Sitting high on the emperor's throne in the Jinluan Palace, Zhu Youxiao looked down at the world.

Tianjin Shipyard is working at full capacity, and all ten dry docks have been launched to build Galen ships and clipper ships. The experiment of combining the advantages of these two ships takes a long time. Zhu Youxiao does not have so much time to wait, and he is not a ship design major.

, I cannot give any advice to the master shipbuilders.

Therefore, you have to first use your time-proven Galen ships and clipper ships, ten dry docks, seven Galen ships, and three clipper ships. The largest Galen ship has three thousand materials, which can be converted into

The displacement was 1,500 tons, which was a large warship even in the West at this time. The deck alone had three layers. According to the design, seventy-five artillery pieces could be installed on one side of the ship.

Ten warships, ranging from the largest with three thousand materials to the smallest with one thousand materials, are available from all walks of life. This is the shipyard accumulating shipbuilding experience. If this large-scale shipbuilding event is successful, Zhu Youxiao will be able to obtain a world-class warship.

Shipyard.

At this time, industrialization has not yet begun, and the sea is still an era of sailing battleships. There is not much technological gap between the East and the West, but there are some differences in thinking. Therefore, as long as there is a slight correction in thinking, with the technology of the Ming Dynasty, the West has

Anything can be made.

The Tianjin port is also under construction. In addition to the berths, there are also forts and naval bases. This will be the main base of the Imperial Navy. The person in charge of the construction at this time is Luo Qing, a fugitive with a background as a dart boy.

He followed Zhu Youxiao. Although he had not yet obtained any official status, Yu Zigao was more polite and valued him.

As for the salt fields here, they are all managed by Lao Zhoutou. The regulations for the salt fields have been established. The main supplier is also the capital. There is no need for any major changes. It only needs to maintain and defend the city. This old salt worker, Lao Zhoutou, is from the same background.

Capable.

As for Liu Bin, he took a group of young backbones from the salt farm to Changlu with Wang Wenyan. They planned to use there as the center to integrate the entire Changlu Salt Farm, divide the salt drying area, and standardize the sales of the salt industry.

Over at Tiangong Workshop, the textile factory has begun to operate. The pedal-operated sewing machine is brutal for the speed of making clothes in this era. An assembly line can produce fifty pieces of clothes in one day. This is compared to the output of three to four hundred in later generations.

It's nothing, but in this era of hand sewing, it's simply amazing.

There are about fifty people in an assembly line, and the eunuchs Zhu Youxiao sent there were almost five thousand, not to mention the nearly a thousand female workers who were later recruited. If the sewing machines were not temporarily unable to keep up, the thirty thousand Yu Lin Army

The military uniforms will be ready in a month.

Of course, even now, the Yulin Army's military uniforms for each season are the first to be fully equipped. From training uniforms to regular uniforms, and even socks and shoes, etc., they are all made of high-quality cotton. After they are distributed, those who have never seen good things

The recruits were reluctant to wear it even after touching it.

The current Tiangong Workshop is a large construction site. Thirty miles away from the capital, about hundreds of thousands of people have gathered and are working day and night. Making iron and steel, manufacturing carriages, stamping armor, forging muskets, and casting artillery.

, making glassware, printing newspapers and books, making wine, making perfume, preparing gunpowder, and making lead.

This industrial base has already exerted its power. Amidst the roar and collision of machines, it has begun to produce all kinds of industrial products. After vigorously recruiting manpower and training apprentices, it has reached a monthly production capacity of 5,000 muskets and 5,000 projectiles.

Ten thousand shots, ten tons of black powder, and hundreds of cannons can be cast at a time.

At this time, the first batch of finalized cast-iron cannons had been shipped to the Tianjin Shipyard, intending to be installed on the earliest small Galen ship and the large splash ship.

After having Xu Guangqi at Tiangong Workshop, Zhu Youxiao has always been very relieved, especially after he captured Song Yingxing and recruited Sun Yuanhua, he even ignored him. All the technology has been thrown to them, and the rest is up to them to study by themselves.

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The training of the Yulin Army is also carried out step by step, without any rush. In addition to the regular formation training, it also focuses on ideological education and gun design. Some artillery are also assembled. The division of artillery by Zhu Youxiao

Instead of using the Western ones, they are divided according to the kilogram of the cannonballs cast by the Tiangong Workshop. Currently, they are divided into four types: three-jin cannons, six-jin cannons, twelve-jin cannons, and eighteen-jin cannons.

The Yulin Army is mainly equipped with the first two types, the three-pound cannon and the six-pound cannon. Although they are made of iron, the technology is not proficient enough and is relatively rudimentary. The cast artillery is still very heavy and inconvenient to carry. For mobility reasons

Due to this consideration, it is currently only equipped with smaller caliber artillery pieces.

For this new type of cast-iron artillery, Zhu Youxiao went directly to the gun mount, which is a big killer. The gun mount can't help but have wheels to ensure mobility, and there is also a lifting frame that can be raised and lowered to adjust the cannon's upward shooting angle.

The scales marked with angles and ranges make it easy to understand at a glance, so you don't have to worry about calculating it yourself.

In this way, only a good artillery commander is needed, and the artillery can truly exert its power and become the king of war.

The Yulin Army was on the right track, pulling artillery carts and carrying muskets to the countryside for training every day. The Capital City Defense Army was also not idle. After three months of deletion before and after the year before and after, the remaining 30,000 people were called

Elite. They are all the best from the previous three battalions or the garrison around the capital.

They were physically strong, skilled in martial arts, young, and full of energy. If they hadn't been entrenched in the habits of the old military system, Zhu Youxiao would have really wanted to transfer these people to the Yulin Army.

Under the command of Qi Jin, the capital city defense army also trained day and night, forming square formations, shooting bows and arrows, and even cavalry assaults. Basically, they followed the pattern of the Yulin Army, except that they lacked firearms.

Zhu Youxiao still attaches great importance to this army. When Qi Jin completes the training, he will start to launch his own reform plan for the military system of the garrison. Of course, it will be implemented in Hebei Province first.

In Zhu Youxiao's plan, the city defense force is equivalent to the armed police of later generations, and should be set up in every county. Then the city defense force commander of each provincial city will be the commander-in-chief of the entire provincial city defense force, and the city defense force commander of each prefecture city

He is the commander of the entire Fucheng defense force.

Next is the urban defense force of each county, which is divided into three levels. Its functions are to maintain local stability, exterminate local bandits, and serve as a reserve force to support local governments and the field army for the main battle.

The field army refers to the military force at the level of the Habayashi Army. Different from the city defense army, each field army has its own unique name and is responsible for the defense and offense of different border areas, or as a mobile force, mobilized across the country.

The Yulin Army has now been completed. It has a military structure of 30,000 people, a phalanx of spears and iron armor, muskets and artillery cavalry, short-range and long-range and pursuit and charge forces. All that is left is running-in training. When the training is completed, in

After a certain amount of actual combat training, some officers can be split off to form another field army, which will blossom and expand in an all-round way.

The city defense army and the field army were centrally controlled by the Metropolitan Governor's Office. This was the military system of the future Ming Empire in Zhu Youxiao's mind.

The formation of the army, equipment manufacturing and financial resources were gradually on the right track, so Zhu Youxiao focused all his attention on the reform of the political system.

There are no specific candidates for the top leaders of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zuo Du Yushi and Dali Temple Minister. The affairs of these two departments are currently in charge of Sun Chengzong, a bachelor of Dongge University.

Today's Dongge University Scholar is different from the past. He ranks second in the cabinet in order. He is essentially the second assistant. He is no longer the bottom title before, but has a truly high and powerful position. He has full authority to handle the affairs of the two departments.

That's something no one can say.

Under his supervision, the two departments continuously dispatched personnel to various counties in Hebei Province to establish local procuratorates and Dali temples. This kind of establishment was so rudimentary that a supervisor would bring a few documents and find the location.

Just hang up a sign and that's it. They don't know their specific responsibilities and tasks until they are assigned by the superiors.

As for the police department being built, it is just a shelf for the time being, with only a few documents working. The police station under Shuntian Mansion that really serves as a demonstration is the high-ranking official assigned to the fourth grade, who is in charge of the security of the entire capital.

The first year of Tianqi, March 1st.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, which happens to be the ten-day period newly set by Emperor Tianqi. As soon as this emperor took office, he showed his temperament through many things. He liked to overthrow the system of his predecessors and formulate a new system by himself.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is like this, Dali Temple is like this, and the newly established police station is like this.

At about 8:30 in the morning, at the Qianqing Gate, Zhu Youxiao was already sitting on the throne, listening to the government at the imperial gate. Below him were rows of officials who were qualified to participate in the court meeting. Just looking at it, almost all of the officials below were

There are no civil servants, some honorable military generals who used to show off their skills in the past, and now there are none.

The new emperor's raids were too harsh. A wave of arrests were made in the Red Pill Coup, and a wave of guard posts were abolished. Now all the military is under the control of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. In the past, all the governors of the Five Army Governor's Palace were dismissed from their posts, and the new Metropolitan Governor's Office

It's just a shelf, there is no organization inside, and there will be no military attachés participating in the court meeting.

Different from the previous morning dynasties, the time now is much later. We gathered at Meridian Gate at 8:30 and arrived at Qianqing Gate at 8:30. Moreover, in the main hall, there were many more chairs with backrests, one for each official.

, sitting and having a meeting. All the conditions are much better than the previous morning meetings.

Regarding this point, although the officials issued some memorials to object, they actually felt very comfortable in their hearts. No one wanted to get up early to go to court. This change in regulations has received the least opposition in recent months.

, except for a few relatively pedantic imperial officials who objected to the discount, everyone else readily accepted it.

As the trial of the Hongwan case came to an end, officials gradually became bolder, and opposition to Zhu Youxue's restructuring also grew.

But it is a pity that Zhu Youxiao has completed many important parts at this time, such as the transfer of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, the abolition of the affairs, and the establishment of the police department.

These things have become a foregone conclusion, and are being implemented unswervingly under the leadership of the cabinet with high authority today.
Chapter completed!