At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Chapter 64 I want to eat seafood

Zhu Qizhen said so much to his little brother just to free up his hands to do his own business.

In his opinion, being an emperor is all about reviewing papers except going to court. He rests for less than three hours a day, and the donkey pulling the mill at the door of the village committee next door dare not use it like this!
Simply, hand over this mess.

In this way, I can devote all my energy to implementing the New Deal. If something goes wrong, Zhu Qiyu, the little brother, can be caught in the middle, which can also act as a buffer and give myself enough time to deal with it.

Judging from the evaluation of later generations, the positive evaluation of Zhu Qiyu is very high, just take this opportunity to let him exercise, so that he can be independent in the future, and can also help him share some pressure.

When he was a sales manager, he knew the importance of building a team. If he had to do everything by himself, he would exhaust himself sooner or later and fail to achieve results in the end.

An excellent leader is not about how strong an individual is, but about being able to bring out a professional team.

For example, Ping Xiang Bo Chen Huai is now very professional in digging pits and firing kilns, so he needs to be trained in this area.

For such a huge project as the construction of the Martyr’s Shrine, although I haven’t seen the drawings of the Ministry of Industry yet, I can imagine that according to their method, it will take at least two to three years. After all, stone and wood need to be transported from other places. trouble.

If they want to be simple, effective and save money, people like the Ministry of Industry can't count on it, so they can only do it themselves.

As soon as Chen Huai returned home, the celebration banquet had been set up and was about to serve when a young eunuch hurried over.

"Uncle Ping, the emperor has summoned you, please enter the palace quickly."

When Chen Huai heard it, he naturally said nothing, put down the bowls and chopsticks, changed into the court clothes and rushed to the palace.

"The minister kowtows to the emperor!"

"My love is free!"

Zhu Qizhen was writing, and said without raising his head, "Come forward and talk."

Chen Huai stepped forward and saw a lot of content densely written on the paper. When he looked carefully, it looked like...the process of burning lime powder?

Could it be that the emperor is going to use this thing as a conventional weapon?

"Your Majesty, are you preparing...to burn lime?"

"Almost!" Zhu Qizhen put down his pen and handed over the note, "But this thing is not called lime, it's called cement!"

"cement?"

Chen Huai took it over and looked at it for a few moments, feeling very puzzled in his heart. You called me out of the house and didn't let me eat, just to make mud with you?
"This thing..." Zhu Qizhen didn't know how to describe it for a while, so he said, "In short, this thing is necessary for the construction of the Martyr's Shrine. You just need to do it according to what I said."

As soon as Chen Huai heard that it was used for the construction of the Zhonglie Temple, he immediately became interested, patted his chest and said: "The emperor can rest assured, the old minister has the most experience in kiln firing!"

"If you want to successfully fire cement, the first step is to select the material. You must use limestone, and nothing else will work. This limestone..."

Zhu Qizhen suddenly realized that cement is different from lime, and requires extremely high-purity limestone, but he has never studied geological exploration, so how would he know how to find limestone!
"The emperor is looking for limestone?" Chen Huai seemed to have discovered the problem, so he said, "There are plenty of them on the west mountain!"

"Are you sure it's limestone?"

Zhu Qizhen thought to himself, if you don't test this thing, how can you tell what kind of lithology it is?
"Your Majesty, don't worry, the mining and firing techniques of limestone have long been matured by the people, and it is not difficult to find them."

Zhu Qizhen thought about it again, yes, how did Yu Qian read that poem?

Thousands of hammers dug out of the mountains, and the fire burned as if it were idle.

The bones and bones are not afraid, they should be left innocent.

Lime sings, lime sings, isn't it limestone that sings?
It can be seen that what Chen Huai said is correct, the current technology should not be a problem for the exploration and mining of limestone.

"That's good!" Zhu Qizhen nodded and said, "In short, this task is entrusted to you. According to the steps I wrote, first fire a batch of experimental products, and I want to test them."

"The old minister obeys the order and promises to complete the task!"

Chen Huai took the note and left, Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and took out another piece of paper.

Jin Ying was serving at the side, seeing that the tea was getting cold, she changed it to a cup of hot tea.

"Your Majesty, drink tea."

"okay!"

Zhu Qizhen took a sip from his teacup and continued to write and draw on the paper.

Suddenly, he raised his head and asked, "If you don't investigate Wang Zhen's case, what are you doing here?"

"what?"

Jin Ying was stunned for a moment, and said: "The case is already being investigated, and the slaves are staying to serve the emperor..."

"Just put anyone by my side. You have to handle Wang Zhen's case yourself and monitor the whole process. It's all my money. Be sure to look carefully! Also, this bastard once transported a large amount of gold and silver to his hometown in Weizhou , send someone to investigate immediately!"

"The slaves obey the orders!"

"Wait a moment!"

Jin Ying hurriedly asked: "What other orders does the emperor have?"

"The former minister of the Ministry of Industry, Li Cheng, does he still have a son in the Ministry of Industry?"

Jin Ying thought for a while and replied: "His son Li Shulin is currently the head of the Ministry of Industry, mainly responsible for supervising the manufacture of military weapons."

"Call him to me!"

Li Cheng was originally the son of Hu Jisuo, the monarch of the Annan Hu Dynasty. In the third year of Yongle, Emperor Dazong used troops against Annan. In the fifth year of Yongle, the Hu Dynasty fell. Li Cheng was pardoned because he was good at making firearms. , was regarded as the "God of Firearms" by soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

In the 11th year of orthodoxy, Li Cheng passed away, and his son Li Shulin remained in charge of the Ministry of Industry, inherited his father's business, and continued to study military equipment.

What Zhu Qizhen is most concerned about now is to improve firearms and gunpowder. This world is no longer the era of fighting with cold weapons. The Western Francophone countries already have arquebus guns. If you hit the door, it will be too late to say anything.

The more important point is that although the Yujia personal conquest turned defeat into victory, the bad breath was still hard to swallow. For at least a year, he vowed to flatten Mobei, little Wala, and wait to be baptized by artillery fire!

Not long after Jin Ying left, a eunuch about 25 years old came to the hall.

"Slave Wynn, kowtow to the emperor!"

Zhu Qizhen looked up, then lowered his head and continued to write and draw on the draft paper.

"Get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wynn stood up and stood obediently beside Zhu Qizhen.

"What to eat for lunch?"

"what?"

It was the first time Wynn served the emperor up close, so he was very nervous.

"I ask you, what do you have for lunch?"

"Oh, oh!" Wynn said hurriedly, "It's all been arranged. Today's noon is roasted lamb, and..."

"stop!"

Zhu Qizhen raised his head abruptly, his face turned pale and he said, "Can you change it?"

"Ah?" Wynn was startled, and hurriedly said, "Whatever does the emperor want to eat, I will prepare it right away."

"Anything but mutton!"

"Then...roast beef?"

The muscles on Zhu Qizhen's face visibly twitched, and he said, "I don't want to eat meat today!"

"Then...servant to prepare some vegetarian food?"

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said, "Is there any seafood?"

Wynn was in trouble immediately, and said, "Did the emperor forget that I have stipulated that civilian boards are not allowed to go into the sea..."

Zhu Qizhen frowned and said, "What kind of bullshit rule is this?"

"Your Majesty, be careful what you say, Your Majesty!"

Wynn knelt down directly. This is the ancestral system. If these civil servants listen to Qingliu, it's okay...

"That's all, just get whatever you want, it's not beef and mutton."

Wynn had an idea, and said: "There are a few carp in the imperial dining room, all of which are fresh. This servant girl will go and order to make a steamed carp for the emperor."

"Alright, let's go!"

Zhu Qizhen secretly sighed, the majestic emperor of Ming Dynasty can't even eat a meal of seafood, so he is a fart!

No, I have to open the sea, I want to eat lobster, abalone, salmon, pipi shrimp...

Thinking of this, he suddenly got up and took out the map just now.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty implemented the sea ban was mainly because Japanese pirates were rampant along the coast, the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even the foreign business groups living in Quanzhou at that time had assisted Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and others. After Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, he targeted private private overseas trade and The rampant Japanese pirates simply banned the sea.

At this time, the Wa Kingdom was experiencing the era of separatist rule by princes, and the feudal lords attacked each other. Those feudal lords who were defeated were forced to leave their homeland, turned into pirates, and frequently harassed the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.

As the plague of Japanese pirates intensified, the Ming Dynasty's sea ban policy became more stringent. Although it could play a certain role in protection, it completely lost the coastline.

Zhu Qizhen stared at the map, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.

The reason why Japanese pirates are rampant is mainly because Daming's coastline is too long. As a defender, it is very passive.

When you deploy defenses in Dengzhou, people will land from Quanzhou.

When you set up your defenses in Quanzhou, they turned around and ran to Taizhou...

Therefore, although the imperial court raised 20 Beiwowei and consumed a lot of money and food every year, it still felt powerless.

However, why blindly defend it?
(End of this chapter)