The opening of the money village was vigorous, and the city department received the money softly, Li Dongsheng finally lived a normal life again, and the two of them got together with Cheng Yanjin, which is the daily life of two single men stationed abroad.

On this day, Li Dongsheng came to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion again, but saw Cheng Biting Jin sitting in the hall with a sad face, and he wondered: "What's wrong?" What happened? ”

Cheng Biting Jin said: "Alas! Your Majesty is old, and now he is not in good health, but he is obsessed with Fang Shizhi's saying, if you want to live forever, how can you become like Qin Shi Huang? wanted to be such a wise and martial character back then, but when he got old, he became so confused. ”

"I'm a little confused when I'm older." Li Dongsheng didn't care: "No matter how good the characters are, they can't pass the level of being afraid of death, especially the emperor, they want to rule the empire forever." ”

"Hey, then you can't just listen to those monks, and also alchemy... Cheng Yanjin sighed: "Where is there still a little bit of the appearance of a wise lord, everything he does is the appearance of those faint kings." ”

"If you say this in broad daylight, you are not afraid that others will impeach you for arguing about the Holy One." He poured himself a glass of water to drink, and Li Dongsheng said: "When you get older, you will always do some foolish things." ”

"No matter how much, I heard that now His Majesty has handed over all government affairs to the crown prince. I devoted myself to studying the theory of Fang Shizhi, and the ministers of the DPRK and China did not dissuade him, alas, the world is declining. Cheng Yanjin sighed for a moment and then said happily: "These maritime merchants are so rich, I just watch that money come in every day." ”

Li Dongsheng despised him: "You are also a national prince, can you not stare at this money all day long, it is too bad for your identity." ”

"So what am I staring at? I can't find anyone in this hellish place who even wants to fight. One by one, they are as good as their grandchildren, what do you want me to do? Cheng Yanjin was also helpless: "There are mountains everywhere, fog and rain for a while, and it's hot to death, I've stayed enough." ”

Li Dongsheng didn't care about him: "That's your business, I'm going to go to sea for a turn." ”

"Okay, what are you doing at sea?" Cheng Yanjin disagreed: "You are an official, you must stay in the yamen." ”

After negotiating for a long time but failing to achieve his goal, Li Dongsheng left the Dadu Governor's Mansion with hatred. He went to sea because of a big thing to do, Li Ting trained a large number of blacksmiths under his command, and now they have been transported to the island by ship, and they have made an epoch-making artifact that Li Dongsheng secretly arranged for them to make, and he will go to see it no matter what.

Anyway, they are all stakeholders, and Li Dongsheng is not afraid that Cheng Yanjin will impeach him for not going to work, leaving his post without permission, and directly taking Xue Rengui to the island by boat.

Xue Rengui was stunned when he saw the scene in full swing, Li Dongsheng is going to heaven, what does he want to do when he makes such a big scene overseas?

It took him a long walk around the bustling construction site before he was relieved, there was no fear of seeing weapons and armor, only a huge iron bump where it was placed, and it didn't seem that he was building a weapon privately.

But he saw Li Dongsheng circling around the iron lump, asking those blacksmiths from time to time, and then nodded with satisfaction: "Come, try it!" ”

Xue Rengui saw those craftsmen open the iron sheet next to the iron pimple, set the coal inside, and then after a while, he saw the white water vapor coming out, Xue Rengui looked at the white water vapor and was stunned, sitting on such a far boat and setting up such a big field to make such a thing out, what is the use of this thing, he can't see it at all.

This steam engine was made by Li Dongsheng, and no one knows what it does. Just watch the water vapor erupt, and then there's a pole swinging back and forth underneath.

Li Dongsheng is also a second knife, and he knows that the steam engine has opened the real industrial age, but he really doesn't know how to use this thing.

Li Ting followed this matter throughout the whole process, so he came to explain to Li Dongsheng: "We just follow what you said, heat water with fire, and then turn the water into water vapor, which causes the volume to expand, and then use the power of water vapor to drive the machinery, so as to convert heat energy into mechanical energy. ”

Li Dongsheng pretended to nod: "This thing has created a new era." From now on, we will be the pioneers of history. ”

Xue Rengui and Li Ting's eyes are dull, you are too good at blowing, just such a thing has opened a new era...

Looking at their disbelieving eyes, Li Dongsheng hated that iron could not become steel: "Look at your eyes, what do you think I have lied to you for so many years?" Did everything I say come true? ”

The two of them thought about it, but they still didn't think that this thing had any real use, Li Dongsheng said: "This thing still has a lot of room for improvement, originally I wanted to install it on the ship, and then even if there is no wind, I can continue to move forward." ”

"This is on a ship? How much coal does it take to carry such a big thing, and this one is burned red, and the boat is all wood, and it would be funny if the boat was burned. They said they really couldn't keep up with Li Dongsheng's whimsy.

"Of course not now, this is just a prototype, how many years of change, now pull this to the coal mine, now a few years, many coal mines have been blistered, using people to lift water is tired and ineffective, where this machine should be used." Li Dongsheng remembers that the earliest steam engine was used to lift water in coal mines.

Li Ting nodded yes, now he has built two more boats, and he is also on trial voyage at sea, and he just brought this back to Datang when he went back, but Li Ting felt that the transportation was really inconvenient, and he had to pass through the state capital all the way, and it was not easy to walk with such a big thing.

When he went back, Xue Rengui was very silent, and now he felt that Li Dongsheng had changed, and he didn't even tell him something, was it because he talked to him last time, and then he didn't receive a clear answer?

Li Dongsheng looked at the calm sea, but what he thought in his heart was that Xi Jun bought them, gave them a rough current, and fooled them away. What if there are three long and two short? And if you leave the Tang Dynasty, you will have to take more people out, and if you go to the Americas, if you are the leader of those Indians, without the people of the Tang Dynasty, it is really better to die.

After enduring it for a long time, Xue Rengui couldn't help it, and said directly: "Are you really going to leave overseas?" Will you have all your wealth, your property? ”

"Compared to life, those are floating clouds." Li Dongsheng said meaningfully: "This is just a retreat I arranged, I just did a cunning rabbit three holes, I just hope that I will never need this arrangement." ”