Iron Dynasty

Chang'an.

With the return of businessmen from Qingzhou, Xiao Ming established a chamber of commerce, auctioned soaps and perfumes in various prefectures and counties, and the news of drunk Qingzhou's sales rights also spread in Dayu.

As the political center of the Great Yu Kingdom, the dignitaries living here have always been particularly sensitive to this matter.

Second brother, why didn't I see that Seventh had this ability before.

Outside the city of Chang'an, the second prince Xiao Ju and the sixth prince Xiao Mu, all dressed in military uniforms, were riding on horses.

Behind the two, hundreds of guards, servants, and servants accompanied them, and in front of them, dozens of sturdy hounds ran back and forth in the woods, looking for prey.

Xiao Ju held a bow and arrow in his hand, and patrolled the hunting grounds with his eyes. Hunting has always been his favorite thing. Hearing the sixth prince say this, he smiled disdainfully: It's just some cleverness, and he hangs around with these despicable businessmen all day long, sure enough. It's a bastard!

Hahaha, second brother Gao Jian, no matter how much this old seventh is tossing, he is just a cheap embryo, hehe, Concubine Zhen is only the daughter of a seventh-rank county magistrate. He thinks that he can fly on the branches and become a phoenix when he climbs the crown prince. People are easy to laugh at. Xiao Mu laughed.

Xiao Ju sneered again and again, Gao Zhi? Hehe, the sixth brother thinks too much of the queen and the crown prince. In my opinion, the queen is desperately ill and goes to the doctor. Just giving 100,000 taels of silver is different from sending beggars.

Hey, second brother, isn't this King Qi just a beggar?

Xiao Mu and Xiao Ju looked at each other and suddenly laughed.

At this moment, a small deer emerged from the woods under the siege of hounds, Xiao Ju immediately bent his bow and shot an arrow, and said, Sixth brother, would you like to race the deer with me?

Xiao Mu was stunned, the intention of competing for the deer was the same as competing for the world, he reined in his horse and swung his whip and said loudly: Second brother, when you ascend to the throne, why don't you catch the idiot of the old seventh and throw it in this hunting ground. , then hunting is really fun.

Well, yes, plus a prince. A vicious look flashed in Xiao Ju's eyes, and he shot an arrow at the fawn who was running away. in a pool of blood.

The third prince, Xiao Zhen, was reading a secret letter from Qingzhou in the Royal Thai Mansion.

The minister of household, Li Zhongzheng, stood beside him, and also glanced at the contents of the letter. Li Zhong said, His Royal Highness, the fourth prince is wise, but this time, he won't lose the rice.

Hmph, he deliberately framed the assassination of King Qi in Qingzhou and put the blame on me. He just wanted to use it to force King Qi to fight against me with him. Unfortunately, King Qi didn't make a statement about it, he seemed to be the same as King Wei back then. I don't want to be involved in the battle for the throne. Xiao Zhen said.

Li Zhong frowned, This King Qi is strange. If he used to tell the emperor, he would investigate the matter thoroughly, but this time he didn't make a sound, but now he is mixed up with a group of merchants.

Perhaps this old seventh may be a smart person who wants to learn from the King Wei of the past. Xiao Zhen smiled.

Since this is the case, why don't Your Highness write a letter to King Qi to explain this matter, so that King Qi doesn't feel bad about us. Li Zhong said.

Uncle, it's not time yet. Let's observe King Qi for a while. If it's available, it's a good idea to seize the opportunity to take advantage of this matter. Besides, King Qi's fief is too far away to quench his thirst.

Li Zhong nodded, The emperor praised you for being resourceful and prudent, as expected, but you can't rely on it. Now the post of Governor of Chang'an is vacant, if you think of a way to win, the Hu Benwei in Chang'an City will be under your control.

I'm afraid it will be difficult, the prince is very tight on this, not to mention there are other princes. Xiao Zhen's expression was solemn, mastering Hu Benwei was equivalent to adding another army to Chang'an, and no prince would give up easily.

In King Kang's mansion, which is three streets away from King Tai's mansion, the fourth prince is also discussing the matter of Hu Benwei with his ministers, but he is surrounded by people with the surname of Zheng, and they are all ministers of the humerus in the court.

Like the princes, they knew very well that the battle for the throne was just a battle between the clansmen behind the prince, the prince's Zhao family, the Thai king's Li family, and he represented the Zheng family.

Sa'er, I persuaded you not to resort to dangerous tactics at the beginning, but now what? King Qi not only did not pursue the matter, but he alienated us, and the prince and the prince are close relatives.

Xiao Sa smashed the news from Qingzhou, Hmph, as long as King Tai doesn't get any advantage, it doesn't matter who Xiao Ming goes to, besides, Xiao Ming is just an unimportant person, and he is also an unimportant person. No problem.

No, no, I have a different opinion on Xiao Ming. Since the assassination has passed, this Xiao Ming has changed his personality and vigorously rectified the fief. Maybe he will be a good helper in the future. Zheng Hongwen said, he is a The minister of the Ministry of Works, unlike the others, was very interested in Xiao Ming's strange craftsmanship.

The fourth prince suddenly shook his head and sneered: In the future? We can't wait until that time. How many years can the father's body last?

Zheng Hongwen was silent.

In Qingzhou at this time, Xiao Ming did not know the influence he had brought to Chang'an. He was just down-to-earth step by step to build the industrial and agricultural foundation of Qingzhou.

Because Chang'an was just a distant place for him, a place where even a carriage took ten days and a half months.

Since giving the silver to Pang Yukun and others, Xiao Ming has been staring at the Governor's Mansion, the shipyard, the workshop area, the mine and other places all day long.

Pang Yukun took the money, in addition to distributing the arrears to the officials, the rest was to discuss with Xiao Ming the construction of waterwheels in various states.

His Royal Highness, what kind of waterwheel is this? I've never seen it before, and there are no pedals on it? Pang Yukun wondered when Xiao Ming drew the structure of a waterwheel.

The waterwheels in Dayu Kingdom are still at the level of human-powered waterwheels. Most of them are drum carts. This drum cart looks similar to the shape of a modern Ferris wheel. It relies on people to step on it to draw water from the ground and send it to the cultivated land.

Xiao Ming said: This is called a bull-powered overturn. Using bulls to pull, of course, no one is needed.

Pang Yukun looked incredulous, Xiaguan has never seen Niu Lila's overturned car, how could His Highness do that?

Hey, that's because this king is much smarter than you. Xiao Ming ran on Pang Yukun, and Pang Yukun immediately stretched his face. Paper talk about soldiers, since Your Highness said this, it is better to let the craftsmen make it for the lower officials to see and see. a bit.

This is not easy. With the capabilities of today's equipment department, it can be built in just five days. Xiao Ming said to himself.

In fact, this kind of bull-powered tipper already has the principle of modern gear motion. The structure is a parallel circular wooden gear plus a vertical circular wooden gear connected to a wooden conveyor belt similar to a crawler.

There is a vertical shaft in the middle of the parallel gear. The cow pulls the shaft to drive the parallel gear to rotate, and then the vertical gear also rotates. There is also a shaft in the center of the vertical gear. This shaft is connected in parallel with a small vertical shaft. A wooden gear is placed, and this gear will drive the transmission of the crawler, which will continuously irrigate the water from the canal to the ground.