After Ren Baqian finished talking with the Empress, the court and the Chinese government have been discussing about the Department of Commerce for the next few days.
On the one hand, many people think that the Commercial Division is completely unnecessary.
On the other hand, both the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs hope to include this Commerce Department within their respective scopes.
For several days in a row, there were quarrels in the court every day. It is said that there are not a few bricks cleaned from the main hall every day.
In the end, even Ren Baqian went into battle with a loudspeaker, and used the volume to reason with the ministers in the court, while the Empress used force to ensure that these people would honestly let Ren Baqian reason.
After arguing for five days, Ren Baqian and the Empress, who were both loud and powerful, won in the end. They finally settled the matter of the Commerce Department. The Commerce Department was directly responsible to the Empress, and Ren Baqian became the first in the Commerce Department Secretary of State for one term.
Another side effect is that the ministers of the DPRK and China have different degrees of tinnitus.
The first thing Ren Baqian did was to find a courtyard in the city and fix the location of the Commerce Department. Before he could recruit Tang Feng and Gu Ziheng, someone unexpectedly came to vote for him.
It was indeed beyond his expectations.
When he left the school, he was surprised when he saw the man outside the door and heard about his intentions!
Standing outside the door was a middle-aged man in a long gown, with a "thin" figure, about two hundred catties, when he saw Ren Baqian coming out of the school, he stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "Ren Siqing, I, Zhu Zhuo, are recommended by you." of."
"Self-recommendation?" Ren Baqian repeated before speaking.
"May I ask Si Qing to move?" Zhu Zhuo asked.
"Come in and talk." Ren Baqian beckoned, letting him enter the school with him. He was curious what the visitor could say.
After all, it is quite unusual for Mao Sui to recommend himself as one of his subordinates.
And just after his appointment, this person found him, and the news was well-informed enough.
I don't know if he has anything to make himself fancy.
Ren Baqian sat on the chair and looked at him with his hands in his arms. He looked like a person from Izumo or Daxia, but he looked like a scholar, unlike ordinary ancient people who were full of wildness.
"Say it."
"My lord Ren, to be honest, Xiaguan is currently taking the post of Tian Musi Yuanwailang. It is really rash to recommend myself. However, Xiaguan has always been yearning for the things that Ren Fuchang does, whether it is the Damoshan Iron Mine or other things. All kinds of things have been heard by the lower officials.
Now that I heard that Master Ren has set up a business department, he felt that he would be of some use to him, so he took the liberty to recommend himself. "
"Xiaguan has traveled in Izumo for many years..."
Zhu Zhuo's words moved Ren Baqian.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a sea turtle.
If you can be a Yuanwailang yourself, you must have the ability. I have traveled in Izumo for many years, and I have some knowledge.
Afterwards, Ren Baqian asked Zhu Zhuo a few questions. Although Zhu Zhuo's answer was not completely satisfactory to Ren Baqian, it was because Ren Baqian had seen all kinds of business models on Earth, and his vision was too high. It is impossible for this world to have anyone who can completely satisfy Ren Baqian in terms of business.
In fact, Zhu Zhuo's insights and ideas are much stronger than those of ordinary ancient people.
"You go back first, I'll think about it." Ren Baqian was very moved at this time, but he didn't show any expression, and just let the other party go back lightly.
"Yes, Lord Ren, then I will leave as an official." Zhu Zhuo directly clasped his fists and left without delaying anything, and asked Ren Baqian to take another look.
"I didn't expect there to be such a person in the Ministry of Industry. It's a waste to put it in Tian Musi." Ren Baqian shook his head after he left.
That afternoon, Ren Baqian asked someone to check on Zhu Zhuo, and then asked the Empress for an appointment to transfer him from Tian Musi to be promoted to the business department doctor as his deputy.
Then Tang Feng and Gu Ziheng, the two former caravan shopkeepers, were transferred to the Commerce Department as Yuanwailang.
The two of them jumped from caravan shopkeeper to fifth-rank member Wailang. It can be said that they reached the sky in one step. Naturally, they are very grateful to Ren Baqian.
Later, Ren Baqian mobilized some people from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households as the backbone of the Commerce Department, and then asked the guard Duwei Mansion to find some experienced businessmen in Tianjing and send them to Lancheng.
In some respects, these profit-seeking businessmen are much more useful than officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Ren Baqian divided the Commerce Division into three parts, which were in charge of factories, business channels, and financial planning. The three parts are completely separated, so that the Department of Commerce will be promoted to the Ministry of Commerce in the future, and the three departments will be directly divided into three departments, so that the framework will be finalized.
After that, Ren Baqian became the hands-off shopkeeper, setting a direction by himself, and leaving other things to others.
I am preparing another thing at the school, the hot air balloon.
Li Fushengxian pointed at it.
After all, the materials in this world cannot reach the level of the earth, and there are no products such as nylon cloth. Ren Baqian simply chose to use two layers of strong enough coarse cloth, and then brushed a layer of rubber in the middle to increase density and reduce air permeability.
As for fuel, Ren Baqian chose to use coal and a kind of wood with an extremely long burning time.
Ren Baqian estimated that such a hot air balloon should be able to take Li Fu himself up 10,000 to 15,000 meters.
As for the hot gas control valve or something, there is none at all.
How will Li Fu come down after he goes up... Ren Baqian didn't think about it at all. At worst, prepare a piece of cloth for him and let him jump off by dragging the four corners.
Anyway, with his strength, he should be undead.
If he fell to his death, then the empress would automatically become the third in the world.
Ever since Li Fu saw Ren Baqian set off the Kongming lanterns during the New Year, Li Fu has been studying how the Kongming lanterns fly and whether they can take him to the sky.
For this matter, he did not miss Ren Baqian, but Ren Baqian kept pushing him over because of material issues.
At this time, when he heard Ren Baqian asked to make a hot air balloon to send himself to the sky, Li Fu couldn't hold back immediately.
For two hundred years, he has been searching for the way to the sky. After he has searched all the places that are rumored to be haunted by gods and ghosts, hot air balloons have become his greatest hope.
Even though Ren Baqian told him again and again that the current hot air balloon can only reach a certain height, he still jumped with joy, just like when he saw his fiancée when he was young.
In his eyes, even a little closer to the sky is good, even if he can't touch it, it can still give him a glimmer of hope.
Maybe, you can see where the gods are in the sky.
This number one in the world who kicks people's balls for nothing has never left the school since those materials were sent to the school.
After figuring out how to make this hot air balloon, he became a supervisor, watching those people brush the cloth with a layer of rubber liquid every day, and then press the two pieces of cloth together and sew them together.
He checks there every day whether there is any problem with the finished cloth, and if there are any mistakes or omissions, he will be furious.
Every day, he took the blueprints and dragged Ren Baqian to compare them repeatedly, asking about the various barriers in it, and made Ren Baqian tireless.
As the area of the stitched cloth became larger and larger, a spherical shape made of cloth as the surface and animal tendon as the thread was gradually completed, and Li Fu finally calmed down.
After half a month, the hot air balloon was finally completed!
"Hey, you're about to ascend to heaven the day after tomorrow. Shouldn't you tell me one of your gods? If you fall to your death then, you'll be brought into the coffin."
Standing in the yard, Ren Baqian looked at the hot air balloon in front of which read "One world, one dream", "If the heart is there, the dream is there!" "I want to fly to the sky, shoulder to shoulder with the sun!", Pat Li Fu said.
"There is no fixed teaching method for this trick. Once you reach that level, you will naturally achieve it. If you can't reach that level, it's useless to learn it. But I've written down some of my experience, and it's under my pillow. You can take it later. Well, maybe I can understand something." Li Fu stared at the hot air balloon with burning eyes and said without turning his head.