The Song family brothers' incident last night has spread all over the area of Li Zhuang, after all, a reward is 10,000 taels, and the reward of this specification is an unprecedented strange thing, and it is inevitable that it will be spread. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It was just a small thing, and I was ashamed to be rewarded." Song Yingxing said modestly, and then said: "I don't know if you have any thoughts on the improvement of textile machinery?" ”

Frederick pondered: "I heard that Lord Zhang is planning to use water power to drive the textile machine and the loom, which faces a lot of problems, first of all, the power connection device that drives the shuttle, and then the cooperation between the spindle and the shuttle machine and the power, I know that Daming has a kind of Huang Daopo loom, which can integrate rods, elastics, spinning, and weaving, and use the foot pedal to drive the movement of three spindles, and spin three yarns at the same time. To be honest, I have seen the textile machines that we brought from Europe, and they are still technically backward compared to the looms of Daming, although they are already the best looms in Europe. ”

Song Yingxing had known it for a long time, but after hearing the affirmative statement of the knowledgeable young missionary in front of him, there was still a look of disappointment on his face.

"It's weird." Song Yingxing couldn't help but say: "Why do adults say that European textile technology has left us far behind?" ”

A group of Europeans were all indifferent and did not feel offended...... Frederick was a Prussian, and there were Portuguese, Saxon, Swiss, and French missions, but there were no English, no Spaniards, and certainly no Dutch.

This is also related to the military and political situation in Asia at that time, the Dutch were in a state of war with Daming, and the sea giants on the Daming side have been fighting for maritime control of the South China Sea, as for the Spaniards have always been very unfriendly to the Chinese, this gang of bastards is worried that the Chinese have plans to colonize the South Seas, not only very wary and vigilant of the Daming, but also very wary of the Chinese immigrants under their rule, in the Spaniard-ruled Luzon there have been two large-scale anti-Chinese massacres, each time the Chinese are slaughtered more than 10,000 people, the scene is terrible, how could the Spaniards accept the employment of the Chinese in the interior?

"There are still a lot of problems to solve." Song Yingxing bowed his hand to a group of Taixi people and planned to leave.

Frederick looked at Song Yingxing, who was slowly walking away, shrugged his shoulders, and said: "This Chinese is very interesting, and in terms of temperament, he looks very much like my university professor." ”

Jose also said: "Before coming here, I thought that the Chinese were all like the officials and gentry in Guangzhou, pedantic and arrogant, and only the merchants still had reason and shrewdness not under the Europeans. Now it seems that I still underestimate this ancient civilization. ”

"This is a civilization that has been inherited for thousands of years." Frederick said with emotion, revealing an old age that did not match his age.

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The place where Song Yingxing rushed to was the Watch Institute, just opposite the Technical Research Institute of the Miscellaneous Bureau, this place was very familiar, in fact, Song Yingxing would go to the Watch Institute every day to take a turn to see the latest progress of various table clocks and wall watches.

Chang Jinyou is the person in charge of this agency, and he is also one of the directors of the Miscellaneous Bureau, when Song Yingxing slowed down and walked in, Chang Jinyou was already sitting at the big table and busy.

The whole clock is a courtyard, in the middle of the large room from east to west is a large table, the four corners of all kinds of table clocks, some are brilliant, some are unpretentious, some are as high as zhang Xu, people stand in front of the clock only to half the height of the clock, some are already only half the size of a person, but the smallest is also nearly half a person high, is in use, the skilled clock can be reduced to half a person high, but there is no doubt that there is still a long way to go from Zhang Han to put forward the precise watch that can be hung on the chest.

Due to the watch scheme, the profits of the grandfather clock were also offset quite a bit.

The consumption of the test is very terrifying, there is no shortage of quite expensive raw materials for all kinds of materials, and a large number of raw materials are damaged in the process of testing, and then apply for allocation, and then damaged.

If all these materials were made into a table clock, it would be quite profitable, not a lot of wastage.

Not only that, the number of qualified watchmakers who can make table clocks is still not much, after all, the base of the Chinese will make this thing is originally very small, only a small number of craftsmen in Suzhou have successfully imitated some crude imitations, at least in this period, the number of successful table clocks is very small, in a few hundred years, the stock of table clocks in the Qing season is not only more, but also varied, indicating that the technology of table clocks is advancing rapidly, and the number of surviving people has become larger, or after a hundred years.

Now what he and Yusheng have to do is not only to promote the development of table clock technology, but also to imitate pocket watches in China in advance...... At this time in Europe, pocket watches were only a handful of top craftsmen who could produce finished products of acceptable quality, and technically speaking, the watch institute had only been established for less than two years, and had been able to successfully imitate a large number of table clocks, and had been continuously reducing the number of parts and achieving a stable structure, which was already quite an achievement.

However, there are quite a few people in the Zhenghe Military Department who are dissatisfied with the situation on the Taiwan side, and there are also quite a few people in various bureaus who are dissatisfied with Changjin.

If it weren't for Chang Jinyou's identity as Zhang Hanzheng's father-in-law, I'm afraid that all kinds of criticism and even impeachment cases would be raised.

In the joint councils of various research institutes, even if Zhang Han supports those projects that are not very reliable and cost too much, there are still people who criticize and impeach, and once they are passed, the project can only be terminated.

On the side of the watch and clock office, Zhang Han had already said that if the council really terminated the study, he would take out the money himself to continue to do it, and under this kind of high pressure, those who intend to propose impeachment can only give up.

Within He Yusheng, no one has dared to ignore Zhang Han's majesty, even if it is Zhang Han's so-called science and engineering nerd.

On the long table are all kinds of parts, large and small, and a dozen skilled craftsmen sit on both sides of the table, constantly disassembling and installing.

When a program is completed, it is recorded, and Song Yingxing has seen the record files, which are full of pictures and texts, not only successes, but also failures.

Underneath the record is the tedious process of breaking down and experimenting with new parts, and if a layman first enters the room, he may be attracted for a while, then he will feel bored, and finally he will be bored and uninterested.

Everyone is very skilled in their movements, and these people are the best watchmakers cultivated by the watch institute in recent years, and it is not far from the top watchmakers in the whole of China to be here.

Chang Jin is one of them.

In the past two years, this middle-aged man who is obsessed with miscellaneous studies and various technologies has devoted all his energy to clocks and watches, but perhaps Chang Jinyou was particularly interested in building a large waterwheel before, the gears turned, and the waterwheel was constantly driven by the water force, and then the water flowed down the sink into the bucket, and then the gears rotated to dump the water in the bucket into the channel on the shore...... It's a process of repetitive movement of a curved pole, much like the movement of a clock...... In short, Chang Jin has seen the inner workings of the clock and became obsessed with this kind of Tessie machinery, when many wealthy people only pay attention to what precious stones are inlaid in the clock case, Chang Jin has already begun the arduous process of miniaturizing the table clock with his subordinates.

"I've seen the situation in the next place."

Song Yingxing is just the deputy director, and the difference between his status and Chang Jinquan is not big, and these technicians basically have a nerdy temper and are not so sensitive to their status.

And from the perspective of his identity in the Ming Dynasty, Chang Jin is a talented student, Song Yingxing is a serious person, and the name system is deeply rooted in the hearts of scholars, which is not so easy to eliminate.

Chang Jinyou's original mind was already immersed in the work at hand, and he woke up after hearing Song Yingxing's greetings, he quickly got up and said, "Mr. Song, why did you come here so early today?" Hurry up and take a seat, and call the handyman for tea. ”

Chang Jin's temper is a little pedantic, others are commensurate with their positions, and he still uses the old habit of calling him by the name of the department, and he can't change it for a while.

Song Yingxing also knew the temper of this bureau, and responded with a smile at the moment, but he still said politely: "I still have something to discuss with the regular bureau when I came here today, so I won't drink it." ”

"Okay." Chang Jin was not polite at all, pulled a chair and said to Song Yingxing: "Old gentleman, please take a seat." ”

"Okay, thank you." After Song Yingxing sat down, he said directly: "I'll get to the point." Does the bureau know about yesterday's test? ”

"Of course I do." Chang Jin said: "This is a good thing, the financial pressure of the military department is much less." ”

Song Yingxing nodded when he heard this, the four words "financial pressure" have become a heavy mountain, pressing on the heads of the middle and high-level of the military department, making people a little breathless.

However, no one dares to criticize Zhang Han's military expansion and the over-standard expenditure on the army, the military expenditure of more than 5 million, in fact, if you count the silver interest, it will be more than 6 million, of which more than 3 million are military salaries for hundreds of thousands of soldiers, not counting the share dividends of acres of land, the average annual income of soldiers exceeds 20 taels, even if it is a family in Liaozhen, it is only 128 monthly salaries, and the military salary expenditure increases after the Liao salary is levied, and it is an average of more than 2 taels a month, and it may not be possible to get enough silver. Even the family's silver will be deducted, of course, there is no problem in this area in He Yusheng, so the income of the military is super high, in addition to the middle and high-level officials of the military department, the middle-level technical personnel of the various manufacturing bureaus, and the shopkeeper in charge of business, in addition, the general workers and peasants and ordinary military officials are far from catching up with the income of the soldiers, and it also reflects the highest status of the army.

However, for ordinary military personnel, the financial pressure is like a boulder, weighing heavily on everyone's heads.

"It's really going to be a lot of financial pressure next year." Song Yingxing groaned: "And I think that in the next two or three years, I am afraid that the financial pressure will not be small." ”