That little fly

Some things are impossible.

After the birthday, the owner of the water village opened an account for his son. The money is not much. It depends on how the son uses it.As a result, Shui Qingqian finished calculating his own private money, and started to rummage through the materials of the owner of the water, which are all kinds of transaction documents sent by the financing chamber of commerce. At a young age, there is a tendency to steal money. Father Shui is a little worried. I will ask why... …

"Wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, power cannot be subdued, and poverty cannot be moved." Shui Qingqian seriously explained the universal values ​​to the owner of Shui Village, "Father, do you know that you can buy a daughter-in-law for 500 taels."

Shui Dad:? ? ?

Does the imperial capital still have such market conditions?

"...Just stuffed with soy sauce, and then thrown in the face..." Shui Qingqian explained the ins and outs of 500 two daughters-in-law to his father, "So, I don't want this kind of thing to happen to me one day." If someone dared to slap him with a face, he had to promise to slap him back twice.

Um!Father Shui expressed his deep concern, and things like saving money for a wife must be taken seriously.

However, even if you are serious, there is no guarantee that the money will not be wasted without a strong reserve of knowledge.The owner of the water owner paid attention to his son's screening of those documents, and watched him eliminate the maritime adventure, the exploration of mineral deposits, the livestock husbandry, the spinning, and the restaurant... a safe choice.But if you feel safe, others will feel safe too. Everyone rushes in, and not many can share Shui Qingqian's head. Even if they make profits in the future, they will not make a lot of money, because they still have to pay a large commission from the chamber of commerce.But anyway, it's a solid start.

Shui Zhuangzhu's focus is quite different from Shui Qingqian's. Shui Qingqian also went through the lists his father sifted through, and he couldn't understand many of them. Forget about maps, and some paintings are about structures. , The diagram of the machine is extremely complicated.

"What are these?"

"It's a design concept drawing of a perpetual motion machine."

Shui Qingqian didn't understand a single word.

Master Shui thought for a while, picked up his son and put it on his lap: Dad will teach you a good lesson today.

The perpetual motion machine has to talk about the background first.

Now the commerce and handicraft industry of Dongzhou mainland are unprecedentedly developed, and stimulated by overseas trade, certain industries are particularly popular, such as textiles.Speaking of spinning alone, in the past, a weaver girl would be able to weave a piece of cloth in ten days and a half months around a spinning wheel.Later, by chance, the spinning machine was improved, and the same weaver could do what the previous four people did in one day. For the owner of the spinning mill, it was a good thing!Don't say four times, Zhiniang can weave ten times, twenty times, or a hundred times the yarn, and he doesn't think it's too much.

There is no limit to human desires. Since there is a spinning machine that can produce four times as much, why not build a spinning machine that can produce ten times or twenty times... Facts have proved that as long as you dare to think, everything is possible. Now, The famous large spinning mills in the empire all used water conservancy spinning cars, a kind of spinning cars propelled by river water. Compared with the original spinning cars, the spinning speed of ten to twenty times was no longer a dream.

However, the human heart is always greedy.

The water conservancy spinning wheel is not without disadvantages, it has strict restrictions - it must be built near the water.Problems come one after another. After the spinning mill is built, what should we do in case of floods?What if there is a drought?What if the place is not big enough?Moreover, since the invention of the waterwheel, it has not only been used in the spinning industry, but also in printing, ironmaking, and millet grinding... There are also landscapes and landscapes that the rich pursue, and the sunset and the lone bird that the literati pursue. Flying, the autumn water is the same color as the sky, and the land by the water is not cheap!

Even if these problems do not exist, if we can find a faster and better spinning machine that saves labor and money, what's the harm?It is best to have no requirements, choose no environment, use the least number of people, and produce the most goods... People are not enough to swallow the elephant, and someone has already proposed a hypothesis. If there is such a machine, hydraulic power will not be needed. , It doesn’t need manpower anymore, it can move, keep moving, keep making money for them, the world will be perfect.

If this hypothesis was proposed by a roadside beggar, it would be ridiculed as a daydream.But if this is a person with status, knowledge and status, especially someone who has some qualifications and confidence in investigating things, then it represents a different situation.

The person who started this topic is called Twenty-Five.

In the field of Gewu, this is a big coffee.

Mr. Twenty-Five became famous because of a manuscript called "Bing Ge" that he sent to the Ministry of Industry more than 40 years ago.After a quick look, it introduces the design of several weapons, which are very novel and practical.According to the cat and the tiger, the officials of the Ministry of Industry successfully improved the function of the moat bed crossbow within a month, and this Mr. Twenty-five was officially registered.Then, the more the court officials studied this "Bing Ge", the more they found that the weapon design was only a small section, and more importantly, Mr. Twenty-Five's introduction and application of "force".

For a long period of time afterward, this Mr. Twenty-five was guiding the direction of the development of the empire's Gewu in a vague way.From iron smelting to forging, from measurement to standardization, I heard that even the concept of hydraulic machinery was first proposed by Mr. Erwu, and then it was tackled by court officials. Now hydraulic workshops are blooming everywhere, such as those spinning workshops.

Mr. Twenty-Five's various academic topics first appeared in the periodicals of the Gewu Association, and then were sought after by court officials, conquered, and then the design and application flowed to the rich and powerful, and then slowly flowed into the people. Not only the force value of the empire, but also the progress of the handicraft industry and the private pockets of the dignitaries.

Judging from the articles in the academic journals, Mr. Nianwu puts more emphasis on theory. Maybe what he wants to guide is research and the establishment of a theoretical system of Gephysics, but right now, it seems that people are more eager for quick success and instant benefits to ponder the topics proposed by Mr. Nianwu When it comes to small mechanisms that are easy to get benefits, such as designing those hydraulic mechanical arms and wind mechanical arms, few people spend energy to go deep into the boring theory behind Mr. Twenty-Five's mechanics... Speaking of this, the corner of Shui Zhuangzhu's mouth crooked a smile , seems to be helpless, but also seems to contain a trace of regret.

Off topic.

Perhaps the empire did cut corners and go astray on this issue.But this does not hinder Mr. Erwu's status and reputation in the field of Gewu.Mr. Twenty-Five has not shown up, but he has not disappeared. From time to time, he contributes articles to the journal of the Royal Gewu Association to answer other people's questions. Mr. Twenty-Five is not very young, and he has not been very active in recent years. , but as long as he has news, it must be a big shock in the field of Gewu.

More than one person has thought about the idea of ​​perpetual motion machines, and even the name 'perpetual motion machine' was created by others.But the influence of those unknown people is not comparable to that of Mr. Twenty-Five. Now, Mr. Twenty-Five brought up the topic of perpetual motion machines, causing a sensation among the government and the people.

This is the hottest topic recently.

"At this stage, we are talking on paper. There are all kinds of drawings, but we need to build a model, then test, modify, figure out, modify, and then build a model... To realize it, we must have a huge investment. I am afraid that it is not ordinary people. Take it. But at the same time, Mr. Twenty-Five is not someone else, no matter how big the investment is, there are many people flocking to it. Because once it succeeds, it will be a wealth of money, and what's more, the harvest may not only be money." The owner of the water village said.

Shui Qingqian swayed his calves and listened to this long story. He could understand everything his father said, and because of the legendary character Twenty-five, this perpetual motion machine still sounded quite interesting.But he felt, and he couldn't say it well, he just felt, "It's kind of weird, Dad, it sounds like this thing is very free."

"What does Luzi think?" the owner of the water village encouraged him.

"I don't know, I just think it's too cheap. It's too cheap to be true. It doesn't need to pay any price, and it keeps working all the time? Doesn't it mean that saying 'God rewards those who work hard' is meaningless. Then why are you talking about '□□health, a gentleman strives for self-improvement'?" Luzi recently learned a little of the Book of Changes from his grandfather.

The owner of Shui Zhuang suddenly smiled, raised the little heron in his arms, and kissed it several times, what a big baby. "So, the perpetual motion machine doesn't exist at all." The owner of the water village said softly.

"Ah... oh!!!" Xiaoniao was so clever that he suddenly realized.

Therefore, the perpetual motion machine is a big pit!

The owner of the water village dug a hole, and even dragged Mr. Twenty-Five to make an endorsement. The scorpion stinged and fiddled for a long time.

It was said that I brought my wife and children to Shanzhongxiu to escape the summer heat, but this tossing has been worn out until late autumn and winter and I have not seen the return trip.On the side of the imperial court in the imperial capital, the cabinet side has been able to see no action all the time, it is entirely due to the few single dog Jin Wuwei who have been cheeky and nameless with Shui Zhuangzhu's family.So the first person who couldn't sit still was the Chief Attorney who missed his grandson. He was reminded by letters almost every day. Sometimes he lamented the loneliness and emptiness of life, and sometimes he worried about his grandson's academic future. The dropout children are so pitiful. Ke even generously expressed that he would not mind taking his grandson back first, and that his son and daughter-in-law would like to live in Shan Zhongxiu until next year, and he didn't care...

How could the master of the water village follow his father's wishes?Shengsheng procrastinated until the new year was approaching, and the digging and filling project was safely completed before returning to the imperial capital with his wife, children and those single dogs.As soon as he entered the city gate, he was cut off by his father's Jinwu guards. He didn't even return to Yanzi Lane, so he turned directly with Xiao Chu to the Shifu on Qingmin Lane in Dongcheng. Out of the garden, there is also the yard of the owner and his wife, the yard with clear and shallow water, and even the yards for the single dogs... However, if the owner of the water is to be honest, his father's official house is really not as good as Yanzi Lane My house is new and spacious, it was expanded and renovated by Taifu before winter.

"It seems that grandpa's family is very poor."

It didn't even take half a day for his little Luzi to gain insight into his grandfather's desolate financial situation.

Shui Qingqian was sullen, and he was trying to settle the accounts for his grandfather, "There is 1000 shi of Lumi every year, [-] and [-] guan of salary, [-] mu of farmland rent, and [-] silk silks... ..." Counting with your fingers, the salary of the first-class senior officials is well documented, as well as a series of living allowances stipulated by the court, such as tea and wine money, kitchen material money, salary money, horse feed... Occasionally The things bestowed by the emperor are even more difficult to estimate. They are rare items that cannot be bought with money.Just counting what can be found, the sum is more than their land rent income in Shuiyinzhuang. When Shui Qingqian is doing housework, [-] guan can support a large village.

The accounts were calculated clearly, and according to the calculation of the salary, it was really unbelievable that his grandfather would be able to do nothing.Faced with his son's inquisitiveness, the owner of Shui Zhuang blushed to save face for his lazy father, "The one thousand mu of land rent refers to the exemption of a thousand mu of land tax, not giving you a thousand mu of fertile land for you to collect rent. .If grandpa doesn’t have the money to buy land and collect rent, it can’t be counted as income.”

"Oh……"

"Luzi, look over there, do you want some small wontons?" Before his son dug out more of his grandpa's black history, the owner of Shui Zhuang changed the subject abruptly.

After returning to the imperial capital, Father Shui was kicked out of the house by his wife to buy new year's goods without even taking a day's rest.It's not the kind of buying ordinary food and drink, but all kinds of courtesy art and luxury goods.It is necessary to take a gift on festivals, and as Shi Ke, he has to prepare a better one for the palace.And a few days ago, those people who pretended to send gifts to Shifu openly and secretly, actually gave all kinds of gifts that their family of three needed.It's time to reciprocate favors.

In fact, Shi Ke had to bring his son's family here, not just because of emptiness and loneliness.With Shi Ke's current status, Chinese New Year is not as simple as a happy family reunion, but more importantly, social activities in the upper class. There is no headed mother in the mansion, and Shi's mansion has been known as a "shabby settled" for many years. .Shi Ke is an old widower who eats enough for one person and the whole family is not hungry. Apart from the "Imperial Code", what other things does he care about as a 50-year-old Fei Tianer who is an extremely loyal minister?But this year is different. The entire court knows that he has a son and a daughter-in-law, and if he settles down, he will be slapped in the face. Moreover, the Spring Festival is a perfect time and place, and it is an excellent opportunity for the owner of the water village to enter the upper class.

Uh, by the way, everyone thought that Mr. Renshu was the owner of the water village, and Mrs. Shui didn't mean to clarify at all.In Madam's words, the pharmacist Renshu who lived in the alchemy room for experiments was Mrs. Shui, but Mr. Renshu, who was famous all over the world and was named a first-class marquis by the imperial court, was definitely hyped by the owner of Shuizhuang. from.Therefore, Mrs. Shui kicked her husband out to face the thunder of 'Mr. Renshu' without any psychological pressure┑(￣Д￣)┍

While enjoying the street food with his son, while chatting about local customs and gossip, the owner of the water village has no idea that the summoner sent by the government has touched the gate of Shifu.

Today is the day of the Great Court Meeting, but the yamen will be closed in a few days. There have been no natural disasters in the empire recently. It is conceivable that people's hearts have long been out of business, and even if they talk about the topic, it is a trivial matter.So, the fact that 'Mr. Renshu finally returned to the city and arrived at Shifu at noon yesterday' was teased out by the commander of the imperial army.On the surface, it seems to be asking: how to arrange the few Jinwu guards who are on vacation?In fact, it is to tell the officials that the God of Wealth is back. Look at the officials, can you recommend us!Mr. Renshu lives in Shifu, not far from Miyagi, so hurry up to invite someone now, and let everyone meet before the court breaks.Such lack of concentration is the difference between ordinary courtiers and old foxes in the cabinet.

The summoner went to Shifu first, and Mrs. Shui, as the only hostess, met the guests. She said "I took my son out, I don't know" and sent the angel away.The steward of the Shifu dared not let the emperor fill up the civil and military affairs of the court.To put it bluntly, I persuaded my wife to agree to send Wei Wu out, and Wei Wu chased him out after smelling it, without taking anyone who got lost. When he finally found the owner of the water village, the father and son were waiting on the street for the master sugar man to complete the fifty-dollar A masterpiece of dragon and phoenix.When the summoner realizes that the sugar figurines in front of him are Mr. Renshu and that little Fei Tianer, he feels like kneeling.

The master of Shui Zhuang will go to the palace with the summoner, and the son... let's send it to his master first.

It was agreed to only take a summer vacation, but it ended up taking a break until the Chinese New Year. No matter how big the heart is, I know this is unreasonable. Therefore, Mr. Zhong's unexpected joy of "my little apprentice is back" has not yet transitioned Before the angry mode of "Why did it take me so long to come back", Xiaoniao held up the sugar figure (^o^)/~ and rushed over to show her cuteness, "Grandpa Zhong, I miss you la la la la..."

I also brought a gift to Master: the capital city's first famous super supreme dragon and phoenix sugar painting.

Don’t forget to invite credit: I lifted it all the way, and I didn’t even want to lick it~~~~