Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 245
A new day, I slept in the West Garden last night, and when I got up early, I was surrounded by two delicate Japanese women among a group of fangirls and bearded girls, Kaori Didi and Narako Didi, with small faces and big eyes like cats Like sisters.

Zhu Yuan liked to listen to the two girls talking.

For Japanese, the male and female voices are almost two languages, one feels provocative and the other flirts.

Ok.

After dressing and washing, I went to the main house, the West Room, and still called the two little girls by my side.

When Qingniang and Luoshui brought breakfast over, she realized that she seemed to have forgotten something.

It wasn't until drinking a bowl of eight-treasure porridge that I finally remembered, and quickly asked Qing Niang: "Did you put down the one yesterday, Liu Niang?"

Don't hang around all night.

Qing Niang didn't forget about this incident, she still had a deep memory, she nodded and said: "Your Excellency said yesterday... When you go to sleep, you will let it go."

That's it.

After breakfast, today's arrangement is to proofread the books, not to go out, but to browse through the textbooks compiled and organized by the women around me, and send them to Lao Zhu.

This is already the second batch.

A batch has been delivered a few days ago, and Lao Zhu is still watching.

In fact, except for "economics", Zhu Yuan felt that he was not so sensitive that his ancestors had to cut it out. Even if it was "physics" and "chemistry", if you want to cherish it yourself, then simply If you don't teach, since you have opened a major and are confused, it is no different from not teaching.

Still, someone insisted on going through it first.

In addition, the list of majors such as 'chemistry' has been finalized in recent days. Lao Zhu also personally reviewed the files one by one, and some of them felt inappropriate and were dismissed.

Zhu Yuan didn't quite agree with this, but he didn't object either.

I have to say that in this era, the shallow chemical knowledge that I can still remember is actually confidential, such as some fundamental principles behind the configuration of gunpowder. As long as you understand the corresponding knowledge, you can theoretically make powerful A lot of gunpowder.

From Lao Zhu's point of view, this is absolutely not what ordinary people should know.

Not to mention that Zhu Yuan also proposed the concept of nitroglycerin in the chemistry textbook he sent before.

Black gunpowder, as long as there are materials, Zhu Yuan can make it easily.

Nitroglycerin, although it is not as simple as black powder, but after thinking about it in private, it actually...seems...not difficult.It's just a three-step process of 'nitrogen', 'chemical', and 'glycerin'.

Where does nitric acid come from?
The industrial method is not clear, but as long as there is 'sulfur', there will be 'sulfuric acid', and if there is 'sulfuric acid', there will probably be 'nitric acid'.

Let alone glycerin.

This is also simple, saponification reaction.

In short, if the reason is there, there will be a follow-up.

This is called 'the origin of the foundation and the birth of the Dao'.

However, Lao Zhu saw that Zhu Yuan mentioned in the textbook that the power of yellow gunpowder is more than ten times that of black gunpowder, so he didn't care about his own treasures, so he directly deleted the relevant chapters, and only planned to let the Firearms Department conduct research in secret.

Speaking of teaching materials, recently, the "production" of "Economics" has been added, deleted, edited, and annotated by Lao Zhu himself. A volume with a total of just over [-] words has begun to be engraved, and it has been determined to be used by various universities. It is expected to be engraved and printed, and everyone will have a copy.

This is also the result of Zhu Yuan's urging.

After all, when everyone is in a meeting, you can't just talk about "economics". Only you and Lao Zhu, or occasionally a prince, know, and everyone else is at a loss.

What's more, given the reason, then, many policies that Daming wants to implement will have a theoretical basis.

Why should farm tools be subsidized for free?
Did not know before.

Now, after reading the "production" article of "Economics", oh, in order to increase productivity.

It's this effect.

As for 'allocation', Zhu Yuan is not in a hurry, nor is Lao Zhu.

Let's get the 'production' done first.

After all, it's just the word 'allocation', which makes people uncomfortable. It's just for no reason. Why should we engage in 'allocation'? How about we keep it in our own pockets?
It was almost noon in a blink of an eye.

Having roughly browsed a book called "Building French Style" planned to be used as a teaching material for the "Architecture Major", Zhu Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged on a low couch, saw Liu Bai dangling next to him, put down the book, smiled and beckoned Nizi to come up, hugged Zhu asked: "What is it, tell me?"

Liu Bai was embraced by his lord, blushing, thinking about it, he still said: "My lord, tomorrow...is sister Xieyi's big day after all."

Zhu Yuan understood.

After thinking for a while, he said: "What do you plan to do, you can arrange it yourself, and the expenses are also free to withdraw, heh..." Laughed, and continued: "I am only responsible for entering the bridal chamber."

"Slave identities... don't need to deal with it too much," Liu Bai was a little moved when he heard what his lord said, and after saying a few words, he said again: "I just think about whether my lord will be like today, no need Going out, at night...there is another table of noodles, a few slaves to accompany the adults, is it also lively?"

"It's that simple."

Zhu Yuan was a little surprised, but he thought about it too.

It is very rare in this day and age for Lao Zhu and his wife to acquiesce in the identities of the women around them.With Zhu Yuan's current status, if he had to make a fuss, it might cause trouble instead.

Zhu Yuan himself is not afraid of trouble, the problem is that the few people around him can't afford it.

However, after thinking about it again, he still said: "Well, you can invite a troupe over tomorrow. Isn't "A Chinese Ghost Story" singing, just listen to this. Well, there is also Xieyi's house, you can also quietly invite a few table, I won’t go there, but everyone can have fun.”

Liu Bai shook his head subconsciously: "It's too public."

"Needless to say the reason, everyone just invites a few tables knowingly," Zhu Yuan said, "You forgot that in Mingzhou, when Lord Hua married a concubine, it was very lively."

Said and recalled.

However, I only remember one "Ping Ping curled up for more than thirteen, cardamom tipped at the beginning of February".

What a poor girl.

As the few rooms that Hua Gao quietly carried into the mansion became pregnant, the one on the top of the cardamom was inevitable to be neglected.

"It's different," Liu Bai obviously remembered that incident, with a little longing in his expression, but he still shook his head: "Slaves are just grown-up girls, so you can't be like that, let alone your status at this time... status... can't bear it." up."

Feeling the sadness of the girl in his arms, Zhu Yuan leaned over and kissed the girl on the cheek: "I know your expectations, which girl would not look forward to it? However, the current conditions do not allow me to be too deviant, let's quietly, Alright, let's live our lives in the future, and have a few more children, and I will hand over all my knowledge to them in the future, and this life will be complete, right?"

Liu Bai nodded subconsciously, then shook his head again: "My lord, slave... I didn't think about it."

"There is, but I can only think about it," Zhu Yuan said, raising his hand to pat behind Liu Bai: "After tomorrow, you can also start making your wedding dress, um, how about a month later? "

Liu Bai's blushing face that hadn't dissipated turned even redder, and he nodded slightly: "Slave... listen to your lord."

After the matter was settled, Zhu Yuan pushed Nizi to the couch: "Go, I'm hungry, bring my lunch quickly."

Probably in response to the phrase "I want someone to show up." Just after lunch, there was news from Mingzhou.

The first is a private letter from Huagao.

Someone said that the three-bedroom concubine he brought in at the beginning, after 'Gu Shi' and 'Chen Shi', recently confirmed that another 'Nian Shi' was also pregnant.

Zhu Yuan could see Huagao's joy from the trembling letters.

However, probably because Zhu Yuan became a clan, someone did not mention the matter of making him a adoptive father this time, but he also mentioned that he hoped that his little ones could worship Zhu Yuan as a teacher in the future and study at Jinling University. I even chose my major, economics major, which is very good.

At the end of the letter, someone also mentioned that he felt that three women were not safe, and planned to bring in a third-bedroom woman in the near future.

Still according to Zhu Yuan's original standard.

Zhu Yuan could only be speechless.

The three-bedroom woman back then, according to Zhu Yuan's standards... In fact, it was not that easy to find, but, after all, it was from the first-rank naval captain, and of course someone found him.

This time, come again!
However, with Huagao's cautious character, Zhu Yuan felt relieved that he probably wouldn't be able to do something like rob people's daughters.

At least the program will not give people a handle.

In addition to the facts about someone, among the other official documents, the one that Zhu Yuan is most concerned about is the news that the 500 material ship's launching test was a great success.

The biggest difference from the 200 material steamer this time is that it is driven by animal power.

Zhu Yuan had thought about it at the beginning, but he just felt that the animal power was somewhat unstable when the boat was on the water.

Still manpower is reliable.

In addition, the original 200 feeder ship was not too small, but it was not too big either. It couldn't hold a few cows, so it still relied on manpower.

This time, the 500 material ship has a three-foot paddle wheel on each side. The paddle wheel on each side is driven by three separate oxen, a total of six oxen. Under full power, the speed can reach 60 Here, the various details are quite surprising.

The first is a ship of 500 materials, which can be used for long-distance transportation of grain at sea.

Second, the six cows...

Zhu Yuan knew about horsepower, but he didn't seem to have bullpower.However, it can be inferred that under the same weight, the strength of a cow should be greater than that of a horse.

Ok.

Still don't talk about these nonsense.

In short, it is a pioneering work in this era that a large ship of 500 materials can travel 60 miles per hour without relying on wind power.Because, Zhu Yuan can also easily calculate that at this speed, the 3000-mile sea grain road from Mingzhou to Zhigu only takes two and a half days.

Unfortunately, there are two major problems.

One is 'cost'.

One is 'durable'.

If these two can be close to the traditional sailing ship, Zhu Yuan will immediately write a letter to his ancestors to completely rebuild the ship and eliminate...well, it cannot be eliminated, just like the 500 material ship this time, the sail is still built The system, so to speak, is 'hybrid'.

This is also a very necessary set of plans in this era.

Just like later generations, not to mention the age of steam, even in the age of electricity, many ships are equipped with sails, which can save energy consumption to the greatest extent when the wind is down.

After reading the document written by Yao Feng himself, Zhu Yuan replied immediately, asking Mingzhou to send a 500-material ship over, along with craftsmen and blueprints. He planned to show Lao Zhu, and he was also here in Jinling Try it out.

as well as……

Now that there are steam engine models, perhaps, we can try to go ahead and install the steam engine on the ship.

After all, full-size steam models already exist.

Even if it is understood that even if it is built, it is still very far away from large-scale mass production, but as long as a full-scale steam ship can be built and launched, it will definitely be a more meaningful innovation than a mini steam ship in this era. .

Because, this is equivalent, from '0' to '1'.

How to say a certain concept, it is difficult to go from '0' to '1', but it is much easier to go from '1' to 'N'.

Zhu Yuan is not in a hurry for too many things, and takes things step by step.However, if it is possible to make it in advance, there is no need to deliberately delay it until a long time later.

After writing the reply letter to Mingzhou Yinghai Division, he replied another private letter to Hua Gao. At this noon, when he was supposed to take a nap, he didn't feel sleepy at all, so he told Luoshui beside him: "The visitors from these two days The list, bring me to see."

For this matter, Zhu Yuan usually looks at it once a day or two.

I don't see many visitors, but I also want to know who has been there.

This is a part of the 'Qi family', and you can only do it yourself. If you don't pay attention, it will be difficult to say what will happen gradually.

Luo Shui went out to give orders, and when he came back again, seeing his lord in good spirits, he was a little worried, and persuaded him, "Master, why don't you take a break, and watch after you wake up?"

just last time...

Anyway, the girls were terrified enough, and they still had a strong fear.What would they do if there was something wrong with their petty officials?
Therefore, even though Zhu Yuan is in good spirits, he always persuades him to take more rest.

In fact, Zhu Yuan also has a bottom line in his heart, and he no longer tosses himself like when he just returned to Jinling from Mingzhou some time ago, but he can't sleep most of the time every day, with an exception once in a while.

He Xuan quickly sent a list, and also mentioned that it just so happened that Tan Qu, who gave Zhu Yuan red-glazed porcelain as a gift last time, came to the door in person in the past two days, and he is here right now, and he is still with his brother Tan Zao.

Because neither of them was an important guest, He Xuan did not report.

I just told the other party that my adults will check the visitor list from time to time, and if I want to see someone, I will let someone notify.Unexpectedly, the other party appeared to be very sincere, and came for two consecutive days.If Zhu Yuan doesn't see her, I'm afraid she will come again tomorrow.

The last time we talked about red-glazed porcelain, it was very speculative. Zhu Yuan thought about it for a while and said, "Let them in, let's meet."

Tan Qu also said last time that his brother was more knowledgeable than him in firing red glaze, so he just had a chat.

As for the other party's intentions...

The imperial court has been promoting the Daming Ceramics Group recently. This incident will greatly affect the future of the Daming Ceramics Industry. The Tan family can't escape being affected.

This matter is easy to solve.

If you can't escape, then join in.

As long as it doesn't involve issues of principle, Zhu Yuan has always been quite happy with the beauty of adults.

(End of this chapter)