Daming Military Empire

Chapter 575 Reward Song Yingxing

Zhu Cijiong is still very satisfied with the results of this visit. In fact, with the current technological foundation of the Ming Dynasty, gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil, lubricating oil, paraffin and asphalt are all that can be used. Other things are too far away. Well, Daming doesn't have the foundation to engage in petrochemical industry now.

In other words, Song Yingxing's research work on oil refining has actually achieved staged success. He only needs to separate and purify diesel oil, lubricating oil and paraffin. There is no rush.

Song Yingxing has achieved such a great result, it is time to cash in the reward, Zhu Cijiong is considering the amount of the reward while walking towards the steps leading to the seventh floor.

He thought that the seventh floor was the office space, because he had seen almost all the extracts that should be seen, and he thought that Song Yingxing would not be able to extract any more at this stage.

As a result, he went to the seventh floor and saw that it was not an office area, but a separate room in the middle, but this single room looked relatively square, without the strange shape of the first six floors, and there seemed to be nothing around except the storage room. other things.

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but walked towards the middle room out of curiosity. This time, there was no guard on duty at the door, and Song Yingxing didn't dissuade him, so he went in smoothly.

When he went in and took a look, he was a little dumbfounded. There was only a huge iron trough in the room, and the same huge iron pipe led to the bottom. After that, it was nothing.

At this time, two guards were pouring barrels of oil into the iron trough.

It turns out that this is a place to add ingredients, what's so interesting about it!

However, it seemed a bit embarrassing to turn around like this, he thought for a while, pretending to be curious and asked: "Chang Geng, why did you make such a big mess?"

Song Yingxing heard the words and quickly explained: "Back to the emperor, it's like this, because the oil is too sticky, the amount of each barrel is not accurate, and the amount poured down is not easy to calculate, so this humble minister made people do it." Such a tank, as long as it reaches the scale inside, can almost fill the oil storage tank below. This has another advantage, it can be prepared in advance here, once the sixth floor is refined, the rest will flow to the fifth floor , as long as the valve is opened here, the sixth floor will be filled slowly again, without any delay."

Only now did Zhu Cijiong realize that there seems to be no such thing as a circulation pump at this moment. No wonder Song Yingxing wanted to build the experimental field on a hill. If it was built on flat ground, the oil in it would not flow at all!
This Song Yingxing is really talented. Without a circulating pump, he could think of using the height difference to let the oil flow down layer by layer to achieve the purpose of step-by-step refining. It's so smart, so smart.

Zhu Cijiong is becoming more and more satisfied with Song Yingxing's talent. Before the reward mechanism was established, he made a lot of contributions to Daming. He contributed a lot to the research and development of original machine tools and new machine tools, as well as the locomotive. He has made so many contributions, but he has not received any substantive rewards. This is definitely not possible.

Zhu Cijiong decided that he must reward Song Yingxing well this time.

The addition of materials on the seventh floor was nothing to look at, Zhu Cijiong pretended to turn around and walked to the steps leading to the eighth floor first.

The eighth floor is the real office area. The ground is all smoothed with cement. The entire eighth floor is no longer a big house in the middle with empty surroundings, but a corridor in the middle with many single rooms separated on both sides.

Under the guidance of Song Yingxing, Zhu Cijiong walked slowly along the corridor, probably for the sake of ventilation, the rooms on both sides were basically closed, and many young people in formal clothes were seriously experimenting. A lot of Jinyiwei and Dongchang masters came, but few people paid attention!
It was supposed to be kept secret when the emperor left the palace in his micro clothes, so naturally no one would inform them, Zhu Cijiong just walked and watched, seemingly carelessly, but actually secretly observing.

Looking at him, a feeling of admiration slowly grew in his heart, and he didn't know how Song Yingxing trained these people. Each of them was meticulous and focused in conducting experiments. The experimental conditions at this time were not very good. The first floor is full of strange smells, the temperature is still relatively high, and most of the experiments they do are heating experiments, and most of them use coal stoves. It is conceivable that the temperature in the room is high. Although there are fans, many people still Sweating profusely, but no one was distracted or stopped to rest.

It seems that Song Yingxing's success was not accidental. With so many people focusing on various experiments, and a person obsessed with research taking the lead, it is not surprising that the results can be produced so quickly. He made up his mind again that this Song Yingxing must be rewarded heavily.

As soon as he entered Song Yingxing's office, which is also known as the study in this era, Zhu Cijiong immediately asked kindly: "Chang Geng, if I remember correctly, I just came all the way, and the refined products are asphalt, wax, lubricating oil, heavy oil, Six things like kerosene and gasoline?"

Song Yingxing let Zhu Cijiong to the main seat, nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, for the time being, there are only these six things. I must keep the Emperor's teachings in mind, and try to refine more things."

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said: "Well, I don't worry about your work, so let's settle the previous bill first, and you can't always make your work for nothing, right?"

Song Yingxing was taken aback when he heard the words, pay the bill?What bill?

In the Ming Dynasty, and even in previous dynasties, there was no precedent of rewarding money for researching something. In addition, he has been focusing on research and not paying much attention to researching irrelevant things. Therefore, the last time Zhu Cijiong mentioned He had long forgotten about the reward.

Zhu Cijiong did not explain to him, but counted with his fingers: "Each extracted one kind of thing is 10 taels, and six kinds of things are 60 taels. Your large-scale experimental field is also very well designed. I will give it to you." Count 40 taels, and make up 100 million taels.”

100 million taels!Song Yingxing finally remembered vaguely at this moment, the emperor seemed to say that there would be rewards for achievements, but 100 million taels was too exaggerated, it was an unimaginable wealth for him!

Such a huge reward really frightened him, he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, what do you mean, reward, reward, reward me with 100 million taels?"

Zhu Cijiong smiled and nodded, "Yes."

It's really 100 million taels, Song Yingxing's eyeballs almost bulged out of fright, he said in panic: "Your Majesty, this, this, I just did some research, 100 million taels, I can't afford it!"

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong pretended to sternly face, and said seriously: "You are not joking."

Song Yingxing shrank in fright and dared not speak out.

Zhu Cijiong directly said to Cao Huachun: "Eunuch Cao, I will send someone to the inner treasury to fetch 200 million taels of silver, and send them here, and give 100 million taels to Chang Geng, and help him distribute the other 100 million taels to his researchers."

When Cao Huachun heard the words, he cupped his hands in some embarrassment and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being stupid. The 200 million taels are gold, silver, Chongzheng Tongbao, or dragon coins?"

Zhu Cijiong patted his forehead, turned to Song Yingxing and said, "Chang Geng, which one do you choose?"

How did it become 200 million taels again!However, Song Yingxing remembered one more thing now, he dare not resign from the emperor's reward, resigning would be deceiving the emperor!
Besides, the emperor is not the only one rewarding him. He dare not ask for it, and he can't block the way of his subordinates' money. Thinking of this, he hastily cupped his hands and said: "I thank the emperor for your kindness, and I choose dragon coins."

Gold, silver, and Chongzheng Tongbao would not dare to be sent over. The room with 200 million taels couldn't fit, and he had no place to put them. Dragon coins would be much more convenient, and they would only be in a box at most.

For a long time, the Royal Nikko Bank of Ming Dynasty has always strictly controlled the issuance of dragon coins, which has not caused any inflation. Now the dragon coins are strong, just as useful as gold and silver.

Song Yingxing believes that his subordinates will also choose dragon coins, because each person has at least tens of thousands of taels. If gold and silver are distributed, who can carry them!
(End of this chapter)