Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

[Ding! You have completed 500 years of your first civilization simulation and are rewarded with five draws for civilization-related products.]

【Do you want to draw now? 】

It was midnight, in Yangcheng Palace, Taiyuan Prefecture, Bingzhou Road.

The Shougong Hall and several surrounding palaces were still brightly lit.

"Your Highness, these are the production ledgers from several workshops that have officially started production this month. As per your instructions, perfume, soap, silver mirrors, white sugar, and refined salt are the five products with the largest production volumes, and I have already begun preparations for distribution..."

Xiao Rui was a little tired, but his face couldn't hide his excitement as he spoke.

However, Li Chengqian was momentarily dazed when he heard the voice that had resounded in his mind after more than a month.

Qian Yingying, standing to the side, was somewhat worried.

Looking at his prince who suddenly seemed lost in thought.

"Your Highness, if you are tired, it would be best to rest early. These matters can still be handled tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Rui hurriedly cupped his hands in greeting.

"Your Highness, it is already midnight. You should take care of your health. I will come again tomorrow..."

"No need"

Li Chengqian came to his senses and waved his hand dismissively.

"Public affairs are of utmost importance. Now is the crucial time for Bingzhou's commerce to accelerate. These 'treasure troves' under the New Policy Reform Division should be put into operation as soon as possible. Yingying, you don't need to serve us here anymore. Let that old geezer Wang De handle it."

"At this age, where do I get so much sleep..."

Wang De, the chief eunuch of Yangcheng Palace, who had just entered the Shougong Hall from the side hall to hand over his shift, was speechless.

Li Chengqian flipped through the account books that Xiao Rui had organized.

The document not only details the production situation of each workshop, but also the wages of the workers in the workshops, the cost of various raw materials, the quantity of goods produced so far, and the maximum daily production volume.

Li Chengqian nodded slightly.

His dislike for aristocratic families wasn't because he resented their wealth and status, which far surpassed that of ordinary people.

It's simply because these guys are trying to control the court by uniting with each other.

They wanted to blind the Li Tang royal family, bind their hands and feet, and also silence them.

Finally, Li Tang should be branded as a foolish and incompetent ruler for their greed.

However, it must be acknowledged that in this era of generally underdeveloped education, there are many elites among the scions of prominent families, something he has to admit.

Take, for example, the eldest son of the Duke of Song.

In his previous life, he would have been just starting university. Now, however, he is already able to help Li Chengqian manage all the workshops under the Bingzhou Road New Policy Reform Department in an orderly manner.

I was able to quickly grasp and put into practice some of Li Chengqian's ideas about statistics and business management.

"Very good. Apart from the preparation of the sugar raw material production area, it is indeed difficult to expand production capacity further because Shu is too far away from Bingzhou. You have done a very good job in the rest."

Li Chengqian gave a compliment, and then carefully signed his approval on the several documents regarding the sales and distribution licenses presented by the other party.

Xiao Rui had just walked out of the Shougong Hall with the approved documents in his hand.

With his broad shoulders and thick waist, Fang Yi'ai, who looked like a small calf, was dressed in armor and didn't care about Xiao Rui's gaze as he walked towards him.

His face was flushed red from excessive excitement.

"Your Highness, we succeeded! We finally succeeded!"

Li Chengqian, who was reviewing the documents sent by Wang Ming regarding the paving of official roads in the counties surrounding Taiyuan Prefecture, slightly raised his head.

Upon seeing the person who arrived, their eyes lit up instantly.

"What was successful? Coking? Or iron smelting?"

Fang Yi'ai was a little out of breath, but when he heard Li Chengqian's words, he nodded anxiously, his already flushed face turning slightly purple.

"It's all a success! Your Highness, the blast furnace you had Elder Mo build is simply amazing! The output is incredibly high!"

"Hahaha! If my dad saw that molten iron gushing out, he'd probably faint from excitement on the spot!"

Li Chengqian: "......"

Although he was equally happy, he was still upset to hear that Fang Yi'ai dared to let himself go and gossip about his father behind his back.

I couldn't help but find it funny again.

Reach out and take the document from the other person's hand.

Looking at the content recorded by Fang Yi'ai himself.

Although this fellow has a dream of becoming a military general and the Grand Marshal of the Empire, he is, after all, from a scholarly family like the Fang family. To ask him to compose poems and give lectures would probably be worse than killing him.

However, if one is only responsible for some routine management work.

Fang Yi'ai has done a really good job lately.

He carried out Li Chengqian's order very seriously: "In all matters related to technology, obey Master Mo's instructions."

The reason why Li Chengqian chose Bingzhou as the "special zone" for this new policy reform without hesitation between Lingzhou and Bingzhou was not only because he had his eye on the Wang family of Taiyuan.

Bingzhou itself contains abundant mineral resources.

This was also Li Chengqian's main objective.

Xianzhou, which is only about 80 miles from Taiyuan Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Bingzhou Circuit, was the most important part of Li Chengqian's reform of Bingzhou Circuit.

Xianzhou now administers three horse-breeding farms: Loufan, Tianchi, and Xuanchi.

It was an important horse-breeding area in Bingzhou Road during the Tang Dynasty.

However, even while Li Chengqian was still in Chang'an, he had already dispatched a group of Imperial Guards with some craftsmen to the area.

Putting aside everything else, Loufan County in the previous life, which was Jingle County under the jurisdiction of Xianzhou of the Tang Dynasty, contained a large amount of iron ore, coal mines and limestone mines.

It's not impossible that this would allow Li Chengqian to easily propel the entire Bingzhou into the industrial age.

"it is good!"

Li Chengqian looked at the contents of the document in his hand.

He slammed his hand on the table in excitement.

"Yiai, after you return, immediately begin to expand the coking plant and ironworks. As for Elder Mo, continue to follow my instructions. All technical matters should be handled according to Elder Mo's wishes."

"Furthermore, when Elder Mo is researching steelmaking, whatever he needs, you must do everything you can to satisfy him."

"Don't be afraid of making mistakes, I'll take the blame for you if you do!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Yi'ai immediately bowed respectfully.

"Subordinates take orders!"

After the other party left with his warrant and approval,

Li Chengqian excitedly stood up from his chair, stretching and yawning, while muttering to himself with delight.

"The problems of coking and iron smelting have been solved, and with the technical direction of the steel-making and steel-forging methods that I have given Elder Mo and the others, it is only a matter of time before steel is forged on a large scale..."

Li Chengqian slowly walked to the outside of the Shougong Hall.

Standing on the steps, I looked at the lights that had been extinguished in Taiyuan Prefecture.

She couldn't help but take a deep breath and murmur softly.

"Although there are still some stumbles, we can manage to stay afloat... Damn it! We're still short-handed!"

Night falls.

The candles in the main hall of Shougong Hall were finally extinguished, signifying that it was finally time for the Crown Prince, whose diligence had caused so much hardship for the officials of Bingzhou, to rest.

Standing on the platform, the disciples of the Kong family who witnessed this scene couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

One by one, they grimaced and finally raised their heads from the mountain of books piled up in front of them.

"Sigh, this crown prince can really hold on. I've only been in Bingzhou for half a month, and I already feel like my health has deteriorated significantly..."

"Who says otherwise? If Your Highness doesn't sleep, we're afraid that if we do, we'll be punished by the family head tomorrow."

"Hurry, hurry, don't just stand there! According to His Highness's habits, he must get up at dawn. We don't have much time to rest..."

The mansion they were in was none other than the former Bingzhou Sima, whose entire family had been executed on Li Chengqian's orders.

However, by order of Li Chengqian, it has now been transformed into the office of the Royal Printing Bureau's Publishing Department.

During this period, Wang Ming and his son Wang Qingyun, no matter how unwilling they were, helped Li Chengqian to truly remove many corrupt officials from Bingzhou.

After these people's mansions were raided.

They were all assigned to government offices handling the business related to Li Chengqian's new policies...

Inside Li Chengqian's bedroom.

[Ding! You have completed 500 years of your first civilization simulation and are rewarded with five draws for civilization-related products.]

【Do you want to draw now? 】

The moment Li Chengqian's consciousness entered the simulated world.

In an instant, I was utterly shocked by the scene before my eyes.

Looking around, one can see that just over a month ago, these were humans who had only recently started living in caves and relied on hunting and fishing for survival.

Now, an unprecedentedly large ancient city complex has been built throughout the entire simulated world.

From a high altitude, it is divided into east and west by a large river.

With a thought from Li Chengqian, the banners on the city walls, which could be faintly seen across the river, were still fluttering.

"Eastern Mexico and Western Mexico..."

Li Chengqian frowned slightly. A bad feeling became increasingly apparent as he received the simulation of the world's development over the past five hundred years in his mind.

"Hiss! The combination of the two golden attributes, [Golden Hero] and [Golden Master Craftsman], has actually caused the simulated civilization of this world to fall into a state of division..."

In his mind.

East Mo and West Mo were originally one country, established by the first "heaven-made hero" Mo Kingdom ruler, but they separated due to different development concepts in later generations.

The two factions, who were originally arguing endlessly in the imperial court, suddenly broke into a large-scale bloody conflict.

It has been forty or fifty years since then that the country has become divided into East and West...

However, although this feeling left Li Chengqian somewhat helpless, the good thing was that the confrontation between the two countries was a real competition in the fields of economy, military, and culture.

Perhaps you can get even more good stuff by drawing the rewards yourself.

"Draw it for me!"

Following Li Chengqian's order.

Suddenly, beams of light shone from the vast expanse of land that had been isolated by the great river.

The light transformed into beams of shooting stars, soaring into the sky where Li Chengqian was located.

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining "Organization - Dongmo Academy"]

[Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained "Large Gold Mine"*1]

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining "Ximo Improved Winter Wheat - Tianbao Golden Seed"]

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining "Organization - Ximo Shipyard"]

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the "Construction Blueprint - Ink Dam"]

"hiss!!!"

What splits?

The split is great!!!

Li Chengqian, who had just been lying on the bed, suddenly sat up abruptly.

Five consecutive draws, and each item sounds extraordinary.

Furthermore, to Li Chengqian's surprise, when he summoned Qian Yingying and Elder Mo, he had only selected a group of elites from their organization.

however.

This time, they actually extracted two institutions from this simulated world.

【Organizational Structure - Dongmo Academy】: "The Dongmo Academy is an academic research institution with five major disciplines: National Politics, Agriculture, Metallurgy, Engineering Construction, and Basic Machinery. It has 1790 academic instructors and 238 administrative and logistical staff."

[Organizational Structure - Ximo Shipyard]: "Ximo is an organization dedicated to the research, production, and construction of ships. It can support the construction of large inland river warships, transport ships, and other wooden vessels. It has 200 ship designers and a total of 4000 skilled shipwrights, carpenters, and blacksmiths."

The mere thought of these two institutions instantly dispelled Li Chengqian's lingering drowsiness.

Talent!

It's like getting exactly what I needed!

Li Chengqian quickly put on his shoes and casually draped an outer garment over his shoulders.

He immediately hurried to the Shougong Hall, where he worked.

Holding an oil lamp, he quickly searched for something on the rows of bookshelves on one side of the side hall.

Upon hearing the commotion, Wang De, who was waiting in the side hall, rushed over. When he saw that His Highness the Crown Prince was not sleeping at night and was working as if he were doing something else, he immediately panicked.

"Oh dear, Your Highness, I beg you, please, your health is of utmost importance!"

"Even someone made of iron can't do this. You're already exhausted enough every day, this..."

"Shut up!"

Li Chengqian snapped, "Stop babbling like a woman! Find me the map of Bingzhou's waterways..."

Hear the words.

Wang De rushed forward to help.

After a while, the lights in the Shougong Hall, which had just been extinguished less than an hour ago, were put out.

It was lit up again.

The next day.

When the two brothers, Li Tai and Li Ke, were called from their sleep by the eunuchs, they were awakened.

As usual, the two were preparing to wash up and practice their martial arts in the morning when they were suddenly surprised to find that their elder brother had already gotten up early!

"Wang De! What time did my imperial brother get up today? Why didn't he wake us?"

Wang De looked aggrieved and distressed, and could only bow repeatedly in protest to the two of them.

“Your Highnesses, it’s not like that. His Highness the Crown Prince had just gone to bed less than an hour after midnight last night when he suddenly got up again and started working in the Shou Gong Hall... He hasn’t rested since.”

This time.

Even Li Tai and Li Ke were taken aback.

They rushed to the Shougong Hall, and as soon as they entered, before they could say anything, Li Chengqian, who had heard them come in, suddenly looked up.

His eyes, still somewhat bloodshot, shone with excitement.

"Third brother, fourth brother! We're in for a busy time!"

"Immediately clear out a large open space in Taiyuan Prefecture. My Imperial University is coming!"