The emperor was also very concerned about the establishment of engineering and education. He just talked about this with Luo Yong the afternoon before, and asked someone to arrange a matter the next morning.

The first thing to do when running a school is to choose a location. In recent years, Chang'an City has become more and more populated. Basically, the land that should have masters has masters. It is really not easy to find a suitable place.

The emperor asked someone to find a location closer to the Chang'an County Public Mansion, but he could not be next to Xishi. The Xishi was too noisy.

After some discussion, the relevant officials said that there is a large courtyard in Judefang in the northwest corner of the west city. The place is spacious enough and not very noisy, and is suitable for starting a school.

When the emperor heard this, he said, "Judefang is too close to the Golden Light Gate, it's not possible."

So the officials had to look for something else.

Luo Yong also heard about this outside the palace. This time he started engineering. He said it was a school, but its main function in the early stage was to develop and research new technologies.

The location next to the city gate is indeed inappropriate. If someone steals skills at that time, it will be too easy to escape.

The news that Luo Yong could hear was naturally possible. Many families wanted to get in for this soon-to-be-broken engineering. The position of PhD in Engineering became a hot commodity.

However, the emperor was not that easy to talk to. The reason why Luo Yong was able to stuff two people into engineering was because he was willing to use technology.

The position of PhD in Engineering represents that they will have the opportunity to access most of the new technologies developed and researched in engineering in the future. These people don’t give up anything, just thinking about getting such a big benefit, and dreaming.

In the end, the position of PhD in Engineering was temporarily determined to have only four places. Except for Heng Zhi and Hou Lin, the other two were both emperors.

One of them had served in the Ministry of Works earlier, and this time he was transferred without promotion but instead of being promoted. However, judging from the situation, the emperor clearly planned to reuse him.

The other person was an eunuch who came out directly from the palace. Needless to say, he must have been a confidant of the emperor.

As for such a result, those big families were not willing to give up. They were not blind. They knew that Luo had many good techniques in his hands. Not to mention anything else, the equipment in the needle workshop in Hedong alone has created many benefits over the years.

Nowadays, many needle shops in Hedong have made needles not only sold in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, but also sold to foreign countries. In recent years, merchants from Hedong have become richer and richer.

I heard that the needle shop in Changle County has recently released a more efficient device. Those devices are almost no manual work and can operate by burning charcoal.

Even the aristocratic families would not be able to get along with money. Some people even got news from the palace and learned what Luo Yong said to the emperor that day: He planned to apply the needle-making equipment to spinning and weaving cloth.

If it was true as he said, it would be a drastic change. Those aristocratic families would not be willing to miss this train this time.

The competition for interests among the aristocratic families is definitely strong and fierce, and the emperor has been annoyed by them recently.

Luo was fine with this side. After all, he didn't have much say in engineering, so he fell into tranquility.

In the blink of an eye, the 20th year of Zhenguan was approaching. Just a few days before the end of the year, Luo Yong took over as the magistrate of Chang'an County.

In order to familiarize yourself with all the work in the Chang'an County Public Mansion, he and Du Gou and others spent this New Year basically in the county government.

Du Gou knew the complex relationship between Chang'an City and the various aristocratic families in Chang'an City, so he adapted to these tasks very quickly.

During this period, they also received help from some familiar merchants, such as whose business is actually the store, what kind of relationship does the store have with the owner, what kind of distant relatives does a scoundrel on the street have, what kind of things happened earlier, etc.

These news is very useful to Luo Yong and others, so that they can avoid trampling into mud pits in the early days of their tenure. In the later stage, whether these mud pits should be dug or buried, and it will not be too late to take care of them after they are ready.

There are also residences in this county government. There were originally some officials and servants in the county, with a lot of staff. The previous county magistrate did not live in the county government government, but only stayed here for one or two nights when he was busy with official duties.

Luo Yong didn't plan to live in the county government, but Du Gou and Xia Yan lived here, mainly to grasp the people's hearts and moves in the county government in time and avoid being ignorant of others' actions behind their backs.

In this era, the popular retainers and servants are popular. The most trusted officials around them can help the official handle some things even if they don’t have a formal position. No one will think it is inappropriate.

Just like when Luo Yong was in Changle County earlier, although Qiao Junlin did not have a formal official position, he was able to manage the public security of the entire Changle County in the early days.

As for Du Gou living in Chang'an County Public Mansion and helping Luo Yong deal with matters in the county, in everyone's opinion, if there is anything unreasonable about this matter, it is that Du Gou's background is too high.

The eldest son of Du Ruhui, who was born in Jingzhao, now helped Luo Yong to deal with the miscellaneous matters like that of the servant.

Du Gou himself seemed to have no idea. He went in and out of the county government every day, calm and introverted, and his graceful gentleman style, although he grew older and his feet were a little lame, did not affect his aura at all.

The earlier incident still changed Du Gou a lot. The gentry man who was originally indifferent to the world has now become a little more ruthless. Somewhere in his heart seems to have become harder, and he doesn't look like he is easy to mess with. Even the old people in the county government are not very brave to make rashes in front of him.

Some things about Du Gou are not very nice to say between the aristocratic families, and they will inevitably be passed on to the Du family.

The Du family was shameless and did not come to Du Gou to say anything directly. After all, Du Gou was exiled by the court earlier, and they had never done anything. At this time, there was no position to say anything, so there was no sound, just as if Du Gou did not exist.

In the first month of the year, another man from the Du family came back from another place, that was Du Xi and Du Qilang.

This time, he changed his previous low-keyness and called his friends after returning to Chang'an City. In just a few days, he wanted to visit the entire Chang'an City's taverns and brothels.

Someone asked him why he was in such a good mood this time, but what good things had he encountered?

To be honest, after the prince's rebellion case, almost all the young people in the Du family were cut off from their future, so what good things could happen?

In that battle for the throne, their family stood on both sides. Li Chengqian and Li Tai stood there, but no one stood on Li Zhi. Now, Li Chengqian and Li Tai fell down, and Li Zhi became the new crown prince.

Don’t say that the saint lost his beloved son because of this coup and had a bad impression of the Du family involved. That is, after Li Zhi took office, how good is the impression of the Du family?

Under such circumstances, Du Xi could even hold on to a proud look. Some people felt a little ridiculous when they saw it.

When asked about it, Du Qilang was holding a wine cup in his hand and said to everyone with a smile: "You see that I am so happy, how come I'm not going to encounter a good thing?"

"What a good thing?" Everyone was curious.

"I will never worry about spending money in the second half of my life. It seems that this is a good thing for you?" Du Xi glanced at the people and said with a smile.

Although these people look quite glamorous, in fact, few of them have economic autonomy. Most of them have fixed numbers for monthly usage. If you want to get more, you will inevitably have to look at the expression of your elders.
Chapter completed!