Seeing that the New Year is coming, Chang'an City is full of festivities; Of course, the festive atmosphere was not only because of the Chinese New Year, but also because of the great victory in the Turkic war;

It is gratifying to destroy the old enemies of the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years, but what is even more gratifying is that this great victory is closely related to the common people, and there are continuous wills in the palace, including pasture land, horses, cattle, sheep and livestock, and even prisoners of war and slaves, all kinds of booty are transferred to the civilians at a very low price, and the war dividends begin to benefit the people of the empire from the court; The elements of belligerence and expansion were taking root in the minds of all classes of the Empire's peasants, businessmen, and businessmen, and as the war continued, it would sprout, grow, and eventually become a towering tree that would cover the whole world.

In short, the vast emerging empire is undergoing a radical change, and the wheel of history is being hit by a small stone at this point in time, turning a big corner and starting to run into the unknown. As the initiator, Comrade Shenxiao Wang was unconscious, and only thought that it was because of the arrival of the New Year that Chang'an City had a different kind of liveliness.

appeared in the Shenxiao Palace, and Shi Sun Xin, the head of the palace, appeared in front of Ye Jinyu for the first time.

"See Your Highness!" Seeing his own Shenxiao King again, Sun Xin seemed very happy. After all, King Shenxiao is the backbone of the entire palace, His Royal Highness is not at home, and there is no backbone in the Shenxiao Mansion and even the entire Shenren Workshop.

Seeing his bright down jacket, Ye Jinyu suppressed the urge to laugh and asked, "Sun Changshi, when did you come back?" Why didn't you stay on the ship. ”

Sun Xin smiled embarrassedly and said, "Heaven is the abode of the gods, and the ministers are not blessed, and they can't stand it." "The spaceship is a divine object, Sun Xin naturally hopes to be permanent, but he has more than enough heart and not enough strength, in the final analysis, it is because Sun Xin himself has poor physique, he has altitude sickness when he flies high, and he is seasick when the wind is stronger. I can't stand it, I can't stand it; He can only come back and continue to do his job.

"It's good to come back, the God-Man Mansion needs you to coordinate it." Sun Xin is educated, knowledgeable, can manage, and is willing to study technology with craftsmen, he is a competent prince of the palace, and it may not be useful to change the person Ye Boss. After appeasing Sun Xin, Ye Jinyu asked again:

"Where's the spaceship? Is it still parked in the workshop? ”

The twenty-sixth of the lunar month of modern time and space can sell a wave of Tianhuangshi, originally Ye Jinyu had already brought more than a dozen pieces back to modern times, and there was still a basket of raw materials in the Shenxiao Palace, which was enough for him to sell; But Ye Jinyu had a big mind, and he wanted to go to the place of origin and carry some stone seals directly from there to modern time and space.

The road from Chang'an to Fuzhou is long, if you use the horses, carriages, boats and other conventional means of transportation in this era, not to mention the 26th of the lunar month, it will be fast to arrive on the 26th of the first lunar month of next year.

The only reliable point is the spaceship, although it is far less fast than the plane, but the speed of 100 kilometers per hour is still there, and if the wind is down, maybe 200 kilometers can be reached. Either way, they are faster than horses; And it doesn't need to rest and feed like horses. Starting now, as long as the direction is not wrong, there is a day or two, you can go to Fuzhou for a round trip.

However, Ye Jinyu's abacus was destined to fail, and Sun Xin said: "Your Highness, the spaceship is not in the workshop; When the spaceship returned to Chang'an, even the boats and boatmen were summoned to the palace by His Majesty; Speaking of this, Sun Xin said mysteriously: "Listening to what the palace officials said, Your Majesty has recently been obsessed with spaceships, named the spaceship Tianzhou, dressed up as luxurious as a palace, and built a Shenzhou platform in the palace for alternate landing; From time to time, he and the ministers get on the spaceship and travel in the air. ”

Tianzhou? Isn't that freight? The emperor gave such a joyful name; A magical and fun boat arrived in the hands of the emperor, that is, meat buns beat dogs, Ye Jinyu estimated that he would not come back, and he didn't want to come back.

"Oh, isn't there another boat being built on the slipway? How's the progress going? ”

At the beginning, Ye Jinyu didn't know whether it was the flat-bottomed boats of the Datang boatwrights or the sharp-bottomed boats designed by modern "experts" that were better, so he ordered the craftsmen to start trial production of a pointed-bottomed boat at the same time when they were building the flat-bottomed boats for comparison. The boatwrights have a lot of experience in building punts, so they built a punt as early as they built a house; As for the Sharp-bottomed Boats, their progress was much slower, and they continued to explore and overcome difficulties along the way.

"Your Highness, the shipwrights have tasted that it is easy to have a flat bottom but a sharp bottom is difficult; The second punt is ready to lay the deck, and the craftsmen are asking when the solar panels and wind turbines will be ready so that they can be preset on the hull. As for the pointed bottom boats, the hull is still enclosed on the slipway, and if it is formed, it will not be too late in March or May. ”

Sun Xin's words completely broke Ye Jinyu's desire to go to Fuzhou before the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month.

"Take your time, I will prepare the battery as soon as possible, and I won't miss the construction schedule." Ye Jinyu said on his lips, but in his heart he was thinking about how to get a modern flight control system to make the control of the spacecraft safer, simpler, more accurate, and more effective.

Sun Xin arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, it will take time for the spaceship to be built, but the zero degree meridian needs to be determined as soon as possible." The spaceship could not find its place in the air, it was very dangerous, and His Majesty took a boat to the air before, not wanting to encounter strong winds, and was blown out for dozens of miles and could hardly find the way back to the palace; His Majesty was frightened and did not get on the ship again for several days, until the wind eased a little. ”

Speaking of this, Ye Jinyu remembered that he had told Sun Xin on the way to Hanzhong that he would build a bell tower to determine the prime meridian.

"Didn't I tell you to refer to the books I brought with me to build a Big Ben to act as a zero meridian?"

"Your Highness, the minister has studied the album of Big Ben, and found that the shape of Big Ben has exceeded the height of the imperial city. My Majesty has decided to demolish the Gatehouse of Suzaku Gate and build a Big Ben after the New Year. ”

Big Ben is just a private name, Li Yuan has already planned, the name of the new bell tower will be called Wude Tower, the tower is ninety-five steps high, representing the ninety-five supreme, the tallest building in the world; On the body of the tower, it is necessary to engrave various achievements in the years of martial arts, in order to promote the merits of martial virtue, and promote the prestige of the Tang Dynasty.

As for how to build it so high, just ask the Shenxiao King for help.

Ye Jinyu didn't know Li Yuan's little abacus, and when he heard that Li Yuan finally responded to the project of the bell tower, he said with a smile: "I remember that the Vermilion Bird Gate is the gate of the imperial city, it is located on the central axis of Chang'an City, and the geographical location of sitting north and facing south is good and significant, and it is very good to use it to build a warp clock!" When this bell is built, maybe it will depend on you to preside, you have to work hard, I can't say that you, Sun Xin, who built the Wude Tower, will be the same as Zheng Guo, who built Zheng Guoqu, and Li Bing, who supervised the construction of Dujiangyan, celebrities and celebrities! ”

Sun Xin hurriedly bowed his hand: "The ministers are afraid, and they all depend on the virtue and blessing of His Highness." ”

Ye Jinyu signaled him not to be too formal, and said: "But you also have to take care of other projects, such as artillery, sextants, and the most basic steel smelting, etc., which are all very important." ”

"The minister is the long history of His Royal Highness, and he doesn't dare to forget His Highness's will for a moment......" Sun Xin, who would do this, only felt that it was really worthwhile to quit the emperor's job to work for King Shenxiao.

"Artillery is a thing, the minister has ordered the blacksmith to make the model, but the iron smelting cannot keep up, and the finished product has not yet been made; The six-point ceremonial minister has always been in mind, and the craftsman has made several pieces; However, the meridian has not yet been confirmed and has not been able to make a difference. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Xin said again:

"Your Highness, there are some characters painted on the dial of the Big Ben, but the minister does not know what he means; I want to come to my Tang Dynasty, and there are many people who don't know it; Can you replace the characters of the dial with my Tang characters, the twelve grids on the table correspond to the twelve hours, and it is better to replace it with the twelve earthly branches of 'Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai'. ”

It is indeed twelve squares above the clock, and according to the algorithm transmitted back from the West in modern time and space, the clock has to go twice a day; But in Sun Xin's view, the twelve grids represent exactly the twelve hours. Ye Jinyu thought about it and nodded in agreement, although it may not be convenient to look at it by himself, but it is definitely more pleasing to the eye for the Tang people to look at time like this; Anyway, I look at the time on my mobile phone, and there is no need for tens of millions of Tang people to adapt to their modern habits; It is better to let the Tang people spread this habit of twelve hours all over the world, and let those savage whites also get used to the habits from the East.

"It's good if you think it's convenient, but you still have to add a small scale to the dial to break down the time."

"Obey Your Highness's orders." Sun Xin bowed again.

It's good that you don't forget the tasks you set. Thinking that there were still a bunch of introductory books on electronics in his hand, Ye Jinyu said: "Don't talk here, go, come with me to the study, I got some more books here, and threw them in the study first." ”

Sun Xin hurriedly said: "Your Highness, the national teacher and the Taoist masters are in the library building at the moment, do you see them?" "It means that if you want to see it, you will go, and if you don't want to see it, then don't go.

"Dao Chief? What is the Taoist? Are there a lot of Taoist priests coming to the house? "Ye Jinyu has been in the Tang Dynasty for so long, except for the national teacher and his apprentice Li Chunfeng, I have not seen other Taoist priests, but I have heard of Youtai.

"Your Royal Highness, listen to the words of the national teacher, and there are many people who have attained Taoism such as Taiyi, Yuanhuang faction, and Zhengyi Sect who have come on this trip; Among them, there is a Yuan Emperor sent a god monarch, called the true monarch of gunpowder; This person has refined a hand of thunder method, and its usage is somewhat similar to that of divine thunder; It's just that the power is thousands of miles worse than the god thunder of His Highness! ”

Gunpowder Zhenjun? What the heck? Is it also explosives?

"Let's go, let's take a look!" As he spoke, Ye Jinyu walked towards the mansion first; Ye Jinyu's study, that is, the library in the Shenxiao Palace, is the key point of defense in the entire palace, hidden in the depths of the palace, guarded by heavy soldiers.

Seeing His Royal Highness enter the mansion, Sun Xin hurriedly followed.