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Guo Pu was unhappy when he heard this, "How can such a good thing be shelved temporarily?" If it was to be shelved, why show it to him? Now that I've shown it to him, how can I not give him a finished product?

Fu Tinghan hurriedly explained: "Because it is really not needed at this time, I, I didn't want to give it to you. It was you who didn't understand how the radio waves from the radio station were emitted, so I turned the electrical appliance into reality." show you……"

Guo Pu knew Fu Tinghan's character, and it was useless to be aggressive with him, so he saved him, "Do you know how expensive lamp oil is? When night falls, all the people who light up the lights in the capital are wealthy households, and even a single lamp in the houses where common people live is not enough." I don’t see, if your tungsten filament lamp could be produced, I don’t know how many people would be benefited.”

Fu Tinghan came from modern times, how could he not know?

The most important thing is that they have no power!

Fu Tinghan looked at him helplessly, "We don't have the conditions to generate large amounts of electricity now. The only thing that uses electricity is radio stations, and there are two types of generators used for radio stations. Well, including the hand-cranked one, it counts as three, but in fact, no matter How to tell the difference? Both hand cranking and pedaling are considered to be human power, and the other one is a hydraulic generator."

"But the application of hydraulic power has certain conditions, so it is not as widely used as pedals. But no matter which type it is, it is a small generator, and the amount of electricity it can produce is very limited." The sky is very clean now, and radio waves can fly freely. , so only a small amount of power is needed. If this is modern, various bands are everywhere, and they may not be able to supply the power used by radio stations.

Guo Pu: "Then build a big generator that can supply all the electricity."

Guo Pu glared at him, "Don't say you can't make it."

Fu Tinghan said: "It can be made if you use very much force."

Guo Pu's whole face lit up, and then Fu Tinghan said: "But Hanzhang and I have calculated that the timing is not right."

Guo Pu's face suddenly fell, "What's the wrong time?"

"This cannot be achieved with one or two generators. It requires a power station. However, it may take more than ten or twenty years for the various materials and technologies to be developed. I need to devote myself to it, but we are now very familiar with electricity. The demand is not the most urgent," Fu Tinghan said: "For ordinary people, there are only two main problems at the moment, food and clothing, so agriculture and textiles are the most important."

Guo Pu: "Farm is the foundation of the country. When did it not matter? But this is Zhao Hanzhang's business. She is busy, and we can think about this electricity after work."

"The plan to build the observatory alone will cost 2.8 million yuan and 200,000 civilian services. Do you know how much manpower and material resources are needed to build a power station?" Fu Tinghan said: "Hanzhang and I didn't calculate the money. Just calculating the approximate manpower consumption, it requires at least 500,000 people to work continuously for eight years."

Guo Pu opened his mouth wide, then silently shut it up.

Fu Tinghan was relieved. He was still quite afraid that Guo Pu would pester him to continue electricity research regardless of the consumption of national power. He encouraged Guo Pu, "Although we will not do electricity research for the time being, we can do other things."

"Our current problem is that there is a shortage of manpower and animal power, the grain output is not high, and textiles also consume a lot of manpower, so we need to improve machines and cultivate grain seeds." Fu Tinghan grabbed him and said, "I have wanted to ask you to come with me for a long time. You have already If you are interested in generators, I think you are also interested in other machines, so let’s go together.”

Spinning, weaving, and transportation machines can all be researched to save manpower and increase production capacity.

At least 80% of the people in the world now have no new clothes to wear. Firstly, it is because of the constant natural disasters and wars in recent years; secondly, it is also because of the low efficiency of textile weaving.

Men farming and women weaving only exist in ideal families, and most families in this era cannot achieve this.

Because of the lack of labor, women also have to work in the fields, and slack farming is just a busy period that is less strenuous than busy farming.

Weeding, catching insects, cultivating the soil, and fertilizing the soil may seem trivial, but they all consume a lot of time. Women can only spare some time from their busy schedules to spin and weave.

The cloth they weave must be paid for and mixed first, and the rest belongs to them.

A family of three may not be able to put together a new set of clothes for a year. It can be said that they are all patched up.

This is the reason for production capacity.

Therefore, Zhao Hanzhang ordered people to open up cattle and horse farms so that every household could have a cow for farming;

She asked Fu Tinghan and the Ministry of Industry to come up with a simpler textile machine, which could save manpower after being promoted...

This is their most important thing right now.

For them, electricity is just a supplement. The greatest significance of its existence is to make the radio station operational, so that the world's information can reach Luoyang day and night, so that Zhao Hanzhang can control local dynamics.

Instead of thinking about in-depth development of electricity, it is better to think about how to make steam-type machines. After laying the foundation, when technology advances, electricity will come naturally.

Guo Pu listened to what he said carefully, nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, but I don't listen."

He said: "If you don't want to do it, give me the blueprint and the recipe for making it with tungsten wire. I'll go find Zhao Hu. He has money."

Fu Tinghan:......

Fu Tinghan was a generous man and immediately gave him the recipe for the tungsten wire. As for the drawings of the generator, there was no need to think about it. "That's a state secret, but if you can give me the money, I can build it for you."

He paused and then said: "I won't make more money from you, but I will increase the labor fee by 5% on the cost price."

The asking price was indeed not high, so Guo Pu agreed, and happily left the palace to find Zhao Hu the next day.

Zhao Hu's yard was filled with long tables and stools, one long table and one accounting room. They were clicking the abacus, their fingers flying as if they were playing the piano.

Guo Pu took one look and moved away, asking Zhao Hu, "What are they thinking?"

Zhao Hu: "I'm settling the accounts. I sold out all the food stored at home due to the flood. Accounts from various places have just been sent to Beijing. Many food stores have been newly opened and will be closed now, so I want to clear the accounts." .”

Guo Pu: "Why do you want to close the shop? You...have no money?"

"Will I have no money?" Zhao Hu said: "Back then, I sent a steward to bring a lot of money and food to follow Sanniang. When she took back a city, I used the money and food to buy a shop with her. I bought too much shop. At that time, neither the goods nor the manpower could be spread out, so we closed it temporarily."

At this point, Zhao Hu complained: "During this flood, she wanted to open a grain store, so she borrowed many of my shops. Now that the disaster is over, she has sold out her grain and people evacuated, so my store has to be closed."

Not only her, but also himself. Many shops were opened temporarily, just for this one business.

Zhao Hu frowned and said: "Too many shops is a headache. After two years of stability, there will be more people, and if the shops are expensive, I will sell some of them, or not sell them and keep them to collect rent?"

Guo Pu, who had always been a fortune teller when he was short of money, couldn't understand this situation.

Zhao Hu tugged at his beard and made up his mind, "In two years, if Sanniang hasn't... I will sell a batch. If... I will keep it to collect rent."

He concealed the key words. Others may not understand it, but could Guo Pu not understand it?

After Zhao Hu finished speaking, he secretly glanced at Guo Pu, trying to see something from his face.

Guo Pu pointed it out directly: "Don't look at me, the secret is not something you can know."

Zhao Hu said unwillingly: "You told my fifth brother when you first met him, why weren't you willing to tell me?"

Guo Pu: "Because Mr. Zhao Wu can't do bad things, but you can."

Zhao Hu: "...Nonsense, how could I ruin her affairs? I support her more than Fifth Brother."

"There is a saying that good intentions lead to bad things. There is one kind of evil in this world that is worse than bad people deliberately doing evil, and that is for your own good." Guo Pu said: "All the disasters in your life come from this sentence."

Zhao Hu opened his mouth wide, thinking of his son. He was silent for a moment, moved to Guo Pu and asked him, "Then do you think about it, when will the disaster between our father and son be over?"

Guo Pu said: "If you put it down, the disaster will be over."

He looked Zhao Hu up and down, looked at his eyebrows and cheeks, shook his head slightly and said, "People in this world have misunderstood Zhao Cheng. They should not persuade Zhao Cheng to let it go, but should persuade you to let it go."

These words were not what he liked to hear. Zhao Hu sat down on his rocking chair angrily and asked: "You don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. There is no wine in my house today, and I didn't invite you. What are you doing here?" ?”

Guo Pu immediately approached and said, "I have a good business for you."

Zhao Hu: "I'm opening a fortune-telling restaurant. Are you going to sit in the restaurant?"

Guo Pu snorted coldly and said: "I'm sitting in the pavilion, who dares to come to me for fortune telling?"

Zhao Hu thought the same thing. Now that Guo Pu was raised in the palace, everyone knew that he was a semi-immortal, the kind who really had one foot in the immortal gate, but no one dared to talk to him in private.

Zhao Hu mostly came to him just to have fun with him.

"what business?"

Guo Pu took out two pieces of paper and gave them to him, "Tungsten wire is as bright as sunlight and much easier to use than oil lamps."

Isn’t that still a lamp?

Zhao Hu took it casually and glanced at it, "What kind of mess is this?"

"Why is it so messed up? This was written by Fu Tinghan himself."

When Zhao Hu heard that it was Fu Tinghan's prescription, Zhao Hu immediately sat up and read it carefully. If he couldn't understand it once, he would read it a second time. Then he frowned and looked at Guo Pu, "Do you think I can make this?"

"What step can't you do?"

"First of all, I can't do this forging. The hydraulic forging press he used, all the hydraulic forging presses in the world are in the hands of Fu Tinghan. Where can I use it for you? And the subsequent firing. Do you think this is ridiculous? , this temperature can make steel, if I have this furnace, what can I do if I can’t make money, but have to build a lamp?”

He asked Guo Pu, "Is this really a lamp?"

Guo Pu: "...It's just a lamp."

Zhao Hu frowned, "What does it look like? Is the shape more beautiful than the two palace lanterns I hung at the door of my house on Lantern Festival night?"

Guo Pu: ...how to tell him that the tungsten lamp is just a circle? It's like a wire wrapped in a circle, but it will shine brightly. Although it seems to be really not as beautiful as the palace lantern, it is bright and does not require lamp oil. If it goes around the house once, twice, or even many times, wouldn’t the whole house be shining?

This is an effect that even palace lanterns cannot achieve.

Moreover, the light emitted by the tungsten wire is white!

Guo Pu tried to persuade Zhao Hu.

However, Zhao Hu was a shrewd businessman. He rejected Guo Pu, but was very interested in the hand-operated generator he mentioned and was also very interested in the radio station.

"I have wanted these two things for a long time. If I have these two things and provide them to all my managers in various places, wouldn't it be possible for me to know immediately what is lacking in each place and then transfer the goods from other places..." Zhao Hu said: "Trading means buying low and selling high. In addition to the value of the goods themselves, the price depends on whether they are in short supply. The greater the shortage, the higher the price!"

If he had this thing and others didn't, wouldn't he be able to rush in and out of the business world freely?

Just like Zhao Hanzhang, Zhao Hu felt that she could defeat the Huns and regain Jiangnan, and the radio station should make a great contribution.

Zhao Hu pulled Guo Pu and said, "How about I do this business with you?"

Guo Pu: "I can't build generators and radio stations, so don't even think about it."

"You can't, but Ting Han can," Zhao Hu said, "You have a good relationship with him and talk to him. This man still needs some money, otherwise it will be inconvenient to do anything."

"Look at Sanniang, she is short of money three hundred and sixty days a year, and as her husband, she can't help at all. If he is willing, he can come up with a recipe, or he can ask people from the weapons workshop to make things. Come out and I'll sell it. We'll split it 50-50. I can give him 500,000 for a set of radios and generators. If he sells ten of them, he'll have 5 million. When the time comes, Sanniang will be poor again, and he'll take the money with him. She goes to the money bank and opens the door, and then the mountain of money piled up to the roof slides down, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

Guo Pu:......

Seeing that Zhao Hu was not interested in tungsten wire at all, Guo Pu was too lazy to stay any longer. He stood up with a cold face and said arrogantly: "I don't know if he is interested, but I have no interest in it at all!"

He is only interested in tungsten lights now!

Guo Pu turned around and left.

Zhao Hu regretted that this business was in the hands of Fu Tinghan, it was so difficult to do.

Zhao Huwo stayed at home and watched the stewards calculate the accounts for two days. After all the accounts were settled and the money was put into the treasury, he went out again.

As soon as he went out, he felt that the atmosphere outside was not right. The people were still silly and happy, but as soon as he entered the restaurant, he could feel a strange atmosphere.

Although everyone is still drinking and chatting, it is not just drinking and chatting, there are always people who will come close from time to time and whisper a few words.

Zhao Hu frowned and looked at it, calling the restaurant owner, "What are they talking about?"

The shopkeeper glanced down and whispered: "They are wondering whether the general will kill Yushi Xun."

"Xun Zu? Why did he provoke our Sanniang again?"

The shopkeeper lowered his voice and said: "Taifu Xun was assassinated while helping to relieve the disaster. Yushi Xun directly said that it was the general who sent people to do it. The general asked Yushi Xun to pick up Taifu Xun and ensured that he would come back alive."

Zhao Hu's head was pounding after hearing this, "What kind of nonsense is this? Who did you listen to?"

"That's what is said outside. Everyone is guessing whether the general will take the opportunity to kill both Xun brothers. If they are both dead, the little emperor will really be a glutinous rice dumpling. The general can't help but rub it. Round or flattened?"

Zhao Hu said unhappily: "He has been rounded and flattened by the general a long time ago. Is there any need to go to so much trouble? Then where are Xun Zu and the others now?"

"Someone has calculated the distance. It will take at least three days to come back. Taifu Xun is injured, so he must walk slowly. Besides, I don't know if he can really come back alive. Who knows what will happen on the way to delay the time?"

Two chapters combined into one, see you tomorrow