Genius is a genius, but the road to genius is not unobstructed.

Zhao Si's idea was hundreds of years ahead of ordinary people, but in fact, by the time of the Civil War in M ​​country, he used delay leads.

The idea of ​​Tao ahead will inevitably be accompanied by the difficulties of advancement. The first thing to solve is the problem of the flight trajectory of the shells.

The flight posture of the circular shell is unstable and cannot guarantee the front end contact. Therefore, before this concept is practical, it is necessary to change the shell, from a circular shell to a shape that can ensure the front end contact.

This is Zhao Si's decision to take it step by step. The first phase of the plan proposed is to develop new shells. This shell needs to be more accurate and has a stable flight attitude, so that it can be made into a flowering shell and detonate after impact.

However, this obviously requires a lot of time and money to invest. Zhao Si was a little hesitant when he talked to him, but Li Xingzhou immediately agreed and immediately asked Shiyu to spend 100,000 taels from the account to Zhao Si, which was completely used for the research and development of new shells. Of course, Tienniu was also arranged for him as his deputy.

The purpose is to supervise each other, and 100,000 taels are not a small amount for the royal palace.

Zhao Si was ecstatic and was grateful to him. Obviously, a craftsman like him could have 100,000 taels of money for studying his favorite "strange skills and tricks". That was something that he didn't dare to think about. Unexpectedly, the prince actually trusted him so much.

One hundred thousand taels! The same states and governments have been in tax revenue for several years.

Zhao Si moved directly to the bar shooting range in the backyard of the royal mansion, and lived there with craftsmen and a few soldiers who tested the artillery. He studied day and night, but did not go home. He only slept for two or three hours a day.

Zhao Si’s wife couldn’t stand it, so she came to the palace to ask for him, and when she went in, she grabbed his ear and scolded him.

Zhao Si is a good man and is afraid of his wife. When he was just a good carpenter, he worked in a neighborhood neighbor. If there were any difficulties in the family, he would not charge money. Sometimes he would be directly paid for it and often told by his wife. Or if there was a smart wife who would have been controlled by him, he would not know how many advantages he would have been taken.

So Zhao Si has always listened to his wife, but this time, he did not listen to his wife. Her wife was shocked when she heard that the King of Pingnan gave him 100,000 taels for research.

In the end, he didn't stop him, but just asked Li Xingzhou to go in and out of the palace every day to take care of his husband.

Li Xingzhou agreed and arranged a carriage for her to go back and forth, because Zhao Si's family also had children, and his family was in the west of the city, so the children also had to be taken care of. Now he had to come to the royal palace to take care of his husband, which was very inconvenient.

Zhao was naturally very moved.

.........

In early February, spring was just right, and the willows were on the riverside, and the royal palace became hot again. The smoke and dust of steelmaking covered the sky and the sun. The graphite kiln kept producing various exquisite ceramic products day and night. The water-driven water wheels were constantly extinguished in the back mountain day and night.

The workers come and go very lively.

To the north is followed by the ferry of the Xinwangfu Industrial Zone, and the eighth Dingnan-level ship of the royal palace stands at the port. Now the royal palace has basically achieved all shipping business connecting the Grand Canal channel.

With cheap prices, faster speeds and greater transportation volume, Qiuer designed pulley sets also shine at various ferries, and with the banner of the royal palace, it is safer and more reliable, becoming the best choice for thousands of small businesses along the river, the Grand Canal and the Grand River channel.

With word of mouth, reputation gradually fermented, and merchants are constantly joining in. When goods are not transported, they can also carry merchants.

As Li Xingzhou expected at the beginning, the shipping business quickly exceeded the share of perfume, almost striking the various wine businesses in the royal palace, and merchants continued to join, which would soon become the largest business in the royal palace.

And it is far more than that. The advantage of Hangyuan is that it allows the royal palace to meet merchants from all over the country, understand the situation across the country, and create more positions, making the royal palace famous among the people.

As time goes by, many businesses will become increasingly inseparable from the royal palace.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages. Because of the exploitation of the royal family's business, many small boat transporters who used to be on the Dajiang River lost many opportunities. The royal family could only recruit some, but some were still forced to survive more difficult.

These are all changes. This country is changing rapidly with the royal palace as the center.

The influence of the royal palace relies on the river, the Grand Canal and the Grand River are constantly exerted everywhere, becoming more and more obvious.

After Yan Kun bid farewell to him, he boarded the big ship, followed by the black leopard, Yan Gu, and more than a dozen Western Regions people who could plant cotton.

The black leopard came to him and knelt down: "The prince will remember his great kindness and virtue in his heart. After he goes back, I will definitely teach the people of my tribe and farm well."

Li Xingzhou patted his shoulder: "I will tell you the truth too.

I can forgive you for robbing your family before, after all, it is just to continue.

But now it’s different. I left half of the food that the Jade-faced Fox robbed from Weizhou, which is enough to survive this year. When this autumn and winter, the royal palace will come to collect it when the cotton is harvested. At that time, the royal palace will pay for you. If you have money, you can buy grain and other things.

But if someone comes out to rob the mountain like before, I will send troops myself, and I will not show mercy at that time."

The Black Leopard swears: "Don't worry, Prince, I will definitely take care of them!"

Li Xingzhou nodded: "I believe you, and you also said that the old blackhead around you is literate and has seen the world. If you have anything to do, you can ask him."

The black leopard nodded, kowtowed three times, and then boarded the boat with more than a dozen Western Regions people and several large bags of cotton seeds.

Yan Gu led three guards to come up and bowed, "Prince."

Li Xingzhou nodded, then patted his shoulder and said, "This time I asked you to go to calm people's hearts and urge them. You grew up in Kaiyuan and know a lot about human relationships and worldly styles. I don't worry about you."

Yan Gu laughed happily: "I will never let down the prince's high expectations."

Li Xingzhou nodded again and reminded: "But remember to grasp the degree and report to me monthly on the situation in Taihang Mountains with the three of them. If they don't understand the situation, you will give guidance, but you cannot interfere with the decision of the Black Panther.

After all, you are guests. The foot of Taihang Mountain is far away, and it is very close. The royal ship arrives in more than half a day, making it easy to get around."

"Prince, I remember it!" Yan Gugong bowed.

"Go and do it well."

Yan Gu is also an old man from King Xiao. He has been responsible for helping the royal mansion contact Chen Zhang, Sun Wenyan and others, and he is very good at doing things.

After Yan Shen left, Li Xingzhou asked him to lead the guards in the mansion, but at this moment, he was once again facing a situation where no one was available. He still couldn't be completely relieved about the residents of Taihang Mountains. He needed someone to supervise and repay him at any time. Not only because robbery has become the main business of those people for many years, they are afraid that they can't change it.

Also because cotton is really important to the royal palace, this crop that was not widely promoted and planted until the Ming Dynasty has strategic value.

In desperation, he had to send Yan Gu out.

As everyone boarded the ship, a large ship full of goods from Beijing merchants and royal goods slowly sailed away from the port under Yan Kun and headed towards the distance.

Li Xingcheon planned to produce eight of this type of ship at the beginning, but gradually found that it was not enough. Not to mention the cargo flow far exceeds his expectations, there is also the flow of people.

Jingguo is a business power. When fighting wars, the people of Jingguo are not as good as the Khitans, they are not as fierce as the Xixia people and are not afraid of death, and are not as brave as the Jurchens, but the people of Jingguo... are rich!

This alone makes neighboring countries jealous.

There are many countries that do business with Jingguo people. Moreover, because there are too many merchants in Jingguo, some countries even set up sea bans to curb Jingguo people's trade with them, because if Jingguo people are allowed to do business, such as Japan.

Because if the merchants of Jingguo were allowed to do business, the rulers of various countries would be frightened to find that if they let them go, they would be able to make a lot of gold and silver.

It is precisely under such a prosperous commercial trade that the cargo flow far exceeds Li Xingzhou's expectations, and a large number of merchants will also take a boat. He and Shiyu, Yan Kun and Qifang have calculated carefully that the royal palace needs at least sixteen such large ships, and they will probably not be saturated by then.

But we can wait for the next generation ship.

...........

Many people say that the dynasty may awaken capital and enter modernization, but in fact, from the perspective of the small, the Ming Dynasty basically had no chance.

Simply put, during the Song Dynasty, foreign countries set up maritime bans to restrict the trade of Song Dynasty merchants in their countries. Because there is no restriction, all the money was earned by the Song people.

By the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty had completely reversed. The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty set up maritime bans to restrict trade with foreign countries, prevent the outflow of silver, and consolidate the imperial rule.

From this, it is actually obvious at a glance. If capital awakening is mentioned, Song is more likely. Unfortunately, Song is a very literate country, which can be seen from their civil and military juren every year.

Every year, the Song Dynasty took nearly 400 people in Wenju, and the martial arts... two people.

This has led to the "big gift" becoming a country with a high degree of development in culture and trade. In the early and mid-term, the people were very rich, and they could hold on to the number of times they kept sending and defeating, because I had money.

But excessive bias in science is also destined to be unable to protect his wealth and become a fertile land coveted by all directions.

Xixia made its own ideas, Liao made its own ideas, Jin made its own ideas, Mongolia made its own ideas...

What is slightly better than Song Dynasty is that it is not as literate as science and has stronger martial arts skills. It is as developed in commerce as it is, but it is not as civilized as Song Dynasty.

Why is the Song civilization? To put it simply, the Song Dynasty was about one-quarter of the Tang Dynasty and about one-seventh of the population, but the Tang Dynasty only received about fifty scholars every year.

What about the Song Dynasty? Where is its civilization?

On average, the two Song dynasties received nearly 400 soldiers every year, and about 4,000 people in ten years, of which 46.1% of the officials came from poor families! And many people were in high positions.

Before the Song Dynasty, merchants and craftsmen were unable to participate in the imperial examinations.

But the Song Dynasty was a real hero, no matter whether you were born, as long as you were a child of an innocent family, you could participate in the imperial examination. Even if your family was a craftsman or a businessman, the imperial examination system could be said to be booming, and poor children could show their strengths!

This is a terrible data, and many people must not believe it. So you were like this in the Song Dynasty? Not only did the previous dynasties not do it, but even the dynasties that were not able to do it until the founding of the Republic were not able to do it.

This is why the Song Dynasty is civilized and why the Song Dynasty did not sin against people by saying that it was a crime.

Li Xingzhou also wanted to create an ascendant path in Jingguo like the Song Dynasty, while balancing civil and military affairs, giving poor families a chance, and allowing businessmen and craftsmen to defend themselves.

Like Ding Yi's rebellion, as a merchant, he would do whatever he wanted to do to him, and he could not bear it anymore. The starting point of his rebellion was not wrong. Why did this cause? To put it bluntly, merchants were not allowed to take the imperial examinations, and merchants could not enter politics, so no one spoke for merchants.

If they want to protect themselves, they can only rely on the favor of senior officials for protection, and their business development will be deformed and stagnant.

But if he does this, he will be a ruthless person and will be enemies of the aristocratic families in the world. It is not a matter of being able to do whatever he wants.

Li Xingzhou shook his head. These are all too far away. Now we have to take it step by step. Building roads and dealing with Xixia is the top priority.

There is a need to wait to build roads. This year, the south will be over the war, so what you can do now is to find a way to deal with Xixia...

.........

In the Imperial Garden, the Emperor and Prince Kang drank together.

Prince Kang drank a generous drink, "Haha, the fruit wine from the Pingnan Prince's Mansion is refreshing and delicious, and it is not that sinner. It is really comfortable for an elderly person like me to drink."

The emperor smiled slightly, "I love to drink it and take it back when the time comes. The child from Sin Chew sent it. He said that this wine is suitable for me, but in my opinion, it is too dull and lacks heat."

"Yes, yes, yes, is the emperor's alcohol worth? Of course, this little wine is not enough." Prince Kang said with a smile on his face, and he wanted to pour wine on his own.

"What do you think of the prince?" the emperor asked suddenly.

Prince Kang was stunned, and the wine pot in his hand almost slipped down, so he hurriedly grabbed it.

"Speak." Seeing that he didn't say anything for a long time, pouring wine and drinking by himself, the emperor urged.

"This... the prince is gentle, kind, respectful, frugal, diligent, hard-working, respectful, modest, gentle and elegant..."
To be continued...