Chapter 333: Initial Combination of Technologies from Two Worlds
The night in Mountain Copper Prefecture was dark and gloomy. The huge mine entrances were like crawling beasts, opening their bloody mouths to swallow countless miners, but brilliant lights of inkstone burst out from them.

"Lord Zhou, General Deng, and Minister Cui, a place for you to rest has been prepared in town. Please stay there."

An official from the Mountain Copper Prefecture said cautiously.

Zhou Tieyi flicked his sleeves and said, "You haven't finished your work yet, why are you taking a break?"

Deng Zhenquan snorted coldly, "If the people are not at peace, how can the officials be at peace?"

Cui Wanxia thought for a moment and said, "I am a little tired. You take me to the town to rest. By the way, the rest of you who have nothing to do should return to your posts. The case has not yet begun to be investigated. We can't let all the officials of Shantong Prefecture be trapped here."

The three investigating officials had two different attitudes. The officials of the Mountain Copper Mansion looked at Chu Shengyan. Chu Shengyan thought for a moment and nodded, "I will follow the orders of the three angels."

After the officials followed Deng Zhenquan away, Zhou Tieyi was first led to the place where the managers in the mine rested. After a little tidying up, the place was suitable for living.

Zhou Tieyi looked at the house in front of him and said coldly, "This place is not good. We need to move and find a suitable location to build a new house."

Min Huorong was slightly stunned. Since entering the mine, Zhou Tieyi had not shown the arrogance of an angel. He was even willing to stay in the mine and continue investigating the case. But why did he become arrogant as soon as the official left?

Before Min Huorong could continue thinking, Zhou Tieyi took out a stack of papers from the white jade chessboard and said, "Build a house according to the drawings on it."

Min Huorong took the stack of papers and subconsciously flipped through them.

Above is a peculiar house structure with four floors in total. Each floor has eight large rooms, and the large rooms are nested with small rooms, just like an exquisite honeycomb.

In addition to the structure of the house, it also describes a mud mixing method called "new cement" and concepts such as foundation and steel structure.

The cement was specially improved by Gongshujia during the construction of the Railway Chamber of Commerce Steel Plant in the past few months by Zhou Tieyi. The main feature is its low price.

Shantong Prefecture is rich in all kinds of minerals and has no shortage of practitioners from the Mohist and Gongshu schools. Building a new four-story residential building will be much faster than expected, especially with the participation of practitioners in the construction.

This is also the reason why Zhou Tieyi stayed in the mine. If he stayed here, no one in the Baizhishan Mine would dare to neglect him.

He didn't care what the officials wanted to show him, he cared about what he wanted to show everyone in the Mountain Copper Mansion.

The construction of a new type of mine is one of the foundations of Shantong Mansion.

The mine must focus on three areas: technological innovation, labor-based and profitable production.

As long as the above three points are completed, this model can be promoted, instead of investigating cases like a headless fly by yourself, investigating a group of corrupt officials, and there will be more corrupt officials.

Only by making reforms to the production system and then taking advantage of the spring breeze of system reform can we complete the rectification of officials.

Official administration is definitely not just about the construction of ideology and morality, but should also be combined with the production system of different periods to determine a new core. Otherwise, it will be just a change of name but not the substance. From top to bottom, everyone thinks that they are cracking down on corrupt officials, but after a few years, it will return to the old way because the entire system structure is outdated and the interest chain is stubborn. Unless people who reform the system are promoted, even if honest officials are promoted, they can only ensure that they are not corrupt, or investigate some minor corruption.

Zhou Tieyi thought for a moment and said, "Two months. I want to see the building completed within two months. According to my standards, do you understand what I mean?"

Min Huorong looked solemn, and immediately bowed and said, "Please rest assured, Lord Zhou."

After Min Huorong left, Zhou Tieyi asked Qin Yu, a small flag under his command, to keep Li Jianhu, Cui Yu, and Mo Tianheng, and also invited Sun Shiheng from the Mohist School.

I can set a framework for the reform of Shantong Prefecture and deal with the main contradictions, but reform is definitely not something that can be completed overnight, and my time in Shantong Prefecture is limited, so I need to train people in Shantong Prefecture who can take over my job.

This was another reason why Zhou Tieyi asked Qin Yu whether he was willing to continue to be his subordinate.

In addition to Qin Yu, the person in charge, Zhou Tieyi also has to train Li Jianhu. Of course, it is not only because Li Jianhu is related to his own means of cultivation, but it is also a restriction of staying in Shantong Mansion.

He could imagine how great the political power left behind would be if he completed the reform of Shantong Prefecture.

He could not let the government perish just because he left Shantong Mansion, nor could he fully trust Qin Yu's morality and ability.

So he needs to leave someone as a check and balance.

This person must not only have enough power, but also understand the logic and means of his own ideas, so that he can play the role of checking Qin Yu in the opposition.

When Sun Shiheng was invited into the room, tea had already been brewed.

Sun Shiheng was wearing coarse cloth and first bowed earnestly to Zhou Tieyi. As a fourth-rank official in the Mohist school and riding Feipeng to travel all over the world, he knew too well the difference between officials who really wanted to do things and those who didn't.

Although Zhou Tieyi was still known for his extravagance when he came to Shantong Mansion on the first day, and there was even a rumor that he spent thousands of gold cups to buy wine to have fun with the people, but if you think about it carefully, you will understand that this is the Legalist method of "moving a tree to establish trust and win the trust of the people."

Afterwards, Zhou Tieyi went down to the mine and not only found out the involved evil deeds, but also did not make a big fuss about it like the cruel officials did.

If Zhou Tieyi did this, then in Sun Shiheng's eyes he could be considered an able official, or a law-abiding official, but definitely not a benevolent official.

Faced with ten ordinary miners, Zhou Tieyi did not use their heads as his political weapons, but was prepared to change the current system for them and negotiate with the central government. This is true benevolence.

Zhou Tieyi pressed his palm and said, "Master Sun, there is no need to be polite."

Although Mohism advocates universal love and non-aggression, it is not a loose organization without organization or discipline.

It can be seen from the fact that the Mohists themselves had to pay a "universal love tax" that their organizational ability was even among the best among the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Therefore, there are clear titles within the Mohist school. For example, each generation of Mohist school has only one leader, and that is the Mohist giant. There will not be a situation like the Confucian school where there are multiple leaders in the world at the same time.

Under the Mohist masters, practitioners of the third rank and above can be called "heavenly craftsmen", and practitioners of the middle rank can be called "great craftsmen". Identity rank and leadership are clearly defined by the level of skill, which also perfectly complements the Mohist utopian social structure system.

Sun Shiheng sat down, hesitated for a moment and said, "Lord Zhou asked me to come here today, he must have something to teach me."

Today, he followed Zhou Tieyi into the mine. Apart from the fact that the miners at the bottom were struggling with their sacrifices to the gods, he was mostly filled with joy.

Because Zhou Tieyi demonstrated two skills that are crucial to the Mohist school. The first skill is Zhou Tieyi's ability to prospect for minerals. Although Zhou Tieyi said that he was just lucky, being able to accurately point out the inkstone vein with just two strokes is definitely not just luck.

The second technique is the full moon held in Zhou Tieyi's hand. This full moon can easily calm the violent spirit and heal the mental injuries of the low-level miners. If this technique can be learned by people, even if most people cannot reach Zhou Tieyi's level, its value to the entire mine is self-evident, and its significance to hundreds of millions of miners is also extraordinary.

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "The first reason I asked you to come here is for Feipeng."

After riding Feipeng, Zhou Tieyi had a deeper understanding of the technology of this world.

The Feipeng studied by the Mohists, if expressed in modern scientific terms, should be a high-altitude airship, which is different from a steam airship.

First of all, Feipeng's flight altitude is above 10,000 meters, that is, above the troposphere, so it can ensure both flight speed and flight safety.

At this altitude, the air is extremely thin, so the Mohists use graphite as fuel to drive the machine without having to worry about the combustion of steam boilers.

However, the steam airships that Zhou Tieyi wants to research are all low-altitude airships, which can save costs and make them affordable for ordinary people.

Although low-altitude airships are cheaper, they are much more dangerous than high-altitude airships.

The steam boiler does not provide enough power, but the sailing is still possible if the weather is clear.

Once convective weather such as thunderstorms and strong winds occurs, the huge steam airship in the air will be as dangerous as a balloon that has lost its line.

This is also one of the reasons why humans on Earth gave up airships with greater carrying capacity and chose airplanes in the era when production technology was underdeveloped.

Only in modern times, when technology has been perfected, did people turn to studying creations such as high-altitude airships.

"I want to commission the Mohists to research a technology that combines steam engines and airships. This will reduce the cost to a level that ordinary people can afford, while allowing the aircraft to safely fly at a low altitude of two hundred to six hundred feet."

What Zhou Tieyi first proposed made Sun Shiheng feel surprised and enlightened at the same time.

Li Jianhu, Mo Tianheng and Cui Yu only then realized what else Zhou Tieyi was going to do.

The three of them all lived in Shantong Mansion, had ridden Feipeng and enjoyed its convenience, but these days they had only focused on the Moshi case and the fight between Confucianism and Zhou Tieyi.

And now Zhou Tieyi has immediately pointed out a new way to change people's lives. This kind of thinking can no longer be described as quick witted.

It seems that Zhou Tieyi is born to stand on the side of the vast majority of ordinary people, even though they sing the praises of Confucian morality, they are far inferior to them.

Sun Shiheng's eyes lit up, and he first praised, "Mr. Zhou is a great man, but because of the mountains and ridges in Shantong Prefecture, he thought of this way of traveling."

Zhou Tieyi is not arrogant. A simple saying from his previous life was right.

To be rich, build roads first.

Only by linking poor areas with wealthy areas can the mobilization of resources be effective and productivity be further liberated.

He will definitely promote building roads from the grassroots level.

But before that, the application scenarios and application value of steam airships manufactured with existing technology are also very large, no less than trains and ships, and even cost less and take effect faster in mountainous areas.

In this way, he would have three kinds of transportation tools in his hands, which could connect tens of millions of square kilometers of land with various complex terrains in Daxia.

After the initial excitement, Sun Shiheng quickly gave advice from a professional perspective, "Lord Zhou, this matter may not be as simple as you think."

Zhou Tieyi chuckled and said, "You mean that if we suddenly encounter a complex meteorological environment in the mountainous area, the steam airship itself will not have enough power to control the flight, which will cause great danger to ordinary steam airships?"

Sun Shiheng once again praised, "Marquis Zhou is wise."

If Zhou Tieyi only considered things from the perspective of the common people, Sun Shiheng felt that Zhou Tieyi could be called "benevolent", but now Zhou Tieyi can not only consider things from the perspective of the common people, but also consider feasibility from a technical perspective, which can be called "wisdom".

Kind and wise.

Sun Shiheng, a sturdy man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, looked at Zhou Tieyi with an increasingly heated expression, although when in Tianjing, Mohist Mo Qu had already mentioned in many public occasions that Zhou Tieyi was the seed of their Mohist school.

Now that he had personally met Zhou Tieyi, Sun Shiheng realized that, apart from the fact that Zhou Tieyi liked fancy clothes and beautiful maids, which was inconsistent with Mozi's teachings, in Sun Shiheng's eyes, Zhou Tieyi could even be regarded as the embodiment of Mohist ideals.

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "This can actually be solved. I have asked Baijia to participate in the research of steam engines. I believe that the kinetic energy of steam engines will soon have a qualitative breakthrough. Before that, we can use a hybrid power solution to solve it."

Sun Shiheng thought for a moment after hearing this, "Doubt Zhou means that when the weather is good, the steam engine will be used as the power source, and when the weather is bad, the inkstone will be used as the power source?"

"Yes." Zhou Tieyi said affirmatively, "The combination of the two power systems is the lowest-cost solution. Of course, in addition to the airship itself, we can also avoid danger through weather forecasts."

"Weather forecast?"

Zhou Tieyi chuckled. The technology of the Mohist Flying Peng in this world was so terrifying that it was equivalent to half an aerospace ship. Under the control of Sun Shiheng, a fourth-rank Mohist, the Mohist didn't even have to worry about most weather issues. After passing through the clouds, they would just fly at high altitudes, and thunderstorms, rain and snow would not have any effect on them.

Even if it encounters thunderstorms, rain or snow during descent, as long as the weather is not too extreme, Feipeng is able to protect itself, which is much safer than the planes in previous lives.

So they didn't think about things like weather forecast.

"I remember that physiognomists, Yin-Yangists, Taoists, and other schools were able to practice the ability to see the weather when they reached the seventh rank. We don't need them to be able to see the weather far away. We just need to be able to predict the weather conditions within an accurate range. Then, we can build a meteorological network with them as points to form a complete weather forecast map. In this way, the steam airship can accurately avoid adverse weather conditions when sailing. This is also a great way to reduce flight risks."

In the ordinary room, the ink stone lamp was bright, Zhou Tieyi talked freely, his eyes shining.

And the listeners all saw another world from the light in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)