Fang Jueyuan's efficiency was very fast, and in the afternoon of the same day, Li Zhe waited for news from the county lord.

Now because he is returning to Mengzhou ahead of schedule, he does not dare to appear in public at all. Even if you see the most familiar friend in the past, you have to sneak around.

When he received the news from the county lord, he was meeting with his friends, and his childhood friend Chen Zilong was also worried when he met him, and when he asked, it turned out that Chen Zilong's father Chen had also resigned from the An Palace and returned home in recent days, and sighed all day long at home, making Chen Zilong, a son who used to be idle and go to play in the courtyard every day, had to stay at home and worry about the government with Lao Tzu.

"Our Tianzhu Domain, I'm afraid this King An is really going to get into big trouble this time."

"What's the trouble?"

Li Zhe asked.

It turned out that Chen Zilong heard the news that his father had discovered, and recently the government and the opposition had been angry about the succession of the new King An, and I heard that some people in the court couldn't stand it, and some people went to sea in tandem to go to the Central Plains court to sue.

In today's Great Song Dynasty, although the three feudal domains have been divided, and the Central Plains Imperial Court is said to have ignored the affairs of each feudal domain, it is still qualified to take care of the matter of succession to the throne.

What's more, if it is really the new monarch who is unpopular and makes a mess in the country, then the Central Plains Imperial Court also has every reason to take care of it, and the other two feudal kings Ning and Jing Wang may not sit idly by.

King An's succession to the throne has always been made bigger and bigger, and the sixth prince who originally belonged to King An is said to have known what happened in Mengzhou City, so he immediately hid in the Dingyuan Prefecture Imperial Court Sailor Station, and did not plan to come back at all.

The sixth prince was originally intended by King An himself, and everyone in the court knew it, but now that he is hiding outside, there will definitely be people in the court rushing to contact, which has also become a variable for the second prince and the new monarch to ascend the throne.

There are also the uncles of the various families in Tianzhuzhou, Jiang Guohou, Tianfang Hou, and Changzhou Bo, these local real powers with heavy troops have not yet shown their attitude, and those princes have private armies, but how can these private armies under their hands contend with the armies under these prestigious marquis.

In short, now the Anwang domain is stormy, and chaos is frequent. Although Chen Zilong is usually chic and wanton and doesn't like to care about politics, but now that the government is in chaos, he can't get out of it.

Li Zhe got along with his brother, and he couldn't think of any words to persuade him, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly remembered to ask:

"By the way, didn't the general say that the academy was researching and manufacturing a large steam engine that could be used on a ship, how is it specific, has it been built, and when will you and I be able to get on a ship like that?"

As soon as Li Zhe mentioned this, he let his friend come to the spirit, this guy is worthy of being known as the "skillful" Zilong,

"Oh, the one you are talking about, several masters in the academy are hurrying to work, and they have already built a gate, good fellow, it is more than ten meters long, five or six meters high, and the flywheel used on it is also more than one person high, and it can only be used on a large ship with more than 3,000 materials. Originally, it was planned to go on board for experiments, but because of the recent situation in the city, the shipyard and the yard felt that the situation was not good, so the test date was postponed.

Hey, what a great ship, if this is used on the ship in the future, it will be like a galloping horse on the sea, and it will not have to rely on the sails, and it will not depend on the monsoon wind for sailing on the sea, no matter what time it is, and the owners of those who run the sea ships all day long will laugh if they know about it. ”

Chen Zilong was very excited, in fact, Li Zhe was even more excited when he heard it, feeling that his long-awaited steam engine ship was about to come true so soon? As a member of the time-traveling, he has always paid attention to this experiment in the Shozuo Academy, and no one in this era can realize the value and significance of this as much as he does.

The steam engine ship is not only Chen Zilong said such a little meaning, but he from later generations knows that it is the steam engine on the ship that will make the future ships bigger and faster, so as to completely get rid of the dependence on the natural monsoon and ocean currents, so that human beings can really sail all over the world.

It was also the emergence of the steam engine ship that made the Age of Discovery completely get rid of the limitations of nature and completely embark on the peak, and the footsteps of human colonization have never been restrained anywhere on the planet.

Now this invention is in the Great Song Dynasty, this is the heavens are favoring the Great Song Dynasty, adding a pair of wings to the great cause of the Great Song Dynasty's overseas conquest!

He suppressed his excitement and asked Chen Zilong,

"Then why don't you just load it on the boat, Zilong, you said that I want to ask these masters in the courtyard to work for me, is it feasible?"

When Chen Zilong heard this, he looked at Li Zhe in surprise. It's like asking Li Zhe how he could ask such a stupid question.

Li Zhefang only woke up to the fact that he was whimsical.

The generals are all subordinates of the imperial court, although the master craftsmen do not have much power, but they are also supported by the imperial court, eat the imperial court, and the status is actually not down to the court officials, plus there is no court name and position, can occasionally do some private work, and the benefits are sometimes even stronger than being officials. It's just that there is no real power in the hands of officials, but at the same time, there are no various ropes in the officialdom, which is really suitable for these craftsmen.

In fact, there is no difference between the masters in the academy and those doctors and academicians in the later engineering academies, they are all obsessed with doing things and researching far more than being officials. It is really a crime to let these people go to the officialdom, since Wuzong went south, reformed the court system, and established this new general system, it can be said that he has received the hearts of craftsmen all over the world.

As a master craftsman in the courtyard of the imperial court, he is enshrined by the imperial court, which represents an unprecedented glory, and is also planted by the luck of the entire craftsman class in the entire Tianzhu Continent, Li Zhe wants to let these masters who stand at the peak of all craftsmen in the entire Tianzhu Continent work for him, which is really a bit wishful thinking.

But soon Li Zhe realized his mistake and immediately changed his words:

"You have thanked a few more masters for me, just say that I thank a few masters for the machines in my manor last time, and Li Zhe is free another day, so I must invite a few masters to get together, so I will thank a few masters for their help."

"Hey!" Chen Zilong waved his hand and said, "What's so thankful for this, it's not that you don't know those people, you asked them to help you make those machines, and these people didn't show off when they went back." These guys aren't doing things for you to thank you, they're just experiments. ”

Li Zhe then asked Chen Zilong about the specific time of the steam engine ship experiment, and suddenly a bold decision suddenly appeared in his heart.

Knowing that when Chen Zilong left the house, Li Zhe thought clearly about this decision, and clapped his hands fiercely,

"This vote, it's done! I can't say that my future in the future is pinned on this business! ”

The decision was made, Li Zhecai had a change of heart, and quickly began to think about meeting with the county lord.

It turned out that the county lord was actually imprisoned on the island of Nalianzhou.