Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty

"Haha! Xiaoke, don't panic, listen to your majesty. You should grow up in a few years before you go to Shu to take up your post. In the past few years, you will still stay in Chang'an and receive the post of Governor of Yizhou. So, before you go to the fief, Xiaoke, you have to study hard and enrich yourself. After you come to the fief, you will become a virtuous king and guard your majesty!"

In Yanhuang Academy, in the office of the head of the mountain, Li Zexuan looked at Li Ke and eagerly ordered.

For Li Ke this student, Li Zexuan is very satisfied. He is very talented. He is able to teach everything, civil and military, and he is a gentleman. Li Zexuan has high hopes for Li Ke!

Among the students who will carry forward Yanhuang Academy in the future, there is definitely Li Ke!

Li Ke stood up, bowed respectfully to Li Zexuan, and said, "I must follow the instructions of the mountain leader and never forget!"

"Ok!"

Li Zexuan nodded, and asked, "Xiao Ke, don't you want to go to Shu?"

Li Ke was startled when he heard the words. After a while, he shook his head and said softly, "How do you want to go? What if you don't want to go? As the prince of Tang Dynasty, sooner or later, he will leave the capital, his father and mother, and my teacher and Classmates, go to a distant fief and serve as a guardian for my Datang! This is Ke's mission!"

The helplessness and sadness in these words can be heard by individuals!

Li Zexuan stood up, patted Li Ke's shoulder, then walked to the bed with his hand held down, and looked at Yunshan by the window and the village under Yunshan. He said with emotion:

"Xiao Ke, as a royal person, of course, there will be a lot of helplessness, but in the world, how many people are truly free and unfettered? Each of us has our own mission at birth, and you are lamenting our destiny. When you are helpless, there are not many people in the world who are envious of you. They envy you in the royal family. Once you are an adult, you can rush to the fief, be a free and unrestrained prince, and indulge in the landscape!

Life is besieged city after city. People outside the city want to come in, but people inside the city want to come in. Therefore, instead of running around inside and out, it’s better to accept reality, accept your identity, and fulfill your mission. To prove their value in the world!

The land of Bashu is surrounded by mountains, and there are many rich families and tribes in the area. Careless management can cause civil unrest. The life of the people in Shu is relatively closed and very difficult. In the future, you will take what you have learned from Yanhuang Academy and the holy orders of your majesty to go to Shu to take your post to manage the rich and tribes of Bashu. Let the people of Shu be like The people here in Chang'an are equally wealthy. Your Majesty and Empress will be very pleased, and they will be very pleased to be a teacher!

This is a kind of inheritance of hope, not restricted by space or region! And, don’t you think this kind of life is more meaningful? "

Having said this, Li Zexuan turned around and looked at Li Ke with scorching eyes.

In fact, he understood Li Ke's feelings very well. Anyone who was driven out of his hometown by his parents to go to a strange place when he was a teenager would become at a loss. As a royal man, even if he was prepared in his heart, Li Ke is now After knowing that I will go to Bashu in a few years, my heart will inevitably be hurt.

Li Ke's gaze gradually turned from hesitating and idiosyncratic to clear and bright. He gave a deep polite: "Thank you for the enlightenment of the mountain leader. In the future, Ke will bring the knowledge taught by the mountain leader to benefit the people of Shu! Ke, never again! I won’t blame others~!"

When he was confused, Li Zexuan helped him turn the clouds and see the fog and pointed out the direction. He was really grateful to Li Zexuan.

Hearing this, Li Zexuan smiled with satisfaction and said, "Haha! That's good! From now on, you can take time to practice in Yanhuang Bank. The things I teach you are limited to theory, Xiao Ke, you have to theory and practice. Combine it! In the future, these economic methods will be used in Shu land, and they will surely reap miraculous results!"

"Yes! The mountain is long!"

Li Ke nodded. Suddenly, he asked aloud with some doubts: "I don't know what is important for Shan Chang to see my father in the palace today?"

"Oh, as a teacher, I asked your Majesty for a mineral vein in Bashu. This is how it goes..."

After listening to Li Ke’s question, Li Zexuan briefly explained the affairs of the Zhangzhou vanadium-titanium magnetite mine. Li Ke listened and said, "The chief of the mountain can rest assured that when Ke goes to Shu in the future, he will definitely manage the Shu area. People, let the mountain leader be able to safely mine in Shu!"

Li Zexuan smiled and said, "Haha! I would like to thank His Royal Highness Shu Wang for being a teacher! Haha!"

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Sure enough, in the afternoon, a team of sergeants rushed out of Chang'an City with Li Er's imperial decree and headed towards Bashu.

And near the evening, a few eunuchs came up to Yunshan and invited Li Ke from Yanhuang Academy to Chang'an, saying that it was the morning of tomorrow, and Li Ke must participate.

Li Zexuan estimated that tomorrow morning, Lao Li must directly announce the news that Li Ke will be named the king of Shu!

At night, the palace.

In the Ganlu Temple, Li Er looked at the map of Bashu on the Long Case in a daze. At this moment, Zhao Song walked in from outside and stood beside Li Er, whispering:

"Your Majesty, the spies sent to Jiangnan Yuezhou a few days ago have returned!"

Li Er couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words. He quickly recovered and asked: "How about? Did you find Li Yu's biological father and mother?"

Zhao Song bowed slightly and replied: "My Majesty, according to the spy's return, Miss Li Yu's father is Fu Lingyan, and her mother is Liu Yixue. It is said that Fu Lingyan was originally a big family in Taiyuan. After the Sui Dynasty for three years, the world was in chaos. It was also affected. In order to avoid the war, Fu Lingyan took his wife and daughter and the family fled to Izumo Village in Yuezhou, where he lived for more than ten years!

However, Fu Lingyan and Liu Yixue died of illness last year. Girl Li Yu came to Chang'an from Yuezhou alone. By chance, she met Meng Wenhao, and after that she became a solid Yongan Hou and became the "Datang Remembered by one of the editorial department of the Daily! "

"Three years of great cause!"

Li Er's brows constricted, as if thinking of something, and then he wondered: "Why did she, a little girl, come to Chang'an all the way after losing her father and mother?"

Zhao Song bowed and said: "I heard an old woman in Yuncun say that Li Yu is not the biological daughter of Fu Lingyan and Liu Yixue, but an adopted daughter. Li Yu should have come to Chang'an all the way to find his biological father and mother. Cheng! But the other villagers in Izumo Village don’t know about this, only the old woman said so, no one knows whether it is true or not!"

"Not one's own person! Certainly not one's own person!"

Li Er stood up, carrying his hands on his back, and started pacing back and forth. After a while, Li Er waved his hand and said, "Okay! I know it all! You go back first!"

"Yes, Your Majesty~!"

Zhao Song quit.

In the main hall, only Li Er's sigh was left, "Li Yu, Li Yu, do you have anything to do with him..."

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Li Zexuan on Yunshan was thinking about making light bulbs. When Mo Lingwei built the microscope, Li Zexuan once said that he wanted to create a light source that was more convenient and stable than sunlight. He was talking about light bulbs!

Otherwise, relying solely on the reflected sunlight to provide illumination for the microscope will greatly limit the application of the microscope. Therefore, Li Zexuan plans to start building light bulbs. It will happen that the hydropower station will be completed in a few months, and the first electrical appliance will be used. It must be a light bulb, after all, this thing is easier to make!

Thinking about the method of making electric lights, Li Zexuan soon fell asleep.

The second day, early morning.

Li Zexuan woke up from his sleep, only to find that Han Yuxi got up earlier than him.

"Huh~? Lady? What are you planting in this flowerpot?"

Han Yuxi was using a small shovel to present loose soil to the flowerpot. Li Zexuan was curious and hurriedly asked.

"Ah! Xianggong, are you up?"

Han Yuxi heard the sound, turned around quickly, and replied with a smile: "Msang Gong, concubine, this is planting white stacks! In our yard, there are orchids, peonies, and azaleas, but only the white ones are missing. Diezi, this flower seed was bought by the concubine's concubine from a Hushang in West Market. It is now April, so it's just right to plant this~!"

"Bai Diezi? What kind of flower is this?"

When Li Zexuan heard the words, he was puzzled and stepped forward.

"Manggong, don't you know Bai Diezi? Bai Diezi's flowers are all white and look like silkworm cocoons. The silk in the cocoons is like thin, especially beautiful when they are in full bloom!"

Han Yuxi looked up at Li Zexuan and said with a smile.

"The whole body is snow white, and it looks like a silkworm cocoon? Lady, let me see the seeds of this Bai Diezi!"

Li Zexuan still didn’t understand what kind of flower this white dice was. He approached Han Yuxi and asked for some white dice’s flower seeds. When he put it in his hand, he carefully inspected the seeds. The seed coat was black and the seed coat was still attached. A layer of white hairy matter, peeled off the seed coat, there is a layer of milky white membrane-like endosperm relics close to the seed coat. Seeing this, Li Zexuan suddenly exclaimed:

"Cotton? Bai Diezi is actually cotton?"

In his previous life, he was not a rich second generation who was spoiled and did not eat the fireworks. He was an authentic rural child. Of course he had seen the seeds of cotton, so he could recognize it at a glance. In addition, he knew that cotton was in the Tang Dynasty. It is still an ornamental flower, but I don't know that Bai Diezi is cotton!

"Sang Gong, what is cotton? What does this white stack have to do with cotton?"

Han Yuxi said strangely.

Li Zexuan shook his head, and said excitedly: "Lady, you just said that this white stack flower seed was bought from a Western merchant, but it is true? How many seeds do they have?"

It's no wonder that he is excited. It is true that cotton is too important for people in this era!

We must know that in ancient China, before cotton was planted on a large scale, civilians could only rely on white cloth to keep warm in winter. If there were no briquettes and coal stoves made by Li Zexuan last winter, the people near Chang'an would surely freeze to death like in previous years. !

Han Yuxi smiled and replied: "Shang Gong, this Bai Diezi's flower seeds were indeed bought from the Hushang merchants in the Western Regions. They should have a lot of seeds. Xiang Gong, how many do you need? Your concubine asks someone to buy some for you!"

"Naturally, you need as much as you want~ Lady, let’s not tell you, this kind of white stack can be used to make cotton-padded clothes, and the effect is very good. As long as we can grow white stacks on a large scale in the future, the people We don’t need to be frozen again in winter!"

Li Zexuan smiled.

Han Yuxi was taken aback, and said, "My husband, do you want to make clothes with white stacks? Is this too extravagant? Even if it is made, ordinary people may not be able to afford it?"

Li Zexuan asked strangely: "What? Is this Bai Diezi sold very expensive?"

Han Yuxi nodded and said, "Of course it's expensive, Xiang Gong! The price of this white stack is dozens of words, if it is used to make clothes, how many white stacks should be needed? There are such clothes among the folks. But it was only worn by wealthy businessmen with wealth! My mother told my father that there were clothes made of white piles in our house before, but last winter we had heating in our house, so we didn't wear it! "

It is generally believed that cotton spread to the Central Plains from the north and the south. South Road was the first Asian cotton from India, and it was introduced into Hainan Island and Guangdong and Guangxi via Southeast Asia. According to historical records, it was introduced into Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan and other regions at least during the Qin and Han Dynasties. The second route is from India to Yunnan via Burma, about the time of Qin and Han dynasties. The third route is that African cotton was introduced into Xinjiang and the Hexi Corridor through West Asia, approximately during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Beilu is the ancient "Western Region". During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, cotton spread to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins. By the 13th century, Beilu cotton had spread to the Weishui Basin of Shaanxi.

In fact, as early as the Warring States Period, according to the statement in "Shangshu", some tribes in the South China Sea began to pay tribute to the Central Plains countries. In the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Yue tribes in Hainan Island had a proficient technique of weaving cotton.

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cotton cultivation began to become popular, but at that time it was still regarded as precious flowers and plants, and the "white stack" clothes made of cotton were exclusively enjoyed by dignitaries. It is still out of reach from ordinary people's clothing to keep out the cold.

Therefore, although it shows that cotton was introduced to China long ago, it was only a matter of the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Prior to this, the horror of "no cotton in winter" was a real experience of the ancient Chinese!

"So expensive?"

Li Zexuan frowned when he heard this. According to Han Yuxi, cotton in this era is basically as precious as orchids and peonies. No wonder no one uses it to make clothes!

"No! No matter how expensive it is~www.readwn.com~, we have to buy it! Maid, how many white stacks of flowers we can buy from the western merchants?"

Li Zexuan gritted his teeth and said.

The current cotton is expensive because it has not been widely planted. Once it is planted on a large scale and then bred, within two to three years, he will definitely be able to have a very, very large amount of cotton! The price of cotton will be quickly suppressed by him!

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Two chapters in one!

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