In the past few months, Tokyo City has gradually returned to its former prosperity. Many officials in the court have gradually entered a normal state, and Zhao Huan's emperor has been taking it more and more smoothly.

Especially when Zhao Huan received the secret letter from Master Zhong, he felt more relaxed and relaxed, and even had the leisure to leave the palace for a walk. Dasheng Mansion, without Zhou Bangyan, also began to become busy, preparing for new programs that were different from the past, collecting new lyrics everywhere.

Zhao Huan even held a ceremony to worship the sky. Although it was for peace and prosperity in the country and good weather, the deep meaning was of course to swear that Zhao Huan was the orthodox position of China and the reasonable and legal emperor.

But a piece of news broke all the peace. When Geng Nanzhong rushed into the palace with the military information from the north, it was like a huge stone thrown into the water, causing another round of storm.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong. The army of anti-King Zhengzhi attacked Qingzhou City, killed Qingzhou Prefecture, occupied Qingzhou Qingchi, and was in emergency. In Shandong, I am afraid it is..." Geng Nanzhong looked worried and bowed his hands to report.

Zhao Huan, who was still smiling just now, turned pale when he heard this, and did not reach out to receive the report. Instead, he stood up and cursed: "Shameless people, shameless people, repeated thieves, go back on their word..."

"Your Majesty, the rebel Zheng Zhi is afraid that he is already planning to go to Jingdong East Road in his heart, so he must counterattack early and not let the rebel succeed." Geng Nanzhong was also loyal.

Zhao Huan raised his arm, stretched out his fingers and pointed forward, cursing: "This thief must be killed, this thief must be killed. Quickly call the army to lead troops into the capital, go north, and kill this thief!"

Zhao Huan was very excited and his mouth flew everywhere. People's inner fear is often revealed through external excitement.

"Abide by the order! I will issue an urgent official document to recall Zhong Shidao." Geng Nanzhong also knew that the military affairs of the Song Dynasty could only rely on Zhong Shidao, and at this time they had to fight against time. If Zheng Zhi went south, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The war seems to be about to break out again.

Zheng Zhi's actions were obviously far-sighted, which was to disrupt the rhythm of Tokyo. At this time, Zhong Shidao led his troops into Beijing. Not to mention the number of soldiers and generals, these soldiers were not trained in the army. After entering Tokyo, they had to go north to organize defense, which would inevitably lack training time.

In this way, even if Master Zhong is passive, he cannot do what he has planned safely.

Zheng Zhi never planned to maintain peace with Tokyo for a period of time. Although the Song Dynasty was extremely vast, Zheng Zhi would not waste any opportunities and could not swallow it in one bite, so he would do everything step by step and eat it in small mouths.

Luda had just received the official document that the iron armor along Daming Prefecture and Xiangzhou should also go south to the Amway Army and Weizhou and other places, erode the territory and slowly approach Tokyo.

Tokyo was once again caught in a tense atmosphere.

However, Zheng Zhi made up his mind to move the royal palace to Hejian Palace. The first work had already begun. He moved to the yamen, treasury, factory, then to the army, and finally to the family in the army.

Zheng Zhi also had new plans for the resettlement of his family. He was not planning to buy private houses in the city, but instead rebuilt directly outside the city to build a unified military resettlement land, a unified house, and a unified street.

Even the royal palace was rebuilt, and it was built in the center of these military houses. This project was also extremely heavy. Fortunately, Zheng Zhi is not short of manpower now, and with a lot of manpower that does not cost money, many things are much easier to handle.

For Zheng Zhi, the city has already exceeded the scope of the city. For a grand plan, the city's position in Zheng Zhi's mind gradually becomes smaller.

At this time, the power of the King of Yan was no longer maintained by a city. Zheng Zhi dared to place the royal palace in a place without the protection of the city walls, which was itself a kind of self-confidence and a thinking model that transcended this era.

Gathering all the families of military generals to live in one place and placing the core central organs in it is also conducive to management and safety. The chaotic city cannot provide such a simple environment, and Zheng Zhi’s own safety is not guarded by high walls. As long as he can control the grassland, the significance of the city will only become smaller and smaller for the Han people.

Perhaps this newly built wallless settlement area will be the real capital in the future, and there will be major yamen, military camps, factory buildings, martial arts schools and so on around it.

It is like a brand new city-building plan. Relying on Hejian City, there is a ready-made service staff and service organization, which will drag down this huge city in the future.

Zheng Zhi was already riding a horse and walking on the huge field south of Hejian Prefecture City. Master Zhong followed him, and there were countless craftsmen measuring the land in the distance.

"Prince, this time, the new palace must be built to be more majestic. In the future, this place will be a place of dragons!" Zhong Shizhong said, obviously knowing that Zheng Zhi had the intention to establish the capital.

Hejian Prefecture is right next to the canal, and it is also the Central Plains. It is very convenient to enter the Yanyun Grassland north. There is a canal to go straight to the south of the Yangtze River. It is not too far to go east to the sea. It is really a good place. To the west, you don’t need to go around the Qinfeng Land, but go straight to the west, saving a lot of roads.

Another advantage is that the land of Hejian is rich in water resources. To go further, there are also oil and natural gas buried underground in Hejian Mansion. The land of coal producing in Shanxi is not far away. If Zheng Zhi could live for thirty or fifty years, this place would really become the center of the world, and this center would no longer be surrounded by city walls.

"No need to do this. Now when starting a business, everything should be simple, everything should be focused on functions, and there is no need to waste manpower and material resources on the magnificence. No yamen needs to be built too gorgeously, and military housing should be built in simplified. If there is excess money and food in the future, consider these things. But one thing we must pay attention to is that the underground water system must be well built, and the streets should be extremely wide. For future plans, this street should be built at least 100 steps wide." Zheng Zhi said slowly, and he already had a blueprint for his conception.

Master Zhong nodded after hearing this: "The prince is so pragmatic, big things will be accomplished."

Master Zhong sincerely said that since ancient times, kings, princes, generals and ministers, the mansions and palaces are not magnificent, and only Zheng Zhi does not pursue these superficial things.

In fact, the majesty of the palace itself is not meaningless. It is also a sense of ritual. From the mind of a person, it implies the supremacy of power. When a person sees a majestic building, he will feel a sense of worship in his heart. This is majesty, which is also conducive to rule. It is also the demeanor and appearance of a country.

It’s just that Zheng Zhi is too pragmatic, and the actual conditions cannot allow it. So he said that he will talk about it when there is surplus of money and food in the future.

Zheng Zhi said what he said just now, and suddenly remembered something in his heart and ordered him to follow: "Call Ling Zhen over."

Now Ling Zhen is the head of the Ministry of Works. Such major events naturally have to go to the scene to supervise the basic work personally, so he is also busy on the scene.

Zheng Zhi summoned him, and Ling Zhen rushed from a distance to pay homage.

Then Zheng Zhi said, "Ling Zhen, there is something extremely important. Using this thing as a building material can ensure that the building is immortal for a hundred years, it can glue bricks and stones, and can directly mix sand and gravel as the main body of the building. This thing is extremely useful, and can even block the bombardment of cannons. It is simple to use and can greatly speed up the construction speed. You need to study it and it is not troublesome to make it."

Ling Zhen was a little surprised when he heard this and asked, "I wonder what your highness said?"

"This thing is called cement, and I haven't made it by myself, but I probably know the method of making it. I will write it in detail on the paper. Let's try it out a few times." Zheng Zhi said while thinking, and his mind was recalling the method of making cement.

Ling Zhen asked again after hearing this: "Your Highness, is this cement, soil or something like that? soil..."

Ling Zhen was obviously a little worried because the name of this cement sounded a bit ambiguous, not as Zheng Zhi said.

"No, no, it's not. After this product is made into powder. After adding water, it will be like wet soil. When the water is dry, it will be as hard as a stone, and it is extremely adhesive, and it is very useful." Zheng Zhi explained again.

Ling Zhen also understood this roughly. With gunpowder ahead, Ling Zhen didn't need to say much about his trust in Zheng Zhi in this regard, but said: "Don't worry, your highness, as long as there is a method of making it, the official will definitely make it."

"It's so good. You go and do it first. When you go back later, you will ask someone to give you the method of making it." Zheng Zhi smiled, and knew that this was not difficult to deal with. If cement was produced, it would be of great help to many things, and even the progress of building a city on the grassland would be greatly accelerated.

Ling Zhen said goodbye and turned to work hard, Zheng Zhi was already thinking carefully in his mind.

Cement has not been complicated in the process. The raw materials are limestone and clay, which are calcined, then gypsum is added, and then milled. The ratio of limestone and clay is about three to one. The ordinary cement produced in this way has a very good performance.

Later generations were divided into many types of cement, and the specifications and standards were getting higher and higher, so there were naturally many improvements and innovations in the production process. At this time, Zheng Zhi did not need those cements with extremely high requirements. The first step was to produce cement, which would allow good performance to meet the needs.

Zheng Zhi never thought about inventing anything himself, nor did he have time to study science or something. That is why Zheng Zhi believes in human wisdom more.

The IQ of the ancients was never much worse than that of modern people. Zheng Zhi did not think that scientific progress required to invent anything by himself. Zheng Zhi could not invent anything alone. The changes that Zheng Zhi brought to this era only lie in concepts and consciousness.

Once the meaning of science arises, Zheng Zhi assists with some experienced solutions. The technological explosion in this era will not be far away. It only takes one generation to reach the end of the year. Within twenty years, real industry will arrive.

With real industrial progress, the world is only waiting to be conquered.

On Zheng Zhi's case, the most conspicuous thing is still the "Official School Reform Law" that has been revised and revised. In conjunction with the "Official School Reform Law", there is also the "Yan Wangfu Official Selection Law". The method of selecting officials is to cooperate with education reform, slowly let science enter the classroom, and also to make science a channel for becoming an official, so that reform can be truly carried out.

As for basic science textbooks, this era is not without it, but no one pays attention to it. From geometric Pythagoreans, to arithmetic methods, to simple mechanic calculations.

Zheng Zhi needs to spend some thoughts on how electricity comes from, what magnets are, what can magnets do, and why compass can accurately guide the direction. The basics of chemistry, the theory of composition of matter, the basics of medicine, and the basics of people's own basic understanding of themselves. These do not require much research. Most of them are conceptual. Even if some people don't believe it or criticize it, it's okay. As long as there is an understanding and one of ten people believes it, this person will play a huge role.

Another most important concept is that the earth is round, the world is large, there are many places, and there are several continents.

The long journey of the task is a long way to go, but Zheng Zhi has to do. Basic science has ready-made things. In the future, Zheng Zhi will have to write some conceptual textbooks himself, which may cause a stir.

At this point, Zheng Zhi's power of military power is the best time to truly carry out reforms. At the vacuum node of the handover of social rights, when Zheng Zhi speaks out and his subordinates will definitely implement them meticulously, it is the best time for Zheng Zhi to truly carry out reforms.

If the transfer of power is stable, the society is stable, and a complex local power relationship is formed, the difficulty of Zheng Zhi's reform will increase dramatically. Zheng Zhi will always be just a person, and not just a single command can change the world. The executor of the command is the main thing, and the consistency of the entire system is what Zheng Zhi relies on.

However, the consistency of the system is always influenced by interests. At this time, Zheng Zhi represents all the interests of this system, and the future may not be possible.

Nothing can be waited for, nothing can be delayed. It is imperative and race against time. The earlier you do these things, the greater success it will be.

Zheng Zhi cannot slowly change society itself for dozens or hundreds of years, but should serve as a push to push society forward and shorten the time of this process. Let everything come faster, so that Zheng Zhi can see a real start before he has a lifetime and leave a more grand blueprint.

What Zheng Zhi said is obviously not a joke. Even if Zheng Zhi is gone, the country still has to follow Zheng Zhi's blueprint. Only by doing what we need to do now can this blueprint be smoothly carried out without Zheng Zhi.

When he returned to Hejian City, Zheng Zhi couldn't wait to write with his pen, writing about the method of making cement and the ratio of limestone and clay. During this period, there were two crushing and grinding processes, one was crushing raw materials and the other was milling of finished products.

After writing this, Zheng Zhi was also in trouble.

But it is a huge hydraulically driven millstone formed on paper.

Then, a rough sketch of a hydraulically driven spinning machine was also released, and there was also a concept explanation. Although Zheng Zhi didn't know how to design a hydraulic spinning machine and how to arrange power transmission for reasonable operation.

However, under Ling Zhen, there are countless craftsmen. The sketches and concept explanations drawn by Zheng Zhi will inevitably become real objects. There is no doubt about this.

Finally, add another order, and make sure to make the hydraulic spinning thing, which is enough. This will be an epoch-making change. It is not just a change in silk production.

Nowadays, a lot of cotton has been planted in Hebei. The first time cotton has arrived in the Central Plains, and in another year, cotton will inevitably bloom all over Hebei.

Whether it is clothes or bedding, in practical terms, cotton is more suitable than silk and more comfortable and easy to use than linen. Cotton is more effective in keeping cold, and even cotton can make armor that resists muskets and feather arrows.
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