Zeng Xingwu is not the kind of person with a rigid brain, otherwise he would not become a reformer, but this time Zeng Xingwu is still a little hesitant, nothing will happen if he does this, right? But then Zeng Xingwu put this idea behind him.

In fact, if you don't do this, you probably won't have an accident.

"Mr. Li, I think we can still talk about this land price!" Zeng Xingwu looked at Li Zhongxing and said lightly.

Hearing this, Li Zhongxing breathed a sigh of relief, this is because Zeng Xingwu did not object to doing this, as for talking about money, it is not a big problem. However, Li Zhongxing is still not ready to give in, and there will be problems when he makes concessions.

Maybe the land here will be worth a lot in the future, but now it's worthless!

After pondering for a moment, Li Zhongxing opened his mouth and said, "Lord Zeng, things are actually not that simple! Saying that, Li Zhongxing began to explain to Zeng Xingwu: "Although this land was nominally bought by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was paid by a businessman. ”

"If the price of land is too high, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not be able to explain to them."

"This is one thing, and the second is that if the land price is too high, it will lead to an increase in the overall cost, and it costs money to build a house and a loom." Speaking of this, Li Zhongxing sighed and said: "Although everyone is optimistic about the woolen mill, no one can say what will happen in the end!" ”

Zeng Xingwu was silent, thought about it and said: "Then why don't you buy less!" ”

Zeng Xingwu's idea is good, keep the land in his hands, and when it is completed in the future, the price of the land will definitely rise sharply, and when the time comes, it will definitely be able to sell for a lot of money.

Hearing this, Li Zhongxing sighed and explained again: "Lord Zeng, in fact, that's not what he said, now it's just a barren beach, and if there are not enough benefits to attract, no one will throw a lot of silver into it." ”

"Only by holding the surrounding land in their hands will the merchants work hard there, and the price of land there will rise."

This truth can be understood by anyone in later generations, but it is very difficult to understand in this era, even if it is Zeng Shengwu. These things are too complicated for officials who are used to solving problems with a piece of paper.

Zeng Xingwu glanced at Cao Yuan, then at Li Zhongxing, and then said, "Only like this? ”

Without waiting for Li Zhongxing to start, Cao Yuan said on the side: "Lord Dutang, if the big market and the woolen mill sit up, there are many places where Datongwei can collect money, not only in land sales. ”

Of course, not only land is bought and sold, but later generations know that when an industry is built, it will inevitably stimulate the local economy.

From jobs, to land prices, to population inflows, and so on, Datongwei will become the commercial center of the northwest. Taxation alone is the existence that makes countless people covetous.

Hearing Cao Yuan say this, Zeng Xingwu took a deep look at Cao Yuan.

In fact, Cao Yuan is not suitable to speak at this time, except that he is ignorant and reckless, then it can only be the meaning of the above. Who is above the Department of Taxation and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it goes without saying, it is naturally the emperor.

"I want to play this matter to Your Majesty, please make a decision to Your Majesty!" Zeng Xingwu nodded, and then said.

Zeng Xingwu made up his mind in his heart, no matter what you think, I just need to ask the emperor to know. Anyway, I don't have much time now, and I have to hold a public trial meeting and clean up the health office.

Li Zhongxing and Cao Yuan nodded, in fact, they also thought that Zeng Xingwu would do this.

This is a big thing, and Zeng Xingwu will never do it without the permission of the imperial court and the approval of the emperor. This time, the two of them came over, just to reach a consensus with Minister Zeng Xingwu, as for whether the imperial court would allow it, neither Li Zhongxing nor Cao Yuan was worried.

In fact, the two know that the current majesty is very in control of the imperial court.

Especially after the Northwest War, His Majesty was deeply supported by some courtiers, and he was sure that His Majesty was the king of the Ming Dynasty.

After sending the two people away, Zeng Xingwu began to write a recital, and Zeng Xingwu also knew that his memora sent to the capital would cause some waves, but it would not be too big, and it would soon disappear invisibly.

The capital, Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Yijun stood in front of the window, looking at the somewhat gloomy sky outside, the expression on his face was not bad, the two concubines who were pregnant in the past few days have also given birth one after another, and he has another princess and a prince.

The eldest son of the emperor is a concubine, this is not a problem, the body of the queen in this life is fine, and it will be born in the future.

In fact, Zhu Yijun didn't think about how to get his heir, and two days ago, someone had already given him a lecture and wanted to build a mausoleum for himself. Although Zhu Yijun knew that this was the rule, he was still a little frustrated.

"Your Majesty, the people from the Academy of Sciences and Qin Tianjian are asking to see you outside!" Zhang Whale came to Zhu Yijun's side and bowed.

Zhu Yijun was slightly stunned, but when he heard these two people coming together, he instantly understood that this was the big grandfather clock. In fact, Zhu Yijun thought about it for a long time, and he felt that he was still a little entangled.

He knows what is most appropriate, but he always feels that he should be a maverick, but many things are inconvenient and inconvenient.

Later, I thought about finding Xu Guangqi and telling them about it, but I didn't know how to be busy and forgot about it. But now Zhu Yijun is curious to see what they have made.

"Come in!" Zhu Yijun nodded with a smile, and then spoke.

After a short time, Xu Guangqi walked in, followed by several guards, laboriously carrying the large table clock made by Xu Guangqi. Looking at the big round dial, Zhu Yijun was a little stunned, and there was a feeling of being in a different world.

There are twelve scales on the dial, each engraved with Arabic numerals.

Although Zhu Yijun did not deliberately promote Arabic numerals, it has also spread in recent years, and those account offices in Wuqingbo's Mansion use Arabic numerals.

Seeing that Xu Guangqi was about to salute, Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said with a smile: "Come, tell me!" ”

Xu Guangqi hurriedly came over and said with a smile: "The ministers and the lords of the Qin Heavenly Prison have studied it for a long time, and they feel that it is a very cumbersome thing to change the time, so it is better to make a new one on the original basis. ”

"We're going to use numbers here, and we're going to completely change the hours to digital counts."

Zhu Yijun saw the numbers on the dial, which were very clear and beautifully engraved, and nodded with a smile.

"Your Majesty, please look here!" Xu Guangqi stretched out his hand and pointed to a position under the dial and said: "Here we made a small wooden plaque to divide the hours into day and night, and when it comes to daytime, there will be a "white" character here, and at night, there will be a "night" character here. ”

"With that, we'll be able to engrave half of the stuff on the dial."

"To make it easier to distinguish them, we have engraved six hours on the dial, with a small compartment in the middle of each hour representing half an hour. Then it was subdivided into eight parts, each representing a quarter of an hour. ”

In fact, it was an hour and fifteen minutes, and Zhu Yijun understood it at a glance.

"Every half an hour, the big needle on the periphery will turn around, and then the small needle will go one square, that is, half an hour." After Xu Guangqi finished speaking, he stood up.

In fact, Xu Guangqi's thing is not perfect, it is still very cumbersome, Zhu Yijun is not going to let them study it this time, although Xu Guangqi is already very close, he walked to the dragon book case, picked up the pen and began to draw.

Soon, a picture of a dial appeared in Zhu Yijun's hand.

"Since it is a half-hour jump, then don't dwell on the twelve hours, abandon the counting of the twelve hours, and locate the half-hour to a new count, which is called a half-hour, or an hour."

"So that there are twelve hours in a day, twenty-four and a half hours."

Looking at Xu Guangqi's bright eyes, Zhu Yijun began to tell unconsciously and unconsciously when he finished telling, Zhu Yijun handed the piece of paper to Xu Guangqi: "Okay, take it back and do it!" Do as I say. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xu Guangqi agreed, and then turned around and left with his big grandfather clock.

Zhu Yijun watched Xu Guangqi leave, and he didn't know what it was like in his heart, and he didn't know whether it was right or wrong for Xu Guangqi to embark on this road. It's just that this thought is just a flash, and after glancing at Zhang Whale, Zhu Yijun instructed: "Arrange it, I will leave the palace tomorrow." ”

"Yes, Emperor!" Zhang Whale agreed, and then turned around and went out to make arrangements.

The next day, Zhu Yijun got up early in the morning, he had a lot of things to do out of the palace today, and he had to go to several places, so he couldn't go early. After a simple breakfast, Zhu Yijun left the palace with people.

First Stop: Civil Service Training School!

Zhu Yijun cares very much about his own civil servant training school, and two days ago he received Lu Shenxing's performance, and Li Zhen was out of the customs.

This spokesperson of the Taizhou School of Xinxue, whom Zhu Yijun found from Jiangnan, has been visiting for a while ago, has been working with civil servants, and it is said that he insisted on planting land for several months, and finally ran back to retreat.

Originally, Zhu Yijun thought that this guy would drive himself crazy, but there has been no news for a long time.

Who would have thought that Lu Shenxing would suddenly play, this Li Zhen was out of the customs, and the changes were very big, listening to him, he was going to start lecturing at the civil service school. This is a bit scary, Lu Shenxing doesn't know what he wants to talk about.

Lu Shenxing didn't dare to let Li Zhen talk casually, so he played this matter to Zhu Yijun.

In fact, Zhu Yijun didn't dare to let Li Zhen talk nonsense, who knows what he could say. At that time, the Ram faction advocated the "imperial title", believing that the emperor and the prince and the prince were all titles, not a gift from God.

As a result, he was suppressed to the bottom, and Zhu Yijun was also afraid of what slogans Li Zhen would shout, so Zhu Yijun decided to meet Li Zhen and listen to what he had to say.