Seeing that Wei Zhongxian had closed his eyes and started to send off guests, Cui Chengxiu had a triumphant smile on his face.

Exiting the door, Cui Chengxiu said to Feng Quan with the attitude of a victor: "Master Feng, the junior minister will strictly abide by the orders of the Governor and will never let go of any bad guys.

If you have evidence of a good person, you have to show it. We must not wronged any good person.

Haha, haha. ”

Ignoring Feng Quan's ugly face, Cui Chengxiu laughed and left.

At the end of the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse, Sun Ming, the tax supervisor of Qingzhou in the Ming Dynasty, cracked the White Lotus cult case.

The gentry of the five towns in Qingzhou were broken.

The claws of the tax supervisor began to extend to the good gentry (Haoqiang) in all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

research institute

Spring is about to begin, and Zhu Youzhen is busy.

Recently, Zhu Youzhen has been soaking in the research institute every day, discussing the establishment of water conservancy equipment with Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao, and Wang Zheng.

Zhu Youzhen's original idea was very simple, he just wanted to find something to do for the refugees under his rule.

You must know that since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the number of refugees from Liaodong who Zhu Youzhen has successively collected has exceeded 50,000.

Although Zhu Youjian's woolen mill was expanded repeatedly, it only absorbed about a few thousand people (including a large number of women who mainly weaved).

The expansion of the brothers' storehouse took in another one or two thousand people.

And the 4 or 500 Huangzhuang in Zhu Youzhen's hands only absorbed one or two thousand people.

Even if these thousands can feed their families, they will only be able to feed 10,000 to 20,000 refugees.

Of the remaining more than 20,000 people, Zhu Youzhen has always relied on water conservancy construction sites everywhere to support them.

At present, all water conservancy construction sites, except for a few that started particularly late, have been completed before the Spring Festival.

Without the water conservancy site, what will Zhu Youzhen do to feed the refugees?

You must know that working to make money and eating relief are completely two different concepts.

Zhu Youzhen wants to engage in industry, he wants industrial workers, and he doesn't want to raise a bunch of homeless lazy people.

Zhu Youzhen promised the refugees that there would be new projects for them to do, so that they would have a place to earn money and food.

Now Zhu Youzhen is starting to find work for his construction workers.

"Your Highness, are you going to build a water mill or a water cone?"

Wang Zheng smiled and asked His Royal Highness.

His Royal Highness King Xin in front of him, Wang Zheng was very satisfied.

His "Illustrated Strange Artifacts of the Far West" has been officially published.

The generous King of Letters actually printed 1,000 copies at one time.

Wang Zheng has already read those officially printed books.

The paper and ink used in those books were exactly the same as the sample books, without cutting corners in the slightest.

1,000 copies!

How much money it costs.

The cost was so great that King Xin not only did not charge him a penny, but also gave him a penny fee.

The king said, "What is that royalty called?"

How embarrassed is this money Wang Zheng.

Although the king of letters said that the royalties were deducted from the money from the sale of the book. But Wang Zheng knew very well that the book he published would not be bought by a few people at all.

Wang Zheng's "Illustrated Illustration of Strange Artifacts from the Far West" introduces some knowledge and gadgets from the West.

This kind of content, who will read the literati of the Ming Dynasty?

If you simply hope to sell books to earn the cost of printing books, then His Royal Highness the King of Faith will compensate for these 1,000 books.

The king of the letter has lost money, how can Wang Zheng be embarrassed to accept the money from the king.

In fact, as long as the book can be published smoothly, no matter how many copies are published, Wang Zheng will be very satisfied.

After 1,000 copies, Wang Zheng was not only satisfied, he was moved.

After this incident, Wang Zheng's favorability towards King Xinwang was rising slowly.

When I heard Li Zhizao say that King Xin was looking for work for refugees, Wang Zheng's favorability towards King Xin had reached the state of a price limit.

"What's a water cone?"

Regarding Wang Zheng's inquiry, Zhu Youzhen asked weakly.

Before coming to find a job, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect it to be so troublesome.

He wanted to build some water conservancy equipment, and just by choosing a suitable place to build it, Xu Guangqi and Li Zhizao dragged him to discuss it for several days.

That's it, it was Xu Guangqi and Li Zhizao who knew the rivers around the capital well, which saved a lot of selection time.

Now that the location has finally been chosen, Wang Zheng has to discuss the specific equipment with him again, and Zhu Youzhen is really a little bored.

The instruments that Wang Zheng said were like water mills, and as soon as he heard the name, Zhu Youzhen knew what they were for.

But this water cone, Zhu Youzhen is very unfamiliar.

Hearing King Xin's question, the smile on Wang Zheng's face froze.

"Your Highness, this water cone is a device that uses water power to scoop rice."

Wang Zheng explained to Zhu Youzhen in a slightly respectful tone.

I don't even know what a water cone is, and I'm really helping the refugees find work.

After listening to Wang Zheng's explanation, Zhu Youzhen suddenly realized.

The water cone turned out to be the kind of household food that was a stone in front of it, and it was in the stone mortar.

But in my memory, wasn't that thing stepped on with your feet?

Thinking about the shape of the water cone, Zhu Youzhen suddenly remembered a term in his previous life - hydraulic forging press.

The hydraulic forging press should be similar to that, right?

No, I guess I replaced the stone in front of the water cone with a sledgehammer, right?

Imagining the picture in his mind, Zhu Youzhen came to his senses.

Hydraulic forging?

A flash of inspiration flashed in Zhu Youzhen's mind.

Didn't Zhang Yixian say that the most time-consuming thing in the manufacture of muskets was to make wrought iron?

If you have to use this water cone to forge it, it will be much faster.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen became excited.

"Mr. Wang, you said that if we change the cone head of that water cone to an iron hammer and use it to forge wrought iron, can we improve the forging efficiency of wrought iron?"

Regarding Zhu Youzhen's proposal, Wang Zheng was stunned for a moment.

Shin Wang, what a strange idea.

After contemplating and thinking for a moment, Wang Zheng said slowly: "Your Highness, the water cone will definitely not meet Your Highness's requirements.

The speed of this water cone is too slow.

At the speed of a water cone, if you can't hit it a few times, the iron will be cold. ”

How so!

Zhu Youzhen felt a buzzing in his head.

In the previous life, didn't they just build waterwheels?

This water cone is obviously a waterwheel.

Seeing the unhappy look on Zhu Youzhen's face, Wang Zheng slowly explained to Zhu Youzhen.

After listening to Wang Zheng's very professional tirade, Zhu Youzhen finally understood what was going on.

After a long time, China's traditional hydraulic machinery is driven by a transmission shaft. As a result, the rotational speed of the water wheel is completely determined by the speed of the water.

Most of the water wheels are heavier, and the speed of the outgoing water wheel is generally relatively slow.

Like a water cone, it is generally a few rotations a minute.

At this speed, it is just right to use it for rice, but if it is used to strike iron, it will be far from it.

Slow, that's not easy to solve?

Holding down the disdain in his heart, Zhu Youzhen reminded in a warm voice: "Mr. Wang, we can't directly drive the hammer without using the central axis of the water wheel."

Let's connect a big gear to the central shaft, and let it drive other pinions to make the speed faster. ”

After Zhu Youzhen's reminder, Wang Zheng suddenly woke up.

What His Highness said seems to be a kind of water mill transmission structure on his "Illustration of Strange Artifacts in the Far West". The speed of the water mill is much faster than that of the water cone, and it seems to be able to reach the speed of striking iron.

Looking at His Royal Highness King Xin, who seemed to have inadvertently reminded him, Wang Zheng's face couldn't help but feel a fever.

The content of his own book still needs to be reminded by the king, which is too embarrassing.