Lu Yijian looked at Zheng Lang and said, "I finally saw you in Dongfu." ”

I saw Zheng Lang many times in Dongfu, not referring to this, but referring to Zheng Lang coming to Dongfu on business as a minister of Xifu. Even Lu Yijian didn't expect Zheng Lang to grow up so fast, but he was very pleased, Zheng Lang wanted to grow into a real prime minister, such as the privy envoy, the prime minister of the Eastern Mansion and the governor of the government, it would take a few years, at that time he was too old to walk, and the threat to him was still not big, but his son was his student, and the other son was his subordinate, but they would not support each other, and this taste still existed.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "I've seen all of you. ”

"Why do you come to Dongfu?"

"I'll take a look at the performance, it's a bit overstepping, everyone is fair, forgive the sin."

Lu Yijian had no opinion, and Zhang Dexiang looked embarrassed.

"Zhang Xianggong, although the Xifu is in charge of military affairs, but the military affairs and civil affairs are connected, and the civil affairs are also integrated with the military affairs, so Yan Xianggong said that the governor's political affairs can be interrogated into the military affairs of the Xifu. I'm just here to understand, not to meddle in the affairs of the East Mansion. ”

Zhang Dexiang still had hesitation on his face.

Lu Yijian said, "Let him see it." ”

Now that the military affairs in the northwest have not been decided for a long time, even Lu Yijian can't come up with a good policy, maybe Zheng Jiazi will think of a good way.

In fact, Zheng Lang has already proposed a good method, and he said everything on the fold last year, but he said too much, especially the three national policies, so that many ministers did not dare to speak, Zheng Lang came to see that it was to make a general understanding of the country.

Roughly read through this period of time, among which the immediate negligence of the etiquette system was passed, and the civil finance saw it the most.

In the afternoon of the next day, he went to the weapons workshop to check, and when he was in Yanzhou, Zheng Lang saw many unqualified weapons bows, arrows and armor, which were caused by a variety of reasons, one was that the generals in the front were greedy for ink and improper storage, and the other was that the rear workshop was shoddy, and the reasons were corruption, robbery, and passive sabotage.

I tried the bow and crossbow weapon again, and found many substandard weapons.

didn't make a sound, and went to gunpowder again, which is the reason why Zheng Lang came, to see if there were any good gunpowder weapons.

Saw the cannon, not the cannon, but the artillery.

It was Zheng Lang who urged him last year to produce some weapons, mainly using trebuchets as projectile tools, or explosives that can be used to bury.

In addition to these similar weapons, there are also the original rockets, fireballs, and thistles.

Because it is bulky and used to defend the outside of the city, field warfare has little effect, unless such a clumsy mine is buried in the ground, but who will set it off? Will the enemy enter the mine circle on his own initiative?

In fact, in addition to being used to defend the city, it is still to defend the city, and there is no tubular weapon suitable for field warfare.

Zheng Lang drew the figure, which is the real cannon.

Throw it to the craftsmen and let them study it slowly, but this time is very slow and long, the craftsmanship is backward, there is no good steel, the trough line is not accurate, and even the shells are not easy to make.

I don't need it now, it's for the future.

It was getting dark, and then I returned to the inn.

Two guests came to the inn, and Song Zhen and Ye Qingchen were waiting for him to come back in the inn.

"Two distinguished guests, the inn is fortunate."

A strange sentence that made both of them laugh.

Ye Qingchen said: "I owe you a drink, and I invite you to Fanlou today." ”

Bite the wine very hard.

Zheng Lang asked: "Brother Ye, you are the third envoy, let me make an opinion." ”

"Say."

"Can you ask your subordinate craftsmen to invent a non-drunken liquor? Think about it, if Qianbei is not drunk, the wine will definitely sell well, the wine profit of the imperial court will increase, and the three envoys will also have merit. ”

"You come to invent, anyway, no one is like you."

After laughing, I arrived at Fan Tower.

Fan Lou's food expenses are quite high, but these three are all top ministers, as long as they are not too extravagant, they can use enough.

After ordering the snacks, Zheng Lang said again: "Give me a jar of syrup." ”

Let's not drink alcohol, drink sucrose syrup.

The guy was not embarrassed, there was everything to eat, drink and have fun in the Fan Building, including new cane sugar, the original syrup water.

"This can't be done," Ye Qingchen said.

"Brother Ye, I have to go to the morning court tomorrow, this is my first time going to the court, do you think I am so drunk that I can't get up today, and I will meet tomorrow by mistake?"

Ye Qingchen and Song Zhen laughed again, wanting to bully Zheng Lang easily, and asked him to have a bar.

"When you mocked Brother Bo Zhen, you should be fined three glasses of wine." Ye Qingchen said.

After Song Zhen heard that Sanchuankou was defeated, he suggested defending Tongguan, which made Fu Bi and Zheng Lang ridicule fiercely. But Song Zhen is a loyal elder, and his talent is a little lacking, but his stomach is very generous. This seems to be the only real strength he can get, and he won't really be angry with Zheng Lang.

Ye Qingchen deliberately moved out and let Zheng Lang drink.

Zheng Lang had to drink three glasses of wine, and his face immediately became red and simple, Ye Song and the others were very amused when they saw it, but they didn't dare to persuade Zheng Lang to drink again.

With the wine, Zheng Lang said: "I returned to Beijing from Hangzhou this time and brought a good thing. ”

"What is it?"

"Movable type printing."

This incident was Zheng Lang's unintentional move, when he was inspecting Hangzhou, he heard an incident, a bookstore used clay printing, but it was unsuccessful. Zheng Lang paid attention to it, and finally found a great god, it was Bi Sheng, a native of Qizhou, who went to Hangzhou and worked as a craftsman in a bookstore.

In order to save printing costs, Bi Sheng successively used wooden movable type and cement movable type.

There are many limited surnames, and he was the first to invent movable type printing, but the practical surnames are not large.

Zheng Lang then paid attention, called him over, taught him the technique of copper movable type, and asked him to study adhesives, as well as ink, and bamboo paper became the four important conditions for movable type printing.

Without cheap paper, the printing industry will not prosper, without adhesives, the problem of typesetting cannot be solved, and ink is more related to the effect of printing. Not only the invention of copper movable type can make movable type printing popular. And the movable type is durable and effective, and copper must be used.

and gave Bi Sheng a lot of funds, at this time Bi Sheng was only seventy years old, it was the time when wisdom reached its peak, after half a year of research and development, Zheng Langlin left, there was a big appearance.

Zheng Lang did not bring it to the capital, but asked Cui Xian to bring this set of tools and techniques to the capital with the ship.

The technology is not perfect, but it doesn't matter, it seems that Bi Sheng can live for ten years, there are ten years, and there are results, the bookstore supports many craftsmen to take the initiative to cooperate with Bi Sheng's research and development, and the movable type printing technology will be perfected sooner or later.

The success of this technology will bring a leap forward in the history of civilization.

But because of the problem of vision, Ye Song and the others were negligent, and Ye Qingchen said: "Okay." ”

The imperial court also takes the initiative to print some books every year, as well as a large number of newspapers, once cheap, it will save tens of thousands of yuan of expenditure for the imperial court a year.

That's what I thought.

Zheng Lang smiled, he couldn't blame it. The Song Dynasty was still good, and some craftsmen were paid higher salaries than a Zhizhou, and they attached great importance to technology, which was far better than the later and previous dynasties. But if you want to put science above Shinong, it is impossible to achieve it.

There is a process of ideological and conceptual transformation, and there is no hurry.

continued: "Your Majesty issued an edict to allow the government and the opposition to admonish. But how can the voice of the people be heard? ”

"Folk voices?"

"What is the rule of the country? It is to govern the people and let the people live and work in peace and contentment, so that the country can be strong. ”

This sentence will be the wind in other dynasties, but in the Song Dynasty, it was the mainstream voice, although most of the time it was just a slogan, but after all, it was a dynasty focused on internal governance.

Ye Song and the others nodded.

"But most officials don't have access to the people, they can, just neighbors, who occasionally walk down the street and hear some of the voices."

The two nodded again. is to look around like Zheng Lang, and see only a part of the people, and it is impossible to hear the needs of all the people. That's in the locality, when he arrives in the capital, does Zheng Lang still have the ability to inspect the whole country?

"With movable type, you can run a newspaper for the people to speak, and the officials in the temple can also look at it and use these words as a reference."

"Newspapers?" Da Song's eyes lit up, and it was obvious that he thought of some benefits, albeit hazy.

"Like Di Bao, let private organizations be organized, and the court will not interfere, as long as the premise does not involve the content of the great rebellion, it can be published. It can also publish some folk news, wild history anecdotes, poems and songs, novels and miscellaneous dramas to attract people to buy. Private individuals can make profits, and the court can be used as a reference for auxiliary government. Brother Song, you can't do your political achievements, do this matter well, and you also have political achievements. ”

Ye Qingchen was speechless.

Song Zhen rolled his eyes angrily, then there are people who say this to you, and it is not good to say my political achievements to my face.

But Song Zhen was very moved to hear it and asked, "Where is that movable type?" ”

"I brought the tools, on the ship, it will be in the capital in about ten days. It's just this time that you can plan it. ”

This is even more significant.

The public opinion of the newspaper is not only for the court to make a reference, but also to make the Song Dynasty system more open, some scholars in the Song Dynasty, including Su Dongpo and others, they were born in ordinary people, but after becoming high-ranking officials, they forgot the fundamentals, immediately defended the interests of scholars, and with the newspaper, they could play a supervisory role.

It will not leapfrog the Song Dynasty into the Ming Cook era, but it will get better.

Ye Qingchen said: "Xingzhi, how did you come up with these ideas?" ”

"Gewuxue, Gewu Zhizhi, Gewu is to be a metaphysical instrument, poor metaphysical truth. Zhizhi pushes Hu Wu's knowledge, and wants his knowledge to be endless. ”

These two sentences are said by Zhu Xi, this Gewu is the clear reason, looking at the metaphysical things and things, to understand the metaphysical heavenly principles. See the truth from things, expand your knowledge from the few to the most, so as to achieve endless knowledge.

Among Zhu Xi's many remarks, Zheng Lang's favorite is this sentence, which is also a representative of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, and the Gewu Zhizhi of the Song Dynasty.

According to Zhu Xi's theory of knowledge of things, physics and chemistry can be included.

Ye Song and the others didn't understand much, so they had to drink stuffy.

Suddenly, the guy walked in with a beautiful girl.

The girl is twenty-eight years old, she looks extremely beautiful and moving, a goose yellow spring skirt is tightly wrapped around the delicate body, which is even more charming and lovely, bowing gently and saluting, and saying: "The concubine has seen three princesses. ”

The two guys behind her listened to her gentle voice, and a chill welled up in their hearts.

Is this still the naughty little lady in our family?

"You are ......," Song Zhen said.

"I am the little lady of the Fan family."

"It turned out to be Little Lady Fan," various expressions appeared on Da Song's face.

Little lady Fan came to Zheng Lang and said, "I have heard the name of Master Zheng for a long time, can you give a concubine." ”

It turned out to be his fan, Zheng Lang didn't think of anything else, he asked for paper and pen, wrote a poem, stuffed the scenery in autumn, and Hengyang Yan went without paying attention. The sound of the corners on all sides rises, and in the thousands of mountains, the long smoke falls and the lonely city is closed. A glass of turbid wine is thousands of miles away, and Yan Ran has no plan. Qiang Guan is full of frost, people are sleepless, and the general's white hair is crying.

This fisherman's pride was written by Fan Zhongyan in Yanzhou, and it has already begun to be sung.

It wasn't Zheng Lang's own words, the little girl was a little disappointed in her eyes, but in a blink of an eye, she thought that it was Zheng Lang's own handwriting, and thanked her happily, so she left. While walking and still observing, at this time Zheng Lang's calligraphy is gradually becoming a big success, only on the word, in the Song Dynasty absolutely ranked in the top five, last year and Wen Yanbo went to Yanzhou on the road, and Wen Yanbo accidentally exchanged calligraphy, even calligraphy everyone Wen Yanbo also praised Zheng Lang's words, said that Zheng Lang's words are the words of scholars, soft and strong, scattered and delicate, smart and full of interest, noble and elegant.

The little girl looked at it, and countless little stars appeared in her eyes, and then turned her head to look at the private room.

In the private room, Da Song and Ye Qingchen were snickering.

"What are you laughing at?"

"It is rumored that you went to Beijing to serve as the deputy minister of Xifu, and this little lady said that if she can enter your door, even if she is a concubine, she will have to fulfill her wish. So there were rumors in the market that the Fan family used 200,000 yuan to buy a concubine. ”

"Nonsense......" Zheng Lang almost squirted out a mouthful of syrup water.

After another conversation, the three of them left.

Zheng Lang got up early the next morning, and he had to go to the morning court.

This is also the first time that Zheng Lang has participated in the court meeting in a real sense after seven or eight years as an official.

Stand according to official duties.

If you don't go to the early court, it is difficult to understand Cui Xian's caution.

There were many ministers who participated in the court meeting, but Zheng Lang stood at the front of the shift, and there were only a dozen people in front of him.

And more than a dozen people are old people, but he is the youngest, the most conspicuous, and of course the most dazzling.

Zheng Lang looked at the countless officials behind him and looked at him, and couldn't help touching his mustache, thinking in his heart, don't look, I won't be able to stand in line for long at the court meeting.

The eunuch declared: "If there is something to do, there is nothing to retreat." ”

Some ministers began to march, some military, some civilian, and some prison.

It's mostly an innocuous question.

However, it cannot be said that we do not attach importance to it, in addition to major events, the country also has many small affairs, which constitute the cornerstone and governance policy of a country.

After the minister finished speaking, Zheng Lang walked out with a tooth wat in his hand, but the first thing was not to increase the number of village soldiers, but to use weapons.

"The Han Dynasty took Xiao He as the first merit to destroy the enemy, not only the front-line soldiers, but the rear officials to govern the civil affairs is particularly important."

split the first sentence, which made many Wenchen like it.

Next, let's talk about weapons, anyway, the country has many redundant expenses, and the surname Suo allocated a sum of money to reward craftsmen, improve the lives of craftsmen, and subsidize the cost of equipment.

Then there will be inferior weapons, and there will be reason to inquire about the officials who are greedy for ink and the craftsmen who are slacking off.

This is also the Confucian theory, give first and ask later.

Then when it comes to gunpowder, a batch of weapons has been developed, but it has not been applied to the battlefield on a large scale, which is far from Zheng Lang's requirements, but this batch of artillery can be manufactured first and transported to various villages on the front line to increase defense capabilities.

And then I said the village soldiers.

After finishing speaking, looking at the ministers, they are kind and save a lot of expenses for the country, which may not be understood by these bigwigs.