Chen Zilong, whose courtesy name was Wozi, was from Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili. According to later generations, he had a Shanghai household registration with Jin Buhuan. Chen Zilong was probably the only wise man in the late Ming Dynasty. Chen Zilong came from a family of officials. His son Chen So-wen served as the Minister of the Xing Ministry and the Ministry of Works. He was also a very famous writer in Nanzhili. In addition to his family background, Chen Zilong himself was also a poet, the most famous of the three sons of Yunjian.

In addition to his profound literary attainments, Chen Zilong also has unique insights in miscellaneous studies. While compiling the Huangming Jingshiwen alone, Chen Zilong also compiled the complete book of agricultural affairs by Xu Guangqi, a great scientist in the late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Chen Zilong is the descendant of Xu Guangqi.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Chen Zilong went north for the third time and passed the imperial examination. He passed the imperial examination with his friend Xia Yunyi and was elected as the manager of Huizhou Prefecture, Guangdong. However, he learned that his stepmother died of illness before he took office, so he resigned and went home to serve as his mother Dingyou.

On the first day of the fifth day of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yousong, the King of Fu, was in Nanjing and ascended the throne on May 15th. With the recommendation of his teacher Huang Daozhou, Chen Zilong served in the Hongguang court with the position of military service department granted by Chongzhen. It was said that although the official position of the official position of the official position was not of high rank, he had great power. Chen Zilong used this position to make comments several times.

However, at this time, the entire government was in chaos. The emperor had just taken office, and the chief assistant Ma Shiying was full of money by the Donglin Party. Those big bosses of the Donglin Party did not care about Chen Zilong, a seventh-rank official, in order to fight for power and profit, so Chen Zilong wrote letters all the time and was like a muddy bull in the sea and lost news.

On the second day of June, Ma Shiying wrote a letter to the emperor and recommended Ruan Dacheng to be the Minister of War on the grounds of knowing military affairs. In the eyes of the Donglin people, Ma Shiying's move was the beginning of a reversal of the case.

Although Ma Shiying was named a eunuch party, everyone knew what was going on. It was nothing more than building a temple for Wei Zhongxian back then, which was reasonable. After all, local officials from all over the country had built it.

But Ruan Dacheng is different. Ruan Dacheng himself is a traitor to the Donglin Party, or one of the masterminds who persecuted Zuo Guangdou and others. If such a person is allowed to return to the core of power, then will Donglin and others still want to live?

Therefore, the Donglin Party members in the court all kinds of people began to bombard Zhu Yousong with memorials, in an attempt to prevent the emperor from agreeing to Ma Shiying's request.

But these Donglin messing sticks forgot that Zhu Yousong was the emperor. What do you want to do together? Today, how can Ruan Dacheng not be an official, and tomorrow will he let King Lu be the emperor? So Zhu Yousong did not go to the court to elect him and directly issued an order to appoint Ruan Dacheng as the Minister of War and act as the Ministry of War!

Although Chen Zilong did not agree with using the sea of ​​people to force the emperor to submit, the emperor issued an order that violated the imperial court's system of selecting officials. Therefore, in recent days, Chen Zilong has been sending letters to the emperor to revoke the appointment.

Today, Chen Zilong was writing hard in the house. The clerk outside came into the house to report that a young general named Ma Cheng was going to see the adults.

When Chen Zilong heard this, he remembered the Ma Cheng who scolded Hou Fangyu at that time, and said with a smile: "That's my little friend, please invite him in!"

Ma Cheng walked into the house and saw Chen Zilong writing, and smiled and said, "Brother Chen, I came here uninvited. Has it delayed your office?"

Chen Zilong put down his pen and smiled, "There are only some official documents there. Please sit down!" After Chen Zilong said that, he asked the book to make tea.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Zilong asked, "Brother, I heard from Bo Yu that you have been practicing soldiers outside the city for half a month, why did you have time to run to my brother to come here?"

Ma Cheng liked Chen Zilong very much, and he did not have the pedantic nature of scholars of his contemporaries, so Ma Cheng was not prepared to speak politely, and opened his mouth and said, "Brother Chen, this is the case. I want to equip soldiers with self-made muskets, but the craftsmen of the Weapon Bureau said that they do not have a weapon picture album. I don't recognize the people from the Ministry of Works, so I have no choice but to ask my brother for help. Brother Chen, you are a high-ranking official, can you do this favor?"

Chen Zilong couldn't help but smile when he heard Ma Cheng was so honest. He didn't expect that this kid really treated him as an outsider, but this matter was indeed not a difficult task for Chen Zilong.

"My brother, you are talking about the self-generated musket brother. I know that it was invented by Bi Maokang, the Minister of the Ministry of War. However, the design of Mr. Bi was slightly insufficient. My brother improved the original picture album a few years ago. This new picture album is in our Ministry of War. You don't have to go to the Ministry of Works to find it!"

Ma Cheng was overjoyed when he heard Chen Zilong say this. He always thought that Chen Zilong was just an enlightened and stinky old man, but he didn't expect that this stinky old man was still a stinky old man who knew science.

"Brother Chen, I didn't expect you to know mechanical manufacturing? I really admire you!" After Ma Cheng said that, he stood up and bowed.

Everyone likes to listen to compliments. Chen Zilong smiled and shook his hand and said, "Don't make fun of my brother. My level is superficial, so I can catch up with Master Xu!"

Master Xu? Who is Master Xu? In Ma Cheng's memory, I don't remember that Master Xu in the late Ming Dynasty understood these things.

"Brother Chen, who is this Master Xu? Are you alive now?" Ma Cheng's idea was that this Master Xu must be Chen Zilong's teacher, so he naturally knew how to cast artillery. It would be better to invite him to work hard for him.

Chen Zilong heard Ma Cheng joke, "Mr. Xu is the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, the second assistant to the cabinet, and Mr. Xuan Hu!"

Such a large number of official positions sounded like a simple person, but Ma Cheng didn't know who Mr. Xuan Hu was, so he quickly asked: "Brother Chen, you know that I have no knowledge. I really don't know who Mr. Xuan Hu is!"

When Chen Zilong heard Ma Cheng say this, he quickly stood up and saluted to Xu Guangqi's hometown in Dongfang and said, "Mr. Xuan Hu's surname is Xu, and he is also Chen's mentor! Chen went to Beijing many times to ask for Master Xu, and he was allowed to be listed under the door wall!"

Chen Zilong said this, Ma Cheng knew. It turned out that Chen Zilong's teacher was Xu Guangqi, the great man who copied the red cannons. Thinking of this, Ma Cheng quickly asked: "Brother Chen, where is Mr. Xuan Hu? I happened to have a problem in casting cannons. I would like to ask Mr. Xuan Hu for advice!"

Cannons are different from muskets. The barrel can be drilled to solve it, but how can the cannons be drilled? Now the material problem has been solved, and the problem of casting cannons is placed in front of Ma Cheng. Ma Cheng asked the blacksmith master of the Weapon Bureau that they had no problem producing muskets, because the Weapon Bureau produced this. However, the cannons were not produced in Nanjing, but were produced in Guangdong, so these blacksmiths were also disgraced at casting cannons.

Ma Cheng finally heard a cannon caster now, so he made up his mind that no matter how old Xu Guangqi was, as long as he was still alive, he would definitely invite him to Nanjing.

But reality and hope are far apart. Chen Zilong sighed when he heard Ma Cheng say this and said, "Brother, Master Xu has passed away for eleven years!"

When Ma Cheng heard Chen Zilong say this, he immediately went from being cold to being too cold. When everyone was dead, he would go there to invite him?

Chen Zilong saw Ma Cheng's disappointed expression and said, "My brother, although Master Xu is gone, Brother Yu has studied the mechanism and the calculations. Although he is not as proficient as Master Xu, there is still no problem in casting cannons!"

Ma Cheng was overjoyed when he heard Chen Zilong say this. He didn't expect that Chen Zilong would even cast a cannon. He really found a treasure.

"Brother Chen, I happened to have a problem with casting cannons. Why would you please ask Brother Chen to go and see what's going on now?"

Seeing Ma Cheng so anxious, Chen Zilong smiled and said, "Don't worry, brother, there are some things that brother needs to solve. Is it okay for you to solve the problem tomorrow?"

Ma Cheng nodded repeatedly when he heard Chen Zilong promised to help. With the help of experts, he would be better than a half-baked guy like him! Ma Cheng has designed several methods for casting cannons, but they have been learned from later generations after reading time travel novels. As for whether he can become Ma Cheng, he doesn't know.

After saying that, Chen Zilong frowned. Everything else was easy to deal with, but this firearm picture album is hard to get. Now the Minister of War is Ruan Dacheng. Chen Zilong doesn't like Ruan Dacheng's character, so he naturally doesn't want to see him. However, this picture album is kept in the Gai Library of the Ministry of War, that is, the Archives of the Ministry of War. No one can take it out without the consent of the Minister of War.

Chen Zilong hesitated and said, "My brother, this weapon picture album is in the Pavilion Library, but it requires the consent of the minister. This is not easy for me to come forward..."

Seeing Chen Zilong hesitating, Ma Cheng quickly said, "This is simple. Isn't the Minister of War Ding Qirui? My brother is familiar with him, so I can just go find it myself!"

Ma Cheng has not returned to the city these days, and he knows that Ding Qirui has been transferred from the Ministry of War to Huguang. Chen Zilong smiled bitterly when he heard Ma Cheng say this, "Brother, now the Minister of War is changed to Ruan Dacheng, do you know brother and him..."

Ma Cheng knew what was going on after hearing Chen Zilong say this, it was nothing more than the bad things that the party struggled for.

"No need to say about Brother Chen. I know that I'm trying to find a way over there, but I'll ask Brother Chen for the cannon casting!"

Chen Zilong heard Ma Cheng say this and promised: "Don't worry, brother Yu arranges the things in his hands and goes there in three days!"

After receiving Chen Zilong's assurance, Ma Cheng walked out of the office happily, turned around and went to the Third Hall of the Ministry of War, which was the office of several chiefs of the Ministry of War.

Now the Minister of War is still Ma Shiying, but Ma Shiying is the chief assistant and does not come to work in the Ministry of War, so it is Ruan Dacheng, the Minister of War.

In the past few days, Ruan Dacheng's new official took office and made three fuses. He has rectified the Ministry of War, and has removed several Shi Kefa's iron players, and replaced them with those who were kind to him back then. However, Ruan Dacheng is now all picky of small shrimps, and the real big fish Ruan Dacheng has not yet thought of his reputation.

Ruan Dacheng has been in a relationship for more than ten years, and he was really arrogant when he succeeded. Now he is trying to deal with the Donglin Party in the court. Someone outside the door told him that his son-in-law was here.

Ruan Dacheng's true son-in-law is Cao Taiwang, the legitimate son of his good friend Cao Luji, who is studying in the Imperial College. Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but frown when he heard his son-in-law coming. Cao Taiwang is really rude. His daughter has not married him yet, so how can he call himself the Ruan family son-in-law to outsiders?
Chapter completed!