After the Liu brothers left, the father and son strolled in the garden for a while.
Ju Ming suddenly said: "I plan to do the same as Sichuan, first in Gyeonggi, Henan, and Guanzhong, to completely abolish the Xiang army system. The functions of inspection and courier delivery will be retained, and these two aspects will have their own ownership, and they will no longer be affiliated with the specialized Xiang army establishment.
.In addition, Gang Jun must be retained."
"Sichuan has not suffered many natural or man-made disasters, but a large number of Xiang army servants have been resettled," Zhu Guoxiang asked, "Have you thought about how to resettle the three places you mentioned?"
Zhu Ming said: "Divide the fields nearby to reclaim wasteland, and transfer some of them to local officials. In the future, the exemption law will be implemented, and this must be completed in conjunction with the allocation of acres. Therefore, the abolition of the Xiang army is in conjunction with the inventory of land and the allocation of acres. It should not be mixed with
Doing it together will definitely cause trouble."
Zhu Guoxiang nodded and said: "Give me a set of regulations, and I will let the local officials implement them. It will be tried out in Gyeonggi and Henan first, and loopholes will be filled and the policy will be fine-tuned, and then expanded to Guanzhong and Huainan."
Ju Ming said: "Once the south is pacified, the two Huaihe Rivers will be the top priority for the reform of the Xiang army. If we can reform there, there will be no problems in the whole country."
The Xiang army in the Song Dynasty was not only used for fighting, they had various responsibilities.
First, transport materials.
Whether it is transporting grain and grass, or various matters of the imperial court, the first consideration is to let the Xiang army do it. Only when there is a shortage of manpower will the civilian men be recruited.
Second, build water conservancy, repair cities, build palaces, and build royal tombs.
For this kind of government project, Xiang troops will also be dispatched first, and then civilians will be recruited to supplement according to the amount of the project.
Third, farm and reclaim wasteland.
If it is necessary to farm in border areas or a few internal areas, Xiang troops will be sent there.
Fourth, it is used by officials.
When officials are ordered to leave the capital, when supervisors inspect local areas, when officials go to work over long distances, or even when officials move and change residences, they can directly use the Xiang army as bodyguards and miscellaneous tasks.
Even if an official's parents die of illness, and the official has important responsibilities and cannot return home, Ding You can apply for Xiang troops to help handle the funeral. In principle, the number of Xiang troops allocated is within 100. Or if the official himself dies of illness, Xiang troops are sent to escort the body.
When returning home, in principle, no more than thirty Xiang troops can be mobilized.
Or, officials may call Xiang soldiers to serve as handymen, or even let Xiang soldiers serve as officials for free.
Even the most junior deputy chief can command a Xiang army.
At the Zhizhou level, he can command two hundred Xiang troops.
In the Song Dynasty, the border generals even deployed large-scale Xiang troops to cut firewood and burn charcoal without any subsidies, which was equivalent to long-term hard labor, but the charcoal burned was sold by the generals to make money.
This practice was once so popular that the Xiang troops who burned large amounts of charcoal could not bear it and fled directly into the mountains to gather as bandits.
Because there were so many charcoal-burning Xiang troops who fled, the Northern Song Dynasty court had to order a ban, explicitly prohibiting Xiang troops from engaging in charcoal-burning work.
There are many other messy things. The Xiang army who can be patrol soldiers and deliver troops are already considered very lucky among the Xiang army. They even have to accept logging, shipbuilding, brewing, mining, producing weapons, and delivering documents.
, palace chores and other tasks. Anyway, let the Xiang army do whatever they have to do.
Do you think that the Song Dynasty court was kind-hearted and organized refugees and rebels into Xiang troops whenever something went wrong? So many Xiang troops in the country were maintained by the government for free?
Zhang Ruyu, an official of the Southern Song Dynasty, summed it up in eight words: The Song Dynasty had the world, and everyone served the Xiang army.
It is precisely because the business scope of Xiangjun is too broad and involves too many people that Ju Ming has been unable to comprehensively reform it.
In Sichuan, a large number of Xiang army servants were resettled to reclaim wasteland, or even moved to Nanyang and Xiangyang. As a result, the government was often short of manpower. For larger public projects, all civilian laborers had to be recruited, which greatly tested the governance of local officials.
and coordination ability, but all prefectures and counties in Sichuan are still undergoing major water conservancy projects.
The deep area of Xiang's military reform is in the Lianghuai River. To put it bluntly, it is the issue of transportation.
If the Lianghuai Gang Army is abolished, should we establish another Liang Huai Cao Army?
Ju Ming's idea was that the Gang Army should be separated from the Xiang Army and organized into a system with the Delivery Army, specifically responsible for postal and transportation services, and the overall responsibility would be placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. This is the Privy Council and the Generalissimo's Office, which takes away too much authority from the Ministry of War.
It is a kind of compensation and balance given to the Ministry of War.
After resting today, Zhu Ming took Zhang Jinping and Zheng Yuanyi and took a carriage back to the East Palace.
When we were almost there, we stopped again. On a whim, we climbed up to the city gate and walked for a while along the imperial city wall.
Genyue in the northwest is really an eyesore. It is almost deserted. A large number of pavilions and pavilions were chopped down to make firewood during the defense of the city, and the stones were also removed to make falling rocks.
A pile of large and small stones were piled on the city wall. The well-preserved high-grade Taihu stones were auctioned by the government to wealthy households. The broken stones were casually carried by ordinary people, or wholesaled to builders.
Today's Genyue is overgrown with weeds and the rare flowers and trees are not taken care of. It just stands so abruptly in the northeast corner of the city.
Maybe it can be cleaned up a little and a few pavilions can be repaired for Tokyo residents to enjoy.
Zhu Ming had an idea and thought of the Astronomical Academy.
An observatory can be built on the top of Genyue. Even if the capital is moved in the future, the observatory here does not need to be moved. It can be compared with the astronomical observation data in Luoyang.
In the Song Dynasty, those astronomical officials often made false claims, and the emperor had to establish the Hanlin Academy of Astronomy. Originally, it was intended that the Si Tianjian and the Academy of Astronomy should supervise each other, but as a result, the old and new astronomical departments worked together to fabricate observation data to fool the emperor.
Nowadays, the new Ming Dynasty has merged the Tianjian and the Astronomical Academy, and eliminated two-thirds of the people who were just in charge. The name of the new institution is "Tianwen Yuan".
Ju Ming left the city wall and planned to visit the Astronomical Academy.
Zheng Yuanyi was not interested in that stuff, but Zhang Jinping was very interested. She has many relatives who like to engage in technology. Not only did her ancestors improve the wet copper smelting process, but her cousin also invented the jigsaw puzzle a few years ago.
When the prince arrived in person, everyone in the Astronomical Academy was in a state of panic.
After hearing the news, Huang Shang, the envoy of the academy, rushed to greet him, and his enthusiasm was somewhat resentful. This old champion of the previous dynasty was first thrown by Song Huizong to compile Taoist scriptures, and now he was hired by Ju Ming to take care of astronomy, but he had always wanted to be a political officer
of.
"How's the pendulum clock doing?" Ju Ming asked casually.
Huang Shang said: "It's almost done."
Ju Ming nodded: "Go and have a look."
The water transport instrument platform and the weighing and weighing institute of the Northern Song Dynasty are still placed in the yamen of the Astronomical Academy. These two are astronomical measuring devices, and the clock attribute is incidental.
After the father and son took over Tokyo, they quickly merged and streamlined the astronomical institutions, and asked Huang Shang to lead the development of mechanical clocks.
The chief engineer of the R&D team is Taoist Wang who created the "Institute for Discussion and Manufacturing of Metrics". Several scholars from Yangzhou brought by Zhu Guoxiang, some of whom like to study physics, also joined the scientific team. They were also seconded from the Ministry of Industry.
There are some craftsmen, and the entire team is about thirty people in total.
The overall idea was provided by Ju Ming.
No clockwork device is needed, a heavy hammer is used as power, and a pendulum is used to keep time.
After this kind of pendulum clock was invented by Galileo, it had no major disadvantages except that it was too big and inconvenient to move. Even in the Internet era, there are still many "retro" people who put this kind of clock at home to keep time.
Make a video and post it online to show off.
But Ju Ming only saw the appearance and knew the basic working principles, but did not understand the specific internal structure at all.
Taoist Wang was squatting in the room doing research. When he learned that Ju Ming was coming, he quickly led his team to greet him: "Meet the Crown Prince, meet the Crown Princess!"
Ju Ming smiled kindly in return. Compared with other officials, his smile at this time was the most sincere: "No need to be formal, how is the development going?"
Taoist Wang said: "It's basically completed, but some small changes still need to be made."
Although the water-borne instrument platform of the Song Dynasty and Galileo's heavy pendulum clock both needed an escapement to adjust, the escapements of the two were very different in design, so Wang Taoist had to redesign them.
There were more than one heavy hammer clock, and each one was as tall as a person. Taoist Wang asked his assistants to dismantle all the casings.
Taoist Wang pointed to one of them and explained in detail: "The heavy hammer drives the ratchet, and the gear teeth push open the pawl of the pivot balance (axis center), causing the pivot balance to rotate through an angle. The pawl under the pivot balance just rotates over.
Blocking the lower gear teeth. The ratchet wheel continues to rotate and pushes it away again, and the pivot balance returns to its original position, thus completing a swing..."
With explanations and demonstrations, Ju Ming can understand everything at a glance.
Taoist Wang continued: "The device that swings horizontally above is called Tianquan. It was originally used to adjust the speed. I was really embarrassed and did not use the single pendulum mentioned by the prince. As a result, although this horizontal pendulum can be adjusted, I use the dripper every day.
The calculation with the sundial has a huge error."
Ju Ming smiled and did not criticize.
The isochrony of a simple pendulum is simple to say, but extremely complicated to explain in detail. It is normal for Taoist Wang not to follow what Ju Ming said.
Moreover, according to the heavy hammer idea provided by Ju Ming, Wang Taoist was able to study the horizontal swing clock, which is considered very capable.
Taoist Wang pointed to the pendulum clock next to him: "Later, I made several large pendulums and tested them for three days while staring at the drip. The period of the pendulum has nothing to do with the amplitude of the pendulum, but only the length of the cycloid. The specific adjustment of the speed is
As for the pivot balance device, how many heavenly gates (the action points in the escapement that block the swing rope) are the most punctual, and we are still slowly comparing them repeatedly."
"Use a sundial to test, how big is the error now?" Zhu Ming asked.
Taoist Wang replied: "The error of one month is about two quarters of an hour."
Ju Ming nodded in approval: "It's extremely accurate."
Taoist Wang said: "It can be improved further."
Sundials in ancient prefectures and counties were not very precise, and the error could reach fifteen minutes a day.
However, the sundials used by the astronomical department of the central court were extremely accurate, with an error of no more than 20 seconds per day.
There was already a term for hours in the Song Dynasty. Ju Ming said: "Follow the old rules for hours. You can divide the hour into sixty parts, each part being one minute. You can make another minute hand to calculate the minutes."
Taoist Wang opened his mouth wide, but finally bowed his head and responded: "Yes!"
Adding a minute hand is not as simple as it sounds.
When the leader opens his mouth, the subordinates run away and break their legs.
When Taoist Wang completes the minute hand system, it will be time for him to develop the timekeeping system.
