An Taihou talked to Baili Yan and Wei Xian again, most likely because King Xian did not resist the temptation of An Taihou and was relieved, after all, it was a big pie falling from the sky, and there was no reason not to pick it up.

But the problem is that Xianguo only borders Pengyuan County of Sun State, and Zhiguo and Changsun State are also connected to Pengyuan County, Xianguo can occupy it, but Changsun State and Zhiguo cannot occupy the capacity of Xianguo, how can the countries watch Xianguo annex the territory of Sun State, isn't it obvious that they stretch out their heads to give others a knife and hit the muzzle of the gun themselves.

After receiving an invitation from An Taihou, Bailiyan was not busy with the appointment, and continued to inspect the chain mail, the crossbow workshop of the even archers, and the ships under construction in the dockyard.

The shipbuilding master sent by the Ligong faction this time is Zhou Tong, who is as famous as Wu Shu, Zhou Tong is a young man, and worships under the shipbuilding master of the Ligong faction, and Wu Suan is much worse, starting from the lowest student to establish a reputation step by step.

Zhou Tong is also an extremely smart guy, after learning about Bailiyan's idea, he gave the preliminary idea of a new shipbuilding method within ten days, which originally required three years of good five thousand stone ships, but now it only takes one year and two months.

Traditional shipbuilding is bottom-up, with a dry dock, the lower keel can be laid from the bow, stern, lower cabin at the same time to start construction, half of the construction, the superstructure can also be built at the same time, greatly shortening the traditional construction period.

After the new type of continuous archer crossbow was equipped with the pioneer battalion last year, it was extremely effective in the first battle, and all armies and battalions were vying for a share, after all, in close combat on the battlefield, if you can release a few arrow clusters at will, it will be more effective than after a dangerous battle.

However, many problems were also exposed, due to the blind pursuit of speed, the wood used in the first batch of repeating crossbows was not fully dried and waterproofed, and cracked after several soaks in the rain, and the versatility of the arrow box needed to be improved.

The expanded workshops exude an atmosphere of hard work, with a constant flow of people on the busy streets, horse-drawn carriages and ships carrying iron ore and coal, passing through the city's inland rivers into the water gate, and anchoring in the inner harbor to wait for unloading.

Follow the carriage to Liu Zao and his son kiln factory, the father and son are now the highest industrial officials of Yongxing kiln factory, responsible for the production of core economic products such as coking, porcelain, brick burning, ice, soap, paper, etc., and are currently tackling the lens test process, and more than 40 finished products have been processed.

"My lord, these are concave and convex lenses with polished outer edges, and the sprue left by casting cannot be abandoned for the time being, so the outer edge can only be polished by hand after forming." Liu Zao pointed to the outer edge of the lens and said.

"Well, as long as the outer edge is smooth and doesn't pull hands, as for the process improvement, let's talk about it later. I can't take care of it yet. ”

The production of glassware shape is roughly divided into two kinds, one is a thinner traditional glass craft, through a blowpipe and iron tongs, while blowing and pulling while shaping, the advantage is high efficiency, convenient modeling, and the disadvantage is that the product is thinner. The other is mold casting, which is suitable for the production of thicker glass products. With current technology, lenses can only be obtained by pouring.

The glass process has been improved, and the light transmittance has been improved compared with many years ago, but the effect still does not meet the standard of high-quality optical glass.

The first batch of lenses cast by Liu Zao has many defects, and the outer edge sprue left during casting still needs to be manually polished in the later stage, and it takes one person two days to grind a lens to be good. In order to ensure the light transmittance and mirror roughness of the lens, the molds are made of copper molds, and it took more than half a month to open only a pair of convex lens molds, which can be described as extremely labor-intensive.

Turning his gaze to Yang Dun, Bai Liyan continued

"Yang Gongzao, telescopic bronze cylinder can be done"

"It's been done, if the adults use it, let people take it immediately."

"No, it's all packed and handed over to the guard officer Jiang Jie."

"No"

"Guard officer" is a new position after the reform of the new military system, the nature of the same as the previous life of the "adjutant", is the current miscellaneous and miscellaneous establishment of the institutionalized establishment, such as the guard officer set school lang, school army lang, Xiao Ma Lang, Ma Ben and so on miscellaneous work in one, the annual salary is only two stones.

Liangshi's annual salary is actually not enough to support his family at all, Jiang Jie's qualifications are shallow and his position is low. The main job of the guard officer is to be an assistant, and all the food, lodging and expenses are hung up in the army, so there is not much personal expenditure in peacetime.

At the same time, at the same time, there is a shortage of materials, and those who serve as soldiers have no other living items except for drinking wine, eating meat, prostitution, and gambling money.

In addition, Jiang Jie is attached to the Wei Mansion, and he receives daily necessities every month, and there are a lot of hidden expenses in a year.

At present, the new military system is only tried out in the armed battalions, from the generals to the heads of ordinary veterans, everyone implements a salary system, and integrates military posts with the military merit system, and establishes a new military merit title and rank system to encourage the rise and fall of rewards and punishments, and gradually transform the existing loose and chaotic conscription, conscription, compulsory conscription, and private military system into a professional and conscription system in stages in the future, so as to improve the army's war quality.

Putting away all the lenses, Bai Liyan then asked

"Yang Gongzao, how is the copper movable type carved?"

"Due to the serious shortage of seal carving craftsmen and work, there are still more than 500 words that have not been completed, and it will take months according to the current progress."

"If it weren't for the fear of leaking the process, the official really wanted to hire a good teacher from another country to come."

"My lord, there is actually a way to work, but there are shortcomings"

"Oh, Yang Gongzao but it doesn't hurt to say."

In fact, you can use the fan casting method, first use the clay movable type to make the mold firing, use the clay movable type model, and then use the copper water fan casting mold, and then carve it with the craftsman. However, the fan casting method is only suitable for large characters, and if it is a small character, it may not be satisfactory. ”

Yang Dun wanted to use the casting method to cast a large-scale font mold, and use manual chisels to shorten the working hours after molding. The advantage is that it is fast and easy to manufacture on a large scale, while the disadvantage is that the current technical conditions can only process fonts the size of a penny coin, and no matter how small it is, it is very troublesome.

Clay movable type Bailiyan tried, although the molding is fast, but the life is short, it is easy to be damaged when printing, not durable, and the typesetting is not as beautiful and smooth as the copper movable type, so I thought it was better to simply forget it in one step, but the result was that the large-span development of copper movable type encountered trouble.

"I think this method is feasible, the small characters continue to engrave, the large characters can try this method, in addition to the lost wax mold, casting medium character mold, and then fine seal carving processing. In the future, small characters will be used for printing process books, and neutrons and large characters will be used for textbook printing, so as not to spoil the eyes. ”

"Tomorrow the lowly will let people try these two methods."

"In addition, it is necessary to pay close attention to the training of students and workers, next year or the year after, a large number of books need to be printed, and it is difficult to cope with the future printing with only one set or two sets of fonts, so we must step up this matter. If necessary, the engraving of the word mold can be suspended, and the training of students can be concentrated. ”

Engraving is still a sought-after technology at the moment, mostly monopolized by the official, carving official seals, order symbols, military talismans, jade jewelry, etc., the process cycle is long, and there are few people, Bailiyan seconded several craftsmen to the Royal Division for this purpose, and collected a lot from all over the country, barely got together the engraving workshop, and carved copper movable type day and night.

Leaving Liu Zao's kiln, Bailiyan immediately left Yongxing City and returned to Yinling, and set out to solve Antaihou's success.

It was already dusk when I arrived at Shanling, and people came and went outside the West Gate, many of them were caravans and horses, all of whom wanted to enter the city before dark.

"My lord, the capital has been much more lively recently than before." Jiang Jie rode a horse and walked on the side.

"yes, it's much better than it was two years ago, but it's still worse than it was six years ago. When the official came to Lingling, the nightingale in the city sang and danced, but now it is not prosperous. It will take another year or two to go back to six years ago. ”

"But now that the war is not over, the capital can have such a grand occasion, compared to other places, it is only seen. If the world is peaceful, Chenling will definitely be more prosperous than in previous years. ”

"I hope so. Let's go to the east of the city. ”

The flow of people in Jinzuifang in Shanling is still the same, even when the situation in Shanling is the most tight, it has not been closed. During the Gongsun Yue rebellion in the second year, Jinzuifang was destroyed by fire, and it was rebuilt in less than two months, which is bigger than before.

Bailiyan made an appointment with Guan Longxiang and Lu Gao to eat wine in Jinzuifang, and after a while, he had already come to Jinzuifang, and as soon as he got off the horse, Ji Jinsheng of the prince's mansion staggered out of Jinzuifang and passed by.

"What a coincidence"

secretly said in his heart, looking at Ji Jinsheng's back, he couldn't help but make Bailiyan a little more interested. Since Liang Feng served as the Sima envoy of the Northern Army of the Jin Army, and Ji Jinsheng was transferred to the Prince's Mansion, the Prince's Mansion has changed a lot compared to before.

The spies scattered in Xihuan also came out of nowhere, and Yongxing City became the focus of the Jin people, and there were thefts for a long time. The Ligong delegation also reacted many times, there were sporadic drawings missing for no reason, how much of this was done by the people of the Jin Kingdom, it is still difficult to know, but this season Jinsheng wandered around the Lingling all day long, which is not a normal phenomenon in itself.

Coming to the second floor of Jinzuifang, Guan Longxiang booked an independent wing room in the southeast corner of the second floor according to the old rules

"Lord Wei."

"Two of you are exempt."

Sitting down, Bai Liyan picked up the wine jar on the table, poured a bowl of rice wine, and drank two sips first

"The rice wine in this Tsuzui Fang has changed a little recently."

"There are few japonica rice ginseng, and the taste should be sweet from that time." Lu Gao is a connoisseur of drinking, and his words broke through the doorway.

"Glutinous rice is needed to make wine, and now it seems that the autumn harvest in Chenling last year has indeed benefited the people, and the cultivation of glutinous rice has increased greatly, otherwise the winery can use more glutinous rice to make wine."

The voice fell, and Guan Longxiang took over and said

"The adults know that it is not bad at all. After the summer harvest last year, there were many farmers in Wangjun Village who planted glutinous rice, and the yield per mu of the autumn harvest increased by as much as 50%, and the quantity was large and the price was high, which was purchased by Qin Wangjun in large quantities for winemaking, and some of them were sold into the city. ”

"Mr. Guan Long wants to talk about the enclosure of the land occupied by the Wang Jun in the Wang Dependent Village."

"Hehe, my lord is really like a god. The land of Wang Dependent Village is fertile, and now the concubines and servants of the Qin Wang Army are in the Wang Dependent Village, and there are rumors recently that the Qin Wang Army wants to build a city wall in the Wang Dependent Village. ”

"Well, Wangjun Village and Yongxing and Shanling are each other's horns, it is said that it is okay to build a county seat here, but Wang Dependent Village is mostly where the powerful are, and it is fake to build a city in Wangjun Village, and it is true to plot the land of the three counties of Dujun Xijun, Xianxi County, and Chunan County in the future, and this matter must not be taken lightly."

"After the war, it is imperative to reward meritorious deeds, and if it is not handled properly, I am afraid that the situation of adults will be extremely difficult."

"Yes, there are only seventy or eighty thousand people in the army of these Qin Wangs, but each of them is a feudal monarch and a hero. Haoqiang will inevitably worship the doctor in the future, and the feudal monarch will expand the land, and even enter the lord and marquis. ”

The times create heroes, the grass head king in troubled times, the composition of the Qinwang army is complex, in addition to the magnates, there are also the local Haoqiang who are attracted by the magnates, and the Haoqiang leads more than a thousand people, less than a hundred, or even one or two hundred, but there are a large number of hidden households in their hometowns, and these hidden households continue to give the powerful and powerful soldiers, and the strength of the Qinwang army has always been maintained at about seventy or eighty thousand, and often the most problematic is the Qinwang army.

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