At this time, Li Yi, Fu Qian, Kong He, Fang Shaoqun, Chen Zuocai and others arrived on horseback, the Eastern Domain's decree was simple, Xu Zixian himself was not yet happy, only in the back house there were dozens of servants and maids to serve the little sister and Xiuniang, in fact, they were also waiting for the arrival of the main mother Chen Wenjun, Nan'an Hou Mansion could not be too cold, so as not to displease the people of Changwen Hou Mansion.

Even so, Xu Zi traveled by himself first, only Si Congcao's guards, and even the original Xu Wen, Xu Ming and other companions were put into each Si Cao to learn to be officials, and under normal times, only one companion followed Xu Zixian around, boiled his feet and washed his feet, and brought a few changes of clothes and robes.

Therefore, when these scribes came, several of them rode alone, wearing blue arrow robes, wearing soft feet, and if they went out on business, they were accompanied by officials and guards from the Jing'an Division.

But everyone was in a good mood, and when they dismounted, they saw that someone else had arrived, so they stopped and waited, and when everyone had almost arrived, this group of the most important civil officials on the Eastern Domain walked towards the Hou Mansion Annex.

When he got off the horse stone, Lin Qi took a few people wearing green robes and folding scarves to tie the horses well, and poured essence into the stone manger.

Xu Zi greeted him first and greeted the officials.

Xiaomei and Xiuniang have already avoided the back house, they still don't quite understand Xu Zixian's words, but the two young women are walking briskly, Xu Zixian can't eat with them tonight, this is a little regret, but knowing that Xu Zixian is in a happy mood and full of vitality, Xiaomei and Xiuniang's mood has also become relaxed and happy.

"Today we eat meat in large chunks." Xu Zixian stretched his body and said with a smile: "My mood has improved, I seem to be more hungry, and I really want to eat meat, I have already asked someone to prepare." ”

A group of scribes had no objections, Fu Qian became the core of the crowd, deep wells, waterwheels, recently attracted attention, and Fu Qian had already studied geography on the edge of several large rivers, preparing to build dikes and build future textile factories.

"Thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of machines, hundreds of thousands of spindles, to use people, around the clock to use hundreds of thousands of people to take care of, people are not machines, to eat, sleep, a machine to use at least two people. If it is with animal power, it will take tens of thousands of donkeys and mules to rotate back and forth, people also have to take care of the livestock, feed the concentrate, and the profits are thin, and Fujian Road and Zhejiang cannot buy so many mules and donkeys. Fu Qian said brightly: "If we set up a factory to make money, there are already tens of thousands of large factories in Jiangling, all of which are single-pedal machines, and there are more than one million acres of cotton fields over there, and businessmen collect cotton from all over the world, in the words of the prince, forming an industrial chain and becoming a production and sales base, then the cost will naturally decline." The more factories that produce, the more variety and quality are pursued, and the more difficult it is for cloth merchants and cotton farmers in other places to survive. Our Fujian Road is blessed with unique benefits, and it is also the center of maritime trade, so many years the cotton cloth trade has been controlled by Songjiang people, isn't it too stupid. If the hydraulic mill machine, looms are all put into success, as long as a few thousand people can take care of tens of thousands of machines, our cost is low, the weaving cloth is thick, the prince said not to spend tricks, just use pure white cotton cloth, thick and strong, can quickly open the market, three years later, the country, Luzon, Nanyang countries, as long as the cotton is enough, a million horses, 10 million horses, are not a problem. ”

Everyone laughed, and even Fang Shaoqun laughed when they heard it.

The Eastern Domain here emphasizes technology, innovation, efficiency, light tax rates, farming, and setting up factories, all of which have a kind of vitality, although everything is still in the process of creation, and has not made a profit, but it always gives people a sense of prosperity.

"There is also oil extraction, our Eastern Domain, Penghu all grow a large number of beans, and this bean is too time-consuming and labor-intensive to extract oil by manpower. In the middle of the river, there has long been a water conservancy press, which drives the bearing with the water flow, and constantly presses, and the manpower is only the auxiliary, and the oil is produced day and night. Fools know that people just eat without salt will be swollen, without oil to eat, and they will not feel full after eating three catties of rice. Add two coins of oil, and eat with a shiny mouth, I'm afraid that a pound of rice will be worth starving. So no matter how rich people are, they have to find a way to buy some oil. Whether it is rapeseed oil, soybean oil, or boiled lard, they are all useful and inseparable. The prince said first, what our Eastern Domain operates must be related to the people's livelihood, and the quantity must be large, or it is related to overseas trade, and the quantity must also be large. Porcelain or something, it is very difficult for us to catch up, cotton cloth, raw silk, a large number of foreign trade, soybean extraction, oil, marketing coastal roads, is also profitable. ”

Li Yi nodded at this time and said, "No wonder the prince and the prince attached importance to the pasture, and we are not as good as it." ”

Although Fu Qian was proud, he still didn't look up, waved his hand and smiled, and said: "If you want to do it, you must do it well." I am a small way of utensils, if there is no prince, how can there be everything in front of the Eastern Domain, what is the use of my technology? Lin Jiusi's skills are much stronger than mine, and he is not regarded as a servant. Whether it is cotton, beans, or factories, without capital, personnel, or land, if there is only technology, it will become a miracle and a trick, and it will be useless. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and the Confucian scholars complained and criticized the craftsmen, always saying that strange skills and ingenuity were useless to the country, and the situation on the side of the Eastern Domain was a slap in the face for these pedantic Confucian students.

However, a great Confucian like Wu Shizhong had a positive attitude towards the technological progress of craftsmen, and Confucius did not know about the military revolution and the grain harvest back then, so why did the master despise the people who practiced these skills? It's just that the people of later generations are shallow and ignorant, and the so-called ten years of hard study, the champion in Donghua Gate is a real man, which is really an unreasonable paradox and ridiculous.

Holding a spear to defend the Huns in the cold wind and heavy snow, riding a horse in the middle of the night, going deep into the steppe, defeating the Turkic cavalry, capturing its khan, and cutting off China's border troubles are not considered real men, reading a few books, so the one who seeks knowledge in the pile of papers is a real man, isn't it a strange thing?

There is no market for Confucianism here in the Eastern Domain, at least Xu Zixian's attitude is quite obvious.

Confucianism and miscellaneous studies have their own uses, even if they are widely run schools, inviting Confucianism to preside over their affairs, they also value their names, rather than seeking their learning. The schoolchildren and scholars of the Eastern Domain, each according to their needs, regardless of scripture and business calculation, law and hydrology, as long as they can do it, their learning is good, not Confucianism.

This attitude is quite secretive, not only Wu Shizhong didn't feel it, even Li Yi and others didn't know everything, among the people present, only Fu Qian knew Xu Zixian's thoughts and plans, and only Fu Qian felt it, but the one who really knew the inside story and strongly supported it was only Fang Shaoqun, who had a crazy breath and did not change.

For a while, the people in the house prepared the grill, killed the sheep and bleed and skinned, cleaned the sheep, roasted them to golden brown, took them off and put them on the round table, Xu Zi first invited Li Yi and others to sit down at the round table, and the round table was used to indicate that it was not a serious wine banquet, no distinction between dignity and inferiority, there was no host and guest seat, everyone sat at will, each person had a pot of wine on the table, and it was also a low-degree craft rice wine, each person had a pot and a cup, and it was much more casual.

At that moment, the servants brought knives and forks again, all of which were complete sets of shiny knives and forks, and everyone took them one after another, and began to cut the mutton, and everyone had fine salt as a dipping sauce in front of them, without too much attention, and the real nobleman's banquet could not be compared at all.

However, everyone didn't care, the mutton was fat, the roast was just right, everyone kept fixing it with a fork, and then cut the meat off the sheep, even if it was a slightly older Kong He, Fang Shaoqun, who had always been reserved, was also hand and mouth, and outsiders looked outside, and they would only see a group of men in blue robes and green scarves in the house constantly cutting meat with knives, and they couldn't see the level of status.

Xu Zi grabbed a front leg first, and the bones weighed about five or six catties, and he kept eating his knife and fork for half an hour before eating this leg of mutton.

The mutton is very fat, there is no extra seasoning, that is, everyone is dipped in fine salt, and a fat sheep of more than 40 catties is also quickly eaten.

"How do you feel about this mutton?" Xu Zixian did not drink alcohol, he drank the drink prepared by Xiuniang, and used a lot of supplements, people in this era have different habits of drinking tea, such as Europeans and Tianfang people like to add sugar and milk to tea, and although the Great Wei people gave up the old custom of boiling tea with green onion and ginger in the Tang Dynasty, they are still accustomed to using tea to mix various drinks, these drinks have their own usefulness, and the later generations of Cantonese people like soup drinks, at this time in the Great Wei is the most popular way to drink.

The kind of tea cooking method that purely uses tea leaves to soak water, and even rain, dew, and snow water, is not too popular at this time.

Xu Zixian actually likes the purest taste of tea, whether it is mellow black tea, slightly bitter Pu'er, or fragrant green tea, all of them have their own merits. He doesn't know too much, this era is not too popular, in later generations he is just a poor college student, drinking no more than ten kinds of tea, and even later generations of college students, the favorite is also to drink milk tea with various condiments, which is quite popular among the girl group.

The rest of the people didn't drink much, only Fang Shaoqun poured himself a few glasses and drank slowly.

Everyone was guessing Xu Zi's intention to summon people first, but the people present were all people with deep minds, in short, they were all smart and intelligent people.

Li Yi used to be a person from Hebei, and his intelligence must be above the passing line, and his career was unfavorable, but he was favored by Xu Yingbin, Hou Nan'an.

Fu Qian is a master of miscellaneous studies in Xu Zixian's memory, and he is a very famous master of a generation of craftsmen in the whole territory of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Kong He doesn't know how he developed later, but with his current performance, he is quite clever and intelligent, and has a calm and resolute personality.

Fang Shaoqun is the chief of staff who is most relied on by Liu Zhiyuan in the Great Staff Mansion, his wisdom is full of scheming, he is wise and close to demons, and he is a smart person that Xu Zixian deeply respects.

Chen Zuocai and several people also have their own characteristics, loyal and simple, or resolute and decisive, all of them are the choice of the moment.

These people are witty, not mentioned in the Eastern Domain, even if they look at the entire Great Wei, they are also talented for a while, at this time they can't guess Xu Zixian's intentions, so they simply don't ask, just wait for Nan Anhou to speak.

"What about the lamb you ate tonight?" After drinking a few sips, Xu Zi first called Cangtou Lin Qi to the door of the inner house, told him that he was full, and drank the drink, and kept the meat dumplings for tomorrow morning.

Lin Qi took the order, Xu Zixian had time to speak, and when he saw that everyone was a little different, he explained: "The drink is made by Xiu Niang, and if you don't drink it tonight, it will be spoiled." The meat dumplings are hand-wrapped by the sister, and they will be more flavorful to eat tomorrow morning, just right. ”

Fang Shaoqun was determined to make up his mind, but he didn't talk much at the public meeting, and he couldn't help but smile at this time: "Although eating and drinking is a trivial matter, the prince also has to consider the priority, and he still has the heart of his wife and the second lady, which can be described as wise and wise." ”

Although it was a joke, everyone felt that Xu Zixian was indeed this kind of character who was as careful as a hair, and acted kindly, and even the hearts of his sister and concubine were not willing to hurt.

But there is also a contradictory side to this character.

Xu Zixian fought on the river beach, beheaded nearly 2,000 levels, and ordered the beheading of those seriously injured bandits, and if they didn't let one go, they were slightly injured, and they were also tied with ropes, and they were all sent to the law department for strict handling.

For those who are unruly and even want to stir up trouble, they will be pulled by a rope through the palm of their hands, and those who dare to shout and disturb the morale of the army or still disobey will be cut off with a horizontal knife, and there will be no leniency.

For the internal rebels, it is also unforgiving, at this point, Ming Yi is resolute and resolute, and does not lose the style of the master.

In the battle of Qizhou Port, all the captured pirates were beheaded, and the blood flowed on the beach, and the waves that poured up were all blood-red, which was terrifying to see.

Such a person has a benevolent and generous side, which is amazing.

When Fang Shaoqun was speaking, there was also a faint shadow of a person in his heart, and it seemed that Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty in history was also such a person.

Han Guangwu was the younger brother, who grew up in the shadow of the eldest brother, and did not seem to have anything outstanding in his early years, and rose to prominence after the battle of Kunyang, and then recovered Hebei in a short time, and then dominated the world.

In the process of unification of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu had the side of knowing people and making good use of them, and after the founding of the country, he treated his subordinates kindly, compared to Liu Bang, who cut the white snake, I don't know where the kindness went.

It's just that this thought needs to be hidden very deeply, and it is inconvenient to confide in it, this is a taboo thing, after Fang Shaoqun said it, his face remained unchanged, and he only looked at Xu Zixian with a smile and was silent.