In front of the main hall, there was a small meeting between the king and seven or maybe eight confidants.

"This is the potato that claims to yield 1,000 catties per mu?"

"Your Majesty, there is mud on it, little heart has a hand"

The Dwarven King shook his head disapprovingly, and weighed the fruit in his hand a few more times.

"Our country was founded by craftsmen, and the torch has been passed down from generation to generation, so why are you afraid of this bit of mud and sand?"

"What Your Majesty said is that we are ashamed"

Here Ao Dang can really toss, it is said to be found from the Cloud Basin? How come Dragon Ridge hasn't found this thing for so many years?

"This is a great credit, with this thing, I don't know how many people are blessed every year, Shang Luo, what do you think?"

"Nature should be rewarded"

can be said to be rewarded, everyone is silent, what can be rewarded, even the princess is married to the other party, the fief has just been rewarded, the other party is already the lord of the northern land, is it possible to give him an official to come and talk to them every day?

"Otherwise, think about what is lacking here?"

Lack of money! The Lord of the Northland is a dead money-seeker! The Grand Duke of the South doesn't know how many times he cried because of his debts, and after thinking about it, everyone was silent again, your lord of the northern land is poor, and my iron royal family is not poor? It was still the Shangluo University Scholar who had an idea in his brain.

"Although Leo is already the lord of the Northlands, he has not received a knighthood, so it is better to..."

"Good! That's it! No more changes! ”

"And this potato, the name is indecent, since he found it, let's call it Earl Earl Taro"

…..

Leo pinched the bulletin and twitched the corners of his mouth, don't come to these vains, give money! I want money! What's the use of giving to officials, and the lord won't take a penny of your iron country's salary.

However, this report is somewhat interesting, I heard that it has been copied to all parts of the Iron Country, and it has a bit of the flavor of newspapers in the previous life.

"Teacher, I brought the recent research report of the Scholars Tower"

"Oh, I'll take a look, what the hell??"

Leo couldn't laugh or cry, the paper of these reports was strange, and some of them still had papers written on the front of the draft on the back, but they didn't blame these old pedants, they were poor, although they were given better treatment now, but Drifting Snow City was not rich now, and couldn't pour too many resources on these old pedants.

On closer inspection, many of these papers are not designed in detail, but they can be used as the basic theories of many studies, mainly talking about some new discoveries, which may not be useful for the time being, but they can be used through the ages, and they can never be said to be useless.

Mu Feng also smiled awkwardly when he looked at it, and he understood Leo's thoughts very well.

"If you write a book specifically for these doctrines, I'm afraid you won't be able to get back to the original, but if it's useless now, it won't mean that it will be useless in the future."

I'm afraid that in later generations, when a scholar excavates these contents and finds them useful, he can only indicate on the paper that so-and-so has been eternal.

"Perhaps, we can make these things a little more useful now."

"Students don't understand"

"Let's start a newspaper"

A few days later, the first newsstand in Drifting Snow City was established, a newspaper with two copper plates, barely enough paper money, plus the printing labor was completely upside down, Mu Feng was not worried at all, Mu Feng was only worried about who was to be slaughtered this time.

Shocked! Why is there gunfire in the middle of the night at the castle of the lords? 》

"Human Tragedy! Dozens of poultry were killed in the farm in the east of the city》

"Why is the long kneeling washboard in front of the captain's house? 》

The four big characters of the daily newspaper with snow at the head, the cover of the newspaper is full of extra-large fonts that are sprinkled with some things about the length of the family, the title of the party is perfect, and the last few pages are academic columns, publishing excellent articles, academic discoveries, and in the future, a large blank page is written about advertising space for rent.

100 copies of the trial print that day were directly out of stock, and another 1,000 copies were still sold out in the afternoon, and the streets and alleys were full of talk about the new newspaper.

"Well, you see it's written in my shop."

"I happened to be on duty when there was a gunshot at that night, but in fact, the lord got up in the dark at night and accidentally went out of the fire."

The discussion was extremely lively, and a certain soldier in uniform at the head of the city did look at the news that took up most of the page with a dark face.

"Why is the long kneeling washboard in front of the captain's house? 》

That's right, he is the captain of the city guard, full of whiskers and nowhere to go, is he Xiang the tigress at home? Still to the honorable lord, a few soldiers not far away covered their mouths and snickered.

"Humph! What kind of god to walk in duty! Give me a lap around the walls!! ”

"Captain, you communiqué personal vendetta!"

"I'll announce your personal vendetta against you, you bastards will talk back now, Gon go run"

A few young guards laughed and quickly slipped away, called running in circles.

The merchants of the Northland really had a keen sense of smell, and quickly sensed the smell, since this newspaper was so influential, it was natural to advertise on it to get twice the result with half the effort, and soon someone came to reserve an advertising space.

After deducting the cost of advertising, half of it is folded into the library of Drifting Snow City, and the rest is all the manuscript fee for the writers, and the enthusiasm of the Scholars Tower to publish academic papers is now unprecedentedly high.

Naturally, there were some indiscriminate articles, but this Drifting Snow Daily was the litmus test, and Leo and the old scholars personally set up a review team, and only articles that passed the review could be published.

Under this benign stimulus, scholars and craftsmen took pride in publishing articles in daily newspapers, and naturally many valuable things emerged.

A scholar named Martin published "On the Oxidation of Acid Gases and Carbon" that caught Leo's attention

…..

Martin is a poor scholar, in his early years, because he offended the aristocratic family because of his popularity, and was often suppressed and made his life poor, but he refused to accept softness, and he was arrogant as a literati, and even his wife couldn't stand him and went back to his parents' home.

A few days ago, I tried to submit a paper to Piaoxue Daily, but I didn't expect anything, even if it was published, I barely made some money, reputation? For him now, it is indifferent.

This morning, two letters were sent, one was sent by my father-in-law, who was also a scholar and always felt that he had no prospects, but this time his attitude changed sharply, saying that young people should look farther away, not to be depressed by temporary poverty, and that he would persuade his wife to let him not worry and concentrate on his studies.

When he saw the second copy, Martin was stunned, it was the receipt of the Drifting Snow Daily, which published his paper in a whole page, and attached the remuneration, and was even awarded a five-star award by the editor-in-chief, and there was a letter inviting him to work with the editor-in-chief team to develop new technologies.

There is only one editor-in-chief of the Drifting Snow Daily, and that is the lord, and when he saw this, Martin hid his face and wept, and bowed in the direction of the castle.

The steel refining in Drifting Snow City is still dominated by hammering, although the output of the steam engine has increased significantly, but after all, it has fallen into success, why can't iron become steel? Because there's too much carbon in it.

After inviting this scholar to discuss with the brute hammer, it was found that it was indeed feasible to use the famous open-hearth steelmaking method of the industrial era in the previous life, and the acid gas such as coal gas was directly purged on the surface of the molten iron through a steam engine, which could greatly reduce the carbon content of the molten iron, thereby converting it into steel.

Since then, Drifting Snow City has entered the era of open-hearth steelmaking, and it is one step closer to the industrial revolution.