Chapter 303 – Imperial Grace

Zhang Anshi saw also lost ha, then happy: “I said early in the morning how to have joy in the branches of the chirping call, the original is actually Gong Gong came.”

Yilun Ha laughed, “The slave girl is only reporting the good news, isn’t the good news still His Majesty’s?”

Zhang Anshi nodded and then received the decree.

The decree is very simple, add Zhang Anshi 30,000 households, and set up an additional one guard escort.

Seemingly, this grace order is very sparse, but in fact, Zhu Di has been very generous.

Thirty thousand households is not going to be a small number, it is the population of a county, and as for the one-guard escorts, they are on the scale of three thousand.

Of course, these were given to the fiefdom, which means that in Zhang Anshi’s Xinzhou, there was a new manpower, and at the same time, he got an armed force.

This is of great significance to the consolidation of the New Deal. That part of Xinzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and one of the most scarce things is manpower.

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty’s great favor, I am grateful.”

Yizhuha said, “His Majesty was so happy last night that he has been looking forward to dawn so that he could go and look at that machine gun!”

Zhang Anshi cheerfully said, “I will lead His Majesty there later.”

Thereupon Zhang Anshi went to Zhu Di’s tent to thank him for his grace.

Probably in a good mood prediction, Zhu Di the whole person glowing, looking at Zhang Anshi, smiled: “Well, no need to be polite, this is what you deserve, I also think to give less it, this 30,000 households …… to be sent out early, I think about it, need to be a good family.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, is it possible to move these migrating people …… in units of households? Instead of the period of Emperor Taizu Gao, they were moved as families.”

There is a mystery here. The household is the small family, the family is the big one.

General a household, roughly in five or six people up and down, and the family is not the same, a large family, may easily be hundreds, or even thousands of the size of the people is not uncommon.

“Oh?” Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi and said, “What is the reason for this?”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said: “If the whole family migrated, this new island, I’m afraid that in a short time, the dominant position is that a few families and surnames, where there is what I do? But if it is just a household transfer, the vast majority of people do not have blood relations, Yang Shiqi, the governor, in Xinzhou can also manage some.”

It is also true that the Zhang family has not yet had any manpower to travel to Xinzhou to rule, which means that the power in Xinzhou is now incomplete, although there is already a governor’s office, and Yang Shiqi is absolutely reliable.

But Zhang Anshi had to make sure that before his son came of age, or before he himself retired and left for Xinzhou, there would not be a rapid emergence of new clans in this new continent.

If this kind of lineage were to be generated quickly, it would not be a good thing for the Zhang family.

“In addition to ……” Zhang Anshi continued: “If the Xinzhou side is not to raise the family migration, then the people who go to Xinzhou, often in the Daming will still have some thoughts, I am thinking, the future of the Daming and Xinzhou dealings are also a little more. ”

Xinzhou that place, sparsely populated, but the resources are extremely rich, this is a piece of fertile ground, but precisely because it is fertile ground, you have to hold on to the thighs of the Great Ming. The only way to join the trade system of the Ming Dynasty is to have a future.

This is why, in later times, Australia, when the British Empire’s colonial system was almost falling apart, still managed to barely maintain its loyalty to the British Empire.

Therefore, the bond of kinship is very important, the more the people of Xinzhou heart to Daming, then it will be easier to accept the rule of the Zhang family of Daming’s enthronement, and many of Daming’s military and civilian people are connected to Xinzhou’s blood, and naturally, it will also affect Daming’s state policy towards Xinzhou.

Zhang Anshi in Xinzhou, obviously go and other clans are not the same way, other clans, most of them are going to the more dense natives, their dependence on Daming, from the need for Daming’s support in order to militarily defeat the local natives.

This bloodline connection was the only thing Zhang Anshi relied on.

In addition, Zhang Anshi still have some small selfishness, this new continent is not far away, not close, if the connection between each other to deepen, a large number of people and trade exchanges, it is bound to be a great demand for ships, and better and faster ships, there will be a huge demand!

This is a huge development for the future of the shipping industry, as well.

Zhu Di heard, seems to be also very agreeable, without too much hesitation, then nodded: “This …… I allowed.”

“As for this guard manpower ……” Zhang Anshi paused, then said: “Your Majesty, Xinzhou that place, there has been a manpower, I was thinking, this guard can be changed to prepare for the sea guards, in a port in Xinzhou to establish a water fortress, drilling boats .”

“As far as I know, Java, Luzon and other seas, pirates are rampant, but King Zhao and His Royal Highness, King Ning, are now focused on the land. Xinzhou side, not many natives on land, only the people to protect themselves, plus some locally established inspectors can solve the security problem, it would be better to simply change this guard into a water division guards, to eliminate the nearby waters sea pirates. Not only can we purge the sea pirates, but we can also collaborate with King Zhao and King Ning’s military horses in Luzon and Java.”

“Setting up a naval division?” Zhu Di’s eyes were slightly open, and after looking down as if pondering for a moment, he looked up at Zhang Anshi and said, “Just what about the ships needed as well as other firearms?”

Zhang Anshi said, “You can find a way to manufacture it locally, of course, this does not cost the court silver, these silver, I’ll pay for it.”

Zhu then said, “Good.”

The sea border is too big, so big that Zhu Di has long been unable to care.

And with a large number of Ming ships have begun to sea, the need for pirates seem to be on these fat meat, so from time to time there are pirates attacking the Ming ships of the news to report.

Zhu Di’s current ships, part of the need to explore, to explore the four seas. The other part is to continue to maintain the Western Ocean, the purpose of the cruise is to deter the world’s countries.

On top of that, there are the large number of merchant ships, but it’s hard for merchant ships to actually kill pirates because they’re built with the intention of having a deeper draft and holding more cargo.

So such a ship, there was no way to add turn too much protection, and it wasn’t fast, which led to the fact that, even if they encountered a pirate, even if the people on board were enough to defend themselves, they couldn’t chase the pirate down.

If Zhang Anshi establishes a naval division to patrol the seas around Xinzhou, Java, and Luzon, this could greatly alleviate the safety of the routes on the waters in this area.

The more Zhu Di thought about it, the more he felt that this proposal was very good, so he said, “This I also granted.”

Zhang Anshi joyfully said, “Thank you, Your Majesty.”

Zhu Di then said, “Your machine gun, very powerful, how many can be built each month?”

Obviously, it’s the machine gun that’s most on Zhu’s mind right now.

“A dozen or so.” Zhang Anshi said, “This is already the fastest speed, but in my opinion, this machine gun can be built how much, rather is secondary, of which the most difficult right now, but is the problem of ammunition. Its rate of fire is too fast, the consumption of bullets is extremely alarming, and this special bullet, manufacturing, very difficult, I …… am now also thinking of ways to see if it can be improved.”

Zhu said, “It must be improved by all means.”

Zhu paused and added, “Tell me the truth, how many bullets can you make in a month?”

Zhang Anshi then said, “Only 30,000 to 50,000 rounds can be made, if more smiths are conscripted, the production may be increased to more than 100,000 rounds. But this is not worth the loss, thinking about it, or have to put some effort on the tools. But …… your majesty, now that the thing has been built, in fact, as long as you are willing to work hard, breaking through this shackle, it is only a matter of time.”

Zhu Di thought for a moment and said, “100,000 hair per month, you first recruit a group of craftsmen to build it for me, as for the improvement of production, you also need to recruit a group of people to use their efforts.”

Zhang Anshi smiled bitterly, “Your Majesty …… this …… is a bit difficult.”

“Difficult?” Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi in surprise, “What’s so difficult about it?”

“There are not so many skillful craftsmen.” Zhang Anshi honestly replied, “After all, there are other projects that also need to be researched, in addition to this, and call so many skilled craftsmen to produce in large quantities, and the need for ……”

Chu: “……”

Zhu Di back hand, back and forth paced a few steps, before saying: “I Ming is the least lack of manpower, how many artisans you need, I give you draw is.”

Who knows that Zhang Anshi shook his head again, “Your Majesty, this craftsman is not the other craftsman.”

Chu: “……”

“General smith households, all they can do is simply manufacturing, but if it involves something like a machine gun, with their skills, they want to improve it, it’s a bit difficult.” Zhang Anshi paused, and then said, “Most of my Daming smith households are illiterate, and they don’t know how to do calculations, and in order to truly become skillful smiths, all of these are missing.”

“In addition …… to this alchemy, want to involve, it is even more difficult, the danger of alchemy is not small, so you need to repeat the experiment, to record the results of the experiment, at the same time to compare the experiments, the head here can not be a minute and a half of the error, if there is no literate, and the level of arithmetic quite high people, it simply cannot be accomplished.”

“I now encountered such a difficult problem, in my Ming, but all can read and write, and arithmetic of the merit is not bad people, often do not care for the craftsman, but there is not a large number of such craftsmen, many projects and can not be pushed forward. Now the minister is hate a person as ten people use. But if this is the usage, it is very easy to let these rare skillful craftsmen be easily distracted, and if they become negligent, it is the same as putting them in danger.”

Speaking here, Zhang Anshi sighed and said with a few depressed moods, “Your Majesty, just a few days ago, there was an explosion in our workshop, killing and injuring a lot of people, these are all skillful craftsmen, the pensions and damaged belongings are small matters, but the loss of human beings is something that cannot be borne.”

When Zhu Di heard this, he finally understood Zhang Anshi’s meaning.

These smiths are very important, and without such smiths, then the machine gun would probably be nothing more than a curiosity, and could not be used on a large scale at all.

And …… have both machine guns and hell knows what else will be built in the future!

It can be said …… that these powerful things are extremely important to Daming, and once Daming stops, it is a huge loss.

However, the more with the advancement of many projects, the manpower shortage problem becomes more serious. In the past, if only one or two gadgets are manufactured, the heavy reward will be brave, Zhang Anshi can always get together dozens of hundreds of people.

But now it’s different. The manpower required for the mechanical manufacturing, alchemy, and smelting involved in a single machine gun could be in the hundreds or thousands, and that’s just the machine gun.

If there is no constant stream of readers, willing to join the ranks, Zhang Anshi let Zhu Di saw the machine gun, in fact, is only the so-called ‘auspicious’.

Auspiciousness is something that is randomly bestowed by the heavens, and is so random that it can be practically impossible to apply it on a large scale.

Zhu Di’s face became more and more gloomy, and he said under his breath, “In that case, what you mean is ……”

Zhang Anshi said: ”Your Majesty still remembers what I once said about the scholar-peasant-industrialist? Scholar, farmer, industrialist and businessman, if they are all the people of Daming, are all equally important to Daming, no distinction between noble and lowly, or …… then find a way to raise the status of craftsmen, which may attract the world’s aspiring readers with the dream of becoming a craftsman, to enter this profession, only to reverse such a trend, so that everyone realizes, the importance of craftsmen, before we can solve the the problem of manpower.”

Zhang Anshi paused, and then said: “my Ming is not lack of manpower, such as my Ming opened the imperial examinations, so the world will have hundreds of thousands of millions of people study hard, just to get the title, they are a lifetime of hard work for the article, this is what kind of situation. By the same token, if the status of the craftsmen can be compared to that of the scholars, then the engineering of my Ming Dynasty will be able to do no harm, and a machine gun, what is it?”

Zhu Di thoughtfully said, “I finally understand what you mean, no wonder you said those words to me yesterday, I still only thought you just take the opportunity to ridicule the readers.”

Zhang Anshi said, “How dare Your Majesty make such a remark, how could I be such a person?”

Zhu Di mused and said, “I will think about this matter.”

“There is one more thing.” Zhang Anshi paused and said, “Dingguo Gong, there are also some meritorious sons and daughters, hoping to go to the workshop there to learn the art of manufacturing this machinery, of course, they are juvenile temperament, I’m only afraid that they are just a whim ……”

“Let them try. That bastard Seo Kyung-chang.”

Zhu Di was furious when he talked about this guy Xu Jingchang.

In the whole of Daming, he cared for two families the most.

One is the Zhang family, this Zhang family does not mean Zhang Anshi family, but Zhang Yu family, after all, when Zhang Yu to save the war dead, Zhang family orphans such as Zhang Fu, Zhang Yoking, Zhu Di because they are young and then no father, they are naturally extra care.

And the other, is Xu Jingchang, on the one hand, is Xu Jingchang is the nephew of Empress Xu, which is the Queen of Xu Da, itself should be cared for.

What’s more, when Zhu Di’s Jingdan, anyone is not optimistic, almost everyone regards Zhu Di as a rebel, but Xu Jingchang’s father, Xu Zengshou, has already been honored as the governor of the five military governors, a position of great importance, but still in the crucial time, to Zhu Di to pass on military secrets, and finally led to be killed.

Xu Jingchang small age will inherit the title, Zhu Di see this kid mediocrity, since the gas is not a place, just hate to catch to a hard beating only good.

Zhu Di again angrily scolded for a moment, then said: “This guy …… played small and uncontrolled, and then go on like this, sooner or later, it is going to rebel against the sky, I will never appease him and let him let go. If he wants to learn, then let him try. But ……”

Said here, Zhu Di looked up at Zhang Anshi, his expression also looked solemn, said: “Xu Jingchang this kid, traditionally stubborn, he has been orphaned since childhood, weekdays the people of the public house and look up to him, to him a hundred times to please, I am worried …… that this kid can not be delayed. ”

Zhang Anshi, however, smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Your Majesty, I will take good care of him and make sure that nothing will go wrong.”

Hearing this, Zhu Di fixedly looked at Zhang Anshi for a couple of moments before nodding his head and saying, “Well, you do have a history of doing things by the book, and since you’re his brother-in-law, there shouldn’t be any major problems.”

Immediately afterward, Zhu took the generals and went forward to try the machine gun.

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He couldn’t help but exclaim, “Haha, interesting, interesting.”

All hail the crowd.

Waiting for the end of this roundup, Zhu Di is satisfied with driving back to the palace.

Zhu Zhanji, however, had to ride a pony to accompany the driver, and Zhang Anshi rode alongside him.

Zhu Zhanji said, “Uncle, I see that machine gun, and it’s not that powerful.”

“Yes, yes, yes, not as good as your riding and shooting.” Zhang Anshi was too lazy to argue with a small child, yes yes yes is right.

Zhu Zhanji said, “But when I think about it, that’s not where the real power of this thing lies.”

“Hm?” Those words had caught Zhang Anshi’s eye.

I only saw Zhu Zhanji say, “Since it is possible to cause such a thing, why don’t we learn by example? Better artillery can be built, and there can be better carts and horses. This is organ art, as long as you feel through the mystery here, perhaps ……… many things can be blended together.”

After a pause, Zhu Zhanji continued, “This is like learning poetry, learning to compose poetry, then composing words and articles, will not be an obstacle. Uncle, this work, you have to work hard, in the future I see that there will be a great use.”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but look at Zhu Zhanji with strange eyes.

So Zhu Zhanji couldn’t help but say, “What is Uncle looking at me for?”

Zhang Anshi said, “It is true that uncle did not love you in vain, and did not teach you a lot of words on weekdays, my family Zhanji, there must be great success in the future.”

Zhang Anshi naturally knows that the historical Zhu Zhanji was originally both a scholar and a military man, and was extremely intelligent.

And to Zhang Anshi’s surprise, as a teenager, Zhu Zhanji, also has a kind of imagination that is difficult for ordinary people to reach.

It’s actually understandable that adults tend to be so set in their thinking that they see a machine gun and are just shocked at how powerful it is and think freely about how they’re going to kill the enemy with it.

But Zhu Zhanji is different, at this time Zhu Zhanji, both from Zhu Di to learn the emperor’s art, but also the world’s best generals to teach him to learn the army and cavalry, and the world’s best Confucianism to teach him the history of the scriptures.

Coupled with Zhang Anshi so that two generations of people to take him to open up his eyes, in terms of dealing with the world, his mother Zhang’s is more expert, will be Zhu Zhanji conditioning can be said to be proper.

It can be said …… that this little guy, who was almost piled up with the top resources in the whole world, seems to have long revealed a mind that is harder to understand than normal people.

Zhu Zhanji at this time crooked his tiny brain and said, “But …… why didn t the ancients know this? It’s really strange, the ancients composed poems and made words, none of them were unwilling to do labor.”

Zhang Anshi gave him a pleased look, then said, “Because people who want to do labor are unable to read and write, then they cannot accumulate these things. And those who can read and write don’t care to do labor.”

Zhu Zhanji was silent and continued to ponder deeply.

Zhang Anshi also lazy to tell him what the standard answer, just say their own insights, but God knows what the reason is, after all, the formation of any thing, the reason must be multi-faceted, it is better to let Zhu Zhanji think for himself.

Zhu Di returned to the palace, and after the ecstasy, he gradually calmed down.

Zhang Anshi’s words appeared in his mind again and again.

He had a despondent look on his face, and it was clear that the words had worked wonders.

However, he was faced with the social trend formed over the centuries, and the deep-rooted idea that all things are inferior, but only the high quality of reading.

And these words, the so-called word reading, are very narrowly defined; this reading is limited to reading the classics of the sages.

“Your Majesty ……,” said Yiluoha, appearing cautiously at his side with a smile.

Only then did Zhu Di collect his thoughts and looked up, “What do you have in mind for this roundup?”

This word, also lost Ha immediately thought of the machine gun, so said “slave girl are stunned, the world is still ……”.

Zhu Di, however, shook his head and said, “No, although I am also stunned, I am truly frightened.”

“Ah ……,” Yiluoha said hurriedly, “Is Your Majesty worried about something?”

“Of course worry.” Zhu Di said: “manpower can have this God’s power, this more horrible thing ah, Zhang Qingjia can find a way to gather a large number of craftsmen to manufacture out, then …… I am thinking, the world is so big, four barbarians, since the opening of the sea, I just know that the barbarians of the four seas are as many as hairs, is there not going to be a certain place barbarians …… also have Zhang Anshi this kind of top-notch smart people?”

Yiluoha hurriedly said, “Your Majesty is overly concerned, my Great Ming is a heavenly state.”

Zhu Di is very sober, no self-congratulation of the mind, very real: “If it is a heavenly state, how even the Khitan can be based on the north of the Central Plains, how there will be the female true crime, and how there will be the Tartars to unify the four seas? These words, let’s not talk about it, take it to talk to the people, coax the people, it is right, but if you take these words, they lie to themselves, is to be planted.”

After a pause, Zhu Di then said: “I have heard that there are many barbarians, respected merchants, such as that colorful people, then will this world, someone respected the skillful craftsmen, perhaps decades later, or a hundred years later, these people with such a sharp weapon, appeared in the boundaries of the Great Ming?”

“If so …… how can my Ming prevail? I see this thing, is both surprise and shock, the world can have this thing, then this world, perhaps there is more sharp than this thing, then, and how to resist?”

Said Zhu Di stood up, continued: “people do not have far-reaching concerns, there must be near worries, I if I do not want to long-term some, my children and grandchildren, may have to suffer, I think about it, I want to change a change in the Ming.”

“Go and summon Master Yao and Jin Zhong, I have great matters to discuss with them.”

Yiluoha looked deeply at Zhu Di, then said, “The slave girl complies with the decree.”