At night, Zhang Ning returned to the Chu Palace and had nothing to do after dinner. He went to the study to take a book and take a look at the pastimes.
People should relax mainly because of their mood, and the state of mind that is the most relaxed when doing nothing is done.
It is also very hard to read books when reading with purpose and planning during the imperial examinations; but now reading is very different at this time. If you are interested, you will read it, and if you are bored, you will leave it alone, and you will be very at ease.
Zhang Xiaomei also came to the study room. She cleaned up the house and made a cup of tea for Zhang Ning. After doing some trivial matters, she sat down next to her to do needlework.
The two of them didn't say anything, they seemed very quiet. The little sister probably didn't want to disturb him when she saw him reading.
I don’t know what she was sewing, but every once in a while, she would bite the thread off with her teeth.
Zhang Ning noticed her movement and silently looked at the scissors next to her, but she didn't need it.
She straightened the thread first, then leaned over her mouth, and a light sound. At this time, as long as Zhang Ning turned her head to look, she could always see her biting needle and thread, as well as the white teeth exposed in her smooth red lips.
Not long after this quiet atmosphere, Zhang Xiaomei finally spoke: What are you reading? Why don’t you read it and let me listen to it too.
Zhang Ning hesitated a little and didn't have to answer. After a moment, he read it: The Six Kings are gone, the Four Seas are one, the Shu Mountain is gone, and the Afang is out.It covers more than 300 miles and isolates the sun.Mount Li is built in the north and turned west, and goes straight to Xianyang.The two rivers are dissolved and flow into the palace wall.Five steps and one floor, ten steps and one pavilion...
After reading it, he explained the literal meaning a little, and then said: This is a fu by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty, mainly to criticize Qin Shihuang for being arrogant, extravagant, and unfaithful and unkind.Judging from the poems, songs and essays, this essay has been passed down through the ages and has reached a high level of attainment; but from the perspective of knowledge, the knowledge of ancient literati has ended here, and nothing new is available.
Zhang Xiaomei said: I have also heard that the Qin Dynasty in ancient times was very cruel, so it died in the second lifetime.Do you think it's wrong?
At least I saw two very visionary political strategies of Qin.
Zhang Ning thought to himself, the first is that Qin's ordnances, weapons and other objects are standardized, so if a carriage is broken, it is easy to find the corresponding accessories.The second is Shang Yang's Legalist strategy for governing the country, which is also remarkable...
She told her younger sister that these things were obviously wrong, but she didn't seem boring. Later, she pestered Zhang Ning to tell her what the Legalists are, and then naturally there were many schools of thought.
Before I knew it, it was completely dark and time passed too quickly.
...But the story about Qin State inspired him, as if he had learned something practical.
Shang Yang's reforms encouraged farming and war, allowing civilians to be awarded titles through food production and military merits. In fact, a system of upgrades was formulated and he was well versed in humanity. However, this had fundamental contradictions with the nobles of various countries, including Qin, and the hostile class was too strong.
People need a way to advance, so that they can have a chance. This will not only help many people work together to do a big thing better; it can also waste people's ambitions and hopes in a relatively gentle and stable way, which will be conducive to the stability of rule.
The Qin Dynasty's method was to pay grain and achieve military achievements. The Ming Dynasty is now an imperial examination, which is actually an upgrade system.
By formulating a rule, everyone can make efforts to make contributions and devote their time and energy to see their own ascent; and there is also a very attractive destination at the top, just like a carrot in front of a donkey...
With perfect rules, everyone does not need to take advantage of the world and make a specialist in human relationships; such rules will make a department and machine work well.
Zhang Ning used to be a very rule-abiding person, but there was another rebellious idea hidden deep in his heart, that was, he wanted to make rules by himself.
And he felt that this idea could be tried in the weapon bureau in front of him.
He wanted to experiment with creating a flintlock rifle, but he had no choice but to do so. His original plan was to offer a reward among officials and craftsmen. The so-called heavy reward must be a brave man. But just half a day later, he himself questioned this method. Is it really useful?
A product that needs to be mature enough to be practical is actually a variety of technologies, and a flintlock rifle is actually a project.
It is not denying that there are geniuses in the world, but it is obvious that the possibility of a person creating many links through rewards is very small...
Instead of this, it is better to let many people participate, and each person will make some efforts to accumulate and complete this project bit by bit.
The problem is how a superior person can squeeze out so many people's potential and let them cooperate well.
Zhang Ning felt that doing such a thing is his own duty and a job that a person should do after he has power.
Then you can try a promotion rule that is directly linked to the assessment of merit and contribution.
Formulate specific rating standards, divide the level of profit distribution and the rules for promotion; now prepare for six departments, if a craftsman can use his own talents and efforts to become an official in the Ministry of Works...
This kind of thing may greatly increase people's enthusiasm.
After all, in this era, the lower-class people have no hope for the imperial examinations except for studying for the imperial examinations. Moreover, under the system without compulsory education, some people are unable to study as soon as they are born; it is not so easy to become an official and climb up.
Zhang Ning thought of a way and immediately felt like he was forgetting to eat and sleep.
I didn't sleep, so I stayed in the study overnight that night to plan. The general direction has already come to my mind, and the key is how to formulate reasonable rules.
Who will evaluate the merit?
How to prevent those in power from using public interest to seek personal gain and taking care of the private sector? How to check and balance it?
The flintlock rifle is one or two hundred years ahead of the world, but he believes it can be made.
It was as if artillery was created by humans, both the Yuan army and later the Ming army could only use large-caliber short-barrel cannons, cub-mouth guns, bowl-mouth guns, and generals...
It is almost impossible for a firearm with extremely high initial speed such as a long-barrel field gun; why?
Because the pressure of the long-barrel barrel is too high and the casting technology is limited, the pipe wall will be blown up if it is slightly unsmooth or has sand holes.
But in the end, Zhang Ning and a group of craftsmen made it work.
Copper core iron covers the cannon body, hollow water cooling...
People always think of ways.
There is nothing difficult in the world, only those who are determined are afraid of it.
Moreover, Huguang is extremely short of copper, and even the entire China lacks copper, so Zhang Ning's conditions are not good.
For this reason, the current Huguang economy has been affected by the Weapon Bureau. There is an urgent shortage of copper coins on the market, and copper materials are used to make cannons.
The local gold and silver reserves are not enough. Now the military pay of the Vermilion Bird Army cannot be distributed, so the method is to print paper tickets; however, this thing is completely different from the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes issued by the Ming Dynasty and the paper money in later generations. The main function is to allow civil and military officials and soldiers to get tickets to the treasury shop for the needed materials, such as grain, silk fabrics, handicrafts, various animal skin raw materials, etc., which is equivalent to paying rewards for goods.
Huguang's economy has regressed to the point of bartering.
……
The next morning, he came to the official office and wanted to find civil servants to help improve his ideas; formulate personnel inspection rules for the Weapon Bureau, and there is no need to keep it confidential within the Senate Department, so he can ask for help.
But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't find someone to conspire. If Zhu Heng was in Wuchang, he would have been able to discuss it with him.
But Zhu Heng is currently in Yongdingying camp somewhere between Wuchang and Jiujiang and has not come back.
I had to think about it myself, and it would take some time to do this, and I couldn't even be anxious.
At this time, General Chen Gai entered the official office and mentioned something: Today, the Fourth and Fifth Army of Yongding Battalion will be practiced in the north of the city school. The recruits have been trained for more than two months and have been quite effective. Should the prince go and watch it?
After thinking about it for a moment, Zhang Ning decided to follow Chen Gai and other generals to check the situation.
The security of Wuchang City is now mainly based on the part of the Changdeying Camp in the west after crossing Dongting Lake in Dongting Lake, and the main camp of Yongding Camp in the southeast; the deployment is that Wuchang City is threatened, and the troops on both sides will reinforce the middle.
However, the city defense can only rely on the Fourth and Fifth Armies in Wuchang City, two newly built troops, and have never been on the battlefield.
So Zhang Ning had to pay attention to their situation.
From the end of the second year of Xuande to the beginning of this year, the third battalion of the army of the Zhuque Army under the Zhuque Army had undergone a series of organization expansions, but the scale was limited because they were unable to effectively mobilize the common young and strong men in various places.
The Fourth Fifth Army of Yongding Camp stationed in Wuchang City is the product of this expansion. Except for the officers, they are all novices, most of them are refugees and urban bankrupts.
Wuchang City Schoolyard is located in the north and is not far from the official office.
There are several docks outside the west side of the city, and there are several piers that have no place to build schoolyards; the suburbs on the south and east sides are too dense, and the populations that depend on major cities and towns gather here, which is estimated to be hundreds of thousands.
Only a schoolyard was built in the north of the city, and the Suzaku Army gathered large-scale training here.
A group of generals surrounded Zhang Ning and rode to the North Schoolyard. Thousands of people were divided into two sides, with flags and armor, and the teams were arranged in rows, which looked a little like two months.
Zhang Ning asked Chen Gai and others whether the soldiers learned to use the clamp gun. The general replied that he had mastered it in one month.
He thought to himself: When the flintlock rifle enters the mass manufacturing stage, the time for mobilizing and organizing the army will be faster.
Moreover, the advancement of weapons will further narrow the gap between elite veterans and new troops.
A group of farmers can be put on the battlefield after a short period of training. A recruit and a person who is proficient in bows, horses, riding and shooting martial arts are fired with the same firearm, and the killing effect is the same.
But like the elite soldiers in the imperial court, they cannot reach that level of toughness without ten or eight years of hard work. As long as they are lost, they cannot recruit equally from the people to supplement the reciprocal soldiers.
Zhang Ning started from scratch and did not have the elite soldiers of the retainers who had been through the battlefield for a long time. The firearms troops were his best choice.
A general next to him was reporting on the training content of the day: The entire army did not fire lead bullets, but only fired gunpowder; lined up to twenty steps, let them face the fire and practice their courage.After the gunshots, someone fled in panic, so he whipped it with a whip until he understood the rules... The firecrackers and the queues were advanced in the afternoon to make them familiar with when they would fire and when they should move forward...
People should relax mainly because of their mood, and the state of mind that is the most relaxed when doing nothing is done.
It is also very hard to read books when reading with purpose and planning during the imperial examinations; but now reading is very different at this time. If you are interested, you will read it, and if you are bored, you will leave it alone, and you will be very at ease.
Zhang Xiaomei also came to the study room. She cleaned up the house and made a cup of tea for Zhang Ning. After doing some trivial matters, she sat down next to her to do needlework.
The two of them didn't say anything, they seemed very quiet. The little sister probably didn't want to disturb him when she saw him reading.
I don’t know what she was sewing, but every once in a while, she would bite the thread off with her teeth.
Zhang Ning noticed her movement and silently looked at the scissors next to her, but she didn't need it.
She straightened the thread first, then leaned over her mouth, and a light sound. At this time, as long as Zhang Ning turned her head to look, she could always see her biting needle and thread, as well as the white teeth exposed in her smooth red lips.
Not long after this quiet atmosphere, Zhang Xiaomei finally spoke: What are you reading? Why don’t you read it and let me listen to it too.
Zhang Ning hesitated a little and didn't have to answer. After a moment, he read it: The Six Kings are gone, the Four Seas are one, the Shu Mountain is gone, and the Afang is out.It covers more than 300 miles and isolates the sun.Mount Li is built in the north and turned west, and goes straight to Xianyang.The two rivers are dissolved and flow into the palace wall.Five steps and one floor, ten steps and one pavilion...
After reading it, he explained the literal meaning a little, and then said: This is a fu by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty, mainly to criticize Qin Shihuang for being arrogant, extravagant, and unfaithful and unkind.Judging from the poems, songs and essays, this essay has been passed down through the ages and has reached a high level of attainment; but from the perspective of knowledge, the knowledge of ancient literati has ended here, and nothing new is available.
Zhang Xiaomei said: I have also heard that the Qin Dynasty in ancient times was very cruel, so it died in the second lifetime.Do you think it's wrong?
At least I saw two very visionary political strategies of Qin.
Zhang Ning thought to himself, the first is that Qin's ordnances, weapons and other objects are standardized, so if a carriage is broken, it is easy to find the corresponding accessories.The second is Shang Yang's Legalist strategy for governing the country, which is also remarkable...
She told her younger sister that these things were obviously wrong, but she didn't seem boring. Later, she pestered Zhang Ning to tell her what the Legalists are, and then naturally there were many schools of thought.
Before I knew it, it was completely dark and time passed too quickly.
...But the story about Qin State inspired him, as if he had learned something practical.
Shang Yang's reforms encouraged farming and war, allowing civilians to be awarded titles through food production and military merits. In fact, a system of upgrades was formulated and he was well versed in humanity. However, this had fundamental contradictions with the nobles of various countries, including Qin, and the hostile class was too strong.
People need a way to advance, so that they can have a chance. This will not only help many people work together to do a big thing better; it can also waste people's ambitions and hopes in a relatively gentle and stable way, which will be conducive to the stability of rule.
The Qin Dynasty's method was to pay grain and achieve military achievements. The Ming Dynasty is now an imperial examination, which is actually an upgrade system.
By formulating a rule, everyone can make efforts to make contributions and devote their time and energy to see their own ascent; and there is also a very attractive destination at the top, just like a carrot in front of a donkey...
With perfect rules, everyone does not need to take advantage of the world and make a specialist in human relationships; such rules will make a department and machine work well.
Zhang Ning used to be a very rule-abiding person, but there was another rebellious idea hidden deep in his heart, that was, he wanted to make rules by himself.
And he felt that this idea could be tried in the weapon bureau in front of him.
He wanted to experiment with creating a flintlock rifle, but he had no choice but to do so. His original plan was to offer a reward among officials and craftsmen. The so-called heavy reward must be a brave man. But just half a day later, he himself questioned this method. Is it really useful?
A product that needs to be mature enough to be practical is actually a variety of technologies, and a flintlock rifle is actually a project.
It is not denying that there are geniuses in the world, but it is obvious that the possibility of a person creating many links through rewards is very small...
Instead of this, it is better to let many people participate, and each person will make some efforts to accumulate and complete this project bit by bit.
The problem is how a superior person can squeeze out so many people's potential and let them cooperate well.
Zhang Ning felt that doing such a thing is his own duty and a job that a person should do after he has power.
Then you can try a promotion rule that is directly linked to the assessment of merit and contribution.
Formulate specific rating standards, divide the level of profit distribution and the rules for promotion; now prepare for six departments, if a craftsman can use his own talents and efforts to become an official in the Ministry of Works...
This kind of thing may greatly increase people's enthusiasm.
After all, in this era, the lower-class people have no hope for the imperial examinations except for studying for the imperial examinations. Moreover, under the system without compulsory education, some people are unable to study as soon as they are born; it is not so easy to become an official and climb up.
Zhang Ning thought of a way and immediately felt like he was forgetting to eat and sleep.
I didn't sleep, so I stayed in the study overnight that night to plan. The general direction has already come to my mind, and the key is how to formulate reasonable rules.
Who will evaluate the merit?
How to prevent those in power from using public interest to seek personal gain and taking care of the private sector? How to check and balance it?
The flintlock rifle is one or two hundred years ahead of the world, but he believes it can be made.
It was as if artillery was created by humans, both the Yuan army and later the Ming army could only use large-caliber short-barrel cannons, cub-mouth guns, bowl-mouth guns, and generals...
It is almost impossible for a firearm with extremely high initial speed such as a long-barrel field gun; why?
Because the pressure of the long-barrel barrel is too high and the casting technology is limited, the pipe wall will be blown up if it is slightly unsmooth or has sand holes.
But in the end, Zhang Ning and a group of craftsmen made it work.
Copper core iron covers the cannon body, hollow water cooling...
People always think of ways.
There is nothing difficult in the world, only those who are determined are afraid of it.
Moreover, Huguang is extremely short of copper, and even the entire China lacks copper, so Zhang Ning's conditions are not good.
For this reason, the current Huguang economy has been affected by the Weapon Bureau. There is an urgent shortage of copper coins on the market, and copper materials are used to make cannons.
The local gold and silver reserves are not enough. Now the military pay of the Vermilion Bird Army cannot be distributed, so the method is to print paper tickets; however, this thing is completely different from the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes issued by the Ming Dynasty and the paper money in later generations. The main function is to allow civil and military officials and soldiers to get tickets to the treasury shop for the needed materials, such as grain, silk fabrics, handicrafts, various animal skin raw materials, etc., which is equivalent to paying rewards for goods.
Huguang's economy has regressed to the point of bartering.
……
The next morning, he came to the official office and wanted to find civil servants to help improve his ideas; formulate personnel inspection rules for the Weapon Bureau, and there is no need to keep it confidential within the Senate Department, so he can ask for help.
But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't find someone to conspire. If Zhu Heng was in Wuchang, he would have been able to discuss it with him.
But Zhu Heng is currently in Yongdingying camp somewhere between Wuchang and Jiujiang and has not come back.
I had to think about it myself, and it would take some time to do this, and I couldn't even be anxious.
At this time, General Chen Gai entered the official office and mentioned something: Today, the Fourth and Fifth Army of Yongding Battalion will be practiced in the north of the city school. The recruits have been trained for more than two months and have been quite effective. Should the prince go and watch it?
After thinking about it for a moment, Zhang Ning decided to follow Chen Gai and other generals to check the situation.
The security of Wuchang City is now mainly based on the part of the Changdeying Camp in the west after crossing Dongting Lake in Dongting Lake, and the main camp of Yongding Camp in the southeast; the deployment is that Wuchang City is threatened, and the troops on both sides will reinforce the middle.
However, the city defense can only rely on the Fourth and Fifth Armies in Wuchang City, two newly built troops, and have never been on the battlefield.
So Zhang Ning had to pay attention to their situation.
From the end of the second year of Xuande to the beginning of this year, the third battalion of the army of the Zhuque Army under the Zhuque Army had undergone a series of organization expansions, but the scale was limited because they were unable to effectively mobilize the common young and strong men in various places.
The Fourth Fifth Army of Yongding Camp stationed in Wuchang City is the product of this expansion. Except for the officers, they are all novices, most of them are refugees and urban bankrupts.
Wuchang City Schoolyard is located in the north and is not far from the official office.
There are several docks outside the west side of the city, and there are several piers that have no place to build schoolyards; the suburbs on the south and east sides are too dense, and the populations that depend on major cities and towns gather here, which is estimated to be hundreds of thousands.
Only a schoolyard was built in the north of the city, and the Suzaku Army gathered large-scale training here.
A group of generals surrounded Zhang Ning and rode to the North Schoolyard. Thousands of people were divided into two sides, with flags and armor, and the teams were arranged in rows, which looked a little like two months.
Zhang Ning asked Chen Gai and others whether the soldiers learned to use the clamp gun. The general replied that he had mastered it in one month.
He thought to himself: When the flintlock rifle enters the mass manufacturing stage, the time for mobilizing and organizing the army will be faster.
Moreover, the advancement of weapons will further narrow the gap between elite veterans and new troops.
A group of farmers can be put on the battlefield after a short period of training. A recruit and a person who is proficient in bows, horses, riding and shooting martial arts are fired with the same firearm, and the killing effect is the same.
But like the elite soldiers in the imperial court, they cannot reach that level of toughness without ten or eight years of hard work. As long as they are lost, they cannot recruit equally from the people to supplement the reciprocal soldiers.
Zhang Ning started from scratch and did not have the elite soldiers of the retainers who had been through the battlefield for a long time. The firearms troops were his best choice.
A general next to him was reporting on the training content of the day: The entire army did not fire lead bullets, but only fired gunpowder; lined up to twenty steps, let them face the fire and practice their courage.After the gunshots, someone fled in panic, so he whipped it with a whip until he understood the rules... The firecrackers and the queues were advanced in the afternoon to make them familiar with when they would fire and when they should move forward...
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