"You still have a Taoist here?" Lu Daqiang was a little surprised.

"Yes, I've learned before, many things like mercury are smelted by these Taoist priests, isn't our steel mill also smelting? I invited some Taoist leaders with relevant experience, and a few of them agreed, and they came to us and helped me a lot. Yan Zilun said very simply.

"The main thing is to give us some ideas." Yan Zilun spoke, "Now they are not Taoist chiefs, and they are all working as workers here, but I think it is impossible for them to forget their old profession." ”

"Okay, anyway, our springs are more demanding." Lu Daqiang said.

"I'll try it, I'll talk to my engineers in a while, but if I can do it, I can't promise you, I try to give you high quality, but there is a premise, the price is not low! We cost a lot. Yan Zilun said.

"Don't worry, we give money!" Lu Daqiang is very simple.

Anyway, there is no upper limit on the research cost that His Highness gave them, isn't it just spending money, and His Highness said that it must be spent.

"That's right, I don't think you can set up a factory and business house to produce steam engines and make machinery. By the way, let's discuss how to study the complete production line, Academician Lu, you are responsible for the research, and I think it is better for you to hand over the work to the factory. ”

"Didn't the imperial court reform some time ago? Now these factories have to apply to the Ministry of State-owned Assets and Industry, and the imperial court will give them funds at that time. Yan Zilun said.

"Forget it, count on the imperial court, the treasury is not enough to share at all, how much can it give." Lu Daqiang pouted disdainfully.

"You're floating, you don't even look down on the treasury." Yan Zilun couldn't laugh or cry.

"As long as we can research something useful, Your Highness can allocate a treasury for us!" Lu Daqiang shrugged his shoulders, "As we all know, here in Your Highness, the treasury is a measure word!" ”

Yan Zilun: "......"

You're awesome, you deserve to be an academician, and you're better than me anyway.

"It's not up to you, anyway, you have to apply to the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration for the establishment of a new factory and commercial bank." Yan Zilun shrugged.

"Let's talk about it then, it's a big deal to set up in the name of our institute, otherwise it will be too slow to wait for the treasury to allocate funds. Then I will leave a few people for the follow-up research here, and I will go back to find someone to discuss the establishment of this steam engine foundry. ”

……

In the Taiji Palace, when the enlarged meeting of the military department ended, all the ministers went back to prepare, but Li Shimin left Li Ke behind.

"What you said about the other continent, is it true?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked, there was no one else around the two of them at this time, and the living man didn't want to know about it, so he simply followed from afar.

Although he is a living man, he can't really follow His Majesty twenty-four hours a day, and he must give His Majesty independent space, so as not to disgust His Majesty.

"It's true, it's not true." Li Ke shook his head and said.

"What do you mean?" When Li Shimin heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief slightly, he was also under a lot of pressure just now.

"It's really true that the continent is indeed true, after all, there is no reason for this planet to have only one half of the continent, and the other half also has a high probability of having a continent. But it's not true, it means that those technologies really don't come from that continent, we developed them ourselves. ”

"But it cannot be denied that no one knows whether a country on another continent is stronger than us." Li Ke said.

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "I haven't heard of it for so many years, do you think there will really be a country stronger than the Tang Dynasty?" ”

"Dad, don't you think we're the best in the world, do you?" Li Ke sighed helplessly.

"This is also true, hey, in this way, you deliberately set up an enemy for the Tang Dynasty to avoid falling into civil strife and avoid these courtiers from being complacent?" Li Shimin thought for a while.

"Definitely, there is pressure to be motivated. To tell the truth, for a maximum of two years, any enemy around us is not considered to be our opponent, and at that time if we don't have a clear and more powerful enemy, I am afraid that they will become arrogant. Li Ke said.

"That's true." Li Shimin nodded, if a country's army has always won battles, it is easy to have a proud soldier mentality, thinking that they are invincible in the world, so it is very likely that some generals will make rash actions and hang a sword on their heads, which is a good thing.

"Anyway, this time in Tubo, it is estimated that Songtsen Gampo will suffer a big loss." Li Shimin was a little gloating, this guy didn't say much nonsense to Datang back then, although he said that he wanted to marry the princess of Datang, but it was also true that he attacked Datang in order to marry the princess.

This time, his family was gone. Let's see if he dares to be arrogant.

"Yes, by the time he knows, it is estimated that the daylilies will be cold." Li Ke nodded and said, "Forget it, don't talk about this, I'll go see them in Jinyang, and I'll go back." ”

"Okay, I won't care about you, but you still keep an eye on the Tibetan side, you are doing a good job in Xizhou, but your set, these ministers in the DPRK and China can't play, and you have to deal with it, whether you hand it over to the people below to deal with it, or you can deal with it yourself, look at it, it is inevitable to move westward in the future, and stabilizing Tubo and the Western Regions must be the top priority." Li Shimin waved his hand.

"I see." Li Ke had a headache, and the work was in his hands again, although he didn't have to do it himself, just open his mouth.

The problem is that there are a lot of places where he needs to open his mouth.

Li Shimin returned to the Liangyi Palace, Li Ke simply went to the Lizheng Palace, Jinyang and their summer vacation, at present, several royal schools and ordinary schools in the Tang Dynasty are considered to be formal, and there are still more schools under construction.

All I can say is...... From ancient times to the present, people in these big cities may be like the capital, and the vision of these big cities is relatively broader, at least in Chang'an City, the proportion of ordinary people who are willing to send their children to study is much higher than that of the localities.

For example, on the Lingnan Road, Hu Zhi and his team have built primary schools in some counties, but in the entire county, the smallest number of school-age students in a primary school is less than 700. Moreover, there are at least more than 200 children from families, merchants, and poor families, and only more than 400 ordinary people send their children to school.

You know, this is still the case of food and housing in the school, if you don't care about food and housing, I'm afraid this proportion will be less.

If you think about it, you can understand it, after all, when Li Ke was a child in his previous life, there were many people in the countryside who were unwilling to let their children go to school, and it was even more common in the era of Datang.

This is still Li Ke's influence, which made many people believe in him, so he sent the children in, otherwise, it is estimated that the number will be even less.