The paddle steamer headed in the direction of Yangzhou, Addison hid in the cabin to study the radio, Liu Ziguang and Peng Jingrong counted the silver tickets and gold coins, the arrears of the household department were one million taels, the funds given by the little emperor were 500,000 taels, and the silver for the robbery and looting of the officials of the military department was deducted from the money given to Zhu Youxiao and various expenses, as well as 180,000 taels. Combined with the 300,000 taels of stolen goods just sold, the total is 1,980,000 taels. Among them, there are 1.56 million taels belonging to Liu Ziguang, which is a huge fortune.

Liu Ziguang counted the silver tickets over and over again, thinking about how to spend them, Peng Jingrong said worriedly: "There was such a big movement in salvaging the mixed river dragon just now, it won't take long for Dongchang to find out that Lu Song has been in contact with us, Wen Jun If they are stopped, it will be troublesome, and the stolen goods will be captured, and we will also be traced out at that time." ”

"Although the Dongchang is pervasive, but the intelligence analysis ability is very weak, and the submarine does not have the words of the Great Song Dynasty Navy written on it, when they figure out what's going on, I'm afraid Wen Jun has already taken the painting to the sea, and we will also return to Liguo, although Dongchang doesn't need any evidence to arrest people, it is limited to the capital and some provincial cities controlled by the imperial court, and when it comes to our own territory, they will have to weigh it if they want to do it."

"Yes, the imperial court has been corrupt over the years, and the decrees are not passed, and last year, a few Dongchang fans were actually killed by the workers of the weaving house when they took people in Suzhou, and there will never be a scene of riding around and the world commotion like in the Zhengde years, especially the strong and powerful places far away from the emperor of Tiangao, so they don't take them in their eyes."

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Smooth sailing, all the way to Hongze Lake, looking at the vast lake and the dotted white sails, I can't help but think of the delicious small fish pot on the shore of the lake, as well as the beautiful fisherman Zeng Cheng, and the young master Ma Wencai Ma who has not yet met and bullied people and burned people's houses. By the way, I have to find Marven to seek justice, and now the time has come.

I went to the bridge to explain to the captain, and stopped for a while when I passed by the fishing village where the Zeng family's mother and daughter lived, and went ashore to visit the deceased.

When the group went ashore to ask, the people in the fishing village said that the Zeng family's mother and daughter were afraid that the Ma family would harass them again, so they had moved to Hongze County. Liu Ziguang was slightly disappointed, and silently wished the poor mother and daughter in his heart that they could live a stable and peaceful life from now on. Since he came and couldn't return in vain, he selected ten people from the guards, three or four of whom were habitual bandits who robbed houses and houses, and ordered them to go to Huaiyin County in disguise to burn the Ma family, rob those who should rob, kill those who should be killed, and then go back to the iron factory by land afterwards to rendezvous.

Getting on the boat and continuing on his way, Addison came over the cabin to say something. Liu Ziguang asked him to say it bluntly, it turned out that his uncle was a scholar in Hongze County, and he wanted to visit by the way, but he was afraid of delaying the trip, so he was embarrassed to speak, Liu Ziguang knew that he was now able to show his ambitions with a large amount of money, and he wanted to share the psychology with his uncle, so why not satisfy this understandable vanity.

Immediately discussed with Peng Jingrong, the eldest lady smiled and said: "I'm afraid it's not just to satisfy Mr. Ai's vanity, it seems that someone's fisherman's daughter also ......lives in Hongze County" There was a slight sour taste in his voice, Liu Ziguang knew the truth that the more he described, the darker it became, and he didn't dare to argue, and he went.

Hongze County is close to the lake, and there is a relatively large passenger and freight wharf, the paddle steamer arrives at the wharf to refuel for lunch, after the meal, Liu Ziguang takes Addison into the city to visit relatives and friends. The two young ladies were a little tired and rested on the boat.

Liu Ziguang and Addison wore green shirts with wide robes and large sleeves, wore square scarves on their heads, and held folding fans in their hands, like two scholars who were full of poetry and books.

The county seat is really small, and you can just turn a street to get there. Said to be a mansion, but in fact it was just a shabby courtyard, and when he walked to the door, Liu Ziguang just wanted to say goodbye to go alone to find the Zeng family's mother and daughter, and suddenly heard Addison sigh with emotion: "I don't know if my uncle's "Heavenly Creations" has been written. He immediately stopped and asked, "What kind of book did your uncle write?" What is a name? ”

"My third uncle's surname is Song Mingyingxing, the word Chang Geng, the third place in the township test in the forty-third year of Wanli in Jiangxi Province, and he began to write "Heavenly Creations" before he went to Hongze as a scholar, I don't know how far he has come to write this time. How? Does Eungong know my uncle? Addison wondered.

"I've heard of it, let's go, I'll go with you to see the old man." Liu Ziguang waved his hand, the name of the author of the first encyclopedia in ancient China is like thunder, I didn't expect to meet it here, of course I want to pay homage.

Knocking on the door of the courtyard, a teenage boy came to open the door, and when he saw that it was Addison, he exclaimed in surprise: "Dad, it's Brother Cong here!" Addison grabbed the boy and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, Shihui's younger brother has grown so tall." ”

A middle-aged man in his forties walked out of the back hall when he heard the voice of talking, still holding a brush in his hand. When I saw that my nephew was coming with a guest, I was very surprised, and hurriedly beckoned him into the house to see the tea.

In the main room, the guests and hosts sat down, and the children ran to the mother in the side room to report the news of boiling water to make tea, and here Addison introduced to his uncle: This General Liu is a great benefactor of his nephew, not only has the grace of saving lives, but also the grace of knowing things. Then he talked in detail about what happened at the Mochou Lake Conference that day and how he helped redeem the land and house and invested 100,000 taels in research and development.

"Sure enough, it's the benefactor of my Ai Song family." Song Yingxing left his seat and gave Liu Ziguang a deep salute. "I don't know where General Liu is?" He has traveled for many years, and he knows that there are not only generals in the imperial court in these years, but also many generals in the local powerful armed forces.

Liu Ziguang got up and saluted: "Under is the deputy general of the guard of the Liguo Iron Factory in Xuzhou Prefecture, I have long heard that Lord Song is familiar with the history of the scriptures and the book of a hundred families, and his footprints are all over the north and south of the river. ”

Song Yingxing stroked his beard and smiled: "It turned out to be the general of the Liguo Iron Works, I have been a steelmaker in your iron factory for half a year, I have to say that your Peng factory owner is a genius, the steelmaking furnace he invented has increased the steel production of the Ming Dynasty by ten times, and it is with such sharp steel weapons and armor that the imperial army can block the Manchu Tartars for so many years." I was just trying to be idle, and I had some meager money, and I happened to devote myself to writing books at home. I wrote this "Heavenly Creation" also so that the various techniques of my Ming Dynasty can be passed on and benefit future generations. Look at ......," he said, turning back to the bookcase, picking up a pile of drafts to show the two of them.

"Most of the six chapters in the first volume of "Heavenly Creations" are related to agriculture. "Nailiang" mainly discusses the planting, cultivation technology and production tools of rice, wheat, millet, millet, soybean and other food crops, including various water conservancy irrigation machinery, and introduces the rice cultivation technology in the south of the Yangtze River in detail.

"Naifu" includes production technologies such as sericulture, silk reeling, silk weaving, cotton spinning, linen spinning and wool spinning, as well as tools and equipment, with a special focus on the advanced technology of sericulture and silk spinning and cotton spinning technology in Jiaxing and Huzhou, Zhejiang, and draws a structural diagram of a large-scale jacquard machine.

"Zhangshi" introduces plant dyes and dyeing techniques, focusing on the process of indigo cultivation and indigo extraction, as well as the extraction of dyes from safflower, as well as the color matching of dyes and mordant dyeing methods.

"Pure Essence" describes the processing techniques of rice and wheat harvesting, threshing and milling, with emphasis on windmills, water mills, stone mills, soil mills, wood mills, and flour mills and mills.

"Zuo Xian" discusses the origin of sea salt, pond salt, well salt and other salt production techniques and salt production technology, especially sea salt and well salt.

"Sweet Love" describes the techniques and tools of sugarcane cultivation, sugar extraction and sugar production, as well as honey and syrup.

There are seven articles in the middle volume, most of which are handicraft techniques. The "Pottery" describes the manufacture and tools of bricks and tiles used in the construction of houses and ceramics (especially white porcelain and celadon) used in daily life, from the preparation of raw materials, billet making, glazing to kiln sintering.

"Smelting and Casting" is the most detailed record of traditional Chinese casting technology, focusing on the technology and equipment of copper bells, iron pots and copper coins, including three basic methods: lost-wax, solid and moldless.

"Boat and Car" is devoted to the means of transportation. First, the structural components and materials used for each ship and vehicle are indicated with data, and the principles and construction of various ship and vehicle driving methods, such as steam trains and steam ships, are also described.

"Hammer Forging" systematically discusses the forging process of iron and bronze, from the 10,000-pound iron anchor to the slender embroidery needle, and the manufacture of various production tools such as axes, chisels, hoes, saws, etc., as well as metal processing processes such as welding and metal heat treatment.

"Burnt Stone" involves lime burning, coal mining, alum burning, arsenic technology, coal classification, mining, and underground safety operations.

"Paste" introduces the oil yield, oil characteristics, and uses of 16 kinds of oil crops, as well as the techniques and tools used to extract oil by pressing and water substitution, and also talks about the method of making oil from the bark and the technology of making candles from the oil of the tree.

"Finishing the Ground" discusses the types, raw materials and uses of paper, and discusses in detail a full set of process technology and equipment for making bamboo paper and leather paper, with production operation diagrams.

The next volume has five articles, which are also industrial. "Hardware" discusses the mining, washing, smelting and separation technology of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, zinc and other metal ores, as well as the smelting of steel filling and various copper alloys, including drawings drawn according to the blast furnace of the Liguo Iron Works.

"Good Soldier" involves the manufacturing technology of bows, arrows, crossbows, trunks and other weapons, as well as chariots and warships.

"Danqing" mainly describes the manufacturing technology of making ink from pine smoke and oil smoke and silver vermilion for pigments, and the products are used in the study.

"Qu Tiler" describes the raw materials, proportions, manufacturing techniques and product uses used in the wine mother, medicinal Shenqu and Danqu.

"Zhuyu" describes pearl diving in the South China Sea and jade mining in the Hotan region of Xinjiang, and also talks about the methods and processing techniques of underground gem mining, including agate, crystal and glass.

Liu Ziguang was very shocked, sure enough, it was a big encyclopedia, and hundreds of thousands of words were the painstaking efforts of this ancient scientist, and every technology was practiced and learned by him himself, and he had traveled tens of thousands of miles over the years, and such a huge work was completed in a dilapidated small courtyard in Hongze County, which was really embarrassing.

Addison and Song Yingxing's nephew had countless scientific questions to discuss as soon as they met, and Liu Ziguang's subtle and forward-looking ideas from time to time impressed the two. Time passed very quickly in a warm academic atmosphere, and before I knew it, the whole afternoon had passed, and Song Yingxing's eldest son Shihui ran over and said: "Dad, my mother said that I wanted to keep Brother Cong and the guests for dinner, and asked you for a few dollars to buy rice." ”

Song Yingxing glanced out the window, it was already a little dark, he reached out and touched his sleeve, there were only two or three copper coins, he retracted his hand in embarrassment, said "less accompaniment" and walked into the back hall.

After a while, Song Yingxing's low voice and the woman's slightly sharp high voice came from the back hall, "Wine... Rice... Nobile... dowry". Addison smiled awkwardly and explained to Liu Ziguang: "The third uncle is a bold man, he likes to make friends with peasants and workers the most, and the county scholar's salary is very low, and he often uses it to help people, and it is not the first time that he has quarreled with his aunt when he has no rice." ”

Poor and great scientists! Liu Ziguang took out a silver ticket of fifty taels and gave it to Addison and said: "It's inconvenient for me to come forward, you should go as a nephew, and you should honor your uncle and aunt when you get rich." Don't eat dinner at home, let's go to the restaurant in the county seat for a few drinks. ”

Addison didn't take the silver ticket, saying that I had prepared here, took out a stack of large-denomination silver tickets and entered the back hall, and after talking for a while, the three of them came out, the Song family lady had a dish, and it seemed that Song Yingxing didn't enjoy any happiness, but he was still very happy to receive the nephew's filial piety silver, and he gave the guest a gift and said that he wanted to cook for the child, and the woman was not good at showing up, so she didn't follow the restaurant to eat, and let the three of them go by themselves.

A group of three people went straight to the best restaurant in the county, talking while walking, and when they came to a street corner, they saw many people watching something on the side of the road, and they could vaguely hear the screams of drunks and the reprimands of women. Song Yingxing shook his head: "The scoundrels in the capital only kicked the widow's door in the middle of the night, it's good here, and they come to bully the widow and orphan girl when it's dark." ”

Liu Ziguang didn't say a word, and walked straight to the crowd, because his keen hearing system told him that the woman's voice was the same as the voice of Zeng Cheng's mother, Zeng Jianiangzi, in the memory bank.

At noon, I will go to the next chapter, and the little ** will come