Daming Yinghua

Before Zheng Haizhu came, Song Yingxing, led by Wu Bangde, surveyed the terrain around the river.

Song Yingxing, who loves craftsmanship, already has a lot of respect for craftsmen, and said to Zheng Haizhu sincerely: "Madam, this new river, weirs and barriers, are quite well organized. I just heard Wu Guanshi say, It was built by the craftsmen who dredged the Songjiang River, no wonder."

Zheng Haizhu nodded and said: "Borrowing strength from the water is like marching to fight a battle, step by step. Sir, after seeing it, he thinks that our first step is eye-catching. Then Wu Guanshi and I have a stone in our hearts. Let's continue to fight the battle." go down."

Song Yingxing heard the meaning of reliance in the woman's words, and felt warm.

On the contrary, his face became more modest: "I see that by the river at the other end of Zhuangzi, there is already a bobbin cart for irrigating the fields, and the water is abundant. What is Madam going to do, Song would like to hear the details."

Zheng Haizhu said: "everything remains the same. Even for Western firearms, forging is essential. If forging is not enough, it is easy to blow the barrel. The other is to drill the barrel. If the drilling machines of Jiangnan carpenters can be changed to drill and grind steel, It can be more precise than wrapping an iron rod and closing the gun barrel by forging. But these two things, forging and driving the drilling machine, require one word: force. I invite you to come here, just to help us change manpower for water power."

Song Yingxing is so sensitive, and Zheng Haizhu's words were not sarcasm, he understood immediately: "Madam wants to use water power to forge a hundred steels, drill out the gun barrel, and then assemble it by manpower? "

"Yes. God will do the rough work and laborious work; our people will do the fine work and inspection work. Later, the high and low stoves are also slowly moved here, separated from the fields, crops, spinning and weaving."

Song Yingxing turned his head, his eyes wandering on both sides of the river.

Song Yingxing is no stranger to the scene of forging iron. Using water power instead of human forging, the principle is not too profound. In his mind, several wooden gear machines are engaged with each other. The first one is impacted by the water, and the power is transmitted to the last one. On the hammer, instead of the craftsman to swing the hammer, it can save half of the manpower and ensure that the strength of each forging is even.

As for Mrs. Zheng's lathe for drilling gun barrels, the reasoning should be the same, except that the direction of the drill and hammer must be different. Song Yingxing needs to see the process and requirements on the spot, so that he can use his brain deeply.

Zheng Haizhu waited patiently for Song Yingxing to lose consciousness for a while before beckoning Hua Er to come over.

In the car when I came here, I had already done [-]% of the ideological work for this girl.After starting a business by yourself, laying a solid foundation and gaining the trust of the imperial court, the industrial and agricultural lines that I started to start must be the same as the army, and I must arrange my cronies well.

Hua Erza felt that his wife didn't want her anymore, and building things were far more interesting than singing, dancing and settling accounts, so she couldn't help but turn her worries into joy.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu pointed to the innocent and curious girl, and said to Song Yingxing: "Sir, this child and her brother escaped from Liaodong Jiannu, and both brothers and sisters are good at repairing mule carts." , I didn’t allocate fields to them, and let them follow me and receive monthly money. But I also don’t want to bully them who have no father or mother, and tie them to me as servants from now on. How about accepting her as an apprentice?”

"Oh..." Song Yingxing hesitated slightly, glanced at Wu Bangde, who was also a man, and lowered his eyes to the ground.

Of course Zheng Haizhu knew what he was hesitating about.

After all, in the ancients, the defense of men and women was engraved in their minds, and a man in his thirties would give someone a flower-like female apprentice when he came up...

Song Yingxing showed embarrassment for a moment, which made Zheng Haizhu feel a little relieved.

If it was Xu Dahua who was the original color blank, the subconscious reaction would not be like this.

She, a descendant, cannot fully understand the personal morality of a scientist who has left a long history.

When I came to the late Ming Dynasty, the characters of the various men I met were gentlemen like Yan Siqi and Huang Zunsu, or bastards like Xu Dahua.

But just because there are scumbags, it cannot be denied that there are a large number of outstanding men among men.

Especially for younger girls, they must not be like narrow-minded people, with the idea that "men don't have good things", and cut off the way for girls to learn from teachers and come out to make a living.

Zheng Haizhu then smiled lightly, turned back to Wu Bangde and the others and said, "I'll lead Mr. Song to the mouth of the dam."

The two walked to the dam that had begun to take shape. Zheng Haizhu stopped, looked at the vast scenery of the island, and said to Song Yingxing: "When the sages also had sorrows, Zilu lamented, and the sorrow is poor. In fact, a hundred years of time, life goes against the road, and it hurts the spirit. It’s more than just a poor word. If you want me to say, the imperial examination is bad for men, and women’s morality is bad for women.”

Song Yingxing was startled.

This statement is really harsh.

But when I think about it carefully, the harshness is only because it is the first time I hear such deviant words from a woman's mouth.

Thinking about it again, at least the half sentence of "Men are sad for the imperial examination" seemed to speak to his old Song's heart.

Zheng Haizhu observes Song Yingxing's micro-expression, sees Song Yingxing faintly moved in silence, and recalls that in another parallel time and space, this scientist shouted in the preface of "Heavenly Creation" that "this book has nothing to do with fame and progress".

Those literati who are dedicated to seeking officials through imperial examinations, please abandon this book on the desk.Such hearty shouting, many vulgar and greasy people in later generations regarded it as the grievance of depressed and frustrated literati, but Zheng Haizhu believed that those who dared to write like this were the last hope of the late Ming Dynasty.

"Sir," Zheng Haizhu said calmly, "the soul studies things, and the studies of things lead to knowledge. It has nothing to do with stereotyped skills, and has nothing to do with the difference between men and women. A woman with a poor heart is in a deep house, just like a good man is trapped in an examination room, year after year Year after day, youth is exhausted, tears flow down the face when the head turns white, and even stagnate like a puppet, there is nothing more sorrowful than this.”

Song Yingxing was silent for a while, before he opened his mouth and said: "I'm not a pedantic person. When I was in Nanjing, I heard brother Lu Xian talk about the righteous deeds of my wife, and I was quite impressed. Now the Susong area treats female craftsmen and female workers as normal. It's a good weather for the creation of things. Song is willing to support the juniors recommended by his wife, but, can both male and female disciples bring some."

Zheng Haizhu smiled, and said straightforwardly: "That's natural, we are not running a nun's house."

Adding a three-point enthusiasm tone: "By the way, sir, although Chongming is an island, after all, it is the gateway to the East China Sea established by Taizu. Would you like to build a bigger house and house your family?"

Song Yingxing was established in the past year, and many of the teachers and elders he had dealt with in the past were people who liked to talk around corners. Today, I feel that, like this woman, she doesn't adjust her book bags, speaks directly, and is not abrupt in exchanging shallow words. Crudeness.

Then he became relaxed and thanked with a smile.

Zheng Haizhu continued to point out the scope of his land in Chongming, and discussed with Song Yingxing the details of water hammer, hydraulic punching machines and other facilities, but devoted all his attention to planning the bullshit things that happened in the past few days.

That day, the county called her to the yamen office, and the magistrate of Yue County, accompanied by Yang Xiancheng, spoke to her personally, saying that he would ask her to buy fifty combined guns first, two small cannons loaded with three or four catties of iron bullets. , sent to the Yao Qianhu Guard in Beidao.

Yue Zhixian is a fox who is old in officialdom.

Facing two tigers from one mountain, Yao and Zheng, each with their own backgrounds, Yue Zhixian wanted to point Yao Qianhu to smuggle money for himself and Yang Xiancheng, but did not dare to forcefully suppress Zheng Haizhu, so he had to resort to cunning means First, find a censor who had a friendship in the same year, and impeached Chongming Qianhu's military equipment for abolishment. Rotten iron, it has been 70 to [-] years since Chongming fought Japanese pirates, how can it still be used.

After such a disturbance, the "own man" censor who was impeached at first turned to impeach the cabinet department, and at the end of the article praised Fujian governor Shang Zhou Zuo for his knowledge of people, buying firearms from the Zheng family in Songjiang, and calming the safety of Minhai.

Seeing that the rumors were wrong, Suzhou Bingbei Dao hurriedly took the initiative to play, saying that they could coordinate the three parties, the county, and the guards, and each pay a part of the money. They also followed Fujian's example and asked Zheng to order firearms and reserve them for the Chongming Guards.

Yue Zhixian and Yang Xiancheng said it pleasantly, but Zheng Haizhu didn't believe it after hearing it.

It's probably this nest of local snakes who want to plunder her firearms factory's wool, and don't know where to resell it.

It is obvious that Chongming County and Yao Qianhu are in the same spirit, and the officers and soldiers conspired to sell money for themselves.

What's interesting is that they didn't think she was too stupid as an outsider, Zheng Haizhu, and they didn't make up a lie about becoming a Buddha overnight. There are nine bends and eighteen bends.

Now, Suzhou Bingbei Road has been involved by them to make a statement, so I have no reason to refuse the firearms factory as a "discussion product" by the court.

But without sufficient evidence, Fang Congzhe was even more hasty in reporting people like Chongming to Zhang Shilang of the Ministry of War when Fang Congzhe was still the chief assistant and sole prime minister.

Zheng Haizhu then wondered if there was any way to bury a trick in the firearm. It was in good condition when it was delivered, and after a while it had to be sent back to the factory for repair.If that Yao Qianhu really reorganized his army just to fight against the Zheng family's army, he would definitely be able to train soldiers with guns, at most, he would help him maintain them once every six months.If it is sold privately, the item will be broken in the buyer's hands. By then, Emperor Tianqi will ascend the throne and Fang Congzhe will step down. It would be better if this matter is exposed and he will take care of Yao Qianhu himself.

Now that Song Yingxing has been invited, it happens to cooperate with the Portuguese technicians recruited by Songjiang locals and Sun Yuanhua through the Jesuits to lay this technical pit.

Just when Zheng Haizhu was preoccupied with two tasks, he suddenly saw a fast horse galloping in the direction of Zhuangzi.

It was Tolerance, a familiar face who often came to spread the word in the county.

Tolerance reined in his horse and talked to Wu Bangde in a hurry, and then rushed to the dam mouth.

"Madam Zheng, the second master asked me to bring you a message, that little carpenter of your Zhuangzi, he, he has acne!"

Zheng Haizhu's complexion suddenly changed.

Ashan, a little carpenter, was called by the county to be a carpenter a month ago. When he came back, he said with a bitter face that it was the county magistrate Yang who offered Yao Qianhu a favor to make furniture.

A few days ago, Yang Xiancheng sent someone to call him away to work.

Zheng Haizhu's anger is second, the key is that he became suspicious.

Ah Shan walked forward, and she asked Aya to go to the county town to watch for a few days on the grounds that she would go to the city to buy things and see the current situation of the ancestral house for Grandma Tang.

In order to prevent the Zhuang family from feeling abnormal, Aya rejected Zheng Haizhu's proposal to keep the child, and took Xiaodoubao away.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu's concern was chaotic, and he almost blurted out "Is Aya in my village with him" to Tolerance.

Fortunately, the tolerance is fast-talking, and he is a rough person, so he doesn't shy away from it, and the following sentence is: "The little widow in Madam's village is Ah Shan's friend, right? The little widow is going to meet him, no, even with a baby. It's also locked in one place!"