Daming Yinghua

Chapter 227

The next day, Zheng Haizhu took Song Yingxing to visit Zhu Yipai.

Song Yingxing went back to the inn to ponder the whole night, and when he saw Zheng Haizhu, he said solemnly: "Madam, when I think about it, the steam lifts the bucket and uses water to pump water. It's not a dream. It's like a seesaw that children play. One end boils water and the other end pumps water." The end that boils water is lifted by the steam, and the end that pumps water naturally falls into the mine. When the water at this end is cold, the lid of the pot sinks, and the bucket that pumps water is raised. With God's help, we must try to make the hot air turn cold for a moment."

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, as expected, all the high-end engineering men in the world are equally excellent. Song Yingxing quickly found the way of the steam pump, and realized that the key to this kind of device to shine in practice is the stroke. Time is short.

Zheng Haizhu, a modern liberal arts woman, has no idea how to make specific installations.

But businessmen always care about efficiency while not forgetting safety, not to mention that Zheng Haizhu heard the news of many steam engine explosions in history in her previous life, so she said to Song Yingxing: "Mr. Watch out for the stove blowing up. It's about the same as our firearms."

Song Yingxing suddenly felt reasonable, and took out a thin booklet to make a note.

He is good at the design of crafty mechanisms. When Zheng Haizhu asked him to do tricks on the door of the combined gun cover sold to Yao Qianhu when he was in Chongming, he didn't feel embarrassed.It's just about the precautions for avoiding the bombing of copper and iron containers. After all, scientists who are new to Jiangnan are not as familiar as Zheng Haizhu, a female boss who has opened a firearms factory for several years.

Just when Zhu Yipai came to the front hall, after Zheng Haizhu introduced Song Yingxing, he quickly explained the method of steam pumping, and gave the credit to Mr. Song, and finally said sincerely: "Your Highness, everything is difficult at the beginning, I beg you Your Highness, please give Mr. Song some more time. If we can make this thing, it will be of great use in the future. If we can pump water from the deep pit with great strength, we can also push the wheels of the carriage forward."

Zhu Yipai's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and after thinking for a moment, he laughed and said, "If you can push a cart and run, can you also push a boat? Mr. Song finished pumping the water in my mine in Lufu, and quickly give it to your Bole." Planning and planning, Zensheng uses this steam instead of wind power to push Mrs. Zheng's sea boat for thousands of miles. Come here, and send Yijin and Tuyi to Mr.

The maid approached with a reward in her hand. In the box were five flat boat-shaped silver ingots with inscriptions in the middle, and on the other tray were clothing materials. The sheen and elegant luster could be seen as silk fabrics.

Song Yingxing hurriedly said: "The grass people are still white, how dare they wear silk robes, it's unseemly."

Zhu Yipai waved his hands carelessly and said: "Mr. is knowledgeable, not comparable to the old scholars in the pile of old papers. Nowadays, all the deer-headed and mouse-eyed people are covered in silk and satin. Why can't you dress better?"

Zheng Haizhu also said in a harmonious voice: "His Royal Highness's meeting ceremony, it is disrespectful for Mr. to decline."

Song Yingxing thanked En for picking it up, left and went to the workshop, and started discussing the steam pump with the carpenters and blacksmiths in the Lu Mansion.

Zhu Yipai also ordered to bring in seven or eight young craftsmen he had selected from Dianbaochu.

"Madam Zheng, you can pick and choose three or four to take away. This general avoids you, lest you have some questions that you want to ask, and it is not easy to ask."

After Zhu Yipai left, Zheng Haizhu glanced at the craftsmen in front of him, all of them were in their early twenties.

Jewelry craftsmen in the palace are basically inherited from their fathers. They started learning art at the age of [-] or [-]. At this age, they are considered skilled workers, but they are still far from being a craftsman, so they don't want to move.

In his twenties, he is at the age of being strong and strong, so he can withstand traveling across the ocean.

Zheng Haizhu secretly thought, the little prince can do it very carefully.

When she carefully looked at those craftsmen, the expressions on the faces were different.

Some are dull, some are shy, and some shrink back slightly because they are afraid of traveling far.

There was only one handsome craftsman with a handsome face, not only did not hide, but also looked eager to try.

Zheng Haizhu smiled at him, and asked kindly, "Can you make silk?"

"If you go back to Madam, the villain will know. The uncle of the villain has made a golden silk wing crown for the long live Lord."

"Oh, then tell me, how do nobles and grandmas make their filigree golden noodles?"

"Use a steel plate. The holes on the plate are of different sizes. Let's use pliers to pull the gold out of the holes. Hey, this heat is harder than lifting tofu with a horse's tail. If you are not careful, the gold thread will break. After pulling the thread, you have to Pinching, saving, stuffing."

Zheng Haizhu interrupted him: "What if you want to inlay gems?"

The craftsman Qingxiu continued to talk eloquently: "After filling the silk and burning the ashes, you can't set it. If you want to set gems, when you cut and gather silk, you have to surround the gold edge with the notch. Finally put The gems are stuffed into the grooves, and they have to be filed, gilded, welded..."

The craftsman was elated, and Zheng Haizhu watched the few people beside him, and they were all fascinated by it. Obviously, there were some crafts that they had never touched.

Zheng Haizhu pretended to be amazed, and then nodded in praise after being dazed for a moment, "As expected of a master of the Lu family. Xiao Lang, Nanyang is dangerous and the miasma is spreading. Do you really dare to go?"

"The little man is willing to go," the craftsman said decisively, "returning to my wife, my youngest ancestors have passed down word of mouth for ten generations. Back then, the Taizu gave King Lu a golden ruyi cloud decoration. The red sapphires and the emeralds (note, that is, emeralds) are all produced in Nanyang and Western Oceans. There are also two honey-colored gemstones with golden straight lines in them, which are exactly the same as cat's eyes, which are rare in the world. Xiao When I was young, I heard it from my father, and I always thought about it. Now if there is good fortune to go to Nanyang with my wife, it is too late to be happy, so why would I be afraid of some troubles and miasma."

Zheng Haizhu listened, and slowly began to worry about it, and when the master artisan finished speaking, he nodded and said: "Okay, you count as one."

Next, three more people were selected, and it was agreed that they would leave in ten days, first go to Songjiang to meet the new owner Gu Han and his wife, and then go to Nanyang by sea.

After leaving the Lu Mansion, Li Daniu, an intelligence agent stationed in Yanzhou, greeted him as a coachman.

"Take me back to the inn to rest."

Zheng Haizhu got into the carriage, and after traveling for a while, he said to Li Daniu, who slowed down the speed: "You tell your apprentice to look at a goldsmith named Liu in the Palace Museum. Be more handsome. See who he has been dealing with these two days and where he has been in and out of."

Li Daniu said: "Madam is suspicious of this person?"

"How can you not doubt it? You are so young and have unique skills in your hands. If you stay in the Lu Mansion's treasure house, you are afraid that the rewards will be lost? This is not an imperial doctor. Working for the Tian family may lose your head. The elder It's also decent, and I'm not afraid that I won't be able to marry a local daughter-in-law. If you follow me so wholeheartedly, who knows if some family put it in the dark."

"Ma'am is very considerate."

As Li Daniu said, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if Mr. Wu had a more suspicious temper like his wife, I'm afraid nothing would happen.

While he was sighing, a mule cart suddenly passed beside him.

The coachman waved at him and pointed to his own carriage.

Li Daniu turned his head to look, and saw a young man wearing a net crown, jade face and long beard nodding to him at the place where the curtain of the car was opened.

"My master, please excuse me for a moment." The coachman said to Li Daniu.

After the two drivers stopped by a secluded jujube garden, Mr. Wang Guan got out of the car and came outside the curtain of Zheng Haizhu's car.

"In Xialu Mansion, Yibin, Cao Xu, met Madam."

Yibin, in the Ming Dynasty, was the husband of the princess and county master of the Zhu family.

To put it bluntly, a son-in-law whose rank is lower than that of a son-in-law.

It is the kind of person that scholars who want to "learn literary and martial arts, goods and emperor's family" don't want to be.

Because being Yibin, like being a son-in-law, means ruining one's official career.

(End of this chapter)