Chapter 22: Help you

Everyone knows that Li Longji is joking, and even Princess Jinxian couldn't help laughing. Princess Yuzhen made a face at Chen Wanrong.

"Chen Wanrong, I am a guest at all. You can't let me talk here, right?" Li Longji was in a good mood.

Chen Wanrong hurriedly said, "Prince, please! Princess!"

Princess Yuzhen teased: "There are so many princesses, who are you talking about?"

"Of course it's Princess Golden Immortal!" Chen Wanrong replied in this way. Princess Yuzhen snorted in anger: "Third brother, look, this person is so unfair, he doesn't take me, the princess seriously."

The smile on Li Longji's face continued to decline, and he said, "Chen Wanrong, you dare to make Yu really unhappy. Are you guilty?"

Chen Wanrong frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I should punish you. After a while, I will punish Princess Yuzhen to serve tea and water to everyone."

Li Longji's face darkened: "Chen Wanrong, don't be big or small. It's obvious that you are guilty, how could you punish Yuzhen?"

Chen Wanrong said seriously: "Your Majesty, what we said is important and has a great relationship. As for me, I naturally have something to do and I can't be busy, so I have to ask Princess Yuzhen to do it for me. Princess Yuzhen is our military weapon supervisor and is under my jurisdiction. Isn't it true that I ask her to help me, serve tea and water, and save us some time? If the emperor doesn't want to hear it, then I can be busy."

Li Longji nodded and said, "Yuzhen, just feel a little wronged."

"Third brother, you..." Princess Yuzhen absolutely did not expect Li Longji to fall to Chen Wanrong, and her eyes almost fell off due to surprise.

Li Longji blinked a naughty look at Princess Yuzhen and quickly walked into the house. Princess Yuzhen understood that it turned out that Li Longji was teasing her, and she was so angry that she stomped her feet, and she was helpless.

Everyone entered the house, and the servants hurriedly brought tea and sat down. Li Longji asked, "Chen Wanrong, now you can talk. You said, how many days have you discussed, what are you discussing?"

Chen Wanrong didn't say much, and handed the records compiled by Zheng Qing to Li Longji and said, "Emperor, everything is on this. There are also some drawings, which the emperor can understand at a glance."

Li Longji took it and started browsing. He looked a little, stared at Chen Wanrong and asked, "Last time, you mentioned me the medicine to treat severe cold and fever, is this?"

"The emperor is wise, that's right!" Chen Wanrong nodded and admitted.

Li Longji raised his eyebrows and shot out his eyes: "Can stinky artemisia really cure severe cold and heat? You are not lying to others? If you tell lies, you are deceiving the king. Don't blame me for not recognizing others!"

The severe cold and heat disease has stumped countless medical scientists. It can be said that it was an incurable disease in ancient times. I don’t know how many lives it took for severe cold and heat disease. If Chen Wanrong could really find the medicine to treat severe cold and heat disease, it would be a great merit. Of course, this matter is very important, and Li Longji had to ask clearly.

If this medicine was obtained from other plants, Li Longji would believe it, but it was obtained from the stinky artemisia that was not valued, which was really unbelievable.

Chen Wanrong said with great affirmation: "Emperor, I am willing to protect my wealth and life! If there is a false statement, I will let the emperor deal with it! If you want to kill and cut it, I will be ordered to be given to the emperor!"

"There is no need! This matter is too much, so I have to get a clear letter!" Li Longji had a question: "There are differences between Artemisia annua and Artemisia annua. Artemisia annua can cure diseases, so can Artemisia annua?"

Anyone who has been walking in the fields knows that Artemisia annua has the difference between Artemisia annua and Artemisia annua. People hate Artemisia annua and like Artemisia annua. It is normal for Li Longji to have this idea.

Modern technology has proved that Artemisia anthelmintic acid only contains artemisinin, while Artemisia anthelmintic acid does not. Therefore, if you want to treat severe cold and heat, you must have Artemisia anthelmintic acid.

Chen Wanrong replied: "The emperor doesn't know anything, so he can only use stinky artemisia. Fragrant artemisia is useless."

Li Longji slapped his thigh, stood up, and said, "If stinky artemisia can really cure severe cold and heat, it will be a great merit! In summer, severe cold and heat will be prevalent, and some places will cause disasters and kill countless people. Oh, Annan is the most serious. If you make this medicine, you can just say whatever reward you want."

Severe cold and heat disease is abusive disease. The higher the temperature, the greater the possibility of it. Annan is now in northern Vietnam, which has a tropical climate, and it is normal to have abusive disease. Moreover, the abuse here is not an ordinary abuse, but abusive disease. It is also a vicious abuse. Jinjina frost cannot be cured, and artemisinin must be required.

Chen Wanrong just felt that he should do this and fulfill his responsibilities, and had no idea of ​​seeking rewards at all. However, he had to seize this opportunity and said, "Your Majesty, I did this not to seek rewards. However, if the emperor said this, I would ask for something."

"Tell me!" Li Longji was very happy.

Chen Wanrong smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I have no other requests. In the future, the craftsmen and scholars of the Great Food will be given to me."

Although Dashi was the enemy country of the Tang Dynasty, it also has its advantages. At least in terms of physics, Dashi was advanced than the Tang Dynasty. The reason is that since Mozi, China's physics has been on the spot, while Dashi's progress in physics is amazing.

Chen Wanrong thought that when he attacked Dashi in the future, he would bring Dashi scholars and scientists to Chang'an and ask them to teach physics and some technology that did not or was backward in the Tang Dynasty. In this way, the Tang Dynasty's technology will make great progress.

Although Chen Wanrong is a top student in modern higher education institutions and knows a lot of modern technology, how can he compare with the scientific and technological talent team of a big country? Among them, there must be many talents that are worth learning from.

"Accurate!" Li Longji made it straight without saying a word.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chen Wanrong was very happy. Li Longji didn't even ask, it was great.

Under Chen Wanrong's management, military weapon supervision undergoes amazing changes with each passing day. If a scholar who gets a big food again, then the rapid advancement of Tang Dynasty's technology is just around the corner, and the joy in Chen Wanrong's heart cannot be described in his pen and ink.

Li Longji continued: "You are so confident that it seems that this matter is true. Since it is true, I will help you. The stinky artemisia is scattered everywhere, and it is difficult to collect it. I have allocated a piece of land in Guanzhong and sent some people to ask them to plant the stinky artemisia. In this way, there is no need to send people to collect it everywhere, which is also convenient."

Since artemisinin was discovered, the demand for stinky artemisia has soared, and modern society has been carrying out artificial planting. Li Longji's idea is not good, it is so good that Chen Wanrong's eyes are so good that he said happily: "Thank you, the emperor!"

Li Longji sat down again and continued to watch. Not long after, he stared at Chen Wanrong and asked, "If you can do soda ash like this, there will be more soap. Can you make money? Are you not at ease? Borrowing the power of the military weapon surveillance to fill your personal pockets, you are so brave!"

The bottleneck of soap production is that soda ash is not enough. If there is enough soda ash, Chen Wanrong can make enough soda. It can be said that the soap used by the people of the Tang Dynasty were made by Chen Wanrong. By then, Chen Wanrong's wealth would be unimaginable, and wealth would be as rich as a country can no longer explain the problem. This is indeed a questionable problem.

He reminded Sima Chengzhen and the others with one sentence. They were only happy, but they didn't expect this section and couldn't help but be stunned. Li Longji's tone was very unkind. If he really wanted to investigate, the situation would take a sharp turn and all beautiful visions would be vain.

Amid the surprise of everyone, Chen Wanrong said calmly: "If the emperor is suspicious, I can hand over the technology of making soap. Moreover, I can close Chen's chemical industry."

Chen Wanrong had no special thoughts about money. Chen Wanrong was born to be a slave to money. Today, Chen Wanrong has long been free from his extremely poor family. The money he earned can last for several lifetimes. It can be said that he has no worries about food and clothing. What Chen Wanrong wants to do most now is to let chemicals take root in the Tang Dynasty and make the Tang Dynasty's technology advance rapidly, so that it will not be in vain to travel through time.

Money is not brought by a person or death, and nothing is worth remembering. Only a green name can be remembered forever!

If you really reach the point where you are so poor that you only have money left, it will be the sorrow of life!

Li Longji was very surprised. He looked at Chen Wanrong and his face calmed down, saying, "I am very pleased that you can think so. Let's talk about this matter later. There is really one day when I will not lose money to you, so I will pay to buy the prescription and let the military weapon surveillance be built. This is of great benefit to the people."

Chen Wanrong said, "Emperor, I have a condition, that is, the court shall not collect salt taxes any more."

Li Longji had a stern face and slapped his right hand on the table, shouting: "Chen Wanrong, don't be too arrogant! Without salt tax, can the court still be the court? What should I do if the military expenses and the salary of the ministers?"

Salt tax, iron tax, and cap tax were the three major tax pillars of ancient Chinese dynasties. Without salt tax, the fiscal revenue of the Tang Dynasty would drop sharply. Although Li Longji was concerned about the suffering of the people, he could not let the court fall into chaos.

If you want to make a lot of soda ash, if you want to promote soap to the world and make it affordable for the people, salt tax is a shackle and must be cancelled. Chen Wanrong was familiar with this matter and asked: "Your Majesty, I have a plan for this matter. If the court does not collect salt tax, soap will be easier to enter the homes of ordinary people. At that time, the court will have a lot of tax collection just from soap. Besides, once sulfuric acid appears, it will drive many skills. The court is worried that there is no tax source?"

China is a traditional agricultural power, and taxation is mainly derived from agriculture. The reason is that there was no industry in ancient times, which means there was less tax source. Once sulfuric acid appeared, it would inevitably lead to industry appearing in the Tang Dynasty. There were more tax sources in the Tang Dynasty and the status of salt tax decreased.

Without salt tax, it not only reduces the cost of soap production, but also allows the people to eat salt. This is a supreme merit. Among all the taxes in ancient China, there were two types of taxes that should be collected the least, but they had to be collected, one was the salt tax and the other was the count tax.

Needless to say, the count tax is something that everyone understands. Who can avoid eating salt? The collection of salt tax can be classified as a harsh policy. However, if the salt tax is not collected, the court will have no money and will fall into chaos. This is impossible.

In order to reassure Li Longji, Chen Wanrong continued: "The emperor knows that now that the military weapon surveillance has machine tools, we will make a lot of machinery. At that time, it can be used to dry salt, and there will be more salt. If the court still collects taxes, the people will not get benefits, and the poor people will not be able to afford salt."

Li Longji slapped heavily on his thigh and said excitedly: "Chen Wanrong, you remind me. This salt is a must, but the poor people cannot afford it. With the military equipment surveillance machine tools, it is time to catch this matter. This matter should be listed as a top priority! Did you hear it?"

"I will definitely do it!" Chen Wanrong was very excited when he knew that Li Longji had agreed.

Salt includes well salt, rock salt and sea salt, mainly sea salt. Our ancestors cooked sea salt a long time ago, and later developed to drying salt. Even now, the salt consumed is also obtained from sea salt. Drying salt still plays a very important role, but the degree of mechanization and efficiency are higher.

If mechanical salt drying is promoted in the Tang Dynasty, the efficiency will be much higher, and it will be no problem for ordinary people to eat salt. Li Longji was happy and said, "As for the issue of salt tax, it will be so long that I will be exempted?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Not collecting salt tax is a benevolent government. Not only Chen Wanrong was excited, but even Ye Tianheng and the others were also excited, so they thanked each other in unison.

Li Longji nodded, then looked down and asked, "Chen Wanrong, can bleaching be as you said to make the common people less sick?"

The tap water plants in modern society are using bleach to treat tap water, and there is no doubt about this.

Chen Wanrong explained: "Your Majesty, this is true. Please think that there are many canals in Chang'an that provide water for Chang'an. However, there are dead branches and leaves floating on the canals, and even corpses of pigs, cattle, sheep and chickens. If these things rot, they will cause unclean water sources. If people drink them, can they not get sick? As the saying goes, "The disease comes from the mouth", does not correctly indicate the seriousness of the problem?"

Li Longji disagreed with Chen Wanrong's statement: "In order to ensure the water in the canal is clean, the court has laws. Anyone who pollutes the water source will be punished. Besides, the court has sent officials to guard it."

Chen Wanrong asked back: "Emperor, even so, we can guarantee that there are no chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows who die in the canal? Dead branches and leaves, these are all ready-made, and you can see them when you walk beside the ditches."

Li Longji was speechless and stunned for a moment before asking: "This is indeed a problem. According to you, even the water I eat may not be very clean?"

The water used in the palace is also obtained from the ditches.

Who can tell this clearly? Chen Wanrong kept silent. Princess Yuzhen shook her head and looked disgusting: "You are so disgusting, you say these disgusting words."

Li Longji said, "Yuzhen, don't talk nonsense. This is a problem, and we should find a way to solve it. Can it be solved with bleach?"

Chen Wanrong answered truthfully: "Your Majesty, bleach can indeed be used to treat water sources and allow the people to drink clean water. However, this cannot fundamentally solve the problem. If the pollution cannot be solved, it will be useless."

Li Longji looked at Chen Wanrong and smiled and said, "Chen Wanrong, you have many ideas, and this matter will fall on you. You have to find a way."

Chen Wanrong absolutely did not expect that Li Longji would put this on him, and he was stunned and then laughed. Can this matter be difficult? After a moment of contemplation, he said, "Your Majesty, it is actually not difficult to solve this problem. Now we have cement, we can make cement pipes, bury them underground, and pass water in the pipes to ensure that the water will no longer be polluted."

Li Longji nodded in agreement: "Good is good, the question is, how do people get water?"

Chen Wanrong had never thought about this before, but now he was very excited. This was another good thing. He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this is easy to deal with! The military weapon supervisor has machine tools, which can make machines and then make steel pipes. Each household can lay a steel pipe. This is how they use water."

I picked up a piece of charcoal and painted it on the wooden board while explaining it. The tap water system was presented to Li Longji and the others.

Needless to say, the convenience of tap water can be seen with Li Longji's insight at a glance, and his eyes widened and asked, "Can this be done?"

There is no technical difficulty at all. As early as the Roman Empire, there was a tap water system and machine tools, could the Tang Dynasty still not be able to do it?

Chen Wanrong was full of confidence: "Don't worry, you can definitely do it."

After looking at Chen Wanrong, Li Longji was infected with him, and he couldn't help but feel confident, saying, "If this is the case, try it in Chang'an first. If it can be done, promote it, Luoyang, Yingtian, Yangzhou, Youzhou, Chengdu, and Guangzhou, and all cities will do this."

He spoke lightly, but Chen Wanrong was stunned when he heard it. This was a system project that was even bigger than the sky!

In ancient China, water was used by ditches and wells. Ditches mainly introduced the water from rivers near those cities into the city, and simply treated them and then they could be drunk.

If tap water was really promoted in the Tang Dynasty, it would be a major innovation. Chen Wanrong, who was stunned, thought again and again that the military weapon surveillance now has the ability to promote tap water, so why not let go of the way?

"Prince, please rest assured, we will start immediately." Chen Wanrong's voice was a little high.

Li Longji did not speak, and continued to read. After reading, he put down the record, his eyes shining: "It turns out that you can still get fat like this, which is amazing! Although I don't believe it, I believe you didn't tell lies. If you are not sure, you won't be so generous. Weight is a major event that concerns the world. What are you going to do?"

China is a very successful agricultural power. It is precisely because of the special emphasis on agriculture in all dynasties that it has more food, feeds more people, accumulates more wealth, and trains more troops that China was so strong in ancient times.

No matter who is the emperor, agriculture is always the first priority. Li Longji is the emperor's resources, and of course, is no exception. When he learned that he could obtain fertilizer through chemical methods, his excitement was far beyond the description of his pen and ink. He stood up and kept paced, and said happily: "Today, I was walking around casually, but I didn't expect that I would get one good news after another. This trip is not false! However, Chen Wanrong, if you can't do one of these things, don't blame me for turning against others! No matter how big the difficulties are, you have to do these things for me!"

He was actually more anxious than the people in the military weapon prison, and Ye Tianheng and the others couldn't help but laugh.

Before Chen Wanrong could speak, Li Longji continued: "To do so many things, it requires a lot of manpower. The current military weapon surveillance must not be enough. But that doesn't matter! I will help you. After the annual leave, I will issue an order to the Imperial College and draw another 500 people to the military weapon surveillance. Their titles will be upgraded to the third level. If you go to the military weapon surveillance, if you don't do well, you will directly return them to the hometown and cut off all the titles."

Five hundred Imperial College students, it makes people dizzy to think about it. Chen Wanrong and the others were overjoyed. Before they could thank them, Li Longji said: "In addition, another two thousand county school students will be transferred to you. Is it enough? If it is not enough, you can adjust it again!"
Chapter completed!