The New Ordnance Supervision can no longer simply be said to be a workshop, nor is it appropriate to call it two workshops: arms and coinage.
This is a city, almost equivalent to a lower county seat.
Except for the fact that it is adjacent to Bianliang and has no commercial supporting facilities, the rest is no smaller than a county town. Regardless of population and land area.
"Ming Zhong, you may be tired next..."
"Your Highness, Li Jie knows."
Do you know? Do you really know? Zhao Xi did not simply ask him to supervise the construction of weapons. He even intended to let him supervise the construction of rail tracks and copper-iron mines.
Su Song had to concentrate on machinery, and Li Jie had to run around more. He was probably on the road for less than half a year.
"Ming Zhong, it is not a matter of arms supervision. The Dongchuan Peace Conference and the new transportation routes may all need to be handled by you."
"Li Jie knows!"
You really know. Now Li Jie has understood His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's overall plan. To be honest, he is still young and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also young, so it is worth whatever he pays now.
Judging by the envious look on his father's face when he left Bianliang, Li Jie knew that he was lucky.
Based on His Highness the Crown Prince's high regard for him, Li Jie felt that when he reaches his father's age, his official rank may not be lower than that of his father, who was born as a Jinshi.
The construction of the new Ordnance Warden has begun because the old Ordnance Warden has been sold out.
This time, the imperial court stepped in and asked a general to supervise the construction. This can be regarded as stealing a peach in exchange for a plum.
Some things are just like this, if you give in to each other, you can get by.
This also gave Li Jie more free time, so he went south, taking with him a few nominal merchants and money and food.
Su Song thinks that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a person who can't take any time off. Wouldn't it be better to learn from the officials and how to deal with memorials? You can just listen to the teachings of your father-in-law. Why do you tinker with new things when you have some free time?
Su Song couldn't even remember how long it had been since he had a banquet.
From a personal perspective, he was promoted the fastest in the same year. Even the number one scholar in the same year was not promoted as fast as he, the second-class scholar.
Also, the entire guard camp, regardless of civil and military personnel, although the assignments have not changed, all the officers are being promoted. Nan Zheng once, and this time His Highness the Crown Prince was generous, which also won the recognition of the court, and once again promoted the officers of the guard camp.
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Now, even the guards in the guard camp have ranks.
If you pull out a soldier at random, he can become a Xuejie captain in other forbidden armies.
But no one thought about leaving, not even the Zhong family and the Zhe family.
Su Song never thought about leaving. Many of the things His Highness the Crown Prince tinkered with were his favorites. This kind of unstoppable busyness made him a little painful but also happy.
There was a general in charge of the weapons inspection over there, and His Highness the Prince was quite happy. He just threw out the money and food, and then all kinds of blueprints, and just let it go.
Great! The whole court said this about His Highness the Crown Prince.
It's a pity that His Highness the Crown Prince is involved in other things.
Zhao Xi asked people to find wool. Yes, it was wool, the kind of wool that is sheared from sheep.
Then I made a sticky board densely packed with fine iron needles...
Zhao Xi still remembers the method of making wool thread by hand. The wool was washed until the water was no longer turbid. This process was to clean the debris and grease on the wool.
Next, use two sticky boards covered with fine iron needles to beat the wool until the wool is even and fluffy.
The next step is spinning. Zhao Xi has seen the spinning wheel, which is still there in the inner garden. The empress is still free to spin some thread for fun... Zhao Xi thinks it is just for fun. Of course, according to the records of the chamberlains and court officials
It's not about playing here, it's about the Queen who loves to work.
But Zhao Xi is too embarrassed to do this in the inner garden... His Majesty the Crown Prince, the wise and mighty heir to the throne, if he really wants to play with women's spinning, then playing with the Queen is two different things.
Zhao Xi didn't want to have to explain to the court officials for a long time because of this, but in the end he still couldn't explain clearly and had to be reprimanded.
At least he remembered a method, which was the most primitive "eight" spinning threads...
It is to use a gourd-like wooden object with a nail on it. First, twist the wool into a thread and tie it to the nail. Then start to rotate the "eight strips". The wool that has become a thread will also rotate, which will stir up other wool, and slowly
of twisted into a line.
It was a bit rough the first time, but Zhao Xi was still very happy. He had never done it before, he had only seen it before, and it worked for the first time.
Next, Zhao Xi carefully kneaded it into very thin threads...
Zhao Xi did all this quietly with the door closed, he couldn't afford to embarrass that person!
It's not that I'm afraid it won't be embarrassing, it's just that I'm doing it to be embarrassing.
Although there is currently no concept that defines the division of labor between men and women, if word spreads about what he has done, it is estimated that his reputation in the past twenty years will become a joke.
He even kicked the civil servants out to have a banquet, and the generals went to train while shouting, and just played alone.
Su Song didn't really like lively scenes, and he always felt out of place in those scenes where he was reciting poems and writing poems.
As for the duplicitous greetings, it made him a little embarrassed and even a little restless.
So, he came back with an early excuse, he wanted to see what His Highness the Crown Prince was up to.
As soon as the door opened, not only Su Song was stunned, but His Royal Highness was also stunned. It felt a bit like preaching and solidification. The whole scene was frozen. Only the rotating "eight strips" were still spinning...
This... is so embarrassing, even more embarrassing than chatting with the scholars. Why does His Highness have such a hobby? God! What did I see?
It's really not a good thing to know the emperor's privacy! What Su Song saw was that His Highness the Crown Prince had this hobby...
I should have known it was time to knock on the door! The problem is, this is the house that Su Song has always made a mess of. Who would have thought that His Highness the Crown Prince would be inside and do this!
No! Su Song suddenly remembered that His Highness the Crown Prince was looking for wool...
"Your Highness, wool?"
"Well, wool."
"Can it be a line?"
"No, this is it."
Su Song asked in surprise, but Zhao Xi still answered blankly. How embarrassing!
It could have been done by Neiyuan or any palace maid, but Zhao Xi was worried that such a simple process would be exposed, so she tried it herself.
Unexpectedly, Su Song bumped into him.
Su Song didn't seem to notice Zhao Xi's uneasiness, and just took the wool from His Highness the Prince's hand...
Then, Su Song didn't even care where His Highness the Prince was still stunned, and started to work.
The spinning wheel, the simplest spinning wheel, was very easy for Su Song. Based on His Royal Highness the Prince's operation, he made some adjustments, called on the master craftsman, and made a simple, miniature version of the spinning wheel in a few strokes.
Finally, Su Song also did what women do... He used the spinning wheel to spin the remaining wool of His Highness into thread.
"Your Highness, it is really feasible!"
Su Song is stretched, tough, and elastic. The key is the warmth of wool itself...
This is not just as simple as adding another kind of fabric, this is a pioneering work that can be passed down through the ages.
Su Song was pleasantly surprised. He didn't even think about the fact that wool was almost as scarce as war horses to the country.