The eighth prince took She Lao Taijun, Dalang's daughter-in-law Hua Jieyu, and Zhou Yunjing. The maid Yang Paifeng, because Yang Paifeng has the best relationship with the eighth sister, and the eighth sister who Yang Paifeng thinks about at home can't think about it, so she has no choice but to bring Yang Paifeng over. Wang Qinruo and Kou Zhun and their entourage rushed to Cangzhou, and the current She Lao Taijun was also in his heart, and he didn't know if Liu Zhiliang had said a big thing, and he didn't know the bottom of his heart.

Kou Zhun was also at this time, and now in the face of the threat of Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State, as well as the attitude of Old Taijun She, Kou Zhun was hesitant for the Great Song Dynasty.

In his ancestors, Kou Lin lived in Changping Township, Taigu, Taiyuan, and then moved to Fengxu, and finally moved to Xiabang, Huazhou. Kou Lin was born in a famous family, and his distant ancestor Su Chasheng served as Si Kou when King Wu of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was given an official position as his surname because of his repeated achievements. Father Kou Xiang in the Later Jin Dynasty Kaiyun years in the Jinshi Jiake, and later should be appointed to the Wei Wangji Office to join the army, because of repeated meritorious service, was awarded the title of Guogong, posthumously presented to the Taishi Shangshu Ling. Gifted and studious, he had already written a number of excellent poems by the age of fourteen. At the age of fifteen, he was able to study "Spring and Autumn".

In the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo (980), the 19-year-old Kou Lin was admitted to the Jinshi. Song Taizong chose Jinshi, and often went to the platform in front of the palace to visit and ask questions, and young people were often not hired. Someone taught Kou Lian to increase his age, and Kou Lian said: "I was just about to embark on a career in office, how can I deceive Your Majesty?" Later, he was examined, was awarded the official Dali Appraisal Officer, and was sent to Renzhi County, Badong, Guizhou, and was reappointed as Anzhi County at the end of his term. Later, he was successively promoted to the rank of Salt and Iron Judge, Shangshu Yu Department Langzhong, and Privy Counselor.

In the second year of Duangong (989), Kou Lin once played in the palace and boldly admonished. Because of his loyalty, Song Taizong couldn't listen to it, and left the dragon throne angrily and wanted to return to the inner palace. Kou Ling grabbed the corner of Song Taizong's clothes and persuaded him to sit down again and listen to him finish speaking. Afterwards, Song Taizong praised Kou Zheng very much, and said happily: "I got Kou Lian, just like Tang Taizong got Wei Zheng." ”

Among the ministers of the Song Taizong Dynasty, Kou Lin was famous for his uprightness and wisdom. In the early years of Chunhua, the Northern Song Dynasty court dealt with two bribery cases. Wang Huai, who had tens of millions of stolen money, was only removed from his post and held responsible, and soon resumed his original position; And Zuji, who was less serious, was sentenced to death. Kou Lian knew that this was Wang Huai's elder brother, the governor of the political affairs Wang Wei, and he was angry in his heart.

In the spring of the second year of Chunhua (991), there was a great drought, and Song Taizong summoned his close ministers to inquire about the gains and losses of the current government. Most of the ministers thought that it was due to the number of days, but Kou Lian said: "In "Hong Fan", it is said that the relationship between heaven and man is like a shadow and an echo, and the great drought is because the punishment is unfair. Song Taizong was very angry and got up and returned to the palace. After a while, he summoned Kou Lin to inquire about the unfairness of the punishment, and Kou Lin said, "I want to summon the officials of the second government, and I will say." The emperor ordered to summon the officials of the second government, and Kou Lin said: "Not long ago, Zu Ji and Wang Huai both violated the law to accept bribes, Zu Ji took less bribes but was killed. Song Taizong asked Wang Wei about this, and Wang Wei kowtowed to apologize, so Song Taizong severely criticized Wang Wei and knew that Kou Yan was available. Immediately appointed Kou Ling as the Zuo Counselor and the Privy Council's Deputy Envoy, reappointed as the Governor of the Tongyuan, and began to directly participate in the military affairs of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Kou Lin had a serious difference of opinion with the prefect Zhang Xun in the Privy Council, and one day, Kou Lin went out with Wen Zhongshu, and on the road he met a madman who greeted his horse and shouted Long live. Sentenced to Zuo Jinwu Wang Bin and Zhang Xun have always been friends, so Zhang Xun asked him to tell Song Taizong about the matter. Kou Lin quoted Wen Zhongshu as a testimony, and Zhang Xun asked Wang Bin to play alone, with harsh rhetoric and blaming each other for their shortcomings. Song Taizong was very angry and belittled Zhang Xun, and Kou Lin was also removed from office as the prefect of Qingzhou.

But at this time, Song Taizong was inseparable from Kou Ling, and after Kou Lin went to Qingzhou, Song Taizong was sullen and often asked about Kou Lin's situation in Qingzhou. The following year, Kou Lin was recalled to Beijing and worshiped as the governor. In the first year of the Dao (995), it was added to the middle of the matter.

At that time, Song Taizong had been in power for a long time and had never established a crown prince. This matter has always been a headache for Song Taizong. Because after the death of Song Taizu, his son Dezhao failed to succeed to the throne, Song Taizong practiced Zuo as the emperor's younger brother, and the death of Song Taizu still has the mystery of "candle shadow axe", that is to say, Song Taizong is suspected of killing his brother and seizing the throne. Therefore, when Song Taizong inherited the throne, he was faced with two choices: to establish his own son, or to establish Taizu's son. At that time, the general ministers were secretive about the establishment of the prince. The minister Feng Zheng once asked for the establishment of the crown prince, but was demoted to Lingnan by Taizong. Since then, few people in the government and the opposition have dared to discuss this matter again.

Kou Lin had just returned from Qingzhou and entered the Song Taizong. Song Taizong was suffering from foot disease at the time, and after letting Kou Lian see the injury, he asked affectionately: "Why are you only returning to Beijing now?" Song Taizong felt a little reluctant. Then Song Taizong asked Kou Lian who should be appointed as the crown prince. Kou Lin had already guessed Song Taizong's purpose for summoning him this time, and he had already made up his mind, but he did not directly answer Song Taizong's question.

The statue of Kou Lin said: "To choose a monarch for the world, you can't consult with concubines, middle officials (eunuchs), and you can't plan with close ministers; The one who is expected by all should be chosen to be the crown prince. Song Taizong lowered his head and thought for a long time, retreated the people left and right, and asked softly, "How is King Xiang?" Kou Lin was secretly happy in his heart, so he pushed the boat and said: "Knowing the son is more than the father." Since Your Majesty thinks that King Xiang can, please decide. The next day, Song Taizong announced that Zhao Heng, the king of Xiang, was Kaifeng Yin, changed the title of King Shou, and later became the crown prince.

Song Taizong and the crown prince came back from visiting the ancestral temple, and the people in the capital crowded on both sides of the road and were beaming, vying to see the crown prince. At this time, someone in the crowd shouted "Young Son of Heaven". Song Taizong was very unhappy when he heard this, and asked Kou Ling: "Where will the prince put me when the hearts of the people are turned to him?" Kou Lin congratulated again and again and said: "Your Majesty's choice of the crown prince has won the hearts of the people, which is a blessing for the country. Song Taizong suddenly realized, rewarded Kou Ling for drinking, and got drunk. Since then, Song Taizong has relied more on Kou Ling. Someone gave Song Taizong a treasure: a rhino through the sky, Song Taizong made people process it into two rhino belts, one for his own use, and the other for Kou Ling.

In the third year of the Dao Dynasty (997), Song Taizong died, and the crown prince Zhao Heng succeeded to the throne, that is, Song Zhenzong, and Kou Lin served as the squire of the Shangshu Ministry of Labor.

The eighth prince and his entourage came to Cangzhou, Cangzhou magistrate came out to greet the eighth prince and his party, Cangzhou because of the influence of Tianjing New City, this year is driven by Tianjing New City, Cangzhou has also undergone earth-shaking changes, Cangzhou City has also expanded nearly doubled, and the population is also twice as large as before. Merchants are also preparing for Tianjing New City after all, it is not a city of the Great Song Dynasty, and everyone is still a little worried in their hearts, so it will drive the development of Cangzhou's economy, the most important thing is that Yang Peng actually built the road all the way to the east gate of Cangzhou. This has brought great convenience to the travel from Cangzhou to Tianjing New Town.

Those businessmen have money, in Tianjing New Town to buy cement, bricks, steel, according to the plan of Tianjing New City also began to build villas in Cangzhou, now Cangzhou's Chengdong New Town is all those businessmen's villa area, Cangzhou County also Cangzhou streets all built cement roads, which is also Yang Peng free of charge to Cangzhou County, road repair took some labor. The current Cangzhou is also a unique new city in the Great Song Dynasty, and the magistrate of Cangzhou is also a good official, and the relationship with Yang Peng is still good.

Zhuang Ming, the magistrate of Cangzhou, brought the eighth prince and his entourage to Cangzhou County, and the eighth prince said, "I came to Cangzhou a few years ago, but I didn't expect you to develop Cangzhou so well in recent years, and you have worked hard in the past few years." Zhuang Ming said, "This is not my credit, the most important thing is that the goods of Tianjing New City are too attractive, and that Tianjing New City is not the city of the Great Song Dynasty, and those who go to Tianjing New Town to do business are settled in our Cangzhou, and that Tianjing New City also sponsors us hundreds of thousands of catties of cement, so we have the capital to repair roads and expand Cangzhou City." ”

Kou Zhun said, "Your street is a road made of cement, can't we make this kind of cement?" Zhuang Ming said, "We don't have anyone here to do it, because we don't understand either, the people of Tianjing New City look at the secret recipe very closely, the last time they killed eleven people was the person who wanted to steal the secret recipe, because the salary of Tianjing New City is very high, few people do it, and if they find it, they will kill, and all their families will be driven out of Tianjing New Town, and there is no official government anywhere, Yang Peng is the city lord of Tianjing New Town." Don't say that Yang Peng is really good to the people, now the people who help Yang Peng farm don't have to pay a penny of rent, no matter how much land you plant, how much grain you collect, all of it is yours, but if there is more grain, you must sell it to Yang Peng, and private trading is not allowed to buy and sell grain. It's a hard-faith condition in Tianjing New Town, and there is no reason to talk about it. Now tens of thousands of people are helping Yang Peng farm, and the Khitans don't dare to fight the idea of Tianjing New City. Yang Peng's army is too strong, the last time the Khitans fought in the grass valley and just left Yingzhou, a team of 100 people on a mile road killed Yang Peng and all of them, and Yang Peng's army was slightly injured. Not a single one died. ”

The Eighth Prince said, "They are so powerful, so how many people are there in Tianjing New City now?" Zhuang Ming said, "Even the people who farmed for Yang Peng should have a population of nearly 200,000 now, there are about 80,000 people in Tianjing New Town, and the rest are mainly in various villages and ten towns." The Eighth Prince said, "There are so many people, and they are so protected by an army of more than two thousand." Zhuang Ming said, "That was the old days, now their army is more than 10,000, and the soldiers are paid three taels of silver a month, and now Cangzhou, Yingzhou, and Mozhou." There are no beggars in Youzhou, let alone refugees, all of them go to Yang Peng, where they are now growing two seasons of grain a year, and they don't have to worry about food at all. Our people here also learn two seasons of grain from Tianjing New Town, and they also sent people to ask our people here to grow food. ”

She Lao Taijun's heart was put down, Lin Qing'er really didn't simply bring a good apprentice, won glory for our Yang family, and the Yang family's great revenge also had hope of revenge, Yang Paifeng's heart had already flown to Tianjing New City.

The eighth prince said to Wang Qinruo, "Wang Aiqing, you immediately write a letter and send it to the official family, and ask Empress Dowager Xiao to hunt in Yingzhou, but 5,000 people are not enough, it is best to send 10,000 people over, you can just write like this." "The eighth prince also has confidence in his heart, when he saw Cangzhou, the eighth prince had confidence in his heart, and now listening to the words of Cangzhou County Ling Zhuang Ming, his heart is even more confident.

The eighth prince said to the old lady, "Old lady, when you arrive at Tianjing New Town, please ask you to intercede in front of Lin Qing'er, because everyone is Han, and I promise to give you an explanation for the matter of Qilang, so you can rest assured." ”

She Lao Taijun said, "Eighth prince, you can rest assured, Qing'er is also a reasonable person, and that Yang Peng is also Qing'er's apprentice, he will definitely take the master's words seriously, just from the fact that they have been fighting the Khitans again, but you must not be aggressive when you arrive in Tianjing New City." ”

Yang Peng returned to Tianjing New Town, Yang Peng checked the various industries again, and after confirming that there were no problems, he began to devote himself to the development of rolling bearings. Bearing is an indispensable thing for industrial production, which can greatly reduce the rotational friction at the mechanical connection, improve the operation efficiency of the machine, and enhance the stability of the mechanical operation. If there were no bearings, modern machinery would not be able to do it at all. This is just Yang Peng's current bearing practice is too simple, and it is not on the scale.

As a city lord and product designer, Yang Peng's bearing production is also a basic skill. Yang Peng has understood the principle of bearings at the beginning, and has also consulted some simple methods for making bearings, and now he is just taking them out to use. Yang Peng selected ten blacksmiths who could process steel tools from among the blacksmiths who were apprentices to gunsmiths, and selected the ten most honest people, and called them to stand in a specially built workshop. The workshop was divided into ten rooms, each with a stove for striking iron and burning steel.

Yang Peng first educated them on the confidentiality regulations: "I asked you to make a new thing, and after this thing is made, your monthly money will be increased to three taels per month, and three meals will be the same." Hearing Yang Peng's words, the craftsmen were very excited. The lord of the castle is going to make something new again? I've found myself this time, and I'm going to get rich!

Yang Peng excited the craftsmen for a while, and then said slowly: "But to give you a high salary, what I want you to keep a secret is to keep it a secret." If I find out who leaked the secret of producing this thing, it's a capital offense! Glancing coldly at the ten blacksmiths, Yang Peng said: "The thirteen traitors in the glass workshop are the precedent. You don't want to repeat the same mistakes, do you? ”

The ten craftsmen hadn't been happy for a moment before they became nervous at the words of the lord of the castle. Wu Tietou, who was selected as the head craftsman, hurriedly replied: "The city lord still can't trust me Wu Tietou?" It's the knife holder on my neck, and I don't leak a little secret out! The other craftsmen replied, "My lord, we are all honest blacksmiths and will not divulge secrets!" "My lord, we all do things honestly and will not leak secrets."

Yang Peng nodded, and said: "This new workshop implements a joint sitting system, one person leaks secrets, and ten people will be punished together!" The leaker is killed, and the others will also have their wages deducted for one year. So if you see someone else stealing secrets, go up and stop it, report it! Wu Tietou patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, my lord, whoever steals the secret will be the first to have trouble with him!" ”

Yang Peng looked at the blacksmiths, and saw that the blacksmiths were all serious and shocked, so he said: "What I want to do is called a bearing!" I'm going to make eight steel balls out of the finest steel, and I'm going to polish and round them. Then two steel rings will be cast, one large and one small, and the steel rings will leave a track of two steel balls, one inside and one outside. The eight steel balls are then allowed to rotate on the orbit of the steel ring. Finally, make two iron cages and fix these steel balls inside the steel rings so that they do not collide head-to-head. You also know that we have the best steel mill here, and Da Song does not have the ability to make such good steel. ”

Hearing Yang Peng's words, the ten blacksmiths were a little confused. They had never seen a rolling bearing, and they didn't know what Yang Peng was talking about after listening to Yang Peng's words. Yang Peng began to teach them one by one. Yang Peng divided the production of bearings into five processes. The first process is to make two steel rings, one large and one small. The second process is to cut the steel rods in small sections as raw materials for making balls. The third step is to heat the ball raw material, and then beat a small section of steel rod into a ball by placing the high-temperature and soft ball raw material on a steel mold. The fourth step is to polish the balls with a good porcelain clay grinding wheel and a stainless steel grinding disc to eliminate burrs and polish the steel balls. The last process is to make two cages out of iron sheets, clamp the balls on both sides, and fix the steel balls to the predetermined position of the track.

Yang Peng divided the ten craftsmen into five groups and operated different processes. Yang Peng asked the craftsmen to only pay attention to their own processes, and not to understand and inquire into other people's operations. Then Yang Peng took out the drawings he drew and showed them to the five groups of craftsmen in each process. After reading the drawings, the ten craftsmen had a slight idea of what they should do.

Yang Peng guided the craftsmen from beginning to end to guide them to build bearings. The first is to cast the steel ring, which is very simple, and the molten steel is formed by casting the molten steel with a mold made of sand. However, in order to reduce the porosity honeycomb on the steel, Yang Peng asked the blacksmiths to use the cast steel rings to make iron molds, and then use the iron molds to cast the steel rings.

Then a round steel rod is burned red and soft, and a small section of steel is cut out on a simple cut-off device as the raw material for the ball. Put the raw materials of the balls one by one into a furnace and heat them until they are hot, take out the raw materials one by one, put them on a steel block with a semi-circular hole, use a steel stick with a semi-circular hole on the ball raw material, hammer the steel rod with a hammer, and squeeze the raw materials into a spherical shape.

Once the rough balls are obtained, the balls are screened with multiple ball sieves to remove balls that are too large or too small. The balls are then deburred and polished with a grinding wheel and grinding disc. After obtaining the smooth ball, the ball is tempered and heated, and finally poured into the hot oil to quench to improve the hardness of the ball. After the balls are done, the balls are arranged in a row into the outer ring of the bearing, and after the inner ring of the bearing is installed, the balls are slid to different positions, and the balls and the inner and outer rings are connected into one and will not fall off.

Finally, the cage is made of iron sheet, fixed with steel nails, and the balls are wrapped from both sides, so that the eight balls are evenly distributed in the steel ring and will not collide and rub. Yang Peng instructed different blacksmiths one process at a time, made tools to operate and produce, and finally spent fifteen days to make the first rolling bearing of this era. Yang Peng added some oil to the bearing, put the bearing on his hand and turned it hard, and the bearing turned four or five times before stopping.

The blacksmiths were amazed to see the final effect of the bearings. The craftsman Wu Tietou said: "Lord City Lord, this circle can roll so many circles by itself, it's so smooth!" What is this for, my lord? Yang Peng didn't answer Wu Tietou's words, wondering why this bearing is not good? Can only turn four or five times? Although this is much better than no bearing, it is clear that the bearing designed by Yang Peng should not have such an effect. After thinking about it, Yang Peng felt that the inner and outer rings of the bearing were probably too rough, and the friction coefficient was too high, causing the ball to stop after a few turns.

It seems that the inner and outer ring tracks of the bearing should also be finely polished. Yang Peng added another process to the whole production - inner and outer ring track polishing - after the steel ring is cast, use a good porcelain clay grinding wheel and a steel grinding disc to polish the burr and polish the track. It took another three days, and Yang Peng led the blacksmith to make the polishing tools and polish the ball's track. After re-making the bearings and oiling them, Yang Peng grabbed it in his hand and turned it hard. The bearing did not stop this time, and it turned and turned for a long time, at least a dozen times, and then slowly stopped.

Such a bearing has been able to meet the use of Yang Peng, and Yang Peng is very satisfied. Happy in his heart, Yang Peng said loudly: "The bearing is successfully manufactured, and the ten craftsmen will each be rewarded with three taels of silver!" The craftsmen were overjoyed, and one by one they said loudly: "Your Excellency! "The lord of the castle is too arrogant!" "Thank you, sir!"

After the completion of the experimental production of the bearing, the bearing workshop began to mass produce the bearing. The bearing workshop has ten craftsmen, and these ten craftsmen work together to produce ten rolling bearings a day. By June 29, the workshop had produced more than 100 bearings. These more than 100 bearings are the treasures of Tianjing New City, and they must be used in the most critical places. Yang Peng hired a few carpenters and first equipped these bearings on the ballista, replacing the original wooden axle frame of the ballista car.

In the past, the ballista needed to be dragged by a horse to transfer, and when defending the city, the space on the city wall was narrow, and the horse was not easy to operate, so it was inconvenient to transfer the crossbow on the city wall. With the bearings, the friction on the shaft of the crossbow is greatly reduced, and the ballista is much easier to move, and six crossbowmen can pull a strong crossbow of 175 kg for short distances. Therefore, the crossbow can be quickly transferred on the city wall and supported to the enemy's main attack at any time, which is a great advantage for the city defense.

If the crossbows could not be moved, the three hundred crossbows were evenly distributed among the four walls, and less than a hundred could be arranged in each direction. Nowadays, the ballista can maneuver quickly, and can concentrate most of the powerful crossbow arrows in the direction of the enemy's main attack to design the enemy. However, Yang Peng is still not at ease with the city defense, the current Khitan people are very ambitious, and Yang Peng can only rest assured if he arranges Tianjing New City more tightly. In March, he hired 1,000 people from the vicinity to dig numerous large and small holes one or two hundred meters outside the city walls. These pits are two or three meters deep, the small ones are ten meters long and wide, and the large ones are tens of meters wide, and there are several layers from the outside to the inside, and they are dotted out of the city walls. By June, the potholes were all completed.

If the enemy's infantry attacked, the potholes forced them to take a detour. Within the range of the flintlock rifle, the enemy had to bear a little more pressure of death for every additional meter of winding. If the enemy creates a chariot to attack the city, these potholes can directly stop the chariot. Only by filling these ravines will the chariot be able to move on. For the infantrymen who left the chariot to fill the ravine, the flintlock rifles on the walls would become their nightmare.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.