Zhu Yunwen's holy car has not yet arrived in Taiyuan, and Huang Fu, the new political envoy of Shanxi, has already waited outside the city with officials above the fifth grade of Shanxi's political envoy, including Mo Cheng and other craftsmen that Zhu Yunwen specially wanted to see on this trip.

He is a new bureaucrat who rose after the political arena, and successively served as Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry, Shilang, and the right Shilang of the Ministry of State-owned Resources.

The coal is black, and the officials here don't care about it anymore, and it's about to be blackened.

Because of his work experience, Huang Futai understands how much attention is paid to the mysterious Steam R&D Department of the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of State-owned Resources is also opening the door to the Steam Division, providing everything as quickly as possible.

So Huang Fu was not surprised that Zhu Yunwen could travel thousands of miles for a steam engine.

"Huang Fu, the political envoy of the left of the western part of the minister, and some of the political envoys of Shanxi, see my emperor, holy bow to Jin'an."

Outside the wheel, dozens of people bowed in unison.

From the earliest martial arts to the abolition of the kneeling ceremony, to the abolition of the cabinet ministers, until today, even if the Ming Dynasty's kneeling ceremony is abolished, even the common people are the same, Zhu Yunwen has never asked the people to bow to him, but it is a habit formed for thousands of years, so that when the people see the supreme king, they will always be at a loss.

There's nothing to give to the emperor, so give the emperor a knock.

That's roughly the root of this thought.

Now it is basically only the first day of the new year, and the minister of civil and military affairs in Beijing will bow to Zhu Yunwen when he goes to the court, and he only bows and kowtows.

It's better than the day when Zhu Yunwen was the grandson, at that time it was still four bows.

The outer door opened, and only Zhu Yunwen's voice came out: "Don't be polite, Mo Cheng will come up, and the others will go directly to the city and return to the government." ”

failed to get a glimpse of the sky, and the civil and military officials in Shanxi trembled in their hearts, wondering if the emperor had encountered some Diao people along the way.

It's impossible, I've been guarding against it for more than a month, and the problems that can be settled by crying and revenge have been settled, and those who can't be settled have also sent commissioners to guard the door of the house, and there is no reason to spread any rumors into the emperor's ears.

They were worried in their hearts, Mo Chengke didn't have so many messy ideas, and when he heard the sound, he walked into the car in a hurry, and was stopped and searched as soon as he stepped into the compartment door.

After making sure that it was safe, he had to go into the inner room to see Zhu Yunwen.

And when the latter saw Mo Cheng, he directly stretched out his hand: "Don't be polite, sit down, hurry up and tell me how the progress is." ”

Mo cost is not like the character of hypocrisy, and after so many years of scientific research, the personality is somewhat wooden, and when he heard the words, he consciously sat down: "Back to Your Majesty, after we arrived in Shanxi more than a month ago, we did field measurements, according to the depth of the coal shaft and the accumulation of water to calculate, the size of the required steam engine has been roughly estimated, and now it has begun to build cylinders and boilers by hand, and it is expected that if it is fast, the cylinder will be put into use after ten days." ”

Except for a precision cylinder that needs to be carefully built and wastes time, other accessories are not a problem for Mo Cheng and others at all.

Coupled with the help of hundreds of craftsmen temporarily dispatched from Shanxi, large and small steelmaking furnaces and furnaces are supported at will, and the work efficiency is naturally fast.

Zhu Yunwen didn't want to talk too much about the principle and structure of the steam engine, this attitude was not only reflected in the steam engine, in the past ten years that he traveled, no invention in the Ming Dynasty was born under the way of knowledge transfer by Zhu Yunwen, the emperor.

Zhu Yunwen's grades in physics are indeed very poor, but after all, he graduated from college, so there is no reason to forget even the basic knowledge.

This is a kind of respect and trust for the ancestors.

They are treating themselves as pure 'indigenous' people, not as traversers.

There is policy support, there is a production environment, and there are resources to provide.

There are so many things that the ancestors could create, the creation of gunpowder was more than 2,000 years ahead, and the creation of the compass and papermaking was more than 1,000 years ahead.

Even in the field of optics, which has approached modernity, the 'clairvoyant mirror' created by Sun Yunqiu of the Ming Dynasty is far ahead of the West.

These gave Zhu Yunwen confidence, and also gave him an arrogant conceit.

It aims to change the Ming with thoughts, not with external forces.

The strength of the Ming Dynasty today is not the strength of the leap, the sense of superiority and foresight of the crossing once made Zhu Yunwen think about using external forces to change the Ming Dynasty, and the feedback he got was that it might make this era unstable and chaotic, in this case, he began to change the thinking that led the Ming Dynasty in this period.

It is the gradual change of thinking in the entire Ming society that has changed the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty has today's stable social system, which is a stable and powerful.

The system is not disrupted by the change of a certain leader.

The cabinet is full of wolf spirit and believes in the 'golden iron doctrine' proposed by Zhu Yunwen.

The efficient operation of the imperial court is a normalized political reaction formed under Zhu Yunwen's repeated instructions.

The concerted efforts of the localities are a game of chess for the whole country under the Five-Year Plan.

The students and local readers who made up for it read the "Jianwen Dictionary" and comprehended the spirit of Emperor Jianwen.

Even if the new emperor wanted to bring the Ming Dynasty back to the original track of time and space, re-establish the barriers of the Shinong industrial and commercial classes, re-raise the banner of the supremacy of traditional Confucianism, and restore the Jin and Song dynasty system is no longer realistic and impossible.

What Zhu Yunwen thinks most is that he hopes that future generations will leave a pen in the history books and can call him 'a great giant in thought'.

A respectable politician and thinker.

This is far more joyful than praising him as an enterprising reformer.

"You are solely responsible for the work of the steam engine, and I don't understand it and won't interfere with it, but I have such an idea."

Zhu Yunwen looked at Mo Cheng and groaned: "Do you say that it is possible to install the steam engine on the carriage under my buttocks, you have also seen that this chariot of mine needs twelve very good war horses to pull, and if it is replaced with a shoulder chariot, it is estimated that it will take sixty-four years of life to lift it." ”

Put a steam engine in a wagon?

Mo Cheng's face showed a thoughtful look: "The minister said bluntly, the minister hasn't thought about this yet." Purely in terms of the thrust of the current steam engine, it is unrealistic. ”

"Thrust?"

Zhu Yunwen was a little puzzled by this new word.

"That is, within one minute, the work of pushing or raising 20 zhang of goods is called thrust."

Isn't that horsepower?

This explanation made Zhu Yunwen's heart suddenly suddenly, and it was also funny.

In the unit after the original unified weights and measures, one pound of mass was 600 grams, and one zhang was equivalent to three meters.

Don't worry about how to achieve millimeter-level and nano-level technologies after the development of science and technology in the future.

The length unit of the Ming Dynasty has zhang, ruler, inch, minute, centimeter, milli, silk, these units are also decimal in the middle, if it is small in the future, it is a big deal to create a few units below the silk.

Don't divide one meter by one zhang and this inexhaustible sense of discomfort.

That's because we feel awkward because we are used to modern usage, in fact, if Zhu Yunwen changes the units of kilometers, meters, decimeters, and centimeters now, the whole Ming Dynasty will have our sense of discomfort.

"Your Majesty's chariot requires twelve horses to pull, and this kind of good horse from Arabia has calculated that even if a fully armed cavalry rides up, under the weight of two hundred catties, the sprint that breaks out in an instant can gallop nearly sixty miles or ten thousand zhang on a smooth road in one hour.

Converted, one minute is to drag two hundred pounds and run eighty zhang, and the thrust reaches eight, and His Majesty's driving needs twelve such good horses to pull at the same time, but if you travel at full speed in an hour, it is only thirty miles, that is, five thousand four hundred zhang. Calculated in this way, the thrust required to propel His Majesty's chariot is as high as one hundred and ninety-two. ”

Speaking of this, Mo Cheng frowned: "At the moment, the steam engine we can create, if we want to achieve a thrust of one hundred and ninety-two, three cylinders are moving at the same time, and the size of one may reach one zhang square." ”

Zhu Yunwen began to calculate frantically in his heart.

Let's look at the thrust first, the thrust of one hundred and ninety-two? If my memory is correct, the engine horsepower of the car I drove in my previous life seems to be only one hundred and eighteen, that is to say, the engine of a modern car in the 21st century can only maintain a speed of forty or fifty miles per hour at most, and the speed of two hours per hour is only a little more than ten kilometers per hour?

That's no slower than a bike.

Looking at the volume of the cylinder demanded, one zhang square, that is, one zhang in length, width and height, and the volume is one cubic abbot, that is, twenty-seven cubic meters.

One cylinder is so big, three cylinders, isn't that almost the size of half a wheel.

Also consider the volume of the boiler, bearings, and transmission components.

When the cylinder is large, the bearings and transmission parts must be large.

Once the boiler is used, the pure wooden wheel will definitely not work, and it needs to be covered with a layer of heat-insulating and fire-setting alloy, even if it is only a layer, the weight is estimated to be more than 30%.

For a while, the one-man carriage of steam may be realized, but it is unrealistic to use steam to propel one's own Tianzi chariot.

After all, this thing is too big.

In fact, the calculation method given by Mo Cheng just now is wrong.

For when he calculated the force of the Arabian horse, he calculated the force by the distance traveled in an hour of time, and not in the unit of a minute, but he used the minute as the thrust provided by the steam engine.

Use constant data to calculate and apply endurance data, and wait until the experimental stage to make mistakes.

The thrust of one hundred and ninety-two is simply impossible to push Zhu Yunwen, who can accommodate dozens of people with a full load, and can rest, work, and even watch three to five beauties perform small singing and dancing performances.

After all, the endurance of the Arabian horse is very poor, but the explosive power is extremely amazing, especially suitable for short-term cavalry battles in the era of cold weapons.

Thinking that he would not be able to sit in a steam carriage for three or five years, Zhu Yunwen's mood was a little low, but his enthusiasm for observing the steam engine in the future was still high.

Even if you need to pay for it in ten days of waiting.

The holy car entered Taiyuan all the way unimpeded, and there were no bloody bridges along the way, and the Taiyuan that Zhu Yunwen saw through the car window was also thriving.

Hundreds of people were almost isolated from a relatively 'safe' distance and watched from afar, and many broken boys climbed up to the roof to watch, but without exception they were cheering and clapping, shouting 'Long live the emperor' and other greetings.

"There are a lot of shops in Taiyuan City, and all kinds of buying and selling exist, which shows that the people in this city live a solid and rich life, and the people have no people with vegetables on their faces, and their clothes are bright, which shows the wealth of Taiyuan."

Mo Cheng came to Shanxi more than a month early, and he didn't have the ability to lie, so he told the truth as it was, confirming that what Zhu Yunwen saw in front of him was not a show temporarily organized by Shanxi officials.

Looking and listening, Zhu Yunwen nodded: "It seems that the Shanxi Buzheng Yamen still has achievements." ”

The main purpose of coming to Shanxi this time is, of course, for the steam engine, but it is also a good thing to take a look at the situation in Shanxi.

Shanxi's economic development in recent years is not to say, after all, a large number of coal mining has provided strong financial support for Shanxi, and the imperial court's financial bills have been adhering to the attitude of the central treasury and local seventy-point accounts in recent years.

Thirty percent of the local government is set aside for development, construction, and additional allowances for local officials at all levels.

Of course, the number of this subsidy is a fixed number that fluctuates according to the grade and position, and it cannot be said that a seven-grade county order, you can stretch out your hand and slash over hundreds of thousands of taels of subsidy silver, and use this method to corrupt in disguise, which is to stick your head under the ghost head knife.

When the procession arrived at the Yamen of the political envoy, Zhu Yunwen stepped out of the carriage, and under the greeting of two columns of Shanxi civil and military officials, he walked into the spacious and atmospheric Shanxi Buzheng City.

Huang Fu stayed behind Zhu Yunwen's side, followed step by step and made a capable and neat report: "As of last year, there were more than 1,537,000 households and 5,420,000 people in Shanxi.

In terms of taxation, Shanxi has implemented a policy of reducing the amount of work and taxation, and if each household participates in other production tasks other than farming, the family will be exempted from the 30 tax and 1 tax on the land, and the deficit will be borne by the political envoy, encouraging the people to gradually get used to breaking away from traditional production and diversifying production. ”

The policy of reducing wages with work is the achievement of the previous political envoy Ding Jingfu, but the former was promoted to the center early, which can be regarded as letting Huang Fu, a latecomer, pick up a peach.

Zhu Yunwen bowed his head from time to time, but after entering the main hall of the mansion, he still raised his hand: "For specific data results, you Shanxi will report to the cabinet, I am not here to listen to this, I still want to see the construction of education in the school." ”

When asked about education, Huang Fu was also well prepared, and reported in a clear and coherent manner.

With regard to education, one of the important national policy directives promulgated in the past two years is about vigorously promoting education and building schools.

At that time, it was tentatively agreed that 1,000 schools would be completed within five years, including children's schools, children's schools, and young schools.

And each province is required to do its best to build a university in the provincial capital that is comparable to the Hanlin Academy.

In the past few years, in addition to the establishment of a Nanjing University in Nanjing, there are only three local universities: Jiangxi University in Nanchang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and Shandong University in Jinan.

No other place can afford to build an independent university.

There is no shortage of teaching materials, but there is a shortage of teachers.

The Cabinet has already begun to select a group of young Hanlin Lang from the Hanlin Academy to conduct training, so that they can be sent to various provinces to teach.

Although this is a bit cruel for these Han Lin Lang.

Those who can enter the Hanlin Academy are the top ten in the provincial examinations in various provinces, and then the elites who pass the national examination are the echelon talents reserved by the central government.

The policy given by the Ministry of Officials is to work for five years, and after a group of qualified teachers are brought out in the locality, they will be transferred back to Nanjing, and priority will be given to the placement of posts and promotion after the annual inspection of officials.

It is true that Shanxi is rich, but the educational power is even more backward, and Shanxi in these years is really unable to produce top bulls in the academic field.

In the early years, Biansai was busy fighting, and it was easy to stabilize and be busy with development.

"If you don't do education, you can't do it, we must not only vigorously develop it, but also put our hearts down to it and do it in a down-to-earth manner."

Zhu Yunwen gave Huang Fu an idea: "You see that Shanxi is not poor, I have heard such a sentence in Nanjing, called Jinshan Yinshan is not as good as a coal mountain."

Since you have money, don't protect it, attracting investment is to bring in hot money to engage in construction, and attracting talent is also to engage in construction. At present, there are a lot of skilled craftsmen in my Ming provinces, and you are a big coal province, so you can introduce and train a group of technical personnel, and you can contribute to opening wells and increasing efficiency in the future.

When the time comes, I will tell Mo Cheng to leave the theory of this steam engine, and you can build more to help the workers who go down the well, so that they will not be soaked in water after being in the deep well for a long time. ”

"Your Majesty's hadith has pointed out the way for the education of the minister and Shanxi, and the minister will implement it immediately."

Huang Fuying agreed, and said with a shy face: "Then when preparations are made in the future, I hope Your Majesty can give you a name." ”

"Since it is mainly based on physics and technology, it is called Taiyuan University of Technology."