Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty

"...Reporting to Your Highness Qi Shi, to His Highness King Wei, his subordinates followed Kang Qu all the way to Jiningfang in the west of the city, and did not find anything unusual about him, nor did they see him contacting anyone on the road, the subordinate let him People are secretly watching near his house, and if there is any news, they will report it immediately!"

Taiyuan City, the back hall of the Governor's Mansion.

Feng Zhaotou strode in from the outside and clasped his fists to Wang Liaoyuan and Li Tai inside.

At this time, only Wang Liaoyuan and Li Tai were left in the house. As for Dugu Feiying, he took the weapons scattered by the assassins in the morning, and cooperated with the soldiers of the Bingzhou camp to search for the assassins in the city, and Wang Yu naturally I also have to go back to the Wang family to make some arrangements. After all, in terms of finding people, especially in Taiyuan City, the ability and strength of the Wang family will not be weaker than that of the government.

The reason why Li Tai hadn't left was mainly because he was waiting for the news from the people who followed Kang Qu.

Wang Liaoyuan frowned and asked, "You mean this Kangqu has a house in Jiningfang?"

"Yes!"

Feng Zhaotou replied.

Wang Liaoyuan continued to ask: "Can you find out when he started to do business in Taiyuan City?"

Feng Zao clasped his fist and said, "My subordinates learned through inspection that Kang Qu came to Taiyuan City three years ago. He opened a treasure shop in the city, specializing in selling gems and pearls. Over the years, his business has been good, and he is a good person. It can be regarded as an honest duty. Last year, he just married a wife in the local area. The woman was the daughter of a squire outside Taiyuan City, named Xu Xiuhe. "

Wang Liaoyuan frowned, but Li Tai asked aloud, "Have you asked the neighbors of Kangqu, whether any strangers have approached him or sent him a letter today~?"

Feng Zhaotou nodded and said, "Go back to your Highness, the subordinate asked an aunt who sold pancakes in front of Kang's house, and she said that in Kang's house today, except for Kang Qu, there is only an old farmer who delivers vegetables with a load. The dishes have been in, no one else has been in or out of the Kangfu!"

"Old farmer who delivered vegetables~?"

Li Tai's heart moved, and he quickly asked: "What is the origin of this old farmer? Have you checked it?"

Feng Zhaotou's "work" on this trip was obviously done very well. Hearing the words, he clasped his fists and replied, "My subordinate asked, this old farmer was originally a farmer in Nanhe Village outside the city. He has a son who lives in the city. After moving into the city and living with his son, basically every few days, he will deliver food to Kang Qu's house, and there is nothing unusual!"

Hearing this, Li Tai couldn't help but frown.

Seeing this, Wang Liaoyuan waved his hand at Feng Zhaotou and said, "You have done a good job in this matter, let's go down first! This official and His Highness still have something to discuss!"

"Hey~!"

Feng Zhaotou folded his fists and bowed to retreat.

Li Tai raised his head at this moment, looked at Wang Liaoyuan and said, "Inspector Wang, this king still thinks there is something wrong with this Kang Qu. You have people continue to stare at Kang Qu, and if you find something abnormal, immediately report to this king!"

Although Kang Qu looks normal on the surface, Li Tai's intuition tells him that this Kang Qu must be hiding something behind his back!

Wang Liaoyuan has been an official for so many years, and he should be alert. He also felt that Kang Qu seemed to have some problems. Hearing this, he nodded and said, "Okay! The lower official will arrange it!"

Li Tai nodded, got up and said, "That's the case, I'll leave this to the Governor Wang. This king has other business to do, so I'll leave first!"

Although Duguxin was assassinated, and although the assassins lurking in the city have not yet been caught, the mission of the academy to build a telegraph relay station still has to continue, and even speed up, because Li Tai does not know how much resistance he will encounter on the road ahead. Faster is faster, or you may end up not being able to complete the task in two months!

Wang Liaoyuan's heart moved, and he cupped his hands and said, "The hidden dangers in the city have not been eliminated. It's better for Your Highness not to walk outside these days. If Your Highness insists on going to Longshan, you can bring the Imperial Army and Bingzhou Grand Camp soldiers there!"

Obviously, Wang Liaoyuan also saw that Li Tai would not "stop" because of the assassin, so he made a reminder.

Li Tai nodded and said, "Well! This king knows! I will be careful!"

After that, Li Tai put his hands together, raised his feet and walked towards the door.

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Today's Taiyuan City is not destined to be peaceful.

In fact, Taiyuan City has not been peaceful for the past two days. Yesterday, the forces of the bright side and the dark side of the Wang family came out, frantically looking for Zhu Xiesheng and Kang Changan in the city. Yesterday's Taiyuan City was in full swing; today, the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Bingzhou camp are scattered in every area of ​​Taiyuan City. A corner, is going from house to house searching for something.

After these sergeants entered the homes of the common people, they searched the house without asking anything! The homes of the butchers and hunters were the key search targets. The knives, arrows and other weapons hidden in their homes were all found by the sergeants of the Bingzhou camp.

Then I saw one of the sergeants took out a blueprint from his arms. The blueprint was painted with various weapons, and the weapon was also engraved with a specific pattern. While the sergeant looked at the weapons found on the ground from the houses of the common people, he also looked at the drawings in his hand, as if to compare.

After the comparison is complete, if there is no difference, the sergeants will withdraw without saying a word; if the weapons found are similar to the weapons on the drawing, the owner of the house will be arrested and sent directly to the governor's mansion!

Taiyuan City has a total of 56 private squares, with a population of more than 400,000 people, and 10,000 government soldiers searched from house to house.

This is in the early Tang Dynasty, the military discipline of the Tang army was still very strict, and the Bingzhou camp was the most powerful military force in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty.

The thick barracks are naturally very strict in military discipline. Although the soldiers searched from house to house, the search process was still very disciplined. Generally, the master of the house first gathered the female relatives of the house in one place before they entered the house. Therefore, although the search by the government soldiers caused some inconvenience to the lives of the people, in general, most of the people in Taiyuan City still supported the "work" of the government soldiers.

Of course, there are always exceptions to everything. Not everyone is willing to cooperate with the government soldiers in their search. Some wealthy families in the city are often reluctant to go in and search the government soldiers. After all, they all have great families. If we broke something when we went in and searched, the loss would be huge!

Besides, there are many secrets in the rich and powerful. If the soldiers of the mansion discovered some shameful things about the owner of the mansion during the search, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Therefore, many owners of high-profile families heard that the government soldiers came to search, and they couldn't help but want to instruct the Jiading Huyuan to obstruct them, but today's search warrants for the whole city are Wang Liaoyuan, the prefect of Bingzhou, and Gongteng who joined the army in the main camp of Bingzhou. It was jointly issued by the highest-level military and government officials in Bingzhou, and the government soldiers will unconditionally execute this search warrant!

Those wealthy families who wanted to obstruct their search were all knocked to the ground by them. If the owner of the house still didn't know how to lift it up, he would be arrested directly and sent along with those who were hiding suspicious weapons at home. Go to the Governor's House.

So, for a while, the city of Taiyuan was like chickens and dogs.

At the same time, the Longshan side did not seem to be affected by the Taiyuan City side at all.

According to Li Tai's task division in the morning, members of the fifth and sixth groups took the measuring tools and began to survey the buildings inside and outside the Longshan Tongzi Temple.

The measuring tools they used were all from the Yanhuang Academy. At the beginning of this year, the second and third "killer projects" of the academy were officially approved. The second "killer project" aims to improve the telegraph and increase the transmission distance of telegrams. The third "killer project" is mainly to formulate measurement standards. , Manufacturing standard measuring tools!

After nearly half a year of hard work, the academy has not only established its own measurement standards committee to formulate unit standards for some new physical quantities, but also produced a batch of precision measurement instruments in conjunction with the Qiquge workshop. These instruments and meters will provide a standard reference for all similar instruments in the future, and they will be calibrated as soon as they are changed!

The measuring instruments held by these students on Longshan include rulers, large triangles, and even tape measures. These instruments for measuring length are not in units of "inch", "chi" and "zhang" commonly used in the Tang Dynasty. , but the new units proposed by the academy's Measurement Standards Committee according to Li Zexuan's meaning - "millimeter", "centimeter", "decimeter" and "meter"!

Although one centimeter on these rulers for measuring length may not be strictly equal to one centimeter on the modern rulers, it is not important. In ancient times, if you want to carry out precision production, you must measure the ancient units of measurement. Subdivision, for example, the smallest unit of length at this time is one inch (about 3.333 cm), which obviously cannot meet the needs of precision production, so Li Zexuan not only proposed millimeters, but even proposed smaller units such as microns. We are also making more precise measuring tools such as vernier calipers!

"Mr. Mo, we have already measured the inside and outside of the Tongzi Temple. We believe that the height here fully meets the construction requirements of the telegraph relay station. We can even directly build the telegraph relay station on the second floor of the Tongzi Temple. As a result, we don't need to build an extra high platform for the telegraph relay station, and we can save a lot of time~!"

Near noon, eight students from the fifth and sixth groups found Mo Chui, and one of the students handed the blueprint in his hand to Mo Chui, and reported the report with a serious face.

Mo Chui stretched out his hand to take the drawing and looked at it carefully.

This is when the students were just surveying. By the way, they drew the structure of Tongzi Temple according to a certain proportion, and marked the dimensions of each key place. Those who know the new engineering drawing method invented by Li Zexuan can basically understand it at a glance!

"Well! Very good! Your judgment is not wrong. Considering the height of Longshan and the first floor of Tongzi Temple, it is completely feasible to build a telegraph relay station in the meditation room on the second floor! But where should this generator be placed? Pang Sheng, have you ever thought about it? ?"

After roughly scanning the drawings, Mo Chui nodded with a look of approval, and then he asked again.

Telegraphs need electricity, and telegraph relay stations naturally also need electricity, and batteries must not be used. After all, batteries can provide limited "lifetime", so they can only hope for small power stations.

The construction of a hydropower station is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so they brought a small thermal power station from the academy this time, which is also the first thermal power station in the history of the Tang Dynasty!

"Mr. Huimo, regarding the power station, it must not be placed in the house, otherwise it is easy to get water. We think it should be placed in the backyard north of the Tongzi Temple, where the space is spacious and convenient for guards by the Imperial Army, which is more convenient than placing it outside the Tongzi Temple. Safety!"

The student named Pang Sheng replied.

"Well! You have considered it very comprehensively!"

Hearing this, Mo Chui nodded and said with appreciation: "In this case, immediately notify the members of the second, third and fourth groups, and let them start preparing to build the thermal power station! Remember to measure and adjust the voltage at that time. , otherwise the voltage is too large, and it is easy to burn our machines!"

"Yes!"

Pang Sheng and the others nodded yes, then turned and left.

"Mr. Mo Chui, how is the situation here?"

At this time, Li Tai also came to the top of Longshan, and walked to Mo Chui's side, and asked.

From the Governor's House

As soon as he came out, he didn't even go back to the post house, he went straight to Longshan with a dozen guards from the forbidden army. Now Taiyuan City is full of soldiers from the Bingzhou camp. Li Tai is not worried that he will jump out and assassinate him at this time. But all of them are highly skilled in martial arts. Even if they can’t win for a while, they can hold them back for a while. As long as they can hold on for a while, the soldiers in the city will definitely rush over to arrest them!

Hearing the familiar voice behind him, Mo Chui was startled and turned around quickly. After seeing Li Tai, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Pang Sheng and the others have completed the survey, and we all feel that we can directly build the telegraph relay station in In the meditation room on the second floor of Tongzi Temple, I am asking Jia Jiayin and Li Yan to lead people to build a thermal power station in the backyard of Tongzi Temple!"

Hearing this, Li Tai's expression was faintly excited and said: "Okay! It's best to build the telegraph relay station directly in the meditation room on the second floor of Tongzi Temple. In this way, we can have a lot of engineering work and a lot of time left! However, this thermal power station was only successfully tested in the workshop at first. Now we want to put it into practical use, and there may be some problems in the middle! Let's concentrate on making the thermal power station run smoothly for the past two days. !"

"Yeah! Qingque, your worries are not unreasonable! Just as you said! After we turn on the thermal generator this time, we can save a lot of trouble next time!"

Mo Chui nodded when he heard the words, then he frowned and asked worriedly: "By the way, Qingque, how is General Dugu's situation now?"

In the morning, when he, Li Tai, Dugu Feiying and others went to Longshan, they were "chased" by the embargoed army on the way back, so Mo Chui was aware of the news of Duguxin's assassination, but in order to avoid causing panic, he did not respond to it. the rest of the students said.

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