Compared with Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing did not ask Lao Zhu for new knowledge.

Because Song Yingxing has a wide range of interests, his professional scope is not only weapons research and development, but also he has a better understanding of people's livelihood.

So after reading these annotations, he thinks that the things in the annotations are too advanced, and the content of the annotations is systematic.

In short, it is a holistic knowledge that should be developed in an all-round way, not just firearms.

In his opinion, the foundation should be laid first, as long as the foundation in the annotation is realized, even if there is no follow-up content, Daming himself can research new firearms.

Therefore, he believes that the Ming Dynasty should not only study weapons now, but should develop in an all-round way, so that there will be many detours in the future.

After all, for this era, just the Migne rifle is enough, and there is no need to invest all resources in the research and development of weapons, which would be a bit too wasteful.

Therefore, his request to Lao Zhu was to ask Lao Zhu to allocate some manpower to promote the people's livelihood knowledge he had sorted out.

In this regard, there are still some small differences between the ideas of Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing.

Although both of them feel that they should focus on the people, Bi Maokang's point of view is that they should first make every effort to develop super powerful firearms, and then let the Ming Dynasty calm all the wars, and then develop people's livelihood science and technology to feed the people after the world is peaceful.

Song Yingxing believes that firearms can be developed, but people's livelihood cannot be left behind.

There is no right or wrong concept between the two of them, but in comparison, Bi Maokang's concept is more radical, while Song Yingxing is more stable.

However, Song Yingxing can also understand Bi Maokang, after all, the old man is old, and his health is not very good, so he wants to do his best to push Daming's firearms to the highest level in his lifetime.

Lao Zhu heard the request of the two and groaned for a moment.

To be honest, Song Yingxing's request is relatively simple, just give him manpower.

But Bi Maokang's request is more troublesome, not that Lao Zhu is reluctant to simulate points, when Zhang Xianzhong died before, and when he defeated Abatai in Huangyaguan, the simulator gave him a lot of simulation points on the grounds of changing the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that his simulation points add up, there is a small one million, which is definitely more than enough to buy books.

But the problem is that the things in the simulator are not something he can buy if he has money.

Although Lao Zhu doesn't have much spare time, he still tries to find time to study simulators.

He felt that eighty percent of the simulation points given by the simulator were to wait for him to return to his own world, that is, the Hongwu period, before he could buy things.

The current simulator does not open up the option to sell goods to him at all, so there are many things, even if he wants to buy them, he can't buy them at all.

For example, he once tried to buy a detailed book on how to make mine mercury, but the simulator did not respond at all, and it was obvious that this book was somewhat ahead of its time, so the simulator was not sold at all.

Therefore, Lao Zhu can only buy some books that are available in the current era, and then rely on the annotations in the books to see if those annotations say the detailed production methods of those things.

Therefore, this matter is more troublesome, and Lao Zhu needs to buy more books on the manufacture of firearms, and then try his luck to see if there are any annotations in it that detail the production process of firearms in later generations.

But fortunately, Lao Zhu is now wealthy, and he has millions of simulation points, so he doesn't care about the simulation points of buying books at all, so he thought about it for a while and decided to agree to Bi Maokang's request.

After all, the old man's health is indeed not very good, so what requirements he has, Lao Zhu still wants to meet them as much as possible.

So after thinking about it, Lao Zhu said directly: "Regarding those annotations, let's find a way to get some more for you, but it may take some time." ”

"As for the Ordnance Bureau's additional manpower to research and develop those civilian things......"

Lao Zhu first agreed to Bi Maokang's request, then looked at Song Yingxing, thought for a moment in his heart, and then said, "This is not necessary. ”

Hearing Lao Zhu say this, Song Yingxing was a little disappointed in his heart, and then heard Lao Zhu continue to speak: "The Ordnance Bureau is to develop weapons, and if it turns to research and development of civilian things, it is obviously a bit nondescript. ”

"But what Chang Gung (Song Yingxing's words) said is also reasonable, this knowledge is indeed a whole, if you only study firearms, without other knowledge as support, even if you can develop them, I am afraid these weapons will not be able to be mass-produced."

"So we plan to separate a separate department from the Ministry of Industry, which is independent of the six departments, and is different from the Ordnance Bureau, so we mainly study those civilian things."

"As for the name of this department......

Lao Zhu thought for a moment, and then said: "Let's call the Civil Weapons Bureau first, and its departmental structure will completely follow the Weapons Bureau." ”

"The first ambassador of the Civil Weapons Bureau will be served by you Chang Gung."

"However, the position of the ambassador of the Civil Weapons Bureau is a little too low, so it is tentatively set to be the second grade, which is at the same level as the Shangshu of various ministries, but he is only responsible for scientific and technological research and development, and is not allowed to participate in government politics."

"The same is true for the Ordnance Bureau, and the grade of the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau has also been adjusted to the second grade."

The original position of the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau was only the ninth grade, but now he has been promoted to the second grade, which can be said to be a step to the sky.

And such a big thing, in fact, when Lao Zhu realized the importance of science and technology, he began to think about it.

This time, after seeing the results of the Ordnance Bureau, he directly made up his mind to start changing.

However, these two positions of the second grade are different from the six books, and they are just fictitious positions.

Lao Zhu believes that those who are engaged in science and technology should concentrate on science and technology, and not get involved in the political struggle in the court, so this positive second product is more of an honor.

In the future, he will formulate some more regulations to make these two departments more pure, after all, these two departments represent the future of the Ming Dynasty to a large extent, so Lao Zhu will be very cautious.

"Positive...... Is it a second product? ”

Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang were completely stunned, they didn't expect that they would one day be able to mix with the grade of the second grade.

Although Lao Zhu means that this is just a false position, but the second product of a false position, that is also a positive second product!

The Minister of the Manchu Dynasty, there are only a few officials in total!

The two of them felt flattered in their hearts, but they were also a little frightened, and they were even more worried that the ministers in the court would oppose it, after all, their positions had been promoted too quickly and too high.

It's just that as soon as they wanted to excuse themselves, they were blocked by Lao Zhu's words.

"This is not for the two of you, but for these two departments, these two departments are the future of the Ming Dynasty, with the position of the second product, the future generations will pay attention to it, so this second product must be established."

"As for the opposition in the court, we will solve it, you don't have to worry about it."