From the 25th to the 26th year of Chongzhen, it was a very sad year for the Qingskins of the Ming Dynasty.

One of the famous and surnamed masters in various places was counted as one, and they were basically arrested. Those who were waiting for the beheading were relatively lucky. Those who were more miserable could only wait to be thrown into the "labor camp" to be coolies.

The people of the Ming Dynasty didn't care much about this. Except for those who were arrested at home, almost all the remaining people were applauding.

The large-scale crackdown on Qingpi was only discussed for a few days, and the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty shifted from Qingpi to the prince Zhu Cixuan.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen's performance after ascending the throne was undoubtedly extremely amazing. Emperor Chongzhen is now in his forties and has been ascending the throne for more than twenty-five years.

If we judged by the time of the reign of other emperors in history, Emperor Chongzhen could be an emperor for about 30 years. After that, Emperor Chongzhen would not be allowed to continue to stay on the throne, whether in terms of energy or lifespan.

Then, the performance of the next emperor, that is, the prince, has become a matter of great concern to everyone. After all, it is closely related to his own interests, especially the reputation of Prince Zhu Cilang...

There is no airtight wall in the world. The older sons of Emperor Chongzhen's family, the eldest Zhu Cihuang, the crown prince Zhu Cihuang and the third prince Zhu Ciyi, were almost no one in the world who sneaked out of the palace and crossed the ocean to expand the territory. When they came back, they were hung up by Emperor Chongzhen. Almost no one in the world didn't know about it.

Regarding the fact that these three princes always leave the palace in different ways or cause trouble, the people and the court officials unanimously stated that the dragon gave birth to the dragon. Emperor Chongzhen could still expect the beam to be unruly if he was not upright?

The problem is that as a prince, you can do whatever you want. Once this less reliable prince becomes the prince, the meaning will be completely different.

There are many things about my heroic son and bastard. Emperor Chongzhen is awesome in governing the world and fighting wars. His achievements are not inferior to those of the emperor. But who knows how good his son is at?

Fortunately, Zhu Cilang's performance was exactly in line with what a prince should have, and even exceeded many people's expectations.

When it is time to be cruel, Zhu Cixuan will never be weak. It is not without people in the Ming Dynasty who want to resist. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to be obedient to the people, especially in Shandong, which has been famous since ancient times.

Zhu Cilang was not afraid. After defeating these Qingsie who occupied the mountain and became the king, he was not afraid of the orphan army. He just did not build Jingguan.

Zhu Cilang is also very kind.

Many families have only one son who is a green-skinned old man, and are sent to the nursing home by Zhu Ciyang. At least the future birth, old age, sickness and death will be worried by the Ming government, so that they will not end up with a tragic ending that no one cares about after death.

Emperor Chongzhen, who had been paying attention to Zhu Cilang's actions, also expressed satisfaction.

When it is time to be cruel, you can make up your mind, and when it is time to love the people, you can also love the people. Such a crown prince undoubtedly meets the psychological expectations of Emperor Chongzhen.

As for what’s going on in the future, let’s watch it slowly. Anyway, there’s still plenty of time, so don’t worry.

After putting the matter of Prince Zhu Cilang aside, Emperor Chongzhen's main goal was to the Royal Academy.

Twenty-five years, it is said that it will not last long, and even a small wave can't be turned up in the long river of history.

However, twenty-five years are not short. After all, it is a generation of time, which is enough for a born baby to grow into an adult and strong man.

What changes can twenty-five years bring about the development of science and technology? Especially when the demographic dividend of the Ming Dynasty initially emerged.

The Royal Academy's area has obviously expanded a lot, even the main gate has been expanded several times, the patrol sergeants have been several times more than they were at the beginning, and there are several more guards garrisons.

Obviously, Shaofu, a monster that specializes in serving the royal family, spared no effort to catalyze the Royal Academy, in order to allow more inventions to be born and bring more benefits to the royal family.

Song Yingxing is also old.

Xu Guangqi, the first president of the Royal Academy, has died, and the second president, Mo Hua, has also died of old age. He has stood in the laboratory of the Royal Academy until his death. The third president is relatively young Song Yingxing.

It is said that Wu Dalang plays with night owls, what kind of people plays with birds, Xu Guangqi, Mo Hua, and Song Yingxing can be valued by Emperor Chongzhen, which has a certain relationship with these three guys not good birds.

Back then, Matteo Ricci, with a passionate heart, stepped onto the mysterious East described by Marco Polo, and planned to spread the glory of the Lord here.

Comrade Ricci had a good plan at the beginning, so he went straight to the top of the road. As long as he settled the upper officials of the Ming Empire and with their help, wouldn’t preaching be as simple as sprinkling water?

However, what disappointed Matteo Ricci was that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were all great scholars and cultural people, not as easy to fool as European barbarians.

In other words, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are red lotus, white lotus, green lotus leaves. The three religions were originally one family. When it comes to fooling people, these officials in the Ming Dynasty may be more professional than Matteo Ricci. Matteo Ricci came up to talk about the matter of Lord Dong Hehua. Can people be interested?

Besides, what are the officials of the Ming Dynasty best at? They are so polite and shameless. The emperor can even make them scold them and not go to court and play with them?

It can only be said that Matteo Ricci is still a picture of the turmoil, and it is natural that the officials of the Ming Dynasty regard it as a brain disease.

Since it is impossible to directly preach, Matteo Ricci has changed his way of playing - let’s talk about mathematics and astronomy, I don’t believe you won’t take the bait!

At that time, many people were actually caught in the Ming Dynasty. A large group of people went to learn mathematics and astronomy with Matteo Ricci. But as soon as Matteo Ricci talked about missionary matters, these goods started to fight haha: Yes, okay, let me talk about how Copernicus calculated it?

Matteo Ricci slowly squeezed out the scientific toothpaste in his stomach while sulking secretly.

At this time, good friend Xu Guangqi made a brilliant debut!

This little red man from Shanghai is actually the most unfamiliar thing: "My dear fellow, I believe in the religion. Can you translate this "Geometry Original" from Greece?"

Of course, Matteo Ricci disagreed, and then Lao Xu no longer talked to him about anything but lost. He simply turned his head and learned the language of the manzi himself, and then found a big guy to come and start the translation, including Song Yingxing, the miserable guy.

Later, after Matteo Ricci died, the Holy See planned to give him a grand funeral. Xu Guangqi strongly supported him at that time, and then asked the Holy See to send someone to help him translate the "Taixi Water Method".

The missionaries who came to bury Li's classmate at that time were shocked - Brother, do you know what we do?

Do we have to rely on missionary to enslave the whole world, not great charitable people who come to spread technology, can you be so shameless as a human being?

Xu Guangqi was very dissatisfied and cursed and stopped talking about whether he was a religious or not. Emperor Chongzhen happened to send someone to find him, and then Xu Guangqi plunged into the Royal Academy and fluttered.

In terms of the rules of being a human being, Mo Hua is obviously not much better than Xu Guangqi.

Until the day he died, Mo Hua knew that he was still sticking to the standard of Mohist school love and non-aggression.

As for sending people to Japan for assassination and revenge, Mo Hua has obviously chosen to forget it. In other words, the Mo family's standard of universal love and non-aggression is for the Ming people.

The Japanese slaves were not from the Ming Dynasty, so they were obviously separated from the scope of human beings. Isn’t it a waste of time and energy to tell them what they love and love?

The current dean Song Yingxing is not a good thing. Compared with the previous two deans, Song Yingxing is not much different - when he sold Jinnige and the Seven Thousand Western Books of Jinnige, Song Yingxing didn't even have any pressure at all.

As for the great killing weapons created under the auspices of these three deans, and those who died under the great killing weapons, it is obviously not within the scope of their three considerations.

If you are not from the Ming Dynasty, you are not qualified to talk about human rights! Want to talk about it? Yes, use the Ming Dynasty household registration to talk about it!

Facing the sudden arrival of Emperor Chongzhen, the third president, Song Yingxing, was obviously not too surprised. As long as this man is in the capital, he will run to the Royal Academy if he has something to do or not. It is no wonder that he has been there for a long time. If he doesn't come for several months, that would be a strange thing!

After seeing the ceremony, Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "Talk about it, I haven't been to the Royal Academy for a year, right?"

Song Yingxing bowed and said, "It's been a year since you started to report to Your Majesty. As the saying goes, three days after your scholars leave, you should look at him with admiration. Your Majesty hasn't come to the Royal Academy for a year, and there must be many things that will interest Your Majesty."

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Song Aiqing knows what I will be interested in?"

Song Yingxing laughed and said, "Your Majesty is naturally interested in something that can make the Ming Dynasty stronger?"

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help laughing: "Okay, Song Aiqing is right, but it's a pity that there is no prize."

Song Yingxing just smiled and said nothing, leading Emperor Chongzhen to walk towards a courtyard near the mountain.

Emperor Chongzhen looked back and forth and asked, "I remember, there was no such courtyard before?"

Song Yingxing said: "Yes, before Your Majesty went to sea, this courtyard had not started to be built. Later, in order to keep it confidential and to better ensure safety, such a courtyard was specially built."

It is said to be a courtyard, but it is not as simple as a small courtyard. To put it more accurately, it should be a small building complex.

After walking to a yard closest to the mountain, Song Yingxing led Emperor Chongzhen into the house.

In the middle of the room was a table with a gun on it. Emperor Chongzhen could not take his eyes off the first time he saw it.

This is completely different from the current standard muskets in the Ming Dynasty!

After he picked up the gun on the table and put it on his shoulder to aim, Emperor Chongzhen put the gun down again and said to Song Yingxing with a smile: "Okay, there will be a prize this time!"

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen seemed not surprised at all, Song Yingxing simply took out a few yellow bullets from his pocket, spread his palm and said, "Your Majesty, please see."

The latest improved muskets and bullets are no longer afraid of rain. In addition to heavy rain or extremely hot and cold weather, these muskets and bullets are already very little affected by the weather."

Emperor Chongzhen's eyes were almost gone: "Continue to study and strive to overcome all weather problems. It is best not to be affected by heavy rain or heavy snow!"

After Song Yingxing bowed and responded, he led Emperor Chongzhen to another courtyard: "Thanks to the invention of the steam engine, our Ming Dynasty artillery is now developing further, and its power has improved greatly compared to before. In general, the range is longer and more accurate, and the power of the shell is also greater."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, looking at the slender cannon in front of him, his eyes inevitably showed a bit of intoxication.

This is the real artillery. Compared with the cannons in front of you, those artillery before were simply toys for children!

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen asked, "The cost of these muskets, bullets, cannons, and shells must not be cheap, right?"

Song Yingxing's old face turned red and said embarrassedly: "It's a little more expensive than before. The material requirements for these muskets and cannons are much higher than before, and even the manufacturing requirements for shells are much higher."

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but snorted, "I'm afraid it's not as simple as it's more expensive, right?"

After picking up the bullet that had just been taken from Song Yingxing, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but speak, "Is this thing pure copper?"

It's not just a bit more expensive, even if Emperor Chongzhen is noisy, he knows that this thing is not cheap when he sees the bullets used for muskets.

Brass, this thing was used as money before - even if it was a copper plate, it was mixed with other things. Who knows if there is anything else in the shell of the musket bullets made by Song Yingxing and the others?

If it is pure copper, the price will be even higher!

Song Yingxing quickly waved his hand and explained: "Your Majesty, because lead is poisonous, it is mixed with lead, which is definitely not pure copper! In addition, some tin is also mixed in!"

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This old man is not a good thing! Because lead is toxic, you have mixed lead? If you can get some radioactive substances, you have to add some uranium 235 into it?

In a blink of an eye, Emperor Chongzhen felt relieved again.

Anyway, these things are finally paid by the barbarians, so why are they doing what they are doing now?

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen's face was a little gloomy, Song Yingxing couldn't help feeling a little weak, and simply bowed and said, "Your Majesty, why not look at the electricity you mentioned before?"

ps: Sacrifice "His Mrs. Lu is very sweet", female-produced by Qin Yan, written by that stinky hooligan!
Chapter completed!