Li Ming suddenly stood up as if he had suddenly been lit with acupoint. He turned his stiff neck slowly to Man'er, and asked in a dry voice: "What are you saying? Acting?" Suddenly, he pounced on him like a tiger, grabbed Man'er's weakened shoulder with both hands, and shouted sternly: "What are you saying? Tell me, what do you know? How did you know?"

There was no panic on Man'er's face. She held back the unbearable pain in her shoulders, and said in a trembling voice with tears in her eyes: "Why can't Man'er know? Do you really think Man'er is so stupid? Didn't you say that night to me just to test Man'er? Man'er now understands that the young master has been doubting Man'er for the past six months. Since that's the case, why didn't the young master execute Man'er? What were you worried about? Are you worried about destroying your good reputation as a god of medicine? Why bother? Man'er is just a worthless little girl. No matter where she dies, no one will ask about it. Why should you think too much?" Speaking of this, she was crying.

Li Ming couldn't help feeling embarrassed. It felt so uncomfortable to be told that the central thing was that he had to let go of Man'er, looking at her with hatred and anger, thinking about how to deal with this problem.

Man'er stroked the place where his shoulders were scratched and hurt, looked at Li Ming sadly, and said in a trembling voice: "Young Master, if you want to do it now, Man'er doesn't blame you. If Man'er's death can make you feel at ease, Man'er has no complaints."

With a "bang", Zhang Yao's door was suddenly opened. Li Ming was shocked and looked back quickly, but Zhang Yao rushed out like a whirlwind, rushed straight to Man'er, hugged her thin body tightly in her arms, and looked at Li Ming and shouted: "No! Don't execute Man'er, sir, you can't do this. You have no evidence to prove that she is a spy. Mr., Yao'er and Man'er have been like sisters for the past six months, so Yao'er believes that Man'er will never lie to us. Besides, don't you already know who the spy is this time? Why are you still asking for trouble for Man'er? Sir, please let her go?" After saying that, he burst into tears and looked at Li Ming tightly with a begging gaze.

Li Ming smiled bitterly, spread his hands and said, "But I didn't say I wanted to execute her. Yes, at first I suspected her, so I played such a show in front of her. But Man'er, are you really smart? Or, anyway, the spy has been caught, Man'er's suspicion has been lifted, so I won't blame him. Don't worry now? Okay, you both wash your faces, your face is full of tears, as if I bully you, Longer, go down the mountain with me, I have important things to do." After that, he pulled Lin Longfei and ran down the mountain.

After rushing to the foot of the mountain in one breath, Li Ming stopped, turned around and looked at the top of the mountain and let out a long breath, sighed: "Yao'er's heart is still so soft, and she will suffer a great loss in the future. Long'er, you must keep a close eye on Man'er and find a way to find out his clues."

Lin Long smiled and said, "What's wrong with my brother today? He also blamed Sister Yao for being kind and ruthless? It seems that this is not your usual personality, hehe."

Li Ming smiled awkwardly and said to himself: "Don't mention the past things. The master has warned me many times. He asked me not to be too soft-hearted. Wouldn't I listen? Besides, those who achieve great things must be ruthless. I still understand this sentence, haha."

A storm to fight traitors has passed temporarily, but Li Ming's suspicion of Man'er became deeper and deeper. All signs show that Man'er is not an ordinary person, but this little girl who is good at winning Zhang Yao's sympathy can no longer catch the handle. This made him very depressed. In his helplessness, he had no choice but to instruct his subordinates to monitor her carefully.

In a blink of an eye, a busy month passed. The temperature difference between Lin Bin's autumn and winter was not too large, so that people could not realize that winter had arrived. It was already snowing heavily in the north. At this time more than a year ago, Li Ming bid farewell to the era where he had lived for more than 20 years and came to the shaded city that was also snowy. At that time, he was still worried about how to make a living. However, in just one year, a miracle seemed to have happened, which turned Li Ming from a penniless pauper to a doctor who everyone admired. Now his wealth is even about to surpass the emperor. All this is so wonderful and incredible that every time Li Ming thinks of the miracle he created, he doubts whether it is in a dream.

During this month, Li Ming closely monitored the movements of several princes and the court, while doing his best to develop several key industries. Fortunately, half a month ago, King Kang sent a message telling Li Ming Rende that Emperor Rende had personally come to the court. At the same time, the emperor also learned that Li Qing and Li Jiao framed two border generals. However, now all this has been done, and it seems that the emperor did not intend to rehabilitate Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong. After learning that these two people were robbed, the emperor also issued a wanted order, which made Li Ming puzzled. Perhaps, Emperor Rende really regarded them as a confidant in his heart. This might be the end of the great capitalist.

After the emperor personally went to court, the third prince Li Jiao quietly disbanded the gathered army again. I don’t know what the emperor reacted after receiving the news from Li Ming, but in short, he did not take too much punishment for the two sons’ rebellious behavior. He just convicted them of "miss supervision" in the affairs of the ambassador Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong in the Political Affairs Hall, because they sentenced the two important officials to behead them without investigation. As for King Kang, he was given a crime of "miss duty" and blamed him for being in charge of the Imperial Guard.

The poor supervision made people robbed Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong of the Imperial City. As a result, this shocking case was handled lightly by the emperor. For Li Qing and Li Jiao, their actions were truly absolved by the wife and soldiers, because the emperor transferred all their confidants sent to the border army back to the imperial city, and the border commander turned into an officer of the Imperial Guard, which meant that they lost control of these two troops overnight, and at the same time, they also exposed their true faces in front of the emperor.

After hearing this news, Li Ming was impressed and scared by the emperor's methods, and on the other hand, he was indignant about the experience of Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong. It was obvious that this time the emperor used Li Qing and Li Jiao's hands to get rid of his big troubles, and then blamed the charges on these two unfilial sons. Although the emperor did not know when the two princes took action, after he recovered from the illness and learned the news, he could quickly turn passive into initiative, take over the military power of the border with the flow, and at the same time let Zhang Meng and

Yuchi Xiong had to wander around the world, eliminated the control of these two military giants over the army, and lifted the threats they might have posed to their own country after they were lifted, which was more than killing two birds with one stone. Li Ming really didn't expect that the amiable emperor he met in the palace had such clever means, and the chaotic situation was completely controlled in the understatement, which reminded him of Su Shi's famous poem: "While talking and laughing, the masts and oars were destroyed in ashes." How appropriate it is.

Since the surging situation was under control for a moment, Li Ming felt relieved and no longer paid too much for the upcoming war. After all, the development of Biquan Island in front of him was a long way to go, and it was necessary to devote more energy to construction.

Within this month, Lin Long mobilized the 30,000 victims she had helped to show up and go to three states to collect immigrants. He heard that there was a place to live, eat, and land to plant. How could these victims who were starved to death still refuse? As a result, it was originally expected to find hundreds of thousands of refugees, but in the end, more than 200,000 came, which gave Gao Wei a headache for several days. Although the island was fully preparing for immigration, after all, there were only one or two thousand people under his command. How could he be busy with this? Li Ming shook his hand and gave him such a big stall. Can he ignore it? So, this month, Gao Wei was busy running around and lost a lot of weight in the whole month, and then he barely built the first centralized refugee camp in the center of the island 30 miles away from the wharf.

The reason for gathering them together was entirely due to Li Ming's idea. Dongtian is coming soon. Although the winter here is not too cold, it is still winter after all. If you live in scattered people, you will be too busy on the island. Collecting them together is conducive to management and control over them. After all, there are all kinds of people. If there are too many things happening, it will affect "stability and unity".

Considering that Biquan Island will become a very large-scale and abundant place in the future, it will inevitably form several important cities with large scale and large personnel, so from the perspective of municipal development, it is necessary to plan well. Although Li Ming does not want to build any high-rise buildings, he does not want to make his city messy. Therefore, drawing on the experience of modern urban municipal construction, Li Ming specially chose four places on the island as the location of the future city. First of all, the first city to be built is the management center of Biquan Island. Now this location is the palace of King Kang in the past, but Li Ming does not want to destroy the beautiful ancient building complex in front of him. Therefore, it is necessary to build a city near the palace and move the management center on the island there.

This location was chosen to be a lake about one kilometer away from the palace. The terrain was flat and it was easier to build houses. At present, Zhuangya, which has quite organizational experience, was sent by the Saint King to preside over the construction of the city. Since we learned from the experience of our predecessors, the construction of the city first started with public works. Based on the drawings designed by Li Ming for a week, the crisscrossing urban underground drainage system was first built.

The reason why he dared to copy the modern pattern is all due to the success of cement development. Without cement as a building material, Li Ming would never dare to dig such deep sewers on the island. The development of cement is entirely due to the idea of ​​Li Mingdong's establishment of a hydropower dam. After all, relatively speaking, the manufacturing of cement is still very simple. In addition, so many steel-making slags on the island are definitely good raw materials for making slag cement. Therefore, Li Ming specially handed over this work to Chen Fang, who was temporarily "unemployed", to take charge. After Li Ming's hard work and research, the cement produced now is definitely an excellent product.

When there was no cement, Li Ming didn't think he was of any use, but once it was produced, he realized that the use was too great. All walks of life and construction were inseparable from it. This made Li Ming a little ashamed of his short-sighted gaze. If he had thought about this earlier, immigration would not have been so busy.

In addition to cement, another important thing Li Ming developed is electricity. If he wanted to generate electricity, he had to have a generator. However, he encountered great difficulties in this regard. Wang Laodao led his men to purify hundreds of kilograms of copper and successfully manufactured several thousand meters of copper wire. However, the problem of insulation between copper wires has not been solved yet, which has always made Li Ming very upset. In desperation, he had no choice but to pause the development in this area.

However, except for generators, everything else was smooth sailing, especially with the research and efforts of Li Ming and others, with the help of the processing capabilities of the third-generation machine tools on the island, the first steam turbine fixed with rivets is about to be released. Li Ming did not want to repeat the development path of the industrial revolution. Since the structure of the steam turbine is simple and the efficiency is higher than that of the piston steam engine, why should the bulky piston steam engine appear in this world?

At this moment, Li Ming and other important figures on the island gathered in the processing factory of the steel factory, looking forward to seeing what the milestone-like thing Li Ming mentioned was use.

In order to give full play to the role of the steam engine, Li Ming connected the output shaft of the steam engine with the machine tool during the design. Now, the huge steam engine next to the machine tool has replaced the original artificial winch, waiting for a technological leap in human history in this era.

As a shovel of coal was put into the boiler, the steam in the furnace began to whirl out. Li Ming walked forward and turned on the switch of the steam valve.

With a creaking sound, the machine tool that usually requires eight people to push it turned around. As the steam temperature became higher and higher, the machine tool turned faster and faster. In the end, it vibrated violently as if it was about to fly. Li Ming hurriedly turned off the valve and signaled the people next to him to extinguish the fire. He didn't want the third-generation lathe that he had worked hard to be scrapped. After all, this lathe was not designed and manufactured according to the high-speed operation plan, and the speed of human powered cannot be too high, so the dynamic balance and other aspects were not taken into account. It seems that the lathe is going to be updated again.

The people next to them did not consider what Li Ming was thinking. They just saw the lathe in front of them and could turn it by burning coal. Although Li Ming had told them the principle of converting heat energy into mechanical energy, and they had also learned the working principle of the steam turbine, they were still very excited and surprised when they actually saw this situation, so a warm cheer still rang out.

Li Ming walked towards the crowd, reached out to grab Wang Laodao and Wang Tao in the crowd, hugged their shoulders and left the crowd far away. He kicked the factory and didn't know what to explain. After more than half an hour, the two of them left quietly in excitement and mysteriously.

Although everyone who had noticed their actions was curious, they did not ask. After all, since Li Ming came back, many laws have been issued, the most important of which is the Confidentiality Law. This is a mandatory confidentiality measure formulated by Li Ming to address the current development of the island beyond the times, and everyone must abide by it.

So when the others were disbanded, Li Ming took the Saint Hand King to walk to the construction site, and asked as he walked: "I have only had to do some inventions these days and I have no time to care about the affairs on the island. How about it? Everything will go smoothly."

The Saint Wang smiled and said, "Of course, since you came back, the island has become more motivated. By the way, the road from the dock to the island's central concentration camp is about to be repaired. It is only two or three miles away from the middle. It is estimated that it will be completed by the end of this month. The temperature is relatively low now. Although it will not freeze, the hot asphalt still cools very quickly, so it takes a lot of manpower to heat it, and the progress is relatively slow. Hey, no one is allowed to step on this road now, but I tried it secretly two days ago. It was so amazing. Haha, it seems that it is a little elastic when you walk up and it is very comfortable."

Li Ming smiled and said, "Of course, it was the cost of paving large stones too high, so this is the most commonly used road surface in the future. After the automobile is manufactured, the effect of the road will be even greater."

"Car? You said it before." The Saint-Hand King said excitedly: "It's the kind of car that can walk by itself without a horse pulling? By the way, can the lathe bench be able to walk by itself today? Do you want to load that steam engine into the car? In this way, the car can walk by itself? Hey, I'm so smart, isn't that?"

Li Ming couldn't help but laugh: "Haha, yes, you're very smart, but the steam engine is not installed on that kind of car. You will understand in the future that the steam engine is the foundation of industrialization. With it, we can truly embark on the road of industrialization. Brother, the next step I will build a boat that I can run by myself, and it's an iron-shelled boat. How about it? Amazed?"

"Iron Shell Boat?" Although he had been with Li Ming for a long time and ordinary things could not surprise him, today he was surprised again: "Iron Shell? Wouldn't it sink if the iron is placed in the water? Haha, I'll lie to you."

Li Ming smiled proudly, and he looked at the Saint Hand Wang and said, "Haha, it's the same reaction as I imagined. Even this is similar to my guess. If you react normally, you will know that you won't believe it. I just called Wang Laodao and Wang Tao together to let them start this plan. I have taught them the specific production principles and methods long ago. The rest depends on their abilities. But I think it should not be difficult. After processing it into a steam turbine, the processing of the propeller will not be a problem.

, Hehe, brother, if we want to be king in Banshan Lake, we must first develop the naval army. With a strong naval army, we can go north to Mingyang City, south to Nandian Prefecture, and east to Nanguo City. I still remember when I first arrived outside Nanguo City, I studied with Gao Wei how to break the solid defense of Nanguo City. Today, this problem will be solved." As he spoke, a carriage passed by them, and the two hurriedly hid aside to make way for the carriage.

But the carriage stopped, and the curtain was lifted, Gao Wei hurriedly got out of the car and walked to Li Ming, and asked in a low voice, "Just just passed by here, I heard the last words of my lord. How did the lord solve it? You know, since I came back, I often remembered the difficult problem that my lord studied outside Nanguo City. However, I thought of countless ways but still couldn't grasp the solid city defense. But you are so busy all day long, but you can easily say that you have come up with a solution? It's so curious. Tell me quickly, what's the solution?"

Looking at the curious and eager expressions of both of them, Li Ming laughed and pointed to the lake next to him and said, "The method is very simple, it is to walk on the waterway! Although the wall of Nanguo City is high, we don't have to pass through the city wall. There are eight waterways leading to the city, two of which can drive large ships. Let's take a boat to enter."

"Then." Gao Wei almost fell down there. He was angry and funny. He looked at Li Ming and said anxiously: "Did the lord tease me? How is this possible? Although there is a waterway leading to the city, it still has to pass through the city wall. Moreover, there are special iron fences and peak water gates on the waterway leading to the city. The waterway can be blocked at any time. How is it possible to take a boat?"

Li Ming smiled proudly and said, "You are wrong. Others can't do it, but I can do it. Think about it, an iron armored ship made of steel rushed into the city. Is there anything that can stop it? Is it a bow and arrow? Or a wooden rock? Haha, now you don't believe it. You should wait until our iron armored warship is built] and let you see it. Okay, I won't tell you anymore. Since there is nothing big during this period, I won't bother you. Please ask you about the matter on the island. I'd better go into my laboratory to study my generator. This is the most suitable job for me." After that, he took a step.

"Wait a minute." Gao Wei shouted hurriedly: "I just received a letter from Wang Dong's Feige. They have found Erniu and the others. They are now rushing back. They are probably going back in two or three days."

"That's great!" Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised and happy, saying, "I thought I would have to wait for a while. It seems that Wang Dong is really capable and found them so soon. Hehe, my apprentice is back, and another group of residents will be added to the island."

Suddenly, a sound of horse hooves quickly moved towards this side. The sound of horse hooves stepping on the bluestone road became louder and louder. Gradually, Chen Hao's figure became clearer and clearer. Seeing Li Ming, he hurriedly tied the reins and jumped off the horse, clasped his fists at Li Ming and said, "Report to Master, the madam has given you an urgent order to rush back to the villa immediately. Seeing that she seems very anxious, my subordinates dare not neglect, so I will inform you immediately. You should go back quickly."
Chapter completed!