Chen Wenlong's words are very vague, but this is indeed the actual problem that Xiao Ming is facing now. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Qi Wangfu has no money, and it is difficult for the Qiao woman of the instrument to cook without rice, and it is impossible to forcibly pull Zhuang Ding, otherwise the sky will be angry and resentful, and the image he has just established will collapse again.

"It's yours, the money is mine." Xiao Ming gritted his teeth, he smashed the pot and sold iron to integrate this equipment division, this was his only chance to turn over.

Otherwise, with the poverty of this fiefdom, he will be the reincarnation of Yao Shun, and he will have to burp under the butcher's knife of the barbarians in two years.

Chen Wenlong looked at Xiao Ming, who was frowning and thinking hard, puzzled, this equipment division has always been not valued in the Great Yu Kingdom, and today the King of Qi does not know what he has done.

However, thinking of King Qi's obedient personality in the past, he didn't dare to ask more, thinking that King Qi might just be on a whim, but since he ordered it like this, he could only reply: "Obey, Your Highness." ”

After explaining that Chen Wenlong gathered the carpenters and blacksmiths in the city, Xiao Ming thought about how to raise money all the way back to the palace.

Calling Qian Dafu, he asked, "Dafu, how many taels of silver do we have in the Qi Palace?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, plus the silver taels brought by Concubine Zhen Niangniang to Aster and Pothos, we still have about a thousand taels of silver in the Qi Palace."

"A thousand taels?" Xiao Ming frowned.

In the past, Xiao Ming didn't have the ability to make money, but he had the ability to spend money, and he didn't go out to squander the money from Concubine Zhen's relief, and he was also clear about the prices in Qingzhou City.

Generally speaking, one tael of silver in Dayu can buy two stones of rice, and according to his experience, one stone in Dayu is equivalent to one hundred and twenty catties in modern times.

One tael of silver is equivalent to two hundred and forty catties of rice, and the average price of one catty of rice in modern times is basically two yuan and five catties.

Therefore, one tael of silver is basically equal to six hundred yuan in modern times.

This thousand taels of silver seems to be a lot, but it is only enough for the expenses of the palace, after all, the servants, grooms, and cooks in the palace all need to be paid.

For example, if you are rich, you have to pay 20 taels of silver for a year, and 15 taels for pothos and aster, plus the amount of food and drink, and the rest is limited.

"Give me five hundred taels." Xiao Ming stretched out his hand.

"Your Royal Highness, this is the New Year's silver that Niangniang just issued this year, and all of it has been sent to you, you have to save some flowers."

Qian Dafu was slamming the door, afraid that Xiao Ming would squander the silver again like in previous years.

"This king is doing the right thing this time, and he is not looking for flowers and willows." Xiao Ming pursed his lips.

When Qian Dafu heard this, he hesitated and took five hundred taels of silver tickets and gave them to Xiao Ming.

Accepting the silver ticket, Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu: "Pen and ink are waiting, I want to send a letter to my father." ”

Qian Dafu has become numb to Xiao Ming's strange behavior in the past two days, so he asked his subordinates to immediately prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Of course, he wrote the letter this time not to catch up with Xiao Wenxuan, but to cry poor, and the letter probably meant that the fiefdom was poor, and the people would not be able to eat.

Even so, he still has to pay to resist the barbarians, yesterday just captured thirty barbarian cavalry, the loss is quite large, the equipment department has no money to make arrows, I hope to give some assistance.

"Hurry up and send it to Chang'an!" Xiao Ming looked at the 1,000-word crying poor essay with satisfaction, and threw it to Qian Dafu.

If Xiao Wenxuan still cares about the feelings of flesh and blood, maybe he can allocate some money, if this Xiao Wenxuan is ruthless, this letter will be disgusting to him.

Xiao Ming, who can raise money, has basically thought about it, and the only one left is the local wealthy family.

However, these spirits will definitely not be willing to pay for it, they wish that the Qi Wangfu would be half dead, so that they can be at ease.

But Xiao Ming won't let them go, now these wealthy families are a fat sheep, Xiao Ming is a goose plucker, not to mention a fat sheep.

After thinking about it, it is estimated that they can't rob it, but it is very simple to make them spit out money, these big families are either officials or part-time businessmen, as long as there are goods they like, they are not afraid that they will not take money to buy them.

In the next three days, Xiao Ming stayed in the equipment department all day, five hundred taels of silver made the equipment department richer than ever, and the wood, briquettes, and iron ore purchased every day went in and out, changing the bleak appearance of the past.

In the equipment department, thirty craftsmen sat on the ground, and Xiao Ming stood in front of them and talked endlessly.

These thirty craftsmen are basically all the craftsmen in Qingzhou, mainly carpenters and blacksmiths, and now Xiao Ming is telling them about something they have never heard of - lathes.

After analyzing the knowledge in the science and technology library, and combining the experience of the first industrial revolution, Xiao Ming believes that the foundation of the industrial revolution is the lathe, which includes boring machines, milling machines, grinding machines, drilling machines, gear processing machines and so on.

On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, it was the birth of these tools that produced precision mechanical parts, and precision mechanical parts made qualified steam engine cylinders.

The steam engine further automated the lathe, and more sophisticated parts appeared, making more machinery possible.

During the Warring States period, primitive lathes appeared in China, which were generally used to cut logs for waterwheels, and this process has survived.

It's just that the lathe of this period is a wooden structure, and it is pedal power, and the machine tool is very unstable.

The real lathe needs high-quality rigid, so that the machine tool can be fixed and process various instrument parts.

As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools, which is the tool of the craftsman.

As the result of the accumulation of craftsman technology, lathes are also the basis for inducing the industrial revolution.

What Xiao Ming has to do now is to first let the craftsmen make all kinds of tools.

Now that he is standing on the shoulders of giants, he does not need to follow the long steps that preceded the Industrial Revolution, but goes straight to the point.

Of course, before making lathes, Xiao Ming had to do one more thing, and that was to teach these craftsmen how to make steel.

Xiao Ming observed the steps of these craftsmen to build weapons, strictly speaking, these craftsmen are still using the traditional steel filling method, and the steel refined by this method can still be used on machine tools.

However, originally he wanted to teach them the crucible steelmaking method, but the crucible material graphite was not known to the people here.

However, through the science and technology library, Xiao Ming learned that Shandong was originally a large graphite mining province in contemporary times, and he could accurately locate the location of the graphite mine, so he could let people find this graphite mine.

At that time, he will be able to fire crucibles and make steel from crucibles in large quantities.

It is now the end of the seventeenth century, and the Great Chongqing Kingdom is as unaware of the changes in the outside world as it is in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Because the news is blocked, Xiao Ming is also unclear.

But he knew that the Mongol conquest of Europe did not seem to have happened in history, and if Europe had been at a time of peace, he could not have predicted the extent of European civilization now.