The mountain wind blew through Lishan Mountain, and as soon as Zhang Yang finished speaking, Xiong Da walked over in a leisurely manner, and then lay on the side, his eyes slightly opened as if he was sleepy.
Zhang Yang picked a few more olives from the treetops and took a bite. They were bitter.
Sitting down against Xiong Da's spacious back, Zhang Yang said calmly: "When oranges grow in Huainan, they become tangerines, and when oranges grow in the north of Huaihe, they become tangerines. They have already explained the truth clearly."
After scratching his head again, Zhang Yang let out a long sigh and clicked his tongue: "Why am I so unwilling to give up?"
Feeling the ups and downs of Xiong Da's breathing, Zhang Yang closed his eyes and muttered to himself: "Xiong Da, you are sixteen this year."
The bear opened his mouth and yawned.
Zhang Yang leaned on its smooth fur and said, "Well, the color of your fur is still very good, which means you are not old yet."
Another gust of mountain wind blew by, and many leaves fell on one person and one bear.
It is a sunny day in Guanzhong in autumn, and this kind of weather makes people feel very uncomfortable.
There was a lot of dissatisfaction and unsatisfactory life in the past, but now these things are gone.
When he has nothing to do, Zhang Yang will go into his workshop again and be busy making some small items. He has some paper clips at home to organize various account books.
However, this approach is still too luxurious. Li Yue prefers to use wooden clips to organize the accounts one by one.
She is discussing with Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui that Lishan will have a special award in the future, that is, the Lishan Invention Award. Whoever can create an object that benefits the country can get a huge amount of wealth and fame.
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Lishan will name the creation after him, and Lishan will also reward him with many, many silver coins. This reward can reach up to one million coins.
Because now Lishan Academy’s creations are becoming less and less and have almost stagnated.
Listening to his wife's words, Zhang Yang was assembling a black iron box.
There are indeed several studies going on at Lishan Academy. Generators are still a problem, followed by engines. Even a single-cylinder two-stroke engine is difficult for people at Lishan Academy.
Batteries that store electricity don't even have a theory or chemical reaction, it's just a concept.
So far, the only thing Lishan Academy has available is matches.
"Huh? Husband, what are you doing?"
Li Yue came over and asked curiously.
Now she only takes care of the general affairs at home, and leaves the rest to Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui. Now that they are part of the family, they no longer have to worry about how the outside world will spy on Li Shan.
In fact, life is just like this, and it hasn’t changed much from before.
If I really want to talk about changes, I can only say that the children at home have grown up.
The cry of a child was heard in the house again. From now on, there will be many noisy children in this house.
Zhang Yang took out an iron fiber and handed it to her, "Help me take it."
"Um."
Li Yue held down one end of the iron fiber and looked into the desk-sized iron box.
The couple stood very close to each other, looking at the inside of the iron box with their eyes. There were many complicated amplifiers in it.
There was just a click sound, as if something had locked it.
Zhang Yang pointed to a buckle and said: "Put the iron fiber here and twist it."
Li Yue did as she was told, and asked curiously: "What is this for?"
Zhang Yang sat down with a smile and pressed the squares one by one with his fingers. Each time, some amplified sound would be heard inside.
Then he walked to the back, took out a piece of paper, and said, "Look!"
Li Yue took the paper and looked at it, "Medium?"
"This is what I just typed in Chinese characters."
Li Yue had just turned thirty and had always been close to Empress Changsun. Her speech and behavior became more and more like the empress. She frowned at the typed words and whispered: "This word is crooked."
Zhang Yang put his hand into the black box again and said, "It's probably because the module is crooked. I'll adjust it again."
Li Yue added: "It's always uncomfortable to type words with such a cold machine. Without my personal writing skills and heritage, I always feel like something is missing."
"If it's shorthand, it's better to use a typewriter. I use Wubi input. Knowing the input method can increase the writing speed several times."
Li Yue sighed: "Why do you always think it's the reason why your husband doesn't want to practice calligraphy?"
"Have it?"
Li Yue nodded seriously, "Yes."
Zhang Xin'an ran over quickly and said: "Father, mother! The Uighurs and Persians want to buy books."
The cry of a child was heard in the house again, and Li Yue left in a hurry. She was not willing to hear what happened in the court now.
Listening to Xin'an's story, it turned out that the Persians wanted to sell books about the Tang Dynasty and sell them to places further west.
The current King of Persia was demoted by Li Chengqian to near the Aral Sea, hoping to make a living in this way.
Xu Jingzong was in charge of the diplomatic affairs of the Tang Dynasty. He was a person who liked to strangle people by their necks, but he did not strangle people to death all at once.
Instead, it will give the other person a breath of air.
Let them take in less air and let out more air, and at least they won't die.
This is the situation of the current Persian King Belus. Since he was deposed by Li Chengqian, his situation is not good.
After the Persian homeland was recaptured, the richest places were again in the hands of the Tang people.
In this matter, Xu Jingzong did not agree to hand over Lishan's books to the Persians, but the geographical location of Persia was suitable for propaganda to the Tang people.
Therefore, it was given to the Persians in Red Mansion and Liaozhai, and thousands of copies were printed and handed over to the Persian envoys.
Zhang Xin'an added: "Master Yan said that my sister is about to become the chief engineer of Lishan."
Zhang Yang waved his fan and said: "She was just interested in it for a moment. After a few days, she felt it was boring and she stopped being so busy."
"The kid wants to go too."
"Read well, read well."
Zhang Xin'an felt aggrieved.
Zhang Yang added: "You are not as smart as your sister. She is born to be a leader."
Zhang Xin'an left in despair, and he had to go back to his library to read.
A military report was sent to Chang'an City. General Zhang Shigui broke through the strait with 30,000 soldiers and horses, captured the old Roman territory, and sent a lot of loot, the most of which was gold and jewelry.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Xu family from Jiangnan began a long voyage. They drove from the coast of Jiangnan East Road, all the way along the coastline, southward, and then arrived at the border of Nanzhao, all the way to Tianzhu.
They opened up shipping lanes along the coastline, built a port in Nanzhao, and started their long journey from Nanzhao.
The Xu family divided their ships into three fleets. They went all the way to Youzhou and continued northward to find new territories. They went all the way along the coast to Tianzhu, and then the third fleet headed to the farther west.
If the charts and maps are drawn correctly, then in the end, when the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty conquered the west, the fleet and the army would meet at a strait in the west.
In the academic academy of Lishan, in the library pavilion.
At night, the library closed early, and Li Tai raised the wick of the oil lamp to make the light here brighter.
Then he took out the memorials sent from various places, compared them with the map, and started taking notes.
These are all maps drawn by soldiers who went on an expedition, as well as geographical surveys that Yuan Daozhang asked his Taoists to collect from various places.
Now this picture is very huge. It was this picture that Pei Yan saw last time.
There is a vast ocean on the picture, as well as the upper and lower polar regions.
In fact, the compilation and completion of geography has not stopped since the seventh year of Zhenguan. It has not stopped since the beginning of the geographical records. This is a lifelong career.
I've been tinkering with it, but it hasn't been completed yet.
Li Tai made annotations based on the news sent today and then put down his pen.
He drank tea and stared at the map for a long time. There was still a large unexplored map in the west.
My brother-in-law's map has not been missed so far. Except for the subtle points that are not marked clearly, the range and size are all correct.
Li Tai put down the tea bowl, capped the pen, and tidied up the place.
When I walked out of the library, the evening breeze blew in my face.
Outside the house, Princess Wei was still talking to her father Yan Liben.
Seeing King Wei come out, Yan Liben stroked his beard and said: "I still suggest that we should not be too hasty in laying the train. If the county prince hadn't been urging me, I wouldn't have wanted to lay the railway to Luoyang now."
Li Tai nodded and said: "I don't know what happened to my brother-in-law recently. He has been dissatisfied with the development of Guanzhong and the progress of Lishan."
For the people of Lishan, the current progress is very good. The construction of Lishan started in the sixth year of Zhenguan, and it has been fifteen years now.
It took fifteen years to reach this point, which is an achievement of everyone's hard work.
Li Tai sighed: "We have to do things step by step. Now my brother-in-law rarely intervenes in Guanzhong production. He doesn't know how difficult it is for us to break through technical barriers."
Yan Liben nodded cogently.
Zhang Yang was so worried that the current Marquis of Lishan County wanted to lay the railway to the entire Central Plains.
This kind of thing is impossible to do. The railway laying to Luoyang is already the limit of Lishan.
Unless Datang could mobilize the whole country to build railways.
The academy is very quiet at night, and it's time to turn off the lights in the academy's dormitories.
The night wind kept blowing over the academy.
Li Tai added: "There is no need to persuade my brother-in-law. Now he can't listen to the advice. We still follow the plan. If we continue to build the railway, this is no longer something Lishan can afford."
Yan Liben said: "Lishan is just such a small area, and it has been overloaded by now."
After that, he added: "Since the retirement of the county magistrate, there has been no follow-up to the scientific article of Lishan Academy. From conjecture to concept to feasibility, we now lack theory."
As the dean of the academy, Li Tai certainly knows that the voltage problem of the generator has not been able to find a stable current or a breakthrough.
The steam engine has been modified over and over again, but there has still been no qualitative change. In essence, the principle is the same as it was in the 11th year of Zhenguan.
In fact, Lishan's technological development stopped as early as the day the generator was built, and this pause lasted five years.
The theories used in academic academies today were all compiled back then.
The disadvantages of lack of theoretical knowledge are emerging one by one.
The stagnation of technological manufacturing is the biggest crisis in academic academies now.
Yan Liben asked again: "What else do we lack?"
Li Tai hesitated and said: "I heard my brother-in-law talk about something called rubber before, which is a kind of sap that grows in plants. I sent people to inquire around the Central Plains. I have never heard of such a thing. I want to
It’s harder to find replacements.”
Yan Liben said: "My idea is correct. The current academic academies should slow down their pace, lay a solid foundation, consolidate themselves, and the most important thing is to fully understand the existing theories."
Li Tai looked at Lishan Mountain in the distance and whispered: "Then let's do it."
A handyman came over in a hurry. He saluted and said, "Dean, Princess Changle sent someone to ask when female students can enter school."
Thinking of this imperial sister, she is not married yet, but has been promoting Lishan academics with Gao Yang and Qinghe, with women as the core, and her ambition is to let more women participate in production and labor.
Li Tai thought for a moment and then said: "After the twelfth lunar month of this year, the next recruitment of Lishan Academy will recruit female students, and the counties have already started preparations."
Women have always been the main labor force in Lishan, and women have no fewer skills than men.
There are even several women in Lishan who are teaching knowledge in the academy.
Lishan was like this in the past, and Lishan Academy should be like this now.
Princess Changle is like a leader of women. She even led people to various counties in Guanzhong to count the number of unemployed women in Guanzhong and encourage women to be independent and confident.
Nowadays, the women in Guanzhong are becoming more and more powerful, and Princess Changle deserves a lot of credit.
His father allowed this to go unchecked, and Li Chengqian, who was sitting on the throne, ignored him.
After all, I didn't dare to ask, because Li Lizhi was the first disciple of Lishan and the first to come into contact with the knowledge of Lishan. She was protected by the emperor's sister and her brother-in-law.
There are still many problems in Datang, but what can be done?
The problems do not need to be solved one by one.
Yan Liben and Li Tai talked for a long time about their future plans.
In the palace late at night, a violent coughing sound could be heard.
There were many eunuchs and maids in the palace, and the guards were walking back and forth.
It took a long time for the coughing to stop, and Li Chengqian's breathing finally stabilized.
Lu Zhaolin bowed and said: "Your Majesty was physically weak when he was young. He finally got better in the past few years. In the past two years, he was tired of political affairs and often restless, which is why he is like this now."
Li Chengqian held the table with one hand and asked, "I just feel uncomfortable in my throat."
Lu Zhaolin added: "If it's just a discomfort in the throat, it won't be like this. It's a problem with the internal organs and the lungs. In addition, the weather is cold, so you will cough like this when you catch a cold."
"Just take the medicine."
Li Chengqian said with a straight face.
Lu Zhaolin persuaded again: "Your Majesty, I have ordered people with symptoms to be sent to Lishan. I also hope that your Majesty will go to Lishan during the holiday this year and let the Lishan doctors review the case."
Li Chengqian nodded slowly and said, "I understand."
Lu Zhaolin looked worried and warned again: "It will only drag down your body in the long run. I hope your majesty will take care of you early. It's still too late for your majesty because you are still young."
Li Chengqian remained silent and did not speak.
Knowing that nothing he said was appropriate, Lu Zhaolin could only bow and salute again and again and walked out of Xingqing Hall.
As soon as he took two steps, Lu Zhaolin stroked his beard and thought for a moment, then waved for a young eunuch.
"What are Dr. Lu's orders?"
Lu Zhaolin whispered: "Send the news to Lishan quickly and give it to the county prince of Lishan."
"Here."
No one can persuade His Majesty now. Li Chengqian is harsh on his ministers and even more harsh on himself.
Lu Zhaolin knew that his words were useless. He turned around and looked at the brightly lit Xingqing Hall. The only one who could persuade him was the Marquis of Lishan County.