The group chatted and soon assembled a small steam engine.

Next, they connected a steam engine to a boiler.

The huge boiler and the small steam engine may seem like a mismatch, but since it is only a prototype, it can be saved.

Because there is no precision machinery, some valves, switches and other parts are all hand-rubbed by craftsmen.

Therefore, when the switch to release steam is turned on, there are air leaks in many places.

However, because the boiler is large enough, the leaking steam is harmless.

Soon the steam engine was running under the impetus of water vapor.

A steam engine the size of a coffee table spews water vapor and "booms" back and forth.

Yan Lide and the others were frightened by such a situation, and they all ran aside.

Only Li Zhi himself walked to the steam engine in order to see where it needed to be improved.

Yan Lide saw Li Zhi walking over and hurriedly reminded: "Master be careful, this thing looks a little dangerous. ”

He said as he walked briskly over as well.

Everyone else rushed to the top.

After all, Li Zhi's identity is here, and if something happens to him, none of these people will be better.

However, everyone was worried in vain, although the steam engine was leaking everywhere, it was running very smoothly.

Everyone gathered around the steam engine in amazement and watched carefully as Li Zhi adjusted the running speed of the steam engine back and forth.

With Li Zhi's action, the piston swings back and forth in the cylinder, and the connecting rod also drives the crankshaft to reciprocate non-stop.

Li Zhi pointed to the crankshaft and said to everyone: "Everyone, please see, we only need to develop some more machines that are connected to this place to replace manpower to complete the work." ”

At this time, everyone's curiosity has been aroused.

They soon connected the role of the steam engine and the waterwheel.

So everyone began to discuss the purpose of the steam engine.

Li Zhi watched with a smile on the side.

As long as these people are interested in machinery, then he can slowly pass on his knowledge of machinery to these people.

Although there are many advanced contents that require them to have a certain mathematical foundation, as long as they have perseverance, they will be able to grasp it quickly.

After a while, Li Zhi interrupted them and asked them to find a way to improve all the leaking parts.

This is the work that Li Zhi left to everyone, and improve their technical level by improving these parts.

As soon as Li Zhi came out of the prison, he was brought into the palace by Zhang Ananda.

When he came to the Taiji Palace, he realized that there were a group of ministers quarreling here.

Li Zhi took a closer look, and this time the people were quite even.

In addition to Fang Xuanling, Wang Qi, Li Jing, Wei Zheng and others, the other six Shangshu, as well as Li Chengqian and Li Tai, are also there.

The originally noisy crowd all turned their heads to look at him after seeing Li Zhi enter the door.

Before Li Zhi could speak, he heard Li Shimin speak: "The pheasant slave came just in time, come and help my father evaluate the theory." ”

Li Zhi was stunned by this.

He asked suspiciously: "Father, the son still doesn't know what happened, how should he judge it?" ”

Li Shimin said: "Listen to me and you in detail." ”

Next, Li Shimin told him the reason for the quarrel.

Now that it is the end of the year, Li Shimin wants to personally examine the death penalty cases near the capital in the past year.

This is what he has been doing for the past two years.

The purpose is to remind institutions such as Dali Temple to be cautious when encountering cases that require the death penalty.

Today, he reviewed more than 30 people and found that there were no unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

This was supposed to be the end of the matter.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Fang Xuanling and others came together and told him that the three rivers of the Yellow River, Weishui and Bianshui had bursts.

Although it did not cause too many casualties among the people, judging from the previous drought, this year can be regarded as a disaster.

So Li Shimin thought about personally going to the prison to comfort these death row prisoners, and by the way, let them go home to reunite with their relatives.

Li Shimin's idea was to make a gentleman's agreement with these death row inmates.

He let them go to reunite with their families, and then they came back to be questioned and beheaded after the beginning of autumn of the following year.

In this way, it may be possible to eliminate some disasters for Datang.

But his decision made the ministers present quarrel on the spot.

This is nothing, the key is that Li Shimin seems to be determined to do this this time.

So he saw that the number of people who supported him was not superior, so he called Li Chengqian, Li Tai and Li Zhi, the three sons who could participate in the government, all over.

To be honest, Li Zhi also felt that his Lao Tzu's decision was a bit nonsense.

After all, Datang is not like modern society, where there are cameras everywhere.

There is no police station that requires prisoners serving sentences outside of prison to report every day.

In this era, there were wilderness and mountains, and these prisoners could not be found for the rest of their lives if they simply went into a deep mountain.

But this fool is his own Lao Tzu.

No matter how unreliable this matter is, I have to support it!

So as soon as Li Shimin finished introducing the situation, he immediately spoke: "Erchen thinks that my father is right. ”

As soon as Li Zhi finished saying this, he felt several disdainful eyes looking at him.

Li Zhi immediately realized that the speed of his statement just now was too fast, and at a glance, people could see that he was innocent and sycophant.

But he didn't care about that, anyway, he was still young, and no one else could do anything to him.

Li Shimin heard that Li Zhi also agreed with his thoughts, and immediately smiled and said: "Now that most people support my decision, then this matter will be decided like this." ”

His words drew several pairs of eyes from the naysayers.

You can even count the majority of your own sons in exchange for it?

But the crowd didn't have the heart to say anything more now.

In order to do this, the emperor doesn't even want his own face, and if they oppose it again, wouldn't they make themselves unhappy?

But these people are really bad enough.

It didn't take long for Li Shimin to go to the prison of Dali Temple and make an agreement with a group of death row prisoners.

All the death row inmates held in various parts of Datang were released.

By the end of the count, there were 390 people.

When Li Shimin heard the news, he immediately smiled bitterly.

He knew it was deliberate on the part of the ministers.

The fundamental reason is naturally that these people do not believe that Li Shimin's decision can be exchanged for these death row prisoners to abide by the agreement and go to their deaths.

He already had the feeling of shooting himself in the foot by this time.

If most of these death row inmates don't come back, he will really lose his face.

However, the response to this incident among the people is good.

The people had a positive view of the incident.

It is believed that this reflects the broad-mindedness and extraordinary strength of today's emperor.