On a new day, I slept in the West Garden last night, and when I got up early was surrounded by two petite widows in a group of Fanniang Hu Girls, Kaori Didi and Narako Didi, with small faces and big eyes like cat-like sisters.

Zhu Yuan likes to listen to the two girls talk.

For Japanese, male and female voices are simply two languages, one that feels provocative and the other that makes people feel flirtatious.

Well.

After dressing and washing, he came to the main house and went to the West House, still calling the two little girls by his side.

When Qingniang and Luo Shui brought breakfast, they remembered that it seemed to be ...... Forgot something.

It wasn't until I drank a bowl of eight-treasure porridge that I finally remembered it and hurriedly asked Qing Niang: "Yesterday's one, Liuniang, did you put it down?" ”

Don't hang it overnight.

Qingniang didn't forget this incident, the memory is quite deep, and nodded and said, "The adults said yesterday...... When you fall asleep, then you put it down. ”

That's good.

After breakfast, today's arrangement is to proofread the books, not to go out, but to roughly browse the textbooks compiled and sorted out by the women around me, and send them to Lao Zhu.

This is already the second batch.

A few days ago, a batch was sent, and Lao Zhu is still watching.

In fact, except for the 'study of economics', Zhu Yuan feels that there is really no need to be sensitive enough to need his ancestors to personally delete it, even if it is 'physics', 'chemistry' and the like, if you want to cherish yourself, then simply don't teach.

Still, someone insisted on going through it first.

In addition, such as the 'chemistry' major, the list has been determined in recent days, and Lao Zhu has personally reviewed the files one by one, and several of them felt inappropriate and were deposed.

Zhu Yuan didn't approve of this, but he didn't object either.

I have to say that in this era, only the shallow chemical knowledge that I can still remember, but it is confidential, such as some fundamental principles behind the configuration of gunpowder, as long as you understand the corresponding knowledge, you can theoretically make very powerful gunpowder.

In Lao Zhu's opinion, this is definitely not something that ordinary people should know.

Not to mention that Zhu Yuan also proposed the concept of nitroglycerin in the chemistry textbook he sent before.

Black powder, as long as there are materials, Zhu Yuan can match it casually.

Nitroglycerin, although not as simple as black powder, but, after thinking about it in private, in fact...... It seems like...... It's not hard either. It's just a three-step process of 'nitrate', 'chemical' and 'glycerin'.

How does nitric acid come from?

The industrial system is not clear, but as long as there is 'sulfur', there is 'sulfuric acid', and with 'sulfuric acid', there is probably 'nitric acid'.

Let's talk about glycerin.

This is also simple, saponification reaction.

In short, there is a reason, and there is a follow-up.

It's called 'being born and being born.'"

However, Lao Zhu saw that Zhu Yuan said in the textbook that yellow powder was more than ten times more powerful than black powder, so he didn't care about cherishing the broom, so he directly deleted the relevant chapters, and only planned to let the Firearms Division secretly conduct research.

Speaking of textbooks, recently, after Lao Zhu personally added, deleted, and annotated the "production" article of "Economic Science", a volume with a total of more than 30,000 words has begun to be engraved, and it is determined to be a compulsory course for all universities and hundreds of officials in the imperial court.

This is also the result of Zhu Yuan's urging.

After all, when everyone has a meeting, they can't talk about 'economic science', only themselves and Lao Zhu, or occasionally add a prince, do you know that everyone else is confused.

What's more, the truth is given, and then, many of the policies that Daming wants to implement will have a theoretical basis.

Why do you need to subsidize farm tools for free?

Didn't know before.

Now, I read the article "Production" in "The Science of Economics", oh, in order to improve productivity.

That's what you want.

As for 'distribution', Zhu Yuan is not in a hurry, and Lao Zhu is not in a hurry.

Let's get the 'production' done first.

After all, it's just the word 'distribution', which makes people uncomfortable to listen to, this is for no reason, why do you want to engage in 'distribution', how good is it for us to put it in our pockets?

It's approaching noon in the blink of an eye.

Zhu Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged on the low couch, saw Liubai dangling next to him, put down the book, smiled and beckoned Nizi to come up, hugged him and asked, "What's the matter, let's talk about it?" ”

Liubai was hugged by his own adult, his face was red, and he thought about it and said, "My lord, tomorrow...... It's a big day for my sister. ”

Zhu Yuan understood.

After thinking for a while, he said: "What are you going to do, you can arrange it yourself, and you can withdraw the expenses, hehe......" smiled, and continued: "I am only responsible for entering the cave room." ”

"How many identities are slaves...... I don't need to do it too much," Liubai listened to what his adult said, and was a little moved, and then said: "The slave is just thinking, can the adult be like this tomorrow, no need to go out, ...... at night There is another table of noodles, and a few slaves accompany adults, which is also lively? ”

"It's that simple."

Zhu Yuan was a little surprised, but think about it.

It is already very rare to make Lao Zhu and his wife acquiesce to the identities of several women around them in this era. With Zhu Yuan's current identity, if he still has to do a lot of things, it may cause trouble.

Zhu Yuan himself is not afraid of trouble, but the problem is that the few around him can't afford it.

However, after thinking about it again, he still said: "In this way, you can invite a troupe to come over tomorrow, isn't "A Chinese Ghost Story" singing, just listen to this." Well, there is also a freehand house, you can also quietly invite a few tables, I won't go, but everyone can have a lively time. ”

Liubai subconsciously shook his head: "It's public." ”

"Needless to say, everyone knows that it is enough to invite a few tables," Zhu Yuan said: "You forgot that in Mingzhou, when Huada married a concubine, it was lively. ”

As he spoke, he recalled.

However, I only remember one 'more than thirteen birds and birds, and the cardamom tips are in early February'.

It's a poor girl.

As Hua Gao quietly carried into the house after a few rooms became pregnant, the one on the tip of the cardamom was inevitably left out in the cold.

"It's different," Liubai obviously remembered the incident, his expression was a little yearning, but he still shook his head: "The slaves are adult girls, they don't deserve that, not to mention the identity of the adult at this time...... Identity...... I can't stand it. ”

Feeling the darkness of Nizi in his arms, Zhu Yuan leaned over and kissed the girl on the cheek: "I know what you are looking forward to, which girl will not look forward to it?" However, the current conditions do not allow me to be too deviant, let's quietly, well, live our lives in the future, have a few more children, and hand over my knowledge to them in the future, and this life will be complete, right? ”

Liubai nodded subconsciously and shook his head again: "My lord, slave...... The slave didn't think about it. ”

"Yes, yes, but I can only think about it," Zhu Yuan said, raised his hand and patted it behind Liubai: "After tomorrow, you can also start making your wedding dress, well, every other month, how about it?" ”

Liubai's face, which had not yet dissipated, turned a little redder, and nodded slightly: "Slave...... Listen to adults. ”

The matter was decided, and Zhu Yuan pushed Nizi towards the bed: "Go, I'm hungry, bring lunch over." ”

Probably in response to the sentence who wants to appear, just after lunch, news came from Mingzhou.

The first is a private letter from Huagao.

Someone said that the three-room concubine he brought into the door at the beginning, after the 'Gu family' and the 'Chen family', recently confirmed that another 'Nian family' was also pregnant.

Zhu Yuan could see Hua Gao's joy from the trembling letters.

However, probably because Zhu Yuan became a clan, someone didn't mention the matter of making him a father-in-law this time, but he also said that he hoped that in the future, his little ones could worship Zhu Yuan as a teacher and study at Jinling University, and even chose a major, majoring in economics, which is very good.

At the end of the letter, someone also said that he felt that the three were not safe, and planned to carry the woman into the third room in the near future.

is still according to Zhu Yuan's original standards.

Zhu Yuan could only be speechless about this.

The original three-room woman was according to Zhu Yuan's standards...... Actually, it's not that easy to find, but, after all, it's from the naval governor of Yipin, send a word, of course, someone found it for him.

This time, again!

However, with Hua Gao's cautious and cautious character, Zhu Yuan is also relieved, probably can't do anything to rob people's daughters, at most...... It should be the same as Wu Sanniang, who came to him unexpectedly.

At least not procedurally.

In addition to the fact that someone else, among some other official documents, the one that Zhu Yuan was most concerned about was the news that the launch test of the 500-material steamer was a great success.

The biggest difference between this time and the 200 material steamer is that it is driven by animal power.

Zhu Yuan thought about it at the beginning, but he just felt that the animal power was somewhat unstable when the boat was on the water.

Or is it reliable in manpower.

In addition, the original 200-material steamer was not small, but it was not too large, and a few cows could not fit it, so it still relied on manpower.

This time, the big ship of 500 materials, each side has a three-zhang paddle wheel, each side of the paddle wheel is driven by three cows alone, a total of six oxen, under full force, the speed can reach 60 miles per hour, in which all kinds of details, are quite surprising.

First of all, the 500-material ship is already large enough to be used for long-distance grain transportation by sea.

Secondly, six cows......

Zhu Yuan knows horsepower, but it seems that there is no bullpower. However, it can be inferred that under the same magnitude, the strength of a cow should be greater than that of a horse.

Well.

Still don't talk about this nonsense.

In short, it is a pioneering feat to be able to make a 500-material ship travel 60 miles per hour without relying on wind power. Because, Zhu Yuan can also easily calculate that at this speed, the 3,000-mile sea grain route from Mingzhou to Zhigu will only take two and a half days.

Unfortunately, there are two major problems.

One is 'cost'.

One is 'durable'.

If these two can be close to the traditional sailing boat, Zhu Yuan will immediately write to his ancestors, completely rebuild the steamer, and eliminate the ...... Well, it can't be eliminated, just like this 500 material steamer, which still has a sail system, which can be said to be 'hybrid'.

This is also a very necessary set of solutions in this era.

Just like later generations, let alone the steam age, even in the electric age, many ships were equipped with sails, which allowed for maximum energy savings when the wind was downwind.

After reading the document written by Yao Feng himself, Zhu Yuan immediately replied and asked Mingzhou to send a 500-material steamer over, along with craftsmen and drawings, he planned to let Lao Zhu take a look, and at the same time try to build it in Jinling.

And......

Now that there are models of steam engines, perhaps, we can try to put the steam engine on the ship in advance.

After all, a full-size steam model is already available.

Even if we understand that even if we build it, it is still very far from large-scale mass production, but as long as we can build a full-scale steamship and run it when launched, it is definitely a more meaningful innovation than a mini steam engine ship in this era.

Because, this is equivalent to, from '0' to '1'.

It's hard to go from '0' to '1', but it's much easier to go from '1' to 'n'.

Zhu Yuan is not in a hurry for too many things, step by step. However, if it is possible to build it in advance, there is no need to deliberately delay it until much later.

After writing a reply to Mingzhou Yinghai Division, and then a private letter to Hua Gao, this noon, when he should have taken a nap, he didn't feel sleepy at all, so he instructed Luo Shui next to him: "The visitor list for the past two days, bring it to me to see." ”

Regarding this matter, Zhu Yuan watches it once a day or two every day.

I don't see a guest, but I also want to know who has been here.

This is part of the 'Qi family', and you can only come by yourself, if you don't pay attention, gradually, it's hard to say what will happen.

Luo Shui went out and ordered, came back again, and saw that his adult was in good spirits, but he was a little worried, and persuaded: "My lord, why don't you rest, and look at it when you wake up?" ”

Let's just say last time......

Anyway, the girls were scared enough, and there was a strong fear. What if their petty officials have something?

Therefore, even if Zhu Yuan is in good spirits, he is still advised to rest more from time to time.

Zhu Yuan actually has a bottom in his heart, and he no longer tosses himself like he did when he returned to Jinling from Mingzhou some time ago, but he can't sleep most of the time every day, and he has to make an exception once in a while.

He Xuan quickly sent a list over, and said that it just so happened that Tan Qu, who gave Zhu Yuan red glazed porcelain last time, had come to the door in person in the past two days, and he was there right now, and he was with his brother Tan Zao.

Because neither of them was an important guest, He Xuan didn't report it.

Just inform the other party that your adult will look through the visitor list from time to time, and if you want to see someone, you will let people know. Unexpectedly, the other party was very sincere and came for two days in a row. If Zhu Yuan is gone, I'm afraid he will come back tomorrow.

The last time we talked about red-glazed porcelain, it was quite speculative, Zhu Yuan thought about it for a while, and then said, "Let them come in and see each other." ”

Tan Qu also said last time that his brother was more insightful than him in firing red glaze, and he happened to have a few words.

As for the other party's intentions......

The imperial court has been promoting the affairs of the Daming Ceramics Group recently, which will greatly affect the future of the Daming ceramics industry, and the Tan family will not escape the impact.

This matter is easy to solve.

If you can't escape, then join in.

As long as it doesn't involve issues of principle, Zhu Yuan has always been quite happy to be an adult.