Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 236 The curtain quietly opened
Zhu Youjian only smiled when he saw Boluo like this. He could see that when the nobles of the Qing Dynasty were captured and detained alive, not all of them were as stubborn as Duduo, and their chastity was commendable.Just like Qishan, Yishan and others in later generations, they are no worse than the Han people in selling their country.

Now that Boluo kowtows to beg for mercy, Zhu Youjian can understand that everyone has the desire to survive, and Boluo, a man of the nobles of the Qing Dynasty, cherishes his life is also a human instinct.

It's just that Zhu Youjian really wants to see Duduo's reaction now.

But when Zhu Youjian turned his head, he found that Duoduo was not as fierce as when he scolded Kong Youde just now, but sat slumped on the hay pile in the cell, with tears in his eyes, clenched black teeth, and clenched fists. Suddenly, he picked up the ten-jin iron cuffs on his wrists and smashed them on his forehead.

"He wants to commit suicide! Tie him up!" Wang Chengen yelled hastily, and the guards from the Liangdong Factory hurriedly opened the door and entered the cell where Duduo was being held. Dragging on the chair, Zhun back locked Duoduo on the chair.

But Duoduo directly broke free from the two Dongchang slaves, dragged a hundred catties of iron chains, rushed out of the cell, and ran towards Zhu Youjian, his eyes were blood red, wishing he could eat Zhu Youjian.

"Escort!" Wang Shide, the commander of the Jinyi Guard who replaced Li Ruolian in charge of the guards, yelled. Thirty Jinyi Guards pulled out their embroidered spring knives and stared vigilantly at Duoduo, who was walking towards Zhu Youjian step by step.

Zhu Youjian stood there and looked at Doduo, but he never thought that Doduo would have such supernatural power that he could drag away a hundred-jin-heavy iron chain.

However, after walking a few more steps, Doduo couldn't move anymore. The iron chain behind him had been locked on the stone pillar in the cell.

However, Duoduo saw that Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian could not do anything, so he suddenly swung his iron cuffs and slammed into Boluo's door: "To disgrace our Aixinjueluo family, this king will kill you! I will kill you!"

The grinning Duduo scared Boluo back a few steps, but Zhu Youjian couldn't help laughing when he saw this: "Duoduo, Boluo didn't disgrace you Manchurian Jurchen, you are my subjects of Ming Dynasty, now After treason and usurpation, it is understandable to ask me for guilt, but you are still stubborn and have no intention of pleading guilty, and you are ashamed of your Aixinjueluo ancestor!"

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he ordered Wang Chengen to continue to guard Duoduo and others, and walked out of the prison in Yangzhou. As for the future fate of Duoduo and others, needless to say, they must be severely punished, otherwise it would not be enough to deter the Qing court. Promote the prestige of Daming.

Early the next morning, Liu Zongzhou, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, had arrived in Yangzhou City. After meeting Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, he began to prepare for the ceremony of the emperor's victory and return, which meant that Zhu Youjian was about to leave Yangzhou City.

For a long period of time in the future, Zhu Youjian will not travel around easily again.

After annihilating the Duoduo tribe right now, Jiangnan is bound to enter a period of stability. He has to take advantage of this time to start the new transformation of the Ming Dynasty, and do his best to escort the tax collection that is about to start.

Gao Hongtu took the initiative to meet Yangzhou salt merchants, and went north to Shandong three days before Zhu Youjian left Yangzhou.

When waiting for him to come back, it was when Zhu Youjian asked him to preside over the reform of the salt administration.

And Li Xiangjun, Bian Yujing and Liu Rushi also returned to Beijing ahead of schedule under the escort of Xia Wanchun and others. These three people were different from Gao Hongtu, the cabinet minister, and they did not cause much repercussions.

But what no one knew was that what Li Xiangjun and the other three brought back to Beijing was the driving force that would change the entire Ming society in the future.

Although it is said that the greatest enemy of the Ming Dynasty is the Manchus, Zhu Youjian did not regard the Manchus as the real enemy in the future, especially after defeating the Duduo tribe of the Qing army, he did not think that the Qing army could fight again. Have the ability to rule the world.

Although the north is dilapidated, it is still the beautiful mountains and rivers in the pass. It is impossible for Nurhachi's descendants to be as ambitious as Dorgon, and once he is still alive, he will still be able to unite the power of the entire southern Han people.

The real enemy is undoubtedly the Western forces that are likely to shake China's position in the world in the future. This is the future enemy that Zhu Youjian has to pay attention to. Let the political culture dominated by Confucian Neo-Confucianism rule the Ming Dynasty, and 200 years later, the Ming Dynasty will have the same fate as the late Qing Dynasty. It will be oppressed by Western powers, even by the island countries across the sea, and even almost perished.

The core of changing the existing social development model is to improve productivity. The driving force for improving productivity is the emergence of new labor tools. The invention of new labor tools comes from the development of academic theories, and the development of academic theories comes from the liberation of people’s minds and the transformation of thinking methods.

The role of the publications such as "Nature" and "Seeking Knowledge" that will appear in the Jiangnan area in the future is to make the scholars and people in Jiangnan begin to change their way of thinking and free themselves from the inherent Confucian ethics and etiquette.

Using newspapers and periodicals to build a thinking platform for the public and breaking the monopoly of the elite on the construction of academic ideas and theoretical achievements is undoubtedly a good way that is not so drastic but can quietly leverage the inherent model of the current society.

But this still requires Zhu Youjian's court to do two things for the newspapers, that is, the emerging media industry. One thing is to improve printing techniques, increase the volume and efficiency of printing and distribution, reduce printing costs, and promote wider and faster distribution of information. circulation.

Another thing is to increase the literacy rate. The most basic thing to open up the wisdom of the people is to eradicate illiteracy. The Jiangnan area has a prosperous literary style and the literacy rate is already higher than other areas, but there is still a big gap compared with later generations.

The first one is about the improvement of printing technology. Zhu Youjian already knows that the printing technology currently used by Daming is still the imported Western Gutenberg vertical spiral movable type printing.

The difference between this printing method and the printing method invented by Bi Sheng is that the movable type uses an alloy of lead, tin and antimony.

This kind of movable type is harder and more resistant to printing than copper movable type. In addition, there are also type boxes and type molds for casting type, so that movable type can have fixed specifications and can be mass-produced. In addition, printing machines The improvement of printing position imprinting by using the principle of vertical spiral can improve the efficiency and lay the foundation for the subsequent mechanical printing.

This printing technique was invented by Germany in the 200th century, which is now the Holy Roman Empire. It has been used for more than [-] years, and the technology is quite proficient. Therefore, it is naturally not too difficult to improve, mainly in terms of power equipment. It needs to be improved. Although fully mechanized equipment manufacturing will not be available until the steam industry revolution occurs in Daming, it is still possible to let the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau and Daming Engineering Institute improve the human transmission equipment.

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