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Chapter 183 Tang Rui Injured
Jia Lian slapped his forehead, and then remembered the purpose of calling Xue Hong today, and hurriedly went to the desk to pick up the books he had found a long time ago and gave them to Xue Hong.

Xue Hong flipped through it a few times, then nodded: "Isn't that what it is? I recently had an idea to open a library in the capital. I don't think books should be treasured by themselves, like we have tens of thousands of books in our family. , if future generations are willing to read books, they can be regarded as being educated when they see them. If they meet those descendants who don’t like reading, I just sell these books as waste paper after death. Isn’t this a waste of money? If books can be effectively Wouldn’t it be good for the people if scholars who were willing to study came to copy it?”

"You mean... gather the books in the family's hands, find someone to copy them and then sell them?"

"Well, the printed books are all unified by the imperial court. Besides, they are single copies and are not suitable for mass distribution. Only eight or nine seats and enough four treasures of the study are provided every day for interested scholars with good handwriting to come and copy. Books are paid a certain amount of silver, and the copied books are then sold separately. This will not only give these scholars the opportunity to earn money and practice calligraphy, but also have books to sell in our own stores. Isn’t it a good thing to kill multiple birds with one stone? ?”

Jia Lian said with a smile: "This is indeed a good thing. It can also do good deeds and accumulate virtue. It's a pity that the profit is not big. You can worry about it yourself. If there is any good way to make money tomorrow, please share it with me. I also open a store with a lot of oil and water to open up sources of income. But if you really want to open such a bookstore, I will give out [-] books to fully support it."

Xue Hong nodded: "In that case, I will thank the second elder brother Lian first. But this matter needs to be discussed in the long term. Hey, why do you have a model of a sea ship here?"

Jia Lian's study room is very big. At first when Xue Hong chatted with him, he didn't notice a big bookshelf at the corner. The location is relatively hidden, and you can see it as soon as you enter the study.

There are more than a dozen small hull models on this big bookshelf, and the reason why Xue Hong recognized it as a sea ship at a glance is that the sails and propellers on Gein's model are twice that of ordinary river ships, and the bottom of the ship is also covered by metal parts. Above the keel, this is to prevent the ship from being damaged when it hits the rocks while driving in the ocean.

In addition to these models, there are also many nautical charts and tools for drawing nautical charts, compass and other things used for sailing.And some charts seem to still have signs of burning, and the edges of the scorched and blackened paper are incomplete, but fortunately, there is no burnt writing on each of them.

The more Xue Hong looked at it, the more strange it became. This bookshelf as a whole doesn't look like Jia Lian's stuff at all, but it looks a bit like...

Seeing that Xue Hong was studying the bookshelf with great interest, Jia Lian smiled and said, "I forgot to tell you. These things belong to that boy Tang Rui. He somehow got what his father left behind. Nautical charts and sea ship design drawings, you know, his boy is not good at literature or martial arts, he is only proficient in counting and arithmetic, and once he got these things, he plunged into them and studied them.

His grandmother and his mother saw him shut up in the study all day, forgetting to sleep and eat. At first, they thought that this kid was finally enlightened and willing to read, but later found that he was asking for a lot of wood blocks and carving knives like a servant. Only then did they realize No, when I broke into his study, I found that he was studying these things.

You know, Tang Rui's father went out to explore the sea, and he was the only one in his family. The whole family forbade him to talk about the word 'sea', for fear that something about him would ruin the incense of the Tang family.So Mrs. Tang made a decisive decision, smashed many models he had made, and even set fire to these charts and design drawings.

Tang Rui became anxious when he saw it. It was the only meaningful thought left to him by his father. How could he watch his mother ruined?So, regardless of his own safety, he grabbed those blueprints with bare hands, but the blueprints were not injured at all, but many blisters were burned on his body.

His mother felt distressed and hurried to heal his injuries, so he sent his personal servants to bring these treasures to me overnight.He said he wanted me to keep it for him temporarily, he was afraid that his mother would burn again if she thought about it again, and if there was a second time, he would not be able to protect it. "

Xue Hong exclaimed: "There is such a thing? So how is Tang Rui now? This burn is easy to heal, and even if it heals, it will probably leave a scar. Have you ever visited him?"

"Not yet. You also know how the capital has been in chaos these past few months. How can I have the time to visit him? I just sent someone to ask, and they said it didn't hurt my appearance."

After hearing this, Xue Hong still couldn't help but feel worried, so she decided to take some time to look at Tang Rui, and then casually looked at a few more charts.

"This chart!"

Xue Hong was startled, but Jia Lian was taken aback, and said angrily, "You have never seen the world, but it's just a few charts, which surprised you. Here, I have some more here. Do you want to see them?" look?"

Suspiciously, Xue Hong took the chart Jia Lian handed over and looked at it, and found that it was more precise than the one on Tang Rui's shelf.

"This is……"

Jia Lian smiled inscrutably: "Si elder brother has already noticed the importance of sea transportation, but... the risk of sea transportation is still very high, just these pictures in your hand, I don't know how many people's blood has been stained Well, every piece of ocean current and reef is exchanged for life."

Xue Hong naturally also knows that HNA is not easy, but if there is no one who is the first to eat crabs, how can the maritime business prosper?Just relying on the canal that is either silted up or burst its embankment?Surface transportation will be a problem sooner or later!

"You said that the fourth elder brother has the heart of shipping? Then why didn't you report it to the emperor?"

Jia Lian sighed: "No money! You can see that these models made by Tang Rui are much more advanced than today's tank ships and sea ships in terms of sailing speed, strong hull, and carrying capacity, but models are models after all. , to enlarge this small thing dozens of times and hundreds of times, and then put it in the sea to ensure navigation. The whole process is all piled up with money? Not to mention that the fourth elder brother does not have this part of money, nor does the court. So much money."

"This……"

All scientific research projects are funded with money, which Xue Hong fully agrees with.But to say a thousand words and ten thousand, the concept of a technological power will never be wrong. The design of sea ships and the expansion of sea routes still need to be continued. Maybe one day, this research will come in handy. ?
Thinking of this, Xue Hong suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "You just said that the fourth elder brother attaches great importance to HNA, that is to say, what Tang Rui is doing now is for the fourth elder brother...?"

(End of this chapter)