Lin'an is in the station, because the Son of Heaven is trying to recover, since Gaozong has not expanded. Although the middle royal street is also extremely spacious, it is more depressed than when it is compared to the middle plains of Bianliang.

Two sedan chairmen carried a warm sedan chair, slowly through the royal street, so the sedan chair is extremely ordinary, the sedan chair decoration is not gorgeous, and there are only more than ten people following the sedan chair, so no one pays attention.

A gap was opened in the car window, through which the two eyes were looking out, and if anyone who knew saw this person looking out, they would be startled.

This person is only in his forties, his face is fair, and his facial features are quite upright, but his eyebrows are thicker, showing that this person is resolute. He had a long beard, and when he looked out, he lifted the curtain with one hand and twisted his beard with the other, as if he were gritting his teeth.

He is the current right prime minister and privy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, Shi Miyuan.

Since November of the third year of Kaixi, he conspired with Empress Yang and others to kill the then prime minister Han Yanxuan, and he has been in power for five years. has been in the top position for a long time, so that he has a demeanor of not being angry and arrogant, and he is no longer as busy as he was at the beginning.

But at this time, this powerful prime minister is somewhat sneaky. Even looking at the sides of the royal street, you have to be careful and careful, for fear of being discovered.

The reason why it has come so far is because of that assassination three years ago. In May of the second year of Jiading, an officer named Luo Riyuan plotted to murder him. Although he failed because the matter was not confidential, Luo Riyuan was also sentenced to death by him, but since then, Shi Miyuan has not dared to go out in civilian clothes, even when he was in the court, he also hugged more guards.

Occasionally, he would also take a light car, come out to breathe, and inspect the folk scenery. It's just that every time, like now, he will hardly show his face, so as not to be recognized by the people in Lin'an City. Although he didn't go out often, the news from the outside world never stopped reaching his ears, and he knew that because he wanted to restore Qin Hui's official title, the people of Lin'an City had already compared him with Qin Hui.

"These stupid and stupid women, how can they know the strategy of the temple!" Thinking of this, he snorted coldly.

In recent days, another extremely bad rumor has spread in the city of Lin'an, and the Dajin in the north lost the battle with the Hu people, intending to make up for the losses from the Great Song Dynasty. This news made Shi Miyuan extremely uneasy, he had also heard about the defeat of the Jin Kingdom, but there were some doubts in his heart, since the defeat of the Kaixi Northern Expedition, Shi Miyuan decided that the Dajin soldiers were strong and strong, and they were really the first-class power in the world, how could they lose to those Hu people?

He was hesitating when he suddenly heard a buzzing sound from the side of the royal street, like the morning bell of an ancient temple, which made people feel calm. He was taken aback, he was very familiar with the royal street, but he didn't know that there was also a temple here, could it be said that it was newly built?

He lifted the curtain again and looked out, and found himself in the middle of the royal street, surrounded by gold and silver shops. In front of one of the gold shops, there were more than 100 people around, and the bell came from the gold shop.

Shi Miyuan sank his face, he is a person who believes in Futu, and there are even rumors among the people, saying that he was originally the reincarnation of Tiantong monk Chongzhi Zhengjue, as for who spread this rumor, only Shi Miyuan himself knows. Therefore, he did not want to see this copper-smelling gold shop, but used the Buddha clock to attract customers.

"It's ringing, it's ringing!" The onlookers cheered loudly, and the sound overshadowed the brass bell.

Shi Miyuan stepped on the bottom of the sedan chair with his foot, the two sedan chair drivers were both domesticated, and they were already familiar with his meaning, knowing that this was the code of the sedan chair, so he stopped the sedan chair. Several entourages immediately divided into two groups, one group squeezed away the people watching in front of the sedan car, and the other group guarded the side of the sedan car.

The person who was squeezed away looked back, but he said that it was the female dependant of the official eunuch's family, but he didn't care. Even those who are dissatisfied are just whispering and scolding, this Lin'an is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and there are many high-ranking officials and nobles who ordinary people can't afford to offend, and they eat the board for a moment of leisure, which is really not worth it.

Surrounded in the middle, it was Hirohiko Ishima and the shopkeeper of the gold shop.

"Well, I said this quarter of an hour is the best thing." The shopkeeper of the gold shop patted the square table with his hand, and there was a quarter of an hour on the square table, but this quarter hour was much more elaborate than the first quarter hour that Zhao and Ju had seen, no more than half a person high, and the length and width were only a few feet.

Shi Mo Guangyan tilted his head curiously, this thing was indeed rare, at least he had never seen it in the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom before.

"Tell me, what's the use of it?" Although he could hear the sound of a bell for a quarter of an hour, Shi Mo Hirohiko still didn't understand, and asked the gold shopkeeper with his arms crossed.

"The name of this thing is the quarter hour, which is the instrument of timekeeping, and you see these three hands, the short and thick one is the hour hand, which refers to the twelve hours, and the slender one is the second hand, which is the white horse passing through the gap, and the middle is the minute hand. A second is a minute, and a minute is half an hour. The shopkeeper of the gold shop danced and said: "Compared with the hourglass carving, this thing is simple and easy to recognize, and it can be placed in the hall at home, which can be timed and decorated!" ”

Shi Ma Guangyan was unconsciously moved, he looked at the three hands of the quarter of an hour, and quickly recognized the time: two quarters before the hour

"Look at the second hand, it's always turning, and the minute hand is also turning, but it's just a little slower."

"And the iron gourd below, it has been swinging, and it has never stopped!"

"Could it be that someone in this wooden box is manipulating the mechanism?"

"Hugh is talking nonsense, how big is that wooden box, even a small child, it is impossible to hide in it!"

The surrounding onlookers talked a lot, and the anger in Shi Miyuan's heart dissipated, if this is really a good timekeeper, he would have to buy a few at home.

Hirohiko made a few circles around that quarter of an hour, and if it was as magical as the gold shopkeeper boasted, it would be an excellent gift. He patted it lightly for a quarter of an hour, and the shopkeeper of the gold shop immediately stopped his hand: "Guest officer, although this thing is good, the price is not cheap, if you don't buy it, don't move it." ”

"I'd love to buy one, but I don't know about it...... Uh, a quarter of an hour, can it really be forever moving? Hirohiko Ishima asked.

"The guest officer laughed, there is no such thing as a mechanism in the world that never stops, and this quarter of an hour will naturally stop, man, put the table and move the one that has stopped!" The shopkeeper smiled, and shouted to the shop, where one of the men had taken out the square table and carefully brought out another quarter hour, which was exactly the same as the previous one, except that the seconds and the iron gourd had not moved.

"Look, everybody, this quarter of an hour is stopped, and I'll make it move." Hearing some noise from the onlookers, the shopkeeper triumphantly came to a quarter of an hour later, and put his hand into a round hole in the back, and I don't know how he did it, and then the iron gourd moved again.