When I returned to the house, I thought of the difficulties in the establishment of the Ordnance Bureau, the Vehicle Bureau, and the Artillery Bureau, and the hardships of building by Ganjing Iron.

Song Shihui introduced the steel smelting technology at that time, and the Suzhou steel smelting method was mostly used to smelt steel at that time.

The so-called Suzhou steel smelting method mainly refers to the technology originated in Suzhou, Jiangsu, and the main method is: "where the furnace uses charcoal for red iron, coal ranks seventeen, and charcoal ranks thirteen."

The blower has also been improved, and has been changed from a simple flap wooden bellows to a piston push-pull wooden bellows, which can continuously supply a large air pressure and air volume, thereby improving the strength of smelting.

In "Tiangong Kaiwu", there is also a considerable improvement in the smelting technology, that is, after the molten iron flows out, after the pig iron is smelted, if you want to turn the pig iron into mature iron, dig a square pond next to the iron smelting furnace, make the iron flow into the pond while it is hot, add mud powder as a solvent, and quickly stir it by several people with willow sticks, so as to accelerate the oxidation of carbon and other components in the pig iron, so as to fry the mature iron.

This continuous operation method of using the iron-smelting furnace and iron-smelting equipment in series can reduce the remelting process during iron roasting, and reduce the time and production cost of iron roasting.

In addition, the book also records a new method of smelting steel, that is, first tie up the wrought iron into thin slices and put it into the furnace, put pig iron on it, and then cover the top with mud-coated straw shoes, after the furnace temperature rises, the molten pig iron can evenly penetrate into the wrought iron from top to bottom, and take it out for forging. Re-refining and forging will become good steel. This method is more advanced than the "steel filling" technology that appeared during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and is able to evenly carburize and remove impurities more fully.

But these are all recorded in books, how to smelt steel is really a university question, and it needs to be pondered and experimented more.

Of course, Yang Lin did not know the truth in it, and after a little contemplation, he hired Song Shihui as the head of the Governor's Yamen, specializing in the research of iron and steel smelting technology.

While looking for talents, Yang Lin is more aware of the importance of talent training, and the world pursues equality, in fact, the basis of equality lies in educational equality.

As external forces gradually withdrew from Sichuan, and the situation in Sichuan became calmer, Yang Lin began to implement public school education throughout Sichuan.

Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, the investment in education is very huge, which invisibly poses a huge pressure on the finances.

Now in troubled times, the foreign war would have stretched the finances of Sichuan Province, which had just stabilized, not to mention that tens of thousands of silver needed to be invested in public schools.

Confucius ran a private school, with 3,000 disciples and 72 masters, teaching and educating people to train future generations to pursue together with the ancient magi.

At this day's meeting, Qian Bangxin wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end he couldn't hold it back, and said: "Master Hou, ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, the establishment of a school, so that school-age children can read and hyphenate, it is really beneficial in the world, and the merit is in the future."

I think the ancient sages may have foreseen the convenience of establishing a school, but why only establish a national school, a college, a state school, and a county school, instead of establishing a public school like Hou Ye, to replace private schools?

In fact, because of the huge cost of building an office, it is still difficult to support it in the peaceful years, not to mention the time when the world is in turmoil? ”

Everyone lowered their heads, and it could be seen that everyone was deeply touched, Yang Lin felt a burst of anger, ten years of trees and a hundred years of people to build a major event of education for the benefit of the country and the people, how could anyone oppose this kind of thing?

Yang Lin stood up and walked back and forth, stopped for a long time, glanced at everyone present, and said with confidence: "It's right to make money according to the inspection, the cost of building a school is huge, and the ancient sages may have seen the benefits, but why not implement it?" It's really because of a lack of financial resources. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Qian Bangqi arched his hand and said: "Hou Ye is really a sage and gentleman, and it is really the luck of my volunteers and the Ming Dynasty to be able to judge the situation and listen to the advice."

Master Hou, the establishment of public schools can be postponed, and we can save money and grain to overcome the eastward crusade, so as to join the Yangtze River with Jin Shenghuan, Li Chengdong and other departments, so that the great cause of the Northern Expedition can be accomplished. ”

Yang Lin waved his hand, shook his head and said, "According to the inspector, it costs a lot of money to build a school, but it is not because the government has no money and food support

The school funds are really because too much money and food is caused by corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

At that time, the imperial court levied and issued Liao salaries for the recovery of Liaodong, and pacified the Liukou to collect and suppress salaries and practice salaries. Why did the imperial court be aggressive with the common people, under the pretext of recovering Liaodong and pacifying the Liukou who had no money and food?

Since I took office, the burden on the local people has been sharply reduced, and in the past, 2 or 3 buckets of rice per mu of fertile land were given, but now it is only 6 liters?

The burden on the people and the sharp increase in local money and food are actually caused by corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

In the past, one tael was handed over to the state treasury, and ten taels were scavenged from the people.

Corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the beetles of the people.

It is true that the cost of running education is huge, but as long as we overcome systemic corruption and give the people a prosperous future, why worry about running public schools. ”

The smile on Qian Bangqi's face was stunned, and he couldn't close it for a long time, and he wanted to refute it, but seeing that the other party was full of confidence, he didn't dare to come out, so he had to sit on the side.

As everyone expected, if you want to establish public schools in all townships in the province, you need at least 500,000 taels of silver every year, and if you add other expenses, the annual cost can reach 780,000 taels.

Although the major drawbacks have been eliminated in recent years, and taxes have increased greatly in various places, it is still a bit unbelievable to everyone to spend so much money and food to subsidize education every year.

The entire lobby fell silent for a while, and Yang Lin also calmed down and thought about it, and after summarizing the pros and cons of public education in his previous life, he quickly paid attention.

Isn't everyone worried about money? Now that I have a lot of power, there are too many places to make money.

Since the Ming and Song dynasties, Buddhist temples and Taoist temples have spread all over the country, just like the countryside where the author lives, there are many temples in a township in modern times (in ancient times, a market area is several times that of the current township, and there are several temples in each market), many temples and Taoist temples have become a local hegemon, and there is no need to pay taxes.

Since this is the case, then the monasteries and Taoist temples should be abolished, and in the name of establishing schools, the various privileges of temples and Taoist temples should be abolished, and new types of schools should be established in various places.

In the past, temples and Taoist temples were majestic, with thousands of acres of fertile land, which not only occupied a large number of high-quality assets of the society (fertile land), but also raised a lot of wealth from the society like modern charities, not to mention paying any taxes.

Now the Taoist temple is changed to a civilian school, which is to transfer the social wealth occupied by the temple and Taoist temple in the past to the public school, plus social donations and financial subsidies, so as to complete the social reconstruction.

After thinking about this problem, Yang Lin was full of confidence and great responsibility, and was determined to take advantage of the psychology of all the people who are inferior only to study, and determined to use the dream of lower-class scholars to change their poor economic and social status to complete social reconstruction.

In the Ming Dynasty, private school teachers had a medium income, but they relied on local wealthy families, and their jobs were extremely unstable, while the new-style schools were mainly run by the government, and the local students who were literate and hyphenated were hired not only to avoid the pain of traveling, but also to have a more secure job.

After the general policy was formulated, all that remained was to propagate this trend of thought, that is, to find places to run schools throughout the province, raise funds for running schools, and establish a large number of public schools in the localities by means of government-run, public-private partnership, or completely private government, so as to complete social reconstruction.