Chapter 55: Assassination
In the blink of an eye, it was already July of the second year of Chunhua. Since the last time he defeated Li Jipeng, Zhao Weiji had spent a year very peacefully. During this period, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu did not make any moves at all.
In fact, it's not that Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu don't want to make any moves, but that they really can't find Zhao Weiji's flaw. Zhao Weiji played three roles very well in this year: Prince Xiaoyao, a wealthy businessman who is not involved in politics, and who is obsessed with heresy.
The teacher.
Although Zhao Weiji did two major things during this period, these two so-called major events had almost no impact on politics, so Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu didn't even have the chance to provoke Zhao Guangyi to find fault with Zhao Weiji.
The first major thing Zhao Weiji did this year was the discovery of kaolin, which changed the formula of porcelain. The one-yuan formula for firing porcelain changed from a one-yuan formula that only used one kind of porcelain stone to one that used kaolin and porcelain stone in a certain proportion.
The binary formula. This major change made it possible to fire large porcelain.
The original one-element formula fired porcelain at a lower temperature, and the porcelain body was softer, so it was easy to deform when firing large porcelain. However, the emergence of the binary formula made the porcelain fired at a higher temperature, and the hardness of the porcelain body increased significantly.
Moreover, the yield of finished products has also been significantly improved. The key is that the whiteness, transparency and gloss of the fired porcelain have been generally improved.
Due to this change, the kilns in Fuliang County (Jingdezhen) suddenly became the best in the country. Before the five famous kilns were born, the Hutian Kiln in Fuliang County has now become the number one in the country.
Moreover, even Zhao Guangyi could not put down the shadow celadon produced by Hutian kiln, and Hutian shadow celadon directly became tribute porcelain. Not only that, due to the successful firing of large-scale porcelain, the sales volume of porcelain overseas has increased significantly. The overseas market of large-scale porcelain is relatively large.
It was much larger at home, especially the Arab Empire.
After seeing this, Zhao Yuanxi was very angry. You have cut off the lonely king's financial path, but you yourself have made a lot of money.
In fact, even Jiang Yu admired Zhao Weiji for this. When the new porcelain was sold in large quantities overseas, Jiang Yu deeply realized that the soil that Zhao Weiji said at the beginning could bring gold.
The second thing is that new navigation technology was developed by Zhao Weiji. He relied on the advantage of time travel to come up with two things. One is the sextant. When the sextant is combined with the compass and paired with a star chart,
The problem of positioning at sea is very easy. The second thing is that Zhao Weiji successfully built a fully equipped sailing ship in the 18th century.
The Song Dynasty already had extremely strong shipbuilding capabilities, and Zhao Weiji obtained another shipbuilding expert: Wang Dayuan. After Zhao Weiji gave the concept of full-rigged sailboats and jibs in Europe in the 18th century, Wang Dayuan combined his own shipbuilding technology
After making a hot sample (model), Zhao Weiji proposed modifications based on his impression of European sailing ships in the eighteenth century. It took him half a year to finally finalize it. Then it took another two years to build it. It can be said that when Zhao Weiji got Wang Dayuan
We have been preparing for this since then, and now the first ship has finally been launched.
After the "giant ship" successfully sailed to Liuqiu (Wanwan) and returned safely, Zhao Weiji knew that he was not far from the fertile land on the other side of the ocean. The speed of this new type of sailing ship was three times that of the old ships.
Moreover, the dependence on wind power is significantly reduced, and it can sail even when the wind is very light.
At this time, Zhao Weiji had invested most of the remaining funds in the construction of this sailboat.
The occurrence of these two things did not stir up too many waves in Zhao Guangyi's heart, because in Zhao Guangyi's consciousness, these were all heresies. No matter how exquisite the porcelain is, it is just a toy and an everyday utensil, and no matter how much the shipbuilder makes it, he can't help you.
Jiangshan. What's more, the new large ships built by Zhao Weiji are impossible to enter the inland river due to their deep draft.
But this situation is different in the eyes of Zhao Yuanxi. Since his financial path has been cut off, Zhao Yuanxi becomes jealous whenever he sees others making money, let alone his biggest enemy Zhao Weiji. Although these things that Zhao Weiji has created are in the eyes of Zhao Guangyi
There is no political future here, but in Zhao Yuanxi's eyes, these are political money-making opportunities. He is short of money, and the cost of making friends with officials is not a small amount. After the financial path is cut off, Zhao Yuanxi is in a situation of sitting on nothing.
But because Zhao Weiji was too careful, Zhao Yuanxi really had no way to deal with him. And Zhao Pu had temporarily settled down after being demoted due to the last incident. Zhao Yuanxi could not expect Zhao Pu to give him any political help for the time being.
Zhao Weiji's troubles.
In desperation, Zhao Yuanxi chose a path of no return and made a decision alone.
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During the Chinese Valentine's Day, temple fairs were held on the streets in Huating County.
Because of Zhao Weiji, Huating County now holds temple fairs on every major festival, not only the Winter Solstice, New Year, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, but also Qixi, Sheyue (the second dragon raises its head in February), and Double Ninth Festival.
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In the past two years, with Zhao Weiji's operation in Huating, Huating County has gradually begun to prosper, and then the people have gradually become richer. After having spare money in their pockets, the people also prefer to hang out at temple fairs and buy some things.
After all, some things are cheaper than usual during the temple fair.
"Xiao Nian, is there anything you want to eat or play?" At one time, Zhao Weiji and Li Nian were wandering around the temple fair, chatting about something together.
Isn't this Chinese Valentine's Day? Why can't I see Chai Yu? That's because Chai Yu became pregnant again due to Zhao Weiji's accident, and Chai Yu's pregnancy reaction this time was relatively strong. She vomited every day and didn't even want to get out of bed.
It happened to be Chinese Valentine's Day. Chai Yu saw that he couldn't go out anyway, so he might as well create an opportunity for Li Nian and found an excuse for Zhao Weiji to take Li Nian out to visit the temple fair.
"Dad, I want that candy man." Just when Li Nian was about to say something, a little man spoke.
Chai Yu originally planned to let the two of them get along alone, but she forgot that there was a little fairy in the house. Zhao Ling'er, who was almost three years old, was full of curiosity. How could she find so many weird things in the temple fair?
Maybe he wasn't interested. So when Zhao Weiji was about to go out, Zhao Ling'er kept Zhao Weiji's thigh and didn't let go.
Chai Yu, who was lying in the bedroom, had no idea that her daughter had slipped out and blocked Zhao Weiji at the door while she was not paying attention.
And Zhao Weiji naturally knew what Chai Yu was planning. Li Nian had been with him for so many years, and even a stone should be holding back. What's more, Zhao Weiji was a living person. But in his heart, he was still bound by the shackles of monogamy.
He was obsessed with himself, not to mention that he was originally just an otaku. He chased two girls in four years of college, but was directly blocked. Therefore, Zhao Weiji was not very adaptable to more than one girl liking him. In addition, Li Nian was originally just a little lolita.
Zhao Weiji really didn't dare to have any evil thoughts.
But what he didn't expect was that as Li Nian grew up day by day, the girl became more and more beautiful, and gradually began to show that she liked him. This made Zhao Weiji a little embarrassed when facing Li Nian in the past few years.
.Although he has played games such as Pretty Shoujo DreamWorks before, when the little loli he raised wants to marry him one day, the embarrassment will not be so easy to resolve.
So when his daughter hugged his thigh, Zhao Weiji immediately picked up his daughter and asked her to go out with him. At least his daughter would not be so embarrassed.
Li Nian, who was about to say something, was interrupted by Zhao Ling'er. He felt frustrated: "Well, Ling'er, Aunt Nian usually loves you for nothing, but she comes out to cause trouble for Aunt Nian at this critical moment."
But before she could think about it, Zhao Ling'er had already dragged Zhao Weiji to the candy seller's stall over there. She had no choice but to follow him.
Today's temple fairs are mostly filled with young men and women or couples with children. Since the Northern Song Dynasty was just founded, the legacy of the late Tang Dynasty still exists. It is not forbidden for women to meet their lovers outside, and it happens to be the same for Chinese Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day symbolizes love, so there are many men and women dating today.
Moreover, there are two important activities on Chinese Valentine's Day. One is that women worship the Weaver Girl and pray for her blessing. The men worship Kuixing, hoping to be admitted to high school. In this way, even if they don't want to go to temple fairs, there will still be many couples going together to worship the gods.
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At this time, Zhao Ling'er had already started picking out candy figures at the candy man stall, while Zhao Weiji focused all his thoughts on his daughter. Since Zhao Linger had not picked out the candy figure she liked, our little princess was a little unhappy at this time.
In order to make his daughter happy, Zhao Weiji had no choice but to ask a store for tools for making candy figures, and started making candy figures for his daughter. Since Zhao Weiji had tried making figurines when he was an otaku, the image of Sun Wukong soon became
It began to take shape in his hands.
Li Nian couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene. In fact, Zhao Weiji had very little status in the palace. Chai Yu and Zhao Ling'er mother and daughter basically said that Zhao Weiji did not dare to go to the east. Moreover, Zhao Weiji doted on this daughter to no end.
Well, except for the issue of principle and surname, Zhao Weiji basically agreed to all her daughter's requests.
Since it would take some time for Zhao Weiji to make the candy man, Li Nian started to look around, and soon he saw a strange person walking towards him.
The reason why this person is strange is because this person is walking alone in the crowd wearing black clothes. Since he is surrounded by fresh and beautiful couples, this person is quite eye-catching in the crowd.
But although this person's figure is eye-catching, it is impossible to see his appearance clearly because he is wearing a hat with the brim very low.
Just when Li Nian was still wondering, the man who came towards them suddenly took out a dagger from his sleeve, rushed over and stabbed Zhao Weiji in the back.
Chapter completed!