Fu Tang

Shi Xueting was stunned for a moment: "Changle Mansion? What are you doing there?"

Li Congjia said: "What else can I do? Go and see the ship. I remember that the shipyard is over there, and a lot of research is done there, right?"

Shi Xueting thought for a while and said, "I don't think they will let you go."

Li Congjia knew that what Shi Xueting said should be that the cabinet would not agree, but he said calmly: "I'm going to do business and not go sightseeing, and I will take people from the Privy Council with me when the time comes. Prepare for Korea, why don't you agree?"

Shi Xueting didn't say anything else, he felt that Li Congjia probably couldn't sit still anymore, after all, he was held back in Chang'an for a long time, and he didn't have a place in the battlefield. What's the matter with Li Congjia?

It’s just that Li Congjia could run around at will at that time, and then... there is no more. Li Congjia wants to go out of the palace to visit Chang’an City. It’s no problem. Everyone can trust the security of Chang’an City, but it’s very worrying to go out. Especially after Li Congjia would be assassinated in the palace, his safety was even more worrying.

Li Congjia's answer to this is also very simple: "Anyway, I will meet assassins in the palace, so what does that have to do with going out? What's more, the improvement of the warship was proposed by me, so I naturally want to see how far they have improved. , What is the use of just relying on these written reports?"

Anyway, Li Congjia wanted to go out, and no one could stop him, and of course no one would stop him desperately.

Everyone knows that if it is a dispensable matter, Li Congjia will probably give up the idea if the cabinet ministers are tougher, but once he makes up his mind, the reasons are really various, and he will even mess around. The assistant ministers knew that the dispute could not go on, and if the dispute continued, Li Congjia would give a strong order.

Since Li Congjia ascended the throne, he has seldom given strong orders, but once he decides to do so, it is really impossible to pull back eight horses, and he will even go around the court to do it himself, such as the last trip to Khitan. Everyone feels scared about this.

The old men felt that it would be better for them to agree and then negotiate with Li Congjia to finish the matter, which would save them from worrying.

Li Congjia started to prepare his luggage, but Li Zhongyu could only pout his mouth and watch Li Congjia happily prepare to go out to play, and then threw him at home.

After approving the papers for a while, Li Congjia felt something was wrong, and when he looked up, he saw Li Zhongyu looking at him sadly, and Li Congjia couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Li Zhongyu ran over and hugged Li Congjia's arm and said, "Father, I want to go out to play too."

Li Congjia's face was serious in an instant: "What nonsense, daddy is out for business, who said it was for fun?"

Li Zhongyu continued to look at Li Congjia with a resentful steamed bun face. Before Li Congjia discussed with Shi Xueting where to eat authentic sausage rolls, fruits and seafood, he heard it all!Also said not to play!He also wants to eat delicious food!

Li Congjia touched Li Zhongyu's dog's head with a smile and said, "Want to play?"

Li Zhongyu nodded eagerly, and Li Congjia said: "Then just wait."

Li Zhongyu looked puzzled: "Wait?"

Li Congjia nodded: "Yes, when you grow up and have a son, and your son has enough ability to supervise the country, you can go out like me."

Li Zhongyu's small face suddenly collapsed, and Li Congjia stretched out his hand to snort his soft hair and said, "Hurry up and go back to do your homework, don't think that you can stop doing your homework just by messing with me."

Li Zhongyu walked away dejectedly, and when he was leaving, he ran into Shi Xueting who came over. Seeing Li Zhongyu greeted him listlessly, Shi Xueting felt very strange, and came in and asked, "What's wrong with the prince?"

Li Congjia laughed and said, "He said he also wanted to go out with us."

Shi Xueting said naturally: "Then take him there, even if he supervises the country, what effect will it have? You and the cabinet are not the ones who really make the decision?"

How old is Li Zhongyu this year? To say that the prince supervises the country is just Li Congjia's emphasis on the stability of the prince's position. Let him make the decision and the country is about to end.

Li Congjia sighed and said: "I think, children should go out more to see and gain knowledge, but I went out this time to fight for reason, and those old ministers in the cabinet will definitely not let me take Dalang away. They are now preventing me from leading Da Lang badly."

The more Li Congjia said, the more wronged he became: "The son I taught is not good. He is educated and reasonable at a young age, respects the old and loves the young, and is smart. Why don't they let me teach them?"

If it was someone else, they might have to follow Li Congjia's words, but Shi Xueting said very bluntly: "Come on, the prince's impeccable etiquette is also due to the teachers and teachers. You can't even memorize the Analects yourself. In terms of etiquette, you can piss off the Minister of Rites, and now Fan Xiang often doubts whether the wives who taught you etiquette in your youth were all rich and rich."

In fact, Shi Xueting also felt very strange about Li Congjia. As far as the ink in his stomach is concerned, all the princes in the world seem to be able to crush him, but no one can compare to him in writing poems and lyrics. Some people say that he doesn't even know "Left Turn" and "The Analects of Confucius". I guess not many people believe it?

But it happened like this, Shi Xueting also wondered if Li Congjia would take it out because of what someone else did, but he felt that according to Li Congjia's usual style of conduct, his morals should not have fallen like this, and Shi Xueting is now considered an expo group Books, after all, he likes to read books when he has nothing to do, and he didn't see the source of those poems. In the end, he could only attribute this to God's gift.

Even if Shi Xueting was killed, he would never have thought that Li Congjia would pass through. Those poems and songs were all forced to memorize by exam-oriented education.

Li Congjia curled his lips, there was no way, the first time he went out was the result of arguing with reason, it was almost impossible to take Li Zhongyu out.

After Li Congjia packed up, he went directly to Changle Mansion. The location of Changle Mansion is the future Fujian. In fact, it was best to place the shipyard in Yangzhou or Suzhou and Hangzhou. However, when the shipyard was built, the purpose was to build some advanced ships. At that time, Yangzhou and other places were in the hands of Nanzhou, so they could only be placed in Changlefu.

Later, Yangzhou returned to Li Congjia's hands, but the Changlefu Shipyard had already issued the scale, so Li Congjia continued to build shipyards in Yangzhou and other places, while continuing to let the Changlefu Shipyard continue to undertake shipbuilding tasks.

This time, it was the shipyard in Changlefu that made the lucky boat that he had always hoped to make.

In the real history, Fuchuan appeared in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, because of artillery, special places for placing artillery and the like were opened on the warships. Although the weapons of the Tang Dynasty today are not as good as those in the late Ming Dynasty, they used to be The warships are also out of service and must be redesigned.

When the lucky boat was dug out back then, Li Congjia participated in the restoration, and he clearly remembered most of the structure of the lucky boat. He only needed to give a rough outline of the structure. As for the drawings... there are no craftsmen ?

If Fuchuan can be made, Li Congjia can even say that in this era, even on the sea, there is no country comparable to Datang. If there is no Fuchuan, it is almost impossible to put gunpowder on the ship, even if it is released Can't put too much, and the effect will be limited.

Li Congjia really wanted to go to see the ship quickly, but no one agreed to his idea of ​​keeping it simple. After all, he has been enemies all over the world these years, and he might be assassinated under layers of guards.Even if he has a master by his side!

This time, Shi Xueting directly brought out almost all of his masters. Since these monks arrived in Chang'an and lived a peaceful life, they had nothing to do every day but practice martial arts. The imperial court selected guards for Li Congjia. They couldn't walk in front of them for a few rounds. At first, these guards were not happy that Li Congjia was surrounded by a group of monks.

How big is the place around the emperor? Everyone really wants to go and brush their faces. Even if it doesn’t work once, His Majesty will remember his face more times, and he will remember them when something happens in the future. What’s the point of having a group of monks now?

As a result, after discovering that the skills they were proud of were completely inferior to those monks, these guards obediently guarded the outermost perimeter, and secretly felt that they must practice more.

Because of the monks surrounding him, Li Congjia no longer allowed Shi Xueting to touch him on the frame, and even drove Shi Xueting away. The national teacher has a special guard of honor for the national teacher, which was not available in the previous dynasties. I have been a national teacher, or I have never had a high-status national teacher like Shi Xueting, so these ceremonial guards and the like are all studied by the people of the Ministry of Rites.

Shi Xueting's guard of honor is higher than that of the prince, almost equal to that of the prince. Li Congjia originally wanted the Ministry of Rites to make Shi Xueting's guard of honor similar to that of the queen. He could not give Shi Xueting a real back seat. It's not bad to make up for these places.

As a result, the Ministry of Rites refused to obey, even surpassing the prince. They refused to surpass the prince before, but under Li Congjia's pressure, they thought that they were just a national teacher, not hereditary or anything, and no disciples could inherit it. The higher the standard, the higher it is, but if they want to surpass the prince and be equal to the queen, they are ready to remonstrate with death.

Li Congjia could only let it go with regret. Later, whenever he had the opportunity, he would wear small shoes for those officials of the Ministry of Rites, and he would not bother them too much. Later, it was Shi Xueting who could not help but stop his childish behavior.

It was a pity that Shi Xueting was sitting on his own frame. The excuse he used before was to personally protect His Majesty, but after he habitually molested Li Congjia, Li Congjia was worried that his masters and brothers would hear the voice, so he resolutely moved him Get out of the carriage.

It made Shi Xueting always feel that this was shooting himself in the foot - Li Congjia didn't care at all before, because those guards didn't have such sensitive eyes and ears.

This way Li Congjia used the fastest speed, and he was in a hurry all the way. When it was time to rest, if he passed by a town, he would live in the town. If he couldn't catch up outside, he would camp outside.

The towns along the way have worked so hard, and they have prepared 12 points to cheer up and prepare to meet the emperor. As a result, there may be some accidents that day, and the emperor cannot come, or he came and left in a hurry, just passing by. Many officials and people were disappointed.

Li Congjia sat in the car and said boredly: "It seems that the construction of various places is not bad now, but the roads are still not repaired enough."

Shi Xueting asked while peeling fruit for him: "Isn't that enough? The speed of such a huge team is already surprising. What else do you want?"

Li Congjia opened his mouth and bit a piece of pear meat that Shi Xueting sent to his mouth, chewed and said vaguely: "If one day, no matter where people go, they can almost walk the shortest distance in a straight line, then I will be satisfied , if that's the case, our speed can still be increased, and now we will still take a detour."

Shi Xueting thought about the blueprint for a while, and it was really wonderful, but soon he came back to his senses and said: "There is no need to rush this matter. Emperor Sui Yang's excavation of the Grand Canal is not far away, so don't repeat the same mistakes."

Li Congjia said with emotion: "Yes, his idea of ​​digging the Grand Canal is good, but unfortunately he was too anxious. Well, I only hope that after a hundred years, I mean, after a hundred years, the blueprint as I imagined will appear. .”

It took about 60 years for later generations of Tuchao to spread out the entire railway and road network. Although it did not fully achieve what Li Congjia imagined, the reason why ideals are ideals is because the realization of them is full of difficulties.

Li Congjia also hopes to realize it in a short period of time. The Tu Dynasty took about 60 years. Datang has a small population and science and technology cannot keep up. However, Li Congjia has already planted the seeds of many things, hoping to promote the great Tang's scientific and technological development, after all, people only need one point to understand the world more often.

It's a pity that he is a cheating liberal arts student, and he can't do much.

Seeing that Li Congjia was deep in thought, Shi Xueting knew that Li Congjia must have had new ideas. Sometimes he was very surprised, how could Li Congjia have all kinds of weird ideas?

After Li Congjia woke up, he took a look outside, and immediately leaned on the car window and said, "Xue Ting, come and see the sea."

Shi Xueting leaned over to take a look, looked at Li Congjia wonderingly and said, "It's not like you haven't seen it, what are you so excited about?"

Li Congjia grew up in the south. As the accompanying capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he has been to Yangzhou more than once. He must have seen it. What kind of wind is this now?

Li Congjia rolled his eyes at him and said, "I haven't come to the south in how many years, almost ten years!"

Shi Xueting said helplessly: "Then don't be like this, what will it look like to be seen by the guards outside? And you can't enjoy watching the sea here, you can only vaguely see the sunlight reflected on the sea surface. When you arrive at Changle Mansion, what do you think?" It doesn't matter how you look at it."

Li Congjia thought about it for a while, it was true, retracted his body, turned around and hugged Shi Xueting and said: "Hey, when will the prince grow up, I will be able to abdicate when he grows up, and then I will travel around the world with you."

Shi Xueting kissed him and said, "Don't worry, be patient."

It will take at least five or six years for the prince to succeed to the throne. If he is not mature enough, it may even be ten years. Shi Xueting only regarded Li Congjia's so-called traveling around the world as traveling around the Tang Dynasty and surrounding countries. He didn't know that their world was a They are spherical, and they don't know that there are other continents on the opposite side of them.

Li Congjia didn't tell him these things. These things are too appalling. He doesn't want to be burned as an alien. The only way to prove it is to let people sail out to sea to circle the earth and come back. However, the current navigation technology... Going out to sea and circling the globe is no different from sending someone to die.

Half a month later, he arrived at Changle Mansion. After arriving there, Li Congjia was anxious to see the boat, but was stopped by the local governor.

The governor was one of the earliest students of the academy, or a student of Teacher Xingyi, and he said bitterly: "Your Majesty, the shipyard is currently undergoing final adjustments, and it has not been fully completed. You have been busy all the way, why don't you take a rest for two days?" How's the day?"

When they reported it before, they had already fully calculated the execution ability of the imperial court. It would take a month for the memorial to arrive in Chang'an, and the imperial court would approve it after receiving the memorial and discuss it. According to the original process, it would be good if people came to see it in four months. However, in view of the possibility of using troops against Korea in the near future, they shortened the time to three months.

Since the governor was considered one of his own, after handing in the paper, he was afraid that the imperial court would not pay attention to it, so he went to the intelligence department to report it again.

No way, he led a group of juniors to take root here for several years, just to research the ship. It was not without results before, but it has not met Li Congjia's requirements.

If it was someone else, they might think that such a difficult request is nonsense, but Li Congjia has always had a good reputation. He said that if he can make it, he will definitely make it. This is the summary made by the Ministry of War for so many years, and this Almost no one in the court knew about it.

These old shipyards in Changlefu are almost money-losing goods. However, the court has never been short of money for the Changlefu shipyard. Perhaps it cannot be said that the court has never been short of money and has no results. The court is also unwilling to give more money to the Changlefu shipyard. Li Congjia There was no way to get the Ministry of Households to give more money, so they directly allocated part of their own internal treasury to maintain the operation of the shipyard. For this, the Changlefu Shipyard was really grateful to Li Congjia.

But he has been unable to produce results, and the governor is under a lot of pressure. Now that he finally has hope, he naturally does not want to be buried by other news.

It turned out that the imperial court responded so quickly, and the emperor came in person!And it took half a month to arrive!

In the past, every time Li Congjia went, news would spread to Changle Mansion. When the governor of Changle Mansion knew that Li Congjia had left Chang'an City, he frantically urged everyone to work overtime. Except for some final data verification, there was no problem. Everyone planned to take a break before the imperial court sent people, but they didn't expect the emperor to come, let alone work.

However, the project scheduled for three months could not be completed in one month, so the governor of Changle Mansion could only receive Li Congjia bitterly, and tried his best to let Li Congjia eat and play first.

However, Li Congjia knew that most of the officials he sent to Changle Mansion had graduated from the academy. One of the biggest characteristics of the students who graduated from the academy was their pragmatism, and generally they would not engage in these hypocritical tricks in the officialdom. Assimilated by other officials?

After the governor of Changle Mansion found out that Li Congjia had doubts in his eyes, he could only tell the truth bitterly. After hearing this, Li Congjia couldn't help laughing and said: "It seems that the court still needs to improve its efficiency in the future."

After knowing the reason, Li Congjia relaxed completely. Although he was anxious to watch the boat, he also knew that these people probably wanted to present a perfect work to himself, so he didn't rush, and began to eat and drink with peace of mind.

I haven't been to the beach for many years, and I can't eat seafood in Guanzhong, so even though he is the emperor now, his living standard may not be as good as that of ordinary well-off families in later generations.

Later, Li Congjia even took Shi Xueting to wander around, just a few monks, and no guards. After all, these guards were wearing standard light armor. Anyone who saw them without glasses would know Li Congjia's identity. It's a fart to visit privately on Weibo.

But the monks just follow along, although this combination is a bit weird.

Li Congjia likes to walk in the streets and alleys. At this time, Changle Mansion was not as prosperous as later generations, because most of the seaside land is saline-alkali land. It is impossible to transport seafood to far away places to make money these days, and the Tang Dynasty has just recovered from the war. Silk on the sea The road is almost cut off, and the people here can only rely on the sea to eat the sea, which seems to be better than a small fishing village.

After visiting around, Li Congjia felt that investing in a shipyard was the right thing to do. Only with powerful ships can it be possible to sell Datang’s goods to all parts of the world. The Maritime Silk Road is a voyage paved with gold. line!

After another ten days or so, the governor finally asked Li Congjia to watch the boat at the pier with dark circles under his eyes.

People who participated in the design and production of warships were all there at the pier. Wu Yaya stood there. Li Congjia was stunned when he saw it. He felt that there were a lot of people on the coast. According to the number reported, there were about 1000 people. people around.

Li Congjia thinks that no matter how sophisticated and tall the ship is, it won't be able to use so many people, right?As a result, when he saw the boat parked in the harbor, he couldn't help but gasped.