Great Tang princess

Chapter 502 The Second Artisan Exam
When flying back to Shandong, the sky had completely darkened.

In Shandong, the morning dawns earlier, and similarly, the night also gets dark earlier, and the sun sets early.

When we reached the sky over Qingdao, the sun had completely set.

Fortunately, these pilots have received night flight training, and the barracks below are brightly lit, so you don't have to worry about finding a place.

When landing to a certain height, you can already see the huge training ground and dormitory building.

If the eyesight is better, you can still see the faint figure below at this time.

Li Xianhui, who was lying on Li Yuechen's back, yelled, "Auntie, is my elder brother here?"

"Yes, you can meet often in the future." Li Yuechen replied, and then said, "Okay, we are ready to land, don't talk, and be careful of catching a cold!"

As he said that, he pulled the landing gear back, lowered the front of the hang glider, accelerated the speed suddenly, and swooped down.

The other pilots also started to land. The training ground of the military region in Qingdao is large enough for everyone to land at the same time.

While landing, the people on the ground also noticed the movement in the air, and immediately notified Geng Yunqiang, and at the same time cleared away all the people near the training ground to prevent the landing from being affected.

Not long after, Li Yuechen and others descended from the sky one after another.

As soon as she got down, the soldiers next to her had already run over to help her dismantle the hang glider, and she herself carried Li Xianhui on her back and walked forward, carrying Li Chongfu and Li Chongjun who wanted to run around in one hand.

"Aunt, don't catch me, let me see this place..." Li Chongjun was still struggling.

"It's been a day of flying, let's go eat first." Li Yuechen grabbed him and said, "Since you are in the military camp, you must abide by the rules of the army. You will all learn one by one in the future."

While speaking, Li Yuechen led them into the cafeteria, asked them to sit down, and then arranged for someone to serve the food, ready to eat.

"From now on, you have to learn to eat by yourself, wash dishes and clothes by yourself, and clean up the housework..." Li Yuechen took advantage of the serving time to explain to them, "No matter how you feel at this time, you must understand that from now on For the rest of your life, you will never be able to leave the army."

While she was explaining, the food was also served. The children didn't understand the meaning of her words, and they were immediately attracted by the food.

Flying in the sky all day today, I haven't eaten anything at noon, and I feel a little hungry.

It was just because I just landed, and because I have never been out of Dongdu since I was a child, I was just curious about this place. Now that the food is served, the delicious smell is radiating around, and my stomach has already started to growl.

After Li Yuechen, the elder, started to move the chopsticks, they picked up the chopsticks and started eating with big mouthfuls.

Looking at the few children who were feasting, Li Yuechen secretly cheered himself up.

As long as the members of the royal family of this generation can be completely changed through education, there will be no big problems later.

When the food was almost finished, a group of figures suddenly rushed in from outside the cafeteria. Li Yuechen turned around and saw that it was Li Shouyi and Li Chongrun.

Especially Li Chongrun, as soon as he came in, he ran to the table, pinched Li Xianhui's face and rubbed it: "Little sister, do you still remember brother?"

It has been three years since the siblings separated, but Li Xianhui obviously still has an impression of her brother, so she nodded immediately: "Remember, brother, let me go!"

The other two also got up and saluted: "Brother!"

Although I haven't seen each other for three years, I feel somewhat unfamiliar, but children, they get to know each other very quickly. After playing together for two days, it's almost enough, let alone biological brothers and sisters.

"It's just right, Zhongrun, you can take the two of them to the dormitory later. After a while, it's time to go to class together." Li Yuechen said, and arranged for Li Shu to take Li Xianhui to the girls' dormitory later.

Then they watched the brothers and sisters who hadn't seen each other for a long time chatting, and the scene was almost the same on other tables.

The pilot who had just returned was also chatting with other comrades about Dongdu. Most of the soldiers here are natives of Shandong, and they have never been out since they grew up.

These pilots also couldn't help telling them in a show-off mood: "East Capital City is several times larger than Qingzhou! And all of them are paved with concrete roads, and the streets are full of four-wheeled carriages. I don’t know how much faster it is. And the women there don’t wear curtains on the street, so they can see their faces..."

Listening to their explanation, the comrades around all exclaimed, and began to imagine the scene in their minds.

Regarding this, Li Yuechen just smiled. It is inconvenient to travel in this era, and most people will be trapped in the place where they were born all their lives. It is understandable to be curious and yearning for them.

Their generation may not be able to catch up, but in the future, when the transportation is developed, it is indeed possible to consider sending soldiers to places far away from home when they serve. This is what will be done in the future.

But that requires a more complete military establishment. Almost all soldiers now serve for more than 20 years. Considering the average age of this era, it is obviously unrealistic to spend half of their lives in the barracks.

After dinner, Li Yuechen stood up and stretched, planning to go back and have a good rest. If there is anything else, we can talk about it tomorrow.

On the other side, the children were also brought into the dormitory. After receiving their bedding and toiletries, they followed their brothers and sisters to learn how to use the living facilities.

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After getting up the next day, after Li Yuechen finished his daily exercise, he thought about the facilities in the barracks in his office.

In fact, after several years of development, the various facilities in the army have been quite complete, and there are even hot tubs and sauna rooms. The daily life of soldiers is definitely easy enough.

However, Li Yuechen's next plan is to get tap water out. Her idea is very simple, that is, to build a tall water tower and use water pressure to accomplish this. Normally, she just needs to keep adding water to the water tower.

The issue of pipes needs to be carefully considered. The cost of metal is too high these days. You can consider using ceramic pipes. As for the connection between the faucet and the pipe, it is essentially a kind of nut. Adding some fish glue should ensure the airtightness.

But for this, you can let the engineering institute make a sample and try it out. If it is feasible, you can try large-scale production.

After lunch, she took the blueprints to the engineering institute and asked them to try it first.

The current Academy of Engineering is doing two things, one is the construction of the shipyard, and the other is the airship under construction.

The airship side needs a lot of manpower, but on the shipyard side, people from the engineering institute more often do work like supervisors.

What's more, potters don't have any other jobs now, so they can draw some people to try first.

After seeing the design drawings, the craftsmen said that the pipeline is not difficult, but the structural design of the nut still needs to be tried first.

This is not in a hurry, Li Yuechen told them to go ahead and try, as long as they can get it out anyway.

Then I went to school to see how the children were adapting.

Now the freshness of the children has not passed, they get up early in the morning and run around with their brothers and sisters, see where they go to class, ask them what they usually play and so on.

There are actually quite a few things that children can play with, such as Cuju, and even shooting with bows and crossbows. The older Li Shouyi and others have even played with grenades.

Although they still feel fresh about everything here, Li Yuechen can basically imagine how tortured it will be after this energy passes.

Sure enough, after only three days, before March, the children couldn't stand it anymore.

Especially Li Chongfu and Li Chongjun, crying and wanting to go home.

There is no way, life in the military camp is inherently boring, that's fine, the key is that there is no one to serve you in the military camp, and you have to learn to do everything by yourself, just like civilians.

Li Xianhui was better, she didn't cry, but emotionally, she still wanted to go home and enjoy the life of being served by servants at any time.

In this regard, Li Yuechen didn't care about them at all. Anyway, after a long time, he can always get used to it.

Again, people are inherently lazy. It is normal for them to not be able to adapt to this kind of life in the army at first, but after getting used to it, they will understand the reason in the future.

This is also the saying that many people will often say in the future: I regret being a soldier for two years, but I regret not being a soldier for a lifetime.

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Soon it was March in Yangchun, and the latest newspapers were delivered to almost all parts of the country. The local officials who received the news immediately fell into a tangle.

Although it is a good thing to increase the salary, but now the big family has started to pay taxes, so the money given to them every year will be much less?
Regarding this, Jiang Zhengan, the governor of Qingzhou, also came to Qingdao on purpose to inquire about the details.

Li Yuechen didn't reveal too much to him, just let him do his own thing with peace of mind. The imperial court's policy is not what he should consider at present.

Li Yuechen didn't intend to tell him about the news that officials would collect taxes in the future. Once the secret was known to outsiders, it would no longer be a secret. She didn't want to add extra risks.

Besides, my father said before that you can't expose your thoughts too much, otherwise it will not be a good thing after all.

After dismissing Jiang Zheng'an, Li Yuechen began to think about other things. Now the sales of canned food are good. If he wants to expand the scale, he needs to start from the source.

If it is possible to open orchards around the military camp, it may be possible to use the surrounding land and develop the economy at the same time.

Now the population of Qingdao is still too small, it is only a fishing village. Although with Li Yuechen's efforts, it has basically been gradually merged into a larger fishing village, the population is still not large enough.

There are two ways to increase the population.

Either let the people in the fishing village have more children. After a dozen or 20 years, the population will indeed increase a lot.

But this method is too troublesome, and the time span is too long, so it is still necessary to continuously attract foreign population to join.

Fortunately, there are so many people in the shipyard now, after the work here is finished, some people should choose to stay.

Living directly next to the army is, from a certain point of view, much safer than living in the city.

But if you want these people to live here, you must have a job that can support your family. Li Yuechen has some ideas about this.

The first is to make large fishing boats and upgrade the configuration of fishermen so that they can go to farther places and catch more fish, and even consider deep-sea fish if possible.

Even people who live by the sea these days mostly eat sea fish. Of course, they can occasionally catch some sharks, but that is purely luck.

With current sampan fishing boats, it is impossible to catch a large amount of sea fish and large fish at one time.

But the problem is that there is no fresh-keeping technology these days, and it is difficult to preserve the fish caught for a long time. Unless this problem is solved first, there is no point in catching more fish, and it will stink if it cannot be transported to Qingzhou.

The simplest solution is to make salted fish. There is no shortage of salt in Qingdao now, but a large amount of sea fish can be caught and salted, so that it can be preserved for a long time, and can even be transported to the inland.

If it can be developed into an industrial chain, most people here can get a job that can support their families, and the plan to increase the population will be considered a success.

Thinking about it carefully, this plan is really possible to realize, so I immediately wrote a plan and handed it over to the Engineering Academy.

It is estimated that the people in the Academy of Engineering did not expect that the shipyard has not been fully built yet, and there is already a shipbuilding task.

Li Yuechen's task requirements for this ship are very simple, the length must be more than five feet, a sharp-bottomed ship, with a cabin and large sails, and a winch...

Although it is a fishing boat, the configuration of this specification has almost caught up with the previous military boats, and it is already quite luxurious for fishing.

But considering that there are still projects in the shipyard and the airship, it is not enough to send people to make ships at the same time, and the production of ships requires special craftsmen, the strength of the hull, the layout of the keel, and the design of the watertight cabin Wait... It's actually a very troublesome project.

So the Academy of Engineering submitted an application to Li Yuechen to expand its enrollment, and needed to recruit some more craftsmen, especially in shipbuilding.

Li Yuechen nodded to show that there was no problem. With a light wave of his hand, he announced that the second craftsman exam would start at the end of May. Those who passed the exam could enter the Academy of Engineering and be directly awarded the rank of military officer.

The news was sent to Lai Junchen and Jiang Zhengan, and they were asked to spread the news in nearby counties and counties. If any craftsmen want to try it, they should arrive in Qingdao before May 23.

The time is put here because the calendar of this year is different from the future, so Li Yuechen puts the summer vacation in June and July. After the craftsmen have finished their exams, they still have time to go back and bring their children or apprentices here. August You can follow the class as soon as the school starts.

When the children of these craftsmen grow up, whether they are willing to join the army or follow in the footsteps of their parents and continue to enter the engineering academy, it will be up to them.

　Sorry, there is only one chapter today, let me stop it, and I will make it up as soon as the matter here is over.I've been really upset lately.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)