Inspired by Zhu Youxiao's previous experience, Xu Guangqi indeed classified willow branches and charcoal as wood elements.

Because Xu Guangqi found that these materials could be burned.

Now he spends all his spare energy on counting the laws of these material properties and laws.

Even all the places in his study where things can be placed are placed in various objects.

There are iron tools, stone tools, glass, green alum, and alum.

Because Xu Guangqi's family was the first powerful man to jointly run an official property with the emperor, he, who is now much richer, basically spent all his personal income on it.

Moreover, Xu Guangqi also planned to write an outline of various material laws in the world like Li Shizhen for the world to be read.

Even Xu Guangqi has summarized the concepts of iron, wood, and water that can cover the common properties of certain substances.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao will also give Xu Guangqi and others some natural science theories that they can accept and understand at the appropriate time.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to say more about elements now.

After seeing the Ming steel technology entering the crucible steelmaking stage, what he now thinks is that the Ming steel production capacity will be greatly improved, and high steel production capacity means high military production capacity, which undoubtedly laid the foundation for Zhu Youxiao to expand his army.

"Since crucible steelmaking is better than the previous smelting skills, I will build another official iron plant. I plan to set up it in Hanyang, which has convenient transportation, but it is not too close to the border town and the seaside. I plan to ask Bi Aiqing to go to Hanyang, Huguang in the name of inspecting the world project and select a place where a new iron plant can be built!"

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao started to say this to Bi Maokang, Xu Guangqi and others at this time.

"Abide by the order!"

Xu Guangqi replied.

“How is the shipbuilding going?”

Zhu Youxiao suddenly asked Xu Guangqi about ship manufacturing.

Xu Guangqi hurriedly replied: "Report to Your Majesty, since you issued a plan to set up the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau in Tianjin and was supervised by Jiang Dejing, the doctor of the Ministry of Works, Jiang Dejing has hired workers to build a ship dock in Tianjin. It has been basically completed. He is now starting to use Western craftsmen and old ship craftsmen recruited from Fujian and Guangdong to design the soft sail warships of the Ming Dynasty. According to His Majesty's instructions, they have transformed the forecastle and stern to make the soft sailing boats of the Ming Dynasty as fast as possible. In addition, the Nanjing Ministry of War has also collected some information about the treasure ships and sent it to Tianjin to recreate a large number of treasure ships, but this is probably a lot of effort. Because the treasure ships and navigation materials stored in the Ministry of War have been lost and said to be burned, so now, the old ship craftsmen and the people of the Shipbuilding Bureau can imagine the treasure ships out of thin air based on the drawings of the treasure ships drawn by some private notes provided by Chongwen Temple."

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Well, as far as I know, the treasure ship Zheng He rode on to the West when he was traveling to the West, and he could even run horses on the deck. If he could still be made, even if the speed was not as fast as that of a Western ship, it would be very useful for transporting troops and warships used as material support."

"What Your Majesty said is, unfortunately no one can build this giant ship now."

Xu Guangqi also replied.

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After Xiong Tingbi received the imperial court's order to promote him to serve as the Minister of War and asked Yuan Keli to replace him as the Liaodong governor, he showed no hesitation, and immediately followed the orders and arrived at Lushunkou from Liaoyang and took a boat to Tianjin.

Because Xiong Tingbi has no doubt about Yuan Keli's ability.

After all, he worked with Yuan Keli during his tenure as the governor of Liaodong.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi believed that Yuan Keli would continue to manage Liao affairs as steadily as he did.

Xiong Tingbi himself had to admit that his emperor is really good at choosing people now. Whether it is Yuan Keli, who is about to serve as a strategy or Sun Chuanting, the current governor of Liaodong, he felt that these two of them were his good successors in Liaodong.

Of course, Xiong Tingbi was also a little reluctant to leave Liaodong. After all, he had always wanted to completely resolve the Donghu before returning to Liaodong.

But he knew this was impossible. If he, a magistrate, stayed in Liaodong for too long, it would not reassure the court.

Moreover, Xiong Tingbi also knew the Emperor's thoughts. Even if it was not to prevent him from being respected alone in Liaodong, he was also to allow him to make decisions on the entire Liao affairs as the Minister of War after returning to Beijing, otherwise he would not have been promoted to Minister of War directly.

"My lifelong wish was to pacify the Eastern Captains, but now he has to return to the capital in advance because of the imperial edict. I believe you have a lot of regrets about this. Why don't you refuse the saint's intention on the grounds that special sect is not as good as the court's recommendation? I believe that the saint will not blame him for his merits. Moreover, Master, you directly accept the imperial special sect as the Grand Sima, without going through the court's recommendation. Those who do not know about it will say that you are also a person who is in power and has no civil servant's character."

Xiong Tingbi's confidant Wen Zhen saw Xiong Tingbi standing on the deck still looking at Liaodong, and he couldn't help but say something.

Xiong Tingbi laughed: "Thank you to your Majesty to be respected by your Majesty, I will be the Grand Marshal in Beijing. How can I resist the order? I am loyal to the emperor and the country, not loyal to the civil servants in the world. Although the court recommendation is fair, it is not a necessary system. It depends on the saint's will. As for what others think, I don't care. The crime of being impeached by the censors for so many years has been cut ten or eight times, so why bother them? What's more, from my perspective, it's a profound meaning to let Your Majesty enter Beijing to take charge of the Ministry of War this time, otherwise I wouldn't let me go back to Beijing by sea. Do you still remember the scene of a vigorous construction in the Lushunkou area? Your Majesty is a big game of chess to completely wipe out the Eastern Barbarians and strengthen defense outside the pass in the future! You have to think carefully!"

Xiong Tingbi did see the construction of a military port in Lushunkou on the way back to Beijing. When he saw a large number of Han refugees, and even many Mongolians built a port in Lushunkou under the surveillance of the official army, he knew the intention of the court.

Of course, what surprised Xiong Tingbi even more was that the construction of the military port he saw in Lushunkou did not cause the burden on the people. On the contrary, it also made the originally desolate Jinzhouwei area begin to have vitality.

He saw with his own eyes that a shop called "Comprehensive Store" sold grain and salt to migrant workers and traded with silver coins. He also saw new households planting crops called potatoes in the newly reclaimed land, and traded the prey brought by the attachment with migrant workers, and also used silver coins with Taizu's avatar.

Xiong Tingbi had to admit that the current imperial court seemed to have greatly increased its national strength, and he had such great financial resources to start reclamation and construction of ports in Liaodong.

When Xiong Tingbi arrived in Tianjin and saw more prosperous commercial activities, large shipyards and large manufacturing workshops, he couldn't help but exclaim: "How did the emperor and the court do it now? In the past, they were still hungry and the grass was bleak. Why didn't they see each other for a few years? It's so prosperous? Hey, there is still the sound of reading! Is there a school here?"
Chapter completed!