Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 232 Zheng Xun

There is no plan to go out today, after eating, I don't know whether it is breakfast or the first meal of lunch, Zhu Yuan came to the study of the main room and started to deal with some simple business matters.

First, I wrote an official document that I planned to send to the General Secretary.

Regarding the abacus that I showed Lao Zhu yesterday, I saw it by chance on the day of the imperial examination at the end of September, and then arranged to make it for the master.In this era without computers, the abacus is basically the most powerful auxiliary calculation tool.

Therefore, not only Jinling University, which was originally considered, but also other colleges and universities under preparation, as well as various departments of the imperial court, must be distributed.

The reason why I am so dedicated is to talk about 'economics'.

In the future, one of the foundations to support the study of economics will be data, large quantities of data, and if you want to obtain large quantities of data, abacus is the best choice without a computer.

As for the abacus formula, Zhu Yuan only remembered the one "three times, five divisions two", and he forgot everything else. This time, he didn't bother himself, nor let the women in the inner house ponder it. Instead, he planned to hand it over to the mathematics major of Jinling University to perfect it. tidy.

It is not just addition and subtraction, nor is it just multiplication and division. In the future, it is necessary to study the way to find the cube and so on.

Then, the simplified dictionary that the women finally completed.

Zhu Yuan has been following up personally. At first it was a pinyin dictionary, referring to "Shuowen Jiezi", and then simplified characters. At present, there is a thick handwritten dictionary with a total of just over [-] characters.

I roughly flipped through it, and attached a simple memorial about my own thoughts, planning to send it to Lao Zhu later.

Both pinyin and simplified characters must be promoted as soon as possible.

One of Zhu Yuan's suggestions to Lao Zhu is to print tens of thousands of copies first, and distribute them to all states and counties like "Da Ming Monthly" for semi-mandatory promotion.

This matter has also been confirmed as a theme of the next issue of "Daming Monthly", mainly to explain the necessity of promoting "pinyin" and "simplified characters", and at the same time to show the attitude of the court, you don't have to learn it, just like... ...You can also have no future.

Besides, "Daming Monthly" will gradually be simplified in the future.

After these two incidents, I began to read and deal with some official documents sent by various yamen.

There are a lot of them, but only two copies are important.

The first one is from Mingzhou.

The winter fishing officially started at the end of September. According to the length of the hairtail flood season, which is about two to three months, it is now more than half.

The official document sent by the Mingzhou Yinghai Division is on the tenth day of the winter month, counting from the official start of the arrest on September [-]th, a total of one month and ten days.

During this period of time, the waters of Zhoushan have been fortunately calm, and Yinghai Division has harvested about 37 tons of hairtail in total. If this can continue in the second half, it is expected that the entire fishing season will end, and the total amount of fish caught this winter will reach about 80 tons. .

Far exceeding the initial conservative estimate of 50 tons.

On the one hand, God gave me face, there was no wind or rain, and the fishing was not interrupted. On the other hand, the means of catching hairtail fish gradually matured. After all, the 6000 loads harvested on the first day of fishing, when I received the news, Zhu Yuan did not think much of it. Not too much, and I worry that they will be eager for quick success and quick profit, but at the same time, it is never too much.

The current daily output is around [-] tons, which is considered qualified.

In addition to sea fishing, the document also mentions that, taking advantage of the north wind in winter, sea trade ships going to Korea, Japan and other countries in summer have begun to return one after another, and some data are also given, and the income is very good.

Also taking advantage of the north wind, there are also some merchant ships heading south from Mingzhou.

In addition, there are other trivial things, such as guano island, duck raising industry chain, next year's tree planting plan, etc.

After reading Mingzhou's documents, Zhu Yuan wrote back as usual, mainly for this winter fishing, and he still tirelessly urged that sustainable development should not be exhausted.

The second copy was sent by the Firearms Division.

This is a thick stack of firearm illustrations, mainly the types of firearms currently owned by the Ming army.

The last time I met with the firearms commander Zhong Hanyu, apart from being shocked when I found out that a large amount of gunpowder was hoarded in Jinling City, I immediately ran to Lao Zhu to talk about relocation. After that, I didn’t make time to talk more. these materials.

There are also considerations in private.

Before returning from Mingzhou, I talked with Huagao and the others about the development direction of the Ming Dynasty Navy, which should focus on long-range strikes, and promised to personally monitor the development of corresponding firearms here.

However, the current situation is that we still have to go step by step.

Relatively speaking, because he understood the fundamentals, Daming was able to produce quite powerful black powder, but, going further, the conditions for the automatic or semi-automatic firearms that came later were still far behind.

Like...the lack of machine tools.

If it is just casting, it will be original after all.

In addition, if you want better gunpowder or other aids, chemistry should take a step forward.

There is also the issue of raw materials.

During this period of time, I also learned that the three main raw materials and the large-scale demand are no longer tens of thousands of catties and 10,000+ catties per year. Then, charcoal is not a problem, and sulfur... It turned out that this era can pass Pyrite is refined, so it is not a problem. The final nitrate has some problems. The key is to explore more nitrate ore.

None of this can be accomplished in a short period of time.

All Zhu Yuan can think of is to do as much as possible under the current conditions, and it should be practiced.

More... just wait a few years.

Looking through the illustrated book now, I can’t help but sigh with emotion. The ideas that can be had hundreds of years later, such as artillery, muskets, mines, and even sea mines, actually exist in this era.However, it's also pretty rough.

Still have to wait.

Zhu Yuan finished looking through the illustrated book, and added the memorial to Lao Zhu again.

The current firearms can be used, so Zhu Yuan hopes to use them as much as possible, the main reason is to use this to train a large number of soldiers who are good at firearms for the future.

Except for these two documents, some other official documents were simply annotated and put aside.

For example, another one is about Daming Ceramics Group.

This project is important.

As we all know, in this era, China's ceramic trade, both internally and externally, in terms of volume and profit, is huge.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan is very much in favor of Lao Zhu's establishment of Daming Ceramics Group.

However, for this project, Zhu Yuan intends to hold back.

After all, you have to give others room to play, right?

What's more, whether internally or externally, this business has lasted for thousands of years, and there are many people who know it, but Zhu Yuan is a layman.

Just don't touch it.

So I just roughly wrote down some ideas according to the model of other 'groups', roughly, there must be the concept of technical protection, and the awareness of building a brand. Others, Lao Zhu looked at the arrangement by himself, and Zhu Yuan didn't even recommend anyone.

After working like this for more than half an hour, everything that should be dealt with has been dealt with, and all official documents that should be sent have been sent out, and there is nothing else for the time being.When I came to the East Garden and watched the progress of the women's various textbooks for a while, news came from the porter.

Deng Yu sent his family members to post a post, hoping to make an appointment to visit and discuss the affairs of Jinling Military University.

He also said that it was Lao Zhu's advice.

This can't be refused, just reply directly, it's ok now.

Because I got up too late today, I didn't plan to take a nap, and the afternoon was just right.

After replying, Deng Yu arrived soon.

Zhu Yuan greeted him in front of the main hall of the Second Courtyard. He was very envious when he saw a tall and burly figure dressed in casual clothes with an obvious military atmosphere.

After rebirth, why didn't I have such a good physical body?

Ok……

If you want to choose, "Rebirth of Chang Yuchun, Opening the Road to the Great Ming God of War".

Ok.

Then he noticed that Deng Yu was followed by a young man of at most 20 years old, also tall, his breath was not as obvious as Deng Yu's, but he also felt that he was connected with the army.

After the two parties met and exchanged a few greetings, Zhu Yuan looked at the young man who came with Deng Yu: "This is..."

"Pingzhang, after hearing the name, you must know..." Deng Yu lost his aura as soon as he opened his mouth, and it was more of a gentle feeling when he first saw him at Longwan Wharf: "This... is Pingzhang. Zhang presided over Zheng Xun, who published the article in "Da Ming Monthly". Heh, speaking of "Da Ming Monthly", I recently read it and learned a lot."

Zhu Yuan was stunned.

The examinee whose ten articles were all military strategies, the test paper had not been opened at that time, Zhu Yuan ordered to post the missing person, identified the author, but did not make too much effort to learn more, never thought that Deng Yu would be with him today.

But I remembered that I did suggest to Lao Zhu that day that he should be admitted to Jinling Military University.

Old Zhu is doing good again.

Deng Yu introduced here, and a young man named Zheng Xun bowed to Zhu Yuan: "I will pay my respects to Mr. Pingzhang from Zheng Xun."

"Get up," Zhu Yuanxu supported, and said, "I was also deeply impressed by your article. I hope you can practice it in the future, and don't just talk about it on paper."

Zheng Xun got up, and when he heard the words, he quickly cupped his hands: "I would like to listen to my lord's instruction."

With the rise of talking here, He Xuan on the side had no choice but to step forward, bowed his body and whispered to persuade: "My lord, general, let's go into the room and talk, it's windy outside today."

Although it was still sunny, the north wind was blowing again today.

Deng Yu suddenly remembered the frail body of the young man in front of him, nodded his head quickly, and stretched out his hand to help Zhu Yuan: "Pingzhang, let's go into the house."

Zhu Yuan nodded and turned around.

The small meeting room ordered the day before yesterday has been set up.

The conference table this time is smaller, one foot long and three feet wide.

Zhu Yuan did not sit at the top, but sat opposite to Deng Yu. Zheng Xun refused to take a seat at first, and spread out the few documents he brought on the table. Hearing Zhu Yuan said that he was responsible for recording, he carefully placed at the bottom Sit down.

He Xuan brought tea, paper and pens, and quietly retreated.

While Zhu Yuan was looking through the documents, Deng Yu talked about just now: "I'm afraid Pingzhang doesn't know, but after Zheng Xun was still a loyal soldier, his father Zheng Ensui raised troops in Tongling, and later voted for the lord. He died five years ago. He is now at Poyang Lake. The lord heard about his identity and specially summoned him a few days ago, and awarded him the post of Thousand Households of the Fifth Grade Guard Division, and asked him to organize the Jinling Military University together with me."

"Poyang Lake, although I haven't experienced it, I know how dangerous and tragic that battle was." Zhu Yuan felt emotional when he heard that 60 troops fought bloody Poyang Lake, not to mention the era of cold weapons, even in the era of hot weapons hundreds of years later , There are not many such large-scale water battles, and he turned to Zheng Xun: "Since you have this origin, you must work hard, whether it is your ancestors or your father, you must not let you down."

Zheng Xun thought of the past because of the conversation between the two, and there were tears in the blink of an eye. Hearing this, he got up, and respectfully clapped his hands again and agreed: "Please remember."

Zhu Yuan noticed Zheng Xun's self-proclaim this time, and Deng Yu's introduction just now.

Gong Weisi Qianhu, this is considered a military position.

Zhu Yuan's previous suggestion was to let Zheng Xun join the Ministry of War, but the Ministry of War is still planning, and... Gong Wei Division.

Old Zhu probably had other ideas.

Zhu Yuan also remembered, almost forgot, about the change of the name of the Gongwei Department to Jinyiwei.

The name Jin Yiwei is so domineering!

This is not in a hurry.

Thinking of the article that was very suitable for his own taste, coupled with Zheng Xun's qualifications, Zhu Yuan also had more expectations for this young man.However, there is no more performance at the moment, and we still have to discuss the business.

(End of this chapter)