After a while with the frost, it didn't cause too many waves in Xu You's heart, watching her change from a lowly singer to a giant who dominates the party, and Yuan Qingqi, a towering tree to shelter from the wind and rain, the future is promising, it is better than staying in Xu Mansion to be a servant girl who serves and lives.

Everyone has their own destiny, and many people we meet in this life may have a short intersection, or a short period of companionship, but they will eventually separate, and then go to their respective ends.

There is no greater freedom than personal independence, there is no life more worthy of pursuit than freedom, so slavery collapsed after many years, so the emperor of the world finally disappeared - of course, even in later generations, the invisible class still exists, there is no absolute freedom, but at least there are always those brave and fearless people who promote the progress of society with their blood and lives.

Approaching the end of the year, Xu Shunhua's letters suddenly became more frequent, and her tone became more and more severe, as the first New Year spent in the capital, if Xu You was missing, she felt particularly uncomfortable.

Xu You replied that there were still important things to be done, and if he could catch up, he would return to Jinling to celebrate the New Year with her. Subsequently, in Zhao Xin's shipyard, Xu You saw the two kinds of warships newly invented by Zu Xiao that Lu Bozhi said. One is the square-headed flat-bottomed boat, similar to the sand boat of later generations, with a square head and square tail, wide, large, flat and shallow, which increases the resistance to pitch and roll, and is not easy to overturn, and creatively adopts the advanced technology of mortise and tenon joint and iron nail connection, and the stability is the most in the world. And multi-mast and multi-sail, downwind and headwind can be fast, the draft is shallow, not easy to be shelved in shallow water and sand, the load is between 4,000 stone and 6,000 stone, and can be used as the main grain ship in the inland river and open sea.

The western expedition is imminent, with the help of this ship, the pressure of logistics supply will be greatly reduced, Xu You is very happy, and said on the spot that he wants to make a contribution to Zu Xiao, and named this ship as a stable dragon boat.

The other is the fast troop transport ship, similar to the horse ship in the early Ming Dynasty, named Li Dragon Boat, eight masts and eleven sails, 27 zhang long, 15 zhang wide, the ship speed is extremely fast, can carry 800 people, there is a partition in the middle, the top accommodates the soldiers, the grain storage device is placed below, and two stems are added to the position on both sides of the scumbag. This kind of terrier water wood is the keel of later generations, which is more applicable and more economical than the floating plates on both sides of the Tang Dynasty sea falcon ship, and no matter how big the wind and waves are, there is no danger of capsizing.

At the same time, Zu Xiao also showed a lot of black technologies, most of which were ideas that Xu You had put forward, and they were all turned into reality by him. For example, the rudder blade is added to the rudder rod, also known as the balance blade, so that the rudder can run with less effort. For example, the elevator rudder is lowered when sailing in deep water, which can not only improve the rudder efficiency, but also improve the anti-drift ability; When sailing in shallow water, the rudder is raised to protect the rudder from being damaged by the underwater reef. In addition, a kind of open-hole rudder was also invented, that is, some small holes were made in the rudder blade, which not only saved the rudder effort, but also did not affect the performance of the rudder due to the effect of the surface ability of the water. Anchors have also been improved, as previously iron anchors had their teeth arranged on the same side, which did not necessarily catch the ground or bottom of the water after being launched, and often did not serve as anchors. Change the anchor teeth to be evenly arranged in a circle, and no matter how you throw them, there will always be a part of the anchor teeth that will catch the ground or the bottom of the river.

However, the blackest black technology and the greatest invention is the watertight bulkhead. The principle is to divide the cabin into a number of independent cabins that are different from each other with bulkheads, which are densely connected with hemp tendons and tung putty, and connected by flat iron and iron nails, which are extremely strong. When the hull is damaged due to a ship's collision or collision, even if one of the cabins is flooded, it will not affect other holds, thereby improving the ship's sinking resistance.

This alone has pushed forward the shipbuilding technology of the world by hundreds of years!

The next step is to follow the previous agreed practice, Zhao Xin Shipyard and Yangzhou Guanfang will join forces to build ships, and the army must be equipped within three months. After these shipping affairs were completed, seeing that it had reached the end of the year, Xu You said goodbye to everyone, went to see Gu Changyong when he passed through Wu County, and asked him to act as a matchmaker and go to Zhang's Nacai to propose marriage.

can be a matchmaker for the generals of the dynasty, this affection is hard to find, since the Qin and Han dynasties, in addition to Huo Quai, how many unmarried generals are there? Gu Changyong happily agreed, and personally started to prepare.

The so-called picker is the gift of selection, so the dusk ceremony is issued, and the goose is adopted. Although ordinary people now use geese instead of geese, it is not difficult for Gu's gate valve to find a goose as a gift. As for the other gifts, there is no need for Xu You to worry about it, and the Gu family will give it to Bao Yuan.

Xu You arrived in Jinling on the twenty-seventh day of the New Year, which was the first grand festival after the new lord ascended the throne. Not only that, he also personally issued an edict to explain to his subjects the truth that "government is to save money, and etiquette is rather thrifty", calling on the people to advocate thrift, and set an example, wear cloth clothes, cover cloth quilts, do not make any carvings in the palace, and do not use gold, silver and jade, kindness and anxiety, self-denial and self-denial, which made a good start for the new dynasty's concept of governing the country, and changed the yuan to yuanxing, and announced the amnesty of the world.

Almost at the same time, Yao Ji of Liangguo also officially changed to the Golden Finch, but there was an undercurrent in the country, loyal to the old emperor and the crown prince Yao Jin

From time to time, he made some noise, which made him tired and annoyed. Finally caught the Chinese New Year, in order to stabilize the domestic situation, on the occasion of the reform of the Yuan, amnesty many officials came to favor and co-opt, and carried out frequent and intensive personnel transfers, officials who were once loyal to Yao Yan and Yao Jin were liquidated in large numbers, and the demotion of the outgoing, the demoted of the demoted, the core and key positions were placed in their own people, and then followed Wen Ziyou's advice, and imposed an additional three years of taxes, forced the people outside the military household to join the army, and wantonly hoarded grain and grass, and expanded armaments, In order to recruit Yao Jin at any time and deal with any possible interference and war at home and abroad.

The imperial capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty - Pingcheng.

Pingcheng is divided into three parts, the imperial city, the capital city and the Guocheng. The imperial city is located in the north, is the emperor's residence, Lingtai Mountain, wall water pond garden, Shuangque Wanren, Jiuqu Sida, Yujing Linsen, hall and hall Jiaoge, compared to Jinling Taicheng is not much better.

The south of the imperial city is the capital, a radius of 20 miles, divided into the city, through Tu Dongda, the houses are side by side, the people and gods are obscene, the song platform dances, the moon hall and the cloud hall, and the scholars and the Shu people live strictly separately, they are not allowed to live together, and the violators will be severely punished.

And Guo Cheng then around the south of the palace city, back to 32 miles in the week, all build for the workshop, open the alley in the square, the big one accommodates four or five hundred families, the small one is sixty or seventy families, the temple, the market house, the garden, the home field, the medicine garden, the Ming Hall, the altar, there is everything.

The weather in January is still like the mother-in-law's face, it is always cold and makes people palpitate, the street has lost the liveliness and prosperity of the past, the flavor of the year has already dissipated in the whistling north wind, and the war with Rouran has passed three months, but the eyes are full of broken walls, and every household is white, which still profoundly affects the daily life of the people.

Yu Zhong wore a narrow robe with a narrow neck, covered with mink, wide-legged tight-mouth trousers, tucked into riding boots, wearing a domed Xianbei hood, the front edge was located on the forehead, the back of the head and sides had a shawl that hung down to the shoulders, and his hands were very northern in his sleeves, and he walked slowly from a small alley in the capital to the Li Fang of Guocheng.

After he followed Yuan Mulan back to Beijing, he first spent some time at home, and then was transferred to the Hou Guan Cao and promoted to become a dragon sparrow of the Hou Guan. On the contrary, he was completely tired of Hou Guancao's career, and transferred to the military government through the relationship of the Knowles, and saw that he was going to be released to Shangjun to become a local military lord, and it was foreseeable that the two of them would embark on completely different paths in the future.

The afternoon sky was gloomy, more than 20 fast horses galloped past, and the dust stirred up covered Yu Zhong's face, he spat and foamed at the mouth, but he didn't make trouble, just glanced at those two eyes and saw that it was His Royal Highness Yuan Ke, as the fifth son of Yuan Yu, he has always been very domineering, and he can't afford to provoke and hide, the best way is to turn a blind eye.

Coming to the eastern suburbs of Guocheng, Yu Zhong first looked for a wine shop to drink a few glasses of wine, and then went out through the back door when he was peeing, crossed two or three streets, and flashed into a felt tent.

After the founding of the Tuoba clan, the Hu and Han blended, and the architectural style in Pingcheng also followed this characteristic, with both Han wooden house buildings and Hu dome felt tents.

The felt tent is divided into two kinds, round and square, such as Yu Zhongjin's this is a square felt tent, two skylights are opened at the top, a rope is tied to the skylight, one end is tied to the skylight, and the other end is tied to the ring on the back wall, which can control the opening and closing of the skylight, and the left and right sides, both sides of the front wall door, are open rectangular windows for ventilation and lighting. The whole structure of the felt tent is an umbrella-like support made of wooden strips or wicker, which is tied and tied with ropes, and then covered with felt or other fabrics.

The capacity of the felt tent is different, the small one can accommodate four or five people, the big one can accommodate a hundred people, the famous hundred sub-tents of the Wei State, its shape is intersected by ropes, the new wood branches, covered with green threads, the shape is flat and round, and there are also quite gorgeous and grandiose places.

There was a Han man sitting in the felt tent, named Huo Fuhai, who was now an ordinary guy in the Hu family's cloth workshop. The cloth workshop belongs to Hu Jiuli's industry, the surname Hu was originally the Han surname changed by the Su Gu clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Hu Jiuli and Yu Zhong intersected with each other, he fabricated the origin of Huo Fuhai, and recommended him to the cloth workshop to make a living.

Seeing Yu Zhong come in, Huo Fuhai stood up, poured him a cup of Hu Ren's favorite buttermilk, looked out through the window vigilantly, turned around and sat down, and said, "What do you have to say?" ”