Chapter 84 Guarding Yourself Like a Jade Ambassador Yang
Chapter 84 Ambassador Yang maintains his integrity
Suzhou.
"Everyone, what I want is very simple, just such a small thing.
But not as wooden as it is now.
And it is not made of pig iron, but has to withstand a certain twisting force. Just like this, whoever can withstand the greatest twisting force will get a reward of 500 guan and accept my employment. From now on, he will earn 200 yuan per month.
Ten strings.”
Yang Feng stood behind a table and said to the large number of blacksmiths gathered in front of him.
These were all summoned by the local guard generals from the counties under Suzhou, including places outside Suzhou such as Changzhou, Jiaxing, and Songjiang. Anyway, the developed waterway transportation allows craftsmen in these places to gather quickly, and as long as they come
, all have consistent notes, which are both travel expenses and deposits. At this time, consistent notes are already very valuable.
The new banknotes are equal to the old banknotes at a ratio of one to four.
And thanks to the fact that counterfeit banknotes have been basically driven out of the market, at least the currency value is currently stable.
As for what he was twisting, it was actually a bolt and nut.
It's just wooden.
I had a carpenter carve it out by hand, and there were a lot of them. Here are the samples.
The blacksmiths looked at each other...
"Sir, do you mean what you say?"
One of them said cautiously.
Although this is a Wu-speaking area, we can basically communicate in Mandarin.
"This is your Suzhou Guard Commander, here is the bachelor of Hanlin Academy, here is your emperor's imperial edict, and here is the iron certificate. What more guarantee do you want? If you are still not at ease, it is easy to do. Here is
Five hundred Guan notes, I will put these here. You each receive one Guan note and take it back as a production tool. After it is made, bring it to us for public inspection.
The best one will directly receive the reward."
Yang Feng said.
They really can't make modern standard bolts, but the simple elementary version is still fine.
Because this was necessary for matchlock guns in the late Ming Dynasty. The end of the barrel of the matchlock gun was blocked by bolts, which is called a thread turn. Therefore, there is no technically unattainable problem. Pure handicrafts have been developed in these more than 100 years of history.
There has been little development over the years.
Maybe even regressed.
Of course, unified standard parts are impossible.
But for the rudimentary agricultural machinery he will build next, as long as there is a bolt to tighten it, it is enough.
I really don’t have the right to ask for too much.
The real standard bolts are 1797 technology.
The blacksmiths were relieved, and then stepped forward to collect the money. Each person had a consistent amount of money, and they fingerprinted or signed a customization contract. The literacy rate in Suzhou was high, and most of the craftsmen could write their names, and get another one as a sample.
Wooden bolts and nuts. It can be seen that they don’t care about the shape of these things, which means that the shape of the simple bolts and nuts is not a problem for them...
"You all know how to make shapes?"
Yang Fengruo asked an old craftsman with interest.
"Sir, this iron has been softened. It can look like anything you want. It's just a craft job."
The old craftsman said with a smile.
In this case, Yang Feng didn't care, since he only wanted results anyway.
Actually it shouldn't be difficult.
Red-hot wrought iron is not difficult to process. Although wrought iron is not strong enough, its strength can be increased by carburizing it into steel and adding heat treatment. At this time, the wrought iron is carburized into steel and pig iron is decarburized. The technology of mature iron
It has long been common.
As for heat treatment, it really depends on the skills of the craftsmen.
"Sir, if you want to make a small one in partnership with others, can you do it together when you recruit people?"
asked the old craftsman.
Twenty pounds a month!
You must know that this is higher than being an official. Nowadays, in places like Suzhou, you can't get a single stone or rice. This salary is far more than that of a county magistrate.
"Okay, but they all have to be skilled, they can't just be fake, and the wages are easy to say!"
Yang Feng said.
This requires process cooperation!
“Where is the work?”
"You are in the capital, but you may also be in Taiping Prefecture. In short, it is all in Jiangnan. As for whether you are willing to go to Liaodong in the future, you will decide this by yourself. If you are willing to go, the salary will be doubled."
Yang Feng said.
These people do not need to go to Liaodong for the time being.
His agricultural machinery manufacturing will have to be in the south for a short time. After all, the transportation is relatively simple and it is not a modern large-scale equipment.
The old craftsman quickly agreed and left.
"Your salary is a bit high."
Zhang Xianzong said next to him.
"You don't know the value of craftsmen as well as the Mongols. When the Mongols slaughtered the city, they knew that craftsmen could not be killed. On the contrary, Confucian scholars killed them at will, so they were the ones who truly understood the value of craftsmen. At that time, we..."
Yang Feng suddenly stopped talking.
"Why don't you say it? Since ancient times, those who work hard govern others, and those who work hard govern others. I don't believe that craftsmen can govern the world at that time. So what about the Mongols. Although they massacred the city without killing craftsmen, didn't craftsmen still have to be controlled? In that dynasty
Sitting in the hall, there were not many who were craftsmen. It didn't take long, even the Mongolians had to take the imperial examination, and Confucian scholars still sat in the court to supervise the craftsmen. So Guo Shoujing was a craftsman? Wrong, he was not a craftsman.
He is a Confucian scholar, a great Confucian, from a Confucian family.
Confucianism is the main focus, miscellaneous studies are the supplement.”
Zhang Xianzong said with a happy smile.
"But for those of us in later generations, his greatest value lies in his miscellaneous knowledge."
Yang Feng said.
"But he himself doesn't think that he relies on miscellaneous knowledge.
He considers himself to be from a Confucian family."
Zhang Xianzong said with a smile.
"next batch!"
Yang Feng was speechless and quickly changed the topic.
The next group is the potters.
"Here is a recipe for something, and the steps for making it are the same as for a blacksmith. You can take it back and bake it for me, and then I will compare it. The best one also has a reward of five hundred guan. The old master said before, can you bring it with you?
As a partnership, you can't do it alone, so if you are hired, you can also bring the partnership with you, and the salary will be determined according to each person's role.
But after you are hired, you will have to go to Liaodong with me.
So your wages are doubled.
You are not staying in Liaodong for a long time, you can come back when you are on duty at the Ministry of Industry."
Yang Feng said holding a piece of paper full of words.
This is cement.
This is definitely a must.
Because when he went to the Songhua River to open up wasteland, he had to build canals. For large-scale farmland irrigation, at least stone canals or even aqueducts were needed.
Barrages must be built if necessary.
Of course it is not built on the Songhua River, but if you want to realize gravity irrigation, it is not easy to find those completely suitable places, so it is best to find a tributary to build a barrage, then divert the river water out, and build aqueducts in some necessary places. Use an aqueduct below
A stone canal diverts water to farmland for gravity irrigation. If you want to save costs, you must burn the cement, but it is impossible to burn the cement in the south. This must be done near the farm. Even for the convenience of materials, it must be burned.
Places like Jilin have convenient water transportation conditions, otherwise just transporting cement would consume a lot of manpower.
"Send it to women too?"
A potter said in surprise.
It seems that Ambassador Yang's feat of sending women has spread here.
"Fa, I'll give you this, but if you do, you have to sign a long-term contract. You must follow me in the future. According to my arrangement, I need you to live in Liaodong permanently, and you have to live in Liaodong permanently. If you regret it, you will have to compensate me for liquidated damages.
And women have to take it back too.
As for the issue of the Ministry of Industry not being able to continue serving, I will resolve it."
Yang Feng pointed to his most beautiful adopted daughter and said.
The latter is now his signature.
Dressed like an oiran, he fooled around wherever he went, luring ignorant teenagers into his trap.
As for the Ministry of Industry, it's easy to handle.
If it doesn't work, you can hire someone to do it for you.
In fact, at this time, people were already hired privately to do the work.
It's just that agency service is illegal. After all, those who hire agency workers must have no skills, and they are even old, weak, sick and disabled. Zhu Yuanzhang deeply hates this kind of behavior that fools him, so agency service is strictly prohibited. But this is only his strict prohibition. In actual operation, agency service can still be said
It is very common, including government officials and the like. In fact, there are also substitute servants.
"Sign, sign, as long as it's a woman, the younger one will sign!"
The man said hurriedly.
Then he looked at the adopted daughter longingly.
The latter glanced at him enchantingly, making him dazzled for a moment.
Then he rushed forward as quickly as possible, quickly received a piece of formula paper, paid a lot of money, and then signed a customization contract. It could be seen that the small universe was already burning, waiting to make a product that Yang Feng was satisfied with.
Then he embarked on a beautiful life of embracing his beloved wife and concubines.
Then there's the carpenter.
This is also very important, after all, most of the current machinery is still made of wood.
In particular, Yang Feng also wants to manufacture large quantities of four-wheeled carriages for transportation. He has already reserved a blacksmith who can make spring plates, and as long as the blacksmiths here can make bolts that meet his standards, they will definitely be able to.
Create a spring plate.
The technologies are all connected.
His springboard is not a springboard in the modern sense.
That can't be made.
At this time, what he calls spring plates is actually high-quality forged steel that has undergone a complete heat treatment process.
Before the birth of modern steelmaking technology, all springs were of this type, including the spring plates of flintlock guns, which were also heat-treated forged steel. In fact, it was already possible to make matchlocks and even flintlock guns.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not allow him to equip the farm with firearms.
So he could only ask these craftsmen to make steel crossbows for him.
Then add the strings.
This set of equipment is sufficient in Liaodong.
In particular, the four-wheeled carriage can be converted into a Hussite chariot.
Then one by one armed reclamation regiments took root in the vast wasteland of the Northeast, and they began to have the flavor of farming and fighting to build a country.
mason.
Mason.
…
In short, all kinds of craftsmen.
This includes veterinarians and, of course, human doctors.
This is also very simple, because at this time there were doctors and doctors in the local area. The latter were not doctors, but medical students who studied in local medicine. They were called doctors. Yang Feng had already given the Barefoot Doctor Handbook to
Dai Sigong, who then made some revisions, mainly to pick out the parts that could not be applied at this time, and then separately compiled the parts that could be promoted immediately. This Huangming Medical Codex, signed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, has become a medical code in various places.
The necessary teaching materials will be promoted nationwide.
Although time is short at this time and it may not be available in remote places, Suzhou medicine is definitely available.
So these doctors are already available.
This recruitment is mainly based on whether they are willing to follow to Huining.
Don't want to go?
Adopted daughter!
Look at this beauty who has descended from heaven to earth, she can be hugged from left to right after signing the contract!
Most men can't handle it.
In short, Yang Feng is now capable of cheating everyone.
The adopted daughters behind him were constantly calling him like models on a catwalk, stepping forward to show off their beautiful faces.
"How many beauties do you have to promise?"
Zhang Xianzong exclaimed.
"Why do you want it too? If you want us to get a Japanese girl, this kind of thing is totally worthless to me. It's nothing more than going out to rob. They will leave for the north next year. I still have more than a thousand in Liaodong.
There are probably some adopted daughters who have grown up, so I will choose them when the time comes!
If it’s not enough, let’s go out and grab it again!
If you follow me, the thing you are least afraid of is this problem.
You don’t have to think it’s wrong. We robbed these women to save them. Look at them. What are they doing in North Korea?
slave!
The master can play with them however he wants.
You can kill them if you want.
It is almost impossible to have enough food on weekdays, and it is impossible to keep warm clothes in winter. When we first arrived at my place, they were as thin as dead grass, and they only grow flowers in my place. So we are not robbing them, but saving them. We are in North Korea
To save the girl, we saved the girl in the Japanese country, and in the future we will go to Annan to save the girl.
Keep saving.
We want to be the saviors of women in the world.
Of course, forget about those in Africa."
Yang Feng said with some pride.
That shameless face is simply outrageous.
"The ambassador is really ambitious!"
A slightly mocking voice suddenly sounded.
Yang Feng turned around and saw Mrs. Zhu, but her signature was Zhu Liu's Nv Ying...
It must be a pseudonym.
"Mrs. Zhu, what a coincidence!"
Yang Feng said with a look of surprise.
"The ambassador is determined to save girls from all over the world. I don't know how many beauties he plans to raise in his home in the future. He won't need three thousand beauties, right?"
Mrs. Zhu walked over and said.
This woman is dressed very gracefully today, but she is not alone. There are several women behind her who are also dressed very gracefully and elegantly, all with maids, just like a group of girlfriends sweeping the streets, but it is very difficult to come to Suzhou to sweep the streets.
Normally, they all covered their faces with fans and looked at Yang Feng with interest. For some reason, Yang Feng suddenly felt as if he was being stared at by a pack of wolves. There seemed to be a ferocious look in those eyes that wanted to devour him.
…
"Madam, this is a misunderstanding. Our Daxia country is monogamous."
He said quickly.
"My Ming Dynasty is also monogamous, so my concubine does not count as my wife, and the maidservants who live in the same house, the dancers in the inner house, and the outer house, etc., of course do not count as my wife. Ah, you are all righteous daughters, such a beautiful and fragrant righteous daughter.
Female."
Mrs. Zhu said with a smile.
Zhang Xianzong silently asked people to move the seats.
Mrs. Zhu sat down calmly, then she took the most beautiful adopted daughter and looked at her, and even touched her little hand...
"To prove my innocence, Madam can take her for examination."
Yang Feng said seriously.
Mrs. Zhu tilted her head and looked at him coquettishly.
"I am as protective as jade!"
Yang Feng said seriously.
Seeing his serious look, Mrs. Zhu finally couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.