The AD method is still a hundred years away from now, and when AD is placed here, it does not mean the conventional Gregorian calendar at all, just like the year names that appear in history, Jianyuan, Shiyuan, and Kaiyuan.

, Zhenyuan, etc., it would be more appropriate to explain these two words separately.

Yuan usually means the beginning, the origin, grandeur, and nobility, and represents a new era of rule. This word Yuan also has a somewhat tough meaning in it.

The word "gong" is also very particular to understand separately. Serving the public and the people means justice and the court itself. It also has the meaning of nobility, and it can directly refer to Zhou Yu himself.

At least from the perspective of people of this era, the AD era name is indeed a bit high-end according to their understanding, and it has the goal of rebuilding the Ming Dynasty and creating a prosperous age.

But in the eyes of some people, the nobility of AD is also a strong display to the outside world. The hidden meaning in this word may only be vaguely detected by a few people such as Yu Qian and King Xiang.

Of course, it doesn't matter what the year is, as long as the words are correct and the meaning matches, it doesn't matter how you explain it. Anyway, it's obviously more of a bad taste.

A busy day also officially entered the first day of the new year. On the first morning of the new year, Zhou Yu received a lot of discounts.

For example, there are a few greetings sent back from all over the country. Some of them are simple greetings, some are mixed with reporting on work, and some are pretending to be pitiful. Even the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War have all sent greetings.

Handed over the first coupon of the new year.

Among them, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War also emphasized the situation of the Gyeonggi area, including the northern pass city wall and various town houses. Everything is fine. At least the soldiers have had a good year this year, and the former Queen Qian is also out of trouble.

He was strong enough, and this did not include some things that Zhou Yu arranged for people to deal with quietly. All the valuable things of Emperor Baozong that Zhou Yu didn't like were sold, and a lot of money was taken from the emperor's inner treasury.

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In addition, the Great Khan of Oara, Toto Buhua, paid a lot of cattle and sheep to the tens of thousands of Oara people such as Alazhiyuan for the truce and redemption, so this year was indeed a pretty good one.

The first court meeting at the beginning of the year was also more formal than practical. The cabinet also came up with various policies and general arrangements for the new year with Zhou Yu's permission. Two of the most eye-catching things were.

First, collect taxes.

Second, counter the rebellion.

Some problems were found in last year's taxes after being calculated by the Ministry of Household Affairs. There would have been no problems, but who made the war a year ago consume too much material and money? In this case, Jiangnan, a prosperous land known to the whole world, was handed over.

It’s not right that the taxes are only slightly higher than those in the Gyeonggi region.

Yu Qian proposed that the cabinet support Zhou Yu and agreed to send people to Jiangnan to inspect the taxes. It just so happened that there were many troops here that could be mobilized. Ten or twenty thousand troops were sent to protect the investigation team to investigate clearly. Jiangnan was still just

From now on, the entire investigation team and the 20,000 troops will probably have to make a large circle in the south.

Moreover, this is a tax inspection team and a secret investigation team. Dongchang and Jinyiwei all have other secret tasks to do. The tax inspection is just using a big thing to hide a bigger thing.

The second thing is to counter the rebellion. In fact, the rebellion in Fujian is almost over, and there is no need to continue sending troops to reinforce it.

But countering the rebellion was just a reason. King Xiang knew very well what his real purpose was in the past. Yu Qian also had two tasks. The first was to keep an eye on King Xiang, and the second was to investigate the specific situation in Fujian. Japanese pirates

The collusion with the local aristocratic families was also for the sake of the gold and silver mountains that could withstand the Ming Dynasty's consumption for hundreds of years.

Before the fifteenth capital passed, two armies had already set off for Fujian and Jiangnan respectively. One army was led by King Xiang and Yu Qian as the auxiliary, leading more than 20,000 people. The other army was led by Shi Heng and the prince-in-law Xue Heng as the auxiliary.

Leading an investigation team of 20,000 soldiers to Jiangnan to conduct an inventory of taxes.

The three major events at the beginning of the new year and the control of floods have been arranged before the year, and there is not much progress so far. As for disaster relief and other matters, the cabinet can also handle them, and Zhou Yu only needs to continue to pay attention to them.

Can.

Zhou Yu's first New Year in this world is not too busy, but it is not too easy either. Even if the cabinet helps to deal with the bits and pieces, there are still many things that require his personal approval. As for the Supervisor of Ceremonies, this

The institution that was originally used to check and balance the cabinet now seems to have gradually lost its previous presence thanks to Zhou Yu's deliberate efforts and Cheng Jing's cooperation.

As soon as New Year's Eve passed, Zhou Yu couldn't wait to leave the palace. Under the leadership of Cheng Jing, he went all the way to the armor factory in the east and entered a workshop.

Compared with the scale of the armor factory, the workshop here is much smaller. The original archway was also taken off and a new archway that looked a little out of place was hung up, which was written as a royal craftsman workshop.

This sign is not hung directly on the door, but is just a wooden sign hanging beside the door. There are people from the Jin Yiwei standing guard outside the door to guard and patrol the building.

After Zhou Yu got off the carriage, the guard guarding the door quietly knelt down and saluted. When Zhou Yu walked into the workshop door, Cheng Jing quickly introduced him behind Zhou Yu: "Your Majesty, this is the minister you asked me to do before.

According to your wishes, the Emperor has summoned more than a hundred outstanding craftsmen from all over the Ministry of Industry to arrange the workshop. Before, the Emperor had no other arrangements, so he asked them to repair the inside of the workshop first, and now it has been almost repaired."

Zhou Yu said: "Can steel be made here?"

Cheng Jing was stunned for a moment: "No, but if it is a small-scale operation, we can clear a piece of land and build a small smelting furnace."

As soon as they entered the courtyard of the workshop, the steward had already led several craftsmen to kneel on the ground to welcome Zhou Yu's arrival. As for the other craftsmen, they were probably not allowed to come out somewhere inside. This was probably because Jin Yiwei had told them in advance.

What to do.

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"Everyone, get up." Zhou Yu stretched out his right hand from the black cloak and waved it gently, saying: "Take me to see this place, and also introduce to me what can be done here now."

The steward fawningly stood up with several representatives of the craftsmen. He did not dare to lead the way but followed Zhou Yu and introduced places wherever he went.

After walking around, Zhou Yu also understood what this royal workshop could do now.

In general, Cheng Jing understood Zhou Yu's meaning quite thoroughly. Nowadays, these more than 100 craftsmen are equivalent to a small engineering department. Everything that the big craftsmen's workshops in the engineering department can do can be made here, but

There is definitely no talk about the output, and the people who can be arranged are all the best people in each craftsman's workshop. By changing its name, this Royal Workshop can definitely be regarded as the Ming Dynasty's engineering college.

The scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty was actually very high. In this era, all aspects of science and technology are ahead of the West.

Since the Yongle period, the navigation level has been the best in the world, the firearms are the best in the world, the agricultural level is the first in the world, medicine, geography, astronomy and architecture are all the first, and there is also a health issue that is more than 600 years ahead of the world. As long as there are people

It can guide today's craftsmen to even do things like hand-made steam engines, create the world's first car, build the world's first steel warship, build the first steam train, and build an airship that is hundreds of years ahead of development.

Industrial change is not a problem at all.

Looking at firearms alone, it is not that the Ming Dynasty was incapable of developing more advanced firearms. It had the technical strength and the background of craftsmen, but the only thing it lacked was money.

To put it bluntly, the first thing in the world that can barely be regarded as a manned aircraft appeared in the Ming Dynasty. This is true.

Of course, Zhou Yu is not thinking about reaching the world in one fell swoop. What he wants the workshop to do now is just a few things.

First, improving firearms is a top priority. The Ming Dynasty had understood the role that firearms could play in war, but it still could not truly understand the impact that firearms could bring. However, Zhou Yu

He knew this, and he was also very familiar with firearms.

Second, steel, truly modern steel, with the current technological strength of the Ming Dynasty, there is no problem in achieving this. Only with good steel can we have better firearms.

Third, cement, needless to say the role cement can play, this thing is simply a god-given artifact now, it is invincible.

Fourth, perfume and soap are purely for making money, not only to make money from wealthy families, but also to make money from overseas.

Among the four projects, the iron-making process is more troublesome, but as long as there is qualified steel, Zhou Yu is confident that he can bring the Ming Dynasty's military level to the level of weapons during World War I in a short period of time. This is only close to

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Being able to do this is really thanks to the three sacred books. Often the most high-end books only need to be named in the simplest way. If you have read the three sacred books and can fully master them, you will probably be able to live a very cool life no matter when you travel to ancient times.

If you add Zhou Yu's own knowledge, it will be even more extraordinary. He himself is a guide for time travellers.

The method of making cement is very simple and there is no difficulty at all. Even craftsmen who have never been exposed to it can quickly master the method of making cement. However, making cement is still inseparable from the steel mill.

The three raw materials of limestone, clay, and iron-making slag are easily available. Limestone and clay are burned and then mixed with iron-making slag and ground into powder. This is cement.

Once you have cement, the next step is concrete. Concrete is even simpler. Just add water, sand, gravel, and mix cement.

This can be done by just finding a few craftsmen to do it. Then the perfume is a little more complicated, but it is also simple to say. However, there are two methods: soaking method and distillation method. The distillation method will be better.

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As for how to improve steelmaking, Zhou Yu had to go to Zunhua Iron Works to have a look in person to understand the situation, but the good thing is that the steel produced by Zunhua Iron Works is still very good.

Improving steelmaking cannot be accomplished overnight, but it is okay to improve firearms first and manufacture some on a small scale. However, this must change from the gunpowder, bullets and loading methods used. Zhou Yu has experience in this.

After seeing the workshop, Zhou Yu said nothing and just let the steward arrange to continue repairing and improving the workshop before leaving. As soon as he returned to the imperial study, he picked up his pen and started writing and drawing.

The manufacturing process of cement and perfume is written in detail, and then the upgrade of gunpowder.

Since we have to upgrade gunpowder, we can naturally produce grenades and explosive packs. With explosive packs and convenient things like heartless cannons, we can also produce the so-called field cannon, even if it is only the most powerful.

The junior version is also invincible.

Now that the conditions are limited, there is no way to make better things. With limited materials, Zhou Yu can only technically upgrade the existing firearms. Moreover, firearms are not very useful for one person, but they need to be replaced by 10,000.

It's different if you take it personally.

It would take a year and a half to make do with the upgrade. Zhou Yu estimated that with the emperor's status and power, he could mobilize the resources and power to completely innovate in this time. As long as he had the money, it would not be possible within five years.

If you can really build an airship, you can also build a hot air balloon within two or three months. Whether it's safe or not is another matter, but Zhou Yu doesn't want to ride on it himself.

At this point, Zhou Yu plans to let half of the people in the workshop do the above things. After these people can learn how to do it, they can go to the ordnance factory to expand production.

The other half of the hundreds of craftsmen had to arrange to upgrade the existing steel-making, and wrote a lot of things based on the knowledge in their memories. They spent a whole day writing and organizing them into several

The booklet was then handed over to Cheng Jing.

"These are some ideas that I came up with in my free time that can benefit the Ming Dynasty. You can ask the people in the workshop to try them."

Cheng Jing's expression was a little weird when he got the booklet. He was a little confused when he looked at the words written on several booklets.

Perfume crafting, gunpowder improvements, musket improvements, earth grenades, concussion cannons, cement and concrete.

Cheng Jing finished reading the booklet in his hand and then looked at Zhou Yu: "I will send someone to the workshop later and order the craftsmen to study quickly."

"You must keep it secret when you go in person. If there are any results, everyone will be rewarded. You can also tell the craftsmen who can invent something special, or donate the skills inherited from the family, no matter what kind of crafts they are.

You can take it all out, and maybe you can get the same status as a scholar."

Zhou Yu glanced at Cheng Jing and said, "Invite craftsmen who are familiar with steelmaking to be prepared. You can also arrange for me to go to the ironmaking factory in person in half a month."

Cheng Jing was immediately stunned by Zhou Yu's words: "Let those craftsmen have the same status as scholars and scholars?"

Zhou Yu shook his head: "Do as I say. You are also a scholar and a general manager. Can't you see that up to 60% of the scholars in the world are trash? These craftsmen are the ones who can truly improve the overall strength of the Ming Dynasty.
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