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When the sleepy-eyed Qian Guifei opened the door and walked out with her eyes closed, it was already late afternoon.

"Bang!"

Qian Guifei bumped into a person.

Only then did Qian Guifei open her eyes to see who she had bumped into.

But before Qian Guifei could see the appearance of the person she bumped into, Li Cun grabbed Qian Guifei, who had hit her head in his arms, hugged her, and then walked to the room with Qian Guifei in his arms.

This time, Concubine Qian didn't need to look at it anymore to know that the person who dared to offend her like this must be Li Cun, she hurriedly shouted: "Ask the official family to let the concubine come down, the concubine can't get pregnant anymore, it's too delayed!" ”

But Li Cun said: "If you don't get pregnant, you just don't know how to rest well, for the sake of your body, you just accept my punishment." ”

While saying this, Li Cun ignored Qian Guifei's struggle, and continued to carry Qian Guifei inside.

The female guards and female officials outside the door were very eye-catching, helping Li Cun and Qian Guifei close the door from the outside.

Just before the door was about to close, another sentence came from inside: "My concubine is so smart, if you don't ask your concubine to have more children for me, it will be a huge loss for me......"

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When the door opened again, and when Li Cunhe and Qian Guifei, whose flushed face had not faded, came out of the room, it was already dark.

Qian Guifei was small-mouthed, and said angrily: "If you don't do it, you won't be able to do a good job in research and development in another year, the official family is really a stumbling block on the road to research and development of concubines." ”

Li Cun estimated that among his concubines, only Qian Guifei would talk to him like this, and only Qian Guifei dared to talk to him like this.

But then again, it doesn't make no sense for Concubine Qian to say this.

You must know that Qian Guifei not only has an extremely smart brain, but she also has an equally powerful Zigong, in layman's terms, Qian Guifei is still a fertile physique.

This also leads to the fact that although Qian Guifei has not had as many opportunities for Li Cun's departure as Fang Baihua over the years, she actually gave birth to one more child than Fang Baihua - when she had her second child, she gave birth to two sons in one child.

As a result, Qian Guifei became the woman who gave birth to the most children for Li Cun.

This is also one of the reasons why others say that Qian Guifei is Li Cun's favorite woman.

Think about it, if Li Cun doesn't love Concubine Qian, can Concubine Qian give birth to the most children for herself?

Li Cun didn't care about Qian Guifei complaining there, but asked her directly: "Are you waiting to reduce the manufacturing cost of bicycles?" ”

Qian Guifei said with little interest: "Come down, Sun Chengjie is doing this, and the concubines are not very clear." ”

Li Cun knew that Qian Guifei was only interested in novelty things, and she was not interested in this kind of thing that had been developed and had no difficulty in research and development.

In fact, this is also a common problem of many R&D personnel, they only like to overcome those difficult topics, in their opinion, reducing costs and improving quality, that is what craftsmen should consider, not within the scope of their consideration.

But the fundamental reason why Li Cun launched bicycles is not to make bicycles a plaything for the rich, but to make them a means of transportation that really changes people's travel, after all, the cost of buying horses and breeding costs are extremely high, and many areas can't buy them if they want to.

Li Cun's original intention was to popularize and popularize bicycles and become an ordinary means of transportation.

At the beginning, the reason why Li Cun priced the bicycle a hundred times was not out of practical considerations, but out of political needs.

Now, Li Cun's goal has been achieved, and Li Cun certainly can't let the price of the bicycle remain so high.

Therefore, Li Cun is ready to reduce the manufacturing cost of bicycles, and then find an opportunity to reduce the price of bicycles, so that they can become a means of transportation that ordinary people can afford, and improve the speed of people's travel.

But now it seems that it is impossible to count on these researchers at the Royal Research Institute to reduce the manufacturing cost of bicycles.

At this time, Li Cun had an idea and thought: "How about leaking the manufacturing method of the bicycle?" ”

Li Cun quickly weighed the pros and cons in his heart: "If there is private capital into the bicycle manufacturing industry, it will definitely be able to quickly bring down the price of bicycles, not to mention becoming close to the people, at least a few people in a family will be able to buy a bicycle after a year of hard work, just like at the beginning of the founding of our country in later generations." ”

"It's just that, in the future, the manufacturing method of bicycles will definitely leak abroad."

"Alas! How can this kind of thing be avoided, and the technology of the bicycle itself is not high, and it is only a matter of time before it is revealed abroad. ”

"I just need to ask the Daqian Dynasty to grasp the core technology such as bearings and not leak out."

"Hmm...... However, there is still a problem, that is, the bicycle manufacturing industry involves a lot of meritorious deeds and even the interests of our royal family, if you take the liberty of handing over the profits, you will definitely be hindered by these vested interests, which is not conducive to the development of the bicycle industry. ”

"Also, if all of them are state-run, then it is impossible to make the economy of the Daqian Dynasty develop at a high speed, just like in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in later generations."

"Only partial privatization, and the formation of a competitive relationship between public and private enterprises, can the bicycle vigorously develop, no, not only the bicycle industry, but all industries, and then promote the rapid economic development of the Great Qian Dynasty."

"Yes, history has proven it."

Although Li Cun did not like this, if he wanted to release the economic potential of the Daqian Dynasty and make the Daqian Dynasty rich and powerful, he must first make some people rich.

At that time, the Daqian Dynasty will be able to use its surplus products to extend its tentacles to the whole world, build colonies all over the world, and become an empire on which the sun never sets, just like Britain that completed the industrial revolution.

With this general direction in place, some things become simpler.

For example, Li Cun is currently working hard to promote a large textile factory.

At the same time, we can sell textile machines in large state-owned textile factories.

In this way, there will definitely be private textile mills established.

Only by competing between the two sides can the people of the Daqian Dynasty be clothed without worry.

The same is true of the houses promoted by Li Cun to replace the wooden structure with reinforced concrete.

State-owned construction companies, cement factories, building materials factories and private construction companies, cement factories, and building materials factories develop together and compete with each other, so that the construction industry can develop vigorously and benefit the people.

But—

There is one thing that Li Cun also has to take into account, that is, he really has to let the old brothers who fight with him get some tangible benefits, preferably for a long time, so that firstly, he will not let his old brothers and those who work for him feel cold, and secondly, they can always check and balance those civilian official groups.

In this regard, Li Cun will not learn from Lao Zhu, whom he admires very much, on the contrary, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has done a good job in this regard.

But when it comes to basic livelihood issues such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation, they can't let them, no, they can't let anyone stretch out their hands.

This is Li Cun's bottom line.

After thinking about it, Li Cun felt that the white sugar industry was good, it had a lot of profits, and it was suitable for making money for a long time, the key was that civilians could not eat high-quality white sugar, and it would not affect people's livelihood, and it could also reduce some obesity and diseases.

India and China are the world's first sugarcane growers.

After thousands of years of development, during the Tang and Song dynasties, a large-scale workshop-style sugar industry has been formed.

According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty sent people to India to learn the method of boiling sugar, and cultural exchanges promoted the progress of technology and craftsmanship, and new varieties such as white sugar and rock sugar made by the local method appeared one after another.

The Chinese sugar produced during the Tang and Song dynasties was exported to Persia and Rome.

While China's sugarcane technology spread to the outside world, the Arabs also introduced India's sugarcane cultivation technology to Western countries.

Therefore, during this period, there were already sugars such as white sugar, rock sugar, and many related sugar products.

But there are two problems.

First of all, due to the limitations of low technology, the current white sugar cannot be purified at all to produce the high-end snow-white white sugar of later generations, and the sweetness is not as good as that of later generations.

In addition, because the current white sugar can only be made by the local method, its yield is too low.

Li Cun knew the principle of a vacuum crystallization (boiling sugar) tank, and also knew that a steam engine was used to drive a press and a centrifugal honey separator.

With the theories provided by Li Cun and the inventive capabilities of the Royal Research Institute, equipment suitable for industrial production will certainly continue to appear, and the sugar industry will enter the stage of large-scale industrial production.

Some people may ask, will these machines use steam engines, centrifuges or something, will they be too high-end to be built at this time?

Excuse me.

Li Cun actually asked Qian Guifei to develop a steam engine a long time ago.

Do you still remember a few things that Li Cun handed over to Qian Guifei for research back then?

They were the steam engine, the loom machine, the blast furnace iron, and the flintlock pistol that would change the world.

And Qian Guifei is worthy of Li Cun's big baby, she has successfully developed the earliest steam engine as early as five years ago.

This steam engine is quite lofty, but in fact, it is not difficult to build.

The reason why the Chinese in history did not make a steam engine before the West was only because no one noticed that the boiling hot water turned into water vapor to open the lid of the kettle.

Now, Li Cun not only personally led the extremely clever Qian Guifei to see the steam turned into boiling hot water to open the lid of the kettle, but also told Qian Guifei about the principle and all the knowledge about the steam engine that Li Cun knew.

In addition, in order to avoid a detour for Qian Guifei, Li Cun also sent someone to find coal and oil for Qian Guifei.

Speaking of which, in fact, many people have a misunderstanding, thinking that there was no coal and oil in ancient China.

This perception is wrong.

As early as the late Neolithic period, ancient people had carved rings and animal-shaped works of art out of coal.

As early as the Western Han Dynasty around two hundred BC, the Chinese had begun to use coal as fuel to smelt iron.

This is about 1,700 years earlier than Europe.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, coal was already a domestic fuel for Chinese.

Up to now, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hebei and other places have mined a large amount of coal as a raw material for iron smelting and household fuel.

It's the same with oil.

There is such a historical fact in the "Yuanhe County Chronicles": during the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic rulers sent troops to surround and attack Jiuquan in Gansu, and the local soldiers and civilians ignited the "fire oil", burned the enemy's siege tools, repelled the enemy, and defended Jiuquan City.

By the time of the Five Dynasties, the military application of oil was becoming more and more extensive.

In the rear beam, there were examples of people putting "fire oil" in iron cans and launching them to burn down enemy ships.

Zeng Gongliang's "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" written a few decades ago has a very specific record of how to use oil as a raw material to make a powerful offensive weapon, the "Menghuo Oil Tank".

During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts set up a military supervision in Bianliang City, Tokyo, in charge of the manufacture of military equipment, including a factory specializing in the processing of "Menghuo oil tanks".

It is also recorded in Kang Yuzhi's "Yesterday's Dream Record" that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the northwest frontier region "dug the ground to make large pools, vertical and horizontal, and stored fire oil" to defend against foreign invasion.

Therefore, it is very simple for Li Cun, the emperor, to get coal and oil.

With the theoretical basis provided by Li Cun, as well as the research direction provided by Li Cun, coupled with the various supports needed by Li Cun in the research and development process, not to mention that Li Cun has a very smart Qian Guifei, even if Li Cun does not have a rich concubine, Li Cun will definitely be able to build the earliest and simplest steam engine.

But this steam engine is easy to build, but it is difficult to apply it to industry.

At the beginning, Li Cun was ready to use the steam engine in shipbuilding, that is, to build that kind of steel giant ship, or even to build a steel fleet, so that he could conquer the world.

But until now, this steel giant ship powered by a steam engine is still in the development stage.

Later, Li Cun came up with the concept of making trains.

Under the guidance of Li Cun, Qian Guifei, a group of ink scholars, and all the R&D personnel of the Royal Research Institute worked together to improve the earliest and simplest steam engine again and again.

Technologies such as separate condenser, insulation layer outside the cylinder, oil-lubricated piston, planetary gear, parallel motion connecting rod mechanism, centrifugal governor, throttle valve, pressure gauge and so on have been conquered successively.

In addition, in order to better develop these ideas put forward by Li Cun, Li Cun has successively put forward the concepts of sand turning, annealing, polishing and other concepts (in fact, these technologies have existed before this, but they have not been widely used in industry).

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Li Cun even led people to manufacture the earliest lathe.

Let's put it this way, the little things that Li Cun learned from the military internship he participated in when he was in college were not wasted at all, and they laid the industrial foundation of the Daqian Dynasty.

As things stand, steel ships powered by steam engines and trains will be born in the near future.

Belch...... It's a bit far.

It is only said that the steam engine currently mastered by the Royal Research Institute has increased the efficiency of the first generation of primitive steam engine built by Qian Guifei by more than three times.

With the support of such a steam engine, the equipment that Li Cun wants to build that is suitable for industrial production is definitely not a problem.

Li Cun believes that as long as he gives his own direction, it is estimated that it will not be long before the sugar industry will enter the stage of large-scale industrial production.

At that time, Li Cun will let people all over the world eat sugar produced in China, and use sugar to harvest wealth all over the world.

But—

Li Cun did not come to see Qian Guifei this time because of bicycles, textile machines, steel giants powered by steam engines, trains, and sugar making equipment suitable for industrial production.

Li Cun came to find Qian Guifei this time mainly because Qian Guifei sent someone to inform Li Cun that she had already made the flintlock pistol that Li Cun wanted......

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