The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 476 Steam Powered Cement Factory

This parade in Shanxi Province lasted until the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month officially came to an end. The two were still on their way back when they encountered a group of rogues in the Taihang Mountains near Lingqiu.

Fortunately, the group of bandits knew that the people who came were the prince and concubine of the Jin Palace, so they didn't dare to make more disturbances, and made way for Song Qingyue and Li Zhao to go away.

Li Zhao's expression remained the same, as if he knew that these bandits would let them go, but Song Qingyue was quite frightened.

"It's fine, why are there so many bandits?" Song Qingyue hugged Li Kun tightly, frowning deeply.

Li Zhaodao: "I'm afraid that because of the severe drought last year, some people still took action on the relief food."

"Aren't you the food security officer back then? Why would anyone dare to do anything?!"

Li Zhaodao: "I am only responsible for escorting the food to the prefectural city, and from the prefectural city to the prefectures and counties, and then from the prefectures and counties to the villages, it is a matter for the magistrates and county magistrates at all levels."

"Why would someone risk their life for money!" Song Qingyue said bitterly.

Li Zhao followed with a sigh: "Yes, there are people who are not afraid of death."

Fortunately, the imperial court already has a standardized method for checking the distribution of disaster relief food, that is, to go to the countryside to take samples, ask farmers directly how much food they get, and finally estimate it according to statistical methods. It is not difficult to figure out how much officials at all levels have drawn from it.

Finally, check the grain stores that have relations with officials at all levels, and you can basically convict them.

Lingqiu is a county under the jurisdiction of Datong Mansion, and it is more or less related to Daiwang Mansion.

Those people would never have imagined that within a year since King Jin came to Shanxi, the new year's gift package for everyone has been prepared!

Song Qingyue couldn't figure out the twists and turns in the officialdom, and didn't bother to pay attention to them.

All she can think about now is the elimination of illiteracy in Shanxi.

Especially after offering sacrifices to the river, she even felt that literacy and anti-superstition could be done together.

This matter can start from the textbook.

The whole New Year was very busy, officials from nearby Taiyuan took advantage of the New Year's holiday and came to the palace to hug Li Zhao's thigh.

Song Qingyue's wife is naturally engaged in diplomacy.

It just so happened that she could take this opportunity to find out about the situation in the counties near Taiyuan, and the literacy work can also start from the Taiyuan area.

This time Song Qingyue plans to give up the obsession with co-educational schools and run separate boys' and girls' schools. The teaching content is the same as that in the capital. In addition to literacy, arithmetic, and hygiene, Song Qingyue plans to add a little bit of geography and science courses.

For example, what is the world like, how big was the Great Zhou Dynasty, where is Shanxi in Great Zhou, why the Yellow River flooded and so on.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, there are some things, just ask everyone to listen to them, and understand a thing or two ignorantly, it’s enough to play an enlightening role.

The so-called Enlightenment means to open people's eyes and open their hearts, so that they will no longer be easily deceived.

I heard that Princess Jin wanted to build more schools in the Taiyuan area, and the officials and wives were not as enthusiastic this time as they were during Song Qingyue's private visit with Li Zhaoweifu.

Everyone felt that this princess acted very strangely, and was even suspected of defrauding them of money and forcing them to give confessions to Prince Jin's mansion, so everyone talked nicely and praised Song Qingyue for her benevolence and compassion, but they didn't see any actual actions from everyone.

By the end of the Lantern Festival, Song Qingyue had raised less than 500 taels of funds from the officials' wives, and this was even counting the fork ring jewelry donated by those officials' wives.

Moreover, after the Lantern Festival, there were rumors in the Taiyuan area that Princess Jin was a greedy person who forced officials and wives to bribe her.

Song Qingyue doesn't care what they think of her anymore. What she does is indeed out of step with the times. Fortunately, the Central Plains has always worshiped cultural people, and the law has never prohibited anyone from reading and writing, let alone women. They still admire talented women very much.

On the other hand, when Nanny Bai heard the rumors, she was so angry that she couldn't sleep, and she told Song Qingyue that the person who spread the rumors must be found out, and she must be taught a good lesson.

Song Qingyue shook her head and laughed at her: "It doesn't matter, let them go, the nanny will help me think about building a business company."

She had made up her mind, anyway, she couldn't rely on the imperial court for things like literacy literacy, and even if Li Zhao provided help, it was very limited. If she relied on her alone, her family fortune of 300, [-] taels was not enough.

She currently has two plans.

The first is to establish a business company based in Shanxi. After going out for inspection, she plans to integrate the resources of the entire Shanxi, first set up a business company, and standardize the production of local specialty products in Shanxi, create a brand, and gain popularity. Sold to the whole country, even overseas.The first batch of products selected by her were Shanxi mature vinegar, Taiyuan Fen wine, Qinzhou small yellow rice, Jiaocheng jujube and Jiangzhou Chengni inkstone.

The second is to build a commodity distribution center similar to Yiwu in Taiyuan, which can be called a department store, for the people and major merchants to trade.

The third is to build aluminum smelting and cement factories powered by steam engines.

Smelting aluminum still needs to find bauxite mines, but there are many in Shanxi, and Song Qingyue urged Li Zhao to send an exploration team out to find mines as soon as the New Year's Day was over.

Li Zhao didn't have a ready-made exploration team at hand, so he could only post a list of rewards. Anyone who found a bauxite mine in Shanxi would be rewarded with [-] gold.

Before finding the bauxite mine in Shanxi, Song Qingyue first built a steam-powered cement factory.

In the first quarter of Tianqi's five years, Song Qingyue was manufacturing and debugging a new steam-powered ball mill.

She recruited a group of experienced master craftsmen with high salaries from local carpentry shops and blacksmith shops in Shanxi. After signing a contract of sale and a non-disclosure agreement with them, she began to require the masters to learn to read and count.

Many masters have skills but can't read, which really hinders them from summarizing their thoughts and thoughts into paper documents in the future for the inheritance of skills.

In addition to the culture class, she also asked the masters to follow her to learn the knowledge and principles related to machinery.

What acceleration gears, reduction gears, various crankshafts, as well as screw mechanisms, belt transmission mechanisms, chain transmission mechanisms, etc., are definitely things that everyone has never learned before.Song Qingyue herself is also a layman, she can teach things in a mess, but the things she knows are enough to open people's eyes.

For example, in the design of the steam-powered ball mill this time, Song Qingyue used the reduction gear and the belt transmission device with smoked rubber as the link, and the efficiency can be much higher than that of the gear!
The ball mill, which used to be driven by water and animal power, has now been redesigned and tripled in size.Of course, since Song Qingyue has not yet been able to solve the synchronization problem of the steam engines, she can only keep the two steam engines synchronized through a crankshaft.

For this reason, the horsepower of the steam engine device is also limited, so the ball mill cannot be made too large like the later generations, otherwise it cannot be driven by the existing steam engine.

But even so, if the loss of the machine is not calculated, the time and cost of making cement have been reduced to less than one-tenth of the original.

Li Zhao knew that Shanxi was rich in lime mines, but seeing the result, he was immediately dumbfounded.

Song Qingyue was not surprised at all, this is the power of the technological revolution.

"So, what are your plans now, my lady?" Li Zhao even had a hint of caution in his tone.

Although he didn't know the word "dumping" yet, he knew intuitively that once Song Qingyue really lowered the price to sell this batch of cement, the entire cement factory in Dazhou would be overwhelmed by Shanxi cement.

You can't win even if you count the shipping cost.

Song Qingyue put her hand on the table and knocked, thought for a while, and then said: "Sell it as you want, but there will always be problems with the machine, and the output in the first year will definitely not be too large."

"You... how are you going to price it?"

"Let's cut the price by one-third first, and do business with the imperial court first, and save money for the imperial court, right?"

"That's right, step by step, we still have to wait for the machine to stabilize before expanding production." Li Zhao breathed a sigh of relief.

Song Qingyue smiled, but Li Zhao shook his head helplessly, and immediately wrote a note to his father.

In Shouyang County, Taiyuan Prefecture, there was originally a large-scale cement factory in which the emperor had a shareholding.Once Song Qingyue's cement plant starts up now, that cement plant will definitely lose its competitiveness and will collapse.

But Song Qingyue only gave the emperor [-]% of the shares this time, as if she was going to bargain hard with the emperor, and she didn't know how much her father wanted in her heart.

(End of this chapter)