Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Xiao Zirong cheered up when he saw the coal mine was discovered. He immediately took the map and looked at it, and found that the distance seemed not too close. He originally wanted to build roads first to make transportation more convenient.

If it's this far...it seems like a lot of money is needed to build the road.

Xiao Zirong looked at his small treasury. How long has he been in Jinling? Seeing his money dwindle rapidly, he has already spent half of it.

You must know that before he came, he really had a lot of money in his pocket, and since these days, Xiao Xuan and Xiao Xuexing will send him some money regularly, anyway, as long as he writes a letter, he will give money.

Xiao Zirong secretly looked at his account book, and then looked at the recent road construction.

Now it has taken [-] guan to build the road, and this is only the cement road inside the industrial zone, and the transportation with the outside is still being planned, and it will not be built until the thorough planning is completed.

The first batch of roads to be built are not the roads leading to and from major cities and towns, but leading to the villages and towns first, because most of the migrant workers who work there pass through the villages and towns. It is more convenient to come and go.

Others don't understand why Xiao Zirong builds roads for these people. Xiao Zirong feels that many people may not understand democracy or people's livelihood with them.

It's not that they don't pay attention, they also hope that the people's lives will be good, but the premise of this good thing is that they are better, why should they use good things for these people if they don't use them first?

This is a fundamental difference in the three views. Xiao Zirong didn't want to persuade them directly, so he found a way that these people could accept--building roads can reduce the time for these people to travel on the road, and work time increased.

This reason is enough to fool, but some people think that Xiao Zirong is unnecessary, and think that it takes too long for them to go home, so why not let them go home at all.

What?No place to live?Anyway, it's not cold now, so just get some rammed earth houses.

In fact, Xiao Zirong has already started the construction of the residential area. With the increase of people there, the demand for the residential area will be greater.

To be honest, the current pace of construction is actually completely different from what Xiao Zirong expected before.

What he thought before was just like playing a game, build up bit by bit according to the order of importance, when he was talking about these before, Xiao Xuexing listened with a smile all the time, didn't say anything else, just encouraged him to do it.

Thinking about it now, Xiao Xuexing should have thought his idea was naive at the time, right?

It is difficult to understand what the real difficulties are without practice.

It's just that the construction of the residential area has to wait until the complete slack season. In about half a month, all the crops will be harvested at that time, and Xiao Zirong will be able to hire a large number of migrant workers.

Ah, when he thought of hiring migrant workers, he thought of his own small coffers. He really never thought that one day he would become like a miser, and his heart aches when he sees spending money.

The road cannot be repaired, and the only thing he can do is to pay more money when the other party transports coal to him, or subsidize a little money.

However, this coal was discovered by Xiao Ji, so it should belong to Xiao Ji, right?

When Xiao Zirong was thinking about this, he found that his uncle had sent him money again.

This time Xiao Xuan was not out to subsidize his nephew, but to be happy.

When Xiao Ji sent people to Jianyi before, Xiao Xuan knew about it, but he didn't say anything at that time. It was not a big deal, but he felt strange that Xiao Zirong had sworn that there was coal there.

He and Xiao Xuexing didn't pay attention to this matter at the time, but they didn't expect that they actually found coal.

When Xiao Xuan asked, Xiao Ji said: "Rong'er said it was a dream."

Xiao Xuexing and Xiao Xuan looked at each other, and they didn't quite believe this statement.

Xiao Zirong's character and the two of them are quite familiar with each other, how could it be possible for Xiao Ji to send people all the way to do this because of a dream?

And Xiao Xuexing felt that if it was just a dream, Xiao Zirong would have told him immediately.

As long as something is not very sure, Xiao Zirong will not be able to disclose it to outsiders first.

Even Xiao Ji is not an outsider strictly speaking, but he is definitely not as good as him in terms of closeness.

From this point of view, it was more like Xiao Zirong knew something in advance and gave Xiao Ji a chance to make money.

As for Xiao Zirong who has never been to Jianyi, how could he know that there is coal in Jianyi? Both Xiao Xuexing and Xiao Xuan tacitly asked Xiao Ji not to talk about it, and outsiders would say that the King of Jinling dreamed of it.

Xiao Xuan wanted Xiao Ji to say that he had dreamed it, not to create myths and legends for his son, but Xiao Zirong already had many myths and legends.

Now that Xiao Zirong went to Jinling to focus on construction, what he needed was not the eyes of everyone on him, but a quiet atmosphere.

It would be best if no one pays attention, so that neither Xiao Xuan nor Xiao Xuexing can help secretly.

It's just that Xiao Ji's situation... It's not appropriate to lie, and neither Xiao Zirong nor Xiao Ji kept it secret at the time, so many people knew about it, and now it seems that it can only be like this.

The reason for Xiao Xuan's excitement is also very simple. It is said that this coal mine has a very rich reserve. This is money. Even if Xiao Ji does not become the emperor in the future, there is no need to worry that he will be short of money to spend.

And in fact, Xiao Ji's money may not be as much as Xiao Zirong's. The main reason is that although Xiao Xuan may not be considered a particularly talented person as an emperor, he is really serious about governing the country. pay.

Therefore, there is no money in the internal treasury, so naturally Xiao Ji can't get any money.

Xiao Xuan had been worrying about what kind of fiefdom he would give to Xiao Ji before, while he wanted to make Xiao Ji the crown prince, but at the same time he was a little entangled in not wanting to give up Xiao Zirong.

Xiao Ji also said that he was not that material, now Xiao Xuan decided to directly give Xiao Ji the entire area around Jianyi as a fief, because Jianyi belongs to Bashan County, Xiao Ji was very generous and directly gave Bashan County to his son.

So the eldest prince became Bashan King.

Xiao Ji was quite happy, with the fiefdom, he would have income, and he would not have to wait for his father to give him money in the future, and after having a coal mine, he might be able to give his father some money.

It’s just that the first batch of coal mines must be given to his younger brother. He also knew that Xiao Zirong’s adventure to the Northern Wei Dynasty was for the coal mines. Said that his purpose was not achieved.

He didn't know what price Xiao Zirong had paid for knowing the location of the coal mine, maybe even if he knew, he couldn't help him, and in the end he could only give him a little more coal.

When Xiao Zirong received the first batch of coal, he happily asked people to pull the black stone to the coal yard that had been prepared earlier, and then asked the laboratory to take some coal for testing. .

Over the past few days, the steam boiler has basically been formed, and the walking part has not been done yet, but he is not in a hurry. What needs to be done now is to try to stabilize the high-pressure part.

If the high-pressure part is unstable, even if the entire steam locomotive is built, if there is a problem at that time, it will explode to the sky.

When burning wood before, the boiler performance was fairly stable, but the power of the steam may not be so strong, and it may be able to start the front part of the car, but it may be a bit daunting to drive the long train.

This is also why Xiao Zirong wanted coal. The combustion efficiency of coal is high, and the speed of steam generation is more sufficient.

He had the coal pulled over and stayed there staring at the boiler.

Then the boiler... lived up to expectations and exploded.

There was still a lot of noise from the explosion, and the roof of the laboratory was directly overturned. Fortunately, when Xiao Zirong let everyone experiment, the boiler and the fire box were separated.

Everyone is adding fuel to the firebox outside, and the boiler is running inside. The only thing to worry about is that the boiler will explode.

History told Xiao Zirong that this thing is unstable and too easy to blow up.

The previous smoothness made Xiao Zirong think that he had used enough technology, and the boiler might not blow up, but now it seems... It's not that it won't blow up, it's not time yet.

Zhai Ling and the others were frightened by the explosion, Xiao Zirong looked at them and said calmly: "We have studied it before, and there is no problem in the assembly technology, so the problem may appear in the material , I will let the smelter add some other metals, don’t be discouraged, we are very close to success.”

Anyway, don't care what these people think, let's pour a wave of chicken soup first.

Sure enough, when Zhai Ling and others saw that Xiao Zirong not only did not blame and reprimand them, but comforted them, they were instantly moved. Although they were still in a state of shock, they were ready to continue the experiment.

Xiao Zirong asked his servants to clean up the scene and rebuild the laboratory.

There are no particularly sophisticated instruments in this laboratory, and even learned the lesson from the beginning without even installing glass windows. Now it seems that it is quite prescient.

Chai Shuren probably heard the commotion and ran over in a hurry, and couldn't help but gasped when he saw the scene, quickly looked at Xiao Zirong and asked, "Is Your Highness injured?"

Xiao Zirong waved his hand: "I'm standing far away, it's fine."

Only then did Chai Shuren heave a sigh of relief, and stood there looking at the scene and couldn't help asking, "Your Highness, this time...do you want to keep it a secret?"

Xiao Zirong looked at him expressionlessly: "Tell me how to keep this secret?"

It exploded so loudly that the roof of the house flew into the sky, are you telling me to keep it secret now?

Chai Shuren also felt that this question was a bit stupid, so he thought for a while and asked, "Then...how should I say it?"

Xiao Zirong has been keeping this matter secret, even if someone sees such an accident now, he still has to find a way to hide it.

Xiao Zirong said directly: "Then I'm researching more advanced weapons."

This is a smoke bomb, in order to confuse the Northern Wei Dynasty and make them dare not act rashly for a short time.

He didn't believe that there were no people from the Northern Wei Dynasty on Jinling's side.

It's just that he doesn't know if the Northern Wei Dynasty got the news, but obviously everyone except his subordinates believed it. After all, even Chai Shuren didn't know what he was doing in this experiment.

It is not surprising for others to hear that he is researching more advanced weapons. Everyone has seen the power of the gunpowder bamboo tube.

So within two days, someone wrote a letter tremblingly: Your Highness, the place of the experiment...can you change it?We paid for it and built it!