The most arrogant in history

Ye Kun shook his head:

"We have rules and regulations. As long as these foreign laborers learn to speak Chinese and write 500 Chinese characters, we will give them Chinese citizenship, land and houses, and arrange marriages for them. Of course, they can also stay in factories and mines to work, and we will pay them."

Pang Jia frowned: "They don't look smart, can they learn it?"

"Young people learn quickly. Don't underestimate them."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "If you can't learn it, then continue to study. In ten or eight years, you will be able to learn it."

It was not easy for Ye Kun to hire so many workers.

At least let them work for a few years to earn back the cost.

After a few years, they have accepted the training and obeyed the management, and will gradually be assimilated and integrated into China.

Ye Kun also has a big plan, which is to build a north-south Grand Canal.

This requires more workers and strong support from international friends.

However, the timing is not yet right for this plan and it is only in the planning stage.

The Grand Canal project could only be launched after Liaodong was recovered and Goguryeo was wiped out.

In early May, Ye Kun returned to the new capital of Zhuo County.

The searchlight has been developed by Pang Jia and it works very well.

When tested at a high altitude, the light of the lighthouse can be seen twenty miles away.

Pang Jia built lighthouses outside the south gates of the imperial city, inner city, and outer city, and installed steerable searchlights.

When night fell, searchlights swept back and forth, making the streets as bright as day. The common people thought it was some god with eyes as sharp as lightning and were amazed.

Ye Kun summoned Jin Feng's team from the observatory and asked him to set up a meteorological station to study meteorological work.

Jin Feng asked, "We have no experience in weather forecasting. Does Your Majesty have any ideas?"

Ye Kun said:

"If you have no experience, you can just explore slowly. As we explore, we can keep records and summarize our experience. We can also find a few blind people and arthritis patients who are sensitive to the weather, some old salt shakers, and look at the clouds in the sky to make some tentative predictions.

Our telegraph has been developed and will be deployed all over the country to support weather forecasts.

For example, in the northeast of Beihai, cold air moves south every year. When we conquer that place in the future, we will send a telegram when there is cold air. We can predict that in about two or three days, when the cold air reaches Zhuojun, there will be strong winds and temperature drops..."

Jin Feng nodded and took notes carefully.

Ye Kun shared all the meteorological knowledge he knew to inspire everyone.

A preliminary scope for weather forecasting work has also been established.

Astronomy and meteorology are related.

It would save trouble if Jinfeng took the responsibility together.

After the establishment of the Meteorological Bureau, Zhuojun’s daily broadcasts added a new content: weather forecast.

Of course, the forecast was not very accurate.

It's usually hindsight.

In Liaodong, Liu Ai and Xiahou Chang sent people to report that Goguryeo was too difficult to defeat and the situation was currently at a stalemate.

Judging from the map, Goguryeo was only conquered half, all on the west side of the peninsula.

Ye Kun said: "First, consolidate the territory we have conquered and organize production in an orderly manner. Don't take the initiative to attack for the time being, just defend and consume the opponent's strength. From the current point of view, although we have not conquered Goguryeo, its economy has been destroyed. It will not last long."

Liu Ai meant to ask Ye Kun whether he could accept the friendship of the Goguryeo vassal king and make Goguryeo a vassal state.

Ye Kun disagreed and ordered Liu Ai:

"We can accept Goguryeo's surrender, but we must divide the country into counties and restore the four counties of Emperor Wu. If the Goguryeo vassal king is willing to surrender, we can move him to the Central Plains or Zhuo County and promise him wealth and honor for life."

Even though Goguryeo is not a big place, it is just like Jiaozhi. If we don’t take it down, we will be treated as ungrateful people in the future!

Ye Kun’s new guns and artillery have begun mass production.

If there is another wave of attacks in the fall, Goguryeo will completely collapse!

It just so happened that Guan Yong brought news from Yinshan that the Northern Xiongnu's Tianxian Chanyu was ready to make a move and try to retake Yinshan.

Ye Kun gave the order: "Fight if you can, otherwise hold on to the Yinshan position and consume Tianxian Chanyu's strength. Wait for another two months until new guns and cannons come out, and then you can deal with him."

Cannons are of little use against the Hun cavalry, and one has to rely on portable muskets.

With the food and money of the nine provinces of China, we can slowly consume the Chanyu Tianxian. Sooner or later, we will kill him!

After the invention of the searchlight, the lighting problem of open-pit coal mines and open-pit iron mines was largely solved, and the output of coal and steel was further increased.

Ye Kun had nothing to do, so he stayed in the laboratory, conducting various research.

He Tiantian came over excitedly: "Your Majesty, we have made the glass mirror! We finally succeeded!"

"Really?" Ye Kun was very surprised and went to see it together.

The glass mirror was finally made. It was as bright as water and could reflect every detail.

Moreover, the mirror is very large, more than three feet high and more than two feet wide.

He Tiantian sighed: "For the mirror coating, we have tried thousands of materials, cold coating and hot coating, and finally configured qualified materials. They are mainly silver, mercury and tin..."

"This is a huge contribution, there will be a reward. But the technology must be kept confidential."

Ye Kun praised the technical team and allocated 1,200 taels of gold as a reward for the Glass Mirror team.

He Tiantian added: "We calculated the cost of glass mirrors and found that they are cheaper than bronze mirrors. We are already building a production line and will soon be able to mass produce them. We will first develop four or five styles of different sizes and produce three to four hundred dressing mirrors a day."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "First, make a small round mirror, a little bigger than the palm of your hand, with wood inlays on the four sides and a support at the bottom. Once the small mirror is made and you make some money, you can make a big mirror."

Every time a new product comes out, it makes money from the rich first.

For example, Yu Guinong, Yan Ju, Han Chun and others.

When they saw the glass mirrors, they must have been wealthy and bought hundreds of them first.

When the small mirrors have sold out, we will launch the large mirrors and continue to make money from them.

After three to five months, the rich people will all have glass mirrors, and they will lower the price a little, absorb the wealth of the well-off families, and finally make money from the poor.

He Tiantian nodded, packed up several glass mirror samples for Ye Kun, and asked Ye Kun to take them back to the palace.

Ye Kun looked at the glass mirror and suddenly felt a little sad.

It’s a pity that Jiang Youde is no longer with us, so she can no longer see such high-tech products.

Back then, Youde loved all kinds of exquisite mirrors.

Return to Fengyi Palace.

Ye Kun first showed the glass mirror to Jiang Yourong.

Jiang Yourong was shocked: "How can it be so clear? It's as if they put a living person like me in there!"

"This is the glass mirror, bright and clear."

Ye Kun chuckled and said, "In a few days, this glass mirror will be available on the market and start making money. As for India and Rome, I guarantee their gold and silver will flow into our pockets like water."

Jiang Yourong couldn't let go of those glass mirrors:

"This mirror is so good, it can reflect every strand of hair. By the way, Your Majesty, are these all for me? Do Baochan and Yuejuan have them?"