Chapter 597: Artillery, Factory

Gan Qi left the palace, Zhao Zonghan entered the palace, and in family affairs, it was Zhao Zonghan who could support Emperor Zhao Ji.

There is still trouble in this matter, Zhao Zonghan is here, Zhao Zongge naturally has no good fruit to eat, and he wants to take Zhao Zongge's title and demote him to a concubine.

With Zhao Zonghan's support, Zhao Ji naturally made an order.

But this matter is not over, Zhao Zongge obviously wants to make trouble, there are not so many scruples about family affairs, and after taking the title, Zhao Zongge naturally has to make trouble.

Gan Qi is not involved in these things, although Emperor Zhao Ji is young, he is not a good person, the more trouble, the more Zhao Zongge will not have good fruits to eat, not to mention that there is also a Zhao Zonghan?

The royal children, one by one, entered the palace to ask to see, Zhao Zonghan took Zhao Ji, and naturally he was furious.

Feng Jing's errand naturally went much smoother, and before Zhao Zongge blocked his own field, Feng Jing dared to teach someone to carry him away.

Next, Feng Jing faced not many violent things to resist the law, but there were many things to change his way to resist the law.

Humane society, trusting relationships, gift-giving, and door-to-door reminiscences.

If Feng Jing wants to be selfless with an iron face, he has to "isolate himself from the people", he was not an official of Bao Zheng's road, but now he was forced to go to Bao Zheng's road.

This is probably also in Gan Qi's plan, turning Feng Jing into a lonely minister, which indirectly pulls Feng Jing to his side.

Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Feng Jing, Han Jiang and others, these will be the future bigwigs of the court, and Su Shi, Su Zhe, Li Ding, Cai Qu and others will be the backbone of the court in the future.

What Gan Qi wants is this kind of situation that allows him to completely control the situation, and the court must not all be puppets, but also have the ability and means.

After a month or two, the affairs of the governors of various state capitals in Gyeonggi were basically completed, and the matter of Gyeonggi being apportioned into acres was already on the right track.

What Ganchi has to do every day is to keep putting pressure on these governors, constantly urging them to reform according to the new law and implement it with all their might.

Once everything is on track, Gan Qi can also be busy.

In the south of Tokyo, in the Gyeonggi camp, Shen Kuo has been busy for several months.

Gan Xianggong came in person today, just to see Shen Kuo's newly made 3,000-pound cannon.

The three-thousand-pound cannon, the black hole hole cannon barrel, Gan Qi was very satisfied.

The only thing I didn't like was that it was difficult to fiddle with, and I couldn't go up a small slope with a few horses pulling a horse.

This gave Gan Qi a little headache, and while watching the artillery test firing, he asked: "Is this thing good, it is necessary to solve the transportation problem, otherwise it is really inconvenient for the army to move." ”

Shen Kuo nodded: "Xianggong is right, the general frame can't bear it, the transformed big frame, but the weight is not small, at least four horses can be dragged away, and when it comes to the ramp, it has to be pushed by manpower, if it is a quagmire place, or a place where the road is not good, it is even more troublesome to move." ”

Gan Qi frowned and thought about it, many things are still simple, if you want to transport this thing to the front line, it will be northwest for a while, and Yanyun for a while......

"Gotta find a way to fix this." Gan Qi said seriously.

Shen Kuo was also frowning, he had already tried his best, and replied: "Otherwise, add more horsepower to drag, and add it to six horses." ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "Horses are trivial, but the trouble is that the frame is huge, and when you get to the border, it is mostly difficult to walk...... I have to make the frame a little smaller, I want to make it so heavy, the axle is not durable, and I have to go hundreds of miles, I am afraid that it will have to be repaired several times......"

"Yes, the lower official also wants to talk about it." Shen Kuo replied.

Suddenly, Gan Qi frowned, and said: "I made a thing more than ten years ago, and I will show it to you when the time comes, and that thing may be able to solve your troubles, but it also needs to be studied, the production is better, the materials must be carefully studied, and the production process must be more refined." ”

"I don't know what Gan Xianggong is talking about?" Shen Kuo asked.

"Ball bearings, lottery plates roll smoothly, that's because of this. But the ball bearings I made before were so rudimentary that it didn't hurt to use the lottery plates, but you had to put some thought into them when they were to be used on the axles. Gan Qi remembered the lucky wheel he had made.

Shen Kuo was quite surprised when he heard this: "Xia Guan can't wait to see this thing." ”

Gan Qi nodded: "Without further ado, go, let me get it." ”

Shen Kuo hurriedly got on the horse and followed Gan Qi out of the city, and the one who could build ball bearings was a blacksmith shop on the wharf in the south of the city, and the old blacksmith had been guarding Gan Qi's secrets and had been making Gan Qi's money continuously.

After handing over Shen Kuo to the old blacksmith, Gan Qi didn't care much, and Gan Qi couldn't interfere in the craftsman's affairs.

Gan Qi stopped by to visit the old house in the village, and also stopped by to see his sumo wrestling ring and commercial street.

It's also a busy time, Gan Qi hasn't seen last year's accounts, they are all seen by Zhang Shuyuan and Wu Qiaoer, and today I will also take a look at the accounts, and I also have to consider more planning and development.

Speaking of which, the business circle driven by this sumo wrestling field has matured, and the hot spring hotel has become more and more successful.

But Gan Qi naturally has more ideas, but he has not had time to plan for the past few years.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Ganqi wants to build a factory, not that the factory can make a lot of money, but that Ganqi needs to bring a new production model to the world.

In the small-scale peasant economy, the production unit is basically the family, and the largest is only the small workshop, which is naturally too primitive in Ganqi's view.

Factory, means more detailed division of labor, larger scale, smaller cost, higher efficiency.

This thing is not new to Ganch, but it is different for this day and age.

Gan Qi wants to open an extremely successful factory, after success, many people will inevitably scramble to follow suit, Kaifeng Mansion is a place where capital is concentrated, these capitals have no place to go, except to buy land and land, that is, to save for children and grandchildren, this is a huge waste of social resources, Gan Qi to these capitals a new place to go.

To put it bluntly, Ganchi is about to bring a new trend.

If this new trend is really successful, the country will enter a different path, which can liberate the productive forces, increase social wealth, allow more people to enjoy a better life, and make the country stronger and stronger.

And the most important point is that the factory can break the social structure, and the social structure of the Great Song Dynasty is too simple, so simple that there is only binary. Either that or the scholarly class controls most of society's resources. Either it's the low-level people who are bitter, forever digging in the land for food.

As for the other merchants, slaves and servants, they are only incidental products of this dualistic society.

Once factories bloom everywhere, society will be pluralistic, and there will be a real merchant class, and there will be a broad working class.

With a pluralistic society, many things are no longer black and white, and for Ganch, the person in power, the impact of many things he wants to do will also be complicated, and the people in society, for Ganqi, are no longer simply friends or enemies.

To take the simplest example, the matter of apportioning the land into the mu is in itself liberating the productive forces, and without the poll tax, the government's management of household registration will be more relaxed, and there will be no need to worry about the people who have to pay the poll tax running away.

Because when there is a poll tax, when the people need every household to serve in the levy, once the people run around, the government can't find anyone, and they will not be able to collect the tax, so the government is relatively strict in the management of household registration, and even those who do not pay taxes will become black households, and they will be arrested by the government wherever they go, which also indirectly leads to the breeding of bandits in the mountains and forests. Now there is no poll tax, there is no need for every household to serve as a servant, the government will no longer care if you are not at home to farm, and people running around will not worry about becoming a black household, and people will be free.

When people become more free, the factories that need to recruit workers benefit the most.

If there are really countless factories in the society at this time, Ganqi's policy of apportioning the land into the mu will inevitably be supported by countless factory owners, and the factory owners must also be a type of person who has the right to speak in the society, and even many are scholars, then the resistance of Ganqi to promote the apportionment of the mu will be greatly reduced.

This is one of the benefits of implementing a factory production model. If the factory model is really implemented, it will also have great benefits for the real land reform, because the land reform, every household has land, and people's most basic survival is guaranteed, and the productive forces will be more released, and more people will dare to leave the land to go to the factory.

On the other hand, if the factory owners become the new upstarts, the power of the old landlord class will be reduced, because in the age of 100 million people, the output value of land is far less than that of the factories.

That's why Gan Qicai thought about taking the lead in building a benchmark factory for the world to follow. Changing the way we work will make the whole world different. Even the cost of living for the people will be reduced, and the price of all daily necessities will be reduced with the improvement of production efficiency.

Even in the era when science and technology have not yet developed greatly, even if it is just the production of hoes, shovels, pots and pans and some furniture, once it has changed from a small carpenter and blacksmith workshop to an assembly line operation, it is a completely different world in terms of efficiency.

What's more, Gan Qi is also ready to make a little progress in science and technology, such as spinning machines, water-powered spinning machines, this thing has low technical requirements, or for people like Shen Kuo, the technical requirements are not high, as long as there is an idea, a direction, Shen Kuo will definitely be able to make this thing.

Cotton has been planted in various parts of Gyeonggi for several years, and the response among the people is very good, and the imperial court has spared no effort to promote it, and cotton is a crop that is easy to grow, and the requirements for water sources are not high, and some wasteland and dry land can be planted, and the output has already risen, and the output of at least one factory is enough to supply.

Gan Qi thought about these things, and he also decided on these things.

Hydro-spinning machine, one is to ask for water, the site must be located by the river, and then the water flow is poor, then it must be selected in the downstream of the river.

The Bianhe River is a great place, and it's not difficult.

It is not difficult to build, in a low-lying place, open a ditch, lead the water of the Bianhe River, and then go down, layer upon layer, arrange one spinning machine after another to be placed one after another, and constantly drive the machine to spin with the help of water power.

This plan clearly works.

The more Gan Qi thought about it, the more excited he became, and after reading the account books of the sumo ring, he went straight back to the old mansion, and couldn't wait to let Gan Ba sharpen the ink, Gan Qi put pen to paper, and even drew a rough sketch of the factory.

What is missing is the spinning machine.

I have to go back to find Shen Kuo, even if it is dusk, Gan Qi can't wait to ask Shen Kuo to enter the city quickly, Fan Lou will talk about it.

Shen Kuo came in a hurry, and was shocked by Ganqi's idea of transforming the spinning machine, spinning with water power, which must be feasible in principle, that is, to transform the existing spinning machine operation mode.

Gan Qi didn't care so much, but said: "There are many clever craftsmen around Brother Cun, if you bring this matter back and discuss it with everyone, this thing will not be difficult." ”

Shen Kuo nodded: "Xia Guan also knows that this thing must be made, but there is no specific way for a while, and I hope that the prime minister can tolerate some time." ”

Shen Kuo had too many things to do, and Gan Qi gave him another task, which he was buying himself some more time.

Gan Qi said: "I don't know much about the principle, but I will give you something to use as a design idea." ”

"Please give me some advice." What Shen Kuo was waiting for was Gan Qi's words, he knew that what Gan Qi proposed, he would inevitably have his own opinions.

"You should be familiar with this thing as a gear, but it takes a lot of effort from the best craftsmen to make a truly suitable iron gear, from sketching to hand-made. If this spinning machine is supported by a gear drive, it is an excellent design idea. "Gan Qi can only help here, he really doesn't know much about weaving.

However, Shen Kuo is familiar with the principle of textiles, and he has a flash of inspiration: "Xianggong's words, Daigo empowerment, the waterwheel has always only been used for rice, which is the limitation of the transmission method, and Xia Guan seems to have some ideas." ”

"Then you quickly go back and take the craftsmen to think about it, and make this thing quickly." Gan Qi was also happy, and anxious.

"The subordinate obeys!" Shen Kuo didn't drink a few glasses of wine, and hurriedly walked out of Fanlou again. This engineering man doesn't seem to have much interest in women.

Gan Qi didn't stay in Fan Lou for long, and he didn't seem to have much interest in women anymore.

It's a pity that the oirans with their necks stretched out are extremely lost one by one, and it is rare for Gan Xianggong to come here, but he just left.

If it was placed ten years ago, today's Fan Lou, I don't know who will make a name for himself through Gan Xianggong.

Twenty years ago, thirty years ago, Liu Sanbian Ouyang Xiu was a distinguished guest here, but unfortunately they didn't come more often, and they rarely filled in the words when they came. Ten years ago, Gan Qi Su Shi Su Zhe was a distinguished guest here, but now there are not many people here, and I don't think about any poetry or anything like that.

Now it's Qin Shaoyou, Cai Jing and others, but they haven't come much recently.

Only Yan Jidao, who has been in the Fan Building for several years, still comes often, but Yan Jidao has become the most popular person in the seventy-two buildings in Tokyo.

Things in the world are like that sometimes.

No one even makes fun of Gan Xianggong's lyrics to satirize Yan Jidao anymore, and everyone seems to think that Yan Jidao was made fun of by characters like Gan Xianggong, which is not a shameful thing.

Gan Qi naturally didn't know about these things in the happy field now, and after returning home, he was still thinking carefully about the factory.

I even thought that if the factory really sprung up, then the money bank would also rise with the tide.

But Ganchi is also worried about some things, such as how to ensure the cultivation of food under the factory model, which is the most fundamental guarantee of society. This is something that those in power have to consider, and the balance between factories and cultivation and population is too important.