The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 90 Zhu Jianxuan Accepts a Disciple

After the signing ceremony of the "Yingtianfu Peace Treaty", Zhu Jianxuan returned to his laboratory.

Ask all craftsmen to stop what they are doing and shut down all experimental equipment and machines completely.

Then all the craftsmen gathered in the yard, and Zhu Jianxuan had something to announce.

Zhu Jianxuan's King Wu Laboratory has undergone several expansions, and its current size accounts for one-third of the western treasury of the imperial city.

There are 265 craftsmen of all levels in the laboratory, and the number of ordinary workers is over a thousand.

If they wanted to continue expanding the laboratory, the remaining space inside the imperial city would not be able to accommodate it, and they would have to move the royal treasury outside the imperial city.

But this laboratory is about to come to an end.

Zhu Jianxuan is about to go to North America. After becoming the king of the United States, he will settle the affairs in North America and then go to Australia to take over the closed country.

He will then stay in Australia for a few years to reorganize Australia's military and military industry.

I probably won’t return to the capital in the next ten years.

If it were not for Zhu Jianxuan's convenience, there would be no need to place Prince Wu's laboratory in the imperial city.

So after Zhu Jianxuan leaves this time, the laboratory will be dismantled and relocated.

Zhu Jianxuan will also take a part of it directly.

So in the large courtyard of the laboratory, Zhu Jianxuan stood on the steps in front of the conference room and spoke to all 265 craftsmen:

“My father has already allowed me to have a sealed country in both North America and Australia in the future, or it may be two parts of a sealed country.

“In the next one to two months, I will leave for North America, and on my return trip I will go to Australia to receive the lockdown.

“You have followed me for many years. If you are willing to go to North America or Australia with me, you can bring your family with you.

“Everyone present here who is willing to go with me must have at least the lowest level of nobility in North America or Australia.

“Based on your contributions to the laboratory and the abilities you have demonstrated in the past and in the future, you can continue to be promoted to a higher level of nobility.

"It's okay if you don't want to go. You can still continue to be my employees and work for my business in Ming Dynasty.

“Our King Wu Laboratory will also continue to be preserved, but will be moved to a more spacious place outside the city.

"Your Majesty the Emperor and your Royal Highness the Crown Prince will continue to look after you.

“At the same time, the journey to North America is long and the round trip will take a year.

"Adding in the time I have to spend in North America to handle my business, it may take two years for me to finally arrive in Australia.

“So I plan to recruit a group of disciples and teach them directly by my side on the way to and from North America.

“If you have children in your own family or in the family of your relatives who are under the age of twelve, have already begun to learn to read and write, and are particularly intelligent, please recommend them to me.

“It’s important to make sure these kids are really smart; a simple criterion is whether they can quickly understand calculus.

“If the child is not smart enough, I will not accept him. So if I find later that his learning ability does not meet the requirements, I will expel him from the sect even if I accept him.

"That's all I have to say. If you have any questions, please raise your hands now."

A group of craftsmen listened to Zhu Jianxuan's arrangements and all showed expressions of extreme surprise.

From what they heard from Zhu Jianxuan, they thought that Zhu Jianxuan was going to become a vassal.

Generally, a prince would not become a fiefdom until he was at least fifteen years old. Some might even still be staying in the capital in their twenties, or many simply did not want a fiefdom.

Zhu Jianxuan is only twelve years old this year, and he is going to North America, on the other side of the world.

At the same time, the news that Zhu Jianxuan was going to directly recruit disciples also surprised all the craftsmen.

These craftsmen have followed Zhu Jianxuan for several years and have long realized how profound the knowledge in Zhu Jianxuan's mind is.

It is because of the knowledge in his mind that he can continuously propose various experiments.

The key is that most experiments are successful and have great value.

Zhu Jianxuan's knowledge is truly more precious than gold.

Most of them had long realized that Zhu Jianxuan had never really taught them any fundamental knowledge.

However, they all understood that their identities were just employees, not Zhu Jianxuan's disciples.

Zhu Jianxuan only needs to tell them what to do and there is no need to teach them theories.

However, any craftsman who has a scientific spirit and is sufficiently interested in scientific research is very eager to obtain Zhu Jianxuan's knowledge.

Craftsmen who want to achieve higher achievements and earn more money also want to receive this kind of knowledge transfer.

Now Zhu Jianxuan decided to recruit disciples, but he limited it to children under twelve years old.

After a brief moment of confusion, more than half of the craftsmen raised their hands, many with urgent expressions on their faces.

They were all familiar with Zhu Jianxuan's rules. They had to raise their hands before asking questions, and were not allowed to speak without Zhu Jianxuan's permission.

At the front row of all the craftsmen, the one with the most experience among all the craftsmen and also the most experience in the laboratory, the master craftsman Song Wendao also raised his hand.

Song Wendao entered the laboratory as a third-rank official. In the past few years, he has gained a lot of experience under Zhu Jianxuan and has been promoted to the second-rank official.

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty court were also of the second rank. In theory, Song Wendao could enjoy the same treatment as a minister in the court.

When there were important ceremonial events in the court, he could theoretically stand in the same area as the ministers, but he would definitely stand behind them.

Zhu Jianxuan also saw Song Wendao and said with a smile:
"What's the problem, Mr. Song?"

Song Wendao immediately said anxiously:
"Your Highness, do you have to limit the number of disciples you recruit to under twelve years old? I also want to be your Highness's disciple."

Zhu Jianxuan casually explained:

“I will teach a lot of things, and I will teach them very quickly. I may recruit hundreds of disciples and give collective lectures in batches.

“I don’t have much time to answer students’ questions one by one, and most of the time students have to learn on their own.

"If you are too old, your reaction speed will not be as fast as that of young people, and you will not be able to keep up with the speed of teaching."

Zhu Jianxuan wanted to adopt a child. In addition to the child being more flexible and learning faster, it was also important for the child to have a simple mind. He could instill some specific ideas in them from an early age so that their way of thinking would be more in line with his requirements.

At the same time, in this era of strong traditional culture, these children have formally worshipped me as their teacher since childhood and must regard me as their elder throughout their lives.

In addition, he is the monarch of their family, and he can impose another layer of loyalty restrictions on them.

If a person neither respects his teachers nor is loyal to his king, it will be difficult for him to survive in this society.

With the combined pressure from the monarch and the teacher, these children are unlikely to betray in the future.

Even if some of the requests I put forward may violate typical public social ethics, most disciples will probably obey me.

Of course, I wouldn't do that. I just want to increase the loyalty of my disciples.

But it is different for adults. They may already have other teachers, but the key is that they already have their own world view and values.

If what you teach them or what you ask of them slightly goes against their previous knowledge, they may resist.

The more complex a person's social experience is, the less psychological pressure he or she will feel when betrayed.

The possibility that they will betray because of interests, temptation or resentment is an order of magnitude higher than that of the children they have taught since childhood.

Song Wendao listened to Zhu Jianxuan's explanation and said almost without hesitation:

“If I don’t want to be your direct disciple, I can be an outer disciple. Your Highness can teach the students normally, and I can just sit in from the back and listen.

"I can learn as much as I can. I don't need Your Highness to ask about or instruct me. Of course, it would be better if Your Highness could teach me when you are free."

According to Zhu Jianxuan's judgment, Song Wendao could be accepted.

This old man is really devoted to research, and his personality is that of a very pure craftsman.

But if I accept Song Wendao, there will definitely be other adult craftsmen who will have the same opinion.

Not all other craftsmen are like Song Wendao. There must be many people who decide to follow him simply for the sake of making a profit.

The simple identity of being a disciple of King Wu is enough to make them stand out among many competitions.

Zhu Jianxuan thought for a few seconds:

“I actually mentioned a condition a moment ago: any craftsman willing to follow me to North America or Australia could have gone with me.

“But from now on you can only be my subject and stay in North America or Australia. You will never have the chance to return to the Ming mainland.

“All your immediate family members, including you, must immigrate to America or Australia with me.

"In that case, Mr. Song, do you still want to follow me to attend the class?"

Song Wendao only thought about it for a second before agreeing directly:

“I still want to study with His Royal Highness, and I am willing to immigrate to Australia with my whole family.

"They all already know that the king's capital is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is very comfortable to live in. It is also a good opportunity for me to retire and live there.

"Although the land in Australia is barren, Da Wang found a guano phosphate mine, which can be used to fertilize the fields for several years if spread once."

Zhu Jianxuan suddenly felt helpless. With the continued immigration and development of the Wu State, the advantages of Australia had already spread in the Ming Dynasty.

The Australian continent is small in area, so the difference between land and sea is much smaller than that of the Eurasian continent, resulting in much milder seasonal changes than in China.

The environment of Australia's interior is still in its original state and has not yet been destroyed by immigrants and invasive alien animals.

Australia's east, southeast, southwest and north are all covered with forests, and there are also vast areas of grassland within the forests.

There are also large areas of semi-desert within the grassland, and most of the places are covered with sparse vegetation.

The area of ​​desert where the soil is completely exposed is much smaller than it is in the twenty-first century.

In fact, even in pure deserts, there are many types of plants.

Australia's geological conditions are extremely stable, and the overall geological activity is extremely weak, with almost only overall slow subsidence and surface weathering.

This results in Australia's surface soil being abnormally poor in organic matter, and also causes Australia's minerals to be abnormally rich and generally shallowly buried.

In addition, the Australian continent is isolated overseas, which gives the local animals and plants enough time to slowly adapt to the local environment.

After an extremely long period of mutual selection, the various strange creatures that appeared in Australia gradually adapted to the harsh local environment.

Compared to the Sahara, which is truly empty, the current Australian desert can even be considered a "garden".

However, the balance formed by tens of thousands of years of mutual adaptation between this organism and the environment is very fragile and may be broken at any time.

Australia in its current primitive state has much less severe weather than Australia in the 21st century, so it is naturally more comfortable to live in.

So now immigrating to Australia is no longer a threat, it is even an opportunity for ordinary people.

Zhu Jianxuan considered Australia's current management model again. Without a regular royal court, Australia is now close to a state of martial law.

If ordinary people do not have the order from the guards they belong to, they will basically not be able to get out once they go there.

So Zhu Jianxuan decided to agree to Song Wendao's question:

"If Mr. Song must go, then follow me, and the same goes for everyone else.

"There's no need to rush to decide now, think about it carefully after you go back.

“Those who want to immigrate to North America or Australia are packing their things and will leave in the next one or two months.

"Those who are prepared to let their own children and those of their clan relatives worship me as their master, and their entire families will also immigrate with me.

"This decision had to be made as quickly as possible. Three days later, on the morning of August 13, I brought my child to the laboratory to report.

“I will personally examine the abilities of these children, and only those who can pass the exam will have the opportunity to learn from me.

"I will organize their families into a guard and lead them personally."

Zhu Jianxuan did not go to the scene to count who was willing to leave. After announcing the order, he let all the craftsmen go home.

Thanks: Xiao Kui'er, Oh, little lady, don't run away, Chi Xueji, three readers for their rewards


(End of this chapter)