My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 170: The Princess Who Loves to Work
There are a large number of skilled workers and simple assembly lines that can produce M1841 needle-fired rifles and paper-wrapped bullets.

These are all the initial conditions for mass production of 56 semi-automatic rifles. Xu Nian’s head has grown another circle bigger.

The biggest problem is that there is no electricity!

Even the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region back then was not as difficult as this. Xu Nian did not dare to mention it, for fear that Li Han would ask him to design another set of power generation equipment, which would be really difficult to do.

He studied weapons system engineering and explosion technology, not electrical engineering!

If there is no electricity, then we can only design a fully manual milling lathe. But then he thought, when there was a shortage of electricity, the old revolutionary base areas of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia also used manual lathes to turn parts.

If there is no electricity, then we can just use human power instead. When electricity first appeared, didn’t it also replace human and animal power? Now we are just doing reverse engineering.

As for rifling, all you need is a machine tool and skilled craftsmen. There are many independent small gun shops in Europe, like those at the foot of the Swiss Alps, which specialize in making custom guns for old aristocrats, and all of them rifle by hand.

There are also mafia families in Sicily in southern Italy. They were also self-reliant when they were fighting Mussolini in the past, but that is now history.

As for bullets, Li Han asked to use steel instead as much as possible. This is easy to do. Most of the bullets in the country nowadays are steel-backed copper bullets. The process is easy to solve, but the difficult part is the explosives.

According to Li Han's idea, the Ming Dynasty in his novel was already able to produce fulminate of mercury and nitrate explosives. However, the propellants of modern bullets are all made of refined nitrocellulose, which has extremely high requirements for production technology.

I don’t know why Li Han has to prepare so carefully to write a novel. Sometimes he really has the illusion that Li is preparing for time travel.

However, since Party A had requested it, he, as Party B's slave, could only try his best to fulfill it.

Who made Party A give so much?

It becomes easy once he has an idea. In order to get the unique signed edition golden needle gun, Xu Nian decides to challenge his weak spot.

But this is really a large systematic project, and there is only three months, which is very tight.

After sending Xu Nian and Li Momo away, Li Han opened the reply letter written by Zhu Yuanzhang and read it carefully.

Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction after reading the history of the Anti-Japanese War was completely within Li Han's expectations. As a figure at the level of the ancestor of the Chinese nation in textbooks, Zhu Yuanzhang had a dual identity when learning about that epic history.

As the sons and daughters of China, no matter who they are, they will be furious and filled with grief and indignation after learning about the cruel and despicable acts of the Japanese invaders. It is an indelible humiliation and a permanent scar in the hearts of the Chinese nation.

Just like Ms. Zhang Chunru, who was born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, except that her face is Chinese, she is no different from white Americans.

However, after she wrote "The Rape of Nanking", she suffered several mental breakdowns. Finally, under the dual pressures of extreme depression and Japanese coercion, she chose to commit suicide and ended her young life.

This is the case for a Chinese descent, let alone a native Chinese. Zhu Yuanzhang is a typical representative of the Chinese people.

In the 14th century, the Ming Dynasty was a superpower at the top of the world. The mentality of its people from top to bottom was that they were the best in the world. After learning about the cruel acts of the Japanese invaders against China, they were considered merciful not to kill two Japanese in the street as a sacrifice to the gods.

Zhu Yuanzhang’s second identity was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. As the ruler of a country, his important responsibility was to ensure peace and prosperity in the country, so that the imperial rule could continue.

However, the future Japanese invaders sounded a wake-up call for him. He would never allow any country that threatened the Ming Dynasty to exist.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Han had the same idea as to why there were always so many traitors in China.

To explain this issue clearly to Zhu, we must start from the perspective of the origin of the nation and national identity. Perhaps it is time to start building the national spirit of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Han’s idea is that this is a huge multi-dimensional project involving national education, awareness-building, and public propaganda, among other aspects.

At present, the education in the Ming Dynasty has gradually begun to be divided into two parts: liberal arts and engineering. This is a good start. In the near future, the basic knowledge of science can be added to the "engineering" part, such as basic physics, chemistry, etc. However, in the "liberal arts" aspect, if you want to add something else to the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, it is not too difficult. This is equivalent to knocking on the cornerstone of Confucian rule for thousands of years, so you have to take it slowly.

As for publicity, before the electricity problem is solved, we can only use projectors to play promotional videos in a small range. Of course, traditional paper media such as newspapers can also be used.

After reading the letter, Li Han turned on his computer and downloaded the movie "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" and the complete TV series "Drawing Sword".

However, this was a special film for the Ming Dynasty royal family. After editing, it was saved in a USB flash drive, and a reply was written and put into the mailbox.

As for the Ming Dynasty’s first national education propaganda film, it would have to be carefully produced. While thinking about it, Li Han began to look for materials on the Internet.

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"Your Highness, Your Highness, please stay still and let this servant do it!"

In the past few days, the palace maids and eunuchs in Chongning Palace have been living in fear every day. They have to get up early every morning and even can't sleep well at night. They take turns to guard Chongning Palace just to keep an eye on Zhu Funing.

If they were not careful, they would see Zhu Funing either sweeping the floor with a broom or climbing through the window with a rag.

What would happen if this got out and people outside knew about it?

Asking Her Royal Highness the Princess to do rough work is a serious crime of deceiving the master!

"Your Highness, you are a precious person, please let us servants do the rough work. You are really wearing us down like this!"

"It's okay. I'm having a great time. You guys go take a rest first."

What Zhu Funing said was quite true. On the one hand, working could alleviate her guilt. On the other hand, she also regarded the heroic sons and daughters in the video as her role models.

Other girls' girls, at her age, would either carry guns to fight the Japanese invaders or organize mass production behind enemy lines. So what was the point of doing some housework in the palace?

It is said in the video that the working people are the most glorious, and we must strive for glory!
But the palace maids and eunuchs don't think so. Letting the princess work while they rest, isn't this going against the will of heaven?

"Huaiqing, why did you climb up the window? Come down quickly!"

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang came to Chongning Palace and saw Zhu Funing lying on the window, wiping the window with his little feet.

"I have met your Majesty, and I beg your Majesty to forgive me!"

The palace maids and eunuchs knelt down, trembling with fear. Now that His Majesty saw the princess climbing through the window, they would all be beaten to death!

"What are you doing? How can you let Huaiqing climb the window? How can you be so shameless?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was about to scold him when Zhu Funing jumped out of the window, which made Zhu Yuanzhang tremble with fear.

"Father, please don't blame them. It's my daughter who wants to do this."

Zhu Funing came to Zhu Yuanzhang's side, biting her lips and said, "Don't worry about your daughter. She feels that only by working can she feel fulfilled. Please don't be angry and don't blame them!"

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed. Ever since he accidentally saw the video, Zhu Funing has become like this. Although it is not a bad thing, this is too inconsistent with the royal etiquette!
I don’t know if Lao Li has any good ideas.

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