Chang'an City, inside the Imperial Palace.

Today, after completing a batch of folds, Luo Zhaoyun finally dealt with the backlog of folds, and asked the eunuch to take a stack of folds and send them to Menxia Province for review, and then complete the final procedures, which can be sent to Shangshu Province, and then allocated to the six ministries to start implementation.

"Your Majesty, the Bureau of Manufacturing and Engineering sent a batch of things, saying that when Your Majesty went to the New Year, they let them build it, and it has been completed, and it was specially sent for Your Majesty's acceptance."

"Oh, then I'd like to see, say what's it?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I said, it seems to be, mahjong!"

"That's what it is!" Luo Zhaoyun smiled slightly, last year, he asked the manufacturing bureau directly under the royal family to be responsible for manufacturing his whimsical ideas, such as toothbrushes, soap, boilers, radiators, mechanical wall clocks, compasses, etc., these things, some of which are necessities of life, can transform their living conditions and are closely related to people's livelihood.

Although the whole society has traditionally had the idea of "Shi Nong Industry and Commerce", and industry was regarded as a skillful and could not be elegant, but industry and science were closely related, and all kinds of inventions and creations were a kind of "work".

Science and technology are the primary productive forces!

This sentence is true, the reason why the development of ancient society is extremely slow is that the development of productive forces is too slow, and the feudal society has been cultivating civilization repeatedly and repeatedly for 2,000 years.

The land is cultivated year after year, and the imperial court collects taxes to fill the treasury, and then it is passed down from generation to generation.

If the productivity increases, it will have a negative effect on the relations of production, the people's livelihood will be improved, the people will be rich, the imperial court will be strong, it will not neglect government affairs, it will not ignore the role of the army, and it will respect culture, then the imperial court will be able to prolong the national ancestry.

Luo Zhaoyun has been thinking about these ideas for many years, and decided to try to change the living habits and state of this era little by little, it is definitely not to unify the Central Plains, he can sit back and relax, there are still many things to do.

Improving people's livelihood is a big task!

It is also a great task to completely quell the troubles of Goguryeo, Turkic, and Tibetan, how to guard against the eastward advance of the Western Regions and the Persian Empire, restore the Silk Road, and start trade.

How to open the sea ban, build a ship to go to sea, do business, and find sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, corn, etc., is still a big task.

Balancing the powerful, ruling the Qing Dynasty, opening the way to enter the government, avoiding party disputes, etc., all need to adjust their strategies step by step.

There is a long way to go, Luo Zhaoyun is still young, due to martial arts training, long physical strength, strong energy, wind and cold are difficult to invade, can in the next thirty or forty years, push this new dynasty to a new height, must be several times better than Li Tang in the history books, otherwise, his own traveler is really a waste of 1,500 years of knowledge.

Luo Zhaoyun walked outside the hall, the waiter of the Construction Bureau, was waiting outside the hall, some of the inner guards came over, and had already moved things out, a wooden box with a set, this wooden box is about the same size as the mahjong box of later generations, but the carving is very good, pear blossom wood, carved dragon and phoenix patterns, the corners have carved patterns, at least eight wooden boxes are placed.

"Zhou Jin, the servant of the Ministry of Manufacturing, meet Your Majesty."

"No need to be polite, are these mahjong boxes, come, open one, let me see!" Luo Zhaoyun is still very interested in the new things he proposes to invent and manufacture.

"Whoa!" Zhou Jin asked the guards to open a box with the best workmanship, and the mahjong cards inside were displayed, the materials were made of jade, because it was used by the emperor, so this deck of cards was used for jadeite, emerald management, equal size, carved with 10,000, a piece, a cake, with Ouyang Xun's regular script pen body, let him write it down in person, take it into the manufacturing bureau, and the craftsman imitated the carving.

Luo Zhaoyun held it in the palm of his hand, it felt good, it was more like a good work of art, and a smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Mahjong seems to be a gadget, but it will also play a certain role in adjusting the difference in the lives of the people in Chang'an. Some of the noble sons of the gate lords, often sneak dogs and eagles, swagger through the market, idle at home in a panic, go out on the street is easy to make trouble, it is better to rub mahjong at home, pass the free time, so as not to come out and harm the people of the good family.

In addition, the palace is also relatively stuffy, these women who used to have a deep relationship with themselves are in their prime, due to various reasons, can not always let the concubines go out, can only live in the huge palace, for a long time, the mentality will also become better, too idle, often produce comparison, jealousy, competition for favor psychology, it is better to let the concubines have nothing to rub mahjong, exchange feelings, but also pass the time.

The emptiness of the spirit, loneliness is the most terrible, to be able to change people, to do things that were unimaginable before, mahjong is a good thing to dispel emptiness.

Of course, if you gamble with this, it will not be good, so in the future, it will be promoted among the people, and it is strictly forbidden to gamble big and gamble!

"Yes, this deck of mahjong tiles is very much my favorite, and then look at the others!" Luo Zhaoyun put down the jade jade mahjong and checked the other cards.

The material of the second set of mahjong is significantly reduced, ordinary jade seeds, the workmanship is OK, but the feel is obviously not as good as the first set of mahjong tiles.

The latter ones are all like this, but if you can use jade materials, you must be more upscale than pure stone and pottery.

"It's okay, these are good, you can go back to the business, by the way, how is the boiler made, can it withstand high temperatures, through steam and water pressure, make a ceramic flush toilet to ......"

Luo Zhaoyun has a lot of opinions about the toilets in this era, they are all stored in wooden barrels at night, or the smell of fixed toilets is very strong, if you use water pressure and ceramic toilets, and then flush them away through the sewer, it will be cleaner. In addition, it is similar to the principle of heating, paving plumbing, solving the problem of burning charcoal pots in winter.

"Oh, the minister will go back to convey the holy will and strive to make it as soon as possible." Zhou Jin bowed down to receive the order.

"Go ahead!" Luo Zhaoyun beckoned, let the waiter Zhou Jin retreat, he took the best set of mahjong cards, handed it to the eunuch, and walked towards the harem, this afternoon in his spare time, play a dozen mahjong with the concubines, while communicating, while entertaining, accompany his own women more, and deepen his feelings.

"Zhong Dequan." Luo Zhaoyun shouted on the way.

"The old slave is here!"

"Send someone to inform the princesses to get together in my dormitory, and in addition, bring some monthly silver, I want to play mahjong with them!" Luo Zhaoyun's smile looked a little relaxed.

"Yes!" The chief eunuch Zhong Dequan bent down to salute, and then ordered some small eunuchs to go and pass on His Majesty's message.

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