Li Longji was lying on the dragon chair in the main hall, his eyes slightly closed, and he fell into deep thought, he was still thinking about the question just now. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Li Linfu's reminder and explanation, he knew that the gold mine in Huashan was his destiny and his royal mansion, and before that, he knew nothing about this matter.

But this does not prevent him from believing in this matter, after all, in ancient times when science and technology were backward, as the emperors of a country, most of them were more superstitious, and the more capable the emperor, the more difficult it was to get rid of the obsession with superstition.

The famous first emperor Qin Shi Huang, after the unification of the six countries, spent a lot of energy to seek the elixir of life, which set a very bad example for the later emperors.

As the great emperor who created the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji naturally admired all kinds of supernatural phenomena very much, and believed in all kinds of doctrines of destiny, and Huashan Gold Mine happened to be extremely consistent with his destiny according to superstitious explanations, which made him have to believe it.

In fact, as an emperor of a country, especially an accomplished emperor, it is easy to be misled by superstition, after all, they already have everything they can have, at this time, without superstition support, they will easily lose the goal of life, and this is a very terrible thing.

Thinking that Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, occupied a huge territory, and plundered all the beauties of the six countries into the Afang Palace for his own pleasure, gold and silver treasures, delicacies, everything that a person can enjoy, Qin Shi Huang has, but aging and death are something he can't stop, as a great emperor, he hopes to have his empire forever, so it is natural that there is an urgent need for immortality, in this case, worship superstition becomes inevitable.

Although Li Longji does not dare to have too many extravagant hopes for immortality, he also attaches great importance to his own destiny, as a generation of emperors who have made achievements, Li Longji's character is extremely selfish.

Just imagine, in order to stabilize his throne, kill three of his own sons, and rob his daughter-in-law in order to satisfy his own selfish desires, what kind of good bird can be.

Although Li Longji also understands that Li Linfu's heart is not right, Li Linfu is very sensible, protects his personal interests everywhere, and is a comfortable dog minion.

And this highly valued Li Shizhi, the left minister of the same clan, does not understand his mind very much, and can actually damage his life for the sake of a rich country, which he can't tolerate, but if Li Shizhi is deposed because of this matter, it will have a negative impact on his reputation, so he won't be Li Shizhi for the time being, but he will definitely not reuse him.

"Yu Chaoen."

Li Longji called softly.

Yu Chaoen hurriedly walked over: "Everyone, the slave is here." ”

"You immediately lead two hundred Flying Dragon Forbidden Army to Huashan to find the gold mines, and let them take care of these gold mines, and if anyone dares to mine and destroy, they will be punished on the spot."

Li Longji pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind to use practical actions to protect his own destiny.

"Yes, everybody."

Yu Chaoen received the order and slowly withdrew from the main hall.

"Everyone, the lady made a new dance yesterday, do you want Your Majesty to go over and take a look."

Seeing Li Longji's frowns, Gao Lishi said softly, as an old slave who has served Li Longji for many years, he knows that in this kind of trouble, the only thing that can relieve Li Longji's mood is a woman who is as gentle as water, and at the moment, only Yang Yuhuan is the most in line with Li Longji's thoughts.

"Okay, let's take a look."

As soon as he heard Yang Yuhuan, Li Longji's brows suddenly stretched, and most of the bad mood dissipated in an instant.

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In the mansion of Li An in Daye Fang, Li An, who was full of food and drink, was preparing to inspect the processing plant outside the city, after all, he attached great importance to the first batch of fifty wheelchairs, hoping to complete it with quality and quantity.

"Ah Lang, all the rocking chairs we produced have been sold out, and now there are still many customers in the market who are clamoring to buy them, which has squeezed the doors of our small shop, and the small shop has to be temporarily closed."

Zhao Liugang returned from Dongshi, and said happily that he saw that the rocking chair was selling well, and as a housekeeper, he was also happy for Ang Lee.

"Anything new is a gust of wind, and when others imitate and build rocking chairs, our rocking chairs won't sell as well as they do now, but no one wants to surpass us."

Ang Lee's assembly line is very cost-saving, which is naturally not understandable to people in this era.

"Ah Lang, the matter of the coal mine has been completed, and all the land with coal in the south of the capital belongs to us, this is a contract."

Zhao Liu was very happy to hand over the contract to Li An.

"Okay, good job, there is still some time for spring ploughing, before that, we have to mine enough charcoal, transport it to the side of the courtyard for storage, and leave the matter of gathering manpower to you?"

Li An ordered.

"Ah Lang, don't worry, I will definitely do it for you."

"Okay, Zhao Liu, let's go out of the city together, you are responsible for summoning laborers to dig coal, and I will supervise the craftsmen to speed up the manufacture of wheelchairs, and in addition, bring all these things."

Li An pointed to the mold next to him and ordered.

"Ah Lang, what are these things, they look good."

Zhao Liu obviously hadn't seen a honeycomb coal mold, so he couldn't see what this guy could do.

"This is a honeycomb coal mold, today's craftsmen have just created it, but it is a little less, only five, and more will be built in the future, as for how to use, when you get to the outside of the city, you will know, let's go!"

Li An stepped on his war horse and ran out of the city with Zhao Liu.

Although, Ang Lee has invented the bicycle, but due to the lack of pneumatic tires, the bike is more strenuous and bumpy to ride, and it is not as comfortable as riding a horse, in this case, Ang Lee naturally will not choose to ride a bicycle.

But the invention of the bicycle is not worthless, at least, when the mansion is fine, Ang Lee can still ride a bicycle and take his beautiful wife for a ride in the big backyard, which feels not ordinarily wonderful.

In addition, you can ride a horse when you go out, but the people in the mansion can't let them ride a horse too! And if it is walking, the efficiency of doing things will inevitably be low, and it is not as fast as riding a bicycle.

When they arrived near the courtyard, Li An and Zhao Liu parted ways, and Li An immediately rushed to the processing factory, while Zhao Liu rushed to the neighborhood to recruit coolies for work with high salaries.

"General Li, the various parts of the fifty wheelchairs have been made and now they have begun to be assembled, and if it goes well, they will all be ready tomorrow morning."

As soon as Ang Lee walked into the processing plant, an old craftsman in charge greeted him and reported the latest progress.

Li Ang was naturally very satisfied with such a fast progress, praised everyone a few words, and promised to give everyone a salary increase to encourage them to work more enthusiastically.

This batch of wheelchairs is Xin'an Wang Li Yi wanted, Li An naturally should pay attention to it as much as possible, and stop the production line of rocking chairs, concentrate all resources, speed up the construction of this batch of wheelchairs, after the delivery of this batch of wheelchairs, the next step is to continue to build rocking chairs, at the same time, to build more practical furniture, to meet the convenience of people's lives at the same time, to bring enough benefits for themselves.

On this land rewarded by the imperial court, the courtyard occupies 50 acres, the furniture processing factory occupies 100 acres, and the vegetable greenhouse is 500 acres, so there are still 350 acres left, and many things can be built on such a large land, among which the warehouse is indispensable.

The warehouse itself is divided into several kinds, a kind of cellar specially used to store winter vegetables, the cellar is all underground, the top is flat, you can park light vehicles, people walk on it to take care of not fall.

There is also an important warehouse, which is used to store the honeycomb coal that is about to be manufactured, because the demand for honeycomb coal in the future is bound to be huge, so the honeycomb coal warehouse should be built more, anyway, the land is more, enough to use, in the early stage, at least more than ten large honeycomb coal warehouses should be built.

In addition, many comprehensive warehouses have to be built to store all kinds of things needed for easy access, and as for the large amount of wood needed by the furniture processing factory, it is directly stored inside the processing plant, after all, the processing plant has a hundred acres of land, and a small piece of land is enough to store the processing raw materials.

These warehouses are planned to cover an area of 100 acres in the initial stage, and can continue to increase if there is demand in the future, so as to ensure that all kinds of materials can be stored in place.

Li An stood on a high ground, looking down at the open space area in the middle, and according to the principle of proximity, he chose a few locations to build warehouses, and kept them in mind, and when Zhao Liu returned, let him be responsible for starting to build these warehouses.

The yield of vegetables grown in 500 acres of vegetable greenhouses is very amazing, but at this time, the vegetables have not yet grown, and naturally there is no such effect, but this does not prevent Li An from caring about the growth of these vegetables, and walked to one of the greenhouses to observe the growth of the vegetables inside.

"Ah Lang, I just watered last night, and these vegetable seedlings are growing well."

A farmer who looked like a steward approached.

"Who are you?"

"The villain Wang Ba, who knew Steward Zhao before, was introduced by Steward Zhao and came here to work for Ah Lang."

"Wang Ba? This name is good, then do it well, I will not treat you badly. ”

"Xie Ah Lang, Xie Ah Lang."

Wang Ba looked very happy.

Although the name of this Wang Ba, who is responsible for managing the vegetable greenhouse, is not very elegant, but the person is quite simple and not slippery at all, of course, if it is a slippery boy, Zhao Liu will not introduce it to Li An, such a person is not easy to control.

Li An inspected several vegetable greenhouses, accompanied by Wang Ba throughout the whole process, these vegetable seedlings were still growing very well under the care of the male servants, at least, Li An did not find a single dead vegetable seedling.

There are a total of fifty male servants here, plus Wang Ba should be fifty-one people, these people, Li An still doesn't know much, only knows that they are originally honest farmers, but why are these farmers willing to sell themselves into slavery? What is the difficulty that makes them willing to sell their freedom to serve others?

"You guys come here."

Li An looked at several male servants who were taking care of the seedlings and greeted them loudly.

"A-a-lang, A-a-lang."

Several male servants ran over briskly and gathered around Ang Lee.

"What did you guys do before?"

"Ah Lang, we are all farmers who farm the land, except for farming, doing heavy physical work, we can't do anything else."

Several of the valets apparently knew each other in private, and one could replace everyone.

"Oh, you're all farmers, so what makes you willing to sell yourself into slavery?"

Ang Lee asked straightforwardly.

"Don't hide it from Ah Lang, we are all locals in Guanzhong, we originally had dozens of acres of land in the past few years, but last year our land was forcibly bought, although our land is gone, but the taxes still have to be paid, we have no land, no food, what to pay taxes, so we can only flee, and change our identities and sell ourselves into slavery."

A manservant said with a resentful face that it was clear that he had great hatred for the people who forcibly bought his land, and at the same time, he was extremely disgusted with the tax policy of the imperial court.

"Ah Lang, the imperial court taxes are completely according to the head, whether you have a hundred acres of land or not a single acre of land, you have to pay the same tax, which has forced us people who have no land to a dead end."

Another citizen complained about it.

"Shut up, you say these words to kill your head, you know?"

Wang Ba usually treats these male servants very well, but when he heard them complaining about the court, and they were still in front of Li An, he was immediately frightened and hurriedly scolded them.

"It's okay, it's okay, there are no outsiders here, as long as they say what is in their hearts, I won't blame them, let alone expose it to the court."

Li An wants to listen to the inner words of these male servants, of course he will not accuse them, he wants to understand more about the impact of the rent adjustment tax policy on the current people through the voices of these people at the bottom.

With Ang Lee's recognition and encouragement, these farmers who were holding back their grievances said everything in their hearts, and even put forward some opinions and suggestions for improving the tax policy, which really surprised Ang Lee.

Of course, these valets are just farmers, and they still think narrowly, after all, everyone will only think about the problem from their own point of view, and will not choose to consider it all.

But this alone is enough to benefit Li An a lot, at least, he has now understood the voice of the people at the bottom and understands that Datang's tax reform is imminent.

"It is indeed very unreasonable to pay taxes on the basis of capitation, I will look for an opportunity to make a proposal to Your Majesty to change the tax system of the Tang Dynasty, but now that you have been sold into slavery and work hard, maybe, I will give you back your freedom."

Ang Lee stated his intentions and encouraged the valets to work hard and possibly regain their freedom in the future.

"Ah Lang treats us well, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all taken into account for us, even if we are slaves for life, what does it matter?"

What these people said is true, the work clothes provided by Li Ang to these people are better than the clothes they used to wear at home, the food they eat is better than before, and the house they live in is also a standard workshop, clean and tidy, with a special toilet, in short, the living conditions are much better than before. (To be continued.) )