"Lin Song, where are you going to go after graduation?"

"Teacher, I... I want to join the army. ”

"Is this your final decision? Your parents agree too? ”

"Well, I wanted to join the army, and my parents agreed."

"Joining the army is also a very good choice, the mission of the soldier is to protect the family and defend the country, after graduation, you join the people's army, it will not take a year, the last battle between the people's army and the Ming court will break out, there are tens of millions of poor people in the world, they are busy every day from morning to night may not have enough to eat, as long as the Ming court is destroyed, the people of the whole world can live a good life."

Listening to the teacher's words, Lin Song thought of his own family, his family used to rent a landlord for a living, almost every year there was time to be hungry, the People's Army came, drove the landlord and the Ming court government away, and divided the land to everyone in the Lin family, with their own field, Lin Song's family lived a good life, eating enough food was just the simplest, and they could wear new clothes and eat meat.

It was also at that time that Lin Song had the idea of joining the People's Army, and now his opportunity is coming.

Before the teacher's words were finished, he continued: "The People's Army will definitely defeat the Ming Court, but defeating the Ming Court does not mean that there will be no war.

The Tatars are more vicious than the Ming army, you must study hard after joining the people's army, learn the knowledge of leading troops to fight, the teacher hopes that you will one day become a general, drive the vicious Tatars to the ends of the earth. ”

"Teacher, I will, I will definitely become a general!"

The last semester of this class of students is coming, after the start of school, the teacher takes time to talk with the students one by one, some students are still hesitating, some students have made a decision, the teacher's words can make the hesitant students make the most suitable choice in their hearts, for the students who have made a decision, the teacher's words can also make them firm in their beliefs.

It is almost certain that joining the army and becoming an officer are the two most popular candidates, followed by teachers and universities.

Unlike the other three options, where universities are limited in size, Guangzhou University is building more buildings, but the number of students it can accommodate is limited, the number of teachers is also limited, and finally students who want to enter the university will take an exam to determine the number of places, and often only the best students in the class will have a chance to get into the university.

There are many students who are not good at studying but want to go to university, so they choose to become teachers and wait for three years before looking for opportunities to enter university.

"Teacher" is the best choice in the eyes of some students, teachers teach their students, students graduate, join the army, become officials, become teachers and enter universities, see their students achieve achievements, teachers are full of a sense of achievement.

They also want to teach batches of students like teachers, watch students achieve success, and watch the country change in the hands of students.

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In Fangnan's office, Han Jia, president of Fang's Chamber of Commerce, reported to Fangnan that after half a year of research by the Textile Machinery Research Institute, a steam-powered spinning machine has been successfully developed, but this spinning machine is not practical, and the probability of failure is very high.

Fang Nan did not express much opinion on this, but only gave encouragement to the Textile Machinery Research Institute, hoping that the Textile Machinery Research Institute would come up with a practical steam-powered spinning machine as soon as possible.

In fact, even if the Textile Machinery Research Institute now comes up with a practical steam-powered spinning machine, there is no way to carry out mass production, and the most critical place is still people.

At present, the number of skilled workers in the KPA is insufficient, and it is not even able to meet the needs of the arsenal in the production and manufacture of steam-powered machine tools, and at least until the second half of next year will it be able to mobilize manpower to start mass manufacturing of spinning machines.

The importance of the spinning machine is far less than that of steam-powered machine tools, and it is too difficult to make more machines from these machines if there are more machine tools, and there are not enough machine tools, so it is too difficult for craftsmen to build machinery by hand with hammers.

In addition to reporting to Fang Nan about the Textile Machinery Research Institute, Han Jia also reported on the development of the Fang Chamber of Commerce in the recent stage, the main business of the Fang Chamber of Commerce is glass and glass mirrors, relying on this business, the Fang Chamber of Commerce has a large amount of equal currency into the account, and has enough funds for other projects.

The glass business was transferred from the name of the People's Army to his own name, Fang Nan felt a little bit of wool from the People's Army, but soon Fang Nan threw away this idea, the development path of "state-owned enterprises" has already been set by Fang Nan, and the business that state-owned enterprises are involved in is vital to the country, and businessmen must intervene, and unimportant businesses can be put to businessmen.

In the end, the glass business was also to be given to the merchants, but now it was just cut off in advance, and as the governor of the People's Army, the Fang Chamber of Commerce made a lot of money, mainly to spend on the People's Army, and the money that his family needed to spend would not be too much, Fang Nan did not have the idea of building palaces and gardens everywhere.

After Han Jia's report ended, Fang Nan looked at the report document from Guangzhou University.

In Guangzhou University, there are many interest groups set up by students and teachers, and the People's Army allocates a little money for them to conduct research, among which ships and trains are the two studies that Fang Nan attaches the most importance to.

Among them, the steam engine ship project team has made the fastest progress in research, this project team made several scale-down wooden ship models, trying to simulate how the ship should sail in the sea without a steam engine.

The most important point of the type B steam engine is to carry out circular motion, a student named He Feiyu thought of the waterwheel, and suggested adding two large wheels similar to waterwheels on both sides of the boat, the steam engine drove the big wheel to rotate, and the big wheel paddled the water, and the boat could sail under the action of steam power.

He Feiyu's suggestion was quickly recognized by the rest of the steam engine ship project team, and with the help of craftsmen, a wooden boat model with two large wheels was made, and the research made good progress.

Next, the steam engine ship project team needs to determine how the steam engine should drive a pair of wheels to turn, and after determining the mechanical structure, they can apply for funds from the school to try to build the first steam engine ship, a very small steam engine ship.

Fang Nan felt that this time would not be too far away, maybe at the end of this year, maybe at the beginning of next year.

Fang Nan also knew that the research direction of the steam engine ship project team was a little wrong, and the paddle wheel was not the most suitable for the steam engine ship, but Fang Nan did not stop it, they needed a research process to build the first paddle ship and achieve a certain success, so Fang Nan would point out the correct research direction.