"Your Highness, this is not right."

Qian Dafu knew that Xiao Ming would definitely not be able to sit still when he came to these four people. After all, Xiao Ming was so playful that he could not withstand the instigation of the four people in the past.

"But Mr. Qian doesn't have to be too careful. This time we brought a lot of servants and servants. With our respect for His Highness, will it still hurt him?" Qin Mu asked Qian Dafu to take a reassurance.

At this time, Xiao Ming stood up and walked out, "Let's go, I'll let Captain Lu follow you."

He has no friends here, and only these wine and meat friends can talk and talk about some interesting things, otherwise he would be really suffocating.

"There is no problem for Captain Lu to follow." Qian Dafu felt at ease now.

Surrounded by Wang Shijie and the other four, Xiao Ming took the carriage from Wang Shijie's family and went straight to Mihe Wharf.

On the pier, a pleasure boat was moored, and the green Mi River water rolled from west to east, with a momentum of a river flowing eastward.

Qin Le was slightly surprised. He understood that the river flowed very much in ancient times because the natural environment was not destroyed, but the Mi River was comparable to the contemporary Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

"Your Highness." Qin Mu made a gesture of invitation.

Among the four major families in Qingzhou, the Wang family mainly operates coal and iron, the Wei family mainly operates cloth and silk, and the Sun family mainly operates ceramic smelting, while the Qin family controls the canal transportation.

The pleasure boat in front of him is not gorgeous. In Xiao Ming's opinion, compared to modern times, he has not seen anything gorgeous so far, and it is simple and everywhere.

At this time, a small table was placed in the pleasure boat, with a few plates of side dishes and a jar of wine on it.

A charcoal basin under the table is burning, and winter is about to begin. It also has a little cold feeling, but the boat is warm, but there is a faint smell of coal.

"Your Highness, to suppress your shock, I specially prepared green ant wine this time, as well as this mutton, fermented black beans, Chinese cabbage, sweet and sour crucian carp..." Qin Mu knew it well.

Xiao Ming glanced at the standard of a luxurious meal and sighed in his heart that he, the prince, was really a failure, and Qin Mu's life was more comfortable than him.

But there is no way. The Qin family's canal transportation business travels from all over the Great Yu Country, so they can naturally buy all kinds of Qingzhou without any things to enjoy.

Wang Shijie clapped his hands and smiled, "After Brother Qin, you can't do good food and wine, but I'm not like me, I can only eat some simple food."

"Brother Wang has ruined me. The sugar sugar for this sweet and sour crucian carp was specially purchased by my father when he was in Chang'an. The same is true for this vegetable oil. I spent dozens of silver-patterned cars, otherwise there would be no sweet and sour crucian carp today."

Sun Dong has always been the most greedy and said, "Brother Qin, can you come back for me next time? The steamed buns, radish and leeks are too monotonous all day long, which is really greedy."

Xiao Ming couldn't help but saliva in his mouth. There was no way. Compared to the richness of modern food, this place was too terrible.

In his memory, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, and peanuts have not been introduced to the Great Yu Kingdom until now.

The varieties of vegetables are very monotonous, basically they are celery, radish, leek, spinach, lettuce, eggplant and other things.

There are very few planting these things because the people can’t even eat them. Who would grow vegetables? These things are basically eaten by wealthy businessmen and powerful people.

Five people sat down around the small table, the boatman shook the slurry, and the pleasure boat slowly headed into the river.

I have to say that the environment here is still very beautiful. The banks of the Mi River are covered with green fields, endless, like an oil painting.

There are dense water and grass on both sides of the river, reeds form forests, wild ducks and egrets can be seen everywhere, and the water waves in the river are stirring, and one or two fish jump out from time to time.

While enjoying the scenery, Qin Mu poured Xiao Ming a glass of green ant wine.

Suddenly, a sour smell of rice wine came to his nose. In Xiao Ming's opinion, this green ant wine is really of inferior quality.

Because this green ant wine is a new rice wine, and the rosé is not filtered clean, and the rosé turns green, it is called green ant wine.

This kind of wine tasted was previously possible to drink, but it was really hard for Xiao Ming to swallow it now.

But there was no strength at all. He picked it up and took a few sips, and ate his first stir-fry here, sweet and sour crucian carp.

The pleasure boat flowed down the Mi River. While Xiao Ming was enjoying the scenery, he was also observing the situation on both sides of the Mi River.

In the Great Yu Kingdom, fertile fields are basically fields on both sides of the river, because they are easy to irrigate.

He looked at it and found that there were few irrigation tools like water trucks on both sides of the Mi River. Even if there were, they were from wealthy families, and ordinary people had no money to build them.

Seeing Xiao Ming looking at the banks of the Mi River from time to time and pondering, Wang Shijie asked: "Your Highness seems to have something to do during this trip. I wonder if you can tell me if you can tell me."

Xiao Ming was thinking about how to improve the hydraulic irrigation facilities in the fief, but he was naturally unhappy to tell Wang Shijie about this.

This is when he saw the burning charcoal basin under the table, remembered something, and said, "I don't have any worries, but the craftsmen of the Equipment Department are making a fun thing, which is a hundred times stronger than this charcoal basin. I wonder if you are interested."

"Oh?" Wang Shijie showed a surprised look, "Your Highness was busy in the Equipment Department that day. Was it just for this thing?"

Qin Mu and the other two also showed an interest expression. Qin Mu said, "Since that's the case, we have swam past the Mi River. Why not go and see what Your Highness said about the novel things."

Wei Qing and Sun Dong applauded in unison.

Yesterday, when Qin Le taught craftsmen the knowledge of lathes, he asked the craftsmen to create a very practical tool for him today.

This is the contemporary coal ball stove. He lived in the royal palace for several days. He felt uncomfortable every day when he watched the firewood burned by the servants in all matters.

So the other thing was not made, but the coal ball furnace was explained in advance.

Seeing that these wealthy children were living a happy life than their prince, Xiao Ming felt unhappy, which fully demonstrated that Qingzhou's economy is now in their hands.

Correspondingly, Qingzhou's taxes are getting worse every year. As for why, it is naturally because they evade taxes.

Qin Mu said a few dozen taels of silver easily, and even his royal palace dared not say such a big thing.

Now that he has mastered the technology library and does not use some novel things to squeeze their money out, how can he have the money to build his own official economy?

During this trip to Mi River, Xiao Ming had a basic understanding of the irrigation conditions on both sides of the Mi River. He said: "Since that's the case, let's go to the Equipment Department to take a look."

Qin Mu immediately asked the pleasure boat to turn the bow of the boat, and the five people returned to the dock.

When Qin Le tightened his clothes on his body, it was about to start winter. The weather was getting colder. The coal ball stove was ready to come in handy at this time, so I don’t worry that they wouldn’t buy it.

Especially the Wang family, if the coal cakes and iron ore are so expensive to sell to themselves, can he bypass them?

At this time, a coal ball stove with iron sheets on the outside had been produced in the equipment department.

This is a simple coal ball stove. The iron sheets are the inner ring of the baked soil, and the chassis is a mesh iron sheet.

The style does not look modern and exquisite, but the functions are basically complete.

The craftsmanship of the coal ball furnace is very simple, and this is the first practice object that Xiao Ming gave to the craftsmen.

When the five people arrived at the Equipment Department, they saw such a coal ball stove.

"Your Highness, what is this?" Wang Shijie said in confusion.

Qin Le smiled slightly and asked Chen Wenlong: "Have the coal balls been made?"
Chapter completed!