Chapter 638: Starting from the most basic casting process
As for the grudges between the monarch and his ministers, it has been several years. I didn't think it was too much now.
The two couldn't argue, and finally His Majesty waved his sleeves and left.
The first day of the New Year this year was not a good one. Li Shimin didn't come back until the queen had people prepare meals.
This meal was awkward. Li Tai and Li Xiaogong had already eaten the whole chicken, and they couldn't eat anything else.
After seeing his father off and seeing his father and mother leaving Lishan in their car, Li Tai asked numbly, "Uncle Wang, what should my brother-in-law and my father do in the future?"
Li Xiaogong looked back at Zhang Yang. This boy was busy working in the fields, turning over the soil over and over again, "Not once or twice."
Li Tai sighed, "If my father and brother-in-law each took a step back, they wouldn't let this New Year be like this."
"Um."
Li Xiaogong burped.
In the palace, Li Zhi was standing outside the Manlu Palace. At this moment, his father was letting out anger and smashing things in the palace.
"Sister Huang, did the emperor have a fight with his brother-in-law again?" Li Zhi asked in a low voice.
"The palace maid who came back with her mother said she had a quarrel with her brother-in-law, in front of the emperor's grandfather at Lishan Mountain." Li Lizhi was also worried. The relationship between her brother-in-law and her father would probably last for many years.
If we really want to say why the younger brothers and sisters rely on their brother-in-law so much, it is because the brother-in-law is different from others, and is different from many people in the clan or relatives.
Some of them want to please their father, some want to please their mother, or they want to pursue some of their own interests.
My brother-in-law truly takes care of his younger siblings like family.
Or maybe it means that the brother-in-law really regards his brothers and sisters as family members and will not try to please his father. On the contrary, he is close to falling out with his father.
He would even quarrel with his father over his younger brothers and sisters.
Li Zhi still looks naive, and his younger brothers and sisters are still young. Thinking of the lack of family ties in the royal family, it is good that his brother-in-law will help his younger brothers and sisters and feel that they have someone to rely on.
Seeing that Qinghe and Dongyang were also here, Li Lizhi whispered, "Let's go to the East Palace to visit the emperor."
"Yeah." Li Zhi nodded heavily.
As the royal sister of her younger brothers and sisters, Li Lizhi saw that there were many people and everyone went to the East Palace together.
At this time, in the East Palace, Li Chengqian was looking at Cen Wenwen's memorial, which was the charter for the establishment of supporting education in the coming year. There was still a lack of money in the court. The supporting teaching business needed to continue, and money was needed to support it and expand the number of masters. Each master was
Money is given every year.
To add another 500 masters and distribute them to remote counties, the money needed for various expenses will be another 2,000 guan.
Although the East Palace could no longer interfere with the establishment of official schools and supporting teaching, and it was not easy to ask many questions, Cen Wenwen would still have people send memorials whenever there were regulations.
"Your Highness, Princess Changle and Prince Jin are here." The official of the East Palace said in a low voice.
Li Chengqian put down the memorial in his hand, "Since the New Year's Eve greetings from Taiji Palace, I have been living alone in the East Palace for a long time this New Year, and I have indeed not seen them."
Li Lizhi walked into the palace with her younger siblings and took the lead in saluting, "Brother Emperor."
The younger brothers and sisters also saluted, "Brother Royal!"
"Yeah." Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Li Zhi, I rarely see you walking around the East Palace."
"It's the New Year. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, my brothers and sisters will go to Lishan to study, so I came to see the emperor."
The children have to go to Lishan every month to study, and they have made some achievements in their studies. Li Chengqian asked people to present snacks such as dried fruit butcher shop, and said with a smile, "I heard that you often contradict each other when listening to the lectures of the master of the Imperial College.
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Li Zhi ate at the butcher shop and replied, "Brother Emperor, I just think that what Master says is not always right."
"Really?" Li Chengqian smiled awkwardly, not knowing what they were learning from Zhang Yang on Lishan Mountain.
Zhang Yang does have many abilities, which ordinary people have never understood.
First, a thing called a clock was given to Yan Liben. Now, only a clock cabinet is displayed in the Emperor's Manna Palace.
It seems like some inexplicable knowledge, but afterwards I find it very useful.
Some people in the army had suggested before that they wanted to equip soldiers and horses in every guard house with compasses.
Whether it was General Li Ji who first went to Mobei or Pei Xingjian who later went to the Western Regions, they all praised this thing. Little did they know that when they were on the expedition, the soldiers had a compass in their hands, which was of great help to the march.
Li Chengqian listened to Li Lizhi describing the skills they were learning in Lishan, which were mostly based on mathematics, and also talked about the principles of sound and optics.
"In this way, we see the thunder first and then hear the thunder because light travels faster than sound."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Yes, but after we informed the masters of the Imperial College about this knowledge, they all said it was fallacy."
Li Chengqian smiled awkwardly, "Those masters are all people who have read poetry and books, so you should respect them."
These are the new knowledge of Lishan. It is said that Lishan has always been like this when it comes to establishing a mountain sect, but there has been no action and no mountain gate has been built.
Maybe this was just Zhang Yang's temporary joke, Li Chengqian thought in his heart.
Li Shimin finally gave away the share of taxes that should belong to Lishan.
The emperor had a temper, but he still had his eye on money.
Zhang Yang looked at the cartloads of copper coins and sighed, "Can I sleep in the bedroom now?"
Li Yue held the account book in his hand and said hesitantly, "Although my father bargained, he still sent Lishan's share as agreed."
"Yes, it was delivered." Zhang Yang said with emotion, "But your father still used some tricks. He exchanged all the silver cakes for copper coins."
Li Tai and Shangguan Yi led a group of villagers to sit together and pick through copper coins. Among them, there were a lot of bad copper coins with rust, so they had to store good copper coins separately from bad copper coins.
The couple walked back to Lishan, and Zhang Yang said again, "I'll sleep on the floor tonight."
Li Yue asked: "The ground is too cold."
"That's okay. I've been angry lately, so I just want to get rid of it." Zhang Yang picked up his big cup and took a sip of tea.
"Isn't this getting more and more exasperating?"
Li Yue smiled bitterly, her husband has indeed become angry again recently, especially after the quarrel with his father.
As my husband said, my father would bargain, but in the end he gave all the money that belonged to Lishan.
Even if the father is at odds with his husband, he will still act as agreed.
That is how to ease the relationship between father and husband in the future...
At night, today I can finally stop sleeping in the study and no longer be tormented by the bear's snoring.
After winter came, this bear slept all day long, and even when he did sleep, he snored, which made him unable to sleep well.
Li Yue was in a good mood while holding her daughter. The mother and daughter had just finished washing, and while wiping their long hair, they saw that the bronze mirror originally placed on the table had disappeared.
Looking again, I saw that my husband had already laid out the bedding beside the bed in the bedroom and spread it on the floor.
He held his own bronze mirror and opened his mouth to look at the situation inside his mouth.
Li Yue looked around and then remembered that there seemed to be only one bronze mirror like this at home.
Zhang Yang looked at it for a while and said, "Recently, I've been disturbed by that bear so much that I can't sleep well. I've gotten too angry and my old problem with oral ulcers has returned."
"Would you like to let Dr. Sun take a look?"
Li Yue knew that her husband had this old problem, which always happened when he got angry.
Seeing that her husband was still occupying her bronze mirror, she hesitated to speak, so she had to sit down and comb her long hair.
Zhang Yang put down the bronze mirror and said discouragedly, "Just have a good sleep and eat more vegetables."
Xiao Qing climbed down from the bed with her short legs, picked up the bronze mirror and held it like a treasure.
Li Yue, who is already in her sixth month of pregnancy, is planning her days, "In a few days, my younger brothers and sisters will come to Lishan to study."
As she spoke, she sat down and wrote down the tutorials she would need to prepare in the future. This had become a habit. Whenever she taught lessons to her younger siblings, she had to prepare lessons for the next few days.
While thinking about it, Li Yue asked, "Isn't it too early to teach them geometry now?"
At present, Dongyang's math skills are still at the level related to addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and comparison.
Zhang Yang lay down comfortably and said, "You can start with a simple triangle and square."
"Well, then prepare like this."
Li Yue nodded heavily while writing the next textbook. The light of the oil lamp was swaying, and the wind outside the window was very loud. After writing an article, he looked up at the night outside the window. He didn't know when it started to snow again.
She put down her pen, relaxed her wrist, stood up and closed the curtains, and took off the cloth cover from her slender fingers. Because she had been writing for a long time, her finger joints felt very uncomfortable every time she wrote.
Look at the charcoal pen placed in the pen holder. This is made by the husband himself. He said that writing with charcoal pen can make him feel more relaxed.
Li Yue picked up the charcoal pen and looked at it carefully. Her husband had sharpened the charcoal and clamped it into a log so that it could be held and written.
It seems that it is easy for the husband to change his writing pen.
Thinking of this, Li Yue pursed her lips and smiled silently. In fact, her husband's calligraphy with calligraphy has always been ugly, but the calligraphy written with charcoal is very neat. Maybe others have never noticed it.
After tidying up the desk in front of her, Li Yue stood up and looked back. She didn't know when her husband, who was playing with his daughter playing with building blocks, had fallen asleep, and the daughter was lying on her father's body, sleeping soundly.
I carefully picked up my daughter and looked at my husband's sleeping face. I really didn't sleep well these days. I always couldn't sleep well in the study, which is why I fell asleep so quickly.
After looking down for a long time, he covered his daughter with a quilt, blew out the oil lamp and fell asleep.
It was the Chinese New Year, and it started to snow again. Zhang Yang got up early, had breakfast, and then started working on his new foundation.
The improvement of manufacturing technology cannot be separated from the sophisticated manufacturing equipment. The roof of the workshop has been covered and the workshop of more than 100 square meters has been completed. However, now the workshop is empty and there is no manufacturing unit.
Zhang Yang, wearing cloth gloves with both hands, lifted a large iron lump and placed it on the table and the support legs of the table to prevent the weight from crushing the table.
Then assemble the other parts and the fixture is ready.
There were a lot of ironware placed in four or five wooden boxes. Li Yue was sitting at the door of the workshop, watching her daughter playing with some little milk bears in the snow. She threw the snowballs at them, and they quickly evaded her.
You can have a great time.
These bears will be active for a while after finishing their meal, and after a while, they will return to the woodshed.
Li Yue wrote the textbook in his hand. If you want to learn geometry, you must start with the basic triangles and squares.
Looking inside the house again, Zhang Yang was rummaging through the wooden boxes and iron tools, making the sound of metal clanging against each other.
Zhang Yang took out a copper ring. The copper ring was very large and had some rough threads inside. He also took out an iron pestle. The grooves on the iron pestle were crisscrossed. This thing was used to make threads.
Put the copper ring into the clamp, turn the wheel on the side to clamp and fix it, and then use the iron pestle in your hand to rotate down towards the copper ring, and some iron and copper wire will be punched out.
I picked up the copper ring again and inspected it carefully. I found that the internal threads were not deep. I put it on a shelf nearby and tried it.
Since the threads of the copper ring are not deep, fortunately the copper has enough plasticity, so it can be done just by twisting it a few times, but it will take some effort.
I took out a few more copper rings and continued threading. In order to build a workshop in Datang, which has a weak foundation in hardware casting, I had to start threading myself from a young age.
We need to start from the most basic foundation. A huge drawing is hung on the wall. This is my own simple lathe. The lathe is very simple. In order to increase the functionality, I need to prepare a lot of parts. You can just bend, polish and modify it.
Punch holes.
The lathe can be used for another purpose by replacing some parts. Try to make one lathe multi-purpose. As for the cutting process, it is still difficult at present. Firstly, it is a material problem, and secondly, more equipment is required.
How to do it……
I can only build a lathe by myself step by step, starting from scratch. Lishan has its own blacksmith shop, and the remaining iron materials can always be put to use.
After working for a long time, Zhang Yang took off his gloves. The white cloth gloves before were now dark and stained with tung oil.
When I came outside the workshop, I took off my apron, washed my hands carefully, then sat down, picked up the tea on Li Yue's desk, and drank by myself.
Li Yue, who was writing textbooks, reached for her teacup, but it was empty. Then she looked up and saw her husband holding his teacup. He was drinking tea leisurely and contentedly.
Li Yue took a deep breath, and for the sake of the child not being born yet, she stopped arguing with her husband. She got up and poured a cup of tea, walked back to Huaqing Pool, and drank hot water quietly while looking at the snowy scene.
Every time she came out of the workshop, there was a unique smell of metal and tung oil. Xiao Qingqing hid far away, for fear that her father would hug her.
Zhang Yang took off his coat and jumped into the Huaqing Pool to wash himself.
"How long will it take for this workshop to be completed?" Li Yue asked curiously.
Zhang Yang wiped off the water on his face and tied his long messy hair back, "We can't talk about it yet. Let's use it while modifying it ourselves. It depends on whether my casting goes smoothly in the future. Some processes require iron materials with different hardnesses and
Equipment still needs to be collected.”
Li Yue nodded slightly, "I finally sent the taxes, but I always feel that my father is unwilling to do so."
Of course he was unwilling to give in. He, Tian Khan, had been thinking about the money for a long time, so how could he just forget about it.
Business must continue to be done, money must continue to be earned, and the emperor who has a powerful empire also needs money. There is no need for money anywhere in the court.