The monarch and his ministers enjoyed themselves until midnight, when Li Zhigao, Gao Shao, Yun Puzi, Feng Yi, Kong Xirong and others, slightly tipsy, resigned from Shangyang Garden and returned to their respective homes.
The old city of Luoyang, including Shangyang Garden where Han Qian lived daily and handled military and political affairs, is located on the south bank of the Luo River. However, Luoyang was used as the capital, and the old city on the south bank has long been out of use.
When the finances were a little better, Han Qian squeezed out money and food from the military resources for the construction of the new city.
At present, except for the Luoyang National Comprehensive College, which is built on the north bank, the new city mainly relies on the old city along the south bank of the Luo River, extending to the east and west sides.
Relying on the relatively complete public facilities in the old city and the post road system connecting with Heluo counties, the construction cost of extending the new city to the two wings is the lowest.
The residence arranged for Li Zhigao by the General Affairs Department of the General Staff Office is located outside Huayang Gate. It is a newly built residential area specially built for officials of the General Staff Office.
Su Hongyu and her young son wanted to leave earlier, but they rushed directly to Mianchi to wait for Li Zhigao. They arrived in Luoyang together at dusk today. They took a breather when they arrived at the new residence, left their luggage and entourage, and hurried up.
Yangyuan went to the banquet.
However, Li Tian, who is just over 20 years old, enrolled in Luoyang Comprehensive College three years ago and has been living in Luoyang. He was directly involved in the layout and personnel arrangements of the new house.
It is strictly forbidden to keep slaves and private soldiers in Luoyang. Li Zhigao enjoys the status of deputy prime minister. The security department will arrange special guards to protect him and his family's personal safety. The General Staff Office will also arrange special attendants and servants to take care of daily trivial matters.
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Han Qian had no intention of using this method to monitor the central generals, whether it was guards or attendants, it was all Li Zhigao's own choice and recommendation.
All the people he is accustomed to can still be used by his side. He just needs to go to the security department and the General Affairs Department to complete the entry procedures and complete the transition from private to public officials.
Li Zhigao didn't care about this either.
The long street was paved with cinder stones, and the wheels rattled on it. There was nothing new, but he looked at the bright lampposts along the street with interest, which made the night above the long street no longer so dark, and made the
Cars and horses on the long street no longer need to carry lanterns to walk at night.
Although Li Zhigao observed that only Shangyangyuan and the main street they passed through had new street lights installed, the main street ran through the entire Luoyang city and was about ten miles long from east to west. It was said that at least four to five hundred street lights would be installed along the street to cover the entire length.
The street is illuminated.
To Dingshi people, lamps and candles may seem rare and ordinary, but to ordinary people they are still luxurious things.
In the heyday of the previous dynasty, only a few major festivals saw the sight of colorful lanterns lighting up the long streets.
Normally, only those who dine in wealthy families or the best restaurants would have their courtyards filled with lanterns for lighting at night.
They were also a few rare bright spots in a prosperous city that fell into darkness at night.
Li Zhigao thought that with the frequent wars in recent years, most money, food and supplies had to be squeezed out as much as possible to meet the needs of the war, but he did not expect that the construction of Luoyang was not as lagging as he imagined.
"How much lamp oil will be consumed this night?" Li Zhigao asked with emotion.
"Ha, my father should have lived in Luoyang a long time ago. This is a coal stone lamp," Li Tian said with a smile. "This thing is made of quicklime stone and coal. The price is only one-fifth of the oil candle. When placed in water, it will
stable
The coal gas can be ignited to illuminate, but it is much brighter than a candle. The only problem with coal gas is that it must be kept absolutely dry when stored. It is not suitable for indoor use, but it is extremely convenient for outdoor use. This year, several main streets in the city should have installed coal gas.
Put on a street lamp like this..."
In the past, the Liangzhou Army could not be regarded as the direct troops of the central government. Even if they did not hesitate to provide the most sophisticated weapons, some of the main combat brigades did not promote the latest technologies and secrets, and it was impossible to take the initiative to leak them to the people in Liangzhou.
At present, Li Zhigao's understanding of the new learning system is not as good as that of his eldest son Li Zhi, who has studied in Luoyang for more than a year, let alone his second son Li Tian, who has devoted himself to studying the new learning system in Luoyang Comprehensive College.
In the past, Li Tian, in accordance with the regulations of the college, could not mention his studies in the letters sent to Liangzhou in order to prevent the letters from being lost and leaking confidentiality, but now he started talking non-stop.
In order to avoid suspicion, Li Zhigao not only let Li Tian enter the military academy for further study, but also specially made his second son Li Tian take a course in equipment manufacturing. He also longed in his heart that one day the world would return to peace, and his second son Li Tian would not need to enter the battlefield to charge into battle.
, and can do something beneficial to people's livelihood.
He originally thought that Li Tian would be conflicted, but he didn't expect Li Tian to mention with dazzling eyebrows that the engineering team he was participating in was taking on a clock manufacturing task directly assigned by Han Qian.
"Besides sundials, hourglasses, astrology, etc., what else can tell the time?" Li Zhigao asked curiously.
Li Tian took off a jade pendant tied with a ribbon from his waist, grabbed one end of the ribbon, swung the jade pendant, and said: "The length of the lace is fixed, and the jade pendant's swing time is fixed, regardless of the amplitude of the swing. We
The current chronograph clocks use a specific pendulum. Each time it swings, the power-accumulating reed is moved once to drive the small hand to move one grid; the large and small hands are connected by gears, and finally the big hand completes one movement.
A full circle is twelve hours a day! It’s just a timepiece we trial-produced. At the end of a day, the deviation is almost a quarter of an hour. However, the deviation required by your Majesty should not exceed one-fifteenth of a quarter, which is what your Majesty calls one minute.
There is still a lot of room for improvement..."
Hourglasses and hourglasses are not unfamiliar things. According to Li Tian, the principle does not seem to be that profound. However, Li Zhigao did not see how complex the structure of the physical object is. It is difficult to understand how a clock can deviate by no more than a quarter of an hour per day.
Han Qian is not satisfied with this?
After taking the jade pendant, sitting in the car and watching it swing with the naked eye, it seemed that the time it took to swing once was really related to the length of the lace, and had nothing to do with the amplitude of the swing. It was completely different from his natural imagination, and he didn't know what was going on.
What profound truth does it contain?
"This is caused by the force of the earth's center that affects all things," Li Tian said with dancing eyebrows as the carriage moved slowly, "My father came to Luoyang two months late. Two months later, the college's Chongxue Pavilion was inaugurated and the inauguration ceremony was held. Your Excellency,
Princess Yunhe and Princess Shu were all present in person. To celebrate the establishment of the Chongxue Hall, Princess Yunhe also specially conducted two viewing experiments. One was to fly two iron balls ten times different in weight from the eaves of the Chongxue Hall.
It fell freely from above, and the spectators watched the ceremony guessing the sequence of the two balls hitting the ground, and even allowed gambling. Both the king and the two concubines placed bets, father, guess what the king bet on..."
"As a father, I don't know why, but as a father, most people must think that the heavy ball hits the ground first, and your Majesty will definitely do the opposite." Li Zhigao said.
"Father was wrong. Your Majesty hit the ground first with a heavy ball, and the two concubines hit the ground with two balls at the same time. Those who wanted to follow suit were dumbfounded," Li Tian said.
"So, Naken
They must have landed at the same time." Li Zhigao said.
"If my father had arrived in Luoyang earlier, he would have made a good bet, but countless people at the scene were treated by the emperor and complained endlessly," Li Tian said with a smile, "But no one would think about it. There are many theories about the geocentric force.
, they were all raised by Your Majesty, how could Your Majesty tell everyone an obvious answer?"
"What is another viewing experiment?" Li Zhigao asked with a smile when he saw Li Tian's admiration for Han Qian.
"Most people in Luoyang City don't believe that the breath we usually breathe in and out is under great pressure," Li Tian said. "Princess Yun and Princess took out two half-copper balls that can be separated and closed. After they are closed,
Evacuate the air from the copper ball, and with a reward of ten golds, invite Jianyong from the king's bodyguard, Mali, to pull the two and a half copper balls apart - father, do you think someone will get this reward?"
"Looking at you like this, you can guess that no one has received the bounty." Li Zhigao said with a smile.
Seeing Li Tian's brows talking about his exposure to various new studies in the college in the past few years, he couldn't help but lament why Chen Jitang and other figures gave up their positions of power over ten thousand people and were willing to stay in East Lake to preside over Liyang Comprehensive College and indulge in
New learning.
At this time, what was in short supply in the beams was no longer combat supplies, nor manufacturing methods that were ahead of the times, but people.
After all, when Han Qian was based in Xuzhou, the number of people under his jurisdiction did not exceed 200,000 for several years; based on Huaixi, by the first year of Taihe, the population barely reached 17.8 million; after that, Chan succeeded the leader of Daliang
position, stabilized the situation in Heluo, regained Xingyang, won the great victory at Zhiguanxing and regained Guanzhong, the total population increased rapidly step by step, and crossed the threshold of tens of millions.
In the past, even if there was no shortage of supplies, Li Zhigao would have suggested just recovering Guanzhong, waiting for two years to stabilize the foundation of Guanzhong's rule, and then launching a new round of offensive against southern Shanxi.
However, the so-called shortage of people in Daliang is also relative.
After these years of war in Guanzhong, the local forces would be destroyed to pieces, but Luoyang was able to completely ignore the support of local forces and directly send in hundreds of officials, supplemented by the Secret Service personnel who had been lurking in the early stage, and some retired warriors from the army.
, Lao Pong, builds up the local structure of provinces, prefectures, counties and townships.
When it comes to talents in the field of engineering and new learning, the accumulation of talents in Daliang over the years, not to mention the level, is just a quantity that even the powers of Chu, Shu, Meng and other countries cannot catch up with.
Returning to her new home, she saw Su Hongyu sending Chun Shisanniang to a carriage, and said with a smile: "We haven't seen each other for several years, have you finished talking and keeping track of time?"
"If it weren't for the fact that you and Hongyu are reunited after a long separation, I would have dragged Hongyu out of Yunchun Wine Shop to talk by candlelight at night." Chun Shisanniang said, and asked about Li Zhigao's visit to Lu Qingxia in prison, Zhou Yuan and the others.
, she also wanted to go over there and meet him.
"In two days, or maybe you and Hongyu will go see Madam and Xishui first and try to persuade them?"
The war against Shanxi has entered the preparatory stage. Gao Shao and Han Yuanqi are rushing to Xuzhou and Donghu to take up their posts. It is not yet known when Tian Cheng will arrive in Luoyang. Jing Hao is recovering from illness. He can only support the staff office first.
, many affairs have to be taken over by Gao Shao and Han Yuanqi.
He also had to seize the time to visit Feng Liao, Guo Rong, Gu Qian, Zhou Daoyuan, Han Daoming, Zhu Juezhong, Yuan Guowei, Chen Youjian and other important officials in the DPRK.
I have straightened out my relationship, and I don’t know how long it will take before I can find time to visit the prison.
