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Zheng Kezhang stayed in Shaozhou for a short day in order to receive a pilgrimage from the local gentry, and then his party traveled south along the Beijiang River into the territory of Yingde. Yingde was known as Yingzhou in ancient times, rich in black tea, is the famous black tea hometown in Guangdong, and the local hot springs and stone are also famous. However, Zheng Kezhang did not come for this, he stopped in England and Germany only to check the local pyrite production.

As early as the days when the Qing army moved to the sea to cut off the source of Dongning iron tools and cloth, Zheng Kezhang relied on the separation and catalytic technology of pyrite to solve the source of some iron-smelting raw materials for Zheng Jun and obtain highly pure sulfur.

After Zheng Jun swept through half of the country and obtained sufficient iron sources, the technology of separating iron sulfide did not shrink and die out, but was further widely used because it could produce a large amount of high-purity military-grade sulfur cheaply to meet the needs of Zheng Fan, who had expanded his army and fought in large wars.

Nowadays, the pyrite in Yingde alone can provide Zheng Fan with more than 500,000 quintals of pure sulfur every year, and the sulfur produced from pyrite in Dongning and other places is mainly used for military needs, the sulfur produced by Yingde pyrite is mainly used for export, and the almost pure and impurity-free Yingde is extremely sought-after high-quality goods in the markets of Beihe, Korea, Japan and Siam, and even the Taixi foreign trade ships have purchased them back to China.

In addition to the export of sulfur as a large source of revenue, the sponge iron produced at the same time as the production of sulfur has also become an excellent refined iron material because of the removal of sulfur impurities that are important for the metallographic of iron products, although this refined iron material is not worthy of the attention of the Zheng Fan official iron-run iron smelting field with blast furnace and coking technology, but it is the best iron material that can be obtained by private smelters in Foshan and other places, and has also become a great source of profit.

"According to the decision of the manager's office, the Yingde mine has subcontracted the ore mining business," because the income of the Yingde pyrite mine is mainly for external sales, so unlike several other similar smelters that are operated by the Ministry of War, it belongs to the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it is not economical for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to let the internal affairs department from mining to smelting to the end in one package, so the internal affairs department only controls the smelting and subsequent sales links. "It has saved some manpower and financial resources, but Guangdong is short of coal, although Haiyang coal has been continuously imported, and the shipping route is far away and after entering Guangzhou, it will have to go north retrograde, and the coal price is already quite high."

Zheng Kezhang laughed at the complaints about the mine's contractor, saying that the Haiyang coal produced in the former Beihe and now Lianzhou is already so low that only freight and a small amount of labor are needed, but the Internal Affairs Department, which earns a lot of profits, is still not satisfied, which can only be explained by the lack of people's hearts or the fact that "capital comes to the world, from head to toe, every pore is dripping with blood and filth".

However, the Internal Affairs Department is also busy with the small treasury of the Inner Court, so Zheng Kezhang did not mean to accuse the other party, but thoughtfully pointed to the mountains and forests in the distance and said: "Jian Qing, you look at whether this green mountain is slightly different from the one in the distance." ”

Jian Yuyan, the co-manager of the manager's office, who was once worried that the mine contractor had said the wrong thing, looked around in confusion, and responded inexplicably: "What the king said is very true, and the leaves of the mountains and forests here are yellow, and they are indeed not as green as those in the distance. ”

"Do you know why?" Jian Yuyan shook her head blankly, and Zheng Kezhang explained. "This is the poison formed by the smoke when making sulfur, Jian Qing doesn't seem to have walked through a few smelting plants." Zheng Kezang's words made Jian Co-ordinator, who sat in the government office most of the time, red-faced. "You still have to go down there more, and you will know that not only the sulfur making field, but also the coking, iron smelting, cement and lime production workshops have similar situations." Of course, Zheng Kezhang didn't mean to force Jian Yuyan to go to the grassroots level often, his intentions were deeper. "Similar to sulfur production, iron smelting and the like, the smoke produced is very toxic, the mountains and forests are like this, and people want to be more poisonous during the period, you have to find a way to make up for it a little."

Jian Yuyan subconsciously frowned, he didn't understand the meaning of Zheng Kezang's words, but he suddenly thought of Zheng Kezang's show along the way, isn't this big summer son who is about to reach the top still want to be kind to the industry and miners?

So Jian Yuyan said tentatively: "The minister is dull, the king is benevolent, and the minister must tell the craftsman to understand ****??"

"I'm afraid I'm mistaken." Zheng Kezhang shook his head. "Lonely" does not mean to give healing and subsidies to craftsmen who have been injured by the smoke. Lone wants the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Gezhiyuan to join forces to issue a reward. ”

"Bounty?" Jian Yuyan looked at Zheng Kezhang with a confused face. "Please also ask the king to make it clear."

"What is toxic is smoke, how can we reduce the smoke and dust and even turn the poison in the smoke into treasure," Zheng Kezhang said slowly. "I thought that I might be able to offer a lot of money to the scholars, craftsmen, and even people of insight to solve this problem together."

Zheng Kezang understands that recycling smoke and dust may be impossible under the technical conditions of this era, but dust reduction and smoke reduction may not be absolutely impossible, and in Zheng Kezang's view, the ability of Chinese Mingchuang zào is not inferior to the scientific pioneers of Taixi, but he has been suppressed by Confucianism for a long time and forced to dust, and now he has reached the position of the supreme ruler of half of China, and naturally begins to correct this phenomenon that makes China gradually fall behind the world.

"As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and Lone is ready to have a reward of 500,000 yuan in the inner treasury."

"500,000?" Jian Yuyan was shocked, and immediately spoke out to dissuade her. "Your Majesty, this, this is too grand."

Of course, Jian Yuyan didn't feel sorry for Zheng Kezang's money, because in the final analysis, Zheng Kezang's own money, how he wanted to spend it, naturally he didn't have to listen to other people's opinions, not to mention that the manager was only in charge of making money, and Jian Yuyan, who was from the fifth grade, had no right to ask Zheng Kezhang how to spend money. It's just that Jian Yuyan has his own considerations, he is not willing to end his eunuch journey as a courtier, he still wants to go further, then he must be transferred from an inner court official to a middle court official and an outer court official, and if he wants to transfer from an inner court official to a middle court official and an outer court, the officials will have decisive power, so he must make a merit that makes the officials shine.

"It is true that the king controls the smoke for the sake of loving the people, but after the general is out, Shilin will think that the king does not pay attention to miscellaneous studies." Persuasion is a technical job, especially when the companion is like a tiger, and Jian Yuyan is too attentive for a while. "Even the gangsters will mistakenly believe that the king will begin to become as ridiculous and sloppy as the Emperor of the Apocalypse."

"Lone is as lazy as Xizong?" Zheng Kezang's face froze, and his face became gloomy. "Ming died in Donglin, not in the eunuch party, don't you know?" Zheng Kezang's words made Jian Yuyan tremble, and he suddenly remembered Zheng Kezang's identity, yes, Zheng Kezang is not the dark lord of the harem who is better than the hands of women, but the decisive founder of the country. "During the Tang and Song dynasties, scholars were also quite proficient in miscellaneous arts, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to writing travelogues and dramas, what else could scholars do?" Zheng Kezang's tone carried the voice of gold and iron. "This is the Heavenly Principle of Physics?"

Zheng Kezhang didn't expect that he had already set up the Gezhi Academy, and there were still people who couldn't see the direction of the wind clearly, and the one who couldn't see the direction of the wind was actually from the inner court, so he commented: "Qing should concentrate on co-organizing the manager's office, and don't worry too much about other things." ”

When Jian Yuyan heard this, he suddenly became like thunder, and his whole body almost softened, but his situation can be said to be self-inflicted, so none of the people on the side dared to help, but those who dared to help were shocked by Zheng Kezang's evaluation of science just now, and he couldn't take care of Jian Yuyan who was unlucky for a while.

"Your Majesty, after all, science is a prominent science since the pre-Ming Dynasty and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, if the king intends to abolish it." Wu Qian, who accompanied the visit, spoke. "I'm afraid that people's hearts will be turbulent, and if there is no need to reason, what is the authentic Shilin."

"Turbulence is not afraid, the biggest lesson for Gu is that bones are not as hard as steel knives." Zheng Kezhang responded with a sneer. "As for Lin Zong, who is not a bachelor of science? I thought that I could directly sect the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, if I couldn't test the original intention of the saint in a short period of time, wouldn't there be Wang Yangming's mental science, which was better than the science of only human desires and not heavenly principles. ”

There is no martial arts, and now the people who occupy the top level of Ming and Zheng are all old people in Dongning, they are all fighting with the three generations of the Zheng family for decades, few people have a systematic Confucian inheritance, and Wu Qian is the same, so Zheng Kezang's words are definitely to cause an uproar, and he has not seen how many mysteries in it, so he heard Zheng Kezhang say that he did not want to abolish Confucianism, but first replaced Zhu Xue with Wang Xue, and then replaced the posterity with the original intention of the sage, so he felt that there was no problem and no longer spoke out.

Even Wu Qian, who had the highest status, stopped speaking out, and the officials accompanying him naturally didn't dare to touch Zheng Kezang's moldy head again, so they all kept silent, but fortunately, Zheng Kezhang also knew that there were some things that he couldn't say more, so he kept silent after clicking on it.

"Wu Qing, Yingde City, Lone will not enter, wait a night to sail, Lone wants to arrive in Zhaoqing one day earlier."

Zhaoqing is an important town in Xijiang, in the Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, it was the residence of the governor of Liangguang, and now it is also the station of the commander-in-chief of Zheng Fan Guangdong.

"The king can rest assured, if you go south along the Beijiang River overnight, you will be able to arrive in Qingyuan at noon tomorrow." Due to the relatively large size of the ship group, and the quality of Zheng Kezang's sleep had to be considered, Wu Qianqian made reservations on the calculation. "If you don't stay in Qingyuan, it is expected that you can arrive in Sanshui early the day after tomorrow, and then you will have to go up the Xijiang River." The Xijiang River is also wide in the section from Zhaoqing to Sanshui, so the degree of sailing is only slightly reduced. "The minister expects to arrive in Zhaoqing at noon the day after tomorrow."

"That's very good." Zheng Kezhang did the math and approved the itinerary. "Qingyuan and Sanshui places should not be alarmed. By the way, whether the Third Division of the Xuanwu Army is stationed in Sanshui, the secretary will inform you and let the commander Qi Zhixin get on the ship to meet at that time. ”

Zheng Kezhang named to meet Qi Zhixin, which made Wu Qian a little surprised, but the third division of the Xuanwu Army is now the only field force in western and northwest Guangdong of Zheng Domain, so it is not surprising that Qi Zhixin has this honor, but the commander of the summoning division does not let the deputy general of Guangdong see it in advance, and Wu Qian can't stop thinking about it.

However, after thinking about it, he could only respond at the moment: "The minister obeys the order, and the minister will arrange the ****??"

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