Anguo County Wangfu is happy to come to the door, Liu Hong is gradually happy with the double phoenix, Niu Dabang mallet as the only retainer with the title of viscount in Anguo County Wangfu also has a son, Liu Hongjian and Niu Zhuang are okay, but the two old men are happy.

Liu Delong was unprecedentedly generous, and gave a reward to the people in the house without even frowning.

The courtiers experienced the turmoil of watching the punishment, and the high morale seemed to be poured cold water, and the next day half of the people in the court asked for leave, most of them were frightened and could not eat to starve, Chongzhen was also happy to have clean ears, and immediately announced that he would not go to court that day.

The cabinet did not meet secretly with officials at night to discuss countermeasures, but they discussed and discussed, and for the first time, they found themselves so depressed in the face of Chongzhen.

Chongzhen has been like a different person since he came back from the Northern Expedition, and his actions are no longer as indecisive as before, but more and more like Taizu.

The courtiers found that they had only two options before them, either to protest or to give in, and the consequences of death were simple: dismissal or resignation.

Chongzhen didn't even bother to serve the court staff, and the ministers knew that whether it was dismissal or resignation, the result would be the same, and Chongzhen would definitely not mention it if he was polite.

On the third day, as soon as Chongzhen went to the court, he mentioned the matter of measuring the land, and the ministers were silent.

Chongzhen didn't force it too much, and made it clear that as long as the ministers agreed to this matter, no matter how much land was found in the Zhongqing family, they would not be to blame for the past.

It's not that Chongzhen is worried about the courtiers protesting, the protest is invalid, and the established policy must be implemented, he just wants to get rid of the courtiers' worries.

There was silence in the Imperial Palace for a long time, and Fang Yuegong, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials and Wenyuan Pavilion University, raised his sleeves and threw off the pull of the second assistant Fan Jingwen and left the class.

"Your Majesty, the minister is old and frail and overwhelmed by his responsibilities, and the minister has been thinking about it for a long time to beg for the bones to return home, and I hope that Your Majesty will grant permission." Fang Yuegong seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and immediately knelt down and asked to play.

"The dynasty is in trouble thanks to Fang Aiqing's refusal to give up, and he continues to serve the court with his old body, Fang Aiqing is sixty and eight this year, this age is just to enjoy the joy of family life at home, this is my fault!

Quasi-play!

Wang Erxi drafted the decree, and Fang Yuegong gave the title of Taifu and informed the township to comfort the world. After all, Fang Yuegong followed him through the most difficult days, and Chongzhen was not ambiguous, and immediately gave him Taifu.

Taifu is one of the three dukes, and although he has little power, it is a very high honor for the officials.

"Minister, Yue Gong, thank Your Majesty Longen!" Fang Yuegong was speechless, respectfully gave Chongzhen three bows and nine bows for the last time, and then left the main hall.

Fang Yuegong didn't care about the fields at home, he was just dissatisfied with Chongzhen's decree and skipped the cabinet, he wanted to defend the ancestral system, but in the end he found that everything was in vain.

has been an official for more than 40 years, and now I really have to rest.

After Fang Yuegong left, no one among the ministers dared to speak out against Chongzhen, and finally the national policy of re-measuring the land was set.

Chongzhen decreed, presided over by the Ministry of Households, and jointly supervised by Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and the land measurement work officially began since Shuntianfu.

Although what happened in the imperial court was transmitted to Liu Hongji's ears through Liang Yang, who knew the same thing as Jinyiwei, Liu Hongjian did not care very much, as long as the established direction did not deviate, there would still be necessary sacrifices.

Fang Yuegong can also be regarded as a capable minister, but he has become the first victim.

Recently, he has been running the Ordnance Institute and the Gunwangfu, and the steel and cement workshops in Zhending Mansion have achieved mass production in just one month with the strong support of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry.

The first batch of cement was urgently transferred to the mouth of the Yellow River Dam in Henan, and as the first batch of finished products, the Ordnance Institute also sent 100 stone cement and a batch of steel a few days ago.

The reason why Liu Hongjian didn't even have time to go to the early court these days, and he still didn't come out of the ordnance station with Song Yingxing's cat, was because he was doing an epoch-making event.

Of course, only he thinks so.

"Old Song, how is the design of the architectural drawings?" Liu Hong gradually lay on the Taishi's chair and shook it.

Song Yingxing took the reading glasses newly developed by the glass workshop, lying on the table with a ruler and drawing carefully.

Although Liu Hongchuan is known as the leader of the nine-year compulsory education, with a vision that surpasses the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, he is still blind to the construction of reinforced concrete houses.

It's not easy to be a contractor.

"It's almost ready, the adults will rest first, and let the old man calculate again." Song Yingxing didn't reply, and the old man was busy these days.

He found out that as long as the adults put forward any wonderful ideas, he was the busiest, on the other hand, his own adults squinted several times while lying on their chaise longues.

"My lord, although this drawing is calculated according to the existing proportion of Daming's houses, but Daming's houses are all based on the beams of the house, and the strong wood such as pines and cypresses is still reluctant, can this concrete really withstand it?"

Song Yingxing checked it again, handed over the drawings to Liu Hongchuan, and said with a frown.

It's no wonder that Song Yingxing is puzzled, although Daming has long had green bricks, most of the houses, including the inner hall of the palace, are still built with wooden structures.

There are three main reasons for this, the first is the cost problem, the Ming Dynasty made green bricks without the machines of later generations, all by hand.

From clay selection to drying, firing, not to mention time-consuming and laborious, error is also a big problem, and at this time the brick-burning technology is not mature, only poor quality green bricks can be fired.

Rao is like this, the price of a green brick is several cents, not to mention ordinary people, even the imperial court can't afford it.

The second is that the adhesive material is not good, although lime has been widely used, but the adhesion is still poor, and it will not take a few years to break and leak under the sun and rain.

The third is the problem of customs, the wooden structure is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, simple, elegant and warm, on the other hand, the brick house is ugly to death because there is no good paint to build, and it looks cold.

When it's expensive and ugly, who likes it?

Song Yingxing was not happy when he heard that Liu Hongjian was going to develop a brick house, there are too many projects developed by the Ordnance Institute at the same time, and the blue brick house is not a rare thing, where does he have time to Zhang Luo.

But Liu Hong gradually refused, and his reason was very good, because what he wanted to build was a building, a building built of blue bricks.

There are few blue brick houses, and the built buildings are even rarer, and the reason is the load-bearing problem of the beams.

Liu Hongji's solution is concrete, as for green bricks? The green bricks are indeed ugly, and the toughness is not bad.

It's just that Liu Hongjian didn't think about using green bricks at all, just kidding, he came with black technology, he couldn't get red bricks, and he played with a woolen crossing.

Before he came, he studied and understood that the production process of green bricks and red bricks is not much different, it is nothing more than the different structure of the brick kiln, one is water-cooled and the other is air-cooled.

The clay used to burn bricks contains iron, and the air-cooled red bricks completely oxidize it to form ferric oxide, which is red, while the water-cooled green bricks make the iron in the clay not completely oxidized.

The structure of the two brick kilns is also very different, and the red bricks that have been completely oxidized are not only beautiful but also tougher than the green bricks.

It's just that no one has pierced this layer of window paper, coupled with the lack of theoretical knowledge support, red bricks have not been developed and promoted until the Republic of China, which can be regarded as a loss for China.

Liu Hong's drawings of the red brick kiln to Song Yingxing were summarized and improved by later generations for hundreds of years, not only did the bricks fired at one time twice as many as the original brick kilns, but the quality also improved a lot.

Liu Hongjian still remembers Song Yingxing's surprised expression when he handed over the design drawings of the red brick kiln to Song Yingxing.

There are red bricks, and the rest is the problem of floor weighing, and Song Yingxing seems to be an even more difficult problem, but it is not a problem here in Liu Hongji.

"Concrete is used for load-bearing, but there is one more thing that needs to be added to the concrete." Liu Hongchuan is very sure that concrete without steel has no soul.

The first reinforced concrete red brick house was designed as a three-story building, located on a large vacant lot in the middle of the armory.

Liu Hongji's idea was that the first floor would be used for hospitality, the second floor would be the office of the head of the ordnance station, and the third floor would be Liu Hongji's command center and residence.

Originally, according to Liu Hongji's intention, if you want to build it, you will build at least five floors, after all, can a three-story building be called a building? Compared with the twenty or thirty-story houses of later generations, it is just a short and tight house.

Song Yingxing didn't agree to this proposal, he didn't want to joke with the lives of the craftsmen.

After all, it was the first time to cover it so high with bricks, and although Liu Hongjian was determined on his face, he did not insist, in fact, he himself was beating the drum in his heart.

What if the cover collapses halfway?

After the architectural drawings, red brick kiln, and reinforced concrete were all discussed, Liu Hongjian immediately ordered that the construction team of the Ordnance Institute should stop building wooden houses from now on, and devote themselves to the construction of red brick and concrete houses.

When Liu Hong gradually left the armory, he took with him the first batch of ten pairs of reading glasses and a large bundle of binoculars that had just been developed by the glass workshop.

This thing is actually already available in Europa, but it's just a Ming ...... Alas, in the final analysis, it is still a question of theoretical basis.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong gradually became worried, it is not that the Chinese people are not smart enough and not hard enough, and the thousand-year-old craftsmanship inheritance has all been led astray by the domineering Confucianism.

Confucianism divides people into three, six, nine and so on, all of them are inferior, but only reading is high, what books do you read?

It's not mathematics, it's not physics and chemistry, but it's also the four books and five classics, and from top to bottom, Huaxia is ashamed of craftsmen, with no status and no income.

Rao is like this, the craftsmen still rely on the inheritance of generations, and pass on the poor skills to the present, and the scholars look down on them, and they never want to wear them, use them in their hands, and live in their homes.

It's really a bowl to eat, leave the rice bowl and scold your mother, your hands don't touch the spring water, and you don't know anything except it.

The skills of China only rely on the oral transmission of masters and apprentices, and most of the time they still know what they do.

Many of the contributions to chemistry were actually made by the old people of alchemy, and they were not for the study of chemistry, and alchemy was only to meet the needs of the ruling class and the rich.

It's ironic.

Alas, when you are done with the urgent things in hand, you must start to set up an engineering college, and Huaxia's skills cannot stop.

Liu Hong gradually rode on the horse, and the first two big men behind, Liu Hu was holding a bundle of binoculars, and Liu Bao was holding a large box of reading glasses, which Liu Hong was going to send into the palace.

Although these gadgets are not valuable, they are extremely useful, most of the older officials in the court are presbyopia, according to Liu Hongji's speculation, it is estimated that Uncle Chongzhen's presbyopia is not light.

This guy worked too hard for Daming, and his eyes were already bad.

The promotion of new things is from the top down, and the courtiers are the best salesmen, as long as the publicity is spread, the armory will have one more entry.

"Master, there is a guest at home, I am looking for you, surnamed Zhang, Fu Jian is here." As soon as I entered the courtyard, someone came to report.

Who else can Fu Jina come? Xiao Zheng is still in Nanjing, most likely it is Lao Zheng, Liu Hong gradually thought.

Hmph, can't you hold it?

When he arrived in the middle hall, it was really someone from the Zheng family, and he was an acquaintance, it was Zhang Jin, a staff member sent by the Zheng family for the first time.

This guy not only came by himself, but also escorted Xu Yunzhen's family to the prison of the Criminal Department, the reason why Lao Zheng is so honest is because of the letter written by Liu Hongjian when he was in Nanjing.

As soon as Lao Zheng received the letter, he was furious, and after weighing it, he immediately decided to return the heavy gift of Xu Jiaxu, and even sent his people and property to the capital by water.

Xu Yunzhen tossed around, but still didn't escape, just received the report from the Criminal Department yesterday, Chongzhen didn't even hesitate and killed Xu Yunzhen directly in prison.

For the Zheng family, Xu Yunzhen is just a incidental matter, and befriending the king of Anguo County is the top priority, Zhang Jin recalled the dignified look of the head of the family and couldn't help frowning.

It's all because of that letter, which made the head of the family so jealous, Zheng Zhilong burned it after reading the letter, so that Zhang Jin didn't know even though he was surprised.

And the head of the family gave such a big gift to the king of Anguo because of this letter, which made him even more puzzled.

In fact, the letter was very simple, with only a few words.

Hand over the Xu family, if you don't accept it, Lianhe will destroy Zheng!

It's no wonder that Zheng Zhilong is so cautious, Lianhe destroyed Zheng, how could he not know which Zheng Zhilong was He, but what he didn't understand was how the king of Anguo County understood the situation in Nanyang so well.

He Zheng Zhilong has been crisscrossing the South Seas for more than 20 years, and it is because those ministers in the Ming court who do not understand maritime affairs and do not know the situation in the South Seas that they have been mixed up smoothly until now, and the court needs him, but there is nothing to do with him.

However, the few words of the king of Anguo County broke the embarrassment of the Zheng family.

The Zheng family's biggest enemy in Nanyang is the Dutch colonists, and the reason why the two can compete here is also because the Zheng family set up their nest in Fujian, backed by the Ming Dynasty.

If the imperial court really unites with the Netherlands to destroy his Zheng family, Fu Jian will definitely not be able to stay, if he loses the biggest supply place of the Ming Dynasty, and goes to the sea with the Dutch hard anal, who wins and who loses can say who is accurate.

After all, he is home, and the Netherlands is the country.

The most important thing is that the king of Anguo County is not alarmist, he has the ability to persuade the court to deal with him Zheng family, after all, he himself knows that Chongzhen has long looked at him unpleasantly.

"Zhang visited the prince, I haven't seen him for a long time, and the prince's holy family has become more and more prosperous." Zhang Jin saw Liu Hong coming gradually, and quickly got up and saluted.

It has only been less than a year, and the promotion from a marquis to a county king is unprecedented, coupled with the advice of the head of the family, Zhang Jin can't help but be imprudent.

PS: There is more, it should be very late, book friends can wait to read it tomorrow.