The ancient life of a master craftsman

As soon as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is over, the year is over.

In February, the temperature in Huaimu Village is still cold, but it is no longer as cold as in the severe winter. At the end of February, the mountains are gradually turning light green.

During the half month from the [-]th of the first lunar month to February, an interesting incident happened in the town, which was talked about by the common people for a long time as an after-dinner conversation.

Speaking of this matter, it has nothing to do with Li Enbai and the others, but has a little connection with Chen Yingcai and Zhang Shi.

But it was said that once Chen Yingcai flew to the branch, the white-eyed wolf became a phoenix man, and the book boys around him were all from his wife's natal family, so I felt aggrieved.

But this book boy was very knowledgeable, and he showed his loyalty as soon as he followed Chen Yingcai, and told Chen Yingcai everything that Mrs. Zhang asked him to do, and replied to Mrs. Zhang according to Chen Yingcai's request.

After coming and going, Chen Yingcai believed in his loyalty, and often brought the book boy with him when he went out to drink, just like two brothers.

This funny thing is done by the master and servant, what's the matter?

It turned out that Chen Yingcai was an alcoholic, but his capacity for alcohol was not very good. One day, he brought the book boy back from drinking outside, and both of them were very drunk.

Mrs. Zhang sent her maid, Hongying, to deliver hangover soup to Chen Yingcai. Who knew that Hongying would never come back. When Mrs. Zhang sent someone to look for her, they heard that Hongying had climbed into the uncle's bed and was making trouble now. What about cats?

Zhang Shi was as angry as a gourd, and took the maids and servants around her to catch the rape aggressively. When she kicked the door open, the scene made her wish she had never been here.

Her husband was sleeping on the ground like a dead pig. The book boy and Hongying were screaming heartily on the bed, their white flesh sticking together. Mrs. Zhang tied them up separately and threw them into the woodshed.

Originally, she wanted to deal with this matter quietly, but some people she saw that day were not strict with their mouths, and they accidentally leaked it out.

There are two most common ones. One is that Chen Yingcai is no longer a good person, so he can only let book boys and beauties do it for him to enjoy himself.Of course, everyone knows that this is a joke. I just gave birth to a child, and it is impossible to die so soon.

There is another kind, that is, the maidservant next to Mrs. Zhang is thinking of spring, and originally wanted to climb into Chen Yingcai's bed, but Chen Yingcai drank too much alcohol and didn't respond at all. something happened.

This kind of statement is the easiest to be accepted by everyone. Chen Yingcai is addicted to alcohol. There are too many people who know about it. Fortunately, he really drank too much, but he just slept to death. That's more.

In ancient times, there were few entertainment items, and everyone just had nothing to do, chatted their teeth, talked casually, and had fun, Hongying and Shutong were really miserable.

Hongying's body was broken, so she could only marry a book boy, and she was beaten ten boards by the Zhang family in a rage. Both of them were beaten, and they were unable to move, but they could only marry hastily. He was thrown by Mrs. Zhang to farm in the village in the countryside.

Without Hongying, Zhang's arm was broken, and Cuiying was also unreliable, so Zhang could only hold back and wait for the opportunity.She stared at Chen Yingcai's study, and next year's imperial examination must be better than Li Enbai's.

Li Enbai didn't know about these things, even if he knew, he would only say that Mrs. Zhang was blind. For someone like Chen Yingcai, if he could pass the examination as a scholar, he would be a blind cat and a rat, and smoke would rise from the ancestral grave.

Li Enbai is very busy now, and every day is very fulfilling, teaching, printing, instructing the production of colored pencils, researching new inventions, going around with Yunli, etc. A series of things have filled his life to the brim.

When he came out of the newly built factory on a certain day in February, he inadvertently saw the dots of light green all over the mountain, and suddenly realized that he had been in Huaimu Village for two full years.

Two years is neither long nor short, but it allowed him to complete the lifelong event in his life.

He smiled faintly, not the distant and polite smile that hung on his face in the past, but a relaxed, heartfelt smile.

After laughing, life goes on.

After experiencing the failure of the typewriter, he started a research that has a 90.00% chance of failure.

wooden plane.

It does not refer to the "Flying Bird" made by the Wright Brothers, but the Flying Magpie made by Luban.

"Flying Magpie", the earliest aircraft, according to later historical records, can fly for three days and three nights. It was invented by Lu Ban in order to be able to go home as soon as possible without delaying work on time the next day.

However, Mozi, another famous inventor at the time, vetoed it because he could not bear weight, so Lu Ban gave up his research on magpies.

This is a story recorded in "Mozi Luwen". The story is quite interesting, but the authenticity is unknown.

After the changes of the times, the specific information about Lu Ban's development of the flying magpie has been lost, including the wooden kite developed by Mozi, an aircraft that can only fly for a day but can carry weight, and the specific information has also been lost.

What Li Enbai has is just the restoration pictures of these two wooden planes in the system, which are the pictures that people of later generations assumed based on limited information.

But this is enough. The reason why magpies and wooden kites cannot fly for a long time is because they all use mechanical power.

Pure mechanical power naturally cannot make the aircraft fly for a long time, but it is already very remarkable to be able to fly for three days and three nights.

What Li Enbai has to do is to combine mechanical power and steam power so that the plane can carry about 5 people, and the flight time should reach more than 4 hours.

This was originally planned, but after testing, the steam power plant became the most troublesome part of the whole aircraft for Li Enbai.

It is estimated that the research time will be much longer.

In order to ensure the income of experience points, he first made the most restored flying magpie, and then combined the flying magpie with the wooden kite, and continuously improved it to become a new type of flying kite, which is still purely mechanically powered.

This kind of plane can fly, but it is a pity that it needs to take off by taxiing downhill, and the flying speed is also very slow. Although it can fly for a day, according to its speed, one day is only the distance between Shicheng and Huaimu Village.

Li Enbai insisted on teaching in the school during the day, and studied the life of airplanes after class. Day after day, spring was warm and flowers were blooming, and summer was coming soon.

A letter broke his peaceful days.

The current emperor is on the Zen throne, and he has become the Supreme Emperor, taking the queen mother to the palace to spend her old age.

When Prince Chen successfully ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to designate titles for his father and queen, which were recorded in the history books as Shengzong and Queen Yuande.

The second thing is to change the year name to Jiatai, since the year he ascended the throne, it is the first year of Jiatai.

The third thing is amnesty, and Enke will be added in September.

Logically speaking, the titles of the emperor and empress should be granted by the new emperor after his death, as recorded by the official historian.

However, since the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, it has been unusual. Most of the titles were decided by the reigning emperor before he abdicated.

Because every emperor did not die on the throne, but abdicated after about 20 years in power.

At present, it has been passed down to the fifth generation, and it is the same for the previous four generations.

The reign title is even more amazing. The reign titles of the Song Dynasty were used for a short period of time. The longest was ten years, and the shortest was only two years.

There are also two systems of years recorded in history books, one is divided by year number, and the other is arranged in numerical order regardless of year number.

If Li Enbai saw the second record year used by historians to record history, he would definitely recognize it. This is the system of years in AD that later generations said.

However, he is just a small scholar now, and he is not qualified to step into the imperial court, let alone meet a historian.

After changing the emperor, the biggest impact on him was that the time of the imperial examination was advanced.

Originally, he was supposed to participate in September next year, but now it has become September this year. The time is very tight, and the school in the village has to recruit another teacher.

Li Enbai also temporarily let go of the idea of ​​pressing the steam engine on the plane, and concentrated on reviewing.

Half a month after the new emperor ascended the throne, Liu Chuncheng was secretly taken into the capital, leaving only a brief letter telling Li Enbai that he was fine and had nothing to worry about.

Li Enbai didn't know much about the relationship between Liu Chuncheng and the new emperor, but he could vaguely know that something was wrong between them, especially when the new emperor was the crown prince, the position of crown princess had been vacant for five years.

Now, the post of Empress Yuan of the new emperor is vacant.

After another half a month, Liu Chunshan, Liu Mingxi and his son hurried back and made an appointment with Brother Qing's family, which was scheduled for February next year.

The etiquette was considerate, and Liu Mingxi was very happy to see it, but he didn't mention anything about the capital. Li Enbai tried it out for a while, but he didn't answer, so Li Enbai stopped asking.

It’s just that they have sped up their pace secretly, and Yunjian moved the bookstore to more places, and they not only earn money by themselves, but also cooperate with local bookstores to sell printed books to bookstores at wholesale prices, and then sold by bookstores.

In this way, they earn more money and spend less effort. Gradually, Yunjian Mobile Bookstore has become a mobile wholesale bookstore.

The bookstore has also changed from the initial three big ox carts to eight, and the people selected are all good-natured and trustworthy people.

Because cheap books began to flow into the market gradually, and the number of samples gradually increased, the aristocratic family gradually received some influence, but the influence was too small, and these behemoths could not realize the danger.

But I don't know that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant's nest.

What Li Enbai does is to be an ant that builds a nest.

He instructed the three brothers of the Mu family to quietly go to the Zhang family's hometown in Liuyang to shake its foundation.He didn't hide this from Liu Mingxi, and he didn't find it strange when Liu Mingxi approached him.

Liu Mingxi came to cooperate with him.

Li Enbai readily accepted, and not only provided tens of thousands of printed books, but also provided him with improved and upgraded printing technology.

Liu Mingxi patted him on the shoulder, and everything went on silently and tacitly.

When the summer came to an end, more than half of the regions in the Great Song Dynasty could buy cheap and good books.

Especially the cheap enlightenment books, which annotated the original boring and difficult content, and the new annotations have punctuation marks.

As long as someone who understands it has said it once, they can immediately remember it and better help understand the meaning of the article. The appearance of this punctuation mark makes the students extremely excited, and it also arouses the idea of ​​​​more people buying new editions of the book.

But after Li Enbai handed over the method, he no longer cared about this matter, and just sat back to collect the bonus. The Zhang family brothers also cooperated with the Liu family as partners.

In particular, their early promotion of the new edition of the printed book also brought them fame, which not only increased money, but also confidence.

Later, Zhang Song and Brother Yu, who run the Yunjian Inn, also chose to get married. After getting married, they took Li Enbai's plan and drawings, and Brother Xue to the capital together.

They will open a Yunjian Inn in the capital. The Yunjian Inn in the capital is the real Yunjian Inn. It covers an area of ​​a thousand acres, occupying a small scenic spot in the suburbs mountain bag.

Mu Haishan has also changed from the director of the school a few months ago to the head of Huaimu College, from a farm to a family of farming and studying, and participated in this year's children's examination.

Although he knew in his heart that the chance of passing the exam was not high, he was lucky enough to be able to take the exam.

He is content.

And with Dabai's careful teaching, it's not like there is no chance.He will try his best to take the exam.

The villagers who laughed at the five of them at the beginning, now have red eyes with envy.But I can only be envious.

Time seems to press the fast-forward button, and the days are rushing away like a rushing stream, gradually approaching September.