On the lake in front of Tsinghua Garden, the chimneys of the steamships are exceptionally quiet, and the crane-winged sails that should be displayed are also stacked on the deck, and the whole big ship is docked in the calm lake.

This is not the earliest steam sailing ship on the former lake in the past, nor is it the second, the second steam sailing ship was also designed by Zhou Sijing, the director of the Steam Engine Bureau, and the speed is one percent faster than the previous one, and the shape of the ship is more beautiful, because the chimney that goes straight up and down is stretched diagonally from below the deck across the back of the stern building, and is basically hidden in the hull.

It was really comfortable at first, but after the emperor realized that he had not studied in the Wutang Warship Department in Guangzhou, and had never sailed by boat, it was faster to install a more powerful steam engine, and the chimney was hidden in the hull and smoked backwards.

But what's the use?

What is the purpose of a steamship? It's not that it's fast, but it's fast, and it can carry a lot of cargo, and it mainly sails on the sea, the exhaust chimney passage turns in the lower deck, and the loading place is occupied, and the surrounding heat is too hot to live in, and a 400-gauge ship can only carry twenty people and let the steamer sail for two days, so even if this thing can fly, what is the use?

Zhou Sijing's design is very exquisite, he put the porcelain kiln outside the boiler after changing the design, and placed the boiler in the middle, and the kiln wall made of refractory bricks is covered with a layer of porcelain glaze, as if the teacup is reflective when drinking tea, thinking that the light can be reversed with heat, and he also brought an endless blower on the shaft of the steam engine to connect the outside with the boiler, so that the efficiency of the boiler is greatly increased.

The consequence is that the fuel consumption rate is faster, and the boiler is heavier and stronger, not only because of the insulation kiln outside, but also because the flue is changed to make the smoke exhaust more difficult, and the pressure in the boiler is greater.

This steam engine was originally canonized by the Wanli Emperor, until one day the wind on the lake, the chimney behind the buttocks sucked the water of the lake into the boat, and almost sank the lake with the emperor.

Now the second steamship was pulled directly to the shore by the flag army warriors, and the emperor renamed the ship Quyi Fengying, keeping it to warn himself.

"Then I will understand, professional things should be left to professional people to do, just like Zhang Ge's illness, he can't be the master or I can make the decision, you have to be the master."

The emperor read Chen Mu's long letter with relish on the boat, and whenever he encountered something he couldn't understand, he was distracted and said a few words to Chen Shigong who was sitting on the side, and then thought about it for a while and then read, he patted the side of the ship and said: "Just like this ship, learn from each other's strengths, have a more powerful steamer, and a safer chimney." ”

"The speed doesn't take up a lot of space, it's just ugly, ugly, it doesn't matter; Chen Dashuai's handwriting is also ugly, who can say that this is not a treasure? Wanli raised his eyes and frowned at Chen Shigong as he spoke, and asked, "Doctor Chen, you have been winning, Chen Shuai's handwriting seems to have improved a lot in recent years, how did you practice?" ”

When the emperor said this, Chen Shigong, who was on the side, didn't know how to take it, and pursed his lips several times before bowing his head and saluting: "Your Majesty, the handwriting of the handsome man has advanced by leaps and bounds after the trade in the Ming and Western regions. ”

"Xiyi Xi porcelain, especially the porcelain with handsome handwriting, the same quality, with handsome handwriting, a word is expensive 3,000 Tongbao."

Wanli understood Beiyang's annual statements, raised his eyebrows and said, "Or is it the silver exchange ratio?" ”

"Still, it hasn't changed."

The emperor put down Chen Mu's letter, raised his two hands and put them next to his cheeks, quickly closed his eyes and calculated the formula, and said something in his mouth: "Fanyi silver Tongbao exchange rate, purchase utensils plus three percent tax, three thousand Tongbao silver five taels five dollars and six cents, heh!" ”

"The word handsome is not very valuable."

In the consciousness of the emperor, how can a random calligraphy and painting in the palace be taken out of a few hundred taels, Chen Dashuai inscribed the porcelain, and put together a total of two words, ten taels of silver called the Ming Dynasty heavy ministers to write, and the price is not dropped?

"No, no, no, Your Majesty, you misunderstood." When Chen Shigong heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The handsome man doesn't write his name." ”

"Don't write names?"

The emperor scratched his sideburns and wondered, "Then what did he write?" ”

"Usually the marshal will write an official name, if the name must be the most expensive and the longest, alas, forget it, the minister will report it to His Majesty, cough cough."

Obviously, this embarrassed Dr. Chen, but since His Majesty asked, he had to answer.

So he straightened up, put the medicine box beside him, cleared his throat and pretended to be a gesture, then took a deep breath and reported to the emperor on the boat: "The important minister of the Beiyang Military Government of the Ming Empire, the Minister of the Dongyang Military Government, Fengtian Yiyun pushes the sincere Xuanli Wuchen Jing Haibo, holds the imperial gift Shang Fang Sword and is ordered to patrol the Great Dongyang Zhengyi Pin Special Jin Ronglu Doctor, Zuo Zhuguo Chen Mu personally handwritten. ”

Chen Shigong said, arched his hand at the emperor with a dull face and a fast mind, and said: "Your Majesty, these words are the best written. ”

The emperor's hand was raised several times and fell several times, and the mouth that wanted to be said was opened and closed several times, and finally swallowed the dry saliva, and slowly sighed: "The capital fortune of the Great Dongyang Military Mansion is actually earned back by Jing Haibo for me every year?" It's a lot of hard work. ”

Toiled?

He doesn't work hard!

The emperor's fucking brain circuit will think that the annual silver of one million taels of the Oriental Military Mansion will be earned by him by writing.

Just that word, no one will buy it if it is ten times cheaper in China, even the Westerners buy it, it is because they don't have a choice, every time the market opens without a word, they are the first to be bought, leaving a word There is really no way, and the businessman can only buy it hard...... Daming's goods are like this, no matter the price, buying and selling them is a matter of making more and making less, and not buying things is a matter of bad brains.

It's not the same thing.

But he didn't know what the emperor thought, so he carefully picked up the letter and said solemnly: "Jing Haibo made time to make money to write a letter to me, it seems that what I read is not a letter, it is really gold, and I must read it carefully." ”

Saying that, the emperor had lost the desire to continue the conversation with Chen Shigong, and he patted the books piled up on the boat and said: "In this case, the doctor will leave first, go and persuade the teacher, or don't do surgery, just use Chen Shuai's dietary therapy, taboos, and the doctor's advice, sitz bath, dressing medicine to reduce swelling to treat the disease." ”

"The teacher, like me, must not miss the slightest mistake in the Ming Dynasty...... Medicine. ”

The emperor picked up Chen Mu's long letter, looked back at the bookcase beside him, added a sentence, and said with a smile: "I will read your research, but now, I want to read Chen Shuai's research first." ”

He raised his arms and pointed to the soldiers on the shore guarding the new inner warehouse with endless traffic, and shook Chen Mu's letter quite complacently: "I have a lot of money and nowhere to spend, Chen Shuai asked the doctor to send the letter, it is for me to find a lot of places to spend money, is there anything more happy in this world than spending money on yourself?" ”

In Chen Shigong's resignation, the accompanying military eunuch untied the boat to the lake, and Wanli raised his eyes to look at the sky, his deep gaze was full of confusion.

He thinks that I am the world, but he has never been able to take a good look at the world.

The dissatisfaction with reality made him very eager to see the world outlined by Chen Mu in his letter.

That's a ...... An ambitious world.