Yanzhou in July is a busy agricultural scene, on both sides of the official road from Jincheng to Yan'an, on both sides of the Yanhe River, a green scene. What is different from the past is that at this time, small dams and wooden waterwheels were built everywhere along the two main rivers of Yanhe and Luoshui, and the originally dry and barren land was planted with crops such as millet and wheat under the irrigation of hundreds of waterwheels.

In each of the nine counties of Yanzhou, the Buzheng Cao Si Agricultural Branch has set up agricultural stations, which are directly managed by the county Cheng, and these agricultural stations have only one function---- to distribute new agricultural tools brought from the state city to the farmers.

The ironwork battalion on Fenglin Mountain has now grown to 1,300 people, and the carpentry battalion has exceeded 2,000 people, and now Fenglin Mountain can produce 100 agricultural tools and 100 wooden guns every day, which is an unimaginable achievement for a local feudal town.

However, Li Wenge was not satisfied, and the production in the Fenglin Mountains did not completely get rid of the workshop-style manual production model, and it was not at all the industrial production mode he envisioned.

After actual investigation, Li Wenge confirmed that under the leadership of Zhou Zhengyu, the Xiangbing Division has mobilized every labor force in the jurisdiction to the extreme, and Lao Zhou has also made efforts to transform the productive forces into productive forces as much as possible for the technological innovations of the research group led by Zu Lin.

It should be said that in the era of handicrafts, such a scale of production can already be regarded as the pinnacle.

Lao Zhou was very puzzled by Li Wenge's dissatisfaction.

In this regard, Li Wenge's explanation was: "Brother Zhou, it's not your fault, you did a good job, it's just that I'm busy with the war for a while, and I really don't pay too little attention to this side!" ”

After Li Wenge returned to Yanzhou, he continued to conduct quiet research and investigation for half a month. In the past half a month, he has only issued three orders, one of which was issued to the state capital. =&nbsucom starts== Two orders were issued to the Eighth Route Army.

The order issued to the state government was to put out a tender for the hard highway from Jincheng to Yan'an, and the conditions for the tender were: In addition to allowing these businesses to collect tolls in the future, the manufacturing technology of horse-drawn carriages will be transferred free of charge to the top 10 companies in terms of capital contribution, and the top 20 merchants who contribute will have the right to free passage on the road.

The first order issued to the Xiang Bing Division was to expand the gear research team led by Zu Lin from the current size of ten people to the size of 100 people. More skilled blacksmiths were deployed to participate in the work.

The second order was to reward Zulin personally, not for the fact that he had not yet developed an ugly iron gear, but for a set of wooden-powered bellows.

This bellows was a by-product of Zu Lin's development of gears, and after initially failing to make gears by hand, Zu Lin began to experiment with cast iron to make gears. However, the high temperature required by cast iron technology cannot be provided by the current manpower bellows, so Zu Lin used Yanhe to create a hydraulic bellows system. This hydraulic bellows system is actually very simple, digging a diversion groove at the bend of a tributary in the Yanhe River. A secondary channel is dug in the middle of this diversion channel, and a dam is built on the diversion channel at this location, and then a dam is built at the upstream entrance of the diversion groove. A dam was also built at the entrance of the sub-trough, and then a blacksmith's shed was erected on the side of the sub-trough, and a short and fat waterwheel with a wide leaf surface but a small radius was erected on the sub-trough, and the wooden ground shaft extended into the blacksmith's shed to connect to the main engine of the windmill. The main engine of the windmill is a copy of the fan blades of the Li Wenge era.

In this way, the blacksmiths in the blacksmith shed do not have to sweat and pull the bellows, they only need to introduce water into the diversion trough through the ground drop between the diversion trough and the Yanhe River, and then introduce the water into the sub-trough through the drop between the sub-trough and the main trough, so that the bellows can be driven to work continuously, and the flow rate of water in the sub-trough can be controlled through the three dams, and the power of the bellows can be controlled.

The disadvantage of this system is that the energy is weak, and the gap dug by manpower does not have to be natural after all. \\\\\ its limited potential energy limits the power cap of the bellows. Through this bellows, the maximum temperature of the molten iron can only be maintained at about 900 degrees. This temperature can also be achieved by working non-stop with four manpower bellows.

Li Wenge's award to Zu Lin is very unique, he rewarded Zu Lin with a scattered rank and a bonus of 100 yuan.

Doctor Zhengfeng is a loose official from the five grades. In Yanzhou, only those patriarchs of the great clans who took out more than 1,000 acres of land were eligible for this kind of scattered rank. In this era, it is rare for an official title to be awarded to the common people, let alone to a female streamer.

At a meeting of the academy, Li Wenge made it clear that the academy encourages any invention and creation that is conducive to the development of productive forces and the saving of labor, and as long as the final effect is confirmed, the military and political authorities in Yanzhou will not be stingy with the name of the official.

Li Wenge scavenged all his blast furnace ironmaking knowledge, and could only provide Zu Lin and others with the vague concepts of "blast furnace, charcoal, strong blast, down and up", but the concept of thermal recycling he proposed gave Zu Lin some inspiration, which became the original breakthrough in the progress of ironmaking technology in Fenglin Mountain.

Another important issue is iron ore, the famous iron ore mines in Guanzhong are generally distributed in the south, and there are only a few small iron ore mines in Yanqing Prefecture, not to mention the difficulty of mining, and the quality of the ore is also very problematic.

Of course, it can be purchased externally, and the huge price difference between iron and iron ore makes the transportation cost basically not too much of a problem. However, given the already difficult financial situation of the state capital, Li Bin and Qin Gu would never agree to use Huang Chengcheng's copper coins to buy black stones. You must know that all the grain needed by the four prefectures of Yanqing and Youxia is still dependent on imports, and it is impossible for the limited funds to be invested in this kind of unbelievable procurement. ^^ucom debut^^

After the end of the research period, Li Wenge began the reform of the Eighth Route Army.

On July 12 of the third year of Guangshun, Li Wenge issued an order to the Xiangbing Division to reorganize the Xiangbing Division, adjusting the establishment of the Xiangbing Corps, reorganizing the Xiangbing Corps into three battalions: miscellaneous service battalion, transportation battalion, and reserve battalion, and abolishing the establishment of the ironwork battalion, carpentry battalion, and ordnance engineering battalion. The entire Xiangbing Regiment was reduced from more than 7,000 to about 3,300.

Of the three battalions that were dismantled, Li Wenge set up three new organizations to manage and operate them, namely the Iron Workers Cooperative, the Carpentry Cooperative, and the Ordnance Cooperative.

Li Wenge brought in Chen Zhe, who was full of complaints because of his unsuccessful pursuit of the exclusive right to operate road transport, and encouraged him to become a shareholder of the ironworking cooperative, and Li Wenge generously said that the Fenglinshan ironworking cooperative could be named after the Chen family. It is called the Chen's Iron Workers Cooperative, and all the civil iron tools produced by the Iron Workers Cooperative in the future will be operated and sold by the Chen family. The condition was that the Chen family had to bear the costs of the development of iron-making technology and the purchase of iron ore, and use it as equity capital to participate in the operation of the ironworking cooperative.

Compared with the monopoly of highway transportation rights, the future monopoly of iron trade suddenly attracted Chen Zhe. Although this model of ironmaking technology development is unheard of and contains endless commercial risks, Chen Zhe is still impressed by its potential business prospects---- you must know that there are nearly 800 people working in the ironworking cooperative, and these people produce subway machines by hand every month, which is not a small amount every month, and government procurement alone is enough to form a flow of water (the original iron farming tool manufacturing was funded by Li Bin's government, and this part of the allocation will be turned into government procurement in the future). Chen Zhe knew that Li Wenge's current territory was not as good as before, and in the future, the purchase of agricultural iron tools in Yanqing and Yanqing alone would be enough to recoup the cost.

The caravan of the Chen family ran around. All that was needed to bring back iron ore from southern Guanzhong was the cost of transportation, and the stones, which were extremely difficult to refine, were nothing more than waste in the eyes of local merchants, just an "addition" to the trade of large quantities of grain goods. \\\\\

Only for those experienced metro craftsmen, iron ore is a treasure that can earn food and clothing. However, in this era, there are no blacksmiths working in the group, and the manual operation mode is to solve the demand for iron ore land by itself, which leads to the fact that although the products of this resource are expensive and regulated, the resources themselves are rarely cared for.

Chen's Iron Cooperative adopts a joint-stock model, Chen Zhe invests 20,000 yuan as the basic share capital at one time, and in the future, a large amount of free iron ore will be converted into the share capital, and the Chen family occupies 60% of the shares of the cooperative. On the Eighth Route Army, Liu Heng, the director of Cao Cao, participated in the operation on behalf of the military. Holds 30% of the shares. What is more special is that Zu Lin personally holds a percentage of the shares of the cooperative in the mode of technology shareholding.

Li Wenge dealt with the carpentry cooperative in the same way---- which was a large enterprise with 1,500 employees. At present, the main profit model of this enterprise is shipbuilding and building four-wheeled carriages, and the income from other agricultural tools is only a small head, for this enterprise, Chen Zhedi's financial resources are not enough, so he had to pull up three firms, each of which only accounts for one percent of the shares, and Liu Heng holds fifty percent of the shares, and Zu Lin is still one percent.

The Ordnance Cooperatives are more special, because the products of this cooperative are all military materials such as weapons, armor, shields, etc., and non-governmental participation is not allowed for the time being. Li Wenge directly organized this military industrial enterprise under the Xiangbing Division, which was at the same level as the Xiangbing Regiment, and appointed Liu Hengquan to know the affairs of the Ordnance Industry Cooperative.

Another one that has been favored by Li Wenge's finances is the Chen Tuan Underground Taoist Temple, the most bizarre building on Fenglin Mountain, which has always made Zhou Zhengyu angry.

Whether it is iron smelting or shipbuilding, even if Zu Lin uses public funds to build the dam, General Zhou Zhengyu will turn a blind eye to tolerate it---- it is the right thing after all.

However, the bull's nose from Huashan--- he openly burned mercury and alchemy on the mountain, and used military funds......

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

However, Li Wenge issued a strict order, no matter how tight the military's finances are, all the "funds" of this bull's nose must be paid, and in addition, all the requirements of this old way must not be delayed or delayed---- including his request that the whole mountain dig out thatched houses......

On July 15, Fenglin Academy held its first joint meeting of teachers, which was presided over by Li Wenge's "Great Sacrifice Wine". =&nbsucom debut==

This meeting resulted in a resolution that came to be known as the "July Resolution" or "Bingxu Strategy"

Since then, Fenglin Academy has implemented a subject system, and the types of topics are divided into three categories, Class A is basic science, most of these topics are theoretical topics, and this aspect is currently recognized as the first in Li Wenge in the academy, so although there are also Ye Qiyu and other academic idiots who are mainly attacking, the number is still relatively small. Category B topics are experimental science, and Chen Tuan's Taoist temple belongs to this category; Category C is the applied science category, which has the largest number of topics.

The project system is to make the most effective use of the limited research funds possible, and although Li Wenge urgently needs the results of applied science, he still rationally lists basic science topics as a first-class topic, just as he said in his interpretation of the role of a class of topics, basic science "understands the principles of the changes in heaven and earth and the birth and death of all things, and is the first knowledge in the world."

Large-scale iron and steel smelting, industrialized large-scale production, gun and cannon making...... It is undeniable that these compulsory courses for crossing have a great temptation for Li Wenge.

But that's not his purpose.

Establish a powerful armed force to dominate the world and unify the four seas......

Nor is it his pursuit.

In his own words. I've come this far to get here. I'm not here to do this......

I came into this world naked, but I brought with me the most precious thing of this age, so that I am worthy of a second life......

Civilization is the most precious thing.

And basic science. is the foundation of civilization......

Li Wenge believes that in his own time and space, the Chinese nation has been ignoring the importance of basic scientific research until the 21 st century.

Whether a country is really strong or not does not depend on how many aircraft and artillery you have, not how many hydrogen bombs you have, nor how many foreign exchange reserves you have, how many daily necessities and luxury goods you can produce......

Whether a country can be truly strong. It depends on how many top-level basic science researchers you have.

Basic science is the science that studies the structure of matter and the mysteries of the universe.

Unlike traditional historians, Li Wenge has a very rebellious understanding of the concept of the place where the state rises.

The sun never sets on the rise of empires in the age of industrialization is not because of the watt steam engine. but because of Oxford and Cambridge.

The rise of Germany in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century was not because of Bismarck and Hitler, but because of Planck and Einstein.

The rise of the United States in modern society is not because of two world wars, but because of Massachusetts and Princeton......

The reason why human beings are separated from other populations is that they are unique. It is because of the understanding and use of knowledge, and in terms of priority, understanding is always more important than use.

A temporary flourishing of applied science can make a country rich and its armaments strong, but it can never give rise to the so-called "comprehensive national strength."

The most fundamental criterion for determining whether a modern nation-state is strong in terms of comprehensive national strength is the level of basic scientific research in that country.

It is not surprising that a country that gave birth to Rutherford and ushered humanity into the atomic age exploded the first atomic bomb in human history within a few decades.

A nation and a people who drove the discoverer of the theory of relativity out of the country and burned his books. Its failure is inevitable. This is an inevitable choice for human progress.

At any time, it's easier to learn than to discover and create. A country that focuses solely on learning will remain a second-rate country if it completely ignores discovery and creation.

The degree to which we attach importance to basic scientific research determines the destiny of the country and the nation.

What is Progress? Repetitive mechanical activities can never be called progress, only those discoverative and creative human activities can be called progress.

Applied science is always the "second", while basic science is always the "first".

The first is progress.

At this level, 10,000 weapons experts are not as valuable as one Chen Jingrun.

In this sense, basic scientific research topics are always well-deserved "Category A".

The prosperity of basic science is an index of civilization.

China's decline is not the decline of science and technology in general, but the decline of basic science.

At the time of the Li Cultural Revolution, the most humiliating thing in the First Opium War was not the military defeat in front of the strong ships and sharp guns, but the "clever explanation" of the Governor of Liangjiang on the operation principle of the steam engine of the British warship--- which was pulling the ox.

The Westernization movement can introduce foreign guns and cannons, and the republican revolution can introduce doctrines and systems, but neither can introduce the driving force for civilization ---- progress, doubt and exploration.

Because of doubt, we will explore, and humanity will progress as a result.

On the wall of the wall inside the gate of Fenglin Academy, there are four extremely ugly brush characters written like ghost paintings, which is one of the few real brush characters left in the world by Li Wenge, the first great priest of Fenglin Academy.

Here this crazy time-traveler arrogantly writes four large characters plagiarized from a famous thinker in a previous life.

Doubt everything!