The location of Guo Ping's Pearl Restaurant is very good, you can see the colorful boat show on the second floor, and the third floor is the clearest, and you can enjoy the lively street scene outside when you sit by the window.

A few children crowded in front of the window, chattering about the street scene outside, and the wine and food brought by the bartender below soon filled the table.

Xue Tao knocked on the table and said, "A few of you, hurry up and come over to eat, don't squeeze anymore, beware of falling." ”

Several children had to sit down to eat, and at this time, Xue Tao asked Guo Ping again: "Auntie, where is Mingzhu, why don't you see her?" ”

"She went to practice, said that she was going to compete next month, and she left early every morning, and the shadow didn't see her, and she didn't come back until the evening, hey! This kid is obsessed with music. ”

"Auntie, she shouldn't need to work so hard!"

Xue Tao asked very implicitly, only girls from poor families tried their best to learn the pipa in order to change their fate, and then drilled to find cracks to become famous, just to be favored by the rich, Mingzhu's uncle is the king of Jin, does she need it?

"She just likes it! Since she liked me, she let her go. ”

Xue Tao nodded, "I think it's better to invite someone to come to teach you, and you have to consider safety." ”

"Yes! I thought the same way, but Xiao Nizi refused, saying that it was boring to study at home alone, and she had to study with a group of little ladies. ”

Xue Tao knew that her husband had sent a female guard to protect Mingzhu closely, and there should be no big problem in terms of safety, so she didn't say anything more.

After a while, there was a faint sound of drum music in the distance, and Guo Ping suddenly smiled: "Listen to this drum music, the flower boat is coming." ”

The crowd didn't care about eating, so they crowded in front of the window and looked down, and at this time, all the people crowded by the river, excitedly waiting for the arrival of the flower boat.

"It's coming! Here it comes! Guo Weiwei pointed to the distance and shouted.

In the distance, a team of colorful painting boats is slowly approaching, covered with various colored satins, which look particularly colorful and pleasing to the eye under the blue sky and white clouds.

On the first big boat are five orchids dancing the Hu Whirling Dance, and next to them are several Hu Ren musicians, beating the Hu drums very rhythmically.

The five orchids are tall, pretty, wearing beautiful long skirts and bloomers, they spin up, like five flower umbrellas coiled around their waists, the drums are very rhythmic, and the dancing posture is enthusiastic and unrestrained, which mobilizes the emotions of the people at once, attracting warm applause and cheers from the people on both sides, which is why they are the first.

"Mother! Look at the second ship, that Hu man is breathing fire, it's amazing! ”

It was not her daughter Guo Weiwei who said this, but her son Guo Jincheng, which really surprised Xue Tao, and even Dugu Youlan gently touched Xue Tao's arm and gave her a look knowingly.

Xue Tao found that his son was very attentive, and he was so excited that he applauded happily, at this moment, the young and old master was gone, and he regained the innocence unique to young people.

Xue Tao's nose is a little sour, this should be the true side of his son!

The second boat is a group of Brahman entertainers performing a hundred operas, the Brahmans are today's India, and the hundred operas are acrobatics, and a bearded man with a big head stands on the bow of the boat to perform a sword swallowing and spitting fire, which attracts a burst of exclamations.

Behind a shirtless strong man in the performance of the pole trick, the pole trick is a man with a bamboo pole, the bamboo pole has two horizontal branches, standing four young girls, this is the Brahman country of the best acrobatics, today's country's motorcycle performance originated from this, there is also a person in the performance of the pill, the pill is a few balls in the air throwing, generally three to four, today this performer throws six balls, it is said that the highest record is to throw nine balls.

The next boat is the dance of more than a dozen young Japanese women, dancing and dancing, singing and dancing at the same time, quite fresh, this is the most popular folk dance in the Tang Dynasty, almost every Tang Dynasty people will, and many people on the shore sang along with it.

Then it gradually entered the climax, eight dancing girls in long skirts were dancing the palace swallow dance, with long sleeves fluttering and graceful figures, and then the pipa girls played the piano collectively, and then the chorus of sixteen singers.

Suddenly, the crowd began to stir up, on the top of the largest flower boat, out of a young woman with a gorgeous face, she was tall, wearing six floor-length skirts, her hair was combed in a bun, and she was obliquely inserted into jasper, her pretty face was like a hibiscus blooming, a pair of beautiful eyes looked left and right, and between the clever smiles, her eyes flowed, and even Xue Tao was amazed.

"Auntie, who is she?"

"She is Liu Caichun, the first singer in the south of the Yangtze River, who was invited to Chang'an by Zhang Lei with a lot of money, as if she just came to Chang'an yesterday, and she appeared on her first day last night, causing a sensation in the city, and many people came to see her today."

"It turned out to be her!"

Xue Tao has heard that the first female artist in Jiangnan, not only beautiful appearance, singing like the sound of heaven, but also poetry and painting, I heard that she does not want to fall into the Qinglou, willing to live in poverty and sing for ordinary people, since the age of fourteen, her father took her to take a boat to sing around, and in just three years, she became famous in Jiangnan.

She should be twenty-three or fourteen years old now, and I don't know if she's married? A thought suddenly arose in Xue Tao's heart.

On the flower boat, the beautiful and incomparable Liu Caichun lightly spit out his lips and sang in a low voice.

"Chen Yaoxi, looking forward to the clear moon, the wind is miserable, and the night rains.

I don't know that God is coming, and I can't come, so that the slave's heart is miserable and bitter. ”

........

The sound is like a heavenly sound, not in the world, everyone listened to it as if they were drunk, Guo Weiwei suddenly let out a long sigh, "I also want to learn to sing!" ”

At this time, Xue Tao beckoned to the female guard standing aside, the female guard stepped forward, Xue Tao whispered a few words to her, the female guard nodded, turned around and went out.

........

At the time of the grand parade of the flower boat, Guo Song was also inspecting Taixue, which was the second time he inspected Taixue since the official opening of Taixue in September.

Taixue recruited more than 40 technical officials from all over the country, and finally realized Guo Song's long-cherished wish and turned Taixue into a professional higher education school, from agriculture to astronomy, from metallurgy to arithmetic, and opened nearly 20 majors, with 3,200 students.

Taixue covers an area of about 2,000 acres, retains a lot of big trees when demolishing, makes the ancient trees in the Taixue park towering to the sky, the environment is quiet, the west of Taixue is close to the big lake in the city Jianzhang Lake, the weeping willows are still around, like a thousand deep blue strips.

There are 12 halls, 3 halls, a library, 24 rows of schools, and a dinner hall in Taixue, and the conditions are very good.

Guo Song walked through a school, and there were more than 200 students sitting in the school, which was Liu Fang, a member of Sinong Temple, teaching students agronomy and teaching the key points of fertilizer collection.

Guo Song listened for a moment, and asked Wang Jiandao, the superintendent of Taixue next to him, in a low voice: "Has Lu Yu's tea school started?" ”

Wang Jian bowed and said: "Back to His Royal Highness, Lu Yu can't come for the time being, he is in the Yuzhang area, but another tea master Jiaoran has been invited, today is unfortunate, he took the students to Zhong Nanshan to look for water." ”

Guo Song nodded, Jiaoran is a high monk, his attainments in tea science are no less than Lu Yu, but he is not as famous as Lu Yu, and he is especially keen on cultivating students, so when the civil officials of the Jin Wei Mansion found him in Yangzhou, he agreed without hesitation, and came to Chang'an by boat to apply for a doctor of tea science.

Guo Song came to Lingyi University Hall again, where about 300 students were seated, and Li Weijin, the director of the administrative department who had been dug from Chengdu, was giving the students the key points of mineral processing.

"Iron ore is actually very widely distributed, basically every state has it, but whether it can be smelted, whether it can be used is a big problem, if the mineral is very poor, there are many impurities, and the iron content is less, then there is no point in mining, and whether it is convenient to mine should also be considered, if the iron ore is in the mountains of Taihang Mountain, then there is no meaning of mining.

In addition, mining should strictly abide by the three steps of exploration, selection and mining, to tell you a real thing, last spring the imperial court found an iron mine in Jianzhou, the whole imperial court boiled, immediately allocated money to recruit people, spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and finally found out that it was a chicken nest mine, so that the imperial court was disappointed.

The so-called chicken nest mine, just like the chicken nest, there is a pile of ore here, a pile of ore there, there is no connected mineralization belt, this is the result of no proven ore......."

Guo Song smiled at Wang Jian and said, "This person is speaking well, what is his name?" ”

"His Royal Highness Qiqi, his name is Li Weijin, he is the official of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he is proficient in smelting, coinage, and his level is quite high, his class is the most popular, and the students say that they can learn real things."

At this time, the bell rang, the students got out of class, and the students came out of the class one after another, and Wang Jian brought Li Weijin over.

Li Weijin heard that His Royal Highness the King of Jin wanted to see him, so he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "See Your Highness!" ”

Guo Song nodded and asked with a smile, "Have you settled down at home?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, they have all settled down, allocated an official house to the lowly position, and have a generous settlement fee, the son has entered the country to study, and the salary is also high, and the previous life is simply not the same, His Royal Highness's love, the humble heart is very grateful."

Guo Song said again: "I have said more than once to the officials of the State Administration, Taixue is not only to teach students, but also to do research, like you are more proficient in smelting, then you can study, how to make better steel, I have a black sword, very heavy, non-gold and non-iron, sharp and abnormal, I don't need it for the time being, you can study it, how is it smelted?" ”

Li Weijin hurriedly said: "Of course, the lowly is willing to study the smelting technology, and at the same time give the students the opportunity to practice, the lowly also took the students to the blacksmith shop yesterday to understand the quenching process, but it requires a lot of things and manpower." ”

"These are no problem, you have everything you want, you write out the list, and the Ministry of Industry will arrange it for you."

"I will do my best to study it."

At this time, Guo Song asked again: "Have you ever minted gold and silver coins?" ”

Li Weijin nodded, "In the fourteenth year of the Great Calendar, a batch of gold and silver Kaiyuan Tongbao was cast, about three thousand each, which were used to bury the first emperor, and the casting mold and money fan were not brought to Chengdu, I estimate that they are still in the warehouse of Shaofu Temple, and there is no class tomorrow, so I will look for it." ”

Guo Song said happily: "In a few days, the Mint Department will start to discuss the minting of gold and silver coins, and since you have experience, you will also participate in the discussion." ”

"Obey the order!"

Guo Song visited several other courses, and then left Taixue to go to the Guozi Administration, where he wanted to listen to the autumn examination.

(End of chapter)