The winter of the sixth year of Wanli is worth remembering. Two major events happened inside and outside the Forbidden City this winter.

First, Emperor Wanli, the highest ruler of the nominal empire, drove the Jinyiwei to search for eunuchs who accepted bribes in the Forbidden City, and personally opened an edict to investigate the case. This trial began with a corruption case involving a total of 10 taels. Finally, at the end of the winter, Xu Jue, who was in charge of the Nanzhenfu Department, lived up to the emperor's wishes, handled 473 cases, and obtained more than 10,000 taels of stolen silver. The palace was stolen treasures and stolen treasures were stolen.

In the court at that time, most of the young emperors were regarded as having fun on their own. Except for a few corrupt eunuchs who were indeed guilty and unprotected, most of them were sent to Nanjing to become Jingjun.

The emperor allowed them to organize the Dongyang Jing Army camp after two years of training and follow the Beiyang Eighth Banner to go to sea to make meritorious service.

But in fact, the grand trial that happened in the palace this time had a great impact on the young Emperor Wanli's view of the world.

The second thing happened outside the Forbidden City.

The cabinet in charge of the center of the empire submitted a document called "The Six National Affairs Memorial" to the Silijian for approval, and then officially issued it to the Ministry of Industry.

This document determined the focus of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works in the construction of recruiting military troops and garrisoning and launching corvee labor in the next three years. Zhang Juzheng drew two lines on the vast territory of the empire.

The northern line crossed Jiuliancheng and North Korea, and started from the Shuangchengwei, the former location of the Nurkandus Metropolitan Police, heading east along the coast. More than ten guards including Muyang River Guards and Shuli Guards were restarted, with a total length of more than 2,000 miles.

The southern line starts from Yao'an Prefecture, Yunnan, passes through high mountains and dense forests, and follows the march route of the Battle of Ping Myanmar a few years ago. It passes through more than ten ancient battlefields, extending all the way to the Baigucheng, where the right guard of Myanmar, Chen Mu, fought for.

These are two telegram routes. The north and south lines are actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty. In the future, troops will be added one after another to build city forts to protect the route. The power tentacles of the empire will also extend to every corner of the way with the wires.

The ultimate goal of the imperial court was to extend the northern line to Wangxia Prefecture and the southern line to Goa Port, and establish a cabinet to provide timely feedback, assistance, control and control of the East and West Second Yang Military Offices.

Together with these two top-notch major events, there are also places where ditches are built, farmland is reclaimed, and the occupied military and farmlands are reclaimed after the use of acre of land.

The most important thing is to set up an official money and grain department under the Ministry of Revenue of the Ministry of Revenue of the Two Capitals and One Thirteen Provinces, which is full-time and priced for taxable silver exchange for tax payments based on the average annual grain output of each province.

This institution mainly takes care of the situation where farmers in the northwest have difficulty in taxing after implementing the One-Whip Law, and at the same time, they use the exchanged grain to prepare them in the reserve warehouse to prevent low grain from harming farmers and high grain from harming the people.

It is also in this particularly cold winter, in Nanjing, Yangzhou, Guangzhou, and Tianjin, some young people and middle-aged people who have received many education took to the streets.

The fireworks on the banks of the Qinhuai River are still there, but the rich and wealthy young men who are idle this year have new interests.

There were beatings in the pleasure boat, but people's eyes were gathered on the shore. Someone held a wine glass and chuckled softly: "I heard that a ship from the Nanyang Army came here today."

"Hi! Your news is outdated. There was a letter at the estuary of the Yangtze River two days ago. The Beiyang Army's ships have been parked there for a few days. It is a real Liujia warship. Thirty-two artillery cannons are lined up on both sides of the ship. The flag army on the ship stands straight on the side of the ship, motionless, waiting for the craftsmanship to graduate from craftsmen."

Two years ago, many professional schools that sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in the Ming Dynasty. Most of them had finished their courses this winter. Graduated by craftsmen, and became well-known topics of talk in the city, from pawns and peddlers to government officials. The upper and lower classes of the Ming Dynasty have never paid attention to the same thing so in line.

The so-called craftsmanship refers to a series of folk schools established by an enlightened person who had a long-term vision or had a strong military lecture hall at the end of the lecture hall after Zhang Juzheng ordered the closure of the academy to close the same time. In order to avoid the court's rebukes against the academy, he only taught skills but did not preach, so he was called craftsmanship.

But craftsmanship is tolerant of everything, not only teaching craftsmen, such as dancers, actors, storytellers, fortune tellers, teaches farming, weaving, covering all walks of life and tolerating everything.

The wealthy scholars on the pleasure boat were talking in a lingering manner, and toasting each other. Some merchants talked about their business operations at home. Most of them had plans to hire craftsmen and students - for example, they became interested in children from the pleasure boat on the Qinhuai River.

The most famous person on the Qinhuai River is the craftsman named Yuanyangyuan. This year, a large number of outstanding actors and practitioners have graduated, which attracted their attention the most.

Some people even think that craftsmanship is just a place to teach these, so some people ask: "What does it have to do with them after craftsmanship, and they even sent military ships. Could it be that the military ships are too lonely?"

These words made everyone at the table laugh.

Only separated by two portholes of the pleasure boat, the middle-aged man in the blue robe with a support window showed surprise in the direction of the sound, lifted up the wine pot by the window and tilted his head and took a mouthful, then turned his head and said, "Did you all hear it? This kind of ignorance is extremely ignorant, you should not take it to heart when you have a bright future."

His name is Fang Xuejian. This name means many things. For example, he is from Tongcheng and studied under the right censor of Nanjing Geng Dingxiang, but his appearance at this time has nothing to do with these identities.

If you follow the normal trajectory of life, scholars like him should be able to serve as officials, and then go to the countryside to give lectures and help students when the career has reached a certain level, becoming a famous gentry.

However, during his study tour, he learned Spanish in the Guangzhou Martial Arts Hall, and his life trajectory later deviated from the path that orthodox scholars should follow.

By chance, he translated the "Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgical Science and Technology". Although he himself did not know much about this technology, he still became the winner of the Wanli Science and Technology Award in the fifth year.

After that, he was invited by Li Shizhen to stay at the Beiyang Research Institute for a while, and then went to Zunhua to teach miners to identify the mine veins. He returned to Nanjian and stayed in Nanjing as a miner who was a craftsman in the three schools and professor Shan taught his knowledge.

He called the warships parked at the estuary of the Yangtze River in Beiyang, and seven craftsmen were drinking with him at this time. As an excellent craftsman lecturer, Fang Xuejian paid out of his own pocket to take the students who had never seen the world to the pleasure boat to drink flower wine.

"I have always told you to learn Spanish well because I didn't understand many things about mining and smelting when I was translating the Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgical. Until I went to the Beiyang Zunhua Iron Factory to see the practicality, I knew which one was better. If you were the one who translated the book at that time, maybe this book would be better than today."

"The blast furnaces of Westerners are not worth mentioning. The skills of smelting gold, silver, copper and iron are not as good as those of ancient times. They only know that there is Japanese lead in the world but don't know how it comes from; however, there are also some advantages, such as identifying ores, recording the colors, soft and hard, and countless rich and poor, which really refreshes us."

"In addition, there is also the method of separating gold and silver mercury and strengthening water, which is unheard of in my heavenly dynasty. You are recommended to the Beiyang Military Palace by me this time. In the future, you will be allowed to contact more Western books. You must compile the book that integrates the universe as soon as possible. By then, the country and the government will have a real "Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgical". You can also live up to my teachings of all my life!"
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