Li Shimin's will: Li Zhi, the throne belongs to your brother

"As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. If you have money, you can directly buy the [-]-character "Da Tang Guo Dian"!"

"That is, if it weren't for the benevolence and righteousness of the Wu family, I don't know how much time I would have to save to afford a copy of "The Great Tang Kingdom."

"Besides, it's enough if the dictionary is easy to use. It's so exquisite and complicated, isn't it useful?"

"It's just that the number of words is only two thousand... when will all the words be published?"

Li Shimin was a little surprised. He didn't expect this seemingly inferior dictionary to be welcomed by so many people. Even the Wu family was regarded as a person of benevolence and righteousness.

However, this is true, good-looking, beautiful, good or bad is not important.

The important thing is to be able to see clearly and be practical.

"This customer, if you don't want to buy the dictionary in this store, you can look elsewhere." The store owner started to chase people away very rudely.

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I just bought a book, I don't want to read other books now."

Li Shimin quickly smiled and raised the "Common Dictionary" in his hand and said.

"Oh." The store owner's face softened a lot and said: "Guest officer, please take a look, please take a look."

Li Shimin walked to the side and flipped through a copy of "The Analects of Confucius".

I was very surprised to find that this book was also printed in small fonts. The paper was better, but the ink was still of poor quality.

"The Analects of Confucius" has many volumes, and the first page Li Shimin opened is the table of contents.

The above table of contents first merged all the chapters together, and the thickness is only the thickness of the original one.

The most important thing is that the price says ten words, which is a bit outrageous.

If it was before, there might be more than ten articles in one volume, and hundreds of articles in the Analects of Confucius.

Although the quality is inferior, it is cheap and affordable enough, so the samurai really did nothing wrong...

Li Shimin flipped through these books a little speechlessly.

With such a cheap price, this group of people can not only crowd out other bookstores, but even sell them all over the entire Tang Dynasty.

It seems to earn less, but small profits but quick turnover... wins in the long run.

This is not a bad thing, but it can popularize text faster.

With this alone, business should indeed be in your own hands.

Chapter 66 Planning of the Academy of Sciences

But how should we control them?

This is a difficult problem.

On the one hand, once the rich have power, they will change the status quo.

The imperial court is likely to be corrupted, and this group of people is likely to become big profiteers, or even betray the country.

On the other hand, if you want to organize them, there are not enough interests for them to voluntarily turn to the court.

It is not necessary to be strong. Behind the big merchants are all the big families, even though the richest Wu family has surrendered.

Li Shimin thought a lot in his mind, but finally failed to come up with a good solution.

Maybe... you can ask Li Tai about this matter, he may have a solution.

"Aye?" Li Mingda looked at Li Shimin in a daze, and couldn't help shouting.

"En?" Li Shimin came back to his senses, and saw that there were already people pointing around.

I have read it for too long, and I have been regarded as a poor scholar who reads books.

Li Shimin smiled awkwardly, and pulled Li Mingda away quickly.

"What is father thinking?" Li Mingda asked a little unhappy.

"Okay, okay, I don't want to. Today I will play with my son."

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at the same time.

The small blast furnace was finally completed.

More than five meters high, it looks like a large blue-gray corncob with two horns inserted.

The two corners are the openings for fuel and minerals, and there are air inlets and discharge outlets below.

On both sides of the corner are built stone platforms, because there is no conveyor belt, the material can only be fed manually.

The principle is to use pulleys to hoist fuel and minerals to the stone platform.

Then the workers on the table stand far away and operate the push rod to push the minerals into the material inlet. After unloading the materials, they can put down the pulley to continue.

Except for pulleys, lifting and pushing devices, the entire blast furnace and stone platform are made of fired green bricks and cement.

The whole is blue-gray.

The construction of the blast furnace is completed, which means that all the construction has been completed.

With the blast furnace as the center, the brick kiln is close to the oval, and the living area of ​​the craftsman is a few hundred meters away.

On the other side of the blast furnace is an open space for storing various minerals, and on the other side is a place for raising livestock.

In this regard, the entire blast furnace construction base is completed.

After hundreds of people spent so long, it was finally finished.

Looking at the five-meter-high blast furnace, Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally the construction is complete.

After spending so many days, his own industry was finally able to start.

"Your Highness, this blast furnace has been completed.

Do you want to try to smelt a furnace of iron first, and let His Majesty visit it together? "

Yang Siqi on the side hurriedly reported.

"Er...the cement is not yet dry, and it will take at least ten days before the furnace can be smelted. It is not very meaningful to visit."

Li Tai thought for a while and replied.

The drying time of different species is different, at least [-] days, but the actual operation will be affected by factors such as sinking and so on, and it will only take longer.

"At this outlet, dig a molten iron pool, separate it with stone bricks, and cast these models with clay."

Li Tai took out two pieces of paper from his pocket and handed them to Yang Siqi.

One is that the mechanical function is to bend and cut iron bars, which can be used to make horseshoes faster.

The other is the drawing of the pit. After the molten iron comes out of this outlet, it will flow into the pre-dug pit and become iron bars or models after cooling.

"If there is nothing else, go back and rest for half a month."

Li Tai waved his hand and said.

"Yes!"

Yang Siqi retreated and began to arrange manpower to dig the iron pool.

The blast furnace is built, and the steam engine can also start the process of making.

The Academy of Sciences is also planning well.

The School of Mathematics can be managed by Yuan Keshi, the son of Yuan Tiangang.

The School of Physics let Yang Siqi manage it, and let them do things like steam engines and steamships.

The School of Chemistry is managed by Li Chunfeng, who mainly develops various products, such as toothpaste and perfume.

The College of Agriculture has yet to be decided, and needs to be designated by Li Shimin.

The business school can let Wu Meiniang and Yan Wan manage it, and use their channels to distribute products.

Sun Simiao from the School of Medicine came to manage it.

The Faculty of Letters was handed over to Wei Zheng.

For the time being, the military academy has to discuss this with Li Shimin.

It's wonderful to lead the overall situation by yourself, if you have any ideas, you can be lazy and let them do it~

Thinking of this, Li Tai couldn't help showing a happy smile.

However, you need to wait for a while to do these, at least wait for the first furnace to come out.

In this way, Li Shimin will continue to give human and material support.

In addition, there are still many problems that need to be solved. It is inevitable that business schools need to become bigger.

Li Tai rubbed his temples, but he still didn't want to, because he lacked an opportunity.

It's getting late, it's time to go back.

Li Tai rode the horse very comfortably on the way back to Chang'an.

Before entering the mansion gate, he saw many guests outside the gate.

These people were still holding gifts in their hands, but they were stopped outside.

Seeing Li Tai coming, they rushed forward. They were very eager and saluted Li Tai together.

"I have seen Your Highness."

"Well, no courtesy." Li Tai waved his hand, glanced around with some doubts: "Wait, what are you doing in front of this palace?"

Why do so many people come to give gifts?

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and a leader came out and said.

"Caomin is the owner of the bookstore, and recently the "Common Dictionary" has been printed in small print.

Let me wait for the business to be bleak day by day, please His Highness let me wait for a way out! "

Saying that, they were about to kneel down in unison.

After hearing this, Li Tai immediately understood.

Since Wu Meiniang doesn't care about this matter, she doesn't bother to care about it.

If technology advances, it will be eliminated if it cannot keep up, and no one can stop it.

After thinking about it, Li Tai said casually: "This king knows, let's go back."

After finishing speaking, Li Tai entered the mansion, leaving only the people behind him looking at each other, a little at a loss.

As soon as Li Tai entered the front hall, he saw Yan Wan and Wu Meiniang reading a book together engrossed.

Li Tai saw that the cover was "Mahayana Sutra".

'Cough' Li Tai interrupted the two of them and asked, "What's so interesting about this book?"

The two got up quickly, closed the book in a panic, and said with averted eyes.

"My husband, please punish me, this book was sent by His Majesty.

Out of curiosity, I flipped through this book, and there are many strange things written in it. "

"Strange? How rare can it be?" Li Tai said disapprovingly.

"It says that a great master became a Buddha and left behind a relic and a golden body."

"Relic? Golden body? These are all lies!" Li Tai said disapprovingly.

"Does your husband mean that the relics and the golden body are used by monks to deceive people?"

"I wonder if Mei Niang and Wan'er have heard of Niu Huang?"

"Bezoar???" The two looked at each other, puzzled.

"After some cows die of illness, bezoar can be found in their bodies.

The same is true for those monks. Calculus resembling bezoar will grow in their stomachs when they sit still all day long. After being burned by fire, they become so-called relics. "

Li Tai explained with a smile.

"This..." After hearing this, the two of them were in a bad mood, and asked, "What about the golden body?"