The work of the inner court reform went very smoothly, and Zhao Bing still changed according to his own ideas. The Ministry of Eunuchs has a secretary supervisor, a palace supervisor, and will serve as a supervisor, a military weapon supervisor, an internal affairs supervisor and an imperial city supervisor, namely the five supervisors and one supervisor, which is in charge of all affairs of the inner court. Zheng Huchen is the left prime minister of the inner court, and Wang De is the right prime minister, and he is in charge of the inside and outside.

The functions of the secretary-general were expanded, which was actually to accept and expand the functions of the imperial front office. The supervisor in the hall divided the past responsibilities of the Imperial City Department and took over all the miscellaneous tasks of the inner court. He was the general manager and the military weapon supervisor was as usual, while the internal affairs supervisor was in charge of the affairs of the inner palace and set up the six bureaus, all of which were responsible for the management of the inner treasury, serving the royal family and nobles, and were not allowed to interfere in foreign affairs.

The Imperial City Department's main work is the Affairs Bureau, but it is also in charge of the Guards and Guards, the Luanyi Guards, the palaces, military weapons supervisors, and the inner trunks. It only assigned the Imperial Hospital to the court management, but the Privy Council's Bailout Department Medical College dispatched a medical team to the leadership of the Secretary-General, responsible for providing medical services to the inner trunk.

The Imperial Guardian General Office was retained, with five brigades, naval fleets and a land regiment and mountain regiment. Ni Liang was still the capital commander. Zheng Yong, the former naval commander, was transferred to the second naval commander, and Zhang Hao was promoted to the commander. The other two infantry brigades were transferred to the expeditionary army, and Liu Wenjun and Luo Datong were divided into chief and deputy commander. The two cavalry brigades were organized into the Fourth and Fifth Cavalry Divisions, with Du Ge and Ba Du as the commander.

At the same time, Zhao Bing took the opportunity to communicate with the imperial guards and the imperial guards, transferred a group of grassroots officers and soldiers with rich practical experience, and transferred a group of educated, knowledgeable and experienced officers of the guards to other departments to improve the combat and management level between the departments and enable the guards to maintain strong combat effectiveness.

In addition, Zhao Bing thought that one of the big things he did was that the Royal College was finally opened. The college was established based on the foundation of the old camp in the past. According to his vision, the school took modern schools as a model and was divided into three stages: primary school, junior high school and high school. The curriculum also ranged from easy to difficult, and used textbooks he personally compiled, and the primary school offered "Mandarin", "Arithmetic", "Ethics", "Everything" and sports.

As for the courses in junior high school and high school, Zhao Bing has not yet figured out. His textbooks are not ready yet, but they are nothing more than adding physics and chemistry. This remains to be determined after testing the teaching effect at this stage. However, he feels that the things he teaches are probably shocking in this era.

However, the biggest problem Zhao Bing encountered was the student source. It was not that he did not want to recruit those officials, gentry and good families, but that others were unwilling to come. First, because he felt that the content of the professors at the Royal Academy was not in line with the current reality. They were all rebellious things, and were worried that they would mislead their children. Second, they had doubts about their teachers. Although they were school run by the emperor, they did not hire famous scholars to teach. They were all unknown people, and even military men selected from the army. Moreover, the school rules were too harsh and they had to live in the school, and they were not divided into different gentry and common people, which was really unconventional...

Anyway, this royal academy was criticized for being criticized, and those so-called famous families were not optimistic, but Zhao Bing was unmoved. He knew that the students trained in this school in the future would affect the entire world and change the course of history. Therefore, his students mainly came from the orphans who died in the war and the orphans he took in, and some were children from the army.

There are more than 2,000 students aged six to ten in the first period, divided into three grades according to age and knowledge level. The reason why Zhao Bing recruits these young children is mainly because they are very malleable and have not been poisoned by traditional external concepts, and they are more likely to receive new educational methods. Another reason is naturally that they are loyal to themselves. Now the children in the old camp have gradually grown up and serve in the local and military levels. In a few years, they will gradually become the backbone of the new generation of the Song Dynasty.

As for the future prospects of these students, Zhao Bing has also planned to enter the Royal Academy of Sciences to engage in research. Yuzhe entered the two systems of the army and workshop according to his hobbies and needs, or directly serve the industries belonging to the inner court. The reason why he considered this was because he had no choice under the condition of external exclusion. The army and workshop can be said to be their own territory, and the resistance will be much smaller.

Zhao Bing knew that changing the traditions and concepts of a society for millions of years could not be accomplished overnight. But he believed that as long as he would not die early, he would still have decades to change the world and allow people to accept new knowledge. So although he was anxious, he could not be too hasty. He had to be patient and go step by step.

Of course, if you want to do big things, you will inevitably have big investment. Zhao Bing's Royal College implements free education, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to living needs, etc., all expenses come from the inner court, and a certain amount of pocket money will be provided every month. This investment will not decrease, and will continue to invest as the scale grows. As for the "output" it will take at least ten years to achieve results.

However, Zhao Bing also has a hen that can only lay eggs, that is, the Royal Academy of Sciences. This unit is positioned to study practical technology, that is, he provides ideas, sets up topics, and provides them to study and solve, and ultimately creates biogas lamps that can be used for practical applications. The current practical biogas lamps are from their hands.

After Chen Pu refused to serve as dean, Zhao Bing appointed the master craftsman Li Xu as dean. The old man is now in his seventies. He has both theoretical foundation and practical experience. Now all engineering troops build cities, embankments and house construction adopt the standards he sets. Now he has selected and recruited nearly 1,000 talented craftsmen and various industries from various places, but he is mainly concentrated in the manufacturing industry, and a small number of people are engaged in research on unpopular disciplines.

The site of the Academy of Sciences is chosen in a valley covering an area of ​​thousands of acres on the southern foot of the Phoenix Mountain. It is far away from the hustle and bustle. It is very secluded. Nothing is causing trouble. Of course, these people will not work behind closed doors. Their task is to solve practical problems, so they are often invited by various workshops and construction sites to guide their work and solve practical problems.

The team that spent a lot of money to build was of course not in vain. Several new technologies have been born, and the trial production of the "laboratory" has been completed. It is studying how to carry out practical application and mass production processes.

What Zhao Bing dared to be most pleased with is the successful trial production of metal machine tools, so don’t underestimate this small progress. Most of the components of the machining equipment used in the past were made of wood, which is also due to the easy access to materials and the ease of processing. However, the defect is also extremely fatal, because its working instability, resulting in insufficient processing accuracy, inability to process "precision" parts and difficulty in achieving standard uniformity.

The stability of metal machine tools is much higher than that of wooden machine tools, which can improve product quality and carry out more precise processing. Although we know there are many benefits, it is indeed not easy to manufacture, which involves many aspects from metallurgy to processing. Therefore, this work was carried out at the beginning of the establishment of the Military Equipment House. It can be said that it is a study and practice, and gradually replacing wooden parts with metal parts.

Now the metal machine tool successfully produced by the Academy of Sciences is the third generation. Of course, even so, it cannot be compared with modern scrapped machine tools. However, Zhao Bing believes that with this mother machine, he can create a machine tool with higher accuracy, and then mass production and complete the equipment updates, which is enough to make him feel proud.

What made Zhao Bing most excited was that the Academy of Sciences successfully produced nitric acid and developed a process that could be used for production. Everyone knows that nitric acid is an indispensable raw material in the industry, and in this era it is still a difficult thing to obtain, which made him think about it for a long time. However, the production of nitric acid also came from his inspection of the surveillance.

In this era, every year, the palace had to manufacture a large number of gold and silverware for the needs of personal use and rewards, which was also one of the main tasks of the supervision. Of course, although some utensils were called goldware, they were not pure gold, but actually just gilded. He was very curious about how craftsmen did it in ancient society, and that day he happened to see the entire process.

The principle of using the ancient gilding process: it is to melt gold into mercury to form gold mud, coat it on the surface of copper or silverware, heat it up, and evaporate the mercury, and the gold is attached to the surface of the vessel, which is called gilding, and in modern times it is called "fire gilding". This is one of the most exquisite metal craft decorative techniques in ancient times. It appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period and has a history of thousands of years.

When Zhao Bing watched, he found that the process flow was roughly divided into steps: first, make a "golden stick", hammer the front end of the copper stick flat, slightly raised, polish it smoothly, apply hot sour plum soup and stain it with mercury, and then dry it; secondly, evil gold: put the gold fragments into the mercury and heat and melt it; then pour it into cold water to form a thick mixture of gold and mercury - gold mud.

Another step is to apply gold: use a "golden stick" to dip it into gold mud, then dip it into a mixture to apply it on the copper utensil, and use a fine paint brush to dip the mysterious solution to brush the gold mud evenly. Then, open gold, place the red smokeless charcoal in a flat wire cage, and use a metal stick to carry the gold around the place where the gold is applied, so that the mercury evaporates and makes the gold close to the surface of the utensil. Finally, use agate or jade as a press, and repeatedly grind and press on the gold-plated surface to make the gold-plated shiny and durable.
Chapter completed!