Chapter 17: King Qin's Knot
The Wuya warship was the largest main warship of the Sui Dynasty, with a total height of more than 100 feet and a total length of 55 meters. It can accommodate 900 warriors. It was raised and built by Yang Su, a general of the Sui Dynasty, in Sichuan. It is a rare giant ship in the world, and it played an important role in the Sui Dynasty's war to unify the whole country. Its five teeth actually refer to the fact that the battleship has a five-story structure.
Five stories high and fifty-five meters long, in the eyes of modern people, this is just the size of an ocean-going fishing boat, but in the eyes of the Tang people, it is already a behemoth standing up to the sky. That's why Li Yuan tried to treat this as a problem and put it forward to Ye Shenren.
However, Ye Jinyu didn't understand, he didn't understand either modern ships or Tang Dynasty warships; I don't even know what kind of concept the five-tooth warship is. I wanted to ask, but in front of everyone, he still had to put up the posture of a god, and he couldn't ask shamelessly.
Fortunately, he had a time and space as a background, so he tried to say to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, I don't know what the shape of the Tang Dynasty's five-tooth warship is, and I don't know if it is suitable for flying in the sky; Why don't I go back and ask someone to design a spaceship that conforms to Datang, and when they design it, I'll bring the drawings over and build according to the drawings. What do you think? β
Is this asking other gods to design a spaceship? That couldn't be better.
"In this case, even if the gods and men go to do it, they will spend two dollars and silver, and they will be borne by the Tang Dynasty."
During the conversation between the few people, the soldiers of Qianniuwei returned one after another, bringing back all the wires and battery fragments that could be found, and even picking up the door panels that had fallen to shreds.
Looking at these unseemly things, Ye Jinyu shook his head and said disgustedly: "It's useless, throw it away!" β
Li Yuan smiled and said, "Since the gods don't want it, it's better to give it to me; They are all divine objects that have gone to heaven, and I will carry them back to the palace to take a good look. β
If you want to collect the rags, I can stop you from doing it......
"Your Majesty, if you want to build a big ship, there may not be enough space in the Shenren Workshop, so it's better to move the Shenlei Workshop! The Divine Thunder Workshop and the Gunpowder Workshop have moved to other, more hidden places. β
Originally, Ye Jinyu wanted to find another place to stay, but thinking that the big place in the Shenren Square was his own, and he had spent a lot of effort to build a faΓ§ade, it was a pity to give up like this; It is better to take this opportunity to move the deadly gunpowder factory or bomb factory.
"The Divine Sky King is willing to let me move the Divine Thunder Workshop away?"
The emperor was taken aback! This god Lei Gang has made great contributions to the fight against the Turks; In his mind, this kind of important weapon of the country, no matter who it is, must be firmly grasped in his hands; Especially the most important gunpowder, he, the emperor, was red-eyed; If it weren't for the man of God......
Even though the craftsmen and sergeants in the workshop already knew the recipe, they could make it even without a god-man. But he, the emperor, did not dare to take the gunpowder workshop for himself, and did not even dare to secretly produce it in other places; It's just that I'm afraid of evil against the man of God!
He was calculating what benefit he would give in exchange for it from the man of God. I didn't expect the gods to be so generous, willing to hand over the two major workshops to the emperor to move away; It was so surprising to him.
Seeing Ye Shenren nodding without hesitation, the emperor took a breath of cool air, the gods really can't be treated with common sense, others regard it as a treasure, and the gods and men abandon it like a piece of; Since the god was generous, he, the emperor, did not dare to be stingy, and said: "In this case, I will take these two great workshops into the royal possession; and a thousand taels of gold shall be paid for one or two of the man of God. "In fact, from the labor to the materials, the workshop was made by the Tang Emperor and the political axe, and this gold thousand taels is just for the gunpowder formula, and it also means to marry a good god.
However, Ye Jinyu didn't have a cold very much, he just sold gold from modern times and understood the market, this thousand taels of gold seems to be a lot, but it is actually not worth too much money when converted; For the sake of these gold, not only did he not make much profit, but he made the Tang Empire poor, which is not in line with his usual style of doing things, and a win-win situation is the long-term way of cooperation. So he refused:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, I don't want this gold, now there are many places where you need to use money in the Tang Dynasty; It is of no use to me to take this much gold; If you really want to thank me, why don't you give me tens of millions of catties of Qingtian stone and bloodstone produced in Chuzhou and Hangzhou, preferably carved into seals, and tens of thousands, anyway, the more the better, so I can take it back and repay the favor. β
When Ye Jinyu checked the information, he checked the names of these places in the Tang Dynasty by the way, so he is about to mention it now. As soon as he opened his mouth, there were tens of thousands of seals, and I don't know if the price of Qingtian stones would be pushed to the eighteenth floor underground if so many Qingtian stones were released.
The idea of the man of God is still so different, others look at it as a stone, but to the man of God it is a treasure of gold that cannot be exchanged; However, it is better for the emperor to use stones to offset real gold and silver, so Li Yuan promised: "Since King Shenxiao doesn't want gold, then I will give you the stones from those two places." β
In this way, after Tian Huangshi, Ye Jinyu got the second of the four great stones; It's just that it will be mined, and I don't know what year or month it will be.
After seeing off the happy emperor, Ye Jinyu was ready to wear back to modern times; When I was trying to find a way to find the blueprint of the five-tooth warship, an unexpected guest came to the door.
"Xiao Wang has seen the King of Shenxiao!"
However, after Li Shimin walked around with Li Yuan, he did not return to his Qin Palace, but came back to find Ye Jinyu.
"It turned out to be His Royal Highness the King of Qin, I don't know what His Royal Highness the King of Qin has to say." Ye Jinyu learned the tone and tone of the Tang Dynasty people and greeted him. It's just that the words are polite and distant.
As soon as Ye Jinyu appeared in the Tang Dynasty, he repeatedly lifted Li Shimin's black material, which made it strange that Li Shimin had a good impression of him; Although Li Shimin later paid for the map from Ye Jinyu, the relationship between the two sides was not particularly friendly, although it was not as bad as the old and dead, but it was not so cordial;
Li Shimin said: "Xiao Wang came here today, mainly to compensate King Shenxiao. β
"Isn't it a reparation?" Ye Jinyu didn't understand, it seemed that he had always been sorry for Li Shimin, why did he still go up to the pole to apologize now.
Li Shimin said: "King Shenxiao pointed out the Yangguan Avenue of Muzhou for Xiao Wang; Xiao Wang has always been grateful; I wanted to come to thank King Shenxiao in person several times, but King Shenxiao was a man among the gods and came and went without a trace; Xiao Wang has never had the opportunity to see him. β
Li Shimin said the same as the truth, and Ye Jinyu was almost moved.
This Li Shimin doesn't seem to be a very strong person, just look at the people he has befriended, from bandits and bandits, hooligans and ruffians, military generals and strategists, and people of three religions and nine streams; If he were the kind of aggressive and unlikable character, he would not have been embraced by so many people.
"King Qin is polite." Ye Jinyu said that during the period of adventure, he has encountered a variety of characters, more complex than the people he has dealt with in the previous eighteen years; He didn't dare to trust others so easily. So he didn't believe that King Qin really just came to the door to apologize and thank you.
"In addition to thanking King Shenxiao, Xiao Wang also needs King Shenxiao's help."
Sure enough, Ye Jinyu said in his heart that it was not that simple.
"I don't know if King Qin needs my service, as long as I can do it, I will do my best."
King Qin stopped talking nonsense and went straight to the topic: "After the year, Xiao Wang will lead the army to the east to conquer Goguryeo, this time the mountains and rivers are far away, and it is difficult to return to Chang'an; If you go further east to Namuzhou, I am afraid that you will only be able to go back and forth once in a few years; I'm afraid that once I leave Chang'an, I won't have the chance to see the saint in this life. β
sighed that the road pointed out by Ye Jinyu was too far, so that his father and son could not be separated from Cheng Huan's knees, and then turned around and said: "Today, I am fortunate to see the flying board made by the gods, and I am shocked to hear that there are all kinds of gods such as spaceships in the world; Xiao Wang's heart was ecstatic; If Xiao Wang is also lucky enough to get such a divine artifact, then all the way down, whether it is attacking the city and plundering the land, or going back and forth to Chang'an, it will become easy. β
Ye Jinyu said in his heart that King Qin's vision is sharp, his father Li Yuan just regarded the spaceship as a plaything in the sky, but Li Shimin had already thought of its military role; Isn't such a big ship just an air strike platform when it flies? Whether it's throwing things from a spaceship and smashing people, or calculating soldiers in airborne combat, you can play very slippery; It's definitely a weapon to use it to storm cities and plunder land. The boat itself is a means of transportation, and when it flies into the sky, it is still a means of transportation, and it is also a good tool that is not limited by the terrain.
Li Shimin continued: "I wonder if the god-man can build two spaceships at the same time, one for the saint and one for the little king; Xiao Wang's ship doesn't have to be carved like a saint's spaceship; It just needs to be sturdy and reliable, and it's okay to be crude! β
Afraid that Ye Shenren would not agree, he hurriedly emphasized: "All the materials, craftsmen, and silver money needed for shipbuilding are all paid by my Qin Palace. will never let the Shenxiao King break the bank; Having learned the lesson of being counted down by the prince when he bought a map last time, this time he learned to be obedient and took the initiative to say:
"I know that the man of God does not like gold and silver and mundane things, if the man of God has a favorite calligraphy and painting, treasures, strange stones and famous medals; As long as Xiao Wang has it, the man of God, please say, Xiao Wang will not hesitate to play with antiquities. β
To build an extra spaceship, all you need to prepare is some wires and batteries. Ye Jinyu thought that one sheep was driving, and two sheep were also driving. It just so happens that among the four great stones, there is one in today's Goguryeo, after the King of Qin attacked Goguryeo, he can't say that he will have to deal with the mustachioed Li Shimin in the future; It's better to sell King Qin's favor here.
"I don't have any problem building a spaceship here, King Qin only needs to get the emperor's consent, if the emperor says that he can build it, I won't refuse; As for the pay, I'm not short of things right now, so I'll talk about it when I think about it later. β
Li Shimin hurriedly said:
"At the sage's place, Xiao Wang should go and say it; and toil the man of God, and speak well. But if there is a dispatch after King Shenxiao, the little king will not procrastinate. β