It's almost September, and the weather is getting cooler. The families of the wounded who lived in Futian Hospital had to return to Weizhou before the cold weather, and on the day they set off, Li Buqi and Lian Guangzhi made a special trip to see them off.

Although the wounded were still on crutches, the wounds had basically healed, and the faces of the two children were also a little bloody. Sending the Buddha to the west, Li Buqi sent two more pieces of money, and also gave the little girl a big rag doll. The little girl hugged the rag doll tightly in her arms, wrinkled her little nose, gave Li Buqi a sweet smile, and waved at Li Buqi when she got on the donkey cart.

After sending away this family, Li did not give up and went to the south workshop to report, and met the Xiucai who came back from watching the list on the way, some of them were high-spirited and some were depressed. There will be a scientific examination next spring, and the government examination will start now, so that people in remote areas can rush to the capital before the hospital examination begins. Li Buqi looked at Lian Guangzhi and kept looking at these talents, so he asked, "When do you plan to go back to the exam?" ”

Lian Guangzhi smiled a little bitterly: "Wait for the next subject." Even if you are admitted to this subject, you will accompany others to take the exam when you go to the college exam. After speaking, he smiled comfortingly: "To be honest, I really can't bear my brother's food." ”

Li Buqi hurriedly gave him a vaccination: "You are usually not allowed to go to the store to eat and drink?" That's to make money. ”

Lian Guangzhi pretended to be annoyed: "Do you think I look like such a cheeky person? ”

Li didn't give up, and he didn't give him face, "I look at the elephant." ”

After walking a few more steps, Lian Guangzhi pulled Li Bu's clothes: "It's really strange that no one is following you today." ”

A few bearded men with high noses and deep eyes walked over from the opposite side, and it could be seen from the clothes that they were authentic Arabs, Li Buqi hurriedly walked up and saluted: "Hello, I don't know if you can speak Song dialect?" ”

A Song man who looked like a translator took a step forward and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Li Buqi said: "Are you a translator? I wonder where these people came from? Did you come from the sea, or did you come from the land? ”

The interpreter said: "These guests are all Hu merchants from Dashi, and when they come ashore in Guangzhou, they naturally come from the sea. ”

Li Buqi's heart moved and asked: "Then you ask these Hu businessmen, are they willing to do business?" ”

The interpreter said: "These Hu businessmen have been delayed because they have been in the prosperity of our Great Song Dynasty, and now they want to leave for Guangzhou immediately to catch the trade winds to go to sea." The goods they brought from Da Shi were exchanged for the goods of my Da Song, so what business will be done next time. ”

Li Buqi said: "I don't sell goods to them, but I want them to help me find something overseas." If you ask them if they've been to Damascus and Baghdad, then there's still business to be done. ”

Although Li Buqi didn't know how to translate Damascus and Baghdad in this era, several Hu businessmen immediately looked at these two pronunciations and asked the interpreter what Li Buqi was talking about. The interpreter muttered a few words to a few people and then turned his head and said, "They say that since you know Damascus and Baghdad, you can do business with you, I wonder what you are looking for?" ”

Li Buqi pointed to the teahouse on the side of the road and said, "Let's go inside and borrow a pen, and I'll draw that thing." ”

A few people went into the tea house and found a table to sit down, Li Buqi asked Dr. Tea to bring a pen and paper and draw two pictures and handed them to the Arabs, they looked at it and immediately nodded. Soon through the interpreter, it was agreed that the Arabs would bring Li Buqi apples and Damascus roses, and Li Buqi would pay them 800 yuan. Li Buqi now has a little reputation, the interpreter learned that Li Buqi was opposite him, so he told Hu Shang that Li Buqi's credit was guaranteed, and the two sides immediately signed a contract, Lian Guangzhi couldn't help but smack his tongue: "You pay 500 yuan for apples and that kind of flower, what is this?" ”

Li Buqi said: "You should know that my Great Song apples can only be viewed and eaten. But the old man who told me to paint said that the apples in the land west of the Great Food were very sweet and durable. If you store it, you can eat it for a winter. If my Great Song Dynasty can introduce Western apples, there will be one more way to eat, do you think that if we have this kind of apple, if only my family has it, will we not be able to earn back 500 yuan? ”

He was so proud. Before the crossing, I happened to read a magazine for my children that said that the apples cultivated in ancient China were very sour and could not be eaten at all, and the later apples were all imported from Europe. At the beginning of the introduction, an apple can be sold for the same amount of money, and 500 yuan is only 500 apples.

In fact, there are still many good things that need to be introduced overseas, such as cabbage, onions, lemons, etc., but now that Hu Shang is asked to find so many things at once, Hu Shang may wonder if he is entertaining them. The next step is to find a few more maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty to go to sea to hunt for treasures.

Lian Guangzhi asked again: "What is that flower?" ”

Li Buqi said: "It's a rose." However, roses born in a place called Damascus are particularly fragrant, and it will be of great use to me to introduce this variety. ”

"Oh, I'll see if I'm going to see for my brother."

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Although there were farriers in ancient China, they were not nailed to horses' hooves with iron nails at that time, and they were very troublesome to install and easy to be damaged, so their use was greatly restricted. If the horseshoe can be fixed with iron nails, it can be widely used, so the court attaches great importance to it. Today, not only Ding Du came, but the three divisions in charge of the workshop sent people, and the Privy Council and the herd priests all sent people, and they will not let go of this credit.

Horseshoes and nails are very simple things, and a few blacksmiths clank in a while. The point is that no one in the Great Song Dynasty has ever done the thing of nailing horseshoe. Fortunately, Liu Zhiwei was still a production team when he was a child at his grandmother's house, and the livestock shed of the production team was not far from his grandmother's house, and there were horses, cows, donkeys and other large animals in it.

After so many years of technical work, there is nothing he dare not try. He led a horse and tied it to a stake, and his hind legs were fastened to a sturdy stake with a rope. Sharpening the hoof armor is a necessary skill for a good groom, and when a groom picks up the hoof and takes a knife to trim the horse's hooves, Li Buqi instructs the groom to nail the horse's shoe to the horse's hooves, and finally personally checks whether it is strong.

When the four shoes are nailed, let the horse go and let the horse relieve his nervousness. Judging from the gait of the horses, there was nothing uncomfortable with nailing the horseshoe, so the horsemen put iron armor on the horses, fixed the saddles, and let a fully clothed cavalryman ride up and run circles around the school grounds.

ran like this for three days in a row, and the Privy Council, the Pastoral Department and the Third Division reported to Zhao Zhen that the horseshoe had succeeded, and the effect on the horseshoe was even more fantastic. So Zhao Zhen was happy and rewarded Li Bu with 30,000 yuan.

Thirty thousand dollars! Sounds like a lot, but it's actually only thirty times. Li Buqi made more money than this by painting a portrait in Daxiangguo Temple. For the sake of these thirty yuan money, Li Bu also had to teach a group of blacksmiths and horsemen who could nail horseshoes for the Great Song Dynasty, and put all the horses of the forbidden army in the capital on horseshoes - it was really worthless to invent in the Great Song Dynasty. However, in the future, whoever says that Li Buqi is a spy of Western Xia, the Privy Council, the Pastoral Department and the Third Division will probably not agree.