Chapter 2818 Who wouldn't love such a handsome young cub?
Chapter 2818 Who wouldn’t love such a handsome youngster? (Please subscribe and vote)
That is, Li Jingren, the son of King Li Daozong of Jiangxia, was a kid who became a Jinshi in high school at a young age.
And Chai Lingwu, the dandy representative who was often pointed at and scolded by General Chai as a piece of mud that couldn't hold up the wall.
There is also Duke Yi, Qin Qiong, the young, brave and fierce eldest son of General Qin’s family, Qin Huaidao.
Well, they are the representative figures among these three dudes. They are the co-inventors of the salt-drying method.
The so-called sun salt method only requires a small amount of manpower and material resources to produce salt on a large scale. It can be said that the efficiency of salt production is dozens of times that of the previous salt boiling method.
This is an extremely exaggerated figure. There is no shortage of salt in Datang, but it does not mean that the price of salt in Datang is cheap.
Now, now that this method of drying salt can be popularized, I dare not say that the price of salt can drop dozens of times.
Even if it can be reduced ten times, the common people in the world will definitely smile and hold up their hands in celebration. And the princes in the court will definitely be filled with joy.
The British gentleman Li Ji sat there with an old chrysanthemum face and a rather unhappy mood.
If it weren't for the wrong time and place, I'm afraid this big boss would have made some harsh remarks.
I am here in Qingzhou, weeping and weeping and working exhaustingly for Cheng Sanlang and Prince Qi, you two little bastards.
But you didn't know how to give me some benefits for a long time to appease this elder, and at least let my family Siwen take advantage of this credit.
Fortunately, it turned out that it was the three little bastards who got this meritorious service. Li Ji felt that this meritorious service would definitely give those three boys the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune.
But there is no share of his youngest son Li Siwen. This is simply unreasonable.
After being sulky for a long time, Li Ji angrily opened the letter written by Qi King Li Ke.
With a straight face and tight lips, he looked as serious as a class teacher reviewing the homework of a poor student.
After a short while, Li Ji's eyes bulged again, but soon, the famous general of the Tang Dynasty glanced at everyone in the hall warily.
After calming down for a while, he continued to look at the letter, with a strange smile showing at the corner of his mouth with satisfaction.
Soon, after this official document was signed by Li Ji, the governor of the governor's office, he summoned a close soldier and ordered him to hurry up and send it directly to the capital to report the good news to the emperor.
After the soldier strode away happily with the official document in his arms, Li Ji glanced at the civil and military officers in the hall, and finally his eyes fell on the general of Wuzhong Lang.
"General Wu."
"The end will be here."
"The Grand Governor is now in Panheng, Dengzhou, to share the worries of the imperial court. As a long history, I have now arranged many affairs of the Grand Governor's Mansion."
"I am going to personally lead two thousand men and horses to Dengzhou to join the governor."
"ah?"
"Ah what? The Governor only has personal guards around him. If something goes wrong, who can afford it?"
"I have no choice but to go there personally to make sure everything is safe..."
Seeing the confident expression on the British gentleman's face, General Wu Zhonglang always felt that something was wrong.
He soon noticed that the famous general of the Tang Dynasty was secretly folding up the letter written by His Highness King Qi and stuffing it into his arms...
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Early the next morning, the Chief of the Governor's Office, Shi, energetically put on his helmet and armor, led two thousand elites from the Governor's Office, and ran straight towards Dengzhou Prancing Horse and whipped his whip.
The general Wu Zhonglang and an old and solemn civil servant were left to take charge of the Qingzhou Metropolitan Governor's office temporarily.
The two of them looked at the increasingly empty Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and felt like crying without tears.
As the owner of the Governor's Mansion, His Highness Prince Qi, the Governor, has never been here.
The other two people in charge of specific affairs, Cheng Sanlang of the Dudu Mansion, accompanied His Highness King Qi on his wanderings.
At this moment, another speaker, Mr. Shi Yingying, actually ran away. What the hell is this?
Without these people who can make decisions, what can people like me do? Forget it, I can only do things according to the instructions of the British Duke in order to kill time.
If something really happens, we will send people to Dengzhou to ask these people to come back as soon as possible.
What else can we do? Can I afford to offend the British Duke, my immediate boss? His Royal Highness, King Qi, is His Majesty’s beloved son, and I can’t afford to offend him either.
As for Cheng Sanlang, that demon moth, haha... All the important military officials of the Tang Dynasty now look at this kid as if they were their own sons.
Who allowed this kid to be capable? Who enabled him to cause trouble, ah no... who enabled this kid to not only make great achievements on his own, but also bring others to join him in making great achievements?
Moreover, the Han and Tang Dynasty trading houses that were created allowed a group of high-ranking military officials to have their salaries confiscated even by His Majesty.
They can still enjoy a healthy life as a family, and their quality of life will not deteriorate in the slightest.
Who wouldn’t love such a young person?
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In the Dengzhou Navy camp, General Zhao Zhonglang of the Dengzhou Navy was looking at the three large ships surrounded by a group of craftsmen with a dark expression on his face.
On the scaffolding that has now been put up, the craftsmen are using tools to make destructive modifications to the hull of the building ship.
The building ship that originally looked very tall has now been shaved off a full layer and a half, making it much shorter than before.
Fortunately, there were no changes to the tall mast. Otherwise, General Zhao Zhonglang would suspect that they were not renovating, but destroying Datang's naval battleships.
It just so happened that the person responsible for the transformation was none other than the notorious Cheng Sanlang. As for His Highness King Qi, the Governor of Qingzhou, he was still his accomplice.
Well... not only His Highness King Qi, but also a group of famous martial arts disciples are also jumping up and down here, as if they also know a lot about boats.
I'm complaining crazily in my heart, but on the surface, I still have to keep a smile on my face. Whatever you big guys say, that's who it is.
Who knows that he is just a small Dengzhou Navy general, and he really can't afford to provoke these guys, not to mention that the Dengzhou Navy is also under the jurisdiction of the Qingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Office.
According to what this little Cheng Taibao said, he wanted to transform the building ships into the first batch of thermal weapon warships in the Tang Dynasty.
When Xiao Cheng Taibao came to visit him at first, General Zhao Zhonglang naturally refused. After all, he was the commander of this navy.
However, His Highness King Na Qi appeared and issued orders in the name of the Grand Governor. He had no other option but to bow his head and accept his fate.
But fortunately, with his firm persistence, Xiao Cheng Taibao was only allowed to renovate the three oldest and most dilapidated ships among the twelve building ships.
As for the other large ships, they are the main battleships of the Dengzhou Navy. If there are more, don’t even think about it.
But today, I was originally staying at the naval dock, but I was summoned by His Highness King Qi, who wanted me to see how powerful the modified gunboat was.
Just when he was still thinking wildly, he saw cattle carts not far away, slowly driving towards this side...