“…… Qi Yu assassinated Lord Shi, Qi Qi His Royal Highness the King of Wei, his subordinates led people to follow Kang Qu all the way to Jining Fang in the west of the city, and did not find anything unusual about him, nor did he see him contact anyone on the road, his subordinates asked people to hide near his house to secretly inspect, and report immediately as soon as there is news! ”

Taiyuan City, the back hall of the Thorn Mansion.

Feng Zhutou strode in from the outside and hugged Wang Liaoyuan and Li Tai inside.

At this time, only Wang Liaoyuan and Li Tai were left in the house, as for Dugu Feiying, he took the weapons scattered by the assassins in the morning, and cooperated with the soldiers of the state battalion to search for the assassins in the city, and Wang Yu naturally had to go back to the Wang family to make some arrangements, after all, in terms of finding people, especially in Taiyuan City, the Wang family's ability and strength would not be weaker than that of the government.

The reason why Li Tai hasn't left yet is mainly because he is waiting for the news sent back by the people who followed Kang Qu.

Wang Liaoyuan frowned and asked, "You mean that this Kangqu has a house in Jining Fang?" ”

"Yes!"

Feng Zhutou replied.

Wang Liaoyuan continued to ask: "Have you found out when he started to do business in Taiyuan City?" ”

Feng Zhutou hugged his fists and said: "My subordinates learned through the inspection that Kang Qu came to Taiyuan City three years ago, and he opened a treasure shop in the city, specializing in selling gems and pearls. Last year, he just married a wife in the local area, the woman is the daughter of a squire outside Taiyuan City, named Xu Xiuhe, the two are also in love after they got married, and nothing unusual has happened! ”

Wang Liaoyuan was silent, and Li Tai asked out loud: "Have you asked the neighbors of Kangqu, have any strangers found him or sent him a letter today~?" ”

Feng Zhutou nodded and said: "Back to Your Highness, my subordinates asked a lady who sold cooking cakes in front of the Kang family, and she said that in the Kang Mansion today, in addition to Kang Qu, there was only one old farmer who delivered vegetables and carried a load of vegetables into the Kang Mansion, and no one else had entered and left the Kang Mansion!" ”

"The old farmer who delivered vegetables~?"

Li Tai's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "What is the origin of this old farmer?" Have you checked? ”

Feng Zhutou's "work" on this trip was obviously very sufficient, and when he heard this, he hugged his fists and replied: "My subordinates have asked, this old farmer turned out to be a farmer in Nanhe Village outside the city, and he has a son who lives in the city, and he only moved into the city this year to live with his son, and basically he will go to Kang Qu's house every few days to deliver food, and there is nothing abnormal!" ”

Hearing this, Li Tai couldn't help but frown.

Seeing this, Wang Liaoyuan waved his hand at Feng Zhutou and said, "You have done a good job in this matter, go down first!" This official and His Highness still have important matters to discuss! ”

"Oh~!"

Feng Zhutou hugged his fists and bowed to retreat.

Li Tai raised his head at this time, looked at Wang Liaoyuan and said: "Wang Tingshi, this king still thinks that there is a big problem with this Kang Qu, you let people continue to stare at Kang Qu, and as soon as they find something abnormal, immediately report to this king!" ”

Although on the surface, Kang Qu is normal, Li Tai's intuition tells him that this Kang Qu must have something to hide behind his back!

Wang Liao has been an official for so many years, and he should still be alert, and he himself feels that there seems to be something wrong with Kang Qu, and when he heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay!" The lower officials will arrange it! ”

Li Tai nodded, got up and said, "In this case, this side will be handed over to Wang Tingshi, this king has other official affairs to be busy, so he will leave first!" ”

Although Dugu Xin was assassinated, although the assassins lurking in the city have not yet been caught, the task of building a telegraph relay station in the academy still has to continue, and even speed up, because Li Tai doesn't know how much resistance he will encounter on the road ahead, and now he can be faster, or it is very likely that he will not be able to complete the task within two months!

Wang Liaoyuan's heart moved, and he arched his hand and said: "The hidden dangers in the city have not been eliminated, it is best not to walk around outside in the near future, if Your Highness insists on going to Longshan, you can bring the forbidden army and the soldiers of the state battalion!" ”

Obviously, Wang Liaoyuan also saw that Li Tai would not "stop" because of the assassin in the future, so he reminded him.

Li Tai nodded and said, "Hmm! The king knows! Be careful! ”

With that, Li Tai put up his hands and raised his feet and walked towards the door.

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Today's Taiyuan City is not destined to be peaceful.

In fact, in the past two days, Taiyuan City has not been peaceful. Yesterday, the forces of the bright and dark sides of the Wang family came out together, frantically looking for Zhu Xiesheng and Kang Changan in the city, and yesterday's Taiyuan City can be described as in full swing; Today, the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Bingzhou battalion are scattered in every corner of Taiyuan City, searching for something from house to house.

After these sergeants entered the people's homes, they didn't ask anything, and just searched the house! The homes of those butchers and hunters were the focus of the search, and all the knives, arrows and other weapons hidden in their homes were searched by the sergeants of the Bingzhou battalion.

Then one of the sergeants took out a drawing from his bosom, on which were drawn various kinds of weapons, and a specific pattern was engraved on the weapon. The sergeant looked at the weapons on the ground that had been found in the people's houses, and at the same time looked at the drawings in his hand, as if he was making a comparison.

If there is nothing unusual after the comparison is completed, the sergeants will withdraw without saying a word; If the weapons found are similar to the weapons on the drawings, the owner of the mansion will be arrested and sent directly to the Assassin's Mansion!

There are a total of 56 people's squares in Taiyuan City, with a population of more than 400,000 people in the city, and 10,000 soldiers from the government to search from house to house.

This is in the early Tang Dynasty, the military discipline of the Tang army is still very strict, and the state battalion as the most powerful military camp in the north of the Tang Dynasty, its military discipline is naturally very strict, although the soldiers are searching from house to house, but the search process is still very unconventional, generally let the owner of the house gather the female dependents in the house in one place, they will enter the house to search, so although the search of the soldiers has caused some inconvenience to the lives of the people, but in general, most of the people in Taiyuan City are still more supportive of the "work" of the soldiers.

Of course, there are always exceptions to everything, not all people are willing to cooperate with the search of the government soldiers, some wealthy families in the city, often do not want those government soldiers to go in and search, after all, they are all big business, in case the government soldiers go in to search and break something, then the loss will be great!

Besides, the wealthy family has a lot of secrets, in case the soldiers of the mansion find something unsightly about the owner of the mansion during the search, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Therefore, when the owners of many high-ranking families heard that the government soldiers were coming to search, they couldn't help but want to instruct the Jiading Nursing Home to obstruct it, but today's city-wide search warrant was jointly issued by Wang Liaoyuan, the assassin of Bingzhou, and Gong Teng, the two highest-ranking military and political chiefs in Bingzhou, and the government soldiers will unconditionally carry out this search warrant!

Those wealthy families who wanted to obstruct their search were all knocked to the ground by them, and if the owner of the house still did not know how to lift, he was directly arrested and sent to the Assassin's Mansion together with those who had hidden suspicious weapons in the house.

So, for a while, Taiyuan City can be described as chickens flying and dogs jumping.

At the same time, Longshan's side didn't seem to be affected by Taiyuan City's side at all.

According to the division of tasks delineated by Li Tai in the morning, the members of the fifth and sixth groups took measuring tools one after another and began to survey the buildings inside and outside the Longshan Tongzi Temple.

The measuring tools they were holding were all from Yanhuang Academy. At the beginning of this year, the second and third "killer projects" of the college were officially established, the second "killer project" aimed at improving the telegraph and increasing the transmission distance of the telegraph, and the third "killer project" was mainly to formulate measurement standards and manufacturing standards for measuring tools!

After nearly half a year of hard work, the academy has not only set up its own measurement standards committee and formulated unit standards for some new physical quantities, but also produced a batch of precision measuring instruments and meters in conjunction with the Qiquge workshop. These instruments will provide a standard reference for all similar instruments in the future, and they will be calibrated in one change!

The measuring instruments held by these students on Longshan include rulers, large triangle rulers, and even tape measures, and the units of these instruments for measuring length are not the "inches", "rulers" and "zhangs" commonly used by the people of the Tang Dynasty, but the new units proposed by the Measurement Standards Committee of the Academy according to Li Zexuan's meaning - "millimeters", "centimeters", "decimeters" and "meters"!

Although one centimeter on these rulers measuring length may not be strictly equal to one centimeter on modern rulers, this does not matter, in ancient times, in order to carry out precision production, it was necessary to subdivide the ancient units of measurement. At this time, the smallest unit of length is one inch (about 3.333 centimeters), which obviously cannot meet the needs of precision production, so Li Zexuan not only proposed millimeters, but even proposed smaller units such as microns, and the academy is currently manufacturing more precise measuring tools such as vernier calipers!

"Mr. Mo, we have measured the inside and outside of this Tongzi Temple, we think that the height here fully meets the construction requirements of the telegraph relay station, and we can even directly build the telegraph relay station in the Zen room on the second floor of the Tongzi Temple, so that we don't need to build an additional high platform for the telegraph relay station, and there will be a lot of time left~!"

Near noon, eight students from the fifth and sixth groups found Motui, and one of them handed the drawing in his hand to Motui and reported it with a serious face.

Mo Chui reached out and took the drawing and looked at it carefully.

This is when the students just surveyed, by the way, according to a certain proportion, the structure of the Tongzi Temple was drawn, and the dimensions of each key place were marked, and people who knew the new engineering drawing method invented by Li Zexuan could basically understand it at a glance!

"Hmmm! Very good! Your judgment is correct, with the height of the first floor of Yongsan and Tongzi Temple, it is completely feasible to set up a telegraph relay station in the meditation room on the second floor! But where is this generator placed? Pang Sheng, have you ever thought about it? ”

After roughly scanning the drawings, Mo Drud nodded with an approving expression, and then he asked again.

Telegraphs need electricity, and telegraph relay stations naturally need electricity, and batteries must not be used, after all, batteries can provide limited "battery life", so we can only hope for small power stations.

The construction of the hydroelectric power station is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so what they brought from the academy this time is a small thermal power station, which is also the first thermal power station in the history of Datang!

"Mr. Huimo, about the power station, it must not be placed in the house, otherwise it will be easy to run water. We thought it should be placed in the backyard to the north of the Boy Temple, which is spacious and easy for the forbidden army to guard, and it is safer than placing it outside the Boy Temple! ”

The student named Pang Sheng replied.

"Hmmm! You've thought it through! ”

Hearing this, Mo Trai nodded, and said in appreciation: "In this case, immediately notify the members of the second, third, and fourth groups, and let them start preparing to build a thermal power station!" When the time comes, remember to measure and adjust the voltage, otherwise the voltage is too large and it is easy to burn out our machine! ”

"Yes!"

Pang Sheng and the others nodded yes, and then turned to leave.

"Mr. Murray, what's going on here?"

At this moment, Li Tai also came to the top of Longshan, walked to Mo Chui's side, and asked.

As soon as he came out of the Thorn Mansion, he didn't even return to the post house, so he directly came to Benlong Mountain with more than a dozen forbidden army guards. Now Taiyuan City is full of government soldiers from the Bingzhou battalion, Li Tai is not worried that he will jump out and assassinate him at this time, if this is the case, he has to breathe a sigh of relief, because although the number of forbidden troops around him is small, but they are all strong martial arts people, even if they can't win this moment for a while, they can be temporarily delayed, as long as they can be delayed for a while, the government soldiers in the city will definitely rush over to arrest the assassin!

Hearing the familiar voice behind him, Mo Chui was shocked, and quickly turned around, seeing that it was Li Tai, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Pang Sheng, they have completed the survey, and we all think that we can directly build the telegraph relay station in the meditation room on the second floor of the Tongzi Temple, and at this time I am asking Jia Jiayin and Li Yan to lead people to build a thermal power station in the backyard of the Tongzi Temple!" ”

Hearing this, Li Tai's expression was faintly excited: "Okay! It would be best to build the telegraph relay station directly in the meditation room on the second floor of the Tongzi Temple, so that we can have a lot of work left, and we can also have a lot of time left! However, this thermal power station was only successfully tested in the workshop at the beginning, and now we want to put it into practical use, and I am afraid that there will be some problems in the middle! In the next two days, let's focus on keeping the thermal power station running smoothly! ”

"Hmmm! Qingque, your worries are not unreasonable! Just do as you say! After we turn on the thermal generator this time, we can save much trouble next time! ”

Mo Chui nodded when he heard this, then he frowned, and asked with a worried face: "By the way, Qingque, how is General Dugu's situation now?" ”

In the morning, when he, Li Tai, Dugu Feiying and others went to Longshan, they were "chased" back by the forbidden army halfway, so Mo Chui knew about the assassination of Dugu Xin, but in order to avoid causing panic, he did not tell the rest of the students.

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