Chapter 462: Waves Talk About Military Weapons

As a rare grain that was left behind, Li Longji was only fortunate to taste a meal, and then sent someone to the Zhuangyuan Building to inquire, and got a reply that he could only eat one meal in three days, which was because his identity was not ordinary.

Li Longji had no choice but to put down the matter of Wotou for the time being, and looked forward to the arrival of every three days, and reinvested his energy in all aspects of Datang.

According to Wang Juan's words, Li Longji at this time as written in the book should be in a situation of great joy, a bucket of millet only needs a few pennies, and in the flattery of many officials, the Tang Dynasty is prosperous.

But now Li Longji no longer has any intention of relaxing, and the business opened by the Zhang and Wang families in conjunction with other businessmen is all over the Tang Dynasty, and there is no shortage of this kind of commercial cooperation even in the most remote places.

In addition to trading, this part of the shops is also responsible for collecting information, such as the living conditions of people in a certain place, where the officials are not evaluated well by the people, and then sent to the capital, so that Li Longji understands that his country is not good now, and it is far worse than ideal.

Zhang Xiaobao also took the opportunity to deceive and told Li Longji what the situation of the legendary place had become rich, that is, in winter, every family had fruits, and all they wanted to eat all day long was vegetables, and the meat was already tired of eating.

There is also a kind of car that is dozens or hundreds of times faster than a horse-drawn carriage, and it only takes two days to reach Luzhou from the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and everyone has a very small radio station, which is carried in their pockets, and can be taken out at any time to greet their families in that place in Tubo in the Heishui Governor's Mansion, and it is still the kind that can see people.

In terms of medical treatment, it is even more incomparable to the medical school of German arts, don't eat the wolf when hunting in the mountains, it's okay, just hide, don't let the wolf bite off the head for the time being, use that small radio to tell the special part, there will be something hundreds of times faster than the speed of the glider to fly over to save people, and then re-like farming, cultivate an ear and put it on.

Li Longji would never have believed it before the advent of ships without telegraphs and steam engines, but now he has to believe it.

So after making some comparisons, Li Longji felt that the people of the Tang Dynasty were not doing well, at least he was not doing well, not as good as the ordinary people in that place, and he couldn't grow another one if his ears fell out, this is the gap.

Looking at the information on the various regions of Datang that was sent to the front after the summary, there are still many places where the people can't eat white flour and rice, and can only eat millet, not to mention meat and eggs, and don't expect to see fresh cucumbers in winter.

"I still have to work hard." Li Longji closed the paperwork summarized about Hedong Dao, picked up a small iron box on the bookcase, dropped two drops of eye drops mixed with borneol, and said to himself.

Gao Lishi, who was not far away, gestured to the little eunuch, and after a while, the little eunuch came back with a tray with a bowl on it and something in it.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, drink some beef and radish soup and rest early." Gao Lishi put the bowl in front of Li Longji and persuaded.

Li Longji raised his head, squinted at the electric lamp hanging above his head, and glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, the pointer pointed to eleven o'clock, and nodded, "It's time?" Time flies so fast, no matter what, you can help you find two more people who feel at ease. ”

Scooping up the radish from the bowl, Li Longji stared at it, "The radish in winter is also a small ginseng, I heard that Xiaobao is growing ginseng in Jili Prefecture, I don't know how they planted it?" ”

"I planted it last year, and I said that it would be planted for five years, and then there will be more ginseng in the hospital, and a lot of other medicinal herbs will be planted, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, the pearls have been planted for them, not to mention ginseng, oh, Xiaobao came to the letter, mentioning the nest of cornmeal that Your Majesty ate yesterday."

As he spoke, Colliers took out a gadget from his sleeve, and there was a bucket, and he took out a little leaf that was sent with the head of the nest, stuffed it in, struck a match, and took two puffs beautifully, and the person seemed to be in a lot of energy.

Li Longji chewed a few beef tendons that were deliberately put into the bowl, and asked in a vague voice, "What's the matter with cornmeal?" ”

"It is said that after a few years, you can use corn to feed livestock, especially cattle, and I want the minister to help select the cattle with more meat, and raise them in the future to eat meat and save other food, and it is good for cattle, that is, before the corn is ripe, even the corn cob and stalk are crushed together.

The minister pondered whether a special area should be set aside in each prefecture in the Tang Dynasty to raise cattle, part of the land, part of the meat, and part of the milk production. ”

Colliers' eyes looked at the bowl on the table in reply.

Li Longji suddenly said: "Oh~ I understand, I really thought that corn is so precious, I didn't expect Xiaobao and Juan Juan to be brought back from elsewhere to make feed, should be raised, I heard Xiaobao said, people in that place, whether adults or children, can drink fresh milk every day, and there are many babies in my Tang Dynasty who can only drink soy milk, I still don't believe in this evil, others can do it, I can do it." ”

Colliers nodded vigorously in support and trust.

"Xiao Baolai wrote that he was going to travel and took a hot air balloon, has there been any change in Silla?" Li Longji did not know where Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were going to travel, for fear of delaying the deployment of Silla.

"The minister has heard the news that Xiao Bao ordered his family's property to send all kinds of good goods to the border between Silla and Datang, such as the clock hanging on the wall, such as pearl jewelry and cosmetics, as well as beautiful clothes, complete sets of glass supplies, and wants to make a big deal with Silla."

"What kind of deal?"

"The price of charcoal is very high, and the price of charcoal of the same quality is 1.5 times that of my Datang, and the opening of a smelter in Silla is also being discussed."

When Gao Lishi spoke, he wanted to point to the charcoal brazier to signal to the emperor, but suddenly stopped, there was no charcoal brazier here, it was a heater, and it was a pipe in the underground pan.

Li Longji also knew what Gao Lishi was thinking just now, and smiled with satisfaction, "Science and technology must be developed, otherwise I still use candles and bake charcoal fires, it seems that Xiaobao has gone to pit people again, take the time to ask more, if there are any new weapons coming out in the weapons research part, let me be happy, even if it is in the experimental stage." ”

"Yes, the minister will go back to contact, the minister remembered something again, maybe it can make His Majesty happy, Juan Juan's letter to his family said that this year Xiaobao spent a lot of money in Jili Prefecture to build a place to cultivate kelp, Xiaobao is called kelp, saying that if you don't make a mistake next year, you can have a lot of kelp production, and then let Dengzhou also learn to raise.

After drying, send it to all parts of my Datang and sell it cheaply to every household, which can prevent big neck disease, and the two of them originally planned to extract a thing from kombu, and then put it in salt, and the people can eat salt, but because the technology can't keep up, it can only be postponed indefinitely. ”

Gao Lishi didn't know how far the weapon was studied, so he came up with something else to tell the emperor and make the emperor happy.

It's just that Li Longji didn't look happy at all.

"Yes, the technology can't keep up, Xiaobao and Juan Juan can think of this, it is estimated that their master said it and they listened, that means that the technology in another place has been reached, we are still far away, we have to chase, at least we have to wait for someone to have the strength to parry when they call, I am sleepy."

Li Longji clenched his fists, ate the contents of the bowl as fast as he could, and let Gao Lishi arrange to freshen up and prepare to go to bed.

In Luzhou, in the jungle northwest of the match factory, a group of people are busy, some are responsible for recording, and some are hands-on.

When everything was ready, there was a loud bang, and the faces of the people involved in the experiment were smiling.

"Finally made it, sent a report to the little boy and the little lady, picric acid has been successfully developed, trinitrotoluene is under development, the new artillery experiment has been completed, the maximum range is 6.6 kilometers, gasoline, diesel, refining failure, research new methods."

The person who spoke was the craftsman who won the first place in the competition in the capital, Zhang Tianyou, after being selected at that time, he studied with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan for a period of time, and the books written by Wang Juan were basically the first to read by him, and then he was sent to Luzhou, responsible for scientific and technological research, and led the overall situation.

The person in charge of the research on the new gunpowder heard his words, and unconsciously straightened his chest, although they had lost their freedom since they joined the ranks of this research, but the standard of living of their family was not comparable to that of ordinary people.

If it weren't for the Jiaru research team, they might still be an ordinary craftsman, who would have died within the scope of a certain county, and now they can at least wander around Luzhou casually, or the kind that many people protect.

The tick-tock telegram sounded, and it was transmitted all the way to Jili Prefecture, but unfortunately Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan could not receive the news for the time being.

At this time, Luzhou did not stop working in the sea with the arrival of winter, and the number of ships coming out and going in every day still did not decrease.

Xinyuan Island has not yet been fully occupied and detected, and profit-seeking merchants have begun to go farther away, such as a group of small islands next to Xinyuan Island, and an island that is not smaller than Xinyuan Island on the other side, all of which have merchants in the past.

Ordinary businessmen used to scout for resources, find a way to get on the ship, and then pull it back to Luzhou, pay a part of the tax, and wait to get rich.

Sun Miao is also the captain of a fleet in Jiangnan Dongdao, his family is quite wealthy, and he is still from a good background, but unfortunately he has taken several imperial examinations in a row, all of which ended in failure.

When he was on Xinyuan Island, he participated in the first advance team composed of merchants, made a lot of money, and also met the owner of another merchant, attracted by the daughter of the other family, and the relationship gradually became close several times, and finally he quietly married home and became a flat wife.

There are two wives and three concubines in the family, sons and daughters are running around, and the older sons and daughters have entered the school, and their academic performance is not bad.

It stands to reason that he should be content, but who knew that the twenty-two-year-old son of one of his neighbors went to the capital this spring to take the examination for a Ming Jing background and stayed in the capital as an official.

Now the status of the neighbor is obviously higher than his own home, in May according to the specifications of the sixth official to rebuild the house, the father wrote more than once to complain, the meeting is a lower level.

Sun Miao also felt aggrieved, when he was a lifter, his status was higher than that of his neighbors, and now he has no chance, so he can only pin his hopes on his son, but his son is still too young, how can he go to the imperial examination at the age of twelve? I don't even have the identity of a lifter.

Unless it is the ancestral tomb that smokes, the son suddenly becomes Zhang Xiaobao, and the daughter becomes Wang Juan, otherwise even if everything goes well, you have to wait for ten years, do you let the neighbors press for ten years, who knows if the kid will be born to a third-grade official ten years later?

Sun Miao was worried about this, and just when he was looking for an opportunity, an opportunity suddenly appeared in front of him.

There are a lot of tribes on another big island not too far from Xinyuan Island, and the last time I went, there was a leader of a big tribe, or a patriarch, if it wasn't a chieftain, it was such a person anyway, and he was very diligent in learning the words of Datang and was able to communicate simply.

When talking with him to exchange goods, the other party put forward the idea of wanting to meet the Tang Emperor, which was not an ordinary worship, and perhaps the head was tired to death and could not imagine the extent of the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.

The person has a heart, and the listener is even more intentional, Sun Miao's heart is alive, and he can't pass the Chunyu exam, so he can become an official through other paths, and no one in the family can be an official for himself, can't he make a great contribution himself?

With an idea, Sun Miao, who came back, began to get in touch, he didn't stupidly go to find the assassin history of Luzhou, let alone write a letter directly to the capital, although he was qualified to send a letter to the capital, but he knew that it was useless to send it, and the emperor couldn't see it at all.

After thinking about it for two days, he found the business alliance in Luzhou, one alliance is controlled by the two families of Zhang Wang, if you want the emperor to know, the emperor will definitely know, and the two families of Zhang Wang will not rob him of his credit, the two families of the kind of prestige do not care about the merits of the tribal head pilgrimage on an island, the most important thing is that the two families of Zhang Wang are very good at talking and kind.

This contact is really done, the person in charge of the affairs in Luzhou directly agreed, as long as Sun Miao is sure to get the head of that tribe to the capital, and bring a large number of local specialties to pay tribute, then the Luzhou side is responsible for the protection of the road and the contact after arrival.

Before the winter came, Sun Miao came to the island with the people arranged by Luzhou, and found the head of the tribe, the mountains and rocks, the name was given by the head himself, and he said that he would follow the emperor's surname Li, but later dissuaded, if the surname is not passed down from the ancestors, it is not allowed to be given by the saint, especially the local people who do not belong to the Tang Dynasty.

After knowing that he could go to see the Tang Emperor, Shan Tushi was very excited, and asked people to prepare a lot of things that he thought were good, and they wanted to follow Sun Miao together.

I don't know who leaked this matter, but it was stopped and hunted down by the joint efforts of the other two neighboring tribes, and Sun Miao naturally became the target of hunting.

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