On the second day, the Queen Mother passed down the decree of Yi, establishing the Quanzhou Quanshi as the queen, Lin'an Gu as the Yi concubine, and the sister of Yang Jieliang in Guangping, Jiankang Mansion as the concubine.

Great Xia Xianheng in August.

After half a year of drought, Jiangnan finally ushered in the first rain since February.

The autumn rain was misty, the sky was cloudy, and the sky was gloomy.

Inside Jizhong Hall, the lights are bright.

However, it was only two o'clock, and there was no maid and woman in the courtyard.

Jiangnan in early autumn, still with some heat, since a few months ago, Gan Tang was injured since the experience of Taixue changes, a few days ago sent away Shi drunk and other twelve people to Jiangbei counties to take office, today is the first time out of the house.

Two days ago, the Empress Dowager ordered Gantang to patrol the Nanyang to inspect the autumn grain of the southern provinces into Beijing and eliminate coastal pirates.

Since the migration of Bactria to the South Seas, with the rise of maritime trade, the pirates on the southeast coast have been out of control.

According to the reports of the coastal counties, most of the main pirates came from the east of the East China Sea, and mainly from the unemployed ronin.

There are also fishermen on the coast of Shandong and Hebei who were taken aback to the sea by the Yanxia War.

In the South Seas, traces of the appearance of the Semu people were also found. The Great Xia court had to increase the intensity of the attack, but the effect has not been good, Wang Mingzhi's Jinghai twists and turns made the empress dowager have to send the forbidden army sailors to the sea.

Two years have passed, and Gantang has grown a lot taller.

Daily exercise and a nutritious diet make him look much taller than the average thirteen-year-old.

However, the physiognomy also grew, becoming more and more delicate and extraordinary.

Compared with the small setbacks encountered by Gan Tang's mastery of some of the Taixue powers, Yu Mao in the Xishan Courtyard had a feeling of being at home.

After several years of development, under the guidance of His Royal Highness the King of Xiangyang, the scale of the West Third Courtyard continued to expand, and a year ago a school was opened next to the Annex, where more than 100 children and orphans of craftsmen absorbed all kinds of knowledge like a sponge under the guidance of the master and the old craftsmen.

Compared with most private schools, all he learned in the classroom here was the knowledge he was interested in.

After school, he can also go to various workshops to do handicrafts, which is their favorite, and he has an incomparable sense of satisfaction watching the parts being made, put together, and turned into a machine.

China's ancient inventions were basically only practical, not logical.

An invention is often invented for a certain purpose, but after it is invented, it lacks the malleability of its function.

Just like a waterwheel, ancient China had a variety of waterwheels when the Netherlands did not have it, but for thousands of years, the use of hydraulic resources for grinding noodles has never been studied, only the simple function of watering.

Confucianism's imprisonment of people's minds can only be compared with religion in history, and this kind of examination-oriented education is a serious castration of thought.

If you want to produce research results, you must set a clear research direction for them at the beginning. With the ancient wisdom of the Chinese people, as long as you really want to do something, there is almost nothing you can't do.

The research and development of textile machines, waterwheels, and transmission systems are all technologies that can be developed in this era.

Then there is the use of technology, when merchants or the court taste the sweetness, at this time there is no need for Gantang's guidance little by little.

Finally, there are various reward and punishment mechanisms, which are not only material, but also honorable.

This is still an era of simple heart, and the rewards of honor and social recognition can move people's hearts more than material rewards.

In this way, the gradual improvement of the mechanism can allow an institution to play a more active role, and only then can people have a higher enthusiasm for research and development, and promote social progress.

The Xishan Courtyard is too small, and due to the threat of war, Gan Tang's first consideration is the safety and survival of the country. We have to devote all our energy to the research and development and transformation of military science and technology.

If it were not for the approaching pace of war, the continuous flow of water power of the Yangtze River not far from the Yangtze River could have become an important engine for the development of the industrial zone.

At that time, most of the 500 craftsmen Gan Tang transferred from the Ministry of Industry in Daxia went to Nanyang with Gan Sheng and Deng Yu to open up.

Due to the continuous increase in the number of projects, the more than 100 people left behind cannot meet the demand.

In the past few years, Xishan Villa has recruited skilled craftsmen from all over the country to join the largest research institute in Daxia.

Early this morning, the official family in charge of the Xishan Courtyard in Ganfu led a family from Jiangxi.

Although there are seven or eight people, there is only one craftsman, named Guan Yuangu, who is fifty years old and has gray hair, and his right hand is missing a tail finger for some reason.

The other people are not craftsmen now, but Guan Yuangu's Yu Ding, two of whom are young and strong, are the sons of the old craftsman, the eldest son Guan Er, and the second son Guan Ban.

The name sounds majestic, and it feels like there are more scholars than craftsmen. In fact, it is nothing more than Guan Lao'er and Da Lang Erlang.

The carriage came along the newly built concrete pavement, and the Guans father and son were counting their rituals with the help of several post guards, such as carpentry boxes, ironwork furnaces, mining baskets, and iron ingots.

When he came, the housekeeper of Ganfu said that when he came to Jiankang, he wanted to listen to the meaning of Yu Qishou to make things, and after the things were completed, the official family also mentioned that they wanted them to stay in Kyoto.

If it is the employer of Corporal Lixian, this is not a good thing for the Guan family father and son.

In the past, some master craftsmen like Seki Yuangu had to take on the obligation of a class craftsman every year, that is, they would be sent free of charge at the Kyoto Bureau or other places in three months in one year, two or three years.

It was said that it was three months, but it would take them three or five months to go from Liuzhou Mansion in Guangxi to Yanjing, and it would take another three or five months to return, and a year would have passed inside and out.

Now Kyoto is in Jiankang, the distance is much shorter, a few years ago, the emperor issued an edict, allowing them to use the annual silver of four and a half cents of silver to exempt the class craftsman from the dispatch, but where did the four dollars and five cents of silver come from? This almost meant that they had to pay one stone of rice a year to be exempt from dispatch.

In addition, there are also resident craftsmen, who have ten days a month, they have to work for the military station set up in the state capital, and the rest of the time can only take some odd jobs to make ends meet, and if they do not want to be a resident craftsmen, they can only hand over a penny of silver every month, so that the state government can hire others to work.

And the identity of being born as a military craftsman determines that he can't rely on his craft to open a shop and make a lot of money like the craftsmen inside and outside the city in his life, but can only help the military households repair their armor in their spare time, and the poor military households only have a lot of money? He was only paid for some food a year, not enough money to pay for the government and the guard.

In this case, that is to say, if the housekeeper of the Gan family wanted to hire them, he had to pay the official to the government a total of one tael or seven taels of silver every year, and pay them one tael of silver per month.

The wages are quite high, and even more than double the wages of skilled military craftsmen in the market.

The Guan family father and son were in great need of such an employer, and as the housekeeper said, the owner surnamed Gan was very rich, rich enough to settle their entire year's wages at once!

In Guan Yuangu's heart, he felt that since the master of the Gan family was in a hurry to ask the local worker Cao to transfer them, he must be in a hurry, and he might be able to pay some courtesy, but the truth didn't seem to be what he imagined.

There were only a few post guards who led them, and they thought that the Guan family father and son were relatives of the officials who came and went, and the post guards led by them asked with a smile: "Old man, what is your trip?" ”

"There is labor, Lao Er was sent by Liuzhou Gongcao to come under the command of the Gan housekeeper. I heard that Yu Daban is on duty here, I don't know ......" Guan Yuangu reached out and asked, "Where is Yu Maoyu Daban?" ”

"It's Yu Ye's subordinates!"

Over the years, the soldier named Ke Ze'er stationed here has become familiar with Yu Mao and his party, and pointed to the east of the courtyard with a smile: "Old man, Master Yu accompanied the master to release the gun in the forest over there, and I will lead you over." ”

A few people had not walked far before they saw a few young men dressed as guards on the side of the road, some pounding medicine and some covering their ears, followed by a bang.

"Bump!"

Gunsmoke rises from the mouth.

In Gantang's words, the Lao Guan family was fortunate to see the world's most scientifically proportioned gunpowder in the world for the first time in the forest of Kyoto's Nishiyama Villa in this era. It's just that apparently, the performance of gunpowder is not so satisfactory.

In order to avoid exploding, Gan Tang asked Shao Huan to aim at a target fifty paces away with a better quality bird, and instead of loading the gun tube with three coins as usual, only two coins.

In Gan Tang's imagination, a more scientifically proportioned gunpowder is used as a firing charge, and two coins should be enough to achieve the effect of three coins.

Not really.

With a bang, the lead shot crossed a distance of fifty paces and accurately hit the trunk of the tree that had been aimed in advance, and even from the position of Gantang, a splash of sawdust could be seen on the trunk.

But Yu Mao's youngest grandson, Yu Ke, ran over, but instead of using a knife to buckle the lead pill on the tree, he lowered his head and searched under the tree for a while, and then happily raised his hand high for them to see.

Apparently, the lead shot failed to break through the bark and penetrate the trunk, leaving a small crater in the trunk and falling to the ground.

Gan Tang took a deep breath and said to Shao Huan, who was holding the gun: "Three coins, thirty steps." ”

In his expectation, even if he had less than three percent of the medicine, it should not be enough to shoot through the bark of a tree fifty paces away, and even if the original gunpowder was less loaded, it would have been able to achieve this effect.

Not being able to penetrate the trunk of a tree means that it is also impossible to penetrate the enemy after the armor is pierced.

Did you overestimate the explosive power of the optimal ratio of gunpowder, or did you go wrong in the process of pounding gunpowder?

These problems were solved when the charge of the three coins was punched out by Shao Huan, which was louder, less smoky, and recoiled, and the lead shot accurately hit the trunk of the tree thirty paces away.

Yu Ke ran over and searched for a long time, and finally found a transparent hole in the thick trunk of the bowl, and the lead shot had long since flown somewhere.

"Pierced!"

Gan Tang's attention was not on the tree trunk that hit, but on the bird gun in Shao Huan's hand, just now he had been worried that this bird system made from Yu Mao would not be able to resist the gunpowder explosion and explode, but now it seems that as long as the bird gun is done well, the quality seems to be okay.

I breathed a sigh of relief.