"Is it possible that Brother Lu doesn't know yet?" Li Daozong looked at Lu Chen and asked in surprise.
"What should I know? Your Majesty, you also know that I rarely leave Lujiazhuang when I have nothing to do, so the news in the court is not very clear!" Lu Chen looked at Li Daozong and said with a smile, "Why did I go to court these two times? Your Majesty is not have no idea!"
"That's right!" Li Daozong nodded with deep approval. At this point, Li Daozong also felt that Lu Chen was a very interesting person. Originally, the two of them were about the same age, but such a big city of Chang'an was not able to attract this county official. It’s a really interesting place.
"The Ministry of Industry is now using your iron-making method, and the daily pig iron production is quite impressive. If you apply to His Majesty, wouldn't the iron materials for this iron furnace come?" Li Daozong winked directly at Lu Chen. Said with a wink.
Lu Chen immediately heard what Li Daozong meant. This was obviously asking His Majesty to take a shareholding!
In fact, Lu Chen didn't care about these things. In Lu Chen's heart, as long as the money was enough for the development and development of Lujiazhuang, of course, Lu Chen didn't want to be alone. The reason why he wanted to tell Li Daozong was to prepare Li Daozong. Pull me in.
"We need to trouble the prince to come forward in this matter!" Lu Chen thought for a moment, then raised his hands directly to Li Daozong and said, "As for how to distribute, how about the distribution according to Liulicu?"
"No problem, I'll take care of this!" Li Daozong originally thought he was simply helping Lu Chen, so how much money can an iron stove make? Li Daozong thought that this thing was definitely not as profitable as Liuli, so he didn't care whether Lu Chen would give him a share. But Lu Chen actually said that he would bring him with him again. There was nothing to say about it. Fly legs are also meat, so Li Daozong naturally There is no reason to extrapolate.
"The same is true for the distribution of anthracite coal. Can we also leave the land issue of the coal mine to the prince?" Lu Chen looked at Li Daozong and continued, "After all, I don't want to bother the two masters!"
"As for the coal mine, I would like to recommend my cousin!" Li Daozong heard Lu Chen's words, smiled slightly and said, "If it were for other things, I might have a way, but if it comes to this coal mine land If so, you really have to find this cousin, after all, he has a lot of such land in his hands!"
"Oh? I wonder which prince the cousin the prince refers to?" Lu Chen looked at Li Daozong and asked. After all, although the two famous princes of the Li family in history are Li Daozong and the other Li Xiaogong, it does not mean that There are young princes in the Li family, but many of them are not famous.
"Of course he is the cousin of King Zhaojun Li Xiaogong!" Li Daozong said with a smile, "As far as I know, there are many coal mines in his fief!"
As soon as Li Daozong said that there were many coal mines in Li Xiaogong's fiefdom, Lu Chen got excited. After all, Lu Chen was still thinking about how to find Li Xiaogong. He was so sleepy that he came to the pillow. If he used this as an excuse. , it would be nice to meet Li Xiaogong.
"Isn't Prince Zhao training navy in Kuizhou? Has he returned to Chang'an?" However, Lu Chen still asked doubtfully, because this time period was when Li Xiaogong was training navy and supervising the construction of warships in Kuizhou. At the turn of the new year, Li Xiaogong will take office as Zuopushe, Shangshu of Xiangzhou Daoxingtai, and then it will be time for him to pacify Lingnan. It was at this time that Fugong E directly rebelled in Danyang.
"Some time ago, His Majesty recalled Prince Zhao to report on his duties. There should be other arrangements for the Chinese New Year!" Li Daozong didn't mean to avoid Lu Chen, so he directly told Lu Chen about the matter.
"In this case, we should find time to pay a visit to Prince Zhao!" Lu Chen said looking at Li Daozong.
"This matter will be arranged by me, and I will have someone notify Brother Lu when the time comes!" Li Daozong took over the matter directly and simply.
"Then it's Prince Lao!" Li Daozong took over everything in such a big way, and Lu Chen said with some embarrassment as he raised his hands to Li Daozong.
"It's not a big deal, just running errands!" Li Daozong said with an indifferent expression, "How about it, Brother Lu, how about you try the cooking skills of the prince's palace here today?"
Only then did Lu Chen realize that he had been sitting here with Li Daozong for a long time. It was obviously close to noon and it was time to have lunch.
"Then I'll bother the prince!" Lu Chen was not polite and said directly to Li Daozong with a smile.
"What are you talking about! It's just a meal, what's the big deal!" Li Daozong directly ordered the maid to tell the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Lu Chen and Li Daozong ate this lunch in the side hall. It mainly consisted of meat. After all, it was winter and there were no green vegetables in the prince's house. Li Daozong did what he said at noon and did not drink much wine.
After lunch, Lu Chen said goodbye to Li Daozong, left the Rencheng Palace and returned to Lujiazhuang.
Back at the mansion, Lu Chen first went for a walk in the workshop area, and then called Liu Laosan and Du Chengze to the mansion.
"Sir, I wonder why you have summoned us two here?" Du Chengze glanced at Liu Laosan and saluted Lu Chen directly.
"Look at this!" Lu Chen did not answer Du Chengze's words, but took out a small gadget from his sleeve and handed it to the two of them.
"What is this?" Liu Laosan reached out and took the gadget handed over by Lu Chen. Du Chengze also came over, and the two of them observed the gadget together.
"Sir, are there words on this?" After observing for a long time, Du Chengze looked up at Lu Chen and asked with an uncertain tone.
"Yes!" Lu Chen nodded simply.
"What's the use of this?" Du Chengze and Liu Laosan still didn't quite understand Lu Chen's intention of showing them this gadget.
"Have you ever seen a stamp or a seal?" Lu Chen asked, looking at Du Chengze and Liu Laosan.
"Of course I've seen it before! The villain also has his own seal!" Du Chengze said, taking out his own seal from his sleeve and showing it to Lu Chen. After all, he is also the deputy general manager of the workshop area now, and he has to make up a lot of things. It was in a book, so naturally he had to confirm it with his seal.
"Okay!" Lu Chen glanced at Du Chengze's seal and handed it back to Du Chengze directly. "Are the books we print now all engraving printing? Just like this seal?" Lu Chen looked at Du Chengze and asked.
"If compared with seals..." Du Chengze thought for a while, compared engraving printing and seals, and found that the production methods of the two are really similar, except that one word is more and the other is less, "It is indeed like adults There's not much difference!" Du Chengze nodded. Liu Laosan was still a little confused at this time. After all, he didn't know much about literacy and was more interested in technical matters. Therefore, when it came to the matters discussed by Lu Chen and Du Chengze, his Not much voice.
"What if we make these words into separate seals, and then print them according to the arrangement of the words on the book?" Lu Chen said, pointing to the gadget he handed to Du Chengze, and said in an instructive way.
"I understand, sir, no wonder the villain feels a little familiar when he sees this weird seal!" Du Chengze said, taking out his own seal and comparing it with the one Lu Chen gave him, and found that both of them looked like seals, except that The image of the seal is concave on the inside, but the one Lu Chen gave him is convex. If it is printed on paper, there will be no border, only the word on it.
"Sir, do you want to make all the text into such a gadget?" Liu Laosan also understood what Lu Chen wanted to do at this time, so he asked directly.
"Of course!" Lu Chen nodded directly, "Let's try the first batch with wood. If it works, it's best to replace it with lead!" Lu Chen said, looking at Du Chengze and Liu Laosan.
"You should find someone reliable to handle this matter! Do you understand?" Lu Chen directly and seriously ordered the two of them.
"I understand!" Du Chengze and Liu Laosan agreed in unison.
Du Chengze, a person who has read books, obviously knows more about this kind of thing than Liu Laosan, because if this thing is really done, it will subvert the printing technology of books, "Sir, I don't know this kind of printing Does the book method have a name?" Du Chengze looked at Lu Chen and asked softly.
"Because these characters are movable and can be typed at will, I call this type of printing 'movable type printing'!" Lu Chen said casually.
"Movable type printing!" Du Chengze repeated slowly.
"This must be done as soon as possible!" Lu Chen asked, looking at the two of them.
"Yes!" The two of them responded in unison again, then said goodbye to Lu Chen and went directly to find someone to do this.
"Lao Du, why are you so restless after coming out from the father-in-law's place?" On the way back to the workshop area, Liu Laosan noticed that Du Chengze looked absent-minded and asked with some concern.
"Alas!" Du Chengze sighed directly after hearing Liu Laosan's caring words.
"You have something to say! Why are you sighing!" Liu Laosan said to Du Chengze directly and unceremoniously.
"If the movable type printing technology mentioned by the father-in-law is implemented, it may have subversive consequences!" Du Chengze said quietly. Maybe Liu Laosan would not have such a deep understanding, but Du Chengze has been growing up since he was a child. People who read know this very well. How did they get their books?
It was either copied from a book or passed down from ancestors. I want to buy a book. Sorry, there is only one word, expensive! And for people like Du Chengze and others, even if they are rich, they will not sell books to you. Besides, many books are collected directly by those aristocratic families at home and are not released at all. Is there a bookstore in Chang'an? Yes, but The books in it are expensive, and they are all about elementary education. There are very few books that can really improve your knowledge!
