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    For Li Min, this night in the study was naturally a romantic and charming one. However, Xijun was a newbie, so this night was tormented by Li Min miserably. When he woke up in the morning, he only felt aches all over his body, as if his body had been  It looked like it was torn apart, and it was very difficult to even walk. The thought of handing over his innocent body to Li Min so hastily made Xijun even more angry and aggrieved. He crawled into Li Min's arms and scratched and bit him, like a  Like a hurt little wild cat.  In the end, it was Li Min who swore that he would be responsible for her, and with some sweet words and coaxing, he was able to temporarily appease Xijun.

    But after Xijun was comforted, Wenxin got into trouble again.  Now Wen Xin is in charge of Li Min's inner house, and half of it is occupied by the maids and women who came as dowry from the Xiao Mansion, so what happens in the inner house cannot be hidden from Wen Xin's ears.  However, as Wen Xin's wife, she would naturally not do anything that would harm a woman's moral integrity, such as being 'jealous'.

    As soon as Li Min comforted Xijun, before they could get dressed, Wen Xin led someone into the study and brought Li Min a body-replenishing ginseng soup. She virtuously fed Li Min to drink it with her own hands, and then continued  She is as affectionate as the Xijun sisters, and she doesn't seem to mind at all when Xijun competes with her for her husband.

    However, before Li Min could come and lament how happy men were in ancient times, he suddenly found that no one was waiting on him when he got up, the food was cold when he ate, and the medicine Aunt Tiger gave him seemed to be much harder than usual.  Times, when he wanted to order a servant, he couldn't even find anyone. Even Wen'er and Hua'er were hiding from him.  What's even more outrageous is that he wanted to go back to the dormitory to sleep at night, but Wen Xin turned him away. The reason was that he was young and growing, so Li Min was asked to find Xijun!

    After this series of encounters, Li Min finally understood that women are also human beings. Whether in ancient or modern times, they are the same as men in that they have an exclusive mentality towards their significant other.  Although the education they received since childhood told them that their future husbands will be other women, when the day actually comes, their natural instinct will still make them feel very sad.

    Understanding Wen Xin¡¯s psychology, Li Min would naturally not really go to Xijun, otherwise this matter would be endless.  Li Min was very clever when it came to Xiao Wenxin. When he saw that she wouldn't let him in, he simply acted rogue.  The maids, headed by Wen'er, were pleading loudly at the door and shouting things like "kiss me, be careful". The maids headed by Wen'er covered their mouths and snickered in the room.

    Li Min is thick-skinned and doesn¡¯t care at all.  But Wen Xin was very thin-skinned. She was defeated after not persisting for two minutes. In the end, her face turned red and she asked someone to let Li Min in.  As long as he could see people, Li Min had a way. He kept bombarding her with sweet words during the day and night. In the end, she was sincere and opened the door, allowing Wen Xin to regain some of her smile, and Li Min could finally eat a hot meal.  However, Wen Xin never let go of Wang Xijun's title of Ruren.  It wasn't that she was deliberately making things difficult, but she felt that Wen Xin's background was too low. If she was canonized as a Ruren, Li Min would be disgraced, so she had to think about it.  Fortunately, Wang Xijun was not anxious at all, and after taking good care of his health.  I still do what I should do every day, and it doesn't seem to be affected at all.

    In fact, the reason why Wen Xin forgave Li Min so easily was mainly related to his good performance. For example, when Xiao Wen Xin got married, the Xiao family originally prepared two young girls as dowries.  And their status is not low, they are all sisters of the same generation as Wen Xin, but they were rejected by Li Min.  Moreover, after her wedding, Wen Xin also discovered that even Wen'er and Hua'er, two of Li Min'er's personal maids, were still virgins.

    It can be seen that Li Min is not a lustful person. Although the incident with Wang Xijun this time was a bit sudden, Xiao Wenxin had already had a premonition about Wang Xijun before, so she was not very surprised. She just thought that after she married Li Min,  However, because of her age, she has been unable to consummate the marriage, and now Wang Xijun is rushing ahead. Wen Xin, a real wife, can't help but feel sour in her heart, so she deliberately made Li Min suffer for a few days.

    After finally calming things down at home, Li Min secretly visited Wu Meiniang again. This big trouble also gave Li Min a huge headache. Wang Xijun had made Xiao Wenxin jealous for so many days. If he saw Wu Meiniang again,  I still don¡¯t know how much trouble this is going to cause. Li Min remembers that they met each other when they were in Chang¡¯an. Even after Wu Meiniang was kidnapped, Wen Xin specifically told Li Min to pay more attention to the news about Wu Meiniang. After all,  Wu's mother and daughter have been living in Li Min's house, so the hostess Wen Xin naturally has to pay attention to them.  Now if Xiao Wenxin sees Wu Meiniang in his hands, Li Min really can't guess what will happen?  Therefore, it is better to hide it from the other party for the time being.

    On this day, Li Min called Yanbei, and Zhao Fu, the Dengzhou biechai, drove the carriage to the shipyard in the northeast outside the city.  The shipbuilding industry in Dengzhou is very prosperous. There are four or five shipyards with more than 500 people. The two largest ones have a scale of more than 1,000 people. Naturally, they are government-run shipyards that can reach such a large scale.

      After Li Min and the others arrived at the shipyard, Zhao Fu immediately called the directors of the two shipyards. One of them, named Gu, was an old man in his sixties. He was in charge of the warship manufacturing shipyard, while the other  One is a middle-aged man named Xu, who is responsible for building private shipyards for external sales.

    Li Min first went to the shipyard that manufactured civilian ships and found that the ships manufactured here were all cargo ships such as sand ships. Most of them were ships of four to five hundred tons, and the largest was only eight hundred tons. Among them, the ship Li Min asked Xijun to buy was also  Here, modifications are being made according to Li Min's requirements, and they will be completed in a few days.  Although these ships were not big in Li Min's opinion, in the era of the Tang Dynasty, these ships were extremely advanced and huge ships in East Asia and even the entire world.

    After that, Li Min followed the old man surnamed Gu to the warship yard, where some warships such as Mengchong, fighting ships, and walking boats were being built, and two huge building ships were also under construction.  After the introduction of the old man, Li Min learned that the two large-scale ships under construction were called Wuya ships. They were warships that had been finalized in the Sui Dynasty. They were five stories high, could accommodate 500 warriors, and had more than 40 weapons.  The long oar, with huge paddles at the front and rear, was used to attack approaching boats.

    Li Min felt very uncomfortable with the building boat, which was much more ornamental than practical. When he came to Dengzhou, he had taken a boat ride on the building boat.  The buildings of this kind of ship are all on the water, and its center of gravity is extremely unstable. It will sway back and forth at the slightest wind and waves. However, Li Min still gets seasick. As a result, the sky is dark and the earth is dark, and he suffers all the hardships of a high-rise ship.

    "Master Gu, Master Xu, your shipyard should have many shipwrights who are proficient in shipbuilding, right?" Li Min walked around the two shipyards before arriving at the place where Master Gu usually worked. He sat down and smiled at the two of them.  asked.

    Director Gu was older and naturally had higher qualifications than Director Xu. Hearing Li Min's question, he stood up and replied nervously: "Your Highness, although there are many shipwrights in the shipyard, those who can be said to be proficient in shipbuilding  , the two shipyards put together are only thirteen or fourteen. After all, shipbuilding is a big project, and not many people can fully understand it."

    "Well, a dozen or so is quite a few. Let's do this. Find all these people. I have something to explain." Li Min nodded. He was not just here to visit the shipyard today, but he had a big thing to attend to.  manage.

    After hearing His Highness King Qi's order, Gu and Xu naturally did not dare to delay and ran out quickly to call for someone. Zhao Fu didn't know what Li Min wanted to do and wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask. Yan Bei didn't have so many scruples.  , just about to ask Li Min, but at this moment Li Min gave a few instructions to the people he brought, and someone immediately ran out. After a while, a dark-faced official in his thirties came in, followed by several people.  Carrying two large boxes.  This black-faced man was brought by Li Min from Chang'an. His surname was Wei Minggong. Because he was dark, everyone called him Wei Heizi.

    "Your Highness, I have brought everything!" Wei Heizi bowed to Li Min deeply. He was originally a technical officer in the Ministry of Industry of Chang'an. His ancestors made a living by building ships for three generations, and in his generation, he carried it forward even more.  Wei Heizi was very proficient in both river boats and sea boats, so he was promoted to an official by the Ministry of Industry. However, he was later valued by Li Min, and it took Duan Lun several days to get it. Now he serves as a cavalry officer in the Prince of Qi's palace and joins the military.  Officials of the seventh rank were nominally in charge of the palace's equipment, riding and other matters, but in fact they were the shipbuilding talents reserved by Li Min.

    "Well, Mr. Wei, you can discuss it with the shipwrights from the two shipyards later. If you have any difficulties, just raise them in person and I will have someone help you solve them." Li Min nodded and said, although everyone called him  Wei Heizi, but Li Min likes to call each other by his name. Coincidentally, Wei Heizi's name is quite similar to the name engineers were called in later generations.  Although the Tang Dynasty valued craftsmen, the status of craftsmen was still inferior to that of scholars and farmers. Therefore, shipbuilding masters such as Wei Gong were only called shipwrights. This title was really inconsistent with their abilities.

    After waiting for a while, Director Gu and Director Xu came back with people one after another. Most of the dozen or so people they brought were elderly, and occasionally a few young people were about the same age as Wei Heizi.  When these people heard that they were coming to see His Highness King Qi, they were all frightened. They all seemed to be in a hurry when saluting, and even their movements were timid. They did not have the demeanor of a master shipbuilder at all.

    "Haha, don't be nervous, everyone!" Li Min showed what he thought was a kind smile, trying to make everyone relax. Unfortunately, the effect was not good. After all, the difference in status was too great, and these people simply couldn't let go.  In desperation, Li Min could only cut to the chase and asked Wei Heizi to open the box, point to the items inside and ask: "Look, everyone, what do you think of these two things?" (To be continued)

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