Zheng Zhilong was so excited after receiving the compensation of 30 million taels of silver that he couldn't wait to go ashore and send a telegram to Zhu Cijiong, and then Shi Shiran rushed back to Xingcheng Port.

It's not that he sees the money, the main thing is that the money is obtained by his mouth, just arguing with people for a few days can earn 30 million taels, this sense of accomplishment is simply indescribable, in short, he feels like eating ginseng fruit, and his whole body is comfortable.

Zhu Cijiong was also very happy after receiving the news, the 30 million taels can be said to be for nothing, and the benefits of the Nordic iron chain are far more than these, it can be said that the Mughal Empire and Batavia can be occupied because of the Nordic iron chain.

If it weren't for the fact that the Great Powers were pinned down in Europe, let alone Batavia, it would be a question of whether the Mughal Empire could be taken down.

Maybe Philip IV and Joao IV couldn't understand why the Ming Empire would so readily agree to lift the blockade of the Strait of Dover, after all, the longer the blockade is better for the Ming Dynasty, you must know that Spain, Portugal and the anti-Habsburg alliance are contained in Northern Europe, and the sea can be said to be left with the Ming Dynasty, and the colonies can be robbed as much as they want.

Zhu Cijiong naturally has his thoughts, everything is too much, the anti-Habsburg alliance is not really unable to take the Nordic iron chain, they are really forced to be in a hurry, gather all the land forces, sea and land joint attack, Spain and Portugal can not bear it.

In that case, although the anti-Habsburg coalition will suffer heavy losses, Spain and Portugal may be in a slump from then on, so it is better to let Spain and Portugal preserve their strength and slowly contain the anti-Habsburg coalition.

You must know that the potential of Britain and France is very terrifying, and now they still have a cooperative relationship with the Netherlands, once they are not restrained by Spain and Portugal, they will definitely rise rapidly, and at that time, the Ming will lose more than they gain.

As for the 30 million taels for nothing, Zhu Cijiong is ready to devote himself to the research and development of precision machine tools, because the reason why Daming can develop so rapidly is, in the final analysis, because of the progress of science and technology.

After the development of precision machine tools, not only will the quality of weapons be significantly improved, but more importantly, with precision machine tools, the caliber of artillery can be at least doubled!

Now it is no longer a casting problem that limits the caliber of artillery, since Bi Maokang and they have developed a split mold, no matter how large the caliber can be cast, mainly because the existing machine tools can not be processed.

You know, the weight of the six-inch cannon has reached several thousand catties, and if it continues to rise, the weight will reach at least tens of thousands of catties, and the existing machine tools simply cannot process such heavy things.

Precision machine tools not only have a significant improvement in processing precision, but also far exceed the existing machine tools in terms of power and firmness, and there is no problem in processing tens of thousands of pounds of things.

Twelve-inch cannons, it's exciting to think about, one shot down, a super battleship will be smashed through, build a few such giant cannons and install them on the treasure ship giant ship, the enemy is estimated to be scared to pee his pants!

Now, the Beicheng District of the capital has been basically completed, the machinery of the Daming Institute of Technology, the telegraph, the electrical, metallurgical, the five colleges of commerce have also been built, and even in the mechanical, telegraph, electrical, metallurgical and other colleges have special laboratory buildings, however, these experimental buildings are basically still an empty shelf, because the purchase of equipment, the purchase of materials, the recruitment of employees all need money, and the budget for the construction of the Beicheng District has long been spent.

Zhu Cijiong was still hesitant to throw so much money crazy, although he almost earned a billion taels in the Mughal Empire this time, but the expenses were also quite terrifying, and he spent more than 300 million taels in less than three months, and if he spent it like this, he would be poor as pants in less than a year,!

Now that he has this 30 million taels for nothing, he no longer hesitates, and directly throws 10 million taels each to the Institute of Machinery, Electrical Engineering, and Metallurgy, which is specially used to build the experimental building.

Equipment, all with the best, fill up!

Materials, buy as much as you want, if you don't have it, ask someone to find it, and dig a mine!

personnel, each laboratory building recruits 1,000 professionals, and the treatment is preferential, so that they can fully assist Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi in experiments.

The 30 million taels were smashed down, and the R&D progress of Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi immediately advanced by leaps and bounds.

For example, Song Yingxing, he researches the purification of new elements, and has to find ore by himself, and has to develop various auxiliary materials by himself, and he has to go to the cement factory to crush an ore, and he has to go to the foundry to dissolve an ore, he has a total of ten assistants, how can he be fast.

Now it's different, looking for ore, just send an assistant to take dozens of people to develop, develop auxiliary materials, let a few assistants each bring dozens of people to develop, to crush the ore, directly with a complete set of crushing equipment, to dissolve the ore, directly build a small blast furnace, no need to go out, anything can be done in the experimental building.

Another example is Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi's development of motors and generators, in the past, even if they made a simple motor shell, they had to go to the foundry to cast first, and then they had to go to the machine shop to process.

Now it's different, directly build a small sand turning field for them, recruit sand casting personnel, all the machine tools are matched, and the machine tool workers also recruit them all, and what they want is directly processed by people, which is faster I don't know how many times.

There is also Wang Zheng, who also directly gave him all the equipment, and all kinds of professionals recruited him, and he only needed to guide the research.

The results achieved with such crazy investment are also amazing.

Soon, Song Yingxing purified the tungsten, as for the problem of mass production, just hand it over to the assistant to be responsible, and he entered the next project, the development of silicon steel sheets.

After Zhu Cijiong learned the news, he immediately asked Song Yingxing to organize personnel to develop tungsten filament, and asked Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to organize personnel to conduct various electrification experiments, and also drew a picture of a light bulb, so that the glass factory immediately began to manufacture light bulbs.

As soon as the three sides cooperated, the sample of the light bulb was quickly made, and the dazzling light like the sun amazed Xu Fuyuan, Xia Yunyi and others.

However, I don't know what went wrong, almost the vast majority of the explosions and burned when the electricity was on.

Nima, anyway, it is impossible for this thing to be put on the market on a large scale in a short period of time, Zhu Cijiong simply asked Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to continue to increase the volume, increase the thickness of the bulb, and equip all the experimenters with rubber gloves and flat eyes to prevent them from being injured.

Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi organized another crazy experiment, from the size of a fist to the size of a head, the problem of explosion and burning was finally solved.

As soon as the light bulb was made, it made a lot of sense, and from then on the night was almost the same as the day.

Especially for those who open the machine tool, a rainy day, basically can not see the size, the oil lamp is not good, the oil lamp is weak, but also smoke, smoked for a few hours, can make people's eyes swollen, now there is an electric lamp, rainy day or something is not a matter at all, and even like the later generations, directly arrange three shifts, this efficiency does not know how many times improved.