Cheng Chumo laughed happily, and shouted to Zheng Boyi who was in the pool: "The surname Zheng lost to a group of women. You still have the nerve to say that others are stalking you. Have you lived like a dog at such a young age?"

With the help of Bu Qu at home, Zheng Boyi finally crawled out of the pool, dripping water all over his body, he was in a panic.

Fang Yiai leaned over and joked: "Tsk tsk, Xueshi Zheng, you showed a big face today. Then when do you plan to jump in the lake? I'm still waiting for my brother."

"Yes, when will you jump? Haha, jumping into the lake naked is nothing new."

"Jump! Jump! Jump!" A group of dudes gathered around, stomping their feet and booing, making Zheng Boyi even more ashamed and angry.

"You guys!" Zheng Boyi was so angry that his hands trembled, and he glared at Li Wangyou: "Don't want someone to jump into the lake, Mr. Huxian, how dare you cheat on someone! My Xingyang Zheng family will never end with you! Just wait!"

After saying this, he didn't turn his head back, just like this, his whole body was wet, he led his own steps, turned around and left.

Obviously, Zheng Boyi was planning to renege on his debt.

He has already lost all his face today, and if he goes to jump into the lake naked, he will really have no face to return to Chang'an City.So even if he was playing a rogue, he would never honor the bet.

Li Wangyou didn't care, he didn't have any interest in jumping into the lake without stripping off a big man.

He enthusiastically waved to Zheng Boyi: "Mr. Zheng, go slowly. Come to the mansion to shake the bridge when you have time. The servant girls in my mansion can play with Mr. Zheng at any time."

Zheng Boyi, who had just been served by Buqu, got on his horse, and almost fell off his horse when he heard Li Wangyou's words.

He gritted his teeth, but he had no choice but to whip the horse and run away.

After Zheng Boyi left in embarrassment, the dandies burst into laughter again, and continued to play on the swinging bridge.This time, everyone asked to challenge the maidservant of Li's mansion, and they had so much fun that even after falling into the water, they laughed loudly.

On the other hand, Li Er shook his head and stretched out his hand to attract Kong Yingda, and said to the old man in a low voice: "The bachelors, direct bachelors, and professors in the six schools and two halls, apart from knowledge, moral character is also very important. Kong Yingda should treat this If there is some rectification, the teacher should have a teacher's morality. Ziyou's "Teacher's Talk" should be learned more in the six schools and the second library."

Kong Yingda, who was the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine, didn't understand the meaning of Li Er's words, so he naturally nodded in agreement.

Not surprisingly, Zheng Boyi, the direct scholar of the Hongwen Museum, should be at the end of his term, and he will be thrown into a corner of some unpopular yamen to get moldy.

Li Wangyou sneered even more in his heart, such a thing, how dare he be his "rival in love"?I really don't know what to say.

After Zheng Boyi left in a hurry, the atmosphere of the banquet became more and more enthusiastic, and the fine wine from Li's mansion was brought up in jars.In the end even Li Er got drunk, and with Mi Tuo's support, he got on his horse and returned to Chang'an City.

The host and guest had a good time, and when the sun was setting, they took their leave one after another, and only the group of dudes stayed behind.

"Ziyou, I'll stay at your house for a while, do you have any objections?" Cheng Chumo laughed.

How can Li Wangyou have any opinions, how long does he like to live, not to mention that the dudes are more lively in his house.Anyway, the mansion is very big now, and there is no shortage of guest rooms in the castle. He doesn't mind how long Cheng Chumo and the others stay.

That night, Dingzhou Village became lively again.

Outside the newly built ancestral hall in the village, there are already filled with drinks and banquets.The cooks, maids and servants of Li's mansion continuously delivered fine wine and food, and Li Wangyou invited the farmers to have fun.

Not only Li Wangyou squeezed together with the beautiful boss and the farmer to toast and drink, but the dudes didn't mean to look down on the farmer, they squeezed in the crowd without any image at all, eating and drinking happily.

Seeing the image of Cheng Chumo and the others, the beautiful boss smiled, and leaned into Li Wangyou's ear and whispered: "Cheng Chumo and the others are not at all like the top dandies of the Tang Dynasty? The nobles who can be so close to the farmers , which is rare.”

Li Wangyou raised his wine glass, took a sip, and said with a smile: "That's right, that's why I like them. They are not pretentious, and they don't have the airs of the little princes of the Duke's Mansion, which is very rare."

The beautiful boss's eyes flickered: "I have a bad history, but I also remember that many of them did not end well. Wangyou, since you regard them as friends, you have to help them in the future."

"It's natural." Li Wangyou looked at Fang Yiai, who was blushing and having a thick neck, fighting with Niu Wu with a loud voice, and secretly made up his mind.

No matter what, I can't let this fool marry Princess Gaoyang and become that poor Green Hat King of the Tang Dynasty...

But now I think too much about this matter, Li Er's eldest princess, Li Lizhi, is only seven or eight years old, so Princess Gao Yang is probably only four or five years old now?

Thinking of Fang Yiai's future wife, who is now a little girl in kindergarten, Li Wangyou can't help but look down on her again.

"Ziyou, why are you in a daze? Come, drink!" Du He slapped Li Wangyou on the shoulder, laughed and came over.

"Haha, it's nothing, drink, drink! Whoever is not drunk today is a bastard!" Li Wangyou did not show any weakness, picked up the wine glass and poured it down.

That night, Li Wangyou and the other dudes didn't even know how they got back home, they were all drunk to the point of mud...

The next day, Li Wangyou got up from the bed with a splitting headache, and when he swore again that he would not drink alcohol in the future, the old housekeeper Li Heng came to report that his disciple Yan Liben had arrived...

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Li Wangyou rubbed his temples in great pain, and sipped his tea listlessly.

"Liben, are you here? Is there something wrong?"

Yan Liben said with a smile: "Master, Tong Bing should have known this matter to Master yesterday, but my disciple saw that yesterday was the day when Master entered the house, so it is inconvenient to disturb you, so I came to report to Master early this morning. Master, guess what is it?" ?”

Li Wangyou looked at him, then stood up suddenly: "But the hydraulic forging machine is finished?"

"Haha, the master guessed it right. The hydraulic forging machine was completed three days ago, and the disciple let the craftsman run it for two days. Everything is normal, so I came to report the good news to the master." Yan Liben was even proud that he was able to preside over the construction. A magical machine, for him, that is more happy than winning the lottery.

"Let's go and have a look." Li Wangyou also regained his energy.

Li Wangyou didn't go to call the dandies, after all, this matter still needs to be kept secret before Li Er's approval.

Not far from Huangyu Cuiwei Palace, beside a river named Qi River, a row of workshops has sprung up.

The Qi River is not wide, but the current is fast.

More than a dozen large waterwheels with a diameter of four to five meters have been erected next to the workshop, and they are constantly rotating rapidly under the impetus of the endless river.

"Teacher, look, this is the blast furnace for re-smelting private money." Yan Liben introduced the various facilities in the workshop to Li Wangyou.

Regarding these iron and steel smelting, Li Wangyou knew nine out of ten senses and knew nothing about it. He could only listen to what Yan Liben said.

Li Wangyou also knew that by the time of Datang, steel smelting and forging technology had already been very advanced.Not only the steel frying method, but also the quenching and annealing technology, as well as various very advanced steel forging technologies.

Tang Dao can be invincible, which is also one of the reasons why Tang Jun is invincible.

Only the steel-making blast furnace still uses charcoal as fuel, which made Li Wangyou remember it in his heart.He vaguely remembered that it seemed that it was at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty that coke was used as a fuel for steelmaking.

Coke is used to make steel, and the furnace temperature is higher, and the quality of molten steel produced is also better.

However, coke must be processed from coal, and Li Wangyou only knew a rough idea about this, so he was not in a hurry to raise this matter with Yan Liben.

Piles of private money were thrown into the blast furnace, and slowly re-melted into a furnace of copper water under the continuous heating of the charcoal fire.

Craftsmen pour copper water into the mold and wait for it to cool.

"This is to cast copper water into copper bars as thick as copper coins. After the copper bars cool down, they can be sent out of the hydraulic casting machine and stamped into copper coins."

Yan Liben was very proud to invite Li Wangyou to a huge forging hammer: "Master, this is a hydraulic forging machine made according to your drawings. It is really amazing. Look at the hammer head, it weighs twenty The stone, made of pure steel, is extremely powerful. Driven by the water wheel, it can be beaten twice a minute, day and night."

Li Wangyou calculated in his heart, twenty shi is two thousand catties, a one-ton hammer head, it is indeed very remarkable in Datang.

And the one minute that Yan Liben mentioned is not the one minute of later generations.

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