Gao Jin was no matter how he said that he was Wang Zhiqing's son-in-law. In trouble, it was impossible for him to not save him as a son-in-law. Moreover, the mobilization of the Qing army in Jiangxia was conducive to Gao Jin's troops launching an attack. Although Gao Jin was usually silent, he had an extremely sharp sense of smell on the battlefield and was quite generous in his work. Immediately, Gao Jin immediately ordered troops to be sent down the river and attacked Jiangxia again. At the same time, he sent an elite force across the river to the north. Not only was it used to detour, but it was also ready to respond to Wang Zhiqing at any time.

After the extension of Henan, Hubei was changing with all forces, and they were involved in the fight and killed them. After learning the news, the Ming army officially attacked Hubei and joined the Hubei battlefield at this time, making the pond even more muddy. As for Yang Xu in Guangdong, he also rushed forward and attacked Jiangxi in one fell swoop. His troops were out of control, catching the Qing army in Jiangxi off guard.

In this way, Zhu Yicheng learned from the news from the Jinyiwei and the frontline war reports in Nanjing that the Qing army launched such a decisive battle in Henan, and Longkodo took the initiative to eliminate Zhu Jiancai and Wang Zhiqing's divisions at all costs, which was a bit surprising.

But considering the situation in Henan and Hubei, and the changes in Beijing today, it is natural for Longkodo to do this. However, the rebels who retreated to Hubei suffered huge losses. No one knows whether the two departments that have been bitten to death can escape.

The Ming army has done everything they should do. Now it depends on the luck of Zhu Jiancai and Wang Zhiqing.

In addition to the war, Zhu Yicheng attached more importance to the news coming from Ningbo.

Huangluzhuang arrived in Ningbo before the New Year, and it has been nearly three months in a blink of an eye. After arriving in Ningbo, Huangluzhuang first inspected various workshops in Ningbo, and after understanding the situation, he began to rectify the processes and processes of these workshops.

Although, Ningbo workshops were established from the very beginning with the structure of modern enterprises, such as citation standardization, operation, strengthening the training of technical personnel and establishing a large-scale system, etc.

Zhu Yicheng has high hopes for Ningbo workshops from the beginning, hoping to create a modern industrialized pattern. But after all, Zhu Yicheng does not know much about science and engineering, and he only knows the basics of the enterprise structure. Although Ningbo workshops have achieved some results in recent years, they have not played a big role as the scale continues to expand.

To be honest, Ningbo workshops are now more like a hodgepodge, similar to the joint nature of primary township workshops. Not only are they backward in technology, they are not good at management, and their input and output are inefficient.

Zhu Yicheng also discovered this, so he had already begun to appropriately prepare to transform the Ningbo workshop from the royal control to the three-party control, that is, the royal, the court and the merchants are united. Professional matters are done by professionals, among these three parties, the merchants will gradually control the operation and be responsible for the operation of the workshop. The property rights will be responsible for the court and directly handed over to the Ministry of Works for mastery and supervision. As for the research institutions that the Royal Divide the Workshops are established separately and gain technical control.

This arrangement was decided by Zhu Yicheng after repeated consideration. Of course, the first thing that needs to be solved is the technical aspect. The Royal Research Institute, which is about to be established, will master these technologies and guide them. This is the main purpose of Huang Luzhuang's trip to Ningbo.

It can be said that Zhu Yicheng had high hopes for Huangluzhuang. Huangluzhuang did not disappoint Zhu Yicheng. Shortly after arriving in Ningbo, he successively solved problems in smelting, processing, chemical engineering and other aspects, which greatly improved his technology.

According to Ningbo's report, steelmaking has now achieved initial results. The steel furnace redesigned and manufactured by Huangluzhuang not only produces good steel, but also has increased its output several times compared to the original. The steel output, which has been troubled by all aspects, has been greatly improved in a short period of time.

As for processing, Huangluzhuang has improved the existing machinery and equipment based on the existing machinery and equipment and developed preliminary hydraulic machine tools similar to modern times. The use of these machine tools not only reduces the burden of manpower, but also makes processing easier and standard. This has resulted in the production of daily tools, industrial tools, and military equipment soaring.

In addition, more important is chemical industry. Chemical industry is only the most basic, but the future of chemical industry is extremely broad. With the improvement of technology, chemical industry will occupy a huge position in the future. However, before, Ningbo workshops have always been in the simplest way for chemical research. Not to mention the others, just the product of sulfuric acid. The application of sulfuric acid can be said to be the basic application of chemical industry. Whether it is industry, agriculture, medicine, national defense or other products, sulfuric acid, as a basic product of chemical industry, has a very wide application and is also extremely important.

In ancient China, sulfuric acid was called green alum oil, which was originally discovered by an alchemist by accident. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the alchemist Gu Gangzi recorded the "Stone Refining Gallbladder's Essence Method" in Volume 9 of his book "The Nine Cauldrons of the Yellow Emperor's Nine Cauldrons", which is a method to obtain sulfuric acid by dissolving stone gallbladder (cauldrons).

Today's sulfuric acid production process still continues this method, but under Huangluzhuang's research and experiments, sulfuric acid was also obtained by mixing several substances and heating it with steam. On this basis, Huangluzhuang also designed a set of equipment combining lead and ceramics to increase its yield and obtain higher concentrations of sulfuric acid, which is a major breakthrough in chemical industry.

Zhu Yicheng did not know that Huangluzhuang's technology was historically called the "lead chamber method" and would not appear in Europe forty years. Moreover, this refining method will continue in the next nearly a hundred years until the more advanced "contact method" appears, and it will be gradually eliminated.

The successful development of the lead chamber method has reduced the manufacturing cost of sulfuric acid and greatly improved the output. Moreover, its concentration and purity are not comparable to those of previous simple production.

With a stable production process of high concentrations of sulfuric acid, this will be the basis for the takeoff of the chemical industry. When Zhu Yicheng learned about this news, he was extremely happy and was even more proud of his keen eye for Huangluzhuang.

However, Huang Luzhuang mentioned something in a report that interested Zhu Yicheng. Huang Luzhuang mentioned that one of the British gave him a lot of help in the determination and implementation of these research results. This British was a friend Huang Luzhuang knew in Shanghai. This man not only introduced Huang Luzhuang a lot of the latest science and technology in Europe, but also graduated from Cambridge University and was a student of Sir Newton. In addition, during the research in the Ningbo workshop, the British named William Adams also participated in some of the projects and helped them a lot.
Chapter completed!