Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 43 Enlightenment
Zhu Youxiao, who was wearing a yellow robe, was also the first to see these scientific elites who were more famous in later generations than the six books of the same period.

Although he is the Ninth Five-Year Master, he dare not hold him too high.

Seeing that these officials wanted to salute greatly, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly excused them on the grounds that there was no need to be restrained in the early court. Seeing Tang Ruowang, he also asked with a smile: "Are you Tang Ruowang?"

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty," Tang Ruowang bowed and saluted Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao just nodded, and asked Xu Guangqi beside him, "Who is Song Yingxing?"

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao asked him personally, Song Yingxing took the initiative to stand up: "I have seen Your Majesty."

"Very good, my Ming Dynasty is full of elites, and you, Song Yingxing, are undoubtedly the most dazzling pearl."

Zhu Youxiao inadvertently praised Song Yingxing, which surprised all the officials and Song Yingxing himself.

You know, apart from the Westerner Tang Ruowang, Song Yingxing was from Juren, and the others were from Jinshi. From the very beginning, Song Yingxing felt that he was a bit shorter than the others, but he did not expect that the first person His Majesty asked by name was He also said that he is the most dazzling pearl.

Such praise from the mouth of an emperor is more enviable than conferring his wife Yinzi. From then on, Song Yingxing is enough to leave a good story in Zhu Youxiao's memorabilia.

Gossip less, after a few simple questions to everyone, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty walked into the newly built conference hall of the Ministry of Industry under the leadership of Xu Guangqi, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry and the official of the Hanlin Academy, and Bi Maokang, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry.

The conference hall is a temporary building specially built by Xu Guangqi for meetings according to Zhu Youxiao's design.

The interior of Guangsha is not the traditional format of a incense table in the middle and a grand master’s chair on each side, but rectangular square tables are arranged on both sides, covered with brown silk cloth, and small potted plants and tea are placed on the silk cloth.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao's dragon chair is still in the middle, a square table is wrapped in bright yellow silk, and behind the square table is a temporarily moved dragon chair.

Behind the dragon chair is not a phoenix tail and a five-clawed dragon, but a "Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" by Zhao Fu of the Song Dynasty.

On the bright yellow platform facing Zhu Youxiao, there is a globe made of mixed iron.

In front of the others, there were also some miniature guns and cannons, all of which were models given to them by Zhu Youxiao, but most of them were breech-loading guns and smoothbore guns. Although Xu Guangqi and others looked novel, they did not understand the principle behind them. .

Today, while Zhu Youxiao is starting the development of Ming Dynasty's science and technology, he must give them a good science popularization of these future "science fiction products" relative to this era.

"My dear friends also know that the Tartar cavalry are brave and good at fighting, and they cannot be controlled except by firearms and chariots. Now I am anxious to get you here. I don't talk about the Four Books and Five Classics, and I don't talk about the friendship between monarchs and ministers. We sit and talk, only about science. !"

When Zhu Youxiao said the word "science", all the officials present were surprised, their faces full of suspicion.

Although they had been vaccinated by the books and materials sent by Zhu Youxiao before, they still felt shocked when they heard the word "science". Looking at the model and the globe inscribed with the Age of Discovery in front of His Majesty, they couldn't help but wonder when His Majesty became more knowledgeable than carpentry.

"Xiao Rushi, bring the biggest one of my drawings and let them hang behind me", Zhu Youxiao said, and Liu Rushi hurriedly pulled out a drawing that was two meters long and one meter wide and gave it to Xiao Rushi beside me. yellow door.

After the small yellow gate was hung, Xu Guangqi and others saw that His Majesty wrote "The History of Human Civilization Development", and then there were words such as "ironware", "productivity", "machinery" and "steam engine" below.

Without waiting for these officials to ask questions, Zhu Youxiao began to speak by himself.

He studied medicine in his previous life, so he doesn't know much about this kind of anthropology and the history of technological development, but in order to teach these traditional scholar-bureaucrats a good lesson, he spent a full month preparing, so it's okay to talk about it now. Logic is clear and eloquent.

Most of these officials were born as Jinshi, and they are not stupid. What's more, they are all relatively open-minded among the scholar-bureaucrats, and they did not regard what Zhu Youxiao said as heresy.

What's more, Zhu Youxiao was still the emperor, so they all listened carefully and could roughly understand what Zhu Youxiao said.

It is precisely because of this that all the officials present can stuff eggs with their mouths wide open. What Zhu Youxiao said is undoubtedly impacting their thoughts formed over decades.

An official stood up excitedly, slapped the table, pointed at Zhu Youxiao and wanted to call him nonsense.

But suddenly realized that it was His Majesty who was speaking, looking at the Jin Yiwei on both sides, he sat back in fright, seeing that Zhu Youxiao didn't let someone pull him down and chop him up, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

Of course, there were also officials who didn't care about the order of dignity. Seeing Zhu Youxiao conducting experiments in front of them, they simply came over and stood behind Zhu Youxiao to see how Zhu Youxiao replaced iron with copper.

If Zhu Youxiao hadn't waved his hand to stop Jin Yiwei's movements, the officials who approached him would have been regarded as assassins by now, and their heads would have fallen to the ground.

It is easier for those in high positions to promote the development of the times, and the new ideas they send out are easier to convince the people below. Zhu Youxiao is doing this at this time.

He wants to inject a fresh source of thought into this ancient empire dominated by the Confucian system. Maybe this can give him new vitality, instead of waiting for the slaughter of the northern Tartars and the bullying of Western powers hundreds of years later. .

It's time to bring a new spring breeze to the Ming Dynasty, and let these natural philosophies that have sprouted or not sprouted be thoroughly enlightened.

The entire Great Ming Science and Technology Imperial Conference held at the Ministry of Industry almost became Zhu Youxiao's talk, but whether it was Zhu Youxiao or these scholar-type officials present, it was much more exciting than the early court meeting.

Even the missionary Tang Ruowang secretly admired him, he never thought that the emperor of this ancient oriental empire would be so knowledgeable.

Officials never thought that a small skill could have such a great impact on human beings. From this moment on, they gradually discovered that what they did might not be as simple as a simple trick.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest flintlock gun that Bi Shilang cast according to His Majesty's drawings, and all of them have been standardized. From the small flint to the steel rod in front, there are caliber and size requirements, and each craftsman is only responsible for one part. The manufacture, assembly and welding are also assembled by another type of craftsman, even if the Tartars capture a craftsman, they don’t know how to make our new firearms of Ming Dynasty.”

When it was Xu Guangfa's turn to speak, he directly took out a shiny firearm wrapped in a red cloth.

"Oh", Zhu Youxiao couldn't help being very surprised. He quickly took it over and weighed it: "Is this easy to operate? Have you tried it with soldiers? What is the range and rate of fire?"

Xu Guangqi hurriedly answered one by one, and took Zhu Youxiao to the school field of the Military Weapons Bureau to experience it on the spot.

　Although the technology tree is easy to climb, I want to be as reasonable as possible and not engage in technology hacking.So I have thought about every word and deleted it a few times, and I can barely send it out for everyone to read. Please forgive me if there are slight flaws.

　　
　
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