Daming: Let you build roads, you have access to highways throughout the country

Chapter 117: Empress Ma is critically ill!!!

The Daming water army and tens of thousands of people killed the old nest of the Wu Kou, and this news shocked the Wu Kou no less than hearing that their ancestral grave was dug!

No, it’s more serious than that, because many of the whole families of the Kuko have been slaughtered!

No wonder I ran to the coast of Daming these days and found that some villages, many places were empty, and my feelings were running to my own lair!

When they returned home, they found that many of the Wu Kou’s homes had already changed greatly, some people’s houses were given to the Daming people, and some homes were ransacked, and the things they grabbed from the Daming people, as well as the family wealth they had saved for so many years, were all gone!

Others have their entire city turned to ashes.

And on the city wall was written in blood: He who sins against me will be damned from afar!

What they didn’t know was that the Ming Dynasty’s enthusiasm for land reclamation had reached an unprecedented peak.

Up to the court, down to the dawn of the people, they have joined the army of land reclamation, and even many people who do not belong to the coastal area at all have run to the port of Laizhou Capital, waiting for the next big gamble.

An even more massive land reclamation operation, ~ is about to begin.

This time, not only did His Royal Highness King Qi have 5 water troops, but the imperial court also sent tens of thousands of water troops, and although these warships are not as good as King Qi’s warships, they are much stronger than ordinary people.

And the people who participated in the second land reclamation reached -80,000!

Among them, this includes many people sent by imperial officials, as well as people sent by the imperial relatives and relatives.

No way, there is no such fast land clearing operation with money, there is no one who is not red-eyed.

Compared with the last time the land was cleared, this time the civilian ships have become taller, larger, and stronger, and the people who can ride and the materials they carry are much more than the last time.

Driven by interests, shipbuilding began to flourish.

If someone looks closely, they will find that many boats have an owl logo on them. And this symbol is produced by the shipbuilding workshop of the Qi Wangfu!

In the matter of making money, Zhu Rong will never be left behind!

And Zhu Rong has gained a lot of experience points from the last land clearing operation.

He directly exchanged a new drawing!

This is a complete set of drawings and technical data for a mechanical clock.

This drawing consumed almost all of Zhu Rong’s experience points.

Mechanical clocks, seemingly inconspicuous, but in this day and age, are a very advanced device.

After it is built, first of all, it is a luxury item that will bring a lot of wealth to Zhu Rong, but this is not what Zhu Rong values most.

To make money, he has more channels, and what he values is the various technologies involved in the manufacturing process of mechanical clocks. The birth of mechanical clocks needs to be applied to connecting rod mechanisms, gear mechanisms and cam mechanisms. And these technologies, even in later generations, are still some commonly used and common mechanical structures.

With the continuous transformation and improvement of power, materials, processing means, production modes, mechanisms and transmission technology, coupled with the establishment of mechanical theory and design methods, it will bring a qualitative leap to the promotion and development of machinery.

And when the Daming Dynasty completed this stage of evolution, the next step will be a breakthrough in power, when the steam engine will come into being, opening the prelude to the first industrial revolution.

Before that, Zhu Rong needed to lay a good foundation for the Ming Dynasty, including the rifles currently produced, and if this set of theories could be applied, higher productivity and production efficiency would be obtained.

The ancestor of mechanical clocks can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, he was a monk of the Tang Dynasty, commonly known as Zhang Sui, and was also an astronomer. The escapement device he invented is the most primitive mechanical clock, and the structure of the center part of all machinery is a structure with gears embedded in gears. Later, mechanical clocks spread to Europe in the Middle Ages and were eventually carried forward by Europeans.

Many of the things left by the ancestors are actually very brilliant civilizations, including gunpowder, and the period in which the Daming Dynasty is located is a period of germination and rapid development of the machinery industry of various civilizations.

If it is left behind at this time, it will be very passive behind.

However, the mainstream is still Confucianism. Readers are still mainly based on exam-oriented education, and craftsmen and the like are not allowed to be on the table.

Although Zhu Rong has laid a little foundation for Daming now, it is only limited to the side of the weapons workshop.

If we really want to promote the development of mechanical theory, we must promote a new school, and let it enter the house, if not enter the dynasty as an official, at least to gain a decent position in society and earn a good income.

He lavishly rewarded the craftsmen of the weapons workshop, as well as some other creative craftsmen, with the aim of creating such an atmosphere so that the people could see that it was not only a path of study, but also a skilled craftsman who could live a very nourishing and decent life.

Mechanical clocks are the commodities that can best cultivate craftsmen and promote the development of mechanical theory.

Of course, in these aspects of mechanical theory, Zhu Rong is just doing his best to do his best, and from the current point of view, making money is the primary purpose.

Because his money flows out like water every day.

The various major projects at hand cost a lot, and the money and two allocations on the household side were not timely. He can’t wait, if he waits for the household department to allocate funds, he will slowly carry out one big project after another, and the devil knows how to drag it to the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Moon.

He not only has to make money, but also has experience points!

And these big projects at hand now are actually equivalent to carrying out large infrastructure, driving the development of many surrounding industries, and the most direct benefit is the employees who work on these projects.

Their current treatment and income are very impressive, far better off than the people in other regions, and give many bankrupt people the opportunity to turn over.

He believes that mechanical clocks, once they are taken out, can definitely sell for a high price!

After getting the drawings on hand, Zhu Rong didn’t care about making children, and directly painted a large area outside Qingzhou City and began to build a watch workshop.

Then, several experienced craftsmen were exchanged from the system, and a large number of agricultural craftsmen were recruited from the people, so that they could learn and build mechanical clocks together.

With a full set of technical data and drawings, the first edition of the mechanical clock is still relatively smooth, although it is rougher and the body is relatively large, but the shape is in line with the gear structure in Zhu Rong’s impression.

Every time it is on the hour, there will be a crash sound to announce the time!

However, the design of the clock is not the Western one, it is designed according to the 12 hours.

Every hour of the hour, there is a crashing sound.

Start at 11 p.m. and tap a little. When it’s ugly, tap twice.

And so on!

At the whole point of the clock, there is a thicker vertical bar, representing the beginning and end of an hour, and between the vertical bars of the two hours, there are some small vertical bars, which are divided by a quarter of an hour.

And below the hourly hour, the sub-ugly is also marked with font

There is no glass yet, and the clocks are framed in delicate wood.

The dial is directly exposed to the outside, and the inside is densely packed with precision gears, which give the clock a power after winding, and the mechanical clock begins to rotate.

Of course, as the strings become looser, the error will also increase, which requires adjustments and re-alignment at regular intervals.

The most important thing is that when manufacturing this mechanical clock, it is inevitable that many mechanical manufacturing tools will be born.

Zhu Rong asked the craftsmen of the weapon workshop to go to the watch workshop for exchange and study, and the craftsmen of the weapon workshop were also greatly inspired.

Zhu Rong hopes that in the shortest possible time, they can integrate and condense some mechanical manufacturing theories and apply them to the weapons workshop to create a new production line.

The current Hongwu rifle, the production efficiency is still too low.

The imperial court had urged more than once, and Zhu Yuanzhang was even more impatient to wait. General Zhengnan was in the south and had long dealt with the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan, and Yuan Youcheng had been forced by him to the corner, but he did not kill.

In fact, there is no other purpose, it is nothing more than wanting to leave the 2 Hongwu rifles in the southern army, and does not want to return to the northern army to send it over.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also worried about the remnants of the southern forces reviving, so he did not dare to transfer the southern army back during this time period, so as not to fall short.

If the rifle does not return, then it can only be left to the weapons workshop, which will step up the production of new rifles.

And as Zhu Yuanzhang’s ambitions grew, he was now interested not only in the northern Yuan, but also in the distant gold-ridden Europe.

Recently, I have also become interested in the island country of Sakuragi on the other side of the sea.

There is no doubt that the more troops sent out and the better equipped, the greater the benefits will be, until the island’s potential is drained.

Even, when the conditions were ripe, build enough tall and strong warships, directly lead hundreds of thousands of troops, occupy this island, and incorporate it into the territory of the Daming.

Such a treasure of feng shui is not too far from Daming, so lonely pestle outside the territory of Daming, like a rebellious son, always feels a little awkward.

Just beat it up and take it home.

Shortly after the first mechanical clock was successfully polished, Princess Qi finally became pregnant.

The palace has been waiting for this news, and Zhu Rong did not dare to delay, so he sent someone to the mechanical workshop to take a mechanical clock that had just been produced, quickly speed up the whip, and send someone to send the good news, as well as the mechanical clock, to Yingtianfu.

PS: Thank you Yanzu, for the evaluation, the ticket ^_^ dry.