Li Tai's unhappy expression immediately reminded the surrounding scholars, and they hurriedly opened their mouths to echo Li Tai's point of view.

The Lu family's disciples, who realized that they had said the wrong thing, also hurriedly changed their words: "It's really in Xia Menglang, even if we don't have this idea, we can still eat this ice drink." ”

Someone next to him said: "In my opinion, this idea has lowered the level of ice drinks, so that those poor people have the opportunity to enjoy the same as me." ”

As soon as he said this, the others felt that the popsicle in their hands was not fragrant.

They had always felt that they were superior, and now they were actually eating the same food as those Shengdou small people, which was really a bit disgusting.

A descendant of the Taiyuan Wang clan spoke: "This King of Jin seems to be sincere in his desire to go with our family. ”

Someone asked, "What do you mean by this, Brother Wang?" ”

The disciple of the Wang family said: "This King of Jin not only came up with the method of making ice from saltpeter, but also greatly increased the production of salt and sugar. ”

Someone added: "Not only that, but he also has a workshop that specializes in producing some cheap new furniture, which has led many carpenters to follow suit, and now new furniture can be seen everywhere in Datang." ”

After listening to his words, Li Tai's face couldn't help but twitch.

The workshop in that man's mouth used to be his, and the workshop that almost bankrupted him is now constantly earning money for Li Zhi, which makes him feel distressed when he thinks about it.

He said with some annoyance: "As a prince, Li Zhi thinks about such things all day long, which is really a shame for my royal family. ”

When the children of the family heard this, they hurriedly echoed it.

Their impression of Li Zhi is really bad, mainly because everything Li Zhi does more or less harms their interests.

A scholar thought of Li Zhi's policy of opening a literary museum, and couldn't help but complain: "In my opinion, His Royal Highness the King of Jin may also discriminate against literati like us." ”

Someone asked, "What do you mean by Brother Qi?"

The scholar surnamed Qi said: "Don't forget that the current literature museum of the Jin Wangfu clearly states that it does not recruit literati. ”

Several other literati came to their senses when they heard this.

Someone spoke: "I don't know what kind of profound attainments His Royal Highness King Jin has in literature, and he actually looks down on us so much." ”

The scholar surnamed Qi said angrily: "It seems that Qi seems to be afraid that he knows that his literary talent is far from His Royal Highness King Yue, so he simply gave up." ”

The Lu disciple rolled his eyes and said, "It's not easy to know the quality of King Jin? ”

The Wang family disciple asked, "What is Brother Lu's plan?" ”

The Lu family disciple said: "You might as well ask His Royal Highness the King of Yue to organize a poetry meeting, and invite the King of Jin to participate in it, wouldn't it be a try at that time?" ”

Li Tai's eyes lit up as soon as he heard this.

Li Zhi had long said that he wanted to surpass himself in literature, and now he invited him on this ground.

At that time, whether Li Zhi agrees or not, he is confident that he will be invincible.

Thinking of this, he immediately said happily: "This king also wants to see how much this brother has learned, so this king will answer this matter." ”

When everyone heard Li Tai's promise, they sent all kinds of sycophants, and they all felt that this was a great opportunity to humiliate Li Zhi.

So everyone soon began to discuss the time and place of organizing the poetry meeting, and which Confucian to invite to host the scene.

They happily discussed here, and Li Zhi knew nothing about it now.

He was talking to a Tianzhu merchant at the moment, asking him to help him find rubber.

It has not yet been discovered by anyone, or anyone other than him knows what the rubber is for.

He gave the Tianzhu merchant a detailed introduction to the characteristics of the rubber tree and the color of the rubber stock solution.

At the same time, he repeatedly stressed that he should use the wine jar to seal and store the rubber liquid to prevent the rubber from deteriorating.

He knew that the distance from Tianzhu to Datang was too far.

Therefore, he promised the Tianzhu merchant that as long as the other party could help him find rubber and bring back a large number of rubber tree seeds, he was willing to exchange a hundred palm-sized glass mirrors.

The allure of this condition is simply too great, because the current glass mirror has been sold to a sky-high price.

Just a palm-sized glass mirror can be sold for a consistent price, and other larger ones are often sold for a price even if they are sold for hundreds of times.

Pei Mingli played Li Zhi's hunger marketing to the fullest, and he only provided less than ten mirrors to the market each month, and each one was a different size.

This results in the larger the size of the mirror, the more expensive it is, often a mirror of more than ten inches can be sold for four or five hundred yuan.

The Tianzhu merchant excitedly agreed to Li Zhi's conditions, and then he left Chang'an City in a hurry.

Li Zhi looked at the back of the Tianzhu merchant, and the corners of his mouth showed a smile that had succeeded in his treacherous plan.

The cost of a mirror is no more than a penny, and if these mirrors can be exchanged for rubber and rubber tree seeds, the Datang industry will soon usher in rapid development.

After sending away the Tianzhu merchants, Li Zhi asked Liu An to find someone to buy "combustible water", which is now the common name for oil.

Fortunately, Li Zhi was given the opportunity to produce oil in Yanzhou (present-day Yan'an), not far from Chang'an City.

The main thing is that it is now being used as a lubricant and fuel.

After Li Zhi learned this, his first thought was to let his Lao Tzu nationalize all the oil in the country.

This thing is the blood of industry, and it would be a great loss if it was easily wasted by people like this.

After he got the oil, he immediately started the separation experiment with Li Su.

There are many substances contained in oil, so the process of experimentation is very troublesome.

The two work together to continuously pick up the gases and liquids that have been distilled at various temperatures in containers.

In the process of the experiment between the two, Li Su's disciples were also curious to watch from the sidelines.

It was a very magical experience for them.

They saw a large glass full of black oil broken down into gases, liquids, and residues.

Li Zhi marked all these separated substances.

He decided to let Li Su take someone to complete the next work.

This will nurture the curiosity of these students by the way.

With curiosity, they naturally became interested in science.

Because the purpose of science is to explore the unknown.

The way to turn the unknown into the known is to experiment again and again.

Therefore, even though Li Zhi now clearly understands the various components of oil, he must force himself to pretend to be as ignorant as Li Su and others.