Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 296
In the same morning, when Zhu Yuan was still eating breakfast, many people had already started their busy day.

Such as His Majesty the Emperor.

Today, with the triumphant return of Chang Yuchun, the deputy general of Zhenglu, as a background, it was a happy day.

In the early morning, they first announced the Spring Festival couplets proposed by the 23rd grandson of their own treasure, and all the officials were very generous and cheered.

Unexpectedly, after that, another happy event came.

The Ministry of Industry successfully fired the cement.

Because his 23rd grandson mentioned it many times, Lao Zhu has a more comprehensive understanding of the use of cement than Shan Anren, Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Shen Quan, ambassador of the Cement Bureau.

Just one thing, with cement, it is possible to build thousands of miles of hardened roads that run through the country. Combined with the railway, and the many steam vehicles seen in the demonstration that day, the efficient transportation system will not only greatly strengthen the imperial court's control over the local area, It can also promote the rapid expansion of Ming's territory, far surpassing the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Therefore, Lao Zhu feels that the significance of cement is not much worse than that of penicillin.

So there was a lot of encouragement on the spot, and after the morning court, Shan Anren and Shen Quan were summoned to inspect the effect of the cement in person, they were very satisfied, and they asked about the firing process in detail.

After that, he was dissatisfied when he learned that the 23rd grandson of his baby only planned to expand the cement workshop to 200 people.

With a big wave of his hand, Shen Quan became the ambassador of the cement bureau of the eighth rank, and was directly promoted by two levels to the seventh rank, still in control of the cement bureau.

There are also workshops.

Here in Jinling, the 200-person workshop is really not suitable for bigger, because the raw materials are limited.

However, after discussing with the two courtiers, Lao Zhu decided to burn it in the place of origin, such as Huangzhou in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River where there is both coal and iron and no shortage of limestone, or Fengyang where coal is produced. It is also convenient to transport by water.

As for usage...

After inquiring about the various characteristics of concrete houses in detail, Lao Zhu found that compared with buildings that need to use wooden beams, concrete houses are fire-proof, insect-proof, moisture-proof, and rat-proof... Is there anything more suitable for building warehouses than this?
Just say something.

He also found a hammer and tried the hard cement block himself. Lao Zhu thought that if this thing is used to lay the floor, mice and the like will definitely not be able to dig it. If it is used to build a granary, it can save a year How much food!
As for the critical places such as laboratories and museums, there is no need to say more.

In short, Lao Zhu asked Shen Quan to choose a suitable location in the next year to build a few more cement workshops, and the total number of workers should reach at least 2000 people, instead of the 200 people who are just scratching their heads.

This time it's just the seventh grade first.

If he does well, next year he will be promoted two more levels, to the sixth-grade level.

The excited Shen Quan thanked him a thousand times, and swore to complete the task.

Lao Zhu didn't forget Shan Anren, but this cement... is indeed not comparable to penicillin, it has political meaning of winning people's hearts, so he just rewarded Shan Anren with some money.There are no scattered officials for the time being, and the official position is not suitable for further promotion. Of course, it is right to show your face in "Daming Monthly".

Shan Anren was not dissatisfied either.

In the past, the Ministry of Industry was the bottom of the six ministries. This time, its status has been improved too much.

What's more, many of the things that are being done now are unprecedented. As long as they are completed, they will be credited, so there is no rush to dismiss officials.

Even, compared to those financial rewards, Shan Anren valued the fact that he could also show his face in the "Daming Monthly" this time. Although Shen Quan was the one who made the specific fire, he, the Shangshu, spared no effort to support him. I have my own.

After talking about the matter, Shan Anren turned to busy with his own affairs, while Shen Quan brought some financial rewards and the emperor's expectations from the palace, and sent his personal attendants to send the money back home, and went straight to Houhu University of Medicine .

Zhu Yuan still hasn't forgotten what he said yesterday, and he wants to discuss the matter of prefabricated panels with this side.

Then I met the boy Pingzhang again.

……

Zhu Yuan set off after breakfast, brought Nuan Niang, sacks and a few guards, first took a boat to a secluded place on the north bank, where there were already sedan chairs and carriages waiting.

Did not take a sedan chair.

The forest area that crosses the shore is regarded as an isolation zone. Most of the trees were planted together with the construction of the mansion on the island at the beginning of the year. For this reason, some lakeside houses were moved away, which can be regarded as completely isolating Xuanwu Lake, similar to the later Yellow Book library status.

It's just that this time it's no longer the yellow book library, it's basically Zhu Yuan's private domain.

Therefore, we can see how kind Lao Zhu is to his family.

You must know that Xuanwu Lake, which is 40 miles away, has a very rich output, whether it is fish or lotus root, not to mention that just a few islands in the center of the lake have a total area of ​​five or six hundred mu.

However, although Lao Zhu acquiesced, Zhu Yuan did not really monopolize it.

Even though I was not in Jinling before, I still ordered the people here to coordinate with the surrounding people, and of course my own servants, to fish, to harvest, to pay taxes...of course, to pay taxes.

No matter how detailed it is, there is no fuss.

Just don't waste it.

Passing through the isolation belt, you will soon come to the road in front of Houhu Medical University. An avenue that has been obviously repaired is not the standard east-west direction, but slopes to the southeast.

Although the free clinic has ended, in just a few days, and because the people have to buy during the New Year, a street market has been formed in this way. Except that there are no shops on both sides, there is nothing missing. It is probably the kind of open-air market hundreds of years later.

Then there are the benefits of this age.

Not so easy to recognize.

Zhu Yuan was wearing a brown fur coat with leather boots, his collar turned up to cover half of his small face. Although he looked more luxurious than most ordinary people, it was not like there were others in the market. Wearing a cape and a hood, Nuan Niang is still eye-catching and attracts attention.

However, although it was eye-catching, no one dared to harass them without knowing the reason when they saw those sturdy servants with vigilant expressions following them.

There are still Huben Guards patrolling this street.

However, some people are inevitably curious, what is the relationship between that woman, that boy, and another girl who is also wearing a cloak and a hood?
The main reason is that the two women are a little behind the boy, instead of following in parallel.

Can……

Looking at the clothes and demeanor, she doesn't look like a maid.

Zhu Yuan didn't pay attention to these details, and confirmed that he was not recognized, or pretended not to be recognized, so he walked around with great interest. He stopped at the vegetable stall here, and took a look at the sugar man stall over there. In a blink of an eye, I was attracted by the woodwork stalls selling various tables, chairs and benches.

I also passed by an opera stage, stood under the stage and listened for a while, babbling, it turned out to be "A Chinese Ghost Story", so I asked for a few copper coins from the sack and gave it away.

After stopping and going like this, I finally came to the south gate of the University of Medicine.

Presumably make a decision too.

The commercial street needs to be built. However, in order to avoid losing the current human atmosphere, it cannot be built too high-end, or even out of the needs of the people.

Ok.

Specifically, we need to do some more research, so we can't take it for granted.

After all, there are a lot of universities here.

To be honest, there are very few people at the bottom who can study in this era, so the consumption ability is determined. So, if the building is too low-end, it means alienating this part of the consumer group.

Maybe half low and half high.

The people on the northwest side, near the Mufu Mountain, are lower, and those facing the southeast are higher.

These……

Say.

After notifying his identity, Zhu Yuan entered the school gate. Feeling tired, he got on the sedan chair that had followed him all the way here, and called Nuan Niang and the sack together.

The bearers are all strong and strong, so there is no problem if two more women come up.

When they came to the laboratory courtyard of the campus, Dai Sanchun and Shen Quan were already waiting in front of the door. In addition, there was also Cui Shen, the director of the Equipment Bureau who had followed Zhu Yuan to Mingzhou.

Shen Quan also arrived not long ago.

There were three people when they came up, and Zhu Yuan was the only one when they came out.

After seeing the greetings, Zhu Yuan first asked Dai Sanchun: "Where is Mr. Sun?"

"In the city, discuss with the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry the construction of the Temple of Medical Virtue."

Zhu Yuan shook his head, with concern: "I've been tired for three days, Mr. Sun is not young anymore, it's time to rest at home."

"Because of the free clinic, Your Majesty was exempted from the morning court at the medical department. I also met with your lord this morning. I came here before going to the imperial city. I said that I had a rest all night. I am waking up today. I just feel better. Your Majesty The official saw it in person, and it was true," Dai Sanchun explained, while gesturing to enter the hospital: "Your Excellency came just in time, and the next official is about to ask for advice on the penicillin."

"Heh, you know more than I do, I should ask you for advice," Zhu Yuan said, then turned to Cui Shen: "I haven't seen you for a while, but I've been doing well recently."

"Okay, everything is fine," Cui Shen said, "I would like to thank my lord for your support at the beginning, otherwise, Xiaguan is still just a jade craftsman."

"Don't underestimate yourself. If you don't have real materials, I don't think you will be promoted," Zhu Yuan said, and then turned to Shen Quan: "What is the result of the cement matter?"

Shen Quandao: "Your Majesty is very happy. He rewarded the Shangshu and the lower officials with money. The lower officials are ashamed. They have been promoted two ranks, and they are already the seventh grade. Besides...the workshop, your Majesty said, the cement is very useful. , 200 people are acceptable, but let the officials build more in other places, and this year it will reach the scale of 2000 craftsmen."

Zhu Yuan smiled and said: "My ancestors must have seen farther than us and have a more structured view. We... are small things after all."

Shen Quan originally thought that Lao Zhu's actions would give Zhu Yuan some ideas, but he didn't expect such an answer, so he nodded quickly: "Yes, yes."

But I thought in my heart, otherwise, why would he be Zhongshu Pingzhang?

Talking, came to the courtyard, the open-air fan booth is still there, but it is no longer the original pair of cattail fans held by eight people, all of them have been replaced by large hand-operated hair dryers, one for each table, two people operate , there are other operators who constantly brush the concentrated penicillin solution on the glass plate, or occasionally turn the glass plate to avoid the blower blowing away the solution with only one side of the wind direction. Perform a scraping operation.

Zhu Yuan stopped to look around, and the others also stopped.

Dai Sanchun waited for a while, and said: "My lord, I also want to ask about this step of evaporating, but... there are other things, um, can I do a more efficient blow-drying effect right now?"

Zhu Yuan didn't answer for a while.

A few steps forward, he came to a square table, motioned to stop here, looked around for a while, and inexplicably thought of the radiator in the computer case.

Ok.

where is wrong.

The radiator is for heat dissipation. At present, in order to promote evaporation, as mentioned before, the contact area can be maximized.

The problem is, to operate the glass plate in front of you, only brushing a thin layer is already the best way.

If it is made into a too complicated curved surface, or various folds and bends, it can increase the contact area, but don't think about taking off the dry penicillin powder too easily.

Efficiency.

efficiency? !
Suddenly, Zhu Yuan understood why he thought of that layered radiator.

The key lies in a 'layer upon layer'.

Dai Sanchun has been paying attention to Zhu Yuan's reaction, seeing him like this, he quickly asked, "Does your lord have any ideas?"

Zhu Yuan nodded, walked in further, and gestured to the glass plate on the table: "One machine only blows one glass plate, which is too wasteful. In this way... a shelf can be made, and many layers of glass plates can be stacked. Of course, there must be a glass plate in between. There is enough space to facilitate air circulation, and this shelf... also needs to be convenient for one glass plate. This is done, the same arrangement, um, blowing ten glass plates at a time may be more troublesome to operate, but the overall efficiency must still be greatly improved improved."

When Dai Sanchun heard the words, he sketched them in his mind a little bit, and immediately showed a surprised and stunned expression.

Cui Shen even praised directly: "My lord is worthy of the talent of heaven."

This……

It's just a small idea, isn't it an exaggeration for Tian Zongzhi's talent?

However, thinking about it again, many things are actually like this, because human beings do not have such a rich imagination, and coupled with the various rules and regulations of reality, it is not so easy to pierce even a layer of window paper.

The idea I gave just now is calculated based on 10 layers of glass panels on a shelf, which is equivalent to directly increasing the efficiency by ten times.

This is... really worthy of praise.

As he spoke, he looked around and saw the warm winter sun rising gradually in the morning. Zhu Yuan thought about it and said, "It's better to move indoors. It's not good to always be outside."

Dai Sanchun said: "Xiaguan and Master Shangshu have also discussed it. Recently, the plan has been confirmed, and the construction and expansion of the laboratory will be carried out in the next year. Oh, it just so happens that Master Shen has fired cement, and Xiaguan has also seen the effect. I was still discussing it just now. Bring up the matter of the prefabricated board. With this thing, the brand new laboratory must be much better."

Zhu Yuan smiled and nodded: "That's for sure."

Dai Sanchun returned to the topic in front of him, asked a few more questions about the idea of ​​the glass shelf, and tried to get more ideas from Zhu Yuan, but unfortunately, he couldn't think of more for a while, so he had to give up.

When he came to Dai Sanchun's office, he briefly looked at several people's ideas about the prefabricated panels. Zhu Yuan didn't give any new ideas, so he left after staying for less than a quarter of an hour.

This time I mainly came to see the school.

After leaving the laboratory courtyard, Zhu Yuan boarded the sedan chair again and turned to the east.

After walking for a while, there is another yard.

After getting off the sedan chair, Zhu Yuan could faintly hear the sound of reading.

To be precise, it's a female voice.

After all, because of the age, at present, male and female students are separated.

(End of this chapter)