Gao Yue's words attracted the attention of everyone in the hall, although among these people in the hall, he was the youngest of Gao Yue, but he was young and flexible, and he was liked by everyone, even Wei Heizi was very satisfied with this assistant, so as soon as his words came out, Wei Heizi asked with a look of surprise: "Meng Xia, do you really have a solution?" "Meng Xia is Gao Yue's character.

After hearing this, Gao Yue smiled and said: "Dean, you misunderstood, I don't have that much ability, but two days ago, the patent office sent by Chang'an sent a list of recently applied patents, I took a closer look, and I was very impressed by one of the patents, although the invention of that patent is not for sails, but I think I can give it a try." ”

As soon as they heard that it was the latest patent sent by Chang'an, Wei Heizi and they were all in good spirits, and their confidence was a little enough, since there was that patent institute, countless talented people applied for patents for their inventions, and their ship design institute found a lot of useful inventions from the patent institute, so that they made a lot of improvements in ship design.

"Meng Xia, hurry up and tell us the content of that patent, we've been busy all this time, and we haven't seen the latest list yet." A middle-aged master said eagerly, and Wei Heizi and the others also urged repeatedly, wanting to know what kind of patent could help them earlier?

The list of patents sent by Chang'an not only has the name of a patent, but also a part of the text introduction, Gao Yue has a good memory, and soon told the patent he saw.

This invention patent is not very remarkable, but it was discovered by chance by a student at Chang'an Chengdao College, when he extracted a water-soluble powder from an ore. And after making a solution from this powder, put the cotton cloth in it and soak it. Once taken out to dry, it is difficult for the cloth to light again. Just not that powder is toxic. Therefore, the soaked cloth can no longer be worn, and after washing with clean water, the fireproof function will disappear, so this patent is not very useful in the eyes of others, and it is likely that even the Taoist Academy itself has not taken it to heart.

After Gao Yue introduced the patent, he said: "Although this invention is only an experiment with cotton cloth, I think the key is still in that solution, maybe we can soak the sail in the solution." It should also make the sails fireproof. ”

After listening to Gao Yue's words, Wei Heizi and the others also nodded again and again, they all knew that it was His Royal Highness King Qi who helped Yuan Lao Immortal build an academy, which had many strange inventions, such as Zhao Beijia's Miss Yifan used the invention of the Taoist Academy when she developed the steam engine, but she didn't expect that now they also use each other's inventions.

"Meng Xia's method is good, we can buy a batch of that powder from the Dao Academy first. Then make a solution and try it, if it really works, then buy the patent, if it doesn't work well. That's okay, we can take this issue to the Dao Academy and see if they can help us figure it out? Wei Heizi finally made a decision. After hearing this, the others also nodded again and again, and this question could only trouble Yuan Lao Immortal and those people.

After the method is agreed. Naturally, there are people from the academy to do this, and this idea was originally proposed by Gao Yue. It should also be done by him, but then Wei Heizi has more important things to use Gao Yue, so he ordered others to go, and told the other party to borrow the Feinu from the Qi Palace's Feinu to pass the book first, and let Mr. Wang of Chang'an City help them negotiate this matter, there is no need to send someone to Chang'an, after all, this time and again is too long.

After staying in the ship design college for a while, Wei Heizi left here with Gao Yue, but he didn't go far, but arrived at a port outside the ship city, which was a military port, where tens of thousands of sailors were stationed guarding Dengzhou, and all kinds of warships were moored in the port.

Speaking of Dengzhou's army, there are two kinds, one is the army of the Tang Dynasty, for example, when Goguryeo attacked Dengzhou last time, the navy and the army responsible for blocking were the army of the Tang Dynasty. The other is Li Su's private soldiers, such as Lu Qing's navy, and the 15,000 slave catchers brought to Silla by Huli, they all belong directly to Li Su, and all the food and drink are solved by Li Su himself, which belongs to two different systems from the army of the Tang Dynasty.

The military port that Wei Heizi came to belonged to the Tang Dynasty Naval Army, but with the relationship between Li Su and Liu Ju, the general of the naval army, these Dengzhou naval forces have also helped Li Su a lot in the open and secret, such as this military port, originally had two functions, one is to defend the ship city, after all, this is the shipbuilding center of Dengzhou, which is equivalent to the heavy industry base, so there must be no mistakes, and naturally people need to guard it.

The other is the temporary storage place for Li Yu's newly built warships, after Lu Qing and his navy's warships are manufactured, they will be parked in this port for trial, and they will not be delivered to Lu Qing until there is no problem. It is precisely because of this that this port is very important to Li Su, so he asked Liu Ju to send 10,000 sailors to be stationed here.

After Wei Heizi arrived at the military port, he was immediately led in by a soldier, and after finding the general in charge, he went to the military port to pick up thirty warships, and then borrowed two thousand sailors from the military port, and set sail after being assigned to the warship, and docked at the civilian port of Dengzhou, and then there were many craftsmen who had been prepared for a long time to board the ship, and there were many types of craftsmen, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and even masons, but the most were shipbuilding craftsmen.

They were going to Silla and Baekje by boat to help build a fortified military port, which was already occupied by Yi Su, so it was natural to garrison troops, and building a military port was a good choice. In addition, these thirty warships were given to Lu Qing, after all, they lost a lot of ships in the Battle of Tsushima, and these ships were sent over to restore their strength, and there are also those shipbuilders who will build a simple shipyard in Danluo to help Lu Qing and them build some auxiliary ships, and they will also repair the damaged warships, so that the warships are injured and sent to Dengzhou for repair.

However, after these craftsmen got on the ship, another group of merchants came with goods, they all came to take a tailwind boat to transport goods to Silla or Baekje, for these merchants, Wei Heizi would not refuse, after all, Li Su originally encouraged business, plus these warships are large in size, and they are empty, helping merchants transport goods can also make a lot of extra money, and merchants do not have to worry about safety, so it can be said that it is a matter of benefiting people and themselves.

And after these merchants loaded the goods on the ship, Wei Heizi still did not let the fleet leave the port, but waited for a long time, and finally in the whine of the train, the last group of people finally came.

The last group of people who came were not many, and there were only about 20 people together, led by a middle-aged Taoist with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek, who was thin and ugly, and looked indescribably obscene, and the 20 or so subordinates behind him didn't look like good people, all of them looked fierce and vicious, which made people feel cold when they looked at it.

Although there are not many middle-aged Taoists, they bring a lot of things, except for more than 20 of them on a train, the others are all pulling all kinds of goods, and when the train stops, someone immediately recruits coolies from the port to help carry things.

"Dean Wei, are you going with you this time?" As soon as the middle-aged Taoist saw Wei Heizi on the port, he immediately greeted him warmly.

However, Wei Heizi was a little unnatural when he saw this Taoist, and said with a dry smile: "The strength of Dengzhou's side is inseparable from me, so Wei is just here to see off the fleet this time, but Daoist Wu is going, but I don't know when I will come back?" ”

At the beginning, Li Su wanted to develop anatomy in order to promote the development of medicine, but unfortunately in the mainstream society of the Tang Dynasty, it was absolutely unacceptable to dissect corpses, so he later found Wu Tiande, asked him to recruit some people, and sent them to Dengzhou, ready to have the opportunity for them to study anatomy overseas.

Speaking of which, Wu Tiande is indeed a talent, with the funds given by Li Su, he quickly recruited a group of people, most of these people are born in disguise, deal with corpses all the year round, and they all know some medical skills and know a few words. Of course, the foundation of these people is indeed a little worse, but everything has Wu Tiande, he is a lecturer in the medical school, and his medical skills are also very good, after these people arrived in Dengzhou, they have been studying with Wu Tiande, and this time they are finally going to officially start their great career.

Hearing that Wei Heizi didn't go, Wu Tiande couldn't help but show a disappointed expression, looked at the other party and said very regretfully: "That's a pity, I still owed Dean Wei thirty yuan last time, I wanted to take this opportunity to see if I could win back the money I owed you, but I didn't expect you to go." ”

When Wu Tiande said this, he couldn't help but shake his head with some regret, and Wei Heizi's black face was even darker. Wu Tiande is lustful and gambling, not long after he came to Dengzhou, he squandered the money that Li Su rewarded him, and he was not honest when he had no money, he looked for someone to borrow money every day, originally he was recruited by His Royal Highness the King of Qi, so many old people in the Qi Palace's house were embarrassed and lent him, but I didn't expect this kid to be a scoundrel, he didn't know how to pay back the money he borrowed, and others were embarrassed to ask him for it, for example, Wei Heizi was a victim, and he lent the other party thirty times last time, but he didn't see the other party pay it back until now.

Hearing Wu Tiande mention his thirty guan, the corners of Wei Heizi's mouth twitched a few times, and finally he spoke: "It's just thirty guan, it can be regarded as the incense money that Wei gave to Wu Daochang, and you don't have to pay it back in the future!" ”

It's not that Wei Heizi is generous, but he knows that after Wu Tiande goes out this time, he may not be able to come back in the Year of the Monkey, so instead of worrying about the other party to repay the money, it is better to be generous and give it to the other party.

And when Wu Tiande heard that Wei Heizi was so generous, his eyes lit up at the moment, and he came up with a smile and said: "That's it, then thank you Dean Wei, but think about Brother Wei in charge of the design institute and the ship association, you don't care at all if you have dozens or hundreds of runs, I think it's better to be like this, why don't you lend me another seventy runs, let's make up an integer, how about a good fate?" (To be continued.) )