Ever since Su Ziheng gathered many of the master craftsmen of the craftsman's workshop together to form a research group to study how to make steam engines, he has devoted himself to research.

Although Su Ziheng's ability to do it himself is limited, he coordinates in the middle, and at the same time presides over the logistics, providing everyone with the best raw materials to help them solve various problems encountered in the manufacturing process.

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed, and the self-study of the steam engine still had no clue. Even if a finished steam engine is disassembled and built one by one, the result is still some waste products, which do not meet the use standards at all.

In desperation, in order not to delay the construction of Donghai County, Su Ziheng endured heartache and spent nearly 20% of his energy to turn on the 3D printer in the laboratory, and printed out a total of nearly 50 steam engines and 100 breech flintlock pistols.

There are not many things to print, but it is too much waste of energy to turn on a 3D printer, otherwise Su Ziheng wants to print tens of thousands of steam engines, so that the development of Donghai County will not slow down.

However, Su Ziheng also knew in his heart that it would not work to rely entirely on the base space for external export. As long as it is a machine, there will be wear and tear in the process of use, if you don't have the technology to make it, then the broken machine is allowed to be scrapped?

This is obviously not possible, and the best way is to rely on the base space to develop its own technology. Even if the materials or processes are not up to the level of base space manufacturing, Su Ziheng doesn't care if they are a few grades lower.

He believes that as long as he continues to specialize, his R&D and manufacturing capabilities will definitely improve, and finally reach the manufacturing level of the base space.

Even if it takes a lot of time, money and energy for this, Su Ziheng will not hesitate to do it.

As more and more craftsmen were transferred to the steam engine research and development team, the number of craftsmen in charge of other work was decreasing.

As a last resort, Su Ziheng issued a recruitment order for craftsmen, recruiting craftsmen who knew various crafts from among the 80,000 residents of Donghai County, and apprentices who intended to become craftsmen.

At the same time, students over the age of fifteen from Bailu Academy were selected and let them start working and studying, so that the lack of craftsmen could be gradually satisfied.

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"Lord Changshi, the county lord is invited!"

Su Ziheng was overcoming a problem in the construction of the cylinder, and when he was celebrating, a guard from the princess's mansion came to report.

"Did Qinghan say anything?" Su Ziheng asked the guard.

The guard replied, "Lord Changshi, the Donghai County Government has been built and renovated, and the county lord intends to hold a celebration ceremony, and then move his office to a new office, so I hereby invite Lord Changshi and all of you to attend the ceremony." ”

Su Ziheng suddenly realized, it has now entered May, and the construction of the Donghai County Government has been half a year, and it has almost been completely repaired after counting the days.

"Haha, okay, I'll clean up and I'll go. If you go back and report the cold, I'll be there later. ”

After speaking, Su Ziheng turned his head and invited Ou Yajiu and a dozen of their craftsmen with a smile: "Everyone, on the occasion of this double happiness, why don't I go and celebrate together, how about it?" ”

Ou Yajiu also smiled and said, "Go together, go together." How can we be absent from such a great event? ”

Speaking of which, the Donghai County Mansion is the first major engineering building officially completed in Donghai County, covering an area of 50 acres of brick and stone buildings, magnificent and magnificent, and can be called the landmark building of Donghai County.

Anyone who passed in front of the government was shocked and proud of it. If you really want to talk about it, there is no government in the whole world that can exceed the scale of Donghai County's government, and even it can be compared to Chang'an Jingzhao Mansion, and it is even better.

Su Ziheng finished grooming and changed into clean clothes, and then led many craftsmen from the craftsman workshop to the Donghai County Mansion.

When they arrived, there was already a group of people around the entrance of the mansion looking at the newly renovated mansion, and they couldn't stop talking in a low voice, and their words were full of admiration.

After seeing Su Ziheng, everyone gave Su Ziheng a way to pass.

Everyone knows that the construction of such a majestic and magnificent mansion can be completed entirely due to the credit of Su Ziheng, the master of Changshi.

Especially in the past month, Lord Changshi has made a lot of magical things. One of them, known as the Iron Ox, is so powerful that if you pour burning coal into a boiler and add water, you can work day and night without resting.

I heard that after using the Iron Ox machine in the last month, the mining stone and transportation capacity is enough to catch up with all the previous production.

Su Ziheng hadn't been to the mansion for more than a month, and he didn't know how the decoration was inside.

When he walked to the door of the government from far and near, the first thing that caught his eye was a pair of huge stone lions more than two meters high. The appearance is hideous, the left male and the right female, in which the male lion steps on the ball with his right paw, and the female lion steps on the cub with his left paw, the two correspond and complement each other.

In this world, there was no lion, it turned out that Zhong Qinghan and others proposed to put a statue of the dragon at the door, but the dragon is a symbol of the emperor, unless it is a statue enshrined in the Dragon King Temple, other places are not allowed to use dragon carvings without authorization.

Later, Su Ziheng proposed to use a stone lion, but in Su Ziheng's heart, it was not pleasing to the eye if the government yamen did not place the stone lion.

After he took out the statue of the stone lion, everyone who had never seen a lion agreed to Su Ziheng's proposal.

For this reason, several craftsmen who are good at stone carving were selected, and it took several months of careful carving before the pair of majestic stone lions appeared in front of them.

Su Ziheng's gaze moved away from the stone lion and turned to the tall gate, on which a plaque was hung, with the words "Donghai Mansion Ya" written on it.

This is written by Zhong Qinghan himself, don't look at Qinghan as a woman, but the words written are very majestic.

On the pillar below the plaque is carved a couplet, which reads: "It is not honorable to gain an official, it is not disgraceful to lose an official, don't say that an official is useless, and the place depends on an official." ”

The next couplet wrote: "Wear the clothes of the people and eat the food of the people, don't be deceived by the people, you are also the people." ”

This couplet is a couplet that Su Ziheng had read when he was a Chinese teacher in his previous life, and he felt that it was written very profoundly. Later, when the Donghai Mansion was built, Zhong Qinghan said that a couplet should be hung on the pillar at the gate so that the officials who went to work every day could see it and be vigilant.

Su Ziheng naturally thought of such a couplet, and wrote it with his own hands, so that the craftsman carved it under the big pillar in front of the door.

"Ziheng, you're here, come here quickly, I'll go in together, but there is a separate office for you." Zhong Qinghan greeted Su Ziheng with a smile at the bottom of the steps.