Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Zhao Yiyi was overjoyed: "Really?"

Xia Yuqi really built the steamship so quickly?

He took out a roll of drawings from his sleeve: "It's here."

Zhao Yiyi took the drawing and unfolded it to see a large ship. There was no mast or sail on the deck, but a tall chimney and several pairs of huge wheels on the side of the hull.

Xia Yuqi pointed at the hull of the boat: "There is a boiler for boiling water inside. Fill it with charcoal and cold water. After boiling, the hot air will drive the giant wheel to rotate, and the boat can start."

Pointing to the wheels again, he said, "These wheels are all made of iron, and a lot of iron has to be scrapped. But iron is not necessary. If wooden wheels are used, the hull should not be too heavy, otherwise it will be easily broken."

Zhao Yiyi nodded: "Okay!"

The military defense and economic life of the Song Dynasty were extremely dependent on inland river shipping. The vicinity of Chengliang, the capital of Biandu, with a population of more than one million, could not produce enough food to feed such a large population.

Grain from the Huaihe River enters the Huai River and enters Beijing via the Bian River; grain from the Shaanxi Province enters the Yellow River and enters Beijing via the Bian River; grain from the Shaanxi and Cai River enters the Cai River and then reaches Beijing via the Bian River; Zhanghe Dajing.

Without the four-way water transportation, there would be no Tokyo Menghua, a world of luxury and luxury.

The large cargo ships traveling between east, west, north and south on the inland waterway shipping network were the true lifeblood of the Song Dynasty.

If the canal is cut off, the emperor will starve to death in Tokyo with 100 million people.

In the transportation of bulk cargo, the advantages of steam ships over ordinary ships are more than 01:30 points.

A steam ship can sail by burning coal, and it does not depend much on the direction of water flow and wind, and its speed is several times faster than a sailboat or a boat pulled by a tracker.

In the transportation industry, speed is life.

The power of the steamship is large, and the hull can be built larger, which can transport more goods at a time.

Zhao Yiyi closed the drawing and patted Xia Yuqi on the shoulder: "Senior Xia, I really didn't misread you."

He was so happy that he didn't know what to do - if he wanted to promote the economy, he must first develop transportation.As soon as Xia Yuqi's steam ship came out, the efficiency of national transportation could be greatly improved.

More convenient transportation equals more frequent trade exchanges equals more developed economy equals more commercial taxes.

His treasury can finally be filled again!

Zhao Yiyi said: "If this ship is really made, you are worthy of being a Duke."

Xia Yuqi hurriedly said: "The officials have promoted me, I dare not be an old man."

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said: "There is nothing I dare not do. Senior Xia has benefited all people, and I am worried that I will wrong senior with the title of Duke."

Xia Yuqi insisted: "Officials, you are really old. You are a rough man, how dare you think about being the Duke of the country. It is a great fortune to be able to serve the officials as you are now."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Don't say that. I am lucky to have Senior Xia's help."

With the joining of you, an incomparable genius, I can hope to run from an agricultural society to an industrial society in this life.I should be grateful to you.

Let alone a duke, even if you want to be a prince, I can seriously consider whether I can help Emperor Taizong accept your son.

Xia Yuqi said: "The officials don't need to praise the old man anymore. I really don't dare to be an old man. If the official family has great grace from the emperor, why not give the old man a favor."

Zhao Yiyi asked, "What grace?"

Xia Yuqi sighed: "It's my unbelievable apprentice!"

Zhao Yiyi said in his heart, oh, you said Bai Yutang.

He was quite impressed with this Bai Yutang.After all, in order to lure Xia Yuqi out to crack the Sky Tower, he spread rumors that this building was built by Xia Yuqi to select the closed disciples.

In the end, the building was really broken down by Bai Yutang, Xia Yuqi's closed disciple. It must be a coincidence.

Bai Yutang was supposed to die in the copper net formation of the Sky Tower, but by accident, he was the one who broke the Sky Tower.

Things are unpredictable.

Zhao benefited with emotion.

When Xia Yuqi went to Beijing, he also brought Bai Yutang with him, saying that his brother was going to send him to Qingbei University to study with Yan Shu.

Zhao Yiyi made the best use of what he had, and even encouraged Yan Shu to exploit child labor, and asked Bai Yutang to be an assistant teacher of martial arts to give physical fitness classes to the students of Qingbei University.

I don't know how the fitness class is going.

I don't know what grace Xia Yuqi wants to ask for his apprentice.

Xia Yuqi said: "This apprentice, this old man, is good everywhere, but his temper is too arrogant, he thinks he is capable and capable, and looks down on the heroes of the world. With his temperament, this old man is really worried."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Young people, it's all like this."

He gave an example: "For example, the eldest son of the Nanqing Palace, who is only seventeen this year, is four years older than Lingtu. Because the marriage is not going well, he has been a bit cynical recently. Last time I had a big banquet in the palace, he didn't Come on, tell me you're sick. Who doesn't know that he was alive and well the day before, so he just didn't want to see me. I don't blame him. After a few years, when he gets older, he will naturally be more stable."

Xia Yuqi sighed: "How can he compare with His Royal Highness Shizi. His Royal Highness is a nobleman who will guarantee a throne in the future, but now he is young and frivolous. What does he have? He dares to look at no one. He was still in front of Fan before. Xiang and Mr. Bao got into a fight with Nan Xia, and there was a lot of trouble in Fang Jiewa."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao started fighting?

Zhao Yiyi was stunned for a moment, thinking that I haven't had time to give Zhan Zhao the nickname "Royal Cat", and you haven't made your debut with your four older brothers in the "Five Rats of the Sky Island"—your fourth brother Jiang Ping is working for me What—why are you two fighting again?

After thinking about it, maybe this is the Jianghu people. The nature of the Jianghu people is to fight everywhere. I didn’t see that the emphasis in Xia Yu’s strange story was "in front of Fan Xiang and Mr. Bao" instead of "Bai Yutang and Nan Xia Got into a fight"?

If this fight had started in private, Xia Yuqi might still be shouting for Bai Yutang.

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said: "Didn't you scare Fan Xiang? If you frightened Fan Xiang, I will never forgive you."

Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao have gotten to know each other well, and their immunity to fights between Jianghu people should have improved a bit.Fan Zhongyan has never seen such a posture before, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao are both first-class masters, and when these two move their hands, there is no shortage of flying sand and stones, and it will be terrible to frighten Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan was terrified, where else would he find such a good prime minister!

Xia Yuqi said: "Master Fan Xiang has a lot of people, so he didn't care about the two of them. It's just that Yutang's temperament is really inappropriate. If he doesn't temper himself, he may cause disaster in the future."

Zhao Yiyi nodded: "It's good that I didn't scare Fan Xiang."

Xia Yuqi said: "I want to ask Yutang for a favor. I'm 62 this year, I'm old, and I don't have so much energy to restrain my disciples like before. In addition, I've been a little busy recently, and it's even more difficult to discipline Yutang. Although he is currently studying with Principal Yan, Principal Yan is not a member of the Jianghu after all, so it may be difficult to suppress him. If...if he..."

Zhao Yiyi hurriedly said: "Senior, you don't need to say anything, I understand. I believe that senior's apprentices are kind-hearted by nature, and they will definitely not do anything outrageous."

Xia Yuqi said: "If he really did something like that, I would kill him with one knife, how dare I ask the officials for mercy! Of course he can't do anything that would endanger the country, but it's not certain that he won't do anything else. things."

Zhao Yiyi thought, other things, do you mean killing people and writing poems in the forbidden palace?

Although the person who should be killed was killed, when you woke up, you suddenly found a poem written in blood on the wall of your house, and there was a corpse with its head cut off next to it.

This situation, even an ordinary person still feels creepy, let alone an emperor?

Xia Yuqi said: "Yutang's nature is not bad, but he is too presumptuous. I have no fear, and I don't have the energy to teach him anymore. If he is really in the future... I just hope that the officials will see it for the sake of the old man's dedication to the country. Let him live!"

Zhao Yiyi smiled and sighed: "Senior, we have been working together for so long, do you think I am a person who likes to kill people?"

Of course he had killed people before, how could an emperor not kill people?Every year, the number of death-row prisoners whose death row is executed by his imperial pen is too high to count.

But he never kills indiscriminately, because human life is valuable, and killing a person is equivalent to abandoning all the value of this person.So unless the person is truly a heinous person, or killing him would bring much greater value than keeping him alive, he would kill.

And Bai Yutang is Xia Yuqi's closed disciple, and Xia Yuqi has a deep affection for him.Just because of this relationship, even if Bai Yutang really came to his bedroom to kill someone, Zhao Yiyi would have to spare his life.

If he really killed Bai Yutang, if Xia Yuqi couldn't take the blow and resigned, where would he find someone to build a steam engine for him?

So Zhao Yiyi said: "Poor parents all over the world! I can understand senior's feelings. I assure senior that unless Bai Yutang really did something heinous, otherwise, I will try my best to protect him."

Heinous is not an adjective, it is a noun, specifically referring to the ten kinds of crimes that cannot be pardoned—that is, the kind that even the amnesty of the world cannot forgive you.

The first is rebellion, the second is treason, the third is treason, the fourth is surrender, the fifth is evil, the sixth is unethical, the seventh is disrespect, the eighth is unfilial, the ninth is unrighteous, and the tenth is civil strife.

Zhao Yiyi calculated the total and found that Bai Yutang was really not easy to commit the above ten crimes.

Or rather, it is not easy for any individual to commit these ten evils.

Otherwise, this would not be called "heinous".

Since Zhao Yiyi crossed over, the only ten heinous crimes he has witnessed with his own eyes is the time when the king of Xiangyang robbed Song Zhenzong's tomb.

Excavating the imperial mausoleum is a conspiracy. The principal culprit, King Xiangyang, died, and the accomplice, Huo Fang, died quietly in the dungeon. Xia Song, who took a black pot from the mountain tomb, died in office. Xia Song's former boss, Lai Guogong Kou Zhun resigned.

The power of the ten heinous crimes can be seen.

Except for these ten major crimes that extremely threaten the emperor's rule and feudal ethics, Zhao Yiyi, as the king of a country, has the authority to pardon the rest of the crimes.

He did not write a bad check to Xia Yuqi.

Xia Yuqi's contribution to him is enough to offset his forgiveness for the crimes that Bai Yutang may commit in the future.

Xia Yuqi said: "Chen, I thank the officials."

Zhao Yiyi said: "It's nothing. Which parent doesn't plan for their children?"

Just like himself, isn't he thinking about how to promote Zhao Xu, who can't even speak, to the position of crown prince?

and……

He opened Xia Yuqi's attribute panel and watched his loyalty value slowly climb from 87 to 98.

Well, it's worth it.

"That's right, officer."

Xia Yuqi seemed to have thought of something: "How many empresses are there in the official harem?"

Zhao Yiyi was slightly stunned: "Why do you ask this all of a sudden? I only have one queen."

Xia Yuqi said: "If the officials want to make some jewelry for the empress, you can tell me. It doesn't take much effort to make some small jewelry, and I am much better than Ouchi craftsmen."

Zhao Yiyi was puzzled: "Uh, I thanked senior for the kindness of the queen. But I didn't mean it, and the queen doesn't like gold and jade jewelry very much."

In fact, he doesn't know what Kou Yaoniang likes, but if she likes something, she can go to the inner treasury to collect it herself. Zhao Yiyi has never withheld the queen's flowers.

Xia Yuqi said: "Fan Xiang asked me to see a golden pearl ball from the inner palace before. The workmanship is quite rough, it is not beautiful, and it is inconvenient to wear. It is a pity that it is a good pearl. If the government wants to make such a pearl in the future Jewelry, you can leave it to the old man to make."

Pearl gold pills?

Zhao Yiyi frowned slightly.

It should be Concubine Li's golden pill.

He said: "Understood. When I go back and ask the Queen, if she wants it, Senior Lao will help."

Xia Yuqi resigned happily, and Zhao Yiyi ate a few mouthfuls of steamed cakes, drank a bowl of hot mutton soup, and sighed comfortably: "The mutton soup in the dining room is getting better and better. How nice it would be to lie in the house and drink a bowl of it on a snowy night in winter."

Liu Endao: "Gentlemen don't eat unseasonable food. If you want to drink lamb soup at night, do you want the reputation of the official family to be hard and simple?"

Zhao Yiyi curled his lips: "Yeah, you're the only one who will spoil the fun. Why don't you tell the dining room that you want to drink it yourself, and cover up your reputation for me?"

Liu Endao: "It's also possible. It's just that I never drink mutton soup. I suddenly go to the dining room and ask for mutton soup. Anyone with a discerning eye knows it's tricky."

Zhao Yiyi rolled his eyes.

Well, drinking a bowl of mutton soup requires intrigue, and he is also very troubled by being the emperor.

When will production be truly developed, so that people all over the world can have enough food and clothing, and can eat meat every day.He couldn't believe that when he drank a bowl of mutton soup at night, people would make irresponsible remarks.

Zhao Yiyi sighed.

A long way to go.

At least until that day, he wouldn't even think about drinking soup in the evening.

In Fan's residence, Concubine Li was wearing the real red sleeves of the second-rank Prime Minister's wife and a crown of eight flower hairpins, silently looking at herself in the mirror.

This shouldn't be her, she shouldn't be wearing the clothes of a minister's wife, waiting to meet the princess.

She should be a queen, a queen mother, wearing a crown of nine dragons and four phoenixes, and is worshiped by all officials.

This should be her!She is the emperor's mother!

Li Shi said softly at the side: "Your Majesty, it's time to leave."

Concubine Li came back to her senses: "Okay."

He stretched out his hand and asked Li Shi to support her, and walked out of the inner room slowly.

Mrs. Li whispered in her ear: "From now on, your empress is Fan Xiang's wife, Miss Fan's family, Fan Lingyi's biological mother. Miss Fan is going to marry Di Qing, the nephew of the Eighth Princess Di, and the privy envoy Di Qing will be his wife. Princess Di To add makeup to Miss Fan, the empress will take Miss Fan to Nanqing Palace to meet Princess Di."

Concubine Li tightly grasped Li Shi's arm, her nails were almost embedded in the flesh.Li Shi was in pain, but she didn't dare to cry out, so she had to grit her teeth and endure.

Concubine Li's nose was sore, her eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth: "Good! Good! Bengong... Bengong..."

Seeing that she was about to walk in front of people, Mrs. Li hurriedly said: "Madam, be careful."

Concubine Li straightened her chest, turned a screen, and saw Fan Lingyi waiting outside the screen.

Ever since Fan Lingyi learned that she was going to marry the young general who had glimpsed in the street that day, she was in high spirits every time she had a happy event, and she stopped writing poems that hurt the spring and autumn. She ate well and slept soundly every day, and she grew tall With one end, it is as pretty as a new green bamboo.

Now that I'm going to visit my sweetheart's aunt's house, her face is like a peach blossom, and her eyes are full of affection.

Concubine Li looked away.

The light of the young woman almost hurt her eyes.

Fan Zhongyan stood beside her and whispered to her: "Lingyi, today you and this lady are going to Nanqing Palace."

Fan Lingyi said: "Why didn't mother go with me?"

Fan Zhongyan said: "You only think of her as your mother."

Fan Lingyi said: "My daughter knows."

She is the prime minister's daughter, and she knows that some things should not be investigated.

"Mother, let's go. The carriage is already waiting outside the door."

Concubine Li handed her arm to Fan Lingyi, and Fan Lingyi helped her walk to the carriage.

Watching the carriage go away, Fan Zhongyan turned to Li Shi and said, "Mrs. Bao, I will arrange the carriage to take you back."

Mrs. Li shook her head: "Don't bother Mr. Fan. I am here to wait for Zhan Yishi and Miss Fan to return from Nanqing Palace, and then go back with him."

Zhan Zhao rode a horse and escorted Concubine Li and Fan Lingyi to Nanqing Palace.After Princess Di and Concubine Li recognized each other, she would naturally keep her.The Nanqing Palace is heavily guarded, Zhan Zhao no longer needs to guard the Li family, and can just come back with Fan Lingyi.

These days I have suffered a lot from Zhan Yishi, Li smiled bitterly in her heart, when he comes back, I have to thank him very much.

And Mr. Gongsun, who is still visiting his teacher, can finally come back from Qingbei University.

She stroked her arm.

Concubine Li has not lived in a pampered life these years, and her nails have not grown long. This scratch did not make her bleed, but it hurt a little, and it was probably swollen.

Li sighed lightly.

I hope that Concubine Li can successfully recognize the official mother and son, and really go back to be her queen mother from now on.

Concubine Di was leaning on the bed and taking a nap when a little maid came softly and called out, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

Princess Di slowly opened her eyes: "Madam Fan and Miss Fan are here?"

Little Gong'e said: "Here we are, we are waiting for your empress."

Princess Di said: "Understood. Please wait a moment."

She took a nap for a while, her clothes were a little disheveled, it was not easy to meet guests, and she had to tidy up before going out.

Went out to meet the mother and daughter of the Fan family, and gave Miss Fan the jewelry given by the empress...

She sighed slightly.

Empress Empress.

This is not the empress's meaning, this is clearly the emperor's meaning.

The emperor bestowed these jewelry on Miss Fan's family.

In fact, what is the relationship between Miss Fan's family and the emperor, but the husband she is going to marry is the emperor's cousin.

Di Qing is the emperor's cousin and the nephew of the Eighth Princess of the Nanqing Palace.

Thinking that her husband is still insisting on advising the emperor, he asked him to remove Di Qing from the post of privy envoy.

Princess Di's head hurt even more.

All these piles, one by one, what are they all about.

Ugh.

She doesn't care anymore, let them make trouble.

Concubine Di asked Gong'e to arrange her clothes and clothes, and went out of the inner room to meet the mother and daughter of the Fan family.

The mother and daughter of the Fan family were sitting idle in the outer room, when they saw Princess Di coming in, the younger ones hurriedly stood up, but the older ones sat upright, motionless like a mountain.

Fan Lingyi bowed to Princess Di: "My daughter has seen your mother."

Princess Di hurriedly stepped forward to hold her hand: "Don't be too polite."

She looked at her carefully: "I haven't seen you for a few days, and you have grown taller."

Princess Di had met Fan Lingyi before, and she was very satisfied with this dignified and elegant niece and daughter-in-law.

Fan Lingyi blushed and lowered her head.

Princess Di turned to look at the person who was still sitting in the seat: "Madam Fan?"

She was suddenly stunned.

This person is not Mrs. Fan!

Princess Di had met Fan Lingyi, and naturally she had also met Mrs. Fan.

Although she had only met a few times, she was deeply impressed by Mrs. Fan's noble demeanor.

It is precisely because she is impressed by Mrs. Fan's bearing that she loves Fan Lingyi more and more.

If there is a mother, there must be a daughter.

If it wasn't for the fact that the emperor had granted Fan Lingyi and Di Qing a marriage, and the Fan family was the prime minister's family, and it was difficult for their clan's family to marry them, she would have wanted to marry Fan Lingyi for Zhao Yunxi.

And the person sitting on the chair now is definitely not Mrs. Fan!

She was wearing an eight hairpin crown and a red sleeved gown, her face and figure were covered by a beautiful dress, and the eunuchs of the Eight Princes' Mansion along the way did not recognize that she was not Mrs. Fan who had visited several times.

Princess Di took a step forward, protecting Fan Lingyi behind her, and shouted sharply: "Who are you? How dare you pretend to be the prime minister's wife and enter my palace! Come!"

The guards of the palace outside the door broke into the house when they heard the princess calling.Fan Lingyi screamed, and Princess Di hugged her in her arms: "Don't be afraid! Auntie will never let the thief hurt you!"

Although this person came in with Fan Lingyi, Princess Di believed that Fan Lingyi was not with her.Fan Lingyi is Fan Zhongyan's daughter, even if she doesn't believe in Fan Lingyi, she should trust the tutor of the Fan family.

Fan Xiang is a gentleman, and it is absolutely impossible for his daughter to collude with thieves to break into the palace.

The thief probably attacked Fan Lingyi's carriage, knocked Mrs. Fan unconscious, changed into her clothes, and forced Fan Lingyi to enter the house with her.

After being neighbors with two knight-errants for a period of time, Princess Di's imagination has grown a lot.

Fan Lingyi whispered: "... Auntie, she is not a thief. Father ordered me to enter the mansion with her, and said that she should only be my mother."

This aunt's call made her ears turn red - she hadn't married Di Qing yet, so she called her aunt first!

Princess Di looked down at her, full of doubts: "Your father asked you to come with her?"

Why did Fan Xiang ask someone to come to Nanqing Palace pretending to be his wife?

The woman pretending to be Mrs. Fan suddenly laughed: "Sister Di, I didn't expect that even you wouldn't recognize me."

Concubine Di looked at her in surprise—why does this voice sound so familiar?

Suddenly, she said in shock: "It's you—it's you!"