"Can not remember?"
The handsome boy named 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. You can recognize his appearance when you see him, but you can't remember it once it's out of sight."
"Could it be that it's Wuxiang Gong?"
Fei Lian rubbed his chin, "But isn't the Wuxiang Kung Fu a technique specifically used for assassination by the Jie Yi Sect? Could it be that You Qiong has another identity and is so well-known that he will be recognized by us?
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 his hand and asked, "Where are we going now?"
"Let me see."
Fei Lian took out a scroll from his arms and unfolded it casually. There were rows of words listed on the scroll. Some are already marked, others are not.
[Go to the Endless Sea and swim to a trench with a depth of two thousand feet] [√]
【Hunting a giant toothed whale】【√】
【Tour around Dongzhou by boat】
[Sit on the thrones of various countries] [Zhou Kingdom√]
[Jumping down from Taihao Mountain]
[Go to Liyuan to pick a death flower]
[Enjoy a sword dance on the Qinhuai River]
...
These ideas are all kinds of weird, ranging from "participating in horse racing and winning a hundred games in a row" to "tricking a Zen bald donkey into buying home remedies for hair growth".
"Let me see..."
Fei Lian's fingers aimlessly ran through the wish list on the scroll, and finally stopped at the item "Enjoy a sword dance on the Qinhuai River".
"It's decided, we'll go to Qinhuai River first this time."
Fei Lian clapped his hands, put away the scroll excitedly, pushed the door open and shouted: "Young man, help me prepare the carriage!"
Hearing the whirring sound of his companion, Yan Fu smiled and shook his head, put away the magazine and walked out of the room.
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Two months after the paper man's mutation, Jinchengfang.
This year's winter seemed to be colder than previous years. Li Ang was flipping through today's newspaper and glanced at the temperature forecast in the upper left corner of the newspaper from the corner of his eye.
Some time ago, Su Feng wanted to get a more accurate temperature when manufacturing the steam boiler for the Reiki machine. So according to the law of thermal expansion and contraction of liquids, he poured water into a thin glass tube, marked it on a scale, and measured the temperature.
Subsequently, he continued to improve the thermometer, replacing water with alcohol and mercury, reducing the diameter of the glass tube, and sealing the tube to prevent the liquid from evaporating.
And under Li Ang's suggestion, the freezing point of water was set to zero degrees, the boiling point of water was set to one hundred degrees, and the middle was divided into one hundred temperature intervals.
Because thermometers were relatively simple to make, they soon became popular, and daily temperature measurement results were printed in newspapers and periodicals.
"What's the 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 very smoothly. The spiritual energy machines in Dengzhou and Suzhou have been put on ships, and with slight modifications, they have become ocean-going ships.
Sailing speeds and distances are far greater than ever before.
Workshops using reiki machines are also being built in full swing.
In addition, the construction of two railways from Chengdu to Yuzhou and Qizhou to Xuzhou has been completed, and several new prefectures and counties have been established.
Railways from Changzhou to Suzhou and from Yuezhou to Jiangzhou are also under construction. "
"So fast?"
Chai Chai asked doubtfully: "Didn't it take at least half a year?"
"It's 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, "Do they want to collect tolls?"
"No. The fare is high, but compared to the railroad's ability to amass wealth, it's just a drop in the bucket."
Li Ang explained with a smile: “After the railway is completed, each station will naturally become a transshipment center.
With so many people and materials traveling from north to south, there must be a place to stay, right?
Local restaurants, mansions, hostels, warehouses, teahouses, etc. don't have to worry about customer flow at all.
Even if an aristocratic family does not resort to ruthless means of extortion and plundering, and just engages in business seriously, it can guarantee its wealth in the coming decades, or even hundreds of years.
Naturally, those who had the money would contribute money, and those who had the capacity would contribute their efforts. They even hired monks from various colleges with large sums of money, and tried their best to cooperate with the local state capital in building railways.
It’s just...”
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 and blinked, "Eh?"
"The reason why the aristocratic families of the former Sui Dynasty and early Yu Dynasty were able to compete with the imperial court relied on three points. The monopoly on cultivation resources, the monopoly on knowledge, and the monopoly on population and land."
Li Ang raised three fingers and said: "Aristocratic families marry each other to cultivate talents suitable for cultivation and possess military power.
But after the establishment of the Academy and the construction of colleges in various states and counties, this monopoly declined significantly.
The same goes for the monopoly on knowledge;
Public libraries in various states and counties, as well as state and county schools, could produce many scholars every year, and the imperial court could recruit qualified bureaucrats through imperial examinations.
But now, once the railway is built, the flow of people and materials will rapidly intensify, and the last monopoly of the family will be broken.
This change will begin first among the wealthy families in one county.
The railroads created so many jobs that they could absorb tens of thousands of sharecroppers.
The business of the wealthy family grew bigger and bigger, and at the same time, their control over the local people became weaker and weaker, and finally they became a business family.
The court had nothing to do with the wealthy families who controlled land and talents, but there were too many ways to suppress businessmen with empty wealth.
Even if they are not targeted, merchants will die out much faster than aristocratic families. "
Chai Chai thought for a while and asked, "Well... won't the aristocratic family resist?"
"There are many smart people in the family, and they must have thought of this. However, the current situation is so majestic that it is beyond human power to contend."
Li Ang flipped through the article and said casually: "How many clans are there in Yu State now, eight hundred or one thousand? As time goes by, these clans will gradually decline or even die.
Two hundred, a hundred, maybe only a few dozen left in the end. There is no longer a threat to the court. "
Li Ang does not have any deep grudge against the family. Many of his friends and classmates can be considered as descendants of the clan.
But he didn't like the family's approach of imprisoning local people and establishing a state within a state.
He wanted the people of Yu State to live a dignified life instead of just surviving.
So the families entrenched in the various states and unwilling to make changes must die.
Li Ang silently deduced the future situation in his mind, feeling a little melancholy in his heart.
Mo Si's strange movements became more and more frequent, and the high-level realm of Tingyu Realm has not been loosened yet.
I don’t know if I will be able to see railways spread all over Yu State, factories everywhere, and even modern cities in my lifetime...
Squeak.
The palace carriage stopped in front of the mansion, and Li Leling came.
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