Chapter 212 City of Technology
The only rest Jinsui had throughout February was attending the wedding of Hei Hu and Bai Bao Zhu.
Finally, Heihu’s wish came true and he got his wife home.
Everyone was in a low mood because of Wei Zhubo's incident, so Heihu said that the wedding would not be a big deal.
But Jinsui thinks that one thing should be taken separately. We will avenge Wei Zhubo, but our brother's marriage must go ahead and we cannot let Miss Bai down.
You have to know that when Heihu went to the northern border, Miss Bai was an unmarried woman who was dressed up as a woman. She was determined that if Heihu came back, she would be a widow for the rest of her life.
Such a good girl deserves a grand wedding.
Besides, the border town also needs a happy event to worry about. The last happy event was when we invited the nobles of Yan to come to Lidajixian City to participate in our new city naming ceremony.
Of course, the main purpose was to receive gifts. Although the ceremony was very grand and many gifts were received, everyone was attracted by the trade in the northern border. As soon as the banquet was over, the discussion was about trade.
We also took the opportunity to sell a lot of machinery, especially textile machines, and received 3,000 units that day.
Jin Sui quietly told Yan Jiu to only do the sheep and rabbit wool textile business, and not to invest so much in silk, linen and cotton.
Because so many nobles have placed orders for textile machines, it means that a large amount of fabric will flood into the market in the next few months, and prices will definitely be depressed, which is not cost-effective.
Let’s just make high-end luxury products. With Princess Toya here, we don’t have to worry about not being able to sell them.
In short, this grand event was empty and busy, and the brothers of the Black Feather Camp only felt tired, not happy.
So we need Hei Hu's wedding to liven up the atmosphere internally. We didn't invite any outsiders this time, only Bian Cheng and the Yan family.
Yan Shiyi is obviously a relative of the woman, but he insisted on visiting Heihu's place, saying that the big pot meals in the army are delicious, and he even wanted to drink Han Xing! Obviously, he already knew that Shier Niang liked Han Xing. He used to respect Han Xing, but now he just couldn't stand her.
Of course Han Xing didn't let him. The other party had just gotten married, and the groom didn't get drunk, but they were the first ones to get drunk.
Jin Sui asked someone to take Yan Shiyi and Han Xing to a room to sober up and cultivate their relationship. After all, Yan Shiyi and Han Xing couldn't be bothered by him all day before Twelve Mother got married.
Jinsui drank the wedding wine, ate a quick meal, and went to the bridal chamber to see Baozhu with a group of female guests including Chen Yunniang and Yingniang.
The little girl has grown into a big girl. She still has a round face and round eyes. She looks very blessed when she smiles. She and Heihu look like a perfect match.
Then she told Gu Changxiao to look after Grandpa and Jin'an, not to let Grandpa drink too much, not to let Jin'an and Li Linfeng play outside too late, and to be careful of getting their hands blown up when playing with firecrackers.
Gu Changxiao, a dignified prince of the frontier, turned into a husband. He took care of the old and the young, and in the middle he even grabbed Jinsui and asked, "Where are you going, Suisui?"
Jin Sui rolled up her sleeves and said, "Laboratory!" The gunpowder was in the critical stage of the experiment, and she had also completed the separation of oil in space and separated out the chemical drug components.
Soon, the street lamps in our border town will use kerosene! Then the whole city will be brightly lit day and night, and there will be no curfew in the whole city.
Gu Changxiao felt ashamed and guilty. Sui Sui worked so hard, how could he drink here? He sent Grandpa Ling and Jin An home, and went to the workshop to look at the trebuchet information overnight.
Then he saw that Cheng Yu was there too.
The superiors are busy, so how can the subordinates be lazy? Lian Heihu only took three days of wedding leave before joining the team to train new recruits. Han Xing asked him to stay at home for a few more days, but he laughed and said that he had already accompanied Baozhu back home, and he was just eating free meals and being lazy at home.
Why not just come and train new recruits? They are still motivated.
Yan Shiyi felt that he was not worthy of coming to the border town. No matter who he looked for, they were all busy, which made him seem very idle.
Because Jin Sui proposed the hot pot restaurant franchise plan, the first person he looked for was Jin Zilin, and he also asked Jin Zilin to invest in the college.
So he invited Jin Zilin to stay in the border town for a few days. He would accompany him to look around. At least he would know where the college was built and how big it was. Only then would he dare to invest money! Jin Zilin came with the polo team, thinking that he could have fun for a month like he did last autumn.
It turned out that no one was playing in the border town at all. They seemed particularly stupid coming here just to eat, drink and have fun. There were quite a few children of the gentry, but they all had tasks to do and were responsible for the trade in the northern border.
Jin Zilin looked at the people from Border Town who seemed to be full of energy, and asked Yan Shiyi in a low voice: "Do you feel itchy all over? I feel so useless here!"
Yan Shiyi slapped his thigh and said, "Really? I'm not the only one who feels this way!
I tell you, this symptom disappears once you leave the border town. As soon as you get to the border town, the blood in your veins seems to boil, and if you don’t do anything, you feel like a waste.”
Jin Zilin hurriedly asked the team members to take off their team uniforms and change into guard uniforms. The two went to see the academy first, and then saw the white-haired Grandpa Ling supervising there.
Jin Zilin was almost moved to tears: "Are even the elderly in Border Town so hardworking?"
Yan Shiyi pointed at the children who were training over there. They were all boys as old as Jin'an. Heihu picked one hour every day to train them.
Jin Zilin opened his eyes wide: "Children can also join the army?"
Yan Shiyi shook his head: "No! But martial arts training must start from childhood. If you have a good physique, you will be a strong soldier when you join the army when you are old enough!"
Fat Jin Zilin shrank his head in embarrassment and asked Yan Shiyi: "How can you have the nerve to live in a border town for a long time? Isn't it uncomfortable?"
Yan Shiyi said exaggeratedly: "You will understand after you stay for a few more days! I can't really say what's good about this town, but I just think it's more interesting than going to a brothel."
"By the way, where is the brothel? I haven't visited the brothel in the border town yet!"
Yan Shiyi tried to cover his mouth: "Be careful if Miss Ji hears, I will beat you! There are no brothels or gambling houses in the border town, and you can only gamble during football matches.
Let's get down to business first. What do you think of this academy? You can get a position in the academy for 50,000 taels of silver. I fought hard to get you a position. If you hesitate, Miss Ji will find someone else immediately. "
Jin Zilin stared with his small eyes. You have to say, his eyes were small but very bright.
"My father often said that I was neither good at literature nor martial arts, so he sent me to study at the academy in Chang'an. There were too many rules and the teachers were annoying, so I ran away after only half a year. Because of this, my father scolded me hundreds of times every year.
Haha, if he knew that I didn't study and became the manager of the college, his expression would be very interesting! Just to see my father's surprised expression, I should spend these 50,000 taels of silver!"
Yan Shiyi said silently, "Luckily your father only has you as his son. If your family was the same and you had a brother, I guarantee he would have broken your legs long ago."
So, brother, you really are a good brother because you didn’t break my legs before!
I heard that Jin Zilin came to give me money, so Grandpa Ling treated me very warmly! He took him to eat Central Plains stew and didn't let him stay in the inn, but let him live directly in Ji's house.
Yan Shiyi feels wronged. You have never treated me like this.
The reason was not known until the next day. Grandpa Ling had actually tricked Jin Zilin into investing 10,000 taels of silver into the Taoist temple.
Yan Shiyi hurriedly said that he also wanted to vote, but Grandpa Ling didn't want it.
It was not until he repeatedly asked the reason that Grandpa Ling looked at him with a 'silly' expression and said, "We may not be considered a family, but we are still relatives and friends. How can I cheat you out of your money? This kid is different. Does his father dare to come and ask for it back?"
Yan Shiyi was delighted by these words, and he immediately said that if Grandpa still needed such rich young men who were stupid and had a lot of money, he could bring a few of them with him and make sure they would be tricked by Grandpa Ling into investing in the Taoist temple.
Jin Sui knew nothing about this until two years later, when a group of noble young men from Yan went to the northern border to open a Taoist temple. Only then did she learn that her grandfather had combined the Taoist temple with commerce and turned it into a business.
I don't know whether to praise my grandfather for his piety to the gods or to money? But if we really talk about which Taoist temple has saved the most people, my grandfather's Taoist temple is definitely the first!
Later, the Han slaves in the northern border were able to gain freedom, thanks to my grandfather's Taoist temple.
Next, let’s talk about Jin Zilin’s trip to the border town. After staying there for seven days, he finally understood what Yan Shiyi said. He couldn’t say what was good about it, but he didn’t want to leave since he was here.
He brought a group of guards to the construction site to watch people building houses, and he could watch for a whole day.
Men seem to be naturally fascinated by heavy machinery. The huge pulleys, ramming vehicles, ladders... some of them should have been used on the battlefield, but they were used in urban construction in the border town.
Jin Zilin wanted to buy a few to bring home and show his family, but when he asked around, he found out that they didn't sell any heavy machinery. He could buy tools like textile machines, basket carts, water wheels, curved plows, and four-wheeled carriages.
But we don’t sell large machinery for urban construction because it involves military use and is confidential information.
Soon Jin Zilin got to know a group of young men from scholar families who came to watch the construction site. They were all old acquaintances whom he met while playing polo.
They all ran away from home to the border town to play by taking advantage of the northern border trade. Now the border town is like a brand new technological city for these young nobles.
After hearing this, Jin Sui took the opportunity to get a hot air balloon, and charged one hundred taels of silver for each flight. The ropes were not loosened, and the balloon would fly a hundred meters high for half an hour each time.
The sons of the noble families lined up to wait for the chance to fly! The feat of flying that everyone had longed for for thousands of years was actually achieved so easily in the border town.
One hundred taels of silver can allow you to fly back to the sky!
Jinsui has not yet found the fire-resistant cotton for making hot air balloons, so he only made one with space materials. There is only one, and it cannot be produced on a large scale for transportation.
He said to Cheng Yu: "Let those wealthy boys play with it for a month. We will have the start-up capital. Then we can find fire-proof cloth and make hot air balloons on a large scale for transportation."
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Boss Ji, this is a great idea. The noble young man from Yan will come to have fun, and we can collect enough money to build a workshop."
Jin Sui smiled and said, “In the future, we will make it a special attraction of our border town. We can enjoy the scenery by hot air balloon in spring, swim in the mountain stream in summer, hunt and play polo outside the border in autumn, and play in the snow in winter.
Let these money-spending boys open their wallets all year round."
What’s funny is that the hot air balloon takes off from outside the Great Wall. When the weather is good, it can be seen from a long distance. The people in the border town have become accustomed to it and know that we have a flying device in our border town.
The army was even more clear that Boss Ji and the prince flew out from the Northern Frontier Royal Court.
But the herdsmen outside the Great Wall don’t know this. No matter how many times they see it, as soon as they see a hot air balloon rising into the sky, they will immediately kneel down and pray.
When the money-giving boys who were enjoying the scenery with telescopes saw this, their vanity was greatly satisfied, and they started to play with more tricks, such as scattering lucky money, candies, or poems from space, saying that they wanted to see how far it could fly.
Are there any people who want to bribe the workers with silver and ask them to cut the rope to see if they can fly out of Yan?
Unfortunately, the workers were all soldiers from the Black Feather Camp and could not be bribed. Someone else offered to buy a hot air balloon, any amount of money would do!
Cheng Yu had no choice but to say that there was a shortage of materials now, and they would open for sale only after two years when there was more material.
Upon hearing this, Yan Shiyi wanted to cry. His wallet was empty, otherwise he would have invested in the hot air balloon business immediately.
In short, the border town is very lively this March. The more lively the town is, the more determined the refugees are, and the stronger their sense of belonging to the border town is.
They didn't expect that the soldiers here didn't beat people, the officials here didn't collect heavy taxes, there was no need to do hard labor, the gentry here didn't occupy fertile land, and even the dandy boys on the streets had changed.
There is no need to kneel down when you see them. It seems that people here are not divided into different classes...
In the ensuing Chang'an Imperial Examination, candidates from all over the country gathered in Chang'an. It was the right time for Prince Yu to show his skills, but the Northern Frontier Delegation had not yet left the capital.
The matter of the Queen's collusion with Zuo Xian Wang was once again brought to the fore. There were more than 10,000 scholars in the city. The heated discussion could not be stopped.
The same was true in the court, asking Prince Yu to thoroughly investigate the "treason case" and give an explanation to the Northern Frontier delegation, and to send them out of Beijing quickly so as not to delay the imperial examination.
Prince Yu knew that it was time to cut ties with his mother. If he didn't, he would really be dragged down by the Queen.
Now all that was left was for the Emperor to die of his illness. He was the popular choice as the crown prince, but with the dark history of the Empress' collusion with Prince Zuo, and so much evidence before their eyes, perhaps even his bloodline would be in doubt.
He immediately consulted with Duke Shen: "We have to put the matter of dealing with King Li aside for now, and we must send the Northern Frontier delegation away as soon as possible."
"As for the queen, let her pray for the country!"
After all, they are blood relatives, and she cannot bear to kill them. Given the Queen's temper, they will still cause trouble if they are imprisoned in the palace.
Eventually the queen was deposed and sent to the national temple for prayers.
The Northern Frontier delegation was not satisfied. This time, Duke Shen personally stepped in and said that deposing the queen was the greatest sincerity. If the Northern Frontier was still not satisfied, then go to war! Let him go back and ask King Bater whether he wanted to go to war with Daxia? The Northern Frontier delegation left Beijing. The court and the scholars were satisfied. Only the queen questioned King Yu like a madman, why did he treat her like this? She was his biological mother!
Prince Yu did not answer, but watched the queen being taken into the carriage and sent to the National Temple.
At this moment, he felt that there was no more dark cloud above his head suppressing him. The world was under his control. As long as the emperor closed his eyes, he would be the ruler of a country! He even felt that Gu Changxiao was not a threat. With tens of thousands of refugees dragging him down, what could he accomplish?
After hearing about what happened in Chang'an, Gu Changxiao didn't say anything. It was not easy for the Northern Frontier delegation to delay for so long. The Queen was deposed, Prince Yu's reputation was damaged, and the gentry in Chang'an were alienated. This move was half successful.
Next, they would wait until the imperial examination to recruit talents. Gu Changxiao asked Huo Zian to stay in Chang'an and wait for new tasks after the imperial examination.
No one noticed that since Prince Yu sent people to suppress or dismiss the capable generals at the northwestern border last year, the Hu people had already realized that the northwestern border was weak.
A catastrophe against Chang'an is about to begin.
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