Xiao Rui incarnated as a storyteller and told Zhuge Liuying, Li Ruoxue and Lu Pheasant about the experience of the imperial capital of Zhao. Looking at the adoring gaze of the three girls, Xiao Rui felt useful.

When talking about dry mouth, Li Yuanfang came to report, saying that the king of Tang rushed to hear the news.

Zhuge Liuying said: "Your Royal Highness, the King of Tang has sent people to ask about your return date many times, and I miss it very much, so Ruoxue and I will retreat first." ”

Xiao Rui nodded, he hadn't seen Xiao Yan for many days, and he was also quite concerned, calculating the time, Kong Xun'er was about to give birth.

asked Li Yuanfang to invite him in, and Xiao Yan looked left and right into the tearoom.

"What do you see? If you like this, why don't I step down and make way for Xian? Xiao Rui quipped.

Xiao Yan smiled and said, "Forget it, it's still comfortable for me to live in Tang Wangfu." Originally, I wanted to be the director of Yizhou and ask for the people's life, but my father felt too sorry for me, so he transferred me back to Kyoto. It's still good in Kyoto, it's comfortable! ”

"Plea for the people? I think you write all day, how can you have time to worry about government affairs. By the way, how about the younger siblings? It's almost like birth. Xiao Rui asked.

Xiao Yan's expression immediately became cautious, and he asked, "Seventh brother, it's only two sentences to Xun'er, what do you want to do?" ”

Xiao Rui opened his mouth, and was stunned by the question, does it have anything to do with what I want to do when I say a polite word?

Xiao Rui asked rhetorically: "You are my ninth brother, so naturally you have to care about the unborn son, what, what do you think I want to do?" ”

Xiao Yan snorted: "It's not that I'm not worried, but... Hey..."

"There's something wrong with your voice, come, start your story. Is it your younger brother and sister carrying you..."Xiao Rui immediately became interested, and excitedly squeezed his eyebrows.

"She dares!" Xiao Yan glared and said arrogantly: "If my woman is disobedient, will she see my big fist in a casserole?" ”

As he spoke, Xiao Yan raised his fist.

Xiao Rui couldn't help but smile: "Okay, you are also bragging with me." ”

After the joke, Xiao Yan asked about other things, and said: "Seventh brother, tell me how you killed Emperor Zhao, I can refer to the reference and write it into "Journey to the West", you don't know, my current "Journey to the West" has become famous all over the world, who doesn't know the name of my Tang King, hehe... You have to thank me for your current reputation! ”

Xiao Rui had just finished telling a little story to the three beauties, and he was not in the mood to tell it to a stinky man, so he shook his head and said: "This is a secret, you can't reveal it at will, if you want to know, you can ask your father." ”

"Then forget it." Xiao Yan was stunned when he saw His Majesty, and immediately shook his head and refused, so he changed the topic and asked: "Seventh brother, I will prepare a luncheon tomorrow, there is no one else, it is several other princes, one is to pick you up and wash the dust, and the other is to contact the brotherhood, you can't shirk, you must come!" ”

Xiao Rui nodded and said, "If you invite you personally, I will naturally go." ”

"That's all right!" Xiao Yan was still innocent, babbling, chatting with Xiao Rui for a while, and then left the palace. In his words, the palace was too depressing to stay long.

Xiao Rui sat in the East Palace for a while, and then went to Zhan Shifu to take a look.

When I came to Zhan Shifu, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Zhang Liang were chatting, and Xiao He was not seen. According to Jia Xu, now that the farm is busy, Xiao He and Jia Siqian are inspecting the planting of corn and potatoes together, and they can do everything in person to do things well.

Coming to Xiao He is too beneficial to Xiao Rui now, and a strategist with super internal affairs ability can turn the tide under the Xiaoice River period.

After sitting in Zhan Shifu for half an hour, everyone moved to the Huben Pavilion together.

After briefly inspecting the Tiger Pavilion, Xiao Rui asked Jia Xu to call the craftsmen. The purpose of this visit is very simple, which is to brainstorm the invention of cement.

Cement is the adhesive, the first use of white ash in the mainland of China, and then the use of grass mixed with yellow mud to build walls, but also used it to line wall tiles on the earthen wall, until the current lime.

The use of lime is to mix lime with water to make lime slurry, and then use the slurry to build strip stones, brick walls and masonry arches and stucco walls, and now multi-storey pavilions or cities, mostly this method.

However, there are certain disadvantages of using lime as a binder, the amount is larger, the effect is not good, and the cost is relatively high.

Lime is made of limestone, dolomite, chalk, shell and other products with high calcium carbonate content, calcined at 900~1100 °C. Xiao Rui vaguely remembers that the better Portland cement is made of limestone and clay as the main raw materials, which are crushed, batched, and ground to make raw meal, and then fed into the cement kiln to calcine the mature material, and then add an appropriate amount of clinker to grind it finely, the production process is more complicated than fired lime, and once it is explored, the output can be much larger than lime.

Once the cement is circulated, it will not only benefit the people, but also build roads and cities for the benefit of the country and the people.

Xiao Rui only remembers the general process, and the specific process depends on the exploration of these craftsmen. Now the scale of the Tiger Pavilion is getting bigger and bigger, the craftsmen will immediately exceed 1,000 people, the salary of the Tiger Pavilion is too rich, and the master of skills can also be attached to the Zhan Mansion, and finally have an official body, which is a dream that the craftsman does not dare to hope for in his life.

Therefore, countless skilled craftsmen came to invest, coupled with the recruitment hall to recruit talents, so the number of craftsmen is still increasing, and now, the fields involved in these craftsmen have also begun to be comprehensive, no longer limited to the original papermaking, engraving and alchemy, now including agriculture, casting, smelting, shipbuilding, etc., in full bloom.

Not far from the Tiger Pavilion, a junior college covering an area of one hundred and forty acres is being built!

Before Xiao Rui went to Zhao Guo, he had a whim, if he could set up a junior college to train directional talents, would there be an unexpected joy in the future?

Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, the college is a great cause, not focusing on the present, but focusing on the future!

When this junior college was established, the outstanding craftsmen of the Tiger Pavilion could serve as teachers, and set up research projects to fund their research and development, Xiao Rui always believed that as long as they were given a starting point, they would help Xiao Rui move the earth!

Xiao Rui doesn't dare to hope to enter the era of industrialization, but can he expect it in the future steam era? In Xiao Rui's lifetime, he really wanted to see that the people of Dazhao Kyoto could use a steam engine and know what an electric light was!

Unifying Shenzhou is the first emperor of the ages?

Xiao Rui's ambitions are even greater.

But...

When Jia Xu took out the bill of the Tiger Pavilion, he heard that there were only three or four hundred thousand taels of silver left in Zhan Shifu, if it weren't for Xiao Rui copying a few big households on the way back this time and swallowing some silver, Zhan Shifu would really be stretched.

During this time, Zhan Shifu spent a lot of money, one is the cost of Tiger Pavilion, and the other is that Xiao He bought land, and spent all the silver that Xiao Rui had accumulated in the past few years, and even those boxes of gold were exchanged for silver, not including the support of the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce, if the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce did not take the silver support, Xiao Rui's money alone would have been spent long ago.

Jia Xu teased: "Your Highness, you haven't seen Xiao He now, after seeing him, the first thing he did was to ask you for money!" ”

yes, ask for money!

In the spring of the next year, Zhan Shifu will buy the corn and potatoes planted by the people in Gyeonggi, and give them subsidies, although these corn and potatoes can be exchanged for money in the later period, but Zhan Shifu has to buy it first, once the money is not enough to lose his trust, it will be a loss of face for Xiao Rui, the prince!

Before Xiao Rui left, he said to Xiao He: Money is not a problem, money is a trivial matter, there is no way to give up! Don't worry, if you don't have money, this palace will get you money!

This sentence gave Xiao He motivation, so the promotion of corn and potatoes was in full swing, but now it is bitter for Xiao Rui.

Xiao Rui couldn't help but rub his eyebrows, and couldn't help but complain a little.

Of course, it's not to complain about Xiao He, Xiao He is doing very well, what's wrong with spending some money, what's wrong! Money is a bastard, we are making money by spending money!

Xiao Rui complained about his father, you say, Shen Wansan went through hardships, wandered in the sea, and finally earned millions of taels, and was taken half by his father's empty glove white wolf at once!

In addition, he inspected the state capital before and copied those corrupt officials, and the money flowed close to his inner money, and the ghost knows how much money his inner money has!

Now although the war against Zhao and Qi is carried out, but the use is from the treasury, to put it mildly, the treasury is the household department, not His Majesty's, the household department is still crying poor every day, His Majesty is also very reluctant, and pretending to be poor only squeezed out a little money from the internal money.

Besides, although it costs money to fight a war, the treasury will be short of money after occupying so many territories and looting so much silver? There are also many treasures that have been offered to His Majesty and have entered his inner pocket!

That's why it is said that if you make money in war, you will get rich, and that's true! Now the treasury of Great Xia and His Majesty's internal treasury are definitely full of money.

Take pity on Xiao Rui himself, look at his pocket, there is nothing.

It made him very tasteful.

"I'm not the emperor yet, should I pay this money?" Xiao Rui sent out a soul torture.

Zhang Liang, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu looked at each other.

Zhang Liang asked him: "Your Highness, can you get money from Your Majesty?" ”

Can you get money from Your Majesty?

Did you get money from Your Majesty?

Get the money?

Money?

……

Xiao Rui said in a restrained voice: "He is the emperor of Great Xia, and he is the father of this palace, who will pay if he doesn't pay!" You can't keep pit your son. Now the promotion of potatoes and corn, the manufacture of gunpowder, the construction of junior colleges, the operation of the Zhaoxian Pavilion and the Tiger Pavilion, and the navigation trade, which one is for my benefit, are all for Your Majesty! Therefore, His Majesty must be asked to pay for it, and if it is not out, it will be obtained! ”

Xiao Rui made up his mind.

Zhang Liang and the others didn't want to hit Xiao Rui's self-confidence, so they could only silently wish him a victory and get silver. Just a sentence: Come on, Ollie!

Since Xiao Rui was going to ask for silver, he naturally couldn't go empty-handed, he asked Jia Xu to sort out the bills, and the amount of silver he had spent for the prosperity of Great Xia since he became the crown prince was a terrifying amount of 12 million taels, which was one-tenth of the annual treasury revenue of the entire Great Xia!

Can so much silver be piled up into a mountain of silver?