"Qingque, you have time to go out for a walk, bask in the sun, don't be busy in this house all day, you are fat, and you haven't seen the sun yet, you look at your pale face is like a ghost."

Wu Yuanqing held his daughter Yaya and looked left and right in Li Tai's studio, and his mouth couldn't stop counting.

"Isn't that what you want? So that I can be obsessed with the invention of things, and I can not worry about the chair." Li Tai focused on the matter in his hand, and sneered without raising his eyelids.

"Cut, I didn't think so, you are living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain." Wu Yuanqing didn't admit that what Li Tai said was right, and said again after a sarcastic sentence with a red face and a heartbeat: "Really, you should go out for a walk and see the sun, I told you that your bones will be crispy if you stay in the house without sunlight, just when your father is going to Shiping to hunt, let's go over and play together, didn't you improve the musket again, let's just try it by the way."

"But I'm almost ready to try this steam locomotive."; Li Tai was a little moved, but he was a little reluctant to put down the invention in his hand.

"Oh, how long can the musket last when hunting, and your father's trip is only estimated to be about ten days, so there will be no delay." Wu Yuanqing said angrily.

"Go, go, Uncle Fatty, Daddy said that you will gain weight if you don't move, and you are about to catch up with my little white fat." Yaya is very cute to help.

"Who is Xiaobai?" He didn't care about being said to be fat Li Tai, Tong Yan was unscrupulous, but he was very curious about which one he compared to himself.

"Xiaobai, Xiaobai is Xiaobai, this doesn't matter, do you want to..."Wu Yuanqing wanted to divert the topic with a strange face.

"Xiaobai is the pig raised by my fat aunt, and my fat aunt is as fat as my fat uncle." Yaya didn't give his dad a chance to divert the topic, and answered Uncle Fat's question with a serious face.

Burst.

Seeing Li Tai's fat face trembling and depressed Wu Yuanqing squirted, he didn't dare to stay here anymore, for fear that his baby daughter would say that the fat aunt was my cook again to continue to crit Li Tai.

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Shiping, which used to be the seat of Shiping County, has several counties such as Li, Wugong, Juxian, and Kuaicheng, which belong to Yongzhou. However, Jianzhi was already in the Western Jin Dynasty, and by the time of the Sui Dynasty, Shiping had been under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao.

During the Wude period, it was changed twice, and it was reassigned to Jingzhao Mansion in the Zhenguan period, which was the same as Wu Yuanqing's fiefdom martial arts.

Wugong Shiping is next to each other, and coincidentally, the northeast direction of Wugong, that is, the piece of Wu Yuanqing's fiefdom and the one bordering the northwest of Shiping, is the place where Li Shimin went hunting, and there is a post station named Ma Weiyi.

Well, that's right, it's the place where Ma Weipo is willing to break his face for true love, and love and hate are hung up in an instant.

In the convoy to Shiping, Wu Yuanqing, Li Tai, and Li Chengqian were squeezed into a car, and now they are staying in Chang'an in addition to the little milk baby, Li Tai, Li Chengqian, two princes, Li Chengqian is the prince, and he must have lived in Chang'an for a long time, and Li Tai also made it clear that he was not interested in the throne, so he stayed in Chang'an.

However, the three of them seem to have not sat together like this for several years, mainly because Li Tai nests in the studio every day and does not go out, and his father and mother may not be able to see him once for several days, Li Shimin also knows that his son Li Tai has made things that are of great use to Datang, so he is exempted from dim morning reflection.

This trip is the first time Li Tai has gone far in recent years.

"Where is this concrete road now?" Li Tai asked.

The carriage drove smoothly on the cement road, and it was not bumpy at all in the four-wheeled carriage.

"To the west, it has been passed to Yumen Pass, and it is still continuing to repair to the west, to the north, from Chang'an to Xiazhou, and from Chang'an to Bingzhou to Shuofang, the two have also been repaired, and they are still extending to the grassland. The roads to the plateau and Lingnan are relatively slow to build because of the steep mountain roads, and the current planning is only less than half completed." Li Chengqian said like a treasure.

"Hey, why didn't you go to Luoyang in the east?" Li Tai asked strangely.

"No money." Li Chengqian spread his hands helplessly.

Wu Yuanqing shook his head amusedly, there is no money, now the annual income of the treasury has more than doubled directly compared to Zhenguanchu, which is an annual income of seventy or eighty million yuan, and building roads is not just spending money, it is also making money.

The largest cement manufacturer is the royal one, and nearly half of the cement purchased by the Ministry of Household Industry is purchased from the royal cement factory, and the royal has made a lot of money.

The reason why the road to the east was not built was that there were no threatening forces in the east, whether it was Silla, Baekje, or Goguryeo, they were just ants, and there was no need to defend against them.

Another main reason is that the ministers of the court and the central government feel that the royal family is making too much money in the matter of building roads, and they want the emperor and empress to take money from the inner treasury to repair the road in Luoyang.

The happiest one is the group of ministers led by Wei Zheng.

If the treasury has no money, then it is reasonable for the emperor to take out the money from his pocket to subsidize it, but there is obviously money in the treasury, and our royal sales of cement are also good to pay taxes, [why do you have money to pay your own money to build roads.

Li Shimin doesn't do it, the road construction is paid for by the state treasury, don't look for me.

The ministers don't do it, why do you want so much money from the royal family, keep it and have children. Tell me which money-making business is not your royal one, cement cement is, you also take advantage of the royal prestige to account for half of the cement sales, the sea and the sea are, other caravans are hired people, your royal is good, the direct escort is the prince's six rate of people, the leader is still the head of the guard Baishan.

If you do this, you are competing with the people for profit, no, you have to get money from the royal family to build roads, and the household department has no money anyway.

The ministers and the emperor were scared because of the money and because of the road.

Then no one wanted to give in, so the road to the east was delayed.

"If there is no money for this, then my steam train will be useless if it is built?" Li Tai said with a dog's expression on his face.

"Hehe, what are you worried about, didn't you understand what I said? It's not that there is no money, it's just that no one wants to give it out. But don't worry about the steam train, it's just because there are no threatening enemies in the east, so your father and the ministers can not build the road. Otherwise, why don't they get on the issue of building roads in the west, north, and south, because they don't know how important they are. This train is going to be built, and the role is much bigger than this cement road, and when the time comes, you don't need to say, they will have to pay for the train and repair the road, and they are afraid that they will not have enough money to repair it."