Renjie, how about you take a look at this swinging arm? ”

As soon as Li Kui entered the imperial city, he turned the corner to the Taishi Bureau, but he didn't expect to be stopped by Su Song, who had been waiting for a long time, before he entered the Taishi Bureau.

Li Kui looked at the swinging arm held by the servant behind Su Song, and the whole body was polished into a mirror, which could show the shadow of a person. To his surprise, some of them were gilded. This made Li Kui wonder through, isn't it just to make a model? Why is it so exciting?

"Boss, this swing of arms costs a lot of money, right?"

Li Kui gestured and explained to Su Song: "Let's just make a model, it's best to go, and if you can't go, don't worry." Even if it can be used, it is ready to be sent to the household, and there is no need to make it well. ”

Su Song said with a calm face: "Renjie, you really have to change your passable nature." How can the affairs of the court be trivial? If the money is spent, it should be spent in a place that is visible, and if you make stupid efforts in an invisible place, isn't it empty of hard work and no merit? ”

For Su Song's reprimand, Li Kui was not only not annoyed, but also grateful.

Obviously, the old man instilled in Li Kui the way of being an official. What should be done as an official, this is the experience of a prime minister who has been up and down for decades, even if there is no dry goods at all, it is also the heart of the elders to the juniors. Li Kui bowed down and thanked, "Thank you, old man, for reminding me." ”

Hahaha –

Su Song smiled happily, stroked the beard on his chin, and said proudly: "This is also the old man's little experience, you are deeply favored by the emperor, and you can't use the old man's methods back then." Now as long as this self-striking bell shocks the world in the Great Song Dynasty, even the courtiers who have a whisper about you in the court should have no voice. ”

"It is impossible to be an official without offending people, but Renjie still needs to think more, who can be offended, who should try not to offend, and who else can be co-opted. However, Renjie is a smart person, and the old man may be too worried. ”

"That's what the old man said. The kid is young and frivolous, and it is indispensable to make people hate, and in the face of great achievements, he still needs the support of the boss. Li Kui nodded in agreement: "Just wait for the bell to be formed, and ask the old man to draw up a concerto." ”

Su Song was satisfied with his head, and he reminded Li Kui that his goal had been achieved. Eating alone, although it is cool for a while, will inevitably encounter more hidden arrows to hurt people. There are benefits, it is better to win over some people, so that they can share the credit at the same time, and at the same time, the achievement of a party's power, retreat can protect itself, and advance can be sharpened.

Thinking of his past, Su Song was full of emotion.

As people get older, they inevitably talk a lot and like to reminisce about the past, especially when they were young.

When Su Song was an official in his early years, although he was supported by his elders, he did not have the level of governance. His political performance has always been one of the worst few officials, and the only thing he can do is that he is conscientious and not wrong.

In ordinary times, it's not bad.

However, Renzong, Yingzong, and Shenzong, perhaps the most important thing in the Great Song Dynasty is the famous ministers with both ability and political integrity. It is indeed not easy for him to be caught in the middle, and he can still use stability as an opportunity for promotion.

After Yuanyou, it can be said that Su Song is the most beautiful.

But his long-term cautious style of doing things has made him not let go of the habits of officialdom that he has cultivated for a long time, and he has not offended anyone even if he is all over the court. Even when the emperor was young, when the Empress Dowager was above him and he was not qualified to express his opinions, Su Song often asked the emperor for advice. In the long run, Emperor Zhao Xu's gratitude to Su Song is indescribable. Su Song inadvertently buried a sentence in the heart of the little emperor Zhao Xu: "The Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, just Su Song is a good person!" ”

The old man was originally in his twilight years, and the whole person gave people a confused appearance, but he never thought that after the design and production of the chiming bell, it was like an old tree opening new branches, and the whole person was renewed.

Not only is it flying, but it is full of energy. And there is a tendency to live younger and younger, which makes many law-changers who want to beat Su Song jealous, and they can't wait to run over and kick the old man, and directly kick Su Song to death.

Originally, Su Song should have been cold a long time ago, and the Fa Reform faction brewed a series of means, but it couldn't withstand the emperor's words. have demoted people out of the capital, according to the minds of the law-changing faction, at most three months, the old man should be demoted to Lingnan. At Su Song's age, half a year of sleeping on the road, he can overtake the old man without a trace.

Now that he can exert his residual heat, for an old man like Su Song who is obsessed with machinery, it is completely a lifelong pursuit.

In the workshop of the Taishi Bureau, Han Gonglian stared at the craftsmen, grinding and polishing the parts one by one, recording them, and preparing to assemble them. The appearance of the chiming bell standing on the side has long been made by craftsmen. Just wait for the assembly and test time.

"Old minister, Li Zhimi."

Han Gonglian is proficient in mathematics, and Su Song is proficient in machinery, and it is not the first time that the two have cooperated, and the progress of the workshop is indeed beyond Li Kui's imagination. He estimated that it would take no more than a week to assemble the chime.

Su Song asked Han Gonglian: "How long will it take to complete the assembly?" ”

"Qi Yu old minister, Li Zhimi, five days at most. If it weren't for Li Zhimi's suggestion to divide the twelve hours of the day in half, we would still be troubled by the processing of gears. The tightly knit brows that had been locking for many days made Han Gonglian restless, and he was troubled by the twelve-hour timekeeping. However, the chiming clock is just a floor clock that is shorter than a person, and the gears cannot be as large as five or six meters in diameter like the elephant table of the water transport instrument, which can make up for the problem caused by the lack of precision.

"How long does it take to calibrate the machine?"

Su Song frowned slightly, he seemed to have other plans in his heart, but he didn't say it before.

Han Gonglian hesitated: "One month." ”

"No, it's too long. In half a month at most, we have to make the self-striking clock that we are going to assemble, not only to make it, but also to surprise everyone. Su Song said this, how could Li Kui and Han Gonglian not understand the truth.

He was preparing to send the chiming bell as an 'auspicious rui' on the birthday of the Queen Mother.

As for the household......

Where does it matter what the queen has?

Su Song's proposal made Han Gonglian very nervous, although Li Kui proposed to divide the day into two time zones, the first half of the day, and the second time; In the second half of the day, it will be noon to the hour.

The clock dial made in this way can greatly alleviate the embarrassment that it cannot be processed into a floor clock box due to the accuracy of the gears. At the same time, a certain degree of accuracy is guaranteed. But the production of a self-striking bell, in Han Gonglian's view, is almost no different from the elephant platform. The time difference in calibration is too much, wouldn't it make the Taishi Bureau infamy?

Li Kui definitely hadn't thought about it before, but after contact, he found that this was the most labor-saving and accurate method.

The clock dial is also divided into twelve equal parts. The circle on the dial is to be divided into twelve equal parts. The minutes are to be divided into sixty equal parts.

The dial of the chiming clock is so divided that it is almost impossible for a craftsman who has not studied geometry to do it, and it is so magical. If it were divided into deciles, the mathematicians of this era would also have a headache.

Han Gonglian hesitated: "I'm worried that the time is in a hurry, and I will lose my accuracy when I leave." ”

"How much error is there in a day?" Li Kui asked.

"At least two minutes, if not more." Han Gonglian said. He had just grasped the concept of the minute, but the accuracy of the chiming clock was far worse than that of the elephant table.

Su Song made a decision: "No matter, take it out first." ”

Su Song, who is well versed in the way of being an official, of course knows that the magic of 'auspiciousness' is a magical thing, if it is placed on weekdays, although it will be surprising, but it is not enough to make a sensation.

But on major festivals, it's completely different.

The Queen Mother's birthday, also known as the Kun Yuan Festival. Like the emperor's birthday, the Xinglong Festival, it is a legal holiday in the Great Song Dynasty. And the date of the court vacation is the same, it is three days. On the day of the Kunyuan Festival, the emperor, the queen mother, the princes and ministers, and officials in the capital will all be invited to the palace to participate in the royal banquet (with the exception of the eighth and ninth grades). Except in the year of war and famine, the celebration will not be canceled.

At this time, Fanbang will also send envoys to pay tribute, of course, during the Yuanyou period, the tribute was also politely rejected by the Empress Dowager, just to congratulate.

But for the Great Song Dynasty, this day's banquet in the palace will be a day when almost all the officials in the court gather, if it can be a sensation, for the Taishi Bureau, it will be a soaring moment?

For the officials who have worked hard, is the credit still far away?

Li Kui agreed with Su Song's plan, and said to Han Gonglian: "Please also ask Lord Han to help more." ”

The tired Han Gonglian waved his hand and said: "I will keep an eye on this matter, this is also for myself and many colleagues in the Taishi Bureau." It's just that...... I hope I won't disappoint the old man and the secretary. ”

For debugging machinery, Su Song may be able to help, but Li Kui is far behind. Especially after thinking about it for a long time, he felt that the machine in front of him had taken a fork in the road that made him very awkward.

But at the same time, this fork in the road also made Li Kui quite proud: "At 11 o'clock in the night, if this is passed to the West by the Arabs, wouldn't it be a living way without Greenwich Mean Time, and the whole world knows the time of Kaifeng?" ”

Of course, on the clock dial, midnight is still twelve o'clock.

Kezi Shi is indeed from eleven o'clock in the evening to one o'clock in the morning.

Anyway, the people of the Great Song Dynasty are used to it, and they don't care how uncomfortable they are for Western barbarians.

Besides, midnight should be based on that time zone, and there will be no argument in a short time, only a conclusion. Eight hundred years later, we are used to the dawn of winter at half past seven, and if it is half past six in the morning, who can get used to it? It's not so easy to change.

Li Kui sat in the Taishi Bureau, and outside the gate of the Zhiji Mansion in Bachelor's Lane, Cheng Zhijie took a group of people and rode a high-headed horse to Li Kui's mansion. Seeing a group of people watching at the door of Li's house, the man led by him looked at the open door of the mansion with a dejected face, and was stupidly stunned.

Since Cheng Zhijie trained the army, although there was only one battalion of troops for him to train, it was a myriad of things that made him miserable. He was originally a capital with the ability to lead troops, but suddenly his strength increased tenfold, and the battle formations in the army were endless, so that he, a down-and-out general, was helpless.

Especially the battle of Yuncheng, which was miserable.

Fortunately, the demon path has surrendered and been subdued by himself.

It's not that he was subdued, but Gongsun Sheng seems to have a handle in Li Kui's hands, and he can't get out of it.

Now, this former immortal man rushed to the door of the Li Mansion like a dog's leg and shouted: "The former deputy commander of the Jingying Palace has sent Master Cheng here!" ”

Cheng Zhijie showed a trace of contempt from the eyes of the idle man on the street, and said in his heart: "Deputy commander, it's still a little smaller, it would be nice if it was a festival envoy." ”

He just thinks about it, and the knots make that round go up to him?

In the courtyard, the third uncle leaned on the recliner and was half asleep, but he was woken up by this sudden voice and shouted to Li Qing: "Go to the door and take a look, it seems to be an acquaintance, and the old man sounds familiar." ”

Li Qing ran to the door and raised his eyes to take a look, and then his teeth itched angrily, and he shouted: "Demon Dao, where to go!" ”