Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

"In the future, the number of firearms will become the decisive factor." Dorgon nodded and said, "However, at this stage, there is not much difference in the number of firearms between the Qing Dynasty and the Nanming Dynasty. This point needs to be reversed."

"In addition to reducing the number of firearms in Nanming, we also need to increase the number of firearms in Qing Dynasty."

Speaking of this meal, Dorgon said again: "So in addition to letting the Luo family brothers destroy and destroy Nanming's arsenal, our Qing Dynasty must increase the number of blacksmiths as much as possible."

"Reporting to my master, there are no more blacksmiths." Gang Lin said with a wry smile, "Most of the [-] blacksmiths are old people left behind by Emperor Taizong. It will take at least two years to train a qualified blacksmith. Row."

Huang Taiji left a lot of legacy to the Qing court, one of which is his strong firearms manufacturing capability.

When the old slave was killed by the Hongyi cannon of the Ming army in Ningyuan, he left a deep impression on Huang Taiji, so the first thing Huang Taiji did after ascending to the Khan position was to imitate the Hongyi cannon.

During this period, more than 4 Han soldiers and Bao Yi became part-time blacksmiths.

It is precisely because of these more than 4 blacksmiths that the Qing court was able to catch up with Daming's firearms production capacity.

Dorgon still felt that it wasn't enough, and asked again: "Call the blacksmiths from Horqin Mongolia, Chahar Mongolia, and Tumed Mongolia to Beijing to make firearms."

Gang Lin said with a wry smile: "Returning to the master, the slaves have already summoned all the blacksmiths from all the Mongolian tribes to Beijing. Otherwise, there would be no 4 blacksmiths at all. There were only more than [-] blacksmiths in Emperor Taizong's time."

"Have they all been summoned to Beijing?" Dorgon frowned even more, "What about North Korea?"

"North Korea?" Gang Lin was taken aback when he heard the words, and replied, "Master, the blacksmiths in North Korea have not been recruited."

"Conscript, all recruited to Beijing." Dorgon said in a deep voice, "Immediately send fast horses to catch up with Obai, and after Obai arrives in Pyongyang, he will order the King of Korea to summon all the blacksmiths and transfer them to Beijing for use."

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Dorgon is not the only one eyeing the North Korean blacksmith, but also Chongzhen and his son.

Almost at the same time, Zhu Cihong also suggested to Chongzhen: "Father, an old blacksmith who can skillfully roll gun barrels and drill holes, the cultivation period is too long, and it is difficult to increase in a large amount in a short period of time, so instead of cultivating it, it is better to seek it from outside. Pick."

"Seek from outside?" Chongzhen smiled and asked, "Lang'er, do you mean that there is still North Korea in the Wa Kingdom?"

Zhu Cihong hummed softly, and then said: "I heard that the iron smelting industry of Japan and North Korea is relatively developed, and the national strength of Japan is relatively strong, and the relationship with my Ming Dynasty is relatively friendly, so it is not easy to make trouble. After Bingzi was reckless, he resigned himself to depravity, and he just took this opportunity to forcibly recruit his domestic blacksmiths."

What Zhu Cihong meant was to take advantage of the opportunity of supporting Li as the heir of the Joseon Dynasty, and forcibly recruit the blacksmiths of the Joseon Dynasty to Nanjing to make firearms for Daming.

There are thousands of blacksmiths in North Korea anyway.

Chongzhen just laughed when he heard it.

Zhu Cilang thought that Chongzhen didn't like it, so he went on to analyze and said: "Father, although North Korea is small, according to the records in the Yulin Atlas in the Wanli period, it has a population of 600 million. If you count the fugitive slaves and hidden population, let alone In addition, the shipbuilding industry and iron smelting industry are the main industries of North Korea, so the number of blacksmiths in the country will not be less than 1. Even if the discount is half, there will be at least five or six thousand blacksmiths. watch for."

"The layout is too small." Chongzhen smiled, and said again, "Lang'er, you only want blacksmiths, and the layout is too small."

"The structure is small?" Zhu Cihong couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, but quickly realized, and said in a voiceless voice, "Father, don't you plan to move all the 500 million people from North Korea to Daming?"

"Why not?" Chongzhen's expression gradually became serious.

"It's not like this has never happened before in history."

Again, Chongzhen really doesn't like the killing policy.

In particular, East Asians of the same root and race are even less likely to engage in brutal genocide.

In order to realize Chongzhen's grand plan of a population of one billion, in addition to a large number of births, assimilation of various ethnic groups in East Asia is also a very important means of population growth, among which the Korean ethnic group is given priority.

Chongzhen has long been eyeing the 500 million people in North Korea.

Even with a birth rate of 4% and a total population of 1 million, there will only be 400 million newborns in the next year, and if all kinds of deaths are removed, the annual population growth will only be 200 million.

That is to say, assimilating the 500 million people in North Korea can save almost three years.

Of course, the premise of all this is complete assimilation, complete identification with culture and ethnic group.

"That's true." Zhu Cihuang suddenly remembered the battle of Tang's annihilation of Goguryeo recorded in the history books, and said immediately, "After the Great Tang conquered Goguryeo, it moved millions of people from Goguryeo to Jianghuai in the Central Plains. Gao Xianzhi's father, Gao Sheji, moved to Datang at this time."

After a pause, Zhu Cihong asked again: "Father, after the Koreans move inland, where do you plan to settle?"

Chongzhen said without hesitation: "North Korea's current total population is only 600 million, and only one province in Shandong is enough to resettle them. However, in order to achieve assimilation as soon as possible, it is still necessary to resettle the Koreans in Shandong, Henan, and Huguang provinces. In the future, after the eradication of Jiannu and Puppet Shun, some of them will need to be relocated to Beizhi, Shanxi and even Shaanxi. In short, it is not appropriate to let too many Koreans live together in one place.”

"There must not be too many ethnic Koreans living in one place."

Zhu Cihong nodded: "In addition, we still need to let the Korean people learn my Ming Dynasty Mandarin and Hongwu Zhengyun."

"Of course." Chongzhen nodded and said, "Not only the Ming Dynasty official dialect and Hongwu Zhengyun, but also let them learn Chinese, so that after two generations, there will be no more Korean people, but only Huaxia people."

Speaking of this meal, he said again: "From now on, in my Ming Dynasty, there will be no distinction between Hua and Yi, but only the Huaxia clan!"

In the long-term plan of Chongzhen Goule, there is no ethnic division. In the entire Ming Dynasty, there is only one ethnic group, the Huaxia ethnic group, and all people are descendants of the Chinese ancestors.

Zhu Cihong then asked: "What does the emperor mean to give the Koreans and other ethnic groups who moved inland the same rights as the Han people? Also allow their children to take the imperial examination and the national examination?"

"Yes, with the same power, everyone can take the imperial examination and the national examination."

Chongzhen hummed and said again: "Speaking of the Imperial Examination, this year's Imperial Examination will start soon, right?"

"Yes, the exam will start in three days." Zhu Cihong asked again, "Father, is the national exam still determined by the five classics, and then determined by the total score of each subject?"

The Imperial College Examination was held for the first time in November 18, and this year it is already the third subject. As the supervisor (vice principal) of the Imperial College, Zhu Cihong started preparations a few months ago.

By the way, nearly 11 students were admitted to the second section of the Guozi Examination in November last year.

So now the number of students in Guozijian has reached 1, and the number of students in Naval Academy and Medical School has also reached 4000.

Chongzhen asked again: "Have the textbooks of all subjects been distributed to all states and counties?"

A few months ago, Pascal, Boyle and others had already compiled the basic textbooks of various subjects, and then the Ministry of Internal Affairs handed it over to Xu's Printing House for printing. Chongzhen knew about this and spent a lot of money for it.

"It was issued three months ago." Zhu Cihong said, "All the students in each state and county have a set of staff, and they are all provided free of charge by the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

In order to learn general basic subjects as soon as possible, Chongzhen really spent a lot of money.

Not only did they spend a lot of money to invite scholars such as Pascal and Boyle from Europe to preside over the compilation of textbooks for various subjects, but they also spent a lot of money to hand over a lot of money to Xu's printing house to print millions of sets of textbooks at a time.

For this item alone, the Ministry of Internal Affairs spent nearly 1000 million yuan.

This is because the cost is reduced after the printing volume is increased, otherwise it will be more expensive.

That's why it is said that before industrialization, knowledge is very expensive.

Children from really poor families have no chance to get access to books and master knowledge at all.

Chongzhen said: "If this is the case, there is no need to use the five classics to decide whether to stay or not. Let's just take the new study, and use the new study to determine who is superior, count the total scores of each subject, and then draw a blocking line. Those who pass the line are admitted, those who do not pass the line are eliminated, and the ranking is determined by the total score, and the highest one will be the champion."

Zhu Cihong said: "Father, will this be too abrupt?"

Chongzhen asked Zhu Cihong back, "Then what do you mean?"

Zhu Cihong said: "My son thinks so, can we also count time and literature as a subject? Parallel examinations with mathematics, physics, chemistry, medicine and other subjects?"

"This is good." Chongzhen nodded happily, "But the name needs to be changed."

"Change your name?" Zhu Cihong asked in astonishment, "I wonder if Father has an alternative?"

"Really there are." Chongzhen laughed, "The name will be changed to Chinese, and the Chinese test will not only test stereotyped essays in the future, but will introduce fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple-choice questions, judgment questions, and reading comprehension questions. Of course, the eight-legged essay must be tested, and the score can be set higher."

Speaking of this, Chongzhen went on to say: "Oh, and the subjects of the Guozijian will continue to be improved, and the subjects of astronomy, geography and history will also be opened. Of course, there will be no exams this year."

"Your minister leads the decree." Zhu Cihong hurriedly took out a small notebook and wrote it down.

Zhu Cihong said while remembering: "Father, regardless of other things, just looking at the grand occasion of the Guozi Examination, you can know that Daming's victory over Jiannu is inevitable."

"That makes sense." Chongzhen nodded happily.

"The competition between countries is the competition of political systems, the competition of economic power, and the competition of armaments, but in the final analysis it is the competition between people, especially the competition of elite talents between the two countries. The decisive factor that really determines the success or failure of the game, in this regard, I, Ming, can be said to have an absolute advantage."

Zhu Cilang said with a smile: "Even if Jiannu flatters a horse, it's hard to come by."

Chongzhen could not help but feel a little complacent when he heard the words.

In this regard, Jiannu really couldn't catch up.