"Ouch! Sure enough, as the concubine said, although the wine is good, you can't be greedy; I was only five or six minutes drunk last night, and my head hurt badly today" The next morning, after Du Baojun got up, he hugged his head and yelled in his mouth.

It can be regarded as a confirmation of the new 'burning knife' spirit produced by the Department of Commerce, if you drink too much, you will have a headache when you get up the next day.

But even if my brain hurts, because I have some more important things in mind. As planned, Du Baojun still left the city early.

In reality, in Boss Shen's fleet, he found a family member who lived on the ship and stared at the goods, which was the son of their Du family.

After handing over the letter I had written last night to the other party, I told him again and again. In the ensuing time, I saw the fleet unload all the cloth and silk it was loaded with and hand it over to the officials handed over by the Department of Commerce.

And staring at the departure of the fleet is to let go of the worries in my heart. In the following time, he began to walk and inquire around inside and outside Kaifeng City; This situation will continue until the head of their Du family in Huzhou brings more rice grain and cloth again, and then it will be stopped.

Let's be honest! Huang Yizhi's West Factory. such a means of relying on the old lady of the street office, who is regarded as an outsider, to monitor suspicious outsiders; It may not be very decent to say.

But in practice, it's surprisingly good. These old ladies are very familiar with the neighbors in their own area, and they can easily recognize which people are outsiders at a glance.

I'm afraid that even if the professional spies of the Jin Kingdom come, they can't escape the eyes of these old ladies. What's more, Du Baojun, this kind has not undergone the slightest training, and has always been a pampered rich man.

So there was no surprise that this product was secretly reported by three old ladies on the first day of wandering around and inquiring.

Fortunately, he finished writing that letter to the head of the Du family last night, when he was asleep. was secretly entered into the room by a thin man in the brocade guard, and saw it clearly.

When he woke up this morning, he had a headache, which was not actually the cause of his hangover; Instead, he was worried that he would be woken up, and that rookie spy used some Jinyiwei's drugs.

So, I have long known why Du Baojun? It will be so around and inquire about Jinyiwei. After receiving the report, no measures were taken against him; Otherwise, he would have been arrested and imprisoned, and he would have eaten and enjoyed the treatment of two miscellaneous grains a day.

As for what Du Baojun heard in this process? It can be seen from the fact that he walked around a long time every day, and then after returning to the inn, he wrote some of the diary he wrote that night.

That's right! It's a diary. This thing is not the patent of modern people, let alone a foreign product from the West, in fact, it has been around for a long time in the ancient times of the flower planter, and it is not an unusual thing at all.

It's just that the name is a little different, in ancient times it was called a diary, a day, a diary, a calendar, and so on. In general, this thing sprouted in the Tang Dynasty and developed in the Song Dynasty; declined in the Yuan and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties; The earliest diary in history was carved directly on wood before even the paper was born.

And Du Baojun's diary, if the content is converted in the vernacular, it probably looks like this...... Jingkang two years, no!

It's now the first year of Maode, but you have to control your mouth, and you must not leak your mouth in other places and cause some trouble.

On March 20, it was another sunny day. I have always been unable to understand, although Kaifeng City is the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, where the three provinces and six departments are located, the world's talents and most of the elites of skilled craftsmen are gathered here.

But the last time the Jin people came, I heard that they had taken away a group of skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Works.

Even if the craftsmen of the people can be requisitioned by the imperial court now, the number should be limited, and it is already the limit to have thousands of people.

So the question is, how can it be that so many novelties that the Department of Commerce has been producing recently, can it be produced by these thousands of craftsmen?

After all, each of those novelties seems to be extremely delicate, and it is possible to find some temporary labor to do it.

With such a doubt, today I came to the Guozijian in the south of the city, intending to take a good look at it.

Why where? Because since Empress Namud newly ascended the throne more than two months ago, she has not had the intention of opening an Enko.

In addition, in the Jin Bing Rebellion, Mr. Yiying, teaching assistants, and students in Guozijian had already dispersed.

But in the direction of Guozijian, there is now thick smoke billowing every day, which can be seen across most of Kaifeng City, but the water dragon team that extinguishes the fire in the city is not dispatched, and the people are not surprised.

There is no second possibility other than that the premises were requisitioned by the Ministry of Industry to produce those so-called new goods.

That's right! In the city like this, there are places where a lot of billowing smoke rises, and there are several other places, but there is more movement there in the Guozijian.

Presumably, as long as you go in and have a look, you will naturally be able to clear the doubts in your heart. And then, the thief's mother! I couldn't even get in the door.

At a long distance from the gate, a few men dressed as forbidden soldiers drove me out of the country like flies without waiting for me to speak, which was really insulting.

But even so, I wandered outside for a long time, and I saw some unusual signs.

For example, there are often many large carts, pulling heavy goods into the national prison; Even if the car was covered with some rags, it could be faintly seen that it was full of coal.

It turned out that the Department of Commerce of the Imperial Court was actually smelting iron in many places such as Guozijian, so that there would be such an amazing iron material for sale...... Actually?

Du Baojun's speculation is fundamentally at odds with reality. At the same time, that is, when Du Baojun stayed outside the Guozi Prison, he looked over there with his probe.

In the Guozi Prison, because he hadn't had a good rest for a long time, he stared at the warehouse manager with red eyes like a rabbit, and shouted at Wolf Qing: "Wolf Qing, I see that the steam engine is almost over." Although the maximum horsepower of the steam engine we have built so far is 70 horsepower; With such a foundation and experience, it is not a big problem to reach 100 horsepower again. But Lao Hei's side is now urging us to hand over artillery every day, so that their artillery can start training. I thought that in the rush of time, we would not be able to become fat in one bite; The current steam engine is a good fit, after all, there are still a lot of things waiting for us to solve one by one. ”

"Yes! In the current situation, it is not possible to strive for perfection, but overall efficiency. In the following time, AT also echoed the same sentence, the spirit of this little white-collar worker seems to be fine, but the hairline is a little thin.

After hearing the above two sentences, Wolf Qing had to nod helplessly. The expression was full of frustration of a person who had the intention to kill the thief and was powerless to return to the sky.

As the warehouse manager said, the barely usable steam engine has been made by them now, and problems such as seals and lubricating oil have also been solved by them by some other methods.

For example, a copper piston ring is used to solve the sealing problem. The problem is that in such an alternative, not only the performance of the steam engine is very unsatisfactory for a while; Even the overall production volume was far lower than expected.

The key reason is that he, AT, and warehouse manager, no matter how powerful they are, they only have one pair of hands. Although the craftsmen recruited are not stupid, they also have some experience in handicraft; However, it also takes a familiar time to face the process of casting a large number of parts with clay fans and then assembling them one by one.

Workers recruited from the modern plane will need to be trained for a while before they can be used; Especially for skilled workers, the reason that they need to be trained well to take up their posts is the same.

In short, today, with their full efforts, a total of thirteen steam engines with 50 horsepower have been produced.

eleven steam engines with 60 horsepower and seven steam engines with 70 horsepower, a total of about 30 steam engines; Compared with their original plan, I don't know how far it is, but fortunately, with so 30 steam engines, they have also solved the huge problem of insufficient power in military production.

After all, a steam engine can drive several forging hammers, grinding machines, drilling machines, and other machinery, and the power provided is also quite stable.

At least up to now, the 10,000 muskets that the new army uses for training on a rotational basis have been delivered one after another.

However, according to the new army units, the method of using people to stop, grab and fire frantically for training will wait until the three-month training period for recruits has passed.

The barrels of these 10,000 brown bess muskets will basically be scrapped. Therefore, the large amount of coal that Du Baojun saw in his eyes, where is it used to make iron.

It's just that in Guozijian, a total of fifteen steam engines were put down, as well as a large number of drilling machines, forging hammers and other processing machinery.

It was used entirely to provide fuel for the steam engine and other equipment......******* first year of Maude, March 26; The drizzle is very much the taste of Du Mu and Du Muzhi of the Tang Dynasty, 'the rain is heavy during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls'.

Originally, today, I was going to go to the inn where I lived, the nearest elementary school, to see the good students.

On the one hand, this primary school is not an important place in the imperial court, and idlers can't wait to get closer, right? On the other hand, according to popular sayings, the people of Kaifeng City can go to school regardless of gender, as long as they are school-age children.

Empress Maude and Na Hu are unified, posing as an ancient sage who is 'educated and classless', and it is a big breath, don't you know how amazing the money and food required for this practice will be?

Especially under the current situation, such a poor and white court still has to reorganize its armaments for war, can they support such a large consumption, don't they plan to live?

But if that's what they're doing, and not just looking like it, these people are really the same Lord.

The result? Didn't go today. After encountering something else, the plan to go to the elementary school was cancelled temporarily.

At that time, I was still at a small stall on the side of the road, waiting for the vendor to make the pancake fruit, which has recently become very popular in Kaifeng City, and is said to have been invented by Xiang Gong.

When I was still a luxurious version of pancake fruit with eggs and sausages, I discovered a strange thing. I saw that on the street, suddenly in the midst of bursts of loud Sanskrit singing, I am afraid that there are hundreds of bald donkeys, no!

It was the master in his robe, walking all the way to the palace together. The scene was even more lively than previous years' land and water pujas.

asked the aunt of the street office with red sleeves around her, and only then did she learn that these masters from the Great Xiangguo Temple were feeling that the state affairs were difficult and the imperial court was not well prepared.

Today, I am going to go outside the palace to meet Empress Maude and the ministers of the court. It is requested that the 500 bronze Arhat statues in the temple, as well as several other larger bronze Buddha statues, all be dedicated to the imperial court, so that the imperial court can use them to make a variety of ordnance.

Beware of the entry of the golden people, so as not to be the Holy Spirit Tuta. After all, I am a Buddha, and as long as the believers have a Buddha in their hearts, it doesn't matter if the Buddha statues are made of stone, clay, wood, or copper.

When I heard this, I was immediately in awe. I have seen a lot of monks who ask for money and food in this life, but it is definitely the first time I have seen such a monk who has contributed to the bronze statue.

Sure enough, he is worthy of being the master of Daxiangguo Temple, with profound Buddhism and compassion in his heart, which is different from other small temples.

After eating a set of deluxe pancakes, I didn't go to elementary school to see it, but went to Daxiangguo Temple to pay a good visit and donated three sesame oil money.

I don't know if it's the blessing of the Bodhisattva, but when I came out of the Great Xiangguo Temple, it was drizzling for several days.

It's just that what Du Baojun didn't know was that when he squatted on the side of the road with a bowl of soy milk, he munched on the deluxe version of pancake fruit, thinking about whether to go to Daxiangguo Temple later.

Just across from him, in the private room of a restaurant. Yu Hanfeng, the singer, and Huang Yizhi were also eating breakfast.

The difference is that after eating a bite of noodles, Yu Hanfeng, the commander of Jinyiwei, couldn't help but mutter, and calculated an account: "Each copper Arhat is about 120 catties, and the total of five hundred Arhats is 60,000 catties of copper." In addition, there are several large Buddha statues, all of which add up to almost 90,000 catties of copper, which must be enough for them to cast cannons. After all, they only use copper as the core, not all of them are copper; These bald donkeys too, it would be good if they agreed to it a long time ago, but they didn't shed tears when they didn't see the coffin. Now that it's like this, do they find it interesting? "Yes!

That's right, judging from some details in Yu Hanfeng's words, those masters took the initiative to donate the bronze statues today, which was not voluntary in nature.

At least the masters who are in the lead are not willing at all. It's just that in the face of the urgent requirements of the new army to cast artillery, because of the problem of raw materials at that time, the intelligence triumvirate, which was about to be driven crazy, could only be blackmailed.

Specifically, I went privately to check the black materials of the hosts and abbots of Daxiangguo Temple. I don't know if I don't check the results, I was shocked when I checked it, few of these guys' butts are clean, and it is still a trivial matter to marry several wives and give birth to a bunch of dolls.

In short, faced with two different choices, such as whether to lose one's reputation after the black material was exposed, or to break the fortune and avoid disasters, the masters wisely chose the latter.

So there was a magical scene this morning, hundreds of masters collectively set out to break the temple for the country.

Yu Hanfeng and the other three appeared here, just to see their results with their own eyes. In the face of Yu Hanfeng's question that '90,000 catties of copper should be enough', the factory singer of the East Factory asked another sentence: "I said, Wolf Qing's buddy is an eighth-level fitter." With his level, it should be no problem to go directly to the all-steel artillery, why do you need so much copper, what kind of antique copper-core iron cannon? Faced with such a question, Huang Yizhi, the factory manager of the West Factory, replied: "Of course all-steel artillery can, but although Wolf Qing has that technology, how many can he do if he just relies on his own hands?" To put it bluntly, it's not up to those craftsmen to do it. It's just that when the workers are trained, I'm afraid that the gold people are about to come over, so they can only use copper cannons with simpler processes~" In this way, after the three of them blew for a while, they left with the truth; What Du Baojun and these people saw was just some superficial situations that they hoped they would see...... In the first year of Maode, on April 1, the weather was good today, neither cold nor hot.

I got up early this morning, but I didn't even have time to eat, so I went out of the city as soon as the city gate opened.

In such a hurry, it's not that the pancake fruit is tired of eating, this thing is crispy and delicious, it is simply a great delicacy in the world, and you will never get tired of eating it.

It was only last night that I inquired about how I could see what the new army of the imperial court looked like.

In the future, if you encounter a golden man, you must be able to defend the city at least if you don't talk about fighting; Such a point is very important, and it is the key to whether my Du family defects to the imperial court.

Of course, the barracks of the new army are important, and we and other idle people naturally have no way to enter it. However, I heard that after those new troops got up early in the morning, they would have to conduct drills outside the camp, and I could see to some extent that they were one or two points of success.

Sure enough, as rumored, after leaving the city in the morning and walking all the way to the northeast, seven or eight miles. I finally saw for the first time what the Great Song New Army looked like.

I saw that in the midst of a round of golden sunrise, tens of thousands of soldiers lined up in six long lines, carrying a piece of wood with 30 catties of wood on their shoulders and running in an orderly manner.

The old section is discharged, and there is a lot of the taste of the dragon seeing the head but not the end. I don't see how the generals scold, but tens of thousands of people command like one person; That strong army appearance is definitely the only one I have seen in my life, Du Baojun.

With such elite soldiers in hand, why worry about those golden people entering the Kou again......