I made Daqin a prosperous world

Chapter 20
The moon was shining brightly, and in the huge Xianyang Palace, only the study room was brightly lit.

A black shadow quickly slid down and escaped into the imperial study room.

Ying Zheng sat alone on the couch, watched quietly with the memorial in his hand, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter."

"Your Majesty, the deacon of Tingwei Mansion went to Junhou Mansion in the morning and left within a quarter of an hour."

Ying Zheng's eyebrows were flat, although it was late at night, but his eyes were still deep and bright, and he said: "What else?"

"There is an extra strong man in the Junhou's mansion, and now he is training twenty teenagers without leaving home."

"Oh? Are those teenagers all orphans?"

"Exactly."

Ying Zheng was startled at first, then smiled and said, "What are you doing?"

"Xian Junhou... seems to have been playing with mud all day."

Ying Zheng was taken aback, "Playing with mud?"

"The two people beside Xian Junhou are very strong, and the subordinates dare not get too close, and they have never seen clearly."

Ying Zheng suddenly smiled, waved lightly and said, "Back off, you can withdraw your people back."

"Yes."

The black shadow disappeared in a flash, Ying Zheng put down the folder in his hand, looked at the moon and stars outside the window, his expression was slightly clustered, and said to himself: "Xianjunhou, Xianjunhou, when will I see through your mysterious coat, or should I say, Are you really a fairy in the sky?

...After being silent for a long time, Ying Zheng's face softened, and the doubts in his heart dissipated.

Even if you are a fairy, as long as you only care about the empire, then I will let you go.

Silent all night.

The morning air in Daqin was surprisingly sweet. Li Yu nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the small clay sculptures on the wooden boards.

Li Cunxiao touched his head and said: "Master Hou, I think this clay sculpture looks like a grave for burying the dead."

Li Yu couldn't help laughing and said: "Benhou's craftsmanship is not like a grave, it is clearly a small casting assembly line."

Li Cunxiao was not very clear about what Li Yu was talking about, he just thought it was very profound, and said with a silly smile: "By the way, Lord Hou, Zilong and I discovered last night that the intermittent aura before was gone. Those eyes disappeared too."

Li Yu looked calm, got up and looked at Zhao Yun, and asked, "Did you notice anything?"

Zhao Yun shook his head and said, "Brother Cunxiao is stronger than me, he should be aware of it."

Li Cunxiao's expression changed, and he said sternly: "This should be a master who is good at hiding, but the murderous aura on his body cannot be hidden. I guess it is at least at the level of Baitu. As for the eyes outside the Hou's mansion, although they are wearing civilian clothes , but they are not weak in stature."

The longer you live in Xianyang City, the more you will find that the forces in it are intricate, even under the eyes of Emperor Shihuang.

It was the first time Li Yu heard about the division of strength by Baijiang, and he was interested, and then asked, "How do you divide your strength? What is Baitu?"

Li Cunxiao suddenly patted his chest, and said arrogantly: On the battlefield, one is a school general, a hundred enemies are a hundred generals, and beheading a thousand is a thousand generals. "

Li Yu couldn't help but asked, "Then what's up?"

Li Cunxiao was stunned for a moment, and muttered: "Then I don't know."

Li Yu smiled and thought: If you divide it like this, you will be the enemy of ten thousand people at the top.

Then he asked, "Then what is the strength of the two of you?"

Li Cunxiao smiled, rubbed his head and said, "Although Zilong and I have never been on the battlefield, at least we are at the level of Baitu."

Li Yu nodded lightly. With the two people's popularity in the past, Baitu General may be lower.

Then he looked at the template on the ground and said, "Zilong, go and bring the blueprint on the desk in my study. Let's go to the eastern suburbs of the city and visit the officials of the foundry department by the way."

As the department in charge of the core economy of the empire, the Shaofu generally has: one supervisor, from the third rank;

Li Yu must establish a good relationship with such an oil-water yamen for his future ideas.

Leaving Li Cunxiao alone to guard the mansion, Li Yu and Li Yu went to the eastern suburbs of the city in a two-wheel drive carriage.

As soon as I got out of the carriage, I felt a strong and pungent smell of oxides. The place where the smoke was coming out was guarded by a strict patrol army.

The military adviser with a long dagger looked serious, and asked through the three-foot-high fence door: "There is a fairy king in the car."

Zhao Yun took out the purple gold seal unique to Junhou and said: "Exactly."

The wooden door opened slowly with the sound of chains, and the sergeant said again: "Please trouble your lord to get out of the car and walk."

Li Yu was well aware of the rigor of Qin Law, and he didn't pretend, so he got out of the car and walked immediately, and asked, "Is your house supervisor in the factory?"

The sergeant cupped his hands and said, "Master Tong is inspecting the money casting department. The pawn has no authorization to enter, and I hope the prince will go there on his own."

After the sergeant finished speaking, he pointed to his right hand and said, "Master Tong should be at the fourth foundry in front."

Li Yu smiled and said, "Thank you."

It is indeed the most rigorous casting factory in the empire. Except for the foundry workers who need to go in and out naked to check the periphery, ordinary people have almost no right to enter.

After walking to the fourth foundry and checking his identity again, Li Yu was allowed to enter alone.

Entering the foundry, a wave of heat rushes towards your face, forming a dual feeling of ice and fire with the cold outside. During the period, Li Yu couldn't tell whether there was a smell of copper or sweat. He saw a group of shirtless men sweating profusely. Water is poured into the mold, and the manual production line is in order.

A middle-aged man in a purple official uniform wiped his sweat with a cloth towel in one hand, and walked towards him with a cattail fan in the other, and said with a smile: "My lord, rare visitors."

Li Yu looked at the middle-aged man with a big belly and sweating profusely in front of him, smiled and said, "Your work is really hard, Supervisor."

Mansion supervisor Feng Yansheng, an inspirational figure who climbed from a craftsman to a third rank, Li Yu had to look straight at him.

With a trace of indifference on Feng Yansheng's face, he cupped his hands towards the east of the city and said, "Thank you, Lord Junhou, for your understanding. This official is originally a craftsman. Fortunately, His Majesty appreciates it. To be honored as the supervisor of this young mansion, naturally one has to do one's best. Contribute to the prosperity of the empire."

A flash of surprise flashed in Li Yu's heart. The craftsman's spirit is really admirable these days. He nodded immediately and said, "It's your majesty's blessing to have a good official like you who is dedicated to supervise the treasury for your majesty."

After the formalities were over, Li Yu didn't beat around the bush, and immediately took out the new casting process drawn by himself and said: "Although I don't know how the casting department's craftsmanship is under the Shaofu's rule, I hope Master Feng can take a look at it."

Feng Yansheng was taken aback for a moment, but after watching carefully, his face was flushed, which was even redder than hot, and exclaimed: "This process is easy to understand, but why do we need to make that arc-shaped furnace and water? Cars and even meltwater from salt mines.”

Li Yu, as a high-achieving engineering student, was equally shocked. With just a single glance, he saw the casting process that he spent a long time at all?

My heart was like a galloping horse, and I planned to bring a mold to explain it together. Unexpectedly, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in this place, with a smile on his face, and said: "Master Feng is amazing, I prepared a clay mold, if I think it is feasible , then maybe Master Feng will be needed to help plan a workshop to build a production line in the future."

Feng Yansheng smiled brightly in his eyes: "I heard that Lord Hou has a lot of research on farming economy, Confucianism and calligraphy, and the papermaking skills he developed are even more amazing. Now he is even involved in casting," said this Feng Yansheng's expression turned serious, and he bowed and said, "You are really a role model for all the craftsmen in the empire. If it weren't for the fact that you are an old official, you would wish to study under Lord Hou."

Li Yu couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and calmed down a little in his heart, he said, "The government inspector praised you so much, I will put the drawings and molds here first, and you can just build the three processes, and Ben Hou will explain them later."

The governor Feng Yansheng wiped his hands like precious treasures, and carefully stacked them up, for fear that the drawings would get wet with sweat.

"If Master Hou and I go out first, the matter of the new workshop needs to be reported to His Majesty for a decision."

Originally, I just planned to take it to palm eyes, and after I got the certificate, I went to Yingzheng to discuss it. Seeing what Feng Yansheng said, I had to hand it over along with the mold.

He was also happy to be at leisure, and immediately politely left the uncomfortable imperial factory.

　Here is an explanation of the division of strength levels: murdering the enemy on the battlefield, or shooting is not counted, it needs to be killed in melee combat.

　　(Respectively: kill one person to be a soldier, ten people to be a school, a hundred people to be a general, and a thousand people to be an army.)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)