The next day, Zheng Haizhu took Song Yingxing to meet Zhu Yipai.

Song Yingxing went back to the inn and pondered for the whole night, and as soon as he saw Zheng Haizhu, he said solemnly: "Madam, when I think about it, it is really not a fool's dream to carry a steam bucket and pump water with water. It's like a seesaw that the babies play on, boiling water at one end and pumping water at the other. The boiling end of the water is lifted up by the water vapor, and the pumping end naturally falls into the mine. The water was cold, the lid sank, and the bucket was lifted. But it is as quick as God to turn it around, and it is necessary to find a way to make the heat cool for a moment. ”

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, sure enough, the world's palace-level science and engineering men are all as good, Song Yingxing quickly found the way to the steam pump, and realized that this kind of device, in order to shine in practice, the key is to have a short stroke time.

Zheng Haizhu, a modern liberal arts woman, has no clue how to make specific devices.

But businessmen always care about efficiency and safety, not to mention that Zheng Haizhu heard the news of many steam engine explosions in history in her previous life, so she said to Song Yingxing: "Mr. is talented, but I have to remind you that when it is hot and cold, be careful of the furnace explosion." It's about the same as our firearms. ”

Song Yingxing suddenly felt reasonable, and took out a thin booklet to write it down.

He is good at the design of ingenious mechanisms, and when he was in Chongming, Zheng Haizhu asked him to do tricks on the door of the joint machine that he sold to Yao Qianhu, and he didn't feel embarrassed. It's just about the precautions about copper and iron containers to avoid exploding, and scientists who have just arrived in Jiangnan are not as familiar as female bosses like Zheng Haizhu who have been operating a firearms factory for several years.

Just when Zhu Yipai came to the front hall, after Zheng Haizhu introduced Song Yingxing, he quickly said the method of steam pumping, and gave Mr. Song the high hat of the credit, and finally said sincerely: "Your Royal Highness, everything is difficult at the beginning, I implore Your Highness to give Mr. Song more hours." If we make this thing, it will be very useful in the future. If you can pump water from a deep pit, you can also push the wheels of a carriage forward. ”

When Zhu Yipai heard this, his eyes lit up, he thought for a moment, and said with a smile: "Can you run with a car, can you also run with a boat?" After Mr. Song finished pumping the water from my Lufu mine, he hurriedly gave your Bole a plan to use this steam instead of wind power to push Mrs. Zheng's sea boat for a thousand miles. Someone came, and sent the gentleman the gold and the earthen instrument. ”

The maid held the reward in front of her, and there were five silver ingots engraved in the middle of the box like a flat boat, and on the other tray was clothing, and the elegant luster looked like silk fabric.

Song Yingxing hurriedly said: "The grass people are still white, how dare they wear silk robes, it is unseemly." ”

Zhu Yipai waved his hand and said: "Mr. has extensive knowledge, and he is not comparable to the decay in the pile of old papers." Nowadays, all the roe deer people are covered in silk and satin, why can't the gentleman dress better? ”

Zheng Haizhu also said in a harmonious voice: "Your Highness's greeting gift, Mr. resignation is a loss of honor." ”

Song Yingxing thanked him for it, took his leave, went to the craftsman's house, and began to discuss the steam pump with the carpenters and blacksmiths in Lufu.

Zhu Yipai also instructed to bring in seven or eight young craftsmen selected by him from the beginning of the treasure.

"Mrs. Zheng, you pick and choose three or four to take away. General Ben avoided it, lest you have something you want to ask, and it is not good to ask. ”

After Zhu Yipai left, Zheng Haizhu glanced at the craftsmen in front of him, all of whom were in their early twenties.

The craftsmen who make jewelry in the palace are basically hereditary schools that inherit their father's business, and they begin to learn art at the age of fourteen or fifteen.

Twenty-something is the age of physical strength, and you can resist it when you cross the ocean.

Zheng Haizhu said secretly, the little prince can, and he did what he promised very carefully.

When she looked at the craftsmen carefully, the expressions on each face were different.

Some are wooden, some are shy, and some are probably afraid of traveling far away and retreat slightly.

There is only a handsome craftsman who is generous, not only does not hide, but also looks a little eager to try.

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips and smiled at him, and asked ainly, "Do you know how to make filigree?" ”

"If you go back to Mrs., the villain will be good. The villain's uncle has made a golden silk wing good crown for the long live lord. ”

"Oh, then tell me, how did you make the filigree gold heads of the noble grandmothers?"

"With a steel plate, the holes on the plates are of different sizes, and we take pliers to pull the gold out of the holes. Meaning, this heat is more difficult than lifting tofu in the tail of a horse, and if you are not careful, the golden silk will break. After drawing the silk, you have to froze the silk, save the silk, and fill the silk. ”

Zheng Haizhu interrupted him: "What if you still want to set gemstones?" ”

The beautiful craftsman continued to talk: "After filling the silk and burning the gray tire, it can't be inlaid." If you want to set gemstones, when you are filigree and silk, you have to surround the gold edge with a good notch. Finally, the gems are stuffed into the trough, and they have to be filed, gilded, and welded......"

The craftsman said with a fluttering eyebrow, and Zheng Haizhu observed a few next to him, all of whom were fascinated, obviously some of the crafts they had not touched.

Zheng Haizhu was amazed, stunned for a moment, and then nodded and praised: "It is worthy of being the master of Lu Mansion." Xiaolang, the turmoil over there in Nanyang is sinister, and the miasma is spreading, do you really dare to go? ”

"The villain is willing to go," the craftsman cut the railway, "Mrs. Hui, the little ancestor for ten generations, word of mouth, when the grandfather rewarded King Lu with a gold Ruyi cloud ornament, save gold filigree is just that, the red sapphire inlaid on the top, Zhu Mu Ra (note, that is, emerald), are all produced in the South and Western Oceans, and there are two honey-colored gems, there are gold bright straight lines, and the cat's eyes are no different, it is rare in the world. When the villain was young, he heard his father talk about it, and he thought about it. Now if there is a creation that can go to Nanyang with his wife, it is too late to rejoice, how can he be afraid of any turmoil. ”

Zheng Haizhu listened to it, and slowly had a plan in his heart, and when the scholar craftsman finished spitting and finished speaking, he nodded and said, "Okay, you count yourself as one." ”

Next, they picked three more people and said that they would set off in ten days, first go to Songjiang to meet the new owner Gu Han and his wife, and then go to Nanyang by seaship.

Out of Lu Mansion, Li Daniu, an intelligence officer stationed in Yanzhou, greeted him as a coachman.

"Take me back to the inn and rest."

Zheng Haizhu got into the carriage and walked for a while before he said to Li Daniu, who was slowing down: "You asked your apprentice to stare at a goldsmith surnamed Liu in the palace treasure, who is in his early twenties and looks more handsome than a singer." Look at who he has been dealing with and where he has been in and out in the past two days. ”

Li Daniu said: "Madame is suspicious of this person? ”

"How can you not doubt it? is so young, has a stunt in his hand, and stays in the Lufu Treasure House, and is afraid that the reward will be less? This is not an imperial doctor, and working for the heavenly family may have to lose his head. The person is also decent, and he is not afraid of not being able to marry a local daughter-in-law. Follow me with such a single mind, who knows if it was a hidden stake placed by any family. ”

"Madame is thoughtful."

Li Daniu said on his lips, and sighed in his heart, if Wu Gongzi was like his wife, his suspicious temper was heavier, I am afraid that something would not happen.

He was sighing when a mule cart suddenly passed by his side.

The coachman waved at him and pointed to his car.

Li Daniu turned his head to look, only to see that where the curtain of the car was opened, a son wearing a net crown and a long jade beard greeted him.

"My master, please take a step to speak." The coachman said to Li Daniu.

After the two cars stopped at the edge of a secluded jujube orchard, the prince of the net crown got out of the car and came to Zheng Haizhu's car curtain.

"Yibin in Xialu Mansion, Cao Xu, I have seen Mrs."

Yibin, in the Ming Dynasty, was the husband of the county lord and county lord of the Zhu family.

To put it bluntly, a son-in-law who is lower than the rank of the colt.

It's the kind of person who doesn't want to be a scholar who thinks about "learning to become a scholar of martial arts, goods and the emperor's family".

Because, being a guest of honor is the same as being a colt, which means that the career is ruined.