But these are not the biggest surprises, the biggest surprise is that he found the graphite mine.

Most of the graphite veins in previous lives were in the Northeast and Inner Mongolia, and it was not until the 20th century that people gradually discovered the value of graphite, so before that, it was something that no one wanted.

But for him, that is black gold, the foundation of the rise of the country.

With graphite, he could even try to refine liquid steel. It was a technology invented by the British in the mid-19th century. It was achieved by using graphite's high temperature resistance and the first time in human history to refine liquid steel.

Its quality grade is high and can be used as tool steel. The so-called tool steel is used to cut and polish other metals, which shows its quality. In the face of such steel, all metals will now be vulnerable.

However, one thing goes back and forth, we must take it slowly. Li Ye reassured Degong, and he was prepared for the black gunpowder.

Degong and Gillian stayed until very late before leaving. During this period, Degong asked a lot of questions about the pulley group and black gunpowder. He wanted to start taking charge of the government again, so he would naturally worry more.

When he was about to leave, Gillian lowered his little head and wanted to speak but stopped. Then he knew that the little girl had something to say to him.

So he quietly pulled her to the corner of the garden and pinched her delicate and beautiful chin with a hooligan: "The little girl has something to worry about, should she tell me?"

Gillian blushed by his frivolous behavior, lowered her little head and said nervously: "No, it's not a matter of worry... just..."

Li Ye sat on the stone bench next to him and pulled her to sit on his thigh: "Just how?"

"It's just that the prince can do anything and do everything, and I have a lot of thoughts in my heart. But I can't do anything except poetry and essays. I don't know how to serve people like Yue'er's sister, nor do I want Qiu'er to be as smart and capable as she can't help the prince. I just think... it's useless."

Li Ye touched her little head, understood what the little girl was thinking about, and said to her: "Everyone is different. The two love each other, and it is best to admire each other. I also like poetry. You are the number one talented girl in the capital, right? Since that's the case, you should feel proud."

"But that was said by others." Gillian said with her head down.

Li Ye pinched her cute nose with a funny look: "Little girl, you can't think of living for others. You can first treat yourself well before you can put yourself in others and treat others well. You want to be biased towards me and give everything for me, so I am of course happy. But before that, you are yourself first, Wang Lianshan, first, the proud daughter of the prime minister's palace, first the number one talented woman in Kyoto, then the future hostess of the royal palace, and my good wife. Do you understand? If you like someone, you must not give up everything for him and adapt everything. If this is really the case, it would be too narrow.

That thrilling, confident, and extremely literary talent makes people afraid to look at Ah Gillian directly. This is the Gillian I like."

As Jiao listened, she kept leaning towards his chest. Her previous melancholy eyes gradually brightened, and slowly became the thriller who was so energetic that he would play tricks on him and pouted and poured wine for him.

She nodded and whispered: "Then... Then... I have prepared a new lyrics for the Yongyue Pavilion Lantern Festival this year. Can the prince come to see me?"

Li Ye nodded and pinched her little nose: "Okay, then let's see how his wife's literary talent is."

Gillian giggled and heard someone coming over, like a panicked little white rabbit, jumping out of his arms.

.........

The next morning, Qiu'er used two people to pull up a huge water wheel weighing thousands of pounds and spread inside and outside the palace like the wind, and it became more and more amazing, and everyone was even more in awe.

Several aunts and aunts in the kitchen even privately argued that Qiu'er was a fairy who came to the world and was not an ordinary person, so she knew so much and could do those magical things.

Qiu'er was panicked and shy at first, and gradually adapted. In the end, she was able to completely ignore the sounds outside. She still listened to his lectures every night. She would help the mansion during the day, and most of the time she followed him around.

Today, the royal palace is in the evening, and all the wine stoves in the Xiao royal palace were built under the leadership of Zhao Si and began to be put into production.

Li Ye called Gufeng to the main hall at noon and formally appointed Gufeng to be responsible for the matter.

Yan Bian would pay him money to buy grain and draw twelve servants to him. Li Ye gave him a regulation that the total of six wine stoves in the palace would be at least once a month for each stove. Each stove was not mixed with 20 kilograms and stored separately for later use.

The average grain load of six wine stoves is about 400 kilograms per wine, and the wine production rate will be about one-third, which is 130 kilograms per stove, and the six stoves can produce 780 kilograms per month. It has become a winery production capacity with a relatively good scale in later generations.

The premise is that there is no mistake, because many links such as grain fermentation can only rely on more than ten years of experience accumulated. Even the master of the art dares not assert that there will be no mistakes.

This is also the reason why Gu Feng was in charge of this matter. He has been brewing wine for the royal palace for more than ten years.

On the other hand, the store Yan Kun helped to buy has been renovated according to Li Ye's requirements and can be opened.

There, Li Ye is preparing to sell high-end products, such as perfume, high-end wine, glass products, etc.

The best color for shops selling valuables is yellow, white and black. Black gives people solemn and solemn psychological hints. White can reflect the color of the items themselves and look more beautiful and exquisite, while yellow gives people valuable psychological hints.

So he had previously specifically explained how Yan Kun decorated the store.

The store is located close to the city, with a good location, a large number of people, and many noble families around it, which are the main consumer groups, but the problem is...

There is no right person to take charge.

It is a high-end luxury product, so it will naturally deal with dignitaries from time to time. He cannot supervise it himself. No one left in the royal palace can handle such a thing.

Yan Jian is probably the only one who does a good job, but he is old and cannot travel every day. Secondly, he is the head of the royal palace. He is arranged and raised by many trivial matters in the mansion, so he can do a lot of things so easily.

If Yan Bian leaves, who will take charge of the royal palace?

...........

When Li Ye was going home in the afternoon, when he was concentrating on telling Qiu'er the formula of trigonometric function, the emperor's uncle Li Yu sent someone to send a letter, which also brought two official papers with blood seals - Shiyu's contract to sell his body!

In the letter, Li Yu instructed him that he did not need to redeem his own money. Shiyu was used as a gift from his uncle to Li Ye. However, there were conditions. The Lantern Festival was about to be around, and then it would be the battle for the courtesans in the new year. Fumeng Tower was the property of the Tian family, and they did not want to sit idly by and lose the courtesans.

So it was not until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month that Shiyu would not allow him to take him away after he won the courtesan for Fumenglou.

But in a few days, Li Ye could still wait. He was not only hungry, but also waiting to use people. Poetry said that he really had the ability and means.

He also wrote a reply letter and asked Emperor Li Yu to take it back, telling him that he would take the poem away after the Lantern Festival, and at the same time, he asked Yan Bian to prepare a hundred taels of gold for the messenger to take it back, and sent a guard to escort him.

Yan Bian was very unhappy when he heard this news and his mouth was almost overwhelmed. After all, in his opinion, the prince was just not doing his job and spending a hundred taels of gold for a woman, which was more than one thousand taels of silver! It was simply a waste of money.

I am unhappy but I am unhappy, but the money is spent on the treasury of the royal palace.

Li Xingzhou knew that this was the emperor's uncle who was kind to him. If he really wanted to redeem Shiyu, it would be the same whether he would let Fumenglou go or not. Even if he let him go, it would not be solved by a few thousand taels.

He, the emperor, ignored his family, had no big ambitions, and was indeed casual and romantic, and did not take care of him much, but his heart was always good.

Judging from Li Xingzhou's experience, kind-hearted people generally don't live long.
Chapter completed!