Li Jiyan, the envoy of Fengxiang Festival, was the first envoy of Jiedu to take the initiative to come to Jinyang to meet him, so Li Qi received this feudal town that nominally surrendered to him with high etiquette.

Li Jiyan went to pay homage to Zhuangzong after destroying Liang and entering Luoyang, and saw that the Jin army was strong and strong, and persuaded his father Li Maozhen to return to the Later Tang Dynasty after returning to Fengxiang. At this time, Li Maozhen was persecuted by King Jian of Shu and was suffering, and he had long lost his ambition to dominate the world, so he became a minister. Zhuangzong Li Cunmiao was an old minister of the previous dynasty, and Li Keyong, the king of Jin, was a contemporary figure, and treated him quite favorably, and he was crowned Li Maozhen as the king of Qin.

Li Maozhen died of illness shortly after returning to the Tang Dynasty, and his son Li Jiyan succeeded him as the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival.

Li Jiyan came to Luoyang three times during the Tongguang period, and Li Jiqi was the crown prince at that time, so he naturally inevitably got acquainted with him. Later, Li Jiqi led the war in Shu, and Li Jiyan was the transfer envoy, and the two also had a lot of dealings. It's just that these belong to the memories of Li Qi's predecessor.

Li Qi met with Li Jiyan and his entourage in the Zichen Hall of Jinyang Palace.

The palace interior of Jinyang Palace has been renovated again, the Zichen Palace has built several hot water tunnels with bluestone cement in the ground, plus the windows have been replaced with glass, although the snow is vast outside, the windows in the hall are bright and bright, warm as spring. Although the decoration of the hall is not as elaborate and luxurious as in the past, it is also elegant and solemn.

"Minister Li Jiyan greets Your Majesty!" Li Jiyan entered the main hall, although he felt novel, but he still did the right thing first, and said with a bow. Before the Ming Dynasty, courtiers saw that the emperor did not perform big ceremonies except for important ceremonies, and the ordinary court was a bow salute, and Li Jiyan's salute was already very formal.

"Aiqing, please take a seat." Li Qi said, "I wanted to work with Aiqing at the beginning, and I have always looked at the Jiedu envoy as a brother. This is polite, and there is also the intention of enveloping the other party.

"How dare Weichen, it is a great honor to be favored by His Majesty!" Li Jiyan replied politely, and then sat down. He spoke with a Guanzhong accent, but he could also pronounce words clearly. Since he was born, Li Maozhen has only suffered defeat, and has only been beaten by Zhu Wen and Wang Jian to the territory of forty or fifty states There are only more than ten places left, and his personality is relatively weak, and he has no ambitions.

Li Jiyan's poetry, calligraphy and painting attainments are not shallow, especially calligraphy and painting, almost self-contained, quite some artistic temperament, but unfortunately in these five generations of troubled times, surrounded by tigers and wolves, some were born at the wrong time.

Li Qi observed Li Jiyan on the throne and saw that his behavior was elegant and calm, and he was also quite impressed.

"Xingyuan Mountain Nanxi Dao Jiedu has made Zhang Yun repeatedly invade Guanzhong, I am about to raise troops to ask for it, my brother came just in time, I am about to discuss with my brother about sending troops." Li Qi saw that Li Jiyan was sitting down, so he said with a smile.

Li Qi had already sent Meng Yiyong to Fengxiang to contact him before, and at this time, Li Jiyan took the initiative to come to the door, and it must be because of this incident.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Qi's words came out, Li Jiyan looked embarrassed, and said slowly: "Your Majesty wants to ask for the minister, and the ministers have no objection, but they ...... The subordinate territories have suffered disasters in recent years, and the harvest is insufficient, and I am afraid that it will not be able to meet the supply of food and grass for the army. ”

It turned out that he was worried about the same as cutting Shu a few years ago, and let him be in charge of the supply of grain and grass.

"The supply of grain and grass is not to worry about the elder brother, and it is transported by Jinyang. It's just that the army is dispatched, and Feng Xiang is the rear, and then he still needs to bother his brother to be responsible for transporting the people and transporting grain and grass. Li Qi smiled and said, about 30,000 soldiers and horses will be dispatched to attack Hanzhong, and Li Qi just doesn't want to invest more manpower in logistics.

Li Jiyan couldn't hear that he was paying for food, so he naturally accepted it, and said that he would send 10,000 Fengxiang troops to fight with Jinyang.

When the matter was resolved, Li Qi was very happy to have a banquet for Li Jiyan and his party.

The first impression of Taiyuan Mansion on Li Jiyan was that there was no such common scene of homeless people gathering, and in addition, ordinary people were neatly dressed, and although the cotton clothes or leather jackets on their bodies had patches, they were also neatly patched, and there was no ragged clothes.

Accompanied by Lu Yan, he visited the workshops of Beiyuan and Xinzhou Huangzhuang.

These mechanical workshops are built on the banks of rivers, and a dam is built on the river. From both sides of the dam, several main canals lead out and follow the mountain, winding out into the fields. Behind the two huge gates of the main diversion canal, long diversion culverts were built, and above these culverts were the workshops of various workshops.

In the workshop, a variety of machinery runs continuously under the traction of more than a dozen water turbines, emitting a loud noise unique to the era of primary industrialization. These machines are still mainly made of wood, but the rotation and transmission mechanisms have been gradually replaced by iron parts.

Winter is the time of impoundment, most of the workshops have been suspended, and only a few workshops that produce artisanal raw materials continue to produce. Spinning, weaving and machine-making workshops have also mostly been suspended, with only dairy, mill and sugar mills continuing to operate.

The two royal hot spring villas in Xinzhou, Erlong Mountain and Phoenix Mountain, have been able to maintain production.

The vegetable garden of Phoenix Mountain Hot Spring Manor is smaller than that in Longshou Mountain Manor, about three acres, and the main structure is replaced with a reinforced concrete frame, surrounded by red brick side walls more than half a person high, and the roof is a row of triangular glass skylights, which looks similar to the factory workshop of later generations.

But the huge glass windows make the garden a stark contrast to the abundance of light inside, lush and blooming flowers, and the snow-capped ice outside.

Only in this vegetable garden and flower garden, Li Jiyan turned around for nearly an hour.

After lunch, Li Jiyan came to visit the hydraulic workshop in the manor.

There was a lot of noise in the textile workshop, and Lu Yan, who was used to seeing it, wanted to withdraw from it, but Li Jiyan was scurrying between those spinning machines and looms with great interest, and from time to time asked the accompanying stewards and craftsmen about some production processes. Fortunately, Li Qi has never had the intention of keeping this secret, but hopes to promote these technologies in this world.

After hearing the steward say that such a textile workshop with more than 100 people can produce 20,000 pieces of woolen cloth or cotton cloth every year, Li Jiyan opened his mouth in shock for a long time after hearing this, and then sighed: "I have heard that the land of Jin is rich, and it seems that it is far beyond the imagination of a certain family!" "In this era, cloth is used as money, 20,000 pieces of cloth is equivalent to 20,000 copper coins, which is about equal to a year's financial income of a middle county.

Lu Yan smiled and said: "Such a manor, there are twenty-six under the name of the Son of Heaven alone, and this scale is only small, and there is at least one large-scale workshop in each garrison area, in fact, several iron-smelting workshops such as Gujiao, Daizhou and Wuzhou are the most profitable workshops in the hands of His Majesty, but most of these workshops also have shares in the families of Jinyang nobles." ”

Seeing that Li Jiyan was a little incomprehensible, Lu Yan explained to him in detail the articles of association and operation of the joint-stock workshop, and in the end, he sighed proudly: "Lu is a part of the people who invested earlier, and he reluctantly invested 2,000 yuan just for the sake of His Majesty's face, and he accounted for very few shares, but last year's dividends alone were more than 2,600 yuan, which is more than Lu Lu in a certain year, and now he regrets it later!" ”

Li Jiyan was a little dumbfounded after hearing this: This emperor is taking the lead in leading a large group of courtiers to do business?!