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Chapter 423 Silver Circle
In the central hall of Chicheng General’s Office, Tang Ruowang’s smile grew wider when he heard Zhang Cheng’s question about this matter, and he said: “These three children are very smart and eager to learn, especially Ma Rucheng, who has a very high level of language skills. talent, and is also very interested in astronomy and calendar."

Tang Ruowang said that Ma Ruben was born in a small merchant’s family in Dushikou. When he was young, he studied in a private school for several years. He was very smart and eager to learn. As a result, he contracted an illness and left, causing his family to fall into poverty, and he has been living with relatives.

After Zhang Cheng came to Beilu and set up a craftsman camp in Yunzhou, this Ma Rucheng came here and served as an apprentice in the Fire Gun Bureau. He has a quick mind and can teach everything, and he is even more dexterous. In addition, he can read and write. He became the right-hand man of Wang Gancheng, the head of the Fire Gun Bureau.

After Tang Ruowang came to North Road in April this year, Zhang Cheng ordered Shi Tiegen to choose some smart and literate people from the carpenter camp to serve Tang Ruowang. Advanced geometry, mathematics, astronomy, machinery and other knowledge.

Ma Rucheng, Zhao Zhien, Cheng Zhihui, etc. are the three who performed the best among them. Zhao Zhien likes geometry and mathematics the most, and draws and calculates with a pen and paper every day, while Cheng Zhihui loves machinery, and his hands-on ability is among the few. the strongest.

Zhang Cheng is extremely satisfied with this. He knows that in every era, there are people who can change the world. It's just whether they can get the soil to nourish them so that they can really grow up.

Most of the intelligent people are wiped out by this evil world before they become talents, but as long as a few people can grow up, it will definitely have a great impact on this world.

And 90.00% of the people are ordinary people, so some geniuses are needed to command and control. Only when they are used properly can they exert amazing power.

For example, building slaves is a state government that implements the integration of the military and the people, concentrating the wealth of the country upwards, and concentrating the manpower for use together. Only in this way can we be invincible.

He believes that under his own control and construction, Future North Road and Future Xuan Town will also stand out and become a powerful force strong enough to resist all external evil forces and even destroy them.

Zhang Cheng opened his mouth and said to Tang Ruowang: "This is the best. With the three of their dolls by Mr. Tang's side, Mr. Tang won't be lonely. It's more fun out of thin air, isn't it?"

Ma Rucheng and the other three are all between 16 and 19 years old. Ma Rucheng is 17 years old, Zhao Zhien is 16 years old, and Cheng Zhihui is 19 years old.

Especially Cheng Zhihui, who was born in a family of craftsmen, his ancestors have been craftsmen for generations, but different from other craftsmen's families, their ancestors are all literate, and they have a lot of family knowledge, and many skills are recorded in writing .

This Cheng Zhihui also learned to read with his grandfather since he was a child, but unlike the private school, his family did not teach Confucianism, and his reading was just to understand books, record things and techniques, and more to calculate.

Among the artisan households of the Ming Dynasty, such a family is indeed rare, and there may not be such a family among hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of artisan households.

Tang Ruowang also said with a smile: "The craftsmen on the North Road are very energetic. This is something that cannot be seen elsewhere. They are not only hardworking, but also willing to use their brains to think. It is very rewarding for me to communicate with them."

Shi Tiegen, who was lowering his head, also said at this time: "The deputy commander knows that since Mr. Tang came to our North Road, he has helped Jiangying to solve many problems..."

Shi Tiegen eloquently explained that Tang Ruowang and other Westerners pay attention to pragmatism, and they have conducted systematic research in geometry, mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy and other aspects.

Although Tang Ruowang is not all-rounder, he is most proficient in astronomy, but he also dabbles in other knowledge. Originally, he only came to Beilu at the invitation of Zhang Chengzhi.

But after he arrived, what he saw and heard gave him a novel feeling. The atmosphere here was different from other places in Daming, with a little more vitality, not like other places.

Therefore, he decided to stay and live for a while. After Wei Zhice learned about it, he sent a carriage and guards to the capital with Tang Ruowang's letter, and brought many books and instruments that Tang Ruowang ordered. The self-ringing clock on display was also brought in this time.

On the Jiangying side, Tang Ruowang not only taught the gunners how to measure the shooting distance and shooting range, but also taught them the concept of ballistics. If it were in other places, those big soldiers would definitely sneer at his theory and put it on the shelf. , discard it.

But Beilu is different. Driven by Zhang Cheng, not only the craftsmen of Beilu are striving for perfection, but even the officers and soldiers in the battalion are constantly exploring new ideas, so they are interested in all new things and Thoughts have a kind of tolerance and curiosity.

It is precisely because of these reasons that under Tang Ruowang's guidance, the mining and smelting technology at Yunzhou Jiangying has also been greatly improved. The iron materials produced are close to the level of wrought iron, which greatly shortens the hammering time. Increased production efficiency.

In addition, Tang Ruowang gave guidance on the theory of gears, bearings, and levers, and many translations were included in the books that Wei Zhice brought for him from the capital.

Yunzhou Carpenter Camp already had no shortage of literate people. Under Zhang Cheng's dispatch, many guards experienced and literate people from various forts were assigned to work in Carpenter Camp.

They became the liaison between craftsmen and books, helping craftsmen to learn the contents of various books, such as Xu Guangqi's translation and compilation of "Tian Tian Yue Shuo", "Measurement Complete Meaning", "Geometry Original" and other books. Equity", "Measurement of Similarities and Differences", "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", "Taixi Water Law" and so on.

And now they have become one of Tang Ruowang's students, and many of them have become interested in machinery, mathematics, astronomy, etc., and have changed their careers to learn these practical science and technology.

Daming already had a mature technology in the application of water conservancy. All kinds of water conservancy machinery can be found everywhere in the rivers and rivers of Yunzhou, but the ones used for industry are always a little bit worse.

Tang Ruowang is currently working with Shi Tiegen and the others to jointly tackle difficulties, designing and manufacturing water conservancy punching machines, milling machines, drilling machines, etc. Shi Tiegen took the trouble to introduce, and Zhang Cheng also listened with great interest, so it is inconvenient for others to bother.

Shi Tiegen slowly took out an exquisite velvet bag from his arms, held it towards Zhang Cheng with both hands, placed it lightly on the big case in front of him, and said with a respectful and slightly joyful expression: "Deputy Marshal, I When we think about it together with Mr. Tang, we can now suppress the silver coins that the deputy commander said before."

(End of this chapter)