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Geng Jingzhong's carriage drove until it stopped at the gate of the gunpowder workshop, and before it could get closer, the soldier in charge of the guard had already raised his musket and pointed at Yang Jian and the others: "Stop, who is it?" ”

Yang Jian and other guards have always followed Geng Jingzhong, but Geng Jingzhong has taken the stage several times, but they have not appeared on stage together, so none of the soldiers at the bottom know them. "It hasn't changed at all!" After the carriage stopped, Geng Jingzhong also lifted the curtain and walked down. The same rule applies to several firearms workshops, and horses and wagons are not allowed to enter the workshops, except to transport materials.

When several guards saw that it was His Royal Highness the Prince of their own family, they immediately raised their hands and saluted: "See the Prince!" ”

"Yes, keep guarding! Is Solomon in it? Geng Jingzhong returned a military salute and asked by the way.

"Back to the world, Master Solomon has always been in it, and he won't go out for a few months!" The leader of the leading guard team replied.

"Oh, that's right!" When Geng Jingzhong heard this, this Solomon was really dedicated, and he gave them a step on the information, and he was able to let him stay in this place all day long to study, and it was not in vain that he spent a lot of money to invite them back. After nodding his head, he raised his feet and walked inside. There was no need for anyone to lead the way at all, so I had been here myself, and I went straight to the real yàn room with a few guards.

Half of the Western pharmacists in this gunpowder workshop were newcomers, and Solomon was one of the most competent. Solomon's origin is incredible. He is a senior professor at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and is passionate about the scientific research of chemistry. When he first arrived at the starting point town, Geng Jingzhong heard the news and immediately came here by boat as fast as possible. Those who engage in scientific research are all afraid of one problem, and that is scientific research funding.

Without scientific research funding, no matter how great a scientist is, he will not be able to produce scientific results. Throughout history, there has not been a single scientific research that has not been achieved with a huge investment of human and financial resources. Even Marie Curie's refining of the new elements polonium and radium also requires a lot of ore, and it takes a lot of time and good health. Solomon was stumped by this conundrum. What is now Britain has gone through two Anglo-Dutch wars. Financially, it is already very difficult, and the investment in them as scholars is very small, or even none.

As soon as Geng Jingzhong's mission arrived in England, it began to recruit talents again. This second operation was much more professional than the first. Invite scholars from universities to pick them up. Boxes of gold were placed directly in front of them. There are really a lot of people who obediently followed. The Chinese mission offered a series of favorable conditions, and a group of Western masters who had been in the town for a year helped to publicize it, and many scholars and students were really recruited from universities in various countries. Other than that. Skilled workers from all walks of life were also recruited, and they came back with the British caravan!

Under the conditions of this era, the real yàn room that can be created cannot, of course, be compared with later generations, and it is not on the same level at all. When he came to the real room, Geng Jingzhong didn't bother anyone, just walked and watched by himself, with his hands behind his back, and didn't touch any equipment. There are still a lot of glassware here, and it can be said that many of them are still fired according to Geng Jingzhong's drawings, such as various types of test tubes and alcohol lamps, beakers, gas collectors, rubber stoppers, reagent bottles, mortars, etc., all of which Geng Jingzhong remembered should be in the chemical room, and the current conditions can be made, Geng Jingzhong ordered to fire many sets.

The use of each instrument and its use are marked by Geng Jingzhong, and in this regard, it is two hundred years ahead, that is, two hundred years later, the real yàn room is not as complete as the real yàn room in front of us. When Solomon and the other scholars and a large number of students who came with them first saw these fully equipped real rooms, they all opened their mouths in surprise and looked incredulous. Here, all kinds of conditions are sufficient, especially the funds, that is, how much to give, Geng Jingzhong has never discounted.

The development of new explosives is not all done in the real yàn room, of course, most of the time is here. At this moment, Solomon is still seriously real. Change. Sweet. The oil has long been able to be made in batches, and he has also confirmed the detonation of nitrate written in Geng Jingzhong's book. Change. Sweet. The principle of oil. Some time ago, I just found a suitable "detonator" - with a small amount of general fire. Medicine. Change. Sweet. The oil exploded violently! This is also the process of Nobel in later history. This process took Nobel more than three years, and Solomon succeeded in less than a year with direction.

Next, Solomon must develop the Detonator. Change. Sweet. The device of oil, that is, the thunder that Geng Jingzhong wanted. tube, so that you can make nitrate. Change. Sweet. The oil becomes a frying that can be used in industry. Medicine.

Geng Jingzhong didn't disturb Solomon, and he stood quietly not far away and watched. Solomon's assistants didn't remind him either, Geng Jingzhong was very satisfied with this, which showed that they were very serious. About half an hour had passed, and Solomon had turned around and had just seen Geng Jingzhong not far away from the glass cover.

"Oh, dear Prince, it's a pleasure to see you again! We all thought you forgot about us! Solomon's originally frowning brow suddenly relaxed, as if he had become happy when he saw Geng Jingzhong. In fact, Solomon was indeed very happy, and his real yàn had achieved a lot of success, but still did not meet Geng Jingzhong's requirements. Tube comes. These theories written by Geng Jingzhong made him revere Geng Jingzhong as a god, and on two previous occasions when his practice was in a bottleneck, he turned to Geng Jingzhong for help, and Geng Jingzhong also proposed a reasonable proposal to make it, which also made him even more reverent for Geng Jingzhong.

"How could I forget you, you are my great heroes, I always wanted to come and see, but you know, I'm too busy to walk away. This time, it was not easy to get free. That's right, Ray. How's it going? Got eyebrows? ”

"Yes. Your Royal Highness, I am about to succeed, but there are still a few key problems that have not been solved, I don't want to be able to overcome them in half a year! When the time comes, this great invention will change the world! Solomon was immediately excited when he talked about his achievements.

"That's good, after success, you will be famous all over the world, I congratulate you first!" Geng Jingzhong said with a smile.

"Oh. Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Prince. However, it's not all my credit, you're the giant, I'm just you holding it up. The greatest credit goes to you, Your Royal Highness! I'm just willing to follow you! Solomon waved his hand. said that he could not monopolize this credit. If you want to be famous in the world, you have to be Geng Jingzhong in front.

"Needless to say, you made this qiē. No one can erase your credit, okay, you can continue to be real, I'll take a look elsewhere, and I won't bother you! Geng Jingzhong knew that the real yàn here had always been very important and dangerous, so he didn't want to stay here for more at all, and when he got the information he wanted, he immediately wanted to leave here.

"Congratulations to His Royal Highness the Prince!" After Geng Jingzhong turned around, all the real people behind him watched him leave with reverent eyes. Geng Jingzhong's encouragement made them even more motivated, as if they had endless energy, and continued to devote themselves to the reality just now.

Geng Jingzhong left the gunpowder room, left the gunpowder workshop, and turned to start inspecting several other workshops. When the third brother Geng got the news, he also rushed here to pick up the car and accompany Geng Jingzhong. Geng Jingzhong didn't reprimand them, every time he came here, it didn't take long for Geng Da and a few people to get the news. After all, they are the people in charge here, and they are the most well-informed when they receive news.

Along the way, Geng Jingzhong and his party were not fast, and now they didn't feel tired at all, Geng Jingzhong inspected the situation of muskets, artillery workshops, two gold mines and one iron mine, until it was dark, and then returned to the courtyard in the starting point town.

"Okay, you guys are tired from running with me all afternoon, go back and rest." Geng Jingzhong looked at the third brother Geng and said with a slight smile.

"Not tired, not tired! It is a blessing for our brothers to be able to serve the son. Geng Da hurriedly said, they can have today's creation, but it is all because Geng Jingzhong's acquaintances make good use of it, they can be said to be Geng's own family, and they are the most loyal to Geng Jingzhong.

Geng Jingzhong looked up, "Forget it, you stay and eat with me, it's strange that I eat alone!" "Before Geng Jingzhong came back, the news had been received in the courtyard, and he started to prepare early, and the dishes that the prince loved to eat were recorded in detail, and it was simple to prepare a table according to them.

"Sit down and talk!" Geng Jingzhong said to Geng Da San. "I heard that the development here has been good, and I remember all of you's contributions. Geng San, show me the newspaper at hand! Geng Jingzhong pointed to the newspaper on the table at the door and instructed Geng San. In the past ten days, Geng Jingzhong has been busy inspecting various construction sites, and he really hasn't read a single newspaper.

This Xinhua newspaper was originally published every 10 days, but later sold well, and it slowly became a 5-day issue. As Geng Jingzhong's mouthpiece both internally and externally, Xinhua Bao developed rapidly, and a large number of semi-professional reporters who made a living as writers emerged, and there were such semi-professional reporters in all prefectures and counties of Fujian, and some reporters went to Jiangnan with caravans, to Luzon and the Wa Kingdom, in search of materials, and these contents were often very attractive to readers. In addition to the income from manuscript fees, these professional writers also have letters of appointment and corresponding allowances issued by newspapers at all levels according to their qualifications, and in terms of income, they are not inferior to the masters in many workshops.

Besides, these writers are all readers and have a certain education, but their thoughts are not as rigid as nerds, and they are very good at doing things, and it is reasonable that they have a high income. At the same time, this has also led many other readers to join the industry, and it has to be said that being able to publish articles in newspapers often means that they have real talent and learning, and at the same time make themselves famous. In the past two years, Xinhua News has ceased to report only on the dynamics of Fujian, and some major incidents in other provinces and prefectures have also been reflected in newspapers and periodicals.

Now Xinhua Bao has also developed from six pages to a fixed scale of 15 pages, which can be regarded as a periodical magazine, and the news published is extremely rich, from officialdom dynamics to market tidbits to interviews with court officials, commercial content, novel serialization, agricultural chronicles, and so on, are all popular. As a result, the newspaper office has grown in size and has many departments. There has even been a division of labor such as editors-in-chief and editors in various sections, and there has been a shadow of regular newspapers in later generations.

Due to the extensive influence of newspapers and the acceleration of commercial circulation, there are more and more businesses that want to advertise in newspapers and periodicals, which leads to the reduction of newspaper costs, although the number of newspapers has increased several times, but the price of newspapers has not risen, reading newspapers has become an indispensable life for readers in this era, and even gave birth to a new profession - full-time newspaper readers. Illiterate ordinary people only need to spend a few pennies to go to the teahouse, and they can listen to all kinds of news in the newspaper from the newspaper reader like listening to a story. If you don't have to delay the time, wait until your children are out of school. You can also let your child read to yourself. Don't really say it. There are still a few people who do this.

Because the big backstage boss of the newspaper is Geng Jingzhong himself, the waist of the newspaper employees is extremely hard. Today's newspapers not only report positive official news, but also mercilessly expose all kinds of favoritism and malpractice in various prefectures and counties. If the government is indifferent, Geng Jingzhong's intelligence task force will act covertly. Capture it secretly. In fact. In the past two years, it has also been said that many corrupt officials have been dismissed because of this. Although the prefectures and counties have a great headache with the pervasive ancient "paparazzi" of the newspaper, they have nothing to do with them, if they want to use force. The unlucky ones are the officials.

Geng Jingzhong looked at the newspaper by himself, and the three of Geng were the same, pretending to look like them. In fact, they have already seen it, but since the son of the world has seen it, he has to watch it himself. Geng Jingzhong watched and talked to them. However, looking at it, Geng Jingzhong suddenly thought of a question.

The newspapers in Fujian are all a template, but they cannot be issued at the same time, often the surrounding areas of Fuzhou are the fastest, but to the south of Longyan side has to be a beat slower. In many cases, it loses its timeliness, and it seems that there is no special agency to transmit information, which is still very hindering to future development.

The whole process of newspaper and periodical distribution seems to be no big problem, but now the transmission of information is basically sent by each department, the newspaper as an independent organization has a special set of personnel to transmit information, Princess Fang is also, the army is too, and various businesses are still, this is too a waste of manpower and financial resources! Although the imperial court also has a special post station system, it is not for them at all, and even if it can be used, these stations cannot withstand such heavy pressure.

The post station should be the prototype of the modern post office, which has a very long history in China, and has had the storage of the post office since the Tang Dynasty. According to the function of the post station, it can be divided into three parts: post, station and shop, the post station is the transportation organization of the government to receive guests and arrange the official materials, and the station is the organization of transmitting important documents and military information, which is dedicated to the military system; The shop is led by the local department, the state and county governments, and is responsible for the delivery of official documents and letters.

The vouchers used by the post station are the survey and the fire plate - all the official documents and articles that need to be transported to the post station for cars, horses, and men must be seen by the "postal symbol", and the government uses the survey when using it; The military department uses the fire card when it is used. There are extremely strict rules for the use of "postal symbols": if there is a specific task for transit, troops will be sent to protect it; Horses handed over official documents, all added fire tickets to the Ministry of War, so that if the delivery of each post station along the way was to arrive in the capital from outside or pass to each other outside, it was necessary to fill in the company list. Official documents are limited to 300 miles per day for "immediate delivery", and urgent documents are marked with the words 400 miles, 500 miles, or 600 miles. Delivered within the required time limit, provided that the words are not indiscriminately filled.

In fact, the management of the post station has been perfected in the Ming Dynasty, and the management is extremely strict, violating the regulations, all must be punished, not everyone can use the post station. Even now, according to the Qing system, the post station is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and this post station can only be used by the government, and no matter how rich the people are, they can't let the post station help you send letters.

"Geng Da, did this newspaper come from Fuzhou, or was it printed locally?" Geng Jingzhong raised his head and asked.

"Hui Shizi, it is printed locally, Xinhua News has a distribution here, and the surrounding area of Longyan is printed by this branch!" Geng Da reported truthfully.

The prevalence of newspapers has caused a lot of people from all over the country to submit articles, and these manuscripts have been delivered to the various receiving points set up by the newspaper, so that they can be sent to the headquarters for reading later, but this efficiency is really low, Geng Jingzhong has received this information, but he has been busy with military affairs, and has long forgotten about it completely, and he has not remembered this until now. There are many articles coming and going from various places, and there are many receiving points, which takes up a huge amount of the newspaper's expenses. Fortunately, Geng Jingzhong didn't mix this with the information transmission of Princess Fang, otherwise it would have been a mess.

"Damn, there are no computer networks, telegraphs, telephones in this era, everything has to be transported by horses, and if the road hadn't been repaired, even the transmission of information would have become a big problem! It didn't matter if it was published every ten days, but now it doesn't work if it is published every five days! If only there was a post office! Geng Jingzhong muttered to himself, saying this, suddenly a clever, post office! Yes, this thing can solve big problems. It's really good, you have to think about it, see if you can make it, if you can make money, it's not bad, it's better than a free post station, one is convenient, and it's a good idea for the two to make a profit, and now the people don't understand anything, and the speed of accepting this new gadget will make other provinces staggered.

"Geng Da!" Geng Jingzhong shouted.

"What are your commands?" Geng Da immediately replied.

"Geng Da, I have something for you to do, I plan to set up a post office...... Geng Jingzhong briefly explained the functions of the post office, the use and issuance of stamps, and the general setting of the post office, and finally asked: "Can you help me figure out whether this post office can be built and can it be profitable?" ”

Geng Da is not Geng Da a few years ago, he has received a lot of new ideas and new knowledge, and he has also increased his horizons, and his response is quite fast! "Shizi, this thing seems to already exist in Europe! But what you said seems to be more detailed, well, I think it's okay! Why don't I go to Longyan and Zhangzhou to take a look first? ”

"Okay, this matter will be handed over to you, the starting point town has already been on the right track, there are Geng Er Geng San, you can be busy with this matter, it's done, you are my postmaster, get the rank of Sipin, you two also work hard, you will have yours in the future!" Geng Jingzhong promised in advance that it was necessary to reward his henchmen vigorously.

Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty said that "the beacon fire is even for three months, and the family letter is worth ten thousand gold", this poem is not easy for the ancients to transmit letters, even if the post stations have spread to all major cities in the country today, the delivery of letters, especially private letters, is still not an easy thing. The post station is for the exclusive use of the government, and the people have no power to use it, even if they pay for it. In today's era, the delivery of private letters is still very backward, in addition to letting acquaintances help deliver letters, there is only to entrust some "feet" who specialize in helping people deliver letters to deliver letters, and the timeliness and reliability are very poor. There is no doubt that the potential market for the post office is, and it is huge, but whether it can still be profitable when it is convenient for the people depends on how Geng Jingzhong and others operate.

The meal was prepared quickly, Geng Jingzhong and Yang Jian and Geng Da three people entered the table to eat and talk, let Yang Jian and Geng two and Geng San discuss it together, several people began to evaluate the post office system proposed by Geng Jingzhong, Geng Da three brothers have been operating the starting point town affairs for three years, and they are already very impressed by the wonderful ideas, and for the general plan, they are also preliminarily improved at this banquet.

If you want to start a war on the post office business, the fees for letters from the common people must not be high, and if they are too high, everyone is willing to deliver them. However, those merchants should be very welcome to this thing, and having a special post office will also have a huge effect on their business.

Like later generations, send a letter and affix a stamp, and the letter can fly thousands of miles and quickly reach the hands of relatives, as long as the price is not high, it can be popularized quickly. In fact, Geng Jingzhong has another idea, which he actually wanted to do a long time ago. If you want to open a bank in the future, you can learn from the experience of later generations and merge it with the post office, so that it will be convenient for people and merchants to access and access! (To be continued......)

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