However, it may be that King Xian was accustomed to riding on four-wheeled chariots, and was not interested in four-wheeled baggage carriages, but showed a strong interest in hot air balloons that could "ascend to heaven" [Note 1]:

"This matter is not approved, and the state treasury will first allocate 200,000 copper coins to build this car. Wei Qing still told the widow what kind of hot air balloon, it is rumored that this ball can carry people into the sky and fly hundreds of zhang high, but is it true? ”

"It's true, but it's complicated and unsafe, and it still needs to be improved before it can be put into use. Therefore, the minister did not recommend that the king take a hot air balloon to view the scenery. ”

Bailiyan (Wei Xian) built a hot air balloon with the intention of taking advantage of the height of the hot air balloon to put people in the sky and look at the battlefield, so as to provide their own vision and early warning time.

Theoretically, a person's naked vision [Note 2] can see a point formed by a civil airliner 40 kilometers away at a clear altitude. Even if it is not clear to see, it is theoretically possible to confirm that there is an unidentified object. And a large army is on the march, and it can be seen clearly from a distance of dozens of miles.

The hot air balloon is tied to the ground with a cable and lowered into the air for lookout and early warning, even if there are no scouts, the whereabouts of the enemy brigade can be known in advance, and even more valuable than the macro information that scouts can grasp.

At present, the selection of hot air balloons is extremely limited, both light and thin, but also tough, Bailiyan for this reason let the yarn mill specialize in weaving higher density and finer yarns, and the cloth mill specially weaves a cotton cloth with a delicate texture, slightly thinner thickness and higher strength.

The lower part of the balloon is sewn into a hemispherical shape with this fine cotton cloth, and the upper part is made of fine silk, and the biggest technical obstacle is not how to make it into a spherical shape, but how to sew it. The internal air pressure of the hot air balloon is extremely high, so a special sewing process is required to ensure the strength of the joint.

Baili Yanzhi did not mention it, but he was worried that King Xian would come to the blood and whimsically sit in a hot air balloon to watch the scenery. In the event of a safety incident, the consequences are unimaginable.

It was late at night when he left the palace and returned to the Wei Mansion, in order to facilitate the handling of official business, the king of Xian had purchased a house and placed it outside the east gate of the palace, and it was very convenient to walk for more than ten minutes.

Yongxing City is complicated, Bailiyan goes on a business trip for three days and two ends, and returns to Lingling every three or five times, but also stays for three or two days before leaving, and has no time to make love with the women.

At this time, as soon as I walked to the inner house, the lights in the wing room were bright, and the sound of opening the door came one after another, Jiang Rong bluffed her face and held her big belly, and walked out of the main room to meet her:

"What time is it, I thought you would be back early."

"The king is urgent, and I can't get out."

Jiang Rong yawned, and her belly looked very big. In the first two months after giving birth to Wei Fang, Jiang Rong was impatient to have sex frequently, so Bailiyan did not teach her the secret method of contraception, and maliciously made her pregnant.

As he spoke, Xiao Chunyu, Tang Tao, and Xiao Er surrounded them, and the two daughters, Chunrou and Chunfang, had different identities, standing outside their bedrooms and watching.

Xiao Chunyu is also pregnant, and her belly is bigger than Jiang Rong. Jiang Rong's eyes swept left and right on Xiao Er's body at this time, but she was calculating the time in her heart, thinking that it was not early tonight, Bai Liyan must be tired, and she couldn't do anything if she wanted to, so she said:

"Let Sister Xiao'er tonight, and come according to the rules tomorrow."

"Big lady, let's let the adults accompany my sister tonight." Xiao Er excused herself, completely unaware of Jiang Rong's sinister intentions.

Jiang Rong pretended to be generous and didn't seem to care:

"Eh, it's hard for Xiao'er's sister to stay alone in the empty house for many days, how can she be a sister and have it all alone. My sister will accompany the adults more tonight, Sister Chunyu, do you say yes? ”

"Ahh Xiao Chunyu was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood: "What my sister said is, hehe......"

"Since Sister Chunyu has no opinion, let's disperse it......"

Xiao Chunyu and Jiang Rong frowned, and Bai Liyan didn't know Jiang Rong's tricks in her heart.

Every time he goes home, he stays for a few days, usually spending the night in Jiang Rong's room, Xiao Chunyu on the second day, Xiao Er on the third day, and Chunrou and Chunfang on the fourth day, and often can't take their turns. Now it seems that she takes special care of Xiao'er, but in fact, Jiang Rong doesn't want to be cheap Chunrou and Chunfang.

Even if Jiang Rong and Xiao Chunyu are pregnant, they still have to share the bed at night, even if they don't want to, with Jiang Rong in town, Chunrou and Chunfang don't dare to climb into Bailiyan's bed, this is the feudal privilege of Mrs. Zhengmu.

Bai Liyan accompanied Xiao Er to her room, but in the afterglow, she saw Chun Rou's gaze, and immediately stopped and looked at her twice, and then continued to walk towards Xiao Er's house.

"Sister Chunrou, adults look at us." Chuan Fang was overjoyed.

"Well, let's go back too, the general will come over in a few days."

"But every time I didn't stay long, I haven't been able to serve adults for forty days."

"This time."

Chunrou pulled Chunfang back to the room, her body was still hot.

The lights were blown out one after another, and only Xiao Er's house was still bright.

"My lord, I'll give you a wide coat."

"Didn't you say it, don't keep calling it an adult, how awkward."

"No matter how the sisters shout, Xiao Er calls her eldest brother, and Xiao Er also feels awkward."

"Sooner or later, this rule will have to be changed...... By the way, how has the department store been doing in recent January? ”

"It's good, the wives of many dignitaries and nobles have bought a lot of things."

"Yes, Xuan Tinghou didn't stretch out his hand."

"That's not true, it's just that the young marquis has to ask about everything, and he knows a lot of things."

"Hehe, this rabbit cub monkey spirit monkey spirit, just like his father, only has money in his eyes."

In March last year, the department store opened in Chenling, mainly selling Yongxing City's specialties, with the overall improvement of the economy this year, a large number of precious metals, copper coins inflow, business has been good.

Xuanting Hou's father and son are all human spirits, Princess Lan Yuan is even more personally out of charge, to the department store to install people, although the source of goods, funds and accounts are ultimately classified into the Wei Mansion, but half of the external sales channels are from the Xuanting Hou Mansion, which means that in the future, if you want to sell to the whole country, and even export, it is bound to be controlled by the Xuanting Hou Mansion.

The next morning, the Cabinet discussed four matters, two of which were a series of problems that arose in the Tokyo metropolitan area after the implementation of the "Land Granting Law." Particularly serious is the problem of the replacement of land owned by hidden fields, hidden households, and powerful people.

At the beginning of the drafting of the Xintian system, there were clear provisions on the issue of hidden fields, but due to pressure from all sides, it was finally resolved. However, with the spread of new farming methods and the increase in population mobility, the problem of hidden households in the capital area where the new policy was implemented was exposed.

The original intention of the hermit was that the tenants would join the magnates, and after the magnates used their privileges to obtain the hidden fields, they could not only avoid the taxes of the hidden fields, but also exempt the tenants from labor and conscription, and also use the tenants to cultivate the hidden fields and obtain more lucrative income.

Tenants with hidden hukou only need to pay the rent to the powerful for cultivating the hidden fields, but they do not have to bear the higher official land taxes, capitation, conscription, labor and so on, so many tenants are more willing to become black households.

But now after the introduction of the new field system, the new farming method has greatly increased the yield per mu, and everyone can enjoy the subsistence land, the yield of the subsistence field per mu can be tax-exempt, and the land can be leased from the state.

Therefore, a large number of hidden households fled and fled to Yongxing City to register their household registration and receive subsistence fields. In just the first half of the spring ploughing, there were more than 50,000 people and more than 9,400 households in the eastern counties and Beihainan counties who fled to Yongxing City to register without hukou, and this is only the capital area, not counting the entire capital county and other counties.

The second most acute contradiction is the issue of the replacement of acres of land, within the scope of the county magnates, officials, internal and external nobles all of the land as many as one million mu, and relatively fragmented, the new field system without touching the core interests of the magnates, with the same amount of land, the land of the nobles and officials to the east of the east of the Lingling, can not only use the land intensively, but also effectively manage the land of the magnates, but even so, there are still many opponents.

The reason is also very simple, Bai Liyan thought about this matter simply.

The land occupied by the elite is not the best and most fertile land, and it is one of them that no one can guarantee that the output of the new land provided will be the same as the previous one

Second, more than half of the output of the land of the elite in Chenling is cash crops, such as rapeseed, fruit forests, cotton and linen, mulberry, etc., which have cyclical and processing infrastructure problems, and it is impossible to leave the workshop far away, and it is impossible to cut down the trees and replant them.

Third, there is a huge amount of hidden land occupied by the powerful and powerful in the capital area, and there are only 300,000 or 400,000 mu of land in the preliminary information, and this is only the land occupied by the powerful in the capital area, not counting the other counties.

Among them, there are the salt lord family raised by the king of Xian, the generals of the forbidden army in the palace, the queen, the concubines and their dependent families, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, etc., these are all extra-large elite classes, they work together to resist, Bailiyan is useless even if he has three heads and six arms.

At the end of the early dynasty, as a rule, the cabinet members of the inner court went to the Guangyuan Hall with the king of Xian, and the officials of the outer court went to the state government supervisor to draw up a strategy for the instructions issued by the early dynasty, and then submitted it to the king of Xian and the cabinet for approval.

After the rebellion of Gongsun Yue, the phase has been suspended, and the four giants of Taiwei, Dasi Nong, Wai Deacon, and Da Sima have become the main members of the Inner Dynasty.

The position of chief executive is usually equivalent to the left minister or deputy prime minister, and the actual function of the current chief executive is weakened, which is equivalent to a secretary like a long history, and is reduced to a long history, imperial history, supervision, historian and other prime ministers, captains, and chief agricultural officials, with limited power.

After Gongsun Yue was deposed, King Xian actually held the power, and the military power of Taiwei Zhang Jun was returned to King Xian, which was equivalent to being hollowed out, Zhao Xun was in Xijun, and Mo Anzheng was a person of Guangxin Gong, and the foreign deacon Xun Mu was lacking in skills, and Baili Yan was named Zhisu Neishi and concurrently served as the Great Sima Envoy and the Doctor, but in front of these civil officials, Baili Yan's qualifications were too shallow.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Bailiyan walked to the state political supervisor, and on the way he asked Chen Shang, the chief executive:

"Lord Wei, this is going to the state political prison?"

"Go find Tall."

"Oh......"

Chen Shang was surprised that Bailiyan rarely participated in the affairs of the state administration, and even if she participated in the meeting, it was mostly military affairs, and the internal affairs were directly reported to the king of Xian, and after being passed, they were sent to the state affairs supervisor. Seeing that Bai Liyan suddenly went to the state political supervisor, Chen Shang thought that he wanted to reason with the state political supervisor because of today's court discussion.

[Note 1] The principle of hot air balloon is that the density of the gas decreases due to the expansion of air, and the resulting density difference is consistent with the principle of Kong Ming lantern. However, unlike Kong Ming lanterns, hot air balloons have higher requirements for airbag materials due to the need to load and withstand greater internal air pressure, as well as the surface tension of the ball. The traditional homespun cloth has a coarse mesh grid and yarn weaving, which leads to serious air leakage after the expansion of the airbag, so it needs to be finely detailed, such as fine cotton cloth, silk, etc.

At the same time, the biggest technical obstacle of the hot air balloon is not the airbag material, but how to sew the fabric together The stitching process and stitches, because the pressure of the airbag increases after heating, resulting in a rapid increase in the internal and external tension of the airbag, it requires a safe and firm sewing process and needlework to ensure that the hot air balloon is not torn by air pressure and tension.

[Note 2] The theoretical vision of the naked eye limit of human beings can find the dot-shaped target of a civil airliner 40 kilometers away from the clear space, of course, this is the pilot's naked eye vision at the clear altitude. At the same time, affected by the curvature of the earth on the ground, even on the open grassland, the human eye cannot see the target on the ground forty kilometers away, so the theoretical vision of the human naked eye on the ground can observe the point target of a large passenger plane ten kilometers away, but it is still ideal.

Affected by the curvature of the ground, the undulating terrain, the refraction of air, water vapor and sunlight, most of the normal naked vision of human beings and the ability to identify the target are only one or two kilometers.

The hot air balloon, as a modern sightseeing platform, has lost its military value, and has been replaced by more cheap, reliable and safe UAVs, manned aircraft, airboats, satellites, and model aircraft, while in ancient times, the vision provided by the hot air balloon was able to find tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands of large targets marching and camping thousands of kilometers away, which undoubtedly provided a great visual distance and macroscopic observation range, and provided early warning time for their own side.