Although Li Zhi did not ask Wu Meiniang to see him off, Wu Meiniang still came to the door silently and watched Li Zhi leave. However, even though Li Zhi had disappeared from her vision for a while, she did not come back to her senses, but just stared blankly outside the house, her eyes seemed a little loose.

After a while, Wu Meiniang took back her casual gaze, lowered her eyebrows and thought for a while before returning to Li Hong's bedroom, but she just stood quietly in the outer room, looking at the two brothers chatting in the room thoughtfully.

And after Li Zhi returned to his bedroom, he was half lying on the couch, his eyebrows were filled with sorrow.

In fact, among the founding kings in Chinese history, Li Zhi is definitely one of the best. According to historical records, during his reign, the national strength of the Tang Empire was always on the rise. There was no chaos. Instead, it was still expanding its territory and expanding its territory. Its territory was also the largest. Don’t talk about Wu Meiniang. When he was alive, he decided on national affairs. Whether it was to destroy the Western Turks or Goguryeo, Wu Meiniang was in power in the later period, in fact, there was no big deal. If Li Zhi was healthy, it would be impossible for Wu Meiniang to do anything.

Unfortunately, no one is perfect. Li Zhi's talent and strategy are dragged down by this physical condition. Now his son is like this again, which makes Li Zhi even more trouble.

Suddenly, he spoke, "Desheng."

"The villain is here!"

"What has the queen been doing this year?"

Zhang Desheng was stunned for a moment before answering: "Report to Your Majesty, the Queen has been living in seclusion this year, and even the wife of Wei rarely comes. She is so busy that she is all trivial in the harem. Oh, the Queen has been saving the expenses in the harem and replenishing the saved money into the treasury."

Li Zhi seemed not listening and was meditating and silent.

Zhang Desheng said carefully: "Your Majesty, do you want the Secretariat to transfer the memorial to Liangyi Hall?"

When the prince was regent, the ministers' memorials were sent to the Eastern Palace. Now the prince is ill. Judging from this situation, Li Zhi seemed to have to come out to handle government affairs again, so he should go to Liangyi Hall.

Li Zhi frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "Let's put it there first, I can't review the memorial now."

"yes."

After Han Yi came out of the Eastern Palace, he held a small meeting with the Minister of the Shushu in the Shangshu Province, mainly to arrange everyone's tasks and then go back in a carriage.

Han Yi in the carriage shook slightly as the carriage, humming a small song, and looked relaxed.

When she returned to Xiao’s house, she saw Xiao Wuyi playing Go with Han Rui. When Han Rui touched Go, she seemed to have entered a state of meditation, and her expression did not change at all. She was stupid and cute. She was like this since she was a child. Unless Han Xuanpin was making noise by the side, she would occasionally be distracted. When Xiao Wuyi first played chess with Han Rui, she seemed very relaxed, but now she had to be energetic, and even Han Yi didn’t know that she had entered the hall.

"So serious!"

Han Yi smiled.

"Dad!"

Han Rui turned around and saw that Han Yi was back, she immediately fell and shouted obediently.

Han Yi bent over and picked her up, sat on the couch, and smiled and said, "Good daughter, you have to let your aunt Wuyi be a little bit. Look at her, you're sweating."

Xiao Wuyi immediately said: "I'm hot."

Just now, you shouted hot? Han Yi knew her strong personality and didn't joke with her. She looked around and said, "By the way! Why didn't you see Xuanpin?"

Xiao Wuyi said: "I've been in the house with Feixue to memorize my books."

Han Yi said in surprise: "He is Wenshu? Rui'er is sitting here playing chess?"

Xiao Wuyi said angrily and hilariously: "Your son is cramming temporarily. You have to take the entrance exam when you enter school. He was afraid that he would be one level lower than Rui'er, so he asked me to play chess with Rui'er, so he pulled Feixue to review the book."

This guy! Han Yi laughed and said, "It seems that guy is also self-aware and knows that he is not our Ruier's opponent in terms of learning."

Han Rui said seriously: "My brother is actually very smart. He learns faster than me in everything. He is just a little playful. When he grows up, he will become sensible. Then his studies will definitely be better than mine."

Xiao Wuyi smiled and said, "He will never be as sensible as you."

Han Yi nodded and said, "It's just like you, you and peony."

"You are trying to die!"

Xiao Wuyi immediately glared at the phoenix's eyes.

"Just, joke."

Han Yi immediately raised his hands.

Xiao Wuyi snorted softly and asked again: "By the way! What happened in the court? I'm so anxious to call you over."

Han Yi sighed: "It's not a big deal, it's just that there's some trouble in Tubo."

Xiao Wuyi snorted, "You can only hold back. If you want to change me, I would have suggested that Your Majesty send troops long ago. Don't think that if you stand tall, you can be arrogant."

Han Yi just smiled, but didn't answer

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Li Hong's fall from illness still had a significant impact on the court, but it really had no impact on the people. Now no one pays attention to the court, and everyone is busy with their own affairs.

In the Wei River Basin north of the Qinling Mountains, there is a canyon where clear rivers flow rapidly.

In the past, few people came here just to see the scenery nearby, but now it is a treasure land. Because of the emergence of hydraulic spinning machines, the water flow has become extremely precious. What is even more valuable is that there is no farmland nearby, it is in the mountains and will not hinder irrigation.

Last year, the Yuan family built a laboratory next to this canyon, specifically for the development of hydrocarbon looms.

Yuan Mudan, who did not go to send Han Rui to register, just came here because the first hydro-loom was born.

In addition to Yuan Mudan, Yuan Xiu and Yuan Zhe, there were more than 20 people standing in the house, including men and women, all wearing craftsman costumes. They gathered in front of the big machine, but they saw that the outer frame of the machine was made of wood, but the core part was made of steel.

The clanging sound makes people have to increase the volume even if they speak.

But as an iron shuttle was moving back and forth quickly, the roller at the front end of the machine slowly rotated, and without anyone reaching out, a foot of cloth was woven out!

Yuanzhe, who missed the start of this crazy start, was stunned when he saw this scene. After a while, he couldn't believe it. He shook his head and said, "Incredible, this is incredible!"

A middle-aged man with a strong beard introduced: "According to our preliminary estimates, our hydroloom is more than 40 times faster than hand-woven fabrics. In addition, we have also made a set of spare equipment. Even in the season when the water flows dry, we can still use cows and horses to run the machine."

A woman next to her added: "We are still making a matching jacquard machine for this weaving machine. Although it has not been successful yet, it should not be a problem. At that time, it can be installed directly on this machine and more patterns can be weaved."

Yuan Mudan smiled and said, "Uncle Rong, Sister Rong, I really didn't expect you to make the hydroloon so quickly, and you thought so thoughtful."

Uncle Rong hurriedly said, "Mrs. This is actually everyone's credit. In addition, the main technology comes from the hydraulic spinning technology of the Cao brothers. It is their drawings that allow us to know how to borrow hydraulic power to run such complex machines. The most difficult one is this shuttle. We have tried many methods, but it is difficult to make the shuttle smoothly shuttle back and forth. Even if you put it on very smooth silk, the silk will be worn out in less than half a day."

Speaking of the back, he pointed to a young man beside him and said, "It was a way for the dog to think of, which was to install a small copper wheel on the shuttle and then install a special track so that the shuttle could move back and forth without worrying about it anymore."

"Is that true?" Yuan Mudan said: "Stop first."

Uncle Rong immediately pulled the control lever downward.

The machine stopped immediately.

Yuan Mudan leaned closer and looked at it. As Uncle Rong said, the iron shuttle turned out to be fixed on a copper rail. If Han Yi saw this scene, he would be very surprised, because this track was very similar to the monorail railway in later generations. After watching for a while, she stood up again and smiled and said, "Thank you so hard these days. Our Yuan family will give you a generous bonus to reward everyone, and will never treat you badly."

"Thank you, Madam."

The workers were happy and hurriedly thanked Yuan Mudan.

Many of these people are slaves of the Yuan family, but in the current environment, the craftsmen with superb skills are ox. Although the Yuan family is not so stupid that they terminate the relationship between master and slave, they are constantly improving their treatment and giving them some freedom.

After staying in the house for a while, Yuan Mudan, Yuan Zhe, Yuan Xiu, and Uncle Rong came outside the house and walked slowly along the riverside.

Yuan Mudan asked: "Uncle Rong, with our current manpower and technology, can we produce this loom on a large scale?"

Uncle Rong replied: "If the wife wants to produce on a large scale, she will probably have to find many craftsmen. And if she is a skilled craftsman, many of the components are very high and requires skilled craftsmen to build them."

Yuanzhe said curiously: "Aunt, why don't you hand it over to the Zhang family's workshop for production?"

Yuan Mudan pondered for a moment and said, "You think it should be handed over to the Zhang family for production, not to produce it ourselves, there is a considerable profit in it!"

Yuanzhe said: "I know this, but I think if we have to develop machines and produce machines, the burden is relatively heavy. After all, Yuanjie also needs a lot of craftsmen. However, the Zhang family has a lot of skilled craftsmen, and it is actually much faster than we produce them ourselves."

Yuan Mudan is more conservative, but Yuan Zhe is more open.

Yuan Xiudao: "Aunt, now there is a patent bill, and everyone makes money by technology. We just leave it to the Zhang family for production. He can only help us produce. I don't think it takes more effort to produce machines."

Yuan Mudan said: "But if we can develop new technologies to produce such machines, we will be invincible."

Yuan Xiudao: "If we invent this technology, we can also apply for a patent and then authorize it to the Zhang family. We can still make profits from it, and the dominance is also in our hands."

Yuan Mudan seemed a little struggling, but she finally nodded and said, "Okay, let's leave it to the Zhang family to give birth. Yuan Xiu, go to the Zhang family to discuss."

Although she wanted to produce it herself, she felt that the future development of the technical personnel in this area was the core of the future development of this area. If they mastered the technology, they would master everything. If they were handed over to the Zhang family for production, the Zhang family would have enough capital to develop this new technology. But the problem is that Yuanjie needs to produce weapons, so the thing can only be produced by itself. The Yuan family's craftsmen will have to be sent there at that time. If she wants to produce it herself, she will have to recruit a large number of craftsmen and build a whole production line. This cannot be completed in one or two days. If she wants to quickly put the loom into production, she must make some choices.

"My nephew understands."

Yuan Xiu nodded and said, "Aunt, we have to apply for a patent quickly. We can't let people take the lead. Didn't Liberty Mei buy the patents of the Cao brothers? If they researched it first, then we would have been in vain."

Yuan Mudan shook her head gently and said, "There is no need to worry about this. The Beauty of Freedom is not developing hydro-woven machines at all. They mainly produce clothes, and they have stopped spinning and weaving. They have always bought them from us. Only the wool in the northwest is almost monopolized by the Beauty of Freedom. Only they know the technology of textile wool. The technology they purchased the Cao brothers mainly for textile wool."

It has been less than a year since the patent application for a hydraulic spinning machine to the current hydraulic loom, which is much faster than the European Industrial Revolution. This is because China has always had a technical foundation, not that it came out of thin air, just that the jacquard machine has appeared in the Shang Dynasty.

However, the lack of capital investment has led to the slow development of technology. Now that capital has completed a certain accumulation, many wealthy businessmen have sufficient financial and manpower. Yuan Jiaguang has found more than 50 top craftsmen and textile workers for this hydroloom. They do this every day and develop hydrolooms, which undoubtedly accelerates the development of technology.

Although Han Yi only opened a window, there were endless surprises outside the window.

As soon as the weather turned, a construction movement broke out in Chang'an immediately, and the core of this movement was cement. Cement was continuously transported from the construction site to the outskirts of Chang'an. Now construction sites can be seen everywhere in the outskirts of Chang'an. However, none of the projects belonged to the court, and all of them were merchants who paid for the construction of roads. They had never expected the court to pay to help them build roads. As long as the court did not come to steal their money, they would burn incense.

This Japanese and Korean art brought a group of businessmen to the suburbs to inspect the progress of the project.

"Brother Han, your cement is so amazing, but it has helped our merchants a lot! In the past, as long as it rained for a few days, many roads could not be traveled with them, and the goods were often unable to be transported to the destination on time. In addition, the roads in the past were very bumpy, and my clay pots were often damaged. But now with this cement road, these problems have been solved." Clay said very excitedly.

Han Yi smiled and said, "I have to thank Mr. Tao. I heard that you took a lot of money to build this cement road."

Tao Clay waved her hands repeatedly and said, "Nothing, nothing."

Chang'an is a trading capital, and local food cannot meet Chang'an's needs. It is necessary to import grain from outside to Chang'an. This road is very important for Chang'an.

Before this, merchants had actually built many roads, but without technical breakthroughs, they could not change essentially any further repairs. Therefore, as soon as this cement appeared, merchants joined forces to order cement and began to build roads. However, they all built roads outside the city, and they didn't care about it because their workshops were outside the city and the wharf was outside the city. The roads inside the city had little to do with their interests, and they believed that it should be the court's expenses.

Not only that, cement is also used in house construction.

This stimulated employment in Chang'an to a certain extent. At the same time, Han Yi's construction group made a lot of money, but no one envied Han Yi. No matter how much money Han Yi earned, no one envied him because they were already numb about it and knew that this was too envious.
To be continued...