Among the Manchu generals of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Heng received comments that he was dignified and generous, good at appeasing his soldiers, and ashamed of accumulating people's wealth.

This means that this person's integrity is credible, and Zheng Heng also has the advantage that he has never been in the capital.

Zheng Heng's father, Zheng Yong, was awarded the title of deputy Qianhu of Daxing Zuowei because of his meritorious service in following Zhu Yuanzhang in the war. In the sixteenth year of Hongwu, Zheng Yong retired at an old age, and Zheng Heng took over his father's position.

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the imperial court recruited officials to go to Tatar to preach, Zheng Heng was recruited, arrived at the Troubled River, and was promoted to the commander of Miyunwei after returning.

Zhu Di raised troops to settle the difficulty, Zheng Heng led his troops to attach, and in the battle of Zhending, he first broke the enemy and entered the command of the envoy.

Later, Zheng Heng made many great contributions, Zhu Di ascended the throne, and the order of the heroes of Jingjing was determined, and Zheng Heng ranked fifth. Therefore, he was promoted to the governor of the Zuo Governor of the Central Military Governor's Office, and was crowned Fengtianjing Difficult to Push Cheng Xuanli Wuchen, Special Jin Ronglu Doctor, Zhuguo, and Wu'an Hou, and ate 1,500 stones, was given iron coupons, and stayed in Beiping.

Zhu Di's first northern expedition, Zheng Henggong ranked first, and the second northern expedition, he was brave and good at fighting, and he did not retreat with two arrows in his body, and the round army repelled Mahamu.

Along the way, Zheng Heng guarded Yanshan, Beiping, Xuanfu, Kaiping, and Beimingshan, and he had always been in the northern border army, and had never held any position in the capital.

It is precisely because of this kind of resume that has nothing to do with the Beijing family, Xungui, and Xungui, that Zhu Zhanji took a fancy to Zheng Neng and wanted to turn him into a catfish among Xungui.

In the capital, in terms of seniority, there are many people who are higher than Zheng Heng. But families like the Duke of Chengguo, the Duke of England, and the Duke of Wei have formed a close alliance with the nobles of the capital.

If they want to rely on them to purge these corruption among the nobles in the capital, they will inevitably be afraid.

Zheng Heng wants to go to Samarkand, and if he wants this fat difference, he must first use Zhu Zhanji as a knife.

Zheng Neng heard Zhu Zhanji's words, hugged his fists and said: "Your Highness, please command, Weichen must go all out!" ”

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "It's almost the New Year, let's have a good New Year first, and then talk about it after the New Year......."

As far as Zhu Zhanji is concerned, there are priorities.

Most of the generals in the early Ming Dynasty were still relatively reliable, although there was some corruption and empty eating, but it did not affect the overall situation.

For him, the more important issue now is to lay the foundation for his own reforms, so it is not too late to wait until February to evaluate the military generals in the capital.

Before combing the civil officials, the lords of the capital can't mess around.

There is another important reason, that is, he wants to clean up the nobles after getting Zhu Di's battle situation.

If the battle is going well, we are not afraid of chaos for a while, but if the battle is not going well, we must focus on stability.

After sending Zheng Neng away, Zhu Zhanji had no intention of dealing with political affairs and came to the Chemical Research Institute of Xiamaqiao Farm.

In the course of half a year of research, Lan Yan's research on medical chemistry in her specialty has been in the stage of theoretical laying, and there has been no big breakthrough.

This is mainly because Zhu Zhanji did not let her personally experiment, and asked her to teach some people first and let them conduct research.

On the other hand, because penicillin requires a large amount of melon, when the melon is out of season, the research slows down a lot.

On the contrary, in the field of explosives, there have been many breakthroughs because of the understanding of detailed equations and the ease of collecting raw materials.

From the first nitrocellulose explosives, to nitroglycerin, picric acid explosives, until the day before the new year, smokeless gunpowder and TNT explosives were finally developed.

Nitrocellulose explosives and picric acid explosives were very unstable, so they were developed into gelatin, then pressed into sheets, cut into strips, dried and hardened, and smokeless gunpowder was made.

This invention is of great significance, smokeless gunpowder has no residue after combustion, no or only a small amount of smoke, but can improve the range of the projectile, the straightness of the trajectory and the accuracy of the shot.

TNT, known as the king of explosives, is a powerful and fairly safe explosive, which generally does not burn and detonate even if it is penetrated by a bullet.

Moreover, the power of TNT explosives is slightly inferior to that of picric acid explosives, but it is only slightly inferior. In terms of comprehensive performance, this explosive is known as the best explosive, so it is recognized as the king of explosives.

The main ingredient of TNT explosives is trinitrotoluene, a raw material that extracts benzene and toluene mainly from coal and then nitrates.

Because it is very toxic, Zhu Zhanji will not let Lan Yan test it himself.

But the explosives made by blue smoke have made the entire chemical research institute worship and become a real authority.

There is a direction planned by Blue Smoke, and these people are not afraid of toxicity and danger, and they quickly passed the test and got samples.

The lab phase is easy, but it's not so easy when you want to produce it on a large scale.

At the Chemistry Research Institute, a complete set of procedures for making TNT explosives are obtained by hand, and each process needs to be designed.

Moreover, these processes must be separated, and the middle of each process is strictly confidential.

For at least a few decades, this entire process will never be made public, let alone patented.

The design process is actually the foundation of the development of the entire industrial age.

All applications need to be popularized in a corresponding process, and the process is the most reasonable means for the application of science and technology.

Any science and technology, from theory to experiment, from experiment to achievement, from achievement to popularization, needs corresponding means, and this kind of means is what can really change the world.

Taking the production of TNT explosives as an example, coal tar is first needed, and the refining and production of coal tar require corresponding technical means.

Secondly, it is necessary to nitrate and sulfide the coal tar, in this process, a large number of toxins are produced, and a little product can be refined by hand, but large-scale production requires the design of corresponding safety measures.

What is a safe means, that is, de-artificial, closed, which involves the expansion of distillation technology of the entire industry.

Distillation technology has appeared in the Song Dynasty, but it has not been complete, or more advanced, and improved.

Because whether it is wine or boiling salt, it should not be too enclosed.

The invention of the steam engine is not only the improvement of power, but also the design of various pipes and the test of pressure in the application of the steam engine, which is actually a technical improvement of distillation.

The application of distillation technology to the production of the chemical industry requires careful design for each process.

From the power source to the distillation closure, in order to achieve the desired effect at each step, it is necessary for the people of the research institute to conduct many demonstrations and experiments.

Only when they make it possible can this technology be promoted and popularized.

This is because of the existence of Zhu Zhanji, he can directly point out the development direction of science and technology without any worries and apply it.

But in reality, except for the mechanical aspect, the technology is gradual. Throughout history, most of the breakthroughs in the application of chemical technology have been made up of countless accidents.

Even in the afterlife, it will still be like this.

Here at the Institute of Chemistry, in order to prepare for the production of three acids and two alkalis, up to one million words of notes and processes have been formulated.

Seeing these extremely omitted classical Chinese notes, Zhu Zhanji was furious at the first time, he was not here to guide the work today, the main purpose was to lose his temper.

Although Lan Yan is a good person, because she can't have direct contact with foreign ministers, her communication with the researchers is through her female officials.

Although she is a science student, she is much better at classical Chinese than Zhu Zhanji, one of them is a scumbag, and the other is a scholar.

Zhu Zhanji is of course the former, and Lan Yan is the latter.

Lan Yan is a concubine, he can't even have a temper, and most of the time, he can only play a guiding role.

She has repeatedly suggested that scientific research needs to be recorded with more detailed data and more popular sentences, and that the refinement of words should not be pursued, but these people have fallen on deaf ears.

After Zhu Zhanji got the news, he also saw the records of these people.

The refinement of Chinese characters is unmatched by any kind of writing. However, if it is used to explain the process and record the data, it will be a bit bitter and mean.

The East pays attention to the order of master-apprentice transmission, and likes to pay attention to the collection of hands, and pays more attention to the transfer of experience rather than data.

At the request of Lan Yan, they reluctantly added data to the record, but for the expression of words, they still followed the previous habits.

In classical Chinese, there are differences between the six word orders of subject, form, predicate, definite, object, and complement from modern languages, which is not a big problem.

However, in order to pursue simplicity, there are often some omissions, which forms subject-verb-object confusion.

It is often the person who writes to write a sentence, and never writes it clearly, and it is habitual for people to guess.

Just like the saying "the people can make it from it, but not from it", there have always been three interpretations.

In terms of liberal arts, this does not have much to do with it, and at most there will be some disagreements and disputes. But for serious science, it's nothing short of a disaster.

Take a simple bearing as an example, it is divided into inner diameter, outer diameter, inner and outer wall thickness, width, hardness, steel ball size and other dimensions.

A machine needs to use countless bearings of different sizes, and countless parts that are connected to each other, each part must be described in detail, and the strength of the connection is specified.

As a result, on the whole page, there are only various sizes, and there are few subject-verb-object predicates.

Don't say that people who don't understand, even people like Zhu Zhanji who understand can't understand what is written.

These are good to say, after all, there are drawings, which can be compared according to the drawings.

But some processing techniques, more complex inferences, and some design ideas, these are written out, and they are even more difficult to understand.

A million-word craft plan seems like a lot, but in fact, it is only three books in later generations. Relying on three books, he included all the plans to build a factory with three acids and two alkalis, and Zhu Zhanji did not believe it.

Suffice it to say, even if the craftsmen built the factory and developed the equipment in strict accordance with the plan, they were still inseparable from the researchers.

In the eyes of most people, these are taken for granted, but in Zhu Zhanji's view, this is a great waste of talent.

What is it that you are a scientific researcher who focuses on a research process all day long?

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji would rather waste a few months of his time than deliberately lose his temper to deter everyone.

"Lone has high hopes for you, so Lan Liangdi will pass on the book of heaven taught by Doumu Niangniang to you. Here in Lonely, here in Lan Liangdi, there are still no mathematical questions waiting for you to study and sort out, how can you be distracted by other uses.

This plan asks you to reorganize it and write it out in the vernacular. As long as literate people and people who understand technology can know what to do when they see this plan. ”

This is the first time Zhu Zhanji has lost his temper, and the power is naturally imaginable. Everyone trembled and cried guilty.

Only then did Zhu Zhanji say: "Single-mindedly promoting the vernacular, it's not that I don't know that the ancient language is elegant and the vernacular is vulgar. However, although the vernacular is vulgar, it allows more craftsmen to understand the meaning of what you are writing. Lone will give you another half a year, from now on, all the crafts should be written clearly in the vernacular, and if there is a recurrence, it will be punished as dereliction of duty. ”

The people in the research institute are full of loss one by one, and they have worked hard for several months, but they have not ended well here in His Highness, and everything has to start all over again.

But the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry were excited at this time.

Although the Ministry of Industry has mastered the construction, start-up, and technical improvement of almost all major projects today, they are subject to multiple constraints and have no autonomy.

The Ministry of Industry and the internal supervisor have dual management over them, and now they are also under pressure from the research institute.

Although these masters have no direct jurisdiction over them, they are stuck in the neck of the technology, and they can't do it without supplying them.

Now His Royal Highness's meaning has been very clear, in the future, scientific research and production will be separated, and it will be impossible for them to be powerful and prosperous.

Let the others leave, Zhu Zhanji left behind Wu Zhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

This good old man can be regarded as highly respected, but his personality is too good, and he belongs to the kind of technical official.

"Wu Shangshu, about the construction of the new factory, Lone here already has an idea, although all kinds of equipment have to be cast in the capital, it is difficult to transport, but these factories still can't be built in the capital."

Wu Zhong asked: "Has Your Highness ever thought about how to transport these tens of thousands of catties of equipment to other parties?" ”

In the construction of three acids and two alkali plants, the most equipment is all kinds of pipelines, and the casting of these pipelines, including transportation, is a difficult problem.

"It is transported by ship first, and then slowly transported by iron wheeled vehicle, in short, it cannot be built in a densely populated place."

"Where does Your Highness intend to build it?"

"Near Copper Mountain, find a place with open terrain, barren land, and sparsely populated."

Tongshan is the Xuzhou of later generations, and in this era, Xuzhou was under the jurisdiction of Fengyang Prefecture.

Wu Zhong frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Your Highness, but it's because of the coal mines in Huaibei?" ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "The three acids and two alkalis are poisonous, and explosives are even more dangerous. Tongshan is not far from the canal, holding the throat of the north and south, especially the local terrain is high, the Yellow River has been diverted, the Huai River flood, has not caused a major disaster to the local area. ”

Wu Zhong nodded and said, "But in this way, it will be difficult to keep some technologies secret. ”

Zhu Zhanji said: "The materials produced by these factories, except for explosives, do not need to be kept secret. Now that this patent law has been in place for many years, I am trying to find trouble for those who do not follow the rules. As for the new explosives, as long as the refining links are divided into factories, they are not afraid of leaks. ”

Wu Zhong said happily at this time: "That minister will set off for Tongshan on the eighth day of the first month to find a suitable place to build a factory." ”

(I'm sorry, I'm delayed today, so I can only write 4,000 words first.) ）