The generals of the Privy Council were happy, and Chai Ben immediately found Wen Yi with the information.

"The king's words have to count."

Wen Yi said angrily: "What kind of bastard words are you saying, when do I talk and don't count?" ”

Chai Benhan said with a smile: "I naturally believe in you, isn't this afraid that others will disobey you." ”

Wen Yi will not be deceived by his appearance, some people are honest and honest on the surface, and their hearts are more thorough than anyone else, Chai Ben is this kind of person.

He didn't really lead troops to fight, and the last time he led a team to Baekje, He Fang was actually in command. It doesn't seem to have any military merits, and the privy envoy is like a sound worm.

You can see how clever this man's methods are when you look at it in detail.

After sitting in the Privy Council for so many years, there has never been a mistake, and all the proud generals under him are very satisfied and respected by him.

This is definitely not something that the average person can do.

"By the way, how about the little carp? Honest, right? ”

Chai Ben scratched his head and said, "You really asked the wrong person when you asked me, I haven't seen that girl for three days...... But the world is smart, and you won't be disappointed. ”

Wen Yi said: "It's difficult to raise a child, when I was a child, I looked forward to him growing up, and when he grew up, I was afraid that he wouldn't learn well." ”

"yes, I'm so touched." Chai Ben nodded sympathetically, and then said hesitantly: "King, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not." ”

"Say it." Wen Yi Dao.

Chai Ben said angrily: "That girl can't even teach her own children well, look at what Xiao Miao has been taught, every day is the same as a mud monkey, how can she look like a girl." ”

"I really don't think it's a good idea for you to hand over the son to her, you are rich and rich, and your mother is also a talented woman in the family, why do you hand over the son to her."

Wen Yi shook his head and said, "You don't understand, what I want is for him to be like a mud monkey." Shuiliu only needs to teach him the most basic common sense and the truth of right and wrong, and he will study it in a few years. ”

"The queen was eager to make a mold and put him in it, so that he could grow up like a mold. As everyone knows, everyone is an independent individual, and that method will only distort the personality. ”

"The other people also think about the same as the queen, and they can't wait to pinch the little carp directly into the way they want."

"Only Shui Liu in Tang Guo can treat him as an ordinary child, and I will hand over the child to her."

Chai Ben was a little embarrassed because he was the former kind of person. What children know, they naturally need the education of their parents and teachers to become talents.

On the contrary, it was Wen Yi's thoughts, and they couldn't understand it.

"I'm just afraid that she won't teach the world well, and it will be an unforgivable sin for Tang Guo."

Wen Yi said: "Don't worry, she only needs to bring the little carp to the age of eleven or twelve, and I will teach it myself later." ”

"Who taught you and me when we were young, didn't you become a talent? Our young officials of the Tang Kingdom, when were they not eating soil when they were young? They all started learning in their teens and twenties, and they didn't become talents anymore? ”

"As the saying goes, three years old looks young, and seven years old looks old. When I was a child, I went through a little hardship and hardship to learn the truth of being a human being, which is more important than anything else. It's never too late to learn such a thing. ”

Chai Ben said with a bitter face: "Yes." ”

The pressure to teach Shizi is too great, and the key is that Shui Liu's performance in this regard is not reliable at all, how can he not be worried.

If the teaching fails, he can't afford to take this responsibility.

Wen Yi smiled: "Don't be sad, Xiao Li has not had any playmates since he was a child, and he has the deepest feelings for Xiao Miao." Now they are following Shuiliu together, and the childhood sweethearts have no guesses...... You know. ”

The expression on Chai Ben's face became even more bitter, the princess was a pie falling from the sky to ordinary people, but it was a shackle to him.

Just imagine, which monarch would let the prince's father-in-law be the first person in the military? Are you tired of being alive?

Xiao Li and Xiao Miao are engaged today, and tomorrow he will resign and go home to farm, he doesn't want to end his career so early.

But he had absolutely no way to refuse this kind of thing, so he could only put his face on his face and said, "Hey, I hope Xiao Miao doesn't have that...... Well, there's that blessing. ”

Wen Yi knew what he was thinking, and he was very disapproving.

Now Xiao Li and Xiao Miao are only six years old, and even if they do get married, it will take at least ten years to get married.

Chai Ben has been a privy envoy for five years, and ten years later will be fifteen years, and it is impossible for Wen Yi to let him continue to sit in this position.

But that's all in the future, and it's too early to tell.

Wen Yi was not at all surprised that the Ministry of War had found iron ore and copper ore on Luzon.

Southeast Asia is the place with the most intense geological activity in the world, and various seismic and volcanic activities have caused it to be rich in mineral resources, especially open-pit minerals, which are easy to find if you are serious about it.

The addition of a large open-pit copper mine will contribute to Wenyi's plan to unify the coinage rights.

The benefits of having iron ore are even more.

The technology for breech-loading rifled guns will soon mature, and when the time comes, it will be possible to cast in large quantities, and the amount of steel required is simply astronomical.

And muskets.

In fact, the technology for making muskets was already mature, but it was limited to the lack of steel production and could not be cast.

Although he is not ready to take out the firearm now, the musket is a thing that can be stored for hundreds of years with a full coat of gun oil.

If you have enough iron, you can start building it now, and when you need it, you can use it to build an army immediately.

In addition to weapons, there is enough Tiewenyi to prepare to create another black technology.

Steam engine.

Strictly speaking, the steam engine is not a black technology, and many people may not know that there were steam engines in the first century AD.

It's just that the steam engine at that time was used as a toy, and it was still the kind of toy that no one played with.

It was not until the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century that the first practical steam engine was introduced.

Watt made improvements on this basis, and only then did we know the steam engine that set off the first industrial revolution.

Watt's improvement, which seems very simple to modern people, is to add a valve to the air intake of the old machine, which allows the steam to circulate and do work.

But don't think that the process of inventing this valve is simple, many structures that seem simple now, the process of invention is very difficult.

Watt conducted countless experiments to find this 'valve' and designed an unknown number of models.

As a traverser, Wen Yi doesn't have to go through so much research, he can copy it.

Don't ask him how he understands so many things, take his classes a little more seriously, and high school students can do better than him.

In his previous life, as a mechanical enthusiast, he bought a miniature steam engine made of borosilicate glass on the Internet, and spent more than 1,200 yuan.

Fully transparent, alcohol-heated, and outrageously simple in structure.

The reason why the steam engine was not made in the past was very simple, it was not very useful and wasted iron.

The steam engine must have a supporting machine to play its role, and it can't be built for grinding and grinding, isn't that a joke?

Continue to work on the matching machine? Let's not talk about whether Wen Yi has that ability or not, first of all, there is no way to solve the problem of iron.

Every machine is a few tons and dozens of tons of big iron lumps, and with the annual production capacity of 500 tons in Tang Kingdom, don't force yourself.

There are a lot of simple machine tools on the Fire Island, which can be powered by steam engines.

But there has been research before, and it is not a mass production of guns, so it makes little difference whether there is a steam engine or not.

Now that a new iron ore has been discovered and the ability to craft guns in batches, it's time to get the steam engine out.

And by the way, you can study the loading of the steam engine on the ship.

The quota for using iron is taken out of the military's quota, so say if you want to have a steamship, and if you want to, you can work hard to find more iron ore.