The study of the pendulum clock has come to an end for the time being, and Wang Lang feels that this world will not leave much time for him.

When he was nineteen years old, he crossed into this world, and now Wang Lang is thirty-seven years old, and this grade will soon enter old age in the barbaric era, although the living standard of Xia Guo has improved a lot in recent years, and the average life expectancy has also improved greatly compared to before, but compared to modern society with a good living environment and medical environment, this world is still full of dangers.

Perhaps God has given him a relatively healthy body, and in the past twenty years, except for a few mild colds, he has not suffered from any more troublesome diseases, which is also a blessing in misfortune for him.

He didn't know how long he would live, but even if he could live to be seventy or eighty years old, when he was not as old as his old age, neither his mind nor his physical strength would be enough to support him to stay on the throne.

He was not a power-hungry man, and he felt that he had to create a good living environment for his children and grandchildren in his lifetime.

In the past ten years since the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, Wang Lang has worked hard to compile a large number of textbooks and reading materials, including not only natural science books, literature, poetry, stories that have been passed down through the ages in China, and even some modern pop songs, all of which have been included by Wang Lang.

Although Wang Lang has only completed part of it so far, he now has to regard this matter as his main direction in the future.

Since the establishment of the Xue Palace in the Xia Kingdom, to now, the most educated I attack and study for more than ten years, especially the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Lin Wuyun, since the small tribe of more than a dozen people, he has been constantly following Wang Lang to learn knowledge.

In the Xia Kingdom, if you talk about the richness of knowledge, except for Wang Lang, Lin Wuyun is the best.

With Lin Wuyun's level of natural science, he has basically reached the level of junior high school in modern society, and in terms of mathematics, physics and chemistry, as the first person to spread education in the Xia Kingdom, Lin Wuyun can be said to be ahead of everyone.

For these basic disciplines, with the level of knowledge in Wang Lang's mind, he can greatly change the world, but he has no way to do anything about biology and medicine.

In addition to knowing that if he wants to study biology and medicine, such a thing as a microscope is essential.

But for an ordinary person, the microscope is an extremely expensive thing even in modern times, although he knows the principle of the microscope, but the glass has not been made, and it is impossible to conduct experiments.

Even if the glass is fired, he also knows the theoretical knowledge, but these are completely different from the actual operation, and there will be a lot of difficulties in it, he can only hope that the craftsmen of the fish and Xia Kingdom can have more talented people and turn the knowledge in their minds into reality.

"Your Majesty, there are documents from Ningyuan City." The guards came in to report.

Wang Lang nodded and asked the guards to bring people in.

When the dragoons who delivered the letter came in, they fell to one knee on the ground and lifted the paperwork.

Wang Lang took the paperwork, let the dragoon get up, and then opened the paperwork and read it.

The document was sent by the Ningyuan County Order, which said the situation of the expedition, and explained that it was a dozen dinosaur captives, and more was Ningyuan County Commander Sun Lin's own views on the development of those islands, and it only mentioned Wei Ming's affairs in a few strokes.

Wang Lang was not surprised that the expedition team could find the island where the dinosaur people were stationed, according to his original estimate, there would not be many enemies where there were now, otherwise he would not be at ease and send two expedition teams that were not regular troops to go there, but what he didn't expect was that there were only a dozen dinosaur people left.

These dozen or so dinosaurs were not worth mentioning in his eyes, and what caught his attention the most was to take out the small island that Wei Ming named Saltpeter Island.

If this matter is true, then this is indeed good news for Xia Guo.

Although Shenzhou is large, there are not many natural minerals found in the current location, which may be due to the lack of resources in Shenzhou, and more importantly, the prospecting methods of Xia Kingdom are very lacking, and most of the minerals are basically the elements of luck.

With these natural saltpeter mines, coupled with the sulfur on the other side of the fire, the production of gunpowder in Xia Kingdom will show a blowout development in the future, and there is basically no need to worry about the shortage of gunpowder in the future.

Dinosaur people are still in the era of cold weapons, and sulfur and saltpeter are of little use to them, which is undoubtedly a huge advantage for Xia Guo.

Closing the paperwork, Wang Lang said to the dragoon: "You go back now and tell Sun Lin that his suggestion is very good, let him write a detailed plan, in the future, the small island in the north of Ningyuan County will be placed under the jurisdiction of Daoningyuan County, and tell Wei Ming to leave a few prisoners behind, as for the things that are suitable for going to sea for exploration, he is the captain and just come according to his own wishes." ”

After speaking, he said, "I'd better write it down, lest you miss something." ”

The dragoon breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he was a little dizzy when he heard the big words that Wang Lang said just now.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Dragoon said respectfully.

Wang Lang ignored the compliment of the dragoon, took a blank document from the table, wrote down the things he had explained, and covered it with his jade seal.

The dragoons took the paperwork, carefully placed it in their arms, and turned and walked out of the palace.

After the dragoons left, Wang Lang came to the desk and spread the map of the world he had drawn on the table, marking the three islands in a few approximate positions according to the speed of the expedition.

These islands must be in the hands of human beings, and according to his estimates, the west side of the Shenzhou continent is about the same distance from the Americas as wide as the Atlantic Ocean, and whoever discovers these islands first will have an advantage.

In the age of sailing, if a sea ship wants to cross such a vast ocean without supplies on the way, it can be said to be a matter of life and death.

The island at the forefront of the three islands should be very close to the Americas, even if there are other islands ahead, but as long as humans build fortifications here, it can be said that it will be more difficult for dinosaurs to cross here and attack humans.

The island closest to the Xia Kingdom, he didn't care, it was just handed over to Ningyuan County to deal with, as for the two roads, he planned to immigrate there, and the number of immigrants should be at least more than a thousand, and at least three warships and hundreds of people would be stationed there.

After thinking about the general development plan of these islands, Wang Lang felt very slow in his heart, and at present, everything is developing in the direction of benefiting mankind.

"Come on, go and call me that Fang Shaoshi, don't forget to call Zhao Langzhong." Wang Lang shouted to the guards outside the gate.

When the commander of the guards heard this, he immediately arranged to accept it and did what Wang Lang ordered.

Not long after, Fang Shaoshi and Zhao Langzhong, who looked puzzled, came to Wang Lang's study.

After the two of them sat down, Wang Lang said to each other: "Shi Lunjia's island in the western ocean has been occupied by our Great Xia, and only a dozen of your clansmen are left there, what do you think about this matter?" ”

After listening to it, Fang Shaoshi said: "Your Majesty, I am no longer a Shilun Jia, although I am a dinosaur person, but I now see myself as a Xia country, their life and death are not within my consideration, compared to Xia Guo, they are a group of uncivilized barbarians, offending the Tianwei of Xia Guo, death is the end they deserve." ”

Zhao Langzhong on the side was translating on the side.

When Wang Lang heard this, he shook his head and smiled: "I don't doubt your loyalty to the Xia Kingdom, I mean, although the plague can kill some of the dinosaur people, but the dinosaur people who escaped before Silk are at least tens of thousands, and in less than a year, it is absolutely impossible to have only ten years left, is there a precedent for the Shi Lunjia army to make a rebellion?" ”

Fang Shaoshi thought for a while and said: "Shi Lunjia is an empire that has lasted for thousands of years, and it is basically impossible for the soldiers at the bottom to make trouble, and it is a big taboo for Shi Lunjia to commit the following crimes, unless they feel that they can't survive anymore, they will take risks." ”

Wang Lang nodded and said, "So there is such a thing." ”

Fang Shaoshi nodded.

The corners of Wang Lang's mouth curled, so to speak, although dinosaurs and people are different from their own races, it seems that there is not much difference between them and humans in nature, maybe at this time, the protists of the earth have something in common.

Since the dinosaur people are not monolithic, then their previous plan has a great possibility, and it is a good means to deal with powerful enemies and attack them from within, and their country is in chaos, so they can win in the chaos.

"What's the news of those captives lately, but it's okay." Wang Lang asked.

Fang Shaoshi nodded and said, "Those filthy captives don't dare to resist our brave soldiers at all,"

"In this way, you choose some clever and reliable people from among these captives, these people are exempted from their slave status, they are under your management, and let them serve the Xia Kingdom wholeheartedly, they will be of great use in the future, I don't care if they are different from human beings, as long as they can prove their worth, the Xia Kingdom will not be stingy to reward them."

Fang Shaoshi was overjoyed when he heard this, this was a manifestation of His Majesty the Emperor's trust in him, so he got up and hurriedly bowed: "Minister, you will definitely live up to Your Majesty's trust." ”

Wang Lang nodded and motioned for Fang Shaoshi to sit down.

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know whether to talk about something." Fang Shaoshi hesitated a little.

"But it doesn't hurt to speak!" Wang Lang said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, the minister learned from the mouths of my wives and concubines that a large part of the captives are craftsmen and doctors, although the craftsmen of the Xia Kingdom are very good, but in some places Shi Lunjia's technology is better than that of the Xia Kingdom, Your Majesty, can these people get them out of the status of slaves, the minister feels that these people are much more important than ordinary slaves." Fang Shaoshi said slowly.

Wang Lang pondered for a while and said, "What you said makes some sense, so let me think about it and give you an answer in a few days." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Zhao Langzhong, the dozen or so newly captured captives will be escorted over within a month, and the interrogation will be handed over to you."

"Obey."

"Stand down, don't tell anyone about today's events."

"The minister understands!"

The two nodded solemnly, and left the palace under the vigilant gaze of the guards.

Wang Lang's fingers tapped lightly on the table, Fang Shaoshi's suggestion, he didn't think about it, but he was always at ease with those captives in his heart, technical exchanges are not one-sided, while humans master the technology of dinosaur people, it is inevitable that dinosaur people will not come into contact with human technology.

Especially in terms of gunpowder, that thing looks mysterious, but as long as you look at it once, there is no mystery at all, dinosaur people can reproduce for so many years, and there must be many intelligent people among them.

After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Lang felt that although there was a certain risk in using the craftsmen and doctors of the dinosaur people, their addition could accelerate the pace of technological innovation in the Xia Kingdom, although there were drawbacks, but as long as they controlled it well, the advantages still outweighed the disadvantages.

After all, the Shilunjia civilization has lasted for thousands of years, and some of these technological things will definitely have a lot to learn for human beings.

However, before using these people, Wang Lang had to think about how to control them.

At this time, Wu Feng finally created a chance encounter for himself by chance.

The eldest lady of the Lin family is named Lin Xin, after the two met by chance on the street, maybe they were fed up with the pain of lovesickness, Wu Feng, who was originally a little wooden, rarely exerted his language skills at a super level.

In the conversation with Lin Xin, Wu Feng's knowledge and conversation deeply attracted Lin Xin's attention.

The beauty is on the side, although Wu Feng is calm on the surface, but at the moment his heart is beating at a rate of almost a hundred times per minute,

With the slow contact, Wu Feng found that although Lin Xin was a girl, it was a little difficult to communicate, especially in poetry, and she was even more familiar with it than himself.

Lin Xin not only knows how to read, but also has a lot of knowledge.

This made Wu Feng can't help but sigh that the children born in the families of officials of the Ministry of Rites have too many advantages over the children of ordinary people.

Compared with most girls in Xia Kingdom, Lin Xin is undoubtedly lucky, Xia Guo's schools do not admit women, for the common people, women always have to get married, there is no need to learn knowledge at all, and there is no social condition for women to learn knowledge.

Xia Guo, which was influenced by Wang Lang, has long been a male-dominated patriarchal society, and the continuation of his own bloodline should fall on his son, and his surname will be passed down from generation to generation with his son's bloodline, which is the biggest proof that he came to this world, and it is also the most meaningful thing.

Although the relationship between Wu Feng and Lin Xin is getting closer and closer, Wu Feng's heart is becoming more and more uneasy.

He folded Lin Shilang's face before, if he went to the Lin family to propose marriage at this time, it was difficult for him to guarantee that he would not be kicked out, although he wanted to hug the beauty, but the timidity in his heart really could not let him step into the door of the Lin family.

His only thought now is that after he has achieved a good ranking in the scientific examination after the year, and after he has made a name for himself, he will go to the Lin family to propose marriage, maybe his hope will be greater.

Now Lin Feng can't wait to slap himself, if it weren't for the hypocrisy at the beginning, there wouldn't be so many things now, but unfortunately there is no regret medicine in time, the bitter fruits of all this can only be borne by himself, and this matter can only be said to others, and he can only get the two words he deserves.