"Sanbao, young master, I will assign you two personal guards, you can find a few reliable people in the mansion yourself, prepare for today, and leave for Bashu tomorrow to help me find vanadium mines~!"

The reason why Li Zexuan doesn't want to be blind with a kid like Li Yuanchang is mainly because he has more important things to do, and this more important thing is to continue to build his industrial blueprint!

Looking back on what he did in the first year of Zhenguan, in addition to the top event of Yanhuang Academy, what he did was more than some experimental experiments, such as voltaic batteries, telegraphs, electric lights, generators, and so on!

Among them, some things have been preliminarily created, and some are still only in the theoretical stage because of one or another practical reason, but in general, these things have not yet been able to achieve large-scale mass production!

Therefore, Li Zexuan set himself several small goals for this year:

First of all, the "three acids and two alkalis" required by the chemical foundation must be produced on a large scale;

Secondly, the hydropower station on the Bahe River must start construction, which may not be fully completed, but it must start this year;

Third, the generator must be built successfully. Although the first generation generator may be ugly, bulky, expensive, inefficient, and unstable, these are not a problem, because the first generation generator is just a transition, and the first generation generator can be installed on a dug stone culvert or a small dam to generate electricity, and with electricity you can refine copper, which is the time to prepare for the second generation generator. When there is a stable and efficient second-generation generator, we can continue to develop science and technology in depth;

Fourth, he began to concentrate on the development of the metallurgical industry, during this year, he would send people out to search for all kinds of metal deposits, and then he used his copper ore, iron ore, coal mine, etc., first rough blister copper, crude iron and other metals, and then refined various metals with electricity, and finally made various alloy steels;

Fifth, with alloy steel, but also with electricity, you can consider manufacturing industrial machine tools - machine tools! At that time, Datang's industrial base will take a qualitative leap! In the future, all kinds of advanced scientific and technological products will become possible......

Well, looking at it this way, the second year of Zhenguan is definitely a fulfilling year for Li Zexuan, and the schedule is simply not too full!

"Young master, what does this vanadium mine look like?"

Sam Bao frowned and asked.

A few years ago, Sanbao and Ah Fu stayed in the workshop for a period of time because of the manufacture of fireworks, and they were also trained at the "grassroots", the most important thing is that Fu Bin is inseparable from the Shanxi mine, otherwise that kid must be more experienced in prospecting.

Li Zexuan took out a booklet, handed it to Sanbao, and said, "Oh! The appearance and characteristics of this vanadium ore, young master, I have written it down for you, you are ready to prepare for your life today, and it is best to set off tomorrow~! ”

San Bao took the booklet, opened it and saw that there were colorful illustrations with very vivid textures and lines, as well as some narrative texts, which were really quite detailed, he closed the booklet, scratched his head, and said with a smile:

"Hey, hey! Young master, thanks to me, I've been learning to read and write last year, otherwise you may not be able to understand any of the words on it~! ”

Li Zexuan said happily: "Haha! Young master, I let you read more books when you were idle, it's still useful, right~? ”

Sanbao nodded again and again and said, "Mmmm! Useful and useful! This time, Sanbao will go to Shudi, and he will bring another dictionary, in case he encounters a word he doesn't know, he can also look up the dictionary by himself! ”

Nowadays, because of the wide distribution of the "Tang Dictionary", there are more and more literate people in the Tang Dynasty, according to the calculations of Kong Yingda, Fang Xuanling and others, it is estimated that in another three or five years, the number of people participating in the Tang Imperial Examination will have a blowout!

"Haha! The child can be taught! ”

Li Zexuan laughed loudly and said: "Sanbao, this mining is also a kind of experience for you, the land of Bashu, all kinds of forces are complicated, you need to be cautious in this trip, try not to provoke the local forces, and come back immediately after finding out the location of the vanadium mine, when the time comes, young master, I will go to ask Your Majesty for the holy decree, and then open the mine justifiably!" ”

Ancient Bashu, generally refers to the modern Sichuan Basin and some adjacent areas, it is not only a geographical concept, but also a cultural concept.

The land of Bashu is surrounded by mountains, adjacent to the Qinling Mountains in the north, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the northwest to the west, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south, and the Yangtze River in the east, so the external traffic is extremely inconvenient. In the north, there are only the Baoxian and Meridian roads that connect with Guanzhong and Kanto, and the roads are steep. There are many valleys in the south and mountainous areas in the east. The eastern sewers are also very difficult, and only the western plains are slightly more accessible. As a result, the land of Bashu became a relatively closed geographical unit far from the interior.

Although the Bashu region was included in the political system of the Central Plains Dynasty very early, due to geographical isolation and distance from the political center, coupled with the fact that there have been a large number of Di, Qiang, barbarian, and other ethnic groups in Bashu and the surrounding areas of the basin, the land of Bashu has actually become the "periphery" of the dynasty.

Since the Han Dynasty, there have been many secession of power and large-scale chaos in the Bashu region, thus forming the impression that "the Shu people are in chaos". In particular, the local forces represented by the Bashu Hao clan are known as powerful. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the world was turbulent, but the land of Bashu was relatively peaceful, but that was only relative to the outside, its internal forces were entrenched, especially between the tribes, the power relationship was complicated, and if vanadium ore was found in Bashu in the future, how to mine it peacefully, it was still a rather thorny problem.

Sanbao obviously understood the power, at this moment his face no longer had the previous giggle, he nodded, and said seriously: "Young master, don't worry, Sanbao will be cautious!" ”

Li Zexuan patted Sanbao's shoulder and said energetically: "Hmm! Sanbao, you do a good job, and if you do a good job, the young master will rest assured that more important tasks will be handed over to you in the future, and you will be able to be prosperous and rich in the future, and enjoy endless enjoyment! ”

For your "employees", it is still very necessary to pour some "chicken soup for the soul" in a timely manner!

Sure enough, Sanbao suddenly felt like he had been beaten with chicken blood, and said with his head held high: "Young master! The Three Treasures don't want to be glorious and rich, as long as they can help the young master do a good job, the Three Treasures will be content! ”

"Haha! All right! You kid don't pat on the back! Go down and get ready! ”

Li Zexuan smiled and said.

"Yes! Master! ”

Sanbao said goodbye and left, but Li Zexuan fell into deep thought, the metallurgical industry of Datang is quite underdeveloped, and the metals that have been mined are nothing more than gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., which is definitely not enough, it seems that it is necessary to train a group of talents in the future to go to all parts of the country to find minerals!

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