Chapter 34 Who said that Daming technology is backward
The incident of Qian Qianyi's demolition of the Donglin Party spread throughout the Ming Dynasty overnight.
Countless Donglin Party members were so angry that they vomited blood and called him Qian Qianyi a shameless villain. Many of Qian Qianyi's friends and students resolutely broke with him.
But on the contrary, the Daming Daily rarely gave a high evaluation of Qian Qianyi.
Some people say that he abandoned the darkness and turned to the light and burned the Donglin Academy was undoubtedly the best confession. Even the eunuch Wei Zhongxian of the garrison announced in the Daming Daily that Qian Qianyi was the most respected talented man. Not only that, he was the first-place prostitute in Qinhuai, Ma Yuner, the god-sister of Ma Xianglan, also posted in the Daming Daily that he only wanted to polish ink and hold a pen for Mr. Muzhai in this life.
Qian Qianyi, who had mixed praise and criticism, was once again pushed to the forefront, and almost all the Ming Dynasty discussed topics about him.
Even Zhu Youxiao has received a lot of comments impeaching Qian Qianyi recently, and some young officials even beat the Dengwen drum directly.
Zhu You proofreaded these things and ignored them. While letting Qian Qianyi block his saliva, he was asking Wang Chengen's Dongchang to confiscate the property of radical officials of the Donglin Party everywhere.
But it is precisely because of this that the Donglin Party has even greater complaints about Qian Qianyi. In their eyes, it is because of the existence of traitors like Qian Qianyi that the Donglin Party is now suppressed by the court so miserably.
Qian Qianyi is very depressed now. When he goes out, he meets his yamen with the words "shameless villain". When he walks on the street, he is hit by a **** who flies from somewhere.
Even if I eat, I will suddenly vomit and have diarrhea. When I look for the doctor, I see that someone is secretly poisoning.
Qian Qianyi, who was uneasy every day, was completely angry and exposed the scandals of several Donglin Party officials who had been in trouble with him. Finally, he directly submitted a report to the court to impeach the Donglin Party with 100 serious crimes, a full ten thousand words.
This ten thousand-word impeachment book was directly published in the Daming Daily. Because of too many words, Wei Zhongxian personally allocated the money to make the Daming Daily go from eight to four.
There is only one main content of this Wanyan Book, that is, the Donglin Party is a cult that harms the country!
To completely deny the nature of the Donglin Party, Qian Qianyi did something that even Zhu Youxiao did. Because of this, the ten thousand words of the book caused an uproar.
The entire Ming Dynasty Shilin class had a heated discussion on this, and it was all centered on a topic, that is, whether the Donglin Party is a cult, and the platform for discussion was naturally the Daming Daily, and the sales of Daming Daily exceeded one million households.
The two sides of the discussion were naturally dominated by the Royalist Party and the Donglin Party, but because the Donglin Party had been broken into pieces, they were eventually defeated.
Because of this, one month later, the court issued a formal and explicit order that the Donglin Party was a cult. If there were people who talked about the Donglin Party, who regarded themselves as the Donglin Party, or who promoted the Donglin Party's thoughts, they would be punished at the least for the salary and dismissed officials and titles, and at the worst for the punishment.
After Qian Qianyi's Donglin Party was completely recognized by the court, the overall defeat of the Donglin Party was basically over, and the royalist Party naturally replaced his position.
Zuo Zhongyun, the nominal leader of the Royalist Party, rushed directly from the capital to Wuxi, and bought the original site of Donglin Academy at a high price of 2,000 taels. On this basis, a Royal Academy of Ming Dynasty was built.
If the royal party dared to build a royal academies on the territory of the Donglin Party, it would directly call the word "royal", so the royal party dared to do this.
Even on the day the academy opened, countless senior southern officials, including Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch in charge, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, came to celebrate.
Qian Qianyi didn't have the luck to see what the Donglin Academy that he had burned was like after it was changed to the Royal Academy of the Ming Dynasty, because he made great contributions to the complete destruction of the Donglin Party. At this time, he had been appointed as the Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites.
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The camera returned to the capital. After months of hard work, Xu Guangqi, who was arranged to eat and live in the Ministry of Works, finally returned home with a dark face.
After returning home, I washed up briefly, changed into an official robe and entered the palace with an iron box wrapped in oil paper.
"Your Majesty, Old Master and Bi Maokang finally made it. Although it is not as exquisite as the firearm in your hand, it can also shoot on rainy days, shoot continuously, and shoot five hundred steps away." As soon as Xu Guangqi saw Zhu Youxiao, he was excited to hold a strange modern pistol shaped like Mauser in his hand. As he said, he said to a sparrow outside the hall: "Your Majesty, Old Master is offending, let me show you."
Zhu Youxiao couldn't believe that Xu Guangqi and the Ming craftsmen under him could make guns from the 21st century. After all, there were many cross-age gaps such as alloy smelting, machine tool manufacturing, rifling drawing, and precision instrument manufacturing. However, when Xu Guangqi pulled the trigger several times, streams of white smoke appeared, and the sparrow outside the hall was beaten to pieces, he couldn't help but be shocked.
Although I, Chinese, mastered certain alloy smelting techniques such as bronzes as early as the Shang Dynasty, it is indeed incredible to be able to create guns with such advanced performance.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel that he had underestimated the abilities of the Ming craftsmen. Think about it carefully, the Chinese nation never lacked super-awesome craftsmen. Even in some high-tech fields in the twenty-one world, China can be at the forefront of the world, and many key technologies are actually relying on many old craftsmen to use traditional handcrafts. In this way, it is not a problem to imitate such guns.
However, even if a very few skilled craftsmen can create one or two objects that exceed the times, they will not be able to achieve mass production, and there are still many gaps in getting along with similar guns of modern times.
But being able to make one shocked Zhu Youxiao, and he couldn't help but praise him: "Very good, whoever says that my Ming Dynasty's technological level is behind, I, Zhu Youxiao, will be polite!"
"However, Your Majesty, I and my colleagues from the Ministry of Works have been thinking for a long time but I haven't figured out how to create the yellow bullet you showed me. I wonder why gunpowder can be wrapped in a golden shell and exploded, without smoke and dust."
Zhu Youxiao was not easy to answer Xu Guangqi's question, but he just laughed secretly. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even in the twenty-one world, few countries could create good bullets.
Firearms can be imitated by skilled craftsmen, but the alloy bullets of the 21st century do not have a complete industrial system and a strong military industrial foundation. It is not easy to build them.
But Zhu Youxiao did not want to dispel Xu Guangqi's enthusiasm and said with a smile: "Your dear, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. There is no good steel or iron, and there is no energy production. Even if you let a few skilled craftsmen work overtime day and night, can it meet the needs of my Ming soldiers? So I hope you don't focus on making any special firearms in the future. The firearms are improved step by step, so don't worry. The key now is to one day, firearms are as efficient as knives. Do you understand?"
"Your Majesty is wise. Those who are good at the foreigners are fire weapons. If, as Your Majesty said, the Ming Dynasty built such fire weapons like swords, then why should I fear the Tartars?"
Zhu Youxiao could see that Xu Guangqi was a technical enthusiast in his bones, so he said with great relief: "You arrange it and I will take some time to go to your Ministry of Works to discuss how to develop the technology of the Ming Dynasty. It is best for all the talented people under your command to be able to get, including all the craftsmen."
Xu Guangqi was excited when he heard this. His Majesty wanted to visit the Ministry of Works to discuss with him, which was enough to show His Majesty's importance to his career.
Chapter completed!