The sun in July of the Song calendar was shining brightly and hot, and the Fujian Road was about to point out the Yamen of the Criminal Prison Division. From the outside, this yamen is as inconspicuous as the others. The lower half of the exterior of the wall was covered with moss, and the steps to the doorway were somewhat broken. Overall, it's a little shabby. Two middle-aged men in their thirties stood outside the somewhat dilapidated yamen, watching their subordinates hand in the famous thorns.

It was an errand officer who took over the famous thorn, he looked at the famous thorn, and said loudly: "Zhao Tidian is not in the yamen. ”

The middle-aged man at the head frowned slightly, and it was very abnormal for an officer of this level to dare to answer like this, which was a very abnormal thing for an official at the level of a prison. Deciding who to see and not to see, and deciding how to answer the whereabouts of the prison is all done by the staff, not by an errand officer of the public service system.

The middle-aged man who was about thirty years old turned his head to look at his cousin Qi Ye who was standing beside him, but saw that Qi Ye looked ignorant of this. The middle-aged man took out a string of money, took a few steps forward, and was about to stuff it into the errand officer. The officer stretched out his hand to stop him. The middle-aged man hurriedly smiled and said: "This official, I am Qi Rong of Xianqian Village......

"I know that I see Xianqian Village, and I have also seen the Qi Ye shopkeeper next to me." The officer said with a smile.

"This official, can you tell Zhao Tidian that he can sit in the office?" Qi Rong continued to ask, and at the same time stuffed the string of money in his hand.

This time the errand officer did not refuse, he took the money and tossed it in his hand, "This shopkeeper Qi, do you think I dare to make up some people to come and go?" Or do you think I, the officer, dare to inquire about Tidian's whereabouts? If you want me to say this, get the money back. ”

Qi Rong listened to the scene, where was he willing to offend the officer, he said with a smile: "This official, I just asked if it was possible to mention it in the yamen." ”

"I said it at the beginning, Zhao Tidian is not here." The officer replied with some displeasure.

After learning the information he wanted, Qi Rong retreated without asking too much. Qi Ye looked at his cousin's approach, and he didn't have any thoughts in his heart. Since his cousin is here to drive him back to Quanzhou, it is his own business to toss how he is willing to toss in Fuzhou. Reaching out and touching the sweat on his forehead, Qi Ye really wanted to go back and rest now. In July, Mars travels westward, and the weather turns cooler. But that was when the hottest weather started to get cooler, and it's still very hot. Because he was basking in the sun, Qi Ye was a little curious about where Zhao Jiaren had gone in such a hot weather.

Zhao Jiaren was indeed not in the Yamen, he went to a more fiery place, Zhou Qing's blacksmith shop. At this time, the fire did not start to blow, it was very plain and radiated basic heat, and the room was steaming. Zhou Qing showed Zhao Jiaren his results in the relatively cool room on the other side of the blacksmith shop.

Including Zhou Qing, none of the blacksmith shop personnel knew what this weird thing was for. Zhao Jiaren knew that he was manipulating the machine, watching the jagged small parts on the machine rise and fall. After the manipulation was too enjoyable, Zhao Jiaren asked: "Brother Zhou, you can do the hydraulic transmission equipment I asked you to prepare." ”

"Okay, that's good, let's go to the repaired dam." Zhou Qing replied. After finishing speaking, Zhou Qing asked puzzledly: "Owner, what does this thing do?" ”

"Uh-huh...... a funny gadget." Zhao Jiaren replied. In fact, he would like to say that this is the machinery that caused the tragic war. But that was Zhao Jiaren's time and space, not the current time and space. This thing is a sawtooth ginning machine invented by Whitney in the United States.

When he was studying and working in the United States, Zhao Jiaren liked to travel everywhere and visit museums everywhere. In the 18th century, with the development of industry, Britain went from being the world's largest slave country to being the vanguard of the anti-slave trade. At one point, slavery in the United States collapsed on its own. However, in 1793, Whitney invented the ginning machine, and the union of slaves and cotton plantations immediately produced huge economic benefits.

According to the museum's introduction, many American historians believe that the Civil War would not have broken out if the ginning machine had not been invented. Even the Civil War could have been avoided by just thirty years of its invention. Because the slave-holding South would collapse on its own economically.

Zhao Jiaren carefully studied this machine that caused huge consequences in the museum, and felt that the machine was very low-tech, and he was very impressed. After learning from his eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin that he had sown 50 acres of cotton land, Zhao Jiaren began to prepare this equipment. The southern United States has accumulated great wealth on cotton, although the introduction in the museum says that the United States grows continental cotton and long-staple cotton island cotton with medium cotton lint, not Asian cotton with short and thick lint. But Asian cotton is not easy to spin at most, and Zhao Jiaren certainly remembers the Huang Daopo in the history books. He believed that his skills were much stronger than Huang Daopo's in any case. She can make Songjiang a textile center, and Zhao Jiaren can also build his own textile center.

Of course, these will not be told to Zhou Xing, and after Zhao Jiaren expressed his appreciation for Zhou Xing, he told Zhou Xing to hurry up and test the hydraulic drive device.

Coming out of his own blacksmith shop, Zhao Jiaren felt very happy in his heart. The pulley blocks and the iron parts used on the ship have already entered the production system. Whitney is not only famous for his ginners, according to the History Museum, his achievements also include horizontal milling machines, the production of standardized, standard parts. As a Chinese in the 21st century, Zhao Jiaren, like ordinary Chinese students who regard themselves as science students, has a strong resonance for production standardization and standard parts. This is a term that has been heard a lot since I was a child, and it is the general direction of the country that I have been constantly exposed to since childhood. Even if the pulley sets and other products manufactured in Zhou Xing's blacksmith shop can't be made to the extent of standard parts, Zhao Jiaren also hopes that the size will not be too different.

After half an hour, Zhao Jiaren arrived at the teahouse next to the wharf. There were already people waiting in the private room of the teahouse, and when they saw Zhao Jiaren at the door, the three people in the house got up and waited. Zhao Jiaren sat down on the first guest seat, and they dared to sit down.

The one on the main seat handed Zhao Jiaren a piece of paper, and said with a smile: "Zhao Tidian, this is what I am waiting to ship." There is also hard-earned money for Wu Bandang. ”

Zhao Jiaren took it and looked at it, then folded the paper and put it in his arms. He said in high spirits: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a prisoner in Fujian Road, and I am responsible for arresting thieves. This time the bandits are rampant, and I naturally will not sit idly by. Even if the bandits can't be exterminated, at least they can protect the safety of the people of Fujian. ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Those people responded in unison, their heads dotting like chickens pecking rice.

Coming out of here, Zhao Jiaren rushed to Xu Yuanzhi again. The left wing army of the palace front division in Fujian is nominally the palace front division and belongs to the forbidden army sequence. For example, this large-scale piracy ravaged Fujian, which belongs to the situation in which the Fujian Road pacification envoy has the right to give orders. However, on weekdays, it is returned to Quanzhou Zhizhou and can also dispatch the left wing army of the palace front division, this situation is caused by the special situation of Fujian Road and the history of the left wing army of the palace front division itself.

No matter how many complicated issues there are, Zhao Jiaren simplifies them. He only wanted to know two things, when the left wing army of the palace was going to set out to fight the thieves. How many sailors did the left wing army of Fujian Road have, and how many sailors are ready to send to fight thieves.

When he arrived at the yamen of Fuzhou Zhizhou and Fujian Road to appease Xu Yuanzhi, Zhao Jiaren's first request after seeing Xu Yuanzhi was "Water, pour me a glass of water!" ”

Xu Yuanzhi didn't call anyone, and poured a glass of water for Zhao Jiaren himself. Zhao Jiaren stood next to Xu Yuanzhi, he took the teacup and drank it all. Seeing Zhao Jiaren's sweaty appearance, Xu Yuanzhi poured another cup for Zhao Jiaren. After two glasses of water, Zhao Jiaren felt relieved and found a comfortable seat to sit down. Xu Yuanzhi asked his subordinates to boil water and make tea, while he sat on a chair and told Zhao Jiaren a piece of news, "The Left Wing Army sent someone to ask us to kill those pirates to boost morale." ”

It can be seen that Xu Yuanzhi just felt a little helpless about this, but Zhao Jiaren frowned. In his previous life, the Left Wing Army was very weak against the Yuan, and it was also weak against pirates. Why did the Left Wing Army suddenly harden this time, could it be that Zhao Jiaren was young at that time and didn't know that the Left Wing Army also had a glorious moment?

Under this doubt, Zhao Jiaren raised his two questions to Xu Yuanzhi. Xu Yuanzhi sighed and spoke helplessly, "The left wing army actually has only two or three thousand troops, and three big war ships......

"Three?" Zhao Jiaren was very surprised, he didn't expect the strength of the Left Wing Army to be so weak.

"Yes. When Zhendexiu knew about Fuzhou, he asked the imperial court to give the quota, and the left wing army did not have its own stable military ships before, and they were all used up and gone. Xu Yuanzhi recounted the decision of Zhendexiu, the former governor of Fuzhou.

"If they can't arrest the thieves, why should we kill these thieves first?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"I probably want to give an explanation to the imperial court." As an official, Xu Yuanzhi is very perceptive of this kind of thing.

"Xu Zhizhou, no matter how the fleet under my command kills the thieves, won't the Left Wing Army interfere?" Zhao Jiaren asked Xu Yuanzhi.

"How could they let the credit go!" Xu Yuanzhi expounded his views in a somewhat reproachful tone.