Chapter 1224 Postscript 80·A lot of small money

The hunt lasted for three days, and Xie Yan had a great time.

On the afternoon of the second day, he shot a sika deer with a musket. Although he only hit the butt, with the help of hounds, he was able to capture it very easily.

Unfortunately, there are not many game animals here.

After the Queen Mother and the Emperor left with their troops, the managers of the hunting grounds immediately brought in live animals and released them into the forest.

If we don’t artificially raise them, we won’t be able to play with them next year!

So much so that there were gentry landowners in Dagonguan who raised deer and pigs around the mountains. Every year when the royal family finished hunting in autumn, they would catch them, sell them to the royal hunting grounds and release them for release, so that the dignitaries of Luoyang could hunt them sustainably.

"Hey, why does that carriage keep following you?" Xie Yan asked curiously.

Zhu Tangxi said: "I asked the Queen Mother for something, and the carriage helped transport it back."

Xie Yan asked no more questions.

It wasn't until he arrived outside his home that Xie Yan finally knew what it was.

A big bundle of deer antlers!

Xie Yan asked doubtfully: "What does sister want deer antler for?"

Zhu Tangxi replied shyly: "I'm just replenishing Liulang's health."

Replenish the body?

Xie Yan thought of a certain function of deer antler, and suddenly said hard: "I am still young and strong, so I don't need deer antler to supplement it!"

Zhu Tangxi turned his back, avoiding his own servants and the officials carrying the deer antler, and stuck out his tongue playfully at his lover.

"Forget it, keep it and use it again in thirty years." Xie Yan felt that he could remain strong until he was forty-seven or eighteen years old.

However, Zhu Tangxi did not give face: "I asked the imperial doctor and he said that it is best to take deer antler within two or three years."

Xie Yan felt sorry for the bundle of deer antlers: "What wonderful medicinal materials, they are useless even if they are kept in my house."

"Pfft!" Qingluan covered her mouth and laughed.

Returning to the study, Xie Yan immediately looked for his business card.

During the last Royal Society meeting, Xie Yan met several famous doctors, and all of them left their business cards.

He found all the business cards and wrote letters to famous doctors one by one.

The general content is: I recently went hunting with the Queen Mother and the Emperor, and hunted a few fat deer with great power. I took the antlers home as a souvenir. I heard that this stuff can nourish the body. How can I best take it? Of course I myself No need to make up, I sent it back to Huangzhou to honor my father.

Yes, I just honor my father.

After waiting for the famous doctors to reply, I sent some instructions for taking it together with the deer antler to my father to share.

I am such a talented and filial son!

After copying seven or eight letters in one go, Xie Yan called Wang Xing and asked him to send the letters to famous doctors quickly.

Then he lay on the bamboo couch outside the study, feeling so comfortable that it was better to be at home. I just wanted to lie down like this for the rest of my life.

…

Cizhou Machinery Factory.

A small ball mill with an extremely rough appearance was finally welded and assembled.

Several trucks of hematite mined locally in Cizhou have already been transported. The ores are of different sizes and are sent to the ball mill after watering, waiting to be fired in the boiler to start testing.

After two or three minutes passed, the machine was temporarily shut down to check and record the ore crushing situation.

"Useful, useful, a lot of iron ore has been broken!"

"Roughly estimate the proportions of ores of various sizes."

"..."

The machine quickly turned back on and then turned off again after two or three minutes.

Then replace the steel balls of different sizes and continue the experimental recording according to the previous method.

After grinding the iron ore, replace it with limestone ore.

After that, you need to replace the gear set and adjust the speed of the ball mill to see at what speed the various ores have the highest grinding efficiency.

A few days later, the Ministry of Industry received a telegram.

The telegram soon reached the hands of Bao Cweng, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry. He hurried to find Chen Wenzhao, the minister, and said happily: "Ms. Chen, the ball mill is really useful."

Chen Wenzhao asked: "How much can efficiency be improved?"

Bao Tsien-weng said: "Cizhou is still continuing their experiments, but according to what they claimed in the telegram, the ball mill is more than ten times faster than the previous steam hammer. Moreover, the ore ground out is more uniform. They plan to use the ball mill to

Make it bigger.”

"Improved more than ten times..."

Chen Wenzhao muttered: "If we talk to Bachelor Xie about a patent buyout now, we will have to spend a lot of money."

Bao Cweng said: "Ball mills are widely used and no matter how expensive they are, we will not lose money."

It is indeed a sure profit. All factories and mines that need to grind materials are potential customers of various types of ball mills.

Chen Wenzhao said: "I have some connections with the Xie family. It is not convenient for me to negotiate the price with him. You can take charge of this matter personally."

If it weren't for Xie Yan's status as a consort, the Ministry of Industry would not need Zuo Shilang to come forward at all. At most, he could be dismissed by sending a director of the Ministry of Industry. Moreover, the price would be suppressed very hard!

Bao Cweng took the order and left.

Soon, Zhang Mengxiong, the right minister in charge of the railway, came again: "Ms. Chen, this is the latest plan for the Zhentai Railway. The Hutuo River is too wide, and it is impossible to build the railway to outside Zhending City. It can only be built to Zhending City.

On the other side of the river, if you want to transport goods to Zhending City, you must unload them and ship them instead."

"The problem is not big," Chen Wenzhao said. "The Zhentai-Taiwan Railway was built mainly to transport coal from Shanxi to the Central Plains, Nanjing, Huainan, and Zhejiang."

Although the problem is not serious, it must be reported to the cabinet.

The Hutuo River is not particularly wide in Shanxi. When it passes through the Taihang Mountains and reaches North China, the water suddenly slows down and the river surface suddenly becomes wider.

How wide?

More than ten miles!

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the river was still 12 miles wide. Due to the difficulty of construction and the high cost of building a bridge, the late Qing government had no choice but to give up building the bridge.

As a result, the Zhengtai Railway, which was supposed to be built to the outside of Zhengding City, changed its terminal to Shijiazhuang.

In this time and space, we can only cultivate as far as Shijiazhuang.

Because the current Hutuo River is wider than that in the late Qing Dynasty, it flows all the way to Gaocheng before it is divided into two. Its northern channel flows from the north of Gaocheng, and its southern channel even flows through Ningjin County.

Of course, there was no village called Shijiazhuang at this time, but there was a town called Shiyi nearby.

The history of Shiyi City is much longer than that of Zhending City. It existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and was reduced to a small town in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

The next day.

Chen Wenzhao brought the railway plan to the cabinet to explain it.

"The railway is built from Taiyuan to the other side of Zhending City, which happens to be connected to the water transport of Hutuo River."

"The goods are shipped to Zhending City and can be transported to Beijing by rail."

"Goods are shipped along the Hutuo River North Road and can be transported by water all the way to Baoding."

"Goods are shipped along the Hutuo River South Road, and can be transported by water all the way to Guantao, where they are connected to the Yongji Canal."

Deng Gongwu carefully looked at the land and water transportation map, nodded and said, "It's feasible."

The Shijiazhuang area will definitely become prosperous in the future.

When the population gathers to a certain extent, it will be time to restore Shiyi County as it was in the early Song Dynasty. However, the county seat will be moved twenty miles north to face Zhending City across the Hutuo River.

…

After Bao Cweng got off work from the Ministry of Industry, he went straight to the princess palace of Qin.

He had already handed in his greeting card yesterday.

The carriage passed by the gate, and Bao Cweng glanced at the plaque.

The "Huama Di" sign hanging below has become a scene in Luoyang. Many people from out of town who come to Beijing will even come here to have a look.

He was just the left minister of the Ministry of Industry. Bao Cweng was not qualified to enter through the main entrance.

He took a car and went around to the side entrance of the princess residence, and was quickly taken to the living room to drink tea by a servant.

After a while, the princess came.

Check out the correct version one by one!

Bao Cweng stood up and bowed: "Greetings to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess!"

Zhu Tangxi returned the Wanfu gift and said, "My husband hasn't gone home yet. Taixue is quite far away. He is probably on the way. Minister Bao can talk to me directly."

Bao Cweng said: "The ball mill was provided by Prince Consort Xie with basic drawings, and was trial-produced and repeatedly improved by Cizhou Machinery Factory. Each party enjoys half of the patent rights. The Ministry of Industry plans to buy the half from Prince Consort Xie."
To be continued...