The world of rebirth

Ning Yunjin really admired those people, and if he put himself in their shoes, it would be really difficult to manage such a situation where officials from all over the province were colluding to deceive the emperor.

Generally speaking, there are three most common methods for the emperor to know the affairs of the world, namely, Secret Records, Memorials and Secret Agents.Although Ning Yunjin didn't know how many officials possessed the power of secrecy, but he thought there were at least a thousand people in the whole country. The number of secret agents should be even more.

If they want to complete this matter under such triple supervision, these people are indeed very careful, no wonder they were able to hide it for so long in their last life!

He couldn't guess what those people did, which doesn't mean Wen Zhen couldn't think of it either.After returning to his bedroom, he asked Li Deming to take Huguang's secret documents and the documents passed by the spies, and looked through them one by one, and soon he found that there were indeed some tricks in them.

Take Tianshou’s 19-year book about Pingjiang County as an example. First, at the end of June, I received several secret papers saying that Pingjiang suffered continuous heavy rain, causing mountain torrents to erupt in a certain place, and the water level of rivers and streams soared. Damages were reported as the river swelled.When the flood season is at its worst in July, it will be even more exaggerated. There will be reports about flooding almost every few days.

Even with Wen Zhen's disposition, it is unavoidable to be upset when looking at this kind of same-size-fits-all scriptures every day, and sometimes he just glances at it to understand the situation.And in people's thinking, there is usually a certainty, how can something that so many people know can be false! ?

At the beginning, Wen Zhen would go through details and ask the spies to confirm, but almost all the information returned was true.Looking at the replies from the secret agents in the past two years, at the beginning they really described everything in detail, which county magistrate went to the disaster-stricken area to provide disaster relief, and how much damage to farmland water conservancy was damaged, but since the year before last, these replies began to focus on In terms of what the officials have done, the description of the disaster situation is all to the point.

The spies sent by Wenzhen are different from those of Mizhe. The spies are mainly to monitor the local area and supervise the actions of local officials, mainly to prevent treason, party struggle, etc., so there is nothing wrong with focusing on people. .However, Chinese is too broad and profound, and ambiguity is prone to appear if it is slightly omitted.

For example, last year, there was a secret document handed over by the Chief Secretary of Huguang, which mentioned that a certain slope protection in Chenglingji collapsed, flooding hundreds of hectares of fertile land, which made it difficult to collect grain in storage last year, and asked the imperial court to open up donations.Although there have been donations in all dynasties, this kind of thing that sells officials to maintain the imperial treasury is what Wen Zhen hates the most. He knows that this is just drinking poison to quench his thirst, and there will be endless troubles.

But at that time, seeing that there was going to be a war with the big merchants, there was a shortage of food everywhere in the whole country, so he checked the notes handed by the secret agent, and saw that the magistrates of which states and counties had been mentioned one by one. , A booklet is full of these things about disaster relief, which can't help giving people the illusion that the flood is indeed very serious. Although it can't reach the point where the people are destitute, the impact is still great.

In such a situation, Wenzhen finally had to agree to accept the donation, and after verification, he distributed relief food and money.

Thinking about it now, this is really not in line with the nature of these people.He has also experienced floods. It is very dangerous for a person who has practiced martial arts like himself to be caught in the water without paying attention, and these guys who have always been greedy for life and fear of death would not run to the place where the disaster occurred.

Other human beings, Wen Zhen, may not know about it, but he does know about a county magistrate named He Shaoming.

This person can be considered a celebrity in Beijing. Although the He family is not considered a big family, they can get by with a Zhuangzi.Once he picked a fruit from a fruit tree protruding from the yard of someone else's house, but when he saw a woman rushing towards him with a kitchen knife, he was so frightened that he hugged his head and yelled, don't kill me!

The woman holding the kitchen knife was dumbfounded by him, obviously she just came back from sharpening the knife, saw someone picking the fruit, and wanted to remind that the fruit was sour, but she didn't expect a big man to be so cowardly.

This deed of He Shaoming was made before the imperial examination, and no one should have known about it.But when he was a good scholar in the Hanlin Academy, he offended others, and was stabbed out in the end, and everyone knew about it.

Who would believe that such a timid person would take the lead in running to the flood embankment! ?

After reminding Wenzhen, Ning Yunjin got up and wrote a letter before going to bed.Taking advantage of going to the yamen the next day, he asked Qin Ming to find someone to deliver the letter, and then he put this matter aside first, and began to think about the first thing he wanted to do.

As the saying goes, a traveler who doesn't make a steam engine is not a qualified traveler!

After he regained his memory, he also imagined how much advantage he would have if he had a steam engine if he returned to Daxia. For this reason, he also read and studied the principle of steam engines.But after returning to Daxia, he realized that thoughts are just thoughts after all.

Knowing the principle, I can actually only produce a steam engine that can be used, but it is not suitable for production at all.For a qualified steam engine, not to mention the demand for steel and forging technology, the physical structure of each component needs to be explored again and again, so that it can achieve the most effective energy consumption, until it surpasses hydraulic power, and this knowledge is all He lacks.

He knew that even if he was a heaven worshiper, he couldn't become a true all-rounder, and he didn't have so much energy to study, so he announced the principle of the steam engine.

In order to expand the influence of "Daxia Miscellaneous News", Ning Yunjin published the principle of the spinning jenny in the newspaper.After all, the thing that caused the industrial revolution was really simple as hell. It was just the idea of ​​a man who accidentally kicked over his wife's spinning machine.

Because every time the knowledge exploration section of "Daxia Miscellaneous News" publishes very interesting things, it attracts a lot of attention. Soon, someone followed the practice in the newspaper and made a Jenny machine with Daxia characteristics, and gradually spread in the south of the Yangtze River.

Ning Yunjin is well-learned in history. He knew that during the first industrial revolution, the supply of cotton yarn was in short supply due to the appearance of the flying shuttle first, and then the Jenny machine greatly increased the production of cotton yarn. Therefore, he specially released the principle of the Jenny machine first. The practice of releasing the shuttle until the Jenny machine is more popular, so those who first used the Jenny machine did not have the unlucky treatment of the real inventor of the Jenny machine, Hargreaves - being smashed and beaten by the machine. .

Since Huang Daopo improved the textile technology, the textile industry in the south of the Yangtze River has been the most developed in the country, and the cloth produced is widely loved at home and abroad. It can be said that as much as it is produced, it can be sold.In order to promote cotton planting, the previous dynasty stipulated that for all civilian fields with five to ten acres, half an acre each of mulberry, hemp, and kapok, and more than ten acres, doubled, and cotton was the object of agricultural tax collection, so that now cotton has spread all over the world, and the cotton weaving industry The production areas are distributed in ten major provinces and autonomous regions across the country.

The easiest thing to produce with these two machines is cotton cloth, so it is conceivable how terrible the output of Daxia's spinning industry is now.

Since the current production of cotton cloth in the world is concentrated in Bactria and India, it is considered a luxury in other countries, especially in the West, so such a huge output does not bring about a drop in commodity prices, but the dumping of commodities from other countries.

Regarding this point, Ning Yunjin, who had studied simple economics, was naturally secretly happy, so he wanted to add fuel to the flames.If the steam engine can be invented, it might be able to completely destroy the textile industry of other countries—he was really worried about the great blow to the national cotton industry caused by foreign cotton and foreign cotton products during the Opium War in later generations. Knowing that during that dark historical period, the import volume of foreign cotton and cotton fabrics was second only to opium, occupying the second and third places respectively, almost destroying the national cotton weaving industry.

The principle of the steam engine was sorted out at the beginning of Tianshou's 19th year, and it took two months to put all the content he knew in the "Daxia Zabao".Unfortunately, if it was really that easy to make, the British would not have studied it for so many years just to improve it.

After about half a year, after arriving at Yujie to praise officials, someone sent a letter to the newspaper office.The person in the letter said that he lost everything and made a prototype, but he had no money to continue to develop and was about to give up. He wanted to ask Ning Yunjin if he would like to take a look at the machine made according to his theory.

Ning Yunjin would put this principle in the newspaper, waiting for someone to experiment out of curiosity, he was naturally overjoyed when he got the news, coincidentally, this person happened to live in the suburbs of Beijing, so he met that person named Shi Feizhou overnight.

In the words of later generations, that person is a technical geek. Although he has read a lot, he only likes to play with these things, and he doesn't take the exam for fame. He is a famous weirdo.However, this person is indeed quite capable, and actually tossed out a steam engine with a power of only a few horsepower.

Since then, Ning Yunjin has been spending money to support his research. Now that a year has passed, the efficiency of that steam engine is close to [-]%, which is already extremely rare, and the next thing to wait for is to use it on a large scale.

He knew that if he wanted to promote this thing, he had to deal with Wen Zhen and the five elders first, so he made Shi Feizhou scale down and made a small steam engine.

This small steam engine is only half a meter long, and it is all handcrafted using the finest stainless steel in Daxia.This machine uses a balance lever and tie rod structure to drive the water pump. Not only is the air pump installed, but the cylinder is also sandwiched. It can be said that although it is a little small, it is a perfect model.

Due to the funeral of Zuo Shiheng and the change of elders in the past few days, which attracted the attention of the court, he planned to wait a few days before taking them out, so he simply moved the things to the West Fifth Institute.

In order to wait for this machine, Ning Yunjin left the Yamen a little late, so when he returned to his residence, he found that the yard he lived in looked like a nursery school—Hongyang and Hongxin were leading Hongxu Hongxuan's two little ones occupied his main hall and made someone set up a desk to do homework.

As soon as he came back, Hong Xi put the pen down and greeted him, and asked like a cannonball, "Qing Yang, why are you so late today? We have been waiting for you for a long time! The bag they carried What is it? By the way, can we have dinner at your place? The things in your small kitchen always taste better than mine.”

Hongxuan said with a smile, "My fourth brother is a foodie, and he only thinks about food every day."

"It's as if you are not the same." Hong Yang said with a straight face, "If you have the ability, you can go back by yourself."

Hong Xu grabbed Hong Xi's hand and raised his eyebrows at him, "I don't want it! You and fourth brother don't want to eat alone."

Seeing the commotion these few hours had caused, Ning Yunjin only felt a headache.If we say that these few were a bit reserved at the beginning, but after being brought by Hongxin to him for a few meals, all of them showed their true nature, and they were very rude in front of him.

"You didn't do your homework in your bedroom, why did you come to me?"

The author has something to say: "Isn't Qingyang welcome?" Hongxin blinked, pouted and said, "Didn't you say that if there is something you don't understand, you can come and ask?"

Before Ning Yunjin could speak, Hongxuan complained bluntly, "Fourth brother, you are so old, it's not good to pretend to be cute! You better stop pretending."

Hong Yang also nodded, and agreed, "Hong Xin, you are already ten years old, and it is really inappropriate to make that expression again."

Ning Yunjin was afraid of these few, so he could only say, "How dare you not welcome the princes, I'm just afraid that if you fail to complete your homework, you will be punished by the emperor tomorrow!"

The Hongxu man walked up to Ning Yunjin in small steps, "Master Ning, don't worry about us eating free food here, the master said that you have to give money when you eat outside. As princes, we won't even I don't understand this."

As he spoke, he took out his chubby hand in his purse, then pinched out four yellow and white objects with his three fleshy fingers and placed them in Ning Yunjin's palm.

Ning Yunjin didn't know whether to laugh or cry looking at the gold and silver the size of rice grains in his palm, knowing that the servants probably prepared them as rewards for him, but most people melt them into melon seeds, so he directly turned them into rice grains.

Suddenly his heart moved, he looked at Hong Xu and said, "I don't hesitate to accept the reward from the fifth prince. This thing is very delicately fused, and it looks like real rice grains. It even has grains. It takes a lot of money." Work hard!"

Hong Xu doubted that he was there, and said triumphantly, "It's not my marriage. I met the prince's brother in the morning and greeted him. He is in a good mood today and gave me a big bouquet!"

Thinking of what he heard yesterday, the corner of Ning Yunjin's mouth curled up into a smile, yellow rice and white rice, that's how it is!I only hope that in a few days, the prince can still laugh.