June 19 of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. The Daming Grain Exchange was opened on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

In this vast foyer and magnificently decorated exchange, the intelligent Jiangnan gentry quickly understood the wonderful use of this new thing.

Fuwang Zhu Youxiang and Ruan Dacheng entered the reserved box hand in hand, and not long after the two sat down, Qian Qianyi, who was dressed in a Confucian shirt and had a graceful demeanor, also came in with a smile.

After a salute, Qian Qianyi sat down.

"It's a little exciting to talk about such a confidential matter in the heart of His Highness." Ruan Dacheng said with a smile.

Qian Qianyi said: "It seems that our Highness is indeed planning to replicate a grand event in Kaifeng City. This time, thanks to His Royal Highness King Fu for inquiring about the news. ”

Zhu Youxiang said leisurely: "After all, Henan is also my hometown, and it is not difficult to find a few old people to inquire about the situation." It's just that I pity the grain merchants in Henan, who are now all working under the hands of Zhou Lizhen in the Taicang Hall, and they are thinking about being ashamed every day. This time, with the help of them, their wish can finally be achieved! ”

Qian Qianyi arched his hand and said with a smile: "Where, where, let's get rich together." The ground in the south of the Yangtze River is all native and home, and it is not difficult to inquire about some news. ”

Ruan Dacheng also laughed: "It is absolutely difficult to replicate the matter of Kaifeng." Hundreds of boats were washed away in such a moment, just to take over the matter of the grain disaster in Kaifeng, how could there be in Jiangnan. Not to mention the grain of thousands of boats, let's just say how many extra stones there are in the barracks, and it is clear to calculate in front of one's own people, and it can be easily found out. ”

"More than 100 lots, more than 1,000 stones. Shopkeeper Zhou, give our new and old friends a beginning! Zhu Youxiang listened to this. Very boldly expressed with action: "Just talk and don't make a fake." To see our Highness, what tricks! ”

"Good!" Qian Qianyi applauded: "Then how can I fall behind? Buy me more than 100 lots too. But ah, fifty stones in one hand, buy me five thousand stones to buy more, and then go up one or two! ”

"Buy, buy, buy!" Ruan Dacheng laughed: "How about I also come for 10,000 stones?" Let's see how much grain our Highness can throw at this grain exchange! ”

In the inner room of the exchange, Zhu Cihong narrowed his eyes and said, "How much is the price of grain now?" ”

Zhu Feiran, the king of Chu, quickly said: "Chen rice is five taels and one stone, and polished rice is six taels and three coins and one stone." ”

"Buy them all. Before eight taels, buy as much as you want. After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, he turned around and left leisurely.

Zhu Feiran couldn't help but reminisce about Zhu Cihong's words. Behind him, Liu Tong was particularly puzzled: "This is different from what His Royal Highness Kaifeng did at the beginning." ”

"Your Highness......" Zhu Feiran smiled and said, "Of course it's a different big person." ”

After speaking, Zhu Feiran didn't pay attention to Liu Tong, and said loudly: "Buy!" ”

Food prices have skyrocketed.

Leaving the Commodity and Grain Exchange, Zhu Cihong came to a vacant lot in the south of the city.

If there is any biggest surprise for Zhu Cihong after arriving in Nanjing, it is probably the huge team of craftsmen located in the economic center of Nanjing.

According to statistics, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty are now under the control of the Ministry of Industry, the Inner Government Supervision Bureaus and the Du Siwei. That's a huge amount of about 300,000.

Of course, this number can really be used for many people, but it is naturally a great supplement to the system of the craftsman compound.

Not to mention how many skilled craftsmen can invent themselves, but it is enough to be able to expand the production capacity of low-production flintlock guns, and to make more progress in the development of new guns, which has been slow to develop.

Now, the newly built Jinling Artillery Workshop in Nanjing is the point of Zhu Cihong's special attention.

The Jinling Artillery Workshop is just like any other grass-roots workshop. There are walls all around, and inside the walls are standard bungalows, like a building block game.

Zhu Cihong and his entourage arrived at the workshop with exactly the same four **** carriages. He saw Jiao Miao, the owner of the Jinling Artillery Workshop, and Yang Ruoqiao, who was looking at Zhu Cihong gratefully on Jiao Miao's side. In addition to this, as well as a blonde foreigner.

Yang Ruoqiao was the imperial history of the envoy Abatai.

Although he angered Abatai, he made Abatai look high and did not kill him because of his courage. But he followed the army as a prisoner and kept it in captivity, along with the people who were captured along the way. So much so that when the prisoners were counted later, the sergeant found that there was such a person.

But what made Yang Ruoqiao even more sad and angry was that the imperial court had already reported that Yang Ruoqiao had been martyred at this moment, and he was active in private, but no one was willing to stand up for him.

This made Yang Ruoqiao completely dead and a little desperate.

At this time, Zhu Cihong heard about such a person, and saw that he really had some talent for firearms, so he sent him to the Military Affairs Department to do some civilian affairs.

Later, Zhu Cihong found Jiao Miao, a firearms expert in the Ming Dynasty.

In the early years of Chongzhen, out of the need to fight against Jiannu, the court set up a cannon casting office in Beijing, hired the Catholic Jesuit missionary John Tang to supervise the production of Western-style cannons, and asked him to teach the technology to the Military War Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. Therefore, Jiao Miao concentrated the technical achievements of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, and absorbed the advanced achievements of Western artillery-making technology, and collected the gist of the famous book, the secret biography of teachers and friends, and painstakingly wrote the book "Fire Attack Essentials".

The first volume of the book introduces in detail the process and types of firearms manufactured, and gives a brief explanation of the manufacture of firearms such as franc machines, shotguns, rockets, and flamethrowers. The middle volume introduces the production, storage, performance, and formula of various gunpowders, as well as the test discharge, installation, training, and handling of gunpowder. The next volume deals specifically with some of the issues that should be paid attention to in the manufacture of firearms and the application of firearms in various situations.

In addition, the book also covers a lot of Western knowledge about smelting and casting, machinery, chemistry, mechanics, mathematics, etc. The book summed up the experience and experience of the Ming army in using firearms to fight against the Houjin, and translated and introduced the advanced military technology knowledge of Europe.

It can be said that Jiao Miao is a rare military talent in the Ming Dynasty today, although it seems to be more theoretical at present.

After learning of this, Zhu Cihong was overjoyed and hurriedly sent people around to look for him. In the end, Zhang Zhen lived up to his expectations and found Jiao Miao to preside over the artillery workshop in Nanjing, while Yang Ruoqiao served as an assistant to help.

As for the blond-haired foreigner, it was the German missionary John Tong.

Originally, John Tang was a little hesitant about Zhu Cihong because of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and he heard that Zhu Cihong had always disliked religion, and he already planned to continue to cultivate Beijing and not go south.

But when Zhu Cihong wrote a letter himself, revealing several problems in the casting process, Tang Ruowang did not hesitate to come.

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