Chapter 484: The Summer Flame is Stirring

The beginning of Que's special service reminded all the courtiers, and under Li Longji's gaze, they all expressed their positions, whether it was true or fake, at least on the surface, it still looked like that.

They all agreed, and Li Longji's proposal for 'democracy' this time was passed, and the next details need to be handled by the Ministry of Rites, what kind of method is used, whether it is a set of clan marriages or a set of people, there are many things involved, and it will take some work.

Outside the Hanyuan Palace, separated by a wall, Li Bai, the head of the household department, stood there, accompanied by the master bookkeeper, and the two of them came here to find Zhang Zhong.

Since the last self-analysis, Li Bai has decided to do a good job, and today I heard that the well-informed master said that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are back, so I can't wait to meet.

Who knew that early in the morning, after arriving at the champion building that did not stop for twelve hours, he handed over the prayer post, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and no one in the champion building came out to tell them to go in, nor did he say anything to entertain them.

The master was still clever, and when he saw an official send a prayer note and turned around, he had no intention of staying and waiting, so he hurriedly chased after him and asked.

I learned that the other party was from the Ministry of War, and the position of Zuo Shilang, I didn't plan to be summoned before I came over, and it was the rule to turn around and leave, because there were many officials who came to find Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, as long as the two of them were not in a hurry to go to other places, maybe after a while, the prime minister would come over to take a look and discuss things by the way.

I was in a hurry to leave to participate in the early dynasty, and I couldn't delay it, otherwise I wouldn't be able to enter.

Only then did Li Bai and the chief bookkeeper understand that they followed behind this person and came to the outer wall of Hanyuan Hall together, listened to the movement inside, and planned to wait for the next court, meet Zhang Zhong, and talk to him about the feelings of Zhang Jiedu.

At this time, Li Bai's heart was very uncomfortable, he heard the voice of the eunuch in the palace who was afraid that others would not hear it, and the eunuch who was responsible for passing the word inside the wall, thinking about his wife, he felt that he had lived in vain, and Zhang Xiaobao was able to perform a court salute when he got married, and he had never heard of it.

Thinking of this, Li Bai turned around and left, and the master hurriedly pulled, "Taibai, why are you going?" Don't want to see Zhang Xiaobao anymore? ”

"Write poems, write for your family, write for Zhang Xiaobao, and have a wife at home." Li Bai stopped, looked into the distance and said, "Since you can't give her a courtesy, then give her something else, see you later." ”

"Well, but ...... Taibai, help me write one, don't give it to Yu'er in Xiangchilou, to the family, here, it's wrong. After the master bookkeeper was slightly stunned, he thought of something and walked out as he spoke.

On the Hanyuan Palace, the marriage between Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan was settled, and when the ministers thought that the ministers thought that they were going to give Que Special Service and others an official, Zhang Zhong stood up, "Your Majesty, the ministers have an important matter to discuss." ”

A pair of eyes suddenly looked over, Zhang Zhong of this matter was infinitely bright in the eyes of everyone, not because of his status, there were still too many, but he had never seen Shang who could have children married and was managed by the imperial court.

looked at Zhang Zhong one by one, and couldn't tell whether he was envious or jealous, anyway, he was no longer as calm as before.

Li Longji nodded, "Zhang Qingdan said." ”

"This morning the minister saw my son Xiaobao in the champion building, during the meal, talking about the Ministry of Works, Xiaobao and the minister said that the Ministry of Industry is now the imperial court appropriation, however, the Ministry of Industry has a large number of personnel, should be self-sufficient, therefore, to give the minister a plan, let the Ministry of Industry do business, the first thing to do is to rent out steam engine ships.

The minister was afraid that the steam engine would be leaked secretly, so he did not agree, and he was worried that the matter was serious, so he had to ask, if others agreed, the minister would treasure again. ”

Zhang Zhong said excitedly, it wasn't because the steam engine was excited, it was nothing there, mainly because of the marriage of his son and daughter-in-law.

Before, he was still worried, he didn't know what way to carry out a series of steps, and in the morning he heard his little daughter Xiaobei say that he might use the court, and his heart has been hanging, afraid that the courtiers will not agree.

Now that things have come to an end, I can't control myself when I think about what will happen in the future.

Li Longji looked at Zhang Zhong's appearance, and couldn't understand how Zhang Zhong could have such an indifferent son and daughter-in-law, look at Xiaobao, whether it is doing things or talking, he has always been so honored and disgraced, and yesterday he finally gained the upper hand, but the daughter-in-law who didn't pass through the door was good, and she was stunned to get a bunch of brocade from herself.

Sighing in his heart, Li Longji didn't care whether the Que Special Service and his gang were in a hurry, and said to Zhang Zhong: "Zhang Qing has worked hard, how is the steam engine being studied now?" According to the rules that were formulated at the beginning, it needs to be replaced from generation to generation, to what generation? ”

"The second generation, what is being studied is the third generation, Xiaobao means to take out the second generation, load it on the ship, send it to the entrance of the Bohai Sea, lease it to the outside world, the minister asked, and refused to talk to the minister in detail, saying that he was afraid that the minister would worry too much."

When Zhang Zhong was talking, he didn't think about any steam engine in his heart, he was thinking that the son and daughter-in-law of the little fairy would give birth to a bunch of little immortals in the future, and the family would be more lively at that time.

"I don't think so." Without waiting for Li Longji to speak, Yuan Qianyao stood up and stopped him.

If he usually talks about other things, he doesn't care, but he has to ask about the steam engine, which is the most advanced technology in Datang except for the telegraph.

He has seen the ship with a steam engine, the degree is very fast, the most important thing is to save manpower, although it is not yet able to drive the propeller intact, but there are wheels next to it, but the ship is equipped with a propeller at the back and bottom, and at the critical moment, a shift in gears, even if the bearing can not support it for too long, a charge can still be played in a short time, with the artillery, the power is immeasurable.

If this thing is rented out and acquired by other countries, and the research technology is dismantled, how much loss will Datang have?

No, absolutely not, this or nothing can be said to be listening to Zhang Xiaobao.

Yuan Qianyao summed up in his heart, and looked at Zhang Zhong with a firm gaze.

Zhang Zhong has an indifferent attitude, just do it, if it doesn't work, forget it, the Ministry of Industry will still do it as before.

Li Longji frowned, not because he wanted to lease ships, the Ministry of Industry made money by itself, and the technology leaked, but he couldn't think of what Xiaobao was going to do, Bohai, so the relative should be ** and Silla, which country should be put on it?

"Your Majesty." Standing behind him, Colliers leaned forward.

"Huh?" Li Longji tilted his head slightly, making a listening gesture.

"The minister estimates that Xiaobao has made a big move again, probably because Your Majesty promised to help him with the marriage yesterday, so he has a snack on the matter of Datang, according to the past situation, Xiaobao's plan will eventually form a chain, and things will definitely not be as simple as Zhang Shang said."

Gao Lishi helped his godson speak, which meant to let Li Longji agree.

Li Longji sat up straight, looked at Zhang Zhong and Yuan Qianyao in front of him, and said: "Zhang Qing, since it was Xiaobao's idea, I should have agreed, but this matter is too important, and I need a detailed plan to reassure people's hearts." ”

"Yes, the minister wrote it down." Zhang Zhong understood what the emperor meant, regardless of whether he had a detailed plan or not, he would support Xiaobao, but he had to ask for a copy just to seal other people's mouths.

Yuan Qianyao opened his mouth beside him, but he didn't say anything more, he could only wait for the plan, take a closer look, and see what else Zhang Xiaobao's almost demon-like calculation could do.

This matter can be regarded as having been said, the other courtiers did not intervene, and did not dare to directly oppose the plan that Zhang Xiaobao took out to be useful, wouldn't he talk too much, and then Zhang Xiaobao thought that he had ulterior motives, and the good things that he could enjoy in the future would be gone.

It was only at this time that Li Longji set his sights on Que Special Service and others, began to seal officials, praised them, and made another promise to treat the people of the Tang Dynasty who came over well.

From the beginning to the time they were rewarded, the Que Special Service and his party have not shown a dissatisfied attitude, they no longer have any manpower available, and they can no longer make any conditions with Li Longji, and at the same time, they are more afraid that they will really show a discordant attitude, and if Zhang Xiaobao knows about it, they may not necessarily come up with something.

In the courtyard of the champion building, Xiaobei nine people are still sleeping, eating and playing yesterday, tired, the sun is high in the sky, and they haven't woken up.

Xiaobei, who lives in a small bed with Xiaoyuan, squeezed Xiaoyuan and was about to fall, if Xiaobei hadn't used Xiaoyuan's arm as a pillow, it is estimated that Xiaoyuan would have slept on the floor now.

"If you don't want to compose a poem for me, if there are no outsiders, I, I'll let you know that it's amazing." Xiaobei in her sleep kept muttering, and Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, who came to see her younger siblings, bent down to listen to Xiaobei's muttering, and heard such a sentence vaguely.

Wiping the saliva from his sister's mouth, Zhang Xiaobao looked at Wang Juan with a smile and opened his arms.

"What? Want to be a target for me to practice? Wang Juan asked puzzled.

"Nothing, hug." Zhang Xiaobao leaned forward.

Wang Juan stood still, let Zhang Xiaobao hug him, and said, "What are you doing in broad daylight, like a child, how old are you?" Let's go, accompany you to improve the plan, solve Silla within a year, weaken **, your goal is not small, but it may not be successful. ”

"Do it first, as long as Silla is ambitious, I'm sure, is it waiting for the steps of the engagement to be completed, don't care about the days later, and then get married, we can ......? Can you sleep together? ”

Zhang Xiaobao is more happy with other things, but he won't do this kind of thing.

Wang Juan didn't want to tease him on purpose, and said: "Yes, then from today on, don't live together at night, so that you don't have to sleep like Xiaobei, dishonest." ”

"I mean what."

"What?"

"It's just counting the stars."

"You, why didn't you collect information about you in the first place, stupid, go, go down, see how many officials have sent posts, whether there is anything mentioned in them, if it is useful, take a good look."

Wang Juan's evaluation of Zhang Xiaobao in this regard is cuteness, so he was hugged by Zhang Xiaobao and moved to the door step by step.

"There is a Li Bai here, saying that he is in the position of the capital, give, you see, it's very interesting, and he even put forward his opinion."

rummaging through the famous thorns and the posts that came with the famous thorns, Zhang Xiaobao showed Li Bai's and handed it to Wang Juan casually.

"What did you write? I take a look, Li Bai is not allowed to do it, fortunately, his situation is much stronger now than in history, I really don't know if I should let you help him like this, if there is really one more Shang named Li Bai in the future, then is there one less poet immortal? ”

Wang Juan took it and looked at it, and suddenly smiled, "This Li Bai knew that he had a bad idea, let him correct the form, he actually said that it took a lot of effort to make the form into transparent paper, and the font of the person who filled in the form should be the same, and then two pieces of paper and one Luo, the difference can be seen."

Shixian Li Bai, if others knew, what would you think? But how does this method look a little familiar to me? It seems that something similar has appeared there. ”

"Of course, it's just like that, when you sign the contract, there are two layers up and down, and the signed words are printed, can't you cheat money? It's just that the technology is a little more advanced than this, nothing.

You don't think about Li Bai writing poems, why don't we give him another walk according to the history you said? Since we are here, it is regarded as another place, and the stories are all stories, and the things in the stories are yes and no. ”

Zhang Xiaobao still has authority in this regard, and when he thinks of a certain historical figure that Wang Juan occasionally mentioned, he is a little in a trance.

Wang Juan made a big cross in the method of Li Bai's writing, and wrote below: 'Doing things is like writing poems, slowly accumulating, if it is not a cold bone, how can the plum blossoms be fragrant? ’

put it aside, leaned his head on Zhang Xiaobao's shoulder, and said softly: "Fortunately, I have you, otherwise I am alone, what should I do?" I'll go get my medicine in a moment. ”

"What medicine?" Zhang Xiaobao stretched out his arm and hugged Wang Juan and asked.

"Counting the stars tonight will leave no sequelae."

"What's that?"

"If you don't take it, you should continue to count the moon."

"What's the matter? Count the moons, count the moons, and as for Silla's plan, I asked them all to count the moons. ”

The clouds in the sky are still floating so leisurely, the sun shines through the clouds on the earth, next to the pond of Xingqing Palace, Li Longji and several important courtiers sit on the Teng chair, and next to the chair is branded with a few golden words 'Shuiyun Genuine'.

It's hot, there is a fan blowing next to it, and the iced sour plum soup is drunk from time to time, and there is a big umbrella on the head, this should be a pleasant and cool moment, including Li Longji, except for Zhang Zhong, everyone is constantly sweating and sweating.

Li Linfu held a Luo of paper with trembling hands, just read it, put it back on the small table, gasped twice, raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat oozing from his forehead, looked back, and said as if he had lost all his strength: "Ruthless, really ruthless, I don't know who will be next after cleaning up Silla?" **, or the southwest? ”

Li Longji didn't care about Li Linfu's gaffe, he clicked his mouth twice, felt that it was still dry, and picked up Zhang Xiaobao on the table and gave it to Gao Lishi, and he snatched the special herbal tea, poured a sip, his eyes swept in front of the courtiers, and finally stopped at Zhang Zhong's indifferent face.

Everyone else was sweating, only Zhang Zhong sat there quietly, looking idle, he knew Zhang Xiaobao better than everyone present, that was his son, what the plan said was evil, but his son was a little fairy, normal, everything was normal.

Li Longji looked at it for a while and said, "Zhang Qing, has Xiaobao mentioned anything about returning to the northern part of Hebei Province recently?" ”

"Nope." Zhang Zhong shook his head, "It is estimated that I will have to wait until the autumn, and I will not go back until the crops are ripe, his mother misses them, Xiaobao also wants Xiao Beiduo to stay in front of us for a while, and by the way, we are waiting for the end of the four items of Nacai, Mingming, Najib, and Nazheng. ”

Zhang Zhong is a person who has come over, knows his son's thoughts, and at the same time feels that his son is indeed different from other children, the family who has slept in the same bed since he was a child and is a little richer has already done the gift of Zhou Gong with other women.

When you are older, you don't have to worry about it, as for what the daughter of the Wang family had with her son before she got married, she didn't care if she thought about it, and she couldn't separate the two of them because she wanted to get married.

Li Longji also understood, he couldn't control it anymore, picked up the plan on the small table, flipped it casually, and said: "I remember the first time I knew the news of Xiaobao and Juanjuan, at that time, the two of them used a plan to make money, and then it was for local construction, and now it is not a plan, once it is out, it will definitely be a plan for the country of the dead."

In this way, the Ministry of Industry can install a steam engine on the ship, and then send it to the place at the entrance of the Bohai Sea to rent, whether it is Silla or **, whoever thinks about it will be unlucky first. ”

Li Longji said and looked at Yuan Qianyao again, he had objected.

Yuan Qianyao and Li Longji glanced at each other and said, "The minister agrees, but I must pay attention to the personal safety of my Datang who used to take care of the steam engine." ”

He couldn't say no at this time, and it was clear in the plan that as the people who went to distant places returned, there would be something flowing out of the tree called rubber, which had many uses, one of which was sealing, and the copper and aluminum gaskets produced with the improvement of smelting technology could make the replacement of the steam engine reach a very high level in a short time.

There is also the research on the refining of paraffin water, as long as you get out the two things called gasoline or diesel, and even the purity of alcohol is high enough, there will be another better machine than the steam engine, called the internal combustion engine.

At that time, that will be the real good thing, and when it is used in the military, the people's livelihood can gradually open up some less important technologies.

The plan also mentioned that the ship leasing of the steam engine was not for the charterer to take care of it personally, but for Datang to send someone to take charge of the engine room.

One is to make money, you can make an extra amount of money to the Ministry of Industry, so that the Ministry of Industry does not rely too much on the imperial court financial allocation, and the other is to train the crew, and at the same time the maintenance personnel can also practice, providing an intuitive information for the manufacture of new motor ships.

Of course, the most important thing is not these two articles, but the third one, which says that whether Silla wants to go to the island next to Xinyuan Island to get sugar, or specifically to obtain Datang's technology, it will inevitably spend money on leasing.

When the price is high, they will accept it, and now the trees in many places in Silla have been cut down, and at the same time help Datang grow cotton, and the national strength seems to be rising, but in fact, it is more dependent on Datang.

Then Silla, who did not have much savings, had to come up with some money, which made the financial situation worse, and then needed manpower to grow sugar cane and sugar beets, and an army was needed in the event of a conflict with the local people.

At that time, the population of Silla was diverted, and some of them ran to distant islands, and the economy became decisively dependent, and the population was small, so Silla could almost come to Datang.

If the Silla people want to use force to seize it when the steam engine ship is leased, it is better to do it, Wang Juan has almost become a lady in the boudoir, but some people think that the knife is not good?

If he had to oppose it, it would be opposition for the sake of opposition.

Thinking like this, Yuan Qianyao said again: "Your Majesty, there are still doubts in the minister's heart. ”

"Come on." Li Longji saw that Yuan Qianyao did not object, and his attitude became correspondingly good.

"The minister wants to ask, the follow-up plan, but anyone who knows Zhang Jiedu's envoy understands that when he makes a plan, there must be a supplement, and the supplementary plan is more ruthless, and the minister doesn't believe that there is only this explanatory plan."

Yuan Qianyao still wants to ask for more, he always thinks that Zhang Xiaobao cares more about money, no matter what he does, in the end, when things are done, money will be earned.

Li Longji looked at Zhang Zhong, Zhang Zhong was still sitting there steadily, pinching a grape and stuffing it in his mouth from time to time, this is what his son and daughter-in-law told, when it is hot outside, don't always drink water, it is easy to cause salt loss, make people more thirsty, dehydrated, it is best to eat fruits, water is large, it can replenish water, and it can also supplement sugar and other useful nutrients for the body, and this fructose comes and goes quickly, not afraid of fat.

Of course Zhang Zhong has to listen, it is impossible for his son and daughter-in-law to harm himself, so in this moment's work, he ate a lot of fruits, and when he saw the emperor at this time, he shook his head blankly, "The minister doesn't know, as for making money, it is also from the court, and there is no shortage of money in the minister's family, even if Xiaobao earns it for the family, it is just a little bit." ”

The old man Yuan Qianyao pursed his lips, and his beard also moved twice, and his stomach was slandered, for the Zhang and Wang families, make a little, then if this point is taken out to others, it is a huge wealth, and Zhang Xiaobao does not let go of any opportunity, every time he has to make a little money, it is still the kind that can get money for a long time.

It can be said that it is a collection of armpits into a fur, it is estimated that now the finances of the imperial court are suddenly out of money, as long as the two families of Zhang and Wang are copied, the imperial court can support it for three or five years without collecting a penny of taxes.

"The minister has nothing else, so I want to know the follow-up plan, and I hope Zhang Shang will urge him." Yuan Qianyao saw that Zhang Zhongzui kept eating fruits, and said with a little disdain.

Zhang Zhong doesn't care, isn't there a shortage of fruit at home, so you can't eat it outside? What's more, the fruits in the palace are no different from those at home, they are all very good, and they are not uncomfortable to eat.

Swallowing the grapes in his mouth, Zhang Zhong nodded, and shook his head again, "I will ask Zhang Jiedu to make it, but Zhang Jiedu will not say it, I can't guarantee it, after all, I, the Ministry of Industry, can't manage the Jiedu envoy, or Yuanzhong will ask in person?" ”

Yuan Qianyao almost died of anger, and muttered: "It's good for this father and son to be a big official, and they can also use their identities to distinguish them when they are critical. ”

Li Longji didn't care about this, he just got the information he needed, and ordered Zhang Zhong to let a few people leave.

When everyone left, Li Longji asked Gao Lishi again: "Xiaobao is older, last time I said that he would let him participate in the Spring Festival this year, he didn't come back, he missed it, and he has to wait for next year, can you think of a way, I want to transfer him back to the capital and let him enter the central province, except for the middle order, you can't let him be the middle order, everything else is fine, and I will be so worry-free at that time."

At that time, he just said that Yuan Qianyao should be a person in front, with Xiaobao in charge, I can sit back and relax, and Juan Juan will also be put in the central province to manage military affairs, I don't want women to be officials, but Juan Juan is an exception, it is estimated that Xiaobei will have to arrange a good position when he grows up. ”

Gao Lishi nodded and said: "The minister also knows that Xiaobao can rest assured that he will lead the whole Tang in the Central Province, but Xiaobao doesn't seem to like to stay in one place, and Juan Juan's mind is more on Xiaobao's body, so the minister thinks it's better to ask him first." ”

"Well, ask, if you really can't add an autumn festival, keep the champion for him, hasn't he been learning, just want to learn to be a champion with real talent? You said that you are done, what should you give them a congratulatory gift? I can see that Xiaobao has been waiting for this day for a long time, hahahaha, he actually went to see the moon. ”

Li Longji couldn't help but laugh when he thought of Zhang Xiaobao's appearance.

Gao Lishi also tried his best to hold back, he couldn't understand why this godson was smart and clever in other aspects, and he could be described as a towering plot, why when this kind of thing came to him, it was like a person.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that ordinary things can't be sent, let alone money, and even if the official position has not been decided, it must be given, should it be given somewhere? Such as a lake or a mountain? ”

"Huashan? Too big? Then find a small one. Li Longji said.