Su Chengyu, with the assistance of Xu Erlu, quickly selected one hundred and sixty craftsmen, among which more than 20 gunsmiths were force-stuffed. There is no way, now the Ganzhou Ordnance Bureau has the most surplus gunners.

Su Chengyu didn't mind, these gunsmiths were mostly good at making models, casting, etc., and they could also be used in the process of making firecrackers. The worst is that they are always competent to step on the boring machine.

Since there were not enough carriages and horses, these craftsmen had to walk 200 miles to Longnan by themselves, and Su Chengyu left half of his own soldiers to escort them along the way. He also gave each craftsman two taels of silver to settle down and set off as soon as possible.

Xu Erlu sent Su Chengyu and the others to the door of the Ordnance Bureau, and kept looking back, looking like he wanted to say something.

Seeing that Su Chengyu was about to board the carriage, an old man standing not far away with his eyes and a kind face kept glancing at Xu Erlu.

The latter finally stepped forward and saluted Su Chengyu: "Your Highness, the student still has a reluctant request. After this period of time, he has already called himself a student in front of Su Chengyu.

Su Chengyu stopped and said with a smile: "What's polite, you can say it." ”

"The student has a friend who has forgotten his old age, and there is something he wants to ask for His Highness's approval." He saw that Su Chengyu's expression was the same, and he turned his head to signal into the distance, and the old man standing by the road hurriedly stepped forward. It is the person who has been talking with Xu Erlu night and night recently.

The old man came to the side of the carriage, picked up his clothes and knelt down to salute, "Song Yingxing, grass people, meet His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou." ”

"Old man, please get up." Su Chengyu stretched out his hand to help him up, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and secretly said in his heart, why does the name Song Yingxing sound so familiar?

His eyes suddenly lit up, grabbed the old man's arm, and exclaimed: "Heavenly Creation"? Are you that Song Yingxing?! ”

The old man was taken aback, and said in a daze: "It's a clumsy work, and it's difficult to enter the eyes of His Highness." ”

"No, no, this is a rare good book in the Ming Dynasty!"

Just kidding, the encyclopedia of Chinese craftsmanship in the seventeenth century, this is not a "clumsy" work, it is a big work!

I didn't expect to meet this great scientist of the Ming Dynasty here. Su Chengyu hurriedly asked, "By the way, Xu Erlu said that you have something to do with me?" ”

Song Yingxing saluted and said: "Recently, His Royal Highness Xi passed on the great techniques of 'analytic geometry', 'periodic table', and 'three laws of thermodynamics', and I was very shocked. He lowered his head, "I beg Your Highness to allow the old man to compile these studies into a book to educate my people." ”

Of course, Su Chengyu hopes that the knowledge of natural sciences can be widely spread in the Ming Dynasty, and the more popular this knowledge is, the smoother the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty.

This Song Yingxing has done a great thing for him.

Su Chengyu suddenly remembered that Song Yingxing called himself a "grass people", and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Song is at home now?" ”

"How dare you call Mr. in front of Your Highness?" Song Yingxing waved his hand again and again, and said with a miserable smile, "Old decay is leisure, but there is no home." Fengyang fell, and the old man resigned and returned to Fengxin. Unexpectedly, Nanchang City was also broken, and the old man was now taking refuge in Ganzhou with his family. ”

Refuge? Su Chengyu remembered that sentence unkindly in his heart: You can't miss it when you pass by! A talent like Song Yingxing must get here.

He coughed dryly, "Actually, I also want to compile what I have learned into a book, in addition to what Mr. Song just said, there are still a lot of things in my mind." Why don't I slowly say that I know Mr. Song? ”

Song Yingxing immediately bowed to the ground and said with great joy: "The student is willing to follow His Highness and do his best!" ”

Xu Erlu couldn't help but be very envious when he saw this scene on the side, if it weren't for the Ordnance Bureau, he really couldn't get out, he also wanted to follow His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou and ask for advice at all times.

Su Chengyu simply asked Song Yingxing to go back and pack his belongings now and take his family to Longnan together.

Song Yingxing's family lives at home on Xu'er Road, only half a mile away from the Ordnance Bureau. When he fled, he was even more slight, and in less than an hour, he returned with his family.

On the way, Su Chengyu and Song Yingxing talked for a long time.

This old man's foundation in mathematics, physics and chemistry is more solid than that of Xu Erlu, and all kinds of mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge are integrated very quickly, even if he has never been exposed to concepts before, he is also easy to understand, and he has rich practical experience, and all kinds of theoretical knowledge can be immediately linked to actual production.

This made Su Chengyu sigh: "In the future, the position of the president of Mingge Academy will be none other than Mr. Song!" ”

"Mingge Academy?" Song Yingxing thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think that Daming had such a department.

"The Ming Royal Gezhi Academy, it will definitely be established in the future." Su Chengyu said with pride, "Gather the world's talents, study the laws of the operation of all things in the world, develop all kinds of craft skills, and compile a book to teach the people and strengthen my Ming!" "Gewu Zhizhi is the name of natural science in the Ming Dynasty.

Song Yingxing was a little dazed. He loved natural science all his life, and most hoped to teach what he had learned to the people of the Ming Dynasty, so that they could benefit from it. It's just that in the past, the imperial court only valued the knowledge of sages and sages, and didn't care about natural science at all, so he never met talents.

If the Mingge Academy that King Chen Zhou said can really be established, then his lifelong ambition will finally have a chance to be displayed.

When he remembered the identity of Su Chengyu's imperial family, he felt that the "Mingge Academy" was very likely to become a reality, perhaps this was the meaning of the Son of Heaven.

Song Yingxing's eyes were beating with joy, and he sighed in his heart, God treats me Song well!

The next day, a group of chariots and horses rushed back to the camp of the Longwei army. Su Chengyu didn't alarm anyone and quietly came to the school.

After this period of training, the soldiers' queues are relatively neat. At the moment, Macedo is leading people to practice running and walking in unison, and although there is some confusion in the pace change, it is good to see that the queue has not dispersed.

In the distance, there was dust and horses' hooves rumbling, and it was supposed that the cavalry was training to charge in formation. Although it is not clear under the dust, it can be seen that the horse team is basically on a wavy line.

It seems that these foreign instructors are not lazy, Su Chengyu nodded slightly.

There was a messy sound of footsteps from the other corner of the school field, and he looked at it from a distance, there were several queues still dressed in civilian clothes, the total number of people could be thousands, it should be a new barracks.

"Recruitment is going well." As soon as Su Chengyu's words fell, he heard someone shouting "Liding" in the middle of the school field, and then Yu Xin ran over from the corner of the queue.

"Your Highness...... Ah, Lord Commander. He bowed on one knee and excitedly said, "When did you come back?" ”

Su Chengyu hurriedly helped him up, "I just arrived, I don't want to disturb your training, just take a look first." He frowned a little in his heart, this kneeling salute is usually nothing, but when it comes to fighting, every second counts, how can there be a military salute to make a profit? In the future, military salutes will still have to be introduced.

He said to Yu Xin: "Chuangzhi, since you are here, let's talk about what is special recently." ”

"There's a lot going on." Yu Xin immediately said, "First of all, it's a recruit. The subordinates were strictly screened, and almost no one of the three remained, and even so, more than 1,400 strong people were recruited. But there are not enough officers who can lead the troops. There is still an endless stream of people who come to join the army, especially not long ago, some missionaries took people to Fujing, and recently many Fujian people have come. ”