From the Forbidden City Xi'an Gate out is Xi'an Gate Street, to the north is the West Fourth Archway, through the archway to the west is the Fucheng Gate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoFuchengmen is also called 'coal gate' because the coal from Jingxi Mentougou and Zhaitang enters from this gate.

It had just passed when an ordinary two-horse black cloth carriage came out of the coal gate under the escort of five or six hundred knights of different costumes, and then sped up and headed west.

That's right, this is Ye Xiang and his party.

At this time, Ye Xiang, who was wearing a crown of hair and a round-necked brown robe, was sitting in this carriage and felt that the world was spinning, and he was motion sick. These days, he has time to practice horseback riding in the imperial horse supervisor in the west of Ciqing Palace, because of the weak and young and the time is still short, this time the king of the palace is not allowed to ride a horse.

Wang Chengen found a car that usually pulls coal after a simple modification, and then added a few quilts, and then 'stuffed' him in, if Ye Xiang did not comply, he told the cabinet as a threat to cancel the outing.

Ye Xiang was forced to have no choice, and he didn't want to cancel the trip to check the new site of the Baoyuan Bureau, so he sat in aggrievedly. He didn't expect that not only was the road rough, but the car had not yet absorbed the shock, and he felt motion sickness as soon as he left the capital, so he quickly pinched his left hand and diverted his attention, and then did not egg.

Ye Xiang resisted the urge to vomit, kicked the carriage a few times, and shouted to the outside, "Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen, hurry, stop!! ”

"Commander Luo, there is a purpose, stop advancing."

Wang Chengen, who was driving, shouted loudly to Luo Sigong who was guarding the side, Luo Sigong immediately stepped forward to give orders after hearing this, and when the team slowly stopped, Wang Chengen reined in the reins of the horse, and when the car stopped steadily, he turned around and lifted the curtain, probed into the carriage and asked, "Master, what's wrong?" ”

Ye Xiang saw that the car was bumpy and stopped, so he hurriedly stepped forward and lay on the edge of the carriage and vomited wildly...... Until I can't vomit it and my stomach is full of sour taste.

After getting out of the car and rinsing his mouth with water, Ye Xiang knew that he was just over one meter six tall, and he was so thin that he would never get into the carriage again, and said to Wang Chengen, "I want to ride a horse, it's too uncomfortable." ”

Wang Chengen, who has a light face and a high nose and a wide mouth, once said that he is 42 years old, and he is wearing a Haoran scarf at the moment, wearing a gray thick short cloth shirt, and a beige jacket and pants on his lower body, giving people a simple and trustworthy feeling.

"Master, you can't do it, if you fall, something will happen, and the slave will not obey."

"Alright, I'll ride with you, so we'll have the best of both worlds." Ye Xiang didn't know if this was a mess of the rules, but after all, it was better than being guilty in the carriage.

Wang Chengen actually thought about it a long time ago, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to bring it up at that time, he subconsciously still had an inferiority complex, because he was a eunuch, and he was afraid that the Son of Heaven would be disgusted, so he didn't bring it up. Seeing Ye Xiang taking the initiative to ask, he discussed with Luo Sigong, who was leading the horse closer, and finally reached an agreement: Ye Xiang and Wang Chengen rode together.

The team set off again for Mentougou, and Ye Xiang decided to see that the new site of the Baoyuan Bureau was located in Mentougou, which was close to the coal producing area, mainly in the hope of using new technology to improve the method of making money. To change the process, a new power - the steam engine - is used, and in the case of inconvenient transportation, it is not beneficial to be close to the energy source is the best principle.

Not only the Baoyuan Bureau, but also the future armor factory and Wang Gong factory will also be moved, if the apocalypse explosion is really because of gunpowder, then it is very necessary to move it outside the city to strengthen management. There is also a place far away from the city, close to Jingshan and Jiulong Mountain, which is convenient for confidentiality.

In addition to the 200 people in the general camp of Jinyiwei, Ye Xiang also brought 200 people from Wang Chengen's gradual net army and 50 fans from Dongchang as escorts. This is still the personnel who have been repeatedly streamlined, otherwise according to Luo Sigong and Wang Chengen's intentions, they would have to get three or five thousand people. They thought that there were more than 200,000 guards in Beijing, so they didn't need to accompany so many people each time, and as long as they left the palace, they were required to bring at least one guard according to the custom.

As mentioned earlier, there are more than 9,000 eunuchs in the two capitals, most of whom are already old, and eunuchs also need metabolism, so the excerpt of the celebrant eunuch's request to recruit clean men was placed in front of Ye Xiang's imperial case yesterday.

This recruitment of eunuchs was carried out three times in the Wanli period, from the first year of Wanli to the sixth year, and 6,000 people were intermittently entered; Wanli 16 years of 2000; In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, 4,500 people were collected. In addition to staying in the palace, these people will also distribute 10 to 50 people to the palace. Nearly 20 years have passed, and the palace has not passed through new people, so Wang An and others believe that in order to have young and strong people to work, 3,000 new people need to be recruited.

Ye Xiang didn't think he was noble, but it was still a little difficult for him to make this decision, which was too inhuman. Before the various errands in the palace were completely replaced, the important people did the work. After struggling for a few days, when he learned that there was still a 'nameless white' in this world, he agreed.

Nameless white is those who have not been recruited since the palace, it is already a serious social problem nowadays, a large number of people who cannot enter the palace gather together, usually gather in the city wall, and rob people who meet road orders, and even do not let go of people's clothes, and it is easy to cause trouble in the long run.

Although the emperors of previous dynasties have expressly forbidden the behavior of the palace, those who have been in the palace believe that as long as there is an emperor and a harem, there is a demand for eunuchs, and the emperor has never strictly enforced it, so the people from the palace have been repeatedly banned, Wei Jinzhong and Liu Ruoyu are all from the palace. There are also reasons for this, such as the expansion of the power of eunuchs, the hardships of self-eunuchs, the defects of the system, and the family.

Ye Xiang wanted to gather all those nameless whites and select them to be included in the palace divisions, and the others were ready to be sent to the Baoyuan Bureau. And issued a strict decree that from now on, the master of ceremonies must be responsible for purifying the body, and all those who come from the palace will be executed and razed. Of course, whether there will be eunuchs in the future will be discussed at that time.

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Mentougou is 20 kilometers away from Beijing, and Ye Xiang's escorts are all military horses, and after half an hour, everyone finally arrived at the Mentougou coal mining area. The glazed tiles used to build the Forbidden City were fired here, and the emperor had more than 70 coal kilns here. It produces high-quality anthracite, which has a large calorific value and is widely favored by the royal family and dignitaries.

Coal's role in the Industrial Revolution is self-evident, and it can be used to solve the urgent need when new clean energy hydropower is invented and applied. On the site selection of the Baoyuan Bureau, Ye Xiang asked Wang Zuo, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to personally go out and ask for a water source, so the new site was set in the Jiulong Mountain Col in the west of the Yongding River Estuary in the north of Mentougou, covering an area of more than 10 hectares.

The col is wide on the outside and narrow on the inside, surrounded by a simple poplar fence on the outside, and the military flag flutters on the gate, and the busy scene inside is faintly visible. Now the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion, Guo Qinbu, is stationed here, they are wearing cotton armor, wearing red tasseled round helmets, holding bird guns that are about the same height as people, guarding along the fence with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and there are still patrol soldiers in a team of five people walking by.

Because the front team had already told them that when they arrived at the camp gate, Guo Qin and Wang Zuo had been waiting for a long time. After the military camp and the Jingjun defensive formation were completed, Wang Chengen helped Ye Xiang to dismount, and then dodged to the side with interest, so that he could accept Guo Qin and Wang Zuo's kneeling and worship safely.

"Chen Wang Zuo (Guo Qin) see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Ye Xiang was blown by the wind all the way, and when he enjoyed the fun of riding a horse, he had already returned to normal, so he said to the two of them with a smile, "Get up, get some food first, I'm hungry." ”

The food here is in charge of Guo Qin's department, he took the order, Wang Chengen and Luo Sigong followed after whispering a few words, thinking that it was to supervise food safety.

Ye Xiang took Wang Zuobian and walked inside, "How's the progress?" Is there a hindrance? ”

Wang Zuo was fifty miles away, wearing a dark gray round-necked plain suit, wearing a black gauze hat, and his round-faced mustache was still stained with a little mud, and his body was slumped, "Go back to Your Majesty, it's good to have anything else, but I don't know what this steam engine is, how to arrange it, and ask Your Majesty to make a holy judgment." ”

Ye Xiang looked at the high mountains in the distance and the craftsmen who moved wood and soil back and forth, and couldn't help but think of the reinforced concrete construction site in later generations, although the technology of cement is not high, it still needs to be tested, and steel, he shook his head, steelmaking technology is completely a layman......

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

"Ah," Ye Xiang was awakened from his reverie by Wang Zuo, "Oh, I'm here to tell you what to do this time." ”

Nowadays, coinage uses the common sand turning method, first with copper plate carved into a money type for the carving mother, then with the carving mother to make the mother money, again with the mother money to make the model, and finally with the model casting, cooling, polishing, etc.

A higher process than the sand turning method is the lost wax method, which is used to cast vessels with complex surfaces, such as bronze tripods, multi-hollow carvings, etc. The principle is very simple, that is, first use insect wax to carve out the desired pattern, hollow wax sample, and then coat it with fine mud, leaving the pouring mouth called the mud fan, and after the mud is dry, the mud fan will be heated to let the wax flow out, and finally it is the casting and polishing process.

Because of the simplicity of the sand turning method, it was the main coinage method for a long time before the hydraulic method, but it was also easy to imitate because of its simplicity.

The method to be used by Ye Xiang is the forging method, which makes a certain proportion of silver and copper into coils, and then cuts them to the required size, and then uses gravity to hammer out the pattern, which is the common method of minting coins in later generations. The advantage of the forging method is that the pattern is clear, and the anti-counterfeiting pattern can be added on the edge; The disadvantage is that there are high requirements for power.

Fortunately, none of these things are for Ye Xiang, first, the steam engine, gear, and the principle of levers are all things that are learned in middle school, and they can't be forgotten if they want to; Second, he owns the land, the workers, the coal, and more importantly, the currency he is now issuing is legal tender, not counterfeit.

Coming to the temporary tent near the river, Ye Xiang and Wang Zuo explained in detail that the Baoyuan Bureau will be divided into three parts: living area, production area, and silver warehouse. Needless to say, the production area adopts a standard assembly line, and the quantitative workers only do the same thing, boiler, smelting, cutting, forging, quality inspection, transportation, etc., and different processes are in separate workshops.

Wang Zuo's concept of the assembly line is not difficult to understand, it turns out that the Baoyuan Bureau is also the same operation method, but there is no concept, in short, there is a specialization in the art industry.

When he heard that instead of manpower, animal power, and water power, he used a steam engine to provide power, and he knew the reason for the location. His eyes lit up, he forgot the rules, and interrupted, "Your Majesty, when will this boiler be delivered, the minister...... The steam engine was very curious, and if it was as His Majesty said, it would be great. ”

Wang Zuo, who had been the governor of the river before, was very familiar with the affairs of river transportation, and he really thought that if the steam engine was used on the ship, the sailing ship would say goodbye to the river transportation.

Ye Xiang estimated that Wang Zuo saw the application prospect of the steam engine, nodded and looked at him with a smile, and a teachable look made him giggle like a child.