Xu Zhengming never dreamed that the prefect would say such a thing, and suddenly, he couldn't react for a while, so he was a little stupid there.

His wife and children were relatively close, so he could hear the prefect's words clearly, and he was also stupid.

In fact, the flying car can only fly a little high, fly a little far, and it is really useless. As for flying over the roof, don't say that Xu Zhengming's wife and children don't believe it at all, even Xu Zhengming himself has no bottom in his heart.

Therefore, after coming back to his senses, Xu Zhengming felt a lot of pressure, so he stammered a little and said, "Big ...... Adults and villains don't have a ...... Grasp, just in case...... If you don't fly high......"

When the prefect heard this, he smiled slightly, and interrupted his stammering: "Emperor Shengming, when I taught the prince a few years ago, I had the spirit of inquiry to encourage the people of the Ming Dynasty. To this end, a decree was also issued to set up special awards in the north and south of Beijing. I appreciate your spirit of inquiry, and can help you apply for your special award, how about it? ”

If Xu Zhengming can really get that reward, it means that Xu Zhengming has been affirmed by the emperor. In this way, as a local magistrate and Xu Zhengming's recommender, he will inevitably be able to win the emperor's favor, thereby adding confidence to his career.

For this, after watching Xu Zhengming's flying car performance, he was actually sure. At least when the emperor was teaching the crown prince, he gave the example of flying to the sky, and even mentioned the matter of flying to the sky of ten thousand households. And Xu Zhengming, this one, did fly, and the person was fine. The emperor has said that if there are difficulties to solve difficulties, and if there are deficiencies to solve deficiencies, there will definitely be a real day of flying in the future.

In addition, there is another key point, the emperor makes such a big move, if he is the first to respond, presumably the emperor will have the mind of a thousand gold bones, and it will be easier to be accepted by the emperor.

He was thinking about it here, but Xu Zhengming was surprised and delighted when he heard it, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, is this...... Can you still have money for this? How much money is there? ”

In order to improve the flying car, he threw himself into this, so he could take care of being a carpenter to support his family, so that not only did the family wealth run out, but also made his wife and children hungry, to be honest, of course he didn't want to see such a situation. If he can still have money by doing what he is interested in, not only will his family no longer have to starve, but it also shows that he is not doing his job properly if he engages in this flying car. In that respect, this is very big news for him.

The prefect looked at Xu Zhengming in front of him, which was related to his career, and his attitude was very good, and he smiled and raised a finger and said, "There should be 10,000 taels!" ”

"What?" Xu Zhengming was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, and couldn't help but confirm again, "Ten thousand taels? ”

Now the Ming Dynasty is Guotai Min'an, according to the purchasing power of the conversion, 10,000 taels of silver is almost 5 million yuan in later generations, this amount is not much!

The people who were originally listening to the prefect and Xu Zhengming were all whispering, some expressed their surprise at this matter, and some said that they had heard of this matter, at least this matter was already known to passers-by on the Ying Tianfu side. Suddenly, I heard the prefect say that there were 10,000 taels of silver, and suddenly, the scene became very quiet.

When they came back to their senses, they all turned their heads to stare at Carpenter Xu, and their eyes were full of envy. If you do this thing, you can have a reward of 10,000 taels?

Especially Xu Zhengming's daughter-in-law, her eyes were looking at her man, and then she went to look at the flying car that she was extremely disgusted before, and suddenly, she felt that it was very pleasing to the eye.

After all, if the prefect speaks, they will definitely not have doubts.

"It should be about the same!" The prefect introduced them, "The emperor took one million taels from the inner treasury and deposited them in the banks of the north and south of Beijing, stating that the interest should be used to reward those who have explored the laws of nature and can apply them. ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at the crowd of onlookers, raised his voice a little and said, "You all go back and take a look, if there are anyone else who has something similar, you can report it to this official!" ”

He came to see Xu Zhengming's flying car in person, in addition to his career, it actually has the meaning of "a thousand gold bones". The prefect personally came forward, and he was keen on this, and it would definitely spread faster. In the jurisdiction of Suzhou, there were originally many skilled craftsmen, and maybe more things could be discovered, and the emperor would be pleased, and the future in the officialdom would be immeasurable.

Not to mention, after the news of Xu Zhengming's matter spread, the matter of the emperor's reward on the side of Suzhou Mansion also began to spread to passers-by. All of a sudden, on the Yamen side of Suzhou Mansion, you can see craftsmen coming over every day, even scholars, holding their inventions and trying their luck.

In the end, the prefect of Suzhou checked and selected seven, including Xu Zhengming's flying car, and hurried to Yingtianfu together.

Such a thing, in the eighteen years of Chongzhen, happened almost everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. However, in general, there are far more examples of reception on the Ying Tianfu side than in Jingshi. In the first few months of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, this matter about the reward was the hottest topic in Daming, and there was no one.

Emperor Chongzhen's side naturally learned about this situation from many channels, and he was pleased with this, and at the same time, he also sighed that innovation from the top down often has twice the result with half the effort. If you are just an ordinary person, even if you are a feudal official, it is not easy to promote scientific and technological knowledge and encourage the exploration of nature. However, the emperor came to do this, especially the emperor with a high prestige came to do this, and this is the grand occasion now!

As the prefect of Suzhou thought, Emperor Chongzhen already had a plan, no matter what works were presented in various places, as long as they could meet their original intentions, at least in the north and south of Beijing, and then greatly publicized, to have a "thousand gold bones", in order to encourage more Ming people, including scholars, to participate in this exploration of natural science.

In this way, the time soon came to February 16 of the 18th year of Chongzhen, and the selected works from all over the country were also collected on the side of Emperor Chongzhen. Xu Zhengming's flying car naturally attracted his attention, and he immediately clicked on this selected work as Ying Tianfu, and made instructions with the imperial pen.

The key to this flying car is to provide the strength of the power to rotate, if you only rely on manpower, there is not much room for improvement, no matter how clever the mechanism is, it is impossible to spin faster.

Emperor Chongzhen suggested that the focus of research could be considered on how to find alternatives to manpower that can have more reliable power. To this end, Emperor Chongzhen even introduced the steam power test and the electromagnetic induction test, and roughly explained the principle.

As for whether the people can make it, Emperor Chongzhen did not give hope. However, he believes that many people in the private sector will begin to study in this direction.

As for the experiments and applications of the steam engine and related electricity, it still depends on the side of the War Bureau. When encountering problems, Emperor Chongzhen himself can also give guidance.

During this time, the imperial court also announced that the terra nullius land of Korea, at the strong request of the Korean people, became part of the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court even sent a county order to set up a county to settle the remaining Korean people.

However, few people in the Ming Dynasty cared about this matter.

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At the beginning of March of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the weather conditions in Liaodong began to improve, and everything began to recover. For Jianlu, after the cold winter passed, those who did not starve to death could be regarded as surviving, and they could go out to find wild vegetables to eat.

However, at this time, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops out of Haizhou and began to attack Anshan Post Fort.

Although Anshan Post Fort is located between the two mountains of East and West Anshan, and the east and west are only about one mile away from each of the two mountains, it is still built according to the mountain cliff. If you want to get to Liaoyang through here, you must take this dangerous pass.

If you change to before, it is indeed not easy to build this Anshan Post Fort. But now, even if Anshan Post Fort is a brick city, the Ming army is lining up the Hongyi cannons, and they are not in a hurry to take the city, and they bombard the city every day. It's just a few days down, on the east side of Anshan Post Fort, there are basically no battlements, and the height of the city head has also been cut off a large piece, and the captives on the city head are exposed to the long-range firepower of the Ming army without the cover of the battlements.

In this regard, Jianyu has no power to fight back, and if it continues like this, it will be a matter of time before Anshan Post Fort falls.

Therefore, he could only report to Sheng Jing urgently, asking for help while preparing for street fighting. In this way, the Ming army's advantage in firearms will not be brought into play, and they will still have the strength to fight.

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On the side of Shengjing, in the Chongzheng Palace, several slave chiefs are there, even the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor.

At this time, the atmosphere in the hall was rarely relaxed, and they were all listening to the report of the situation of going to the Japanese kingdom just after returning to Yingordai.

"At first, the Japanese people had the intention of temptation, and their so-called samurai came to provoke at every turn, and later, a random Qing warrior shot and knocked down ten in one go, which surprised them......"

Ying Erdai picked up the good sound and enlivened the atmosphere, while taking out the alliance book from his arms, and then presented it with both hands, while continuing: "In the end, the slave has fulfilled his mission and has concluded an alliance with the Japanese State, and the Japanese State will send troops to Korea in the near future, and will transport grain to me through the land of Ezo to the Qing Dynasty......"

Because the Queen Mother was present, the regent did not take the initiative to ask for it, so the letter of alliance was presented to Bumu Butai first.

However, on Dorgon's side, Ingordai was a little apologetic after all: "The covenants are all signed on the bottom line given by the master, but there is a little ......"

As soon as they heard this turn, Haoge and Yue Tuo immediately stared at him, and Haoge shouted: "What, should you sell the Qing Dynasty?" ”

"No, no ......"

Before Ying Ordai's denial was over, he heard Bu Mu Butai, who was reading the alliance book, say "ah".

When everyone heard the sound, they saw that the Queen Mother looked at Dolgon with a strange face.