Chapter 15 Hope

There is a saying that two flowers bloom, each with one. Let’s not talk about how Prince Zhu Biao and Cao Zhen and others built customs, and the Haiwei and the extermination of pirates. Let’s not talk about Wu’anguo, Zhu Di and others took a naval warship to cross the Yangtze River and headed north. It was almost late spring along the river, and peanut trees and warblers flew around. The green rice fields and golden rapeseed flowers complemented each other, decorating the earth like brocade. Wu’anguo sat on the horse, heading north all the way north, the further away from the capital, the more relaxed I felt, and gradually I felt like a horse was on the spring breeze.

Since the four of them were drinking to express their aspirations with Guo Pu and others on the Qinhuai River, the four of them have changed a lot. After analysis by Wu'anguo, although everyone did not understand exactly how to do it, they all knew that in this way, the land of China would be forever a shame of being a fishy smell. People would be humiliated by themselves, and others would be humiliated later. If everyone in the Chinese people were equal, they believed that no one would be willing to be a slave to foreign tribes. As for how to implement the equality plan, Wu'anguo's suggestion was to promote emerging industries led by Huairou as soon as possible, so that merchants, workers, farmers, and students in Peking and even the whole country would recognize equality from their thinking. "When the power at the bottom accumulates to a certain extent, the court will inevitably change, which is the least expensive method of change. The Chinese have shed too much blood.

Can kill each other again." Wu Anguo told Cao Zhen and others this way on the night before the separation. What Cao Zhen needed to do after separation was not only to eliminate the Japanese pirates, but also to use his words and deeds to influence the prince and the young talents of the Ming Dynasty, and to form an equal atmosphere to the greatest extent in the navy, and to try to convince the prince and encourage coastal business development. Giving emerging industries and lifestyles a reason for existence from Confucian classics has become Guo Pu's most urgent task. "Are scholars in the Peking area now making a comeback? If you want to restore, you will be a little older and return to the situation of the controversy of the Hundred Schools of the Pre-Qin era. Brother Guo's classmates are mostly academic leaders. It is better to invite some to come to the Peking Academy and let them speak for us." Before leaving, Cao Zhen solemnly instructed.

What moved Wu Anguo deeply was that Guo Pu, Cao Zhen, Zhang Zhengxin and Xiao Jiangye, who was still in a confused stage, all supported his actions without hesitation. Unlike him, everyone is a relative. Once they are suspected of rebellion, they may have to pay a very high price. The dynasty's constable can make a surname disappear from the earth. When Wu Anguo mentioned the risks everyone was facing and suggested that if they did not want to participate, he would try to alienate himself as much as possible. On everyone's face, he only saw Juejue, but did not see any hesitation. "In fact, if the master's ideal is really realized, the Zhu family is the biggest beneficiary. There is no need to worry about the people rebelling, nor do they have to worry about the ability of foreign enemies to invade and unable to sleep." Zhang Zhengxin concluded.

"It may take a long time, or even several generations of people, to make Brother Wu feel what he wants, but every step forward is closer to the goal. Guo secretly thinks that there is no power to stop this industrial fire, and Brother Wu has already scattered the fire, just waiting for it to form a prairie fire. Some of you here may not see the day of success in the future, but we are the first to see the hope of this nation."

"If it is beneficial to the country's life and death, how can it avoid it because of good fortune and misfortune?" Wu'anguo did not know how later generations evaluated himself and Guo Pu and others in this branch of history, whether to break into the treacherous and slanderous volume or illuminate history. But when this famous saying that was used in the era of his life was said from Guo Pu, it was so sonorous. At that moment, he felt that he had not come to this world in vain, because from Guo Pu, Cao Zhen and others, he saw the iron backbone of the Chinese people before being castrated by Neo-Confucianism.

"Everyone, I will not let you down. Please forgive me for not telling you where I came from, and we will change the whole history together." Outside Jinan City, Wu Anguo waved his long sword and thought silently. Every evening after the team stopped, Wu Anguo always found a clearing space to move his muscles and bones. The Spring and Autumn sword techniques became more and more mature in his hands. Ben Lei was kept in the capital for several months, and he was also very frustrated. Seeing his master's interest, he was so happy that he neighed. Each person and horse went back and forth. From a distance, the bright sword light and the black war horse rolled towards the ground like dark clouds and snow. The sword was full of courage.

Suddenly, a shout of cheer was heard, and like a thunderbolt, Wu Anguo stopped. "Okay, good knife, good knife technique." Without looking up, Wu Anguo could guess that it was Chang Mao who had such a voice, and only one of the million soldiers. Sometimes he really doubted whether Chang Mao had learned the skills of the Ghost Buddha Lion Roar in martial arts novels. It was easy to learn bad things and it was difficult to learn well. After being with Wu Anguo, Zhu Di, who became more and more cheerful, learned it at some point.

Every day, Chang Mao could hear Zhu Di shouting "Oh my god, why am I so poor?"! According to Zhang Zhengxin, Zhu Di was stimulated by seeing the speculative ministers in the capital who privately supported the Prince's Navy. It is not a fault for others. The current prince is the future emperor. Except for Chang Mao, Xu Zengshou and other few people who followed him because of their close relationship with Zhu Di, the first choice of the Ming Navy is the children of the aristocratic families who took the initiative to join the army.

Chang Mao rode a snow-green horse from the Western Regions, carrying a pair of maces in his hand, and there were Lan Yu, Zhang Yi, Chen Heng, Xu Zengshou and others. He arrived in front of him and handed the mace to the servants, borrowed Wu Anguo's big knife in his hand, took a round, sighed, and praised, "Which brother Wu came from a good baby, I envy Chang. I originally wanted to compete with you in martial arts, but after seeing the weapons, Chang had already lost three points." He was a little disappointed in his conversation. In the storytelling I heard when I was a child, Wu Anguo knew the name of Chang Mao, and the story was made of a pair of scattered hammers.

, an invincible brave general in the world. In the past two months in the capital, he had a lot of talk with Chang Mao. Although this man was rude on the surface, he was warm-hearted in his heart. Seeing Chang Mao's expression, he knew that he was itchy and hard to scratch. Looking at his pair of black maces, he knew that the storytelling was not completely unreasonable. Chang Mao's pair of weapons weighed at least 50 or 60 kilograms. If he charges and uses horsepower, the Mongolian scimitar will definitely have to let go when he hits it. He quickly said modestly: "Brother Chang doesn't have to be humble. I can cut some ordinary weapons with this knife. I guess it's hard to help your pair of maces."

Chang Mao smiled and said, "Forget it, Chang is not a person who is overestimating his abilities. When he arrived in Peking, Chang also asked someone to rebuild this pair of weapons with Huairou Steel. Then he would compete with you. Why would you show off a few more hands today and enjoy it for Chang. It is rare to be able to be a family in the capital these years." As he said that, he took advantage of the unintentional situation and squeezed at Wu Anguo.

After pondering for a moment, Wu'anguo already understood that it was a false test. Chang Mao came to the competition, and it was a true test. This time, Lan Yu, Wang Bi, Zhang Yi and others were famous generals who had been in battle for a long time. They were not inferior to him in terms of titles, but according to the division of labor in the army, they must obey Zhu Di's dispatch, which was equivalent to being dispatched by himself in disguise. Therefore, everyone was not convinced, so they asked Chang Mao to stand up and compete with him and took the opportunity to claim his own weight. Chang Mao was rude on the surface, but he was not ashamed of what these people did. So he came up and admitted defeat first, and then let Wu'anguolu convince the public.

Wu Anguo was very clear in his heart. He knew that if these fierce generals were not suppressed today, he would not know how much trouble would be in the future. He called Zhang Zhengxin and ordered this. Zhang Zhengxin took the order and left. After a while, several personal soldiers came and set up several targets in the gap in the distance. After coming to this time and space, Wu Anguo had to practice every day, in addition to the later muskets, it was this knife and the longbow given to him by Yang Tiezhu. He was an amateur archery champion back then. After years of accumulation, he had a lot of experience in bows and arrows. He gently slapped the neck of the Thunder, and the war horse ran for more than 200 steps, turned his horse's head, and rushed towards the target at the sprint speed.

Taking the arrow, opening the bow, letting go, and cooperating with the thundering footsteps, the sharp arrows were shot like lightning, and they had only shot more than a dozen arrows, which had already attracted a lot of applause. All the generals were experts, and they could not see whether the arrows hit the bull's eye from afar. However, eight or nine out of ten were near the red circle. What was rare was that the arrows were all penetrated through the back of the target, making the target sway back and forth. They all activated the war horses and chased the Wu'an Guo horse, but when the arrows were finished, they rushed to the front and looked carefully. At least fifty steps away from the target, Wu'an Guo pulled out the last arrow, pulled it for a full month, and shot the arrow steadily. There was a crisp sound, and the long arrow passed through the target, flew out dozens of steps, inserted into a mound, and it was almost as big as the feathers.

Even the general of Longling is resurrected, everyone secretly praised him. He thought to himself: No need to look at other targets. Just one arrow is enough to prove his strength. If the two armies fought in front of the formation, they would have been shot off the horse before they could get close. While they were admiring, Zhang Zhengxin and Zhu Di rushed back with two cavalrymen. The two cavalrymen carried a basket of gourds on their backs. They didn't know what to do in the gourds. Everyone came forward to greet them. Zhu Di told everyone not to be restrained and laughed. He heard General Zhang say that you are performing martial arts. I will join in the fun, Xiangyun, Chongguang, please help throw the gourds. The two cavalrymen agreed and ran away first. Both of them were sent to the army by their families to build achievements. The name of Xiangyun is Yang Zhenyu, and Xiangyun is his name. The son of the martial arts director, although he is good at martial arts, he is still hiding on the streets of Jingshi.

His family wanted him to live a life of selling meat. His family hoped that he would be the best of his ancestors and let him join the navy. He did choose to join the new army of Peking. The man whose name was Chongguang was named Zhen Yao. He was born in a family of beating doctors. His father followed Chang Yuchun's army to the north and saved countless soldiers' lives. In the end, he became an imperial physician. For the sake of his picturesque country, his father recommended him to Chang Mao. When Chang Mao asked him what he was good at, this person said he was good at poisoning. He suddenly got his temper with Lao Chang, so he was hired. The two were also a pair of freaks in the army, so they were very popular with Zhu Di. In their eyes, Zhu Di was also the same freak. His Highness, the King of Yan, like Wu Hou, wanted to bring a word "Ask" for everyone. Although it was a bit awkward, he felt quite comfortable. After more than a hundred steps, Yang Zhenyu threw a gourd high.

Zhang Zhengxin made a gesture to Zhu Di to ask for the first time. Zhu Di rushed out with a horse's belly. He took out three-eyed short guns and smashed the gourd into the air with a "bang". Only then did the generals notice Zhu, and Zhang and the others had a row of short guns inserted into the waist. Chen Heng was surprised to see the short guns for the first time when he saw the power of the short guns. His war horse had never heard of the gunshots, and he stood up with four hooves. He stood up with a blushing face. He was already ridiculed, but found that everyone had no time to care about him. While trying his best to control the war horses, he looked at the field with concentration.

The field was even more lively now. Yang Zhenyu and Zhen Yao took turns to throw the gourd into the air. Zhu Di and Zhang Zhengxin took turns to shoot. No gourd could fall intact. The four of them were in circles as if they had practiced. The sound of muskets rose and fell one after another, and the cooperation was just right. The more they threw the other side, the faster they were thrown, and the faster they were also shot. A short gun was empty, and the horse was thrown out, and the other was pulled out. Immediately, the personal soldiers around took the empty gun and quickly gave the medicine. When they turned around, they threw it back to the horse. In an instant, the broken gourd fell like snowflakes. Apart from the sound of horse hooves and muskets, the surroundings were silent. The onlookers had already forgotten to cheer and were drunk.

After turning a few times, Zhu Di proudly waved his hand, and immediately a team of former cavalry from Peiping rushed out, riding a good horse that was picked out by a hundred miles, and using the spirit of a horse and a demeanor of a long horse. They drew their guns one after another to see who shot the fastest. Yang Zhenyu and Zhenyao made a variety of tricks, throwing the gourd into the air like a hidden weapon, but no matter how the angle was thrown out, there was always a shot on the gourd.

"Bang", as the last gourd shattered in the air, the knights brought the war horses together. In an instant, the horse's hooves stopped and the muskets sounded. After a while, a word "good" that reacted came from the crowd. Everyone woke up from a dream and cheered, and the voices rang through the wilderness. "If this kind of training and such a sharp weapon were given to me, they would have to pull out the Mongolian Tartars' roots." Lan Yu cheered and thought, "Your apprentice's musket is so good, let alone master, what a Wu'an Kingdom, in the future, we can only stay behind you in the Ming army, alas! Lan Yu was born at the wrong time."

The smoke of gunfire had just dissipated, and the clever Xu Zengshou and others had already surrounded the knights in the middle and took a short gun to watch. The latter reluctantly handed them the firearm, staring at their hands like a thief, for fear that the musket would disappear in a blink of an eye. Zhang Zhengxin was even more absent. He covered his waist with his hands and shouted to Chang Mao who was approaching with a face, "The gun is there, and the gun is dead." One big and one small are about to launch a "death struggle for the short gun."

". In the end, Zhu Di agreed to arrive in Peiping, each person fired a short gun first, and everyone reluctantly returned the short gun. Walking far away, he heard Chang Mao gently use his rough voice to make goose bumps: "Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, why are you doing with so many short guns? I'll lend me one first. If you don't lend it, can you rent it? I'll get it back to you when I get it... Why are you so deducted at such a young age?"

If someone asked what King Yan Zhu Di wanted most in the late spring of the 12th year of Hongwu, he would definitely answer: "Silver"! In order to get the short gun as soon as possible, everyone urged him to lead the team to Beiping. When he returned to Beiping and placed everyone to live in the mansion of the former Mongolian prince, Zhu Di began to worry. Before they came back, Li Shanping decorated several mansions, including water stoves, tap water, glass windows, and a dry and fresh equipment. It was very comfortable to live, but the long bill for decoration costs made Zhu Di immediately feel heartbroken. After arranging Lan Yu, Wang Bi, Zhang Yi and others to Lanzhou, Yunzhong and other places to be responsible for the defense of the northwest and Zhengbei, Zhu Di immediately found Wu'anguo, almost in a pleading tone, so that he could find a way to make money.

I don’t know how expensive it is to be a family. Along the way, Zhu Di has been calculating how much it will cost to build a new army. According to the plan agreed by him and Wu Anguo and others, the new army was named in three parts, namely the Shenji Army equipped with muskets and cavalry-based soldiers; the Thunder Army equipped with three-eyed short guns and sabers, and the Thunder Army equipped with artillery. The Shenji Army and the Thunder Army were about 10,000 each, the Thunder Army and the Thunder Army were 3,000 people, and three hundred cannons. Because the original organization of the Ming army was established in reference to the Mongolian army, Zhu Di felt very shameless, so he decided to completely change it. He re-enlarged the militia system of Wu Anguo and planned the new army, divided into divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons.

The squad system. Except for the Pili Army consisting of three artillery regiments, each army is actually a division. During training, each army was trained independently, and the battalion was reorganized. Each army cooperated with the troops to attack separately according to the brigade. These new terms and tricks were basically all the suggestions of Wu'anguo. Wu'anguo didn't know much about military affairs, and basically they were based on the ideas drawn by military chess. The concentrated use of artillery during the decisive battle was a consensus between him and Zhu Di. In addition, the army also established a brigade dedicated to logistics and a scout regiment specializing in reconnaissance and assault according to Wu'anguo's suggestions. The scout regiment planned to be led by Wang Feiyu to join the army as a martial arts expert. Wu'anguo hoped that he could become a special force.

According to Zhu Di's original idea, at least the new army in Peking would have to double its size. In his dreams, he and Chang Mao and others, he would strive to build an iron army that would be invincible in the world. However, after careful calculations, Zhu Di found that they could no longer afford the current scale. The cost of armor, muskets, horses and other equipment for cavalry infantry was more than 100 taels of silver, which did not include their salary, insurance, daily meals, and training expenses. Among all the troops, cavalry infantry was the cheapest. In other words, if the current scale was full of personnel and the cost of artillery would require nearly 3 million taels of silver.

This is really a silver army. In addition to the original border defense forces, the court decided that the court would not give the new army a penny. For money, this prince learned the face of his friend Wu'anguo's profiteering businessman even more. It was stipulated that Li Shanping's price would double the price of all the artillery sold to the navy or other places of Ming army horses, and 70% of the additional part would support the construction of the new army in Peking. But the money was still spent like water, which made him feel very short of money. In the army, for several consecutive months, everyone could hear Zhu Di's distinctive cry, "Oh my god, why is Zhu Di so poor!"

Chapter 15 (Chinese) Hope

Just when Zhu Di was worried about money, Wu'an Kingdom had something more difficult than him. Sometimes he wanted to grow three heads and six arms to deal with the current situation. At present, he could not come up with any new ways to quickly get the governor of the Peking Mansion to obtain more silver. The generals in the army were Wu'an Kingdom as the richest man, but he did not want the army to have too much connection with him to avoid attracting Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion. Be careful, you can't make a mistake in one step, and you can't let the court have reason to kill everything that is new in the bud; nor can you let everything become a tool for the growth of the monarchy. Therefore, he must strive to grasp the direction of the development of Peking.

In the past few months after he left, many new things appeared in Peking. Although the imperial court gave Zhang Wu and others an official title, it at least showed that the court did not oppose emerging industry and commerce, which undoubtedly gave the industry and business community, which was originally operating at high speed, had a reassurance. Therefore, over the past few months, it can be described as rapid changes in the development of Peking.

It is not difficult to understand the changes in Peking. As soon as Wu'anguo arrived in Peking, Li Shanping found an evening to pick up important reports to him and Guo Pu. After that, Li Shanping left two stacks of newspapers, which introduced the current situation in Peking in more detail. So later, Guo Pu and Wu'anguo both had the habit of collecting each issue of newspapers.

There are currently two varieties of newspapers. One is a newspaper run by literati funded by Wu'an State, which is now named "Beiping Spring and Autumn", which is different from the "Beiping Xinbao" run by another "Beiping Xinbao" run by the Zhan brothers who started insurance banks. Unlike the Confucian theoretical controversy in "Beiping Spring and Autumn", "Beiping Xinbao" was founded by the Zhan brothers who saw that workers in the Beijing area began to read and believed that this was a good opportunity to make money. Therefore, the content of "Beiping Xinbao" was mostly about the miscellaneous talks, unofficial history, and absurd ghost stories in the streets. About half a month after Wu'an State went to the capital, this newspaper began to be sold by idle people along the streets, because it was adopted

The printing plate promoted by Zhang Ji Water Truck, which saved labor, was sold very cheaply. Basically, it was two articles per issue, three days and every issue, and it became popular in the streets and alleys of Peking in less than half a month. Chen Dewen, a scholar who wrote "Peking Spring and Autumn", was dissatisfied and sued the government in the name of being an indifference. Before the magistrate Li Shanping adjusted, Chen Dewen took the initiative to withdraw the lawsuit, which made Li Shanping very surprised. Later, his disciples said that the "Beiping Xinbao" printed a complete page of the details of Chen Dewen's father doing the Mongolians, and announced that he would continue to be serialized, which scared Chen Dewen so much that he had to come to beg for mercy. The next issue of "Beiping Xinbao"

The newspaper published a filial son story about "The son does not say his father's fault" and "The son atones for his father's mistakes in that year". The Pili method really made Li Shanping admire him. After this battle, "Peping Spring and Autumn" changed its original style and used its own advantages in the capital to specifically create a page to report the new policy of the court. The latest news about Wu Anguo and others in the capital, and the current situation of overseas countries, various measures have brought back a lot of popularity for it. The response measures of "Peping Xinbao" are to introduce the properties, prices, and road conditions in various places one by one according to different seasons, and sometimes mixed with new technologies and new born in Peking.

The opportunity to get rich has caused past businessmen in Peking to buy. At present, the war between the two newspapers has expanded to the prefectures around Peking, and each has a large number of supporters. Regarding some measures of Peking Prefecture, the two newspapers also sing their own tunes and comments, and have never been unified. One likes it, the other must be the opposite. The latest trick now is that the "Beiping Xinbao" serializes a plain text (the predecessor of the novel), called "The Loyalty and Filial Son Serial Advice", while the "Beiping Spring and Autumn" serializes "The Song Taizu Dragon and Tiger Wind and Cloud Meeting" in each issue. Interestingly, the author of the Pingshe of the two newspapers is the same person, and the name Wu'anguo is very familiar with, and he is Luo Guanzhong.

It was learned from the newspaper that Huairou's most popular new product this year was the four-wheeled carriage, which was first launched by Mohammed, the director of the Peking Academy. He felt that the two-wheeled carriage was uncomfortable to sit, and provided samples of the carriage from his hometown, which were customized by the old man Yang. Out of respect for him, Yang made the carriage extremely comfortable according to Mohammed's drawings and improved a lot. The car used the newly launched steel axle of Zhangjia, which consisted of the steel spokes and the steel ring inlaid with cork, and was equipped with an axle support made of ordinary mild steel (simple shock absorbers), and it ran like riding in the wind. "Peking Spring and Autumn" used the four words "Sky and Lightning" to evaluate the four-wheeled carriage, while "Beiping Xinbao" said that this thing can still run on the concrete official road from Peking to Huairou.

After leaving Peking Mansion, he encountered a bad road condition and immediately stopped food. The typical ones were not useful. He also mocked the scholars who held the "Peking Spring and Autumn Annals" who were all bookworms who did not know the suffering of the people and had never seen the country roads. In any case, the four-wheeled carriages became famous by the noise of these two newspapers. Old Man Yang saw that this thing had a promising prospect and had a plan with Zhang Wuge. The two of them worked together to open a car factory specializing in the production of four-wheeled carriages. The rich people in Peking, especially literati, had a special liking for carriages. They rode on the streets when they had time, and many small businessmen who were selling along the street complained. Because of their popularity, the four-wheeled carriages were renewed and replaced just two months after their birth. A thing invented by Zhang Zhengwen was added to the axle, and the carriage factory named it as bearings.

The bearing is composed of several hard steel rods that are polished and quenched on the lathe by the two round steel rings by thermal expansion. After applying the axle of the carriage, the working efficiency of the latter is greatly improved. Soon, this thing was promoted to a series of equipment with shafts such as windmills, water wheels, lathes, etc., making these equipment easier to rotate. Another invention of Zhang Zhengwen was a new type of gear. He used the method of rotating arcs on the circular shaft at the same angle and designed a new gear, which greatly improved the accuracy of the original gear (official history, involute line

Simple gear making method, 1837, Vilis). The newly processed gears have made various lathes several times more precise. Now the "hand clock" imitated by Huairou is now incomparable to the accuracy of the first time. The inventor and factory advocated that the text was not satisfied with this. Under the guidance of the Persian teacher hired by the academy, he used gold, wood, water, fire, and earth to calculate the specific distribution of the gear teeth every day. After several years of hard work, Menarous, Ptolemy, and Aye

Names such as Podo, Valahamihira are no strangers to craftsman camp students like Zhang Zhengwen who entered school earlier. (Note, Menelaus, Ancient Greeks, about 100 AD, wrote "Spheric Science", which proposed the basic problems and basic concepts of trigonometry, especially the Menelaus theorem of spherical trigonometry; Ptolemy (Ptolemy) wrote "The Great Success of Astronomy", which initially developed trigonometry. Ayebodo (ryabha)

taI) The founder of trigonometry in ancient India; Valahamihira (about 505-587) first introduced the concept of sine and gave the earliest sine table). Although everyone has become the pillars of various businesses and factories, whenever they have time, they still like to gather in the academy. They believe that everything they have come from the Arabic numerals taught by Teacher Wu back then. They dare not forget their roots, so unlike the officialdom, mathematics is now the most popular "noble" knowledge in the business world.

Of course, some people in Peking have occasionally "invented" Hercules Pills that only work after eating meat for three years; mosquito repellents that are only useful in mosquito nets; Bian Que pastes and other things that can cure all diseases, but they have never concealed the judges who issued invention bonuses. The bonus was supported by the remaining shares of Wu'anguo at the time, but the ones issued to were jointly determined by voting by industrialists such as Zhang Wu. Only more than two-thirds of the judges believe that the invention is valuable can the inventor receive the prize from the academy.

Jin. The smart Zhang Wu and others will not let inventions that cannot make money pass, and the selection conditions are extremely harsh. But this has made the value of recognized inventions more important. Often, as soon as the invention is recognized, judges in the venue buy the invention. Before the outside world's businessmen understand, the invention has turned into a waste of money. Soon, this practice has aroused public anger. Businessmen outside the judges circle jointly wrote a letter to Guo Pu, asking to join the judges and have the same right of first refusal.

Finally, after Guo Pu came forward to adjust, Zhang Wu and others agreed that all new inventions will be sold publicly in the future, and those with the highest prices will be paid. However, if you want to join the jury, you need to pay at least 500 taels of silver to Huairou Academy as development funds and get more than two-thirds of the judges' consent. At the same time, in order not to disturb the prefect for a trivial matter, at the suggestion of Wu Anguo, the merchants unanimously decided to jointly establish a Peking Chamber of Commerce. Representatives from various industries negotiated to resolve the conflict in the chamber of commerce. When there was no dispute, the vote would be resolved. Those with more votes would be reasonable.

On the day the Chamber of Commerce was established, Wu Anguo raised two questions and asked the Chamber of Commerce to solve them. First, it was to use all possible channels as soon as possible to buy steel from other places. Second, he offered a reward for the business community to try every means to produce a particularly wide, thick and sturdy cloth. "It is this kind of cloth." Wu Anguo held his jeans to show everyone, "The width should be twice as wide as the cloth on the market now. Whoever can provide it, I will pay him 10,000 taels of silver immediately."

The atmosphere in the venue suddenly became lively. The merchants who had traveled around the world had never heard of it. They rushed forward to test it. When they touched the cloth in Wu'anguo's hand, they were stunned. Is this called cloth? It's thicker than cowhide? I really don't know what the Lord Wu can sell in the gourd. "Give it to me, I'll go back and let Tiezhu and the others see if they can do some tricks on the loom," Old Man Yang took the cloth and said lightly. As long as there is a chance, this simple old man will do his best to share Wu'anguo's worries. In his heart, Wu'anguo will always be his benefactor.

The purchase of steel was covered by Xu Zhichen. He promised to use ticket numbers from various places to purchase steel, and when the goods were shipped, the government would pay them uniformly. Of course, he would not do anything to suffer. In return, he received a promise from Wu'anguo to hand over the insurance of the new army of Peking to Xu Ji's ticket numbers in the future.

"Take a risk of others, behave like villains." The Zhan brothers whispered, feeling that they couldn't eat grapes in their tone. But their brothers knew in their hearts that they had to be soft and lack steel now. If they were Wu'anguo, they had to agree to the more stringent conditions.

Although at the beginning of the year, Zhang Wu and others had already turned their attention to the surrounding areas of Peking, where the ore in Yongping Prefecture (Qian'an, Hebei) was better in color, and with current material technology, it could build a smelting furnace that was twice as large as before; at the beginning of the year, Wu'an Kingdom also used green alum oil and hot alkali to test the yin and yang of the ore and proposed the ratio of ingredients. However, when more than a dozen furnaces in Yongping were put into production of steel, it would be at least until autumn. The officials sent by the imperial court to learn smelting were even more hopeful. With these scholars who kept talking about the poem, they would probably have to wait until the next year. And now,

The order for the ship-borne artillery of Prince Zhu Biao was placed on Li Shanping's desk. Cao Zhen said in his letter that the order was made by Shen Bin. When he left the capital, Cao Zhen recommended Shen Bin to Prince Zhu Biao. In order to repay his kindness and to make his family rise again, Shen Bin not only offered suggestions for customs construction, but also drafted all equipment ordering contracts, which clearly listed from delivery time, location to quality of goods. The precision made Wu'anguo, the "big tyrant merchant", admired him. In addition to artillery, the prince also ordered more than 3,000 ghost-headed swords, which indicated that it was urgently needed.

Horse carriages, water wheels, and clocks lack steel, not to mention the water stoves and tap water that are increasingly popular across the country. Whether it is the equipment of the navy or the new army of Peking, which one can delay, "Oh my God, where can I go to change steel?" Wu'anguo sometimes really wants to learn from Zhu Di, and whistle to the sky to vent his depression.

At the end of May, the rising iron prices made many merchants who used to take out steel from Peking (high-quality elastic mild steel is a specialized purchase of products in Huairou, and the private sector is not allowed to buy and sell), and began to turn around and sell steel from all over the country to Peking. The steel purchased by Xu Zhichen from major cities and overseas also came as promised, which somewhat alleviated the pressure on raw materials. These steel made by the steel filling method are not good for weapons and precision components. It is okay to build some water furnaces or recast them into tap water pipes, and some non-precision industrial components can also be replaced by better 100 steel. This is all a solution. Zhang Wu and others were very concerned about the problem of buying iron, because the price of finished goods is much higher than that of raw materials. The deeper reason is that they knew that the army urgently needed good steel. As border residents who have experienced the war, no one hoped that the Ming army would be stronger than them.

What made Wu Anguo feel relieved was that it took only half a month for the old man Yang to solve the cloth problem. When he and a few workers walked into the Wu'an country with a long and thick piece of cloth, Wu Anguo was so moved that he almost bowed to everyone to bow to everyone. However, what surprised him even more was still behind. In order to produce this piece of cloth, Yang and Tiezhu and other carpenters improved the entire cloth production process. Through those machinery, Wu Anguo knew that a new era had begun.

It was a new type of cotton ginning, spinning and loom. These things were originally not uncommon in the Song Dynasty, but after being improved by carpenters, they were a world of difference from the original ones.

A hopper is installed on the cotton trunk machine, which can send cotton boaths to the grid below. There is a drum with many small iron hooks under the grid. When rotating the drum, the iron hook hooks the cotton from the gap, leaving the cotton seeds on the grid, and then collects the cotton fibers together by a rotating brush. If pushed by Zhangjia's new water wheel, this thing is a thousand times more efficient than the original one. The spinning machine is improved based on the three-spinned spinning wheel in Peking (invented by Huang Daopou in the Yuan Dynasty). The spindle is changed to steel. The spindle changes from horizontal state to upright, and is pushed by the water wheel. There is a rotating shaft under the machine, and there are slide rails on the machine. There are 16 vertical spindles through the gears.

, 16 yarns that are even, fine and strong than the original one can be spun out at a time (our space, 1764, England, Kharif). The loom improves the original pedal weaving cloth truck by the same principle. Due to the use of water wheels, new juxtaposition shuttles that reciprocate with the arms and gears (our space, 1733, England, Kay), the weaving cloth is more than twice as wider than before. It only takes multiple layers to thicken it to weave the thick cloth required by Wu'anguo. Women who weaving cloth do not have to work as hard as before, just look at the shuttle. This machine can not only weave cloth, but also silk, hemp and other things.

"I found wings for your dream." In the 800-mile express letter to Cao Zhen, Wu Anguo wrote this, and the letter was written on a thick cloth. Cao Zhen ordered people to make the cloth the main sail of the new warship that was being made in the dock.

In addition to the several looms specially designed for the fleet textile canvas, Li Shanping sent people to take charge of the first batch of looms provided to the people were bought by Wanping merchant Zhang A Niuhua at a high price. In just two months, he recovered all the costs. Using Huairou's specialty dye, Wanping City first entered the "Beiping Xinbao" with its specialty colored cloth. This businessman who came to Wanping last year also made everyone look at him with admiration. In July, a businessman from Songjiang Mansion named Yu Hanyu ordered more than ten sets of spinning and weaving equipment in one go. There is a river called "Hengpu" in his hometown. The water flows rapidly all year round, and it is a natural weaving place.

No matter how fast the new product is launched, the tax revenue in Beiping cannot make up three million taels of silver. Unless Wu'anguo can discover new gold mines or create something more valuable than crystal glass. The latter has derived more than 20 items such as glazed windows, glazed lamps, glazed bowls, glazed wind chimes, etc., and the tax revenue created still cannot satisfy Zhu Di's big appetite. "Brother Wu, did you ask me to sell my fiefdom to raise money, but someone has to buy it?" After a suggestion of tax increase was unanimously stopped by Wu'anguo and others, Zhu Di said angrily.

"I'm even more anxious than you. God knows how long we have to prepare. Who can guarantee that the eldest elder in the court will blow the wind to Long Live at this time?" Wu Anguo replied with a little discouragement. It has been more than three months since he returned to Peking, and the money has left him at a loss.

"Or why don't we borrow some money from the prince. It is said that the customs has already made a surplus. The total number of customs is more than 400,000 yuan per month?" Guo Pu suggested.

The proposal was quickly rejected, and at this time, Zhu Di was unwilling to ask for help. If he had a choice, he would rather sell his house and land.

"In fact, we can sell land, small pieces, not Beijing, but Liaodong." Li Ling, who has joined the army and is currently the Qianhu (known as the commander of the regiment), suggested gently. He was not shocking and never stops. This is the second time he spoke in Wu Anguo's memory. Just this sentence, in the history of the Ming Dynasty's tyrant businessmen who were later cultivated, he far surpassed Wu Anguo and others and won the first place. Apart from the country and self-esteem, Li Ling dared not sell it. This is the evaluation of historians.

Chapter 15 (Part 2) Hope

"Your Highness of Yan might as well make a book. Please allow us to sell the land in Liaodong to the people of the prefectures without limit." Li Ling took a sip of the "Bi Luochun" placed in front of him and said slowly. Since returning to Peking, King Yan Zhu Di ordered people to put a huge round table in the hall of his palace's court. When the generals were discussing the matter, they sat in a circle. According to Zhu Di's words, "That bullshit, King Arthur only relied on the twenty-eight knights, and they were all in a row.

My little wife is reluctant to let go of the miser, and she has to fight with others to take away the beauty. Brothers are like brothers and wives are like clothes. He doesn't understand the principle that they are like clothes. We will discuss things in the future. How can I let them compete with me as a great country in China?" At this point, in the Beiping army, etiquette has been simplified to meet with superiors and subordinates, and it is just a handover. Although some mature and polite people still like to kneel down, they had to swallow their opinions from the King of Yan himself.

"There are few people in Liaodong. Even if we fight in the future, we will have to immigrate to defend it. The people in our dynasty have a strong sense of rural concepts, and forcing them to immigrate is a bad idea. Some treacherous and slanderous people make profits from it, and good things will turn into bad things. It is better to sell them to the people at a low price. The land belongs to them. The people naturally have to find a way to clean up. We also get military expenses from it. Why not do it?" Seeing that everyone was staring at themselves, Li Ling threw the hat of a profiteer to Wu'anguo again. "In fact, this is exactly the same as the method of Master Wu's resettlement of immigrants back then. Ling was just a copy of the gourd."

"How to sell it if Liaodong is not in my hands?" Zhu Di was still a little puzzled. He stood up and walked to the wall. On the wall was a magnified map of Liaodong. Every day, the scouts sent spies mixed in the caravan to report the mountains, rivers, and roads of Liaodong to Beiping, drawing them on the map. Now the entire Liaodong is almost printed in the minds of the King of Yan and others.

"Don't worry, with the rich man from Wuhan, who signed and sealed, and His Highness Yan personally guaranteed it, no one would doubt our credit." Guo Pu smiled. He also realized that his idea just now was a fool. Borrowing money from the prince undoubtedly means that he admitted that the new policy of Peking had no expected effect, and it would easily shake the emperor's determination. If the time for establishing an army was delayed for too long, the court might not have the patience to wait. So the method Li Ling said at present is the most worthy method, and the excuse that people need to defend Liaodong is very high-sounding. "In view of the disaster of land annexation in the previous dynasty, although our dynasty encouraged land reclamation, once each household has more than 100 acres of land, officials will interfere. If Liaodong does not set this limit, wealthy families will flock to us, and we will no longer have to worry about pacifying the Liao army."

Half a month later, the most strange notice since the founding of the Ming Dynasty was posted on the streets and alleys of the Ming Dynasty. The literate person shook his head and explained to the bystanders that the court allowed the Yan Prince's Mansion to sell land in Liaodong for real military expenses, starting from three cents per mu, and selling it from fifty acres, with no limit on buying more. The people around the Peking Mansion had long known about the wealth of Liaodong in two newspapers, and beat roe deer and scooping fish, ginseng, marten fur, and deer antlers. Almost everyone was talking about buying land.

"Have you bought the land? You?" When acquaintances met in teahouses and wineries in various prefectures and counties in Peking Prefecture, this sentence was the most asked. Now the land price in Peking has risen sharply. Three cents of silver can only buy land in Peking. So the people who are asked know clearly that they are asking about the land in Liaodong, and they usually answer happily: "I bought it, I bought a lot. Isn't it a fool if you keep up with the head of Master Wu Da, aren't you fool?"

"Yes," there was a white-bearded man next to him immediately responded, "I would sell stocks at the beginning of the year. I said I would buy it. My family said I would like to see it. As a result, there was no such store after passing this village, and I made a lot of less money. This time, I bought 150% in one go, spending all my three sons' wages for half a year. When I took it to Liaodong, I became a landlord. The feng shui changed. Uncle, have you ever thought about it? We who have been living for half a lifetime can become a landlord."

"Look at you, but then again, women's family just have no knowledge and can't listen to them. If I hadn't insisted on buying stocks, I could not queue up now. You said that the chamber of commerce would have lost money, and I could not approve a new stock listing in two or three months, which made people anxious." The old man, who was called his uncle, showed off his vision while showing off his vision, "When did Master Wu make us suffer losses? How many benefits did he get in the past? In the past, I burned incense to the Bodhisattva on the first day of the lunar month and asked the Bodhisattva to bless a good person like Master Wu to be promoted. Now I don't want to ask anymore. Why don't you ask? Master Wu will be promoted again and will not stay in our Peking Mansion. Then will the benefits belong to others in the future?"

"Wang Er, you're the ghost." The white-bearded man said angrily, and immediately lowered the old man who carried the bird from "his uncle". "How can you not let Master Wu be promoted? Look at Master Wu, Master Guo, and the new Master Chang, they are all materials for generals and prime ministers. We can't ignore the conscience. Now they are generals, and sooner or later they will be prime ministers. Below or even more than ten thousand people, so that the people can get his benefits. My mistress, who is studying in the night school, said, "What is this called "If you are poor, you should be safe, you should be well, and if you are prosperous, you should be both good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be good, you should be my brain."

"Support the world"! A clearly-looking scholar added.

"Yes, it's just this sentence, to help the world. The boys in our family now say this word, much better than me, so what are the worries and joys? I think that Mr. Wu is a person who does big things, so we can't always think about this benefit of ourselves, keeping others here and delaying their future. You think how much changes have happened in Peking in just a few months. I understand it, and I have to let the children learn from Mr. Wu. When the autumn comes, the mistress will not let him go to the Peking Academy to see if he can accept it."

"Okay, you're still planning to let your son come to the customs office to be an ambassador." Old Man Wang was robbed for a long time and finally found an opportunity to fight back.

"What's wrong with the ambassador? Why can't the ambassador be an ambassador? Huairou Liu Luoguozi's son is not as good as my son. He has been studying for two years in the morning. Now he is not the deputy envoy of Weihai Customs. 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, Zhang Wu is still illiterate. He turned out to be a blacksmith. Now he is also awarded the title of seventh rank?" asked the white beard with dissatisfaction.

"Okay, yes, don't be angry. I'm not going to treat you wrong? I won't treat you with that skill, and I'll go to stocks." Old Man Wang said with a smile. He was still a little unhappy when he saw the gray beard. He deliberately spread the topic, lowered his voice, and said to the others at the same table: "Have you heard that it is said that it is rich people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Many of them sent people to rush to this place with money, for fear that they would not be able to buy it if they came too late."

"I am as stupid as you, and my money has been transferred from Xuji Piao No. 2. Only those remote places have enough 500 taels to get to the nearest Piao No. 2. It is not as light as bringing silver bills. Liaodong is bigger and it will not be sold out for a while. This is still His Royal Highness of Yan only sells flat land in the south, not mountain land or forests in the north. It is said that the slopes above twenty degrees are not allowed to be cultivated, only trees are allowed to be planted. If you tell me about these twenty degrees, you don't understand. That is to say, larger slopes are considered mountain land, and trees are the hairs of the land and cannot be cut down casually. In my opinion, under the rule of the King of Yan, trees on the mountain will not be cut down sooner or later. Who wants to build a house? Plant trees yourself early."

"That may not be possible. If we have money, we are afraid that we can't buy rafters and will not buy big trees from Liaodong. Besides, maybe one day, His Highness King Yan and Master Wu will destroy Mongolia, so we will buy Mongolian trees at that time."

"But Liaodong is still in the hands of the Goryeo people. Do you really believe that my dynasty can take Liaodong?" A passerby who had just come to the table to drink tea asked, and seeing that he looked so dirty, he must have been running for a long time.

"You are from outside, you are a buyer of goods or a land purchase. If you don't believe anyone, you can't believe Master Wu, a young man, do you understand our rules. Master Wu is the reincarnation of Xuanwu. He fought against Qinglong and Baihu with empty hands, and they all crawled down in a few seconds. The Qinglong also presented a knife to Master Wu. The knife is more than a hundred pounds, more than one meter long." Wang Er finally found someone who could transfer the target and immediately pointed the gun at the young man. "Isn't Naha powerful? Isn't it better to let Master Wu chop it up with one knife? Isn't it very powerful? Master Wu said that he would capture him alive and not even frown. Who can block Master Wu's sword? Can you do it?" He gestured with both hands, as if he was the one holding the knife.

The young man moved the stool outward and shook his head, meaning he could not stop it. He looked suspicious.

"Don't worry, Liaodong must be ours. If you don't buy it now, it won't be the price when you take it down." The scholar explained to the young man: "You are from another place, have you never read the newspaper in Peking? The spring and autumn of Peking made it clear that the emperor had long wanted to calculate the account of Liaodong with the Goryeo people, but he had never made any effort. When the Ming Dynasty was just established, Liaodong had returned to his hometown, but the Goryeo people colluded with Naha, harmed the Liaodong commander Liu Yi, and helped the Mongols swallow Liaodong. They also said that the Mongols asked them to help guard Liaodong, these Goryeo's unconscient grandsons,

He was clearly acclaimed and was responsible for such dirty things behind his back." The scholars were obviously very angry and slapped the table, shaking the teacup on the table slightly shaking. "At the fifth year of Hongwu, Xu Da led his troops north, and the Goryeo colluded with the Mongols to cut off our food route. In the battle of Niujiazhuang, my great-grand man from the Ming Dynasty was so hungry that he couldn't even raise his sword, and he still tried his best to kill the enemy. Less than 800 of the 100,000 troops returned, and the rest became the heroes of the Qianqiu. This is not counting. The envoys sent to them in the Ming Dynasty also made them harmed" (Note: The above and the following statements about Goryeo are all from official history, not fabricated by the author).
To be continued...