My Daming New Empire

"This is really good news... I was planning to go to Xiamaqiao Farm today, so let's meet him first. Let him meet you at Donghuamen, and I'll be there later."

This time, of course, Li Liang didn't need to notify himself. He sent a young eunuch to pass the news, and stayed by Zhu Zhanji's side. "Your Highness, now that Tsushima Island has been captured, are you going to prepare for the expedition? You should prepare early, too?"

"What does taking Tsushima have to do with the expedition?"

Li Liang was dumbfounded all of a sudden, and it took... a long time before he said: "If you want to send troops to Japan, the key is to win Tsushima Island!"

Zhu Zhanji scolded with a smile: "Unlearned and incompetent guy, learn more from Sun Lin when you have time. Different positions in the war need to consider different issues. Taking Tsushima Island is just a step in tactics. It is not related to strategy. There is no relationship of half a penny to advance. The key to sending troops to Dongying lies in the results of the negotiations between the imperial mission and the Dongying shogunate and the major names. This matter is not urgent, just wait for it. Make arrangements and go to Xiamaqiao in a while. "

Li Liang chuckled and said: "For these important national affairs, the servants are of course not as good as His Highness. As long as the servants know how to serve His Highness comfortably, it is enough."

Everyone has their specialties. For a person like Li Liang, if you ask him to do something, he may make a mess.However, he is a hundred times better than Sun Lin in serving others.

Although Sun Lin was taciturn and didn't know how to read people's faces, he was far from what Li Liang could match when it came to intelligence analysis.

Now the Advisory Department in charge of Sun Lin, that is, the intelligence department established by Zhu Zhanji, already has more than [-] internal supervisors, who are responsible for collecting intelligence from all over the country.

They not only collected intelligence with their own hands, but also formed a cooperative relationship with the Secretary of General Administration and Jin Yiwei, using their intelligence system to form a semi-open intelligence system.

Information from all over the country was collected into the Advisory Information Department, and all the information was classified into categories and clearly counted. This is Sun Lin's ability.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji was able to be so worry-free because above Li Liang and Sun Lin, there was a well-informed and experienced Jin Kuo.

With his overall arrangement, Zhu Zhanji can be so relaxed.

I haven't seen Yang Zhangde for more than a month, and he deliberately put on a dusty look, hoping to win a little favor in front of Zhu Zhanji.

But he didn't run alone for thousands of miles, but came back by boat, making him look like this is to play him for a fool!

Zhu Zhanji deliberately pretended not to see him, pointed at Li Liang and said, "Arrange a horse for Yang Qianhu to accompany him, so I want to hear the whole incident."

Seeing Yang Zhangde's blushing face, Li Liang couldn't help reminding in a low voice: "Yang Qianhu, it's too late!"

Although he didn't like the somewhat rebellious Yang Zhangde at the beginning, after contacting him for more than a year, he also discovered that this Yang Zhangde still has some abilities.

Now that he has made great achievements again, his prosperity is just around the corner. At this time, he left a little incense, which can be used in the future.

It was only then that Yang Zhangde realized that the appearance he made on purpose made his grandson somewhat displeased.He wanted to play his grandson as a fool, but he was actually a fool.

At this time, he didn't dare to take credit for being arrogant anymore. He lowered his attitude and followed Zhu Zhanji. He led 300 people and tracked Zong Zhensheng in the barren mountains for more than a month, and finally underestimated the process of his solution. said it.

This is the attitude you should have!

Zhu Zhanji certainly knows the difficulty of surviving in the wild in this era, especially now that it is winter.I know all about the hardships you have endured, but don't be so obvious, as if you are asking for credit.

By the time Yang Zhangde finished his report, the guard of honor had already arrived outside the Iron and Steel Research Institute in Xiamaqiao.

Chen Cheng, the Langzhong of the Dushuiqing Officials Department of the Ministry of Industry, is also the current manager of Xiamaqiao Farm.He knew that Zhu Zhanji would come today, and led a group of subordinates to welcome Zhu Zhanji at the gate.

However, Zhu Zhanji did not dismount, and continued to tell Yang Zhangde: "This time you have worked hard, rest at home for a few days, and when the Ministry of War verifies your achievements, I will promote you to the commander of Jinyiwei, but you will continue to work with me for the time being." Serve by your side, wait for the Dongpu business, you will go back to Jinyiwei to familiarize yourself with the situation..."

Yang Zhangde knew that this was continuing to create opportunities for himself to make meritorious deeds, so he got off his horse, knelt down and said, "I obey!"

Zhu Zhanji pointed at him with a horsewhip and said, "The commander is already a senior member of the fourth rank, so don't kneel down and worship at every turn in the future. Also, you are not too young now, and it's time to get married..."

Of course Yang Zhangde knows that there are not many people of his age in the court who are not married. Many people of the same age as him have children who have already started school.

As an official of the imperial court, he has never been married, and he cannot give the imperial court a chance to control him. Such a person cannot be trusted.

Now that the grandson has pointed it out, no matter what, he should find a wife to marry.

"I understand. Before going to Japan, I must invite Your Highness to drink my wedding wine."

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said, "Okay, Gu will give you a congratulatory gift then."

Having said this, it also means that Zhu Zhanji will definitely attend his wedding. This is a supreme honor!

As long as the grandson does not lose his power, as a member of the grandson, as long as he doesn't get angry, nothing will happen to him.

Of course, since the grandson still let him work in Jinyiwei, it must be something that offends others.Thinking about Ji Gang, he didn't worry too much anymore, the big deal, he will be like Ji Gang in the future, taking his family to a foreign land to continue working hard.

After dismissing Yang Zhangde, Zhu Zhanji got off his horse and, surrounded by everyone, entered the Iron and Steel Research Institute.

Because of the establishment of the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, most of the experiments were actually carried out in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, so the Iron and Steel Research Institute is more like a theoretical research center, and most of the staff are also working in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone.

Research on steel has always been Zhu Zhanji's most important work.Because this substance is probably the most widely used in the development of industry, the development of iron and steel almost represents the development of industry at the same time.

However, limited by the technology, the highest temperature that can be reached in today's iron and steel smelting is only around [-] degrees.

This temperature can completely melt gold, silver, copper, aluminum and lead, but it cannot completely melt iron.

Even today's Zhu Zhanji has had people improve the steelmaking furnace, using a combination of top blowing and bottom blowing to increase the temperature to 1000 degrees, but it is still not enough.

Cast iron can be produced at 1000 to [-] degrees, but to completely melt steel, the temperature of the steelmaking furnace must reach [-] to [-] degrees.

Zhu Zhanji has engaged in industrial upgrading in his previous life, and knows that the melting point of iron is 1535 degrees, and the melting point of steel is 1515 degrees. Only when this temperature is reached can the iron molecules be completely melted and impurities removed.

But now it seems that the improvement of the three Baidu is extremely difficult.

If the furnace temperature can reach more than [-] degrees, qualified gun barrels, gun barrels, and various high-strength steels can be produced directly.

But now, the gun barrels and gun barrels processed by cast iron need to go through a multi-program quenching process to get a qualified gun barrel.

The development of the world's steelmaking history, in the original history, could not solve this problem until the [-]th century.

In fact, it was not until the First World War in the early 20th century that the application of alloy steel gradually developed.

Zhu Zhanji wants to solve this problem 500 years in advance, and the difficulty is really not ordinary.

However, he doesn't need to grope and experiment step by step, because he knows the most suitable method.

The increase in furnace temperature, in addition to the heat of coke, is followed by the supply of oxygen.

In this day and age, it is very difficult to make people realize that air is composed of different gases, let alone extract it.

But there are some things that must be done from now on. Only with one will there be infinite possibilities in the future.

So after the Lantern Festival, Zhu Zhanji issued an order to the Institute of Chemistry to let them figure out the principle of the Kongming Lantern going to the sky.

However, when the window paper is not pierced, a vague order will only make people at a loss, they don't know what it means.

So in the order, Zhu Zhanji directly made a judgment and wrote: "When the lamp is ignited, the lamp can rise. This shows that after ignition, the weight of the lamp becomes smaller than the outside air. But when the lamp When you reach a certain height, you will stop rising, which means the weight is equal. When the lights go out, the lights will fall down. What is the reason for this? We breathe air, which nourishes our lungs and provides us with the nutrients we need Why do you feel that the air is fresh in the woods, but it is difficult to breathe in the house that burns the charcoal basin in winter? Why do the ever-burning lamps in the tombs go out before burning the lamp oil? There should be a certain connection in this.”

Although in the order, Zhu Zhanji asked people to study what the air is made of, but it is impossible to study any results based on imagination alone.

So Zhu Zhanji also asked his father-in-law Ma Zhide to help him make some glass cups and bottles, and planned to do an experiment for everyone.

In his first life, he was a scumbag when he was in school, and he didn't know much about chemical experiments.But using two connected sealed bottles, using water and burning to press the water level, and using the principle of a water press to explain the pressure, these are still no problem.