Gu Ci's birthday was spent lying on the bed, there was no birthday cake and no candles, and even the girlfriends came to give gifts and left, without even eating a meal.

Yuan Yu, Yuan Needle, Yuan Yuchai, and Yuan Chuan did not come to the door in person, but they all asked the chief history of the house to send embroidery. Yuan Minhe, accompanied by the Gu Yue sisters, came in person and gave a jasper vase with porcelain paintings inlaid by the four sides, which are green onions, lotus roots, water chestnuts and lychees representing 'smart and clever'. Gu Yi also contracted the wind and cold and didn't come over, and the other sisters didn't stay long after sending their own embroideries. The first issue of Qin Xiuyong's father's "Record of Clearing Grievances" has been taken for engraving, and Gu Ci received a copy of it that she copied by herself. The three sisters of the Ye family borrowed an excerpt from Song Yu's play as the base and sent the complete score of "Combining the Elements to One" for the qin and flute. Li Fuxiang and Qiao Juan came with Tang Jiajia's big gift, which is said to be a gift from a box. The two of them sent it very plainly, a box of homemade rouge and a double-sided embroidered handkerchief, as well as a lotus incense ink for Qiao Chan. Niu Tan and Sui Zhangzhu did not show up, it was an ordinary congratulatory gift from Mama Pai.

The two sisters in the fifth room were still isolated outside the west door, and Chunxiu, who was guarding the door, accepted the gift and said to take it to the kitchen to set it on fire. Liu Chuchu has already decided to marry and can't come in person, Liu Mengmeng specially came to the door, presented a pair of glass cups with double dragons playing with pearls as a gift, and sat for three tea times before leaving. Ke Fangsi actually made a special trip to give gifts, which made Gu Ci startled. She is different from Niu Tan's true and clear height, Niu Tan really has no desire to make friends with a little girl who worships a famous person in the world as a teacher but does not understand poetry, but has more correspondence with Gu Yi, and Ke Fangsi and Yuan Jin are like-minded and look down on her, a waste Cheshire Lord who is not famous but is loved by thousands of people, but she is more helpless and reserved than Yuan Jin. If this would not be close to the prince's body, he would not have come to the Qingyi Yuan to bow his head. It's a pity that she, like Liu Mengmeng, only drinks tea. Gu Ci had a bad impression of her, because she later learned from Mingxiu's cheat sheet that at the Dragon Boat Banquet for the first time, she and Yuan Jin teamed up to put Niu Tan together, for her second brother Ke Yi took a fancy to Niu Tan, but was rejected by Changyi, and the two little girls came up with this method.

The things given by the two prospective sisters-in-law are the most hearty, Wu Shenqiu gave her a cookbook, and Ren Saiyuan actually gave her a palm-length light hidden blade, although it has not been opened yet, but looking at the green light like snow, it must be a famous weapon to cut a branch effortlessly. Gu Ci's face was so excited that her little face turned red, and the two asked her to name the sword, and she directly used the name of the beauty Xi Shi - 'Yiguang'.

Although not everyone received Gu Ci in person, everyone who came to the door brought a small box of chiffon cakes labeled with the word 'Zhishuang' as her return gift, which was sweet and fragrant, and the entrance was soft, which made a good publicity.

Only her family members ate longevity noodles with her at night. After the meal, Gu Ci pestered Yuyi and begged to leave the Hidden Blade. Yuyi enjoyed her daughter's coquettish pleading, while the old god was drinking tea on the ground.

"Stupid Luan, if my mother doesn't know, can she still let you see things? I have already collected the storeroom. Gu Yi laughed at her.

"It's one thing to know, it's another to say yes. My mother didn't speak, and I didn't know the bottom of my heart. Gu Ci retorted disappreciatively, "Good mother, for the sake of your daughter, who has been more well-behaved than Bajie recently, let me take it." ”

Gu Ao also helped to say good things, "An unedged sword should be fine." ”

Gu Yi sat quietly, carefully pinning the sword to her belt.

Xiao Lu kept laughing and didn't say anything. Gu Ci was born in the twentieth year of Sejong, and he will be nine years old after his birthday today. He plans to let his granddaughter exercise well, and when she is older, she will go to Langya and Anton to meet the rest of the scattered people and some industries that are unknown to outsiders. The Queen Mother also means this, and she will send some of the old people of the Xiao family to her a few years ago.

Yuyi finally relented and agreed, and asked Gu Ci to promise to practice dancing and practicing calligraphy at home every morning in the future, and no matter where she went in the afternoon. Gu Ci was full of joy and agreed. She attributes the house, before she loved to run out and was locked up for a long time, yearning for fireworks in the world, and now she has been at home for almost a month, completely calmed down, and arranged her time every day to be full, reading books, practicing words, pulling erhu, painting and cooking, housework, and very fulfilling.

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As soon as the lifting day came, Mingxiu brought news from Yuan Yi and asked her to go to the cool fast, and also hinted at getting something refreshing and appetizing, the prince seems to have a bad spleen and stomach recently. Gu Ci hurriedly sorted out the road construction budget that Gongqiao Pavilion had asked to help inquire about these days, and brought a box of pea yellow and snowy egg yolk lotus paste mooncakes with him. And asked Chef Pan to carefully make a sweet and sour tenderloin - the tenderloin is beaten first, kneaded with lotus root flour, and then put it in the sweet potato flour and rolled it around, stir-fry the green onions, ginger and garlic, hook the sweet and sour sauce, and sprinkle white sesame seeds. Add a vegetarian stir-fry of fungus yam and celery, and shoot a sour and spicy cucumber, the staple food is a cottage cold noodle with a few pieces of apples and crushed sesame braised beef.

Yuan Yi saw her big bags and small bags and a table of fragrant and appetizing dishes, and her depression was swept away, and she killed three bowls of noodles, and the dishes were also eaten to a great extent, before she comfortably leaned on the bamboo pavilion tatami mat and drank tea.

Gu Ci didn't eat any dishes, he tasted a few bites of cold noodles, and saw that his face was not as dark as before he came, so he opened the small book with confidence and began to blabla the budget she made, from material collection, labor, accommodation, construction period, etc., she drew a list of drawings and explained very seriously.

Yuan Yichu sounded like an excerpt from the Ministry of Industry, but the more he listened to it, the more excited he became. First of all, the credit and loan accounting method she used was already in use at the time of Taizong, but it could not show the balance of borrowing and lending in a one-page table as clearly and unambiguously as she did, and the cashier and the accountant were separated, and the cashier who managed the money only recorded cash flow. Secondly, in order to prevent the shortage of funds, she thought of a way to pay for food or education, such as workers who were supposed to have three meals, an extra bag of rice and noodles a day, or a child's tuition fee for a year, etc., that is, to spend the money on materials as much as possible, local officials to give political achievements, and gentry and wealthy families to give them a title. Thirdly, in order to reduce the loss on the road, she plans to rely on the post station to do logistics transit, not relying on a team of people to send from south to north, and each team is only responsible for their own road section. If the post station can't be done, she can provide Jiukangtang's sub-station as a point or simply build her own storage point. Although it will cost a lot of money at the moment, once the convenient logistics service is done, it can almost be said to be a huge profit. Finally, although Gu Ci is not a major in finance, he actually knows the 'Benford's rule': that is, in a bunch of unmodified numbers, the probability of the number starting with 'one' is about 30 percent of the total, the probability of the number starting with 'two' is about 17 percent, the probability of 'three' is about 12 percent, and then decreasing, and the sum of the probability of numbers starting with eight and nine is at most 10 percent. According to this method, as long as the accounts are fake, they will not be able to escape the audit.

In this way, there is a project manager in charge of each section of the road, the local governor is willing to serve as the best, the cashier is sent by Beijing, and the treasurer is willing to do this best, and there are many maids who are willing to write and calculate under his subordinates, and there is no problem at all to do accounting work. Money and materials are in place every month according to the budget, and can be advanced if there are special circumstances. On the 5th of each month, the progress report of the previous month is submitted, and if several sections of the road are repaired at the same time, you can immediately see where there is a problem. Once every three months, if there is a problem, the person will be replaced, and the deputy will be directly on top.

However, she also has a troubled place, how to eliminate the problem of collecting tolls, especially in the mountain and forest areas, the repaired road is completely the lifeblood of a place. At the beginning, she wanted to go to the post station because the post had the right to go up, and she found that the local road was blocked and charged, and she could be blamed if she didn't report it, but there was still the possibility of self-theft.

The professional problem was handed over to the prince to solve, and Gu Ci began to talk about building roads and warehouses in order to pinch off the north-south goods business done by Lin Qianfeng and the Fang family under General Lin, and the name of the shop was Tongda Cargo Company, which transported herbal skins and furs from Beiguan to Beijing, and sold the fashionable gadgets in Beijing to Beiguan.

Yuan Yi smiled, "The lord of the dignified county is so generous, just want to buy a grocery store?" Tell my uncle where they can get the goods. ”

"That's different, in business. Their family makes money with the convenience of the Zhenbei Army, and I don't have to go through this relationship to crush them. Besides, he hasn't figured out his family's way yet, and the Shang family must be a person who is familiar with Yeye, and he can't damage people's wealth in vain. I just want to rightfully replace it. ”

"It's a good idea, I'll mention it to my father. However, it may not be a good time at this time. This year's summer is long, and Qintian Jian reported that there may be a drought. ”

"Is there a bad harvest? What might be used for those keel waterwheels and well irrigation that I painted? ”

"It has been delivered to the Treasury Division, but it may not be able to catch up this year." Seeing Gu Ci's guilty face, Yuan Yi hurriedly changed his words, "It's been smooth for many years, and no one thinks of doing this." Now the treasury is not bad, try to do more this year. ”

"There is a locust plague after the drought, do you need to prepare in advance?"

"Tell me about it." Yuan Yi likes to listen to her endorsement the most.

"Raising chickens, ducks, frogs and birds, after the seedlings are tall, the chickens and ducks do not eat the seedlings and eat insects. There is also spraying lime water to get rid of insect eggs, lighting a fire at night to let it be extinguished, and netting between trees can be blocked. Low-lying land can be converted into fish ponds or planted with beans and fruit trees, which can both fertilize the land and prevent locusts from growing. Suddenly remembering that the north didn't know if there was still a habit of burning wheat straw, he added, "Also, don't burn the rice straw that has been cut, you can keep it to raise shiitake mushrooms, or make things to sell, and make adobe houses with mud." In short, don't burn it. ”

"I made a note of it. In the past few days, the government has been fighting for tax cuts, and now it is two out of ten taxes, and if it is lowered again, I am afraid that it will affect grain storage. ”

Gu Ci didn't speak casually about these things he didn't understand, and quietly listened to Yuan Yi and her sigh about the difficulties of people's livelihood, and echoed from time to time. He will definitely be a wise monarch in the future, and he does not start from the royal family when considering many issues, and is more accustomed to curbing the influence of the royal family and officials on the people. For example, when she gave money to hawkers and beggars, most people thought that she was selling her reputation or didn't know the price of firewood and rice, so she looked at it as a joke. Only he approves of it, and he does it himself. Of course, the prince can't spend money to do the act of 'buying people's hearts', so he clears the road a day in advance no matter where he goes, and he has never had a horse gallop. But the disadvantage of this is that everyone knows where he will go, chasing after the beautiful women he meets by chance.

I really don't know how His Royal Highness the Golden and Jade Crown Prince could be so enlightened.

"Why don't you speak?"

Gu Ci dared to say that he had an affair in YY, so he had to rack his brains and continue to talk about food. What kind of agriculture is the foundation of a country, the corruption of intermediate officials and the loss of storage and transportation can be reduced, and the effect is also very considerable. Or it is not about the amount of state tax, now the yield per mu is less than five stones, and the rent is paid after the second tax is completed, and the tenant farmers may not have much rations left in their hands except seeds, and they have to buy rice and flour to make a living, if the production capacity per mu is increased to seven or eight stones, as long as half of it is not taken away, the impact of the tax will not be great.

"Can the yield per mu be so high?"

"Steward Xiao said that other farms use earthworm fertilizer and chicken and duck fertilizer, as if the yield per mu has increased by one stone to half a stone, and there are also beans and fertilizers, deep cultivation and fine planting, I think it will definitely be able to reach seven or eight stones in the future. In addition, there are some places in the south where there is no winter, and the rice there can be harvested twice or even three times a year. If you specialize in growing food there in the future, you can completely change to other places that are not suitable for growing food. ”

"The place you sent to find the pearl?"

"Almost, further south is fine."

"Looks like I need to make a trip to the South."

Gu Ci leaned on him nervously and asked worriedly, "Is it safe to go to the south at this time?" ”

"If my father orders me to go, it will be safe." Yuan Yi kissed her soothingly, "Road construction is also the easiest to implement in the south." ”

"Does Master know?"

"Uncle Qing has already gone to arrange it first, Jingxiang will also go with him, and Zhengze will help us keep an eye on Jingli. You're going to be at home and you're not allowed to run around, you know? ”

"What are you doing with the second brother?"

"Do you remember the box that blocked the arrow for you?"

"Well, that box is so hard." Gu Ci had been curious about the contents for a long time, but he never dared to ask. If there was something she could know, Yuan Yi would definitely tell her.

"Made of fine iron, thin and airtight, and something was written in it. There's a page in it that says 'One Whip', did you know? ”

Gu Ci thought hard about it, nodded and said, "I only know one thing, one is to achieve 'apportionment into acres', which involves land measurement and only collecting land tax and not poll tax. The other is that the government can't just collect money, and the people can take what they can pay the best, otherwise there is a difference in the middle, and the people still have to carry it. ”

I don't know about the rest, this is not the focus of the exam, tears.

"Well, it doesn't seem to be a one-time job."

"Take your time, you'll be able to do it well."

"So confident in me?" Yuan Yi bit her funny.

"I'm already a big girl!"

Yuan Yi unceremoniously kissed her pursed cherry lips again, and said happily, "Okay, okay, when I come back from the south, you will really be a big girl." ”

Well, it's still a short and chubby little ball, and it's not convincing at all.