Early in the morning, Li Ye asked his servants to prepare two carriages and go to the dock. Before leaving, he watched the fermentation of grain that he was thinking about.

Qiu'er and Yue'er were riding with Li Ye, and Yan Shen and a few servants were behind him. Qiu'er didn't want to come at first. In the past two days, Li Ye taught her to use a quill and gradually practiced mathematics and geometric figures. She was obsessed with it, but she was afraid that she would become myopic and still drag her out for a walk.

Yan Bi has been excluding him from the beginning to now and now, saying that if Qiu'er hadn't been her daughter, she would be competent for the head of the royal palace.

When it comes to Qiu'er, he has to say that Tang Zhou was crying and grateful, saying that he would thank him in the future and teach him how to plan. Li Ye was still looking forward to it at the time and thought that he had met a real mathematician. Now it seems that he is a complete politician.

Don't say Xie Li, I can't see him at all since the problem was solved. Now he has begun to understand that Degong asked him to be careful of Tang Zhouwei's words, because this guy is indeed a thorough politician. He compromises when he should compromise, persists when he should persist, and follows everything to the interests. There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. For him, a prince like himself is not worth flattering, and he really can't believe it even if he says a word.

Li Ye personally drove the carriage. Because it was fresh, the carriage was driving slowly in the city. The New Year was approaching, and there were people buying New Year's goods everywhere. The streets were bustling with crowds. From time to time, bargaining sounds came from time to time. When they saw the carriage from Prince Xiao's Mansion, everyone quickly moved away and dared not get close. Some people pointed and cursed quietly.

No matter what, the carriage was moving faster anyway. Yue'er lifted up the curtains and pouted unhappily: "These people are so hateful, and the prince didn't provoke them."

Qiu'er grabbed her arm: "Don't care, these princes won't take them in their hearts at all."

"It's not easy to hear it." Yue'er was still unhappy, thinking that they clearly didn't know the prince, so why should they speak.

Qiu'er smiled slightly, hugged the depressed Yue'er in her arms, put down the curtain of the car. In her heart, the prince was like stars hanging high. How could the light of the sun and the moon care about the light fireflies: "The prince is not something they can understand, even if they say it, so it's better not to say it."

"Oh..." Yue'er groaned in her arms, the little girl was always unhappy.

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The carriage walked for more than half an hour and left the Xicheng Gate and headed west. Compared with the other city gates, the Kaiyuan West Gate was obviously much wider. However, looking at the temporary assumption of the support wood on both sides, we can understand that this gate was not built in the first place, but was expanded later. Because of this insufficient strength, it was reinforced with the support wood.

There are much more cars and horses coming and going in and out than other city gates. After all, the west gate is connected to the Yuanmen Ferry, and goods from the south and north will go here as long as they go on water, so the in and out density is much larger than that of other city gates.

The officials of the chariot and horses under the banner of the royal palace did not dare to stop them, and immediately let them go. These officials belonged to the Kaiyuan Mansion, but the soldiers at the entrance of the city were slightly different. Most of the other places were local wing soldiers, but in Kaiyuan they were the yamen runners of the Kaiyuan Mansion.

Because Kaiyuan did not have a wing army, only a few camps outside the city were stationed with more than 100,000 imperial guards, and the order for the transfer of imperial guards was very strict, and it was necessary to authorize the Privy Council and agree with the emperor. It was impossible to let the imperial guards defend the city.

When he went out, Li Ye paid special attention. There were about twenty people at the top of the city and under the gate, and there were only cotton armor with the lowest defense. The few yamen runners standing at the top of the city were listless. After all, who would cause trouble in Kyoto, they were just showing off.

Li Ye shook his head, born in distress and died in peace, if there was an enemy to Kaiyuan one day, these people would be sent to you, and I don’t know what He Zhao thought of asking them to guard the city gate.

After leaving the city, there are flat and spacious roads, which can accommodate three or four carriages in parallel. The road leading to the port is indeed different. I believe Kaiyuan Mansion has been renovating from time to time, so the speed after leaving the city is faster.

After walking for half an hour, I finally saw the shimmering water directly connected to the steep mountain opposite. On the side near the west side of Beijing, there were constant shouts and people and figures, which were very lively.

The wharf was smaller than Li Ye imagined, but there were more people. Li Ye realized at this time that this was not a modern port. Large ships needed to be dragged by the wife of the Fiber to enter the port, so there were naturally more people.

The entire dock was against the river bank, and Li Ye could see that a lot of mud and sand was filled, and then thick and solid wooden piles were nailed into them, and then wooden boards were laid. This was a big project.

At this time, there were still ships entering the port and leaving the post. Because it was a major area in Kyoto, all ships and goods entering and leaving the ferry need to be inspected by the Maritime Bureau before they could enter and exit the ferry. The carriages from the royal palace arrived at the ferry, and the officials of the Maritime Bureau saw it from afar and hurriedly came over.

"Xiao Yuan, I don't know which noble man came when I saw the frame of the royal palace." A middle-aged official was wearing a green flower and bird suit. Li Ye knew that he should be an official of about seventh rank.

"The prince of the prince of the Xiao Mansion." Qiu'er stepped forward to sign up.

The official bowed and said, "The emperor welcomes the prince."

Li Ye nodded: "We are just here to wait for goods, you don't have to care." The official nodded, led them to the ferry pavilion, served tea before leaving.

There are mixed fish and dragons at the ferry. The goods transported from all over the country and fishermen salvaged aquatic products from here. The mixed together are a special and unpleasant smell. In the pavilion on the side of the port, Li Ye looked at the ships coming and going on carefully.

The ship they were waiting for was from the Prince Consort's Mansion, and they would hold the flag of the Prince Consort's Mansion, but they didn't know when it would arrive. After all, there was no phone call in this era, so you could tell where it was just a call. If you are lucky, you won't be able to wait for a long time, and if you are unlucky, you may have to wait all day long.

When he was free, Yue'er looked at the boats passing by the waterline in the distance, holding her delicate chin and commenting, saying which boat was faster and which boat was beautiful. Qiu'er also interrupted from time to time.

Li Ye couldn't help but whisper: "The lonely sail was gone from the sky, but I saw the Yangtze River flowing in the sky."

At this time, Qiu'er sighed, and then asked curiously: "Criminal, why do I see the mast head first when I see the ships coming from afar?"

Yue'er also stared at her for a while and said, "Sister Qiu'er, you are so stupid. You are blocking it."

"But there is no trouble today."

Li Ye looked at her in surprise, walked to the middle of the two little girls, leaning on the railing and said, "There are only two explanations. Either you are dazzled, or the river surface is not flat at all, and the farthest part of the river surface over there is actually lower, but the difference between eyesight and eyesight is too small to tell, and I can't feel it at all if I didn't use the ship."

"The river surface is lower?" Yue'er looked disbelieving: "But the prince, the water flows towards us. If it is lower there, wouldn't the river water flow backward? The saints say that the sky is round and the place is round, how can it be uneven?"

"You asked very reasonably, but you think if the ground is not in the same place and the water flows to the lower part, then the place it wants to flow should be facing the depths of our feet. It is just that the earth has stopped it. What force makes such a huge river flow to the lower part, or......"

"Nonsense! A crooked and evil way..." Just as Li Ye wanted to continue to explain to the two girls, he interrupted his words with anger.

When he turned around, he actually met him, and He Zhao had a dark face.
Chapter completed!