Chapter 130 Conferring the title of grand master, a sharp weapon to weaken the power of scholars!

Li Yongfang kowtowed and said: "The guilty minister, please don't kill the ministers with the crime of traitors, and don't declare the crimes of traitors to the world, and don't let them cast kneeling statues, or even make them into urinals, like in southern Liaoning. Sun Chuanting and the others have had people make it like that, put it in the public toilets in the city, and let those untouchables like cattle and horses relieve their hands on the head of the kneeling statue of the minister, insulting the minister!"

As he said that, Li Yongfang cried out: "Your Majesty! No matter what the criminal minister said, he was a fourth-rank guerrilla general of the Ming Dynasty, a hereditary official of a thousand households, how could he be insulted like this! Insulted by a group of untouchables from military households! Woohoo!"

Li Yongfang, as a former side general of the Ming Dynasty, not long after Nurhachi raised his army, and before the Sarhu happened, when the investment potential of Nurhachi's stock was not obvious, he decisively led the whole family to join Nurhachi, for what? ?

  The reason is to hope that Nurhachi can rely on Nurhachi to be a servant of the dragon in the future.

   Otherwise, with his status at the time, even if he abandoned the city and fled, there was no need to seek refuge with a Nurhachi who had just rebelled.

  So, what Li Yongfang cares about is to leave a glorious page in the annals of history.

But he did not expect that now the Ming court has set up a crime of traitor, and the Han people all over the world can humiliate him. There is no doubt that what he will leave behind in history is not glory, but ugliness, the same ugliness as Qin Hui. Unacceptable.

  What is even more unacceptable to Li Yongfang is that everyone can humiliate him, even common people can humiliate him.

  So, Li Yongfang begged Tianqi now, and said: "I just ask Your Majesty not to deal with this minister! I promise that as long as Your Majesty agrees to my minister and gives me a chance, I will take your Majesty's place in Ping Liao within three years!"

   Tian Qi said: "I can't promise you! Now I need you to let the Han people in the world know that even if they hate me deeply and don't want to be my official, they can't betray their own nation!"

Li Yongfang fell to the ground dejectedly after hearing this, and then suddenly yelled at Zhang Gui: "Uncle Zhang Guo! You are a scourge! All this is because of you, because of you! I should have been the founding hero of Dajin, I should have been honored in the new dynasty, and I should have been famous forever!"

  Zhang Gui just touched his nose and ignored Li Yongfang.

   Next, because of the arrest of Nurhachi in Xichang, Zhang Gui himself was granted the title of Grand Master as promised by Tianqi.

   So far, Zhang Gui has become the youngest grand master in Ming Dynasty.

  Tianqi was convinced that Nurhachi was really captured, and asked Zhang Gui with great interest: "You said that after Nurhachi was captured alive by my Ming Dynasty, how would Jiannu react?"

"In my humble opinion, they will first find a way to cover up the news to avoid instability of people's hearts. In addition, I am afraid that there will be many people in my Ming Dynasty who want to cover up the news, and do not want people to know the achievements of Xichang. After all, civil servants I hope that Xichang is just a Tianziyinggou organization that will bring disaster to the country and the people."

   Zhang Gui replied.

   Tianqi nodded: "You are right."

Zhang Gui continued: "However, please rest assured, Your Majesty, this is beyond their control. Since I can let the Industrial Division prepare chlorine gas so that people like Nurhachi can suffer a lot from this industrial product, then naturally I can also use the industrial product of the Industrial Division to let people Those who want to cover up this matter will not be able to do so, unless His Majesty is unwilling to let the world know that Xichang captured Nurhachi and Li Yongfang."

  Tian Qi hurriedly asked: "What industrial product?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Department of Industry has developed a new printing method, which uses lithographic plates for mimeograph printing. The printing workers only need to use grease as ink, write the text to be printed on the lithographic plates, and then print after applying the ink. Because grease absorbs ink and repels water, this eliminates the need to line up the copper lettering."

"More importantly, the printing cost is reduced, because copper blocks are no longer used, so that the printing scale can be expanded in a short period of time, and only need to train enough printing workers, instead of waiting to make a batch first The scale of printing can only be expanded after the copper blocks are used."

   Zhang Gui replied.

  Tian Qi said excitedly after hearing this: "I have to go and see, if we can no longer use movable type blocks, the market price of books in the world will undoubtedly drop sharply, and it will be even more difficult for the gentry to control knowledge. This is a sharp weapon, a sharp weapon that weakens the power of the gentry!"

   "Your Majesty is wise!"

   Zhang Gui knew that Apocalypse would realize the impact of printing improvements on the entire society, so he replied.

   Not long after, Tianqi came to the printing workshop in Xishan.

  This workshop was opened by Xichang. It used the printing equipment of the Industry Department and hired printing workers trained by the Industry Department itself. The purpose of Xichang’s printing workshop was to provide technical support for the already established "Daming Daily".

  After Apocalypse approved the restructuring of the speech system, he ordered all government offices to run newspapers.

  Xichang was the first to respond, and directly launched a "Daming Daily".

Now that Tianqi arrived at the printing workshop of "Da Ming Daily", he saw that a large number of the latest issues of "Da Ming Daily" had already been printed and piled up in the warehouse, and the first pages of these newspapers all wrote that the Xichang anti-rape team captured Nurhachi and Li Yongfang made great contributions, so the emperor rewarded the reports of the meritorious personnel in Xichang.

  Tianqi found that these newspapers were all published with these contents, and was very surprised for a while: "So fast, they printed so many?"

   "Yes! Your Majesty! This is the strength of the new printing technique."

   Zhang Gui replied.

Tian Qi walked towards the printing workshop of the printing workshop, and saw a printing worker writing on a slate with a pen dipped in grease, while a printing worker at the side was already applying ink to another slate, and then another printing worker was cutting Good paper is pasted and printed, and the whole process is a first-class production line.

Tianqi looked at this for a long time, and suddenly said: "Why didn't I think of adding a wooden frame, while applying ink, I can shake a handle by hand to imprint the paper, so that I don't need to be specially embossed. , one person can do the work of two people, and it can be faster."

   "Yes! The minister told them to know."

   Zhang Gui replied.

   Tian Qi said: "Forget it, I'll go back and help him change it."

Then, Tianqi said again: "Actually, we can also build a large wooden turntable, and all the printing people will sit on the turntable to operate, so that we can turn the turntable to operate instead of getting up and running, and we can add some ingenuity to the turntable. It is easy to use the technology of rolling bearings that you presented before, and the printed finished products can be brought out directly through the pulleys, without having to run back and forth to pick up the finished products, and the workers don’t have to work too hard.”

   "Your Majesty, you are an expert, and it depends on you to design this."

   Zhang Gui smiled.

  Tianqi nodded, and couldn't wait to put his inspiration into practice: "Go back to the palace!"

  Suddenly, Tianqi asked Wei Zhongxian: "Is there anything else tomorrow?"

  Wei Zhongxian replied: "Tomorrow will have a banquet!"

   "It's going to be a banquet again! Being an emperor is really tiring!"

   "Did Mr. Sun arrange the time for the Jingjing Banquet too often?"

  Tianqi suddenly felt very annoying, and had an idea: "Give Mr. Sun a day off. Tomorrow, you go and tell Mr. Sun in person, and tell him that I have a headache and the banquet will be cancelled!"

"yes!"

   Wei Zhongxian agreed.

  And Zhang Gui didn't intend to stop Tian Qi's hobby as a technical geek.

   Next, after sending Tianqi back to Xiyuan, he went directly to the Xichang yamen, preparing to reward the meritorious personnel of Xichang who captured Nurhachi and Li Yongfang alive this time.

"The imperial edict said: Jin Yiwei Qianhu, Xichang anti-rape manager criminal officer Xu Du, Liu Zongmin... Yimin Xiao'e made extraordinary contributions in the capture of Nurhachi and Li Yongfang alive by the Xichang anti-rape department, which made me very happy , It can be said that state-owned officials and righteous people, the country can be safe, and traitors can be destroyed...Xu Du was named as the commander of the Jinyiwei, and Liu Zongmin was the commander of the Jinyiwei. Five hundred gold...Yimin Xiao'e awarded Jinyiwei to a hundred households, gifted Three hundred gold."

  (end of this chapter)