Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 61 Touring the Academy of Science and Technology

"Dr. Dai, I made you laugh."

"Don't dare, I just found out today that I am a frog in a well."

Dai Sizong was shocked. Many officials said that the Academy of Science and Technology had a vain name, saying that it was enough to have a grand hospital, and that it was necessary to train doctors in the Academy of Science and Technology. It was obvious that His Highness looked down on them.

Find some craftsmen to make mud legs, and even insult people there for former officials of the Yuan court.

Today, Dai Sizong has a new view on these craftsmen. No matter what they were before, they all have real skills.

Zhu Biao walked in front of the pavilion of the Academy of Science and Technology with his hands behind his back.

The courtyard is surrounded by houses, which were originally prepared for the East Palace, but Zhu Biao asked Lao Zhu to set aside these dozen or so houses for the Science and Technology Institute.

Healers, carpenters, farmers... and Gao Qi and the others explained the chemistry pamphlets and agronomy pamphlets. They were varied but well organized.

Song Lian and the others were discussing something with Zhan Shifu in the room, but Zhu Biao didn't bother him, and continued walking forward.

Walking to one place, Dai Sizong became a little curious, what is in the big vat covered with straw at the door?
I saw a lot of bamboo tubes hanging in the air at the group of doctors just now, and they said they were used to remove the medicinal liquid...

Seeing that Dai Sizong was curious, Muying got Zhu Biao's order, stepped forward to lift the cracked straw and said, "Here are the large seeds that they have painstakingly selected. I am afraid that they will be scorched by the midday sun."

"Big seed?"

"The good seeds cultivated by lonely people only take a long time, and pesticides and fertilizers are indispensable."

Join the farmers in the north who plow 300 to [-] mu of land per person, and combine summer wheat and autumn millet to grow grain and produce more than two stones per mu ([-] catties per mu in the current city).

However, the rice in the rice-wheat double-cropping field in the south can produce 2 shi (288 catties) of rice per mu.

After research, if basic fertilizers are used to reduce pest damage, then the yield per mu will be more, even tens of stones per mu is not a lie.

Because he suffered from childhood, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that it was not easy to be a farmer.

He told Zhu Biao at the time that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he hoped that the people would have food and clothing as soon as possible, so that they could live a stable life.

Research on chemical fertilizers and pesticides is imminent.

With these, agricultural development will not be too laborious. Yangzhou only uses the most common and easy-to-make fertilizer.

After harvesting the grain, we need to see the effect of the first year.

For 5000 years, since ancient times, it has a vast territory and complicated situations.

The Ming Dynasty used to adopt strict centralization, and its policy was not to promote and support the advanced economy, nor to increase the wealth of the whole country, but to protect the backward economy and maintain the security of the dynasty with a balanced attitude.

If Zhu Biao does not travel through time, then history will still develop according to the original.

In 1388 in history, Lao Zhu once personally instructed that the common people don’t need to put the tax in kind into the warehouse, but directly supply it to the sergeant’s family, and the sergeant will no longer pay the military salary.

It also stipulated that a number of taxpayers should be dispatched in Yingtian Mansion to correspond with the [-] soldiers of the Jinwu Guard.

However, this problem will no longer appear after the change of the Daming Resident Register and Recruitment.

Zhu Biao was pulled back to the present moment by the clanging voice.Dai Sizong next to him said, "Is your Highness's house a blacksmith?"

"Physician Dai, there are no artisan households these days. Those are scientific and technological officials who are only invited to practice copper, iron and mine."

Dai Sizong nodded.

Mineral assets, when I was a librarian in my previous life, I read a lot of books.

A group of large and medium-sized deposits, including Tongguan Mountain, Lion Mountain, Datuan Mountain, Donggua Mountain, Fenghuang Mountain, Xinqiao, Guichi, Anqing, Langya Mountain, and Shaxi, have copper reserves of more than 300 million tons.

Historically, due to the bankruptcy of the Yuan Dynasty’s banknote policy and the natural factors of copper shortage in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty finally gave up the management of the financial market.

Later, in the Ming Dynasty, it once degenerated to the state of bartering.

Paper money was issued in the early Ming Dynasty, but copper coins were cast after failure.

However, due to the lack of copper mines and the trade of the Ming court, it was difficult to maintain the supply of money.

In addition to minting coins in the early Yongle Dynasty, in the late Ming Dynasty, they let go of the issuance of currency.

Slowly, gold and silver began to be used as currency substitutes.

However, due to the lack of silver in the Ming Dynasty and the policy of promoting copper coins in the early Ming Dynasty, the use of gold and silver was banned many times.

In the mid-Ming Dynasty, the smuggling trade was huge.

Zhu Biao clearly remembered that Dexing City was located at the junction of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces, with dense resources and developed mining industries.There is also the saying that Jinshan Silver City and Copper Capital.

The Dexing Copper Mine is located at the foot of Peacock Mountain in the Huaiyu Mountains. It is the largest open-pit copper mine in China, the largest in Asia, and the second largest copper mine in the world.

According to the fact that the Ming Dynasty has just founded the country, the technology and money are not enough, so Zhu Biao plans to prepare slowly first, protect it well, and wait for the conditions to mature.

Going forward is the Shenji Hall built by Zhu Biao at that time. This is the template he made according to the Shenjiying.

Lao Zhu attached great importance to firearms, and this weapon played a great role in beating Chen Youliang, and he tasted the sweetness.

Here, in addition to inviting Jiao Yu's descendants and Tao Chengdao to teach the development, Lao Zhu personally selected people.

"One gun, two twisted threads, three powders, four horses, five hits, six hits and three hammers, seven arrows..."

After Dai Sizong heard the movement from inside.His eyes widened, His Royal Highness is really well prepared.

Zhu Biao smiled and said: "Haha, don't be surprised by Imperial Physician Dai, there are others behind this."

Mu Ying followed behind, and His Highness said that the firearms soldiers should form an array to form bursts to complete the continuous output of firepower.

Moreover, this kind of continuous firepower output must be achieved through continuous daily training.

Therefore, in order to cooperate with the use of firearms, the formation method also needs to be practiced and studied.

Zhu Biao is still not satisfied with the current situation. After all, for a normal and complete organization, the founder only needs to be responsible for selecting talents and making good rules and regulations.

The specific operation, execution, and basic business development are all done by the bottom layers.

As we walked further back, Dai Sizong discovered that the East Palace of His Royal Highness is really a good place.

When Zhu Biao saw the woodworkers in the distance, he thought of Zheng Sanbao who was arranged by him to train in the navy.

That water army was raised by Lao Zhu in a lake, where there were fish and shrimps, and the soldiers could catch fish by the lake, which was a natural food supply base.

But it's cheaper for that boy Sanbao, he was a landlubber before, and he doesn't know how his water skills are now.

The weather was hot, and Zhu Biao's back was soaked when he finished walking around. After seeing off Dai Sizong, he went back to take a bath and change clothes, and changed into ordinary clothes.

Yu'er and Jin'er served dishes and soup to Zhu Biao.

When Mu Ying came back, she held a wooden box in her hand: "Your Highness, Miss Shen gave this to me."

"What? Is she here?"

"Yes, but I just delivered the box and left. I told the guards last time that if Miss Shen comes, let them report."

When the box was opened, Zhu Biao saw several Daming banknotes inside, totaling 6000 taels.

You don't need to ask, you know it's Wuliang Xuequ's money.

Mu Ying stood aside, hesitated to speak, and finally couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, Miss Shen seems to be ill."

"I know."

"Your Highness, don't you want to go and see?"

"You are just here to meet that little maid of her family, right? Gu went out of the palace again and was seen by the Yanguan Yushi..."

The system of the Ming Dynasty was relatively strict. The emperor could not leave the palace casually, especially for private visits. As the heir to the throne, it was even more impossible for the prince to leave the palace casually.

unless politically necessary.

Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty was a special case.

Seeing Zhu Biao's hesitation, Mu Ying knew the reason, "This is the need of state affairs, besides, the foster father and adoptive mother acquiesced, and they went there a few times before."

As soon as Mu Ying got down in a hurry, she changed the names of Lao Zhu and Empress Ma to foster father and foster mother, not at all prudent.

Zhu Biao knew that both Lao Zhu and Queen Ma knew what he was doing, so he nodded and went to change clothes.

(End of this chapter)