For Lishan, the management of the Yellow River is very important, because the train has to go all the way from Tongguan to Luoyang, and whether the Yellow River north of Tongguan is stable is very important.

So much so that the premise of the laying of the railway is to build a towering roadbed on the road surface.

In that year, Lishan bought a river beach in Tongguan, which was exposed for a long time and became a new road, replacing the Guancheng road in Tongguan.

This river beach has become a distribution center for goods in Chang'an counties, and it is also an important distribution center for goods sent to all parts of the Central Plains.

Nowadays, there are many peddlers who travel between the Central Plains and Tongguan, and make a living by transporting and selling goods.

The station built here by Lishan was not yet completed, and it had become a place for many traders to make a living, and they bought soap for five yuan here, and sold it to Liaodong and even Jiangnan in other distant places, and the price of soap could be sold for 30 or even 40 yuan.

Because of the convenience of the construction of Tongguan, they did not have to go to Lishan again, but could complete these transactions and transport the goods in Tongguan.

When the construction of the station in Tongguan is completed, it will definitely be more prosperous.

The laying of the railway started in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, and it has not stopped since the beginning, and has been under construction until now.

The roadbed of the railway is three feet high, and the construction difficulty is very high, in order to avoid various risk factors, three feet high is the limit of load-bearing, and it is also the limit of the railway subgrade.

Yan Liben rode his horse, listening to the reports of the craftsmen around him, and asked people to write records.

Now the backbone of Lishan also uses fountain pens, and with the current level of craftsmanship in Lishan, it takes at least a month to make a fountain pen.

And they are all forged by the Hou of Lishan County, even if they are placed in Lishan, pens are extremely scarce.

Yan Liben noticed Pei Yan standing by the Yellow River.

In fact, Pei Yan is a very attentive child, Yan Li originally wanted to accept him as a disciple, but the child is Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, such a child is destined not to walk on the same road as Lishan.

In January of the second year of Zhengqian, the first money bank of the Tang Dynasty was opened, in charge of money and grain taxes, which was led by Di Zhixun, the head of the household department, and supervised by the Yushitai.

Because they were still resting, the vast majority of officials in the court did not come to the court.

Li Chengqian only summoned a few members of the cabinet, Cen Wenwen, Chu Suiliang, Xu Jingzong, Ma Zhou, and Duan Zhan.

Several people began to discuss the matter of the money bank.

"Now that the money store has been opened, I think I can let the villagers in Guanzhong put the money into the money bank."

Xu Jingzong saluted and said: "Maybe Lishan will agree to do this, but the counties in Guanzhong may not agree." ”

Li Chengqian bowed his head and said, "Really? ”

Chu Suiliang saluted and said: "Your Majesty, if Lishan opens this head, it is good, but Lishan has always been good at business, I am afraid that some people will talk about it, and it will become a place for Lishan to collect money, and Di Zhixun has been operating the Hexi Corridor for Lishan County for many years." ”

Xu Jingzong said: "This is too much, Qian Xing has been supervised by the Imperial Historical Observatory, you are suspicious of what Lishan means, Di Zhixun did not just do things for Lishan back then, it was an appointment from the court." ”

Ma Zhou couldn't stand the rivalry between the two, and pulled the topic back, "Your Majesty, it's inevitable that you're in a bit of a hurry." ”

Li Chengqian said with a dark face: "According to the reason for formulating the cabinet at the beginning, it is better to vote, if you think the money bank savings plan is feasible, just raise your hand." ”

There was silence in the Tai Chi Hall, and this time none of the five cabinet members raised their hands.

Li Chengqian sat on the throne and didn't say anything for a long time, looked at the five people in front of him in a daze, and said, "It seems that you are all against it?" ”

The voice of words echoed in the hall, and all five of them bowed their heads and did not speak.

Li Chengqian stood up and waved his sleeves.

For the first time since the establishment of the cabinet, courtiers opposed the emperor's idea and voted unanimously against it.

When they walked out of the Taiji Hall, several people were not in a very good mood.

Ma Zhou said: "It's good that Your Majesty wants to solve the current predicament, but the pace is still too fast, and I should correct Your Majesty." ”

Cen Wenwen deeply believes that last year, it was because the pace of the court was too big, which would lead to the depreciation of copper coins, and the court spent too many copper coins.

At the moment, this trouble has not been solved, and I don't want to have more trouble.

Xu Jingzong said: "Your Majesty's idea is good, and the heart that is willing to take this step is also good, but this step is too dangerous." ”

Cen Wenwen said: "There is a lack of an opportunity, if this opportunity is good enough, the old man can also allow it, but Your Majesty is really in a hurry." ”

The court was different now, and the cabinet members unanimously rejected the idea of the new emperor.

To put it in the past, this is a rare thing, and Li Chengqian has touched his nose for the first time since he ascended the throne.

The courtiers had the right to object to the emperor.

It also gave the imperial power a shackle.

Zhang Yang's new system to the DPRK and China created the peak of the current centralized power of the Tang Dynasty, making the emperor's power supreme and adding a shackle to the imperial power.

This made the emperor's power not even greater.

This year's opening of the court is still grand, envoys from various countries come to the court, this year the Gauls once again expressed to the Tang Dynasty that they apologized to the situation in the West, and were willing to hand over Jerusalem and other boundaries to the Tang Dynasty.

This time, however, the cabinet did not bother with the Gauls, because Zhang Shigui, who was in the Babylonian capital, had already taken Jerusalem.

And they will continue to march north, all the way to Europe, further north.

This was an unprecedented war, with the granary of Tianzhu and the springboard of Persia, the Tang Dynasty began to expand extremely frantically.

Li Chengqian, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, continued the title of Heavenly Khan

He was the second Heavenly Khan of the Tang Dynasty, and this Heavenly Khan made a decree with a black face at the Great Court Meeting, and the Anxi Protectorate sent three more soldiers and horses, and three generals went west to Gaul.

It was not only Zhenguan who wanted to expand the territory, but Li Chengqian did not rest and recuperate as the courtiers expected.

But at this juncture, the westward expedition intensified, and the soldiers used were not limited to the Uighurs, Turks, or Tibetans.

The Anxi Protectorate raised soldiers and horses, and the Tianzhu Protectorate provided grain and grass, and the expansion of the Tang Dynasty would not stop.

The Gaul envoy, kneeling in the Taiji Hall, no longer begging for mercy, continued to salute without saying a word.

The emissaries from all walks of life looked coldly, and this was what the perfidious Gauls deserved.

The Tang people are the most noble identity, and when they conquered the Great Cannibals, the Gauls betrayed their promises and privately seized the holy city of the West.

Now the Tang people are angry, and the Gauls should also suffer.

The Silla envoy Jin Chunqiu came to Chang'an City again, and he proposed his wishes to the Shintian Khan, willing to use the entire Japanese slave realm to exchange the Tang Dynasty for the household registration of the Silla people in the Tang Dynasty.

From then on, the Silla people were also Tang people.

This matter was supported by the two cabinets of Zhongcheng Xu Jingzong and Zhongshu Ling Cen Wenwen, Ma Zhou and Chu Suiliang abstained from voting, and with the support of Cen Wenwen, Xu Jingzong asked the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the Silla people to cross the sea and march eastward again.

Even Datang still has all kinds of troubles that cannot be dealt with, and in foreign state affairs, Datang is as strong as ever.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Tang people are good at reasoning, but they don't like to be reasonable.

In the face of strong national power, there is no need to be reasonable at all.

There are still many debates in the court, and many national policies need to be formulated.

In Chang'an City, it is still peaceful and lively.

Chang'an has a lot of stories about Lishan.

Lishan has become a legendary place, and some people say that Lishan is a very beautiful fairyland, and people in Lishan can live a long life.

On this day, Zhang Qingqing rode Xiong Da and dragged a small cart all the way to the outside of Chang'an City.

She was accompanied by the King of Hejian and Li Tai, the King of Wei.

Zhang Qingqing set up a shop and put a lot of books on it, she planned to come here to do business.

Li Xiaogong resigned himself to this little granddaughter.

Her ultimate goal is to do bigger business, negotiate business with the emperor, and rebuild the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty.

For this, she felt that she needed to accumulate some experience, some small practice.

Li Tai was also helpless, and asked, "Daoist Yuan is so old, are you still unwilling to be his disciple?" ”

Zhang Qingqing packed up the shop and sat down cross-legged, and said, "The students of Datang need someone to guide the way, and my books here are the best." ”

Seeing that his niece didn't answer the question, Li Tai simply didn't ask, Xiong Da was lying on the side and was asleep, and he hadn't recovered from the cold in winter.

Li Xiaogong also sat cross-legged, as if in a state of meditation.

Since the Chunming Gate is gone, Chang'an City has become more lively, and the Suzaku Street in the East Market has been extended to the original Suzaku Street, and the entire East Market has expanded more than three times.

There are some things that do not need to be done by the government, and the residents of Chang'an City will move their houses out of their own accord.

A little girl of twelve or thirteen years old sat outside Chang'an City, selling books from Lishan.

It soon attracted the attention of many pedestrians.

After all, Lishan's books are quite famous in Guan.

Someone spent thirty dollars to buy a volume, looked at it carefully, the more he looked at it, the more he couldn't move, the content on it was very jerky and difficult to understand, but it was indeed a knowledge that Chang'an City did not have now, for example, the exposition of dialectics here, I had not seen it before.

With the first, there is the second.

There was word of mouth among students, and more and more people came to buy books, and there were also people who borrowed and copied from each other.

For a while, more and more people came to buy books, and some people read them out loud.

The official road, which was originally unmanned, has now become a dojo, and it is full of people.

The book was sold out, and Zhang Qingqing left.

These students remained in place, continuing to read these Lishan books.

The book in Zhang Qingqing's hand is the latest Lishan knowledge, which was compiled by his father and mother himself.

Li Xiaogong walked very slowly, he rubbed his chin and said: "You are a good county lord, your father and mother are the richest people in Guan, do you still have to make a living by selling books?" ”

Li Tai shook his head and said, "That's not going to happen." ”

Zhang Qingqing explained: "Grandpa Hejian, Uncle Wei Wang, in fact, I want to start a business, I want to earn the first pot of gold in my life. ”

She also shook the money bag in her hand, and the money bag was heavy.

On this day, she earned three hundred dollars.

Li Tai said: "What are you going to do with these silver coins?" ”

Zhang Qing liquidated and calculated, "Buy a few clothes for my brother, and buy some supplements for my grandfather, huh...... It's almost gone. ”

Li Tai sighed and said: "It's not necessary for you to do this, Lishan has already arranged it." ”

Several people returned to Lishan, where there are now light bulbs, but the light bulbs are not very bright, barely illuminated, not bright enough, and not practical.

After all, no one wants to install a noisy steam generator in front of their home.

In the end, this bulb was installed on the train, which was used to make the train run at night, and it was good to use it as a signal light and for lighting.

Since the train was originally driven by a steam engine, it was possible to add a generator to the end of the steam engine

Li Tai stepped into the front of a train that was being repaired.

Now there are a total of five such locomotives in Lishan, and these locomotives represent the pinnacle of Datang's iron and steel industry.

It is also the most proud work of Lishan for many years.

The three craftsmen were repairing, Li Tai frowned and looked at the current generator coil, the problem of voltage instability was still not solved.

The craftsmen had to increase the speed to cover up the problem of unstable voltage.

Li Taiben did not agree with this way to cover up, and now he can only do this, the refining of tungsten wire is still not good, and there are still many impurities.

In order to prevent the filament from blowing, a thicker tungsten wire is used, which is not advisable to sacrifice power consumption.

Lishan still has a long way to go on the road to excellence.

"Alas, my brother-in-law often complained that the railroad was being built too slowly, but what could be done? The engineering works can be completed overnight, and I hope that the railway can be laid to Tongguan this year. ”

Lishan's creativity has been stagnant for a long time, and many of these manufacturing projects have been transferred to the technical institute, leaving them to the younger generations to think about various technical problems.

As the president of the Institute of Technology, Li Tai often asks about the progress of breakthroughs in these technical problems.

The train started running again tonight, and it could run day and night.

In the dark night, a bright light came on, and from a distance I looked at the station in Lishan, and the bright light came from far and near, and only when it got closer did it look like a behemoth like a train.

When the bells start ringing at stations along the way, workers around the railway will clear the tracks to ensure safe operation.

This has become an iron law of the railway, and if a worker makes a mistake, he will be fired.

The operation of the railway is not allowed by half a spread pool.

So far, there have been no accidents on the railway.

For Datang, the railway and the train are the blessings of this era, it can bring huge benefits to the Datang, some people say that as long as the railway is laid to all parts of the Central Plains, the soldiers and horses can reach the place of the incident only in the day and night, and the rebellion can be eliminated in an instant.

And the more extensive the route of the railway, the stronger the control of the imperial power and the court over the locality.

As long as the railway is to be laid, the DPRK and China will order the local state to give way to the road.

Li Tai sat in the train in thick clothes, and the lights in the carriage flickered on and off, but in general it was still dim.

However, the noise of the train is too loud, and the iron plate under the carriage is still shaking, which is not suitable for reading.

Li Tai put away his book and heard the bell ringing in the distance, indicating that another station had passed.

The guard at the front of the car came to report, "His Royal Highness King Wei, you can reach Tongguan in one more stop." ”

Li Tai asked, "How long has it been?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, an hour."

"It's a lot faster than it used to be."

Li Tai was quite satisfied with the speed of driving, and said in a low voice: "In the future, you will all call me Dean." (End of chapter)