Chapter 495

PS: just after the new year, let the snail cushion, tomorrow four more.

"Ha ha ha..."

In the yamen, Yang Chengye's laughter is wanton and contains excitement. In Xiao Ming's description, he is full of vision for the future, and even his desire to enter the cabinet is reduced.

"Your Highness, on behalf of the people in Dengzhou, I thank you." Yang Chengye stopped smiling and looked devout.

"No need to thank you. I have created conditions for you, but if you can't make full use of it and develop Dengzhou, I won't spare you." Xiao Ming joked with a warning.

Yang Chengye nodded, "Your Highness is at ease. I promise that there will be no officials in Dengzhou's Officialdom who will take advantage of the opportunity to make profits and bully merchants."

"Well, I believe you." Xiao Ming said lightly.

After explaining Yang Chengye, Xiao Ming's trip to Dengzhou was basically successful. He didn't stay in Dengzhou any longer, and returned to Qingzhou with the Qingzhou army the next day.

The battle of Ryukyu made him realize that his military strength was still too weak. Although Ryukyu won the battle, in his opinion, Japan alone could contain most of his troops.

This time he sent out half of the Qingzhou army, but the Japanese pirates are just a group of Pirates put together, which does not show the real combat effectiveness of the Japanese nation.

What's more, the barbarians he faced were more difficult to deal with than the Japanese. After a full-scale war, he might be greatly weakened. Therefore, he had to arm the troops of other states besides the Qingzhou army.

From then on, the state armies will be responsible for different war zones.

After another three days on the road, Xiao Ming returned to Qingzhou City. This time, he was out for almost a month.

Although he is very busy, his achievements are also good. From then on, Qingzhou will have a long way to go to finance, which will provide support for him to continue to strengthen the army.

The news of Xiao Ming's return soon alarmed Pang Yukun. As the first assistant of Fengguo, when Xiao Ming was no longer Fengguo, he was in charge of the affairs of Fengguo.

Nevertheless, he still had to ask Xiao Ming for instructions on some important issues.

So before Xiao Ming went back to the palace, he stopped him on the way. Xiao Ming had no choice but to go to the Yamen with him.

"Your Highness, the first round of the examination of Bowen college has ended. There are 237 students who have passed the examination. How to arrange the positions of these people? Please give us your Highness's instructions?"

Pang Yukun is having a headache about this problem. The questions of this exam are all given by Xiao Ming. Different positions take different subjects. Now there are excellent students in government affairs, law, business and trade.

"Two hundred and thirty-seven?" Xiao Ming was a little surprised. The students of the school of government affairs really worked hard. It seems that the official standard of the state of Dayu has not reduced the poison of these students at all. After pondering for a while, he said, "first, you should draw up a list for Wang, and in addition, the identity background of these students should also be given to Wang."

"Yes, your highness." Pang Yukun was relieved that the appointment of an official was a major event. He was always careful and didn't want to arouse Xiao Ming's suspicion. After all, it was very sensitive.

After talking about the Qingzhou examination, Pang Yukun continued: "Your Highness, there is news from Chang'an that queen Zhao has given birth to a little prince, the emperor Longyan Dayue, who is granted amnesty. The second prince is also said to be within the scope of amnesty. Although the identity of the prince is not protected, he has been allowed to return to Beijing."

Zhan Xingchang was also in the Yamen. He looked at Xiao Ming's expression. He saw that Xiao Ming's expression was unshakable, so he said, "isn't your highness angry at all?"

"It's nothing to be annoyed about. My father didn't want to deal with the second prince like this, but the evidence is solid. He demoted the second prince to Bazhou in order to appease the king. Now empress Zhao gave birth to the Dragon son, and he has reason to call the second prince back." Xiao Ming said.

"The emperor is the emperor after all. He did it to tell his highness who is the master of the state of Dayu." Pang Yukun said, squinting his eyes.

Xiao Ming smiles bitterly and shakes his head. Pang Yukun sees it thoroughly. At the beginning, Xiao Wenxuan was unwilling to demote the second prince. If Xiao Ming really destroyed another prince, he would be a disgrace to the emperor.

Therefore, the purpose of pardoning the second prince this time is to establish authority in front of the ministers and tell the ministers in the court that his majesty of Xiao Wenxuan is still inviolable.

"You're right, but I'm not interested in the affairs of the court. Now I've got through the sea route, and it's the most important thing to make the people rich." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Knowing that the sea route was opened, Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang both showed a smile on their faces. Pang Yukun said, "since the sea route has been opened, I'm looking forward to counting silver every day."

Speaking of this, the three laughed at the same time, full of yearning for the future.

Just then, a man came into the door. When he saw Xiao Ming, he said in a hurry, "Your Highness, you are back."

"Lin Wentao." Xiao Ming said with a smile when he saw the visitor.

Pang Yukun then said: "Your Highness, during your absence, this boy is running to the government every day. Every time he asks when his highness will come back, he doesn't know what treasure he has made.""This is absolutely a treasure. Now the steam engine workshop has produced five steam engines, two of which have been combined with drilling machines, three of which have been combined with boring machines, becoming steam engine drilling machines and steam engine boring machines." Lin Wentao said excitedly.

"Steam drill?" Xiao Ming was surprised when he heard that the hydraulic drilling machine and the steam engine drilling machine were not the same level of power. He said, "yes, yes, the efficiency of your steam engine workshop is good."

Lin Wentao suddenly showed a smile, he said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, do you want to visit the lathe workshop now?"

"Let's go. It's a big thing for me to watch." Xiao Ming turned to Pang Yukun and said, "you Shoufu also need to know what a steam engine is. Let's go together."

Pang Yukun was not interested in these machines, but since he learned that these machines could increase production by hundreds of times, he had to pay attention to them.

After Lin Wentao arrived at the lathe workshop, three lathes in the workshop had been replaced by steam power instead of original water power.

There is a small steam engine at the junction of the three drilling machines. One craftsman is responsible for fueling the steam engine, and the other is responsible for supervising the drilling machine at any time.

Compared with the slow hydraulic drilling machine, the speed of the steam engine drilling machine is very fast, and the rotation speed of the drill bit is very uniform.

Xiao Ming asked, "how long does it take for such a drill to drill out a barrel?"

"It only takes an hour." The craftsman replied.

"One in an hour, twelve in a day, and six thousand in five hundred." Xiao Ming was shocked. This is the gap between the powers.

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