Before Zheng Haizhu came over, Song Yingxing had been led by Wu Bangde to survey the terrain around the river.

Song Yingxing, who loves craftsmanship and craftsmanship, already has a lot of respect for craftsmen, and said to Zheng Haizhu with a heartfelt tone: "Madam, this newly opened river, weirs and barriers, are quite disciplined, and I just heard from Steward Wu that it was repaired by the craftsmen who dredged the Songjiang River, no wonder. ”

Zheng Haizhu nodded and said: "Borrowing strength from water is like marching and fighting, step by step." Mr. has seen it and thinks that our first step can be seen, then Wu and I will be in charge of things, and the stone in our hearts can be regarded as falling to the ground, so let's continue to fight. ”

Song Yingxing heard the meaning of reliance in the woman's words, and felt ironed.

On the contrary, his face became more modest: "I look at the river at the other end of Zhuangzi, there are already cylinder trucks for irrigating the fields, and the water is abundant. What else does Madame have to do, Song is willing to hear in detail. ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "All changes are inseparable from their sects, even if it is a Western firearm, forging is also a matter of righteousness, and if the forging is not enough, it is easy to explode." Another is to drill the barrel, if the drilling machine of the carpenters in Jiangnan can be changed to drill and grind steel, it can be more precise than wrapping the iron rod and forging the pipe. But these two things, forging and driving the drilling machine, all need one word: force. I asked my husband to come and help us change manpower to water. ”

Song Yingxing is so sensitive, Zheng Haizhu is not a sneering word, he understood as soon as he heard it: "Madame wants to use hydraulic power to forge a hundred steels, drill out a pipe, and then assemble it by manpower?" ”

"Yes. Rough work, laborious work, God will do it; Meticulous work, inspection work, our people will do it. The tall and low stoves were also slowly moved here, separated from the acres of crops, spinning and weaving. ”

Song Yingxing turned his head and his eyes wandered on both sides of the river.

In his mind, it is that several wooden gear machines bite each other, and the water flow hits the first one, and the power is transmitted to the last connected hammer, instead of the craftsman to pick the hammer, which can save half of the manpower and ensure that the power of each forging is uniform.

As for the lathe that Mrs. Zheng said about drilling the pipe, the reason should be similar, but the direction of the drill bit and the hammer head must be different.

Zheng Haizhu patiently waited for Song Yingxing to come out for a while before beckoning Hua Er to come over.

In the car when he came, he had done eighty percent of the ideological work for this girl. After starting his own business, laying a good foundation and winning the trust of the imperial court, he began to work on the industrial and agricultural lines, and he must arrange his cronies like the army.

Hua Er touched Mrs. not because she didn't want her anymore, and the things that were built were far more interesting than singing, dancing and settling accounts, and she couldn't help but turn her worries into joy.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu pointed to the girl with a pure and curious face, and said to Song Yingxing: "Sir, this child and her brother escaped from Liaodong Jiannu, and both brothers and sisters have good skills in repairing mule carts, so I didn't allocate land for them, let them follow me and receive monthly money." But I don't want to bully them who have no father or mother, and they will be tied to me as a servant from now on. How about the gentleman taking her as an apprentice? ”

"Oh......" Song Yingxing hesitated slightly, glanced at Wu Bangde, who was also a man, and lowered his eyes to the ground.

Zheng Haizhu certainly knew what he was hesitating about.

After all, the ancients, men and women were engraved in their minds, and men who were young were stuffed with a female apprentice like a flower when they came up......

Song Yingxing's sudden appearance of embarrassment made Zheng Haizhu feel a little relieved.

If Xu Dahua had changed the original color blank, his knee-jerk reaction would not have been like this.

The scientist who has left a name in history, what her private morality is, her descendants can't know everything.

When I came to the late Ming Dynasty, what kind of character did the men I met be, whether they were gentlemen like Yan Siqi and Huang Zunsu, or bastards like Xu Dahua, I had to deal with them.

But just because there are scumbags, it can't be denied that there are a large number of heroes among men.

Especially for the younger generation of women, they must not be like the narrow-minded people, with the idea that "men don't have good things", and cut off the way for girls to learn art from teachers and come out.

Zheng Haizhu smiled and turned back to Wu Bangde and the others: "I will lead Mr. Song to the dam mouth for a walk." ”

The two walked to the dam that was beginning to take shape, Zheng Haizhu stopped, looked at the vast scenery of the island, and said to Song Yingxing: "When the sages also had sorrows, Zilu lamented, and he was sad and poor. In fact, a hundred years have passed, life is a reverse journey, and it is more than a poor word to hurt the gods. If you want me to say, men hurt the imperial examination, and women hurt women's morality. ”

Song Yingxing was stunned.

This is a harsh statement.

But when I think about it, the harshness is only because it is the first time I have heard such deviant words in the mouth of a woman.

Thinking about it again, at least the half sentence of "the man hurts the imperial examination" seems to have spoken to his old Song's heart.

Zheng Haizhu observed Song Yingxing's micro-expression, saw that he was faintly moved, and remembered that in another parallel time and space, the scientist shouted in the preface of "Heavenly Creations", "This book has nothing to do with fame and progress."

Please those literati who are bent on seeking official positions in the imperial examination, and discard this book. With such a hearty shout, many vulgar and greasy people in later generations regarded it as the grievance of depressed literati, but Zheng Haizhu believed that those who dared to write like a paper were the last hope of the late Ming Dynasty.

"Sir," Zheng Haizhu said calmly, "the soul is the object, and the object is knowledge, and it has nothing to do with the skills of the eight strands, and it has nothing to do with the difference between men and women." The woman who is sleepy and has a good heart in the deep house, just like a sleepy man in the field, year after year, day after day, exhausting her youth, secretly crying when she is white, and even sluggish like a puppet, mourning is not greater. ”

Song Yingxing was silent for a moment, and then said: "I am not a pedantic person, when I was in Nanjing, I heard Brother Lu Xian talk about many ladies' righteous deeds, and I was quite impressed. Nowadays, the Susong area can treat female craftsmen and female workers as commonplace, which can be regarded as a good atmosphere of heavenly creation. Song is willing to bring the juniors recommended by his wife, but can he bring some male and female disciples. ”

Zheng Haizhu said briskly: "That's nature, we don't open a nun." ”

He also said in a warm tone: "By the way, sir, although Chongming is an island, it is the gateway to the East China Sea that was set by Taizu in the end, and the adjacent Songjiang River has been switched on, after Mr. lives for a while, if you don't dislike it, I will build a bigger house for Mr. and settle the family roll?" ”

Song Yingxing stood up after the New Year, and many of the division commanders he dealt with in the past were people who liked to talk and twist around the corners, and today Fang Jue, like this woman, does not adjust the bookbag, has something to say, and does not have a sense of abruptness and rudeness in the words of shallow words.

He also relaxed his expression and thanked him with a smile.

Zheng Haizhu continued to point out the scope of his land in Chongming, and discussed the details of water hammer, hydraulic punch and other facilities with Song Yingxing, but he shared his mind to plan the bullshit he encountered in the past few days.

On that day, the county called her to the Yamen Office, and Yue Zhixian was accompanied by Yang Xiancheng, who personally opened his mouth to her, saying that he would ask her to buy 50 guns and two small cannons loaded with three or four catties of iron bullets first, and send them to the Yao Qianhu Guard in Beidao.

Yue Zhixian is a fox who is old in the eunuch field.

In the face of the Yao and Zheng families, each with a backstage and two tigers, Yue Zhixian not only pointed to Yao Qianhu to smuggle money for himself and Yang County, but also did not dare to forcefully suppress Zheng Haizhu, so he had to resort to slippery means, first find a royal history who had a friendship in the same year, and impeach Chongming Qianhu's military equipment was lax, and when the military department came to ask, Yue Zhixian took advantage of the situation to Suzhou Bingbei to complain, saying that Yao Qianhu was also wronged, and what he took over was those broken copper and iron in the past, and it has been sixty or seventy years since Chongming fought the Japanese invaders, where can it still be used.

In this way, the "own people" Yu Shi, who was impeached at first, turned to impeach the cabinet, and at the end of the article, praised the Fujian governor Zhou Zuo for his insight and purchase of firearms from the Zheng family in Songjiang, and the peace of the Fujian Sea.

Suzhou Bingbei Road saw that the wind was wrong, and hurriedly took the initiative to play, saying that it could coordinate the three parties of the province, the county, and the health station, and each contribute a part of the money, and also learn from Fujian, ask Zheng's firearms and reserve them for the Chongming Health Station.

Yue Zhixian and Yang Xiancheng said it kindly, but Zheng Haizhu didn't believe it after hearing it.

Eighty percent is this nest of local snakes, who want to buy the wool from her firearms factory, and I don't know where to resell it.

It is obvious that Chongming County and Yao Qianhu are in the same spirit, and the officers and soldiers conspire to sell private fertilizer.

Interestingly, they didn't look too stupid at her, Zheng Haizhu, an outsider, and didn't make up the lie that she became a Buddha overnight, and lied to her that Yao Qianhu also had to actively train the army, so he wanted to buy arms, but turned around and made eight turns.

Now, they have managed to get involved in the Suzhou military preparation road and make a speech, and there is no reason for him to refuse on the grounds that the firearms factory is the identity of the imperial court's "goods".

But before there was sufficient evidence, when Fang Congzhe was still the first assistant and the first assistant, it was even more hasty to report Chongming and these people to Zhang Shilang of the Ministry of War.

Zheng Haizhu then pondered whether there was any way to bury a clever child in the firearm, which would have good performance when delivered, and after being used for a while, it would be sent back to the factory for maintenance. If that Yao Qianhu really reorganized his troops just to fight against the Zheng family's army, he would definitely be able to practice his guns in the army, and it would be a big deal to help him maintain them once in half a year. If it is really sold privately, the thing will be broken in the hands of the buyer, and it will be the time when the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascends the throne and Fang Congzhe steps down.

Now Song Yingxing has been invited, and he happens to unite the Portuguese technicians recruited by Songjiang and Sun Yuanhua through the Jesuits to bury this technical pit.

Zheng Haizhu was just in the middle of two purposes, and suddenly saw a fast horse galloping in the direction of Zhuangzi.

It's the familiar face tolerance who often comes to the county to pass the word.

He hurriedly said a few words to Wu Bangde, and then hurried to the mouth of the dam.

"Mrs. Zheng, the second master asked me to bring you a message, that little carpenter in your Zhuangzi, he, he has a pox!"

Zheng Haizhu's face changed suddenly.

Ah Shan, a little carpenter, was called by the county to do carpentry a month ago, and when he came back, he said with a bitter face that it was Yang County who sold favors to Yao Qianhu and asked him to make furniture.

I don't want to think that a few days ago, Yang Xiancheng sent someone to call him away to work.

Zheng Haizhu's nest fell second, and the key was to be suspicious.

Ah Shan walked on the front foot, and she asked Aya to go to the county seat for a few days on the pretext of going into the city to buy and see the recent situation of the ancestral house for Grandma Tang.

In order to prevent the Zhuang Humen from feeling abnormal, Aya rejected Zheng Haizhu's proposal to keep the child and took the little bean bag away.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu was concerned and confused, and almost blurted out "Is Aya in my Zhuangzi with him?"

Fortunately, he is quick to speak and is a rough person, and he does not shy away from it, and the following sentence is: "The little widow on the Madame Village is Ashan's appearance, right?" The little widow went to meet him, no, even people with babies were locked up in one place! ”