Wang Gong Factory is located in the southwest corner of the Imperial City, originally because there was a gunpowder bureau here, the environment was not very good, now the gunpowder bureau is built outside the city, this place immediately became a livable place. Zhu Youxiao personally made the planning, according to the appearance of later generations, first demarcated the main road, and then demarcated the residential area, teaching area, supporting small commercial area, and green area next to the main road. There was nothing he could do about the other specific issues, except to emphasize that the roads had to be made of cement, and then the buildings would be built into three floors.

The person in charge is Wei Zhongxian's good brother Wei Chao, this person was Wang An's subordinate back then, and has always had a very good relationship with Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian said to Zhu Youxiao: "Wei Dynasty is not easy to say, but people are not greedy, if the saint uses him, Wang Gongchang's accounts can be guaranteed to be clear." ”

As soon as the Wei Dynasty came to power, he first gave Zhu Youxiao a surprise. After he walked around outside, he proposed to the emperor that bricks, tiles, sand and stones could actually be supplied without money, and a large number of businessmen outside wanted to supply them for free, as long as they could be advertised in the weekly newspaper, Zhu Youxiao couldn't imagine that people in this era had such a strong sense of advertising, so he asked him to contact Wang Chengen.

So there were advertisements for the royal brick factory, tile factory, and sand and gravel factory in the weekly newspaper, while the Wei Dynasty only used one-tenth of the original price to obtain a large number of raw materials, which was the result of Zhu Youxiao's repeated emphasis that it could not be used in vain, and according to the meaning of the merchants, they did not need money.

As for the labor, the Wei Dynasty recruited a large number of Liao people in Denglai, and under the guidance of the craftsmen of the inner palace supervisor, they began to build the Wang Gong factory. Zhu Youxiao instructed to pay the salary, and then the food should be fed, and not to treat the Liao people harshly.

If there is money and people, then the infrastructure construction is easy. More than a month later, Zhu Youxiao saw a large area of flat open space, as well as the horizontal and vertical cement avenue in the middle of the open space, he was very satisfied, and praised the Wei Dynasty fiercely, and promised that if Wang Gongchang could complete the construction process according to quality and quantity, he would be allowed to inherit a son from the clan to inherit the incense, which made the Wei Dynasty excited and energetic, and vowed to build the school and residential area of Wang Gongchang more perfect than the emperor requires.

Under the prompting of Zhu Youxiao, the Wei Dynasty cooperated with Sun Yuanhua to manufacture a gantry crane, a hoisting tool with a pulley block as the main component, which greatly improved the efficiency of construction. The Wei Dynasty recruited a large number of masons, carpenters, and stonemasons to form a royal architectural team.

Literate eunuchs were assigned to the royal construction team, who were responsible for the deployment and overall arrangement, so that everyone could make the best use of their abilities. And let everyone be familiar with the use of gantry cranes, the performance of cement and the production method of concrete.

In this way, when the royal construction team entered the construction site of Wang Gong's factory, it quickly shocked the old craftsmen of the various guilds with its speed. Everyone on the construction site can find their own place and understand their responsibilities, and there is no phenomenon of nesting workers at all, and the emergence of cement has made it possible to build many architectural styles that were impossible before.

When the first three-story building using cement was completed, Zhu Youxiao came to inspect it, and first saw that the whole house was a brick wall structure, and the floor slab was made of thick wooden planks.

Zhu Youxiao's requirements for school buildings are sturdy and easy to use, while the requirements for residential areas are exquisite. In his vision, there are student dormitories in the university town, so the residential area outside is to be sold to the wealthy people in Beijing, of course, how luxurious it is.

After hearing this, Wei Chao whispered: "Holy Lord, if it is sold to rich people to live in, then can you not bother to build a small courtyard outside?" It may be more noble to fence it off and separate it from the side. ”

Zhu Youxiao thought about it for a while, and the high-end residential area in later generations had an independent space, which was indeed possible. So he said: "There must be a yard, and then the house only needs to be built with two floors, and the appearance should be made according to the structure I painted for you, especially the glass windows must be large, and then the fireplace must be repaired, and I want a new style that combines Chinese and Western styles, which will definitely attract many people."

Zhu Youxiao found that this era seemed to be colder than later generations, and the heating seemed to be more troublesome, and he was worried about the safety of using the stove, so he decided to introduce a fireplace, believing that this kind of house should be bought by people.

This is a style that would be of interest to at least Western missionaries. Jinnige still failed to persuade Long Huamin to revise his missionary strategy, so he had to write back to the Holy See about the differences between the two, requesting that some of the rules and regulations for missionary work in the Ming Kingdom be amended, especially the question of not being allowed to worship ancestors, but he has not yet received an answer.

The translation work of the Translation Bureau is going very smoothly, although Jinnige's "Western Confucian Ears and Eyes" has not yet been completed, but the part that has been written can be used to train translators, so some of the works in the 7,000 books, mathematics, architecture, astronomy, mechanical physics, mining and metallurgy, medicine, navigation and other books related to practical studies have been translated, and Zhu Youxiao especially emphasized that the books on mathematics, mechanical physics, and mining and metallurgy are the most priority translation books. The first thing he plans to implement in the university is these three subjects, because these three knowledge are the easiest to improve the scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it is not possible for students to learn directly with translated books, but also to let them learn from the simplest things step by step, so it is necessary to have textbooks first. This is a very complicated matter, and if Zhu Youxiao takes all the knowledge he has learned in high school and gives it to his students to learn, it is completely impossible, because Zhu Youxiao only knows some basic knowledge, but does not understand the entire scientific system. For example, if you say in the textbook how gravity works, if students ask, why is this so? You don't know it, and that's a lot of fun.

Therefore, the compilation of textbooks can only be done by missionaries, Zhu Youxiao sent the Hanlin Academy of Hanlin to cooperate with the missionaries, as far as possible to compile easy-to-understand textbooks, of course, they are very simple, like mathematics is learned from the four operations, columns and vertical or something, the most profound is only the calculation of area and volume, as for physics, it is mainly about mechanical knowledge, basically about some simple phenomena of force, Newton's three laws are impossible to talk about, and it is certainly impossible to talk about the periodic table in mining and metallurgy. What is and what can be turned into something, iron smelting and other superficial things, which made Zhu Youxiao very anxious, but there was no way, he found that some of the things he learned were very simple at the time, but he really wanted to understand the principles thoroughly, which was actually a very complicated thing.

Of course, in order to allow the missionaries to do their best, Zhu Youxiao promised Jinnige that if the problem of worshipping ancestors and worshipping Confucius was solved, he could build a church school for them in the university town. This promise made Jinnige excited, and kept putting pressure on Long Huamin, and Long Huamin was also a little moved.