Since Li Shimin has turned around in Xingfu Village, he naturally has to look at the whole thing, and he has no intention of letting go of the chicken farm and pig farm on Chai Mountain, although the main people who run these two places now are women.

"Your Majesty, the scale of our chicken farm has now reached more than 200,000, and the daily egg production is at least 70,000 or 80,000, there are hundreds of women who pick up eggs and feed the manure, and there are thousands of high-yield chickens that hatch eggs to serve, and more than 30,000 new chicken seedlings are produced every month.

Sun vigorously explained, his tone seemed to be complaining, but in Xiao Yu and Fang Xuanling's eyes, it seemed to be asking for credit, except for Happy Village, who could build such a large-scale chicken farm, is he asking the emperor for officials?

They didn't know that Sun Dali was really complaining, the original residents of Xingfu Village plus the families of the escort team, there were only more than 300 households in total, except for the 300 guards, a total of less than 1,000 young and strong, and some were sent to Luoyang, Yangzhou, Yizhou, and Shuozhou.

As for the recruited craftsmen, they all have their own things to do, and they will not be put into this kind of ordinary production, and there are so many industries in Happy Village, which rely on a large number of hired workers when they operate, and sometimes they reach more than 10,000 people.

The food, drink, and wages of more than 10,000 people are a lot of expenses, but on the contrary, these hired workers are willing to work alone after mastering certain skills, after all, these breeding and planting techniques in Xingfu Village are not kept secret from the outside world, and farmers are encouraged to run their own businesses.

After all, using the things produced in their own fields to make feed and engage in breeding is much higher than the income of getting a little salary in Happy Village.

This makes it more difficult for Happy Village to recruit enough skilled workers nearby, you know, people in ancient times are not like later generations, there is a habit of going out to work, in this period of uprooting, unless it is an official, otherwise it is equivalent to being punished, and the problem of recruitment, in fact, has affected the output of Happy Village.

"Lack of people? I see that your happy village is full of people, how can there be a shortage of people? Li Shimin looked from the open space of the chicken farm to the village at the foot of the mountain.

"Well, these people are not employees of our Happy Village, they are all disaster victims! After the disaster passed, they all had to leave, and I heard Uncle Mi say that these victims who began to flee in May and June seemed to be serfs and tenants from those high-ranking families······"

When Sun Dali said this, Li Shimin's eyebrows raised, and his eyes looked at Fang Xuanling.

"This is indeed a ploy by the children of those gate lords, in order to consume the money and grain of the imperial court and empty the treasury, so that the food they have hoarded in their hands will become more scarce. However, the ministers have a plan here to make them steal chickens and rice. Fang Xuanling was resourceful, and it only took less than a minute to come up with a plan.

"Will the plan be released?"

"These serfs were originally private slaves without official household registration of the government, and now since they are refugees, Your Majesty can order them to be issued a new household registration to provide disaster relief and peace to the people, and it is reasonable for Your Majesty to do so! I believe that after the change of status, coupled with the fact that Happy Village can give them jobs and income, they will not be willing to return to their original masters to become serfs, so that when the drought passes next year, it will be a headache for those hoarding pests. ”

Fang Xuanling's move can not only solve the employment problem of Happy Village, but also give the family a salary and destroy their foundation, which is a good strategy to deal with the family.

"Hehe, Aiqing's plan, I'm afraid it's following this kid's wishes. Even if I can't ask your Happy Village to fund these fake victims for free, you can choose those serfs who have no household registration to recruit as workers! Later, we will send people to issue all the workers' household registrations, and in the future, even if they want to go back to farming, they will never be able to. ”

The household registration system of the Tang Dynasty directly corresponds to the status level, Shinong industry and commerce have a clear division, farmers have 80 acres of Yongye field, but the workers do not, and different household registrations, the taxes paid, and the servitude are also different, these people who are newly organized into workers do not have Yongye field, and they have to be requisitioned and transferred by the imperial court to work, if they don't work, they can't even pay the poll tax, Li Shimin did this, just to tie these people up in Happy Village.

"In this way, the villain will thank Your Majesty." Sun Dali felt very proud that he was a peasant man who could fool the emperor, smiled flatteringly, and led Li Shimin to continue visiting.

After looking at the chicken farm, Li Shimin also has to go to see the pig farm, the scale of the pig farm after more than a year of development, but also more than 10,000 heads, this is not only by their own sow breeding, in the pig house, in addition to the pigs collected from all over the country, there are huge wild boars, these are the guards usually trained from the mountains hunted, for no other reason, wild boars are large, some can grow to five or six hundred catties, Zhao Da, who is responsible for pig breed research, wants to find these wild boars to borrow, cross-breed more willing to grow pigs, you know, now Luoyang Xi Village pig farm, It has formed a competitive relationship with the pig farm in Xingfu Village, and both sides are trying to improve their pig breeds in order to get Sun Xiangfu's affirmation and reward.

More than 10,000 horses together, Li Shimin often sees, more than 10,000 pigs, but Li Shimin has never seen it, the clean pig house has broken Li Shimin's impression of the dirty and smelly pigs. The water tank and defecation trough in the pig barn are all specially cleaned by special people, and the pig barn is all built of cement and bricks, which is very firm, but the pig pen is a little small, and the pig can not move freely, of course he does not know, reducing the amount of pig activity is also a way to let the pig grow meat.

In the place where pig food is specially processed, nearly 1,000 women follow a set of processes, each doing a simple process, in an orderly manner, to ensure the diet of all pigs.

Li Shimin just looked at it and said, "Zhao Da, you raise so many pigs, has the market in Chang'an digested it?" ”

Before Wangjianglou launched the delicious pork cuisine, pigs have been cheap meat in this era, and they are disliked by the nobles, however, with the castration of pigs on the market in large quantities, this custom has been gradually broken, and people have not been able to resist the delicacy of pork. Let the price of pork rise a lot, of course, this is also a little related to the price increase of the entire food industry in times of disaster.

"Your Majesty, the villain has only raised 10,000 pigs, which is not enough for the people of Chang'an to eat a few meals! The market will not be digested, plus the pigs slaughtered from pig farms in various parts of the royal family, I am afraid that they can only barely supply Guanzhong, the village chief said, the population of Guanzhong will only increase, and the demand for meat and vegetables will also increase, and our scale will expand at least several times. ”

For being able to talk to the emperor, Zhao Da also feels extremely honored, now more than 30 pig farms in Huangzhuang have to point to Zhao Da to make piglets, and the internal stewards all jokingly call Zhao Da the pig king, if there is no precedent, Li Shimin really plans to make him a swineherd.

When it comes to expansion, manpower is of course the primary consideration, but fortunately, with Fang Xuanling's strategy, this problem has been solved.

Seeing this, Li Shimin also understood the charm of Happy Village, that is, to grasp production, all trades, production is the key, as long as production is done well, it is not difficult to enrich the country and the people.

Back to Sun Xiangfu's house, Li Shimin and several ministers simply had a dinner, in fact, it is impossible for Happy Village to greet him with shabby things, eel loach, big fish in the reservoir, lean pork ribs and the like, but Li Shimin is called to eat with emotion, if the entire Tang Dynasty is like Happy Village, what can knock down the country?

After the meal, Li Shimin summoned Sun Erli again to learn about the various industrial data of the Royal Farm until late at night.

The next day, as Li Shimin put the place of administration in Xingfu Village, many officials also rushed here, because Li Shimin was summoned to hunt locusts in an all-round way, the victims of the disaster in various places, under the leadership of the officials and soldiers, began to disperse to the surrounding areas, and the premise of all infrastructure construction and production construction was to control the locust plague first.

However, as time passed, the mood of Li Shimin and many ministers who rushed to Xingfu Village became heavier and heavier, and two more days passed, Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng had not yet come out of the isolated wooden house, and if the plague was not controlled, it would be a more terrifying thing than the locust plague.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the Imperial Doctor's Office, as many as 762 people died of smallpox in Weinan County yesterday, and three imperial doctors contracted smallpox, and the rest dare not come forward to ······."

Hearing this, Li Shimin felt that his scalp was a little numb, Weinan County has died more than 10,000 people since the outbreak of the plague, and if he continues to die like this, it won't be long before the entire county's population will die, and the harm of the plague is too terrifying.

"Your Majesty, smallpox is an incurable disease, and it is futile to send the imperial doctor to go, and now the plan is to keep people who are not infected from this place away······"

"No, the smallpox epidemic is gone, if the people of Weinan are allowed to flee, I am afraid that the disease will spread to other places, causing greater losses, and the blockade must not be lift······ed."

As soon as the news of Weinan arrived, many ministers began to quarrel in front of Li Shimin, however, this was only the officials who talked about things, and what annoyed Li Shimin the most were those officials who persuaded him to change his order and not to hunt and kill locusts, so as not to provoke the locust god to send a greater punishment.

Cui Shixun, Wu Yingxue, Lu Kang, Zheng Peiwen······ Wait for a minister, and the gossip will disrupt the country, and from now on, he will be expelled from the court, demoted to a commoner, and will never be hired. ”

Li Shimin's patience has reached a limit, but he is an emperor and cannot be happy to revenge, so he can only reduce these people to commoners at most.

In fact, this has no practical effect, even if a batch is dismissed, the group that comes up will still have the same face as them, it just made him vent the anger in his chest, so for Li Shimin's remarks just now, Cui Shixun and others did not show a panicked posture, and they didn't need to open their mouths, so someone jumped out to stop them.

"Your Majesty, no, the minister's advice for the country is a patriotic heart, even if it is inappropriate, Your Majesty does not accept it, if the minister is punished for this, then above the court, there are still officials there who dare to admonish and play, this is a move to corrupt the dynasty, and the minister asks Your Majesty to withdraw the order."

It was none other than Wei Zheng who spoke out, Li Shimin really couldn't find a reason to refute his words, he just snorted coldly, "I want to punish them like this, and I didn't see you Wei Xuancheng shut up, it can be seen that the reasonable, no matter whether they will be punished or not, they dare to admonish, and the unreasonable will not admonish because they are afraid of being punished." ”

"Your Majesty is saying this, that is, what the minister said is reasonable, then please ask Your Majesty to withdraw your order and not to do this act of corrupting the dynasty."

Li Shimin was blocked by Wei Zheng for a while, his teeth clucked, but he had to admit that what he said made some sense, no matter what Cui Shixun and these people did behind their backs, but now, on the bright side, they are indeed admonishing the imperial court, if they are punished for this, those sons of the family will dare to blatantly scold him for fainting, for the sake of his reputation, he has to compromise, Wei Zheng just acts as a lubricant for him to ease relations with the family, and it is useless to be angry.

Throwing off the long sleeves of his summer shirt, Li Shimin said helplessly, "This matter is over, but if there are those who dare to rumor and confuse the public, I will not be spared, and the local officials affected by the disaster in Guanzhong will make every effort to organize the people to hunt and kill locusts from now on, and those who dare to slack off will be severely punished." ”

A simple decree has not yet reached the grassroots level, and it has encountered so many difficulties, and it is conceivable that the final implementation ability can be imagined, so Sun Xiangfu did not think about relying on the government to do this thing at the beginning, and directly used the interests to drive the people to be more reliable, as long as the local government posted the notice of the purchase of locusts for a penny and a pound in Xingfu Village in accordance with the emperor's requirements.

This is also a matter of no way, there are too many people who put their private interests above the interests of the country, even in later generations, there are too many such situations, this is human nature, there are very few people who can transcend this human quality, so at this moment, in Li Shimin's heart, Sun Xiangfu's image is a little taller, and it seems that he is gradually overturning the sixteen-character comment he gave him at the beginning.

However, Sun Xiangfu didn't know what was happening outside, he and Li Chunfeng were both young and strong, after the symptoms of low-grade fever and weakness in the first two days, their bodies gradually entered the recovery period, the amount of food began to return to normal, and the feeling of low-grade fever and weakness was reducing, it seemed that they would be able to return to normal in a day or two at most.