"Girls should also study more. Mr. Wang can set an example for his granddaughter in the future," Bai Tu continued.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. That's what I and Quanzi thought."
"Have you chosen a name?"
"It's just a small character 'Yuan Yuan'." Wang Lang felt a little confused when he saw Bai Tu caring about his newborn granddaughter, but he responded quickly.
Bai Tu nodded when he heard this, and then said: "In the future, when Qing'er reaches the age of going to school, let Yuanyuan come with her. It can also be considered as finding a companion..."
It seemed that he was just talking about making an appointment for the juniors to go to school together, but Bai Tu's tone was serious.
Wang Lang was stunned when he heard this, and then he understood what Bai Tu meant. His old eyes turned red and he said, "Thank you, Your Majesty... The Wang family will share your worries for Your Majesty for generations to come!"
That's right, Bai Tu's hint is already obvious - he wants to match his eldest son with Wang Lang's granddaughter!
It's just because, firstly, the children are still young, and secondly, the Chu State official does not advocate this, so it certainly cannot be said clearly.
Bai Tu also made up his mind to arrange it for Bai Qing...
Originally, Bai Tu didn't want to engage in any marriage, but he still thinks so until now. The reason why he wanted to "arrange it" was not to win over Wang Lang and Wang Su, but to compensate and show support!
Wang Lang does the job that gets the most scolding, while Wang Su is prepared to be infamy for thousands of years in the future - it can't be true, and it will be discovered sooner or later.
However, as long as it can be concealed for a while and the old Confucianism can be merged with Bai Xue, for the Chu State, the goal has been achieved.
As for later finding out it was fake...
That is also Wang Su’s own problem! What does it have to do with Da Chu, what does it have to do with Confucianism, and what does it have to do with Bai Xue?
It's just that Bai Tu felt that he couldn't bully "honest people" like this. Wang Su, the culprit, had already paid for it in advance, and Wang Lang had already blamed him countless times, so he should also express his opinions.
There is nothing that can be said about being promoted to a higher position. After all, if "Wang Xue" breaks out in the next generation, the blow to the Wang family will be fatal.
What's more, it's inappropriate to be promoted to a higher position "for no reason"...
Historically, the impact of Wang Su's fraud was not great, mainly because the crackdown on counterfeiting was more than a thousand years late, and "Wang Xue" has been widely accepted. Countless mathematical schools have extended Wang Xue for more than a thousand years, even if he is found to be
If it is false, its impact on academics will be limited. It is impossible to correct deviations from more than a thousand years ago, and its impact on the descendants of the Wang family will be almost non-existent.
Just like the "Bamboo Chronicles" was not officially adopted in history after it was discovered, we can't rebuild the ideological foundation from the "Spring and Autumn", right?
However, with the current speed of development of humanities and science and technology in Chu State, how could it be possible that it would take more than a thousand years for it to be discovered like it did in the original history?
So Bai Tu used a more direct method to guarantee Wang Lang and Wang Su's future for the Wang family!
When Bai Tu came up with this idea, he also thought about whether Sima had the same idea at the beginning?
After all, the beneficiaries of Wang Su's "academic fraud" at that time were the family members headed by the Sima family.
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The news that Wang Lang's granddaughter "Yuan Yuan" was appointed by Bai Tu to accompany the prince in the future was deliberately spread.
For a moment, everyone who looked at Wang Lang had a sour look in their eyes. Knowing Wang Lang's status in the future, he wanted to take a step further - aside from other things, at least Mi Heng would not try to mess with him again. This is a show of force!
Naturally, if the work of the Ministry of Punishment continues to be carried out, it will become much smoother.
Many important ministers also felt that Bai Tu decided on this matter too hastily. After all, it will happen more than ten years later... If the crown prince is to be an example of late marriage and late childbearing, it may even be twenty years later, why bother doing it now?
Decide?
But thinking about what Wang Lang's criminal department did and Wang Su's tacit behavior, everyone felt relieved.
Although they were sad, they asked themselves that if it were them, they might not be willing to "exchange".
To a certain extent, this is also a symbol that the king really remembers the contribution of every hero... thinking about it this way makes me feel a lot more balanced.
In addition, another major event in Chu State recently is that several official workshops of the Ministry of Industry, as well as a large number of private workshops, including many "semi-official workshops" in which the King of Chu has invested, have received "super orders" unexpectedly.
Shaogongfang has been busy with this big order even in the past two or three years!
It greatly promoted the development of the workshop...
After all, the production capacity of a large number of workshops has been occupied by this "super order", which has freed up space for more workshops and will also require more pure workshop population!
Many workshops even accept excess orders, which means they need to open a large number of new workshops within a year to increase production capacity in order to meet order requirements!
Especially this big order is closely related to steel. Steel, which is becoming more and more "cheap" in the Chu country, raised a hand.
Because most of the workshops with upstream technology are confidential official workshops monopolized by the Chu State, and even the core workshops are located overseas in Yizhou, so in theory the final results of the order are kept secret.
However, if you make a rough estimate, the steel needed may be tens of thousands of tons...
Some people originally thought that once all farm tools and weapons were used, the price of steel would plummet, but now they were all dumbfounded. In fact, the previous "conclusion" was shocking enough. Will there be an era when steel is worthless?
Indeed, due to the emergence of auxiliary mining equipment such as the "air rock drill" developed by the Ministry of Industry, the excavable reserves of iron ore and the excavation speed have increased astonishingly.
Now even the iron mines contracted by Liaodong to the Chu State are about to start using these equipment...
Therefore, the price of steel has been plummeting!
After that... I was swayed by this super order, which was so high that it could not be placed for several years. In the next few years, more than half of the production capacity of many iron-making workshops has been booked.
At the same time, the final product of this "super order" has also attracted countless speculations.
Some people say that the King of Chu wants to build a steel palace, some say that the Chu State wants to build a cast-iron fortress, some say that it wants to create a secret weapon to arm an army of millions, and some even say that the Chu State wants to build a giant steel ship.
There are steel roads!
Outside the Chu State, the third theory is naturally widely accepted.
One ton of the Chu State can weigh ten thousand jins, and tens of thousands of tons of steel. On average, for an army of one million, a single soldier can weigh hundreds of jins!
Enough for a million troops to be fully armored...
Of course, Chu State did not have a million-strong army, nor could it have millions of war horses. Therefore, it was puzzling to understand what the use of dozens or hundreds of kilograms of steel per person was.
However, within the Chu State, the fourth theory is very popular - after all, the Chu people also know that the imperial court attaches great importance to sea ships and warships.
It's just that... the thing about the steel battleship is also difficult to understand.
Although now, if someone questions "How can an iron ship float?", there may be a "smart person" around to give him some popular science about the basic principles of buoyancy. After all, Chu's popular science is not in vain, but... even so,
It can’t explain why steel battleships are needed!
When it comes to water warfare, whether on the river or in the ocean, the Chu State is already invincible.
Other princes who imported Chu weapons, farm tools and other steel products have jumped on the bandwagon - it's not enough for you to let the people practice martial arts to raise the price of food. Now you have to inexplicably "consume" tens of thousands of tons of steel to raise the price of steel.
price?
Do you, surnamed Bai, still have a conscience? In order to raise prices, you deliberately waste food and steel?
Sure enough, you are just going through the trouble, so you have to pay more when trading for us!
As for the first and second conjectures, there is not much market. Although the Wei State and the Han Dynasty will unscrupulously publicize to the people that the white map will require thousands of tons of steel, as well as the gold, silver and copper traded from their own homes.
, went to build a palace for himself, and was extremely extravagant and outrageous... But in fact, they themselves did not believe that Bai Tu would do this.
And spending so much thought on the fortresses used for defense is obviously not Chu's style.
Of course, among the true inner circle of the Chu State, such a huge project involving countless workshops, even if the final core assembly place is located in Yizhou, it is impossible to hide it from everyone - it is indeed to build a ship!
As for paving roads...
It sounds incredible, but to a certain extent it is true.
In fact, in order to convince everyone, Bai Tu took a dozen of Chu's core ministers to experience the Qi Ship...
It is a small wooden inki boat.
Although the "Pan Qi Project" is not yet ready to harvest its fruits in large quantities, the Qi machine that powers a small wooden ship that can accommodate dozens of people is already fully operational.
Just like before when more than a dozen military generals were summoned to test guns and cannons, this time we asked these core members of the government to test the Qi Ships!
When the ship without sails and oars moved smoothly and even turned flexibly in a windless and waveless environment, the results of the Ministry of Industry were once again shocking.
However, compared to the Chi Ship, it is another "Chi Train" that is more convincing to everyone - even though it is a test product, it only goes around in a circle on the grounds of the Ministry of Industry.
However, officials with some macroscopic concepts about the load and speed of the Zhenqi train can imagine how much benefit it would bring to the Chu State if this kind of "Zhenqi train" became popular.
In terms of consumption, the "Qi Train" is actually more expensive than the "Qi Ship"!
Although a Zhenqi battleship consumes thousands of tons of steel, it is at least a one-time purchase. Unless it is built in large quantities, it will only consume a small amount of "a few ships".
The track of the Zhenqi train consumes one ton of steel per kilometer - this is still the current train, which itself is relatively "small", so the track is also "saved" a lot compared to later generations, and can be dealt with first by using steel-clad wood.
Otherwise, adding another zero won’t be enough!
Although having a hard drive with a white picture can save you a lot of detours, firstly, the information is incomplete, and secondly... there are some differences between pneumatic power and steam power, and development still needs to be done step by step.
As for Yizhou Qin Mi’s visit...
It was really not a big deal in Chu State. After arriving in Jinling, he was left alone and no one cared about him.