Chapter 380 A Family with a Rebellious Spirit
Emperor Xiao Wu has been in a good mood lately.
With the court stable, many veteran officials retired, and many young people entered the court to serve the Great Yu.
My youngest cousin, Shen Qingrui, has also started doing errands.
Emperor Xiao Wu originally intended to arrange an easy but respectable position for his quiet cousin.
As a result... he focused all his efforts on entering the Ministry of Works, and then entered the weapons forging workshop founded by the founding emperor.
Less than three months after entering that workshop, Shen Qingrui went to see his cousin, the emperor.
"Cousin, let's set up a gunpowder manufacturing workshop!"
"Separate the gunpowder research group from the weapons forging workshop and have them specialize in gunpowder," Shen Qingrui suggested.
Emperor Xiao Wu was startled.
"Aren't these all related to weapons? Why do we have to separate them?" Emperor Xiaowu asked.
Shen Qingrui simply shook his head.
"It's too seniority-based there, and it's lifeless."
Those master craftsmen only thought about making the weapons sharper.
I...I want to do something else.
Emperor Xiao Wu...
That's certainly true of the weapons forging department; the master craftsmen there earn quite a lot in salary.
Furthermore, those families are basically led by one generation after another.
Many of them were already working there during their grandfathers' generation, and even earlier, during the time of the founding emperor.
Many noble families in Chongqing don't even stay as long as those master craftsmen do!
If a young person like you goes in, you're bound to be ostracized.
Even if you are a child of the Duke of Dingguo, it doesn't matter.
Everyone will just think you're here for a short visit, and that you'll be promoted and leave in a couple of years...
Therefore, no one will treat you sincerely!
Shen Qingrui stayed inside for a while and found it boring.
If you can't learn what you want to learn and have to put up with other people's bad temper, you might as well go out and work on your own.
not to mention......
The people in the forge believed that weapon forging was the most important thing.
They considered the research on major firearms to be beneath their dignity.
"Gunpowder is powerful! But conquering cities and seizing territory requires people to be on the front lines."
Only with powerful spears and swords can one be invincible.
That's what the most senior master craftsman in the weapons forging workshop always says.
Later, Emperor Xiao Jing set up a gunpowder research group in the forging workshop, and after that the gunpowder research made some progress, it finally silenced some of the criticism.
But deep down, those who worked on weapon forging looked down on those who later went into gunpowder research.
Shen Qingrui has loved ingenious things since he was a child.
Let him watch those people hammering their weapons, one strike at a time...
Haha, he'd rather go home and sleep.
Emperor Xiao Wu also knew about these things.
However, because the weapon forging workshop was somewhat special, the new emperor couldn't interfere too much.
"Craftsmen all have tempers."
They can do their thing, and you can do yours. Since you've said that, then separate the gunpowder research group.
Currently, it is still under the management of the Ministry of Industry.
"How about you become the little leader?" Emperor Xiao Wu asked with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingrui exclaimed, "That's a good idea!"
At least he doesn't have to follow those old guys around and learn nothing from them!
“But… there are only a few people left in the gunpowder research team,” Shen Qingrui said softly.
Emperor Xiao Wu was taken aback.
There aren't many people left?
Wait a minute, when I first ascended the throne, weren't there still more than twenty people working on gunpowder research?
Back then, they even developed a fire bomb the size of a fist...
"During the last gunpowder experiment, an explosion was accidentally caused."
Six died and ten were injured.
Not only did they blow up the original research workshop, they also affected the forging workshop next door.
Later, the forge master got angry and punished the rest of the workers.
There are only three people in the gunpowder research team right now.
"One was in charge of storing the old-fashioned gunpowder, one was in charge of tending the boiler, and another was in charge of... asking for subsidies from above every day," Shen Qingrui said earnestly.
Emperor Xiao Wu...
It seems that there is such a thing.
It seems the Ministry of Works sent a memorial saying that an accident had occurred.
However, the details are unclear; the specific number of casualties and the cause of death were not mentioned.
Emperor Xiaowu thought that gunpowder research had great destructive power, and if an accident occurred, it would be a matter of life and death.
"Brother Rui, how about... you switch to another department?"
"Gunpowder research... is too dangerous," Emperor Xiao Wu suddenly said.
Shen Qingrui...
Under Shen Qingrui's insistence, Emperor Xiao Wu finally had no choice but to agree to let him remain in the Ministry of Works.
In addition, Emperor Xiao Wu also ordered that gunpowder research be separated from the original weapons forging workshops.
All expenses are not processed through the Ministry of Revenue.
These expenses all came from the Imperial Household Department...
This move relieved the people in the weapons forging workshop.
They looked down on those who researched gunpowder.
After nearly twenty years of research, they finally produced a few things that looked like watermelons.
Even so, it still cost countless amounts of money.
In their view, this group was of little use, cost a lot of money, and was very dangerous.
One wrong move and the entire ministry could be blown up.
Therefore, it's best to distribute them as soon as possible.
There's nobody around now; they'll naturally disperse after a while...
Many people were unsettled when they saw that the head of the gunpowder research group that had been separated was Shen Qingrui.
Tian's cousin...
Can he watch the first department he worked for disband on the spot?
That seems impossible!
But he has no one to help him, so how can he conduct research? He just spends his days drinking tea, chatting, and bragging...
After seeing Shen Qingrui take the gunpowder research team to a farm on the outskirts of Beijing and then find two craftsmen in Beijing who specialize in making firecrackers, those people finally couldn't sit still anymore.
"Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants! There have been class distinctions since ancient times."
How could some folk artisans have such free access to the affairs of the Six Ministries of the Imperial Court?
Everyone has the same feeling.
If these things are allowed to continue, then the Great Yu region will experience a scene never before seen.
The craftsman will be appointed as an official in the imperial court.
Those old scholars, who hadn't yet sorted out the issue of whether women could join the army, had another new problem to solve.
Can ordinary craftsmen actually enter the imperial court as officials...?
Although nothing has happened yet, the person leading those craftsmen is the third young master of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion...
That's intriguing.
Everyone knows that the current imperial family, whenever it comes to matters concerning the Duke of Dingguo's mansion, is completely blinded by greed...
The people in the Duke of Dingguo's mansion all seem to have a rebellious streak.
None of them are easy to deal with...
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