Lu Yijian looked at Zheng Lang and said, "I finally saw you in the East Mansion."

I saw Zheng Lang many times in the East Prefecture, not referring to this, but to Zheng Lang coming to the East Prefecture as the prime minister of the West Prefecture. Even Lu Yijian did not expect that Zheng Lang would grow so quickly, but he was very pleased that Zheng Lang would have to grow up to be a real prime minister, such as the Privy Councilor, the Prime Minister of the East Prefecture and the Political Affairs Office. It would take several years for him to grow up. At that time, he was too old to walk and the threat to him was still not great. However, his son was his student and his other son was his subordinate, but he would not support each other, so this taste still exists...

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "I have met you guys."

"What's the point of coming to Dongfu?"

"I'll take a look at the memorial. It's a bit beyond the rules. I'll forgive me for my crimes."

Lu Yijian had no objection, and Zhang Dexiang looked embarrassed.

"Mr. Zhang Xianggong, although Xifu is in charge of military affairs, military affairs and civil affairs are connected, and civil affairs are also integrated with military affairs. Therefore, Xianggong Yan said that the government affairs of the government can be involved in the military affairs of the Xifu. I am here to understand it, not to come to interfere in the affairs of the East Mansion."

Zhang Dexiang still hesitates on his face.

Lu Yijian said, "Let him see."

Now that the military affairs of the Northwest have not been decided for a long time, even Lu Yijian cannot come up with a good policy, maybe the Zheng family will think of a good idea.

In fact, Zheng Lang had already proposed a good idea. He said everything in the memorial last year, but he said too much, especially those three national policies, which made many ministers afraid to speak. Zheng Lang looked at it to have a general understanding of the country.

I read the memorials during this period roughly, and the immediate neglect of the etiquette system passed. Civil Affairs and Finance saw the most.

The next afternoon, he ran to the weapons workshop to check. When he was in Yanzhou, Zheng Lang saw many unqualified weapons, bows, arrows and armor. The causes were caused by various reasons: one was that the generals in front were greedy and improper storage. The second was that the workshops in the rear were shoddy, with corruption, rushing work, passive slack work, etc.

I tried the crossbow weapons again and found many unqualified weapons.

Without making any sound, he went to use gunpowder again. This is why Zheng Lang came to see if there were any good gunpowder weapons.

I saw the cannon. It was not the cannon, but the cannon.

Some of the weapons produced by Zheng Lang urged last year were mainly used as trenchers as ejection tools or ** that could be used to bury them.

In addition to these similar weapons, there are the original rockets, fireballs, and fire thorns.

Because it is bulky, it is used to defend the city outside, and field battles do not have much effect, unless such a dull landmine is buried underground. But who will set it off? Will the enemy take the initiative to enter the mine circle?

In fact, in addition to being used as a city guard, it is still a city guard, and there are no tubular weapons suitable for field battles.

Zheng Lang drew the graphics, which is the real cannon.

Throw it to the craftsmen and let them study it slowly, but the time is very slow and long. The process is backward and there is no good steel. The trough line is not accurate, and even the shells are not easy to make.

It is not available now, it is for the future.

It was getting dusk, and then I returned to the inn.

Two guests came to the inn, and Song Xiang and Ye Qingchen were waiting for him to come back in the inn.

"Two distinguished guests, I'm lucky to be here."

A strange sentence made both of them laugh.

Ye Qingchen said, "I owe you a drink, and I invite you to Fanlou today."

The word "Wine" is extremely serious.

Zheng Lang asked, "Brother Ye, you are the Third Envoy, I will give you an opinion."

"explain."

"Can you let your craftsmen invent a kind of wine medicine that is not drunk? Think about it, if you don't get drunk, the wine will definitely be sold well, the court's wine will increase, and the Three Envoys will also have achievements."

"You come to invent, no one is as good as you in the study of physics."

After a joke, I arrived at Fanlou.

The food cost of Fanlou is quite high, but these three are all top ministers, as long as they are not too extravagant, they are enough.

After ordering the wine and food, Zheng Lang said again: "Give me a jar of syrup."

We can’t drink alcohol, so we can drink sugar-sweet water.

The guy didn't make any trouble. He had everything in the house, including new sucrose and the original syrup water.

"This is not possible," said Ye Qingchen.

"Brother Ye, I have to go to the morning court tomorrow. This is my first time in court. Do you think I am so drunk that I can't get up today and miss the court tomorrow?"

Ye Qingchen and Song Xiang laughed again, wanting to bully Zheng Lang, so they asked him to drink.

"You mocked Brother Bo Xiang and should have three glasses of wine." Ye Qingchen said.

After hearing that Sanchuankou was defeated, Song Xiang suggested defending Tongguan, which made Fu Bi and Zheng Lang sarcastic. However, Song Xiang was a loyal elder who was a little bit lacking, but his stomach was very generous. This seemed to be the only real strength he could show, and he would not be really angry with Zheng Lang.

Ye Qingchen deliberately brought it out and asked Zheng Lang to drink.

Zheng Lang had no choice but to drink three glasses of wine, and his face immediately turned red and plain. Ye Song and the other two looked very funny, but they did not dare to persuade Zheng Lang to drink again.

Taking advantage of the drunkenness, Zheng Lang said: "This time I returned to Beijing from Hangzhou and brought something good."

“What is it?”

“Mobile type printing.”

This incident was an unintentional act of Zheng Lang. When he was patrolling Hangzhou, he heard something that a shop used mud printing, but it was unsuccessful. Zheng Lang became careful and finally found a great god, Bi Sheng, a native of Qizhou, who lived in Hangzhou and worked as a craftsman in a shop.

In order to save printing costs, Bi Sheng successively used wooden movable type and clay movable type.

It has many limitations. It was the first person to invent movable type printing, but it is not very practical.

Zheng Lang then paid attention to him, called him over, taught him the copper movable type technology, and asked him to study adhesives, inks, and bamboo paper to become four important conditions for movable type printing.

Without cheap paper, the printing industry will not prosper. Without adhesives, the layout problem cannot be solved, and ink is even more related to the printing effect. Not only can copper movable type be invented to make movable type printing popular. But movable type is durable and effective, copper must be used.

He gave Bi Sheng a lot of money. At this time, Bi Sheng was only seventy years old, and it was the time when his wisdom reached its peak. After half a year of research and development, Zheng Langlin looked like a big shot when he left.

Zheng Lang did not bring it to the capital, but asked Cui Xian to bring this set of tools and techniques to the capital along with the ship.

The technology is not perfect. But it doesn't matter. It seems that Bisheng can live for ten years, and with ten years, it has achieved results. The shop supports many craftsmen to actively cooperate with Bisheng's research and development, and the movable type printing technology will be improved sooner or later.

This technology success will bring a leap forward to the history of civilization.

But because of the issue of vision, Ye Song and both neglected it. Ye Qingchen said, "Okay."

The court also actively printed some books every year and also had a large number of newspapers. Once the price was cheap, it would save the court tens of thousands of dollars a year.

I'm thinking about this.

Zheng Lang smiled. It cannot be blamed. The Song Dynasty was still good. Some craftsmen received higher salaries than a magistrate and attached great importance to technology, which was far better than the later and previous dynasties. But it was impossible to make science superior to scholars and farmers.

This has a process of changing ideas. There is no rush.

He continued: "Your Majesty issued an edict to allow the court and the public to give advice. But how can you hear the voices of the people?"

"The voice of the people?"

"What is governing the country? Only by governing the people and letting them live and work in peace and contentment can the country be strong."

This sentence will be a slogan in other dynasties. But in the Song Dynasty, it was the mainstream voice. Although it was mostly just a slogan, it was some. After all, it was a dynasty focusing on internal governance.

Ye Song and the other nodded.

"But most officials can get in touch with the people, they can be just neighbors, occasionally walking on the street and hearing some of the sounds."

The two nodded again. They just looked around like Zheng Lang. They saw only some of the people, and they could not hear all the needs of the people. That was in the local area. When they arrived in the capital, did Zheng Lang still have the ability to inspect the whole country?

"With movable type, you can run a newspaper and let the people make speeches. The officials in the temple can also take a look and use these remarks as a reference."

"Newspaper?" Da Song's eyes lit up. Obviously, he thought of some benefits, although they were hazy.

"Like a newspaper, let private preparations be made, and the court does not interfere. As long as the premise does not involve content that is ruthless, it can be published. It can also publish some popular stories, unofficial history, poems, songs, novels and dramas, and attract people to buy them. Private can make profits, and the court can be used as a reference for government remedial. Brother Song, your political achievements are not good. If you do this, you will have political achievements."

Ye Qingchen was speechless.

Song Xiang rolled his eyes in anger, and there was someone who said that you would say in person that my political achievements were not good.

But Song Xiang was very moved when he heard this and asked, "Where is that movable type?"

"I brought the tools. I will arrive in the capital in about ten days on the boat. You can plan it during this period."

This matter is even more meaningful.

The public opinion in newspapers is not only for reference in the court, but also made the Song Dynasty system more democratic. Some scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty, including Su Dongpo and others, were from ordinary people, but after becoming high-ranking officials, they forgot the root of the foundation and immediately safeguarded the interests of the scholars and officials. With newspapers, they can play a supervisory role.

It will not leap into a democratic era, but it will become better.

Ye Qingchen said: "Xingzhi, how did you come up with these ideas?"

"In order to study things, to study things to learn, to study things is to explore the metaphysical tools and to understand the principles of metaphysicality. To obtain knowledge, to recommend Hu Wu's knowledge, and to want to know everything he knows."

These two sentences were said by Zhu Xi. This study of things is to understand the truth, observe everything in the physical world, and understand the metaphysical principles of heaven. See the truth from things, and expand one's own knowledge from the few to the most, so as to achieve the full extent of knowledge.

Among Zhu Xi's many remarks, Zheng Lang liked this sentence the most. It was also a representative of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, and the study of things and enlightenment in the Song Dynasty.

According to Zhu Xi's theory of studying things and learning knowledge, physics and chemistry can be included.

Ye Song and the other two didn't understand it very much, so they had to drink a drink.

Suddenly the guy walked in with a graceful girl.

The girl Nian Fang Erba is extremely beautiful and charming. She is wearing a goose yellow spring skirt tightly wrapped around her delicate body, making her look even more charming and cute. She bows gently and says, "I have met three husbands."

The two guys behind him heard her gentle voice and felt a chill in their hearts.
To be continued...