Chapter 10

Chen Wenlong's words are very obscure, but this is the actual problem Xiao Ming is facing now.

With no money in king Qi's mansion, it's hard for the skillful woman of the equipment department to make a meal without rice, and it's impossible to force a strong man. Otherwise, the sky will be angry and the people will complain, and his newly established image will collapse again.

"The business is yours, the money is mine." Xiao Ming clenched his teeth. He also wanted to integrate the equipment department. This is his only chance to turn over.

Otherwise, because of the poverty of the fiefdom, Yao and Shun would die again. In two years, he would have to burp his fart with the butcher's knife.

Chen Wenlong looks at Xiao Ming, who frowns and thinks hard. He is puzzled. This equipment department has never been taken seriously in the state of Dayu. Today, the king of Qi doesn't know what he has done.

However, he didn't dare to ask more about the perverse character of the king of Qi. He thought that the king of Qi might be just on a whim, but since he ordered him like this, he could only reply: "yes, your highness."

He tells Chen Wenlong to gather all the carpenters and blacksmiths in the city. Xiao Ming thinks about how to raise money to return to the palace.

He called Qian Dafu and asked, "Dafu, how much silver do we have in Lord Qi's house?"

"Back to your highness, plus the silver that Princess Zhenfei asked aster and lvluo to bring, we have about 1000 liang of silver in Prince Qi's mansion."

"A thousand liang?" Xiao Ming frowned.

In the past, Xiao Ming didn't have the ability to make money, but he had the ability to spend money. He didn't spend less money with the money from the princess. He also knew the price of Qingzhou City.

Generally speaking, two stones of rice can be bought for one or two silver in Dayu state. According to his experience, one stone in Dayu state is equivalent to 120 Jin of modern rice.

One or two silver is equivalent to 240 Jin of rice, while the average price of a jin of rice in modern times is basically two yuan and 51 Jin.

So one or two silver is basically 600 yuan.

It seems like a lot of silver, but it's only enough for the expenses of the palace. After all, servants, grooms and cooks in the palace need to pay.

For example, Qian Dafu gets 20 liang of silver grain for a year's salary, and 15 Liang for green pineapple and aster. In addition to the consumption of food and drink, the rest is also limited.

"Give me five hundred Liang." Xiao Ming reaches for his hand.

"Your Highness, this is the silver that the empress has just issued this year. It's all for you. You should save some money."

Qian Dafu is so stingy that he is afraid that Xiao Ming will squander his money again as usual.

"I'm doing business this time, not looking for flowers and willows." Xiao Ming turned his lips.

After hearing this, Qian Dafu hesitated and gave Xiao Ming five hundred taels of silver.

After accepting the silver note, Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu, "pen and ink wait on me. I want to send a letter to my father."

Qian Dafu has been numb to Xiao Ming's strange behavior these two days, so he asked his servants to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone immediately.

Of course, he didn't write this letter for the sake of reminiscing with Xiao Wenxuan, but for the purpose of crying for poverty. The general meaning of the letter is that the people will not be able to eat because of the hardship of the feudal land.

Even so, he had to pay to fight against the barbarians. Yesterday, he just captured 30 barbarian cavalry. The loss was quite large. The equipment department had no money to make arrows. He hoped to give some help.

"Send it to Chang'an quickly!" Xiao Ming looks at the thousand word essay of crying poverty with satisfaction and throws it to Qian Dafu.

If Xiao Wenxuan still cares about his flesh and blood, maybe he can make some money. If Xiao Wenxuan is heartless, this letter will be regarded as disgusting to him.

Xiao Ming has thought about all the ways to raise money, and the only one left is the local rich family.

However, these people will not be willing to pay for it. They want to live and die in king Qi's house, so that they can be at ease.

But Xiao Ming won't let them go. Now these rich families are fat sheep. Xiao Ming is a man of flying geese, not to mention fat sheep.

If you think about it, you may not be able to rob them. But it's very easy to make them throw up money. These big families are either officials or part-time merchants. As long as they have the goods they like, they are not afraid that they will not buy them with money.

For the next three days, Xiao Ming stayed in the equipment department all day. Five hundred taels of silver made the equipment department rich. The wood, coal cake and iron ore he bought every day went in and out, which changed the desolation of the past.

In the instrument department, thirty craftsmen sit on the ground, while Xiao Ming stands in front of them and talks endlessly.

These 30 craftsmen are basically all the craftsmen in Qingzhou, mainly carpenters and blacksmiths. Now what Xiao Ming tells them is something they have never heard of - lathe.

After analyzing the knowledge in the science and Technology Library and combining with the experience of the first industrial revolution, Xiao Ming believes that the basis of the industrial revolution is the lathe, which includes boring machine, milling machine, grinder, drilling machine, gear machine and so on.

On the eve of the industrial revolution, it was the birth of these tools that produced precision mechanical parts, which produced qualified steam engine cylinders.

Steam engine further makes the lathe automation, more precise parts appear, making more machinery possible.

In the Warring States period, there were original lathes in China. These lathes were generally used to cut logs for water tankers. This process has been preserved.It's just that the lathes in this period were of wooden structure, and they were powered by pedals. The cutting tools of the lathes were not stable.

And the real lathe needs high-quality rigid, so that the machine tool can be fixed, processing a variety of instrument parts.

As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. This is the tool of a craftsman.

As the accumulation of craftsman technology, lathe is also the basis of inducing industrial revolution.

Now Xiao Ming's job is to let the craftsmen make all kinds of tools.

Now that he is on the shoulders of giants, he does not need to follow the long steps before the industrial revolution, but directly cut into the key points.

Of course, before manufacturing lathes, Xiao Ming had to teach these craftsmen how to make steel.

Xiao Ming observed the process of these craftsmen building weapons. Strictly speaking, these craftsmen are still using the traditional pouring steel method, and the steel produced by this method can still be used in machine tools.

But originally he wanted to teach them the crucible steelmaking method, but the material of the crucible is graphite. People here don't know where it is.

However, through the science and Technology Library, Xiao Ming learned that Shandong was originally a big province of graphite ore in modern times. After accurately locating the location of graphite ore, he could let people look for this kind of graphite ore.

At that time, he will be able to burn the crucible and realize large-scale crucible steelmaking.

Now it is the end of the 17th century. Like the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, the state of Dayu is totally unaware of the changes in the outside world.

Because the news is blocked, Xiao Ming is not clear.

However, he knew that the Mongolian conquest of Europe did not seem to have happened in history. If Europe had achieved a stable period, he could not predict the extent of European civilization.

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