Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

Chapter 441 The Situation in Jiangzhou

Jiangzhou is the birthplace of Ning Fan, and it is also the place where all Ning Fan's dreams began. At that time, he was demoted to Jiangzhou during his most difficult period, and then slowly started his career there, and finally won the throne and aspired to the world.

At the same time, Ning Fan also left many things in Jiangzhou, such as the Dragon Scale Army's martial arts hall, some key members of the Dragon Scale Army, and various factories, mines, research institutions, etc., all of which belong to Ning Fan. family property!

However, due to the distance between Kyoto and Jiangdu, it is too far. Ning Fan sometimes has no way to completely know what is going on in Jiangzhou. This time Shen Mengxi returns to Kyoto, Ning Fan will naturally want to Come and ask me clearly.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shen Mengxi has arrived at the palace gate."

A eunuch came to report.

Not long after, Shen Mengxi left the palace gate. After they came in and looked at each other, they both felt a little emotional. It had been nearly a year since they last saw each other. Shen Mengxi had also aged a lot and even had a beard. .

"Your Majesty, Shen Mengxi, pays homage to your Majesty."

Although it was a tiring journey, Shen Mengxi seemed to be in good spirits. After all, Shen Mengxi was not old and her body was quite strong.

Of course, Shen Mengxi's physical strength was partly due to Ning Fan. At the beginning, Shen Mengxi was just a frail scholar, with a weak body, a sallow complexion, a sallow complexion, and an extremely weak body.

But later Ning Fan taught Shen Mengxi the importance of physical health, and then Shen Mengxi began to learn running to exercise. During this period of time, Shen Mengxi's body became much stronger.

"Shen Mengxi, I want to ask you how things are going in Jiangzhou? Come on, come on, come sit next to me, let's talk about it."

Ning Fan is very concerned about everything in Jiangzhou, because Jiangzhou is his base camp and the place where he has the most layouts. Jiangzhou plays a vital role in whether Jiangnan can develop in the future.

When Ning Fan had a problem, Shen Mengxi naturally did not dare to neglect him.

He explained everything one by one, telling Ning Fan everything about Jiangzhou, and Ning Fan was very excited.

He didn't expect that he would be the one who pushed the button in this era. He just pushed the wheel one step forward, and then the wheel started to rumble forward continuously, so that Jiangzhou's current development results in Lian Ning Fan himself can hardly believe it.

"You have really made a machine gun. I just put forward an idea at the beginning. It is impossible to make such a thing with the current strength of steel. After all, hundreds of rounds of bullets are fired at a time. A barrel made of ordinary steel must be fry……"

Ning Fan was inevitably in disbelief, because just now Shen Mengxi told him that Jiangzhou had already manufactured the horse machine gun originally designed by Ning Fan.

"To be honest, Your Majesty, the Gatling you mentioned is really difficult to make. The prototype we can produce with our current strength is simply not feasible."

Shen Mengxi looked embarrassed.

When Ning Fan was in Jiangzhou, he designed a lot of things and drew a lot of drawings. Of course, Ning Fan just randomly drew them when he suddenly had an idea. Some things were even imagined out of thin air, and he didn't know the principles behind them.

But after Ning Fan left Jiangzhou, Shen Mengxi took all these drawings back to the institute, and as if he had found a treasure, he began to send people to study day and night based on the principles drawn by Ning Fan, to refine the structure step by step. These things are restored.

"After repeated experiments and repeated forgings in our steelmaking plant, the strength of steel today has reached a new height."

Shen Mengxi took out a steel knife made from the latest steel. Ning Fan tried it and it was as if it was cutting iron like clay.

"This kind of steel knife is very hard. When fighting the Huns, it can easily destroy the Huns' weapons. And with a little arm strength, you can cut off all the legs and heads of the horses with one strike."

Shen Mengxi was swinging the weapon with a look of pride on his face, because these steel materials were slowly and successfully tested under his auspices.

"You remember, the scale of steelmaking plants must continue to expand, and more steelmaking plants must be established in convenient places, because this is the basis for future industrialization. Only with a large amount of steel can we lay railways and manufacture steam locomotives. "

Ning Fan met Shen Mengxi and seemed to have endless things to say. The two held hands and talked from dusk to dawn, and Ning Fan didn't feel sleepy.

After knowing that Ning Fan fully understood the situation in Jiangzhou, he breathed a sigh of relief. The development of Jiangzhou completely exceeded Ning Fan's expectations. The entire Jiangzhou now seems to be an engine for future technology.

"You mean the entire institute has grown to 2,000 people now. How do you support yourselves? Why haven't you applied to the imperial court for salaries and funds?"

Ning Fan looked at Shen Mengxi with a shocked expression.

Ning Fan clearly remembers that when the institute was established, there were only a few hundred people, and there were very few real researchers. After all, the only people who could understand the three mathematical books written by Ning Fan were A rare existence.

But now Shen Mengxi told Ning Fan that the entire institute had grown to 2,000 people, and the vast majority of people actually participated in research. This was what really shocked Ning Fan.

"The institute will also have research products of its own and continue to sell them to outsiders. It can also earn some profits to support itself."

Shen Mengxi didn't hide anything about this, but was a little scared.

After all, the entire institute belongs to Ning Fan and belongs to the royal family, and they did these things privately without informing Ning Fan, which is already a bad rule.

"Let's see, you send some people from the research institute to Kyoto and establish several other research institutes in Kyoto. The population size will continue to expand. At least within a year, the number of people in the entire institute will be expanded to two. More than 10,000 people.”

"In addition, the salary of all personnel participating in the research will be doubled. The salary of each researcher must reach at least the level of a fifth-rank official, and if the research yields results, there will be doubled rewards."

Ning Fan thought for a while and then said straightforwardly.

The imperial court has to support a fifth-rank official, and the annual salary is a huge amount of money. But now Ning Fan has to support tens of thousands of fifth-rank officials at one time. In Shen Mengxi's opinion, it is simply a fantasy, because the imperial court has to support tens of thousands of fifth-rank officials at one time. There is simply no way to get that much money.

However, Ning Fan actually has the confidence to say this. The reason why he dares to say this is because Dakang and Dabo have recently reached many agreements. These agreements will bring huge taxes to Dakang in the future. and large amounts of income, which is the reason why you resent saying this.