Chen Ruyan suddenly asked: "Your Highness, I dare to ask, how many years will it take for you to leave Jurchen?"
Zhu Jianji smiled and asked him, "How many years do you think it will take?"
Chen Ruyan thought for a while and said, "There should be a war over there in Annan. It will take about five years for Your Highness to send troops to Annan. So, it will take at least ten years to send troops to Jurchen?"
Zhu Jianji yelled, "Can't you bear to spend ten years?"
really.
For Chen Ruyan, these ten years were the best years in his career.
Chen Ruyan is thirty-seven years old this year.
The thirty-seven-year-old Minister of the Ministry of Justice is very awesome!
So if Chen Ruyan can change his character, he is really a talent. Of course, he climbed the ladder very quickly in the early years, which has a lot to do with Shi Heng and Xu Youzhen.
Otherwise, given his qualifications, he would probably still be a doctor in the Sixth Division.
Chen Ruyan smiled bitterly and said, "Ten years is the rest of my life. I don't think it's unfair. I just have an idea in my mind so that I can control the progress of the Jurchen operation."
Zhu Jianji smiled and said: "Chen Ruyan, Chen Ruyan..."
One misstep leads to eternal hatred.
That’s all.
I will be merciful. After all, the Ming Empire will need too many talents as the world police at that time, so I will give Chen Ruyan another chance.
"Wait a moment."
He stood up, walked to the bookshelf, flipped through it for a while, took out a few books and handed them to Chen Ruyan.
Chen Ruyan took a look and saw that it was "Tao Te Ching", "Great Learning", "The Analects of Confucius", "The Doctrine of the Mean", and "Mencius". They were all books that he had been familiar with for a long time, and these books contained many chapters on self-cultivation.
principle.
Zhu Jianji took out another "Book of Rites" from the bookshelf and handed it to Chen Ruyan.
"Just go."
The opportunity has been given to you. Whether you can seize it or not depends on Chen Ruyan's luck.
After Chen Ruyan took the book, he understood that he had actually read these books before, but His Highness gave them to him to read again. The meaning was very clear, to cultivate one's moral character and improve one's moral quality.
That is to say...
His Highness didn't mind that he clung to Shi Heng back then, nor did he mind that he took in Shi Queen.
What concerns His Highness is his moral character.
As long as he can change his past, he will still have the opportunity to re-enter the imperial court after completing his self-salvation. His Highness has already given him this opportunity, and it depends on whether he can seize it.
Chen Ruyan said nothing and bowed deeply to His Highness the Crown Prince.
Bow to the end.
Turn around and go.
With brisk steps and passionate emotions, he saw a brand new avenue.
Zhu Jianji sat down again and said to Dai Yi: "Xuan Hangmin and Shi Xin."
Hang Min, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Quan also serves as the Order of the East Palace Military Research Institute.
Shi Xin, deputy commander of the Donggong Military Research Institute, is in charge of all specific affairs of the Donggong Military Research Institute, and serves as deputy commander in the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Ministry of Industry, responsible for the division of talents and project planning.
He was the chief engineer of Zhu Jianji's Ming Dynasty industrial reform project.
Nowadays, Shi Xin's status in the court is not inferior to that of the Seven Ministers, second only to Jiu Qing. In the early years, Shi Xin was only a fourth-rank supervisor in a military yamen, so he had absolute control over Zhu Jianji.
of loyalty.
Without the prince, he would not be where he is today.
The two of them saluted after entering.
Zhu Jianji excused himself and said, "There are still many things going on at the East Palace Military Research Institute and the Academy of Engineering Sciences, but I am going to visit Yu Shaobao at the Ministry of War Minister's Mansion later, so I will keep the story short."
Hang Min and Shi Xin immediately said: "Please give instructions, Your Highness."
Zhu Jianji said: "First of all, the first question is also the top priority. It is the basis of all reforms in Ming Dynasty. It is the Dongfeng series of firearms. In the Mobei War last year and this year, plus the Taiwan War, 20,000 Dongfeng rifles were scrapped.
The rate has reached 30%, maybe even nearly 40%. This is a big problem. The specific reasons should be many, such as unreasonable design and substandard workmanship. Gu has brought back the scrapped Dongfeng rifle. Today
It will be transferred from the Young Army to the Donggong Military Research Institute. Shi Xin, you will take the lead and set up a team to carefully investigate the scrapped firearms to find out what problems caused them to be scrapped, and then propose problems to solve the problems."
Shi Xin immediately said: "Wei Chen accepts the order."
Zhu Jianji continued: "Until these problems are resolved, mass production of Dongfeng rifles will be stopped. Dongfeng series firearms, such as mortars, must continue to be developed, upgraded, and mass produced."
Shi Xing said: "There is no problem with the mortar?"
Zhu Jianji said: "No, because the strategic intention of mortars is relatively rough, the existing lethality and accuracy can meet the needs, but you can also develop heavy firepower artillery based on mortars."
Shi Xin accepted the decree.
Zhu Jianji continued: "The light and heavy machine guns in the Dongfeng series of firearms must be researched and improved more intensively. Gu gave the Donggong Military Research Institute a fatal order: before sending troops to Annan, the young army must be equipped with light and heavy machine guns, and they must be more than five hundred. Money."
Don't worry about things, I will allocate funds for you, but one thing is, don't waste it, save when you should, after all, I only opened the sea in the Ming Dynasty, and the economy is still a little stretched."
If the young army is equipped with five hundred light and heavy machine guns...
It's like beating Annan for fun.
Shi Xin accepted the decree.
Zhu Jianji was silent for a while and said: "The steelmaking plant under the Donggong Military Research Institute will be restructured from today and placed under the Ministry of Industry. It will no longer be a department under the Donggong."
The steelmaking industry still depends on national strength for development.
Otherwise, it would be too stressful to rely on your own money to subsidize it.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened up to the sea, the national treasury will only become richer and richer, and is fully capable of supporting the vigorous development of the steelmaking industry. Moreover, the Academy of Engineering Sciences has also reserved some talents that can be put to use.
Hang Min said: "This matter has been reported to Your Majesty by your Majesty during His Majesty's southern expedition to Taiwan. Your Majesty said that we will discuss it after His Majesty comes back. However, since His Majesty has assigned the steelmaking plant to the Ministry of Industry, do you plan to expand the scale of the steelmaking plant?"
?”
Zhu Jianji said: "Of course it needs to be expanded. Hang Shangshu, the next focus of the Ministry of Industry is the water conservancy project to protect people's livelihood, the other is the various research projects of the Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the other is to make every effort to increase the output of the steelmaking plant and steelmaking.
process technology.”
After a pause, "Also, the Steam Engine Research and Development Institute needs to increase its efforts."
During the Ming Dynasty, steam engines and steel were indispensable.
Hang Min led the order: "The Academy of Engineering Sciences has already reserved a lot of talents, and considerable achievements have been made in the research and development of steam engines. After all, His Highness has given the design schematics, and only needs to solve technical difficulties and process problems of steel.
Wei Chen estimates that the steam engine can be successfully developed within one or two years."
Zhu Jianji hummed, stood up, rummaged through the bookcase next to him, took out a few design drawings and handed them to Hang Min and Shi Xin, "This thing cannot be produced until the steam engine is successfully developed, but the Military Research Institute can
We have arranged for people to prepare."
Hang Min and Shi Xin looked at the full-scale portrait on the design drawing, looking confused, "What kind of tank is this?"
Zhu Jianji said with a smile: "The king of land warfare!"
