Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 67 Handsome like me

Li Wei didn't know that someone in the court was accusing him of being cunning again, and he wouldn't care if he knew it. He is now fully devoted to his work.

The sketch of the blast furnace has been almost completed a long time ago, and the waterwheel needs to be modified. It will be used first, and when the steel production increases, the steam engine will be built. Although the machining accuracy is relatively poor now, he feels that it can be used. , the more air leakage there is, the less efficient it will be. Let’s improve it slowly.

The purpose of doing this is to increase electricity. Only with electricity can we have various machine tools and make various mechanical products.

The water wheel can also be used as a generator temporarily, but the water wheel cannot be moved and can only be set up near the water, which is very inconvenient. With a steam engine, it is much better, and you can find an open space anywhere to place it.

Of course, for Li Wei, the industrial revolution and other things were secondary, and improving his own life was the main thing, but no matter what, electricity was a must.

When making steel and burning glass, the temperature of ordinary coal cannot reach it, so coke must be used as fuel. The carbon is isolated from the air and burned at high temperature to become coke.

There is also a by-product in this process: coke oven gas. Coal added with water and fired at high temperature can also produce water gas. In the future, we can find a way to collect this gas and make it into a gas tank. Xiaoqing and the others will not have to do this for cooking in the future. Trouble making a fire.

But now that we have briquettes, we can use them first, and there is no need to worry about gas.

There is so much to do, so let’s do it step by step.

From morning to afternoon, before Zhu Yuanzhang got off work, a little princess came first.

Hearing the salute of the guard at the door, Li Wei quickly put away the computer.

"Eh? Li Wei, are you here to play with me?"

When the little princess came in and saw Li Wei, she immediately shouted with joy.

Li Wei was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say. Say no, the little princess would definitely be unhappy.

"That's it."

"Great, you haven't finished telling the story last time, let's continue."

"Uh, okay, where did we talk last time?"

The last time he told a story was the last time, he had forgotten where he ended up.

"Now that we have reached the 20th difficulty, there are still sixty difficulties." The little princess said with anticipation.

Li Wei's face froze, okay, there are still sixty years to go, but I've only watched 25 episodes!

It's all because I was quick-tongued at the time and said it was 81 difficult. If I had said 21 difficult at that time, wouldn't I have finished talking about it now?

Li Wei regretted it endlessly, but there was nothing he could do about it. The little princess remembered it clearly.

"Then let's talk about...well, let's talk about three dozen white-bone spirits today." Li Wei thought for a while and said.

"I've already talked about this." The little princess raised her head and said seriously.

"Then let's talk about the battle with Red Boy."

"I've already talked about this."

"..."

Li Wei scratched his head. When he told the little princess, he always talked about it randomly. When he remembered which one to talk about, he himself couldn't remember which ones were mentioned and which ones were not.

Besides, there are only 25 episodes in total, and 21 episodes have already been talked about. There is really not much left to talk about.

"Daughter's Kingdom?" Li Wei asked tentatively.

The little princess's eyes lit up: "I haven't talked about this before, so let's talk about it. This name is very interesting when I hear it!"

"Uh……"

Li Wei was a little hesitant. This was a bit inappropriate for children. He was pregnant and loved his brother.

"Speak quickly, speak quickly." The little princess's clear voice urged.

Li Wei had no choice but to talk about it while avoiding the important points. The little princess kept asking questions while listening.

"Why are their bellies so big?"

"pregnant."

"I know, I know. It's just that I'm about to give birth to a baby. I saw that other aunts' bellies were too big. It turns out they drank water from the Zimu River?"

"Uh, no, these are all made up and fake!"

"Then how come their bellies are so big?"

"That's because your father planted a seed in their stomachs."

"How do you plant it?" the little princess asked curiously with her beautiful eyes widened. "..."

Li Wei suddenly remembered the scene of Lao Zhu holding a knife on his neck, and suddenly felt a chill on his neck.

"You will know when you grow up."

The corners of Li Wei's mouth twitched as he said these perfunctory words.

Seeing that Li Wei refused to say anything, the little princess suddenly frowned in displeasure.

In fact, when she comes out of the cabinet in a year, someone will tell her about these things, but she doesn't know it yet.

Li Wei ignored her gaze and continued:

"The king of the daughter country saw that Tang Seng was handsome and wanted to marry him. Unfortunately, Luo Hua was ruthless and Tang Seng..."

"How handsome?" the little princess interrupted.

"Handsome like me."

"Tch, my father is more handsome than you!"

"That bad old man...well you are right!"

Thinking that the little princess might snitch on Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Wei reluctantly endured it and continued.

After finally reaching the end, Zhu Yuanzhang finally came back. When he saw the little princess and Li Wei together, he immediately scolded him with a stern face: "Why did you run out again? Go back to the harem quickly!"

"I'm here to bring tea to my father!"

"What about our refreshments?"

The little princess immediately looked left and right and found that Xiaohong and tea were not there.

Well, today she just ran out to play by herself.

"Humph, why don't you come back to us quickly? You've been playing all day long without any rules at all. How can you behave like this!"

After being scolded by her father, the little princess pouted and shuffled around and left the Qianqing Palace.

"And you, you know how to be lazy all day long!"

Li Wei suddenly became unhappy: "I didn't! I've been busy these two days, you didn't see it!"

"Too busy hitting people?"

"Well, you all know that, but Your Majesty, that bitch really deserves to be beaten. He doesn't even understand the basic principles of respecting the elderly and caring for the young, and he beats the old man!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Li Wei calling someone a piece of shit, he looked at him strangely.

Zhu Yuanzhang already knew about this. After all, Li Wei was surrounded by human cameras arranged by him. If he wanted to know, he only needed to check the surveillance records.

"Hmph, let's not talk about the beatings for now. What have you been doing at the Ministry of Works these past two days? Please report to us!"

"Ahem, Your Majesty, I have understood the basic situation of the Ordnance Bureau in the past two days. I plan to make steel first. When the steel is mass-produced, I will build machine tools. With machine tools, many things can be gradually realized. You know there's a steam engine, right? It's a machine that can turn on its own by boiling water..."

Li Wei talked a lot, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't understand a lot of it, but on the surface he still nodded repeatedly, as if you were right and I understand everything.

Although he didn't understand, it didn't matter, he just had to make the request.

"Well, that's right, let's arrange a task for you. Within three months, we will make [-] steel knives, [-] flintlock guns of yours, and armored bows and arrows..."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked for tens of thousands of dollars as if he was following up on the goods. In fact, he was just asking for tens of millions. As long as Li Wei could complete half of it, he would be satisfied.

Nowadays, the Bureau of Ordnance basically relies on craftsmen to forge steel knives, and each person can only produce one or two knives a day.

Although the Ordnance Bureau has 9000 people, there are only a few hundred blacksmiths who can forge swords, and the output is only a few hundred swords a day.

However, after he finished speaking, Li Wei did not immediately complain that he couldn't do it. Instead, he thought about it seriously. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him in surprise.

"I will try my best."

Li Wei thought for a moment and said cautiously.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his attitude immediately changed: "It's not about trying your best, it's about having to! If you can't do it, I'll chop it off... I'll beat your ass!"

Li Wei: "..."

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