Chapter 200 The big crocodile is born

The money minting business in the Song Dynasty was under the responsibility of local currency supervisors. The money minted by the private sector was called "private money". It is generally not exposed, but printing of flying tickets was not prohibited. Therefore, Zhao Xing's suggestion was half legal and half illegal. Because according to his opinion, the new money he minted would not be bound by the content of precious metals, but was only regarded as a kind of metal bill, as the circulation of transactions between interbanks.

However, the profit of opening a bank is too high. Nowadays, depositing money in the bank not only requires interest, but also charges handling fees and storage fees. This income alone is jealous. This is equivalent to collecting money while sitting, and who is not moved?

After all, Cao Lin spoke first, and he asked: "Zhao Xiaoguan, but I don't know how to prevent counterfeiting this ticket?"

Zhao Xing smiled and said, "I have been exploring printing technology in recent years. Mr. Cao, you also know that my concubine has a printing shop on her hand. At that time, I will use special paper and special ink to print flying bills that are very difficult to imitate. But now, I can't say the specific anti-counterfeiting methods. I will wait until the participants confirm it before saying it."

There was still chaos below. Cao Lin glanced at the person talking below and said, "Can official Zhao avoid it? Let us discuss it?"

Zhao Xing stood up calmly and walked out of the hall. The door was closed. Chen Yiyi held a teacup and stood beside the door. He was holding his ears up. When he saw Zhao Xing coming out, he asked anxiously: "Brother Xing, do you think they will agree?"

"I will agree. These people will be jealous of money in their eyes, so they will definitely agree."

Chen Yiyi jumped happily: "It's great, so that we can completely break away from the sea trade in the future and control goods through the ticket shop. In the future, the censor will never find it again, so Brother Xing can become a bigger official. It's better for Brother Xing to have a way."

After pausing, Chen Yiyi asked worriedly again: "You said, we have told them the method. Will they unite themselves and put us aside?"

Zhao Xing smiled and touched Chen Yiyi's white and smooth face: "No, they dare not leave us. Because although Tongduo Tongcun has a generous benefit, I did not tell them the specific operation method. Only my family, who owns a copper mountain, can pay for the exchange of the take-off ticket. If they dare to leave me, we will use money to make it impossible for them to exchange it."

"Okay", Chen Yiyi finished cheering, her body was already hanging on Zhao Xing's body, and said with a charming look: "Brother Xing, let them discuss it. How about we go take a bath? I'm very dry..."

"Yeah," Zhao Xing's legs became weak, so he quickly pulled Chen Yiyi to run into the castle. The two were sneaking towards the castle and bumped into Cheng Shuang head-on. He had a little unhappy face and stopped Zhao Xing regardless of etiquette. He replied with a very respectful attitude: "Teacher, let's take a look at the news from the capital, should the teacher take a look?"

After saying that, Cheng Shuang stuffed a lot of paper in dissatisfaction, then stood there, holding his arms and waiting for Zhao Xing to read it.

In fact, this stack of documents is not very important and very urgent. He stopped Zhao Xing with this stack of documents because he didn't want to see the teacher in Dabaitian hooking up with Zhi Po. On the other hand, since Cheng Azhu gave birth to the child, she had transferred all her thoughts to the child. Invisibly, she and Zhao Xing gradually went further and even started a cold war with each other. This made Cheng's son Cheng very unhappy, so he began to look for all opportunities to hint to Zhao Xing.

The document was sent by Cheng Xia in the capital. Now the battles in the capital are hard to do, and Fan E was also demoted from the capital after Li Chang. However, Cheng Xia, who Fan E brought with him, took advantage of his excellent calculation skills to lay his feet in the Jin department of the Ministry of Revenue.

As a small official, Cheng Xia did not involve the struggle between ministers. Although the official position was not high, it was enough to live a white-collar life in the capital.

As the eldest son of the Cheng clan leader, Cheng clan's industry has to pay Cheng Xia a dividend every year. Now that the Cheng clan's business is booming, Cheng Xia's additional income naturally rises. With the support of the family, he calmed down in the capital and moved into the small courtyard left by Zhao Xing in the capital, took his wife over, and started working in the capital safely.

Ma Mengde also lived in that courtyard. He was responsible for collecting information for Zhao Xing in the capital. Over time, Cheng Xia, as a member of the Cheng clan, began to actively participate in this work. This time he got a piece of information that Ma Mengde could not do: a complete water transport instrument drawing.

Zhao Xing had just turned a few pages and was confused by the complex structure on the drawings. He blinked his eyes and tried to recall his memory's evaluation of the water transport meter station. It seemed that this water bell combined with the functions of astronomical observation. The mechanical transmission equipment inside it represented the peak of the mechanical level of ancient China. It was not until the end of the 20th century that the Suzhou Science Department restored this Song Dynasty mechanical device with the help of foreign instruments.

Although Zhao Xing couldn't understand the map, he was completely attracted by the drawings in his hand. He ignored Chen Yiyi's frequent fingers rubbing him behind his back. He endured the pain and said, "It's not enough to have drawings alone. Even I was dizzy in seeing these drawings. Who else can understand them?"

Cheng Shuang pointed to the castle and Zhao Xing slapped his forehead: "Aye, Shen Kuo, Mr. Mengxi, I actually forgot about him. By the way, he is still in the castle?"

Cheng Shuang replied: "That day, the teacher placed him in the study room. Then the teacher went out to suppress the bandits, and then came back and was busy building roads. It was too late to get home. Mr. Mengxi did not leave the house and kept flipping through the teacher's collection of books in the study room. He only occasionally found someone from Yicai Leye to help him translate books.

He has been very close to the high priest of Yici Leye people recently. It is said that the priest was working hard to learn Song language while starting to translate Yici Leye books. He read all the teachers' collections. Currently, Mr. Mengxi stayed with the high priest all day long, and the two talked about things we couldn't understand every day.

However, Mr. Mengxi is really knowledgeable. His disciples sometimes ask him questions, and he can find the source of any problem, which makes his brothers very impressed."

Of course, Shen Kuo was knowledgeable. He really had to rely on this person to build the water transport instrument. Because this person was the initiator of the development of the water transport instrument instrument.

In the seventh year of Xining, Shen Kuo transformed the old armillary sphere, abolished the white road ring, and corrected the armillary sphere axis. He made great progress, but the "Shouyuan Calendar" issued in the eighth year of Xining was not satisfactory; Shen Kuo wrote a letter to explain that it required the production of precision observation instruments.

Subsequently, Su Song, Han Gonglian and others summarized the advantages of famous masters of all dynasties and designed a giant clock that can not only drive bronze armillary spheres, but also play drums and bells, which is the world-famous "Water Transportation Camera Station".

Since Shen Kuo can point out the shortcomings of the old instruments and transform them, he will definitely be able to copy the new instruments. Zhao Xing touched his chin and pondered: "Well, I don't know if this instrument is complex or not. If it is not too complicated, what kind of scenario will it be if we organize people to produce it and sell it to wealthy businessmen in need?"

Chen Yiyi didn't respond when she saw that Zhao Xing was pinching him. Zhao Xing was obviously addicted to the paintings in front of her. She stomped her feet and left by herself.

Cheng Shuang looked at him without squintingly and bowed to answer Zhao Xing's question: "I'm afraid it's not easy! I read Brother Xia's letter, and he said that the water transport meter platform was 12 meters high, and more than 20,000 kilograms of copper were used for casting copper. It not only required to solve the problem of hydropower energy and time display accuracy, but also to accurately adjust and synchronize with the operation of the celestial body. It relied on handmade and assembled, which was too difficult.

But, teacher, what do we want this thing? Although I can’t help but build such instruments, such a large object may attract the attention of the officials.”

The Chinese often feel cringe to the sky, and the emperor often calls himself the son of heaven and the emperor. Therefore, observing astronomy and studying astronomy is a privilege of the royal family. In addition, building astronomy instruments is also a taboo. What Cheng Shuang said is that although the court does not have explicit regulations, studying astronomy is dangerous after all.

Zhao Xing looked at the dock area and sighed with his hands behind his back: "You don't understand, I copied this. One of them was to study this object and figure out the transmission devices. If possible, try to popularize these mechanical transmission knowledge.

On the other hand, sea transportation cannot be separated from astronomical observations. Our sea ships must use stealth techniques when going out and must know the latitude.”

During the Song Dynasty, people had actually discovered the latitude problem, but they had not realized it yet. For example, the fate of this water transport gazebo platform just revealed the Song people's understanding of latitude. After the Jin people attacked Bianliang, astronomical instruments such as the gazebo platform were seized by the Jin soldiers. Later, the Jin moved the gazebo platform to Yanjing and wanted to reassemble and use it, but because of the different latitudes and terrain between Kaifeng and Yanjing, they had to look down from the watch tube and moved down to see it. In addition, due to the long-distance transportation, some parts had been damaged or lost, so the demolished water transport gazebo platform could no longer be restored.

The "to see the pole star from the look tube, move down by 4 degrees" here is an observation of the latitude.

Zhao Xing stood there thinking for a while, and asked again: "How is Mr. Mengxi's mood recently?"

Cheng Shuang adhered to his usual meticulous attitude and answered without missing any comments: "After Mr. Mengxi moved in, his mood improved a lot. The two Japanese girls served him very carefully. Occasionally, they sang a song and dance for him..."

Cheng Shuang grinned and continued to add: "We have a good meal here, and Mr. Mengxi has many people chatting with him. He has gained a lot of weight in the past few days and is no longer as thin as a bone. However, his wife Zhang once came to find Mr. Mengxi..."

Cheng Shuang paused for a moment, and saw that Zhao Xing had no expression, and then continued: "The student did not ask Zhang to take Mr. Mengxi away. Afterwards, the student went to inquire. It was rumored that Zhang was very fierce and often slapped Mr. Mengxi in the face, which made Mr. Mengxi's nose and swollen face.

Another time, she grabbed Mr. Mengxi's beard and even the skin on her chin had been pulled off, which made Mr. Mengxi's bloody attack.

I also heard that this Zhang was the second wife of Mr. Mengxi. She drove Mr. Mengxi's original matchmaker out and patrols every year for the eldest son. The local government did not bother her, and even her own child could not be seen. She often cried and knelt down to beg her mother for mercy."

Zhao Xing said a long time and understood that Shen Kuo suffered from severe depression in absolute loneliness, while his wife suffered from mania. In this case, Shen Kuo certainly hoped to have a quiet place. The high priest in the castle had no interest in him, and the two were not wary of chatting. The children admired Shen Kuo's knowledge and asked for advice from time to time, which made Shen Kuo feel warm, so he didn't want to go back and became more and more quiet in the sea of ​​books.

Zhao Xing then slapped his forehead and said, "To put it, it was my teacher who was dereliction of duty. He was your teacher in name, but except for the years he was in the mountains, he didn't teach you how many words he knew. It's a pity."

Speaking of this, Cheng Shuang showed a look of memories on her face. He smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "Yes, looking back on those days, it's really innocent... But the teacher doesn't need to blame himself too much. What you bring us is a wider world, and I have seen more things from it... Well, I have also been preparing to write a book recently, writing down my overseas experiences for several years, as well as the grass and trees, customs and customs of the country. Then the teacher should not laugh at me for being naive."

Zhao Xing nodded frequently with relief: "Okay, you are 20 years old now, and it's time to start a family. The ancients said: Establish words, establish one's own character, establish one's virtue. You are now starting to write books, and in this way, you can start a family."

Cheng Shuang respectfully gave a big gift to Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing accepted it calmly. After he finished the gift, the master and apprentice smiled hand in hand, and everything was silent.

The meeting at the West Wall Building was still in progress. Zhao Xing looked at the drawings in his hand and said, "I have an idea. I want to teach you the principles of these machinery and transmission. Do you remember the book I wrote on the sea? That book "Physics", yes, that book talks about the principles of operation of mechanical objects. With the guidance of principle, I believe that the level of mechanical skills in the Song Dynasty will be even more brilliant... However, this matter requires the help of Mr. Mengxi, let's go and find him."

Shen Kuo lives a very comfortable life now. He was lying on the couch, with two Japanese girls rubbing their heads and the other rubbing their feet. He was holding a cup of fragrant tea in his hand, and there were a bunch of snacks of various colors next to him. He held a book in the other hand, and greeted him while reading: "Get closer, put the lamp closer."

When Zhao Xing walked in, he heard this and ordered: "Light a few more lamps, our family will not lack candles."

Zhao Xing's family is indeed not short of candles. Since last year, his new iron keel boat was launched continuously. In order to train crew members and train the fleet to cooperate with each other, he made a new regulation since last year: the newly launched boat must go through a year's whaling career before it can be transferred to a merchant ship with fixed flights.

The benefits brought by whaling are huge. A whale has more than ten tons or even twenty tons. The sales of whale skins and whales are a big input, and the whale's brain wax is even more of a top-notch. A whale can contribute several tons of wax, which is no less than a shovel to pick a big gold nugget. Therefore, Zhao Xing's new sailor training plan has no less profit than commerce.

The servants brought more candles. When Shen Kuo saw Zhao Xing appear, his emotions fell into depression again. He focused on the book and did not care about Zhao Xing's existence at all.

Patients with extreme depression are actually close to autism. Shen Kuo now has a very conscience and self-blame, and he has closed himself in the world of books, for fear of seeing outsiders because outsiders may accuse him.

Zhao Xing was not polite. He spread the stack of drawings in his hand and stuffed them on Shen Kuo's book. Shen Kuo looked at them twice and was immediately attracted by the drawings. He quickly flipped through them one by one. After finishing reading, he stretched out his fingers and counted his fingers nervously: "The seventh year of Xining... It's the fourth year of Yuanyou, 23 years, and they have finally developed it."

Zhao Xing suddenly widened his eyes. Shen Kuo's calculation ability was too strong. He actually knew that Yuanyou minus Xining 7 was equal to twenty-three. Zhao Xing could not calculate this answer, and he needed to search the book.

In 1089, China developed a water gazebo stadium representing the peak level of ancient China's machinery. In the same year, the Black Khan Dynasty established by the fifteen Uighur tribes who moved westward in the Tang Dynasty (in the Afghanistan region), was captured by the Turkic Seljuk Dynasty, and the Black Khan Dynasty became a vassal of Seljuk since then.

In the same year, the Pisa people, one of the three Mediterranean top leaders, took advantage of the Christian expedition to earn a lot of wealth. This year, they plundered the treasures of six cargo ships. While thanking God for his guidance, the Pisa people also developed ambition to show off their wealth - they decided to build a majestic cathedral, an annex to the church, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Shen Kuo murmured for a while, and closed the stack of drawings and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

At this time, Cheng Shuang pushed the door and came in. He held the Zhao Xing notes that were taken out of Zhao Xing's secret room in his hand. The four words "Junior High School Physics" were spelled in Chinese pinyin on the cover. Shen Kuo couldn't understand the Latin pinyin, so he pouted, turned on the pages, and was immediately attracted by the content in the book.

But he had just turned two pages, and Zhao Xing reached out and forced his book to close. Shen Kuo then raised his eyes and stubbornly repeated his question: "What do you want me to do?"

Zhao Xing clapped his hands, and the black slave Tyson appeared from the door. Zhao Xing instructed: "Get a fur for Mr. Mengxi and let him go out with me."

The weather was a little cold in the twelfth month. Shen Kuo followed Zhao Xing tightly in his fox fur and walked towards the suspension bridge, heading towards the Israelites opposite. The bridge never allowed Shen Kuo to step on. He was curious and muttered as he walked: "It seems that I have seen where to see the appearance of this bridge."

Zhao Xing didn't say anything, and led Shen Kuo to the land opposite the bridge. On the guardhouse at the bridge, two guards raised the whistle sticks in their hands to Zhao Xing to express their respect. Zhao Xing nodded and expressed his greetings. He led Shen Kuo into the Israelites' village.

The villages in Israel completely reproduce the style of Su Shi's courtyard. The second floor of Su's style is arranged along the street. Five streets turn the entire village into six areas. In the village array is a typical European-style steeple church. Behind the church is a school where the Israelites teach their children. Due to Zhao Xing's relationship, some young Cheng children are also studying here. Now they are teaching an essay by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty. The sound of the book is loud and endless.

The school is not big, with only three houses, divided into three classes. When Zhao Xing saw Zhao Xing's arrival, a assistant priest stepped forward and bowed. Zhao Xing stopped the other party's greeting, raised his ears, and observed Shen Kuo's expression while listening to the sound of reading in the classroom.

Shen Kuo's face was filled with a leisurely and fascinating expression. He seemed to have returned to his childhood study era. At that time, the youthful vitality returned to his eyes, which made him smile.

Zhao Xing observed Shen Kuo for a while, pointed to the primary school and said, "This is what I need you to do. I plan to free it up on the second floor of my castle wall building and open all the schools. Now the teachers have been selected. One person from Leye gave me ten teachers and Nestorians, and they will give me twelve. I need ten local teachers."

Zhao Xing pointed to the physics book and then to the stack of drawings, and continued: "The water transport gazebo platform is twelve meters high. I can't get that high. Four meters is enough. Can this platform be reduced? I looked at the drawings roughly. There are 162 wooden people on the five floors below, each performing their own duties: at a certain moment, wooden people will come out to play bells, drums or musical instruments by themselves, report the moments, indicate the time, etc.

If there are not so many wooden people, twenty-four is enough. I need a simplified version of the water transport mesh platform. It only needs to ring the bell in twenty-four hours a day and observe the astrological signs by the way. This is enough.

In addition, I will build the same water transport gazebo platform, a twelve-high platform. However, this water transport gazebo platform will stand by the sea and a lighthouse will be added on it.

The book is called physics, which talks about some mechanical principles and very simple mechanical principles, but it can tell us why machinery moves so much. I need Mr. Mengxi to teach this book for me. I believe that restoring the work of this water movement station is also an understanding of this book. I hope Mr. Mengxi can translate the words in this book into written language used by scholars."

The Israeli Assistant Sacrifice was just in the middle of the conversation, and he complained a little unhappy: "Sir, I heard that theology is also taught in that college. My Israelites' faith is never external. I don't want children to be contaminated by other religions."

Zhao Xing laughed, but did not answer the other party's words. When Zhao Xing finished speaking, Shen Kuo had already started to flip through the books in his hand. He paused. He replied in a little embarrassedly: "I am writing a book, which is planned to be called 'Mengxi Bitan'. If I teach here, I may not have time to go back to write books."

Zhao Xing laughed like a successful little rabbit: "My school is a new-style school, with two holidays every year, and one month each holiday. In addition, I can also assign three to five secretary-generals to Mr. Mengxi to record Mr. Shen's notes. In addition, I can also provide Mr. Shen with equipment and research materials. Mr. Shen has two holidays every five days of study. I am responsible for sending someone to send you home. How about it?"

Shen Kuo hesitated for a moment and agreed: "That's it, okay. But I have a legitimate son..."

Zhao Xing immediately took over the other party's topic: "I have many positions here, and he can choose anyway. I also built a village next to this village, which is enough for his family to live in. Mr. Mengxi rested on the safe side. This small village is not open to the public and outsiders generally cannot enter."

Shen Kuo finally smiled a little on his face: "In this way, I need to go home, settle down my family, and bring some of my manuscripts."

Zhao Xing pointed to the next to the yard: "Okay, most of my yard has been built. Mr. Mengxi can choose one to store your manuscripts - anyway, everyone lives in the garden, so I build it for my concubine to play with. Mr. Shen wants to live for how long he wants to live."

When Zhao Xing returned to the castle, Chen Yiyi was in a hurry to jump. When he saw Zhao Xing, he grabbed him and asked, "Where have you gone? I'm looking for you everywhere, and the negotiation results have come out. The Cao family also wants to see. The six major Japanese maritime merchants are asking to join, and there are also some Quanzhou maritime merchants, and a ticket shop in Yangzhou and Guangzhou also asks to join. Are you waiting for you?"

Zhao Xing returned to the secret room where the meeting was held. At this time, the maritime merchants who were unwilling to join, or the merchants and ticket shops who had not yet made a decision, had already left, and only those who were willing to join were left.

Zhao Xing first took out a bunch of forms and said, "Everyone, first of all, we must sign a confidentiality contract. You must swear that you will keep the internal operations of the bank confidential throughout your life. Violators will be expelled once verified, and his shares will be forcibly acquired by others - at the original shareholding price."

Confidentiality agreement, which is nothing in the business world of the Song Dynasty. Everyone was skeptical. After signing the confidentiality contract, Zhao Xing ordered the contract to be locked in an iron box from his face, and then said: "Forget what I said at the beginning of the meeting, most of those words were to coax people. Our Union Bank plans to carry out the following business in the future:

First, large acceptance business; second, small bills of deduction exchange business, or even bills of notes, that is, we will issue a new internally accepted money. Here is a plan that details our business and the confidentiality and identification methods adopted for bills. You guys, this is just a rough plan, and there are more detailed ones, but that plan needs to be discussed in detail after you subscribe. Let me first say that this joint bill bank intends to raise 20 million guan of principal, so each share is set to be one million guan. You can subscribe first, and I will eat the rest."
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