Although Ge Hong didn't agree immediately, since Shen Zhezi had an idea, it was impossible to wait for him all the time. After seeing the high-end skills of those craftsmen, the preparation of the engineering institute was officially put on the agenda.

In fact, the preparatory work of the engineering institute has been almost the same, and it is needless to say that hard facilities such as sites are needed, after the Huainan army marched north, there was no need to maintain too concentrated garrisons around Shouchun, so a large number of fort camps were vacated.

These forts are built to a standard that can be used for anything with a little modification. The conversion of military industry to civilian use is also a kind of recycling and optimal allocation of resources.

As for all kinds of theoretical knowledge used for teaching, Shen Zhezi has consciously collected and prepared a large number of first-hand materials in the past few years. And the reason why Shen Zhezi wanted to take out Newton's laws of mechanics was also because of the foreshadowing of these materials.

Although the various production technologies are summarized and rich, in fact, they are still incompatible with each other, and there is a lack of the kind of outline and consistent outline rules. The so-called scientific laws are highly summarized from experience but higher than experience, and have irreplaceable generalization and universality.

Without the scientific laws of basic accumulation, it is a castle in the air, no matter how correct it is, it has no meaning of existence. With the emergence of these laws, a large number of production technologies have a common principle basis, which will greatly save the popularization and integration of technology, as well as the derivation of new technologies.

In addition to these, there is another problem that plagues Shen Zhezi, and that is the teaching staff. Although these craftsmen from the north are skilled, their value is more reflected in the production of high-end products, and the process barriers inherited from each other are clear, and there is a lack of talents who can not only summarize but also comprehensively.

Shen Zhezi really hopes to dig out Zhang Heng or Ma Jun, a strong man who has extremely high quality, can integrate himself for self-improvement and has the courage to practice.

If such a talent really exists, even if Shen Zhezi doesn't know any technology, as long as he can provide certain conceptual guidance and hand it over to professional talents to realize, he is confident that he can make earth-shaking changes in the world in a very short period of time.

Of course, this is not a problem that hinders him, there are big things to do, small things to do, as long as the soil for the growth of talents can be created, there is no worry that there are no such talents.

However, if those craftsmen are packaged and included in the experience teaching, it can only be called Huainan Technical School, not the Engineering Academy, so it needs to be screened again. The level of skill is secondary, and the important thing is to meet the needs of teaching.

Although the level of skill of these craftsmen is quite high, most of them do not even know how to write, and they are sensitive to words and words, and it is enough if they are only engaged in technology, but they are still far worse if they want to preach and teach.

However, the technical things are still simple, and the technology still speaks. So soon Shen Zhezi had an idea, not to divert these craftsmen for the time being, but to give them some large-scale comprehensive machinery manufacturing tasks, in order to test their respective abilities.

The most valuable machinery in this era is the vehicles such as cars and boats. Shen Zhezi's instructions to these craftsmen were also very simple, let them first use the car and the boat as the carrier, and use their respective abilities to optimize the old functions and add new functions to these two tools.

When the level of skill of the craftsman is about the same, it is the imagination that can reflect the level of his ability. Bold assumptions and careful verification are the core spirit of scientific and technological development.

In order to stimulate the innovation of these craftsmen, Shen Zhezi also set up different categories of rewards, and the highest first-class rewards even reached one million dollars. With the material foundation of Huainan today, millions of dollars can already live a high-quality life with good land at home, grain in warehouses, and beautiful in the room.

Moreover, after seeing the superb skills of those craftsmen, Shen Zhezi's own creative fire was also hot, and he had accumulated too many ideas for professionals to experiment on whether they could be realized.

Shen Zhezi's first thought was the clock, because the clock itself is a composite marking and measuring tool, which requires extremely high technical accuracy, and once there is any error, it can be immediately revealed.

Of course, if you talk about these features alone, there are no better options, such as the armillary sphere. But the armillary sphere involves so many elements that timekeeping is only a trivial additional function, and the knowledge of astronomy, especially the calendar, is more significant than the mechanical technology itself.

Huainan and Taichung have reached a delicate and temporary balance for the time being, and Shen Zhezi does not need to be involved in those overly sensitive issues, so he still has to focus on the technology itself.

During this time, he also gathered some skilled craftsmen around him, such as the Fu father and son, who had a unique ability in the application of gear combinations, to explore the possibility of various mechanical combinations. In fact, he knows very little about the internal mechanics of clocks, but once he has a goal, he can dare to try it.

Those craftsmen were assigned various tasks, and there are still many people in Huainan who are still thinking about and caring about their resettlement.

For these merchants, Shen Zhezi is both supportive and vigilant.

No matter how the Huainan Governor's Mansion or the entire Central Plains and the surrounding areas are established and operated in the future, the first thing that needs to be determined is that the military task is the first task. As for the rest, it must be arranged around this, and in the event of a conflict, it must give way to the military.

In particular, when Shen Zhezi decided to send troops to Hefei a few years ago, the contradictions between Huainan and Taichung intensified again, to the point that they reached an irreconcilable level, and Taichung's various measures since the beginning of this year also show this.

Therefore, the current Governor's Office is facing pressure from all sides from the north and south, including Guanzhong, so the stance of these merchants also has a great influence on the development trend of Huainan.

In the face of this situation, even if Shen Zhezi has any measures to restrict the private capital of merchants, it is impossible to directly understand it in the code and publish it in order. Of course, it is impossible to make him completely profit.

In fact, although there is no explicit decree on how to settle the artisan households from the north to the south, the Governor's Office carried out such a large-scale investment promotion last year, and the merchants were so enthusiastic that they also established a tacit consensus to share with each other. Merchants invested real money in it, and it was impossible for Huainan to eat it dry and wipe it clean without admitting it.

The advantage of the Governor's Office is that it has such a semi-official buffer organization as Dingcang, and when all parties are eager to explore the problem of resettlement of artisan households, Dingcang quickly made some response plans, or adopt the method of public-private joint ventures to build a number of workshops for the high-end market.

Such an arrangement was also in Shen Zhezi's original plan. Dingcang and Huainan, including the newly recovered states, have in fact formed a fairly large economy, if not in terms of legal and military affiliation.

In other words, in the face of pressure from all sides, the Governor's ability to adopt methods is no longer limited to war, and economic confrontation has become an optional strategy. There are several basic conditions for such a foundation.

First, Huainan has the largest and strongest army in the world, which gives Huainan enough force to deter. No matter which side chooses to be the enemy of Huainan, it must consider whether war is an effective means to attack Huainan. Of course, the final choice will only be war, but with such a layer of scruples, we dare not start the war lightly.

The second is that Huainan has huge productivity and basic potential, and holds the hub node of money and goods transportation, has a very strong appeal, and can quickly assemble and deploy resources.

With such several advantages, Huainan can use more economic means, the export of high-end products, the dumping of low-end products, the plundering and exploitation of raw materials and labor abroad, and the imposition of various means will cause a gold dollar suppression.

The most obvious of these is Xuzhou, in fact, Xuzhou's comprehensive strength is not inferior to Huainan at all, and even before the Central Plains Battle last year, Xuzhou is not weaker than Huainan. However, one of the biggest flaws is that resources have not been effectively regulated and allocated.

The two towns have always been in a relationship of mutual support, and in this process of reciprocity alone, Huainan has completed a very deep degree of penetration and erosion of Xuzhou, which has gradually reduced the cooperative status of Xuzhou. In addition, Xi Jian's assassination history is getting older, making Xuzhou a vassal of Huainan.

After the Hefei Incident, although the Jiangdong Imperial Court was still exercising restraint on the surface, it had actually been shaken to the point that the Jiangdong people were able to transport goods to Huainan.

That is, Shen Zhezi himself was born in Jiangdong Haozong, and began to lay out these goods channels more than ten years ago, so it can still be maintained. Otherwise, this alone would have made it worthwhile for Shen Zhezi to give up a large area of occupation in the Central Plains and return to fight a tough battle with the Jiangdong Imperial Court. This is one of the reasons why many attempts at the Northern Expedition have failed throughout history.

At least for now, the battle battle with Jiangdong is not in line with the overall interests of Huainan, and it is definitely a reckless behavior of those who are close to each other and those who are enemies. Therefore, with the help of these high-end craftsmen in the north, they can continue to export luxury goods to Jiangdong, maintain the transportation channel of housing and goods, and by the way, they can also lock their wealth in Huainan more effectively.

The output of luxury goods will always be a profiteering industry. Especially for many overseas Chinese in Jiangdong, living in a foreign land is already miserable, and losing the power struggle is even more lonely, and they will undoubtedly have a greater thirst for goods that represent the advanced culture of the Central Plains, so as to obtain some psychological comfort.

This is also an adjustment of Huainan's commodity strategy, which did not have a leading position in technology before, so it won from the quantity and the odd, and by the way, it was necessary to pull the rare seafood goods in Guangzhou, Guangzhou and other places to gain a competitive advantage. Now that Heluo and the Central Plains are under control, the overseas Chinese in Jiangdong have become poor relatives in the countryside, and the focus will naturally be shifted.

Of course, these luxury clusters are not only facing overseas Chinese, but also those wealthy in Jiangdong who have become rich because of business. If wealth is not rich, it will be dusty. In the past, it was to bring you rich, but now it is to guide you to consume, and it is also a kind of migration.