The rumors that Lotte was driven out of the court by the Son of Heaven spread in the streets, and within a few hours, it spread throughout the entire Biandu City.

It's just strange that Yuefuxia is not depressed and gloomy because of this incident, but it seems to be the New Year, and laughter comes from the courtyard from time to time.

Yesterday Lotte went home almost late, and today it was the morning court, and it was not until this afternoon that the family sat together and had a reunion dinner.

During the banquet, Emperor Maude sat beside Lotte and hugged the half-year-old boy in his arms, and said: "Husband, this baby is half a year old, I haven't named him yet, and now that my husband is back, give him a nickname." ”

Teasing the baby in his arms, Lotte smiled and said: "Didn't you say it for your husband, our family is named after the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and this baby is called a child!" ”

There are nine children and daughters in the family at the moment, and the one born by the drunken begonia is exactly ten, and his family business will become bigger and bigger in the future, and it is easy to inherit it if he has more children.

"Iron, next to the blade, take the meaning of sharp, is a good name!" Obviously, Emperor Maude was very satisfied with the name that Lotte gave her eldest son.

Aunt Qin next to her also lost no time in asking: "Master, Da Lang Erlang is also about to reach the age of enlightenment reading, is it time to teach to read some enlightenment books?" ”

Seeing that the two older children had eaten at the moment and were playing around the table, Lotte shook his head and smiled: "Le Zhao and Le Yu are not yet four years old, and they are the age of innocence, let them play for another two years!" ”

"What is this that the husband said!" Emperor Mao De rolled his eyes and said: "Although Da Lang Erlang is ignorant now, it is the best time to start school, if the two children are playing fun, it will be difficult to teach when they should enter school in two years!" ”

Although the two children born to Aunt Qin and Concubine Qu are concubines, they all have to call Emperor Maode a mother, and the royal family of the Zhao family values family affection, and Emperor Maode, who likes children, treats them as if they were their own.

Seeing Emperor Maode's resistance, Concubine Qu also said: "Who doesn't want their son to become a dragon, sir, you don't even want a marquis, these children in our family don't expect to get famous in science exams......"

"What kind of fame did you get?" Lotte was disdainful and sneered: "How many of those courtiers who are full of poetry and books and full of benevolence and morality have the talent to govern the world?" It's not these so-called scholars who stir up the miasma of smoke in the court! ”

Hearing Lotte say this, there was no sound in the house immediately, and the wives and concubines all thought that Lotte was still worried about the resignation.

At this moment, Emperor Maude also thought so in his heart, in order to prevent the resentment between his husband and his father from expanding and embarrassing himself, he hurriedly said: "Husband, I will go to the palace tomorrow and beg my father to take back his order!" ”

Hearing this, Lotte hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It's okay for the emperor to go back to the palace to save his relatives, but if it's to get an official position with her husband, then don't open this mouth!" ”

Emperor Maude looked stunned, "Why is the estrangement between my husband and my father so deep? ”

"His Royal Highness lives in the backyard of the deep house every day, and he doesn't know about the affairs of the court, nor does he know the suffering......s of the people," Lotte stopped halfway through his words, and said helplessly: "Out of sight, out of mind, out of mind, it is not always a good thing for the husband to stay away from the court!" ”

Mei Hong whispered to Emperor Maode on the side: "Your Highness, my lord has leveled the southeast rebellion this time, if you talk about merit, a grandfather is indispensable......"

Qingmei Hong reminded from the side that Emperor Maode's face immediately became solemn, she grew up in the palace since she was a child, and she has seen a lot of complicated things in the palace, and her husband's great achievements have not been rewarded, which is enough to show the seriousness of the matter.

said that he was not interested in eating, and Lotte instructed his subordinates: "Call people to prepare the car, master, I will go out of the city in the afternoon to take a look in the Zhuangzi!" ”

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"Master Hou!"

"I've seen Master Hou!"

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In the courtyard outside Biandu City, a group of craftsmen led by Steward Xiong gave gifts to Lotte.

The year before last, he tried to make a steam engine in another courtyard, and Lotte found that this craftsman surnamed Xiong was not only outstanding, but even admired by a number of craftsmen, and was also quite talented in mechanics, and even after explaining the principle of the steam engine himself, he often had many unique views, and was appointed by Lotte as the manager of this annex, specializing in the manufacture of steam engines.

"Don't call Le Moumou any Hou Ye, call Le Mou an outsider in the future!" Smiled and greeted the bear steward and a group of craftsmen, Lotte smiled.

The craftsmen were stunned, not knowing what Lotte meant.

Walking up to the bear steward who was in charge of managing a group of craftsmen, Lotte asked with a smile: "When Master Wang went to Hangzhou, Le asked Master Wang to pass it on to you, and you know?" ”

Steward Xiong hurriedly replied: "After the blacksmith Wang came back from Hangzhou, he told me that the little ones bought a thousand-mile ship according to the instructions of the Hou Ye, in order to make the steam engine loaded into the thousand-mile ship, the small ones made a slight change to the steam engine, so that the steam engine was installed in the thousand-mile ship, it took several months before and after, and the steam engine was just started some time ago, everything was normal, waiting for the Hou Ye to come back to test the ship. ”

After speaking, Steward Xiong instructed the people next to him: "Go and take the drawings to Hou Ye to see, and see if what we do meets Hou Ye's requirements!" ”

Someone next to him answered, and hurriedly went to the house to get the drawings.

After receiving the drawings handed over, Lotte looked at them carefully with a scrutinizing gaze, and saw that the drawings were very ingeniously designed for each transmission place, and they were not lost to future generations at all, so they couldn't help but nod and praise: "There are no drawings and no references, and it is difficult for you to do this!" ”

After listening to Lotte's praise, Steward Xiong and the others were very happy. Since the bear steward and a group of craftsmen who make a living from ironwork were brought to this courtyard by Rakuten, they came into contact with the manufacture of steam engines, and after the initial surprise and ignorance of others, they gradually figured out the working principle of the steam engine under the teaching of Lotte, especially after the actual steam engine was manufactured, and found that it was much more meaningful and great for these people to make a living by making steam engines.

Obviously, these craftsmen are also aware of the meaning of the steam engine, after this kind of thing is really applied to practice, its huge economic benefits and practical value will immediately subvert people's previous concepts, and Lotte has promised that after the steam engine is put into practice, a steam engine factory will be opened, and all skilled craftsmen will hold shares in the factory, not only have a salary to get, but also dividends to share after making profits.

Men are born with a paranoid hobby of machines, and in the face of the never-before-seen steam engine, these blacksmiths are not enthusiastic about the blacksmith profession without much technical content, and after Lotte said this, the enthusiasm of the craftsmen was immediately mobilized.

In the eyes of Lotte, I was also extremely surprised, with the level of science and technology in the Song Dynasty, these craftsmen spent more than half a year to be able to combine the steam engine with the thousand-mile ship, which definitely impressed themselves.

Steward Xiong said: "Master Hou, it's still early at this time, please go to the river to watch the thousand-mile ship of steam engines made by us!" ”

Lotte nodded.

A group of people hugged Lotte out of the courtyard and walked towards the river not far away.

This annex is the imperial village where Emperor Maude married, and the location is naturally good, when building this annex for the development of steam engines, Lotte considered the importance of transportation and water sources, and the transportation is convenient and can be quickly reached, and there is a river nearby that can be used for irrigation and can be used for boating.

Before designing and manufacturing steam engines, Lotte had considered that in this era, the first steam engine could only be used in ships, and as for the manufacture of trains, it did not have this technical ability for a while; The steam engine required to drive the train is huge, and it does not have this level in more than ten years, and the second is that there are many rivers in the original hinterland or Lianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the bridge that can make the train pass through it has to face an insurmountable technical problem.

At a time when cement had not yet been invented, large high-quality steel could not be forged, and even bridge technology had not yet become a profession, building a railway was a dream. Of course, it can also be built, unless there is a river around the road to build a railway.

There is an unknown river bay that can be sailed in the south of the courtyard, which is a branch of the Bianhe River, and there are very many boats here except for fishing boats, and at this time April is the time when the rain is abundant, and the bear steward also sent someone to measure the depth of the river before, and the ordinary boats are more than enough.

Without waiting for the bear to ask, Lotte saw the thousand-mile ship parked by the river and transformed into a steam engine from a distance of hundreds of zhang, only to see that this ship was about six zhang long and about one zhang six feet wide, and there was a waterwheel-like wheel on both sides, and a chimney stood between the boats, which looked very similar to the paddle steamers of the early nineteenth century.

"Master Hou, slow down!"

A group of people helped Lotte to get on the boat, and the bear steward introduced Lotte to him: "Master Hou, this ship is fifty-five feet long, and it can carry 600 materials before it has been transformed, and our steam engine cylinder is two feet three inches long, and the cylinder diameter is one foot two inches; The boiler is 12 feet long, and the furnace diameter is 2 feet 5 inches......"

Steward Xiong said, Lotte was mentally calculating how big this ship was, this paddle steamer can carry 700 materials in the future to carry 22 tons, 16 meters long, 4 meters 8 wide, such a boat is okay in the river, if it is in the sea, it is not too useful.

After checking the boat, Lotte checked left and right, and then walked to the main engine to check, only to see that this steam engine was very different from the experimental steam engine he had built.

Lotte had to marvel in his heart, he must not underestimate the great wisdom of the ancients, he was not in Biandu for a year, these craftsmen used all kinds of practical ideas for steam engines, which made them breathtaking.

Steam engine boiler furnace pressure is too high will cause an explosion, Xiong steward and others have encountered this matter, fortunately the steam engine power is limited, no casualties, but have to pay attention to this matter, in order to prevent the boiler explosion, some craftsmen use their brains to design the relief valve and barometer, although the process and technology are far from the same things as the later generations, but it is still very effective in preventing the boiler explosion, and the principle is still the same as that of later generations, which has to be admired by Lotte.

Of course, Lotte does not expect such an experimental steam engine ship to be of much use, Lotte only expects to get first-hand information and various useful data from this test ship, which can be used as a basis for finding problems and improving the ship in the future.

"Master Hou, everything has been checked, everything is normal for the Qianli ship, can you please officially conduct a sea trial?"

When Lotte took a closer look at the paddle wheel, Xiong asked for instructions.

"Yes!" Lotte nodded.

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