Datang Longya

Chapter 34 Pei Ji's Itchy Hands

Produced by Tianxialou, it is naturally extraordinary.This is the consensus of the people in Chang'an, there is no reason why such a casino cannot attract Pei Ji's attention.

And a person obsessed with gambling and intoxicated with alcohol can do anything.

In the past few days, Leng Feng has compiled mathematics books up to one-dimensional equations, and written part of the application of force in physics.As for chemistry...it's hard!There was no sulfuric acid in the Tang Dynasty, so even the most basic hydrogen generation experiment could not be done.

Moreover, even if the book is written, it cannot be printed. I asked Li Chengqian, and the Tang Dynasty did not have the technology of "movable type printing".Leng Feng spent a long time beating his head before realizing that movable type printing appeared only in the Song Dynasty, and he was not familiar with the four great inventions. Leng Feng couldn't help but blush at his "illiteracy".

Li Chengqian knew the master's idea, and specially called a few carpenters to carve out a template.

Leng Feng frowned at the printed things, the characters were white and the bottom was black, this ugly thing was printing?Moreover, a piece of wood is wasted for one page of paper, and it takes three or four days for the craftsman to carve two pages, which is too slow!
The unbearable Leng Feng immediately wrote a letter to Li Tai who was studying "explosion art" in Chang'an, telling him the idea of ​​movable type printing.Make it clear to him that this is Li Tai's homework for this year, if it is not done well, hehe...

Li Tai looked at the hideously written "hum hum", and broke out in cold sweat in an instant.

The last time the building of the fire kiln went wrong, the master fined him not to eat meat for a month, but the Chinese New Year was during the ban.Seeing my brothers eating meat, I can only eat vegetables, that taste...

In order to keep his qualification to eat meat, Li Tai took the master's letter and got into the court recklessly.

Above the court, several generals were arguing about who would be in charge of the East Turkic expedition, and Cheng Yaojin and Li Ji, who were more impatient, were about to fight.

The military generals quarreled, and the civil servants crowded aside. Even Wei Zheng could only avoid the edge temporarily. None of these strong men were not big and three thick.

Li Shimin was not angry at all looking at the noisy scene below, which had something to do with his commander-in-chief's background.Above the court, it's just about discussing things, and it's serious to be noisy, and it's easy to cause accidents if everyone is muffled or flattering.

Just when Cheng Yaojin and Li Ji got tired of shouting and went out of the hall to fight, Li Tai sneaked in without waiting for the eunuch to report.

"Father! Father! Help! Help!"

Li Shimin liked this youngest son very much, and did not pursue him for trespassing. He asked with a smile, "Qingque, what's the matter? Who else can threaten you? Tell Father Emperor, Father Emperor sent a general to attack him !"

Cheng Yaojin jumped out immediately: "King Wei, don't worry, my old Cheng will definitely beat him up hard!"

Li Tai rushed to Li Shimin's side without any courtesy, hugged Li Shimin's arm and said, "It's my master."

"Er..." Li Shimin was speechless, and Cheng Yaojin also returned to the team in despair, saying that the blow he suffered during the last martial arts competition was sour.

"Your master threatens you, and you have to bear it. Who told you that you are his apprentice!"

Li Tai held up the letter and said: "Master asked me to find a way to get a 'printing machine', and said it was the sum of my homework for the next year. I'm afraid that if I don't get it right, Master will punish me not to eat meat for a year."

Li Tai's childish voice made the courtiers laugh together.

Li Shimin was also overjoyed. He took the letter casually, glanced at it a few times, and then slapped it on the dragon case: "The matter of choosing the commander of the Turkic army will be discussed tomorrow. Come here! I will pass it on to be the master supervisor!"

Li Shimin waved his hand: "Retreat! Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Wang Gui, Kong Yingda, and Xiao Yu stay here."

The courtiers were surprised by the emperor's reaction, and retreated in confusion.Fang Xuanling knew very well that Li Shimin was a calm person, if it was not a major event, it would be impossible for him to have such a big reaction.

After the eunuch brought them a table and sat down, Li Shimin ordered Li Tai to deliver the letter to several people.

After handing it over to each other, Wei Zheng Fuxu said: "This matter is very promising! In the past, all books were hand-copied. Only in the past two years have there been block printing. The negative version is difficult to engrave, and the positive version is even more difficult. But printing with movable type is easy. , typesetting is enough, even if clay type is not possible, wooden type is fast enough and cheap enough!"

Kong Yingda clapped his hands and said, "Educate the world! If I can see that scene in my lifetime, it will be enough to make Jiuquan smile!"

Wang Gui's hand holding the tea bowl was trembling: "The so-called rule of Wenjing is just that the common people have surplus food, and there are no bandits at the border. If my Tang Dynasty can enlighten the people's wisdom and educate the world, this... this is a prosperous age!"

Li Shimin said to Fang Xuanling: "Wuji is not here, and there is a shortage of ministers in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Xuanling, you can also take up the post! The money and food needed for the research and development of the printing machine must not be in short supply!"

Fang Xuanling bowed and said yes.

"Wang Gui, you guys are all masters of learning. You study and study which enlightenment books are printed. The internal treasury has allocated money to build an academy, not to teach the people, but to cultivate a group of people who can be teachers. Everyone, we still have a long way to go."

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Who enjoys the most life in Datang?Li Yuan of course!Although the power of the emperor can no longer be exercised, there is no shortage of money, beauties, mountains and seas.

Tianxialou Casino opened, and with Li Shimin's consent, Li Yuan was sent a pair of cards made of cardboard and a piece of white paper on which the playing methods were recorded.Li Yuan fell in love with this deck at first sight, it's interesting!Much better than rolling the dice.

The poker cards here are not cards like "A234, JQK", but "slave", "commoner", "rich businessman", "village chief", "master book", "county magistrate", "county magistrate", etc. ", "Inspector", etc., and so on, the two biggest cards in poker become "Emperor" and "Queen".

What Li Yuan is most satisfied with is that there is "Taishanghuang" in this deck, and it is the supreme card.No card or combination is as big as this card, and this card can be used as any card.This arrangement made him secretly happy.

At this moment, Pei Ji, Li Yuan, and Li Daozong are playing "Fighting the Enemy Kingdom" (Fighting the Landlord).

When only the hole cards were left, Li Yuan laughed wildly and took the last three cards.

"Hmph... I'll kill all of you without leaving behind!" Li Yuan threw out a card, which was a dragon from a commoner to a prince.

"It doesn't matter!" Li Daozong knew he couldn't afford it just by looking at the cards.

"It doesn't matter!" Pei Ji was extremely bitter, and there were not many officials in his cards.

Li Yuan smiled and said: "A dragon has already doubled, and I will double it for you! Erlang Guanyin maidservant! Empress!"

"Sorry!" Pei Ji and Li Daozong said weakly together.

However, seeing that the Supreme Emperor still has four cards in his hand, from commoner to empress just now, it seems that there will not be four cards, that is, the "natural disaster" card.

Li Yuan threw a card, and that card was "The Supreme Emperor"!
"I'm always thinking about how to match up to double the number of times, but the results are all the same. My 'Supreme Emperor' will be used as a 'Prince', four princes, natural disaster!" Li Yuan threw away the three princes in his hand, laughing loudly. : "You didn't play a single card, the 'throw away your armor' that was killed by me, double it!"

Li Daozong and Pei Ji handed over eighteen ingots of silver with bitter faces.

Li Yuan took the money and waved his hand: "No more, no more, you two have bad luck today, it's boring, I'll play with Erlang after Erlang finishes handling the government affairs."

After finishing speaking, Li Yuan said to Pei Ji again: "The cards of Hao Gambling House in Building No. [-] of Tianxia Building are very interesting. I heard that they still have a lot of new-style gambling equipment. Go and see after you leave the palace and ask them to send two more sets."

"The minister obeys the order."

After leaving the palace, Pei Ji sighed deeply. Originally, he wanted to win some money from the Supreme Emperor, but unexpectedly he lost a lot.

Thinking of the novel way of playing in the gambling house, Pei Ji's hands itch, really want to go in and gamble for a few rounds?
(End of this chapter)