But what made Yuping depressed was that Song Jiu then asked his students to return to Beijing, under the pretext of coming back for various research and development, but in fact he brought a letter home.

The envoy brought the letter, Song Jiu was not very relieved, Yuping didn't dare to say more, Song Jiu didn't dare to say more. Even in a private message, Song Jiu didn't say much, still didn't say much about the reason, but just used a strong tone to order Yuping to forcibly repair the bridge.

Apple hesitated.

At this time, the cement workshop finally came out with good news, Tsing Yi invited Yuping to go over to watch, after years of research and development, the cement was developed. Three models, including the evolution of slag cement, bauxite cement, are being developed for Portland cement.

Continue to burn money, the first two kinds of cement can be used, and it is necessary to research, evolve the technique, which is similar to the nature of acid. But it can be popularized. And this is the coldest time, in the midst of the ice and snow, the students still successfully made several models with cement, and Tsing Yi beat it up with a hammer, which is to show Yuping the strength.

The students began to figure out some ways to test the original number of strengths.

Under the leadership of Song Jiu, more than 60 students have entered the senior class one after another, and they are half teachers and half students, and they all begin to specialize. Song Jiu also encouraged them to do the same.

Energy is limited, and it is impossible to be proficient in every subject. It's just that the time is still short, if more than ten years later, professionally, Song Jiu can only surpass them in theory and vision at that time, and the specific knowledge may not be as good as them.

Tsing Yi said: "They are some models that have just been built, and with new cement, the sand and gravel have been successfully solidified in this cold weather, and the strength is okay and the speed is faster." It only takes four or five days, if it's hot. The coagulation time may be as little as a day or two. And its strength is more than twice the strength of cement before. ”

Jadeite looked at them without speaking.

This is not a trivial matter, and the construction speed is faster. It does not require long-term maintenance, and the construction cost becomes low.

Tsing Yi said: "If we had it earlier, Hezhou would have been built better." ”

"If you don't have a river island, then you have the money to develop it?" Ping whispered.

Everyone was silent for a while, in order to study it, the money was burned too hard, and it is not over yet, if you want to continue to burn, I am afraid you will have to continue to burn hundreds of thousands. in order to stop research and development. But it doesn't end there, if you want to be better, you have to improve it further in the future. But if it is handed over to the imperial court or a private workshop, there is no need for the Song family to take out the money and smash it down.

Yuping looked at the dense pipes, the large stove slowly rotating under the pull of the waterwheel, and all kinds of complicated instruments, and let out a long breath in her mouth, and said, "Tsing Yi, prepare five thousand yuan of silk." Reward all students, craftsmen and people. ”

"It's good."

"Then give me the technique and the drawings."

"Okay."

Yuping returned home with these technical drawings and instructions, and dedicated them to Zhao Kuangyi, and there was a reason to build the bridge. Just outside the East Water Gate, it must be audited by Kaifeng Prefecture. The reason for the shadows is simpler, leave it to Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu may not agree, so he can only hand it over to Zhao Kuangyi. Zhao Kuangyi can still say a few words. In both public and private, Zhao Kuangyi hopes that Hezhou will be good. At least he can get a little more money......

Please make two more requests, the huge construction is gradually coming to an end, next year can not be built, in a state of swaying, then it is fine, Guan Jian Song Jiu is not there, it will make people feel unnecessary suspicion. Therefore, he asked the imperial court to allow Hezhou to set up a workshop to produce cement, and the imperial court could also use its benefits to compare with the state's prison benefits to restrain the corruption of officials. The second is the bridge.

Liu Hai was handed over to Kaifeng Mansion, and within a few days, Zhao Kuangyi sent someone to summon her to Kaifeng Mansion.

There were several people sitting in Kaifeng Mansion, Yuping knew them, the Zhao brothers, Zhao Pu, Lu Yuqing, and Yuping immediately gave a salute.

She is not Song Jiu, and she has no place to sit, Zhao Kuangyi asked: "Yuping, why did you think of building a bridge outside the East Water Gate?" ”

"The two kings, this is the idea of the officials, there are many tourists in Hezhou, even if tourists from other places come, they will go to the city to have a look at Hezhou at the same time. Although several bridges have been built, you must enter the city through the corner gate, and you must also enter the corner gate from the dragon embankment, and the north corner gate must go out of the city, but you must enter the city through the south corner gate to enter the city. Only the problem of tourists is not serious, and there are goods from the warehouses of the imperial court, and some tourists have horse-drawn carts and ox-carts, which are often blocked. It can be maintained for the time being, but the country is about to start a 10,000-year peace, and the population of the capital will inevitably increase, as the slave family saw, in Hezhong and Hebei, many families live well and raise four or five children. Dozens of states in Quang Nam have become the territory of His Majesty, and there are two remaining countries...... Then the two taxes will be more in the future, and if the bridge is not repaired, something will happen sooner or later. ”

"If the bridge is repaired, your house can be sold for a good price."

"Your Majesty, it's a ...... bar. ”

"But have you ever thought about how the officers and soldiers of our dynasty will guard the East Water Gate when the bridge is built, if a strong enemy comes to attack, standing on the bridge?"

"Your Majesty, if a strong enemy invades outside the capital, the country is in a life-and-death situation, and Hezhou is the focus of their invasion, the country has reached that point, and what kind of bridge is there to talk about, so under the bridge pier, there are eight holes left on the bridge deck, first let a large number of people outside the city enter the city urgently, and then put gunpowder, and destroy the bridge immediately. Although the officials have made preparations, the slave family does not believe that our dynasty can get to that point. ”

"Second brother, bring the blueprints of the bridge."

"Whoa." Zhao Kuangyi went to the back and showed the drawings to Zhao Kuangyin.

Yuping said cautiously: "After the bridge is completed, the people can directly enter the North Point Gate from the flying bridge, and the congestion will be immediately alleviated without competing with the imperial tribute trucks." In addition, the new cement has a lot of roles, city defense roads, river embankments, fortresses, houses, and bridges. The span of this bridge is also better than the white jade bridge, and it is not pulled by steel cables, if it is built, other areas can use flying bridges instead of flat bridges, which is conducive to the passage of large rivers and ships. ”

"I've gotten it, you can go back."

Worried about going home.

Because of the inconvenience of communication, Song Jiu didn't say much, he just faintly felt that Zhao Pu was almost over, Zhao Kuangyin was tolerating now, and when he couldn't bear it anymore, he would inevitably give up, but Zhao Pu was in power, and he was carried away by the right, so he didn't think of it for the time being.

And Zhao Kuangyi is secretly supporting.

It is also a fact that the embankment is overcrowded.

There is another reason that Song Jiu didn't expect, that is, in the arena, Zhao Kuangyin would not choose a female tennis player or a female tennis player. But there are some strong men who make him look excited, such as foot and horse shooting. Riding and shooting are all forbidden soldiers, so the common people should not think about it. But through such a layer of elimination, it is not a performance to pass, to perform well every time, the most after the best to get a good ranking, he knows that the way to use those soldiers as low-level generals, and the common people also have some talents, such as foot shooting, or running, etc., football is also good. It can cultivate the soldiers' sense of cooperation in a small area, which allows Zhao Kuangyin to select real warriors from the people and let them enter the forbidden army.

Several small events, as well as major football events, are all in the finals soon.

Come back next year, the preliminaries, and the year after that, the knockout rounds, once every two years. Many useful low-level generals will be selected for the army.

Last year, it was mixed, and it started in the second half of this year. Zhao Kuangyin came to see it several times, of course, by the way, he went to the academy to encourage the students.

Song Jiu is interested in national entertainment and the profits of gambling. Zhao Kuangyin values military value, and he takes it very seriously.

But the arena is open again, and there is still a large area in Henan that has not yet started. I don't know what to do. It is difficult to build all workshops and dwellings. As a result, the number of visitors is indeed increasing every year.

Zhao Pu objected, and it seemed that it made sense to build the bridge. But he felt uneasy, and Lu Yuqing and Zhao Kuangyi agreed. In the public opinion, if the bridge is not repaired, in case there is chaos in the festival in the future, it will not be very good. And now it is forced that goods cannot be transported into the city on the holiday wharf, otherwise the traffic on the dragon embankment will completely collapse. With this bridge, all problems are solved.

Lu Yuqing also attaches great importance to Hezhou's taxation, and this year's total tax in Hezhou is faintly approaching 500,000 yuan, which is equivalent to the average tax of the five state capitals. Even in the future, if it can move towards a million-dollar tax, it will be given some convenience in the process of taxation by the imperial court.

He hasn't counted the relevant joint and several taxes, otherwise it would have been more.

The two sides disputed, Yuping was a concubine and a woman, and she couldn't enter the palace, so there was a meeting in Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhao Pu was still reluctant, but Zhao Kuangyin sent the lieutenant envoy to the East Water Gate to take a look, and actually agreed. It's really not good, and when the population increases in the future, it's a big deal to build another wall outside, so what's the matter?

He didn't care about Hezhou, the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed, so he stared at the sub-southern......

Li Yu sent his younger brother Li Congshan to pay tribute, and when he saw that it was not good, he changed the Tang State to the Jiangnan State. Before Li Congshan arrived, Li Yu wanted Zhao Pu to say good things for Nantang, and gave Zhao Pu 50,000 taels of silver. Of course, it is a huge amount of money, but it is not so huge that it makes Zhao Pu's heart move.

Now Nan Tang and Wu Yue are rich? It's not the Southern Tang Dynasty, it's Wu Yue. In order to be safe, tribute has been paid over the years, and the territory has shrunk to the south of the Yangtze River, and the country's economy has gradually become embarrassed. Li Yu couldn't come up with more money.

Zhao Pu told Zhao Kuangyin about this, and Zhao Kuangyin said: "This is unacceptable, but it is enough to thank the messenger with a book and give the messenger a little sweetness." ”

Zhao Pu kowtowed.

Zhao Kuangyin said an inexplicable reason: "The body of a great power cannot be weakened by itself, and it should be made impossible to speculate." ”

Don't you want money, all the 50,000 taels of silver that Li Yu bribed you are yours. But Li Congshan came, and Zhao Kuangyin kept rewarding, and the amount of rewards reached exactly 50,000 taels of silver. Whether it was for Li Yu or Zhao Pu, no one has guessed.

It's time for the year.

There were also more people who gave gifts to Zhao Pu, including Wu Yue.

Zhao Kuangyin sat in the palace, listening to Wang Jien's report, his face was cloudy, and he said in the darkest: "Are you sure?" ”

"The slave and maid confirmed that there are only ten brocade bottles, and the things inside are very expensive."

"Okay, you go with me to his house to have a look."

The car drove to Zhao's house, the speed was too fast, the servant in front of him had just carried the bottle into the living room porch, and before Zhao Pu could let people move in, Zhao Kuangyin came in. Zhao Kuangyin looked at these ten bottles, like altars, jars, bottles, made of clay, but more like bottles, so he asked casually: "What is this?" ”

Zhao Pu replied: "Your Majesty, Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, sent a book to the old minister, and sent ten bottles of seafood to the old minister. ”

The Song people also like to eat sea fish, but the transportation is inconvenient, the storage is inconvenient, the seafood can not enter thousands of households, or it is mostly dry goods, as Yan Tong said, pickled products, some are also more expensive, such as shark fin, sea cucumber, shellfish, abalone and so on.

Because it is dry goods, it is impossible to use bottles, more boxes, more expensive boxes, or other utensils, cheap even only one bag. Zhao Pu replied reluctantly, but how did he answer?

Zhao Kuangyin didn't reveal it, and continued to say lightly: "This seafood must be a high-end product, open it and take a look." ”

Zhao Pu and his wife are both a little discolored.

Wang Jien went up and knocked on the cap of the bottle, and when he opened it, he saw that it was full of golden melon seeds. Then he hugged it, how dense the gold was, he didn't hug it. I can't hold a bottle of gold, and it's ten bottles, and the worst thing is that gold is still very valuable, only about thirty grams of one or two pieces of gold, but its value is ten cents. For what Song Jiu wanted sea trade, the Song Dynasty lacked copper and gold and silver, although gold and silver are not standard currency, but can be used as a quasi-currency, and the folk also use them to make jewelry.

The value of these ten bottles of golden melon seeds is far better than Li Yu's 50,000 taels of silver!

Zhao Pu was frightened, he didn't know that Lu Dao was a golden melon seed, Zhao Kuangyin didn't ask, if he asked, Zhao Pu would definitely not be able to go down the steps, he might know Lu Dao, he might not know Lu Dao, but Zhao Pu must know that Lu Dao is definitely not a sea thing. What kind of seafood is bottled? Besides, ten bottles of sea cucumber shark fin can be worth anything, Zhao Pu is powerful, Qian Yu wants to make friends, and he only sells ten bottles of sea shark fin? It's better not to send it, so as to save Zhao Pu from being angry.

Zhao Pu bowed down and said: "The minister will have time to open the letter of King Wu Yue to read, but he really doesn't know the way. ”

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said: "You are harmless, he thinks that national affairs are decided by you, a scholar, so he gives it back." ”

I don't know if it's a good word or a sarcastic one, or a beating.

Zhao Pu had no choice but to continue to refuse, Zhao Kuangyin continued to let him accept it, there was too much money, Zhao Pu was nostalgic in his heart, and accepted it half-pushed.

Walking out of Zhao Pu's house, Zhao Kuangyin sat on the chariot and looked at the south, at this time he thought of two people, one was Cao Bin, Wu Yue also gave a heavy gift, Cao Bin decisively declined. The second is Song Jiu. If Song Jiu amassed wealth, his family property could reach one million now, and he would become one of the top richest people in the capital, not necessarily Zhao Puduo, how much property Zhao Pu has now, Zhao Kuangyin is not very clear, he has a timber business in Shaanxi, just how much wood is used to build a house in the capital a year, and if you have a little proportion in it, you will become a huge rich. There is also the business of Zhao Chengzong in Hebei. and the bribes of the ministers and kings below, Zhao Pu's property even Zhao Kuangyin did not dare to imagine. But if Song Jiu is greedy, there will be no shortage of money in his hand, but he was once forced to let the concubine borrow money to test it.

Thinking of this, the smile on his face faded.

Wang Jien said on the side: "Your Majesty, in the past, King Wu Yue also gave gifts to Zhao Xianggong, but the situation is different, and now our dynasty is only a light army that is Pingguangnan, so the lord of Jiangnan and King Wu Yue gave generous gifts, which is a special situation. ”

"Wang Jien, I said, you are my person, you have to have some backbone!" Zhao Kuangyin suddenly shouted angrily. (To be continued......)