Shaking his head, Zhang Xun retracted his gaze, turned around and found that the maid Lancome was standing behind him at some point.

Lancôme's hands were folded in front of him, his clothes were tightly bound and fitted, and there was no impurity in his lake-like eyes, only a kind of water streak called confusion swaying slowly.

It's like looking at a mystery.

"Your Majesty, Director Ruhl is already waiting, do you need me to bring him?" Lancôme gathered his thoughts, as if awakened from a dream, and then asked in a tone as gentle as possible with his superb professional qualities.

Zhang Xun did not answer immediately, but looked at his maid with strange eyes for a few seconds before he said lightly: "Let him come to the study." ”

After saying that, he turned around and left without any delay.

Lancôme hummed and went to find Ruhl, but after turning around, his blue eyes reappeared, and he silently calculated the date of the last time Luke was so humanized in his mind, and compared the previous records, regrettably to find that there was really no pattern to follow in the matter of Luke's humanization, the only thing that was probably that it appeared in the daytime forever.

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Zhang Xun sat down in the big chair in the study and began to think about many plans in his heart.

The issue of education is a high priority in his heart, second only to the revitalization of the economy, and Zhang Xun, an aristocratic centralized talent, does not want to use it, and does not use it, with the technical support of Blue Star, there is no need for advanced education in Yingyang, but of course basic education is still an important thing.

Promoting compulsory education to the whole country is something that must be done, in this regard, Zhang Xun discussed with Gao Shen on the topic of promoting compulsory education for the common people in feudal countries one day, and Gao Shen believes that a certain education will not shake the feudal rule, and will even strengthen it in reverse.

Zhang Xun also agrees with this conclusion, especially the education in his heart does not involve the ideological aspect, basic education refers to literacy and basic mathematics, these are the low-end talent requirements that must be required for industrial development, which is also the reason why he asked Luo Ning to draw up Chinese textbooks to be reviewed by him, a certain habit inherited from the republic makes Zhang Xun attach great importance to the review of this thing, not that he has already thought about the importance of censorship for stability, the main thing is that you must know that when the power of censorship is exercised by yourself, it is a very cool thing。

The reason why Luo Ning was chosen to compile textbooks is that his cultural foundation is good, and a world has a world culture, and Chinese textbooks cannot be copied rigidly, so they need to be rewritten with local materials.

Zhang Xun believes that after he promotes this kind of thing in school, Luo Ning's cleverness will definitely wake up to how important this job is.

In the future, if the Ministry of Education or something like that is obtained, it will not be a big problem for Luo Ning to be the Minister of Education with this qualification.

Thinking about this, Ruhl appeared in front of him.

"See Your Majesty. "Director Ruhr and Luo Ning appeared almost the same, both holding a bunch of documents.

"No need to be polite. Zhang Xun looked at his right-hand man with a smile, and then after a little greeting, he began to listen to the work report summary of the Metallurgical Research Institute for this quarter.

The work of the institute is still very solid, the first batch of machine tools came out after many tests, and improved, and now it has basically reached the requirements of use, but unfortunately Zhang Xun can not leave the palace, otherwise the truth to the institute to personally test the quality, but from the quality of some of the processed parts brought by Ruhr, it has reached the basic requirements of Zhang Xun.

This excites him.

"Very good! Director Ruhr, the work achievements of the comrades of the institute during this period of time are obvious to all, but there are more important tasks in the organization that I want to hand over to you to complete, I wonder if you have confidence?" Zhang Xun changed the set of words he said to Luo Ning excitedly and used them again.

Ruhr and Luo Ning were completely different, their spirits were shaky, and they didn't even ask what they wanted to do, and directly promised: "Have confidence! Your Majesty, what to do next, you can give orders!"

As he spoke, the old director's two eyes lit up, the alchemist is probably equivalent to the metallurgical scientists of this world, and this group of people has a pathological fascination with advanced technology.

"Very good! It's still the old cadres who have a high level of consciousness. Zhang Xun compared Luo Ning's performance, shook his head, the literati are not likable enough, thieves and cunning, look at how cute the cadres of the institute are, where can I find this kind of labor force that is dedicated to revolution?

After sighing, Zhang Xun talked about the manufacture of the steam engine, with the black book, the specific drawings and design specifications Zhang Xun does not need to waste his tongue, he only needs to teach this group of people to look at the drawings, he wants to talk about the principle of the steam engine, the specific mechanical gas expansion of those things do not need to be said, but the most basic water boiled the lid of the pot still has to say a few words, so that the alchemists have a basic impression.

Ruhl was at a loss for the steam engine, but Zhang Xun believed that when the finished machine was born in the research institute, the alchemists would naturally understand what kind of monster they had created.

Speaking of which, Zhang Xun also needs to provide the 2.0 version of the Jenny machine that uses water power for weaving to Dongjing before the large-scale production of the steam engine, otherwise the steam engine will be widely used, and the water power Jenny machine will not be applicable.

"In addition to the steam engine, there is another thing, I need you to make it, this thing is very simple in structure, but it has high requirements for the strength and processing of the material, which is also an important reason why the machine tool should be built first. After finishing talking about the steam engine, Zhang Xun changed his words and brought up another thing.

As he spoke, he handed over a piece of sketch paper.

Director Ruhr looked down suspiciously, and found that the structure of the thing was indeed simple, with only a simple side main and auxiliary three views on the paper, and the material requirements were very high.

"This thing is ......"

Zhang Xun drank a cup of tea with an expressionless face, and then said calmly: "I call it the railroad." ”

"Rails?" Ruhl was pitifully dazed, finding himself in a state of bewilderment when facing the king.

"Yes, it's rails! It's something that looks simple, but it needs a lot of length, good stability, and most importantly, a good foundation...... Well, that part is not something you think about, you need to find the feeling of this form of railroad first, and you are not in a hurry to do it, what you really need to do is another one. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Xun pushed over another drawing, on which was another kind of concave track.

"This thing needs to be laid on the surface of the mine, it's not exactly your scope of work, but it's also somewhat related, I will send someone to find Yingyang-related talents to assist you, and someone will send the data drawings to the research institute later." Zhang Xun said lightly.

This latter kind of track is naturally the kind used by mine carts in the pit, the purpose is to improve mining efficiency, reduce the manpower demand for mining, so as to liberate the Yingyang population, so as to carry out a multi-industrial layout.

The former is the standard railway tracks, since there is a steam engine, and Yingyang has a lot of coal resources, it is simply unreasonable not to get such a thing as a train.

"Yingyang doesn't have any main roads, it's useless to make cars, but trains are very useful, they can transport all kinds of resources and materials, and the most important thing is to be able to transport troops! ”

"The train is a powerful weapon!" Zhang Xun imagined infinitely.