"On the second of February, the dragon raised its head. The sacrificial cake smoked the bed and the insects were collected, and the green dragon set its head today. ”

Xue Shanggong personally held the scissors, helped Zhu Zhanji cut off the split ends of his hair, and used a razor to help him shave some fluff on the back of his neck.

"Your Highness's beard has grown, and it has become more and more powerful."

Zhu Zhanji was satisfied with the stubble above his lips, which was getting harder and harder, and touched the side of his cheeks with his hand. In his previous life, he didn't have a beard on his cheeks, but he had a beard around his mouth, and in this life he became a beard, but now the beard on his cheeks is still fluffy. "It's still not old enough, and now the stubble is not hard."

Lan Yan, who was holding the mirror for Zhu Zhanji next to him, said charmingly: "It can't be harder anymore, the concubine couldn't stand it last night." ”

After finishing speaking, she realized that there were outsiders beside her, and she wanted to escape in shame, but she couldn't move her steps.

The others didn't dare to laugh, and their faces were flushed one by one, but Xue Shanggong couldn't help but relieve her. smiled: "Of course, the skin of a man's family is thicker than that of our women's family, Your Highness should also be considerate of Lan Liangdi, a delicate little beauty I see pity, how can I stand your toss." ”

Although he has not been in the palace for a long time, almost everyone in the palace knows that this Lan Liangdi is a nerd with no scheming. Such a person is Zhu Zhanji, who takes pity on her, so that she can live in this palace.

is also because Zhu Zhanji pitied her and didn't let anyone bully her, and she was not a threat to anyone, so among the concubines in the palace, her popularity became the best one.

Some people want to find out what news, want to find someone to pass the time, and they are willing to come to talk to her.

Xue Shanggong entered the palace at the age of thirteen, and now he has been in the palace for seventeen years, and most of the women he has seen are scheming and have many schemes.

Now that I see such a simple person, I also like and take care of her. When you interact with such a person, you will never worry about her putting a cold arrow behind her back, and everything on her face is reassuring.

Zhu Zhanji laughed and was about to speak, when he heard Li Liang's panting voice outside. "Your Highness is overjoyed, Your Highness is overjoyed."

Zhu Zhanji turned his head and said, "Let Young Eunuch Li come in." ”

Although it was still early spring and the weather was still cold, Li Liang was sweating all over, and he didn't care about saluting when he entered the house, so he knelt down on one knee and said with a smile: "Your Highness, Yang Qianhu has returned, and brought back the head of Zong Zhensheng, and all the members of the Zong family on Tsushima Island have been conferred the head." ”

"This is indeed good news...... I was going to go to Xiamaqiao Farm today, so let's meet him first. Let him meet him at Donghua Gate, and I'll be there later. ”

This time, of course, there was no need for Li Liang to inform him personally, he sent a little eunuch to pass it on, and he stayed by Zhu Zhanji's side. "Your Highness, now that Tsushima has been taken, are you ready to go on an expedition? Slaves and maids should prepare early? ”

"What does the capture of Tsushima have to do with the expedition?"

Li Liang was dumbfounded all of a sudden, this ...... After a long time, he said: "If you want to send troops to Dongying, taking Tsushima Island is the key!" ”

Zhu Zhanji scolded with a smile: "A guy who doesn't learn and has no skills, he has time to learn more from Sun Lin, and he has to consider different issues in different positions in the war." The capture of Tsushima is only a tactical step, and it has nothing to do with the advancement of the strategy. The key to sending troops to Toei was the result of the negotiations between the imperial court and the Toei shogunate and the daimyos. There's no rush in this matter, let's wait for now. Go and arrange it, and go to the dismount bridge in a moment. ”

Li Liang smiled and said: "For these national affairs, of course, slaves and maids are not as good as His Highness. As long as the slave and maid know how to wait for His Highness, it is enough. ”

Everyone has their own strengths, and if you ask him to do things, he may make a mess. However, serving people, he is a hundred times stronger than Sun Lin.

And although Sun Lin is silent and doesn't know how to look at people's faces, when it comes to intelligence analysis, he is far from being comparable to Li Liang.

At present, Sun Lin is in charge of the Intelligence Department, that is, the intelligence department established by Zhu Zhanji, which has more than 300 internal supervisors, who are specifically responsible for collecting intelligence from all over the country.

They not only collected intelligence on their own, but also formed a cooperative relationship with the Secretary for General Administration and Jinyiwei, and used their intelligence system to form a semi-open intelligence system.

Intelligence from all over the country is gathered in the Information Department, and all the information is classified and counted clearly, which is Sun Lin's ability.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji can be so worry-free, also because above Li Liang and Sun Lin, there is also a well-informed and experienced Jin Kuo.

With his overall arrangement, Zhu Zhanji can be so relaxed.

I haven't seen Yang Zhangde for more than a month, and he deliberately made a dusty appearance, wanting to gain a good impression in front of Zhu Zhanji.

But he didn't travel thousands of miles alone, but came back by boat, and to make him look like this was to play him like a fool!

Zhu Zhanji deliberately pretended not to see him, pointed at Li Liang and said, "Arrange a horse for Yang Qianhu to drive, just to hear the whole incident." ”

Li Liang saw that Yang Zhangde's face was a little confused, and couldn't help but remind in a low voice: "Yang Qianhu, it's too much!" ”

Although he didn't have a good impression of the somewhat unruly Yang Zhangde at first, after more than a year of contact, he also discovered that this Yang Zhangde still has some ability.

Now he has made a great contribution, and the soaring yellow is just around the corner, leaving a little incense at this time, which can be used in the future.

Only then did Yang Zhangde realize that he deliberately made such a look, which made Taisun a little displeased. He wants to play Taisun like a fool, but he is actually a fool.

At this time, he didn't dare to be arrogant, lowered his attitude, followed Zhu Zhanji's side, led himself with three hundred men and horses, tracked Zong Zhensheng in the barren mountains and mountains for more than a month, and finally said lightly the process of his solution.

That's the attitude you should have!

Of course, Zhu Zhanji knows how difficult it is to survive in the wild in this era, especially since it is still winter. I know all the hardships you have endured, but don't show it so obviously, it seems that you are guilty of inviting credit.

After Yang Zhangde's report was completed, the guard of honor had already arrived outside the Iron and Steel Research Institute in Xiamaqiao.

Chen Cheng, the head of the Ministry of Industry, is also the manager of the Xiamaqiao Farm. He knew that Zhu Zhanji would arrive today, and led a group of subordinates to greet Zhu Zhanji's arrival at the gate.

However, Zhu Zhanji did not dismount, and continued to instruct Yang Zhangde to say: "This time you have worked hard, rest at home for a few days, and when the military department verifies your merits, I will promote you to the commander of Jinyiwei, but you will continue to serve by my side for the time being, and when Dongying is over, you will go back to Jinyiwei to familiarize yourself with the situation......"

Yang Zhangde knew that this was an opportunity to continue to create meritorious service for himself, so he turned over and dismounted, knelt down and said, "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Zhu Zhanji pointed at him with a horsewhip and said: "The commander is already a member of the fourth grade, don't bow down at every turn in the future." Also, you're not too young now, and it's time for you to get married......"

Of course, Yang Zhangde knows that there are not many people of his age in the court who have not married, and many children of the same age like him have already begun to go to school.

As an official of the imperial court, he has never been married, and he cannot let the imperial court have a chance to control it, such a person cannot be trusted.

Now that Taisun has pointed it out, no matter what, he should find a wife to marry.

"The minister understands, before going to Dongying, the minister must invite His Royal Highness to drink the minister's wedding wine."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said, "Okay, when the time comes, Gu will also give you a congratulatory gift." ”

As soon as he said this, it also means that Zhu Zhanji will definitely attend his wedding, which is a supreme honor!

As long as the grandson does not lose power, as a person of the grandson, as long as he does not make people angry, he will never have an accident.

Of course, since the grandson still asked him to work in Jinyiwei, he must have done something that offended people. Thinking about Ji Gang, he doesn't have too much to worry about, it's a big deal, in the future, like Ji Gang, he will take his family to a foreign land to continue to work hard.

After sending Yang Zhangde away, Zhu Zhanji dismounted, and in the crowd of everyone, he entered the Iron and Steel Research Institute.

Because of the establishment of the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, most of the tests were actually carried out in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, so this steel research institute is more like a theoretical research center, and most of the manpower is also working in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone.

The study of iron and steel has always been the work that Zhu Zhanji attaches the most importance to. Because this substance is probably the most widely used in industrial development, the development of steel, and at the same time almost represents the development of industry.

However, due to the limitations of the process, the maximum temperature that can be reached in today's steel smelting is only about 1,100 degrees.

This temperature can completely melt gold, silver, copper, aluminum, lead, but not iron.

Even today's Zhu Zhanji has made people improve the steelmaking furnace, using a combination of top blowing and bottom blowing to increase the temperature to 1,200 degrees, but it is still not enough.

Cast iron is already 1,200 degrees, but in order to completely melt steel, the temperature of the furnace must reach more than 1,500 degrees.

Zhu Zhanji had engaged in industrial upgrading in his previous life, and knew that the melting point of iron was 1535 degrees, and the melting point of steel was 1515 degrees.

But now it seems that the improvement of these 300 degrees is extremely difficult.

If the furnace temperature can reach more than 1,500 degrees, it can directly produce qualified barrels, barrels, and various high-strength steels.

But now, the barrel and barrel processed by cast iron need to go through multiple procedures of quenching process to obtain a qualified barrel.

The development of the history of steelmaking in the world, in the original history, did not solve this problem until the nineteenth century.

In fact, it was not until the First World War at the beginning of the 20th century that the application of alloy steel gradually developed.

Zhu Zhanji wanted to solve this problem five hundred years in advance, and the difficulty was really not ordinary.

However, he doesn't have to explore and experiment step by step, because he knows the most appropriate method.

In addition to the heat of the coke, the second increase in furnace temperature is the supply of oxygen.

In this day and age, it is very difficult to make people aware that air is made up of different gases, let alone extract it.

But there are some things that must be done now, and only with one can there be infinite possibilities in the future.

So after the Lantern Festival, Zhu Zhanji issued an order to the Institute of Chemistry, asking them to figure out the principle of Kong Ming's lantern going to the sky.

But when the window paper is not pierced, a vague command only confuses people, and they have no idea what it means.

Therefore, in the order, Zhu Zhanji made a direct judgment and wrote: "If the lamp is ignited, the lamp can rise, which shows that after the ignition, the weight of the lamp becomes smaller than the air outside." But when the lamp rises to a certain height, it does not rise again, indicating that the weight is equal. When the lights go out, the lights fall down, what are the reasons for these? We humans breathe air, which nourishes our lungs and provides the nutrients we need. Why do you feel fresh air in the woods and have trouble breathing in a house with a charcoal pot burning in winter? Why the ever-bright lamps in those tombs are extinguished before the lamp oil is burned, there should be a certain connection in this. ”

Although in the order, Zhu Zhanji asked people to study what air is composed of, but it is impossible to study any results based on imagination alone.

So Zhu Zhanji also asked his father-in-law Ma Zhide to help him make a few glass cups and bottles, ready to do an experiment for everyone.

He was a scumbag in his first life and didn't know much about chemistry experiments. But with two connected sealed bottles, with water and combustion to compress the water level, using the principle of a water press to explain the pressure, these are still no problem.

Although Chen Cheng was already a relatively outstanding talent in this era, he never thought that Taoist monks could form a discipline by alchemy.

Therefore, although the Chemical Research Institute has been established, these Taoist priests and a few craftsmen in dyeing are still concentrated in the Iron and Steel Research Institute, and there is no hard research task.

Anyway, these people have the research funds provided by Zhu Zhanji, and they can study what they like, and they are not picky or feel wronged.

After receiving Zhu Zhanji's order, they were all a little dumbfounded, because they all knew the questions raised by Zhu Zhanji, and they could even see them every day, but if they wanted to tell the truth, none of them could say it.

In the past few days, they have also been in a panic, flipping through books everywhere and asking people to know how these phenomena are formed.

They also prepared a lot of specious answers, and wanted to wait for Zhu Zhanji's big exam.

But after Zhu Zhanji came, he only asked everyone about their working environment, living environment, and working status, and then asked people to take out some glass bottles and copper pipes, as well as some red phosphorus and glue that they saw every day.

Except for Zhu Zhanji, no one knew what he was doing with these things, so he could only do it himself and prepare to test it for him.

(Which experiments haven't been thought of yet, do you have any suggestions?) ）