Chapter 40              Picture Reading Meeting

Tengxiang is very efficient.

In just one or two days, all the raw materials were prepared. The main reason was that the court had reserves for these things, but they were scattered among the various yamen. How could it be impossible to do it if it had money and orders?

But in Zhou Mengchen's opinion, Yang Shoujing was going to be disappointed.

This kind of thing is very rich. Yang Shoujing wanted a project, and he might not dare to be greedy in many places, that is, he took advantage of these small gains. Now Teng Xiang was compensated, and the gray income in it was also put into Teng Xiang's pocket.

However, Zhou Mengchen didn't care too much.

After all, after experiencing some things in Wuchang City, Zhou Mengchen's view on money has always been moderate. The extra money is not only not a benefit, but also a disaster. In addition, Zhou Mengchen wants to make money, but there is no way to make money on it. Zhou Mengchen is more just seeking benefits for the Imperial Heavenly Supervisory Office.

However, Zhou Mengchen did this. For example, he discussed with Teng Xiang to give his students, that is, Yin and Yang students from the Imperial Heavenly Supervisory Office. Each subsidy was considered as a double salary.

Soon, Tengxiang invited three old men.

The one with the surname Lei, who is known as the one who can build an imperial tomb for the emperor, is said to have not yet obtained a chance to build an imperial tomb. After all, there are only a few emperors in the Ming Dynasty. Every master of the Ming Dynasty can meet a few emperors in his life and participate in the construction of several imperial tombs. How can he win the opportunity to build an imperial tomb?

It is said that the ancestors of the Lei family moved from Nanjing to Beijing like Bianyifang.

There are quite a few people in Beijing who are like this.

Lei Dajiang is the sacred palace supervisor of the inner court, but the other two are not.

Another person's surname is Lu, who is a master of carpenters and a ancestral craft.

Another surname is Shi, which is also a ancestral craft.

The two of them are from Wensi Academy and have official positions, one is the chief envoy of Wensi Academy and the other is the deputy envoy of Wensi Academy.

Wensiyuan was famous during the Tang and Song dynasties, but in the Ming Dynasty it was just a ninth rank yamen, so it didn't want to be a clerk, so it had to be craftsmen, and it was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Works Dushui Department.

This is actually the norm in the entire Ming Dynasty. Many unique technologies are passed down from generation to generation. They are passed down in the form of family, master and apprentice.

And these three people are not here alone.

Even more than three people, they came from three teams. These three people brought their own disciples and disciples, and they were a dozen or so people. These masters were old and could not do some of their work by themselves, and they were all handed over to their disciples.

He is responsible for checking the matter in the end.

Zhou Mengchen naturally welcomed him warmly. The arrival of these people and the level of these people directly determine whether Zhou Mengchen's celestial body movement instrument can be successful.

As soon as the three masters were in place, Zhou Mengchen held a meeting.

But this meeting made these three masters uncomfortable.

However, Zhou Mengchen arranged a row of long tables. Zhou Mengchen sat in the upper head, and on one side were Zhou Mengchen's disciples, Cheng Dawei, Liu Xiushui, and Yang Hongliang. Behind them were their registered disciples, who could only listen from behind.

Opposite the three were Lei Dajiang, Lu Dajiang and Shi Dajiang.

On one hand, the three people are no more than 60 years old, and on the other hand, the three people are two hundred years younger. On the one hand, the white hair is gray, while on the other hand, most of them are young. They are uncoordinated no matter how willing they are.

In addition, these masters have not received the same kind of courtesy. Most officials just hand over the project directly to them. Even the drawings are drawn by themselves and they are worried about them. Anyway, if there is a problem, it is their problem. It has nothing to do with the officials.

They thought it was the same today. They never expected that they would arrange such a meeting as soon as they arrived here, which looked very grand.

Let the few of them get restless. You must know that many times, there is no possibility of sitting and talking to the officials.

But in Zhou Mengchen's opinion, this is normal.

One is the design party and the other is the engineering party.

Although this drawing was designed by Zhou Mengchen, Zhou Mengchen, as the chief designer and chief engineer of the project, always had to do it in a good manner. He also knew the situation of the Ming craftsmen. If he told them about the design directly, Zhou Mengchen was worried that even if they could not complete his own design, or if there was a better solution for these craftsmen with practical experience, they would not propose it.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen felt that he should remain neutral.

More importantly, Zhou Mengchen had explained the drawings to his disciples and asked them to review them. Now they should be able to fully understand the design ideas and principles.

Even for Zhou Mengchen, spreading ideas and educating his disciples is more important than building a mere celestial body meter. No matter how important the celestial body meter is, it is just a tool, and only people have unlimited possibilities. Therefore, Zhou Mengchen would rather delay some time to give his disciples sufficient training opportunities.

Therefore, today they will interpret the drawings with the design party as the engineering party.

Of course, it was definitely not Zhou Mengchen who was the interpretation drawing of Zhao Jiu, so he had to do it for his disciples.

After both sides sat down, Yang Hongliang stood up, pushed a thick stack of drawings to the opposite side, and said, "Please take a look at the three seniors."

The reason why Yang Hongliang is that Yang Hongliang is the oldest and most mature in dealing with people. Cheng Dawei Mathematics is naturally awesome, but he still has too few experiences. As for Liu Xiushui?

Zhou Mengchen had already confirmed that Liu Xiushui must be the least capable of all his disciples in the future. Now his academic progress is not as good as those registered disciples. This made Zhou Mengchen helpless and understood why Liu Tianhe didn't let his grandson take the imperial examination.

But for Liu Tianhe's sake, Zhou Mengchen naturally would not give up. Zhou Mengchen had already figured out whether he would teach him a specific technique in the future so that he could be worry-free for the rest of his life. Zhou Mengchen never had this idea about Cheng Dawei and Yang Hongliang.

Liu Xiushui is here to recharge the numbers.

Master Lei took over the drawings.

There is also a gap between master craftsmen. Master Lei is a comprehensive and has the ability to serve as the general manager of a certain project. Although the other two master craftsmen are very skilled, they are more in their own field and are somewhat in their own fields.

Lei Dajiang lifted the drawings and frowned immediately.

These drawings are very detailed, from the overall appearance, the internal structure of each layer, to the key components, as well as the specific dimensions on it, and marked with specific dimensions.

After reading it for a while, Dajiang Lei felt that he could understand it and could not understand it. Then he gave the drawings to the other two. After reading it, his eyes were exactly like Dajiang Lei.

Zhou Mengchen asked, "What do you don't understand?"

Master Lei stood up and saluted respectfully and said, "When you say sir, I-----" for a moment, I didn't know how to speak.

Master Lei can only understand part of this drawing. After all, many things are connected. Master Lei has worked hard all his life to build it. Although he has never seen such drawings, his space imagination is good and he can guess at all. There is only a small part left that doesn’t understand very much.

He is hard to explain.

But I dare not explain it.

After all, seeing these drawings was exhausted, he would have drawn them with a lot of effort. If he couldn't understand, would he anger the famous man in front of the emperor?

Zhou Mengchen said, "Look carefully, this errand was kissed by Your Majesty. I have to take responsibility. You can't explain it clearly now. It's no big deal. Everyone can understand everything. But after getting started, they can't get it out. At that time, Your Majesty wants my head, and there will naturally be someone to take your head. You have to figure it out."

"I'll ask again, what do you don't understand?"

After Zhou Mengchen was scared like this, these master Lei were also a little scared and dared not make excuses: "It seems that something doesn't understand, especially the number marked on this side. What does it mean?"

Zhou Mengchen smiled softly and said in his heart: "You have to be scared before you get on track." It is normal for these masters to have questions. He did not answer directly, but gave Yang Hongliang a wink. Yang Hongliang immediately understood. He stood up and said, "Seniors, I can answer any questions you have."
Chapter completed!