My Daming New Empire

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The Ministry of Industry has been rich for a long time because of patents, cement, bearings, and horse-drawn carriages and other new technologies to make money.

According to the law of the imperial court, the monthly salary, silver, money and food add up to almost ten silver coins.

However, the Ministry of Industry is rich and cannot subsidize the officials of the Ministry of Industry in terms of salary, and they will give benefits.

Carl Soli is now on a double salary and has many benefits, but after all, he has only been in Daming for four months and has worked for less than three months, so he still can't afford a horse.

He usually travels by renting a carriage, or simply walking.It took him less than half an hour to come to Baoen Temple outside Jubao Gate, and he didn't want to make the trip in vain, so he entered the temple with Liu Wan.

Entering the inner courtyard of the temple, Karsoli also found a few acquaintances from the Ministry of Industry. Their ranks were too low to have the honor of going upstairs with His Royal Highness. pagoda.

Seeing Carsoli, they all nodded slightly as a way of saying hello, not daring to make any noise.

It has been almost four months since I came to Daming. According to Carl Soli, the biggest difference between the East and the West is the difference in the entire system.

According to the theory of blood in the West, nobles will always be nobles, and commoners will always be commoners. Everyone has their own upper limit and lower limit.

But Ming Dynasty is different, here it is not entirely based on bloodlines, but more on ability.

As long as he has the ability, a commoner can also become the greatest nobleman and the top minister of the country.

Moreover, he also learned through historical studies that the founding of the Ming Dynasty is only 52 years old, and His Majesty the Emperor who founded this empire was originally just a cowherd with no permanent property.

This is simply impossible in Europe. It is impossible for a commoner to become a high-ranking general, let alone a king.

For an ordinary soldier, being a low-level officer is already the upper limit, and being a low-level landless knight is already the upper limit.

As for civilians, they can only serve as the civil affairs officer of a village at most, and maybe they can become a lord when they are old.

To change the fate of the family, it takes several generations of disdainful efforts to change it.

The Western system seems to have less binding force on the subordinates, but it is actually more stringent.In Daming, it seems that the upper class can do whatever they want to the lower class, but in fact, as long as you have the ability, you can get ahead quickly.

He likes the freedom of Daming, but at the same time fears the strictness here, because all of this requires him to adapt again.

In Rome, even when the pope arrives, after the welcoming ceremony, everyone can move freely and talk.

But in Daming, even if His Highness the grandson was not in front of him, no one dared to speak casually for fear of losing his composure.

When Liu Wan entered the pagoda, seeing the exquisite porcelain inside the pagoda, he couldn't help but relax a lot.

When he was going up the stairs, he couldn't help touching the glazed railings, feeling the slipperiness under his fingers.

It's so beautiful here, after entering, the eyes are simply not enough to see.

At the stairs on the second floor, Yang Zhangde saw Liu Wan coming up, nodded slightly, and stood up straight again.

Beside him, there were several servants and guards, including several ministers and servants from the Ministry of Industry, who stood cautiously against the wall, not daring to block Zhu Zhanji's view.

The ground, walls, and roof here are all spliced ​​with fired colored glaze.A minimum of four pieces and a maximum of 16 yuan of glass are used to form a complete picture.

And the pictures of each different place are arranged in order to form a complete story.

The color, pattern, and lines of each piece of colored glaze have strict requirements, which is also the main reason for the difficulty of firing.

Zhu Zhanji was sighing at this time: "It's really a luxury, but it's also a miracle!"

Wu Zhong said with a smile: "Now that my Ming Dynasty is flourishing, these costs are nothing."

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and looked at Liu Wan who was walking up the stairs.

Liu Wan said with a long bow: "Your Highness, Ningbo urgently reports that His Majesty has changed his mind and did not stop in Ningbo. He went directly south on the first day of April. This journey has been smooth, and I am afraid that he has passed Quanzhou by now."

Zhu Zhanji froze for a moment and said, "Even if we arrive at Xingcheng, we have to wait for the south wind to blow up in May before we can go northwest....Do you know why the emperor's grandfather changed his mind?"

"It is said that His Majesty felt seasick after going out to sea and vomited for two days. By the time we arrived in Ningbo, he had recovered..."

Liu Wan didn't dare to say some things, let alone guess, but Zhu Zhanji understood why.

He smiled and shook his head, feeling relieved for a while.Zhu Di's departure didn't make him feel scared, scared, only relaxed.

Because of his departure, there is no one who can restrain him anymore.

Moreover, as soon as he goes to sea, even if Zhu Gaochi is really dying now, the army will not retreat.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Even if the emperor's grandfather did not disembark, he should have interviewed Ningbo officials and sorted out the information reported by each of them. I will go back and read."

Liu Wan answered yes loudly, and then said: "My servant met Karl Soli outside the temple. His Highness also mentioned yesterday that he had meritorious service in designing the arena, so this servant brought him in."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Since we met, let him come up, I just have something to ask him."

After a while, Karl Soli was brought up. He lowered his head all the way, and when he saw Zhu Zhanji, he stood firmly on the second floor and quickly knelt down. "The little minister, Presa Carsoli, has met His Royal Highness, the Empress Dowager."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Carsoli, you have learned to do as the Romans do when you come to Daming. But you have not learned enough. You only need to kneel and bow in formal occasions and ceremonies. Normally, you only need to bow. .Get up..."

Of course Karl Soli knew that he didn't need to kneel and worship in general, but he didn't mind currying favor with the future emperor.

His fate is tied to him, prosperity and wealth or family ruin, it is all in his mind.

Now that he has lived what he considers to be a happy life, he has already got it, and he doesn't want to lose it even more.

When Carl Soli stood still, Zhu Zhanji asked again: "Carl Soli, as an architect, you are now looking at various buildings everywhere, can you analyze the fundamentals of Eastern and Western architecture with me? difference?"

Carl Soli didn't fully understand Zhu Zhanji's words, but it didn't prevent him from guessing the meaning, because he understood several key words.

When asked about his old profession, he certainly didn't panic at all. He sorted out his thoughts and said: "Your Highness, I followed His Highness from west to east, and found a very obvious difference. In the West, whether it is Europe, Egypt, or even Including the Indian peninsula, stone is the main building material. But only when I came to Daming did I find that the main building material of Ming was wood.

The difference in building materials also causes the difference in architectural style, forming their own architectural art.Different building materials and different social functions make Daming and Western architecture have different "artistic language"

Different languages ​​express different ideas and reveal different emotions; different buildings carry different cultures and embody different beliefs.

Western stone buildings generally develop vertically, pointing directly to the sky.In this way, the ability to lift the high-density stone roof into the sky becomes the key to the art of architecture, and the pillars that perform this task become the key of the key.

Different from Western stone buildings, ancient Chinese wooden buildings use brackets as the key.The overlapping curved wood that supports the eaves can expand the vertical strength to the horizontal, thus constructing a variety of cornices.

The fundamental difference between the two architectural styles is vertical development and horizontal development. "

Zhu Zhanji asked with a smile: "Then what are the similarities between Eastern and Western architecture?"

Karsoli thought for a while and said: "Actually, there are quite a lot of similarities. The two have many similarities in terms of structure, but if I can only choose one, I would say it is symmetrical."

Zhu Zhanji asked again: "You have echo channels in the west, and we use water tanks and echo bricks to amplify the sound in the east. Can these three be combined to form a better sound amplification effect?"

This time Carl Soli said with some embarrassment: "Your Highness, the arena is too big. Now using brass pipes to amplify sound is the best way we can think of. I have visited various theaters, although they can install It can be used to amplify the sound of the upper water tank, and it can also be amplified by using green glazed bricks and erecting arched wood, but they are not used here in the arena."

In Daming, people already knew that resonance was used to transmit sound, but the effect of sound amplification was really limited.The stage uses water tanks, and good theaters also use green glazed bricks to build houses, and then add a concave wooden groove on the top of the auditorium to echo, but for the arena, these technologies are really not suitable.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "It's not a gymnasium. I want to build a hall. This hall needs to be able to seat 2000 people, and the voice of the speaker must be heard clearly by everyone."