After reading Li Xiangjun's recital, Chongzhen happily said: "Convey the decree to reward Li Xiangjun, the deputy commander-in-chief of Huguang, and the female soldiers and native soldiers under his command, in addition, Li Xiangjun's request is approved, and after the pacification of Sichuan, Sichuan Zhentai will be set up, and all the native soldiers who participated in the counterinsurgency will be charged into Sichuan Zhentai and enjoy the same treatment as the rest of the towns." ”

"The old slave commands." Gao Qiqian received the edict and rushed to the political hall to announce the decree.

When Chongzhen looked back again, he saw that Zhengqi No. 1 was still running rapidly.

It's a pity that Gewuke didn't have time to develop a machine tool, so it can only idle.

It's just that as long as the steam engine has been developed, the rest will be easy to do.

The most difficult thing in the Industrial Revolution was to build the first steam engine.

At that moment, Chongzhen called Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing to him, and Pascal was sent away by Chongzhen, asking him to hurry back to the Zijian to do experiments.

By the way, Pascal is working on the law of gravitation.

Besides, Pascal was inspired by Chongzhen to carry out the study of gravity.

If nothing else, the laws of gravitation in this world will be discovered twenty years in advance, and the discoverer will change from Newton to Pascal, and the basic unit of mechanics will probably have to change from Newton to another name.

"Fang Qing Song Qing, have you drawn the design sketch of the lathe?"

"The design sketches of the lathe have been drawn."

After Fang Yizhi finished speaking, he hurriedly presented the set of sketches he had just drawn to Chongzhen.

The sketch uses three views, which was also inspired by Chongzhen, and was introduced into the teaching of Guozijian by Pascal, the dean of the Guozijian School of Physics, Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing also quickly accepted the concept of three views, because they found that the processing drawings drawn with three views were more accurate.

Looking at the drawings, Chongzhen asked a few questions.

"The spindle of the lathe is extremely fast, is the bearing okay?"

"No problem, bearing manufacturing is actually not difficult, but it is labor-intensive and time-consuming."

[Note: As early as the Yuan Dynasty, there was already a cylindrical roller bearing mechanism]

"The speed of the lathe needs to be fast and slow, how do you achieve this?"

"Of course, it's gears, which can be changed by gears of different sizes."

"How are you going to solve the transmission of the lathe and the steam engine? With cloth tape? Chains? Or just use the connecting rod? ”

Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing glanced at each other and said: "Holy Lord, it is inconvenient to use iron chains and connecting rods for transmission, and the ministers still want to find a few weaving mills to develop tough and durable cloth belts for transmission. ”

"Yes, don't be afraid to make mistakes."

Chongzhen nodded happily and said, "Then let's do it first, you guys go and get busy." ”

"In this way, the ministers will retire first." Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing went separately to get busy.

The matter of Gewuke came to an end, and Chongzhen was finally able to return to the Guozi Prison.

Although most of the Forbidden City in Nanjing has been repaired, especially the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lives has already been repaired, Chongzhen does not like to live there, but prefers to live in Guozijian.

Because Chongzhen neither had a large-scale draft nor a large-scale recruitment of eunuchs, but there were very few palace maids and eunuchs who escaped from Beijing, the huge Forbidden City seemed very empty, it was good during the day, but it was very infiltrating at night, and Ran Sanniang and a few waiting maids hid at the gate of the palace and did not dare to come out.

Except for the Great Dynasty Meeting, Chongzhen never went to the Forbidden City.

Although the imperial history often played the impeachment, Chongzhen never ignored it.

Chongzhen would rather live in the Qingliang Mountain Palace than live in the Forbidden City, so he really thought about it, so he sent Gao Qiqian to take Ran Sanniang to the Qingliang Mountain Palace or Yilun Hall.

Guozijian's Yilun Hall will soon be renamed Dunlun Hall.

If Zhu Xi knows under the spring, I don't know if he will break the defense?

When Chongzhen returned to the country, the students who went out to practice had already returned one after another.

It can be seen that although these students are thin and black, and the shirts they wear are dirty and torn, the spirit of their bodies has changed significantly.

It's hard to describe in words what exactly has changed.

But it can be seen that these students have really changed.

When Chongzhen looked at the students, the students also stopped and waved at Lu Jiude.

This time, it was Lu Jiude who was wearing Chongzhen's golden mountain armor, and the teachers and students of Guozijian also said that Lu Jiude was Chongzhen, so they all bowed to Lu Jiude.

Lu Jiude didn't dare to speak, and only made a flat gesture.

When he walked into Yilun Hall, Zhang Huangyan was already waiting.

Chongzhen asked while removing his armor with the help of the eunuch: "Zhang Huangyan, have you found out?" ”

"The Holy One, I've already asked clearly." Zhang Huang said, "It was the Luo brothers who sent people to do it, and because they couldn't find the opportunity to assassinate the saint, they retreated and turned their target to Master Ma. ”

Zhang Huangyan used to ask, not check, because it was really a question.

Luo Zuochang, the eldest of the Luo brothers, has been rebelled by Zhang Huangyan.

In other words, the bosses of the Jiannu spy organization have become traitors.

So now every move of the Jiannu spy is under Zhang Huangyan's surveillance.

Zhang Huangyan asked again: "Qi Song Sheng, did you take this opportunity to arrest Luo Zuojiu?" ”

"It's not necessary." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It's better to keep Luo Zuochang for a long time to cover for Luo Zuochang, so as not to make Dolgon and those Jin merchants suspicious and cut off the Luo brothers' financial route." ”

Zhang Huangyan said: "Speaking of financial roads, the minister has already investigated clearly, and there are several businessmen who are ready to invest in the steam engine factory, and they are actually Jin merchants, including the Fan family. ”

"Okay." Chongzhen said with a smile, "Isn't it good to use Jiannu's money to do our Ming business." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Huangyan didn't say anything more, he originally wanted to ask for an order to arrest these businessmen, but now it seems that there is no need for this, because Chongzhen has no such idea at all.

……

The IPO of the steam engine factory is being held in Bailuzhou.

The IPO attracted nearly 1,000 businessmen.

This includes Wang Tao and Sun Tinglan, two friends.

At this time, Ma Mingluo has not yet arrived, and the IPO has not officially begun.

So Wang Tao and Sun Tinglan were sitting in the corner whispering.

"Brother Tinglan, there is something unknown about the younger brother." Wang Tao has become a brother to Sun Tinglan.

Sun Tinglan still respects Wang Tao, and asks with a smile: "Does Wang Gong think this business is not worth it?" ”

"Isn't it?" Wang Tao had a natural expression, "Every time I recruited new shares before, the Ministry of Internal Affairs would sincerely take out the workshop or workshop, and the shares were lower than the actual value. ”

"But this time the steam engine factory is going to be a stock exchange, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs actually wants to empty the white wolf."

"What kind of technology is shared, and the proportion of shares is as high as 30%, isn't this a robbery?"

After saying this, Wang Tao said angrily: "If you really buy shares in this steam engine factory, according to the prospectus, the share capital amount is set at 100 million yuan, won't the Internal Affairs Government take 30 million yuan first without doing anything?" ”

"How can this be that nothing has been done?" Sun Tinglan said in a low voice, "The steam engine is made by the Gewu Branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the prospectus doesn't say that if it is not counted as a shareholding, you have to pay a patent fee, in fact, it is the same, anyway, if the steam engine factory wants to produce a steam engine, you must pay this money, but the patent transfer fee is deducted from each steam engine, and the technology is divided according to the annual profit dividend, which can only be said to have its own advantages and disadvantages." ”

"But 100 million shares is too scary."

Wang Tao said: "The Daming Arsenal only has a principal of 500,000 shares. ”

"That's right." Sun Tinglan nodded and said, "The Royal City Exchange is only 100 million shares. ”

After a pause, Sun Tinglan whispered again: "However, I think this Daming Steam Engine Factory is still worth participating in, if Wang Gong believes me, he might as well subscribe for tens of thousands of shares." ”

"Tens of thousands of shares?" Wang Tao's face fell, "How much do you buy?" ”

Sun Tinglan estimated the number of people present, and whispered: "There are about 1,000 people coming to this IPO, if it is distributed according to the number of heads, each person will subscribe for a maximum of 70,000 shares, and I want to eat them all." ”

While speaking, Ma Mingluo, the director of the Internal Affairs Office, had already hurriedly walked in with Zhang Dai in the middle of the matter.

Ma Mingluo didn't even say a polite word, and went straight to the point: "You Dong Weng and the shopkeeper must have read the prospectus, the situation is basically like this, Daming steam engine factory will be operated by the Weng family, the Weng family was originally the largest loom manufacturer in Suzhou, the loom produced is of reliable quality, exported to Huguang, this matter is known to everyone, the official will not repeat it today, today I just want to tell you about the future prospects of the steam engine." ”

"In the future, steam engines will be widely used in various factories such as arsenals, flour mills, iron smelting plants, etc., and even the warships of the sailors will be equipped with steam engines to provide driving power, so the demand for steam engines is predictable, not hundreds or thousands, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands!"

After a pause, Ma Mingluo said: "But the steam engine is different from ordinary industrial products, its price is not a few hundred yuan or a few thousand yuan, but tens of thousands of yuan or even hundreds of thousands of yuan, we might as well take a median value, according to the unit price of 50,000 yuan to simply calculate, 50,000 units of demand What is the output value?" ”

Sun Tinglan replied almost in seconds: "25 billion!" ”

"Sun Weng is very capable." Ma Mingluo naturally recognized Sun Tinglan.

It is rare for speculators to earn more than 500,000 yuan from the two cities.

After a pause, Ma Mingluo said again: "This official can tell you responsibly that 2.5 billion is conservative, but even according to this output value, the annual profit will exceed 500 million yuan." ”

"Of course, there won't be so many at first."

"The Holy One once said that any industry needs to be cultivated."

"But you must also see that the original share capital is only 100 million."

"It's really rare to have a chance to fight ten or even fight a hundred like this, so you must not miss it easily."

"Finally, let's talk about the equity structure, the Ministry of Internal Affairs takes technology as a shareholder, accounting for 30% of the shares, but does not participate in specific operations, and the Weng family is a management shareholder, accounting for half of the shares, but it can only pay dividends and cannot be resold, leaving 65 million shares as tradable shares."

(End of chapter)