Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 192 Steam Engine!The fate of the Ming Dynasty has changed! 【Ask for full confirmation】

But the lives of ordinary people have not been affected in the slightest.

According to the traditional Confucianism, a country's monarch will inevitably lead to the misery of the people and the people's livelihood.

But in today's Ming Dynasty, the wars have not stopped for a year, and the lives of the people are getting better and better.

In particular, the huge amount of gold and silver entered the territory of Daming like flowing water as sailboats sailed into the port of Yingtianfu one after another.

Even in the northern provinces that have suffered from famine and war, there has not been a single case of starvation to death this year.

All of these are attributed by the people to the wise and wise Emperor Hongwu, and His Royal Highness King Ying, the wise king of Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Han knew that his prestige among the people was getting higher and higher, even far surpassing the so-and-so virtuous king in the storybook storytelling.

but.

To be honest, all this is not what Zhu Han wanted.

What he originally wanted was to eat and drink every day, travel around the mountains and play in the water, and then embrace all kinds of beauties on the left and right, and be a happy idle prince.

Naihe really has no free time.

I can't just watch my brother make wrong decisions on some decisions related to Daming's future.

I can only do my best to dedicate my hard work to Daming.

"Your Highness, are you tired? Let's have some pastries and some tea!"

In Prince Ying's mansion, Zhu Han was immersed in dealing with the official documents on the case, when suddenly a gust of fragrant wind came in with a gentle voice.

There are only two people who can freely enter and leave Zhu Han's study room in the palace, one is the concubine Liu, and the other is Zhou Zhiruo.

As the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Suzhou, Zhou Zhiruo doesn't know much about martial arts.

On the contrary, he learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and famous teachers and Confucians taught poetry, calligraphy and etiquette in private schools.

Therefore, Zhou Zhiruo was able to help Zhu Han with some non-negligible help when dealing with government affairs, which also gave her the right to freely enter and leave the study.

"Oh, it's already so late!"

Hearing this voice, Zhu Han stretched, and looked up out of the window.

In the distance, there is a tall red tower.

The top of the tower presents a tetrahedron with a huge clock on each side.

The hands on this huge clock clearly pointed to noon.

Such a clock tower that transcends the times is naturally Zhu Han's masterpiece.

After signing in to obtain the technology of the current mechanical clock, Zhu Han immediately organized Ming craftsmen to set up a towering clock tower in Yingtianfu, Nanjing.

The bell tower of Yingtianfu will ring the big bell every half an hour to tell the time.

Since its completion, it has become a wonderful landscape that the people of the whole city are amazed by.

Almost everyone is proud of this clock tower. Not only is it convenient for people to see the time, but it also allows those foreigners living in Yingtian Mansion to be once again impressed by the power of Daming.

The bell tower, a building with a majestic appearance and full of technical content, can make people deeply shocked when they watch it, and it also engraves the powerful impression of Daming in everyone's minds.

Even Zhu Han is used to it now, and regularly looks at the clock tower every day to check the time.

Zhu Han sat on the grand teacher's chair, patted his thigh with his hand, and waved to Zhou Zhiruo.

Zhou Zhiruo's face turned slightly red.

He waved his hand to ask the maid behind him to put down the tray of snacks and tea, and then sent her out.

After finishing all this, Zhou Zhiruo shyly sat down on Zhu Han's lap with a light twist of her waist.

"Not bad, really good!"

Zhu Han's thigh felt the warmth of Zhou Zhiruo's body, one hand wrapped around her waist, and the other hand gently stroked Zhou Zhiruo's slightly raised belly.

"This is the blood of His Highness, and it will definitely accomplish a lot in the future!"

Zhou Zhiruo said longingly while feeling Zhu Han's pampering.

She is now six or seven months pregnant. Originally, according to Daming's title succession system, even if Zhou Zhiruo gave birth to a boy, it would only be Zhu Han's fourth son, and he was not a legitimate son, so he would not inherit much title and title. wealth.

But just last month, Zhu Han proposed a new succession system to his older brother Zhu Yuanzhang.

It has completely changed the situation that the eldest son inheritance system takes all.

According to the nobility system proposed by Zhu Han, from the prince to the duke, uncle and baron, except for the eldest son who can inherit the title, the rest of the sons can also inherit the same title, but these titles are not sealed in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty , but canonized in places such as Wa Kingdom, Nanyang, and Dongshengzhou where there are not many Ming people.

This set of systems is actually a template learned from King Wu of Zhou's entrustment of the world 2000 years ago.

For these new territories occupied, if the Ming court adopted an official policy of immigration and reclamation, it would have been a year of the monkey. After all, for these remote and wild places, being an official is really not worth the loss.

The only way to do this is to adopt the strategy that the emperor of Zhou used to entrust the world, confer these newly acquired lands to the big and small, and let them use their strengths to develop their territories, increase their population, and fight against the native barbarians.

Only in this way can these new territories be developed in a short period of time.

Of course, the titles of these territories were not granted by the court for free.

Instead, they need to pay a certain amount of money to the court, so as to obtain the canonization of the court.

For example, Zhu Han, as a first-rank prince, the eldest son can obtain the title of hereditary prince, and the other sons can be canonized as county kings according to the etiquette. The prince's territory was split.

But now with the new nobility system of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they can pay a certain amount of money, they can obtain land equivalent to the title of the county king in Waguo or Dongsheng Prefecture.

Dongsheng State is the American continent where Hu Dahai's fleet drifted.

Because many gold mines were discovered there, although the journey is very far away, it has already become quite popular in Yingtian Mansion. Many people have infinite reverie about going to Dongsheng Prefecture to pan for gold and get rich.

The historical nobility system of the Ming Dynasty was basically a large national pig farm.

Generation after generation of descendants surnamed Zhu were restricted to their respective titled lands and could not move freely. After only one or two generations, they became completely useless.

Moreover, once these people are free, they have nothing to do except to have children all day long.

Only 100 years later, the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty became a huge burden on the state finances.

The Ming Dynasty spent millions of silver, but could only raise a bunch of incompetent rice worms.

Zhu Han's knighthood system is aimed at this situation.

Except for the eldest son who kept the family and inherited the family, the rest of the sons were all entrusted to open up the territory for Daming and guard the frontier.

Those wild lands, although the land is vast, but the production level is very backward, the large and small knights went to open up the thorns, and no one could have the ability to rebel.

After all, all the weapons and equipment used by these Daming colonial groups will be provided by Daming itself.

Anyone who dared to disobey the order of the Ming court could easily check and balance them by cutting off their weapons and supplies.

Once the knighthood system created by Zhu Han was launched, princes and nobles immediately rushed to support it.

Who doesn't want their children and grandchildren to enjoy a lot of happiness.

Zhou Zhiruo's natal family was a big businessman in Suzhou, although they were rich, but according to the Ming Dynasty's military merit conferring system, they would not be conferred without military merit.

And if Zhou Zhiruo could give birth to a son for Zhu Han, he would be the future king of the county. A group of officials would be needed to open a mansion for the king of the county. At that time, the Zhou family would be able to obtain military merits and titles through this channel.

After all, everyone clearly knew that the military power of the Ming Dynasty was strong, and the barbarians in those barren lands had no way of stopping the military conquest of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, as long as you can set foot on that new continent, you will basically have military achievements.

For the sake of her son's future, Zhou Zhiruo had already negotiated terms with her natal family.

As long as he gives birth to a son, the Zhou family in Suzhou will donate all the title money, as long as the descendants of the Zhou family can inherit the management of the county palace.

Zhu Han is also well aware of these things.

However, this can be regarded as using the Zhou family's money in disguise to pave the way for his son, and Zhu Han is also happy to see it succeed.

Zhuhai and Zhou Zhiruo talked and laughed while drinking tea, suddenly Zhou Zhiruo's face turned red.

Zhou Zhiruo said softly.

"Your Highness, don't do this in broad daylight."

It turned out that Zhu Han has been busy dealing with the military and political affairs sent by the people sent by the capital of Beiping in the past few days, and he has not been in the rooms of these concubines and concubines.

"What are you afraid of in broad daylight?"

While speaking, Zhu Han extended his claws towards Zhou Zhiruo like a big bad wolf tempting a little white rabbit.

Zhou Zhiruo blushed and prepared to serve Zhu Han.

suddenly.

There was a very loud explosion outside.

"boom!"

The windows in the entire palace were rattled and rattled.

Zhu Han's face immediately changed drastically.

"Come on, what's going on?!"

Zhu Han wasn't in the mood to continue making any fuss, so he immediately asked the followers outside.

Soon, the entourage went out to find out the source of the explosion.

"Report to Your Highness, it's from Nanbian Children's Engineering College!"

Zhu Han immediately frowned upon hearing this, "Engineering College?"

The full name of the College of Engineering is Daming Yingtian Engineering College, a new school newly established by Zhu Han who specially recruited personnel from the original Imperial College.

For example, the bell tower in Yingtianfu was actually built by the teachers and students of the Engineering College.

Now that there is such a loud explosion from the engineering college, something must have happened.

Zhu Han secretly yelled in his heart that it was not good!
Recently, Wanhu Tao Guangyi, the chief science and technology master of Ming Dynasty, is trial-producing a steam engine at the Engineering College.

The steam engine is very dangerous under high temperature and high pressure.

If you are not careful, the boiler of the steam engine will become a terrible hot water bomb.

"Prepare the horse, go to the engineering school!"

Zhu Han immediately ran out of the palace with a few entourages, heading towards the engineering college in the south of the city.

When he entered the gate of the engineering college, he saw that the square inside the gate was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.

"Your Highness, let me go!"

Chen Baodao, the commander of the royal guards, squeezed a way for Zhu Han in front.

Zhu Han came to the front of the crowd and saw large water stains scattered all over the square.

There are also pieces of broken copper and iron.

"It's done! It's done!" A man wearing a Daming official uniform was clapping his hands and laughing in the square, and kept shouting.

This person is Wanhu Tao Guangyi, as Zhu Han's most capable scientific and technological doer, ever since he was instructed by Zhu Han to invent a hot air balloon and realize his dream of flying into the sky, Tao Guangyi has been indulging in various scientific and technological experiments. Extricate yourself.

Every time Zhu Han saw Wanhu Tao Guangyi intoxicated in scientific and technological experiments, he couldn't help sighing that he was indeed a fierce man who dared to fly into the sky on a rocket in history.

"Wanhu, His Royal Highness is here!"

Chen Baodao, the personal guard commander of the palace, yelled and pulled Wanhu Tao Guangyi back from his madness.

"Your Highness, Your Highness! It's done! It's done!"

Wanhu Tao Guangyi was still overjoyed to see Zhu Han, and he didn't even bother to salute.

"The steam engine is ready?" Zhu Han asked hastily.

"Yes, Your Highness, I made the steam engine you mentioned!" Wanhu Tao Guangyi said, pointing to the fragments on the ground.

Zhu Han looked at the broken copper and iron all over the floor, and couldn't help looking suspiciously at Wanhu Tao Guangyi.

He even wondered if this guy was under too much pressure, and he was really a little mentally unstable.

This is obviously a terrible boiler explosion accident, what kind of thing is it?

"No, you obviously exploded, didn't anyone hurt when the boiler exploded?" Zhu Han asked immediately.

"Your Highness, this steam engine has been completed, but the well water pumped out was too cold when it was used to pump water just now, and splashed on the boiler, causing an explosion!" Wanhu Tao Guangyi quickly explained.

Then he told Zhu Han the details of what happened.

It turned out that the raw material of the steam engine provided by Zhu Han to Tao Guangyi was actually a large kettle with a reciprocating system. The conversion of energy efficiency was actually very low, and the whole set was very bulky. The only practical use was to pump water.

So Tao Guangyi experimented with pumping water with this steam engine in the Engineering College.

Who knows, because the experiment was too successful!
The well water was pumped out very quickly, and it didn't take long to fill the water tower above, and the overflowing well water exploded when it expanded with heat and contracted with cold on the steam engine boiler.

After listening to Wanhu Tao Guangyi's description, he read the detailed production and operation manual in his hand.

Zhu Han couldn't help being dumbfounded!

There are really too many talented people in Daming!

I simply provided an idea, added a crude sketch that couldn't be more crude, and didn't mention any sealing materials. Wanhu Tao Guangyi relied on these simple premises to come up with a pump that can pump water. steam engine.

This made Zhu Han have to sigh, there is really no shortage of geniuses in this world.

"The steam engine came out, the future Daming is really the king of the world!"

Zhu Han is not only full of expectations for the future.

Although the efficiency of the steam pump is very low, it cannot be used as an effective transportation power. That is to say, the current crude version of the steam engine cannot make any steam train or ship.

but.

This is just the beginning, and it provides a good start for future development.

According to Wanhu Tao Guangyi's almost crazy energy, Zhu Han felt that Daming's entry into the steam age was just around the corner.

"Chen Baodao, immediately send someone to seal off the engineering college! Anyone who sees this steam engine is not allowed to enter or leave at will!" Zhu Hai suddenly changed his face and ordered loudly.

This kind of steam engine can change the fate of a dynasty.

Of course, it was impossible for Zhu Han to let any hostile force get any information about the steam engine.

Sealing off the entire engineering college was only the first step. According to Zhu Han's vision, everyone at the scene had to be checked for three generations to ensure that everything was safe.

but.

Wanhu Tao Guangyi didn't care about Zhu Han's actions.

"Your Highness, there is no need for this!" Tao Guangyi said.

(End of this chapter)