Feng Congyi got off the carriage, and immediately a wave of heat rushed to his face.

It's already dark, but it's still hot in Tokyo. I had just stepped out of the compartment with ice cubes in the dark compartment, and I felt the strong contrast between hot and cold.

The courtyard in front of you is not conspicuous, and the black lacquered door is also different from the vermilion color of the official eunuch with door nails.

But on both sides of the main gate, extending to the alleys on both sides, the wall is fifty zhang long, which makes people know that they can have a mansion of such a scale within the fifty-mile-long city wall. How could Jing be an ordinary person?

A man in a red red shirt stood in front of the door, and when he saw Feng Congyi getting out of the car, he greeted him.

"The villain Peng Xiao was ordered to guide the way to Feng Daguan."

Feng Congyi followed Peng Xiao into the door, only bringing a companion behind.

It was late at night, and it was just the light of the lantern, so that Feng Congyi couldn't see the stabbing words behind Peng Xiao's ear in front of him. But in terms of attire, he should be a member of the forbidden army.

The Privy Council has repeatedly ordered that all officials and eunuchs shall not call the forbidden army. However, the members of the Champion Jockey Club, in addition to using a large number of van troops to run under the door, also borrowed the forbidden soldiers to call them without exception. The guards that the imperial court gave to these nobles were all from the forbidden army. Since escorts are indispensable when traveling, it is difficult for the Privy Council to let these guards do other things by the way.

Even the Fourth Army, while guarding the Heavenly Family, is also the honor guard of the Son of Heaven. In addition to rotating duties in the Imperial City, most of the subjects that are trained on weekdays have nothing to do with combat. Han Gang and Zhang Dian worked hard, only to change a little - but only a little, compared to the border forbidden army in Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi, the daily training of the Beijing camp forbidden army, only a few troops such as the Shenji battalion can reach the level it should be.

Fortunately, the situation on the Western Army's side is a little better, at least in the Xihe area, because the Han family has set an example, there is no phenomenon of using active soldiers as slaves. And the breeder also knows that the way is a little more restrained, but it is difficult to avoid vulgarity.

"Fourth Brother Feng."

"Brother Feng."

"Feng Dadong's house."

The hosts and guests waiting in the hall only look at the loose officials and honors, and none of them are below the three grades. But as soon as Feng Congyi arrived, he immediately became the most popular guest.

Just look at the stone steps, on the bluestone slats of each level, are carved with the hooves of the horses stepping on the swallows, people who are familiar with horse racing, all know where the master here is sacred

- Champion Jockey Club.

Every time he returned to the capital, as long as Feng Congyi left Han Gang's mansion, he would immediately be overwhelmed by countless invitations.

Among them, there are princes and nobles, and there are also nobodies, and Feng Congyi himself also has to devote part of his energy to deal with the affairs of SF Xing and Ping'an Beijing Branch, and he must make some trade-offs about the invitation, but there is only one invitation, and he will not refuse.

The invitation of the champion Jockey Club, even if Feng Congyi is busy, he will push everything away to go to the meeting. Because here, he does not represent himself, but the one behind him.

And the members of the Champion Jockey Club will not underestimate Feng Congyi because of his identity. There is a cousin who is the prime minister behind him, and he has a net worth that rivals the country, and there is never a shortage of champion horses in his hands, and anyone can get the respect they deserve here.

But there are other factors to today's eagerness.

Feng Congyi's most familiar old friend in Beijing, and also the most familiar and informal clan, and the first head of the horse racing society, Zhao Shijiang, the first head of the horse racing headquarters, asked Feng Congyi in a low voice, "Fourth brother Feng, I heard that this time, your chamber of commerce has made good things again." ”

Feng Congyi put down his wine glass and smiled easily, "The head of the meeting said that it was a silk reeling machine?" ”

Feng Congyi didn't even shirk it, Zhao Shijiang's expression immediately became eager, "Really get the silk reeling machine?" ”

"Where does the kid dare to deceive the leader, it was made by some craftsmen in the family in their spare time."

"How's it working?!"

"Compared with the past silk drawing machine, as long as one-tenth of the labor, the current cotton spinning machine can also be used in silk weaving, and it can be reduced by eighty percent of the labor." Feng Congyi squinted his eyes and smiled, he and Zhao Shijiang were talking, although the guests in the hall were chatting with each other, they all glanced over from time to time.

"Really!?"

Zhao Shijiang's voice suddenly rose up, and the surrounding voices stopped.

Feng Congyi also let go of his voice slightly: "Of course it's true, it's just that the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce doesn't talk about it, the younger brother's family makes a living from cotton cloth, and he doesn't care much about this silk." In addition to giving the drawings to a part of the Chamber of Commerce, now, even the machines are dusted in the warehouse. ”

"This ...... This is too ......" Zhao Shijiang opened his mouth and his beard was shaking, which was also too wasteful, but he immediately reacted, "What are you worried about?" ”

Feng Congyi laughed in a low voice: "The money family can't make enough, it's enough to have so much now, and if it is more, it will be a problem." ”

"I see."

A group of people followed Zhao Shijiang and nodded. Feng Congyi's statement must be Han Gang's instructions behind his back. And Han Gang's personality is not surprising at all when he says such things.

But Han Gang knows the convergence of the Dao, and he needs to worry about what they are worried about in the future, as royal relatives and nobles?

From the south to the north, the Great Song Dynasty could produce silk. The highest production is in the south, while the least in the northwest. The northwest is now occupied by cotton, and the interests of silk production are not so coveted, but which of their families can not care about the silk reeling machine and silk loom that reduce the labor to a few tenths?

With more than a dozen pairs of shining eyes in front of him, Feng Congyi sighed secretly, if it weren't for Han Gang's strict order, how could he give up such a big profit?

Feng Congyi will not miss every issue of "Nature", there are many articles on it, all of which contain unimaginable wealth.

Two years ago, there was a paper on silkworm raising, which Feng Congyi read over and over again, and then firmly remembered it in his heart.

In that paper, the existing sericulture techniques were improved. In particular, monitoring is described in detail through various new types of utensils, such as thermometers, hygrometers, and microscopes.

The temperature of the incubation is stabilized by a thermometer. The ant silkworms hatched from this not only have a neat hatching time and a high proportion of silkworms, but also have a better physique than the ant silkworms hatched in the past.

The article even put forward the concept of humidity, abandoning the vague statement of "dry and damp is the wait" in "Silkworm Fu" and "Qi Min Yaoshu", and quantifying the water content in the air, using oiled hair to pull the pointer, so that the hygrometer made can control the water vapor in the silkworm room in a stable range to avoid silkworm disease.

Silkworms are very easy to get sick, every family, every year when the silkworm moon comes, to incense, to sacrifice, after the silkworm room is cleaned, even can not enter outsiders. In the local area, even if it is rent and tax, it will also avoid the season of silkworm raising. But that's it, after the silkworm moon, there are still a large number of silkworm cocoon particles that have not been harvested, and there are not a few who have only received a small half.

If the techniques in this paper are useful, as long as the yield of silkworm cocoons can be increased by one percent, it is an unimaginable number to increase the output of silkworms with the number of silkworm households in the world.

Moreover, the cost of doing so is not very high. Thermometers have appeared in large quantities, and their prices have dropped dramatically with the popularity of glass, not only has glass become cheaper, but glass artisans have become more numerous and more skilled.

Not only thermometers, but also silver mirrors, clairvoyants, telescopes, and microscopes, the price is falling, while the quality is rising. Just like today's microscope, the lens of its objective lens, which used to be polished by craftsmen, is now a small glass bead, which is condensed into a perfect spherical shape by glass craftsmen, and the lens produced in this way is much better than the crystal lens made by the best craftsmen in the past.

Small doors, small households, prepare these utensils, of course, still can't afford it. But if you start with a cotton textile on the same scale, it's a small or even worthwhile expense.

However, when Feng Congyi excitedly wrote to Han Gang to learn the details of the author, he realized that this paper was the outline listed by Han Gang, and then asked people to write it.

Hangang has been supporting such research. Although he did not set up any institutions, and he did not have his own people do cross-industry research in the early days, some papers from Nature have greatly promoted the sericulture and silk weaving industry.

Feng Congyi was used to sighing unintentionally for his cousin's talent of knowing a little bit of everything, but when he saw that Han Gang asked him to arrange for someone to study silk reeling machines and silk looms, but asked him not to get involved in the silk weaving industry, he could only sigh.

However, he can still understand Han Gang's thoughts, and Han Gang's instructions last night deepened his understanding.

The industrial production of the silk industry has nothing to do with the Han family and the Feng family. Han Gang had no intention of opening up another battlefield outside of cotton, and after Feng Congyi thought about it, he also felt that he could no longer challenge the silkworm households in the world.

Hydraulic machinery can play a earth-shaking role in the textile industry, and if it is cotton cloth that has no foundation before, it will not be too much of a problem. From the very beginning, cotton cloth has been semi-industrial production, from spinning to weaving, and it has not spread all over the world like the single-person spinning wheel and loom of small households like in another world, and has become a large-scale production resistance. From cost to manpower, the cotton textile industry will not cause the destruction of existing industries, nor will it bankrupt hundreds of thousands of small people.

But the silk industry has long been the pillar of the country, and a large part of the annual taxes paid are through silk, if one person can complete the work of a dozen people, how many people will lose their only income?

For such a thing that makes countless people hate, Han Gang has no intention of doing it, and Feng Congyi doesn't want to damage Yin Virtue greatly. The most important thing is that if Han Gang takes advantage of it, it will inevitably affect his reputation and status.

In this case, of course, it is done for the most suitable person.