Chapter 187 The treasure ship sank after returning to work

Li Rui still held his chest up, but instead of the clothes of a sanitation worker, he reverted to his customs uniform.

After Xie Yue transferred the blood book to Qiu Shuang, he was soon transferred back to his original department, and the person in charge of that department apologized to him in shame. Getting him to the sanitation was originally the idea of the person in charge, and it was not reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office, although someone was monitoring Li Rui's actions, but this situation would definitely not be reported, so Qiu Shuang also learned about it after receiving the blood letter.

As long as he has not violated the law, as long as he obeys the system, whether he is from the Song State, the Jin State, or the Wa State or Goryeo, he will not be persecuted.

"Li Rui, the Son of Heaven has a purpose." Qiu Shuang also stood upright, staring at Li Rui's eyes: "You are allowed to join the escort team, but you can only start with the alliance, are you willing?" ”

"Yes!" Li Rui suddenly stood up on his legs when he heard "the Son of Heaven has a will", and immediately replied loudly after listening.

"In that case, then you report to the Guards Office and take this with you." Qiu Shuang opened a note and handed it to him: "Boy, do it well, don't embarrass the Son of Heaven." ”

"Yes!" Li Rui's face was cold, after such a big change, he had matured a lot, and only his eyes could still see their joy.

He walked out of the door of the Qiushuang Office, Yu Zhu was dangling outside, and when he saw him come out, he immediately greeted him: "How, how?" ”

Li Rui looked at Yu Zhu with a sad face, and then shook his head gently. Yu Zhu was immediately annoyed: "Why can't it be done, why can't it be done, I'll look for ......"

He originally wanted to find Li Ye to intercede, but when he thought that Li Ye, whom he had always respected, was now fighting with Menghu in Xuzhou, he was deflated again, in addition to Li Ye, he could also intercede in front of Qiu Shuang...... There is also Hu You, who is now researching a new ship in the Liuqiu Manufacturing Bureau.

"I'll go find Boss Hu, and he will definitely help you." Yu Zhu Road.

Li Rui hugged him suddenly: "Good brother, good brother, Fang is the one who is playing you, the Son of Heaven has a decree to allow me to join the escort team!" ”

Yu Zhu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "I'll just say it!" Okay, you Li Rui, you're playing tricks on me again, look at how I clean you up! ”

The two ran away with a smile, and Li Rui ran wildly in front, only to feel that the sullen breath in his chest for many days was all swept away.

Watching the two of them leave through the glass, Qiu Shuang smiled slightly, and let go of one thing in his heart. He is actually very optimistic about Li Rui, among the original graduates of the primary school, he is a fluke, if he sinks because of his uncle, he will not only lose a talented teenager, but also damage the enterprising spirit of some people.

Especially in a place like Liuqiu, which is made up of immigrants, who can guarantee that they don't have one or two relatives working for the Jinguo, Monghu, or even Goryeo Wa Kingdom?

"Let's go look around."

With that in mind, he picked up his hat and strode out the door.

Because of the news of Han Zhaorong's joy, Tamsui and Lin'an, like Lin'an, were shrouded in a wonderful festive atmosphere. Righteous teenagers like Qiu Shuang, Li Yilao and others have been taken care of by Han Yu, and they are very good with Han Yu, and almost all of them are smiling when they hear that she is pregnant.

They were in a more critical position in Liuqiu, so their joy was transmitted to the rest as well, although for most Liuqiu, Yang Miaozhen, who had a better relationship with them, was not pregnant, which was somewhat regrettable to them. However, another piece of news is enough to make them forget this regret: Yang Miaozhen will return to the beginning of May before the typhoon season to ask for "provincial relatives".

It is precisely because of this that Qiu Shuang has stepped up his wandering around in the past few days, looking for the negligence of his work.

His carriage first arrived at the primary school, Chen Zicheng went to Lin'an, and the current person in charge here is Geng Wan, this silent and unrelenting girl has not yet married, and she was still drunk when Han Yu was pregnant with a child. The young man knew that she actually liked the Son of Heaven very much, but with Han Yu by the Son of Heaven's side, he could only let her go to exile.

After turning to the primary school, it is the middle school, which is more likely to have accidents than the first school, because the so-called three crazy people are here: Xiao Bolang, Ou Bama, and Ao Sayang. Because of these three people, the middle school was originally with the primary school, and later a new middle school was built next to the primary school, for fear that they would destroy the primary school together.

But these three madmen are not here today, and lately they have all been very busy, Shaw Brown is debugging his steam engine in the manufacturing bureau, Ou Bama is working on new machinery in Keelung, and Ao Sayang is ......

Just thinking about Ao Sayang, Qiu Shuang heard a roar from the school field.

"Here we go again......"

Qiu Shuang shook his head with a bitter face, Ao Sayang has recently been improving the new gunpowder formula, he has made a new type of individual firearm according to the prompts given by Zhao and Ju, but he is very dissatisfied with the power and residue of gunpowder, so under the remote control of Zhao and Ju, a new gunpowder has been developed, which is more powerful than the old black powder, and its main ingredients are coal tar extracts and sulfur with a large output. But he was not satisfied, and wanted to make safer and more powerful gunpowder.

In the process, he inadvertently created a purple-red dye, which can be regarded as unintentionally inserting willows and willows.

The explosion just now should have been his test at the test site outside the school grounds.

Qiu Shuang didn't plan to go to the test site to see, but turned to the manufacturing bureau. The manufacturing bureau is located a little further from the city, by the sea, and is mainly engaged in the manufacture of sea vessels. Today, most of the ships built by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau are being manufactured. When Qiu Shuang came, he heard the steam engine roaring like crazy.

Since the Son of Heaven transferred Hu You from the hanging island, he and Xiao Bolang have been studying how to turn the power of the steam engine into the thrust of a large ship, and they also specially built a prototype ship for this purpose - because of the friendship between Hu You, Xiao Bolang and the unfortunate early death of Zhang Yu, and the sinking of the last Zhang Yu into the Yellow River, so this sample ship was named Zhang Yu again, but compared to its predecessor, it was smaller, a standard river boat. The length of the new Zhangyu is more than 40 meters, the width is 4 meters, the draft is less than 1 meter, and it has a large paddle wheel with a diameter of nearly two meters.

"Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xiao!" Qiu Shuang shouted from the edge of the dock.

Xiao Bolang had taught them in Yuzhang Villa, so Qiu Shuang was quite respectful when he called him, and after a while, Hu You stretched out his head from the boat, looked at Qiu Shuang and waved his hand: "Qiu Fengqing, Mr. Xiao is busy, we are going to sea trials today, you have to wait in advance." ”

"Test sail today?" Qiu Shuang was a little surprised, but thinking of Xiao Bolang's impatience with new things, he felt that this was exactly the case.

Using a steam engine to propel the boat is also a new thing in Liuqiu, so Qiu Shuang waited on the shore. After a while, more than a dozen boatmen got on the boat and drove the "Zhangyu" away from the shore.

Qiu Shuang watched with interest, if he could really invent a ship that did not use sails and was only powered by a steam engine, the connection between Liuqiu and the land would be closer, and even Dongshengzhou and Xinzhou would not be so difficult to make a round trip.

After waiting for about half an hour, I don't know what Xiao Bolang and they made in the boat, and the ship finally started again, and it was a little crooked at first, but it was quickly corrected.

"Huh!"

Looking at the white waves rising at the stern of the boat, Qiu Shuang was extremely surprised: "It was done?" ”

The speed of the ship quickly added up, and it was clearly a headwind, but it was still able to sail. Xiao Bolang visually measured it, and the speed of the voyage was about 8,000 kilometers per hour, which made Xiao Bolang very surprised and very happy.

"Haha, hahaha!"

The shipwrights and sailors on the shore all ran wildly along the coast, waving excitedly to the Zhangyu, and Qiu Shuang also got into the carriage and drove along the coast. Zhang Yu traveled for half an hour, the speed was getting faster and faster, and gradually Qiu Shuang felt that something was wrong, the sailors on the ship seemed to be desperately trying to hit the water with buckets, and after a while, the sailors on the ship jumped into the sea one by one, and Hu You also grabbed Xiao Bolang who was still struggling and jumped down.

"Save people, save people!" Qiu Shuang was stunned, remembering the legend about the name "Zhang Yu", he blurted out.

After the crew all dived, the Zhangyu continued to move forward, but the stern of the ship rose with billowing smoke, and after about five minutes, a loud "boom" was heard, and the tail of the Zhangyu exploded violently, completely unfinished, and then began to sink rapidly.

"This ...... It's too ......" Qiu Shuang almost groaned, the first steamship in human history, Zhangyu, after less than an hour of sailing, the steam boiler exploded, and like its predecessors, it quickly sank to the bottom.

"Help!" Qiu Shuang swallowed his saliva, and secretly swore in his heart that he would resolutely not take the ship named "Zhangyu" in the future.

Fortunately, it is not far from the coast, and they are all proficient in water, that is, Xiao Bolang, and he can also play two dog planings by himself. After the response personnel arrived, they were all wet and scooped up, Hu You was blushing, but Xiao Bolang was frowning.

"It's okay, it's okay, I've calculated, you still have more than 800,000 pieces of research experience this year, and it doesn't hurt to sink two more ships." Qiu Shuang said with a smile.

This kind of experiment is too costly, and with their private financial resources, if it succeeds, it will be enough, and if it fails a few more times, it will only lead to the bankruptcy of the family. Therefore, according to Zhao Heju's instructions, they were given 2 million guan every year, and their research was to spend all the 2 million guan. It's just that there is no one like Xiao Bolang who lost more than 1 million yuan in less than five months.

Xiao Bolang is begging to spend money like flowing water, but Zhao Heju is in Lin'an.

The old accounting system of the Great Song Dynasty, because it was not rigorous enough, was always able to deal with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and it was also very troublesome to audit the accounts. Therefore, Zhao Heju asked Wei Liaoweng to find all the officials of the household department and accept Chen Zicheng's new flow account method in batches, and Wei Liaoweng himself also went to listen to the lectures every night. This was the first time that Zhao and Ju had educated their current courtiers, choosing the most acceptable way to deal with corruption, so they did not encounter many obstacles.

The first round of infrastructure construction in Lin'an City has been completed, and the royal street and several major roads have been paved with cement, and in the process, a group of masons have been trained. Some of them have already rushed to Jinling, Yangzhou, Quanzhou, Qingyuan and other places, because the Liuqiu people have also built cement factories in these places, and these cities are in dire need of masons to pave concrete roads.

Then the royal primary school in the southwest of Lin'an City has broken ground, Zhao Youju and Yang Miaozhen have personally gone to see it, the place is very quiet, it was originally a valley, it is a bit like Yuzhang Villa, but the scale is much larger. As much as 2 million yuan of expenditure, it is naturally a vast area with good conditions, whether it is a school building, a public hall or an activity venue, it is done in all aspects. The construction cost does not account for the majority of the school's expenditure, but the bulk is the subsidy for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of future students.

At the beginning of the school's plan, 3,000 children were enrolled, and according to Zhao and Ju's explanation to the courtiers, the main purpose was to teach them the way to make a living, so as not to "become bad and unruly due to cold and discouragement". This was also a great benevolent policy, although there was still a slight hint of criticism about the Son of Heaven's move, but under the vigorous advocacy of the newspapers led by the "Weekly", these subtle words were quickly drowned out.

Another consequence of the advocacy was that the students of the Guozi Eunuch School asked to teach in the primary school. Unlike Zhao and Ju, who were cautiously looking for literate gentlemen, these Guozi eunuchs and scholars are all the best in this. Naturally, in order to facilitate the lectures, these selected students had to read through the textbooks of the primary school—and in the process, they were unconsciously influenced by these materials.

Zhao and Ju plan to wait for the typhoon season to pass, and then organize a group of students to go on a study tour.

"Your Majesty, Xuzhou Military News, Li Ye has retreated to Taizhuang, and Menghu's main force of 100,000 has surrounded him." Just as Zhao and Ju were planning things around Lin'an, Yue Ke hurriedly came to look for him and told him an explosive news.

In fact, the secret report that Zhao Heju got was half a day earlier than the military report that Yue Ke deterred, but he did not disrupt his itinerary because of this secret report. Everything that should be done has been done, Xuzhou is too far away, what is his decision, and it will not be able to be transmitted to Xuzhou overnight.

"Got it." Yue Ke saw Zhao Youju by the pond in the imperial garden, and at this time Zhao Youju was wearing a straw hat and taking a nap by the pond with a fishing rod. Wen Yan just muttered softly, and then continued to lean on the nap.

"Your Majesty!" Yue Ke was in a hurry, and stepped forward to push Zhao and Ju, but was blocked by Long Twelve. He shouted: "Li Ye is besieged in Taizhuang, and Your Majesty still doesn't send reinforcements quickly?" ”

"Go and talk to Cui Shenzheng, I want to rest for a while." Zhao Youju finally raised his head, but it was still a painless answer.

Yue Ke racked his brains, and he couldn't think of where he had been angry with the Son of Heaven in the past few days, so that he showed such an appearance. He wanted to push Long Twelve away, but was blocked by Long Twelve's arm even tighter, and he had no choice but to leave.

In Cui's mansion, Cui He was still holding a sand pot, slowly sipping tea, and after hearing Yue Ke's words, he looked a little weird: "Yue Shilang, has the news been reported to the Son of Heaven?" ”

"It's reported!"

"What does the Son of Heaven say?"

"The Son of Heaven is fishing, saying that he knows about it, and asked the lower officials to find Cui Xianggong."

"The Son of Heaven is fishing...... Cui nodded, and then said with a smile: "Today's wind lake is beautiful, I heard that the carp in the West Lake is fat, Yue Shilang, are you interested in going fishing with the old man?" ”

"Huh?" Yue Ke was surprised.

Note 1: The data for the new Zhangyu is from the Clement of Fulton, an American, in 1803.