"Zhao Yan!" Song Yingxing was shocked. How could it be him?

Zhao Yan's reputation is already well-known in the Ming Dynasty. Almost all elites know his existence. Zhao Yan suddenly came to the door, which made Song Yingxing hesitate and asked, "I wonder if General Zhao is looking for any position?"

"Mr. Song wrote the book "The Work of Heaven" and my general admired it very much. The general said that you can choose what position Mr. Song took in Zhaojiabao, with a monthly salary of at least 300 taels." said the squadron leader of the inspection brigade.

The monthly salary is 300 taels, which is dozens of times higher than the current teaching instructor Song Yingxing.

"I am grateful to the general for his attention, but I am grateful to you. I am just a little bit less knowledgeable. Please let me think about my position first." Song Yingxing did not agree directly in the face of such generous treatment.

"I have many workshops in Denglai. Mr. Song can go to Denglai to guide the workshop to produce. He can also go to the Science and Technology Academy. The Denglai Science and Technology Academy in Zhaojiabao specializes in studying the art of natural craftsmanship. Since Mr. Song is good at this, he must be competent for both."

Song Yingxing thought for a moment and refused, "You might as well please come back! I am really talented and knowledgeable, and I can write "The Creation of Heaven" based on the method of never forgetting everything I have learned. However, I have already written all of what I have learned in the book, and I will go to Denglai to make people laugh."

Song Yingxing knew his abilities very well. The reason why he was able to write "The Creation of Things in Heaven" was entirely because he could remember the process by remembering it through the method of not forgetting it, and then summarizing it one by one. These things have been written into "The Creation of Things in Heaven". As for research, he was not good at it.

"Oh! Mr. I can never forget you, so that's better." The squadron leader lit up after hearing this, and said to Song Yingxing without saying a word: "Mr. Song, my general is eager to seek talent. You might as well go to Zhaojiabao first. I have prepared a carriage, please ask Mr. Song."

As the squadron leader made a gesture of invitation, Song Yingxing shook his head repeatedly and said, "General Zhao is afraid he fell in love with him because he is really a little talented and knowledgeable."

"Mr. Song doesn't need to say much. Come and ask Mr. Song to get on the car." The squadron leader waved his hand directly, and the soldiers behind him walked forward, holding Song Yingxing out, and did not allow Song Yingxing to struggle, so he pushed the carriage directly.

Soon, under the escort of more than a dozen cavalrymen, the carriage galloped towards Shandong... Song Yingxing was forcibly taken on the carriage, and he was not allowed to struggle along the way. The group of people were very polite to him and took good care of all the food and drink on the road. Song Yingxing couldn't help but feel helpless. After walking on the water for half a month, they finally entered the Shandong territory.

At this time, the three Western prefectures in Shandong had recovered well. There was almost no beggar in the three Eastern prefectures. All the beggars were recruited by Zhao Yan to farm, and the elderly and mentally retarded were specially taken in.

The land in Xisanfu is due to the huge demand for cotton from Denglai's textile industry, and almost all of the land is planted with crops, most of which are cotton.

This year, the cotton production in the three eastern and western provinces of Shandong has increased again, reaching as much as five million dams.

Song Yingxing was surprised to see that the land he saw on the road was in a state of cultivation. When Song Yingxing arrived at Qingzhou Prefecture, he found that Qingzhou Prefecture was very deserted. However, on the barren land, many people were working, and plowing oxen were constantly plowing the land.

"All things are in trouble!" Song Yingxing sighed as he looked at the scene in the fields. At the same time, Song Yingxing saw a scene that was unforgettable on the road. He saw that when the Chinese New Year was about to be held, there were still carriages and horses on the official road.

Trucks of cotton and various cargoes came and went, and there were no less than ten caravans in half a day, and the inn along the way were even full of residence. Fortunately, the squadron leader had a special task, so a room was vacated on the inn.

"Brother, the spring of the year is approaching, why are you still traveling in Shandong?" Song Yingxing asked a merchant next to him in confusion while having dinner.

"Earning money is not divided into solar terms!" The merchant smiled, "Shandong has many business opportunities, so it is almost a safe profit for business travelers in Shandong."

"Why is this?" Song Yingxing also heard about the situation in Shandong when he was in Fenyi, because some of the workshops he visited were affected by Shandong products.

"When you come to Shandong, you can drive cattle and horses when you come, or bring porcelain, tea, sugar, silk and other maritime goods, and you will definitely make a profit. Especially for cattle and horses, as long as there are cattle and horses, General Jianwei wants them all, as well as wood, saltpeter, sulfur and other things, which are very easy to sell when transported to Huangxian."

"When you return, you can bring salt goods, fishery products, cotton cloth, cotton socks, cotton jackets, ironware, bronzeware, dried powder and some Japanese goods. All you have to make money, but how much you make money depends on how you choose. Unfortunately, the glass mirror is only sold to Shandong merchants, and that glass mirror is the most profitable."

As the merchant said, Song Yingxing couldn't help but nod. Since the price of the glass mirror was reduced last time, there has been a wave of buying again. In this era when the rich are greedy for luxury, what is a small glass mirror?

Song Yingxing also bought a small one for himself and took it apart. He found that there was no essential difference between this glass mirror and a diorama, but it was bigger. At the same time, the coating materials on the back were the same, making it look brighter.

Suddenly, Song Yingxing became more anticipated by the situation in Denglai. From various phenomena, it can be seen that General Jianwei Zhao Yan is a person who attaches great importance to production.

Song Yingxing happened to be a person who despised those "playboys" and "family of scholars" who "know their taste but forget their origin". However, Song Yingxing was also a little nervous. After all, he was just a record of production technology and was not very good at research.

...The Qing Dynasty was very active. They set up a beacon tower ten miles along the coast. Each beacon tower was stationed between 10 and 500 people. Fan Wencheng originally proposed 500 people, but the coastline of Liaodong is so long that it is obvious that there is no feasible surname for each beacon tower.

The Qing Dynasty defended heavily in places where it thought it was likely to be selected as the landing site, such as Lushun and Shuangdao bend, with 500 people stationed in the areas of the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, they dispatched naval troops that never went out to sea and patrolled the coast. The Qing Dynasty naval troops were brought by Kong Youde and others. The warships in the north themselves were not reliable. In addition, the Bohai Sea was always windy, so the Qing Dynasty naval troops rarely went out to sea, and they were not sure about Zhao Yan's maritime power.

While the Qing Dynasty was moving, Zhao Yan had already received news in Zhaojiabao. The General Staff was really ridiculous about the Qing Dynasty's actions. The Qing Dynasty's defense was still effective if it was against a navy without a large number of artillery equipment, but would it be useful to face gunboats?

The General Staff still revised the login plan. The landing point selected by the General Staff was in Donggang City in later generations, where the Qing Dynasty arranged 500 people.

Currently, there are six armed merchant ships and twelve warships arranged in Longkou Port. Once the Qing Dynasty enters North Korea, they only need to blow up the Zhenjiang Bridge and blockade of the Yalu River can be postponed for a few days. Therefore, only two armed merchant ships are needed to mobilize and five warships go to the Yalu River. Other armed merchant ships and warships first cover the landing of the army. The army gains a foothold on the shore before rushing to the Yalu River.

The Liaodong Special Exhibition Brigade currently wants to pass the information back, so it has to follow the North Korean route. Because of the activities of the Liaodong Special Operations Brigade, the Han people in Liaodong have already known the news that the Qing Dynasty was defeated in the pass. The Qing Dynasty could not hide this news. After all, 50,000 people disappeared out of thin air, and the news would easily spread.

Under the instigation of the Liaodong Special Forces Brigade, a large number of Han people embarked on the road of resistance. Some fled to North Korea, while others began to rob and kill people.

For a moment, poisoning, robbery, and escape were happening everywhere, making the Qing Dynasty very anxious.

What's more serious is that on the third day of December, a group of people attacked the workshops under Chenyang City and lit fires everywhere in the workshops, causing chaos on the spot. The Qing Dynasty could not tell who lit the fire. They cut and killed hundreds of craftsmen for a while before they suppressed the chaos.

This attack caused many important workshops to be burned and a lot of the materials stored in the warehouse were burned. Huang Taiji was extremely furious.

After discussing with Fan Wencheng on the same day, a series of policies were promulgated.

First of all, those who go out need to lead the way, and at the same time set up checkpoints everywhere, and those who don’t have a way out are beheaded. In addition, the defense of important places is strengthened.

These response methods restricted the actions of the Liaodong Special Forces Brigade to a certain extent, but their walking in Liaodong was not too restricted, because there were wild areas everywhere in Liaodong, and the Qing Dynasty could not be completely blocked.

However, the Han people who fled to North Korea were intercepted, and only a few could pass through the Yalu River. Most of these Han people who were intercepted were cut off their heads.

Their heads were hung all over Liaodong to warn those who wanted to escape, but when the Qing Dynasty reacted, nearly one-tenth of the Han people in Liaodong had fled.

This also greatly stimulated Huang Taiji's urgent surname to conquer North Korea. If North Korea is not under their control, such escapes will continue to happen.

As for the Han people who escaped the Yalu River, they were taken by the Liaodong Special Operations Brigade to the mountainous areas in northeastern Korea, where three passes were established by the Denglai Army.

These passes are still being improved. Every day, fly-scissors arrive in North Korea, bringing a large amount of combat supplies to the three passes, most of which are arms and food, as well as some steel bars and cement.

These clippers also brought some cargo to exchange for North Korean marten fur, ginseng and other specialties.

These three passes are relatively hidden in North Korea to recruit Han people. North Korea has a large number of Han people who escaped, and the number is almost overwhelming.

The Koreans did not have much favoritism for these fleeing Han people. These Han people did not have a good time in North Korea, so they easily recruited 40,000 to 50,000 people.

There are dozens or hundreds of people coming every day. These Han people are placed in passes to build fortifications. They can feed themselves every day and get half a month. The labor intensity is not very high. Most young and strong people are spared some time every day for military training and issued various weapons.

After continuous transportation of the clippers, by December, all three passes stored enough materials for half a year. These three passes also tightly guarded the three channels leading to Liaodong in northeastern North Korea.

"All the steps of the encirclement plan have been completed, just wait for the Qing Dynasty to get into the trap." Zhao Yan was in a good mood. At this moment, he was no longer as urgent as before, and he became more relaxed.

Zhao Yan still gets up in the morning to exercise, then starts to handle government affairs, then goes to inspect, and then goes to the Science and Technology Academy to attend classes in the afternoon, and goes to the military camp to investigate in the evening, summarizes combat experience with the generals of each battalion, and instills military concepts in them.

Although Zhao Yan no longer trains with soldiers for the construction of the army, he attaches great importance to military development, whether in terms of combat philosophy, tactics, or combat weapons.

At the same time, I go to the military camp every day to investigate and can always detect the changes in the military camp. At this moment, the Liaodong Legion and the Denglai Legion gathered in the Shandong Peninsula and were ready to attack at any time. The soldiers also knew that there would be a big battle in the near future, and they were ready to fight and their morale was very high.

The Shandong Peninsula has also implemented strict anti-investigation work, first blocking Shandong's coastline, strictly inspecting and monitoring ships and personnel of unknown origins, and strictly prohibiting people who have nothing to do with the fishery from going to sea.

The spies sent by the Qing Dynasty had caught no less than a hundred people within a month. All the ships on the Shandong Peninsula were controlled by Zhao Yan. The Qing spies who had escaped the cusp could only send the news back from land.

However, Zhao Yan also had precautions on land. All the people in Denglai need to approve road guidance when going out. At the same time, they usually only approve the nearest county town, and no matter how far they are, they will not approve unless they go to the construction site to work.

At the same time, the Han people from Liaodong were placed in centralized resettlement and surveillance were carried out. In addition, patrols were strengthened in military camps, military weapons bureaus, horse farms and other important places, and they were directly arrested and interrogated when encountering unknown snoops.

As a result, the spies sent by the Qing Dynasty could hardly obtain any valuable information, and they didn't even know how many soldiers Zhao Yan had.

...When Song Yingxing came to Zhaojiabao, Zhao Yan was teaching a class at the Institute of Science and Technology, Zhao Yan was teaching an electrical class, and when Song Yingxing came to this classroom that accommodated hundreds of people, Zhao Yan was turning and rubbing the motor.

The classroom is relatively large, but there are too many people. Among these people are members of the Academy of Sciences and students from Denglai University, which are so crowded that they can't stand, so many people have to stand behind.

When Zhao Yan rotated the motor, a crackling spark immediately generated. This motor was made by Zhao Yan who was constantly strengthening it. It could form a powerful spark, and almost everyone was shocked.

"You may not understand what electricity is in the textbook. Today we will verify the electrical part in the textbook." Zhao Yan said.

The members of the Academy of Sciences and students from Denglai University were watching Zhao Yan's experiments intently. They had memorized some basic theories of electricity in physics textbooks, but they were only verified.

"This is a motor, and a large current can be generated by friction." Zhao Yan said, taking out a wet rag containing salt water, sandwiched between a circular plate of silver and zinc, and piled up into a cylindrical object. "This is a battery, the most primitive battery, which can store electricity inside."

"With these two experimental equipment, our verification experiments can be carried out one by one." Zhao Yan said, and then started an experiment with his assistant.

"There are three people A, B and C who were not charged at all. A stood on the wall and rubbed the glass tube, and the electric fire on his body ran to the glass; and his communication with the common stock was cut off by wax, and his body could not be replenished immediately... There is charge in all objects. When the charge content in an object is common stock, it does not appear to be charged but is in a state of balance. If an object contains more electric fire than common stock, or less than common stock, then the object is in a charged state. This is the law of "conservation of charge."

"Electricity is not uncontrollable. Electricity is something that can be applied by us. Next I will show its lighting function." Zhao Yan said, asking his assistant to take out a large pile of batteries, with at least 500.

This battery is the most primitive "volta battery" with a very simple structure and is generally easy to make with a motor.

I saw more than a dozen assistants busy, connecting the batteries together, and then connecting them to two carbon rods. It took more than ten minutes to assemble them.

The moment the wire was connected to the carbon rod, a bang was heard, and a bright light suddenly appeared from the two carbon rods, and the light was very dazzling.

“Wow~!”

"ah!"

"ah!!"

The people in the classroom were suddenly in an uproar, looking at the glowing carbon rod incredibly, and then the classroom became riotous, and people were discussing each other excitedly.

Zhao Yan raised his hand and the scene suddenly became quiet.

"This is the electric light, which can help us escape from the darkness at night." Zhao Yan said loudly: "Of course, such electric lights are too expensive and cannot be afforded by everyone. But this is only temporary, science is always improving. Just like our ancestors, they first learned to use stone tools, then they learned to use bronze, and the climate entered the Iron Age. Until now, we have invented steam engines, and soon we can enter the era of mechanical power. Similarly, we will enter the beginning of the electric energy era today, but this is not the end. For us, this is just the beginning." Zhao Yan said excitedly: "The greatness of science and technology is impossible, and there is absolutely nothing it can't do. It can make people fly into the sky, it can make people travel thousands of miles, and it can increase production efficiency by millions of times."

Many people only know that electric lights were invented by Edison, but in fact they cannot be regarded as Edison. Electric lights appeared before Edison.

That kind of electric light is exactly the kind demonstrated by Zhao Yan. The cost of this kind of electric light is very high, and it is impossible for ordinary families to afford it, so it can only be installed in the square. In the research of electric lights, Edison reduced the cost of using electric lights so that everyone can afford electric lights.

"There are many functions of electricity, and these functions are waiting for the transformation and development of theory to application. Today's course will end here!"

... "He is Zhao Yan!" Song Yingxing was deeply shocked when he looked at the young man with a thrilling figure. Not only was Zhao Yan's age, but Zhao Yan's knowledge even more shocked. In particular, the electric light shocked Song Yingxing the strongest.

Just when Song Yingxing was still in a state of shock, Zhao Yan heard about his arrival and hurried to receive him.

Like Mao Yuanyi, Zhao Yan took Song Yingxing to visit many places and gave a very relaxed choice. After visiting Denglai University, Song Yingxing followed him to visit many large workshops in Denglai.

However, what Zhao Yan unexpectedly expected was that Song Yingxing refused Zhao Yan's generous treatment. Although he refused his generous treatment, he agreed to stay and just wanted to become a student at Denglai University. The treatment was just as good as that of a student at Denglai University.

Students at Denglai University are well paid. Two taels of silver are paid a month. Others have to pay tuition fees when going to college, but they can receive subsidies at Denglai University.

However, the moon gives two taels of silver. Compared to the talent like Song Yingxing, Zhao Yan felt that it was too few. But with Song Yingxing's insistence, Zhao Yan had to agree.

Song Yingxing knew his ability, so he refused the generous treatment offered by Zhao Yan. It was not that he didn't want it, but that he just didn't have the standard to get it.

What he saw and heard in Zhaojiabao made Song Yingxing realize that his talent was not outstanding, and he urgently needed to study for a while. In terms of study, Song Yingxing had super confidence.

Zhao Yan was still very satisfied with Song Yingxing's eagerness to learn. Many of the things he ruled had exceeded this era. If the talents he recruited could not keep up, they would be just useless waste in the end.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!