A genius is a madman, a fool is a fool.

However, in this world, there are always more fools than madmen, so many times fools become rulers.

And the madman naturally becomes the target of the target.

They are either strangled or forced to become fools.

Liu Heng is a madman who came out of the pile of fools.

Without the existence of Yan Guo, a madman like Liu Heng would probably be forced to become a fool who only understands dogma and conformism like everyone else, or he may become an unknown person under heavy pressure.

The wisdom of the ancestors is never weaker than others, just because there is a group of fools who think they are smart, and they always accuse, obstruct, and strangle them.

That's why we're being bullied thousands of years later.

Yang Qi just doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so he has been struggling for restructuring.

The first half of the road has been smoothed out by him with flesh and blood, and the second half of the road needs the help of a madman like Liu Heng.

After Yang Qi returned to the palace.

Liu Heng's deeds from a commoner to a four-grade master craftsman swept the land of Yan like a spring breeze and a dawn.

Many officials jumped out to persuade Yang Qi, saying that it was not in accordance with the rules.

And they weren't wrong.

Because of Yang Qi's practice, it contradicts the evaluation system of Yan State officials that he personally promulgated.

Yang Qiyi sent an edict out of the palace and told all the subjects of Yan State, master craftsmen and officials and other similar positions, which were not included in the court, and they would serve in the four university halls, as well as Yanmen Pass and other places.

Their contribution to the imperial court was enough for the imperial court to support them until they reached old age.

After the officials who jumped out to persuade Yang Qi learned of this, they waved their flags and toner drums.

And those crazy people who were hiding in the people moved, because in the matter of Liu Heng, they saw the hope of being recognized.

Time.

The madmen of the people took out the research results that had been hidden for a long time and dedicated them to the imperial court.

Yang Qi did not disappoint him, he personally transferred Tang Gong and other master craftsmen from Yanmen Pass, and evaluated the research results presented by the people.

And during this period, there was still a small group of people who were quietly absorbed into Yanmen Pass.

The wisdom of the people is boundless.

Inspired by the promotion and fortune, an upsurge of invention and research was staged everywhere in Yan Kingdom.

Yang Qi is like a green pine, firmly rooted in the palace, watching everything change.

In terms of knowledge, the knowledge in his mind should be better than anyone else in the world.

When it comes to invention, no one can compare to him.

But when manpower is poor, he is already exhausted by managing a huge empire, and if he bothers to invent and create, he will be exhausted to death.

Moreover, his research results alone are far less than the results of research by the whole people.

What he can do is to use his vast reserve of knowledge at the right time to guide him on something that he sees useful.

In the palace.

Yang Qi was fiddling with a map of Yanjing City, the map was huge, covering every point in Yanjing City, and it was so small that a small tethered horse stone was reflected on the map.

Liu Heng was on the side, writing and drawing with a pen and paper.

"Did you figure it out?"

Yang Qi asked without raising his head.

Liu Heng stopped his pen, looked at the final figures, and swallowed his saliva with difficulty, "Your Majesty...... Minister......"

After only three words, Liu Heng didn't know how to continue.

Yang Qi raised his head and said with a smile: "Scared? ”

Liu Heng nodded, his face was bitter, "The minister is a little whimsical......"

"Hahaha......"

Yang Qi laughed loudly and reminded: "You are just a master craftsman, not my household secretary, and the money required to build Yanjing City, no matter how much, is not something you should care about." ”

Liu Heng lowered his head and was silent.

"Tell me how much."

"The construction of the road connecting the north and south of Yanjing has a total length of 132 miles, and it requires 3.52 million copper coins."

Liu Heng muttered a report.

The three million 520,000 copper coins were only a drop in the bucket compared to the gold and silver in the Yan Kingdom.

But whether it is Yang Qi or Liu Heng, their purpose is not just to build the north-south road of Yanjing.

Their target is within the national borders.

Based on the cost of Yanjing, what is needed to build roads across the country is a huge astronomical amount.

"Repair!"

Yang Qi slapped the table and made the final decision.

Liu Heng was a little dumbfounded.

Yang Qi said indifferently: "You also included the wages required to build the road, right?" ”

Liu Heng nodded solemnly, "Since you formulated the rule of paying wages to the conscripted people, no matter what the imperial court does, the labor cost has always been the big one.

If you add two meals, it will cost you more. ”

Yang Qi groaned: "If the labor cost is removed, how much money is needed to build the road?" ”

"Less than 1,500,000 taels of copper coins."

"Then don't count the labor costs."

"Huh? Your Majesty, do you want to be forced into hard labor? ”

"You don't have to worry about that. What you have to do now is to build a cement mill outside Yanjing City as soon as possible. At the moment, you are the only one who can burn cement. The cement needed to build the road is huge. You have to pass on your craft and train more cement burners as soon as possible.

I don't want the people to build the road to be ready, but your cement won't be able to keep up. ”

"Where is Your Majesty going to get people from?"

Liu Heng asked curiously.

Yang Qi raised his eyes and glanced at him, Liu Heng's heart trembled, and he hurriedly said, "The minister lost his words......"

"Go down and prepare. As long as the road in Yanjing City is repaired as soon as possible, the people can see the convenience of the cement road. Only by letting the people see the convenience can I promote it to the whole country. ”

"喏~"

Liu Heng clenched his fists and withdrew from the imperial study.

Yang Qi leaned back on the dragon chair and called out tiredly, "Chen Lin......"

Chen Lin bought this small step and appeared on Yang Qi's side.

"What does Your Majesty command?"

Yang Qi frowned, Chen Lin was stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him rub his back and shoulders.

"Your Majesty, you haven't had a good rest for three days, you need to take care of your dragon body."

Yang Qi enjoyed Chen Lin's shoulder rubbing, and hummed comfortably: "Compared with a few brothers, this tiredness I suffer is nothing. By the way, where are my brothers? ”

Chen Lin rubbed Yang Qi's shoulders and said, "According to the news from his subordinates, the eldest prince has already driven to Ryukyu and is resting, and after resting, he will set sail for Puluozhong."

The second prince has arrived at the Peacock Dynasty with the soldiers and horses of the Great Shu Kingdom. The Cao family sent someone over and said that if Your Majesty wants to share the Peacock Dynasty, they will cancel the share given to our Yan Kingdom. ”

Yang Qi frowned and said: "They borrowed the Tao to borrow the Tao, and they entered the Peacock Dynasty with our soldiers and horses, and they can't be confused." Write back to them, and if they are not willing to hand over our fair share, don't blame the Misty Sect for robbing them. ”

Chen Lin nodded with a smile, and said: "The third prince has already arrived outside the capital city, and he has already turned with General Yan Tianzi, and is preparing to discuss the matter of borrowing the road with the Liao State.

The Fifth Princes have taken full control of the Ryukyus and are making their next moves.

The Six Princes have conquered Jeju Island and are heading for the Wa Kingdom. ”

Yang Qi let out a sigh of relief and asked, "Jiao Zan and the others were promoted and took over the positions of my brothers, didn't they make any trouble, right?" ”

Chen Lin laughed in a low voice: "Except for Jiao Zan, who was a fool who wanted to go to the Peacock Dynasty with the second prince, everyone else abided by their duties. ”

At the mention of Jiao Zan, Yang Qi shook his head helplessly, "That's really a fool, if I ignore him, he won't be able to jump, if I take care of him, he will be able to turn the sky upside down." ”

"I went back to repair a book, and you sent someone to send it to some of my brothers. If I want to build a road in Yan Kingdom, I need a lot of people to ......"

Chen Lin hesitated: "Don't you have a specific amount?" ”

Yang Qi glanced at Chen Lin with slanted eyes, and said unhappily: "This kind of thing, naturally, the more the merrier, what amount do you want." ”

Chen Lin raised his hand and patted his mouth, punishing himself.

"Send someone to send a letter to the Great Shu Kingdom and the Great Jin Kingdom, telling them that those they don't need can be sold to me."

"喏~"

After Chen Lin received the order, he withdrew from the imperial study to deliver the message.

When the world was attracted by inventions and creations, the Yang brothers had quietly embarked on a journey.

This kind of thing of cultivating the plank road in the open and darkening the warehouse, Yang Qi is getting more and more comfortable doing it.

He always uses an eye-catching thing to attract everyone's attention, and then quietly does other big things behind his back.

The reason for this is to weaken the resistance inside and outside the government and the opposition to a great extent.

"Father!"

Not long after Chen Lin withdrew, Yang Zongwei dragged his younger brother and entered the imperial study with an ugly face.

"What's wrong?"

Yang Qi glanced at their brother and saw that there seemed to be an entanglement between them.

Yang Zongwei complained: "The emperor's brother broke my wooden bird? ”

Yang Qi looked at Yang Lezhi.

Yang Lezhi drooped his head and said, "I just want to see ...... Can you fly......

Yang Zongwei shouted angrily: "Are you going to take a look?" You've broken it for me, and that's the Ancient Wood Bird I've worked so hard to make. ”

Yang Lezhi said in a low voice: "I'll compensate you ......"

"Can you afford it?"

Yang Zongwei shouted: "Let's not talk about those precious woods, just the above few pre-Qin spells, you can't find the same." Uncle Du Qing helped me get it from some Warring States tombs. ”

Yang Qi couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this.

Since the wind of creation and invention prevailed, Yang Zongwei also participated in it, and he relied on his unique advantage to get a copy of Lu Ban's book "Lu Ban Book" in the pre-Qin period, and gradually wanted to study the wooden bird that could fly in the sky for three days without setting.

Of course, this little guy isn't obsessed with research.

It's to study the wooden bird and curry favor with Mu Guiying.

After the discovery of such a strange book as "Luban Book", especially the pre-Qin bamboo simplified version, Yang Qi naturally wanted to see it.

However, even though Yang Qi is knowledgeable, reading "The Book of Luban" is like reading a book from heaven.

The first half of "The Book of Luban" is quite normal, talking about some carpenter's crafts.

But in the second half, there are some gods, all kinds of spells, all kinds of spells.

If it weren't for the unearthed bamboo slips, Yang Qi would be a little suspicious that he was holding a Taoist book.

As for the fact that the wooden bird can fly in the sky for three days without setting, Yang Qi expressed doubts.

However, Yang Zongwei was convinced of this.

"I think that even if your woodbird is intact, it may not be able to fly. You've been tinkering with it yourself for more than two months, haven't you flown yet? My brother broke it, and I asked the craftsman to make another one for you tomorrow. ”

Yang Qi exonerated Yang Lezhi.

Yang Zongwei puffed up and said, "But without the runes, no matter how good the wooden bird is, it can't fly." ”

"Draw one yourself?"

Yang Qi proposed.

Yang Zongwei gave Yang Qi a look that seemed to be teasing me.

Yang Qi coughed dryly, pouted, and said, "I don't know if your wooden bird can fly, but I know that there is something that can definitely fly." ”

When Yang Zongwei heard this, he was immediately interested.

"What is it?"

"Kong Ming lantern."

Hearing the answer, Yang Zongwei's face instantly collapsed.

He also knew that Kong Ming lanterns could fly, but the problem was that he couldn't fly with people.

Yang Qi seemed to see what Yang Zongwei was thinking, and said faintly: "A small Kong Ming lantern can fly into the sky with a candle." If it gets bigger, will it be able to take people to the sky? ”

Yang Zongwei was stunned for a moment, and his eyes lit up.

Then he didn't say a word, left his brother and ran out of the imperial study.

Yang Qi shook his head with a smile and beckoned to Yang Lezhi, who was standing there a little dazedly.

Yang Qi took him by his side and laughed in a low voice: "Wronged? ”

Yang Lezhi shook his head.

"The child knows that the royal brother's wooden bird can't fly. That's why I broke it for him, so that he didn't waste time on the wooden bird. ”

Yang Qi was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you know that your brother is swearing." ”

Yang Lezhi hesitated for a moment, and confessed: "The same wooden bird, the child has made seven of them with Cao Yan, and there is no sign of flying at all." ”

Yang Qi looked at his son in surprise.

He knew that Yang Zongwei's wooden bird, but he begged Cao Lin again and again to let Cao Lin tell the craftsmen in the palace to do it.

And Yang Lezhi didn't ask for it from beginning to end.

It was clear that the woodbirds were all made by himself.

"I didn't expect you to have this talent."

Yang Lezhi lowered his head a little embarrassed, and said softly: "The child's talent is not as high as Cao Tong's, he did five in one go, and the child studied for a long time before he did two." ”

Although the little guy was praising others, he was obviously very useful to Yang Qi's praise, and he was happy in his heart.

Cao Yan has a talent in production, and this Yang Qi is not surprised.

After all, without Yang Qi's appearance, Cao Tong would also become a technical talent.

It's just that his technique is in alchemy.

Now it is evident that they have been abducted to the manufacturing industry.

Seeing that Yang Qi was pondering, Yang Lezhi said cautiously: "Father, the big Kong Ming lantern you just told the imperial brother, can the child try it too?" ”

Yang Qi retracted his thoughts and muttered, "Kong Mingdeng's road is too long. Let your brother go first, you can follow him and observe his failure. When he loses interest, you take it from him again, and you get twice the result with half the effort. ”