The Young and Vigorous Eighth Prince

Because of Jiang Fan's governance, life was very prosperous. Every household had plenty of fish and meat for the New Year. There was also extra money. The people were full of energy.

The situation in Huainan Prefecture had spread throughout Dayan after the festival. Everyone envied the prosperity of Huainan Prefecture, and many businessmen came here to visit.

Business in Huainan Prefecture is booming. Even the scale of factories is expanding. Many outsiders are also included in the industrial zone.

During this period, one thing that was worth celebrating was that someone discovered an iron mine at the border between Huainan Prefecture and Yingzhou. Because it was at the border with Huainan, Jiang Fan took the iron mine under his own name.

With the mining of iron ore, Jiang Fan's steel industry also developed.

The 5,000 firearms troops secretly trained in Huaining County were not only equipped with firearms, but Jiang Fan had also begun to study rifles,

Now that we have saltpeter mines and have trained nearly a hundred people to refine smokeless gunpowder, we can start mass production.

However, the workshop for mass production of smokeless gunpowder is still under construction, and large-scale production is not yet possible.

However, it is still possible to barely keep up with the demand for primers for muskets.

Of course, Jiang Fan also planned to start stockpiling smokeless gunpowder, and then directly produce rifles after the industrial technology reached the standard.

Today, the industrial level of Huaining County seems to be good, but it is still far from the real industrial age.

In terms of productivity alone, it is clearly insufficient.

In other words, it is because everything now relies on manpower. If we can enter the mechanical age, productivity will increase dozens or hundreds of times.

Jiang Fan thought of rubber at this time. If he could find a rubber tree, he could use it to make sealing gaskets, and thus make steam engines.

Making steam stamping lathes and even applying steam engines to other industries will greatly improve productivity and even the level of craftsmanship.

Unfortunately, there are no rubber trees in the Central Plains. They can only be found in South Vietnam, and there are almost no merchants from South Vietnam coming to Huaining.

Even if there were merchants coming, they would not be able to bring the rubber that Jiang Fan wanted. In fact, they probably didn't even know what rubber was.

Jiang Fan was thinking about when to go to South Vietnam, and it would be best if he could find rubber trees in South Vietnam.

If he couldn't find it, he could only look at the merchants on the South Pacific islands under Nanyue.

Unfortunately, these merchants have not appeared yet. Dayan's foreign trade is not well developed. It is not surprising that no Nanyang merchants come here.

If he could really attract merchants from Southeast Asia to come here, in addition to asking about rubber trees, Jiang Fan would like to ask if there are any high-quality rice varieties in Southeast Asia.

If we can introduce high-quality rice varieties and then carry out hybrid breeding, the grain yield will increase several times, or even dozens of times.

Speaking of this, Jiang Fan had to be thankful that he adopted Jiang Baoer as his sister. Although this little girl was only six years old, she actually knew how to graft and cultivate plants.

Jiang Fan was shocked by her actions at the time, but Chu Yan'er doted on the little girl and let her do whatever she wanted in the yard.

The little girl couldn't stay idle, so she grafted several small fruit trees planted in Jiang Fan's yard. Although the little girl's technique looked weird,

However, her grafting skills made Jiang Fan look at her with admiration.

Later, when I asked, I found out that the little girl saw her father doing this and growing many fruit trees, so she followed his example.

Unfortunately, Jiang Fan learned from the little girl that her parents were oppressed by the landlords and driven out of their home. On the way to Hejian Prefecture, they were killed by bandits.

At that time, bandits killed many exiled people. She and her grandmother hid among the dead bodies and survived.

If the little girl's parents were not dead, just with her father's grafting technology, as long as Jiang Fan trained her a little, she would definitely become a master of agriculture.

However, the little girl is now extremely talented in this area, and Jiang Fan decided to train her well. In the future, she might become an agricultural master under him.

Whether it is hybrid rice, various fruit trees, vegetables, grains, etc., they can all be cultivated by the little girl's hands.

What surprised Jiang Fan the most was not only the little girl's talent in agriculture, but also Su Yuqing's talent in physics and chemistry.

Perhaps it was because of the magic that Jiang Fan showed when he took Su Yuqing to expose the Red Lotus Cult's miracles that this girl became fascinated with physical chemistry.

After returning to the capital, the girl did not live in her own house, but moved directly into the prince's palace. Chu Yan'er saw what her cousin was thinking, and felt a little jealous.

But thinking that if Jiang Fan wanted to sit on the throne, he would need the support of the Su family, she turned a blind eye.

After all, Jiang Fan will definitely have a political marriage in the future, and his cousin is the first woman he will accept, and she will not be the last.

During the time that Su Yuqing was in the palace, she often went to Jiang Fan to study physics and chemistry. To put it bluntly, the so-called miracles of the Red Lotus Sect were nothing more than small physics and chemistry experiments.

She is very smart. She can apply what Jiang Fan teaches her and even come up with more ideas.

Jiang Fan was very happy about this, so he wrote a book based on the chemistry knowledge he learned in his previous life for Su Yuqing to study.

If Su Yuqing could study well, Jiang Fan even hoped that she could help him train more talents in physics and chemistry.

Su Yuqing not only studied by herself, but also brought Chu Yan'er and her and Chu Yan'er's maids with her. There were six of them in total. They would get together to do small physical and chemical experiments when they had nothing to do. They had a lot of fun.

In addition to the development in Beijing, good news also came from the steel mill in Jinzhou, and the steel refining technology also made great progress.

The manufacturing of weapons and armor has been improved by several levels. If Jiang Fan can form a new light-armored cavalry army of 10,000 people, it will not be a problem for him to even sweep across the world.

Unfortunately, because the industrial technology was not mature enough, the manufacturing of rifles was always unsatisfactory.

Even the manufacture of a musket was extremely slow, which made Jiang Fan more eager to manufacture a steam engine.

Jiang Fan, wearing the royal robe and being served by Chu Yan'er, went out and happened to see the little girl watering the grafted trees.

The little girl was very hardworking. After Jiang Fan praised her for grafting plants and taught her relevant knowledge, the little girl almost focused all her attention on studying this area.

She hopes to become a useful person. Even though Jiang Fan dotes on her very much, she is afraid that if she becomes useless one day, she will be abandoned by Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan was very pleased and distressed about her diligence, but the little girl was stubborn and he could only let her be.