In September, the palace newspaper published three edicts from Hou Xuanyan to tell the world.

The first is that Yangzhou Salt Transportation Department was renamed Lianghuai Salt Manufacturing Factory. Xiao Luoyuan, the former fifth-grade salt transport envoy, was promoted to the director of Lianghuai Salt Manufacturing Factory. The word "chief" appeared in front of the world for the first time, and he was a fifth-grade official;

The second is to abolish intensive taxes, reduce the original land tax by 30%, and never add taxes;

The third is to announce the reestablishment of the Jiaozhi Governor General, and the army is about to expel the invading Siamese people and recover the former land of Annan.

The ministers in the court had already smelled the smell. While His Majesty was advising to teach the farming and sericulture, he was also raising the status of a merchant. It seemed that the policy would not change significantly in the near future. Moreover, the court solemnly declared the Jiaozhi War, which seemed to be preparing for the next big move.

Especially the wealthy merchants in various places attach the most importance to such mansions. Every time they leave, they have to buy them back and convene their staff to study.

Smart people have seen the business opportunities in it. Nanyang is a treasure land. If there is a port in Nanyang, the maritime business lines of the Ming Dynasty will spread from then on.

Moreover, Nanyang itself has huge business opportunities. If the court can win the same business conditions as Japan, it will be the next Japan, with gold everywhere.

In the arable land in the south of the Yangtze River, fewer and fewer people are planting grain, especially in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places. Fujian was originally a place with barren land, so if they didn’t plant it, they wouldn’t plant it. Zhejiang is a famous fish and rice town. Now there are factories, workshops, and the rice in the fields has been replaced by mulberry leaves and cotton.

The officials in the court were worried about this, but Hou Xuanyan didn't care. We have been farming for thousands of years, and it is time to stop.

You can fill your stomach by farming, but you cannot safely pass through the era of navigation, especially the future world.

As long as the national strength is strengthened, granaries and ranches can be everywhere overseas, and there is no panic at all.

Just when the newspaper caused heated discussion among the people, Hou Xuanyan set up a car craftsman's hall because the Jinling car craftsman's hall had sent a memorial saying that they had developed a new machine that could discharge groundwater from the mine itself.

Nowadays, with the rise of firearms, the manufacturing of gun barrels and shells requires a large amount of steel. Decades ago, craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty had learned to coke and use coke instead of coal as fuel to avoid the shortcomings of coal. The widely used pig iron venting method can no longer meet the demand for steel. The huge war demand has given birth to the driving force for technological innovation. Countless craftsmen have studied day and night in the school and finally introduced a set of pressurized forging methods.

This move is to use the wind power of the blast furnace to allow the coke to fully burn away the impurities in the iron, thereby obtaining higher-quality steel.

However, in this way, the demand for coal becomes very large. Hou Xuanyan has always had a headache about that when mining coal, the groundwater in the depths cannot be discharged through the strength of humans and animals. In this way, many mines often dig the upper layer and cannot continue to mine.

The Craftsman Pavilion finally solved this problem. Of course, Hou Xuanyan was very happy and brought people to watch it early.

When the emperor's carriage arrived at the outskirts of Jinling, the craftsman's hall was not immune to the customs. All the staff came out to welcome the sage.

Hou Xuanyan looked tall and handsome in a big red twelve rounds of robe and tall boots.

A man and a woman beside him, two children, with bright eyes and teeth very cute, one is the princess Hou Wanshu, and the other is King Jing Zhu Linhao.

The high-end colored shed in front of the craftsman's hall was built, and everything seemed very grand, which was also intentional by Hou Xuanyan.

Only by improving the identity of craftsmen and worshiping craftsmen in the whole nation will continue to make progress.

The whole emperor's carriage was full of emperors, and the whole team was heading towards the colorful shed. A pair of dragon flags and phoenix flags, rows of yellow axes and white flags, the eunuchs and the eunuchs and the palace maids and the general of the Han Dynasty, Huang Luo Baogai appeared in front of him. Hou Xuanyan below did not ride a carriage, nor did he ride a horse, but he came with a child in his hand and smiled.

The craftsmen in front of the coloring shed shouted together, Hou Xuanyan was in a better mood, and hugged one with one hand and said, "Take me to see, your magic weapon!" Zhu Linhao, the two children in his arms, looked excited and looked around, but Hou Wanshu was a little shy, and buried his little head in Hou Xuanyan's arms and looked out secretly.

The people in the Craftsman Pavilion are relatively strong in shape and have a bronzed skin. It can be seen that everyone is really happy, but they are not good at speaking.

The group led Hou Xuanyan to the craftsman hall. The students here were different from the martial arts hall. They were all young people who looked a little dull, but their eyes were full of vitality.

Hou Xuanyan only wanted to see what kind of machine it was, which could pull out groundwater from the deep mine, and walked forward with big steps.

After a while, I walked to an open place where there were various machines and simulated scenes. I saw a deep pit in the southeast corner, and a circular barrel machine stood next to it, which looked a bit bulky.

Wang Fuzhi, the Minister of Works, who is in charge of the World Craftsman Pavilion, smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this is this thing, Wang Zhao, go and demonstrate it to Your Majesty."

The man named Wang Zhao was not old. After hearing what Lord Shangshu said, he hurriedly stepped forward to operate it. The more Hou Xuanyan looked at it, the more he felt excited. This thing turned out to be a steam water lifter.

Wang Zhao first filled an egg-shaped container with steam first, then closed the steam inlet valve, sprayed cold water outside the container to condense the steam in the container to form a vacuum. Open the water inlet valve, and the water at the bottom of the pit was sucked into the container through the inlet pipe under the atmospheric pressure; closed the water inlet valve, reopen the steam inlet valve, and pressed out the water in the container through the drain valve by steam pressure. When the water in the container is emptied and filled with steam, close the steam inlet valve and the drain valve, spray water again to condense the steam. This cycle repeatedly, and two egg-shaped containers can be used to alternately drain water.

The two children next to him were attracted by this magical scene and clapped their hands to applaud. Hou Xuanyan was happy and said, "I should have many rewards for this ingenious work in the Craftsman Hall!"

The craftsmen around were excitedly looking at each other. The emperor always treated such credit and rewarded them generously. The case of the carpenter and son who had problems with character was tried by the emperor himself. As a result, it was beyond everyone's expectations, and rewarded a pair of carpenter and son, and paid for the patent himself to give it to two merchants. The case had a profound impact and directly changed the status of the craftsman, making many people willing to send their children to the craftsman hall and undergo the preliminary examination in the museum.

Everyone looked at the emperor with a gaze, wondering what rewards there will be this time. Hou Xuanyan smiled generously and said, "Give me three thousand taels of gold. Anyone who participates in the development of this matter will be given a baron from the fifth-rank county."

The words were all shocked when they were eliminated. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the fifth-class Lords, Wang, Gong, Bo, Zi, and Nan, were later abolished the latter two. Now Hou Xuanyan has restored his words and awarded several craftsmen. You must know that the Ming Dynasty pursued the "those who do not have military merits will not be awarded titles." Obviously, in the eyes of the emperor, the achievements of the craftsmen are willing to be compared with military merits.

Those who were involved in the development were naturally very happy, and the others were also very jealous, and secretly encouraged themselves to win the title and glory of the clan.

Even the officials accompanying the car were a little jealous, and none of them could obtain titles.

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