Albert has been very uncomfortable these days, and he finds that the attitude of the miscellaneous servants in the Weisi Yamen Mansion has begun to be lukewarm, and he may even forget the time for delivering meals three times a day, which makes him very distressed. No, it was clear that after lunchtime, his friend Heisenberg had already finished his lunch, and his share was still far away.

At this time, Albert, who already had a certain foundation in Chinese, decided to go to the kitchen handyman theory to do it, but halfway through, he heard someone talking about himself unscrupulously. This surprised Albert, and after thinking about it, he understood that these people were bullying themselves for not knowing Chinese, so they blatantly explored right and wrong, but it also gave him the opportunity to understand the reason for the cold reception.

The handyman spoke very quickly, and Albert listened to it for a long time and only understood that it was Mao Zhenfu of the Weisi Yamen who thought that he was lazy and lazy all day long, and ate idle meals, so he ordered him to go down and deliberately manipulate the food.

This made Albert rise in anger, and decided to go to Mao Weizhang to theorize, even General Li didn't say anything, and what reason did he have to deprive himself of the right to eat. So, angrily went straight to the courtyard where Li Xin and Mao Weizhang worked together.

But halfway through, I saw the soap in the house leading a guy who looked dusty and went straight to the cross-courtyard where General Li was. It was the kung fu of a stunned god that made this Dr. Albert from the West fall into a short contemplation.

Li Xin suddenly heard that the envoy of the Datong prefect had arrived, and his heart immediately tightened, and now that he had just stopped for a while, Xiong Kaiyuan couldn't wait to jump out. Thinking about this goods, he felt a headache, and the credit for killing Yue Tuo was his idea to steal it.

Let's see what the hell this thing is up to.

"Let him in!"

The envoy entered the chamber with a body full of wind and dust, and the charcoal in the copper basin in the room was burning, and a burst of heat came to his face. Li Xin deliberately chose the east wing room in the courtyard and changed it into a study room as his office space, while Mao Weizhang worked in the west wing.

The envoy was the green-robed official who had interrupted Xiong Kaiyuan's speech, and when he saw Li Xin, who was writing at the desk, he was taken aback, he really didn't expect this general soldier of the three guards to be so young.

"The lower officer has seen the chief soldier!"

"Excuse me, what's the matter with this Yang?"

Li Xintou also asked.

"Back to my lordship, Lord Futai invites you to go to Datong Mansion City to discuss important matters!"

"Do you have a letter?"

Li Xinren didn't look up, and the envoy was slightly embarrassed, and said bluntly:

"Only a message!"

In the Ming Dynasty, high-ranking officials had to write down the matters involved in detail before being presented by the messenger. This is one is to be safely insured, and the other is to pay more attention to writing letters or official documents out of respect for the other party!

Xiong Kaiyuan only asked a so-called envoy to pass on the message, obviously not taking him seriously. Only then did Li Xin raise his head and look directly at the person in front of him.

"Does the envoy know what the prefect is going to discuss with the general?"

The envoy told the truth.

"Yes, it should be the ...... of the plague"

Under Li Xin's gaze, the envoy suddenly felt a huge pressure, and beads of sweat crackled down his sideburns. I have already greeted the eighteen generations of Xiong Kaiyuan's ancestors in my heart, and it is clear that I have no good intentions to let myself do this errand that offends people.

Li Xin sneered a few times.

"Please also tell the Xiong Prefect on your behalf that the Sanwei General Military Mansion and the Datong Prefect's Yamen are not subordinate to each other, and I will not be able to obey my fate!"

The rejection was expected by the envoy, and Li Xin was already very polite and euphemistic when he said this, and he didn't intend to persuade him again, so he just shook it.

"I'm offended, Lord Commander-in-Chief, the subordinate officer is also alive, and he has no choice but to do so." After saying that, he turned around to leave, but was stopped by Li Xin.

"How can you go home empty-handed? Here are the regulations for the prevention and control of the plague in Yanghe Acropolis, and you can take them back and hand them over to the Xiong Governor's Mansion. ”

"This, this?"

The envoy was dumbfounded, he couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Li Xin's gourd, since he didn't give Xiong Kaiyuan face, why did he hand over such an important Wen Jiàn to him?

"What are you doing? Hurry up and take it back to Datong, time is life, every second you grind, maybe one more person will die. ”

Li Xin urged quite dissatisfied, and the man woke up like a dream, thanked him repeatedly, took his things and turned to leave. Lu Jiu has been fine these days, he has been by Li Xin's side, of course he knows the grievances between the thirteenth brother and the surnamed Xiong, now that the surname Xiong is so arrogant, he should take this opportunity to avenge that arrow, but he didn't expect that he would give away such an important thing and give it away, and it was still the enemy.

"Has the thirteenth brother forgotten the dirty things that the surname Xiong did?"

Li Xin was silent for a long time, and only said faintly:

"The people are innocent!"

Lu Jiu was also silent for a while......

As soon as the man walked on his front foot, Mao Wei opened his hind foot and entered the house.

"I heard that Datong Mansion has sent people, but there are supplies to be distributed?"

Lu Jiu, who had never spoken much, sneered again and again.

"It's good if Governor Xiong doesn't come to trouble my thirteenth brother, how can you send something?"

Mao Weizhang was surprised for a while, listening to what Lu Jiu meant, Governor Xiong and General Li seemed to have a holiday? Then he figured it out, both of them came from Beijing, and they must have already had a grudge and dispute before. But then he changed his mind: Governor Xiong is a scholar, and those who read the book of sages should not do something that ignores the overall situation.

Thinking of this, Mao Weizhang didn't pick up Lu Jiu's stubble, but talked about another thing.

"Xia Guan went back and thought about it all night, it was too expensive to build railroad tracks, why not change them to wooden rails?"

Mao Weizhang had seen the sketch drawn by Li Xin, it was nothing more than two iron rods arranged side by side, if it was replaced with wooden sticks, although the strength was worse, but the raw materials and labor costs were much cheaper, he felt a burst of excitement for his idea.

However, Li Xin vetoed Mao Weizhang's idea in one sentence.

"The wooden rail is provincial, but it can't withstand the wear and tear ......"

In his opinion, once this thing is completed, it is convenient to connect the north and south by horse-drawn carriages, but the high cost makes Sanwei lose more than he gains, and to put it bluntly, he loses money. Besides, the money for building the railroad track is an astronomical amount, even if Yang and Wei are asked to smash the pot and sell the iron, they can't afford it.

He was about to say something when Albert pushed the door open and came in, waving a blank piece of paper in his hand.

"General Li, this is the rail car I designed, please take a look!"

After Albert finished speaking, he put the blank paper in his hand on the table in front of Li Xin, which turned out to be a sketch. Li Xin took a closer look at it, and his eyes lit up. The railcar drawn on the way has three pairs of wheels, and the wheels are equipped with a half-passenger high carriage for both passengers and goods.

This design scheme is very close to Li Xin's imagination, and Albert still points to a certain part of the sketch from time to time to explain one by one.

"This is the braking, and when the hand brake is pulled, the wheels lock up...... Here is the towing hook, and if there is horsepower left, several horses can pull the railcars that are connected together at the same time...... And here......"

I have to say that many of Albert's ideas and designs are very creative and scientific, it seems that this thing is still a mechanical talent, but he has always been cheating and slippery, why did he change sex today and work hard to do things?

"Very good, I am very satisfied with this design, I hope you can make a prototype carriage as much as possible, and if you want money or people, you can go to Mao Zhenfu."

Li Xin pointed at Mao Weizhang, and Mao Weizhang glared at Albert angrily, he didn't have a good impression of this red-haired ghost.

Albert smiled and crossed his fingers to say what he wanted.

"Blacksmiths, carpenters, handymen are needed......"

Li Xin suddenly had an idea, why not set up a design institute led by Albert, and then send a group of craftsmen to him to lead, specializing in the design and development of various devices. The idea is good, but it can't be rushed, and it will always depend on how well his first rail car works.

"Mao Zhenfu, in a while, you will go and inform the stewards of the merchants in Yanghe Acropolis that they will come to the Weisi Yamen for a meeting early tomorrow morning, and there will be important matters to discuss with them!"

After more than half a month of contact, Mao Weizhang has been surprised by General Li's leapfrogging thinking, although sometimes he can't keep up with the ideas, but as long as he follows the implementation, he will not be wrong.

"Can you tell the merchants what they are discussing?"

Li Xin thought for a moment and told Mao Weizhang: "You can tell them, the General Military Mansion has a win-win good thing to discuss with them, let them all come, and those who come late will have no share!" ”

Hearing him say this, Mao Weizhang's curiosity was aroused, "Can you reveal a thing or two to the lower officials first?" ”

Who knew that Li Xin smiled mysteriously, "Tomorrow will naturally see!" ”

……

The sun completely set, Datong Mansion fell into darkness, at the same time the four gates of the Mansion City slowly closed, at this moment, a ride flew to the north gate of Datong.

"Close the city gate slowly, I am the special envoy of the prefect!"

Xiong Kaiyuan looked impatiently at the epidemic prevention regulations handed over to him by Li Xin's green-robed official, many measures made him unbelievable, and even frowned, such as the section where the sick and dead bodies were burned, and the resistance was bound to be great.

Since ancient times, the Han people have believed in the soil for peace and burned people to ashes, how can the living accept it? So, Xiong Kaiyuan immediately wondered, was this Li Xin deliberately deceiving him? However, after inquiring about what he had seen and heard on the road, he found that Yang Hewei had indeed burned the bodies of those who had died of illness, and it was said that even the bodies of the former commander Qiu Gong's three fathers and sons had been burned, with a force that he could not have imagined before.

Xiong Kaiyuan stared at the epidemic prevention regulations drawn up by Li Xin for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Go and call Zhou Tongju to ......"

The green-robed official promised to retreat, Xiong Kaiyuan Huo got up, since Li Xinneng used this method to expel the plague, he was confident that he was full of poetry and books, and he was not a little stronger than the horse thief, so it was better to treat a dead horse as a living horse!