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Qin Mu sent back an order to let the Ordnance Supervisor try to produce rifled guns and Mini bullets, both of which are not very difficult, and with the ability of the Great Qin Ordnance Supervisor, it should not be difficult to create.

In fact, this was not Qin Mu's goal, his target was the breech firing needle gun;

He had seen breech-loading pistol guns and could draw drawings clearly; He had already asked the Ordnance Superintendent to develop Mine Mercury and Fire, and if these two things could be developed, the breech firing pin gun would not be out of reach.

Now, before the development of thundermercury and fire, front-loading rifled guns and mini-rounds were considered good over-the-top.

Seeing that Qin Mu was in a good mood, Li Shi came up and said mysteriously: "King Qin, the minister asked people to find out."

"Huh? What is clear? ”

"King Qin, that day when he returned to the city, the King of Qin saw the Yi girl, the small one has been found out, the Yi girl lives in Fanfang, since the former Ming Jiajing twenty-one years, the Francophone businessman was allowed to settle in Ningbo, for hundreds of years, there are really a lot of Yi people who have settled in Ningbo Fanfang. King of Qin"

"Go, go, this king, there is no need to mention this matter, what is the goal of this king?"

"I don't know what your goal is, King Qin, I'll do it for you."

"Ha Luha, you can't do it, this king's goal is to let England, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and France each send a princess over and kiss within five years, well, France wants two, must have two, can you achieve this goal?"

Li Shi pinched his hands and counted, and when Qin Mu asked him the most, he was dumbfounded, "King Qin, there are so many princesses"

"Is it a lot? When the time comes, you go and help the king choose, if the princess is bad, let them all over the country pageant, and then send it over as a princess after the selection. ”

"Let the minister go to the Western draft?" The Lee-style tongue is straight in a knot.

"What? Don't you dare to go? Look at your little bit of talent. Is it because you have been by the king's side for a long time and your courage has become smaller? ”

"No, no, no, King Qin don't worry, when the time comes, the little one will go, and he will definitely go."

"Haha" Qin Mu laughed loudly, if he can make a breech firing pin gun, not to mention going to Europe to ask for a few princesses, it is no problem to move Buckingham Palace and Versailles Palace.

Qin Mu Dalu smiled and returned to the back garden, where the peach and plum blossoms were opened, and the plantain half-covered the arch. The oblique pine is like a rockery;

Li Xiangjun wore a white mopping smoke cage plum blossom baishui skirt, covered with a moon satin embroidered magnolia butterfly dress, lined with pale pink brocade wrapping chest, and the cuffs embroidered with delicate gold-patterned butterflies, sitting at the stone table under the spring curtain and reading a book, with two maids standing next to her.

Hearing Qin Mu's voice, she looked back, like a fairy, and the spring light in the garden suddenly came alive.

"King Qin. What are you so happy about, can you tell the slave? ”

"Spring is like a promise, beauty is like jade, this king is happy when he sees it."

"Humph!" Li Xiangjun sneered lightly. Qin Mu didn't say it, she couldn't break the sand pot and ask to the end.

Qin Mu hugged her fragrant shoulder and smiled, "What book are you reading?" Hey, it can't be a golden plum, right? ”

Li Xiangjun took another bite of him and turned the cover over to show him. But I saw that the cover was printed with the words "imperial poem". Qin Mu took it over and looked at it, and the whole book actually collected all the poems he had passed out.

"Xiangjun, who printed this?"

The slave sorted it out. Let Han Zanzhou take it and let the engraving workshop print it together, King Qin, the slave heard Han Zanzhou say that this book was in short supply after it was printed, and now it has been sold for three taels of silver. ”

"What? This king's poetry collection only sells for three taels of silver? How can this be reasonable, it is simply unreasonable, where do you let this side of the king go? ”

Don't say it, books are very expensive these days, those rare books are hard to find even if you have money, and a book for three taels of silver is really not very precious, this is an imperial poem.

"King Qin, Han Zanzhou asked people to print 10,000 copies, and they were all snapped up."

"10,000 copies have been snapped up? Doesn't that mean that we have earned tens of thousands of taels? Qin Mu's eyes lit up, and the thief lit up. I think that back then, it took a long time to get a few hundred taels in the Qinglou on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and now I have earned tens of thousands of taels at once, which is not a small amount

Li Xiangjun smiled, as pretty as a flower, and fell softly into his arms. "King Qin, look at you, like a profiteer."

"What's wrong with the profiteers? This king didn't steal or rob, let alone pay the people, this king wants to support your family, is it easy for me? ”

"Uh-huh, King Qin is the Emperor of the Ages."

"It's not that this king is boasting, those poems of this king, that is the first high-quality poem, it is too cheap to sell for three taels of silver, no, let Han Zanzhou print some more, increase the price, at least add five taels of silver a piece."

"Hehe" saw that Qin Mu was serious, Li Xiangjun couldn't laugh so hard that he couldn't stand anymore.

Qin Mu picked her up, returned to the flower hall, and asked his subordinates to bring dinner, and the two of them had dinner together in the soft evening breeze.

During the meal, the smile on Li Xiangjun's face has never been confiscated, as far as she knows, the people originally donated nearly 10 million taels, deducting 4 million taels for the construction of the palace, and most of the rest were classified into the inner treasury.

Qin Mu and Yang Zhi usually live a frugal life, and there are less than 100 maids in the palace, which is not as many as those of those big families, so the expenses are not large. Neku is actually not short of money, but as soon as King Qin saw the money, her eyes lit up and she couldn't help but want to laugh when she remembered it.

Qin Mu helped her with a handful of vegetables, and sighed: "Xiangjun, you don't understand, loving money is actually not a bad thing, loving money will think about how to make money, those humble gentlemen, although their self-cultivation is good, but in fact, there is often not much benefit to the country and the people, they think that full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, they can make the people of the world fed, clothed, and live and work in peace and contentment." In fact, this is just a beautiful wish, and it will never come true. ”

"The slave knows the Tao, the King of Qin loves money, but his life is never luxurious. He is frugal and frugal, and he is never stingy to spend money on the people. ”

"As the so-called take from the people, use it for the people, the king has no shortage of three meals a day, in fact, there is no need to keep so much money, the king set up an inner treasury, save some money, but as an emergency fund for the country. As the saying goes, if you are prepared, saving more money will never be a bad thing. ”

"King Qin, I'm sorry, King Qin is working hard, slaves shouldn't make fun of King Qin."

"Ha Lu Ha"

After dinner, the two of them sat in the hall drinking tea, and when they saw the lid of the pot that was lifted by steam when the maid boiled water and made tea, Qin Mu suddenly remembered the steam engine.

The invention of the steam engine by Europeans was a matter of twenty or thirty years.

The Europeans can build it, and with Chinese technology, they know the working principle of the steam engine, but can't they build it?

When he was studying in his previous life, Qin Mu had learned the working principle of the Watt steam engine, in fact, the working principle of the Watt steam engine was not complicated, the intake, exhaust, cylinder, piston, Lianxuan, and the crank were nothing more than these key things.

Watt's improvement is mainly to separate the condenser from the cylinder, so that the cylinder temperature can be continuously maintained at the temperature of the injected steam, thereby improving the utilization rate of steam, which in later generations, almost everyone who has read a little bit of books knows.

Thinking of this, Qin Mu couldn't stop, so he went to the study and drew a drawing of the steam engine, and while he was drawing, he asked Li Shi to find a few skilled craftsmen.

It was almost dark, and several craftsmen were brought into the Autumn Dew Garden, and they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and did not dare to get up.

Qin Mu said in a harmonious voice, "What's your name?" ”

"The grass people's name is Li Yi."

"The grass people's name is Hu San."

"The grass people are called Qian Yi."

The three of them replied separately, not even daring to raise their heads, Qin Mu tried his best to soften his tone and said: "Get up, this king has a drawing here, I want you to make things in the same way, if they are made, this king will be rewarded." ”

The three of them were still nervous, Qin Mu urged again and again, and only then did they get up and look at the drawings, and after reading them, they were confused.

Qin Mu explained to them: "This king calls it a steam engine, you have seen boiling tea, the water is boiling, the steam can lift the lid of the pot, this king's steam engine is using this principle, you see, this is the cylinder, the cylinder is the piston, and the piston is connected to Lian Xuan." Here is the steam inlet, burn a boiler outside, let the steam enter the cylinder from the steam inlet, the steam will push the piston, when the piston is pushed in, at this time, the exhaust port is opened, the steam will be discharged from the exhaust hole, the pressure in the cylinder becomes smaller, then the steam inlet on the other side enters the steam again, and the piston is pushed back"

Qin Mu explained in detail, and the three craftsmen still seemed to understand.

He was not discouraged, and explained the working principle of the steam engine several times, and the three craftsmen basically understood.

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PS: Asking for a monthly pass, urgently asking for a monthly pass, these two days are so bleak, panicked, begging for monthly pass support!.

(To be continued......)