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Chapter 712 Steamship

The snow that had been falling all night stopped in the early morning, but the strong wind was still strong, and the cold seemed to turn into a knife in the wind, making people's face hurt.

He instructed the palace maid not to disturb Cui Xue'er, but Xiao Ming returned to the bedroom alone while walking on the thick snow.

Fei Yue'er had just gotten up at this time and saw Xiao Ming coming back with a smile on her face. She said, "Have you ever had breakfast?"

Xiao Ming shook his head. He found that Fei Yue'er's smile was strange, as if he had seen everything last night, but the headquarters was so big that he knew that he could not hide it.

Fei Yue'er seemed to have no idea. She asked Xiaohuan to inform the kitchen to prepare two meals to the bedroom, and then she said: "Your Majesty, I have recovered a little over the days, and I think of going for a walk in the girls' school."

This women's school was established by Fei Yueer, with the purpose of cultivating some talented women.

Since founding this women's school, Fei Yue'er has been very concerned and always hopes to produce some talented women comparable to men.

"How can this work? You can't walk around without a month, let alone it's very cold outside." Xiao Ming refused directly.

Fei Yue'er said: "Your Majesty, I didn't want to go, but someone sent this morning."

After saying that, Fei Yueer took a model ship and gave it to Xiao Ming.

After taking the model ship, Xiao Ming took a closer look. It was a pure wooden model ship. But unlike other ships, the ship actually carried a propeller, and there was something like a steam engine inside the model.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming showed a surprised look, "Is this thing made by people from your Women's School?"

Fei Yue'er shook her head and said, "The emperor used to say that men are inferior to men, but I think they are lies."

Xiao Ming was a little embarrassed, and he said, "How do you say this?"

"If the male emperor must have laughed happily, he would not be so unbelievable now." Fei Yue'er said: "Your Majesty, don't forget that the things in this girls' school are copied from the Bowen Academy."

Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment. Speaking of which, he really never paid attention to this women's school. After all, for him, the current main force is still a male student.

"I have neglected this. It seems that there are amazing people in this women's school." Xiao Ming smiled.

Fei Yue'er chuckled softly and said at this time: "To be honest with the emperor, the person who created this thing is actually Zhang Liang's daughter."

"Zhang Liang's daughter?" Xiao Ming was relieved. In addition to having one eldest son, Zhang Liang also had a daughter born to a concubine.

When Zhang Liang was framed, he asked the concubine to escape with his daughter. Later, after he went to Dengzhou to become rich, he found the concubine and daughter.

"Zhang Liang's children are quite talented in shipbuilding," said Xiao Ming.

Fei Yue'er actually couldn't understand this model. She just felt a little incredible when she saw the steam engine in the model, so she had to go and see what was going on.

Fei Yue'er nodded and said, "Since the emperor does not allow me to go, then this will be handed over to the emperor."

"Then the queen should recruit her into the government office and ask about it, so as not to go out." He was inconvenient to interfere in the women's school.

"Yes, the emperor, I'm so please call her."

After saying that, Fei Yue'er sent someone to go immediately.

At this time, Xiao Ming sat down with a steamship model. The appearance of the steam engine caused two types of transportation to change, one was a steam locomotive and the other was a steamship.

For Xiao Ming, these two things appeared after the steam engine technical conditions were ripe, so it was not surprising that Zhang Liang's daughter made this thing.

After all, many people have seen steam engines now and are very aware that steam engines can drive animals to rotate.

After breakfast, half an hour later, a woman with an ordinary appearance arrived at the bedroom under the guidance of Xiaohuan.

"Your Majesty, this is Zhang Qiyun, the daughter of Zhang Liang." Fei Yue'er said.

Xiao Ming looked closely and found that Zhang Qiyun and Zhang Liang were as dark as they were, and they looked a little similar.

As soon as Fei Yue'er finished speaking, Zhang Qiyun looked at Xiao Ming with vague eyes, then bowed and said, "Men's girl meets the emperor."

As if she realized what Xiao Ming was thinking, Xiao Ming said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Qiyun's eyes are a little confused about things. She always looks like this when looking at people. On weekdays, she always takes books very close to her to read them."

"Myopia," Xiao Ming almost blurted out. He was also myopia in modern times, and he had already seen it.

Fei Yue'er showed a confused look, while Zhang Qiyun looked at Xiao Ming strangely.

After coughing twice to hide his embarrassment, Xiao Ming remembered that he summoned Zhang Qiyun for the sake of steam engine ships, and then talked about myopia or presbyopia.

So he asked, "Did you make this ship model?"

"Back to the emperor, it was done by the folk girl." Zhang Qiyun's words were a bit stiff.

Xiao Ming nodded. Zhang Qiyun gave him the feeling that he was a modern female academic master with an ordinary appearance. He said bluntly: "Can you let this kind of boat walk in the water?"

Zhang Qiyun said calmly: "If you can't leave, the young lady dare not give it to the Queen."

Fei Yue'er became proud and seemed to be happy that she had such an excellent student.

After staring at Zhang Qiyun for a while, Xiao Ming said, "Since that's the case, I will give you a decree. This decree can even allow your father to cooperate with you in producing this kind of ship. How about it?"

In the past five years, the number of naval warships has reached fifty-two, and these fifty-two are traditional sail warships.

For him, these fifty-two warships were more than enough to fight Goryeo and Japan, but it would be a bit difficult to compete with the West for maritime hegemony.

As the saying goes, the ten-year army, a hundred-year navy, and the Great Yu Navy, which also operates sail warships, does not have an advantage at sea, and may even be defeated in large-scale naval battles due to lack of combat experience.

Therefore, he never used the sail warship as the main force of the navy, and he kept the position of this steam warship for the navy.

After the last court meeting, he was about to participate in the construction of this steam warship, but Zhang Liang's daughter took out a model of the steamship.

"Minister women are just a woman. How dare they participate in such military and national affairs?" Zhang Qiyun was a little nervous at this time. She was very afraid of her father.

Before Xiao Ming could speak, Fei Yue'er said fragilely, "Don't be afraid. Since the emperor has ordered your general, it means that the emperor values ​​you very much. Moreover, you are a student of this palace. This palace will support you and hope that you can win the breath of the girls' school so that the Confucian scholars in Qingzhou will not point all the words to the girls' college."
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