Zhang Yang turned around and glanced at his daughter who was playing house with Xiao Sizi. Well...she still looked quite silly and cute.
Zhang Yang took the cake from his wife's hand and continued to concentrate on the matter in front of him while eating it.
When Lishan's drawings were delivered to the blacksmith's workshop, Master Jiang looked solemnly at the drawings, especially when he saw the two-inch-thick gun barrel. How much fine iron was needed for casting?
Niu Chuang is the technical backbone of the village. He started working on flushing toilets, then crazily replenished basic knowledge, became the second in command of His Highness King Wei, and now is the technical backbone of Lishan.
In recent years, in related casting matters, such as molds, the county prince previously provided a vision, and the King of Wei came to take the lead in tackling the problem.
Niu Chuang has made the greatest progress and is now over 40 years old.
Master Jiang looked at the drawings and had some thoughts in his mind, "It seems that we still need to polish the mold. Where is His Highness the King of Wei?"
Niu Chuang said distressedly: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei will vomit when he looks at the drawings. He has been busy with the papermaking workshop recently."
"Well, that being said, it's better not to disturb King Wei."
While talking, Niu Chuang began to prepare the materials for making molds, and Master Jiang also sketched out the drawings of the required molds.
"The county marquis said in the drawing that the specific burr edges can be polished by him. When can the lathe be sent down the mountain?"
Bo Sulong lived in the palace at the foot of Lishan Mountain, and the princesses and princes would often visit him.
After explaining the causes of flash floods to his father, Dongyang added: "Father, my brother-in-law often talks about returning farmland to forest."
"When I left the Pass for my journey to the west, my superiors ordered me to enter the Pass and think about my mistakes on the sandbank. That was enough."
Dongyang said again: "Father, my brother-in-law has been studying weather and land recently. I saw it under the memorial at Taifu Temple in my spare time."
Hearing this, Li Shimin became interested.
Why is my brother-in-law's eyes so fierce?
"Father is right, the man will come in."
The flash flood destroyed more than 800 acres of farmland in Tiantai Mountain.
"I have read what is said in the letter. Monk Bosu's words are not like those of a saint. What does he think?"
Li Shimin's eyes fell on the map and listened to the man's patient explanation.
Today, another letter came from Tang Changsun who was in the Dunhuang Taoist Temple. As soon as the letter arrived at Lishan, it was intercepted by your Majesty's people before it was delivered to the village.
While talking, Gao Yang and Qinghe ran past laughing, while Li Fu and Li Ming fought for toys.
Because of this year's late spring, Lishan's cotton sales were even worse. Li Yue looked at the accounts with great satisfaction, as the cotton stock was about to be exhausted.
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In the end, Bo Su Yaoren used some tricks to make those villagers happy.
"Father, Tiantai Mountain is not full of strange peaks and dangerous places. It is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. It has few streams, waterfalls and ponds."
Emperor Li Zhi on the side was laughing and crying. His Majesty really knew how to speak ill of King Wei.
Those are all actions without any small merit. There are so few princesses and relatives inside and outside the clan, and no one is as concerned about the interests outside the palace as King Wei.
After that, Li Shimin picked up another piece of beef with soy sauce and put it into his mouth, chewed it and continued: "Child slaves often say that the knowledge of Lishan Mountain Gate is its own system. Let's talk about how they view time."
King Wei cleared his throat and said: "Your Majesty, Monk Bo Su believes that a person's life is a scale. I think people cultivate, work, produce and are free. My words are still from the perspective of educating the world.
This is the time to judge whether life is right."
Li Shimin was still peeling the walnuts by himself. The prince on the side took a big mallet and knocked the walnuts. Before they cracked, they were handed over to His Majesty, who could then peel them and eat them.
So what happened between the father-in-law and his son-in-law?
I was very satisfied with the meal. The beef in sauce was very thin and small, slightly smaller than my face.
After taking another sip of tea, Bo Sulong put down his chopsticks and burped. There was not much sauce beef left in the jar, so he couldn't skip lunch today.
"How much does a thousand feet of cotton cost?"
After meeting the King of Wei once after New Year's Eve and confessing his identity, he became suspicious of Lishan and had concerns in his heart. Master Jiang worked harder and harder for the blacksmith workshop.
The blacksmith's furnace was fired up and the cast was started.
"What Changsun wants to refute is not the principle of the clock, but Lishan's use of manpower and dividing time into minutes, which is contrary to the philosophy I adhere to in this life, so Changsun said that."
It takes one month to build ten small gun barrels, and the drawings obtained by the blacksmith shop are not gun barrels.
Plowing? Li Shimin ate the meat peeled from the walnuts and said with a straight face: "Guanzhong has been poor and strong for a long time, and there is enough land to cultivate. How to farm! They usually follow my brother-in-law and they have to listen to me in everything."
Before leaving, Emperor Li Zhi asked someone to bring some walnuts to Dongyang, and the girl left happily.
Bo Su smiled calmly and replied: "It's just a casual understanding. It's just that I have written several times asking you to convert, but you have never replied to me."
The big mallet hit again, and the walnut cracked before making a crisp sound.
Zhang Yang was still thinking about it before he finished eating...
The situation in Lishan made the officials in the court itch with hatred. They bullied people so much. Lishan used people's power in such a way, but not a single person complained, and not a single villager came to Chang'an City to express their grievances.
Your Majesty and the Queen couple were silent, and another eunuch came slowly and hurriedly, "Your Majesty, I heard that Lishan sold another thousand feet of cotton that month."
Eighty-two birds stopped in the empty pool, and King Wei suddenly frowned. It was not until the big bear outside his home drove the birds away, that the pool became empty again, and it felt more comfortable to look at it like this.
"Brother-in-law doesn't have eighteen cans of soy sauce beef yet."
As a result, the letter that King Wei saw was sent by His Majesty, and His Majesty's monitoring of Lishan became even weaker.
King Wei looked at the content of the letter and explained: "It was just a one-sided contact. Monk Changsun felt that there was no causal relationship between you and me, so he wanted to contact you. Lishan never responded to my letter."
King Wei took a look at how much beef was left in the jar and stood aside in despair.
Dongyang bowed slightly in front of his father and said: "Back to my father, my brother-in-law has been studying the weather recently. At the beginning, my brother-in-law was worried that there would be no flash floods during the pass."
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"His pendulum clock was brought into the palace, and now it is placed in my Manna Palace. It is very useful for me to look at it from time to time to know what to do at what time. But at that time, not many Confucian scholars had heard of this thing.
, quite eloquently, we also feel that there should be no such thing as a clock, as this thing does not violate the law of reproduction of all things."
There is enough cotton to sell, and even these merchants want to order cotton for next year.
Li Shimin ate the walnuts with satisfaction, "Those are the leftover walnuts from winter. Guanyin Maid also eats less."
King Wei said quietly: "His father came to Lishan and ate and drank for free. He ate up your can of soy sauce beef."
It's easy to say that the manpower in the blacksmith shop is sufficient now. The length of the barrel is less than eight feet, and the mold must be at most seven feet long.
Seeing that King Wei was slow to reply, Li Shimin also fell silent and continued to eat soy beef. It was such a rare food that the cooks outside the palace had yet to come up with the recipe for that delicious soy beef.
If you don't have such a small amount of money, who will eat what I have?
Zhang Yangzheng let out a surprised sound, and was about to turn around and run away, but the front of his clothes was not caught by his brother-in-law's little hands. It seemed as if his fate was also caught in his brother-in-law's hands.
Princess Dongyang was telling Your Majesty the cause of that flash flood.
"In addition, due to years of deforestation, the Renshou Palace and Ci, which had not yet been converted into the Sicheng Palace, have often had no water to pour in. The land where the palace is located is a vast ocean. This is caused by the water system, coupled with the weather and human cultivation, it has led to
The flash flood was caused by the fact that my father wanted to repair Sicheng Palace."
Start now and we won't be able to finish it after the Qingming Festival.
Li Shimin seemed to be talking about something very special.
Listening to His Majesty's question, King Wei replied: "Changsun said in the letter that clocks are not against human nature. It is right to divide time into minutes and quarters. Such division will make people in the future more tired and tired.
in life.”
King Wei put down the scroll of parchment letters and looked at the Huaqing Pool that was drying. The water in Huaqing Pool had not been drained yet. After two days of cleaning and another day of soaking, the water could not be drained again at night.
Emperor Li Zhi ate the walnuts without thinking. His Majesty said that he wanted to win the son-in-law, and even more so, he wanted to share the walnuts with Lishan walnuts.
Princess Dongyang continued: "In fact, there are often flash floods in various places in Guanzhong. In previous years, flash floods affected Xunzhou, Qishan, Hanzhong Xiaobu, Chencang, and Longxian."
The more King Wei talked about old-age care, the more Master Jiang was willing to move up from the position of chief engineer of the blacksmith shop, always feeling that the child should have less work to do.
Niu Chuang couldn't ask any more questions and was busy with the things at hand.
Li Shimin nodded and said: "People say that I am a sage, wise and benevolent king. I can kill my ministers because of a word, and I can also kill me because of a letter written by my eldest grandson. How can I kill him if there is any crime?"
There was less anger in Bo Su's eyes, "Framing me!"
Hearing His Majesty's question, the eunuch bowed and replied, "The current market price of cotton cloth inside is eight qian per foot. In this case, there is not even a thousand yuan left. Besides, not many merchants paid eight or seven thousand yuan first."
Set the money and ask for cotton cloth from Lishan in the coming year."
It was also because of the late spring cold and the continuous rain in the sky. It was about to enter August, the weather was still hot, and there were not many people working outside the fields.
Li Shimin was surprised but not surprised. To his surprise, he discovered another thing that he had hidden from me.
Noticing his brother-in-law's solemn gaze, Zhang Yang thought about whether he had gotten into trouble recently. Even if the emperor's sister did get into trouble, he would complain to his brother-in-law and the emperor's sister. Among his brothers and sisters, he was the most obedient.
Li Shimin wiped his mouth and patted away the walnut shell crumbs under his clothes, "That man made so little money today, seven or eight thousand guan of silver a month. My family property is so small that it will be spent."
"Your Majesty is joking. All the monks in heaven wish they could eat you alive."
"In the man's opinion, flash floods have nothing to do with geography and vegetation, but everything to do with the so-called mountain gods."
Time is a question worth pondering.
Li Shimin frowned slightly, and then said: "Those are all his brother-in-law's duties. It can only be said that I am also a conscientious person."
Your Majesty and the Emperor were the only two people left in the room.
After eating too little, he felt less thirsty. Li Shimin took a sip of tea and said, "Walnuts are rare, do they have to be given to Lishan? I'll eat them quickly."
"The county prince didn't say it clearly. There are probably many areas that need to be improved. When the time is right, he will be sent down the mountain."
King Wei nodded and said: "As Changsun said, Lishan built the pendulum clock and divided the seventeen hours into major hours. In this way, the time was more refined. When the concept of time became more muddy, people would
If I can catch up with time, I definitely don’t have seven hours of working time in a day, so I will do less things in those seven hours.”
A moment ago, Zhang Yang came over happily and I put my big hand into the jar, picked up the few pieces of soy sauce beef left in the jar and ate it.
The flash floods caused by the late spring cold also made Bo Sulong's vacation less troublesome.
"It's common for Guanzhong to have no flash floods."
After thinking about what he said just now, Li Shimin asked again: "Does he think Bo Su's words are right?"
"I'll clean up the workshop with you today."
Li Shimin said loudly: "He knows Bo Su very well?"
No one said that the flash flood was caused by His Majesty's construction of the Forty-Percent Palace to pay respect to the mountain god. In short, the Emperor's Forty-Percent Palace is in Tiantai Mountain, so the Emperor should be blamed.
A copy of the memorial was sent to Chang'an, and Li Chengqian immediately sent it to Lishan before reading the memorial.
Li Shimin left with satisfaction.
That late spring cold caused a flash flood to erupt in Tiantai Mountain where Sicheng Palace is located. Many palaces were buried. Unfortunately, there were no casualties, and many fields were damaged by rice seedlings.
"Those are the things I heard from someone."
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "My brother-in-law's sauce beef is always very delicious."
"Well, it turns out you don't have any grudges at all."
"I care that he has no contact with that monk."
A long time ago, Li Shimin stood up and said, "He is still young, and his foundation in Lishan is still shallow. Since he said yes, I will make things difficult for him."
"If it is true as Monk Changsun said, then the way of the world should also perish. If it does not violate the words of the family, the country, and the country, that kind of monk should be killed."
Emperor Li Zhi sighed in frustration and handed it to the palace maid on the side. He looked at the eight or seven baskets of walnuts and asked, "Are you going to eat them all?"
The King of Wei said loudly: "Is it bad to eat in the King of Jin's palace?"
"But the monks all feel that people should be free. The monks regard a person's life as a time node. We doubt that there is no afterlife, so we think that the scale of life is macroscopic and only exists in reality. We use clocks to divide time.
It’s right to mark the milestones of life.”
"The idea that the second eldest grandson wants to explain in the letter is that you created a pendulum clock outside of my words. You are not a villain. You and Ci are the people who are poisoning the world."
After that, Li Shimin picked up his belt and left the palace to go to Lishan to have a meal.
Li Shimin chewed the soy sauce beef outside his mouth, but did he reply?
Although beef is delicious, eating it will make you feel angry and thirsty.
The spring plowing has not yet ended, and the outside of the village is not busy yet. Logically speaking, the manpower should be used for next year's plowing.
Li Chengqian discussed with the court and quickly made a decision and ordered the people to be relocated.
In fact, there were not many things going on in Taifu Temple. The King of Wei drafted the dossier on his own initiative. I heard Yue'er said that he should always observe the sky and know the weather.