The death of Master Su Bi is like earth-shattering news! The entire Su family suddenly fell into abnormal grief, and everyone was immediately immersed in the sorrow of the funeral before they recovered from the joy of the wedding!

The happy event became a funeral, the auditorium was changed to a mourning hall, the red lantern was replaced by a white lantern, the red double happiness word was torn off, and the black word "Dien" was pasted up, overnight, the entire Su family changed from a red sea to a white castle, Xiao Ming is equivalent to entering the Su family, a son-in-law and a half, wearing linen and filial piety, and he had to come to the pot.

Su Cai'er's crying eyes were like peaches, Shen Bei'er endured her grief and accompanied her, and the two new daughters-in-law are now all tears! Those guests and friends who came to drink the wedding wine saved the pain of running back and forth, this time they directly participated in the funeral, the happy money had just been paid, and they had to take another piece of buried silver, this feeling made them feel weird, and they shook their heads one by one, bowing their heads and lamenting the misfortune of the Su family.

Xiao Ming waved his pen and transferred silver from the account, Su Bi's funeral was very grand, and the monks who were overdone invited to a thousand people, all of whom were monks of Lingyin Temple, and then there were a number of Taoist priests, the coffin was made of a good golden silk nanmu coffin, and the wreaths were placed on the street.

People who come to mourn can all have a glimpse of the demeanor of Master Su, his trick is really beyond everyone's expectations, in ancient times, there were not many people who could find painter portraits, not dignitaries or meritorious people, they were not allowed to paint, the general portraits were painted by the descendants of later generations in order to pay homage to their ancestors, although Su Fu did not have a reputation, but he was the richest man in Hangzhou, and his family was big, and no one said anything.

But it is rare for a portrait to be able to paint such a large size, in the portrait, Master Su looks serene, smiling, very similar, Su Caier can't help but cry again after seeing the portrait! The outside of the portrait is framed with a wooden frame, and a whole piece of glass is embedded on it, which is still the latest handmade flat glass from Xiao Ming's glass factory, and there are not a few pieces in the entire factory, so Xiao Ming made a picture frame.

According to the etiquette system in the Song Dynasty, funerals generally have to be done for 7749 days, during which they must wear mourning clothes, they cannot drink alcohol and eat meat, husbands and wives cannot have the same room, all entertainment activities are canceled, and they cannot laugh loudly at home.

His contact with Liaodong and Weihai and other places has also been changed to once every few days, not as frequent as at the beginning, fortunately, everything is going on normally on both sides, there is no chaos, Liaodong is now rare and stable and regular, increase efforts in construction, Xiao Ming will not go back for a while, there will be no chaos, the base in Weihai is under the supervision of Uncle Zhang, and the base construction is also carried out normally.

Xiao Ming also took this opportunity to solve some key technical problems with Gu Shouzhen and Ding Jianpeng, in addition to some technical problems in the arsenal, there are also many difficulties in the rolling technology of Gu Shouzhen Iron Works, in fact, these things can be obtained from Ding Jianpeng's computer, but Ding Jianpeng can't copy it, and it is not good to write calligraphy, this aspect is not as good as Xiao Ming has really practiced a brush over the years, although it is not good-looking, but the writing speed is still very fast, the key is that he can use a pen to copy the picture, And vividly.

On this day, Xiao Ming came back to the mourning hall to put a stick of incense on his father-in-law, and was about to eat, Song Wu came to visit, Su Bi's death hit Song Wu very hard, in a short period of time, he seemed to be 10 years old, the Mo family is now withering very much, and the current master is left with himself and Jin Dajiang, fortunately, Ding Jianpeng is willing to be named in the Mo family.

In the Song Dynasty, although there were more people who paid attention to natural sciences than in other dynasties, the idea of the official standard still made many people choose to take the examination for fame and fame as the goal of studying, so the children who signed up were basically the children of poor families.

The matter of education is a hundred-year plan, neither can be rushed, nor can it be natural in the summer, the future of the Great Song Dynasty needs a lot of self-recognized scientific talents, which will not change the status quo without a major social change, Xiao Ming can only let Song Wu be patient and slowly cultivate the existing students first, and dig out good seedlings from them.

But this time Song Wu came not to talk to Xiao Ming about the school, but when he was sorting out Su Bi's relics in the Mo family's workshop, he found what Su Bi left behind, and formulated what was left for Xiao Ming, which made Xiao Ming very curious, he took the bag containing various drawings and manuscripts from Song Wu's hand, pulled it out to watch, and found that it was all the manuscripts of Su Bi's development of the prototype of the steam engine.

"This ...... This is? Xiao Minghu looked at Song Wu suspiciously.

"And this!" Song Wu handed over another box, which was a letter written by Su Bi, and a key, on which Su Bi knew that his health was getting worse and worse, he wrote down some ideas and ideas of the steam engine, and specified that he would give things to Xiao Ming, but what the key was, Xiao Ming couldn't guess.

Song Wu motioned for Xiao Ming to go with him, and before the two arrived at the warehouse of the Mo family's workshop, the Mo family not only had a base in the Su family's back house, but also had bases in several places in Mogan Mountain and Phoenix Mountain, and even a large water experiment base by the West Lake, and it was this base on the edge of the West Lake that Song Wu led Xiao Ming to.

The Mo family has long adopted the method of building houses on the water, the warehouses here are all on the water, at the door of a relatively large warehouse, Song Wu handed him the key that Su Bi left for Xiao Ming, and asked him to open the door, Xiao Ming opened the door of the warehouse according to his words, the warehouse is very messy, but in the most eye-catching place in the middle, there is a behemoth, covered with linoleum!

After uncovering the linoleum, Xiao Ming saw a boiler, which was made of white copper, the appearance of the boiler was very complex, covered with various pipes, and there was a huge crankshaft underneath, all kinds of mechanical components were basically made of steel, and the strength was very high.

Xiao Ming didn't expect Su Bi to build such a thing, except for the appearance of the boiler is a little strange, this is simply the steam head of a train, the complexity of this thing is no worse than the steam head of the nineteenth century, Su Bi must have spent a lot of effort on it!

"It's amazing!" Xiao Ming let out a heartfelt sigh.

Song Wu said on the side: "Master Su has put almost all his heart and soul into this, and I still don't know what he made this thing!" ”

Xiao Ming explained to him: "My father-in-law is just building a train according to his own proposal!" ”

Song Wu said: "What is a train? ”

Xiao Ming compared two railroad tracks to him, and then signaled that the entire steam-powered locomotive was a locomotive, drove back and forth, and said, "This invention is very remarkable!" It is equivalent to allowing us to enter the industrial age in advance! If such a train is loaded, hundreds of thousands of catties of things can be pulled and run! Well, you need to build a prototype car! ”

Xiao Ming immediately realized the importance of the prototype of this train! If a section of railway is laid from Xuzhou to Weihai, Shandong, wouldn't it be possible to connect the two bases together? And once the train can pass, the economic benefits are very huge, whether it is freight or passenger transportation, this section of the railway is a cornucopia!

In addition, Xiao Ming also thought of the way of technology transfer, in order to make the rapid development of the industry of the entire Song Dynasty, it is definitely not possible to monopolize the technology by yourself, the necessary technology transfer is imperative, and technology transfer can also bring huge economic benefits to yourself, from the perspective of the development of later generations, as long as the core technology is mastered, then the personnel-intensive industries with higher Chen Ben can be completely transferred to technology.

At that time, the Great Song Dynasty, only from the spinning and weaving this aspect is facing strong competition, the silk brocade weaving technology and product quality of Shu are not worse than the day of Changlong, in addition to Jingxiang and other places The textile industry is also very developed, to deal with such opponents in addition to reducing costs and seizing the market in a large area, it is necessary to have a leading core technology.

Large-scale industrial manufacturing, in order to promote the progress of socialized production faster, so that the Great Song Dynasty entered the industrial society hundreds of years in advance, throughout the country, now in addition to the war in the north, the most economically developed area of the entire Great Song Dynasty is nothing more than the Central Plains Jingdong Road, Kaifeng Mansion, Liangzhejiang Road, Jingxiang Road, Chengdu Road, and Guangnan East Road, these areas are also the areas that need to be diffusion of technology.

On the one hand, Xiao Ming organized manpower to complete the transformation of the steam engine head as soon as possible, which Gu Shouzhen and Ding Jianpeng could complete, and on the other hand, he notified Xuzhou to start producing rails and road construction stages, so that a large amount of iron ore could be quickly consumed, so that Tianping Iron Works began to buy a large number of iron blanks from other iron factories and workshops.

On the other hand, he began to discuss with the senior management of Richanglong to prepare a part of the technology transfer part, for some high-cost industries to do a good job of technology transfer planning, but some key technologies must be retained, such as an anchor chain factory under Gu's refinery, which can manufacture special marine anchor chains and civil iron chains, and set up special buckles that can be resold to others.

For example, Xiao Ming's glass factory, cement firing factory, brick kiln and ceramic firing factory, in addition to several wineries under Richanglong, tea houses and paper mills, these industries can be divided into shares, just occupy a controlling stake, and other industries under construction, such as match factories, yellow phosphorus and lime factories, can be sold or directly find someone to participate in the shares.

Xiao Ming did a few major things during the funeral, but a lot of meticulous work still needs to wait for the funeral of Su Mansion to be completed, two major events happened during this period, one is on the day of Su Bi's funeral, almost caused thousands of empty alleys in Hangzhou, white flags to cover the sky, full of paper money, thousands of funeral processions, so that this funeral is unprecedented!

Another major event is that Cai Jun, the current prefect of Hangzhou, was assassinated when he was in and out of the palace and died! That's a big deal! Not only that, Xiao Ming heard that the name of the murderer who assassinated the state capital this time was actually called: "Wu Song!" ”

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