A new year and a new beginning, last year was a happy event.

In the first half of the year, Yun clan patriarch Yun Yi got married, and in the second half of the year, with the "Yun Salt Making Law", Yun's prestige increased greatly, not only received a lot of rewards from the emperor's attention, but also harvested several rounds of favors, although the silver mining audit experienced a little twists and turns, and finally passed smoothly, at the beginning of this year, it was expected that the income of the silver mine will become the third pillar industry of the Yun family, which can bring thousands of gold to the Yun family every year.

In addition, there are Yunyi's private paper mills and printing factories, and Yun's has also made huge profits, even surpassing the salt industry to become Yun's first pillar industry.

Last year, the Yun clan's explosion made the Yun Hua Yun clan's reputation resounding throughout the Dali Empire, and also made the Yun clan harvest richly, this year, in addition to the silver ore to be mined, the most important thing for the Yun clan to do is to calm down and convert money into the Yun clan's own strength, so that the Yun clan's position can be stable, immovable as a mountain, even if there is turmoil within the empire, the Yun clan who is in a single position can be safe and sound.

The Yun clan needs to calm down and cultivate, Yun Yi doesn't need to, according to the general information collected by the Yun clan, Yun Yi analyzed, and felt that the next civil strife in the Dali Empire was getting closer and closer, the emperor Fang Yao was old, I am afraid that time was running out, Fang Yao's eldest son had died, according to the primogeniture inheritance system, it should be the emperor's eldest grandson, that is, the eldest son of the deceased eldest son, Fang Ji, who had passed away, succeeded to the throne, Fang Ji was already an adult, but he seemed relatively mediocre, such a person was not suitable to become an emperor, Fang Yao was also shaking, and he had not established a prince.

The mediocre eldest grandson, as well as many ambitious people staring at status, have already laid the fuse for the next turmoil in the empire, once Fang Yao dies, it is the moment when the fuse is ignited and explodes.

Every time the Dali Empire is in turmoil caused by the struggle for the throne, the scale is very large, and every time there are large or small families involved, the family that has been inherited for hundreds or even thousands of years has been wiped out like this, and the Yun family does not participate in the battle for the throne, but it is not easy to be involved, which makes Yun Yi always have a sense of urgency in his heart.

The ancestors of the Yun clan had the status of today's Yunhua Yun clan because of the emperor's grace, so the ancestors clearly wrote in the clan rules that the descendants of the Yun clan must be loyal to the emperor, and those who violate it will be expelled from the Yun clan.

Yun Yi will not tell some of the thoughts in his heart to the elders of the family, these thoughts are likely to make the elders think that Yun Yi is going to rebel, and then stop Yun Yi, so Yun Yi can only make some preparations by himself.

The development of the basic steam industry is the best way to quickly increase the strength of the Yun family, because of its own limited financial resources, Yun Yi took out the two of the four great inventions of ancient China, papermaking and printing, opened a paper mill and printing factory, and harvested a lot of money, after the first capital was obtained from the sale of Yunhua paper, Yun Yi's plan has begun.

The first step of the Yunyi plan is to recruit a large number of craftsmen, mainly blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons and other craftsmen, and to bring the craftsmen's families to Yunhua County, by the way, to improve the population base of Yunhua County.

The most important thing in the development of the basic steam industry is the steam engine.

The steam engine has many functions, in a nutshell, it is to improve people's work efficiency tenfold and hundredfold.

The steam engine can be used for mining, can be used for textiles, can also be used for the power of trains, ships, steam engines can be widely used in various industries such as mining, smelting, textile, machine manufacturing, etc., and the most important thing is that the steam engine can make more power burst under the same population.

Sooner or later, this world will enter the industrial age, Yunyi is just making this time advance, and by the way, he will complete the ambition in his heart, how can there be a traveler who is willing to live an ordinary and cookie-cutter life?

Yunyi has already drawn the image of the steam engine, this steam engine is not the most primitive kind of simple steam engine, the most primitive steam engine, the use of water vapor in the closed container, the water in the coal mine is discharged, and then the closed container is cooled, forming a low-pressure state in the container, so as to make the water in the pit enter the container again, repeating this process can play the function of pumping, that is to say, the most primitive steam engine can basically only be used to pump water from the mine, this kind of steam engine is not of much use to Yunyi.

Therefore, Yunyi drew Watt's improved steam engine, which made the original machine that could only lift water become a steam engine that could be widely used, and doubled the thermal efficiency of the steam engine, and greatly reduced coal consumption.

Such a steam engine is what Yunyi needs, but there is a problem that needs to be solved, the structure of the improved steam engine is much more complex than the original steam engine, and it is more difficult to make an improved steam engine without any industrial foundation.

The difficulty is relatively large, it does not mean that it cannot be manufactured, Yunyi did not learn machinery in his previous life, perhaps because of the crossing, Yunyi's memory or brain computing ability has increased exponentially, and the pictures of the steam engine he has seen are divided into parts in Yunyi's mind.

So Yunyi drew the parts used in the steam engine on paper one by one, and indicated the size, as long as these parts were built according to the standards of the drawings, Yunyi was able to assemble the steam engine.

At this time, a blacksmith is needed, and it must be the kind of skilled "old" blacksmith, and only they can create the parts that Yunyi needs.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients at any time, the ancients did not have a variety of industrial bases, but they were able to manufacture some complex items that modern industry could not manufacture, and the world in which Yunyi is now is a world similar to ancient China.

With a large amount of funds obtained from paper mills and printing houses, Yunyi began to recruit various craftsmen in Zezhou through Yun's channels, and all the craftsmen recruited were brought to Yunhua County with their families.

In fact, Yunyi is not only recruiting craftsmen, Yunyi also wants to recruit people from the Mo family among the hundreds of princes.

The Mo family was created by Mozi and is one of the most famous schools of the hundred schools of thought, but because the Mo family likes "kit kat and obscenity", it is disliked by many literati and scholars, so although the Mo family is famous, it can only be ranked last among the ten schools.

The Mo family is mainly divided into two factions:

One faction is to carry out ideological and theoretical research and propaganda, and they advocate equal love between people (concurrent love), oppose wars of aggression (non-offensive), advocate economy and oppose extravagance and waste (economizing), attach importance to inheriting the cultural wealth of their predecessors (Ming ghosts), and grasp the laws of nature (Tianzhi), etc., that is, the so-called talking without moving their hands, relying on one mouth to speak.

The other group focuses on the research of equipment, they invented crossbows, ladders and other weapons of war, and also improved the plough to improve the efficiency of farmers' farming.

There is no need for much, Yun Yi only needs a few people from the Mo family to help him develop the basic steam industry, Yun Yi is still a relatively lazy person in his bones, willing to spend time practicing martial arts and painting, and does not want to spend time elsewhere.

In this case, Yunyi needs to find loyal subordinates to take care of all kinds of things.