The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 120 Ning Ren
About steam engines.

From another perspective, before Liang Xin traveled through time, there was a saying on the Internet. After carefully analyzing the technological power of the Ming Dynasty, they all believed that the Ming Dynasty was fully capable of building a steam engine. It just lacked an inspiration and the corresponding theory. support.

Song Dynasty, now there is Liang Xin.

The immediate problem is that the steel production in the entire Song Dynasty is not enough, and most of them are castings rather than forgings. The mechanical properties of steel are not enough to meet the needs of steam engines.The next step is to solve the problem of processing and processing accuracy.Then there are standard parts, such as bearings, connecting rods, bolt fasteners, etc.The last step is sealing and lubrication.

Liang Xin didn't mention the steam engine. He just told the five people in the room a lot of what he thought was true.

Just want to change the present moment.

The imperial examination in the Song Dynasty was to select scholars, not science.

Liang Xin wants a scientific foundation.

Liang Xin began to draw: "Unfortunately, I didn't remember everything. But this set of books is very powerful. For example, if vegetables and fruit trees are not growing well, five cents of potassium dihydrogen phosphate can play a huge role. It is also very simple to make. Plant ash, a pound of calcium phosphate. Calcium phosphate is burned out of apatite."

Liang Xin said some simple things: "This is science, just like the match in my hand. It is made of phosphorus. This thing is easy to get. It is extracted from bones. It is the will-o'-the-wisp in the mass graves at night." This thing is poisonous and extremely poisonous. If it is used to burn Liao soldiers, this thing will be very cruel. It is better to make matches. It is convenient to make fire, isn't it a good thing?"

"Therefore, science is the way to strengthen a country. Instead of relying on one person, it is better to change the imperial examination and let more people who like science gather together. Ten more talents like Shen Kuo can be equivalent to ten thousand soldiers."

Su Shi took Liang Xin's match and tried to strike it.

Looking at the flames, Su Shi fell into deep thought.

Zhang Dun also took a match and struck one.

It is indeed amazing that fire can be made so easily. This is the charm of science.

Zongze asked: "Is it science that all living beings are equal?"

Liang Xin replied: "Of course, it must be."

Zongze: "Then I support science."

What Zongze thought about was that one day, the improved and more powerful Equality of All Beings would stand in the face of the Liao army, and then tens of thousands of people would open fire together.

Is the Liao army still scary?

At the same time, Zongze also agreed with Liang Xin's words that no dynasty died because of backward weapons.

Right now, the key is to make more of the Song Army as elite as the Western Army.

These have to be done from the court.

Zhang Dun looked at the flames and suddenly asked: "The court wants to demote Wu Juhou, what will brother Xin say?"

Liang Xin: "Know Raozhou."

Zhang Dun asked: "Why?"

Liang Xin: "Wu Juhou is not greedy, and he is very good at managing accounts. There is a mountain in Raozhou, and three feet of soil is dug out, which is an endless copper mine. I want to build a brand new mint. I will no longer use the sand foundry method. Instead, the cold forging method invented by Shen Kuo was used. This improvement was powered by a waterwheel. The huge waterwheel provided power. Thousands of pounds of boulders were used to forge new coins in batches from money blanks. Adding white lead (zinc), fake gold New money.”

"I suggest you give it a try." Fan Chunli thought this could be discussed.

The Song Dynasty is currently short of money, and there is too little money circulating in the market, which has a great impact.Moreover, they exchanged money from the Liao Kingdom, Xixia, Korea, Dali, and even further afield and brought it back with them.

The coins currently used by the Liao Kingdom are mostly Song coins.

Goryeo wanted to mint its own money, but it took four coins to exchange for one Song coin on the market.

Han Zhongyan said: "Shen Chong can be promoted to an official position, or the weapons supervisor can be promoted to a promotion."

Liang Xin was very pleased with the result.

If he hadn't supported Shen Chong, the weapons supervisor would have been abolished in a few years.

According to historical records, after the Huizong Dynasty was halfway through, it was recorded that most of the world's weapons and equipment were made during the Xi and Feng periods, and the new weapons and equipment were far inferior to those before.

This means that the ordnance made by Huizong was far inferior to that of Shenzong's era.

Right now, Liang Xin wants to change everything.

I was busy from Dongkuaoyuan until the evening, and the memorials that had been accumulated for many days were finally finished.The next day.

Liang Xin was going to the palace to go to Zhao Ji's study in the afternoon, and Liang Zhong brought a eunuch over.

When the eunuch saw Liang Xin, he knelt down and kowtowed.

Liang Zhong explained: "Your Majesty, this is the person whom King Jian ordered to be killed with a stick at that time. His name is Ning Ren. I came here to express my gratitude."

Liang Xin said: "I wasn't the one who saved you. It was Eunuch Bai who asked Eunuch Hai to save you. I just arranged for someone to give you a place to rest."

Ning Ren knelt there: "I have met Eunuch Hai. Eunuch Hai told me that the school inspector ordered him to rescue me."

Liang Xin didn't say anything else. Eunuch Hai didn't want to accept this sentiment, and he understood.

Liang Xin asked: "In the palace, you can't go back. Where do you want to go?"

Ning Ren replied: "I want to go to the Ordnance Supervision."

"why?"

Ning Ren: "My father once studied under Director Shen. Later, I entered the palace when I was very young. I have been studying in the hope of inheriting my father's legacy."

Liang Xin said to Liang Zhong: "Go and make arrangements. Tell Shen Chong that this is a member of our family. If he wants to learn, let him learn more."

"Yes." Liang Zhong responded and motioned for Ning Ren to follow him.

Liang Xin didn't take this matter to heart and went to the palace.

In Bianjing city.

Captain Tie got the news and hurried to Liang Mansion.

Liang Xin is already in the palace.

Wang Jingyu took the news from Tie Captou and returned to the backyard to find Cao Tan: "Girl, Tie Captou has been staring at the Koreans these days. He discovered something and invited several assassins to find out. This is the news. .”

Cao Tan took it and opened it to read.

It was one of the assassins who successfully copied a secret letter written by a Korean, and it was obviously intended to be sent to the Liao Kingdom.

Tie Captou came to ask if he wanted to let the messenger go deliberately, as well as the secret work of the Liao Kingdom lurking in the Song Dynasty.

The content of the letter is probably:
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty doted on an eunuch, and the eunuch's son was a courtier... Then he told about Taoyuan Pavilion and so on, and how Liang Xin fawned over the emperor.Immediately afterwards, the letter stated that the Song Dynasty was now only interested in having fun, and even something as important as the imperial examination had changed.

He didn't care at all about getting scholars, but he paid great attention to calligraphy, painting, construction and other miscellaneous studies.

Even painters can take part in the imperial examination and so on.

After reading it, Cao Tan said to Wang Jingyu: "Tell Capt. Tie that he has done a good job and do it according to his wishes. Then arrange for someone to quietly call the shopkeeper of Taoyuan Pavilion and the shopkeepers of the six famous buildings. I have something to do. Tell them to do it."

"Yes." Wang Jingyu agreed and went out to do errands.

Soon, several shopkeepers arrived.

Cao Tan was sitting under the porch. There was a round stool in the courtyard.

The shopkeeper of Taiqing Tower took the first step and thanked her: "In front of the eldest lady, there are no seats for the younger ones. We can just stand and listen to her orders."

The other shopkeepers immediately followed.

Cao Tan did not try to persuade her any more and said, "There is something you need to do, and do it with great fanfare. If anyone asks, just say it was arranged by my master."

　I was wrong, I looked at the wrong time.

　　It was supposed to be updated right after midnight.

　　I was revising some content and lost track of time.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)