Zhu Qizhen said so much to his little brother just to free up his hands to do his own things.

In his opinion, as an emperor, besides going to court all day long, he only had to criticize people and take less than three hours of rest every day. Even the donkey working at the door of the village committee next door would not dare to use it like this!

Just hand over this mess.

I just want to take this opportunity to train Zhu Qiyu so that he can be independent in the future and help him share some of the pressure.

When he was a sales manager in the past, he knew the importance of building a team. If he had to do everything by himself, he would be exhausted sooner or later and would not achieve results in the end.

An excellent leader is not about how strong a person is, but about being able to lead a professional team.

For example, Pingxiang Bo Chen Huai is now very professional in digging pits and burning kilns, so he needs to be trained in this area.

Although we have not yet seen the drawings from the Ministry of Works for such a huge project as the construction of the Martyrs' Shrine, we can imagine that according to their method, it will take at least two to three years. After all, stone and wood need to be transported from other places, which is very difficult.

trouble.

If you want to be simple, effective and save money, people like the Ministry of Industry can't count on it, so they can only do it yourself.

When Chen Huaigang returned home, the celebration banquet had been prepared and he was about to start eating when a young eunuch came in a hurry.

"Uncle Pingxiang, the emperor has summoned me. Please enter the palace quickly."

When Chen Huai heard this, he naturally put down his bowls and chopsticks without saying anything, changed into his court clothes and rushed to the palace.

"I pay homage to your Majesty!"

"I love you, no gift!"

Zhu Qizhen was writing and said without raising his head, "Come forward and talk."

Chen Huai stepped forward and saw a lot of content written densely on the paper. When he looked carefully, it looked like... the process of burning lime powder?

Could it be that the emperor is planning to use this thing as a conventional weapon?

"Your Majesty, are you preparing to... burn lime?"

"Almost!" Zhu Qizhen put down his pen and handed over the note, "But this thing is not called lime, it's called cement!"

"cement?"

Chen Huai took it and looked at it for a few times, and was very confused. You called me out of the house and didn't let me eat, just to make mud with you?

"This thing..." Zhu Qizhen didn't know how to describe it for a moment, so he said, "In short, this thing is necessary for the construction of the Martyrs' Shrine. You only need to do it according to what I said."

When Chen Huai heard about the purpose of building the Zhongzhong Martyrs' Shrine, he immediately became interested, patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have the best experience in burning kilns!"

"If you want to successfully bake cement, the first step is to select materials. You must use limestone. Nothing else will work. This limestone..."

Zhu Qizhen suddenly realized that cement is different from lime and requires extremely pure limestone. But he had never studied geological prospecting, so how could he know how to find limestone!

"The emperor is looking for limestone?" Chen Huai seemed to have discovered the problem, so he said, "There is plenty over the Xishan Mountain!"

"Are you sure it's limestone?"

Zhu Qizhen thought to himself, if you don't test this thing, how can you tell what lithology it is?

"Your Majesty, please rest assured that the folk mining and burning techniques for limestone have long been mature, and it is not difficult to find them."

Zhu Qizhen then thought about it, yes, how did Yu Qian read that poem?

Thousands of hammers were used to carve out the mountains, and the fire burned them as if they were idle.

Don't be afraid of being shattered into pieces, you must leave your innocence in this world.

Lime groans, lime chants, isn't it the limestone that groans?

It can be seen that Chen Huai is right, current technology should not be a problem for the exploration and mining of limestone.

"That's good!" Zhu Qizhen nodded, "Anyway, I'll leave this task to you. Follow the steps I've written and bake a batch of experimental products first. I want to test them."

"Old minister obeys the order and promises to complete the task!"

Chen Huai took the note and left. Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and took out another piece of paper.

Jin Ying was waiting on the side. When he saw that the tea was getting cold, he went to get a cup of hot tea.

"Your Majesty, please have tea."

"okay!"

Zhu Qizhen picked up the tea cup and took a sip, then continued to write and draw on the paper.

Suddenly, he raised his head and asked, "If you don't investigate Wang Zhen's case, what are you doing here?"

"ah?"

Jin Ying was stunned for a moment and said: "The case is already under investigation. I will stay here to serve the emperor..."

"Just leave anyone by my side. You must handle Wang Zhen's case in person and monitor the whole process. It's all my money, so be sure to watch it carefully! Also, this bitch once transported a large amount of gold and silver to his hometown in Weizhou.

, send someone to check immediately!”

"My slave obeys the order!"

"Wait a moment!"

Jin Ying hurriedly asked: "What other instructions does the emperor have?"

"Does the former Minister of Industry, Li Cheng, still have a son who remains in the Ministry of Industry?"

Jin Ying thought for a while and replied: "His son Li Shulin is currently the director of the Ministry of Industry and is mainly responsible for supervising the manufacture of weapons."

"Call him to me!"

Li Cheng was originally the son of Hu Jiya, the monarch of the Hu Dynasty in Annan. In the third year of Yongle, Emperor Da Zong sent troops to Annan. In the fifth year of Yongle, the Hu Dynasty fell. Li Cheng was pardoned because he was good at making firearms. From then on, he entered the Ministry of Industry and studied firearms with peace of mind.

, was regarded as the "God of Firearms" by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

In the eleventh year of the Zhengtong reign, Li Cheng passed away, and his son Li Shulin remained as director of the Ministry of Industry, inherited his father's business, and continued to research military equipment.

What Zhu Qizhen is most concerned about now is improving firearms and gunpowder. This world is no longer an era of cold weapons. The Western Franconian countries already have matchlocks. If we don't seize the time to develop our own firearms, we will wait for others to build strong ships and powerful cannons.

Once you hit the door, it's too late to say anything.

The more important point is that although this personal expedition turned defeat into victory, the bad breath is still hard to swallow. For at least one year, I vowed to conquer Mobei, and Xiaoxiaowala will wait to be baptized by artillery fire!

Not long after Jin Ying left, a eunuch in his mid-twenties came to the palace.

"This slave is grateful and wishes to see the Emperor!"

Zhu Qizhen glanced up, then lowered his head and continued writing and drawing on the draft paper.

"Get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wynn stood up and stood beside Zhu Qizhen obediently.

"What to eat for lunch?"

"ah?"

It was the first time for Wynn to serve the emperor up close and he was very nervous.

"I ask you, what do you have for lunch?"

"Oh, oh!" Wynn said quickly, "Everything has been arranged. Today's lunch will be roasted mutton, and..."

"stop!"

Zhu Qizhen raised his head suddenly, his face turned pale and said, "Can you change it to another one?"

"Ah?" Wynn was startled and said quickly, "Whatever the emperor wants to eat, I will prepare it right now."

“Anything but mutton!”

"Then...grilled beef?"

The muscles on Zhu Qizhen's face twitched obviously and he said: "I don't want to eat meat today!"

"Then... slave, go prepare some vegetarian food?"

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said, "Is there any seafood?"

Wynn was immediately troubled and said, "Has the emperor forgotten that our government stipulates that private citizens are not allowed to enter the sea..."

Zhu Qizhen frowned and said, "What kind of bullshit rule is this?"

"Your Majesty, be careful what you say, Your Majesty!"

Huaien knelt down directly. This was an ancestral system. If those civil servants Qingliu listened to such words, then it would be okay...

"That's all, just get some whatever you want, as long as it's not beef or mutton."

Wynn had an idea and said: "There are some carp in the imperial dining room, all of which are fresh. I will go and give you instructions to make steamed carp for the emperor."

"Okay, let's go!"

Zhu Qizhen secretly lamented that the mighty Ming Emperor couldn't even eat a meal of seafood, and he was still a piece of shit!

No, we have to open the sea. I want to eat lobster, abalone, salmon, shrimp...

Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up and took out the map just now.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban was mainly because Japanese pirates were rampant along the coast. The people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even the foreign business groups living in Quanzhou at that time, had assisted Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and others. After Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the world, he targeted private overseas trade and

The Japanese pirates were so rampant that the sea was simply banned.

At this time, the Japanese country was going through an era of feudal feudal lords. The feudal lords were attacking each other. Those defeated feudal lords were forced to leave their homeland and turned into pirates, frequently raiding the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.

As the problem of Japanese pirates intensified, the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy became more and more strict. Although it could play a certain protective role, the coastline was completely lost.

Zhu Qizhen stared at the map, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.

The reason why Japanese pirates are rampant is mainly because the coastline of the Ming Dynasty is too long, and as a defender, it is very passive.

If you set up defenses in Dengzhou, they will land in Quanzhou.

You set up defenses in Quanzhou, and they turn around and run to Taizhou...

Therefore, although the imperial court supported 200,000 Japanese guards and consumed a large amount of money and food every year, it still felt that it was not enough.
Chapter completed!