5,600 people are guards, and the number one leader of the Songjiang Mansion Guard, that is, the commander Tan Weidong is the military attache of the fourth grade, and it didn't take long for Tan Weidong, who was dressed in a military attache uniform, to come over. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Tan Weidong hugged his fists and said, "Father-in-law Zhao, what are you looking for me to come over?" ”

Zhao Guangcai's face was still a little ugly, this was angry just now, Zhao Guangcai said the matter a little, and then said: "A businessman, donated a regiment to train the general army, it's too lawless, Commander Tan, this Zhang Feng must not stay, we will send heavy troops to destroy him and kill this Zhang Feng." ”

Tan Weidong was disdainful in his heart, and thought in his heart, your little abacus Lao Tzu knows very well, it is not the Qinglong Gang that people eradicated you, cut off your financial route, and now they want to use me as a gunman, and ask me to send troops to kill Zhang Feng, but there is no door.

Although he thought so in his heart, Tan Weidong didn't show it, but said lightly: "Gonggong Zhao, I can't be the master of such a big thing as sending troops, I have to command the capital to make the adults agree before I have the right to send troops, this ......"

Tan Weidong deliberately hesitated, Zhao Guangcai glanced at Tan Weidong dissatisfied, and thought in his heart, if there is a chance, he must take this person.

Zhao Guangcai and Tan Weidong have always been at odds with each other, the two look at each other unpleasantly, Tan Weidong is not happy with Zhao Guangcai, this dead eunuch interferes in everything, especially some things with oil and water are also very active, like eating empty salaries, most of them fell into Zhao Guangcai's pocket.

In Tan Weidong's view, it was not a big deal to eat empty salaries, but this Zhao Guangcai was too much, and the guard house of more than 5,000 people is now full of less than 2,000 people, of which at least one-third are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Even if there are less than 2,000 people, the monthly military salary of these 2,000 people will not be paid in full, in addition, Zhao Guangcai has to ask about the money, food, ordnance, etc. allocated from above, and he has to intervene in a hand, pluck a layer of hair, and it will be even more clever if it falls into the hands of the people below.

From an outsider's point of view, the guard is very beautiful, but as a commander, Tan Weidong knows that this is just an empty shelf, with no combat effectiveness at all, and the training in peacetime is basically deserted, and the military discipline is lax.

Tan Weidong was unhappy with Zhao Guangcai, and Zhao Guangcai also looked at Tan Weidong unpleasantly, thinking that Tan Weidong was not obedient enough, and his prestige among the officers and soldiers of the guard was too high, which affected Zhao Guangcai's own status.

At the end of a meeting, Zhao Guangcai waved his hand and said that everyone could retreat, but those thousands of households, hundreds of households, etc. were unmoved, but as soon as Tan Weidong waved his hand, these people retreated cleanly, which made Zhao Guangcai look at Tan Weidong even more unpleasant.

In addition, some things to make money, Zhao Guangcai thinks that Tan Weidong is not bold enough to block his own financial path, Zhao Guangcai is determined in his heart, if there is a chance, he must get this Tan Weidong down.

Now, seeing that Tan Weidong was reluctant to send troops, and under the pretext of asking the commander of the envoy, Zhao Guangcai was a little angry, and said in the throat of the male duck: "Commander Tan, Zhang Feng openly beat our people, this is against the imperial court, this is an attempt to rebel, such a thing happens under your rule, you won't care." ”

Tan Weidong said lightly: "Father-in-law Zhao, it's serious, it's not enough to talk about rebellion, in addition, people have already shown mercy and have not killed anyone, I think this matter is still over." ”

Seeing that Tan Weidong did not enter the oil and salt, Zhao Guangcai was furious, "Okay, good, Lord Tan, you are very good, I will definitely show this matter to the Ming court." ”

Tan Weidong pursed his lips and thought in his heart, Ming Imperial Court? Who to scare, Lao Tzu is not scared.

Tan Weidong said: "Father-in-law Zhao, I still have a lot of military affairs, and I am out of company." After speaking, no matter how ugly Zhao Shuiquan's face was, Tan Weidong raised his feet and left.

"You, you ......"

Pointing to Tan Weidong's back, Zhao Guangcai was so angry that he almost didn't come up in one breath, and almost turned his back on him, for a long time, Zhao Guangcai thought in his heart, no matter what, I must find a way to clean you up with this Zhang Feng.

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In the past few days, Zhang Feng has been paying attention to the movements of the guard, and seeing that everything is calm, Zhang Feng was slightly strange, and thought in his heart, this Zhao Guangcai really suffered this dumb loss, this is not like Zhao Guangcai's consistent style.

It's better if there is no movement, Zhang Feng has a lot of things to do, and he doesn't have too much energy to focus on this kind of struggle.

However, in order to prevent accidents, Zhang Feng instructed Guan Peng to pay attention to the movements of the guard, and report any disturbances immediately.

Taking advantage of Zhao Guangcai's lack of trouble for himself, Zhang Feng went to see the shipyard and steel mill under construction, and now that the silver is sufficient, Zhang Feng no longer has to worry about financial problems, and even, Zhang Feng is considering that he should build a cement factory.

Thinking so in his heart, Zhang Feng immediately took action, personally selected the site, and then started the construction of the cement plant.

The shipyard of the shipyard gradually took shape, and the iron-making blast furnace of the steel plant also began to be built, and the design of the blast furnace was naturally Zhang Feng, and Yang Shenghai supervised everyone to build it according to Zhang Feng's design drawings.

In front of the blast furnace construction site.

Seeing a large number of people and craftsmen busy, Zhang Feng said with satisfaction: "Lao Yang, hard work, the construction of this steel plant is simply the same every day, and in about a month, our blast furnace will be completed." ”

This blast furnace is mainly used to smelt pig iron, smelting iron ore into pig iron, which then enters the steelmaking furnace and finally smelts into various steels.

Zhang Feng is very confident in technology, confident that he has the ability to smelt the best steel in this era, and even, if the conditions are good in the future, it is not impossible to smelt alloy steel.

Yang Shenghai replied: "Boss, it is enough to complete the construction of the blast furnace in one month, and it is estimated that in about two or three months, we can start the furnace to make steel, but, is this iron ore matter eyebrow-raising?" ”

Yang Shenghai has been worried that there will not be enough iron ore after the steel plant is built, and there will be no rice to cook.

Zhang Feng said: "Lao Yang, don't worry about iron ore, I have found a big iron mine in Taiping Mansion, and I am looking for someone to open a mine, and iron ore will be transported from Taiping Mansion soon." ”

Taiping Mansion, that is, Ma'anshan in later generations, this is a famous steel base in later generations, Zhang Feng knew where there was iron ore, a few days ago, he had sent a small team of people to Taiping Mansion to look for ore.

Yang Shenghai said: "There is an iron mine in Taiping Mansion, great, we can directly transport the iron ore by water." ”

Taiping Mansion is on the edge of the Yangtze River, water transport is naturally the best mode of transportation, and still down the river, Zhang Feng also takes a fancy to this, water transport from the Yangtze River can transport iron ore, even coal and other resources over, directly to the dock of the steel plant, very convenient.

Raw materials are not a problem, smelting technology is not a problem, and with sufficient funds, Zhang Feng is sure that after three months, the steel plant will definitely be able to open the furnace to make steel.

After staying in Shanghai County for two days, Zhang Feng returned to Songjiang Mansion in a good mood.

After returning to Songjiang Mansion, for several days, Zhang Feng was closed, and even rarely went to see the training of recruits.

Later, with steel, it was natural to produce steam engines.

As a technical man, there is naturally no problem in designing a steam engine by himself, not to mention a steam engine, even an internal combustion engine and a gas turbine.

However, considering that the productivity of the Ming Dynasty was very low, the level of technology and technology was very low, and the internal combustion engine and gas turbine naturally did not need to be considered, so they could only put it aside and design and manufacture the steam engine first.

Even if it is a steam engine, the technical and technological requirements are relatively low, but Zhang Feng also has to consider the current level of technology and technology, in this era of no machine tools, no welding, all by hand, Zhang Feng should fully consider this when designing, otherwise, the design drawings come out, can not be manufactured, then these drawings can only be a pile of waste paper.

It is precisely because of these and other limitations that the steam engine must not be too complicated, the technical requirements must not be too high, and it must be able to be manufactured at the current level.

After a few busy days, the design of the world's first steam engine was completed, although it was not very advanced, but after all, Zhang Feng's technical strength was there, and the steam engine was not bad, and the design was very scientific, at least it was more advanced than the steam engine improved by Watt, and the quality was better.

Reliability, quality and other factors, Zhang Feng fully considered when designing, otherwise, it would not have taken so long, it must have been designed a long time ago.

After completing the design, looking at this large pile of drawings, dozens of large and small, Zhang Feng was satisfied for a while, the world's first steam engine, the first real steam engine, was about to be born.

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In a certain office, on a large desk, there are a lot of drawings, which are the steam engine design drawings drawn by Zhang Feng.

Zhao Zuolin knew that Zhang Feng was tinkering with new things these days, and wanted to come in several times to take a look, but he was afraid of affecting Zhang Feng, so he had been enduring it in his heart.

"Boss, what is this, it looks complicated."

In Zhang Feng's view, the structure of the steam engine is relatively simple, and the parts are not very many, and it is not complicated, but for Zhao Zuolin and others, this seems more complicated, much more complicated than the previous flintlock musket.

Zhang Feng spread out the general design drawing in front of everyone, which is a large piece of rice paper, and the general design drawing is very standard and clear.

Zhang Feng introduced: "This is a steam engine, and the steam engine is a reciprocating power machine that converts the energy of steam into mechanical work. This is the boiler of the steam engine, this is the piston, this is the flywheel, this is the valve ......"

Zhang Feng first introduced the structure of the steam engine, then introduced the working principle of the steam engine, and then introduced the important role of the steam engine in industrial development.

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