In the golden autumn of September, Hou Xuanyan's three edicts were published in the newspaper, telling the world.

The first is that the Yangzhou Salt Transportation Division was renamed Lianghuai Salt Factory, and Xiao Luoyuan, who was originally promoted from Wupin Salt Transportation to the director of Lianghuai Salt Factory, the word factory director appeared in front of the world for the first time, and he was a five-product official;

The second is to abolish the excesses and miscellaneous taxes, reduce the original land tax by 30%, and never increase the tax;

The third was to announce the re-establishment of the Cochin Governorate, and the army was about to expel the invading Siamese and recover the homeland of Annam.

The ministers in the middle of the court have already smelled the smell of it, and at the same time that His Majesty is exhorting farmers to teach agriculture, he is also elevating the status of merchants, and it seems that the policy will not change greatly in the near future. Moreover, the imperial court so solemnly announced the Jiaozhi war, it seems that it is preparing for the next big move.

In particular, wealthy businessmen from all over the country attach the most importance to this kind of newspaper, and every time they go out, they have to buy it back and convene their staff to study it.

Smart people have seen the business opportunities, Nanyang is a treasure land, if there is a port in Nanyang, since then the Ming maritime business line will spread.

Moreover, Nanyang itself has huge business opportunities, and if the imperial court can obtain the same trade conditions as Japan, it will be the next Japan, and gold will be everywhere.

In the cultivated land in the south of the Yangtze River, there are fewer and fewer people who grow grain, especially in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, Fujian is originally a barren place where the land is, and if you don't plant, you won't plant, Zhejiang is a famous land of fish and rice, and now there are factories and workshops everywhere, and the rice in the fields has also been replaced with mulberry leaves and cotton.

A number of officials in the DPRK and China were worried about this, but Hou Xuanyan did not care, we have been farming for thousands of years, and it is time to stop.

You can fill your stomach by farming, but you can't survive the Age of Discovery, especially the world in the future.

As long as the national strength increases, there can be granaries and pastures everywhere overseas, and there is no panic at all.

Just when Di Bao caused heated discussions among the people, Hou Xuanyan set up the Craftsman Pavilion, because there was a recital from the Jinling Craftsman Pavilion, saying that they had developed a new machine that could drain the groundwater in the mine by itself.

Nowadays, with the rise of firearms, the manufacture of barrels and shells requires a lot of steel. Decades ago, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty had learned to make coking, and the disadvantages of coal could be avoided by using coke instead of coal as fuel. The widely used pig iron rinsing method can no longer meet the demand for steel. The huge demand for war gave birth to the impetus for technological innovation, and countless craftsmen studied day and night in the academy, and finally came up with a set of pressurized forging methods.

This is done by using the wind power of the blast furnace to fully burn the impurities in the iron to obtain higher quality steel.

But in this way, the demand for coal has become very large, and Hou Xuanyan has always had a headache that when digging coal, the groundwater in the depths cannot be discharged through the strength of people and animals. As a result, many mines often dig the upper layer and cannot continue mining.

The Craftsman Pavilion finally solved this problem, and Hou Xuanyan was of course very happy and brought people to watch it early.

The emperor's car arrived on the outskirts of Jinling, and the craftsman hall was not exempt from vulgarity, and all the staff came out to greet the holy car.

Hou Xuanyan was wearing a bright red twelve-regiment crown robe and high-bottomed boots, making him look more tall and handsome.

There are two children beside him, a man and a woman, with bright eyes and teeth that are very cute, one is the princess Hou Wanshu, and the other is Zhu Linhao, the king of Jing.

The colorful shed is set up in front of the craftsman hall, and everything looks very grand, which is also what Hou Xuanyan intentionally did.

Only by improving the identity of craftsmen and worshipping craftsmen by the whole people will there be continuous progress.

All the Son of Heaven Luan drove, the whole team came towards the color shed, a pair of dragons and phoenix flags, rows of Huang Yue Baijing, Zhongguan eunuchs, Gong E Cainu, and Han generals, Huang Luo Baogai appeared in front of him, and Hou Xuanyan below did not ride Luanyu, nor did he ride a horse, and came with a child in one hand and a smile.

The craftsmen in front of the colorful shed shouted long live, Hou Xuanyan was in a better mood, hugged one with one hand and said, "Take me to see it, your artifact!" The two children in her arms, Zhu Linhao looked excited, looking left and right, but Hou Wanshu was a little embarrassed, and buried her little head in Hou Xuanyan's arms and secretly looked out.

The people in the Craftsman's Pavilion are all relatively athletic, and their skin is a little bronzed, and it can be seen that everyone is genuinely happy, but they are not good at words.

The group led Hou Xuanyan to the Craftsman Hall, where the students were different from the Lecture Hall, all of them were young people who looked a little wooden, but their eyes were full of vitality.

Hou Xuanyan just wanted to see what kind of machine could pump groundwater out of the deep mine, and strode forward.

After a while, I walked to an open area with various machines and simulated scenes. I saw that in the southeast corner, there was a deep pit, and next to it stood a round barrel machine, which looked a little bulky.

Wang Fuzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who is in charge of the World Craftsman Museum, said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is this thing, Wang Zhao, go and demonstrate it to Your Majesty." ”

The man called Wang Zhao was not very old, and after listening to Lord Shangshu's words, he hurriedly stepped forward to operate, and the more Hou Xuanyan looked at it, the more he felt excited, this thing turned out to be a steam water machine.

Wang Zhao first filled an egg container with steam, then closed the inlet valve, and sprayed cold water outside the container to condense the steam in the container to form a vacuum. Open the water inlet valve, and the water at the bottom of the pit is sucked into the container through the water inlet pipe by atmospheric pressure; Close the inlet valve, reopen the inlet valve, and press out the water in the container through the drain valve by steam pressure. When the water in the container is emptied and filled with steam, close the inlet and drain valves and re-spray the water to condense the steam. This repeated cycle, with two egg containers working alternately, can be continuously drained.

The two children next to him were attracted by this magical scene, clapped their hands and applauded, Hou Xuanyan was overjoyed, and said: "The craftsman hall has such an ingenious work, I deserve a lot of rewards!" ”

The surrounding craftsmen all looked at each other excitedly, and the Holy One had always been generous in rewarding him for this kind of merit. At the beginning, the case of the carpenter father and son who had problems with their character was tried by the saint himself, and the result was beyond everyone's expectations, and a pair of carpenter father and son were rewarded, and they also personally paid for the patent and gave it to two merchants. That case had a far-reaching impact and directly changed the status of craftsmen, so that many families were willing to send their children to the craftsman's hall to accept the preliminary examination in the museum.

Everyone looked at the emperor with blank eyes, wondering what reward there would be this time, Hou Xuanyan smiled heartily and raised his voice: "Give three thousand taels of gold, and all those who participated in the development of this matter will be added from the baron of Wupin County." ”

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the fifth-class lords, kings, dukes, uncles, sons, and males, and later abolished the latter two. Now Hou Xuanyan has resumed his words, and awarded a few craftsmen, you must know that the Ming Dynasty pursues the principle of "those who do not have social merits will not be knighted", obviously in the eyes of the saints, the merits of the craftsmen have been willing to rival the military merits.

The people next to him participated in the development, so they were naturally overjoyed, and the others were also very hot-eyed, secretly encouraging them to win the title and glory of their ancestors.

Even the officials who accompanied the driver were a little red-eyed, and these ministers had no way to obtain the title.

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