I don't know from that year, this winter came earlier and earlier, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is getting cooler day by day, after entering September, the weather will turn from cool to cold, but only at the end of September, Beizhili began to snow first, and then all the way to the south, but a few days of effort, the heavy snow will fall down the river to the boundary of Henan.

After a few heavy snowfalls, the north blows for a few more nights, not to mention the ordinary river, even the Yellow River, which has changed back to its original course, will also form a layer of ice, and the ice in the river will become thicker and thicker, and the snow will become heavier and heavier.

Suddenly, the whistle whined, and the sound of the whistle resounded through the sky with a momentum that was about to tear through the sky. This whistle, even if it is two miles away, can be heard, this is the unique whistle sound of Beixing Yarn Factory, and it is also the unique sound of the first machine yarn factory in the world.

When he heard the whistle, Qi Zitao deliberately opened the car window, completely ignoring the cold wind that poured into the car, and then turned his head to say to the middle-aged official wearing a thick bear skin coat next to him.

"Listen, that's the voice of the mill."

"Hmm."

Fang Yizhi didn't speak, just looked in the direction where the whistle came from, even from a distance of miles, he could see the towering chimney, and the black smoke spitting out.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Qi Zitao's heart seemed a little uneasy, after learning the news that the governor of Northeast China would come to Tianjin to visit the factory on vacation, he couldn't be patiently excited, this was the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time.

Whether it is entering the Northeast or getting Fang Yizhi's appreciation, although the world knows that this Fang Zhitai is tyrannical in the Northeast, and even has the suspicion of indiscriminate killing, he is still a saint and does not change, and even many people believe that if it were not for His Majesty's promise to meet with the ministers that "Ming Dynasty will not be knighted for non-military merits". I'm afraid Fang Yizhi has already been knighted.

Of course, this is just everyone's speculation, after all, there is a sentence behind the sentence "non-military merits are not sealed", "Those who dare to make suggestions are cut off, and those who dare to be invited will be abolished!" This is completely learned from the experience of the old lessons of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Hongwu, Yongle and other dynasties, most of them were still knighted for military merits, but later civil officials also had knighthoods, because the so-called "relatives are not allowed to hide weapons", the founding of the country and the inevitable civilianization of the ministers of Jingnan. In the end, under the manipulation of the civil official group, the title of the Ming Dynasty was even only awarded to the eunuchs and internal officials, who used it to attack the lords and make the emperor lose his arm.

Perhaps the lords are not as noble as the civil officials, but for Zhu Mingzhong, who has a deep way of harmonizing and balancing, he needs to use the lords to balance the growing group of civil officials whose power will continue to expand with the establishment of the dynasty under the relationship of classmates, teachers, and the same year. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong made this oath, and even ordered someone to engrave a plaque as a memory and plant it in front of the Emperor's Palace, so as to remind the civil and military officials. And this is also the only rule of the Ming Dynasty to "kill people with words", of course, this oath not only binds the ministers, but also binds the future emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of this, people are at most just thinking about it, but it can be seen that Fang Yizhi's holy favor is prosperous. Therefore, Qi Zitao needs to get close to Fang Yizhi and accept that this civil official may be the most prominent in the Ming Dynasty in the next few decades.

"The steam engine, which uses only coal and water, can produce power?"

Although he already had an understanding of the steam engine, Fang Yizhi still seemed a little unbelievable, after all, this was too magical!

Magical!

Boil water with coal, and then use water vapor as a force!

Such a magical change, even Fang Yizhi, who usually always reads a lot of books on Gewu Shixue, feels extremely magical, of course, in addition to the magic, he also thinks of the Northeast, and thinks of the yarn factories in the Northeast whose production is limited by winter.

"Back to the production of Taiwan, after arriving at the yarn factory, the production of the table may wish to see for yourself, the steam engine only needs to have coal burning, there is water in the boiler, it will continue to generate power, in the eyes of students, the steam engine is suitable for the Northeast however, because the Northeast has a lot of coal, and the price of coal is extremely low."

When he said these benefits, the thoughtful Fang Yizhi only nodded slightly, and as the distance got closer and closer, he was looking forward to it even more.

The Northeast needs factories!

Although the income from the official fields and ginseng harvesting in the Northeast is enough to make the Northeast government one of the richest officials in the Ming Dynasty, the people in the Northeast need factories, factories for spinning, weaving, and factories to make machinery, but the Northeast is too cold, the farther north it is, the colder it gets, and at the mouth of the black water, it even freezes for more than seven months a year.

With factories, the population of the city will increase, the tax revenue of the government will also increase, and more importantly, the population of the Northeast will also increase rapidly, and eventually, the Northeast will develop into a province similar to the hinterland, as long as there are millions of Han people living there, there is no need to worry about any natives, how many natives are there in the northeast now?

When Fang Yizhi and his party came to the factory, Li Kunshan, who had been waiting here for a long time, was also full of expectations for Fang Yizhi's arrival, and after he saw the ceremony, Fang Yizhi asked.

"Is this steam engine really the same as a water engine?"

At present, the output of the same yarn machine in Beixing Yarn Factory is 1.8 times that of water power, and its speed is uniformly ......."

When introducing the advantages of the steam engine, when the group was about to enter the roaring engine room, the guards stopped Fang Yizhi.

"Bench, I heard that the steam engine exploded! Please also make a ......"

Without waiting for him to finish, Li Kunshan retorted.

"At present, the steam engine has been working continuously for 53 days and has never exploded."

"Let's go in and have a look."

Fang Yizhi is not worried about the explosion, he used to be a monk, and even believes in fate, if it explodes, it must be his fate!

Entering the steam engine workshop, the deafening roar made Fang Yizhi not even hear what others were saying, he just looked at the steam engine in front of him in surprise, compared to the cold outside, the engine room was hot and hot, the coal shovel in front of the furnace shoveled the coal into the furnace from time to time, the flywheel of the steam engine over there rotated rapidly, and the sound made when the machinery was running would even make the timid people feel fear.

In this deafening roar, Fang Yizhi came to the furnace, he even bent down to look at the furnace, although the flames in the furnace burned him and he couldn't open his eyes, he still looked at it for a while before turning his gaze to the cylinder, looking at the aftermath that erupted from time to time, his expression became a little excited, if there were some doubts before, then now, he no longer doubts.

"Table, you see, this steam engine only needs coal and water to run non-stop, and of course, whale oil."

Li Kunshan's seemingly joking words made Fang Yizhi ask rhetorically.

"Whale oil?"

Fang Yizhi is no stranger to whale oil, after all, the largest whaling port in Daming is Vladivostok, where the whaling ships will directly refine oil on the ship after whaling, and then ship it to the mainland in barrels.

"Yes, whale oil is the best lubricating oil, unlike equipment such as yarn machines that can be lubricated with grease such as lard, it is best to use whale oil for steam engines."

Then he made a point of emphasis.

"This is the result of several years of experiments by scholars in the academy, and the use of whale oil for horse-drawn carriages and textile machinery and other equipment is better than ordinary oil."

"There is no problem with this, don't forget, ninety percent of my whale oil comes from the Northeast! Let's go to the spinning factory and have a look. ”

Like all factories in the 17th century, there was no electric lighting in the factory building, because it was dark today, so the shed windows on the roof of the factory were opened, and the light shining through the shed windows and the light from the paper windows on both sides of the factory allowed the female workers in the factory to work normally.

The work in the plant is very tight, all the machines in the whole plant are actually driven by a fast axis, a transmission belt, the power is transmitted to the yarn machine, in front of those yarn machines, a female worker, guarding there, their job is to take care of the yarn machine, twisting the thread, although it seems to be easy, but in fact it is also a very hard factory. The female workers, whose ears were so used to the sound of the spindle and the spinning machine that they were running, could not hear what they were saying, but they all knew that they must be big people.

They were just working as hard as before, their hands and eyes were busy, and they didn't have any distractions at all. As a visitor, Fang Yizhi and his entourage sometimes spoke softly for a word or two, but they also did not pay attention to these female workers.

At this time, Fang Yizhi often asks about some production problems, and he will even pick up the yarn, deliberately pull a section, and then try to analyze the difference between this yarn and hydraulic yarn. It didn't make any difference at all, and it even seemed to him that the yarns were stronger.

Li Kunshan, Qi Zitao and others who were following Fang Yizhi had already seen that the Northeast Governor was very interested in these, and when Fang Yizhi was looking at the yarn with great interest, Li Kunshan said conveniently.

"Taiwan, now the yarn produced by the Beixing Yarn Factory can be said to be in short supply, and the current order has been scheduled for February next year, so the students are preparing to expand or build a new factory, after all, many orders in Beixing are from the Northeast, so the students also have plans to set up factories in the Northeast."

"Running a factory in the Northeast?"

The true meaning of Li Kunshan's words fell, Fang Yizhi said.

"If you go to the Northeast, this official is always welcome, and I will definitely instruct the local authorities to cooperate as much as possible."

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't give away official property privately, Fang Yizhi even planned to give land to Li Kunshan to attract him to set up a factory in the Northeast, after all, he was the owner of the steam engine who knew it best.

"Is what Factory Master Li said seriously? If the owner of the Li factory is willing to set up a factory in the northeast, we at Fidelity Bank are willing to provide a loan on the most favorable terms to build the factory. ”

Listening to the words of the two of them, of course Fang Yizhi knew their purpose, but compared to their purpose, Fang Yizhi cared more about the factory, the Northeast...... As long as this steam engine reaches the Northeast, everything in the Northeast will fundamentally change......

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