Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 397

When Sun Xiangfu and Yang Shunshui drove the clipper to Qujiangchi Wharf, Zhang Gongjin was already waiting here. He didn't even go back to the mansion to confess, and rushed over directly. The only one who accompanied him to Goguryeo was his The driver is alone.

"Mr. Zou, these two are the nephews of the old man Yang. One is Yang Ming and the other is Yang Jie. They will steer the boat in shifts for five or six days at the most. You are guaranteed to go to Laizhou. After you go there, you will stay in the boat first." Listen to it by your side!"

"You can go to Laizhou in five or six days? It's really a skill."

Zhang Gongjin looked at the two of them with approving eyes and said, "The military situation is urgent now, so I won't say much else, just tell me how many troops you have in the sea off Laizhou, what is their combat effectiveness, and how do I contact them."

Zhang Gongjin is a person who understands boats. After getting on the boat, he felt the sharpness of the boat for a while. The current situation is that he arrived in Goguryeo earlier, and there is more space for maneuvering there. , I am no longer polite to Sun Xiangfu.

Sun Xiangfu thought for a while and replied, "There are about 800 people, all of whom are capable people. All of them are equipped with Wanshi's new-style water steamers. There are ten ships in total. Mr. Zou should have seen that kind of ship in the shipyard before. I won't say much. The ship has sufficient weapons and equipment, which is better than the warships of the imperial court. At sea, you can almost ignore the navy of other countries. Using them to ensure the supply and evacuation of our army at sea is not a problem at all. No."

There is a natural difference between fighting at sea and fighting on land. The ships and weapons are more advanced, and they almost occupy an overwhelming advantage. The Japanese and Goguryeo water armies that have not introduced various technologies to Li Tang on a large scale, are in Zhao Long's place. In front of the fleet led by him, it is like a child facing an adult, basically without the strength to fight head-on.

Moreover, for more than a year, Zhao Long and the others basically wandered around the peninsula and the waters of the Wa Kingdom. They have learned a lot about the sea conditions there. After Zhang Gongjin meets with them, they should be able to use their own advantages. Make a lot of feasible strategic plans.

"I thought it was a very arduous task, but I didn't expect Zhengming to surprise me with a surprise to ensure the supply and evacuation of the army. The battle of Goguryeo will be much easier to fight."

After listening to Sun Xiangfu's introduction, Zhang Gongjin was immediately full of confidence, and Sun Xiangfu hurriedly asked someone to fetch a pen, ink and paper, and wrote a letter to Zhao Long and others on the spot, to the effect that they should follow Zhang Gongjin's command in all actions.

"Mr. Zou, if there is something that can be done about Goguryeo, then do it. If not, there is no need to trap yourself there. You know, to occupy Goguryeo, we still have to mobilize the army of the Tang Dynasty. There are too many lands, so to meet our own consumption, we need to increase labor productivity. If we can establish a route from Goguryeo to Datang on the sea, so that the people who originally contributed strategic resources and tax output to Goguryeo will contribute to our Datang. It is also a victory to contribute strategic resources and tax output, and the other is weak and the other is strong.”

"This old man knows this. The old man has Gothe in his hand, and he will use him to transport those women, children and children who can't contribute to the war to Laizhou first, leaving only the young and strong soldiers to fight against Yuan Gai Suwen. If that's the case, those Soldiers whose family members have evacuated to Datang have no way out. They will definitely fight the enemy bravely in order to cause losses to Yuan Gai Suwen. You know."

"It turns out that Mr. Zhou has a plan, so I am relieved. In this way, I will arrange for people to take care of things in Laizhou and other places. As for the population, the more the better!"

"The old man knows that you are full of money-making schemes, and what you need is labor to realize it. Therefore, the old man will not commit crimes there. There is nothing else, so you can go back first! The old man goes to Goguryeo earlier, and he can do more for you." Bring some people back."

After the ink was done, Zhang Gongjin urged Sun Xiangfu to get off the boat. Sun Xiangfu bid farewell to him with his fists in his arms, and watched the clipper leave on the shore. Zhang Gongjin's dedication to the public is worthy of admiration.

The reason why Sun Xiangfu cares so much about the population of Goguryeo is not only because of demand, but also because he has seen that the population is the foundation of Goguryeo. It is a country with a population of more than 100 million in Asia in this era after Datang. From the fact that the number of troops composed of young and strong men is 60 million, it can be seen that its total population is at least 600 million. There are about 300 million households, with a population of only tens of millions. Fighting a war of attrition with them will easily hurt your muscles and bones.

There is another aspect, after the population of Goguryeo arrived in the Tang Dynasty, there will be no discomfort at all. First of all, the special race is the same. Second, they have entered the farming society long ago. Many people still speak Chinese. The level of education is not even inferior to that of the Han people in the Tang Dynasty. It is a high-quality population that can be used as the main force of production. Of course, Sun Xiangfu does not want to let it go.

After returning to the mansion, Sun Xiangfu sent a letter to Wei Zheng, asking him to go to Xingfu Village to make glasses, and talk to him about things in Shandong by the way. As a representative of most small and medium landlords in Shandong, he can accept Goguryeo The common people provided a lot of help, but Sun Xiangfu did not intend to let these aristocratic families in Shandong consume the population of Goguryeo, because it was too close to Goguryeo, and the common people might want to flee back.The people in Guanzhong are now facing the transformation of entering industrialization. A large amount of originally developed land needs to be cultivated by people. It is most appropriate to be supplemented by the people of Goguryeo who are familiar with farming affairs.

The next day, the entire city of Chang'an was quite lively, because it was the day when the imperial examinations were released.

The gongs pass the list, and the officials who announced the decree, wearing brocade red robes and tall horses, searched for the top three candidates in various subjects in the city. The city was full of chickens and dogs, and the cold wind in winter could not stop People in Chang'an love to watch the excitement.

The top three candidates in various subjects have changed from penniless to famous in an instant. When enjoying the envious eyes of the people in the city, their hearts are also excited. The imperial court has made them so beautiful. How dare they not work hard to repay the imperial court?

Things like imperial examinations will have a very good effect on the country and society at the beginning, because at the beginning, people's minds are often relatively simple. There are ups and downs inside, but fortunately, it is just the beginning.

Although there was no such situation as in the Song and Ming Dynasties when the son-in-law was caught under the rankings, those champions who were able to achieve good rankings and win the favor of the emperor, the second place and the best candidates, all came into the sight of the aristocratic family, not because of the aristocratic family. If the students under the school get good grades, they will definitely find a way to win them over, because most of the dignitaries from aristocratic families who think about problems in the long run know that these talents have a high chance of becoming high-ranking officials in the court in the future.

The Qionglin Banquet was arranged for tomorrow, so Wei Zheng, who will hold a meeting for the students of the Mingfa Department at the Ministry of Law tomorrow, is free today. After the court was over, he and Sun Xiangfu took the fast boat together, and it took less than an hour , then appeared in Xingfu Village.

"The matter of relocating people that I talked with Wei Shangshu on the boat just now is related to the future development plan of Guanzhong. I would like to ask Wei Shangshu to help as much as possible!"

"Being loyal to the country, this old man will not be willing to be left behind. However, if I let this old man give up his old face to help you, shouldn't you also repay this old man?"

"No, I'm here to make glasses exclusively for you."

"This doesn't count, you promised the old man before."

"Then tell me directly, what counts."

"The old man knows that you wrote a report on the management of the commercial department to Zheng Lun, which made him find the management direction of the commercial department at once. Although the legal department under the old man's management is not like the commercial department, it is also a power. The newly established department, which is different from the previous one, Zhengming, didn’t the same management regulations as those written to the Ministry of Commerce be written to the Ministry of Law?”

Sun Xiangfu knew that Wei Zheng was waiting for him here early in the morning, so even though he had written the old note yesterday, he didn't hand it over to him as soon as he saw him, and took it out of his arms after he put forward the conditions. A Zhazi said, "So, I will repay the favor I owe you."

Seeing the thick tie, Wei Zheng was overjoyed, and he didn't care if Sun Xiangfu had a plan earlier, so he hurriedly took it over and thanked him, "I paid it back, I paid it back, it's all for state affairs, there is no such thing as human or unkind of."

Then, he squinted impatiently and opened Sun Xiangfu's handbook.

It is not complicated to match reading glasses. Just test with convex lenses of different thicknesses in front of your eyes to find the most suitable one. In order to help Wei Zheng make reading glasses, Xingfu Village opened a special kiln to burn convex lenses with different thickness lenses. See you at Sun Xiangfu Wei Zheng was fascinated by it, so he went to the cave and chatted with Han Shaowen, the chief technical engineer of glass firing.

"Is there any progress in the research of the microscope?"

"There is no such thing at present. Only with concave-convex lenses, unless it is made extremely large, it is possible to increase the magnification to more than 160 times. If you want to make the microscope you need more than [-] times, you need to arrange each group very precisely. The internal placement of the lens, that is to say, the big thing must be at least big enough for people to go in and adjust it manually. Moreover, it may need to be adjusted and installed repeatedly, because there is a slight problem with the angle, and the whole thing will be broken. It is no longer established."

Sun Xiangfu knows that scientific and technological products require precise mathematical support. If all the refraction angles of the imaging can be calculated in advance, then it is only necessary to continuously debug during production to make the angle of the lens internally accurate. good.

He handed over the task of calculation to Li Chunfeng to see if he could pre-calculate all the data. He himself was a bit biased when he was young and didn't like mathematics. Even if he didn't want to do it, it was difficult to do it. to.

"Well, do more experiments and research, and don't be afraid of the problem of cost consumption. After the opening of the colored glaze workshop in Weinan next year, we can put a small amount of full-length mirrors on the market and sell them to make money. It is said to the outside world that ten cellar colored glaze may not necessarily A mirror can be fired to maintain its high price and scarcity in the market, let’s talk about it in a few years.”

"Understood the master, the members of our group are not focused on making non-technical dressing mirrors. Everyone has worked hard to make what you said, which can be magnified by more than 160 times and can see things that are invisible to the naked eye. to a microscope of something."

"Well, it's good to have such a drive. It is inevitable to be boring when doing technical research. You must have a psychology that loves to explore in order to persevere. As long as you make this thing, your name, Han Shaowen, will definitely be recorded in the annals of history." , has been passed down through the ages.”

According to historical records, everyone thinks about things that have been passed down through the ages, but these things seem to be far away from reality. After just a little fantasy, Han Shaowen returned to reality.

"Master, you can make convex lens lenses. I will divide them into dozens of thicknesses and make a batch first. After Wei Shangshu has selected them, I will make a few glasses of the same thickness for him as spares."

Not long after, Sun Xiangfu took dozens of glass lenses and asked Wei Zheng to test them in front of his eyes.

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