Qian Song

Chapter 325 Concubine Qian: Officials and concubines really can't get pregnant anymore~ (Ask for a monthly ticket!)
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By the time the sleepy Concubine Qian Gui opened the door and walked out with her eyes closed, it was already late afternoon.

"boom!"

Concubine Qian bumped into someone.

Concubine Qian opened her eyes to see who she bumped into.

But before Concubine Qian could clearly see the face of the person she bumped into, Li Cun grabbed Concubine Qian's butt that had bumped into his arms, hugged her, and then hugged Concubine Qian towards him. walk in the room.

This time Concubine Qian didn't need to look any further to know that the person who dared to offend her like this must be Li Cun. She hurriedly shouted: "I beg the officials to let the concubine come down quickly, the concubine can't get pregnant again, it's too late!"

But Li Cun said: "You are not pregnant because you don't know how to rest well. For the sake of your body, you can accept my punishment."

While saying this, Li Cun ignored Qian Guifei's struggle and continued to walk into the room with Qian Guifei in his arms.

The female guards and female officials outside the door were very eye-catching and helped Li Cun and Concubine Qian to close the door from the outside.

Just before the door of this room was about to close, another sentence came out: "My beloved concubine is so smart, if I don't ask my concubine to give birth to more children for me, it will be a huge loss for me..."

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When the door was opened again, when Li Cun and Concubine Qian Gui, whose face was still flushed, came out of the room, it was already dark.

Concubine Qian pouted her mouth and said angrily: "Maybe it will take another year to be young and I won't be able to develop it properly. The official family is really a stumbling block on the road of research and development for ministers and concubines."

Li Cun estimated that among his concubines, only Concubine Qian would talk to him like this, and only Concubine Qian dared to talk to him like this.

But then again, what Qian Guifei said was not unreasonable.

You know, Concubine Qian not only has an extremely smart brain, she also has an equally powerful Zigong. In layman's terms, Concubine Qian is also a constitution that is easy to conceive.

This also led to the fact that although Concubine Qian Guifei did not have as many opportunities as Fang Baihua for Li Cun's departure these years, she actually gave birth to one more child than Fang Baihua - when she gave birth to her second child, she gave birth to two sons. .

As a result, Concubine Qian Gui became the woman who gave birth to the most children for Li Cun.

This is also one of the reasons why others say that Concubine Qian is Li Cun's favorite woman.

Think about it too, if Li Cun doesn't dote on Concubine Qian, can she let Concubine Qian give birth to the most children?

Li Cun didn't care about Concubine Qian's complaints, but asked her directly: "Have you lowered the manufacturing cost of bicycles?"

Concubine Qian said without interest: "Let's surrender, Sun Chengjie and the others are messing with this matter, and my concubines don't know very well."

Li Cun knew that Concubine Qian was only interested in novelty things, and she was not interested in things that had already been developed and were not difficult to develop.

This is actually a common problem of many R&D personnel. They only like to tackle difficult topics. In their view, reducing costs and improving quality are things that craftsmen should consider, not within their scope of consideration.

But the fundamental reason why Li Cun launched bicycles is not to make bicycles a plaything for the rich, but to make them a means of transportation that truly changes people's travel. After all, the cost of buying and breeding horses is extremely high, which is critical in many areas. I can't even buy it.

Li Cun's original intention was to popularize and popularize bicycles and make them an ordinary means of transportation.

At the beginning, the reason why Li Cun priced the bicycle a hundred times was not out of practical considerations, but out of political needs. Li Cun did it in order to attract the meritorious group and suppress the civilian group.

Now, Li Cun's goal has been achieved. Of course, Li Cun can't let the price of bicycles remain so high.

Therefore, Li Cun plans to reduce the manufacturing cost of bicycles, and then find an opportunity to reduce the price of bicycles, making them a means of transportation that ordinary people can afford, and increasing the speed of people's travel.

But now it seems that it is impossible to count on these researchers of the Royal Research Institute to reduce the manufacturing cost of bicycles.

At this time, Li Cun had an idea and thought: "How about leaking the manufacturing method of the bicycle?"

Li Cun quickly weighed the pros and cons in his mind: "If private capital enters the bicycle manufacturing industry, the price of bicycles will definitely be lowered soon, so that it will become more accessible to the people. At least a few members of the family will work hard for a year. Being able to buy a bicycle is like what happened at the beginning of the founding of our country in later generations."

"It's just like this. In the future, the manufacturing method of bicycles will definitely leak to foreign countries."

"Hey! This kind of thing can't be avoided. Besides, the technology of bicycles is not high. It's just a matter of time before it is exposed to foreign countries."

"I just need to ask Daqian Dynasty to seize the core technologies such as bearings so that they don't leak out."

"Well... But there is still a problem at present, that is, the bicycle manufacturing industry involves a lot of meritorious service and even my royal interests. If you rashly hand over the profits, you will definitely be obstructed by these vested interests, which is not conducive to the development of the bicycle industry. develop."

"Also, if they were all state-run, it would be impossible for the Daqian Dynasty to develop at a high speed, just like in the early days of the founding of the later generations."

"Only by partially privatizing and creating a competitive relationship between public and private enterprises, can the bicycle be vigorously developed, no, not just the bicycle industry, but all industries, and then the rapid economic development of the Daqian Dynasty can be promoted."

"Yes, this is proven by history."

Although Li Cun didn't like this, but in order to release the economic potential of the Dagan Dynasty and make the Dagan Dynasty rich and powerful, it is necessary to make some people rich first.

At that time, the Daqian Dynasty will be able to use surplus products to spread its tentacles to the whole world, like Britain that completed the industrial revolution, to establish colonies all over the world, and become an empire on which the sun never sets.

With such a general direction, some things become easier.

For example, Li Cun is currently promoting a large textile factory.

It is possible to sell textile machines at the same time as setting up a large state-owned textile factory.

This will surely lead to the establishment of private textile factories.

Only through competition between the two sides can the people of the Daqian Dynasty have no worries about dressing.

The situation is the same with Li Cun's promotion of replacing wooden structures with reinforced concrete.

State-owned construction companies, cement factories, and building material factories and private construction companies, cement factories, and building material factories develop together and compete with each other. Only in this way can the construction industry develop vigorously and benefit the public.

but--

There is one thing that Li Cun has to take into consideration, that is, he must really let his old brothers who fight with him get some real benefits, preferably for a long time. Brothers and those who work for themselves are chilling, and secondly, they can keep checking and balancing those civil servants.

In this respect, Li Cun would not learn from Lao Zhu whom he admired very much. On the contrary, Manqing did a good job in this respect.

However, we cannot let them, no, let no one reach out to basic livelihood issues such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.

This is Li Cun's bottom line.

After thinking about it, Li Cun felt that the sugar industry was good. It had huge profits and was suitable for making money for a long time. The key point was that ordinary people could not eat high-quality sugar, and it would not affect people's livelihood, and it could also reduce some obesity and diseases.

India and China are the earliest sugarcane planting countries in the world.

After thousands of years of development, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, a large-scale workshop-style sugar industry has been formed.

According to the "New Tang Book", Tang Taizong once sent people to India to learn how to cook sugar. Cultural exchanges promoted the advancement of technology and craftsmanship, and new varieties such as white sugar and rock sugar produced by indigenous methods appeared one after another.

The Chinese sugar produced during the Tang and Song dynasties was exported to Persia and Rome.

While China's sugar cane sugar technology spread to the outside world, the Arabs also introduced India's sugar cane planting technology to Western countries.

Therefore, during this period, there were sugars such as white sugar and rock sugar, as well as many related sugar products.

But there are two problems.

First of all, due to the limitation of low technology, the current white sugar cannot be purified at all to produce the high-quality snow-white white sugar of later generations, and its sweetness is not as good as that of later generations.

Have again exactly, because present white sugar can only get white sugar with native method, its output is too low.

And Li Cun knew the principle of a vacuum crystallization (boiling sugar) tank, and also knew how to use a steam engine to drive a press and use a centrifugal honey separator.

With the theory provided by Li Cun, coupled with the invention and creativity of the Royal Research Institute, equipment suitable for industrial production will definitely appear continuously, and the sugar industry will also enter the stage of large-scale industrial production.

Some people may ask, these machines will use steam engines, centrifuges, etc., will they be too high-end, so that they cannot be manufactured at this time?

Excuse me.

In fact, Li Cun had already asked Concubine Qian to develop a steam engine.

Do you still remember the few things that Li Cun gave to Concubine Qian to study?

They are steam engines, textile machines, blast furnace ironmaking, and flintlock guns and other inventions that can change the world.

Concubine Qian is indeed Li Cun's big treasure. She had successfully developed the earliest steam engine five years ago.

This steam engine sounds quite tall, but it is actually not difficult to build.

The reason why the Chinese in history did not manufacture the steam engine before the West was that no one noticed that the steam turned by the boiling hot water pushed the lid of the pot open.

Nowadays, Li Cun not only personally leads the extremely intelligent Concubine Qian Gui to watch the boiling hot water turn into water vapor to lift the lid of the pot, but also tells Concubine Qian the principle of this and all the steam engines that Li Cun knows. knowledge.

In addition, in order to avoid detours for Concubine Qian, Li Cun also sent someone to find coal and oil for Concubine Qian.

Speaking of this, many people actually have a misunderstanding, thinking that there was no coal and oil in ancient China.

This cognition is wrong.

As early as the late Neolithic age, ancient people had already used coal to carve artworks in the shape of rings and animals.

As early as the Western Han Dynasty around 200 BC, the Chinese had already begun to use coal as fuel to smelt iron.

That's about 700 years earlier than Europe.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, coal had become the fuel for Chinese households.

Up to now, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hebei and other places have already mined a large amount of coal as raw materials for iron smelting and household fuel.

The same goes for oil.

There is such a historical fact in "Yuanhe County Chronicles": During the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic rulers sent troops to surround and attack Jiuquan, Gansu Province. The local soldiers and civilians ignited the "fire oil" and burned the enemy's siege tools, repelling the enemy and defending Jiuquan City. .

By the time of the Five Dynasties, the application of oil in the military gradually widened.

At the time of the rear beam, there were examples of someone putting "kerosene" in iron cans and firing them out to burn down enemy ships.

The "Wu Jing Zong Yao" written by Zeng Gongliang decades ago has quite specific records on how to use oil as a raw material to make a powerful offensive weapon "Fire Oil Tank".

During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, the Zhao Song court set up a military weapon supervisor in Bianliang City, Tokyo, in charge of the manufacture of military equipment, including a factory specializing in the processing of "fierce fire oil tanks".

It is also recorded in "Yesterday's Dream Record" written by Kang Yuzhi that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the northwestern frontier "digged the ground and built large ponds, which were more than ten feet long and horizontal, to store fierce fire oil" to defend against foreign invasion.

Therefore, it is very simple for the emperor Li Cun to get coal and oil.

With the theoretical foundation provided by Li Cun, the research direction provided by Li Cun, and the various supports needed in the research and development process provided by Li Cun, let alone Li Cun has a very smart concubine Qian Guifei, even if Li Cun has no money. The imperial concubine, Li Cun will definitely be able to build the earliest and simplest steam engine.

But this steam engine is easy to build, but it is difficult to apply it to industry.

At the beginning, Li Cun planned to apply the steam engine to shipbuilding, that is, to build that kind of steel giant ship, or even build a steel fleet, so that he can conquer the world.

But until now, this giant steel ship powered by steam engines is still in the research and development stage.

Later, Li Cun proposed the concept of making trains.

Under the guidance of Li Cun, Qian Guifei, a group of Mohists, and all the research and development personnel of the Royal Research Institute worked together to improve the earliest and simplest steam engine again and again.

Separate condensers, a heat insulating layer outside the cylinder, oil-lubricated pistons, planetary gears, parallel-moving connecting rod mechanisms, centrifugal governors, throttle valves, pressure gauges, and other technologies have been overcome one after another.

In addition, in order to better develop these ideas proposed by Li Cun, Li Cun successively proposed concepts such as sanding, annealing, and polishing (in fact, these technologies have already existed before, but they have not been widely used. to industry).

Li Cun even led people to manufacture the earliest lathe.

Let's put it this way, the little things Li Cun learned from the military internships he participated in when he was in college were not wasted at all, and they laid the industrial foundation of the Daqian Dynasty.

Judging from the current situation, whether it is a steel ship powered by a steam engine or a train, it will be born in the near future.

Uh...that's a bit far-fetched.

It only needs to be said that the steam engine currently mastered by the Royal Research Institute has more than three times the working efficiency of the first-generation primitive steam engine built by Concubine Qian.

With the support of such a steam engine, it is certainly not a problem for Li Cun to build equipment suitable for industrial production.

Li Cun believes that as long as he gives the direction, the sugar industry will enter the stage of large-scale industrial production in a short time.

At that time, Li Cun will let people all over the world eat sugar produced in China, and use sugar to harvest wealth all over the world.

but--

Li Cun came to look for Concubine Qian this time not because of bicycles, textile machines, giant steel ships powered by steam engines, trains, and sugar-making equipment suitable for industrial production.

Li Cun came to look for Concubine Qian this time mainly because Concubine Qian sent someone to inform Li Cun that she had already built the flintlock gun that Li Cun wanted...

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