"It's not just outside the customs. In the south, Annan has long since separated from Daming and became independent. Burma has invaded and occupied large areas of Daming many times. In the southeast, the Dutch landed on Taiwan Island and cut off the sea channel for communication between Daming and Nanyang vassals. They defrauded Macau. This is the land on the mainland. What are they going to do next? In the southwest, Uszangdusi and Dorgandus are also unstable. Since the Mongolian Wara and Shuote tribes went south, the Uzangdus and Dorgandus have moved south. The Tibetans and Mongolians have merged, and they have no awe of Daming. They not only expelled Daming’s local officials, but also gradually eroded the Xingdu Division of Shaanxi. Master Shangshu, they have eroded to the southern foot of the Qilian Mountains, right? Is the Hexi Corridor still safe? "In Zhu Youzhen's heart, there is also the peasant uprising in Shaanxi that is about to break out. This is the most direct cause of Ming's destruction of the country.
Of course, the peasant uprising cannot be said, and no one will believe it. Maybe he will be impeached by the officials with "demonstration to confuse the people", but this is what Zhu Youjian is most worried about. Once the peasant uprising becomes a climate, not only will it be difficult to eradicate, but also these. Behaviors that do not produce but only plunder and destroy will make large areas of the local land barren and the population will be drastically reduced. It is easy to destroy or appease the insurgents, but it is not a short time to resume production.
The peasant uprising is coming soon, right? But Zhu Youjian couldn't stop him. He was as depressed as Li Chunye, and he was anxious when he thought of it.
Li Chunye looked at Zhu Youjian again, as if there was a monster sitting in front of him. He was so young, he had never been out of Beijing, but he knew so much about the surrounding environment of Daming, as if there were no such talents around him. How did he know? Although Li Chunye did not fully understand Zhu Youjian’s method of training soldiers, he admired Zhu Youjian’s military abilities, and even pinned the hope of the Ming army’s revival on the young prince. He now hears Zhu Youjian’s advice. In a word, I feel that not only the army, but perhaps the hope of Daming Zhongxing lies in this prince.
He doesn't have much selfishness, and he doesn't have many negative political assets. Although he is under the wings of the Eunuch Party, this is the current political reality of Daming. Without the protection of the Eunuch Party or the Donglin Party, no one can hang in the court.
Although he belongs to the Eunuch Party, he did not participate in the persecution of the Donglin Party. In fact, Li Chunye could not bear the blatant power and money transactions of the castrate party. However, the Donglin Party is not a good bird. They all advertised their cleanliness, but they acted like the party against different parties, and showed no mercy to political opponents. , Their only goal is not to revitalize Daming, but to bring down their political opponents.
Even on the issue of corruption, the Donglin Party is not inferior to the Eunuch Party. The Donglin Party is located in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian. It is the most prosperous area of Daming. Which Donglin Party member is not rich in wealth. ? Did their money come clean
It’s just that Wei Zhongxian’s family dominates the Eunuch Party, and the Donglin Party is a group of heroes. If the Eunuch Party is a group of political villains, the Donglin Party is a group of political hypocrites. In many cases, hypocrites are better than true ones. The villain is more terrifying and hateful.
Without political ambitions, and dissatisfied with the political reality of Daming, Li Chunye naturally hoped that, under the leadership of a certain political strongman, like Zhang Juzheng of the Wanli dynasty, he could achieve the revitalization of Daming. He does not have such ability, nor does he have such prestige. Now that Zhu Youzhen has come out, he puts this hope on Zhu Youzhen.
"His Royal Highness, can the training methods of Fenwuying Camp be popularized in other troops of Ming Dynasty?" Li Chunye finally raised his last question.
Zhu Youzhen didn't speak, he shook his head slowly. Who is willing to pay for the soldiers to improve their food? Can you not be greedy for the Mexican army's salary
After the military parade, Zhu Youjian returned to his usual state. He ran through the firearms bureau while running the Fenwu Camp, sometimes returning letters to the palace.
In the Firearms Bureau, Zhu Youjian met a strange man. This person was called Ding Lan, and his father was a disciple of Wanhu, who was the self-made rocket, and he ascended to the sky on the rocket himself, but was thrown to death by Wanhu. Ding Lan's father was originally a disciple of Wan Hu, who assisted Wan Hu in the development of rockets, and was equivalent to an assistant to later generations. After Wanhu passed away, his descendants were not interested in rockets and failed to inherit Wanhu's business. Instead, Ding Lan's father got the full set of materials for Wanhu's development of rockets and inherited Wanhu's business.
Ding Lan has been dazzled and witnessed by her father since she was a child, and she has also fallen in love with the Rockets. However, scientific research requires a lot of investment. Because of the lack of funds and personnel assistance, Ding Lan failed to push Wanhu's rocket technology forward. He failed to bring rocket technology to the practical stage, and of course he could not get the understanding and help of others. He has another manufacturing mission in the Firearms Bureau, so the development of rockets is only his hobby. He can only explore the rocket field alone. For this reason, he has spent his family that is not wealthy, so poor that he can't even marry his wife. .
Zhu Youjian looked at Ding Lan, his hair was messy, his face was gray, and the clothes on his body were not only ragged, but also glowing with dark light. Obviously, he hadn't washed it for a long time. Except for the stubbornness shown in his eyes, if Ding Lan is put on the street, everyone will think that he is a beggar.
"His Royal Highness, Ding Lan..." Liu Yifei, the director of the Firearms Bureau, did not understand why Zhu Youjian was interested in Ding Lan. In the eyes of colleagues in the Firearms Bureau, Ding Lan was a person with a bad brain. If he didn't know Ding Lan usually Without a tendency to violence, he was worried about Zhu Youjian's safety.
Zhu Youzhen's interrupted speech, he wanted to feel for himself whether Ding Lan was as idiot as others said, or a real scientific research master. Ding Lan’s image is not terrible. It may be that he is obsessed with rockets, which made him ignore the living environment. Master-level scientific researchers must have this spirit. On the contrary, people with too much fame and wealth cannot become masters. of.
Zhu Youjian remembered the portrait of Einstein in the textbook before, with the same messy hair. From an intuitive point of view, Zhu Youjian felt that Ding Lan and Einstein were a match. Maybe he dived into rocket research, but other people didn't understand rockets, didn't understand him, and didn't pay attention to image, which made others misunderstand him.
"Ding Lan, how's the rocket development going?"
Ding Lan also took a look at Zhu Youjian. He shook his head gently, without saying anything, the eyes that suddenly showed light faded quickly and returned to the state of confusion. It seems that he is also very dissatisfied with his own research and development work.
"Ding Lan, do you think the rocket can really carry people to the sky?" Zhu Youjian noticed the light flashing in Ding Lan's eyes just now. Even though it was only a short moment, he still felt that Ding Lan is not an idiot, he is real. Is obsessed with the development of rockets.
Perhaps it is the contradiction between the bright prospects of the rocket and the reality of his backward development. He has not been dealt with properly and there is no object of communication, which makes him an alternative in the eyes of others. If this is the case, then you have to help him at all. Sometimes, to help others is to help yourself. You may have to use Ding Lan's research and development work to use rockets on the battlefield.
Zhu Youjian decided that he wanted to have a more in-depth dialogue with Ding Lan.
Ding Lan's eyes looked straight at Zhu Youzhen, and his lips moved a few times unconsciously. There seemed to be something to say, but after all he didn't say anything. However, his eyes suddenly lit up, like a dim light. The incandescent lamp brightens sharply due to a sudden rise in voltage.
"In my opinion, it is feasible to carry people to the sky." Zhu Youjian generally does not call himself his own king, unless he wants to highlight his conscious identity to attack the opponent, he will call him "my king". Regarding Ding Lan, Zhu Youjian should try his best Slowly, maybe he is really the first master of science in Ming Dynasty.
"His Royal Highness does research on Rockets?" Ding Lan finally spoke, but her tone was full of disdain. His eyes were narrowed and his brows were tightly closed. He didn't believe that the young King of Letters had to do with Rockets. His research will surpass himself.
Ding Lan moved emotionally, whether it was anger or joy, as long as it was not indifferent. Although Wanhu pioneered human research on rockets and inspired mankind's passion for space exploration, he also brought the direction of rocket research into a dead end. The manned rocket is now too advanced, and many theories and related technologies are far from keeping up.
Manned ascension is easy. As long as you store a large amount of gunpowder on the rocket and generate enough thrust from the ground when it is ignited, you can lift off with the rocket. The key is to return to the ground safely. The current technology simply cannot land safely. To solve it, it seems that Ding Lan is also worried about this matter.
Zhu Youjian has no good way. Although he comes from later generations, he has no exploration of rockets. What he has is some common sense knowledge of later generations. His understanding of rockets only stays in front of the TV to watch the Long March rocket launch. air.
Ding Lan's question made Zhu Youzhen secretly ashamed. He searched his stomach and thought of the Katyusha rocket and the V-2 rocket. Then he thought of the hot air balloon. Suddenly, he had an idea.
"The manned and the rocket should be divided into two parts. Let me first talk about manned ascension to the sky." Zhu Youzhen is not in Ding Lan's appetite. He really just thought of it just now. It seems that when humans start to enter space, they are riding in hot air balloons. . "It's easy for manned to ascend to the sky. The key is how to return to the ground safely."
"Does Your Highness know how to return to the ground safely?" This is Ding Lan's biggest puzzle. He doesn't believe that Zhu Youjian can solve the problems that have plagued him and his father for decades.
"The rocket's speed is too fast, and now there is no way to control its return. We can choose a slower one, such as a hot air balloon." Zhu Youjian found that the confusion in Ding Lan's eyes had faded a lot, and he had to continue to be something he was not good at. The role of the teacher, "make a big balloon out of cloth, with a charcoal brazier hung underneath, light the charcoal fire in the basin, hot air enters the balloon, the balloon will become lighter, and ascend to the sky with the charcoal brazier below. When it falls, Extinguish the charcoal fire in the basin slowly and successively, the hot air in the balloon will gradually decrease, and the weight of the balloon will increase. Since the increase is very slow, the balloon will slowly fall, and the people on the balloon can safely return to the ground. "