Seeing that Zhu Biao didn't speak, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't urge him, but said softly: "Don't worry, you have more contact with this stinky boy in the future, if you can, we will leave him to you, if not......"

"Father, rest assured, his sons will be able to control him well." Zhu Biao hurriedly interrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

He didn't want to hear Zhu Yuanzhang say the rest of the words, and he didn't want to accept that arrangement.

After all, Li Wei is Anqing's husband, his brother-in-law, and he is a family, and if he is forced to do so, he must not be treated by extreme means.

Zhu Yuanzhang bowed his head lightly: "That's good." ”

He also hopes that Zhu Biao can really control this person, after all, he is an irreplaceable talent, there is no second one in the world, and if he is gone, he will really be gone.

Zhu Biao also understands this, so he is also secretly determined to subdue Li Wei.

Li Wei left the palace and went back to the palace directly.

Today's feast made him feel very bad.

Zhu Yuanzhang is old, no matter according to his cursory understanding of history, this emperor is probably ready to attack the nobles in the court.

And he, like Xu Da and Li Shanchang, is now one of the top people among the nobles.

This time, Zhu Yuanzhang asked his sailor to transport grain and grass, but he estimated that once the sailor went, he would not be able to come back, and he would either be stationed in the field for a long time, or he would be directly dismantled and arranged separately in various guards.

Either way, he will gradually lose control of this water division, and even if he can still influence some generals, it will be difficult to mobilize troops and horses.

After returning to the house, Li Wei ordered someone to find Abu.

"Lu Hong, how are they doing?"

Seeing Abu, Li Wei asked directly.

Abu groaned and said, "Fortunately, they are all very good, although their personal force ability is poor, but their command ability is very good. ”

Li Wei nodded, this is normal, Lu Hong and they have just joined the army, and they have been studying all the time before, and they have not received any training, and it is normal for individual combat to be poor.

"Okay, you take the time to go to the water master's residence and hand over these students to Shi Jun."

"Okay." Abu readily agreed.

After finishing the order, Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

Although these students' combat ability is not as good as Shi Jun's veterans, they have more flexible minds, and the most important thing is that these students do not have the ideological shackles of those loyal monarchs at all, and it doesn't matter what the emperor's order is, as long as he gives an order, these students will find a way to do it for him.

After sending Abu away, Li Wei sent someone to find Chen Shaofeng and tell him something.

Chen Shaofeng and Lu Hong and others are classmates, and it is more convenient to connect.

Over the years, there were more than 3,000 night guards, and they also used money to entrap some peripheral personnel, who were distributed in various capacities, to spy on information and pass on information, and also to carry out some special tasks.

With these people here, he can keep abreast of the movements of the sailors at any time, and if there is an accident, he can convey orders to Lu Hong and the others through Chen Shaofeng.

After making these arrangements, Li Wei didn't ask the water master any more questions, and put all his thoughts on the new academy.

The new academy is not far from the Ordnance Bureau, located in the western corner of the Beijing Division, and only this kind of remote place can free up nearly a thousand acres of land for him to build an academy.

As the saying goes, there is great power in numbers, and after a year, this original wasteland has been repaired and leveled, and gray buildings have risen from the ground.

These buildings are two or three stories low, eight or nine stories high, all of them are square, and the style of those brick and stone houses in the Ming Dynasty is completely different.

After Li Wei came here, Lu Ti, Tao Sheng and others all greeted him.

"Grandpa."

"Teacher!"

When everyone saw the salute, Li Wei bowed his head lightly and asked, "How is the project going?" ”

When Lu Ti heard this, he immediately looked at Tao Sheng.

He was in charge of coordinating the craftsmen, and the construction of this new academy was mainly presided over by Li Wei's students such as Tao Sheng, Yue Wenjun and Shao Yongqiang.

Tao Sheng said with some guilt: "The main body has been completed, but the water and electricity aspects have not been done yet. ”

"Oh yes, what's the problem, tell the teacher, I'll figure it out with you."

Li Wei smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

Building hydropower is not a complicated technology in later generations, but it is really not easy to achieve it now, and Li Wei does not expect these students to solve it easily.

Tao Sheng saw that he didn't blame, breathed a sigh of relief, and led him to walk and said: "In terms of water delivery, the main thing is that the water pressure is unstable, the teacher said, those faucets can be used at any time, which requires maintaining stable water pressure, the students have thought of some methods, but they are not very convenient, and they can't reach what the teacher said, and the other is the electric light, we did it according to the method you handed over, but those inert gases are too difficult to make......"

Tao Sheng told him all the problems he encountered, and Li Wei frowned slightly when he heard it.

Some things were very common in later generations, but they were very troublesome to make, such as electric lamps, which were originally vacuumed, but not only had a short lifespan, but also were dangerous, and later the method was to fill the lamp with inert gas.

The purpose of these practices is to slow down the oxidation of the filament and prolong the life of the lamp.

Of course, later generations of electric lights have developed into LEDs, and they have completely said goodbye to these problems, but he certainly can't make that thing.

As for the constant pressure water supply, it is necessary to use controllers and inverters, as well as various pressure sensors, etc., which are even more impossible.

But it doesn't matter if you don't have these high-level things, you can use other methods to make some low-level ones first.

"The water pressure doesn't have to be constant, so you can build a water tower or set up a tank on a high place, pump the water up and then use the difference in height to let it flow on its own."

"As for the problem of electric lights," Li Wei thought for a moment, "you can try to use some flammable materials to consume the oxygen in the air and collect the remaining gases, which should barely work." ”

The main components of air are nitrogen and oxygen, and as long as the oxygen is consumed, a mixture of nitrogen and a small amount of other gases can be obtained.

Tao Sheng silently wrote down Li Wei's method, and was ready to take someone to try it immediately when he turned around.

Li Wei walked and watched, and climbed the stairs to a seven-story building.

Today's Jingshi, in addition to the palace building is relatively high, the others are mostly bungalows, standing on this nearly 20-meter-high building and looking at it, the entire Jingshi can be seen at a glance.

The highest palace of the imperial palace is more than 30 meters, but that is with the pedestal below, the real house is not so high, and there is no more than four-story building like this under his feet.

For the ancients, living in a high-rise building without a water and electricity supply was simply torture, but with water and electricity it is different.

Of course, without an elevator, the highest seven or eight floors is already the limit, and it is too difficult to go up and down the stairs any higher.

"When it's ready, make room for me upstairs."

Li Wei instructed Tao Sheng beside him, he really wanted to reminisce about the feeling of living in a high-rise building.

Of course, this kind of building is still incomparable with those princely mansions that often cover an area of tens or hundreds of acres, after all, the big yard is the truth!

When these water and electricity facilities are perfected, Li Wei plans to renovate his house as well, so that he can live comfortably.

Tao Sheng nodded and wrote down his orders.

Then Li Wei asked again: "By the way, are all the water pipes I asked you to do are done?" ”

"It's done, but teacher, these water pipes don't work at all, why do you do so much?"

Tao Sheng asked suspiciously.

The water pipes that Li Wei asked him to make are very different from the water pipes used in the construction of the new college, not only are the materials used are better, but they are also very difficult to manufacture, and they are not needed to make water pipes at all.

Li Wei smiled and said nothing, without much explanation.

He asked Tao Sheng to make these seamless steel pipes, of course, they are not used to make water pipes, and the reason why they are made together with water pipes is just to cover people's eyes.

Now the motor has gradually matured, the machine tools are slowly transforming and upgrading, and the manufacturing processes of cold rolling, hot rolling, and cold forging can also be slowly studied, and it is not a problem to make these seamless steel pipes.

There are many kinds of materials used in the construction of the new academy this time, and he took the opportunity to arrange a lot of things that are not for construction, but he doesn't say these things, and others don't know what they are used for.

Although Tao Sheng was a little wooden and introverted, he was not stupid, and when he saw him smiling and silent, he didn't ask any more questions, and at the same time realized the special nature of these things.

After following Tao Shengruti and a few others to look at the progress elsewhere, Li Wei left.

Back at the Horse Mansion, Li Wei immediately learned from his subordinates that there was a distinguished guest in the house.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

As soon as Li Wei entered the backyard, he saw Zhu Biao chatting with An Qing in the lobby.

Zhu Biao immediately smiled when he saw him: "Han Guogong is back!" ”

Li Wei was a little surprised, and walked into the house to greet him, and Zhu Biao raised his hand kindly.

An Qing on the side was already a little impatient, and when he saw him come back, he said directly: "You accompany the imperial brother, I'll go back to the house first." ”

"Okay, slow down."

Li Wei nodded lightly, not forgetting to ask.

An Qing waved his little hand and turned to leave in the company of Xiaohong and others.

"Why did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince come here in person today?"

The two sat down separately, and Li Wei asked.

"There are some state affairs that I can't pay attention to, so I'm here to ask for your opinion." Zhu Biaodao.

"If the prince has something, just let someone summon him, why do you need to run in person."

"It's okay, just come and see Anqing." Zhu Biao dealt with it casually.

Li Wei thought about An Qing's impatient look just now, and secretly pouted.

Although Zhu Biao treats people kindly, he is serious, just like those literati, and he is very boring, so An Qing doesn't want him to visit.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, please speak, the minister will know everything." Li Wei said directly.

However, Zhu Biao didn't say anything, but turned his words and said: "Hey, it's all a family, you don't have to be called the prince, it seems to be a child, it's better like this, let's talk about it, I call you Brother Li, you call me Brother Huang, how about it?" ”

Li Wei glanced at him and secretly said that your kid is not cool enough!

"What the prince wants to call the minister is naturally arbitrary, but the minister can't be rude." Li Wei said lightly.

"Okay then." Zhu Biao had no choice but to agree.

"What's the matter?" Li Wei asked again.

Zhu Biao looked around and said, "It's time to eat, right?" Why don't you eat and talk at the same time? ”

Li Wei: "......"

He can see that this Zhu Biao is not doing anything serious when he comes over today!

The prince wanted to eat, of course he couldn't refuse, so he could only order his subordinates to prepare, and after a while, he made a big table of good wine and food, and the two chatted about state affairs while drinking.

Li Wei didn't hide his selfishness, and he told Zhu Biao everything he could say without reservation.

The two of them chatted together, and Li Wei, who was backed by the whimsical ideas of countless netizens in later generations, was always able to speak amazingly, which made Zhu Biao very admirable.

"Brother Li is erudite and talented, listening to your words today is really better than reading a book for ten years!"

Zhu Biao sighed with emotion, and his heart was even more determined to convince this great talent.

Li Wei glanced at him, and said in his heart, fortunately, it was not like listening to a seat.

In fact, most of his views are nonsense, or some extreme remarks to vent dissatisfaction, which are not of much use in terms of governing the country, just listen to them.

Zhu Biao is obviously not stupid, it is impossible not to hear it, such a compliment to him is obviously not pure.

"What is the prince doing today, you might as well say it directly."

After three rounds of drinking, Li Wei couldn't help but ask again.

"Didn't I say it, I just came to ask you for advice on state affairs, and by the way, visit Anqing," Zhu Biao said seriously.

Then he emphasized with a heartfelt look: "We are all a family, and we should be more close in the future." ”

Li Wei looked at him, a little inexplicable in his heart.

Co-authored this Zhu Biao to run this trip is to set almost?

Although he and Zhu Biao have a good relationship, they don't have much contact, after all, Zhu Biao is so busy, and he is "idle" at home on the surface, and the two rarely see each other.

Now that Zhu Biao suddenly came to him, there must be something wrong with this.

"That's good."

Li Wei remained silent on the surface, and agreed with the situation.

Zhu Biao smiled with satisfaction and raised his glass to invite him to drink.

After eating a meal until dark, Zhu Biao got up to leave, and Li Wei personally sent him outside the door, watching him and the guards disappear before turning around and going back to the house.

The next day, the will of the Northern Expedition was officially issued.

It has been 20 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but the Northern Yuan Dynasty is still struggling to survive and is difficult to eliminate, which is also a heart disease of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Now that he is older, he is even more anxious.

According to the past practice, Xu Da was naturally the general of the Northern Expedition, but this time Xu Da resigned on the grounds of poor health, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not reluctant.

In this northern expedition, Feng Sheng was the general, Fu Youde and Lan Yu were the deputy generals on the left and right, and led 200,000 troops to Liaodong.

In addition to them, there are also Wang Bi, Zhao Yong and other marquises, and the lineup is very luxurious.

In addition, some young nobles who inherited the title also went to the army, including Chang Mao, Li Jinglong and Deng Shen, the sons of three princes.

This expedition was not only to pacify the border troubles, but also to train these young noble generals.

Before these people set off, the sailors had already been mobilized and began to transport grain and grass to Beiping.

In addition to mobilizing these sailors trained by Li Wei, Zhu Yuanzhang also transferred the Shenji Battalion.

All the princes are about to go to the front, and only Li Wei is left to stay in Beijing to enjoy leisure.

Oh, and Xu Da, who was sick, accompanied him. (End of chapter)