prosperous national teacher

"What do you want to do so much, he begged you, not you begging him." Su Yi handed Mu Yan a bunch of grilled squid, and said, "After the imperial examination, there will be no shortage of talents."

At least not now.

Many talented people from the Shu family were excluded from the promotion system of the entire imperial court, and only those who attached to the aristocratic family could hope to get ahead.But not to mention how rare this opportunity is, many arrogant scholars disdain to cling to the powerful.

Now the common people have accumulated a large number of talents, and in a short period of time, the talents selected by the imperial examination are definitely enough.

At the beginning of a system, it always shows its positive side.The imperial examination system does have shortcomings, and it will gradually become decadent, but that will happen after many generations.

Su Yi took a bite of the squid, and said, "I thought that even a little bit of self-confident scholars would try the imperial examination. I don't know if Li Ai is holding a wait-and-see attitude, or he is not confident in himself. Of course, there may be other difficulties. But In any case, he is the one who should be troubled, not you."

Mu Yan sighed: "What Kang Le said is very true, I was overthinking it. Well, this is really delicious."

"That's right, that's right, right? Don't think about other things when the food is your priority." Su Yi shook his head and said, he didn't look like an expert at all.

But when other people see him like this, they might think that his gluttonous appearance is also a superior demeanor.

Su Yi told Mu Yan not to worry, but he didn't expect to meet Li Ai soon.

Mu Yan has just taken office and is busy with many things.Su Yi is not idle, running around in various Zhuangzi every day.Although Zhuangzi is in charge of planting corn and fruit trees, and there are officials specially transferred from Si Nongqing who are dispatched by Su Yi to be busy-the emperor knows that Su Yi brings out new grain seeds, so of course people have to let them stay. Su Yi's side, in case Su Yi is "blessed to the soul" one day, and comes out with new food.

This official is also a person trusted by the emperor, so Su Yi can show one or two of his "extraordinary" in front of him.

However, the work of crops has been done, but the work of the saltworks has not been done.

Only Su Yi knows how to make this novelty in the salt field. Now that large pieces of land are bought or received, Su Yi will start the preliminary preparations.

Sun-drying salt requires a flat beach, and it also has high requirements on the slope, so the Qingzhou coast may not be suitable.It will naturally require a lot of manpower and material resources to make it suitable.For example, manpower leveling the ground, laying stone slabs, building canals, etc.

The labor required for this can be imagined.

If other people say this request, Mu Yan will definitely reprimand it as a waste of money and people, which is not advisable.But when Su Yi said it, the others followed suit without hesitation.

The people from Zhuangzi in Qingzhou were a little hesitant, but as soon as he showed hesitation, Mu Yan's servants from the capital responded with a contemptuous smile.

"This is a celestial master." The servant who followed Mu Yan in Jingzhong said, "Don't say this a second time. Regarding the celestial master, don't talk about it, even if it is in your heart, it is best not to have the slightest suspicion. "

The new stewards of Qingzhou Zhuangzi are servants brought by Mu Yan from Beijing. After they knew that someone in Zhuangzi questioned the celestial master, they immediately summoned people and reprimanded them very severely.

In fact, as a servant of this era, even if the one who makes the decision is not the omnipotent Su Tianshi, or the master makes a random decision, then the servant should not question it, otherwise it is disloyal.

Most of Zhuangzi's subordinates signed the contract of selling themselves, and their freedom and even their lives belonged to their masters.The master makes the decision, how can there be servants gossiping below?

However, it is impossible for Su Yi to make such a decision without taking these into consideration.

At this time, it is time to sacrifice the big killer, cement.

There happened to be raw materials for making cement nearby.If not, Su Yi might also consider it.Of course, it doesn't mean that he will stop drying the salt, but he will hand over the method of drying the salt to His Majesty the Emperor, instead of doing it himself.

If you work together with Mu Yan, you can earn a little extra money.If you only hand in the method, you can only get rewards, and most of the rewards cannot be fulfilled.

But if you don't have the ability, you can only think about the extra small money.

With cement, Su Yi designed many water diversion facilities. Apart from the lack of post-industrial revolution machinery, such as steam engines and internal combustion engines, Su Yi's current salt drying equipment has reached the highest level of manpower machinery.

If the first industrial revolution started with the spinning jenny, his set of machinery for drying salt is definitely more technical than the spinning jenny.Using wind power, manpower, animal power, etc., this set of salt drying equipment can achieve the effect of pumping water instead of water diversion. As for salt drying, purification, etc., it goes without saying.

When Su Yi prepared the cement and the experiment was successful, no one questioned Su Yi anymore.

Within a few days, a huge stone slab, even a bluestone with a hardness comparable to that of natural stone, is this something that can be achieved by manpower?This is nothing short of miraculous.

When Su Yi's hand leaked out, Mu Yan was startled.He hurriedly asked Su Yi to present this prescription to His Majesty the Emperor.The advent of this thing called "cement" has played a huge role, especially in national defense.

How much manpower, material resources and time can be saved in building roads, building cities, etc.?

Su Yi slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, yes, I was going to tell His Majesty about this, but I forgot."

"...What does it mean to forget the result." Mu Yan said weakly, "Such an important matter..."

Although salt is also very important, in terms of urgency, the matter of cement is more urgent.Especially in the tense frontier wars, the role of cement is too great.

"Oh, let me sum it up and send it to Your Majesty." Su Yi said, "There are many formulas for this cement, and different formulas have different functions."

Mu Yan said: "Is there anything different?"

Su Yi said: "Of course. By the way, the cement with special formula can also be used in boilers for steelmaking."

Mu Yan's expression was complicated: "I think His Majesty will specially order to scold you."

Only with higher temperature can better steel be smelted.The current bottleneck in steel smelting is that blast furnaces made of ordinary materials cannot withstand high temperatures.Although the craftsmen also found a way, due to the scarcity of materials, there is no way to build on a large scale, so His Majesty's plan to equip every soldier with the best weapons is temporarily impossible to realize.

Of course, other slightly inferior weapons made of steel are much better than the previous weapons.

Su Yi thought about it, and it really happened.Why didn't he think of this sooner?Alas, the Emperor's father will be furious for wasting so much money and time, right?Although he will definitely not do anything to him, but he will definitely be yelled at. Maybe when he returns to the capital, he will be knocked on the head, kicked on his ass, and deducted from him.

"What should I do? I just forgot..." Su Yi said pitifully, "He Qing, you must have a solution, right?"

Mu Yan was very angry and funny, so the celestial master who agreed to do so has no plans?This stupid look, is it a plan?It's all about thinking it out, right?

Su Yi really thought about it as soon as he came out, so he didn't think about the relationship between cement and steelmaking at all.

"You go to summarize the cement formula, and I'll write the notes." Even though he was speechless, Mu Yan would definitely not ignore Su Yi, even though he knew that His Majesty the Emperor would not really punish Su Yi.

"Okay, okay." Su Yi nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, "Anyway, I'm not good at writing, so your majesty won't find it strange if you write the notes for me."

Mu Yan once again felt powerless.

He used to think that Su Yi was better than him in literary talent, so after some talk, he was willing to bow down, and he was able to come up with clever words and sentences at his fingertips.

But now he is also confused, whether Su Yi is really as he said, he has no literary skills, and what he presents are just the works and thoughts of others in the parallel world.

Mu Yan already believed in the parallel world that Su Yi said, so it is really possible.

So Su Yi is not impatient, but really not good at it?Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Su Yi is good at too many things, and he is not good at some, which makes him more like a human being.

If this is known to others, it may be unacceptable.No one is perfect, but is Master Su a human? (Su Yi: Who are you scolding...)

But from Mu Yan's point of view, of course he will not be disappointed because of this, but he is very helpless, thinking that there is one more place that Su Yi needs to cover up.

After Su Yi threw the problem to Mu Yan, he thoughtlessly summed up the cement recipe.

If even Mu Yan can't "cheat" the emperor's father, then Su Yi should wait to be kicked by the emperor's head and ass.

Su Yi locked himself in the house for several days to summarize those cement recipes and write down their usage in as much detail as possible.Even if I live in a house like Suyi, I am bored and want to go out to relax.

When he saw Li Ai, he was relaxing.

Speaking of relaxing and shopping, Su Yi was looking forward to it at first.

After Su Yi regained his memory, he became more confident, and he would not stay in the house every day, lest something bad happen to him.

Back in ancient times, it is estimated that everyone would be interested in small merchants and peddlers in ancient times.In addition to freshness, there are many people's psychology, which is probably related to the propaganda of some people in modern times.

Various quality problems in modern times, as well as large-scale industrial production, make people feel that "people's hearts are not ancient", and they always think that people in the past, especially people in ancient times, were very simple.The things they sell are all real, not even a little fake.

Later, it developed into that manual production must be better than machine production, whether it is food or other things.

A kid from a rich family like Su Yi, who is not short of money, at least food and clothing, and never has to worry about the price, naturally knows that at least the latter one must be fake.

The handmade ones are only of higher quality. In terms of quality, it is certainly no better than mechanized ones with the same raw materials.Except for the fields where machinery cannot replace manual work.

Such as artistry and creativity.

Therefore, like jewelry and clothing, the quality of handwork is definitely higher than that of machines, but that "quality" is reflected in the artistry.

Another example is food. Machines are definitely inferior to chefs, because deliciousness is more often a subjective thing, and machines can only quantify but not qualitatively, let alone create.

But things with a fixed formula are not necessarily so.

Especially food, when it is manufactured artificially, it will inevitably bring some impurities and even pollutants into it.Especially in the past when there was no concept of food safety at all, those people did not wear masks or gloves, and the saliva from breathing and sweat stains on their hands were all mixed into the food.Even when making some food, I still use my feet... well, athlete's foot or something.

Therefore, many food problems exposed in modern times are all small manual workshops.In the past, they were all small handicraft workshops.

However, although Su Yi is not superstitious about handwork, he also believes in the simpler sayings of the ancients.Because there is less temptation, right?Because the degree of commercialization is not high, right?

But after shopping in the capital for the first time, Su Yi was severely slapped in the face.

When he went shopping by himself for the first time, Mu Yan told Su Yi not to buy casually from street vendors, especially food, never to enter it.If you want to eat anything, go to the big restaurant to eat.

But can shopping without eating street stalls be called shopping?Although the taste may not be good, but it is a sentiment.

Su Yi believes that Mu Yan's reminder is a kind of rich man's conceit and hypocrisy.

You know, the delicious food comes from the fly restaurants on the street.

Then, Su Yi was taught to be a man.

He ate all kinds of strange things and saw all kinds of amazing counterfeit and shoddy products.

The roast duck was fake, the bun meat was sick pork, and the straw sandals were made of paper. Su Yi felt that he was about to become a fake.

This time, he went shopping and ate and drank recklessly, and it ended with Su Yi having a full day of diarrhea.

Only then did he know that the people who go to hell are not old.The society attaches great importance to quality and safety issues, which is a higher demand after the basic needs are met.And only the constraints of the legal system can make people on the right path.

Rely on human consciousness?Go to hell!

It's not that there are no real things on the street, but there are a lot of fish and dragons, and no one can tell what they bought.Moreover, the punishment for selling counterfeit goods only lies in the customer's anger and the punishment you make after being discovered, and the government doesn't care.

Moreover, the real goods sold on the street are also unacceptable to Su Yi.For example, the steamed stuffed bun is the well-known conscience steamed stuffed bun.Baozi meat is real meat!

As for what kind of sick pork and expired pork, for ordinary people, it is not bad to be able to buy meat, what are these?Their stomachs are also strong enough.

Just like in modern society, there are still old people who put the food rotten and continue to eat, and even those who are dumped into the trash can by their children and grandchildren still have to take it out and continue to eat.In their eyes, that is a waste, those are edible.

The material deprivation of the common people in ancient times is unimaginable to modern people.

The only thing that makes Su Yi more gratified is that those small handicrafts are still good.For example, small wood carvings, after all, those raw materials are worthless.

Because after that heavy blow, Su Yi's three views were overturned, and he lost much interest in shopping.And I seldom go shopping.

If you want to buy something, you can only buy it in more prestigious shops. After all, this kind of place is sold to rich people, and if the rich people find out that they are selling fake goods, these shops will die miserably.

This is the case at the feet of the emperor, and there is no need to talk about the rest.Therefore, after Su Yi came to Qingzhou, he never went shopping in the streets.I was really tired of staying in the house today, so I just went out for a walk this time.

Gaining wisdom by eating a pit, Su Yi didn't come out this time to shop at roadside stalls, but shops.He specifically asked Mu Yan for a guide who was familiar with the local area.It's just that the guide turned out to be from the Qi family, which surprised Su Yi.

Although he persuaded Mu Yan to be calm, Mu Yan had always had that attitude towards the good-tempered Qi Yun before, so I wondered what the Qi family's attitude was.Su Yi only thought that Mu Yan had calmed down his dissatisfaction with the Qi family, at most it was because the relationship with the Qi family was not so cold, but the difference between coldness and partners is quite big.

Since Mu Yan can hand over the honor of going shopping with Su Yi to the Qi family, it is obvious that the Qi family is very close.

The person who accompanied Su Yi was a younger brother of Qi Yun's clan. Speaking of it, this person was closer to Mu Yan's relatives, and he was the concubine of Mu Yan's aunt's family.Since he is a concubine, he has relatives and has nothing to do with blood, and the relationship between Mu Yan and his aunt is very tense. Even though his aunt has died and left no children, it is still very important for the direct descendants of the Qi family to meet Mu Yan. Awkward.

The Qi family was very flattered that Mu Yan could show such kindness.

They are not fools, of course they will happily accept the bouquet of friendship, and strive to bury the bouquet in the ground to grow a living, it is best to plant a sea of ​​flowers.

Now let alone go shopping with Su Yi, even with any guest named by Mu Yan, the Qi family will do their best and will not feel embarrassed at all.

They were flattered to be accompanied by Su Yi.

The name of the Qi family who came to accompany Su Yi to go shopping was Qi Chi, whose name was Chi Zhi.When Qi Chi accepted this important task, he was so excited that he didn't sleep well.He was repeatedly told by his family that he must accompany Su Yi well, and gave him a lot of money to meet all of Su Yi's shopping needs. If the money for the purchase was not enough, he could directly credit the Qi family in the name of the Qi family. There is still some face.

If he could get a few words from Su Tianshi, Qi Chi would definitely benefit from it.

Of course, Su Tianshi is not such an easy-to-please person, even if he can go shopping with Su Tianshi and admire Su Tianshi's appearance, it is enough to make people feel relaxed and happy.

With Qi Yun's praise, and the fact that the Qi family knew Mu Yan very well, it can be said that among the noble families in Qingzhou, they believed in the magic of Su Yi the most.

Because of being instilled with a glorious image of Su Yi, when Qi Chi saw Su Yi, he felt that Su Yi's hair was shining with mysterious brilliance, and every word and smile contained the true meaning of the world, but he was too ignorant to comprehend it.

And Su Yi saw a well-dressed up... Well, it was really well-dressed, this young man with powder on his face and two balls of rouge was really well-dressed.

As for that look of admiring the holy relic, Su Yi... Su Yi is already used to it.

In the capital, many aristocratic families had this look when they saw him.

Under Qi Chi's leadership, Su Yi began to sweep up the more famous shops on the street, and he didn't buy anything delicious and interesting...he didn't buy it.

Su Yi is very picky now, basically not interested in anyone.When he goes shopping, he just looks at the customs and customs here.However, he didn't find anything that was relatively novel. As for the others, the ones used at home were much better than those sold in stores, and he didn't want to spend money at all.

Not to mention Su Yi, the local aristocrats, most of the food and clothing expenses are solved by themselves, and they rarely buy from outside.Even if you buy it, you sign an agreement with the store and "customize" it directly.

They go shopping, just to see something strange.Of course, if you find something good, it can be regarded as a more interesting entertainment.

However, Su Yi didn't know much about antiques, especially calligraphy and painting, and he didn't have much aesthetic sense about handicrafts.So he felt the lack of interest, for granted.

And Qi Chi continued to look at Su Yi with adoring eyes, thinking that Su Tianshi is really a master, even in the hustle and bustle of the world, he is completely unmoved by the world.Su Tianshi seems to be immersed in the mundane world, but he is proudly outside the mundane.This is the real master. The master does not live in the deep mountains and wild forests, pretending to be refined, but no matter how flashy the world is, he is still a clean stream.

Su Yi felt a bit of a headache when he saw Qi Chi whose eyes were getting hotter and hotter, and who looked more and more like a star chaser.

Is this guy out of his mind?Why is your attitude so strange?Although he can understand others' admiration for him, he didn't do anything along the way, right?How did it deepen the other party's admiration?

Just when Su Yi was wondering if he had unintentionally exposed some kind of bully... no, when he was arrogant, a burst of noise brought him back to his senses.

He was strolling to a shop to buy calligraphy, painting and related handicrafts, and the shopkeeper was arguing with a man who looked like a literati.

Su Yi is a person who likes to watch the excitement occasionally, so he moved his steps quietly, wanting to hear more clearly.

The argument between the literati and the shopkeeper quickly escalated, and the shopkeeper wanted to call someone to drive the literati away.

The literati sneered and said, "You ask me why I know it's fake? Because the person who wrote the inscription on this painting is my teacher! How could I not recognize my teacher's calligraphy and painting!"

"Are you a student of Layman Xiaolin?" The shopkeeper looked at the literati suspiciously, and said, "Layman Xiaolin does have a student named Li Fangqiong."

The literati snorted coldly: "I am that Li Fangqiong!"

Su Yi looked at the literati in surprise.I heard Mu Yan talk about Li Ai before, but I met him today?Is this fate?

The shopkeeper hesitated.As the shopkeeper of such a big store, he was very well informed, so he naturally knew that Li Ai had indeed come here.This person doesn't look like a fake.

"If it's Li Fangqiong, the old man was rude before." The shopkeeper immediately restrained his anger, and bowed to each person in front of him.His attitude made others evaluate him a lot, and even Li Ai softened his attitude for a moment, "It's just that this painting was sold to the little old man by the son of Layman Xiaolin, who also saw the calligraphy and painting of Layman Xiaolin as a guarantee. ..."

Li Ai frowned, and said, "Hu Fei sold it to you? Humph, then I'm more sure it's a fake. The teacher's reputation for the rest of his life rests on this unfilial son."

The shopkeeper hesitated and said, "The little old man also spent a lot of money to buy this calligraphy and painting. If it is true, can you tell the little old man the evidence?"

Li Ai said expressionlessly: "The proof is that I copied this painting."