After Zhao Dan came out of the gunpowder workshop, he couldn't help but tell him about the necessity of safe production.

Looking at the submissive but disapproving look of the belly Zhen, Zhao Dan really had the urge to teach this guy a hard lesson.

This person, in order to be an explosive maniac, doesn't even want his own life?

But it really looks like that's what happened.

As the saying goes, those who are horizontal are afraid of the flute, and those who are afraid of the flute are not dead.

Now that he really doesn't even want his life, Zhao Dan really can't do anything about him.

There's no way he really killed his whole family.

So Zhao Dan suppressed the urge to smoke people, and walked towards the next workshop accompanied by his belly.

The next workshop is Zhao Guo's smelting workshop.

In terms of output, the smelters in Datong of Zhao Guo are undoubtedly the most, and the output also accounts for more than sixty percent of Zhao Guo's annual output.

But from the perspective of quality, Zhao Guo's most core and high-end smelting technology is still in the smelting workshop in front of Zhao Dan.

All the weapons and armor of Zhao Guogu's armored cavalry are produced here, and now they are cooperating with the craftsmen of Zhao Guomo's family to carry out research on one of the most important inventions for Zhao Dan - the steam engine.

Zhao Dan urgently needed a steam engine.

Today's Zhao State is the country with the most extensive territory ruled by the Huaxia people in the world, and when the Qin and Chu countries are completely eliminated in the future, and the territory will become even more vast after taking Lingnan.

This is an unprecedentedly powerful empire, and if he wants to rule such a vast empire, Zhao Dan feels that the simplest and most direct solution to the problem is to invent the steam engine.

As soon as the steam engine appeared, then the first thing that followed was the railway, which could make the mode of transportation change dramatically, and could make the center of the empire and the whole part of the empire more closely connected, which had a great strengthening effect on the consolidation of the empire's rule.

The reason why the British Empire was able to successfully rule the vast colonies around the world for so long was because of the various dividends brought by the invention of the steam engine, and if Zhao could invent it at this time, then in terms of time, it would be almost 2,000 years earlier than Britain!

Two thousand years!

In addition, the steam engine can also drive the development of metallurgy, printing and dyeing, machinery, chemical industry, textile, mining, shipbuilding and many other industries, so that Zhao Guo can leap forward into an era that is completely proud of the earth.

This is a super killer that can definitely change the times.

Think about it, if one day, the soldiers of Zhao State got off the train in an orderly manner, and then armed with rifles, behind them were rows of artillery, facing European barbarians riding horses and wielding swords......

This picture is so beautiful, it's exciting to think about.

As long as the steam engine can be invented, it may not be possible to unify the world, but it is absolutely no problem to make the Huaxia people the master of the world.

But the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.

After Zhao Dan arrived at the workshop to visit the latest troops, he learned that the craftsmen of Zhao still did not have much idea how to use steam to generate power at the moment.

Zhao Dan suddenly wanted to slap himself twice at this time, why didn't he take physics classes well in middle school, and patronized history books all day long?

But now regret is useless, Zhao Dan can only try his best to tell these craftsmen about the pitiful knowledge of the steam engine in his mind, and encourage these craftsmen very kindly, saying that some widows are patient with you, and you must not give up, and when you succeed, the widows will all promote you to the knighthood, and your descendants will also be shaded because of this.

After walking out of this workshop, Zhao Dan inspected several other workshops one by one.

Generally speaking, the status of a profession such as a craftsman is actually not high, and it is a little higher than that of a merchant among the farmers and industrialists.

In fact, in this era, it has long been a recognition of money and not people, and many big businessmen are no different from the big bosses of later generations in terms of the degree of wealth in terms of some special regulations (such as dressing and traveling).

Therefore, craftsmen are the most difficult profession.

Moreover, before that, most of the craftsmen were the descendants of captives or criminals, which further increased the degree of discrimination against the craftsmen.

Zhao Dan thought for a while, and suddenly said to the belly who was a little confused, probably thinking about the gunpowder formula: "Belly Qing, do you think it would be a good idea for the widow to start an engineering school here?" ”

Belly Zhen responded a little vaguely, but immediately came back to his senses and looked at Zhao Dan with a surprised expression: "The king wants to open a craftsman school here?" This ......"

I was surprised, after all, I had never heard of anyone who would open a school for craftsmen.

Zhao Dan thought for a while and said: "It's not a school like the Huaxia Academy, in fact, the widow just wants to find a place to gather the craftsmen, and then let you and other people teach them lessons and impart some knowledge." In this way, these craftsmen themselves have good craftsmanship, and if they have more knowledge, they may be able to hope to become masters like you in the future, which is a good thing for the widow and the Zhao state. ”

It is very difficult to let others become craftsmen from the current social atmosphere, after all, the intellectuals in these years are basically scholars, and if a scholar wants to be either an official or a soldier, who will be a craftsman? Therefore, there is only one way to go through internal potential.

I thought for a moment and said: "The king's idea is of course very good, but the problem is that most of these craftsmen are illiterate, and just knowing words is already troublesome, plus they usually have to work, where is the time to learn knowledge?" ”

Zhao Dan waved his hand and said very firmly: "The work can never be done, but knowledge is not." In this way, the widow will send some captives over during this time, and from now on, he will slowly start to let these captives work, and let the craftsmen start to learn calligraphy and learn relevant knowledge! Also, if all the craftsmen have underage children in the family, then let them all come to school, and as for the expenses during the school, they will be allocated by the Shaofu! ”

When he remembered the scene when he was grinning and learning to write, he couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth, and felt a little funny in his heart: "The king is good at everything, but it seems too naïve to think about things." ”

In my opinion, what is the use of this group of illiterate guys even if they learn knowledge? That is, to take it to the grave.

However, he respectfully agreed, and promised to take a month to prepare, and try to get this matter done before the winter came.