The school was on vacation, and the weather was very hot, so Li Buqi took two days off to send the family to Qingyuan Academy for summer vacation.

Originally, Qingyuan Academy was only 50 acres of land, but now it is a library, an orchard, a soap workshop and a printing workshop, and the space has long been insufficient. Fortunately, there is a gold-lettered signboard of the Royal Public Library, which also belongs to the Bianliang scene, which is very famous, and Li Buqi went smoothly when he negotiated with the landlords whose land was adjacent to the academy, and he had expanded to the surrounding area by 100 acres. Now the college is building a house—a majestic synagogue and theater that is expected to hold 500 people, the kind of masonry structure.

Due to the need to transport large blocks of stone, pulley blocks have been widely used. When Yu'er saw the huge stone being easily hoisted by two people with a pulley, he was directly stunned: "Teacher, are these people Hercules?" ”

Li Buqi said: "They are not Hercules, but the tools have helped them become Hercules. In the future, if the right tools are invented, an ordinary person can master the power of moving mountains and reclaiming the sea. ”

Niu Man asked beside him: "Isn't it like Granny Feng's pocket and Dayu's soil used to control water?" ”

Li Buqi said: "Yes. Pretty much. When I have time one day, I'll take you to Chunze Prison to have a look. There is a sledgehammer driven by water, which can strike iron day and night. ”

"When are you going?"

"Well, when you have some free time. Let's go and see the translation and printing first. ”

Now the academy has recruited a few Westerners from Guangzhou, Mingzhou and other places to help translate the books collected from the Middle East. The Geometry Originals were found, some of Archimedes' writings were brought by maritime merchants, and Li Buqi even saw the writings of a Persian scholar on atomic materialism. Eventually, the merchants told him that this was all the books they could find, but that he had not found the great works of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato. Therefore, he would like to go to the West one day to verify whether these books really exist. But not yet, he's too busy.

Li Buqi is really busy. It's only been a day since he went out, and Zhang Yingniang, who stayed in the city, chased after him and told him that something big had happened.

"What? Maitreya Sect Leader Gao Tansheng was killed? What's going on? ”

Zhang Yingniang handed over the superstition that had been translated to Li Buqi, and Li Buqi hurriedly unfolded it to see it. Zheng En said that Gao Tansheng saw that the diversion of the Yellow River caused a large number of hungry people, so he wanted to take this opportunity to fight again, but when Bao Zheng led people over, he took precautions and caught many Maitreya disciples who jumped out. The Hebei Maitreya Sect had already suffered a lot of losses in response to the Beizhou uprising, and this time it was even more vigorous.

Now that the Maitreya Sect has money, some of the leaders want to live a rich life, so they ask Gao Tansheng not to squander the power of the Maitreya Sect anymore. And Gao Tansheng is a person with ideals and ambitions, so he naturally doesn't want to stop there, and the result is that some leaders suddenly attack and force Gao Tansheng to give up the position of sect leader. So a fire broke out, Gao Tansheng and several leaders loyal to him were killed, and a new leader was born. As for Zheng En, not only was he not harmed, but he was also given the title of Dharma Protector. Because these people who want to live a comfortable life can't do without his ability to make money.

Hehe, this is a bit similar to Shuibo Liangshan's script. So Li didn't think it was strange at all.

In addition, Zheng En also mentioned in the letter that the Liao State was looting grain and grass on a large scale, and seemed to be preparing to attack Western Xia again. This news has been sent by the unprecepted monk who has become a protector by the side of Yelu Chongyuan, the emperor's younger brother of the Liao State, to send a letter to him, and now the following is also taking action, it seems that the scale of the Liao State's mobilization this time is not small.

In Li Buqi's poor historical knowledge, there is really no shadow of the Liao State fighting the Western Xia this time, but as long as these two families do it, no matter who wins or loses, it will be beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty.

Zheng Yingniang asked: "Can the official reply to Zheng En?" ”

The heart will definitely return. In his reply, Li Buqi told Zheng En to continue to lurk in the Maitreya Sect, and since the Maitreya Sect has been controlled by a group of people who are greedy for comfort and enjoyment, its harm is extremely limited.

Regarding the affairs of the Liao State, Li Buqi asked Zheng En to continue to lurk in the Maitreya Sect and use the Maitreya Sect to do some things. For example, he asked Zheng En to keep the Maitreya sect smuggling grain to the Liao State.

The Western Xia itself was so poor that it was not a soft persimmon, and in Li Buqi's memory, the Western Xia was destroyed by Genghis Khan. Then it is estimated that even if Liao wins this time against Western Xia, consumption is indispensable.

The emperor ordered strict control of tree harvesting in Shaanxi, and the price of timber in Bianliang skyrocketed. Li Buqi did not believe that such a high profit would not attract merchants from Hebei, Hedong, and Jingdong to smuggle timber from Liao. The population of Liao was originally small, and a large number of manpower went to logging, so there were fewer people to grow grain.

In addition, he did not quit taking the recipe of steaming wine and dedicated it to Yelu Chongyuan, and the soju of the Liao State began to popularize the process. Anyway, according to the saying of not quitting, the Liao army likes soju very much. Winemaking requires the consumption of a large amount of grain, and there are fewer people in Liao who grow grain, and more grain is consumed, so it can only import grain from the Great Song Dynasty. The Great Song Dynasty originally forbade the export of grain to Liao, and Li Buqi controlled the police department, and when it was appropriate for Li Buqi to tighten the grain export to Liao, Liao was about to have a food shortage.

At that time, as long as there is a slight push, then if the Liao State wants to avoid civil strife, it can only force the Great Song Dynasty to supply grain. If Zhao Zhen, Wen Yanbo, and Pang Ji can compromise on the life-and-death food issue, then Li Buqi has only one way to rebel. But if Zhao Zhen and the others are still a little bit sane, then the Liao State will only have one way to go south to rob. As soon as the battle starts, what is advocating literature and suppressing martial arts, it's all!

There is a saying in later generations called "The Northern Song Dynasty lacks generals, and the Southern Song Dynasty lacks phases". Why was there a shortage of generals in the Northern Song Dynasty? It's because I didn't get hurt!

Poor thing! There are some people who won't wake up if you don't beat them all over the face, but it's always the small people who suffer when you wake them up! Li Buqi could only comfort himself like this: "How difficult it is to prosper the country." It's better to wake up some people in advance than to ruin the country and the family. ”

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In July, when the trade winds were strong, the bays of Mizhou were more lively than ever, and the ships of the sea pulled up their sails and sailed out of the later Jiaozhou Bay to the shores of Japan. It's just that all the shipowners were warned that the Goryeo side was not peaceful, and wanted them to suspend trade with Goryeo. All people know is that only one of the owners of the ship is particularly fat, and he took the ship to Goryeo.

This year, Li Buqi has 11 large ships departing from Mizhou alone, and in addition to the ships bound for Tamna and the North Sea, there are also ships that specialize in trading with Japan.

Because the fleets of the past few years had basically figured out Japan's needs and resources, the ships that traded to Japan were loaded with ironware such as silk, porcelain, spices, cotton and linen, and iron pots, and in addition to gold, silver, and copper, they would also have to be exchanged for handicrafts such as Japanese knives, lacquerware, and folding fans, as well as shipbuilding materials such as iron pear wood, and seafood such as pearls and sea cucumbers. As for the warlock, the value of the warlock has decreased, because the armor of the Ordnance Supervisor no longer needs to be crafted from the war, so it has been crossed out of the trade list of the Li family's fleet.

Zhou Qing boarded a ship of 3,000 materials. The ship was loaded with more than 200 immigrants and food to supply them, as well as special people. Because of the flood in Hebei, Li Buqi got some people who were not easy to recruit before, such as more than a dozen scholars who could write and calculate, a few Langzhong and Wen Po, and three coopers. These are indispensable overseas human resources.

Before leaving the ship, Zhou Qing went down to the base cabin to look at the three ballistas that had been dismantled into parts. With this thing, whaling is hand-to-hand, and every year just by relying on the income from whale oil, the North Sea side can have enough food and clothing.