Understanding this truth, Song Yingxing no longer worries about Zhu Youxiao, and at the same time decided to prepare a batch of original entrepreneurship funds for students, of course, this fund will not let the state or the royal family take it out themselves, he hopes that the students who graduated from the school will provide it for the school after making money, without mandatory regulations, in accordance with the principle of voluntariness, and to strengthen this education among future students, so that they feel that if the ministry provides this fund to the school, it will be looked down upon by the alumni, forming a moral guilt.

Guan Mutong will become a big inventor is not necessarily, but it is inevitable to become an industrialist, with Zhu Youxiao's thousand taels of silver as the capital, it is not a problem to establish a small bicycle factory, what kind of scale can be made in the end, it depends on his own vision, but a rich life should not be a problem.

After reading Guan Mutong's wooden donkey, Zhu Youxiao decided to look at other factories in the school, in fact, this is not so much a factory, but also a laboratory, the largest place is the test workshop for public use, all the machine tools of Daming can be seen here, as long as the students who are studying through the basic courses, whether they have studied for a few years, they can practice here, even if they graduate, if they want to find some inspiration, or if they want to save their own expenses, their money is not enough to do experiments, they can come here to process what they need, and at present, the materials are still provided free of charge, because under the banner of the royal family, Niu Jinxing has contracted all these material fees. But Niu Jinxing is not a fool, the only condition he put forward is that he has the right of first refusal to buy patents, and under the same conditions, he has the right of first refusal.

Here Zhu Youxiao found a thing worth paying attention to, that is, several students are making a special filling machine, but it seems that there is something wrong, and several people are discussing something fiercely. So Zhu Youxiao walked over to hear what kind of problems they encountered, and to see if he could use the insights of his later generations to help them provide some ideas.

After listening carefully to their discussion for a while, it turned out that some of these students had stayed on the battlefield, especially on the battlefield in the Western Regions, and they found that eating was a big problem many times, especially when marching in bad climate, for example, when marching in the desert area, not only should they bring enough drinking water, but also firewood for cooking, otherwise they can only eat raw meat and dry food, although they can eat fried noodles, but after eating that thing for a long time, they will get tired of eating crookedly, and it is very water-consuming. Now they're looking at how to put food in glass bottles, how to seal it and keep it longer.

Zhu Youxiao found an interesting phenomenon, since the emergence of glass, around the application of glass, there have been a lot of industries, such as the use of glass bottles to store some more precious things, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc., which are not easy to deteriorate and easy to use. After Xu Guangqi's students made a simple microscope, the students made a great use of it, and the microscope they made became more and more advanced, and now it can be magnified four or five hundred times, and what can be seen under the microscope is getting smaller and smaller, and even simple cells can be seen clearly. Now these students are trying to figure out how to empty the air in the bottle, create a relative vacuum, and keep the food in the bottle longer.

Zhu Youxiao finally understood, it turned out that these people planned to develop a canned food sealing machine, these people planned to make canned food from things that could not be eaten on the battlefield and were easy to spoil, of course, there is no such term canned food now, this is a good idea, and it is a new invention to add an industry, if they really have developed this kind of canned food, then the future demand will be very large, and it will greatly change the way of food supply on the battlefield, because sometimes the supply of logistics can almost determine the outcome of a war, Especially in today's extremely harsh transportation conditions, this canned food is even more important.

So, Zhu Youxiao, a miscellaneous expert who graduated from a supply and marketing school, decided to help them. Preliminary processing of goods is one of the courses that must be learned in the supply and marketing school, and after resigning, when purchasing waste products, Zhu Youxiao has a lot of contact with this kind of processing plant, such as the acquisition of glass bottles, many of which are canned bottles, which are sold to canning processing plants, so Zhu Youxiao is also very familiar with the canned filling and sealing machine, in fact, the most important thing is how to maintain a relative vacuum when sealing.

Song Yingxing was behind, followed by Zhu Youxiao and squeezed into the middle of the group of students who were discussing, Zhu Youxiao said: "Students, I see that you are all discussing how to put food in bottles and how to keep it longer. Well, I'll give you some ideas, but if you've succeeded in your research, you'll have to give me a little bit of a patent! First of all, the problem of canning, you can use manual packaging, if you manufacture the machine, it will cost a lot of trouble, now the labor cost is very low, you can not develop it for the time being, and then the labor cost is relatively high. The second is the problem of disinfection, which can be solved by making a long iron pot, the round steamer uses the smallest volume, while the square pot is more efficient. The third most important thing is the sealing problem, you can seal most of the bottle mouth on the bottle full of food, this needs a machine, have you ever seen a hydraulic press, if you design the distance and strength of the activity, it will not crush the bottle, as for the gas equipment that empties the bottle, who of you has not added a bellows for cooking, think about it carefully, and use it in reverse is not the simplest extractor? ”

As soon as the students heard Zhu Youxiao's design ideas, they immediately had a sudden realization, "Yes, yes, this is what we can't figure out, but I didn't expect this little brother to think of it at once, thank you so much." By the way, brother, would you like to join our research group? If it is successfully developed, it will be a good thing for the benefit of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "I just have to provide a little idea, as for how you do these things, I won't." It's just that I can give you a little advice, I suggest that you don't put all the people here to study this one problem, as the saying goes, there is a specialization in the art industry, you can form several groups to study the various steps of production separately, that is, if the production process is broken down into different simple operations, maybe it will reduce the trouble of production. ”

"Yes, yes. Why didn't we think of this problem, it's been a few days, so many people are focused here on this one problem, and there are still so many steps to solve. "The question of wasting talent and time was immediately raised.

The next thing is not to be mixed by Zhu Youxiao himself, those students with strong hands-on ability will naturally develop the required mechanical products according to those ideas.

Song Yingxing listened to Zhu Youxiao's suggestion, and also felt very inspired, and thought for a while, just like Zhu Youxiao asked: "Your Majesty's words have inspired me a little, you mean that this is not the case, that is, to slowly turn the complex process into many simple steps, just like letting a person walk a very long distance at once, he will rush to the difficulty, but if the goal is set to only need to walk dozens of miles every day, that is, simply divided into several sections, so that he will arrive at the goal clearly, and it is completely possible to work hard." There is also an analogy, which is to change the way of motion, such as combining linear motion with circular motion, or separating it, it may be simpler. As long as you are familiar with each simple step, and then connect it through a certain program, this greatly improves the production efficiency. It seems that this was done in the firearms factory, and the example you mentioned is the way the Qin Dynasty standard weapons were made. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Yes, the simpler the operation, the easier it is to get familiar with, the faster the operation, and many simple things are combined into a complex machine after a certain program, and this name is program control." ”

Song Yingxing said: "According to this theory, can all machines be solved according to this line of thinking? That's right, isn't that complicated pot camel machine just assembled little by little parts? When a pair of iron objects are assembled according to a certain design, they become an 'iron bull', which seems to be a new principle. ”

This genius is very different from ordinary people's thinking, Zhu Youxiao can make Song Yingxing think of engineering cybernetics in a few words, this is a theory that only appeared hundreds of years later! As for later, Song Yingxing and Xu Guangqi and others really edited a set of famous works on engineering cybernetics according to the process of these production times, but Zhu Youxiao told them that the people who read these books must have a certain prescribed range, and they must not be casually distributed.