Chapter 384 Family
"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 formless skill?"
Fei Lian rubbed his chin, "Isn't Wuxiang Kungfu a technique specially used by Jie Yizong 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, and unfolded it casually. Rows of words were listed on the scroll. Some are already marked with a checkmark, others are not.
【Go to the Endless Sea, dive to the trench with a depth of two thousand feet】【√】
【Hunting a megalodon】【√】
【Travel around Dongzhou by boat】
【Sit on the throne of various countries】【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 all kinds of strange, ranging from "participate in horse betting and win 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 [Enjoy a sword dance on the Qinhuai River].
"It's decided, this time I will go to Qinhuai River first."
Fei Lian clapped his hands, put away the scroll excitedly, pushed the door out, and shouted: "Son, 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 changed, 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 Lingqi 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 under 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.
Sailing speed and distance far beyond the past.
The workshop using the Reiki 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.
"So fast?"
Chai Chai asked suspiciously: "Didn't it say that it will take at least half a year?"
"Being driven by profit."
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 completed, 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 the indiscriminate means of extortion, it can guarantee wealth and honor in the next few decades, or even hundreds of years.
Naturally, those who have the money to contribute money, have the ability to contribute, and even hired monks from various colleges with a lot of money, and tried their best to cooperate with the local state capital to build the 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.
But 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 Zangshuge in each state and county, as well as the state schools and county schools, can train many scholars every year, and the imperial court can recruit qualified bureaucrats through imperial examinations.
Now, once the railway is built, the flow of people and materials 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.
Railways created so many jobs that they could absorb tens of thousands of tenant farmers,
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 powerful 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 die much faster than aristocratic families. "
Chai Chai thought for a while and asked, "Won't the family resist?"
"There are many smart people in the family, and they must have thought of this. But the current situation is so powerful that it is beyond human power."
Li Ang flipped through the article and said casually: "How many clans are there in Yu State now, 800 or 1,000? 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 family, and many of his friends and classmates can be regarded as descendants of the clan.
But he didn't like the practice of the aristocratic family raising local people in captivity and establishing a country within a country.
He wants to let the people of Yu State live a dignified life instead of living in mediocrity,
The aristocratic family that is entrenched in the state capitals and refuses 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 will see railways all over the country, factories, and even modern cities in my lifetime.
Squeak.
The palace carriage stopped in front of the mansion, and Li Leling came.
(end of this chapter)