Early in the morning of New Year's Day, Li Weijian woke up from a hangover, Fu Qiufang urged, hurriedly changed into red clothes, burned paper in front of the heaven and earth stove, kowtowed in the family temple, used up snacks, and then prepared horses and led people to go to various places to celebrate the festival.

Wu Haiping was new inside and outside the morning, standing in front of the door, waiting to receive the worship post and the door. Li Weijian, the old man of this way, has only become an official, and there are not many officials who come and go in Suri, so it stands to reason that there will not be many people who come to the door today. Unexpectedly, since the time of the hour, there has been an endless stream of people who come to deliver posts.

The Jin merchants and Hui merchants who came and went to Beijing were just fine, and even several famous salt merchants in Huaiyang sent their children to send their children to send worship posts; After the four kings and eight kilometers, he bought shares from Li Weijian's hands before, and consciously took advantage of them, and this son also sent someone to send a post; Later, those who had dealings with Li Weijian in the inner house, regardless of whether they were Lang Zhong or the principal, came to the door in person to deliver the stickers.

Wu Haiping ushered in the send-off, and his face was smiling all the way down the day, although he refused again and again, but this bag was soft in the end. Especially the Jin merchants and Hui merchants, the shot is ten taels or twenty taels, and it is calculated that there are three hundred taels in one day!

Wu Haiping couldn't help but scold: "No wonder the prime minister is a seven-grade official in front of the door, the thief's mother is too thick!" ”

How to deal with this silver, Wu Haiping made a difficulty. turned his head to look for Qian Xue, and the two of them discussed, and simply told Fu Qiufang the original story. Aunt Fu felt that she couldn't put an end to such bad habits, so she simply made the decision, and in the future, this package was put together in one place, and it was reserved for the distribution of the Li family according to the rank at the end of the month, which was also regarded as the welfare of the Li family.

Rongguo Mansion really went around, and I don't know who revealed the ginseng fruit, and there has been an endless stream of people asking for the door since New Year's Day.

King Zhongyong came to visit in person, and scolded Li Weijian bitterly, saying that he had no king, and picked up more than a dozen ginseng fruits before leaving. Fortunately, they were all picked up by the loyal and brave king, otherwise it would be difficult to send away the endless stream of people after that.

In the second year of junior high school, he visited his teacher Yan Xiyao, and Yan Xiyao looked at Li Weijian with extremely strange eyes.

Li Weijian was looked at uncomfortable, and said: "If the teacher has something to say, why bother looking at the disciple like this?" ”

Yan Xiyao couldn't help but sigh: "It's a loss to be resurrected and do everything, otherwise, with the ability to resurrect, create a few auspicious things, it will be easy to make a steady progress, and you will be a courtier in the future." ”

Li Weijian has relatives in his heart, and he is so fortunate that he has been living in such a year, and his miscellaneous skills are useful. If Tuosheng was a thousand years earlier, Li Weijian would really be a courtier.

Since the beginning of New Year's Day, Li Weijian visited and ate New Year's wine everywhere on the first seven and eighth days, and then the teacher's house, the Zhongjing Marquis Mansion, and the Zhongyong Palace's mansion were all over the place.

This New Year's wine is not good for bumping into people, otherwise it will be criticized in private, saying that it is 'sending false feelings for fear of trouble'.

Although Li Weijian is an upstart, he has a weak foundation, and he is about to take the opportunity to maintain a relationship with others, because he is extremely concerned about it. After the eighth day of the first lunar month, when there was time left everywhere, Li Weijian returned to everyone in batches at his house.

Li Kun couldn't rest assured, so he simply begged Jia's mother and led Jia Lan to live in Li Weijian's house for three days. Seeing that Fu Qiufang and Hongyu were discussing the proper arrangement, the mansion was busy but not chaotic, and it was in an orderly manner, Li Kun relieved himself.

Everyone in Rongguo Mansion, especially Wang Xifeng, naturally came, and it was set on the ninth day of the first month. Don't mention eating and drinking and watching dramas, although the second sister is here to welcome the spring, there are so many people, so she can't have a private meeting with Li Weijian. Only through the distant eyebrows.

said that Wang Xifeng went to the greenhouse again this time to observe carefully, asked for the details, and begged Li Weijian to transfer the employment deed of one of the vegetable farmers to the two of them.

Li Weijian fiddled with the greenhouse because he didn't want to eat winter vegetables in winter, because he didn't care about it, Wang Xifeng asked for something, and he naturally didn't say anything. Especially when I heard that this livelihood was not funded by Rongguo Mansion, but Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian played in private, Li Weijian was secretly happy in his heart, and he lost a lot of money.

Seeing that Li Weijian was so happy, Wang Xifeng was worried, and inquired carefully for a long time, confirming that Li Weijian really had no reservations, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to praise Li Weijian repeatedly.

During the banquet, Wang Xifeng deliberately wooed Fu Qiufang, drank two glasses of wine, took off the gold bracelet on his arm, and forcibly pulled Fu Qiufang to put it on. After that, he removed the screen and came over to drink with Li Weijian first.

Wang Xifeng felt that it was a great benefit, and when he returned home, he sat in front of the mirror and said a few words to Ping'er, and said: "Brother Frugal is really atmospheric!" This greenhouse makes a living, the fault is not the thrifty brothers, we just can't think of it if we want to break the sky, and when it comes to the flowering period, we have to take the male flowers of Rausch to order female flowers...... This flower is also divided into male and female! ”

Ping'er waited and said: "The thrifty fourth master is worth millions just by relying on water stocks, and people don't look down on these two jujubes." ”

Wang Xifeng was sitting in front of the mirror, letting Ping'er tear down his head, and frowned when he heard the words: "How can it be two jujubes?" I have carefully calculated that the greenhouse of the Liufen field is produced in one winter, even if it does not count the ginseng fruit, there is still one or two thousand silver. If you plant all the ginseng fruits, you can't even think about it. ”

Ping'er said with a funny smile: "Now that grandma has this recipe, I'm afraid that I can earn a thousand taels or ten thousand taels at that time!" After a pause, he said: "It's just that the greenhouse is afraid that it will cost a lot of money, and grandma has so much?" ”

Wang Xifeng glanced at Ping'er in his glasses and said, "It costs one or twenty thousand silver at a time, and it's almost the same to sell all my dowry." I pondered, my dowry was sold, and then I went to my brother to borrow some, but I thought that I would not be able to build a six-cent house, so I could finally make a four-cent greenhouse out. ”

Ping'er bowed her head, unloaded all the golden hairpins that dotted the emerald, and said thoughtfully: "Didn't grandma talk to my wife some time ago, what did my wife say?" ”

Wang Xifeng frowned and said: "Mrs. only said that no one has taken care of this greenhouse yet, and I am afraid that I will not be able to do it." There was neither an acknowledgement nor a refutation. In that case, let's do it first. ”

Ping'er bit her lip and said, "This ...... What if the wife sees the benefits in the coming day and asks for the greenhouse again? ”

"This ......" Wang Xifeng hesitated on his face, and said for a long time: "This money is ours, and we take care of the greenhouse, so my wife won't come to pick peaches when she comes, right?" ”

Ping'er lowered her eyebrows and was speechless, and Wang Xifeng was worried. Her aunt...... You can't be so shameless, right?

When Ping'er brought hot water and waited for Wang Xifeng to wash, Wang Xifeng lay on the kang and made cakes, and he never slept peacefully after tossing and turning all night.

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Although Dashun inherited the previous Ming Dynasty, this annual leave is not three days, but seven days. In fact, the yamen everywhere opened on the eighth day of the first month, but the top and bottom were immersed in the New Year's Festival, and they were extremely slack, and Chen Hongmou had no way to do it, and he would only get better after the fifteenth day of the first month.

After the tenth day of the first month, Li Weijian finally invited all the times, and he never rested for two days, so he got busy.

Now it is the first month, and this year we have to go south, and we have to return in June, with the king of Zhongyong rushing to Qinghai, the calculation time is really tight.

Li Weijian smashed the reward money a year ago, because it was the seventh day of the first lunar month, more than 300 craftsmen returned, and the factory was busy again.

It is also because Li Weijian is willing to spend money, all kinds of equipment progress is very fast, the mold is ready in the morning, the boring machine only leaves the cutter head sent by the inner house, and the rest of all kinds of lathes are reserved for the interface, just waiting for the output of the steam engine, it can run at full capacity.

Li Weijian took advantage of this to hurriedly test the east wind, tested various calibers in turn, and inquired about the officers and lieutenants in the army, and roughly settled on two models.

One is a caliber of 6 centimeters, and the 37° shooting can reach 800 steps; The other is ten and a half centimeters in caliber, and can shoot up to 1,200 paces away.

Not only that, Li Weijian also got a backpack, and ordinary soldiers could carry four six-centimeter east winds, or two ten-and-a-half centimeter east winds. As for the accuracy of this thing...... Don't say that Li Weijian made it, even Katyusha has no accuracy, and it is all covered by firepower.

King Zhongyong observed several Dongfeng tests and knew that this thing could only be used intensively. When the time comes, the two armies will face each other, aiming at the opponent's Chinese army and smashing it overwhelmingly, and the horse team will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, which is simply invincible.

Because it was the king of Zhongyong himself, he ordered the inner government to make 10,000 roots before June.

There is nothing difficult about the rocket designed by Li Weijian, and the only thing that bothers the Armament Institute is the transfer of saltpeter from everywhere. As for the frosted sugar, there is no difference in money left and right, just four taels of silver for a load, and it is enough to smash the silver.

On the fourteenth day of the first month, Li Weijian went to the military academy to beg his grandfather and grandmother, and finally begged Director Chen to send the head of the boring machine over.

The casing of the cylinder has long been cast, what else is there to say? Li Weijian personally watched the craftsman drive four oxen to pull the winch, and then the boring machine boring the cylinder little by little.

Li Weijian estimated that the speed was only twenty or thirty per minute, which was really outrageously slow. I asked the craftsman again, and said that it would take at least three days to bore a cylinder.

Li Weijian had no choice but to turn to stare at the work next to him. However, the alkaline reflex stirring furnace went smoothly, and after asking the craftsman, I realized that I dared to feel that such steelmaking methods had already been passed down from Xiyi.

Not to mention, the little Franc machine used in Macau is a reverberation stirring furnace, this steelmaking method has been circulated, and now Foshan is surrounded by such stirring reverberation furnaces. However, the refractory material is acidic and alkaline, and people have not studied it. It took a lot of time to find alkaline materials.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the stirring furnace was finally ready. Li Weijian immediately ordered the craftsman to open the furnace, the coke was ignited, and the cast iron was thrown into it.

This furnace can reach 1,400 degrees, and the cast iron in it belongs to the semi-melted and semi-solidified state, and the craftsman must put an iron skewer into the furnace mouth to stir back and forth, so it is called a stirring furnace.

Li Weijian's stirring furnace has reserved room for upgrading, and when there is a steam engine in the future, the flue is heated, and then the air is blown from the bottom, and it will be changed to a converter immediately. At that point, efficiency is not as wasted as it is now.

At the end of the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the first furnace of molten steel came out of the furnace and was cast into steel ingots, Li Weijian carefully tested the performance, and the carbon content of this batch just now was about 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent of the total, but it was enough. However, the next day, the next furnace of steel ingots became high-carbon steel, which made Li Weijian cry and laugh.

There is no way, the quality of the cast iron produced by the upstream Zunhua Iron Works is different, and Li Weijian's steelmaking income is naturally uneven.

Li Weijian pinched his nose and admitted it, so he only had to go to Zunhua Iron Factory for a free time, and he had to dismantle all those short and fat blast furnaces and replace them with new blast furnaces.

It was also on this day that the cylinder was bored, and Li Weijian took the craftsman to assemble it by hand.

For the first time, Li Weijian directly used a semi-single-stream steam engine, which was simple to build and easy to maintain.

After two days, the steam engine was assembled. On this day, Li Weijian sent invitations all over the place, inviting all the shareholders of the factory, not to mention, but also inviting Liang Langzhong from the inner government to come and watch. If it is not the king of loyalty, Li Weijian wants to invite the king of loyalty and bravery.

That Liang Langzhong had seen the steam engine made by Li Weijian, and after carefully observing it, he couldn't help but say: "Lord Li, your machine looks a little bigger than the last time?" ”

"Not only that, but the material has also been replaced with cast iron."

As soon as Li Weijian waved his hand, the craftsman twisted the valve. With the milk sealed, Li Weijian realized that this time he was not limited to four atmospheres. But to be on the safe side, it's still a little bit of pressurization.

After a while, a craftsman stared at the mercury pillar and said, "Sir, the four are pressed!" ”

Li Weijian waved his hand, and suddenly someone twisted another valve. The idling crankshaft is connected to the belt, and the belt is suddenly driven by the flywheel, and the machine tool at the other end starts immediately.

Li Weijian stared at the mercury manometer and said, "Pressurize!" ”

Unaware of the danger, the craftsman continued to twist the valve. The mercury in the manometer slowly rose, and seeing seven atmospheres of pressure, Li Weijian was afraid that something would happen, so he hurriedly ordered the craftsman to stop.

Looking at the lathe again, the cutter head is spun rapidly by the flywheel and belt. The craftsman tried to cut the iron rod, and in a matter of moments the threads were cut.

Liang Langzhong exclaimed: "Amazing! ”

Li Weijian let out a long breath, and personally stared at various tests, and later did the limit test. This small steam engine can provide seven horsepower at seven atmospheres, and at its limit, it can operate briefly at ten atmospheres in one moment.

The small size and energy are not small, and this thing was developed for the Jiangnan gentry, and when I look back and redesign, it is a pot camel machine.

Liang Langzhong leaned over and looked around the steam engine in amazement, and said, "This machine looks like the one that the lord made again...... Seems to have more strength? ”

"Exactly."

Liang Langzhong said: "Water Affairs and Xishan must have this thing to lift water, if the cost is right, the inner government will order fifty units first." ”

Li Weijian smiled and said: "It's easy to say, but Lang Zhong has to wait a lot." It will take two months, and when everything is on the right track in the factory, it will be delivered one by one. ”

Not to mention that he was about to go south, he always had to bring a few steam engines to Jiangnan to promote, and it would be better to hang steam engines on all kinds of machinery in the factory.

After a little calculation, two more can be built by the end of the month. Next month will be a trial production, and it would be good to be able to build ten units. When the craftsmen are familiar with the various machine tools driven by the steam engine, after three or two months, the output will gradually rise.

Cao Yunsheng smiled from ear to ear, and pulled Li Weijian to celebrate. At present, the guests and friends of the big banquet did not mention it, and since the preparation, more than five months have passed, and the factory has finally built the first steam engine.

Ming'er starts with 8,000 words. If you are lazy today, please forgive me.

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