Chapter 10 Change the rules
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When autumn arrives, the leaves on many trees begin to turn yellow, and the mountains and forests are dressed in new golden yellow clothes in just a few days.
The sky was clear, and only in the evening would there be a few drifting clouds in the western sky. These flowing clouds became colorful under the reflection of the setting sun, and Chen Ming even saw a silver gray, an orange yellow, a blood red, and a purple color, and four clouds hung across the sky, which was really beautiful.
The stream of Xiaonangou is crystal clear, and this tributary of the Yinma River, which was named Xiaonanxi by the Chen family, is completely okay to say that it is a small river. From the small south ditch back to the south of the mountain flow down, the left and right stone walls are towering, precipitous such as cutting, forming a section of waterfall, although the drop is not big, not spectacular, but along the mountain strange rocks are rugged and colorful, if you get the hometown of Chen Ming in the 21st century, it is a lively good place. The water flows in the flat land of Xiaonangou to create a pool of water, which the Chen family calls Bishuitan, and then the stream continues down the mountain.
This small Nanxi is the same as the blue water pool, clear like a silver belt connected with a jasper gem, lying quietly in the embrace of the earth. If the literati and ink writers read it, they can drag two sentences of sour text when they are interested, and the locals of Xiaonangou seem to have a very ordinary scenery.
Only in Chen Ming's eyes, the stream of this comparable river, with such a large drop in the water flow, can completely make a hydraulic forging hammer. Maybe the water conservancy here can't drive too heavy a weight, but it will definitely be much more laborious than manual forging.
"Second uncle, this hydraulic forging hammer is to use water conservancy to drive the forging hammer. Didn't we have hydraulic bellows in ancient times? If you don't understand it, think about the water wheel? ”
"I think that's a truth. As long as you find a carpenter to try a few more times, it won't cost you a lot of money. ”
"If it can be done, this is a big benefit for sesame seeds for watermelon. The output in our blacksmith shop is ten times higher than it used to be. ”
Chen Ming bewitched his second uncle like a demon. As long as this thing is done, he dares to let the Chen family build the dam to store water and increase energy, and at that time, he will have a solid foundation.
Chen Ming also wants to set up a school, but he can't be in a hurry to do things, and if he wants to reform, he must pry the corners of the wall a little bit.
Chen Ming has to wait. After two or three months, he had already typed the outline in his head countless times. I think that my outline is not bad, and then I only need to follow the steps to expand my strength little by little.
For example, after the hydraulic forging hammer is completed, judging from the number of existing masters in the Chen family's blacksmith shop, it will definitely not be enough. But it would be too wasteful to recruit blacksmiths, and with the hydraulic hammer, only an entry-level apprentice is needed to complete a lot of work. All the vacancies were filled with blacksmiths, which was too wasteful. And in this way, it is easy to attract the attention of the county, blacksmiths, carpenters, coppersmiths, masons, etc., all of which have a fixed number, even if the Chen family recruits people from the big mountain villages, the news cannot be hidden.
Chen Ming will ask someone to expand the apprenticeship at that time, and then he will take the opportunity to change some of the rules of this era, of course, the relationship between teachers and students will not change, but the 'apprentice' is for the Chen family as an 'apprentice', not for those blacksmiths as free labor. Chen Ming would let the blacksmiths teach all the skills to the apprentices, and the blacksmiths would certainly not be willing to teach their own knowledge for free and teach the apprentices to starve their masters, this 'traditional idea' is too popular in China.
Chen Ming's method was not to coerce and coerce, but to use inducement, all qualified blacksmiths to teach a qualified junior blacksmith, and the Chen family gave one or two pieces of silver, or how much money. The student's salary for a year or several years needs to be paid to his master one or more points. Chen Ming believes in the magic of money, and the blacksmiths in the blacksmith shop can't help but bow their heads. What's more, these blacksmiths have already signed a contract with the Chen family.
When this rule is established, Chen Ming can play night school. In the future, his plans will only get bigger and bigger, that is, the world's first craftsman, who can't read and write, can't sum up experience, and can't keep up with Chen Ming's footsteps.
As long as everything goes well, next year Chen Ming will set up another nest in the mountains, penetrating Funiu Mountain even farther than the two private mines in the mountains. After three months of study, he thought about it and made a 'ill-intentioned' decision.
Because Chen Ming does not believe that he has the ability and opportunity to change China's destiny in a stable and stable environment, as long as China's rulers are still the Tatars of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, muskets and artillery will not replace the cold weapons of swords, guns, bows and arrows in China in the real sense, and it will be impossible for China to realize the replacement of its armed forces. And when was the late 18th century? After more than ten years, Lao Mei was established, and this era is already the tail end of the Great Voyage.
If it fails to seize this opportunity, China will completely lose the world.
Imagine that in the previous life, even if China became strong, if you look around, Russia in the north, North America in the east, Australia in the south, and Central Asia in the west, all of them are Caucasian, and the yellow race has a large population, but it only occupies the small part of East Asia.
The seven continents of the world, excluding Antarctica, Caucasian cloth in North and South America, Europe, Australia, part of Africa, half of Asia.
China after the 10s of the 21st century may be powerful, but it is also an unshakable fact that the more powerful white race undoubtedly rules the whole world, isn't it?
Chen Ming's ambition is great. If he could indeed overthrow the Manchus, his vision would be beyond the traditional Chinese territory, South Seas, Australia, North America, Central Asia, and Siberia. While changing the fate of China, Chen Ming also hopes to change the fate of the world in the future.
He sometimes thinks that God is fair, and sends himself to this era, but throws himself into the closed interior instead of the eastern seaboard. If it is on the beach, pull up a fleet, and it is not a big deal to go to the sea, and the entire family has a safe way to retreat in the short term, and Chen Ming's pressure will be much less. He dared to assure God that he would not die in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the short term, and he would also be able to let Qianlong, the grandson, enjoy what it means to be a 'strong ship and a sharp cannon' 70 years in advance!
As long as he finds a foothold overseas, such as the Philippines, there is no shortage of steel and coal, and there is a steady stream of immigrants, even if he does not counterattack the mainland, Chen Ming is confident that he will beat the world. Open a new window for yourself and future generations.
Because Europe in the late 18th century was very lively, the British Empire, the only one in this era with the strength to intervene in wars around the world, would be firmly absorbed by European wars on the continent itself. When the Europeans finished taking care of their own messes, would Chen Ming still be afraid of the British at that time?
In this place of Lushan, there is no shortage of coal and iron ore, and it is leaning on Funiu Mountain, and the folk customs are also relatively strong. But in the late 18th century, Chen Ming wanted to pull up a team of hot weapons in his bones, but there was no sulfur in Lushan?
Lushan Mountain is separated by a cluster of mountains is Hanzhong, that place is the traditional Chinese saltpeter production area, in Lushan saltpeter is not lacking, but what about sulfur? There's no way around it. If it is on the coast, sulfur can be imported from Japan, natural high-quality sulfur, the price is also cheap, saltpeter can also pile manure to extract soil nitrate, at most two more filtration and purification. There will be no shortage of gunpowder.
But this will not work in Lushan. Gunpowder could not be found without sulfur, and the conditions for large-scale musketeers were simply not fulfilled. If Chen Ming was determined to rebel, his troops could only be a mixed army of cold and hot at the beginning of the army, equipped with a certain scale of artillery, a small number of elite musketeers, and then a large army dominated by cold weapons.
Two or three months was enough for Chen Ming to understand the inside and outside of Lushan in detail, and some unrealistic ideas, if he didn't want to die, he could only eliminate them. Rebellion is a matter of losing your head, in the words of Mao Taizu: GM is not a dinner party, not an article, not a painting and embroidery, not so elegant, so calm, and polite. So gentle and frugal. GM is riot.
For Chen Ming, it was a violent act of a small gang premeditated to overthrow a class at the cost of the entire family!