The servant hurriedly ran back with 100 silver coins. Sun Yuan Hua bought a large map of Daming. Before he left, he flipped through all kinds of books sold in the reading room and suddenly felt very painful.
These books were sold publicly. Although the price was expensive, it was not a scam. According to the old woman, the south was developed in commerce and had sufficient capital. The officials and gentry all had the heart to pursue profits. Many people came to Tianjin to do business and soon found out that there were all kinds of basic industrial projects sold here. Each of them was like a treasure. Not long after the books were sold, pirated copies appeared in Jiangnan.
Most of these books were about how to produce and process raw materials. For example, ironmaking was a prominent knowledge that could easily make people rich. The ironmaking industry in Foshan in Guangdong was very developed. However, they only sold iron products there, but the ironmaking technology was strictly confidential. Others couldn't learn even if they wanted to. Only the Revolutionary Army openly sold knowledge at a very low price.
The book "Indigenous Ironmaking" taught people how to select ore, how to build a blast furnace, how to use animal power and even water power to drive the blower to raise the furnace temperature, how to choose fuel to reduce impurities, and described the problems that would occur in ironmaking. However, the book only said that there would be problems, but it didn't say how to solve them. It only told people to go to the technical school of the Revolutionary Army to learn.
After Sun Yuan Hua bought the map, he suddenly felt that the 100 silver coins he brought was too little. He wanted to buy all the books in the hands of the old woman in the reading room, but in the end, he only bought "Indigenous Ironmaking".
After returning to the inn, Sun Yuan Hua immediately asked someone to send the map to his teacher, Xu Guangqi. At the same time, he talked about the Revolutionary Army selling a lot of practical books in Tianjin and asked his teacher to send some money over.
Sun Yuan Hua didn't sleep all night reading "Indigenous Ironmaking". He immediately found that the industrial drawing technology of the Revolutionary Army had made a huge breakthrough. All the pictures in the book were drawn according to a certain standard. The scale, size, and angle of view were all prescribed. This was very different from the landscape painting in Daming's book.
"This drawing method is very good. I can see the details at first glance. However, there are many places that I don't understand. I must find the detailed explanation of this drawing method to understand. " Sun Yuanhua relied on his smart brain to barely understand the engineering drawings in the book. He kept scratching his ears and cheeks, feeling excited and angry at the same time.
The name of this "Iron Smelting with the Indigenous Method" was "Indigenous Method", but many parts of it were already the most advanced technology in the world. It was extracted and proofread by Shi Dong, the Minister of Mining of the Revolutionary Army who was in charge of steel smelting. In terms of content, it was extremely solid and very practical. The premise was that one had to first learn some engineering and mechanical knowledge. Otherwise, it would be like looking at a big picture from a narrow tube.
Sun Yuan Hua spent the whole night reading until dawn. The secret agent in the inn brought him hot water and breakfast. Seeing that Sun Mo was flipping through the 'Iron Smelting Method', he couldn't help but advise, "Lord Sun, it's useless for you to read this book."
"Nonsense." Sun Yuan Hua was unhappy. He was an expert in smelting and forging, so he could tell at a glance whether or not this book was useful. "The person who wrote this book is quite talented, and has a deep understanding of ores and the way of smelting iron. There were many thought-provoking methods in the book, and the drawings were also extremely exquisite. It was definitely a wonderful book. If you learn this book, it will be of great use to our imperial court. "
The secret agent still shook his head and said, "I also know that this book is good, but because this book is too good, there are also many people who have been tricked."
"Oh … why do you say that?" Sun Yuan Hua was puzzled.
"Recently, many officials in Jiangnan have come to us, the Imperial Guard, to find out the key to the many secret techniques of the rebels. Especially to find out if we can poach a few craftsmen, even if we can kidnap them. After I asked carefully, I found out that most of them value the advantages of this iron and want to make this blast furnace iron.
It's just that this book is good, too good. The rebels have strong armor, so there must be a secret technique in the way of smelting. But the method used in this book is too difficult to build, even the blueprints can't be understood. Some people have spent thousands of silver to try to build it, but they can't find the key, and the quality of the iron produced is not very good. If you want to know the essence, you have to find the rebel craftsmen to teach you. "
Ah …
After Sun Yuan Hua heard this, he exclaimed, "I said that this' revolutionary army 'is not so kind, how can this military secret technique be so easily taught?"
"Not really." The secret agent said, "This book says that if you want to learn, you have to send people to the rebel school to learn. But to learn the essence, you have to get the approval of the rebel. For example, in Anhui Tongling and Jiangxi Dexing, there are people who have learned copper mining and high efficiency smelting techniques, on the condition that all the copper ingots produced are sold to the rebels.
In addition, there are many merchants in Jiangnan who prohibit the rebels' goods from going south. The rebels can't do anything, so they can only negotiate with them. They use these ironmaking techniques in exchange for the support of the southern merchants, asking them to give up weaving and specialize in cotton. At the same time, they open up to buy cotton, and increase the purchase of southern products, to ensure that the southern merchants make a profit.
The rebels even publicly announced this in the newspaper, saying that this is business complementarity, a win-win cooperation. Although the cloth merchants and salt merchants of Song Jiang and Yangzhou were against it, more people had been bewitched by it. They had been persuaded. There are many people in this world who pursue profit. They know that the rebels hate the officials, but there are still officials who are willing to work with the tiger. They really don't know life from death. "
This' revolutionary army's' domestic and diplomatic methods were brilliant, Sun Yuan Hua was already used to it. Now he only cared about whether he could learn this ironmaking technique or not. Knowing that the 'revolutionary army' didn't completely close the door to obtaining this technique, he once again asked how to cooperate with them.
The secret agent thought about it and said, "Don't you always want to see the rebels' farm machinery? Why don't you go to the demonstration farm and pretend to want to buy and transport their farm machinery? As long as you have a relationship with the rebels, maybe you can gain their trust one day and learn their secret technique. "
Sun Yuan Hua slightly nodded, "That's good, that's good. Looks like I can only make a small comeback and then secretly learn. I happen to have time today, so I'll go to the demonstration farm outside the city to take a look. " He did what he said, not caring that he didn't sleep for the whole night, he hurriedly went out, took a public carriage, and rushed to a place called 'Newlight Farm' outside the city.
It was already the end of May, the planting and planting of rice seedlings had already ended. However, this was the demonstration farm, a place that the 'revolutionary army' used to publicize their agricultural results to the outside world. When Sun Yuan Hua arrived here, he saw that the originally small field ridges had all been opened up, and the land had become extremely large, as far as the eye could see.
There had always been a lot of people who came here to visit. Many people heard that the 'revolutionary army' was very good at farming, and even came from thousands of miles away to take a look. Sun Yuan Hua was one of the unremarkable people in the crowd. When he arrived here, he found that there was actually a professional guide, and it was even a woman.
"Master, I heard that when the rebels built the farm, they ruthlessly killed a group of people." The strong servant followed behind Sun Yuan Hua and said in a low voice, "Originally, there were too many ridges, so it was not convenient for large-scale farming, so they merged the small fields together. For this reason, they even flattened many graves in the fields, and moved many of the original farms, just to get this big field in front of us. "
"They even moved other people's ancestral graves?" Sun Yuan Hua was shocked.
The strong servant nodded, "They said it was to change the customs, so that when the descendants died, they would be cremated and could no longer be buried. They said that the burial took up too much fertile land. Master, don't you think this is f * cked up? This traitor was simply devoid of conscience. He couldn't even be buried after he died. Many people's ancestors' bones have turned into ashes, and for this, there are many who risked their lives. But it's useless, all of them will die when the gun is fired. "
Sun Yuan Hua listened and shook his head, "I really don't know what to say about this' revolutionary army '. If you want to say that they love the people, then this Grand Marshal's benevolence and righteousness can be considered unparalleled in the world. But under their fierceness, they can do anything. Their knives are really sharp, and they don't even recognize their own family. "
After living in Tianjin for so many days, Sun Yuan Hua had a deep feeling. From the initial hatred, to admiration, and then to astonishment, he finally found out that this' revolutionary army 'actually didn't care about the thoughts of the people at the bottom. According to the jokes in the streets, the people should just do their own things, and don't take themselves too seriously. It's you guys who can't leave the Grand Marshal, not the Grand Marshal who can't leave you guys.
These words were really true, and Sun Yuan Hua couldn't refute it. He walked slowly with the visitors, listening to the guide of the farm. Looking closely, this farm was really well built. The fields were very orderly, and there were many types of crops to be demonstrated. Wheat was planted in the dry land, and rice was planted in the paddy land. In addition, some of the inferior sandy fields were planted with sweet potatoes and peanuts, and even vegetables and pasture.
Most of the visitors came for the rice transplanter and seeding machine, so there were specially a few fields for people to demonstrate. When the rice transplanter was moved out, Sun Yuan Hua tiptoed to the front of the people. It was a hand-cranked manual transplanter. Originally, this thing was driven by a chain. But the 'revolutionary army' couldn't make a chain at the moment, so they simply rolled it with a belt.
The guide put some weeds into the transplanter, and then pushed the machine in the field while shaking the handle at the same time. The belt drove the two sets of elbow joints to move flexibly, easily grabbing a row of weeds and inserting them into the paddy field. The spacing of the weeds was uniform, and a straight line. The key was that this really saved a lot of effort.
Although he had heard of it for a long time, Sun Yuan Hua was still greatly shocked when he saw it with his own eyes. As long as the seedlings were arranged and put into the transplanter, there was no need to bend over or lower his head. He just gently pushed the machine forward, turned the handle, and the rice seedlings would be inserted — this was too easy.
The people at the scene were in an uproar. Many people asked the price of the transplanter loudly and asked to buy it out of their own pockets. Sun Yuan Hua's mind was buzzing — with this thing, one person was equivalent to ten people. The guide also said that the 'revolutionary army' not only made the rice transplanter for the paddy field and the seeding machine for the dry field, but they even made the animal powered harvester.
Sun Yuan Hua couldn't help but ask in shock, "Even harvesting can be done by a machine?"
The answer was naturally yes.
Sun Yuan Hua suddenly felt his vision blacking out, and he almost fainted — I, Daming, took farming and reading as my foundation, but now I can't win against others in reading, and I can't even win against them in farming. How can I fall behind? Hundreds of years of experience can't even compare to a group of rebels.
At this moment, the guide suddenly exclaimed, "Grand Marshal, our Grand Marshal is here."
The name of the Grand Marshal of the 'revolutionary army' was well-known. Who in the world didn't want to see him? Even Sun Yuan Hua immediately turned his head to look around, wanting to see what the leader of this terrible force looked like.
On the way to the farm, dozens of guards were pulling up the cordon, politely and unquestionably saying, "Please make way." Sun Yuan Hua was also pushed to the side. He saw a young boy walking together with two men in their thirties.
The boy was still apologizing to one of the men: "Mr. Chang Geng, don't be angry. It's my fault, my fault. I shouldn't have asked people to kidnap your whole family, it scared Mr. Chang Geng. But I really admire Mr. Chang Geng's talent, and I also want to ask for Mr. Chang Geng's help. Seeing you today, I will definitely make your trip worthwhile. "
The boy turned his head to look at a tall blonde maid behind him, and loudly scolded: "Look at what you have done. I asked you to invite Mr. Song here. Yet, you kidnapped their entire family and even captured their friends and relatives, teachers, and classmates in one fell swoop. There were hundreds of people here. You ran out for so long and didn't come back, I was worried that you were harmed by some bad people. "
The man who was being apologized looked angry, but he couldn't do anything about it. He looked at the boy scolding the maid, and couldn't help but retort: "Your maid is very capable, who could harm her? But my whole family was almost scared to death by her. "
The boy immediately laughed again: "Mr. Song, forgive me, forgive me. You see, since you are here, you should at least broaden your horizons. I happen to have a divine artifact here, I guarantee that you have never seen it before. "
"Your rice transplanter, I saw it yesterday. It's just a little clever, it's not a great thing. I have already understood the key to it. In time, I can make it myself. "The man was still angry, angry that his whole family was kidnapped.
"Mr. Chang Geng is really talented, but the thing you want to see today is not ordinary." The boy shouted: "Mr. Chang Geng, why don't you make a bet with me? If Mr. Chang Geng can understand this thing today and make it yourself, I will let Mr. Chang Geng go freely. But if you can't understand the principle, can you stay and help me? "
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