Ask Sword

"Can not remember?"

The youth in Chinese clothes called Fei Lian looked confused, "What do you mean?"

"literal meaning."

Yan Fu frowned slightly, and said, "It's like a clear painting without a human face. When you see him, you can recognize his appearance, but once you lose your sight, you can't remember it at all."

"Could it be a non-phase skill?"

Fei Lian rubbed his chin, "Isn't Wuxiang Kung Fu a technique specially used by Jie Yi Zong for assassination? Could it be that You Qiong has another identity, so well-known that we would recognize him?

But he is so strong, even if he doesn't hide his identity, who can stop him? "

Fei Lian thought for a long time, but still couldn't think of an answer, so he had to give up.

Yan Fu raised the magazine in Yang's hand and asked, "Where are we going now?"

"Let me see."

Fei Lian took out a scroll from his pocket, unfolded it casually, and rows of words were listed on the scroll. Some are already marked with a checkmark, others are not.

[Go to the Endless Sea and dive to the trench with a depth of two thousand feet]【√】

【Hunting a megalodon】【√】

[Travel around Dongzhou by boat]

[Sit on the throne of each country] [Zhou Guo√]

【Jumping down from Taihao Mountain】

【Go to Liyuan to pick a dead Christmas flower】

[Appreciate a sword dance on the Qinhuai River]

These ideas are varied, ranging from "participating in horse racing and winning a hundred games in a row" to "coaxing Zen bald donkeys to buy folk remedies for hair growth".

"Let me see"

Fei Lian's fingers aimlessly swipe across the wish lists on the scroll, and finally stop at the item [Enjoy a sword dance on the Qinhuai River].

"It's decided, this time we will go to Qinhuai River first."

Fei Lian clapped his hands, put away the scroll excitedly, pushed the door out, and shouted: "Little boy, help me get the carriage ready!"

Hearing the bluffing voice of his companion, Yan Fu shook his head with a smile, put away the magazine, and walked out of the room.

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Two months after the paper figurine mutated, Jinchengfang.

This year's winter seems to be colder than previous years, Li Ang flipped through today's newspaper, and glanced at the temperature forecast in the upper left corner of the newspaper out of the corner of his eye.

Some time ago, Su Feng wanted to get a more accurate temperature when he was manufacturing the steam boiler for the spiritual machine. So he poured water into the thin glass tube and marked the scale to measure the temperature according to the law of liquid thermal expansion and cold contraction.

Subsequently, he continued to improve the thermometer, replacing water with alcohol and mercury, reducing the diameter of the glass thin tube, and sealing the thin tube to prevent the liquid from evaporating.

And at Li Ang's suggestion, set the freezing point of water to zero degrees and the boiling point of water to one hundred degrees, with one hundred temperature intervals in between.

Because the thermometer was relatively simple to make, it was quickly popularized, and the daily temperature measurement results were printed in newspapers.

"Any news?"

Chai Chai, who was slowly drinking yam and wolfberry porridge, asked casually.

"Well, it's nothing."

Li Ang flipped through the newspaper, "The production of the spiritual energy machine is going smoothly, Dengzhou and Suzhou have already put the spiritual energy machine on board the ship, and after a little modification, it becomes an ocean-going ship.

Travel faster and farther than ever before.

The workshop using the spiritual machine is also in full swing.

In addition, the two railways from Chengdu to Yuzhou and from Qizhou to Xuzhou have been completed, and several prefectures and counties have been established.

There are also railways from Changzhou to Suzhou, and from Yuezhou to Jiangzhou, which are also under construction. "

"So fast?"

Chai Chai asked doubtfully, "Didn't you say it will take at least half a year?"

"Profit driven."

Li Ang curled his lips and said: "There is no doubt about the benefits of the railway. It can quickly gather population, resources, and wealth. The local aristocratic families are very greedy."

Chai Chai tilted his head and asked, "They want to collect tolls?"

"No. The fare is a lot, but compared to the ability of the railway itself to accumulate wealth, it is a drop in the bucket."

Li Ang explained with a smile: "After the railway is built, each station is naturally a transshipment center.

With so many people and supplies traveling from south to north, there must be a place to stay, right?

Local restaurants, mansions, hotels, warehouses, teahouses, etc. do not worry about the flow of customers at all.

Even if the aristocratic family does not need to resort to indiscriminate means of extortion and extortion, it can guarantee wealth and honor in the next few decades, or even hundreds of years, if it is just doing business.

Naturally, those who have money will contribute money, and those who are capable will even spend a lot of money to hire monks from various colleges, and try their best to cooperate with the local state capital to build a railway.

It's just that"

Li Ang snorted coldly and said with a smile: "Their behavior is also weaving a rope of death for themselves."

Chai Chai didn't know why, so he blinked, "Huh?"

"The reason why the aristocratic families of the former Sui Dynasty and the early Yu Dynasty were able to compete with the imperial court relied on three points. The monopoly of cultivation resources, the monopoly of knowledge, and the monopoly of population and land."

Li Ang raised three fingers and said: "The marriages between the families have cultivated talents suitable for cultivation, and they have armed forces.

However, after the establishment of the Academy and the construction of colleges in various states and counties, this monopoly has declined significantly.

The same goes for the monopoly of knowledge,

The public libraries in each prefecture and county, as well as state and county schools, can train many scholars every year, and the imperial court can recruit qualified bureaucrats through imperial examinations.

But now, once the railway is built, the flow of people and goods will increase rapidly, and the last monopoly of the aristocratic family will also be broken.

This kind of change will first start on those wealthy families in one county.

The railroads created so many jobs that they could absorb tens of thousands of sharecroppers,

The business of the wealthy family is getting bigger and bigger, and at the same time, their control over the local people is getting weaker and weaker, and finally they become a family of merchants.

The imperial court has nothing to do with the aristocratic families who control the land and talents, but there are too many ways to suppress the wealthy businessmen.

Even if they don't target them, merchants are dying far faster than aristocratic families. "

Chai Chai thought for a while and asked, "Won't the family resist?"

"There are many smart people in the aristocratic family, and they must have thought of this. But the current situation is so powerful that it cannot be countered by human power."

Li Ang flipped through the article and said casually: "How many clans are there in Yu State now, eight hundred or one thousand? As time goes by, these clans will gradually decline or even disappear.

Two hundred, one hundred, maybe only a few dozen left in the end. There is no longer any threat to the court. "

Li Ang has no deep hatred with the aristocratic family, many of his friends and classmates can be regarded as the descendants of the clan,

But he didn't like the family's practice of raising local people in captivity and establishing a country within a country.

He wanted to let the people of Yu Kingdom live a dignified life instead of just surviving.

Then the aristocratic families who are entrenched in the state capitals and are unwilling to make changes must die.

Li Ang silently deduced the future situation in his mind, feeling a little melancholy in his heart.

Mosi's changes are becoming more and more frequent, and the high-level realm of listening to the rain has not been loosened for a long time.

I don't know if I can see railways all over Yu State, factories everywhere, and even modern cities in my lifetime.

Squeak.

The palace carriage stopped in front of the mansion, and Li Leling came.