The spring is bright, by a small river near the Iron Supervisory Bureau, Du Zhongxiao and Chen Zonggu, the transfer envoy of Jingxi Road, and Wu Yu, the governor of Ruzhou, sat chatting, and Guo Zi, the governor of Zhiguan. This is the intersection of two key railway lines from Xijing Luoyang and Tokyo Bianliang. In the past two years, it has become a common place for meetings between officials from Jingxi Road. Du Zhongxiao and Chen Zonggu came here to discuss this spring affairs, and had nothing to do, so they visited the surrounding area. Wu Yu's Ruzhou was on the way back to Luoyang. The two took the same bus together and stayed for a few more days.

He picked up the cup of Ruzhou Guanjiao and took a beautiful sip of Mingqian tea this spring. Chen Shigu said: "Since Changping came to Jingxi Road, in just a few years, Ye County, this inconspicuous small county has become a rare big town in the world. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, how could I believe it? In recent years, the number one in Jingxi Road in Baiting has surpassed Henan Prefecture, which is really unexpected."

Wu Yu said: "With an iron supervisor here, it will definitely be like this. How much iron is produced in the iron supervisor every year? How many machines? How many rails? The third department transfers a lot of goods here every year, otherwise, there will be more commercial taxes."

Chen Zonggu nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, starting factories and producing machines is all about money. Now it seems that growing crops in the fields is really exchanged for a few dollars. Money, money, money, now money is heavier than food."

Speaking of this, Chen Zonggu asked Du Zhongxiao: "Last year, Changpingsi issued a money ray, how are the South Road and the states used?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's very convenient. In the past few years, whether it was the field business or the shopping mall under Changping, they were suffering from insufficient cash and it was difficult to do business. With paper money, many things were easy to handle. Because of the lack of cash, the shopping mall owed many village and community payments, and the public was deeply resentful, and their business was difficult to do. With paper money, everything was given to cash and became prosperous again."

"The mall is a good thing. It is convenient to communicate with the yamen to collect taxes. It is much better than the previous Yaren Guilds." Under Wu Yu's rule, all counties opened shopping malls. After the banknotes were made, it was more convenient to collect taxes. I was deeply moved by this. As a timely important official, Wu Yu had served as an official in many places and knew that it was not easy to collect taxes. After each county set up shopping malls, the commercial taxes there were always paid in full and timely, and the state became more affordable.

Speaking of shopping malls, Chen Zonggu also became interested. Luoyang is a big city and a place where all directions meet. Several shopping malls have been opened in the city, and almost all the goods are available from all over the world. Since he worked as a transshipment envoy on Jingxi Road, Chen Zonggu has developed the habit of going to a few shopping malls when he has time.

Du Zhongxiao and Guo Zi were on the side, and neither interrupted. Wu Yu was an important official in the court and had been in power. Because of his poor health, he became an official in Ruzhou. Chen Zonggu was the second son of former prime minister Chen Yaozi. He had a prominent family background, and Du Zhongxiao and Guo Zi couldn't talk about some topics.

Guo Zi was a Jinshi, and was better than ingenious thinking and often invented some novel products. Because he designed many military weapons and was proficient in mathematics and machinery, his mother changed from civil servants to military positions when she was worried. Now, except for Du Zhongxiao and Su Song, Guo Zi is familiar with the Iron Supervisor. He has been an official here for more than a year, and in addition to handling official duties, he spent most of his time familiarizing himself with technology.

Unlike Du Zhongxiao, Guo Zi is even more daring to think and do things, and he has an unusual interest in military weapons. Recently, he designed an invincible thunderbolt car and kept trying it. He took Du Zhongxiao to see it two days ago. Du Zhongxiao looked at it and was speechless for a moment. The so-called invincible thunderbolt car actually used steam to come out of the car without the wheels, but with tracks. A cannon was installed on the car, which was a simple self-propelled cannon.

Guo Zi tried countless times and realized that it made sense everywhere. When the cannon was fired, the car body was moving very hard, and it would not be corrected no matter what. Du Zhongxiao looked at it and thought of many ways before he explained the principle of recoil to him. It is not impossible to pull the cannon with a car, but to change it to a towing cannon. Where can I do this in this era? Du Zhongxiao couldn't even think of it.

Not to mention self-propelled artillery, Du Zhongxiao had thought about building tanks. It was not that they could not be built, but that they were stupid and heavy, with poor off-road performance. The most important thing was that this era was useless. The large-scale tank troops could not support the financial resources of the Song Dynasty. One car and two cars could not play a decisive role in the battlefield. The most important thing was that the battlefield maintenance was too complicated and could not be supported by this era.

Du Zhongxiao's view on the army is a system. From bottom to top, the organizational composition, command and communication, training and support, even recruitment and mobilization, and even the resignation and transfer of employment are closely related. Guo Zi is a typical literati's understanding of military affairs. Other literati believe that they have extremely clever military tactics and strict and neat military disciplines. If they learn it, they will be invincible in the world. Guo Zi is the theory of weapon victory. As long as there are some powerful weapons, they can be invincible on the battlefield and invincible. After arriving at the Iron Supervision Bureau, he designed several strategic weapons based on the knowledge he learned and wrote to the court seriously. As long as the army uses these weapons, the North Repair Youyan is easy to turn against the hands of the emperor. The Privy Council also came to ask Du Zhongxiao's opinion, and Du Zhongxiao could only praise these weapons. In addition, fighting is not a reply that can determine the victory or defeat by one or two weapons.

Of course, it is not that there are any frontal ones. Guo Zi improved the large chariot used in the army, unified the chassis and artillery trucks, and it was light and durable. However, Du Zhongxiao could only refuse his mechanized genius idea. It was that Guo Zi could make the Iron Supervision produce so many small steam engines, so where did Du Zhongxiao find such technicians in the army who were repaired and guaranteed on the battlefield. If he went to the front line and had a malfunction, he would not have to fight.

After Guo Zi's rectification, the products of the Iron and Steel Corp are now more serialized and universalized, and are on the right path of industrialization. This is his natural ability, and he has an innate intuition about mechanical products and industry.

After chatting about the changes in the past year, Chen Zonggu said: "Now the Iron Supervision makes countless money every year, and the people under the rule exceeds 300,000 yuan, and most of them are concentrated in the yamen and factories. It is really inappropriate to look at the state. I have written to the court many times to change the Iron Supervision to the state, and the court also has this intention. However, the most important thing here is the factory. If the officials who come here do not understand it, it will be a bad thing. The difficulty now is to find so many officials who understand this kind of things. It is really rare to find Guo Zhijian, who is a Jinshi, and is proficient in this way."

Du Zhongxiao said: "There is no other way, you can only learn. It is better to do this. Let's jointly write to the court to recruit people to take exams among the technical officers of the Iron Supervision Bureau and give them their background. What do you think?"

Chen Zonggu said: "This is a solution. However, even if they have a background and avoid taking office, they still cannot work in the Iron Supervisory Office."

The Song Dynasty officials had two basic management systems. One was the term system. After leaving office, they would not be re-elected unless the court specifically approved it. The other was the avoidance system. The scope of the avoidance system was very wide. As a local official, one and his relatives were not allowed to have industries under his rule. This rule was the way for officials to use their power for personal gain and use their power for personal gain. Du Zhongxiao changed from the transfer judge to the position of Changping, and firstly asked his family to sell the industrial and commercial industry, because he wanted to avoid his own power. He also had to be a local official and leave his hometown for hundreds of miles. Although

However, there are changes, and basically the requirements are getting farther and farther away. Being able to return to his hometown to become an official is a special honor. Ding Wei was the governor of Pingjiang Army and established his hometown. He thought it was a grand event at that time. The governor was a false position, especially this. Those who went to his hometown or nearby places to serve as governors were mostly courtesy of the court in order to support his parents. Another thing is that relatives are not allowed to work in relevant yamen with interest, including parents, themselves, their wives and children, to avoid being suspected of being under the melon field. There were many officials who were punished in the last place.

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and said, "There is another way, which is to let the new Jinshi come to the Iron Supervisory Office to be an official, and learn it well, and you can serve as the chief officer."
Chapter completed!