With this figured out, the whole plan has a direction.

It is necessary to take into account the differences in national conditions and not to rigidly copy existing experiences.

For example, Dashun has a lot of talents who understand geometry, and he wants to engage in practical education, and the level of basic education in the future will not be too low.

However, Dashun's clock processing industry is not strong, so Britain is engaged in marine clocks, and he must make every effort to engage in astronomical almanacs and mathematical navigation.

He waited for his cousin to return from Europe and bring back the British and Southern Hemisphere catalogs, as well as the discussion of the lunar orbit in his previous letters to Euler.

For example, the clock processing industry in Dashun is not very strong, but there are many people in Guangdong and other places who have learned how to make Western clocks.

It is certainly impossible to make such a high-precision thing as a marine clock, but it should be no problem to engage in improved lathes and hydraulic boring machines for precision machining.

For example, it took 60 years from the invention of the shuttle to the spindle worsted machine in the United Kingdom. In the past 60 years, Britain has opened trade protection, strictly inspected Indian and Chinese cotton cloth to prevent shocks, and completed 60 years.

Dashun is a big cotton textile country, and it can't do any internal trade protection, so it is impossible to go through the evolutionary route of Britain, and Britain's wages are equivalent to about four times that of China at this time, and this mechanical route is even more difficult in Jiangnan.

To this end, Liu Yu has formulated a "scientific and technological research project team", according to the advantages and disadvantages of Dashun at this time, the needs and contrary to the needs but will be useful in the future, can be copied and can not be copied, and select some targeted development directions.

Inventions and attempts that are completely unsupported by profits are not something that can be carried out by the people.

And the things he wants to do are all things that need to pile up a lot of money to pile up trial and error, so he has to consider priorities.

When the excellent craftsmen of Weihai were assembled, they did not know what they were going to do.

Weihai's craftsmen come from all over the world, some are hired from Europe, some are hired from Jiangnan, and some are recruited from Beijing.

As long as you have money, you can gather enough talent. It's just that the money spent is a bit much, and these craftsmen are receiving excess salaries.

More than 400 craftsmen from all walks of life gathered together, including blacksmiths, watchmakers, carpenters, and so on.

In this era, scientists do not contribute as much to technology as carpenters and blacksmiths.

Liu Yu first took out one of the most important scientific and technological research projects, and drew a sketch of a conceptual boring machine on the blackboard of the Liugongdao Auditorium.

More than 80 people were selected to be left alone here, including carpenters, blacksmiths and watchmakers, both Central Plains and Westerners, and Liu Yu could only take the trouble to explain back and forth in Chinese and Latin.

After a general explanation of the simple principles he knew, it was time for the temptation of profit.

"You are all the best craftsmen you can find in Weihai. Money, it's not a problem, you can pay 5,000 taels of silver every year for whatever you want, this just needs to be bookkeed. If 5,000 taels is not enough, you can withdraw it from Mr. Kang at any time. ”

"As long as it can be done, and it meets the requirements I just mentioned, there will be a reward of 50,000 taels of silver. Among them, 30,000 taels will be divided equally between you, and the remaining 20,000 taels will be distributed according to the degree of contribution. ”

"Maybe I will continue to join people in the future, you are only craftsmen, and I will also allocate a group of hired workers who do not pay dividends to assist you in doing things."

"I don't want to know how much money was spent in the process, or the same sentence, five thousand taels a year is not enough, so I will take it again. I just want you to make this thing. ”

"I also talked about the general truth, you have your own internal division of labor. There are those who are responsible for the cutter head, those who are responsible for hydraulic transmission, and those who are responsible for fixtures. ”

"You should know that I have always been a man of my word, and I have never deducted your salary. Fifty thousand taels of silver, you think it's a lot, but since I said it, then I will naturally do it. ”

"Five years, are you sure?"

A group of craftsmen looked at the concept art on the blackboard and thought to themselves, this thing didn't sound very difficult.

As a craftsman, I know a lot of things at a glance, and I know where the difficulties are.

Cutter heads, fixtures, precision, precession, hydraulically stabilized......

It's really hard.

But the reward of 50,000 taels of silver is a little unbearable for anyone.

Although Dashun canceled the craftsman's registration, the treatment of craftsmen is much better than that of the previous dynasty, but the reward of 50,000 taels of silver is also an unimaginable amount of money for craftsmen.

Even if you add more people in the future, count a hundred people, divide the fifty thousand taels of silver, and one person will have a few hundred taels. That's not a small amount.

You can buy a hundred acres of land and be a good landlord; You can also invest in some industries, and you can live by dividends in the future.

Five years is not a short time, thinking about some of the difficulties here, several prestigious craftsman leaders discussed it, and then took the lead: "Don't worry, five years, it should be about the same." Even if you can't, you can figure it out in seven or eight years. ”

Liu Yu estimates that these craftsmen should also know in their hearts, they can understand where the difficulties are, and to achieve sufficient processing accuracy, Liu Yu will also organize watchmakers to go to public relations various precision rulers.

Even if these people think that five years is about the same, at most seven or eight years, as long as they invest enough money, there should be no problem.

"There is a saying that thousands of miles for officials are only for money. Since you are craftsmen, it is possible to be officials. But being an official is also for money. If you have money, you don't have to be an official. ”

"I don't dare to say what happened elsewhere, but here, as long as you come up with any new ideas, new equipment, there is no problem with money. Not only do you have money now, but you will also get more money in the future if this thing is really useful. ”

"If this thing can be made, I dare say it can be made. But how long it will take, I don't know. You don't have to save me money, you have to buy good steel, you have to use good iron, as long as money can buy it, it's not a problem. ”

"As the saying goes, three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, and you should discuss and discuss more on weekdays. I'll send some literate and hyphenated people to give you a hand, and if you have anything, write it down and solve it little by little. ”

The previous reward of 50,000 taels of silver had already shocked these people.

Now Liu Yu wants to let some literate and hyphenation people give them a hand, which is not just shocked.

There are many people who can read and hyphenate, but Liu Yu in their eyes is a big official, and this person who is sent out to read and hyphenate must not be at the level of Xiucai?

Let Xiucai come to the craftsman and make records? This is really rare in ancient times, and I just feel that the world is about to be turned upside down.

"Your Excellency...... This...... Isn't that impossible? ”

Liu Yu waved his hand and said, "What's wrong with this?" I will assign someone to be responsible for cleaning up the registration and purchasing materials. Just tell him what you need. He didn't know anything about what to do, and I didn't allow him to ask. He's just a handyman, just think so. ”

"I repeat, don't save me money, I just want things. If I can really get it out within five years, let alone 5,000 taels a year, even if it is three or five times more than that, I think it's worth it. ”

The craftsmen don't understand it a little, this thing seems to be used to drill cannon barrels, a reward of 50,000 taels, plus the annual expenditure, just to make the cannon more useful, it costs so much money?

Although they didn't understand, these people didn't ask any more, and after saying something, Liu Yu sent a few literate people who could calculate accounts and count, and divided them into a group, and vacated a few courtyards on Liugong Island.

The follow-up craftsmen also met separately one by one and set up different research teams.

A series of mechanical equipment groups such as cotton gins, horse-drawn harvesters, calipers, carding machines, milling machines, lathes, etc., have been set up, and a total of nearly 200,000 taels of rewards have been awarded. There are some simple ones that may be cashed out in two or three years, and there are fewer; For some difficult ones, it may take five or even ten years, and the reward is higher.

A whole set of plans to tackle key problems, except for the pre-technology of the steam engine, is basically going towards two lines.

One is the technology of carding and ginning under the premise of temporarily imposing the domestic cotton textile industry, and the goal is to use India as a cotton production base after seizing India in the future, and to do a good job of raw materials without touching the pattern of small farmers and small producers in China.

The other is the animal power machinery of large farms, which lays a good foundation for the future reclamation of Northeast China, Australia and other places.

As for smelting, primary acids and alkalis, Liu Yu's plan is to wait for the first batch of people who have learned the basics of chemistry from scratch before they finish their studies.

The experience of craftsmen and the theory of students can at least find the direction of tackling key problems, and the so-called twice the result with half the effort.

After dealing with these matters and setting up research teams one by one, Liu Yu was busy building the shelves of the real and unknown Admiralty.

Although the emperor is very trusting, he can't rely on trust to come casually when doing things.

There are only a few candidates for the captain of a warship, and he can recommend them.

But such as those who are in charge of military pay, those who manage timber, and those who audit procurement...... The people in these departments, he still has to write out the needs, hand them over to the capital, go to the Tianyou Palace, or the Wenyu Academy, these officials do not need professional quality, and it is enough for them to have officials under them.

Anyway, the people in these positions are officials, and he is not qualified to be appointed. Even if the emperor said that he was in his heart, he didn't touch his hands and didn't recommend it, so he let the capital choose.

He also pushed it off about the Jinghai Palace official examination. He is only responsible for teaching, and is no longer responsible for admissions and examinations, and this kind of selection of talents must still be in the hands of the emperor.

But as long as the content of the exam follows the path he suggested, and there are more practical tests, in fact, in the future, most of these people will be protégés that he can control.

As soon as the money is in place, the various things to be done in the plan also start in an orderly manner. He had a plan before, but he was always short of money.

Build ships, build artillery, some people have wood, and now they have money.

Recruitment, there is money and instructors and there are enough officers, as well as previous training experience.

Shixue, the justifiable Whale Sea Festival envoy, Wendeng Prefecture is temporarily under his rule, Bai Yunhang owes him a big favor, and he also knows that he will definitely not be promoted in Wendeng for too long, so he will not care about Liu Yu's plan to set up practical learning and learn less holy words. And Liu Yu, as his boss at this time, as long as he cooperates.

It was busy until October, when the ships of the Japanese trade also returned, and it was the time for the maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to share the dividends.

The silver of Bai Huahua was loaded into the ship, and the new handicrafts such as cigarettes, matches, and glass that Kang Buxi had prepared before were also loaded. Taking advantage of the change in wind direction, Liu Yu is going to Songjiang, and it is time to meet the shareholders who have cooperated with him for so long.