Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 277 Open and honest

"This thing only needs to adjust the height of the scraper edge by adjusting the screw on the layer of the pull rod, and then every time it is pulled through the barrel, the pull rod moves a few microns, and it can be broached with a uniform rotation of the barrel. A twisted rift."

"After reaching the predetermined width, change the position and pull the second rifling."

"For a better firearm, the same rifling needs to be broached about a hundred times. The more times you pull, the thinner and more precise the broaching groove will be."

In the Armament Research Institute, when Zhu Youjian looked at the manual lathe in front of him, Zhu Youjian couldn't believe that Bi Maokang and the others could solve the rifling issue in just two months.

He pointed to this simple thing in front of him in disbelief, and asked Bi Maokang:

"You mean, with this thing, you can accurately pull out thirty rifled gun barrels in one day?"

"Returning to Your Highness, that's exactly the case..." Bi Maokang, with graying temples, bowed back with a serious face, and before Zhu Youjian could react, Bi Maokang said again:
"Your Highness, not only that, but the drilling machine of the hydraulic drill has some clues."

"Hydraulic drill?" Zhu Youjian looked at him.

"This is the method that Sun Shilang and Song Yuanwailang researched based on what His Highness said about the steam engine." Bi Maokang did not take the credit for himself, but gave the credit to the people next to him.

"Your Highness..."

A unanimous voice sounded, Zhu Youjian heard the sound and looked, and saw two officials in their forties, dressed in uniform, bowing to Zhu Youjian.

They are not as thin as Zhu Youjian thought, but a little fat.

Still, their hair and beards are well-groomed, giving them a solid look.

"Your Highness, the next official is Sun Yuanhua."

The older fat man on the left introduced himself, and Zhu Youjian nodded and looked at the younger man next to him: "Are you Song Yingxing?"

"Return to Your Highness, it is this..."

Song Yingxing responded, and after Zhu Youjian got to know the two of them, he asked:
"Bi Shilang said that the two of you used the theory of steam engines to develop a method of hydraulic drilling. What is this method?"

"Return to Your Highness..." Sun Yuanhua has a slightly higher official position, so he stood up and said:
"Song Yuanwailang used the steam siphon hydraulic method written by His Highness to fill a hollow container with the steam from the water, then close the steam inlet valve, and spray cold water outside the container."

"Afterwards, people only need to open the water inlet valve, and some water from the bottom of the large tank will enter the water pipe and be sucked into the container."

"When you get here, you only need to close the water inlet valve, reopen the steam inlet valve, and use the steam pressure to press the water in the container out through the drain valve."

"When the water in the container is emptied and filled with steam, close the steam inlet valve and drain valve, and restart..."

Sun Yuanhua explained a bunch of discourse skills of the Ming Dynasty, which gave Zhu Youjian a headache. Fortunately, at the end, he added a sentence after the long speech:
"The water in the container boils into steam, and the steam is turned into pressure, which pushes the left and right sides of the left and right containers to reciprocate, and converts the up and down motion of the container into the movement of the ship's shaft. Use this force to push the drill bed to drill the gun."

After Sun Yingyuan explained, he looked straight at Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian listened for a long time, and finally he could only say:
"In other words, use the power of the steam engine to drill the gun, right?"

"Have you made it?" Zhu Youjian asked suspiciously, while Sun Yuanhua shook his head and said:
"This process is stuck on how to transfer the power to the drill bed..."

"..." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian was a little speechless. He thought that these two people even made a steam engine lathe.

It turned out that after a long time of work, they just studied the principle, and made a lathe for manual drilling and a semi-finished steam engine by the way...

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, the steam engine they mentioned should have been produced before Watt, and it was stuck in the power transmission just like them.

But according to what they said, they have at least produced a steam engine that can be used to pump water.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian asked:

"Have you ever tried that this steam engine can pump water several feet deep?"

"About one foot and four feet..." Sun Yuanhua bowed proudly, but Zhu Youjian only felt a little tasteless after hearing it.

But technology will always improve, so he said to the two and Bi Maokang:
"Continue to study the matter of the drill and the steam engine. I will ask the Yuma Supervisor to transfer another three thousand taels to the research institute."

"In addition, don't leave behind more than a dozen types of research such as gunpowder, blast furnace, and iron smelting."

"Don't record it based on experience, but write down all the exact proportions and processes, and name some equipment, and write them according to the format of physics and chemistry in my Yanshan textbook."

Zhu Youjian specifically explained the record, because this thing is actually one of the reasons for the separation of Chinese and Western science and technology.

Besides this one, one of the others is the demographic and economic model.

Just as Macartney brought steam engines, cotton spinning machines, carding machines, and looms to Qianlong as gifts, and guessed that these gifts would surprise and delight Qianlong.

For Qianlong or the previous Central Plains dynasties, even if it was a Han Dynasty, when they saw steam engines, they would not learn unless they could be used for military purposes.

A large population means that employment needs to be solved, and once the products of the steam engine release a large number of laborers engaged in textiles, this group of people becomes a factor of anxiety.

The Ming Dynasty had developed to the peak of the feudal monarchy, and Zhu Youjian knew that it would always collapse, because he could not stop it.

However, before the system collapses, he will liberate enough labor to go to overseas territories. Even if Ming Dynasty collapses, the overseas territories will still belong to the Han people.

As long as it belongs to the Han people, other Han people will want to fight for it, and this is the great unification.

Other Han rulers who are also Han will be afraid that other Han rulers will rise to annex themselves, so they must start to annex others in advance.

It also means that as long as Zhu Youjian can release people, it is equivalent to raising the requirements of "Great Unification" and China's basic market.

At that time, no matter how we fight, the territory of the next Han country will not be too small.

The Industrial Revolution was necessary if most people were to be freed to go overseas.

He led alone, even if he could only bring Daming to the level of the first industrial revolution before his death, the dividends of the industrial revolution would still be enough for Daming to last for a hundred years.

Even if the Ming Dynasty collapses a hundred years later, it will definitely leave a rich legacy to the new dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian asked about Bi Maokang's research on blast furnaces, metal smelting, alloys, etc.

Of course, the most important ones are research on gunpowder and military affairs.

The good news is that the mercury fulminate used to make the cap and primer of the percussion gun has been preliminarily researched and the first step of making it is mercury nitrate.

After that, as long as mercury nitrate is reacted with ethanol, gray mercury can be obtained, and then white thunder mercury can be obtained further.

As long as the mercury fulminate is manufactured, Daming can use it to make the percussion and acupuncture medicine for the cap gun, and can also use it to fill the detonator for blasting.

After getting these things out, adding the current lathe and drilling machine, and solving the problem of sealing, the Ming army can get the breech-loading pistol two hundred years later.

With the percussion gun, the size of the [-] Ming army can completely flatten the Eurasian continent without considering the logistics.

But what about these...

Zhu Youjian frowned, he thought of the current internal political contradictions in Daming.

"Brother is..."

"boom--"

Before Zhu Youjian finished speaking, the sudden sound of artillery spread to the entire Armament Academy, causing Zhu Youjian to subconsciously touch his waist.

"Your Highness, don't panic, this is Long Live watching the research of the Artillery Academy."

Bi Maokang opened his mouth quickly, and Zhu Youjian put his hand back where it was before.

"Go, take a look." After saying that, Zhu Youjian walked towards the place where the voice came from, followed by Sun Shoufa and Lu Wenzhao.

Seeing this, Bi Maokang said to Song Yingxing and Sun Yuanhua: "Huodong (Sun Yuanhua's own name), you two continue to study, and the old man will accompany His Highness down."

"Yes..." The two of Sun Yuanhua bowed in return, and Bi Maokang quickly followed in the footsteps of Zhu Youjian and others.

Turning and turning, when Zhu Youjian and the others came to the back door of the General Institute, they immediately saw more than ten artillery research students surrounded by a cannon outside the back door, and...

"Long live!"

With a gloomy face, Zhu Youjian spoke to Zhu Youxiao who was sitting under the umbrella of Hualuo Gai, while Zhu Youxiao, who was holding binocular clairvoyance, shook his head and put down the things in his hands. When he arrived at his home, his gloomy younger brother.

"Hahahaha... my brother is here! I expected you to come here, so I came here to wait for you!"

"Waiting for me on purpose?" Zhu Youjian wanted to laugh when he heard this, but he was too lazy to expose his brother's poor acting skills. After taking a few steps forward, he took a look at the distance between the cannon and the Hualuo umbrella.

At this distance, at most ten steps, if the cannon explodes...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Youxiao and said:

"Brother, if you are curious about firearms, just pay attention to the distance. When you observe in the future, you will be [-] steps away from artillery and [-] steps away from rifles."

"Haha, I got it, I got it..." Zhu Youxiao used a smile to cover up his embarrassment, but Zhu Youjian didn't know why, but felt that the two were a little unfamiliar now.

This kind of unfamiliarity, not that kind of relational and emotional, but...

It's as if there are people behind both of them, and they are both enemies.

"Brother, the Armament Research Institute is doing a good job. I have read a lot of things, and the wonderful ideas in it have given me a lot of ideas."

"Especially my younger brother urgently needs to conquer the steam ironclad ship mentioned in the chapter..."

Zhu Youxiao is really addicted to shipbuilding. Due to the material problem of the wooden boat, the material is basically the limit, so he set his sights on the so-called iron-clad ship.

It's just that ironclad ships, Zhu Youjian knows, can't be done with the current technology.

It is not difficult to manufacture an ironclad ship. With the current strength of various countries, in fact, Ming Dynasty only needs to use the technology of riveting armor plates on the surface of the wooden ship. This is an iron-clad wood warship.

It can even be said that if Daming insists on making it, it can be made, after all, Daming also has the riveting technology.

But the problem is that without power, the ironclad ship is useless even if it is built.

The steam engine looks simple, but it will take a few years, ten years, or even decades to make it powerful enough to run an ironclad ship.

This kind of scientific and technological research can even be said not to look at the time, but to see if there is someone at this node, and it happens to be inspired to research it.

Therefore, after understanding Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, Zhu Youjian smiled helplessly:
"The premise of an ironclad ship is that the steam engine must appear as a power source. If there is no steam engine to provide power, and only rely on the power of the sails, the ironclad ship is a living target at sea."

"That's not a problem. I think Bi Maokang and the others have done a good job of research, and they may build it in a few years." Zhu Youxiao responded confidently, and even began to conceive how to build an iron-clad ship in his mind.

"It's really that easy..." Zhu Youjian looked at the person in front of him with a wry smile, then sighed:
"Forget it, if brother can get it out, then it's fine."

"Then I'm going to get three thousand materials first. Brother, draw me a picture for my reference first." Zhu Youxiao said with great interest, almost making Zhu Youjian bite his tongue.

"I draw pictures?" Zhu Youjian looked at his brother with a dazed expression.

"Since my younger brother can write the principle of the iron-clad ship, he should be able to draw pictures."

Zhu Youxiao showed a hearty smile, leaving Zhu Youjian speechless for a while:
"My brother first used a wooden boat to make the structure, and the iron armor on the outside is enough..."

"Isn't that fooling people?" Zhu Youxiao frowned, looking unhappy, obviously not wanting to fool people.

"Forget it, I won't say anything if my brother doesn't say it. I think this boat should be similar to building a wooden boat. I'll go back to the palace and think about it myself."

Zhu Youxiao also knew that when his younger brother came, he probably wouldn't be able to stay in the Armament Academy, but he thoughtfully proposed to go back.

Zhu Youjian also breathed a sigh of relief when he said this. After all, it was not appropriate for him to drive his brother back to the palace.

"In this case, then go back with me. I just happened to talk to my brother about the North Sweeping."

Zhu Youjian spoke with a smile, but he didn't want Zhu Youxiao to shake his head like a rattle:
"No need, no need, let this matter be like this, my brother arranges for me to rest assured."

"..." Zhu Youjian frowned, he felt that his brother seemed to be deliberately avoiding military affairs.

"Is it because of the Qi royal party..."

Thinking about the Qi royal party, Zhu Youjian was a little sad, but Zhu Youxiao stretched out his hand at this moment and pulled his hand up.

"Let's go, go back to Beijing early, and still catch up with dinner."

Zhu Youxiao pulled Zhu Youjian forward, he walked in front of Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian looked at his back.

At this moment, Zhu Youjian seemed to have experienced it from the perspective and feeling of Zhu Youxiao during the night of the Yigong case.

It's just that compared to Zhu Youxiao's heart warming, Zhu Youjian's heart is full of feelings.

Although he has been tempered, his political means and vision, and his military ability are all top-notch in this world, but his experience and memory are always for future generations.

The bloody feudal history of Wang Sun Gongqing fighting for power and killing his father and brother for the throne was not the education he received...

If Zhu Youjian was the kind of person who would do anything for power, then in his previous life, he would not have chosen to go to the impoverished mountainous area in the southwest after the public examination in his previous life to become a poverty alleviation cadre.

From the beginning to the end, he only wanted the people of Daming to have enough food and wear warm clothes. Everyone has fields and every family has houses, while he himself only wants to be respectful to his brother and brother.

The former should have been the most difficult, while the latter should have been the easiest, but right now he is being coerced by power while gaining power.

"I'm the only one behind my brother..."

Looking at Zhu Youxiao's back, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but grasped Zhu Youxiao's hand, which made Zhu Youxiao turn his head to look at him, smiled and then turned his head and continued to walk out of the city.

The two brothers were very harmonious, but behind them, Sun Shoufa was dull, and Lu Wenzhao had complicated and tangled expressions.

A group of people have their own thoughts, but no one can see what Zhu Youxiao is thinking.

On the way back, Zhu Youxiao didn't discuss any government affairs with Zhu Youjian, but kept chatting about the trivial matters of shooting arrows with Zhu Youjian at the back left door when he just ascended the throne.

Normally, Zhu Youjian would just laugh at these trivial matters in life, but now he listens very seriously.

Unknowingly, the carriage returned to Beijing and arrived in front of Baiwangfu City.

"Just here. I'll ask Sun Shoufa to take my brother back to the palace. I'll just walk for a while."

The carriage stopped steadily, and Zhu Youjian also spoke in a tone of exclamation, then Lu Wenzhao opened the door of the car, and was about to send Zhu Youjian back to his house.

But at this time, Zhu Youxiao suddenly said:

"Brother, I have some things for Lu Wenzhao to do."

"..." Zhu Youxiao's words stopped Zhu Youjian and Lu Wenzhao's movements.

Zhu Youjian glanced at Lu Wenzhao, with a hint of worry in his eyes, and Lu Wenzhao also looked at his nose and his heart.

"Go..." After a while, Zhu Youjian looked at Lu Wenzhao and confessed.

"A lowly official takes orders..." Lu Wenzhao got into the carriage, while Sun Shoufa just jumped out of the carriage heartlessly as usual, and beckoned to the three guards of the imperial city who were protecting the emperor to drive.

Seeing this, Qianhu of Feixiongwei hurried forward to rein in the horse and took the groom's seat.

Accompanied by a sound of "drive", the three guards of the imperial city and the carriage gradually drove towards the imperial city from the snow, while Zhu Youjian looked at the back of the carriage leaving, standing in the snow without knowing what to think.

"Your Highness, what shall we have for dinner tonight?"

Sun Shoufa's stupid voice broke the peace around him, and Zhu Youjian also looked at him.

I saw this guy with a naive smile on his face, he looked like a farmer without the brave spirit of rushing to kill the vanguard during the war.

"I don't know what to eat today. You can find the cook in the house and order according to your taste. I will eat with you today."

Looking at Sun Shoufa, Zhu Youjian showed a helpless smile. Perhaps only people like Sun Shoufa who go straight and don't have much desire for power can stand behind him.

Sometimes, being too smart is not a good thing...

Thinking this way, he, Sun Shoufa and hundreds of Tiance guards returned to Prince Qi's mansion.

It's just that compared to them, the atmosphere in the carriage going far away is a bit weird...

Zhu Youxiao looked at the snow scene outside the window, wondering what he was thinking, while Lu Wenzhao was sitting on pins and needles, ready to get up at any time.

The two of them were speechless all the way, and all they could hear was the sound of the wheels of the carriage pressing on the road.

After two quarters of an hour, the carriage drove into Donghuamen, and Zhu Youxiao finally said:

"How are you going to deal with yourself?"

"..." Zhu Youxiao's words made Lu Wenzhao not know what to say for a moment, he opened his mouth, and then quickly closed it.

"It's like this, don't blame you..."

Zhu Youxiao kept looking out of the window, his eyes were full of calm, like a pool of stagnant water, unable to make any waves.

"I'm still young and still in position. As long as I'm in power, my brother will still be the governor. Please let Huang Long, Man Gui and the others relax and don't do anything to embarrass my brother..."

Those words made Lu Wenzhao's hairs stand on end, and his pupils constricted.

"How could Long live know..."

At this moment, Lu Wenzhao is looking back at the memory in his mind, starting from Man Gui looking for him, is there anyone else on the way?How could anyone know about the connection between Man Gui and Huang Long?
For a moment, Lu Wenzhao was sure that the emperor had buried a nail in his hands, but he didn't have much time to react.

"My brother and I are still young, so you can rest assured."

"When you retire, if you want to stay in Daming, I will discuss it with my younger brother and the crown prince."

"If you want to go to Qi, I will not stop you."

"If you do some stupid things, I don't care, it's all because my younger brother will lead the army..."

Zhu Youxiao looked out of the window with calm eyes and a calm tone.

However, after a few seconds, when Lu Wenzhao was vigilant, he spoke slowly again:

"It's just that if things really happen, my brother may find it hard to accept."

"You should also know that your Highness King Qi is too affectionate..."

Zhu Youxiao's position is being threatened. Right now, even the three guards of the imperial city and the generals of the Han Dynasty who can be directly controlled are soldiers trained by Man Gui and the others.

If Man Gui wants to rebel, and the slogan is still to support King Qi to sit on the throne, then the entire Five Armies Governor's Mansion, with nearly [-] troops, will not have a small number of banner holders.

But facing such a threat, Zhu Youxiao was still communicating with Lu Wenzhao calmly.

In other words, he was communicating with the restless generals.

He is not afraid of the rebellion of the generals, because even if there is a large army rebelling, as long as he runs to the Qi Palace with Jing Jun and the prince, and then hides in the Qi Palace, no one can do anything to him.

He believes that his younger brother can put down the rebellion, and he also believes that he can put it down very well, but at the end of the fight against the rebellion, how should his younger brother deal with Man Gui and other generals who were single-handedly selected by his younger brother?
Killed Man Gui and the others with a knife?
If Zhu Youjian succeeded, the situation would not be so strange.

He is human, flesh and blood, not a machine.

He also gets along with Man Gui and the others day and night, talking and laughing, fighting side by side.

He also lived in Yanshan with the soldiers and horses he personally trained, laughing and laughing, and expedition to Hetao...

Now when he turned his head around and asked him to raise his sword and personally order these former comrades and subordinates to behead them, how would he feel in his heart?
Zhu Youxiao knew very well that he was afraid that his younger brother would fall into a slump, or just be depressed.

He didn't want his younger brother to be in a dilemma, so he chose to put down his figure and communicate well with this group of generals who thought their own safety could not be guaranteed.

This kind of communication is naive and even stupid in politics, because Zhu Youxiao has exposed his bottom line and cards.

But the problem is that in this political struggle, no one started the struggle because of thinking about power.

Man Gui and Huang Long are already extremely powerful ministers. Even if Zhu Youjian becomes the emperor, their official positions will not change.

One or two lords, they will accompany Zhu Youjian to fight normally, there is no need to rebel for this.

In the end, what they were worried about was the people's hearts, and they were worried that after Zhu Youjian left, their side would be purged by the imperial power.

From ancient times to modern times, such things happened too many times, especially decades ago, after Zhang Juzheng died of illness, the fate of Qi Jiguang, Qi Jimei, Qi Jiajun and other generals was like a sharp sword hanging above their heads, always alerting them.

They didn't think the emperor would be willing to let them all go to Qi, just because once they left, basically [-]% of the existing generals in the entire Ming Dynasty would leave.

It was just beyond the expectation of Lu Wenzhao, Man Gui and others, the emperor now clearly stated that he would let them go and let them continue to take office.

Knowing that the generals under his command have disobedience and are willing to dissuade them openly and honestly, I am afraid that Zhu Youxiao can be regarded as the number one person in history.

It's just that Lu Wenzhao was wondering whether the emperor resorted to delaying the attack because he didn't have enough cards in his hand, or whether he had other plans.

The ancient and modern emperors have used countless means, and there are not a few cases where after paralyzing the arrogant soldiers, they waited for the opportunity to launch a thunderous strike, and there is no room for Lu Wenzhao to be careless.

He tried to look at Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao kept looking at the snow scene outside the window, making him unable to do anything.

When he was in a dilemma, the carriage stopped, but Lu Wenzhao still subconsciously opened the door for Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him, didn't say much, got off the carriage, and then gradually disappeared from Lu Wenzhao's eyes amidst the "Long live" of the Qing army at the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

Looking at the closed gate of Qianqing Palace, Lu Wenzhao felt mixed feelings and was very entangled.

These entanglements finally turned into a sigh.

He got off the carriage, took one last look at the gate of Qianqing palace, then turned around and walked towards the outside of the palace.

Under the red wall and white snow, his back reveals a look that doesn't match his age, which makes people sigh...

(End of this chapter)