"Childe, there's a person out there who claims to be your cousin, I have to see you."

Kang Ning in Qingzhou Mansion has been living a quiet life recently. The silence before the storm made him calmly regain the rhythm of enjoying life.

Even Xu Hongru felt envious of his attitude towards life. He thought to himself that he did not have the kind of heart and courage to remain calm before the storm.

Until this day, the retribution of the descendant ended his comfortable life.

"Please let him in, and we'll see you in the second hall."

Corning packed up his appearance, and then took a few maids and prepared tea and snacks to the second hall to greet the cousin.

He has a lot of cousins, just like in the Red Lantern Chronicle.

After a while, a burly and stocky Shaanxi man with a red face was brought in.

"I haven't seen each other for years, cousin, you miss your brother."

Kang Ning listened to his bold words, and immediately invited enthusiastically: "Brother, please sit down, drink saliva to moisten your throat first." ”

"Hey, okay."

After watching him drink a few cups of tea, he still glanced at the teapot without quenching his thirst, and finally simply picked up the teapot and drank it heartily, which made several maids around laugh. Unbeknownst to him, he continued to drain the teapot of tea.

Kang Ning cleared his throat with a smile and asked, "My younger brother only knows how to read on weekdays, and he doesn't move around with his relatives much, so I don't know which aunt's son my brother is." ”

"My mother is your third aunt, and she is the one who married in Shaanxi. As for me, my surname is fire, and I am the one who calls the fire dance. ”

Hearing his self-introduction, especially his surname, several maids behind him whispered in surprise.

"It's the first time I've heard of someone with the surname Huo."

"yes."

Kangning coughed heavily twice and scolded, "It's getting more and more unruly." ”

Seeing that he was angry, the maids quickly stopped talking, but listened to Kang Ning explain: "This fire surname is a descendant of the Suiren clan. You can now steam food over fire. It is to test the skill of the Suiren clan to drill wood for fire. Micro tube Zhong, we are draped in the left side, micro Suiren, we are Ru Mao drinking blood. ”

Actually, Corning said. It's just a source of the fire surname. But Huo Wu heard that his eyebrows fluttered, and he clapped his hands and exclaimed: "I have long heard that my cousin is only eight years old, and when I see it today, I know that my name is worthy of it." Hahaha. ”

Huo Wu laughed boldly, and put himself to the point where no one was around. Corning couldn't let him laugh alone. So I laughed with him twice as usual.

As soon as he started laughing, Fire Dance suddenly stopped laughing, and Flashing Kangning felt a little embarrassed.

Huo Wu said: "Patronizing my brother is hot, and I almost forgot the errand that my mother explained." ”

All the maids are a little puzzled, who will hand over the errand to you for such a rough person?

Corning knew that this so-called errand was the real reason for his visit.

Fire Dance bent down and took off her boat-like shoes, revealing a foot that was obviously very fabric. Then the probe found something in the boat-like shoes.

Several maids around all frowned, and it was just a matter of taking off their shoes in public, the key was that the smell was too lethal.

Kangning was already holding his breath, the smell had reached the point of Liu Bang's chemical weapons.

After a long time, Huo Wu finally found a letter from his big shoe, handed it to Kang Ning, and said, "This is what my mother asked me to bring." ”

Several of the maids around them all laughed secretly. Some of the more daring ones even began to instigate: "Childe, you should accept the letter." ”

Corning glanced at them, then took the letter as usual in their surprised eyes. I opened it calmly and read it carefully.

After a while, Kang Ning raised his head from the letter and said with a smile: "Since the third aunt asked my cousin to come to me. Naturally, there is no reason to be slow. Come with me to the study, and ask Mr. Zhuge to come over for a consultation, and arrange some errand for my cousin. ”

Then the two of them left everyone's sight and went to the study. At the same time, another maid ran to the pavilion where Zhuge Liang and Liu Xian often read books, and invited Zhuge Liang over.

After Huo Wu and Zhuge Liang met. Corning said, "Cousin, this is my confidant. When he was a child, he was an orphan, and was later rescued by his father, and when he saw that he was smart and wise, he named him after Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han. ”

What Kang Ning meant by this was that Zhuge Liang had nothing to do with other forces, he belonged to the Kang family completely, and he could be trusted, and there was no need to hide anything from him.

But Fire Dance still showed a wary look. As an elite among the Jinyi Guards, if he didn't have this sense of secrecy, the superiors would not have selected him to enter the newly established Fucha Bureau.

Seeing his expression, Corning had no choice but to continue: "I am him, he is me." ”

Only then did Fire Dance let down her guard and said to Kang Ning, "The upper meaning is that your task has basically been completed. I'm here to take care of the acceptance. Now, Xu Hongru has taught you almost all of his secrets. We can already understand the traverser abilities he has mastered. And from it, we will screen out the technology suitable for Daming, and then promote it. The boss is very happy with your performance. After all, you've only had a few months. ”

Huo Wu's expression when he spoke now was not at all like a spy of a brocade guard, and he didn't have the taste of dirt buns he showed not long ago, but the aura of a civilian bureaucrat.

Kang Ning knew that the ability to transform his temperament was the basic skill of Jinyiwei's undercover agent. He may not be able to learn it in his life, so he can only enjoy it quietly here.

However, Corning disagreed with the content of Fire Dance's words.

"Actually, the boss shouldn't have sent you. Arouse suspicion in vain. Although you have a cousin's cover identity, you also forged a letter from your family that almost wanted to be posted all over the street. But the statement that the third aunt sent you to help me can't guarantee that it won't arouse the suspicion of others, you know, after all, it's a special period. ”

"However, after all, someone needs to accept it."

"No, there is a person who provides us with a better means of acceptance. Do you know who that person is? ”

Huo Wu looked at Kang Ning suspiciously, and after thinking for a long time, he didn't get an answer, and finally had to put down his head and ask, "Who is it?" ”

Corning spat out two words, but the person whose name they represented surprised Fire Dance.

"Wang Sen."

"It's him!" Huo Wu almost jumped up in surprise, but he immediately figured out that Kang Ning, who was about to start a war with Wang Sen, did have the best time.

Although he does not know, for a set of production relations and their matching test of the level of productivity. The best way to do that is to push it into the abyss of war.

But he also knew that it was a mule or a horse, and he had to be pulled out to slip around after all, and it was indeed not a good choice to send him to see it.

But he's here all the time. It's not good to take anything back.

Corning obviously didn't want him to be difficult, and it was inevitable that Jinyiwei would have doubts about his ability. Since he sent an eye, let him simply take a look at his ability.

"Cousin, since you're here, I'll take you around privately tomorrow. See how prepared we are. ”

Fire Dance nodded in satisfaction. He doesn't have any additional tasks, and it's enough to do what he should do.

Other than that, he just brought two sentences to Corning.

"By the way, Deputy Commander Li asked me to tell you that Huang Lin agreed very happily to the affairs of the Ryukyu Islands. But he seems to be in a hurry to transfer you over for the next step. I'm afraid we'll have to change our plans. ”

The original plan was to lurk around Shi Ziming and find out what Shi Ziming had brought to the Ming Dynasty, but since the other traverser wanted to expose his abilities in front of him. Then there is no reason why it is difficult and then easy.

"That's not in the way. A few days ago, I received a holy decree asking me to obey Shi Ziming's arrangement and encircle and suppress Wang Sen and his gang. After this battle, the relationship between me and Shi Ziming will be further deepened. With this relationship at the bottom, it is not difficult for me to become his student and join Xiya Academy whenever I want to. ”

Fire Dance nodded, it seemed that things had become more favorable to him under Kangning's plan. Now whether it is advancing or retreating, it has become more comfortable.

Huo Wu now has to admire Li Duo's vision. He found this treasure from which corner.

"Oh, yes. One more thing. That is, Huang Lin wants to transfer some refugees from you to replenish the population in his sphere of influence. ”

This thing. Even if Huang Lin doesn't say it, Corning is ready to make such a request.

While a lot of things are on track, the history of the drought is expected to last for two years, and so much has happened before the first year is over. It can be seen that there are too many uncontrollable factors.

What is certain at the moment is that he will not stay in Qingzhou next year, and the local ability to adapt may be reduced due to the lack of a leader, which needs to reduce the pressure on the population for food supply as much as possible. Taking away a part of the population is naturally the best option.

"I have that kind of thought, too. The drought shows no signs of alleviation, which can allow some people to relocate and resettle, and can also reduce the burden on their own people. Presumably, Huang Lin thought the same way. ”

Fire Dance nodded, indicating that it was.

"Then I'll send someone to start preparing. My cousin will go back to rest first, and tomorrow we will go out to visit the farm and workshop designed according to Xu Hongru's wishes. ”

Fire Dance went to rest satisfied. And Corning has to quietly carry out some plans.

Zhuge Liang sent Huo Wu out, and then walked back and said, "We are chatting happily, what are you calling me over to bean (what are you doing, there is a complaint)?" I didn't say a word, and I left. ”

"Calling you here is naturally useful. Don't look at the fact that you didn't say anything, I won't be in Qingzhou Mansion in the future, and you won't have no contact person in Jinyiwei. But that's for later, I urgently need a group of generals now, the kind that is not easy to be spotted in the crowd. Haven't you been flipping through history books these days? Give me an order. ”

Zhuge Liang nodded. He has read a lot of history books with Liu Xian in recent days, but none of them are top figures in this direction. However, Tan Yixun heard that they had been studying history books recently, and he often came to discuss with them. During this period, there were many times to give them guidance, but they avoided a lot of detours.

"It's easy to open an order." Zhuge Liang said confidently, "But there is no guarantee that we already have his genes." ”

When Kang Ning heard this, he simply took out the big box and said, "Let's get it here, call it a day by tomorrow night, and I'll come back in the evening to reincarnate them." ”

Now, in addition to a few more important first-tier figures, there are also a few small groups of second-tier figures who are also very important.

Like what. The imperial doctors in the capital, the shopkeepers, the thieves and emperors who went south, and the tomb robbers who dug graves in different places. The missionaries who have just returned to Qingzhou after the training, as well as the industrialists who have just been invited in the name of overseas experts,

Now, Corning is finally going to use the generals that many people would think of, but what he needs this time is a group of guys who don't look amazing.

This group of people. The only arrangement for Corning was for them to blend in with the refugees and, with them, board the ships of the Yellow Forest, and become part of the population of the Yellow Forest Territory.

This is a foreshadowing laid by Corning, and they will not be needed to play a key role for a while.

The next day, Corning walked into the workshops with a full of energy.

The fire dance that walked in front of people was still the appearance of a big man in Shaanxi, and he smiled stupidly when he saw everyone.

In order not to let people look down on him, Corning put on the appearance of a docent all the way. Let your subordinates know that this person needs to be received seriously.

"At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of them were government-run iron smelting workshops. However, most of these workshops are not well managed, and in fact, the location selection is a bit problematic from the beginning. For example, Zunhua iron smelting, the mine furnace yards are scattered in Jizhou, Zunhua, Fengrun, Yutian, Luanzhou, Qian'an six prefectures and counties. In addition, the remuneration of craftsmen is low, and the basic property of the institute is official property, and the population of related military craftsmen, civilian husbands, and military husbands is seriously lost. There were still as many as 2,500 people in the Yongle period, and in the Jiajing period, there were only 1,500 left. Later, in the ninth year of Wanli. It has reached the point where the mountain field has to be closed. ”

Fire Dance pretended to nod her head nonchalantly as she listened to Corning's explanation, but in fact she crashed these things into her heart. He knew that many of the technologies brought by the traversers that Qin Daochang said were based on the transformation of existing technologies.

Corning just said. It is a problem in the Ming Dynasty, and now we have to listen to Corning's solution.

It's just that Corning is not so anxious, he is afraid that he will have nothing to say, and he has been narrating in a slow rhythm.

"Actually, my dynasty's iron-smelting ability is not bad. Compared with the two songs, it can be said that it has improved a lot. Take the Zunhua iron smelting we just talked about, for example, they use a blast furnace called Dajian furnace. Within half a year, 97,200 catties of iron were produced. You know, it's just a blast furnace. From the fourth year of Zhengde to the sixth year of Zhengde, ten such blast furnaces were built. In other words, only six such Zunhua iron smelting are needed to reach the highest record of 5.4 million catties of iron produced in the Northern Song Dynasty left by Song Shenzong during his reign. ”

(Author's note: This record comes from the records of the time, although I had strong doubts about the statistical ability of the time, but still used this data.) In addition, in later generations, Hao Ruobei, a professor at the University of Chicago in the United States, estimated that the iron output of the first year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty was 150,000 tons.

Huo Wu originally wanted to continue listening without a match, but Corning couldn't get to the point, which made him quite unhappy. In the end, he couldn't help but ask: "Then why can't our iron smelting go on?" What do you have to do? ”

"The problem of our iron smelting is that the craftsmen are not taken seriously, and most of the products produced do not enter the market, bringing income to the government. This is actually a kind of endless cycle, and the government cannot improve the remuneration of craftsmen without receiving income. But this cycle is not easy to unravel. Because most of the iron tools became military supplies. Military spending has always been the focus of the imperial court's control, and it is naturally reluctant to spend more money on craftsmen. I, on the other hand, only slightly raised their level of remuneration and used the surplus production capacity to make all kinds of farm tools and sell them everywhere. It's a lot of money. You must know that there are many 'mining thieves' in Daming who mine iron ore and smelt and sell it privately, and the profits are also extraordinary. Otherwise, they wouldn't risk losing their heads to do this. ”

"Of course, the reason why I was able to make some surplus production capacity was because of Xu Hongru's inspiration. He said that innovation is the source of industry. I'm not used to hearing the word industry," Corning continued, with an indigenous expression, "but it seems to be that some new technology should be used for it. Since he advocates innovation, let's just try. No, there's this thing. ”

Pointing to the blast furnace in the distance, Corning said, "We used a larger, more aerated furnace. In the beginning, we used a water blower called a water drain. Later, we recruited some people from overseas. Furlong machine man or something. They designed it like ......" Corning pretended to think before continuing in an eerie tone, "Stickfen's Furnace. ”

Fire Dance knew that this was important information, and couldn't help but record it carefully.

"But this is not Xu Hongru's credit. It's the credit of those foreign devils. They also racked their brains to reduce the consumption of coal and wood, and in the end they resorted to an opportunistic approach. After reinforcing the furnace, they tried to add ore to the smelting and fuel while the iron was tapping, rather than shutting down the furnace. Of course. If the furnace can no longer withstand the high temperature for a long time, it should still be stopped for maintenance. ”

In this way, in the 1600's in the German region of Siegen, it could last from 7 to 24 days. And in the Wild area, the minting time is 6 days from 1450. Extended to 40 weeks in 1700.

Most of these improvements would not have been possible without a man named Huntsman. He lived in the 18th century and was very professional. He knew exactly how to improve these behemoths.

But his contribution was not limited to that, his greatest contribution in history was the development of crucible casting technology that could be used commercially.

It's just that the current Corning is not ready to take out this big killer weapon.

He felt that what he was doing was appalling enough. You know, the Stickefen furnace they use can already produce 1,200 kilograms per day. Although the same furnace in Europe had reached this output by 1500, it was enough to satisfy Corning.

At this time, Xu Hongru suddenly appeared in Kang Ning's eyes. Fire Dance is full of spirits. Be ready to say hello to your worst enemy at any time.

However, Xu Hongru didn't seem to notice them, and after a few glances at the towering furnace, he shook his head and left.

"Why did Xu Hongru shake his head?" Fire Dance asked with some confusion.

"He doesn't think these things should be developed too early." "He thinks it's important for the whole world to have their stomachs fed and develop these things with ease." ”

"What do you think?" Fire Dance's question poked at one of Corning's weaknesses. He didn't quite agree with Xu Hongru's opinion, but was there enough reason to oppose his idea. The path of development presented by later generations is not necessarily correct. Before the great strides of development, no single thought accurately predicted the outcome of development.

All roads are walked out, and many of the so-called correct theories are found to be right only after they have come out of the road. Some of them were even painstakingly found in piles of old papers. And when they first appeared, just like Van Gogh's paintings, all they could bring to the author was a penniless life like the original.

So. He really wanted to create a little time for Xu Hongru to see if his idea could become a reality.

But he wasn't sure if the current situation would allow him to do so.

Perhaps in his eyes, he is refining steel here, just like the Great Leap Forward of later generations. If that's the case. Presumably, he will also feel that his other behavior is a bit of a commune.

Later, Corning took Fire Dance on a tour of several less important workshops, and although papermaking, printing, and textiles would be of strategic importance in the future, Corning didn't want to be the first bird, so he didn't emphasize their importance too much.

Next, they came to Corning's proudest farmstead. Spurred on by Corning's cost-effective approach, farmers are enthusiastic about planting, and many of the land is planted earlier than expected. Although the drought continues, emergence is not guaranteed at all. But almost all of them are willing to try the possibility of self-help.

Corning knew that his peaceful approach could not be implemented for long, or it would put a huge strain on his finances. It's an easy account to figure out. A production of 1.2 times can only get 1.2 times the market income, but it has to pay 1.44 times the bonus payment. The output of 0.8, although it only needs to pay a bonus of 0.8, can only reap the market return of 0.8. If you add these two ideal samples, you will find such a problem, two units of standard market income, but pay 2.08 bonus expenses.

If some farmers had a larger difference in their harvest from the average, that is, a larger variance, the bonus would not have been 0.08 in that amount.

Don't underestimate the four percent. Later generations began to shout in the 90s that education spending should account for 4 percent of the country's total GDP, but after 20 years of shouting, it still had no results.

There's a lot that can be done with that four percent.

But Corning was not prepared to do away with the flat method now, and he was waiting for the farmers to make the request.

The next thing he wants to do is to give the farmers better treatment. With the development of iron-smelting technology, it is time for all kinds of agricultural tools to appear.

The era of the wooden plough was nearing its end, and the iron plough could already appear in due time. Stylistically, the Rotherram plow and the Scottish hanging plough have been copied. The inventor of the Scottish hanging plow, Small, was summoned by Corning using the art of reincarnation in the soil.

Originally, his technology should have appeared a hundred years later, but now, Corning has advanced the process by nearly a century and a half.

At the same time, the more primitive planter was also made by Patrick Bell. He is also a reincarnated person and helps here in the name of a so-called overseas expert.

Others, such as the Kroskill Grinder, have also been manufactured, but some of them do not quite fit the habits of the Orientals, some are due to the lack of horses, lack of drive, some are due to terrain, etc., and cannot be immediately popularized.

These large agricultural equipment were all in the name of the farms, or the more wickedly known communes as the congregations. All those who attempt to use it must apply in advance, and of course such applications will generally be approved, as long as the applicant can use the relevant machinery.

The number of such utilities is constantly increasing, as are the means of production for households. At least the seeds of all kinds do not need to be obtained in the name of the Commune.

These things are also a new kind of experiment for Corning. It's like Xu Hongru is always trying something new.

Kang Ning suddenly discovered that although Xu Hongru was his enemy, he was like a teacher, leading him through every step of the traverser.

The emotions brought to him by this person made him more and more entangled.

I don't know if many years later, he will still launch a rebellion like he did in history.

If he really wanted to use force to promote the ideas he believed in, I don't know how Corning should choose at that time.

Perhaps, things won't be as bad as they seem. In the coming days, Corning may also be able to create a relatively gentle way to spread the idea of feeding the world.

At least, what will be shown in front of Xu Hongru many years later can really be called a commune of the congregation. But every piece of land in it has been contracted. The laborers will take care of the property of the Commune as much as they care for their own private property.

In the balance between public and private, whether it is a surname or a surname, it can create a harmonious world for the people.

This kind of world is what Corning, a person with a mission, should ponder how to create. Just ask God to give him enough time and luck. (To be continued.) )