Baili Wuji helplessly looked at the proud five governors, and felt a little annoyed in his heart, thinking that other kings would not have such a phenomenon, and the court was like buying vegetables in the vegetable field.

Maybe he was too indulgent of these people, Baili Wuji sighed in his heart.

On this day, the smelting department of the Bo College (formerly Tiance Mansion) finally produced the research results. The students inside created a way to smelt ore. Iron is made with a crucible, and graphite produced in Leiyang, between Chu Guoheng and Dun Erzhou, is ground into powder, and then mixed with water and clay to make utensils, and then the cast iron is heated at a high temperature to melt. Cast into small ingots and forged, it was found that this "iron" was far tougher than ordinary iron.

Due to the need for utensils to dissolve cast iron, the production was small.

Coincidentally, there was good news from the Armory, and it was two.

First, the smelting blast furnace is getting bigger and bigger, and the iron produced today is tougher.

Second, the transmission device of the wooden crankshaft component of the imitation waterwheel ship has been completed, and the first steam engine of this era was manufactured according to the principle of water vapor pushing up and down. Although it is rough and the transmission link cannot be well matched, it is not important to know that as long as there is enough time, a better and better machine will be made.

Baili Wuji wants to compare whether the iron smelted by the students with crucibles is better or the iron smelted by the armory.

On this day, Baili Wuji ordered the students and the people of the Armory Workshop District to gather in the Armory Workshop.

The same blacksmith was asked to heat and forge the two types of iron, and it turned out that it was clear that the iron made by the students from the crucible was tougher.

As a result, Baili Wuji ordered the armory workshop to start trial production of artillery using the iron smelted from the crucible as the basic material.

Although the production is small, this king has time. Baili Wuji said happily in his heart.

At the same time, the students and craftsmen were rewarded with one hundred taels of silver each.

For this rough model steam engine, Baili Wuji is even more hopeful, this is the train and steam ship of the future.

Although it is still far away, Baili Wuji is willing to use a lot of money and manpower to shorten its process.

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In order to better promote invention and creation, Baili Wuji specially asked Xu Shiming to customize the grade for the craftsman.

From the eighth grade to the highest four grades, there are five grades corresponding to the level of craftsmen, craftsmen, and craftsmen. It stipulates that the treatment of craftsmen of all grades is equal to that of officials of the same grade, breaking the custom that everything is inferior since ancient times, and only high reading is high.

This move greatly enhanced the enthusiasm of all kinds of craftsmen, people live in the world, solve the problem of food and clothing, just want to be recognized and respected, such is the case of dignitaries and nobles, and the same is true of merchants and husbands.

Baili Wuji has not forgotten Yang Shi's contributions, maybe without him to build a waterwheel and boat, Baili Wuji himself does not know the transmission structure of the crankshaft components, and naturally would not have thought that the steam engine could be manufactured in advance in this era.

June 25.

The Chu Wangfu promoted Yang Shi, the former Shipyard, to the court order, gave him the title of the fourth rank of the craftsman, and crowned the Taizhong doctor.

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It was already July, and Ding Sijing, who had been there for more than two months, came back and brought 30 carts of rice seeds from Zhancheng.

Baili Wuji hurriedly ordered Xu Shiming to quickly arrange planting, and Zhancheng rice was high-yielding, early-maturing, and drought-tolerant, and it only took two months to plant and harvest. Now planted and ready to harvest before winter.

In this way, there will be enough seeds to be promoted and planted in the territory of Chu next year. Although the yield of Champong rice is not as high as that of sweet potato, it is also more than twice the yield per mu of the same rice. Although the taste is not as good as rice, it is still a fine grain.

To let the soldiers and people of Chu State eat rice every day, and three times a day, this is the wish of Baili Wuji.

Moreover, although the yield of sweet potatoes is high, the calories are not enough after all, and the physical exertion of the soldiers eating sweet potatoes and rice every day is not enough, so it is imperative to promote Champa rice.

More than a year of pork promotion effect is also good, although there is still resistance between big households and dignitaries, but since Baili Wuji ordered the palace to eat pork every day, the resistance began to slowly disappear.

Even the king eats, who do you think you are?

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With the passage of time, Tanzhou City has become more and more prosperous.

Thanks to the widening of the three vertical and one horizontal official roads, it is more convenient for people and traders from all over the world to come and go.

And Baili Wuji is getting more and more idle.

There are five internal affairs talents such as Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian, and there is really nowhere to meddle.

At the beginning, he also walked to Lu Shiyun's place from time to time, and as a result, the people of Tanzhou knew that the order of the medical office was the king's woman. After all, he is a king, it's not too much, his face matters, not to mention that Lu Shiyun can't stand the crowd, and begins to signal Baili Wuji to go to the medical office as little as possible.

Baili Wuji knew that Lu Shiyun was reminding herself that the wedding with Gao Rongrong and the princess of Shu was approaching.

Under the boredom, Baili Wuji began a private interview with Weifu, wanting to reminisce about the ease when he was in Padang.

But with the company of dozens of personal guards, this is definitely not the micro-service private visit that Baili Wuji wants.

There was no way to do it anymore, Baili Wuji thought of wine.

For a long time, Baili Wuji did not dare to make wine again.

If you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and the people don't even have to eat, how can there be the fun of winemaking.

It's different now because of sweet potatoes.

So, Baili Wuji led the guards to convert a vacant land behind the Chu Wang's Mansion into a brewing workshop, and opened a door on the backyard wall to facilitate entry and exit.

Recruited a few brewers from Gangneung Zuixianlou, and so, the great cause of brewing began.

Twenty days later, when the first barrel of wine was distilled in the pot, Baili Wuji tried it, this wine is mellow, sweet, moisturizing the throat, unusually fragrant, and has great stamina. Baili Wuji is named "sweet potato burning".

So, Baili Wuji began to distribute it to Xu Shiming.

Xu Shiming and the others saw that the king was decadent, and they were all covering their mouths and stealing fun.

But after tasting it, they couldn't stop it, and from then on, the five of them ran to the palace as long as they had a little bit of leisure to satisfy their hunger.

So much so that Baili Wuji ordered the palace guards to close the door when they saw these five people coming.

What these five people didn't expect was that the King of Chu would be able to make sweet potato simmering wine a major pillar of Chu State's income from then on.

After making wine, Baili Wuji let people find a large vacant land in Tanzhou City. A winery was built, and people were recruited as helpers, so that the brewers of Zuixianlou officially started the mass production of sweet potato roast.

Since then, sweet potato roast has become a specialty of Chu and has become popular in all countries.

It reenacts the style of the drunken immortal wine of the year, and the difference is that the price of the sweet potato roast is extremely low, and Baili Wuji wants to turn this wine into a common wine, and the people can afford to drink it.

At this time, the people, after the daily work, except for the little fun in the bed, there is no entertainment, since there is this sweet potato burning, the people began to have fun, the corresponding large number of restaurants began to build, a house, a few tables, put a few bowls, the family made do with help, you can open the door, make up a few small money, can also feed the family.