Lin Yi's grain is very important to Li Yu, and Cui Yu's plan is really full of loopholes, so in the end, Li Yu and Cui Yu agreed to let their grain merchants be patient for a while, and buy grain at the price set by the other party this year, and wait until the next year, after the power in his hands is withdrawn from the Wa Kingdom, and then let Lin Yi spit out what he ate this year, even with interest.

Cui Yu also understood that dealing with a country was not as simple as they imagined, so he immediately agreed to Li Su's proposal, and was willing to send people to persuade those grain merchants to buy grain at a high price first, anyway, it doesn't matter if they suffer a little loss this year, and when Li Su faces Lin Yi's opponent next year, they will no longer have to look at the faces of Lin Yi people like before.

After agreeing on the matter of Lin Yi, Cui Yu mentioned the marriage of Li Su and his sister Cui Mengxue again, the two of them should have gotten married a long time ago, but Cui Mengxue has been working in Chang'an Medical College and is familiar with the management and structure of the entire college, plus Li Su was also busy some time ago and was outside all day, so the marriage was delayed. Fortunately, some time ago, Meng Xue wrote a letter, saying that she was sure that she had established a medical school, and Li Su happened to be idle, so Cui Yu, who was the eldest brother, began to marry the two.

Li Su naturally had no objection to this matter, and when he received the news before, he was already asking people to prepare for the wedding. In fact, although the Yingren has a grade, she is not a concubine after all, so she doesn't have to make a big deal according to the etiquette system, but Mengxue was born in the Cui family of Qinghe after all, and Cui Yu didn't want her sister to be too shabby when she got married, so Li Yu asked people to prepare for a wedding.

After seeing off Cui Yu and his wife, Li Su immediately rushed to the boat city, one of the acropolises of Dengzhou. It is the shipbuilding base of Dengzhou, and ninety percent of the shipyards in Dengzhou are there. In addition, the Ship Association and the Ship Design Institute are also located there.

When Li Su came to Wei Heizi's ship association, he didn't find anyone. Then when I arrived at the design school behind the association, I found that the teachers and students in the college were moving things back and forth, including documents and ship models, and they were being put on the carriage in the yard, which seemed to be going to be transported somewhere.

Here in the Ship Design Institute, Li Su also came often in the past, so the teachers and students in general knew him, and after seeing him, these people who moved things saluted one after another. And Li Su also nodded and smiled at everyone, motioned for them to continue, and then walked to Wei Heizi's office by himself.

When Li Su pushed the door open, he saw Wei Heizi explaining something to several old men, these people Li Su also knew, they were all old craftsmen in the Ship Design College, and they were all good at shipbuilding, and to Li Su's surprise, Yifan was also here. It's just that I'm crouching over my desk looking at a roll of drawings.

Seeing Li Su come in, Wei Heizi immediately let a few old men out, and then stepped forward to salute: "Your Highness, why are you free today?" ”

Hear Wei Heizi's words. Yifan also raised her head and glanced at Li Su, but she just smiled at Li Su, which was regarded as a greeting. Then he still looked down at the drawings in his hand. Although Yifan also helps Li Su do things, strictly speaking. It can't be regarded as Li Su's subordinate, but Li Su's friend. So when the two get along, they are very casual, and there is no difference between up and down.

Li Su smiled, and then replied to Wei Heizi's words: "The Ship Design Institute is about to move, and you are the first batch of people to move to Taiwan, although I know that you are very attentive, but you are still a little uneasy, plus there is nothing to do today, so let's take a look." What, is Yifan working on any new ship? ”

Hearing Li Su ask about Yifan, Wei Heizi said with a smile: "Dean Zhao said that there is nothing big recently, so he wants to improve her steamship, and the people of our academy have also designed several new types of steamships, so she will refer to it." ”

Sure enough, it was similar to what he guessed, Li Su shook his head and smiled. Yifan is the president of the Academy of Sciences, but although she is proficient in mechanical development, shipbuilding is her greatest interest, such as the latest steam ship, which she designed single-handedly, so it is normal for her to appear in the Ship Design College.

Li Su walked to Yifan's side and looked at the drawings, only to find that he couldn't understand most of them. In fact, this is not surprising, after all, there is a specialization in the art industry, and he doesn't understand shipbuilding, let alone understand the drawings of these specialties. It's just that what makes Li Su feel depressed is that the length units and Arabic numerals marked on the drawings are all made by him, and now he doesn't understand the meaning of these things.

Since he couldn't understand it, Li Su no longer wasted his brains in vain, but asked Wei Heizi about his preparations, and when he learned that everything was going well, he was relieved.

The Ship Design Institute will move from Dengzhou to Taiwan, which Li Su has planned for a long time, and not only the Ship Design College, Yifan's Academy of Sciences, the steam engine manufacturing factory, and related iron-making, casting and other factories, and even the firearms factory on Perak Island will also move to Taiwan.

Although Dengzhou is Li Su's territory, it is also the land of the Tang Dynasty, so when Li Su was in Dengzhou, he did not do things as freely as Taiwan, such as political reforms, he could carry out them in Taiwan, but it was completely unfeasible in Dengzhou. In addition, with the gradual expansion of Li Su's overseas influence, the relationship between him and Datang has become more and more delicate, and it can no longer be as mixed as before.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Li Su decided to slowly move out the foundation he had laid in Dengzhou, and Taiwan was the base camp he chose, at least for him now, there is no more suitable development base than Taiwan. The ship design college is the first step in the migration, after all, the shipbuilding industry is the foundation of maritime trade, and Li Su can do nothing without ships, so in the next few years, Taiwan's shipbuilding industry will be one of the development priorities of Li Su.

Originally, Li Su had something to do with looking for Yifan, but seeing that she was looking at the drawings so seriously, he couldn't bother, so he had to let Wei Heizi take him to visit the Ship Design Institute. When the original ship design college was first established, it was just to organize some masters from various shipyards in Dengzhou, and then led by Wei Heizi, gathering the wisdom of everyone to jointly design and develop new ships.

Later, with the development of Dengzhou's shipbuilding industry, the Ship Design Institute began to recruit some apprentices, mainly outstanding young people selected by various shipyards, who learned shipbuilding technology from experienced masters as apprentices.

It is precisely on the basis of these sorted out materials that the School of Naval Design has made reforms again, and now it has begun to recruit students from the outside world, no longer limited to shipyard workers, and has also changed the previous teaching mode of master with apprentices, to the kind of classroom teaching in later generations, and exerted the teaching force to the limit.

Li Su walked around the academy casually and found that there were not many students who were studying, and most of them were helping to move things. According to Wei Heizi's explanation, there are now 280 students in the entire academy, and this is because the academy is moving to Taiwan, so after graduating this year, a group of students did not enroll students again, but prepared to go to Taiwan for that recruitment. Otherwise, the number of cadets in the academy should be around three hundred and fifty.

When Li Su and Wei Heizi came back from visiting, they found that Yifan had already finished reading the drawings, and Li Su smiled at the moment: "Yifan, the Ship Design College is going to move, and your Academy of Sciences will be the next place to be relocated, how about it, are there any difficulties?" ”

Yifan had already received Li Su's notice, so he was not surprised after hearing it, but nodded and said: "It's nothing to relocate, it's just that our Academy of Sciences needs a lot of experimental materials, such as various steels, wood, etc., which can be found very easily when you are in Dengzhou, but if you go to Taiwan, I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome." ”

Li Su said with a smile: "This is easy to do, I can let Taiwan build a large warehouse first, you will need a list of materials, and then purchase a large number of them and transport them to Taiwan for storage, if you need some rare materials temporarily, you can also go to Fuzhou and Guangzhou to buy, which is very close to Taiwan, and it is not very troublesome to procure, and Taiwan will also vigorously promote industrial development, maybe in a few years, you will no longer have to purchase from outside, but directly use Taiwan's locally produced materials." ”

Hearing Li Su's words, Yifan nodded, in fact, she thought the same way, but the procurement of materials required laughter funds, and now that Li Su nodded, naturally there would be no problem.

"By the way, if the Academy of Sciences moves there, then the steam engine manufacturing stone and the steam shipyard will also move there together?" Yifan suddenly thought of another question.

After hearing this, Li Su thought about it for a while, and then said: "The steam shipyard was originally renovated on top of an ordinary shipyard, as long as there is a steam engine, there is no big problem in building a steam ship, and it is easy to prepare, but it can be moved with the Academy of Sciences, but the steam engine manufacturing plant involves steel, foundry and other factories, so if you want to relocate, at least after those basic factories are built, but it doesn't matter, the steam engine needed by Taiwan's steam shipyard can be transported from Dengzhou, It will certainly not affect the production of steamships! ”

Yifan also felt that it was feasible after hearing this, but then she frowned again, and said with some hesitation: "Your Highness, if the Academy of Sciences moves to Taiwan, I can go there for a while and keep the entire Academy on the right track, but after that, I will return to Dengzhou, so I am afraid that I will no longer be able to serve as the dean." (To be continued.) )