Facing the wind and snow in early winter, Han Mochu and Gu Xiu returned to the capital Bianjing with the "inheritance" left by Mr. Yi Yi to Han Mochu.

After counting and counting by the officials of the household department day and night, it was found that there were more than 960 million taels of pure gold hidden in Mr. Yi Ji's stone room.If the rest of the jewellery, jade, luminous pearls, and glazed wares are sold at market prices at this time, they can be converted into 970 taels of silver in total.Not to mention the rising prices of these things year after year.

All in all, the "inheritance" left by Mr. Yi Wei to Han Mochu is equivalent to the sum of the people's livelihood of the entire country in Dazhou for 20 years.

Compared with these valuable gold and silver jewels, the books, blueprints, and mine maps left by Mr. Yi Ji are truly priceless treasures.

The first thing that Gu Xiu and Han Mochu did after they returned to Beijing was to combine the Imperial Academy of the former dynasty with the library building in the palace, and rebuild a six-storey hexagonal high-rise building. "Langhuan Pavilion".

"Langhuan, the place where the Emperor of Heaven collects books."

In addition to retaining the previous duties of collecting books, editing ancient books, and preserving rare books for the state, Langhuan Pavilion also specially recruited a group of learned people to write records of meritorious officials for the virtuous officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In the future, all the ministers who have made great achievements in the country, no matter whether they are civil or military, should write books and biographies for them with the meticulous brushwork of the court, and keep the authentic images for future generations to look up to.

The portrait of Mr. Yi Wei was drawn by Han Mochu himself, and he chose an auspicious day to enshrine the portrait in the Langhuan Pavilion together with the king.

To show the king's admiration for the soldiers of the country.

In the following hundreds of years, this Langhuan Pavilion has also become a must-go place for the students of the Great Zhou Dynasty to pay pilgrimage.

***

In the second year of Yongding, it was the middle of winter.

There are two major events in the country. One is that the Enke has been completed this autumn, and the Jiangnan Examination Center has been cleaned up.

A year ago, Gu Xiu massacred corrupt officials here and cooked officials alive. The Jiangnan officialdom, which has been corrupted for nearly a hundred years, finally has a bit of fear and restraint.The price of salt, grain, meat and vegetables in Jiangnan was about one-third lower than before.

In order to investigate the malpractice of official administration in the whole country, Han Mochu proposed in the early morning in the previous court to set up governor's mansions in the ten provinces of the world. The wind has been blowing for nearly two years. Get down the list and make plans.

Unexpectedly, after the end of Enke, Han Mochu selected 120 students from the students who participated in Enke to be appointed as Governor Lang School.

Duguanlang School belongs to Zhengwupin, Zhili is under the provincial jurisdiction of the door.At the same level as the supervisory censor, he does not wear official uniforms when acting, but only obeys the orders of the king and Taifu Han.Every year, the king will be informed of what he sees and hears in various places.

Combined with the results of the official examinations of the Ministry of Officials every year, those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, those who are guilty will be punished, those who have no meritorious service will be demoted, and those who are lazy and mediocre will be deposed.

This position is rounded every three years, and only Han Mochu knows the name list each time.

However, even if it was known that this person was the governor's school, the high-ranking students selected by Han Mochu would not eat oil and salt, and would not eat hard and soft.

Let these ambitious young students restrain those old fritters who have been in the officialdom for more than ten years, forcing those old fritters to work hard to make political achievements.

The second is that since Nanzhao was brought back to the Great Zhou, all the subordinate states of the Great Zhou and the bordering alien tribes are about to move.

Da Zhou is bound to create the strongest and most indestructible army in the world at this time.

An invincible army is not only for the generals to be masters of war, but also for the soldiers to be well-trained, but also to be able to minimize the casualties of the soldiers who join the army during wartime.This is also the vow that Gu Xiu and Han Mochu secretly made after seeing the miserable appearance of the widows of those generals when they returned from their first expedition against Mohe when they were teenagers.

To reduce unnecessary casualties, strong armor and powerful weapons are two essential elements.

When Gu Xiu was the king of war, he had always devoted himself to the establishment of the army of the country. At that time, the late emperor was still there, and Gu Xiu paid off all his military merits and salary, which was only a drop in the bucket.

Later, when Gu Xiu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, in order to avoid the pretext of being aggressive, the military expenditure in the past two years was not much higher than when the first emperor was in power.

Now with the gold and silver that Mr. Yi Ji has filled into the treasury, it is more than enough to replace the whole army with new armor, or to develop large-scale offensive and defensive weapons.

In the past few days, Gu Xiu and Han Mochu, the monarch and his ministers, resumed the previous routine when Gu Xiu was in charge of military affairs.

After getting up in the morning and facing the court, after lunch, he plunged into the barracks.He even carried the little prince Yu Cheng, who was under two years old, to the military camp, and followed the two of them tossing and tossing endlessly.

Han Mochu found an alloy that looked like silver and was like iron in the books left by Mr. Yi Ji.

This alloy is made of pig iron, but it is more malleable and harder than pig iron, and the weight of the alloy of the same size is one-third lighter than that of iron.

It couldn't be more suitable to use this alloy to make battle armor.

At the end of this book, Mr. Yi Chi also drew a schematic diagram of the furnace for smelting this alloy, and noted the details of the refining method and the ratio of raw materials.

Han Mochu made rubbings of this picture into more than ten copies, combined with the clues contained in the book to draw the whole format of this kind of furnace before and after, and handed it over to Huang Lin, the head of the military supervisor.

Twenty days later, Huang Lin presented the first piece of newly refined alloy to Han Mochu and Gu Xiu with a face full of black ashes that he hadn't had time to scrub off.

"Your Majesty, Taifu Han. The results of my first trial have not yet reached the appearance of the alloy described in the book. Please forgive me." Huang Lin held the alloy in his hand, and his outstretched hands were covered with scars from repeated scalding.

"You do your best, what's the crime?" Yuan Bao, the head servant, placed the alloy cube presented by Huang Lin in front of the monarch and his ministers. Gu Xiu put the alloy cube in his hand, weighed it, and said bluntly: "You Let’s talk about the difficulties in this smelting process, you can’t make a car behind closed doors for the sake of business.”

"Returning to Your Majesty, this alloy is based on iron carbon. After the pig iron is smelted into molten iron to remove impurities, it is then injected with tin and copper to continue forging. It must be polished repeatedly. Now the new The heat of the blast furnace is insufficient, and it is difficult to remove impurities in the molten iron, and the smelting cycle is twice as slow as the iron smelting cycle. If you want to increase the speed, you must increase the heat of the blast furnace. Wei Chen tried to double the amount of heat in the blast furnace. The coking coal is still insufficient in heat." After Huang Lin said, he kowtowed again and said, "It is not known whether the heat will be sufficient if the coking coal is doubled. Alloys are approximately equivalent to silver."

After listening to Huang Lin's narration, Han Mochu held the hard-won alloy in his hand, stroked the uneven surface of the alloy with his fingers, and said calmly: "Master Huang has worked hard, but you have the emperor's life but you know Saving money for the country is really rare. Don't worry, the blueprint of the metallurgical blast furnace was drawn by this official. Now the lack of heat should also be thought of by this official. Metallurgy does not happen overnight, Mr. Huang does not need to rush. The molten iron is boiling hot Master Huang has to instruct the craftsmen to be careful in everything every day, and they must not hurt their lives because of recklessness."

"Yes, I understand." Huang Lin felt a stone in Han Mochu's words fall to the ground, and then bowed down and said: "Although this officer is only a military supervisor, what I think in my heart is our country's soldiers. With the blade in my hand and the battle armor on my body, I hope that the alloy can be made soon, so as to add new strength to my Great Zhou army."

***

that night.

Han Mochu and Gu Xiu had a hasty dinner, and then both returned to the warm pavilion where the two of them lived in the Xuanzheng Palace.

In front of the huge desk, the two sat face to face, and Gu Xiu handled routine official documents from various places.Han Mochu spread out a large piece of rice paper on the opposite side, drawing little by little the new blueprint for increasing the heat of the blast furnace according to what Huang Lin said in the afternoon.

Xiaotuanzi Yucheng was sitting on Gu Xiu's lap, holding a banana that was about the size of his arm and obediently gnawing on it.

Speaking of the origin of this banana, it is quite magnificent.

Concubine Li, who recently had a new grandson, would call some family wives with many children and grandchildren to talk about parenting in Prince Ning's mansion every day. One day, I don't know who said that eating more bananas is right Two or three year olds are best.

The rich and powerful Concubine Li didn't care whether it was winter or not, and whether it was the season for producing bananas, she immediately wrote to ask her mother to spend an eye-popping sum of money to transport them all the way north from Nanyang. The storage time of things is very short, and the long trip through the mountains and long roads, when the bananas arrived at Bianjing City, only less than a basket of fresh bananas was found out of the whole boat.

Concubine Li didn't take it seriously, and split these hard-won bananas into two halves, one half was kept for her eldest grandson Yu Heng, and the other half was sent to the palace for the little grandson under Gu Xiu's knee.

And let out a bold statement, as long as the two children want to eat, she can afford even one boat a day.

For many years, the Jin family has perfectly inherited the equal treatment and simplicity of the two brothers, Gu Xiu and Gu You, in how they treat their two grandchildren.

It is estimated that someday when any child wants to eat the moon, she will build a ladder with gold bricks!The seeds are climbed to the sky to pick them off.

These days Xiao Yucheng got along very well with these two fathers.

Every morning, I would recite poems with my two dads, and if I recited well, I would be rewarded with three candied fruit. After waking up from a nap, I would go to the military camp with my two dads.

There are too many places in the barracks where you can run wildly and play wildly. Those incomparably magnificent giant catapults and the terrifying attack power of the mountain crossbow all stunned this little boy who is less than two years old.

Sometimes the two fathers had no time to take care of him, so he would stumble along behind those recruits' little brothers and practice like others.The recruits saw that he was cute, and even pulled out a feathered arrow without an arrow for him to use as a gun. During the training of the cavalry, he could still ride on the horse's back for two laps.

Occasionally, the two fathers would personally hold him, ride his horse or dance a sword for him, and even teach him how to plant a flag on the simulated position in the military camp.

This is obviously more interesting than being chased and fed by Shanggong Wu every day.

That's why this little dumpling likes to stick to these two fathers when he has nothing to do. It makes Shanggong Wu, who is heartbroken for him to eat an extra bite every day, feel sour, and even called him a little villain behind his back twice. .

At this time, it was very quiet in the warm pavilion.

The two fathers, Gu Xiu and Han Mochu, were concentrating on doing their own things. Xiao Yucheng had nothing to do after eating the big bananas in his hand. A pair of chubby hands were picking here and there, and playing with the bananas on his feet from time to time. Tiger-toed shoes, and tried to put Gu Xiu's sleeves on his head.

Gu Xiu looked down at him, and he pretended to be ignorant and raised his head and smiled silly at people, as if saying: I'm not making trouble, I'm very good.

After repeated several times, Xiao Yucheng's credibility with Gu Xiu was indeed exhausted.Gu Xiu patted the little naughty butt twice, put him aside, and said with a straight face, "Go and play by yourself."

Xiao Yucheng pouted and climbed on Gu Xiu's back twice, but Gu Xiu ruthlessly lifted them off.In the end, the little guy chopped off his little feet, snorted in a childlike voice, stepped on his short legs and rode on his own little wooden cart, skating around in the hall, until he reached the place where Suri put away his toys. In front of the small box, a three-story ivory wind wheel was turned out, holding the wind wheel with one hand, and holding the handlebar of the small car with the other.

The little milk ball kicked the ground with its little feet, the car was blown by the wind, and the wind wheel spun in the child's hands.

The car slid faster and faster, and the wind wheel also turned faster and faster. The soft sound of the wind wheel made Gu Xiu raise his head from the government affairs and said, "Yucheng, hold on with both hands."

Xiao Yucheng, who was so excited to play, would not listen. While skating, he watched the little wind wheel in his hand spin dizzily.

Gu Xiu shook his head helplessly and continued to review the memorial, waiting for a while for this little guy to suffer.

Sure enough, less than half a stick of incense was heard when there was a bang, Xiaotuanzi fell off the trolley, the four-wheeled trolley lost control and slid far away, Xiaotuanzi fell on all fours with the windmill in his hand .

Xiao Tuanzi who fell to the ground had red eyes from pain, but he also knew that he had made a mistake, so he was embarrassed to cry and make a scene, and even more embarrassed to let Gu Xiu, who had already reminded him, coax him.

So he sniffed and got up from the ground, carrying the small windmill and plunged into Han Mochu's arms.

Han Mochu put down the pen in his hand, held the little thing in his arms steady, and said with a gentle smile, "Your Highness hurts from the fall? Then why didn't you listen to Father's words and support it with both hands? Who is to blame for falling now?" ?”

Xiaotuanzi grabbed Han Mochu's neck and shook his head, refusing to answer. Han Mochu repeated the question just now: "Your Highness said it himself, who is to blame for the pain?"

Xiaotuanzi, who had made up his mind not to admit his mistake, simply smashed his head on the person's chest and buried it, like an ostrich only caring about its head and ignoring its tail, which made Han Mochu helpless.

Xiao Yucheng was lying in Han Mochu's arms, temporarily distracted from deep thinking, but he noticed the small sixteen-bladed wind wheel in Xiaotuanzi's hand with the snap of his fingers.

The image of the wind wheel rotating rapidly came into his mind, and as he thought about it, the shape changed constantly, and the details became more and more concrete. In the end, the wind wheel became a prototype of a blast furnace device in his mind.

Han Mochu dragged the child's limp body, picked up a pen, put the idea in his mind on the paper, and pushed it in front of Gu Xiu.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Huang said today that the blast furnace for smelting alloys is not hot enough. After seeing the wind wheel, I suddenly thought whether it is possible to install such a wind wheel blade on the top of the blast furnace. When the firepower in the blast furnace goes up You can turn the wind wheel, and after the wind wheel turns, the hot air can be sent down, so that the up and down conduction can greatly increase the existing heat of the blast furnace and save coal consumption, what do you think?"

"Since Ziran has an idea, why don't you let Huang Lin try it as soon as possible. See if this wind wheel is suitable or what kind of material, size and size of the wind wheel is useful. After you try it, don't you know everything?" Gu Xiu After carefully looking at the drawings drawn by Han Mochu, and then at the small windmill in Xiaotuanzi's hand, he said in a deep voice, "Cheng'er, you have done a great job today."

Xiaotuanzi obviously didn't know what meritorious service was. He touched his head with his chubby little hands, and pointed to the overturned car on the ground with his chubby hands: "Well, Che Che! Che Che!"

Gu Xiu closed the memorial in his hand, stood up and walked to Han Mochu's side, pinched the white and tender face of Han Mochu's bosom, "If your father really becomes successful this time, the emperor will find someone to do it with you." How about a bigger wooden cart?"

Xiao Yucheng lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly raised his face and said seriously: "I want a horse!"

"Don't you have a wooden horse?" Gu Xiu sat cross-legged, his brows slightly raised.

"Live!!" Xiaotuanzi yelled out these two words with all his strength, his face flushed.

Gu Xiu thought about it for a while, then stretched out his hand to take Xiaotuanzi from Han Mochu's arms to his own, quietly turned his back, and whispered in the child's ear: "Cheng'er, go and let your Yafu come over and talk with your father." Say something nice to the emperor, and the emperor will raise a pony with you."

Xiao Yucheng, who had just left his infancy, couldn't understand the meaning of what Gu Xiu, the father, said to him. He broke away from Gu Xiu's arm that was holding him, and slipped back into Han Mochu's arms in two steps. Staring devoutly at Han Mochu: "If you want a pony, say something nice."

"Huh?" Han Mochu lowered his head and looked at Xiao Naituan: "What does Your Highness want?"

"Cheng'er, pony." Xiao Yucheng wrung his fingers and tried hard to remember a few key words that he could repeat: "Say good words, Father."

"Father asked His Royal Highness to come and ask for a pony?"

Xiaotuanzi shook his head sincerely.A child under the age of two stumbled on the mouth, perhaps because the words "good things" were a mouthful, but Xiaotuanzi somehow popped out a word that was difficult for adults to say: "Kiss, pony."

"Kiss, what kiss?" Han Mochu really couldn't believe that this was what a two-year-old child said by himself, so he raised his head and solemnly looked at Gu Xiu, who obviously didn't know the so-called.

"Zi Ran, don't look at me like that. I didn't teach him that." Gu Xiu slowly put his hands behind his back with a guilty conscience. This is the muscle memory he has developed against Han Mochu since he was a teenager: " I am not King Ning, how could I teach him this?"

"Your Majesty didn't teach it, and the minister didn't teach it either. Where did the little Highness learn it?"

Just when Gu Xiu was at a loss for words, Xiao Yucheng, who had always been able to speak only in single words, unexpectedly uttered a clear and complete sentence: "Father Emperor wants Ya Father, and Xiao Ma gives it to me."

Han Mochu held Xiaotuanzi and stood up, with a smile like the warm spring sun on his face: "Your Majesty, you and His Highness King Ning are brothers after all, so you might learn from it somewhere."

"Zi Ran, you never need me to explain anything." Gu Xiu's heart sank, and his handsome eyebrows twisted into a rare ball.

He stared blankly at the impeccably handsome beauty slowly approaching him, and kissed him on the brows of the soft and sweet little doll he was holding in his arms.

"Are you satisfied, Your Majesty?" Han Mochu shook the little dumpling in Dian's arms, and gently scratched the little guy's nose: "The Son of Heaven keeps his promises, remember to honor the promises made to the children."

Gu Xiu supported the kissed square inch of his forehead, his earlobes were already burning red.

Now he really wants to become an irrational wild wolf and eat this little fox who has succeeded in plotting alive.

Eat until there is no skin left, no bones left.

The author has something to say:

King Ning: "Oh, I can't do it, I need to be kissed by the concubine to get up."

Concubine Ning: "If you say these two words like the prince, the children will follow suit and fail!"

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