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Princess Ling said like a domineering and autocratic tyrant:

"If you don't agree, you are disobeying the prince's order. The Youzhou Iron Cavalry has no choice but to step into the city again and ask the nobles face to face why they don't agree to build the road?"

As for why not ask local officials? Because the officials of the imperial court had long wanted to build the road, but the nobles blocked it, so it never succeeded.

Of course Shen Dongsu understands why the nobles disagree? The reasons are all strange. Some say that because of the destruction of Feng Shui, the local area is surrounded by mountains and rivers, so that it can gather cultural energy.

Once this road is repaired, the feng shui will be destroyed and the culture will be scattered.

It is said that for the purpose of city defense, the better the road to the north is built, the smoother it will be for foreign enemies to attack. So the roads in the north don't have to be so well built.

Some say it was to prevent people from fleeing. There were no roads, so many people worked within a radius of ten miles all their lives.

But once the road is open, news from the outside world can easily reach the village, and the people will yearn to live in a more prosperous place and will want to abandon farming.

Anyway, everyone had their own reasons. When the imperial court wanted to build a road, the local nobles immediately came out to stop it.

Others don't understand, but Shen Dongsu understands very well why these nobles don't allow the road to be built?

Oh, they just want to enclose the territory and be self-reliant, and they want a state within a state. Once this road is built, their dictatorship will naturally be affected.

When there was no way out, students from poor local families had no choice but to rely on local gentry if they wanted to study.

When there are roads, students from poor families can study further afield.

These are just excuses for the nobles to fool the people in order to consolidate their own interests.

The focus of the imperial court has always been on the Central Plains area of ​​Chang'an and Luoyang, and it was beyond its reach to the north and its management was not in place.

The generals sent to Youzhou one after another in the past few years are all from large noble families, so they naturally tolerate and condone the northern noble families.

It's a pity that they have been arrogant and indulgent for nearly a hundred years, and now they have a King Ling and an unreasonable Princess Ling.

The good days are over!

"Courtesy first, then troops, convey the prince's instructions well to all states and cities. It would be better if you are willing to cooperate."

"If you don't want to, you can only deal with it according to the law."

These officials were both nervous and excited. They were nervous that Youzhou might offend the northern gentry to death.

The exciting thing is that since the prince is not in the city, they don't have to stay on guard. The princess is so domineering and decisive, why not worry about the construction of Youzhou City!

For farmers and reservoirs, for merchants to build roads, for literati and students to build Wanshu Pavilion, for the craftsmen class, this is the simplest and most saddening.

Those craftsmen in later generations were called masters, but in this era, they were lowly craftsmen.

Once you become a craftsman, you will be a borrowed craftsman for generations. If you want to get out of the trade, you have to pay a heavy price. It is as difficult as a businessman to get out of the trade.

Craftsmen had no land and were heavily taxed.

Shen Dongsu gave Li Nianyu the task of recruiting craftsmen: "You have always said that you want to revitalize Momen, but you have too few Momen people."

"I hope you can regard all the craftsmen in Youzhou as descendants of Momen. I believe that as long as they are well treated and respected, all the best craftsmen in the world will be willing to come to Youzhou."

"I want to establish a craftsmen's association in Youzhou. Any craftsman with a certain skill who joins the association will be able to gain a Youzhou household registration."

Li Nianyu was very excited, just as excited as Mr. Pang when he learned that she was going to build Wanshu Pavilion. He asked:

"The princess is saying that even if a craftsman comes to Youzhou, he will be treated like ordinary people?"

Shen Dongsu nodded: "Of course! Your Majesty attaches great importance to talents. As long as they are talented people, they can have a place in Youzhou."

"Even an ordinary craftsman can live an upright life in Youzhou."

She simply told Li Nianyu the philosophy of the association. Li Nianyu was very serious and wrote a planning document and submitted it that day.

Shen Dongsu also granted him a piece of land to build a craftsmen's association. It was said to be an association, but in fact it was similar to a polytechnic.

Craftsmen can learn and communicate here, and at the same time, they are assigned work according to their technical strengths.

That's right, as far as the current situation in Youzhou is concerned, even if 10,000 craftsmen come, they can still distribute the work.

Li Nianyu and his fellow apprentices' gratitude and admiration for Princess Ling reached their peak. They politely asked, could the craftsmen's association bear the name Momen?

Shen Dongsu smiled and said: "Of course! This craftsmen's association is fully responsible to Mr. Li."

"In the future, you can recruit disciples and revitalize Momen."

Li Nianyu said a little self-deprecatingly: "If there is no other way, who would send their children to learn crafts? Of course they have to study."

Shen Dongsu sneered and said: "Scholars say that everything is inferior, only reading is high. Do you Momen disciples think so too?"

"They say craftsmen are useless, so you should prove to the world how strong craftsmen really are!"

As far as these disciples of Mo Sect are concerned, Shen Dongsu feels that they can be called physicists and chemists, and they are all masters of science and engineering.

But in this era, when literati were in charge, a master of science and engineering could only get the title of a craftsman.

She once again provided Li Nianyu with ideas and came up with teaching materials first. Not to mention any craft, it was taught step by step. Master passed down the apprenticeship, and once the generations passed, the craft was gone.

As for the basic theory, it is like an enlightenment book for students. Only when it is produced as a teaching material can it be remembered for generations.

She did not copy the physical chemistry books of later generations. She felt that industrial progress and technological development must come step by step.

Her own intervention would be to undermine the situation.

She can provide them with direction, resources, and a relaxed environment for growth. As for how far they can go, it's up to them.

Just like the gunpowder, she only gave the basic formula, and the finished products were all studied by Li Nianyu and the Momen disciples.

At present, Youzhou Polytechnic's research is mainly divided into three major aspects. The first and most important is military weapons.

In addition to gunpowder, there are also armor, hand crossbows, chariots, etc. suitable for cavalry.

Because there is no siege warfare in northern Xinjiang, research on large weapons such as ladders for siege has been postponed.

Although it was still far from building a navy, Shen Dongsu had asked Li Nianyu to collect the drawings about ships left by Momen in advance.

The second is farming, improving agricultural tools, such as plows, palladiums, columbines, windmills, etc. It also includes cattle breeding, grain storage, and food processing, which are all agricultural activities.

The third is of course industry. The most mature industrial machinery at present is used in military workshops to make military grain.

Li Nianyu was inspired by the compressed cake technology and improved the horse feed compression technology.

The previous expeditions required a lot of horse supplies.

He uses foods that horses often eat, such as beans, wheat, grass, etc., compresses and cuts them into particles, which is convenient for transportation and storage for a long time.

This horse material alone will play a great role in King Ling's expedition.

Shen Dongsu also proposed that he prepare pig feed and chicken feed in accordance with the law, but was rejected.

Because currently there is not enough food for people and horses to eat, so where can there be enough food for pigs and chickens to eat!

Yes, in this era, farmers raised pigs on grass and chickens in free range. Except for some food in winter when there was no food, no food was fed in other seasons.

She asked Li Nianyu to write down the feed method first. She believed that sooner or later, there would be enough food to make pig feed.