Ming Dynasty: The incendiary bombs were developed in Chapter 158 of the main text volume of Dangzhi County in BeipingLatest website: "That's because they are incompetent!"
Zhu Di was still a little angry.
Think about it, dozens of craftsmen in his house have been working on it for two months, but there has been no progress at all. But Tao Yiping and Yang Ting, two guys, developed it in less than half a month.
Doesn't this tell Zhu Di that the craftsmen in his house are incompetent?
No matter who you put it on, everyone will be a little angry.
Guo An also understood and chuckled: "Your Highness, now Tao Yiping and Yang Ting are also members of our Prince Yan's Palace."
Zhu Di nodded slightly, "In the future, if Tao Wanhu's disciples come again, they will have to be kept by us."
"That's natural!"
Guo An smiled slightly and changed the topic, "Your Highness, judging from Tao Yiping and Yang Ting, it is the scholars who study the skills of craftsmen who will achieve the highest results."
Zhu Di nodded in agreement, "Scholars have been enlightened by the books of ancient sages. They are allowed to delve into the art of craftsmanship. Naturally, they are much better than ordinary craftsmen."
Guo An continued: "Your Highness is wise, now we have glass workshops, cement workshops, wool workshops, Zhangjiawan Wharf and iron smelting workshops in Beiping Mansion, all of which can make thousands of gold per day.
However, the craftsmen in these workshops are just ordinary craftsmen. Although the craftsmen are experienced, they are illiterate and do not have the intelligence of Tao Yiping and Yang Ting."
Zhu Di seemed to have just noticed this problem, and quickly looked at Guo An, with a strange look in his eyes.
"What Guo Qing means is that our Yan Palace needs to invite some more craftsmen from Tao Wanhu?"
Guo An had no choice but to reply hurriedly: "Your Highness has misunderstood. Tao Wanhu is obviously a craftsman left by His Majesty for His Highness the Crown Prince. I, Prince Yan, are lucky enough to have Tao Yiping and Yang Ting." Zhu Di thought of something and nodded subconsciously, "What Guo Qing said is right. Because we left Tao Yiping and Yang Ting behind, my father even asked my brother to write a letter to ask us.
If we try to take advantage of Tao Wanhu’s children again, I’m afraid my father will scold him himself next time.”
Guo An looked at Zhu Di seriously and admonished: "Your Highness, Tao Wanhu was a scholarly family before and was the head of the academy. Only in this way can he cultivate a group of craftsmen who are proficient in craftsmanship.
If His Highness opens a craftsman school with Tao Yiping and Yang Ting as the heads, they will definitely be able to train a group of craftsmen like Tao Wanhu for our Prince Yan Mansion.
In this case, why does Your Highness need to covet other people's craftsmen? Only in this way can Prince Yan's Palace prosper."
Hearing this, Zhu Di felt something was wrong. He squinted his eyes slightly and turned to look at Guo An.
"When did Guo Qing have such an idea?"
Guo An smiled slowly, without any hesitation, but said directly: "When Weichen wanted to improve the iron-making furnace and develop cement, even recording some processes and data had to be written by Weichen himself.
Even how to operate, Weichen will teach you step by step.
Weichen knows that if Weichen alone wants to prosper Prince Yan's palace, he will probably be exhausted and unable to accomplish it."
Zhu Di looked a little strange and asked: "Can craftsmen rejuvenate the country?"
Guo An's face turned stern, and he asked directly what made Zhu Di's face change slightly, "I dare to ask Your Highness, if there were no firearms, would the establishment of the Ming Dynasty be so smooth?"
Zhu Di said leisurely: "Thousands of households in Tao Wanhu don't want to be sealed in vain."
Guo An continued: "Therefore, craftsmen are also a part of life that cannot be underestimated. Your Highness, just by calcining transparent glass and cleaning away the smell of wool, how much money have you made for Your Highness with these two skills?" p>
Zhu Di's expression changed.
Guo An quickly struck while the iron was hot: "And the fishing boat, although it is a few inconspicuous small changes, it can bring huge benefits to the Ming Dynasty.
Wei Chen heard that last year the Ming Navy caught tens of thousands of catties of fish from the sea!
Even our Prince Yan's Mansion, using just a few boats, caught millions of catties of sea fish."
"Your Highness, now that you are making money in traditional ways, Your Highness is suspected of competing with the people for profit.
However, if His Highness' Prince Yan's Mansion can always research new objects, no matter how much money it makes.
Then not only will those officials and gentry not be jealous and cause trouble, they will even be able to follow His Highness all the time and please His Highness to study more objects!"
"Of course, the most important thing is to research more powerful weapons and more steel swords and armors, so that I, Prince Yan, can attack the Mongols and Japanese pirates at will, so that when these barbarians see my Ming soldiers, they will flee in panic or kneel down.
I beg for mercy..."
Zhu Di was already a little moved, and frowned: "Guo Qing should know that many scholars are not willing to farm, let alone be craftsmen!"
Guo An nodded and said: "So, Wei Chen feels that His Highness should cultivate the Yan Palace's own craftsmen, directly recruit the children of those craftsmen, and let their children enter the craftsmen's workshops in advance, and learn to read and follow.
Or, if their children are too young, teach the craftsmen how to read."
At this time, Zhu Di was really moved, but he also felt a little distressed. You must know that reading and literacy is extremely expensive.
Although, there are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver lying in the warehouse of his palace, which he cannot spend all.
However, he was very reluctant to give up all his money to the craftsmen to learn and read, but the pictures Guo An described were all in his mind.
He, Zhu Di, led tens of thousands of people wearing armor and holding steel knives and firearms on the vast grasslands, annihilating one Mongolian tribe after another!