Seeing Yuru's figure disappear into the door, Shi Bingxue couldn't help but regret it a little, and said to himself: "Forget it, even if you stay here for a while, if you don't have a chance, you still won't meet, instead of looking forward to seeing each other, it's better to keep some thoughts in your heart." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info right, Lingzhu this girl should be back these days, last time she left, but said that she would bring some delicious food from her hometown back. ”

As soon as Yuru entered the living room, she saw Lu Shiya lying in front of the table writing something. Li Xiang sat cross-legged on the table, only listening to him talk about the number of ships and the guns on board, the ability to sail in the oceans, and then the words crops. Li Xiang said a word, and Lu Shiya wrote a sentence on the paper, and then erased the part that had been written.

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Yuru, where have you been, Shiya is extremely boring to write alone." Here's an extremely important note, you can also come and read it, and then help me revise it, and I'll hand it in a few days. ”

Yuru was stunned when she heard this, thinking that after a few days, why was she so anxious? He had only prepared the previous night, so it seemed that this was extremely important. He nodded, stood beside him, polished his ink, and then carefully read the pages that had been written. The pages were very messy, and although they had already been written on a few sheets of paper, they had been scribbled out of many inappropriate words, and occasionally some spur-of-the-mill ideas had been added, apparently not yet finalized.

After a long time, Li Xiang finally smiled and said: "That's all, if there is anything unclear, I will explain it on the spot, anyway, the emperor has agreed today." ”

Lu Shiya also stood up, looked tired, stretched and said: "This manuscript is finally ready, let Yuru write it, I have been writing since two o'clock in the afternoon, and I am almost exhausted." As he spoke, he pointed to the pendulum clock hanging on the wall, and the hour hand was now pointing to six o'clock.

Yuru smiled: "Okay, Sister Shiya is also tired, so I'll write it." "I thought to myself, will people see that the handwriting of this fold is different from the previous one?

Lanxi is located between the east and west roads of Zhejiang, in the middle reaches of Zhejiang, on the northern edge of the Jinqu Basin. Since ancient times, Lanxi has prospered in commerce and trade, and has the reputation of 'the confluence of three rivers and the thoroughfare of seven provinces'. Moreover, it is extremely rich in mineral resources, with non-metallic deposits such as limestone, coal, china clay, conch stone, and metal deposits such as copper and iron. From Lanxi to the north, there is the Lanxi River that leads directly to Zhejiang, and then goes down the river along Zhejiang, and you can reach Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Zhejiang mentioned here is naturally the Qiantang River of later generations.

Of course, Li Xiang has been planning this matter for a long time. According to the original plan, he planned to build a large number of heavy factories near the Liangzhejiang West Road and the East Road, but at this time there was a great difficulty, that is, the supply of iron. Although the iron output of the two iron factories near Lin'an has increased by nearly 30 times compared to the past, they are only two of the thousands of iron factories in the Great Song Dynasty. Moreover, the Xicheng Iron Works is far away from the mine, and it only does some iron refining and processing on weekdays. As a result, the opening of new mines is extremely urgent. Although there are large-scale mines on Jiangnan West Road, it is far from Lin'an, and it is obvious that transportation is another problem. Besides, the amount of iron used in the manufacture of artillery, machine tools, and heavy machinery in Lin'an is not too large for the time being, and as long as there are a few factories in Lanxi, it will be able to fully meet the needs of weapons manufacturing and machining in recent years.

According to Li Xiang's arrangement a few days ago, he should first report to Li Zong about the modification of the ship. However, he temporarily decided to go to Lanxi to take a look first, after all, without raw materials, no matter how many factories there are, they can only be furnished, and they can't recover iron pots and shovels from the people to make weapons, right?

"Lanxi Mountain is beautiful, the scenery is charming, it has cultural relics and antiques, and there are many scenic spots, among which Liudong Mountain, Bailu Mountain, and Lanyin Mountain are extremely famous. The six caves of the mountain are a must in the south of the Yangtze River because of the snow gushing, the purple glow, the white clouds, the hehe, the bottomless, and the six caves of the funnel. When Zhao Wenyuan learned that Li Xiang and others were coming, he had already made preparations. When it comes to the customs of Lanxi, this Zhao Wenyuan seems to be extremely familiar, and at this time, he is talking about it as if he is introducing his hometown. Li Xiang's impression of Zhao Wenyuan is not bad. This person is the same age as Lu Wenxin, less than forty years old, but at a glance, he knows that he is a person who has lived in officialdom for a long time, and he looks extremely capable, although he does not exude wisdom like Lu Wenxin, but he also looks like a common Qing official on TV, not like a bad person.

"It's not like a bad person." This is Li Xiang's first conclusion, although he himself knows that the loyalty and treachery of appearance is just a way to express the movie.

Zhao Wenyuan said: "Lord Li, the Lanxi mine has been under construction for more than a month. Although there was also copper and iron ore production in the past, but this time it was re-explored, and its reserves are now more than ten times higher than previously estimated, plus seven jaw crushers of different sizes, one impact crusher, two disc shearers, and a number of drilling machinery for drilling blast holes delivered a few days ago, it is estimated that the production efficiency of various mines will be more than ten times higher than in the past. ”

Li Xiang nodded and said, "That's what Lord Huang said." At present, nearly half of the mining machinery of the Great Song Dynasty has been transported to Lanxi, which is also because of the geographical location of Lanxi and the ability to transport raw materials to Lin'an, so the royal laboratory will start the emperor and vigorously build mines here. It's just that in this way, it will be hard work. ”

Zhao Wenyuan hurriedly said: "Where does Lord Li say, it is the duty of a courtier to contribute a little to the court. Since the emperor has a lot of trust in the lower officials, the lower officials will naturally not live up to the emperor's expectations. "Although Zhao Wenyuan served as a waiter in the ministry, on this occasion, he still called himself a 'lower official', obviously having a lot of respect for Li Xiang.

Li Xiang said: "This is also true. In a few months, after the heavy machinery plant is up and running, the production of new mining machinery will begin. By this time next year, there will be a batch of excavation machinery and loading and unloading machinery for digging and loading rock, as well as tunneling machinery for drilling and drilling raises, shafts and flat roadways to be produced, and then it will naturally be supplied to Lanxi first. ”

Prior to this, Li Xiang had already made an assessment of the current exhibition situation, and finally came to the conclusion that all the technologies of the Great Song Dynasty were steadily developing and improving, and this kind of exhibition had passed any stage in history. It can even be said that the one-year exhibition of the Great Song Dynasty has exceeded the level of the same period of several hundred years in the original history.

At least the steam engine was made in a few months; It took only a few months for the gun to be designed. If it weren't for the knowledge of later generations, it would have taken at least two or three hundred years to realize these technologies and produce various tools. At present, the Great Song Dynasty is in such a peculiar stage: the exhibition of technology is not a problem, but the supply of raw materials is far from keeping up with the demand for production. For example, with the current production capacity, it can make 100 tons of iron per day, but the daily output of the entire Dasong Iron and Steel is only two or three tons. This gap between demand and supply is also extremely rare in the history of human exhibitions. (To be continued.) )