Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 100 Reforming the Field of Science and Technology

"absurd!"

Zhu Youjian yelled angrily at Xu Shilin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

If not, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian just heard from the words of Xu Shilin, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, that he was not greedy for the compensation money allocated by the imperial court to official craftsmen, but really helped these craftsmen open shops to make a living.

Zhu Youjian wanted to kill Xu Shilin directly.

Although in this era, many people regard craftsmanship as a strange skill.

But Zhu Youjian, who is a traveler of later generations, knows that the number of these skilled craftsmen plays an important role in the strength of a country's hard power.

Even, the mechanical parts or other products cast by some talented craftsmen are more perfect than those produced by computer control.

Some people can complete the manufacture of a precision instrument with a file.

In Daming, there may not be craftsmen who can use files to process parts, but there are naturally many skilled people who make various firecracker parts.

These people can be regarded as the national treasures of Ming Dynasty, especially in this era without advanced machine tools.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian would rather move southward at a slower pace than take these craftsmen away, and even gave them no less treatment than the officials who followed him.

But now.

The majestic Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, the second-rank official who is well-educated, Xu Shilin actually made these craftsmen really become craftsmen, either blacksmithing or tinkering.

This is simply a great irony.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but not get angry.

"Many of them are old craftsmen from the Ordnance Bureau, Military Battle Bureau, Gunpowder Bureau, Wang Gong Factory, etc. who made Flang machine guns and red cannons. One person can be worth a million troops. You, Xu Shilin, asked them to make up for it. Pots and pans, you are going to piss me off!"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help roaring.

"Forgive me, Your Majesty. The order I received was only to settle these people well, so I didn't think too much about it. Please let Your Majesty clearly explain what to do."

Xu Shilin was also in a cold sweat from the fright, and at the same time he was very wronged. Now that His Majesty is severely punishing him, he didn't dare to covet Mo and share the wealth this time, and used all the money allocated by the household department to settle these craftsmen.

But where did Xu Shilin think that he would be scolded by Zhu Youjian for doing so.

However, Zhu Youjian didn't criticize him very harshly, but just said: "You are very incompetent as a minister of the Ministry of Industry, so let's resign yourself."

As soon as Zhu Youjian said that, he entered the Nanjing Military Bureau.

"I have passed the decree that Song Yingxing, the former magistrate of Bozhou, was promoted to be a doctor of the Ministry of Industry, where is he now?" Zhu Youjian asked Xu Shilin, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, at this time.

Even though Zhu Youjian is not a college student majoring in history, he is interested in history and knows who are the talented people who really understand the theoretical knowledge and practical experience of natural science in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, he has already begun to order people to find these people.

Among them, Song Yingxing is one of them.

Naturally, Zhu Youjian couldn't let him stay at home.

Xu Shilin, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was missing, saw Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian suddenly question him again, and hurriedly pointed to the official wearing an official uniform standing beside an iron stove giving a blow to a blacksmith: "Report to Your Majesty, this person is Song Yingxing, For the time being, I am acting as the agency of the Military Weapons Bureau, Military Battle Bureau, Armor Factory, etc."

At this time, Song Yingxing was over fifty years old, and his hair on the temples had already turned gray, but he could still help the blacksmith.

Zhu Youjian could also guess that Song Yingxing should be considered healthy at this time.

"Are you Song Yingxing?"

Zhu Youjian came over and asked.

"It's the official, I wonder if your Excellency is?"

Song Yingxing hadn't met Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian yet, and Zhu Youjian was wearing casual clothes today.

Therefore, Song Yingxing did not recognize Zhu Youjian.

"I haven't seen the emperor yet!"

Xu Shilin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, gave a low voice.

Only then did Song Yingxing come to his senses, and hastily saluted Zhu Youjian.

"Excuse me, tell me, what are you doing?"

Zhu Youjian asked.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I will try to get them to refine a better steel. I have interviewed some veterans. They said that Ming's artillery is easy to explode. I think it may be related to the high brittleness of the barrel. Therefore, based on the advice of some old blacksmiths, Weichen used a new steelmaking method, frying wrought iron with willow sticks, which can make the steel not brittle and not easily deformed."

After Song Yingxing finished speaking, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Very good, Xu Shilin, you've done a good job at this, and you know how to use your talents according to your ability." After speaking, Zhu Youjian asked Song Yingti to report to him the specific situation of the Military Weapons Bureau.

However, Song Yingxing's answer was also clear and neat. The number of existing craftsmen and the production capacity of various weapons in the Weapons Bureau and several other firearms production organizations can also be answered.

Zhu Youjian even directly promoted Song Yingxing to the right servant of the Ministry of Industry and took full charge of the manufacturing and research and development of important military equipment in Ming Dynasty.

at the same time.

Zhu Youjian also requested that all the weapon production workshops of the Ming Dynasty, including the General Arms Bureau, be reorganized into the Daming Ordnance Institute, which consisted of the Gunpowder Bureau, the Gunpowder Bureau, the Artillery Bureau, the Weapons Bureau (mainly for the production of cold weapons), and the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau. factory.

Although the Wang Gong Factory used its old name from Beijing, it was actually an institution that Zhu Youjian planned to develop various unconventional weapons for the Ming Dynasty in the future.

In other words, according to Zhu Youjian's request, Daming's military factory will no longer be just a small and scattered organization managed by the doctor of the Ministry of Industry and the supervisor of the inner government.

He will be a high-level yamen under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Industry and directly responsible to the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian.

And the five bureaus and one factory are now considered the basic structure of this ordnance institute.

Zhu Youjian deliberately wanted to elevate the status of the military equipment manufacturing organization, the Daming Ordnance Institute.

At the same time, he would also use this to allow all craftsmen in the system to have a clear position, so as to determine who is suitable for which bureau's technical talents.

Zhu Youjian immediately ordered Song Yingxing to recall most of the craftsmen who had been dismissed by Xu Shilin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, to the Ordnance Institute.

Even, Zhu Youjian will consider grading the tens of thousands of craftsmen according to their technical level, and if they are of a higher level, they will be given treatment no lower than that of Minister of the Minister.

Although the current social education is still dominated by Confucian education.

Zhu Youjian has not had time to completely change the basic method of national education.

But now, Zhu Youjian can use this time of war to encourage people to carry out natural science research and mobilize the enthusiasm of these craftsmen, so that they can feel honored to be a craftsman.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian was considering establishing a Daming Academy of Sciences like the Imperial Academy, and even a Daming Academy of Engineering.

In this case, it is equivalent to giving all craftsmen a benchmark of the highest goal.

Just like the cabinet is the pinnacle of promotion for officials in the political system, and the Grand Marshal’s Office is the military system, but now the highest academic institutions in the field of science and technology are the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, which will naturally make more choices for more attempts to change their own destiny, and Ming will not Therefore, it is partial to disciplines and only cultivates a group of officialdom masters, but not a group of famous military generals and academic elites.

(End of this chapter)