The rise of the prince

Chapter 202 New Steel Plan
But these are not the biggest surprises. The biggest surprise is for him to find graphite mines.

Most of the graphite veins in the previous life were in the Northeast and Inner Mongolia, and it was not until the [-]th century that people gradually discovered the value of graphite, so before that, it was something that no one wanted.

But to him, that is black gold, the foundation of the country's rise.

With graphite, he can even try to refine liquid steel, which is a technology invented by the British in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is realized by utilizing the high temperature resistance of graphite. It is also the first time in human history to refine liquid steel.

Its quality is high and can be used as tool steel. The so-called tool steel can be used for cutting and grinding other metals, which shows its quality.In the face of such steel, all metals today will be vulnerable.

But one matter is one matter, we have to separate and take our time, Li Ye reassured Mr. De that he had already prepared for the black powder.

Degong and Gillian stayed until very late, during which Degong asked a lot of questions about the pulley block and black powder. He was going to start to take charge of the government again, so he would naturally worry more.

When she was about to leave, Gillian lowered her head, hesitated to speak, and he knew that the little girl had something to say to him.

So he quietly pulled her to the corner of the garden, squeezed her exquisite and beautiful chin in a hooligan way: "Little girl has something on her mind, do you want to tell me?"

Gillian was blushed by his frivolous behavior, lowered her head and said nervously: "No, it's not on my mind, it's just"

Li Ye sat on the stone bench next to him, and pulled her to sit on his lap: "Just how?"

"It's just. It's just that the son knows everything, can accomplish anything, and has his own difficulties in his heart, but I can't do anything except poetry and writing. I'm not as good at serving people as sister Yue'er, and I don't want Qiu'er to be so smart and capable. , I can't help Shizi, I just feel... feel very useless."

Li Ye patted her little head, realized what the little girl was thinking, and said to her: "Everyone is different. We love each other, and it is best to admire each other. I also like poetry. You are the capital city." Isn’t she the number one talented woman, in that case she should feel proud.”

"But that's what someone else said." Gillian said with her head down.

Li Ye pinched the tip of her lovely nose in a funny way: "Little girl, you can't just want to live for others, treat yourself first, then you can treat yourself and others well. Of course I'm happy if you want to favor me and give everything for me. Before that, you were yourself first, first Wang Lianshan, first the proud daughter of Xiangfu, first the most talented woman in Kyoto, then the future mistress of the palace, and then my obedient wife. Giving up everything for him and conforming to everything, if this is the case, it is too narrow.

The one who is radiant, confident, and talented, making people dare not look directly at Gillian, is the Gillian I like. "

The more A-Jiao listened, she kept leaning against his chest, and her previously melancholy eyes gradually brightened up, and gradually, she became the radiant A-Jiao who would play petty temper with him and pour wine for him with a pout. Jiao.

She nodded and said in a low voice: "Then this year's Yongyue Pavilion Lantern Festival Poetry Festival, I have prepared a new poem, can your son come to see me?"

Li Ye nodded and pinched her little nose: "Okay, then go and see how my wife's literary talents are."

Gillian giggled, and when she heard someone approaching, she jumped out of his embrace like a panicked little white rabbit.

In the early morning of the next day, the news that Qiu'er used two people to pull up the huge water wheel that weighed [-] jin spread like wind inside and outside the palace, and the words became more magical, and everyone was even more in awe.

Several aunts and aunts in the kitchen even commented privately that Qiu'er was born as a fairy, not an ordinary person, and that's why she knows so much and can do those miraculous things.

Qiu'er was flustered and shy at the beginning and gradually got used to it. In the end, she was able to completely ignore the sounds outside. She still listened to his lectures every night, helped the mansion during the day, and followed him around most of the time.

Today, Double Happiness is coming to the palace. All the wine stoves in Prince Xiao's Mansion have been built under Zhao Si's leadership and put into production.

Li Ye called Gu Feng to the main hall at noon and formally appointed Gu Feng to be in charge of this matter.

Yan Yan would give him money to buy food, and he would assign twelve servants to serve him. Li Ye made a rule for him that there are a total of six wine stoves in the palace, and each stove should produce wine at least once a month.And the [-] catties of each stove are not blended, and are stored separately for later use.

Each of the six wine stoves holds about 130 catties of food on average, and the wine production rate is about one-third, that is, 780 catties per stove, and the six stoves can produce [-] catties per month.It is already a relatively good winery production capacity in later generations.

The premise is that there are no mistakes, because many links such as grain fermentation can only rely on the experience accumulated over more than ten years, even the most experienced masters dare not assert that there will be no mistakes.

This is also the reason why Gu Feng was in charge of this matter. He has been brewing wine for the palace for more than ten years.

On the other side, the shop that Yan Kun helped to buy has been renovated according to Li Ye's requirements and is ready to open.

There, Li Ye plans to sell high-end products, such as perfume, high alcohol, glass products and so on.

The best colors for stores selling valuables are yellow, white and black. Black gives people a solemn and solemn psychological hint, white can reflect the color of the item itself, making it look more beautiful and delicate, while yellow will give people a precious psychological hint.

So he specifically explained how Yan Kun decorated the store before.

The location of the store is close to the city, the location is good, there are many people, and there are many dignitaries and nobles around, which are the main consumer groups, but the problem is that...
There is no right person in charge.

It is a high-end luxury product, so it is natural to deal with high-ranking officials from time to time, it is impossible for him to supervise it in person, and none of the remaining people in the palace can handle this kind of thing.

I am afraid that Yan Yan is the only one who has done a good job, but firstly he is too old to run around every day, and secondly, he is the manager of the palace. He arranges and raises many trivial matters in the mansion, so he can do many things so easily.

If Yan Yan leaves, who will take care of the palace?

After returning home in the afternoon, when Li Ye was concentrating on explaining the formulas of trigonometric functions to Qiu'er, the emperor's uncle Li Yu sent someone to send a letter with two blood-stamped and stamped official papers - the deed of sale of poetry!
In the letter, Li Yu told him that he didn't need to redeem his body money, and that the poems could be used as a gift from his uncle to Li Ye, but there were conditions. Tian family property, they don't want to sit idly by and lose the oiran.

So he was not allowed to take it away until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month after Shiyu won the oiran for Fumenglou.

But for a few days, Li Ye can still wait. He is not only hungry, but mainly waiting for someone to employ. Shiyu is indeed capable and resourceful.

He also wrote a reply letter for people to take it back, telling Uncle Li Yuhuang to reassure him that he would take away the poems after the Lantern Festival, and at the same time asked Yan Yan to prepare a hundred taels of gold for the courier to take back and send a nursing home to escort him.

When Yan Yan heard the news, he was very unhappy, his mouth almost turned to the sky, after all, in his opinion, the son is not doing his job properly, spending a hundred taels of gold for a woman, that is more than 1000 taels of silver!What a loser.

If you are not happy, you are not happy, but the money is spent from the treasury of the palace.

Li Xingzhou knew that it was the emperor's uncle who was kind to him. If he really wanted to redeem Shiyu, whether or not Fumenglou would let him go would be the same thing.

As an emperor uncle, he doesn't care about his family, he doesn't have big ambitions, and he is really carefree, he doesn't take much care of him, but his heart is always good.

From Li Xingzhou's experience, well-meaning people generally don't live long.

Now that Shiyu's deed of prostitution is finally in his hands, he can't help but think of that woman's devilish figure, and some things are addictive.

(End of this chapter)