Zhu Cijing is very busy now. From the end of the New Year, he has started planning the Ming Dynasty's Zhongxing cause, from the appointment of court officials to the process of producing new flintlock rifles in Wanggong Factory. He has to work hard on everything related to Zhongxing cause.

There is no way, he wants to build a quasi-modern military power. No minister in the court has any experience in this regard. Not to mention the modern military system, they don’t know even simple business operations or even factory management. In modern people’s words, they all graduated from college at home and were full of agricultural ideas. Only Zhu Cijiu graduated from a regular university and had a certain understanding of modern military knowledge, so he had to participate in everything, otherwise they would be unrecognizable.

Of course, to make a country go from weakness to prosperity, it is not enough to have thoughts alone, but also to take action. Zhu Cijiu alone can't do it. Everyone in the court must mobilize and work together to realize this great dream.

To make all ministers work together, he, the emperor, naturally, must set an example. Therefore, the morning court every day cannot be avoided. Whether it is cold or wind and rain, you must persist.

He is now used to getting up at around 4 o'clock in the morning, and he no longer remains silent when he goes to court. He usually answers the questions raised by the ministers, but Zhu Youjian has become a dull gossip.

Many people speculate that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was a man with a strong desire for power. In fact, this speculation has no basis. During the Tianqi Dynasty, he was honest in his king of Xin, staying in the Ten Kings Mansion all day long, and not caring about anything. If he had a strong desire for power, would he be so honest? He was forced to come later. The Emperor of Heaven was dead, and the only orthodox bloodline of the royal family was left. Who would not go to? As for his later policy methods, he can only be said to be a bit paranoid and had nothing to do with his desire for power. If he had not been forced to helplessly, who would have thought he would be the king of the destruction of the country!

Okay, let’s talk less and get back to the point. Zhu Youjian is actually a very serious and responsible person. He has never delayed such a tedious thing as reviewing memorials. No matter how many memorials there are in a day, he will finish reviewing the same day and will never delay it. This also saves Zhu Cijiu a lot of worries. At least he doesn’t have to worry about reviewing memorials, which is the most workload, and he can save a lot of time to do other things.

Like now, he is fascinated by fitness. Of course, this fitness should be called martial arts in the Ming Dynasty. Since he saw Qin Mingyue's peerless swordsmanship, he has become fascinated by martial arts. After returning to the Dao Palace, he even insisted that Qin Mingyue teach him martial arts. Zheng Sen is also a martial arts enthusiast. The two of them stick to Qin Mingyue for a day and want to learn martial arts. Qin Mingyue was so entangled that he had no choice but to agree.

Unlike Wudang and Shaolin, Emei’s basic exercises are not standing on horse stance or meditation but moving stances, which are the so-called “twelve dynamic stances”: heaven, earth, mind, dragon, crane, wind, cloud, big, small, dark, and dark, supplemented by Emei’s internal skills, and wandering back and forth on wooden stakes or stone stakes, you can cultivate internal strength. Therefore, the martial arts of the Emei School are sharp and beautiful, and both hard and soft are used. These are all practiced on moving stakes.

Qin Mingyue can be said to be a rare martial arts genius in a century, so he is very skilled in martial arts at a young age. Even Cao Huachun is not necessarily her opponent. The two brothers Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming probably cannot beat her together. With such masters, it is also a rare opportunity for those who practice martial arts. But our little emperor is not a material for martial arts practice. He has not been proficient in a simple plum blossom stake for nearly a month. He often falls and is even better than his younger brother Zheng Sen, so he will at least not fall.

In Qin Mingyue's words, with Zheng Sen's qualifications, he can achieve a small success after studying hard for more than ten years. As for the emperor, if he practices for twenty or thirty years, he may be able to achieve the current level of the two brothers Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming.

Fortunately, Zhu Cijiu did not want to be a master like Dongfang Bubai who can catch bullets. He just wanted to strengthen his body and prolong his life. The Ming Dynasty could not become an empire that never sets in 10 or 20 years. It would be impossible to dominate the world in a few decades. Zhu Cijiu did not want to hang up and sing again: I really want to live another five hundred years!

After the morning exercise, Zhu Cijiu was about to start working hard again. The most important thing now is to increase the output of flintlock rifle. After Zhu Cijiu taught a series of methods to improve the output and quality, he personally took the lead in improving the process of each part of the flintlock rifle and added a lot of special machine tools. Finally, the output of flintlock rifle was increased to about 20,000 per month.

He agreed to Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to send them 10,000 flintlock rifles every month. The Tianxiong Army and the Qin army each equipped for 40,000 flintlock rifles before suppressing the bandits. In the past, 10,000 could be produced in a month. When the Tianxiong Army and the Qin army completed the equipment, this year would basically pass; now the monthly output is 20,000, and the two armies can form combat power within half a year.

Zhu Cijing did not lose the construction of the military factory. In terms of land acquisition and demolition, he not only compensated the residents twice the silver, but also converted all the luxury houses of the original eunuch party into residential houses and bought them at a fair price to those demolished residents. This would be like giving them a new house and taking one house away for free. They just need to move a house.

The residents near Wanggong Factory were naturally very happy and actively cooperated with the work of the Jinyiwei. The demolition of nearly one-eighth of the inner city was completed in less than a month. The high work efficiency was really beyond Zhu Cijiu's expectations.

Now Zhu Cijing is convening Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang to discuss the planning of the new military factory, and the general plan has almost been decided.

First, we need to build a large sand casting workshop, gun barrels, bases, shells, grenades, and landmines, but we need to turn sand casting first. The original casting workshop is not enough at all, and the place is not big enough. It is okay to cast a small part. It takes hundreds of kilograms of gun barrels and bases, but it cannot be cast at all.

Then we also need to build a large machining workshop. The gun barrel is a big guy that is several meters long. Small machine tools cannot be processed at all. Large machine tools that have been increased and reinforced can be processed.

There are still hundreds of kilograms of things that need to be lifted, so it is unrealistic for people to carry them. Zhu Cijing knows a lot of lifting equipment, such as forklifts, navigation cranes, electric hoists, cranes, etc., but I didn’t have to buy them in the Ming Dynasty at this time!

After thinking about it, I had to make a hand-pulled hoist by myself. He knew the principle that two sprockets were combined together, the larger ones were pulled by hand, and the smaller ones were used for lifting, using the lever principle to hang heavy objects, and a brake device was added to prevent the heavy objects from sliding down. This thing was complicated for the people of the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, someone started to use pulleys in the Spring and Autumn Period. This hoist was actually a pulley set with teeth. It was not very difficult to explain to them, but it was complicated to process it.

Such a small thing was dismantled, dismantled, and repeated it over ten times. It took Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang and others more than a month to make it. This is still a simplified version. It can only be lifted for a few hundred kilograms. It can't be pulled if it's a thousand kilograms. Many parts inside are deformed. This is mainly a matter of material. There was no high-quality alloy at the Ming Dynasty at this time. The highest hardness is the high-carbon steel after quenching. High-quality alloys cannot be made in a short time. The technical content of that thing is too high, even if you know the formula, it's useless. The industrial level of the Ming Dynasty can't be made at all. Now it can only be used. A few hundred kilograms are only a few hundred kilograms. At worst, it's more reliable than lifting a thousand kilograms.

In addition, we need to increase the number of small steelmaking blast furnaces, add some machine tools, and build new places for workers to stay, etc., etc., which have come up with a general plan.
Chapter completed!