My father is Jiajing

Chapter 422 Current Situation of Xishan
During his few days of relaxation in Xishan, Zhu Zaigui also went to the Xishan limestone field.

Now Teng Xiang has been promoted and appointed as the eunuch guarding Xishan and the commander-in-chief of the Xishan Divine Artifact Camp. His position is no less important than that of the Chief Eunuch of the Imperial Household.

The so-called Xishan Divine Artifact Camp is a new camp in the suburbs of Beijing that evolved from the guards of the Xishan Divine Medicine Palace.

This new camp was directly under the jurisdiction of Emperor Jiajing, but Emperor Jiajing did not often inquire about matters here, so the ultimate leader of the Xishan Divine Artifact Camp was Zhu Zaigui, who was responsible for the construction of the Divine Medicine Palace.

Now seeing his master coming again, Teng Xiang was overjoyed and immediately brought the heads of various fields in Xishan to welcome Zhu Zaigui's arrival.

Zhu Zaigui looked at Teng Xiang, who was still strong, and said with a smile: "You did a good job in Xishan. Feng Bao and his men in Shunyi have become lazy and fat like balls. I am really worried that one day if I let them continue to ride horses, they will crush the horses to death."

Teng Xiang smiled and said, "Xishan is different from Shunyi. I am the eunuch guarding Xishan. I have to go to all the places in Xishan in person, and I am also responsible for the affairs of the Divine Medicine Palace, so I can't gain weight."

Zhu Zaiqi laughed and said, "Thank you for your hard work, but even so, I still cannot transfer you back, because this place is more important. Shunyi is not even a little bit worse than here. Especially the Divine Medicine Palace, which is the most important. If you were not a trustworthy and intimate person, I would not have kept you here for so long."

Teng Xiang was deeply moved when he heard Zhu Zaigui's words.

He was also very aware of the importance of the Divine Medicine Palace, especially the miraculous medicines derived and produced by the Divine Medicine Palace in recent years. They were extremely terrifying and could cause an earthquake if one was not careful!

Over the years, Teng Xiangguang had no idea how many times he had gone to send people to build houses. Every time he went there and saw the original houses had been blown to pieces, he couldn't help but shudder. It was really too scary.

What made Teng Xiang feel even more terrified was that Lei Dezi, the inventor of the miracle drug, was crippled by an explosion during an experiment, and now only his two hands and one leg are functioning normally.

However, this Taoist priest is still madly at the forefront of the application trials of miracle drugs, and he has the most apprentices.

After the Taoist's hard work and experiments, the Divine Medicine Palace has finally found a recipe that can stabilize the potency of its magic medicine.

That’s why the Xishan Divine Artifact Battalion came into being. Now, in addition to their daily patrols of the Divine Medicine Palace, the officers and soldiers of the Xishan Divine Artifact Battalion are familiar with the use of this new explosive.

It can be said that as long as these people are released and use the explosives from the Divine Medicine Palace in their hands to attack the city, they can knock down a city wall that was originally considered impregnable in just a few minutes!
Therefore, the current Xishan Divine Weapon Camp is like a hidden and peerless divine weapon, just waiting to be unsheathed one day and shock the world!
But that day is still far away, because Xishan has not yet produced artillery that can withstand the explosives of the Shen Yao Palace. Once artillery that can withstand the explosives of the Shen Yao Palace is produced, Zhu Zaigui will not need to say anything, and Emperor Jiajing will be eager to announce this secret team to the public, allowing the people of the world to see the abundant martial virtues of the Ming Dynasty again!

Zhu Zai said: "This time I came here just to take a look, how is the machinery field going?"

When Teng Xiang heard Zhu Zaigui asking about Xishan Machinery Factory, he couldn't help but show joy on his face.

Xishan Machinery Yard is the latest independent manufacturing yard. It is different from the previous coal yard, lime yard, and cement yard.

It is a professional workshop dedicated to the manufacture and research of steam engines.

Now that Zhu Zaigui has further liberalized the patent for cement, many people have the secret recipe for making cement.

However, the production of cement requires more precise and stable forces to provide a continuous supply of power.

Therefore, those big households who bought the cement secret recipe now have to come to buy Xishan’s steam equipment with a sad face.

Therefore, in order to meet the needs of these people for steam equipment and to further deduce the progress of steam engines, Zhu Zaigui transferred a number of workers specializing in equipment manufacturing from Shunyi and Xishan. At the same time, Zhu Zaigui was also consciously training the next generation of educated mechanical workers and recruiting research talents who were literate but had average imperial examination scores to Xishan.

Unfortunately, this kind of people are thin-skinned and unwilling to take off their scholarly robes to become research-oriented talents. They would rather deceive themselves by pretending to study at home and secretly research some tools they like, rather than come to Xishan Machinery Factory.

Therefore, the current Xishan Machinery Factory is just a makeshift team and does not have any truly professional technical personnel.

Therefore, the advancement of many key technologies is easily stuck.

But none of this matters, as long as these steam engines can work, they are good machines.

Moreover, there are only a few large customers who purchase steam engines from Xishan Machinery Factory. Since these people dare to spend a lot of money to buy them, they will definitely not be willing to spend money to buy them all the time.

They will also arrange skilled personnel to explore and experiment on their own, and perhaps some key technologies of the steam engine will be improved in their hands.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui also promised that whoever could improve the performance of the steam engine and increase its efficiency, Zhu Zaigui would recognize their inventions and creations, and whoever wanted to use their new inventions would have to pay them corresponding patent fees.

So, the current situation is that even though Xishan Machinery Factory is the only one specializing in steam engine research.

But in fact, every time Xishan Machinery Factory closes a deal with a customer, it means it has one more research team, and one more research team means one more new idea.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui encouraged competition, and the Xishan Machinery Factory was divided into several teams, which also competed with each other.

As long as there are achievements, Zhu Zaigui will not be stingy with the rewards.

Whoever can come up with an invention that makes Zhu Zaigui happy and excited will be rewarded with a hereditary official position that can be passed down from generation to generation. Zhu Zaigui will find a way to give it to him.

After all, this kind of official position doesn't get in the way of anything, and it doesn't cost much money, so just give it.

But for many craftsmen, this is already a great gift.

Therefore, in Xishan Machinery Factory, the competition between teams is very fierce.

Teng Xiang knew that Zhu Zaigui was very concerned about the Xishan Machinery Factory, so usually, as long as there was nothing going on at the Shen Yao Palace, Teng Xiang would almost always work at the Machinery Factory.

Teng Xiang said, "Your Highness, recently a craftsman named Zhan Wa has made an interesting new modification, which has increased the capacity of the steam equipment manufactured by their group by more than 30%. I was just thinking of reporting this good news to you, and then you came over."

Zhu Zaigui smiled in surprise: "Okay, then take me to have a look."

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