Sun Xiangfu is really a person who does what he says, so that night, all the little princes were miserable, and in fact, they didn't arrange for them to do difficult things, just let them boil some hot water for themselves.

"Master, they are so stupid! I taught them how to make fires, but they couldn't make fires, and they filled the house with smoke, making themselves like big cats, and they smoked the other people in the yard so much that they couldn't stay in the house. Wu Meiniang ran from the backyard to the front hall and complained to Sun Xiangfu.

Not to mention, the little princes who have never done such a thing since they were born, and have never even seen such a thing, the first reflex when they receive this task is, 'If you want hot water, why don't you let the servants bring it?' ’。 This is simply what Emperor Jin Hui said, 'The people have no chestnut rice to satisfy their hunger, why don't they eat minced meat?' It's the same thing.

"Mei Niang, shut up, they are all princes, and you can't belittle them." After eating, the warrior Tong who continued to chat with Sun Xiangfu about work in the living room has been worried in the past few years, and of course his daughter is not allowed to offend so many princes.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "It's okay, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, if they are all useless rice worms like them, how can the people respect them?" How will the royal family be respected? ”

After that, Sun Xiangfu turned his head to look at Wu Meiniang and said, "Meiniang, you go and tell them, if not, you can go and ask the children in the village, but in any matter, don't fake others, otherwise, the whip will serve." ”

Hearing this, Wu Meiniang, who wanted to see their jokes, nodded yes and ran to the backyard fire room again.

In the front hall, Sun Xiangfu continued to explore the overseas exploration and investment company's project business, and talked with the samurai, the backyard fire room, Li Tai, who was like a big cat, touched tears in his eyes, and continued to blow the fire, at this moment, he actually understood a little why Li Chengqian came back from Shanyang, the reason why his father and mother would like him more and more, because Li Chengqian seemed to be able to do anything, and he couldn't even do things like making a fire and boiling water.

There is also Li Ke who has the same feeling, he is patiently groping for methods, but he will not be like Li You and Li Su, who have been scolding and scolding in his mouth, and want to pick and choose, these two people are also persuaded by him to continue to stay here to make a fire.

As for Li Yuanjing, Li Yuanchang's generation had already given up treatment, each of them threw away the bamboo tube that blew the fire, and ran outside the yard to hide from the smoke, and they had already decided that it was a big deal not to take a bath today, anyway, they couldn't do this thing of making a fire and boiling water.

At the beginning of the second month of the lunar calendar, in fact, it is already March of the solar calendar, this season, the frogs in the Dongting Lake area have already come out of the hole, the lotus root has also begun to dip, all kinds of ponds and small rivers filled with spring water, loaches and yellow eels, also began to be active, Wu Meiniang found the courtyard outside, only to see the gray-faced kings, when she laughed and passed on Sun Xiangfu's words, there happened to be a team of half-sized children, taking advantage of the dusk, to go to the river outside the village to get a fish cage.

He chased after him and said to the half-grown children in the village, "A few big brothers go slowly, there is a more profitable thing than going into the fish cage, can you do it?" ”

Soon, these young men all knew what Wu Meiniang meant, and for being able to teach the prince to do some simple things that rural people would do, those young men in the village were naturally willing, as for what Wu Meiniang said, teaching people, must be rewarded, although they felt that something was wrong, but who called Wu Meiniang said that this was the order of Young Master Sun who was responsible for managing those princes!

These farmer families who helped the imperial court build the fields were actually not rich, especially these families who were the first to be placed in the fields area, they were all families with many children and a tight life, and they were tempted by Wu Meiniang's three or two sentences, so they naturally agreed.

However, he has to go down the fish cage into the river first, since the Yangtze River waterway transfer company began to operate, even if it is a small wharf like this without a city, there will be one or two fish dealers every day to support the boat to collect the fish goods, similar to the more advanced fish cage made by Sun Xiangfu in Guanzhong, which has also been passed here early, but it can allow these children to earn a little money every day to help the family.

"Wu Meiniang, didn't you say that you asked them to come and teach us? How to let them go. Li Yuanjing, the younger and older King of Jing, shouted at Wu Meiniang, who had gone and returned.

"When did I say I wanted them to come and teach you? I just told them that if you go to ask for advice, please ask them to help teach you, even if it is just to teach you some small things about making fire and boiling water, they are also counted as your teachers, and you have to ask for advice yourself, you should have learned the principle of respecting teachers before! ”

"That's it, return the teacher ······"

When Li Yuanjing and the other princes heard this, they scolded angrily.

At this time, seeing that he really couldn't stand the smoke in the house, Li Taidao, who ran out with his mouth covered, said, "Uncle Jingwang, it's important to boil water, I can't learn it, I'm afraid that we will have to smoke it like this every day in the future." ”

Hearing this, Li Yuanjing was stunned, flicked his sleeves hatefully and stopped making a sound.

Seeing this, Wu Meiniang said, "The children in the village have to be busy with their own affairs all day long, and if they take the time to teach you, they will delay their own affairs, so you need to give a certain reward, even if it is a thank you gift!" ”

"Thank you? These Tian She'er still dare to ask this king to thank the teacher······"

"Uncle Jing, don't be angry, what this martial arts lady said also makes some sense, why did people teach us to do these things in vain?"

It seems that he has also comprehended some truths, even deeper than Li Tai, after all, in terms of age, he is one year older than Li Tai, and among the princes, he is only a few months younger than Li Yuanjing, King Jing.

He felt that as a prince, he should not give to the people what he wanted, and let the people dedicate themselves to him free of charge, and even his father Li Shimin accepted gifts from the people, didn't he think about how to repay the gifts? How can these people let the people work in vain!

However, this truth does not make sense in the eyes of Li Yuanjing and Li Yuanchang, they have thought since childhood that the people of the world should serve their royal family unconditionally, but now Li Ke is also on the same front as them, and they are not easy to refute.

In addition, although Li Ke called them Uncle Wang, his actual status was much higher than that of them. After all, they are the sons of the current emperor, and their mothers are still concubines, and they are just the sons of the emperor who has abdicated, and most of their mothers are just concubines, Jieyu, or even just talents, the identity of beauties, even if they are in the future, they are at least a governor, or a state pastor, and they are at most at the level of state assassins in remote areas, and there are also some elements that dare not refute in it.

However, Li Tai had a lot of thoughts, and when he saw Li Ke running out and saying a word, he kept everyone silent and expressed his obedience, and immediately felt that his leadership status was threatened, as the prince of the prince, he was the highest among the kings, how could he let others be the leader of this group of people!

So he said, "In this case, everyone will listen to my arrangement, go to the accompanying items, find some things to come out, as a gift for the teacher, in the future, maybe there are many things to rely on them to teach!" ”

Thinking of the days to come, everyone had to continue to keep silent, and went to the room one after another, looking for the items they brought with them, but Li Tai found a feeling of leading the people, looked at Li Ke with some pride, and then went back to the house to find something.

His expressions were all seen by Wu Meiniang, and the evaluation of this fat man in his heart was a little more, and he walked quickly to the hall.

"Master, Mei'er has done what you said, and now they want to invite those village children to teach them to make a fire and boil water! They also had to prepare thank-you gifts for those children. ”

"Thank you?"

Hearing these three words, Sun Xiangfu glanced at Wu Meiniang meaningfully, and knew that she was making trouble again, and she didn't debunk it, this time she came to Shannan Road, in order to let the kings experience the simple farm life, Li Shimin didn't allow them to bring many personal belongings, and when the time came, when all their things were given, the show really began.

was interrupted by Wu Meiniang, and Sun Xiangfu continued to start the topic he had just talked about with Wu Shi Tong.

In fact, more than two years ago, the Lingnan fleet began to operate, transporting some crops and species suitable for breeding to those places, but if you want to expand it to a certain scale before the stable transportation route at sea is opened up, to make up for the Tang Dynasty, you still need some artificial help, after all, even if the entire sea route is opened up three years later, agriculture and animal husbandry in the local area have only been promoted for five years.

"Master, why do we Datang want to go so far away to open up industries, and bring all the people from those places to our Datang? Don't we still have a lot of land that hasn't been developed? ”

Regarding the two questions raised by Wu Meiniang, Sun Xiangfu, as a teacher, naturally wanted to answer them, and said, "Now moving those natives to our Datang territory will certainly increase our population and improve a certain amount of productivity." But this is only a short-term benefit, and we should look at it in the longer term.

With the development of the local population, the resources that can be enjoyed per capita will become less and less, which will make the people poorer.

Moreover, we develop overseas, not only for interests, the most important thing is to exercise our ability to open up, in the teacher's view, a country's ability to open up outward, is an important symbol of a country's strength, once there is the idea of sticking to partial security, then, the country, often the weaker and weaker, because, long-term defense will be lost. ”

Sun Xiangfu is a later generation, he has some understanding of the later dynasties poisoned by the castrated Confucianism, and the country of gentlemen who were preached by the corrupt Confucianism lacked martial arts and the spirit of forging ahead outward, which led to a strong dynasty like the Song and Ming dynasties, which were passively beaten all the year round and finally perished.

Otherwise, with the population, economy, and industrial capacity of the Song and Ming dynasties, in this world, where is it the turn of the barbarian tribe to come out and jump.

Sun Xiangfu's words, listening to the warrior Tong nodded again and again, as a businessman, he is not as pedantic as those from Confucian families.

The first half of his life, basically spent in the development of trade routes, too aware of the importance of this pioneering spirit, seeing that his daughter listened to Sun Xiangfu's words, a thoughtful look, suddenly thought of a question, and said, "Since Zhengming has taken the little girl into the disciple as an apprentice, then, this time the old man will return to Chang'an to take up his post, so I will leave him by your side to listen to the teachings!" ”

For Wu Shi Tong's arrangement, Sun Xiangfu felt that it was okay, so he nodded and agreed, but he didn't know that Wu Shi Tong took Wu Meiniang with him, or stayed at home, in fact, he didn't think that he really learned how profound he was, woman! In the end, he wants to marry another woman, he just doesn't want the increasingly intelligent Wu Meiniang to continue to stay at home, and her two brothers are restless in the house, there are two sons who are too gentle, and a daughter who is too smart, and Wu Shitong has no way.