Chapter 520: Comparing, Learning, Helping, and Surpassing

"You want to make a paring knife?" Yan Lide was speechless.

He was so busy that he couldn't even turn his head against the princes who interrupted his work for a paring knife.

"Lord Yan, we want to verify which knife is more useful!" Li Tai was not angry.

Yan Lide took the drawings, and there were several different styles. "What are you peeling?"

"Peeling sugarcane!" Li Tai covered his cheek with his hands, looking a little painful.

"Well! This is a good idea!" Yan Lide nodded.

Sugarcane tastes good, but the skin is hard to chew. If you have a peeler, it really saves a lot of trouble.

This time, Li Chengqian, Li Tai and Su Ying were experienced. They took off their cotton jackets before getting off the car, put on cloaks and entered the smelting plant.

Li Ke and Li Yuanchang looked at him in surprise, then quietly went back to the car and took off their clothes.

Li You was stupid and laughed at several people who looked weird.

Du He was Li Chengqian's best friend and followed his lead. He didn't understand why, but he followed him and took off his cotton coat and threw it back into the car.

Chai Lingwu was Li Tai's lackey and was just as loyal.

Everyone went in wearing light clothing, except Li You, who looked very elegant.

After a while, everyone in the smelting plant was very hot. Li You was sweating profusely and did not care about his image to take off his cotton coat.

The clerk brought mung bean soup, and the thirsty people gulped it down in big gulps.

"This smelting site is so hot it's unbearable!" Li Chengqian wiped his sweat and asked, "Do the craftsmen have any drinking water?"

"In reply to Your Highness, from now on, salt-mixed drinking water will be added to places with high temperatures, and mung bean soup was added in the spring." Yan Lide replied.

"This method is really effective. No more people fainting from high fever!"

Water was supplied once in the morning and once in the afternoon every day. All the drinking water was snatched up, and the craftsmen drank two large bowls in one breath.

"This is the iron smelting blast furnace," Li Ke and Li Yuanchang looked at it curiously.

The top is an automatic feed port, and crushed iron ore and other raw materials are pushed to the feed port using tools.

Then move the device, open the feed port, and let the raw materials fall down, fully contacting the furnace fire and burning.

"What's here?" I saw a small hole on the front of the blast furnace.

"Observe the color of the fire through the observation hole to determine whether the smelting temperature has been reached." Su Ying introduced.

"What about this? The molten iron discharge port." Li Ke pointed to a large hole at the bottom of the blast furnace with a connecting pipe.

"right!"

"What are the two openings here?" Li Tai squatted down.

“The smaller one is the waste slag discharge port, where the impurity-containing residue in the molten iron has different specific gravities and flows out.

The large holes are for cleaning the embers after the charge is burned," Su Ying explained one by one.

"Master Xiao Su, the different types of steel you mentioned are those added in the steelmaking furnace," Li Yuanchang asked.

Su Ying nodded, "Of course, but this kind of steel is not pure and will contain other impurities.

If you want to refine high-purity special steel, you should add another steelmaking furnace, where the refined molten steel will flow in, and different materials will be added according to different uses."

"Master Xiao Su, why do I feel like I'm missing something? Do you mean that the connection method between my blast furnace and steelmaking furnace needs to be upgraded?" Yan Lide was upset.

"Not really! As far as the current situation is concerned, your method of serial connection is unprecedented, and the steel produced has many uses.

As for special steel, it's still not in sight. We have to wait for Prince Lu and the Fifth Prince to research and develop it," Su Ying consoled.

"R&D" Yan Lide's eyes lit up, "Your Highness Prince Lu, Your Highness the Fifth Prince, I'll set up an office for you. Come and sit down more often."

"Sir Yan, please make the office bigger so that we can come here when we have time." Li Tai ordered.

"Hey, Qingque, this is a task assigned by my father to me and my seventh uncle. Why do you want to get involved?" Li You was unhappy.

Although I dislike this job because it is dirty and tiring, it is my first job! How can I let others get involved?

"I'm not interfering with your work, so why are you so nervous? I like it and want to figure it out on my own. If it weren't for the tight deadline for the sugar-making equipment, you wouldn't have been asked to do it."

Li Tai's chubby body was covered in sweat and his little face was flushed red.

He just likes this feeling of sweating all over, Tongtai!

"You said you wouldn't interfere with me! Everyone's listening! Be a witness! Don't take the credit for my work!"

Li You realized the importance of this task and held it tightly.

"Tsk, who cares!" Li Tai really didn't think much of this achievement.

"Let's go! I have something else to do!" Li Chengqian was so busy that he had no time to rest.

The improved version of the fire caltrop from the weapons inspection department has come out and is ready for testing; the crossbow has taken shape as a model, waiting for me to inspect it.

The sites for the Agricultural College and the Engineering College have been selected, and they were rebuilt and expanded from an imperial farm in the suburbs.

Agricultural colleges need experimental fields, and engineering colleges need to build models and conduct experiments, so they should not be located in the city.

Due to time constraints, only a small number of students were admitted in the first phase.

There are few professional categories, and each major only recruits 20 students, so the two colleges only recruit 200 students in total.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, admission brochures were sent to all prefectures and counties via official post stations to recruit talented people.

Li Chengqian is not only responsible for the construction of the school site, but also for the review of relevant teaching materials.

The Imperial College summarized the information and handed it over to the Crown Prince for review. The Imperial College had never been so busy before, and the textbooks of these two academies were brand new.

Classics and history are only one of the basic subjects, while mathematics and various professional courses are the main subjects.

The Imperial College had never done this before, so people were drawn from various departments such as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Works, the Imperial Household Department, the Imperial Water Conservancy Bureau, and the Imperial Observatory to compile teaching materials.

I was so busy that I was dizzy and had no strength left. I couldn't carry on at all.

The Imperial Censor Kong Yingda had been appointed Director of the Imperial College. He had lost a lot of weight after only half a month of work after the New Year.

He was busy all day, running around various government offices, and put the affairs of the Hongwenguan aside for the time being.

It is better to share happiness with others than to enjoy it alone. How could Kong Yingda let others be idle? He asked the scholars, direct scholars, proofreaders, etc. in the Hongwenguan to share some of the work.

No one caught the princes to test them after class anymore, so the princes were happy and relaxed.

Especially Li Chengqian, who was always tortured by these great scholars on empty knowledge such as classics and history.

Now, great scholars have been chasing Li Chengqian to ask why these courses were opened and what their purpose and significance are.

After listening to it, I found that I had never heard of it before, and many of the things I couldn't refute.

The knowledge that I once took pride in has become insignificant in the face of new subjects, and I can't help feeling a little anxious.

For fear of being accused of being unlearned and dishonest, these great scholars studied horse mechanics to the utmost.

No longer would he frequently quote scriptures to criticize and criticize the crown prince and other princes for any violations.

For unknown reasons, a learning atmosphere of competing, helping each other and surpassing each other was sparked in Hongwenguan.

The emperor didn't realize it at first, but one day he realized that no one came to complain to him.

I strolled into the Hongwenguan, where the few guards were all busy copying documents at their desks.

Upon asking, we found out that the teacher and students went about their own business after school.

I checked the children's homework again. They completed it carefully and answered the policy papers in a neat manner. The teacher gave them good or poor grades.

"Su Qing hasn't scheduled any classes yet," the emperor asked while looking at the schedule.

"Ms. Su said she is busy these days and won't schedule classes for the time being," Yu Zhining replied.