Chapter 34                                                             �

In addition, Zhou Mengchen also added an auxiliary power to the entire instrument.

What other auxiliary power can be in this era? Waterwheel?

This makes the design more complicated and the entire instrument bigger. Although it is slightly shorter than Susong's water transport celestial instrument, it is more than twice as wider than Susong's water transport celestial instrument. It is estimated that even if it is placed in the palace, it is only slightly smaller than some halls.

After Zhou Mengchen finished the design drawings, he was a little stunned. When he was designing, he was excited and added all functions. Now when he saw it, he suddenly felt that it was a bit out of place.

First of all, although Su Song’s design also uses water, it does not have a lot. Just find a way to transport water by manpower every day, but Zhou Mengchen’s design requires too much water. It is estimated that it is best to build it in a place with live water. There is not a river in Beijing.

However, on both sides of the rivers in Beijing, there are gardens of dignitaries and nobles. They are worth a thousand gold, but the Imperial Heavenly Prison does not have such land. If Imperial Heavenly Prison is so good, the Imperial Heavenly Prison's observatory would not be leniently staying in the corner of the city wall.

Secondly, even if it is not a matter of site selection, just talking about the cost, Zhou Mengchen estimated that even 50,000 taels of silver could not be defeated.

Such a sum of money? Will the court pay?

Zhou Mengchen was deeply suspicious.

However, he thought about it but did not modify it.

Another tip for the mentor to ask for funds is to blow it to the top. If you can blow it a few times, you will blow it several times. Anyway, you will also wave a machete on it. If the money is not enough, you will have to create Su Song's water transport celestial instrument.

Zhou Mengchen was waiting for the Ministry of Revenue to make a counter-offer.

Zhou Mengchen looked again. Then he thought: "By the way, Su Song's water transport celestial meter has been changed beyond recognition by me, so he shouldn't call it this name. Just call it the celestial meter."

This is also a tribute to Copernicus's theory of celestial body movement, but Copernicus probably will never know it in his life.

Zhou Mengchen excitedly took the drawings and went to see Yang Shoujing.

Yang Shoujing held Zhou Mengchen's drawings in one hand, listening to Zhou Mengchen's detailed explanation, and it took him a while to understand Zhou Mengchen's intentions, and was amazed for a moment.

The first thing that was amazing was Zhou Mengchen's knowledge.

You should know that Su Song's water transport celestial meter existed for a short time in history. After the Jin people destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, they transported the water transport celestial meter to Beijing. However, the water transport celestial meter was too difficult to transport. Some people said it was abandoned on the road, and some people said it was decomposed and transported, but after arriving in Beijing, it could not be assembled.

I don’t know that statement, but I just know that the water celestial meter disappeared from history.

However, the manufacturing methods of water transport astronomical instruments have been compiled into books and have always been circulated.

But it has never been copied in later generations. Even Guo Shoujing did not. No one could make it in the Southern Song Dynasty, and no one could understand it. It is said that Guo Shoujing thought it was big and useless. As for the specific reason, I don’t know now. Anyway, Yang Shoujing gave Zhou Mengchen books, but he may not really think that Zhou Mengchen would make it with just one glance.

But it's just a reason to require funding.

Yang Shoujing felt that he overestimated Zhou Mengchen's ability, but now it seems that he still underestimated it.

The second breathtaking thing is Zhou Mengchen's appetite.

One hundred thousand taels, Zhou Mengchen listed the funds of 100 thousand taels.

You should know that the annual funding of the Imperial Heaven Supervision may not be 10,000 taels. Zhou Mengchen dared to open his mouth and demand 100,000 taels.

Yang Shoujing always thought that Zhou Mengchen was a simple scholar, but it seemed that it might not be possible at this moment. But he still wanted to remind Zhou Mengchen: "Master Zhou, is this a little too many?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "Isn't this what you mean by sir?"

In fact, Zhou Mengchen did not calculate much. With such an instrument, it would be as high as 50,000 or 60,000 taels. If you choose a piece of land close to water, you might not be able to get it by 100,000 taels.

Yang Shoujing looked at Zhou Mengchen's innocent expression and said, "I---what do I mean?"

Yang Shoujing wanted to take advantage of the situation, but he still dared to pay hundreds of taels of money for his timid funds, but he never dared to pay hundreds of taels of money at this moment.

Yang Shoujing couldn't afford to blame such a blame. After Yang Shoujing changed his mind, he decided to withdraw from it.

Yang Shoujing said, "This is the case, you write a memorial and I'll hand it over to you."

Yang Shoujing originally wanted to submit the report in the name of the Imperial Heavenly Prison, but in his opinion, Zhou Mengchen's appetite was too big, so he picked himself out of it.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know what Yang Shoujing was thinking. He thought he should have submitted his own memorial and said, "Please rest assured Lord Yang, I understand."

So, Zhou Mengchen wrote a memorial and attached the drawings and principles of the celestial body movement instruments to the back, and a thick stack was sent to Yang Shoujing.

Yang Shoujing handed it to him.

However, Zhou Mengchen, a small seventh-rank official with a good facial features in the Imperial Heaven Supervisor, was very delayed in the normal process. From the Imperial Heaven Supervisor to the Ministry of Rites, from the Ministry of Rites to the cabinet, it would probably take less than half a day to let an adult walk around, all of whom were in Beijing. However, this memorial lasted for three days.

This is because Zhou Mengchen has been very popular recently and everyone dares not offend him, so this is the efficiency.

The Ministry of Rites is now Yan Song's territory. Yan Song and Xia Yan were both promoted from the Ministry of Rites, but Yan Song served as the Minister of Rites after Xia Yan. Now in the cabinet, Yan Song still manages the Ministry of Rites.

Of course, there is no specific division of labor in the cabinet. Well, even if there is a specific division of labor, it will not be difficult for Xia Yan to stop him.

Xia Yan is extremely domineering, and there is never anything he can't control.

Therefore, in the cabinet, Xia Yan felt that important and necessary matters were taken into his hands, and those unnecessary things were Yan Song's affairs.

What are important and necessary things?

Personnel, finance, military, etc.

This also led to a situation where Xia Yan was pragmatic and Yan Song was in vain.

After Yan Song looked at it, he thought for a moment, and let the Zhongshu Shepherd beside him send it to Xia Yan intact.

Yan Song did not kill Zhou Mengchen once, but reflected on himself. He felt that Zhou Mengchen had a special status in front of the emperor, and he should adjust his attitude towards Zhou Mengchen. As for the thoughts of the Taoists? Haha, the reason why Yan Song won over these Taoists was not that Yan Song really believed in the Tao, but that these Taoists had a special status in front of the emperor.

If these Taoist priests could not fight against Zhou Mengchen in front of the emperor, would Yan Song help them?

No, Yan Song will only add icing on the cake and will not provide timely help. Yan Song doesn’t want to criticize these 100,000 taels, but he doesn’t want to offend people.

This memorial was in the hands of Xia Yan.

Xia Yan didn't raise his head. Seeing the dozen memorials in front of him, all of which were all from the border, Xia Yan frowned.

The border affairs in the Ming Dynasty are not very good. After Jiajing ascended the throne, there were two stages of border affairs. At the beginning of the throne, the Mongolian power declined after Dayan Khan's death. Ten years ago, there were relatively few border troubles, but after the tenth year of Jiajing, various major events such as the Datong Mutiny occurred. In addition, the rise of Dayan Khan's grandson Altan made the border troubles more.

The early politics of Jiajing was relatively clear and clear, and Zhang Cong was also considered a famous prime minister. Xia Yan dared not say that his ability was good, but he was above level, and his border ministers were capable, such as the Hei Shui Victory led by Liu Tianhe and Zhou Shangwen, etc. So although Altan had acts to disturb the border.

However, Xia Yan sensitively discovered this point, that is, the strength of Altan's troops increased rapidly, while the strength of the Ming border army felt a little declining.

If this continues, the situation may be worrying.

Xia Yan just gritted his teeth and smashed the Taifu Yin for 440,000 taels in one breath, and ordered the troops along the border to buy horses.

Although Taipusi Silver originally bought the silver for horses, the imperial court had financial difficulties and had not embezzled any silver? All parties asked him for silver.

This decision is difficult to make.

Xia Yan had just made this decision and picked up Zhou Mengchen's memorial and opened it. He saw that he had not read anything. He only looked at the last number and smashed it on the ground without saying a word. He was shocked by the Zhongshu Sheren beside him. He carefully picked it up and placed it on the table.

Xia Yan pinched a pen in anger and wrote a big word on the memorial: "No." It seemed that he didn't even want to give him more ink.
Chapter completed!