From its leading position to its mutual strengths and weaknesses with European civilization, to being left behind by European civilization, the important thing is that the other party has escaped from the shackles of the Middle Ages. It is not only academic progress, but also its emphasis on technology, mercantilism promotion of technology, and various handicraft guilds to protect handicraft craftsmen, but also patent bills and banking trade unions. The former protects the benefits of handicraft geniuses, while the latter protects the interests of rich people. Later generations say that the Ming Dynasty is also budding, which is unlikely in Min Yuanqi's view. China's trade returns are mainly due to the uniqueness of several specialties around the world. China does not have a tradition of commerce, does not have a favorable protection for private property, and does not have the inheritance of technology and patent recognition.

In the system, the craftsmen of the wise only passed on their relatives, not outsiders, and many technologies gradually disappeared in the war and the long river of history. After the merchants made profits, they could only keep their wealth by obtaining official positions and land. Officials and businessmen must collude. The wealth of merchants cannot be transformed into actual political status. Merchants cannot succeed. The abnormal prosperity will only give birth to more officials and gentry, leading to inflation. During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the dividends brought by overseas trade were transformed into inflation. When the Spanish contracted, the monetary base suddenly tightened, and the silver entering the Ming Dynasty dropped sharply. One in and out, which made the life of a large number of merchants and ordinary people more difficult, and brought more serious negative impacts on the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Min Yuanqi had no way to affect the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty, but at least in his acre of three parts, craftsmen and techniques should be respected. In a short period of time, people may be confused or opposed. Over time, people will naturally accept it.

Just like Shen Yong, he and Chen De and the Li brothers were among the first families to move into the courtyard. In addition to their families, there were rows of courtyards on the north side of the military camp. The mansions facing north and south were very exquisitely repaired, very close to the military camp area, surrounded by a small river, surrounded by a forest, and on the other side were the beach, five main halls, east and west wing rooms, backyards, stables, and exquisite small gardens. The largest twenty houses in the entire courtyard were about ten, and all of them were only at the level of the 100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100

This is also what Min Yuanqi intentionally did. Craftsmen and techniques should be respected, but all the clear and implied things to give people are to show the preferential treatment received by military officers and flag soldiers. There is no doubt that soldiers are still the first.

Shen Yong sat in the corridor. The outer room was his blacksmith shop and an apprentice. There were uncut trees around him. He was studying a bird gun in his hand through the shade.

This was a task that Min Yuanqi personally gave him. Shen Liang handed over this gun. After training every day, this bird gun with residual heat and scent of nitrification will be placed in Shen Yong's hand, and asked this senior blacksmith to study several important points that required technical improvement explained by Min Yuanqi.

Mrs. Shen Li walked over from a row of houses inside and outside, and was also in a hurry.

A group of children were playing between the houses. Now all adults are extremely busy. Half-aged children can help with some chores, and those under ten years old have completely let go of sheep. The poor military families did not have much energy to play. They were half-starved all day long and had no energy to play. Now almost every household can ask the children to eat full, occasionally eating white rice, or a white noodle soup cake or flat food. These babies have enough food and drink, and go to the Yanchi and various construction sites in the military camp every day. Later, Min Yuanqi was worried that something happened, so he restricted the children from being stopped in the military camp and not going to the Yanchi and the construction site.

The place where Chen Li came, there were large buildings and tile houses, but basically they were temporarily built sheds.

A large group of women sat under the shed, with summer cloth robes placed on rows of tables and chairs. While talking casually, the women kept cutting the cloth open and sewing it according to the existing military robe.

In addition to military robe, hats and boots, these women are also responsible for the responsibility. Time has gradually passed, and now most of the flag army has changed into a unified standard military robe. The short red robe is neat and fitted with a harness and military boots, and it has a neat and capable military aura. If hundreds of people are concentrated in one place, the strong military will be quite obvious.

Going further west, there is a canal flow that attracts. The dyeing master invited from the neighboring county town prints and dyes the cloth here. The original cloth is grayish-white and will only turn bright red after printing and dyeing. The cloth cut by the women is first printed and dyed through the dyeing workshop before it is cut.

These places are convenient for getting money according to the work in your hands. Since the advice of all the people, the efficiency of the people everywhere has been greatly improved. Everyone uses it with their hands and feet, for fear of doing things in their hands a little slower than others, so that they will make less money than others.

This kind of mentality is actually very strange, but this is the most normal human nature.

Chen Li was one of the earliest tailors. As the number of women increased, he gradually took on some management responsibilities. He did not have to be busy all the time, and he became much more relaxed.

She rushed back to make breakfast for her husband. Once Shen Yong was addicted to the work in his hands, he forgot everything. When Chen Li went out in the morning, Shen Yong was urging his apprentices to work quickly, and he also started to study it with a bird gun. Chen Li knew that her husband was unintentional to eat for a while, so he went to the sewing factory to arrange the matter at hand, and then rushed over to arrange her husband's breakfast food.

Shen Yong is not particular about food, and now he is focusing on the manufacturing of various application objects.

In the shed opposite the eaves, nearly twenty apprentices were drilling and grinding the gun barrels. These gun barrels were made of high-quality cooked iron and were extremely solid. They were grinding the drills every day, and they could drill one inch a day. Each gun barrel had to be completely drilled and used, which took about a month.

During this period, these apprentices did nothing and could only drill and grind the gun barrel every day.

Shen Yong was determined to think of some ways to speed up the drilling gun barrel. Even if he saved two hours a day, these apprentices could save a lot of time to learn the technology of building weapons and armor with him.

The wing rooms on both sides are large and solid. Every night, a flag army will come to take turns. This is a temporary warehouse. A large amount of cooked iron and pig iron are placed here, and the semi-finished iron helmets, weapons and armor are also placed here, and they are not handed over to the arsenal for storage.

The most precious ones are Sugang, which cost several taels of silver per catty, which is really expensive.

However, these Sugang made by the steel filling method originally consumed a lot of cooked iron and a lot of material smelting. In addition, it requires a certain technical process, so the price is very expensive.

These Sugang are used to dot steel for the spear head and blade. These days, there are also swords and swords made purely from Sugang. Those who dare to squander this way are famous masters and craftsmen. They are accompanied by precious scabbard scabbards, inlaid with gems and other objects. A sword is worth dozens to hundreds of taels or even hundreds of taels. This is also the usual skill of merchants to sell items.

On the empty space outside the wing room, more than a dozen stoves were set up one after another. When the morning was getting up, a group of half-aged children in their teens were desperately pressing their skin to blow the wind. The strong wind blew the fire and the sparks were splashed everywhere, and the temperature was soon enough.

A group of blacksmiths invited from the surrounding towns and counties stood by the fire, clamping pieces of cooked iron with long tongs. After firing it red, they began to beat the iron felt.

The blacksmiths made a rough model of the iron helmet, which was meticulously processed, final shape, perforation, and hinges that could connect the neck. For the time being, Shen Yong can only do it alone.

These blacksmiths were all from folk towns. They were experts in making scissors, kitchen knives, and hoes. They were not bad at hitting some swords used by the people, but they generally did not light steel, because the folk swords and guns rarely used Su Gang to point blades. Such extravagant behavior is only used when the army builds weapons for elite servants, and the swords and guns used by ordinary battalions will not light Su Gang.

Only blacksmiths like Shen Yong, who came from military guards and built armored weapons and firearms for the battalions in Dengzhou Town, were qualified to preside over the military iron workshop in front of him and receive the same salary as the flag captain.

This is of course something that Shen Yong had never encountered. Not only is his salary equal to his brothers, but he also brought many apprentices. Deputy Min Qianhu had already said that any of these craftsmen and apprentices could successfully build weapons or iron helmets, or could independently make armor. There were different rewards to Shen Yong. If he brought them into one, he would reward him once. Those who could build a musket had the same rewards as the richness.

In addition, if Shen Yong can improve the bird gun or self-generated gun, the rewards will be so generous that Shen Yong can't fall asleep when he thinks about it.

Just like the bird gun in front of him, Min Yuanqi's several Shen Yongs were thinking about it day and night, but he was too busy every day. Now the blacksmiths were already forging the thick embryo of the iron helmet. After a while, Shen Yong had to stand in front of the furnace and start whipping and forging. He had to beat at least twenty iron helmets a day, and more than a dozen armor-piercing armor had been completed halfway. The iron leaves of the armor-making were beaten by the blacksmiths. Shen Yong could only do the work of armor-piercing by himself. Fortunately, there were already a few skilled craftsmen who could help.

As for the job of drilling gun barrels, they can only be left to those apprentices. They are older than the children who blow the wind, but they are not adults. They are all skillful and have good understanding. These are all good seedlings, and several of them are even good soldiers. Because of their studious and intelligence, Min Yuanqi reluctantly placed them here as apprentices. I hope these good seedlings can master Shen Yong's skills as soon as possible. Min Yuanqi knows very well that a few good men who fight in battle are easy. An all-around military craftsman like Shen Yong is actually much more difficult than a fighter.

Brothers of the Shen family, Shen Liang is more famous and more eye-catching outside, but in Min Yuanqi's heart, it is obvious that Shen Yong is more important.

I am afraid that many people will disagree with this understanding if they say it. Even Shen Yong himself is afraid that he will not understand too much.

In Min Yuanqi's understanding, he rose up and cut wood into a military force. He could defeat powerful enemies under special times. The accident on the battlefield was actually an extension of politics and economy. For example, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin army went from sweeping across the six countries to retreating step by step. Isn't it a reason for the Qin Dynasty? The Qin Emperor's great favor and abuse of national strength had already exhausted Qin State. The resentment of the six countries, coupled with the old aristocratic gentry, inspiring and taking on the main responsibilities. The one who fought with the Qin army seemed to be Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, but it was soon replaced by the remnants of the six countries. These old nobles and scholars had rich financial resources and reputation, were well-versed in the world, were familiar with geography, could mobilize a large amount of manpower, and had a very high reputation. This was the reason why Qin could not only not protect the territory of the six countries in a very short period of time, but also could not defend his old land in Guanzhong.

From the end of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were few successful examples of peasant uprisings. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, a descendant of the Liu family recognized by the gentry, the Yellow Turbans at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Sima family supported by the gentry, and the Wagang army won the lead in the late Tang Dynasty, but the Guanlong nobles behind Li Erhe, the founder of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was the rebellious Zhu Wen, but the Zhao Da, who came from a generation of high-ranking generals, was the world.

Throughout history, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, said that a pavilion was the world, but the nobles of the six kingdoms defeated Qin were the nobles of the six kingdoms. Liu Bang himself was also a hero who had been famous for a long time. Xiao He and Zhang Liang and others who supported him were either local officials or gentry or old nobles of the six kingdoms. Only Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty won the world with a group of mud legs.

The combat effectiveness of the peasant army is indeed quite weak. In the war between the second year of Chongzhen and more than ten years since Li Zicheng fought less than 100,000 elite soldiers, and there were still Jurchens and they had been cooperating with each other. When the peasant army was hit by the Ming army and suffered heavy losses, the Jurchens entered the pass and consumed the Ming army's vitality. When the Ming army wanted to gather the main force of the army to fight the Jurchens, the peasant army took the opportunity to rise up, disrupting the Ming Dynasty and consuming the Ming Dynasty's financial and military strength.

Only in this way can the current situation be achieved for seventeen years, which also shows a problem. The army with the advantages of financial resources, logistics, military supplies and ordnance. Even in the 17th year, if Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Gao Jie, and Wu Sangui were able to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and work together, the rebel army may not be the opponent of these officers and soldiers.
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