Datang: I am the prince of salted fish, I impeach Li Er at the beginning

Chapter 137 People Who Suspect Uprightness and Duplicity

In fact, Li Shimin still put his heart into what Li Zhi asked for.

It wasn't until the next morning that Li Zhi had already received the approval from Li Shimin.

"You said that it's not appropriate for a prince to care about craftsmen. Isn't that why he just sent the license certificate in a hurry?"

"I think you are upright, I didn't expect you, father, to be such a person."

Holding the approval document, Li Zhi shook his head amusedly.

With new things such as glass in front of him, Li Shimin is still full of anticipation for the things he wants to make, right?

If this were not the case, it would be impossible to send the approval document early in the morning.

The attitude expressed by his father is too obvious.

Isn't this just urging him to make things as soon as possible?

Li Zhi put away the approval document.

After having breakfast, he walked out of the house early.

Parting with his companion Cui Zhiwen at the gate of Chengtian Gate, Li Zhi went to the northwest corner of the imperial city alone to serve as a prisoner.

The general prison is located in a corner of the imperial city.

To the north is Yeting Palace, and to the west is the city wall of the imperial city.

The location is only a wall away from the outside of the palace.

Moreover, as a large-scale comprehensive manufacturing factory in charge of imperial artifacts, Jiang Zuojian occupies a larger area than all government offices.

So it's pretty easy to find.

Li Zhi used the gold medal bestowed by the emperor to easily pass through the gate of the prison.

When passing by the craftsman, he casually asked about the location of the general supervisor.

Get the exact answer and go straight to your destination.

The general supervisor is the chief officer of the general prison, that is, the leader of the general prison.

If Li Zhi wanted to make something, he had to be nodded by the chief of the yamen, didn't he?

And speaking of it, the official rank of the general supervisor is also from the third rank.

From the perspective of official position, Li Zhi's official position is not as big as others.

Therefore, taking the initiative to visit has become a matter of course.

Not to mention, when he was looking for the general to be the supervisor, he was so cooperative.

If you don't even give this little face, you are too ignorant of the world.

After some inquiries, Li Zhi found the current general supervisor - Zhan Zhou.

When he found someone, Zhan Zhou was sitting in front of the workbench, bowing his head and not knowing what he was doing.

Seeing the thin body of the white-haired old man lying on the table, Li Zhi made a sound from a distance, and leaned over to salute with a smile: "The next official Yushi Zhongcheng is here to visit, I wonder if you have time to be the chief supervisor?"

Hearing this, the officer who will be the prisoner was obviously taken aback for a moment.

He first raised his head, glanced at Li Zhi, confirmed that what he saw was indeed Li Zhi himself, and quickly got up to meet him.

"So it was His Royal Highness King Jin who came here. I don't know why His Highness came this time?"

It is normal for young people to salute the elders.

Therefore, despite Li Zhi's noble status, Zhan Zhou accepted the gift as a matter of course.

It has nothing to do with attitude, it's just the mood of the moment.

In fact, Zhanzhou's attitude is still very enthusiastic.

People who are over half a hundred years old still come to greet them with warm smiles, which is already very face-saving.

Li Zhi nodded towards the other party with a smile, took out the supervision license from his arms and handed it over.

"Xiaguan came here to order a piece of utensil, which is very complicated to manufacture. In order to avoid oolongs, Xiaguan had no choice but to come and supervise the production process in person. I have to trouble Master Zhan to arrange this for Xiaguan. Sorry to trouble you."

Zhanjiang was not in a hurry to answer, he first opened the supervision license and took a look, and confirmed that it was the certificate given by the palace.

After that, he turned to Li Zhi to ask about the specific situation.

"I don't know what kind of utensil His Highness intends to make? Please tell Your Highness in detail, so that the lower officials can arrange manpower for His Highness to cooperate with His Highness to make this object."

Perhaps it was because the general supervisor benefited a lot from the process of making glass, and Zhanjiang's attitude is very eager.

When I asked, there was a smile on my face, and I thought I had strong curiosity and anticipation about it.

Seeing this, Li Zhi didn't play tricks on him, and directly expressed his thoughts.

"This thing is a mechanical product with an extremely complex structure, similar to a loom."

"The materials needed for manufacturing are mainly wood."

"As for the more specific... I don't know how to describe it."

"In short, this artifact is very complicated and cannot be explained clearly in just one or two sentences."

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In this era, even craftsmen who specialize in manufacturing machinery have difficulty accessing machines with relatively complex structures.

There are very few nouns that specifically describe various components.

If forced to explain, Li Zhi can of course use proper terms such as pulley block and mechanical transmission to describe the structure of the machine.

But the problem is, no one can understand what he said.

It's better to say it directly and simply, this matter is a long story.

Others will know what it means as soon as they hear it, so they won't fall into endless questions and answers.

Sure enough, when Zhanzhou heard that the structure was complicated, he simply stopped asking.

He went outside the door to call someone over, and ordered: "Go! Go and call Gong Liyun."

Then, he explained to Li Zhi: "I still have some things to deal with now, I'm afraid I can't personally arrange for His Highness to supervise the construction of objects. Gong Liyun will be the young prisoner, and he is as familiar with the general as the prisoner." Officer, let him make arrangements for His Highness."

"You are busy with your business, don't worry about me. I just came to say hello. I will be satisfied if I have someone to guide me."

Li Zhi responded with a smile, and winked at the old man after speaking.

Seeing that Zhanzhou was stunned for a moment, he shook his head helplessly and laughed out loud.

"Then please wait for a moment, Your Highness, and I will go to work first."

After all, Zhan Zhou returned to his seat, leaned over and continued to work.

Li Zhi was also idle, and took a few steps forward tentatively.

Seeing that Zhanzhou had no intention of avoiding it, he boldly walked over and looked at it.

I saw that the rice paper under Zhanzhou was already covered with dense words.

Judging from the above description, it seems to be related to the next plan of the Ministry of Industry.

It seems to be about the mining and smelting of iron ore. It should be the changes made by the imperial court in resource collection after the potential of coal mines was tapped.

I think once this plan is completed, Datang will make great progress in iron resources in the future, right?
Li Zhi didn't take a good look at it, so he took a quick look and then looked away.

At this moment, a middle-aged official walked in hurriedly.

He first greeted Zhanzhou, then noticed Li Zhi's presence, and hurriedly saluted again.

"My subordinate Gong Liyun has met King Jin."

After saluting, he raised his head and looked at the two of them suspiciously: "I don't know why King Jin is here?"

(End of this chapter)