Madam, protect me!

As time entered March, the capital of Zhao State gradually became lively.

It happened that the imperial examination was about to begin. At this time, most of the students who participated in the imperial examination had arrived in the capital.

This year, the imperial examination was not the top priority of Zhao State.

June 15th was the day of the general election.

At that time, the court would select the next emperor of Zhao State from the four princes.

The reason why the students of Zhao State were scrambling to participate in the imperial examination was not only because they wanted to pass the imperial examination and glorify their ancestors, but also because they had the right to vote in the emperor's election if they were a fifth-rank official, which was also a major motivation for them to enter the officialdom.

Looking at the countries on the mainland, only officials of Zhao State had such power.

Originally, the topic of the general election was all about the four princes.

But I don't know when, the wind direction has changed.

The name of the Sixth Princess began to be mentioned constantly.

Although people often discussed the Sixth Princess before, she was always a vassal of the Fourth Prince.

Recently, people mostly mentioned the Fourth Prince occasionally when talking about the Sixth Princess.

Many people think that the Sixth Princess is more suitable to be the emperor of Zhao than the Fourth Prince.

These days, although the Fourth Prince has made many achievements, if you look closely, these things are actually done by the Sixth Princess.

Before this, the Fourth Prince's thirty years of life can be said to be mediocre.

Not only did he not have any achievements worthy of people's recognition, but he also had many bad deeds.

Zhao has had empresses before, so why choose one among the four princes?

Such arguments were originally only circulated among the people.

Later, even court officials would occasionally discuss it.

The other three princes naturally heard this.

This is naturally what they want to see. The Sixth Princess has no foundation in the court, and the people's praise of her alone cannot change the overall situation.

If this incident can cause a rift between King Sheng and her, it would be great.

The three princes can think of this, and the guests and counselors of the Sheng Palace can naturally think of it.

The Sixth Princess has 90% of the credit for King Sheng's ability to turn the situation around and establish his current status.

Once King Sheng ascends the throne, they will be rewarded according to their merits, and they will also enjoy endless wealth and glory.

No one can destroy the relationship between King Sheng and the Sixth Princess, not even King Sheng himself.

As counselors, they understand King Sheng. Once King Sheng learns about this, it is very likely that some unnecessary incidents will arise.

Under the instructions of Mr. Lin, everyone in King Sheng's mansion kept their mouths shut and did not let King Sheng hear any unfavorable news.

...

Princess's Mansion.

Li Nuo was thinking about which government office to look for a breakthrough in the next step, and Doctor Sun came up to him.

He was very curious about what the "bacteria" that Li Nuo had mentioned before, which caused diseases and were invisible to people's eyes, were.

This thing requires professional equipment. Li Nuo has been very busy recently and has no time to rub a microscope for him.

It would be great if Li Yun was here. He is a disciple of the Mohist School and should like to do this kind of thing to improve his cultivation.

Li Nuo suddenly raised his head.

Mohist School?

He looked at Zhao Zhiyi beside him and asked, "Are there any officials above the fifth rank in the court who are Xiu Mo's family?"

Zhao Zhiyi thought for a moment and said, "Yes, most of the officials in the Ministry of Works are Xiu Mo's family."

Li Nuo's eyes moved and he returned to the study. After a moment, he came out with a blueprint in his hand and said, "Let's go to the Ministry of Works."

It was still time to go to the government office, so Li Nuo took Zhao Zhiyi directly to the Ministry of Works.

Among the six ministries, the Ministry of Works is in charge of military farming, water conservancy, civil engineering, engineering, transportation, and other affairs. Although its power is not as strong as that of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel, it is closely related to people's livelihood.

Shangshu Yamen

An official walked into the yamen carefully, tiptoed to avoid the drawings scattered on the ground, and said to the middle-aged man who was drawing at the desk: "Sir, the Sixth Princess is outside and wants to see you."

The middle-aged man raised his head and murmured: "Sixth Princess?"

He thought for a moment, walked out from behind the desk, picked up the drawings scattered on the ground, put them on the table casually, and then walked out of the yamen.

Afterwards, he walked into the courtyard, clasped his fists to Zhao Zhiyi, and said: "Hello, Your Highness."

Zhao Zhiyi smiled and said: "Minister Zhou, there is no need to be polite."

The Minister of Works said: "I wonder what important matter your Highness has come to the Ministry of Works?"

Zhao Zhiyi said: "There is something I want to ask the Mohist master of the Ministry of Works for help."

The Minister of Works thought that the Sixth Princess came to the Ministry of Works to canvass votes for the Fourth Prince. Looking at the drawings in his hand, he was stunned for a long time before saying: "This is simple, Your Highness, wait a moment, it will be ready soon..."

After that, he took the drawings into the yamen.

Li Nuo and the other man followed him into the yamen.

The first feeling when they entered here was chaos. Various drawings were randomly piled up in various places in the yamen. The shelves around the room were full of mechanical objects. This reminded Li Nuo of Li Yun. The rooms of Mohist disciples were all messy.

A simple microscope is very simple to make.

Glass may still be a luxury for ordinary people, but it is used in many mechanical objects of Mohist, especially mechanical men and mechanical beasts that need eyes. Li Yun also has several mechanical men made entirely of glass, but they call them colored glass.

The Minister of Industry searched the shelf behind him and soon found two pieces of transparent colored glass.

Li Nuo only saw that with a light stroke of his finger, the two irregular pieces of glass became perfect circles.

Polishing the lens was even easier for him.

His fingers stroked over the two round pieces of glass, and the two convex lenses that Li Nuo needed were there.

It was a handy thing for him, but if Li Nuo did it himself, it would take a long time.

Li Nuo had also seen this method on Li Yun.

Each family's true qi had different uses. The Mohist masters could create extremely complex mechanisms without any tools, just a pair of hands.

In half an hour, the world's first microscope was born.

The Minister of Industry stared blankly at the strange "mechanism" in his hand.

Just now, he actually felt that his cultivation, which had been stagnant for a long time, had increased significantly.

What exactly is the function of this thing that can make him increase his cultivation so much?

Li Nuo picked up the microscope and said to the Minister of Industry, "Thank you, sir."

Zhao Zhiyi also smiled at the Minister of Industry and said, "Thank you for your hard work, sir. We have something else to do, so we'll leave first."

Looking at the backs of the two people leaving, the Minister of Industry stood there in a daze.

From beginning to end, the Sixth Princess did not mention the Fourth Prince.

She really did not come for the votes in her hand.

However, they have not told him what the strange mechanism is for...

Why has his cultivation increased so much?

He sat on the chair, stood up after a while, and paced in the yamen.

No, they asked him for help, at least tell him what it is, leave without an explanation, how can it be like this...

Confused, he was sitting in the yamen uneasy, after a while, finally couldn't help but said: "Come on, prepare the sedan."

At this time, before leaving the yamen, an official came in and asked: "Sir, where are you going?"

The Minister of Works said: "To the Sixth Princess's Mansion."

He urged the sedan bearer all the way, and after getting off the sedan, the first thing he saw was some patients queuing outside the door.

As soon as he stepped into the princess's mansion, he saw the young man just now.

He was standing by the stone table, and several old men were around him.

One of the old men was bending over the mechanism he had just made. He was exclaiming in surprise as he saw something.

"There is such a thing!"

"I never thought that a drop of water could contain so much."

"I have lived for decades, and today I have finally opened my eyes..."

"Move aside, move aside. You have been looking at it for a long time. It is my turn to look at it!"

"Let me look at it for a while, just a while!"

...

The Minister of Industry walked over curiously, pointed at the novel mechanism, looked at the young man, and asked, "What is this?"

Li Nuo explained, "This is called a microscope. Lord Zhou can come forward and see it in person."

Doctor Jiang had already finished looking at it. The other doctors were already impatient, but they had to hold back their tempers after hearing this.

The Minister of Industry walked forward and imitated the old man just now, closing one eye and looking at the cylinder with the other eye.

There was clearly only a drop of water under the cylinder.

But when he looked through the cylinder, he saw many things that were invisible to the naked eye. They were filled in this drop of water, and some of them were still wriggling, which looked a little scary.

The Minister of Industry was at the peak of the fourth level of Mohism, and he soon realized that the function of this mechanism was to magnify tiny objects that could not be seen by the naked eye to the extent that they could be seen by the naked eye.

What a magical mechanism!

This thing should have an extraordinary function, otherwise, his cultivation would not have increased so much.

At this time, Doctor Sun came over and asked Li Nuo: "Doctor Li, are these invisible little things the cause of people's illness?"

Li Nuo nodded and said: "Although not all, most common diseases are caused by these little things. A drop of water that looks clean actually contains countless germs..."

After coming to Zhao State, the fastest growing thing in Li Nuo's body was his medical cultivation.

When he was studying malaria in the Imperial Hospital, his cultivation broke through to the third level.

Every day after that, his medical cultivation was growing rapidly.

The emergence of microscopes has great significance for medicine and biology.

Just now, his cultivation level has increased sharply again, and even touched the barrier of the third realm.

The compilation of the medical manual has also come to an end.

By then, this barrier should be easily broken through.

Maybe, his medical cultivation level will break through the fifth realm faster than the legal cultivation level.

Doctor Sun thought about it and asked, "How should we get rid of these things?"

Li Nuo just tried it himself, and the third realm of medical qi can easily kill bacteria.

But there are only a few medical practitioners, and the people can only try to drink less raw water.

But the four words "drink less raw water" sound simple, but it is difficult to do. Boiling water requires firewood, and ordinary people cannot afford such costs.

What needs to be done now is actually to popularize the knowledge of sterilization and disinfection among medical practitioners.

In the absence of high-level medical qi, ordinary doctors are certainly not as good as modern doctors.

Without medical qi, high-concentration alcohol can be used for disinfection.

However, the concentration of alcohol on the market is far from enough.

Li Nuo looked at the Minister of Industry and said, "Sir, I'm afraid I have one more thing to trouble you with..."

Half an hour later, the Minister of Industry looked at another mechanism in front of him and felt the cultivation level in his body growing again, as if he was in a dream.

This time, Li Nuo asked the Minister of Industry to make a device for purifying alcohol.

He could also make this device himself, but it was time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Although he asked the Minister of the Ministry of Industry for help, it was the Minister of the Ministry of Industry who owed the favor.

Soon after the first drop of high-concentration alcohol merged with the water droplets under the microscope, fluctuations in cultivation were heard again in Li Nuo's body.

Doctor Sun and many doctors present looked at him directly.

Twenty years old, the fourth level of medicine.

This is a huge blow to these old guys who have finally climbed to the fourth level.

A blow is a blow, and everyone is convinced.

Although he currently only has the fourth level, if there is a sixth level being in the medical field in the future, it can only be him.

When he went to the Ministry of Industry the next day, Li Nuo no longer needed the Sixth Princess to accompany him.

Officials from the Ministry of Industry went in to report. Li Nuo waited in the yard for a while, and then the Minister of Industry strode out and said enthusiastically: "Little brother, come in quickly..."

Li Nuo walked into his office, and the Minister of Industry began to introduce some small mechanisms he had made to Li Nuo.

Mohist disciples all seem to like to show off their works.

Li Nuo also saw several institutional women among his collection.

Each of these agency girls is so lifelike that they look exactly like real people from three steps away.

However, Li Nuo had already seen this kind of thing at Li Yun's place.

Moreover, although Li Yun's cultivation level is not as high as that of the Minister of Industry of the State of Zhao.

But the agency woman next to him seemed to be more agile than these others.

After some appreciation, Li Nuo explained the purpose of his visit and said: "To be honest, I still want to ask the adults from the Ministry of Industry for a favor when I come here this time..."

The minister of the Ministry of Industry was very happy when he heard this.

If someone asks him for help, he may not agree.

But he wished that Li Nuo would ask him for help every day.

Yesterday I helped him twice. His cultivation has greatly increased and he has already touched the bottleneck of the fourth realm.

If you help him a little more, wouldn't it be possible to break through to the fifth realm?

By then, his machine skills will surely become more sophisticated, and the machine girls he creates will be even more agile...

He couldn't wait to ask: "What's the business?"

Yesterday, Li Nuo discovered that the Mo family's glass grinding process was extremely fast and precise.

Now that the microscope is out, myopia glasses, reading glasses, and telescopes can also be given to them.

These things are not available in other countries in the mainland. You can give some to the officials in the court in the name of the Sixth Princess. The officials of the Ministry of Industry can improve their cultivation level, and the Sixth Princess can also gain favors. Even if they are not ready to vote for her yet, I have to remember something good about her in my heart.

There is no optometry method in this world, so just use different degrees of refraction, and then let the officials with vision problems come to the princess's house for a trial, and then let the sixth princess show up and have her face...

The Mohists, who have been cultivating all their lives, often deal with colored glaze. This was the first time that the Minister of Industry knew that an ordinary piece of colored glaze had so many ways to play with it.

In just a few days, his cultivation level increased again and again.

I'm afraid that if Li Nuo asks him for two more favors, he will be able to advance to the fifth realm.

It has been two days since he saw Li Nuo. What he looks forward to every day now is for him to come to the Ministry of Works again to ask him for help...

In the past two days, there has been something new in the DPRK.

Many elderly officials suffer from presbyopia and cannot see nearby writing clearly.

This disease is a common problem among the elderly and cannot be cured even by imperial doctors.

There are also some young officials who, because they studied too hard during the imperial examinations, damaged their eyes and could not see far away.

For these two diseases, the Sixth Princess found a cure.

On these two days, any official who has difficulty seeing can go to the Princess Mansion and receive something called "glasses" for free.

This thing is made of two pieces of colored glaze. After wearing it, the effect is immediate. Whether it is distant or near things, you can see very clearly. It greatly facilitates them to check files and review memorials. It is deeply loved by some veterans. love.

This problem that had been troubling the elderly officials for a long time was solved by the Sixth Princess.

The Sixth Princess's reputation in the court was already excellent. After this incident, the courtiers' favor for her increased.

While several other princes were fighting for the throne, forming cliques for personal gain, attacking dissidents, persecuting each other, and not caring about the dignity of the royal family, only the sixth princess had been doing practical things for the people and the court...

In order to sow discord between the fourth prince and the sixth princess, the three princes did not hesitate to ask people to sow public opinion, saying that the sixth princess was far superior to the fourth prince in terms of character and ability, trying to turn their brother and sister against each other.

Although their motives are impure, what they say is absolutely correct.

The sixth princess's character and abilities were not only far superior to those of the fourth prince, but also far superior to them.

If Your Majesty allows the six princesses to compete for the throne, where will the four princes be concerned?

Ministry of Industry.

Several Mohist officials in the Ministry of Industry have been very busy these days, but they are busy willingly.

These fresh gadgets made of colored glaze were made by themselves.

Other courtiers have been facilitated, and they have gained cultivation. Every time the Mo family builds a new mechanism, their cultivation will increase by one point. This thing has never appeared in the mainland before, and those who build them first will benefit the most.

However, the one who benefited the most was Master Shangshu.

It is said that his cultivation has reached a bottleneck, and he is only one step away from the fifth realm.

In the yamen, the Minister of Works finally waited for the person he was waiting for.

As soon as Li Nuo entered the yamen, he stood up impatiently, walked out of the desk, grabbed his shoulder, and said, "Brother Li, what can I do for you today?"

Li Nuo said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry to ask Brother Zhou for help every time..."

The Minister of Works patted his shoulder hard and smiled, "Hey, why are you so polite to me? Brother Zhou will definitely help you!"

Li Nuo's help is closely related to his breakthrough, so of course he will not refuse.

Li Nuo thought for a while and said, "Then I'll tell you..."

The Minister of Works said expectantly, "Go ahead."

Li Nuo whispered, "During the election, can Brother Zhou vote for the Sixth Princess?"

The Minister of Works was slightly stunned, "Ah?"