjing Steamship Manufacturing Bureau was established, there was another task of cooperating with it to manufacture iron-clad warships.

With the full support of the imperial court and the order to build warships, the Longjiang Shipyard itself has a good foundation. In addition, the Zheng family in Fujian has supported a group of skilled craftsmen who manufacture seagoing ships. It stands to reason that the progress is quite fast.

It seems a little slow to build an ironclad battleship after nearly a year.

After Aimee Zhu understood the details, she knew that the speed was already quite fast.

First of all, warships with more than a thousand materials must have prepared wood.Longjiang Shipyard is ordered to build ships. Although it can transport good timber from all over the country, it will take time to transport it.

In addition, it is not that simple to find a thousand-material iron-clad warship—although Daming has mastered the technology of wrapping steel plates on a four-hundred-material warship, when it is the turn of a thousand-material ship, many aspects of technology need to be upgraded, and even a small part of the material is not available. Need to upgrade.

Material is a commonly used unit in China's ancient shipbuilding industry. Although it originally came from the amount of wood used in shipbuilding, it represented the volume of the ship in the Ming Dynasty.

According to the research of later generations, in conversion, one ship of the Ming Dynasty is equal to about 0.33 tons of displacement, so the actual displacement of a thousand-material warship is about 330 tons.

Due to design problems and various needs, the ironclad warship that is being launched has actually reached more than 1000 materials and a displacement of nearly 400 tons.

This is already quite large for a warship at this time.

To equip such a large warship with steel armor, there are not many problems that need to be faced.

Therefore, even with the technical support of Aimee Zhu's descendants, it took Longjiang Shipyard and Nanjing Steamship Manufacturing Bureau nearly a year of hard work before it was half successful.

Why do you say semi-successful?

Because the steam power on this iron-clad warship is not up to standard—for a thousand-material warship, whether it is a propeller or a steam engine, the problems it needs to face are bigger.

Among them, the problem of the steam engine has been solved, but the related problems such as propeller material and casting have not been solved.

In this way, it is difficult for the steam propeller to become the first power of this warship.

In the end, the craftsmen of the shipyard could only make the steam engine and the propeller the auxiliary power, with the sail as the first power.

As a "hybrid" iron-clad warship, although its navigation is not as good as the ideal thousand-material iron-clad warship, it is still quite strong compared to the thousand-material sail warship of this era.

Therefore, Zhu Wei was very happy to watch the launching of this warship today.

In the end, the ship was named "Jinling", and it was called the battleship Jinling.

He also ordered that before the breakthrough in propeller technology, starting from the Qinglong Camp of the Royal Forest Army, each town of the navy will be equipped with one ship according to the serial number of each town of the navy. …

At the same time, the construction of more than [-] sailing warships dedicated to naval warfare began.He also encouraged the various towns of the Navy to train troops, and strive to upgrade the Daming Navy to the Daming Navy as soon as possible.

This cheered up some navy generals who seemed to have nothing to do after the Northern Expedition...
As soon as Aimee Zhu returned to the Forbidden City, Yu Weixin, the director of the Telecommunications Department, sent a piece of good news.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the radio station of Guangdong Lifu Station that Ding Kuichu's corruption case has been basically investigated, and the main persons involved in the case have been taken down. At present, only a small number of insignificant remnants are still being hunted down."

After hearing this, Auntie Zhu couldn't help but her eyes lit up, and she immediately took the telegram from her hand.

This telegram was jointly submitted by Li Yutian, Xu Zhihu, the governor of Jinyiwei, and Jin Bao, the imperial envoy of the Bureau of Special Affairs.

Its words are quite brief, but its length is not short. It almost explains the general process of investigating and handling the entire case, as well as the results of the interrogation.

Because of the relevant records in later history, Zhu Wei was more subconscious. The property confiscated from Ding Kuichu’s house——When Ding Kuichu took office, his hometown Guide Mansion in Henan had already fallen, so Ding Kuichu brought his family and some of his wealth to Guangdong. Can check its property in Guangdong.

"20 million taels of gold and 280 million taels of silver."

This seems to be more than recorded in later history.

Auntie Zhu was taken aback.

Hao Guangming also noticed this, thought for a while, and explained: "In the relevant historical records of later generations, Ding Kuichu entered Guangdong when the Qing soldiers entered Guangdong, and fled in a hurry, bringing hundreds of ships of property with him.

It is conceivable that in that case, it would be difficult for him to withdraw all the gold and silver, and most of the real estate would not be able to be sold.

Although he has been an official in Guangdong for nearly a year shorter than in history, his power is not that great.But when the environment stabilizes, maybe there are more ways for him to get money?
When Jin Yiwei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate searched his property, they would habitually dig three feet into the ground and copy it clean.In this way, it is not surprising that more copies have been copied than historical records. "

Is that right?

Auntie Zhu felt that Hao Guangming's explanation seemed to make sense.

In fact, this issue is not important. The important thing is that this time not only hosted a corrupt and incompetent country, but also increased revenue for the national treasury.

Simply delicious.

Of course, if other people who colluded with Ding Kuichu and broke the law are added, the money confiscated this time will be even more.

Compared with Shanxi merchants, they are certainly far inferior, and their number is much smaller, but combined, the amount of gold and silver they obtained still reached more than 800 million taels.

If you add all kinds of jewelry and fixed property, it will definitely break tens of millions!

'It's a pity that this kind of thing doesn't happen often. '

Auntie Zhu sighed inwardly, and reminded herself secretly.

She had heard from Hao Guangming that some emperors kept corrupt officials on purpose, just like raising pigs, and when the "pigs" became fat, they "killed the pigs for their meat", or left them for their sons.

For example, bring clean a certain old man.

This kind of trick seems clever, but it is actually corrupting the country.

Because the money of corrupt officials does not come out of thin air, nor does it come from serious channels, but by accepting bribes and squeezing the people.

"Raising pigs" and "killing pigs" ultimately shift the pressure on the common people. …

'This is the way to fool the king, and I will not take it! '

Aimee Zhu resolutely rejected a certain temptation.

Just like she ordered the investigation of salt merchants before, she only asked for empirical evidence to investigate and punish those illegal salt merchants who harmed the public and oppressed the people.

For legally operating salt merchants, even if it is the reform of the salt administration, she will give a way to survive, and it can even be said to be a way out.

When Auntie Zhu was contemplating, Yu Weixin, who had just left and returned to the telecommunications office not long ago, came over with a message, and her expression was more excited than before.

"Qizou Your Majesty, a joint telegram from Governor Du and Governor Zhang came from the North Zhili Radio Station—the Beijing-Tianjin Railway has been completed!"

As the director of the Telecommunications Department, Yu Weixin received telegrams from governors, admirals, and intelligence agencies from all over the Ming Dynasty every day, so her horizons were naturally greatly broadened, and her knowledge was also improved like never before.

Therefore, even though she was born as a court lady, she now knows how important the railway is to Daming, and how significant the completion of the first railway in Daming is.

Sure enough, Aimee Zhu was also pleasantly surprised when she heard the news.

After receiving the telegram and skimming through it quickly, Auntie Zhu couldn't help clapping her hands, and said one after another: "Good! Good!"

She had been looking forward to Daming's first official railway for too long.

At this time, she even regretted that she should not have chosen Beizhili, but should have chosen near Nanjing first—so that she could go to observe the project when it was completed.

"I wish I was in the capital right now."

Auntie Zhu turned her bright eyes to the north.