"Fifth brother, although those pieces of wood are very important to you, but today is the New Year's Day, you should always leave some room in your mind for your father, queen mother, and queen mother. The third prince reprimanded: "If I don't send someone to look for you, brother, do you want to hide in your house all the time and not come out?"

The fifth prince smiled innocently and scratched his hair: "The imperial brother knows that he is wrong." It's really busy that I lose track of time. ”

"Yongzhou forgot the time?" The middle-aged man's laughter rushed to the side: "But you have researched something strange again?"

Compared with the first four princes who had high hopes and the last three princes, His Majesty had already allowed them to live freely. The three free-range princes, except for the seventh prince, developed normally, and the fifth prince and the sixth prince all grew crooked.

"I have seen my father, and my sons have studied the waterwheel. The fifth prince happily took out a piece of paper from his arms and happily delivered it to His Majesty: "If this thing is put into use on a large scale, the water source will not be a problem!"

His Majesty looked at the drawings in his hand seriously, and finally put them down in a daze. He couldn't understand the contents of the drawings anyway.

"Waterwheel?"

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who arrived with His Majesty, was a little curious. This term sounds quite familiar, and it seems that I have heard people say it in Tongzhou.

rubbed his temples and thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that Linjiang County, where Hengqing is located, is not a waterwheel that has solved the drought!

"Father, I want to see this drawing. Thinking of this, the prince couldn't wait to see what was the difference between the waterwheel in the mouth of the five princes and the waterwheel he had heard about in Linjiang County.

His Majesty has no doubt about him.

The fifth prince was a little puzzled. Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the eldest son of His Majesty, he has always been cultivated as a prince. However, this is not what the prince has to do. So, don't blame him for being weird.

However, strange can only be strange, because His Royal Highness the Prince's gaze has changed.

Why?

Because, the drawing of the waterwheel in front of me is completely incomparable with the decoration of the small waterwheel I saw in Hengqing's residence. The structure in front of us can only be regarded as a primitive structure at best. It is not as exquisite as the Hengqing courtyard at all.

"Brother Emperor, what's so strange about my waterwheel?" the fifth prince asked strangely.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's reaction made the five princes feel a little abrupt.

"It's a really good design, but if it's used on a large scale, it can really benefit the people. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince nodded, and handed the design back to the Fifth Prince: "Brother Huang, we brothers, we haven't been together for a long time. If you want to design something that will benefit the people, you need to go out and have a look. ”

The fifth prince nodded heavily: "The imperial brother is right, the newly transferred Ministry of Industry Shangshu said so, and the idea of this waterwheel was also proposed by him." ”

"It's better to take a good look around the capital after the New Year's Festival. The prince did not move his expression.

The Five Princes were also happy to accept it. People who can see at a glance that they have an excellent design, the favorability of the five princes towards the crown prince, it is directly off the table.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the new secretary of the Ministry of Works, thought as he walked to his place. Since the fifth prince likes to fiddle with wood pieces, His Majesty directly threw this prince to the Ministry of Industry, and did not give him any official position, so that he could shine in the Ministry of Industry in vain.

However, the previous Ministry of Works, known to His Royal Highness the Prince, was an old man with gray hair. The old man has been in the Ministry of Engineering all his life, and it can be said that he has made no achievements, but he has no mistakes.

calculate, the old man before has indeed reached the age of Zhishi. However, who is this newcomer to the Ministry of Works, and why did he come up and toss out of the waterwheel?

"Yong'an, what do you think, thinking so distractedly?" came His Majesty's deep voice from above.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came back to his senses, looked down at the fruit bowl in front of him, and made an excuse: "Erchen just saw that the crystal fruit bowl in front of him was too beautiful, and the fruit on it, Erchen didn't even know any of them." ”

"Haha, Yong'an, your insight is a lot shorter. His Majesty happily sat everyone down before he explained: "Yongtai has really tried his best this time, these fruits should be the products of the southern country." When I was younger, I saw a few more. ”

It turned out to be a fruit of the southern country.

The eyes of the Sixth Prince, who had been paying attention to these fruits, drooped slightly. Although the southern kingdom is a subject country of Dayong, it is not a country that is truly loyal to Dayong.

However, where did the second prince come from the ability to bring the fruits of the southern kingdom to the capital, and even brought so many! As far as the eye can see, there are fruit bowls on every table in the entire hall.

"You guys are really blessed this year, the fruits of the southern country are not the same as the fruits of our northern land. His Majesty took the lead in picking up a white flesh and threw it into his mouth.

Then they ate away.

"Second Emperor Brother, where did you buy this crystal fruit plate, I also want to buy a little. The sixth prince sitting in the corner suddenly spoke: "This exquisite and clear, it is really attractive." There are a lot of crystal cups in my house, but I can't find one like you, exactly the same set. ”

The Six Princes could see that these crystal fruit bowls were all exactly the same.

"It's glass, not crystal. The second prince replied.

Speaking of these glasses, the second prince was a little distressed. Qianjin Pavilion is a place that recognizes money but not people, and the second prince can't sprinkle in Qianjin Pavilion, because once there is a trouble, Wuhou Ye, who protects the calf, will definitely make trouble.

The second prince who has no choice can only buy these.

As a result, the other party opened three price points. The highest-grade one, a set of fruit plates, five hundred taels, the second-class ones are a set of fruit bowls of one hundred taels, and the most inferior fruit plates also cost dozens of taels of silver.

The palace naturally can't use the worst, His Majesty naturally has to use the best ones, several princes also have to use the best ones, as well as the queen mother, the queen's concubines.

This is another major expense of the second prince after the southern fruit. This time, the second prince had no money at all.

"Glass?" the sixth prince looked at the glass in front of him fixedly. It turns out that this thing is called glass.

"Yes, if you want to buy it, you can go to the Qianjin Pavilion in the capital, of course, the best batch has been bought by the imperial brother and me. At this moment, the second prince was triumphant.

The six princes did not show anything. He had also heard the name Qianjin Pavilion many times. The store doesn't have a fixed business, and the only service it provides to the outside world is to help find things.

"Delicious. The lord of Qingti was not interested in the origin of these things, she liked to eat these cut fruits: "The yellow fruit is so sweet, and the red fruit is still sour." The little princess Qingti, who was sitting at the end, had her eyes narrowed into a slit, and her face was full of expressions of enjoyment.

"It's really delicious. The five princes, who had no sense of existence, also commented: "In the future, the ministers will also design better devices that can make the capital grow such fruits." ”