At this moment, Wei Bao's heart is extremely entangled, and Zhao Kehu has done this step, which can be regarded as the greatest sincerity, and it is not too much to say that he has poured out his heart and lungs.

This is also a very good opportunity for him to improve, he can first pretend to accept it, steal other people's daughters, and then steal the power in Zhao Kehu's hands, and then launch an attack on the other three, Xu Tu gradually.

But Wei Bao is not such a person.

That's dishonest!

Wei Bao for integrity, very important, not entirely after coming to the Ming Dynasty, influenced by traditional culture, even in modern times, many people do not talk about integrity in the environment, Wei Bao still insists on being a person who keeps his promises.

It is not impossible to use deceptive means against others, it depends on who the other party is, and it is okay to treat others in their own way.

But now that Zhao Kehu took the initiative to propose marriage to him, Wei Bao understood that people were sincere. Now although he has two money, but it is not to the point of crushing Zhao Kehu, not to mention that people are upright in the township, a stable rich person, no matter how much money you have, you can't do anything to others, and there is no need for people to please you.

Wei Bao feels that integrity is the bottom line that a person should stick to at any time, otherwise, it is no different from a beast.

'Means' and 'routines', as a person who has been in business for a long time in modern times, are very clear, but the vast majority of people may be just obscure all their lives, just because of this, they have peace of mind, and so is Wei Bao.

"I'm sorry, Lord Rissho, I understand your intentions, but I stick to my idea." Wei Bao said in a loud voice that was neither humble nor arrogant, and gave a firm answer: "As for what you say, I can use the rich four seas as a metaphor for my liking for Jin Feng, why can't I give up three miles." I don't think there is a conflict between the two, because what I just said is that after the four li were combined into one, I came to propose to Jin Feng. I will not give up Jinfeng, nor will I give up four miles. Just now I said that I want to become a powerful local family, maybe what I said is not accurate enough, I will do my best to improve the lives of the neighbors, so that everyone will no longer be troubled by starvation and freezing to death, if possible, I hope that the entire Ming people can live this kind of life. ”

Zhao Kehu and Zhao Jinfeng didn't expect Wei Bao's tone to be so big, Zhao Jinfeng's gaze was complicated, but Zhao Kehu turned a little disdainful, squinted his eyes and squinted at Wei Bao, and then turned his gaze.

"Wei Gongzi, such a big talk, official words, it's better to say less in the future, you don't even have a reputation now, right? These words should be spoken by the prefect of Yongping Prefecture. You are very smart, but no matter how smart a person is, he can't compete with the world or the sky. Zhao Kehu didn't look at Wei Bao, and complained coldly: "Don't think of yourself as a saint, a saint is just teaching and educating people, and he just talks about saving the common people, who really does it?" These things, there are the imperial court, there are emperors, and it is not our turn to consider them. ”

Wei Bao smiled neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Maybe, but I still adhere to the view that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband." If no one in the world thinks about the small people, and there are no people among the small people who come out to think about themselves, how bleak will the world be? ”

"Okay, Master Wei, say big things, I can't talk about you, I don't think there's any need to continue. I'm just a small people, I just want to live in peace, we are not people on the same road, so I haven't been here today. Zhao Kehu said impatiently: "Jin Feng, let's go." ”

Zhao Jinfeng couldn't help but glance at Wei Bao deeply, her gaze touched Wei Bao's, and both of them felt a flame ignite in their hearts.

Although we only met for the third time today and didn't say a few words, the fate between men and women is so mysterious, some men and women have been together for a lifetime, and in the end, they have become family at most, and they have never been able to wipe out the flame of heart throbbing. Some men and women are just seeing each other for the first time, but they have quietly entrusted their souls.

"Let's go, what are you doing with it?" Zhao Kehu walked a few steps, and saw that his daughter was still slowly swallowing, and he actually looked at each other with Wei Bao, and he was angry, and when he was talking, he came to pull Zhao Jinfeng's delicate little hand.

Zhao Jinfeng blushed and was taken away by her father, and she was still at a loss at this moment, from her father suddenly proposing to Wei Bao just now, to Wei Bao kneeling down and agreeing, and then to the two of them breaking up unhappily, she didn't figure out what was going on.

Wei Bao's heart was like a mirror, and he didn't need to reminisce about it afterwards, sighed lightly, and suddenly felt that being directly rejected by Wang Qiuya at the beginning did not hurt people at all, but it was Zhao Kehu's situation that hurt people the most! Because, in disguise, he is refusing to marry, and for a kind-hearted person, it is very uncomfortable to reject others.

"Lord Lizheng, I, Wei Bao, am not a person who doesn't know what to do, please give me a little time, and I will prove it to you!" Wei Bao excitedly caught up with two steps and said to Zhao Kehu.

Zhao Kehu didn't look back, and pulled Zhao Jinfeng all the way away, Zhao Jinfeng glanced back at Wei Bao, this scene made Wei Bao suddenly want to cry. At the same time, it also disturbed Wei Bao's heart, and the Liaodong Economic Strategy Mansion was about to send someone to 'get' him, and now there was a drama that Zhao Kehu took the initiative to help him resolve the trouble, but he hadn't accepted it yet.

Zhao Kehu took Zhao Jinfeng to leave Wei Bao, and the two of them didn't say anything all the way.

Zhao Kehu regretted a little that he shouldn't have rashly proposed to Wei Bao, and he was now very worried that Wei Bao would talk about it everywhere.

Zhao Jinfeng is not worried about the famous festival, not worried that Wei Bao will go around to say that his father took the initiative to propose to him, now he is just thinking about how big things Wei Bao will encounter next, and his heart is full of worries about Wei Bao. She was well aware of the strength of the four miles that were being combined with the captains. At the same time, today's understanding of Wei Bao has deepened, I didn't expect Wei Bao to be weak on the surface, but his temperament is so strong.

After Zhao Jinfeng and Zhao Kehu left, Wei Bao sat for about ten minutes, cleaned up his mood a little, and still had to follow to get cement, which was a very urgent matter.

"What did Lord Risho bring his daughter for?" Fan Xiaolin asked curiously.

Wei Bao said with a straight face: "You have so many things, you don't have to revolve around me all day long, right?" Now the materials in and out every day are so large, the accounts of buying and selling must be done clearly. ”

If Wei Bao spoke to Wang Qiuya like this, Wang Qiuya would be too frightened to speak, but Fan Xiaolin didn't take it seriously at all, and smiled: "I have people under me, and I do it myself with every account?" In addition, if you are with the host, you will be able to understand more about what the host thinks, and the more you understand what the host thinks, and the better you will be able to grasp what you need to do now. ”

Wei Bao was defeated by the sharp-toothed Fan Xiaolin, and smiled slightly: "Li Zheng brought Miss Zhao to persuade me not to fight against a few Li Zheng Jia elders anymore, are you satisfied now?" ”

"Hehe, I guess that's the case. Rizheng is good to you, huh? I don't want to hire you as a son-in-law, do I? Fan Xiaolin said softly.

When Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya heard this, they looked at Wei Bao together.

Wei Bao's head swept through three black lines, secretly thinking that he had been completely defeated by Fan Xiaolin, this little girl was clever and could guess anything: "What's the matter with you?" Don't ask, there's no such thing. ”

Fan Xiaolin sneered and stopped talking.

Fan Xiaolin, Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya originally thought that Sister Fang'er was more likely, but now that Zhao Lizheng came to the door in person, they felt that Zhao Jinfeng's hopes had increased greatly. The three of them don't have much hope of becoming Wei Bao's wife, but for the 'second position', they still subconsciously hope to sit on it.

Whoever can have a good relationship with the 'No. 1 position' will have the most hope of becoming the No. 2 position, and the status of the hostess in this era is not ordinary. The court can become the queen mother to listen to the government, and the family can directly take power.

Wei Bao now has a 'science and technology team' of more than 50 people gathered together, including blacksmiths, stonemasons, and people from the Military Industry Bureau, but he still feels that something is missing, most of these people are not educated, but they have mastered some experience and technology, and they are a little hazy and hazy.

So, Wei Bao asked a few teachers from outside to work with them temporarily, recording the content of each day's work and teaching them to read.

At this time, a group of people were preparing materials, coal, limestone, and quartz sand were collected and stacked outside several brick kilns temporarily used as cement factories.

In the formation process of cement clinker, the first thing is the evaporation of water, and the free moisture gradually evaporates with the temperature of the material, and when the temperature rises to 100~150 °C, all the free moisture in the raw meal is excluded.

In wet production, the slurry can reach 32~40%, so the drying process has a great impact on the yield, quality and heat consumption.

The clay raw material is dehydrated, and when the raw meal temperature rises to 450°C, the kaolin is dehydrated with chemically bound water.

At 900~950 °C, the amorphous substance transforms into crystals and emits heat at the same time.

That's exactly what they're getting ready to do.

"Childe, what is this? None of us can understand it. A teacher asked, holding a cheat sheet copied by Wei Bao for the craftsmen's reference and used to prepare cement materials.

Wei Bao glanced at it, it was a symbol of Celsius, and explained simply, there is a concept of temperature in this era, but there is no specific standard.

Celsius is the unit of temperature measurement of the Celsius temperature scale (C), which is represented by the symbol °C, and is currently a widely used temperature scale in the world. It was first proposed by the Swedish astronomer Anders Cerseus in 1742 and has since been improved.

The meaning of Celsius refers to the temperature of a pure ice-water mixture of 1 degree at a standard atmospheric pressure of 0 degrees and the boiling point of water at 100 degrees, during which it is divided into 100 equal parts, each equal part is 1 degree, and is denoted as 1 °C.

"So it's 450 degrees, 950 degrees?" The teacher asked thoughtfully.

Wei Bao nodded, "Is there any problem?" ”

A group of people looked around the cheat sheet, Childe didn't come, none of them could understand the cheat sheet, and after Childe explained, he understood a little.

"Childe, the boiling of water is 100 degrees, and 450 degrees is more than four times the temperature of the boiling water? How do we know how many degrees have been reached? Deng Erxian asked: "Then how many degrees do we usually strike iron?" ”

Wei Bao said: "Good question, I have tested it, you usually strike iron, and you can supply air through the bellows to about 900 degrees!" Wei Bao said and took out a thermocouple thermometer from the Zhenyuan ship, "This is what I tested with this thing." ”

This kind of pure modern product, it was originally inconvenient for Wei Bao to take it out, but now it is urgent, there is no way, what can be taken out, it must be taken out immediately, and it can no longer be hidden, anyway, he is the master, it is the sun of this armor, and he is not afraid of anyone doubting.

Thermocouple thermometers are thermometer-based instruments that measure the thermoelectric effect. Its simple structure, wide measurement range, easy to use, accurate and reliable temperature measurement, easy to transmit the signal remotely, automatic recording and centralized control, so it is widely used in industrial production.

There are many boilers on the Zhenyuan ship, and there are many of these thermometers, and Wei Bao found it from the warehouse on the Zhenyuan ship.

A thermocouple thermometer consists of three parts: a thermocouple, a measuring instrument, and a wire that connects the thermocouple to the measuring instrument.

Thermocouples are one of the most commonly used temperature measuring elements in the industry. It is welded by conductors A and B of two different materials. One end of the weld is inserted into the medium to be measured, the temperature to be measured is felt, and the working or hot end of the thermocouple is called, and the other end is connected to the wire, called the cold or free end. Conductors A and B are called thermoelectrodes.

He doesn't know when he can make complex equipment such as engines and generators, but he believes that as long as he has his own scientific and technological team, R&D and production are not a problem.

A group of people looked at Wei Gongzi curiously, and the thing called 'thermometer' that Wei Huizhu took out.

Even if ancient people used bellows, charcoal and other smelting tools, there was no way to make the temperature of iron reach a very high level, reaching more than 1500 degrees to completely melt the iron, because the smelting technology was still limited, especially to increase the oxygen content.

China's iron smelting technology was slightly later than that of the West, and the West used charcoal burning to achieve a temperature of 1,200 degrees Celsius, which was almost the highest process temperature that could be reached at that time.

However, the technology of smelting pig iron requires that the iron is in a liquid state, but the process temperature of 1200 degrees that can be achieved at that time cannot make pure iron liquid, because the melting point of iron is 1535 degrees.

In ancient times, people used their ingenuity to dissolve sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, manganese and other dissolved materials in iron, especially after adding carbon, the melting point can be reduced to about 1150 degrees, as long as the appropriate utensils and processes are selected, liquid pig iron can be obtained.

These are all things that Wei Bao has learned in the past few days, so he is still confident in copying and imitating the slightly 'rough' quasi-modern equipment of the steam engine, especially the process requirements of the steam engine are not high, and Wei Bao's own requirements are not high.

"Childe, this is bought from the West?" The teacher who had just said yes asked.

Wei Bao nodded and said, "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

"No, I just think it's a little incredible, I didn't expect the skills of foreigners to be so superb." That's humane.

Wei Bao felt that this person was very different from ordinary readers, and several other teaching gentlemen shrank back, for fear of being named, and even more afraid of doing things, but this person was not afraid, so he asked, "Dare to ask Mr. Daming?" ”

Wei Bao knew that these teaching gentlemen were all hired by Lin Wenbiao from Beizhili with a high salary, at least they were showmen who had failed many times, and lost hope in the imperial examination, so they changed careers to become private school teachers.

There are too few such gentlemen in Yongheifu, and if there are a few, they can't be invited to Jinshan because they have their own private school. And if you want to take the exam, you also need to go to the academy linked to the county school and politics, a few gentlemen's 'business' is very good, in the high-tech, people are not willing to come, willing to come, the level is not enough.

"Under Song Yingxing." The man replied.

Wei Bao was stunned, Song Yingxing is a thunderous scientist, Wei Bao has heard of it before.

In fact, why so many people have illusions that the Ming Dynasty can embark on the road of industrialization and capitalism, largely because the Ming Dynasty, especially the end of the Ming Dynasty, was a period of high explosion of scientists!

With the Western missionaries represented by Matteo Ricci, scholars and local scientists of the Ming Dynasty had academic exchanges, and the outbreak of scientists in the late Ming Dynasty was extremely fast.

As far as Wei Bao knows, there is Song Yingxing.

Westerners Jin Nige, Deng Yuhan, Luo Yagu, Fu Fanji, Tang Ruowang, among these foreigners, the most famous is Tang Ruowang, who served in the Ming and Qing dynasties for half a century, won the appreciation of several generations of emperors, and appeared in a large number of film and television works in later generations.

There are also famous Xu Guangqi, Yang Tingyun, Li Zhizao, Wang Hui, Sun Yuanhua, Bi Maokang, Mao Yuanyi and so on.

The reason why Wei Bao didn't make a specific list for Lin Wenbiao to find someone was because he knew that these scientists in the late Ming Dynasty had a common characteristic, they were all masters of arts and sciences! As far as these scientists he knows, they seem to have meritorious reputations, and they are at least officials of the fifth grade or above, and the resources of these top talents are still completely in the hands of the imperial court, and in the hands of the emperor, but the emperor and the imperial court do not attach great importance to the development of science and technology, but they attach more importance to artillery, and that is mainly because of the needs of war.

Since they are all officials, Wei Bao didn't think about going to them, so it was better to find someone to cultivate by himself and save trouble. Because it is impossible for an official to come to your township, and to work under you, a young man in the township who has no official status, even if he can be tricked, he can't keep it! If you go out and talk nonsense, it will easily cause big trouble.

For example, Xu Guangqi, who is a cabinet minister, where to find it?

Wei Bao never expected that the man in his early forties, who looked inconspicuous, was actually the famous Song Yingxing, the author of "Heavenly Creation", a big man with names in history textbooks. Wei Bao secretly thought that when the author could go to history textbooks, his life would be in vain.

"Childe knows me?" Song Yingxing wondered.

"Isn't that the same? I think your name is very good, and when I hear it, I feel like a special match, and when I see you, I feel like an old friend who has known you for many years. Because of the intention of soliciting and soliciting, Wei Bao's kind words blurted out: "When I saw Mr., I knew that he was a great talent!" ”

Song Yingxing is a newcomer in Fengxin, Jiangxi, his great-grandfather Song Jing, during the Ming Zhengde and Jiajing periods, tired officials, the second department of the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Reform, the counselor of the machine, into the left capital of the imperial history.

Grandfather Song Chengqing, the word Daozheng, the county school and the student. Father Song Guolin, the word Rurun, the number Juchuan, and the birth of Xu. There are 4 brothers, brother Song Yingsheng, half-brother Song Yingding, and younger brother Song Yingjing.

In his childhood, Song Yingxing and Ying Sheng studied in the same uncle Song and Qingjia School for 8 years, and they were diligent and studious, with special qualifications. Once got up very late for some reason, Ying Sheng had already memorized the 7 articles of the limited text, and he lay on the bed while listening and taking notes. When he is a little older, he has studied the Thirteen Classics vigorously, and as for the Guan, Fujian, Lian, and Luo schools, they can also grasp the location of their ** context. The study of ancient texts is from the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang and "Historical Records", "Zuo Chuan", "Warring States Policy" and even the hundred schools of thought.

In the forty-third year of Wanli (1615 AD), Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng held the Jiangxi Township Examination together, and the two of them were promoted in the same examination, and he ranked third. At that time, there were more than 10,000 people in the province to take the exam, and among the 109 people in the exam, Fengxin only had 2 Song Yingxing brothers, so it was called the "Second Song".

In the winter of the same year, they went to Beijing to take the national examination in the spring of the following year, but they did not pass the examination. Later, I learned that someone had cheated, and the champion's exam paper was actually made by someone else, so I was very angry, but I was also very helpless.

In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621 AD), the Song Yingxing brothers went to Beijing again to take the exam, but they still failed the exam.

Subsequently, Song Yingxing gradually became indifferent to fame, and began to devote his main energy to traveling and investigating, summarizing the production technology and experience of agriculture and handicrafts in various places, and accumulating materials for the compilation of a scientific and technological masterpiece.

Lin Wenbiao sent people to the vicinity of Beijing to recruit learned and famous private school gentlemen, and the wages were very high, and Song Yingxing, who was short of money, happened to hear the news and was recruited to Jinshan.

Among the large list of scientists in the late Ming Dynasty that Wei Bao knew, Wei Bao only remembered now that it seems that only Song Yingxing had no official position, until his brother Song Yingyu was elected by the Ministry of Officials in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631) to serve as the county commander of Tongxiang County, Zhejiang, and Song Yingxing returned to his hometown to serve his mother.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Song Yingxing was appointed as the teacher of Fenyi County, Yuanzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. Faculty members are faculty members who have not yet entered the stream.

In that year, his brother Song Yingsheng was transferred to Enping County, Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong, and was awarded the title of Wenlinlang because of his political achievements.

Song Yingxing taught in Fenyi County for 4 years, which was an important stage in his life, as all his major works were published during this period.

And Wei Bao knew that Song Yingxing's family was very backbone.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), Song Yingxing's term of office expired, and he was promoted to the position of Fujian Tingzhou Prefecture Governor (Zheng Bapin), a subordinate official under the provincial observation envoy, in charge of a prison in charge of a prison, commonly known as the criminal hall, also known as the manager. This is the official career.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640), Song Yingxing's term of office was not yet completed, and he resigned and returned to Li.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), he served as the governor of Bozhou (now Bozhou City, Anhui), but at this time it was on the eve of the death of the Ming Dynasty. After Song Yingxing took office, the state was destroyed by the war, and there was no place to go to the church, and many officials left. He worked hard to rebuild the academy and donate money to build a academy in the city.

At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Song Yingxing resigned and returned to Fengxin. In March of that year, Li Zicheng's army captured Jingshi and died in the Ming Dynasty. In April, the Qing army entered the customs and built the capital of Beijing, and Song Yingxing became a citizen of the country. In May, King Fu established the Southern Ming regime in Nanjing.

In the first year of Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty (1645), Song Yingxing was recommended to be awarded the Chuhe Military Patrol Road and the Nanrui Military Patrol Road (which is a regional governor between the province and the prefecture), but Song Yingxing resigned. Before the death of the Ming Dynasty, Song Yingsheng had been promoted to the prefect of Guangzhou, and after the death of the Ming Dynasty, he had no intention of falling in love with the official, so he hung up the crown and returned to the country. Brother Song Yingxing pinned his hopes on Nanming, but this regime was controlled by the eunuchs Ruan Dacheng and Ma Shiying, and the regime was rejected by Zhongliang, and the regime quickly perished. The Qing troops went south to take Jiangxi.

In the second year of Longwu (1646), Song Yingxing's brother Song Ying took poison and martyred.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, Song Yingxing has been living a reclusive life, spending his old age in poverty and refusing to leave his office.

The life of a generation of super scientists was very dull, and their social influence at that time was very small, and they must be incomparable with Xu Guangqi, the ministers of the DPRK and China, who were full of brilliance, but Song Yingxing was very famous in later generations. So Wei Bao is more aware of his affairs.

Song Yingxing heard Wei Gongzi say this, and smiled indifferently, he is not a person who likes to be polite, "Gongzi is serious, I am an ordinary person." When Dacai said it, he didn't dare to take it. If you want to talk about great talent, Childe is a great talent, I have been to see Childe's steam engine, and he is ingenious. Dare to ask if it was a finished machine that Childe bought from the West? I don't know where it was bought? ”

"I don't know exactly where it is, but after a few hands." Wei Bao said perfunctorily. Knowing that there was a person like Song Yingxing under him, his mood suddenly improved! It doesn't feel like I'm 'fighting alone' anymore.

Song Yingxing didn't know if Wei Bao refused to say or really didn't know, so he didn't ask again and stepped aside.

Wei Bao thought that everyone was under his hands, and he didn't rush to say anything to Song Yingxing, and happily continued to invest in material research and development.

Since there was only one steam engine, which was still used for water supply, and the imitation steam engine was still in progress, it had to be heated and dried with bellows using the earthy methods of blacksmiths and stonemasons.

Every step Wei Bao did, he asked Song Yingxing to record it in detail and asked for his opinion. Of course, Wei Bao not only asked Song Yingxing, but also asked the opinions of others present, this is the process of production and research and development, and it is also the process of Wei Bao's material selection.

After looking around, everyone couldn't compare with Song Yingxing, which made Wei Bao feel a spectrum, and he had secretly determined that Song Yingxing would be the candidate for chief engineer.

It's just that there is still a need for a conversation to understand the process of Song Yingxing's thoughts, because he is an 'external' person, unlike others, who signed a contract that owed him 50 taels of silver when he came and entered this armor.

Song Yingxing could feel that Wei Bao was very interested in him, he was also very curious about Wei Bao, all aspects of Wei Bao made him feel novel, I don't know why Wei Bao used 'simplified words', in addition, Wei Bao's process of making this 'new clay' is very complicated, obviously there is a ready-made formula, but he doesn't seem to have done it, since he hasn't done it, and there is a formula, why don't you just find a master in this area to do it? And to find out for yourself?

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