People often say that people who do business are unprofitable and can't afford to be early, and few people know what this red tree company does, but since it is called a company, it must be a business, and it will definitely not do a loss-making business. Ordinary people don't lose money to do business, and as an emperor, they definitely won't do it, even if he does a loss-making business, someone will naturally find a way to make him make money. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. Cai Fuyi's is this, he is afraid that this Chishu company is just for show, and the results of the doctoral college will be used, and when the time comes, a lion will open his mouth and ask the provinces to pay more taxes, which will easily arouse public resentment, and it will be them who are unlucky at that time.

Liu Qiao didn't expect Cai Fuyi to think so much, he only thought that Governor Cai was caring about the emperor with a loyal heart, he said with a smile: "Lord Cai cares so much about the emperor shows your loyalty, but the emperor will not do loss-making business, of course, he will not only care about himself and not care about the life and death of the people, according to the emperor's words, it is to satisfy everyone." ”

Cai Fuyi was a little embarrassed to be praised by Liu Qiao, so he had to say in passing: "It is the duty of every courtier to care about the king, but I don't know how to make everyone satisfied?" In the past, it was the hard work of farming, rent collection and tax collection, but now the Big Iron Company and the Red Tree Company are not in vain, so naturally they have to share some benefits in it, how to distribute it so that everyone is satisfied? ”

Seeing that Cai Fuyi mentioned the distribution issue again, Liu Qiao couldn't help but be stunned, and said in his heart, Didn't the officers already agree to the compensation plan? Is there anything that has changed now? Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at the two officers who were accompanying him, and said to himself, could these two be representatives of disgruntled people?

Zhu Xieyuan saw Liu Qiao's doubts, and said with a smile: "Lord Liu misunderstood, they are here to accompany Zhang Jing'an and ask about the situation of Lord Zhang by the way, because they feel that it is okay to surround the enemy now and not be idle, it is better to practice first." What Lord Cai began to say about the distribution is not that these officers still have to participate in the distribution, but that the people who farm the land and the government that collects taxes and rents and how to distribute it between the Big Iron Company and the Chishu Company. ”

Gao Di also quipped at this time: "Fan Wenzhenggong said that 'if you live in a temple, you will worry about the people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your king', Lord Cai is worried about both the people and the king, but he can be regarded as well aware of the essence of Fan Wenzhenggong, and we have to learn!" After speaking, he twisted his beard and kept nodding and smiling, which made Cai Fu shake his hand again and again, humbly saying that he didn't dare to be.

Liu Qiao was relieved when he heard Zhu Xieyuan's words, but Gao Di's words did not react to him, because he understood half-understood, and only knew that these scholars were dropping their book bags again□ Qiao nodded and said to the two officers: "The two brothers are worried about the war, so that I admire the brothers, but I did not receive an order to go to Lord Zhang's camp for business this time, I only heard that he divided the people into four parts, that is, the guards in the city, patrols outside the city, training in the camp and harassment, it is said that this is set by Lord Gao and Lord Cai, Don't you know? ”

When one of the officers saw Liu Qiao's question, he replied: "These are all clear below, but I don't know how Master Zhang did it, I heard that the 5,000 people who have been trained are very unusual, we wonder if we can learn the method." I wanted to go directly to visit, but I was afraid that it would delay or cause misunderstanding on the part of Mr. Zhang, so I asked Mr. Liu for a favor. ”

Liu Qiao nodded and said, "I'll have time to ask Master Zhang to see when he is free for you to visit." ”

The two ** said happily: "Then thank Lord Liu first." ”

After Liu Qiao finished talking about these two people, he turned around and took the tea and saluted Cai Fu and said: "I am a soldier, I can't help but talk about things in the army first, Lord Cai is not strange, in fact, Lord Cai's emperor or the people suffer losses are superfluous, everyone used to complain because of the low yield, but now that the output is high, everyone can naturally benefit from it, so the emperor said that everyone is satisfied." ”

Cai Fuyi also took a sip of tea and nodded, "I don't know how high the current output can be?" What is the specific distribution? If we don't inquire about these clearly, we won't be able to sleep well, so don't laugh at Lord Liu. ”

Liu Qiao said: "There is no unified standard for this, according to the people of the Chishu company, at least half of the increase, at most the output can be doubled, and it is not a problem to double the output in the future, among which the corn output will increase less, and the output of sweet potatoes and potatoes will be directly doubled compared to the current wheat sorghum and other crops." If Lord Cai has any questions, he can ask them, the specific distribution seems to be the original tax amount and the amount of land rent unchanged, but the increase in production is taken out and divided between the Big Iron Company and the Chishu Company, anyway, what I said is also seen and heard, and I can't understand the superfluous words. ”

Zhu Xieyuan asked: "The two companies only divide the part of increasing production?" So what if there is no increase in production, or if the production does not increase much? ”

Liu Qiao said: "This is easy to do, if the output is high, the output will be more, and the output will be less, if the output does not increase, these two companies will not ask the people for a grain, this is what the emperor said, saying that even if you suffer a loss, you can't let the ordinary people suffer." ”

Everyone nodded with satisfaction after listening to Liu Qiao's words, Gao Di said: "Before the banquet starts, you will drink the tea first, although the army is not allowed to drink alcohol, but the meat and vegetables are enough, we will eat those few people from Chishu Company, by the way, see how they do it, what do you think?" ”

Everyone agreed to say that it was good, it was better to see than to eat and hear, and to ask about what was not clear should always be more down-to-earth.

After eating and resting for a while, everyone rode a horse and sat in a sedan chair with the guards to a small hillside outside Guiyang City, where there were originally several courtyards abandoned by the war, because there was no paddy field around the dry land, so no one came to live≡ after teaching to find that the dry fields around here are suitable for planting drought-tolerant crops such as corn and potatoes, so he brought people to rebuild the house and organize the fields and roads, and by the way, he also dug a large pond in the low depression under a prominent rock, although it is still a little tiring to carry water to the hillside, But it is also better than looking at the drought due to lack of water.

Several people from the Chishu Company live here, and several of them are all people who have repeatedly failed to get the job, and they all participated in the training of the Bo College after feeling hopeless about the imperial examination, and they became interested in new varieties of grain crops during the training process, and were collected by the Chishu Company after the training. They searched for many days from Zunyi to Guiyang, and finally settled on the side of this hillside, because they found that this place was close to the city, convenient transportation, and surrounded by fields and water, which was very suitable for planting corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other things, so they asked Zhao Shujiao to send people to help with farming and receive guidance by the way.

It was early afternoon when Gao Di and the others came, but the sun in the sky was just covered by thick white clouds, and the cool breeze blowing in the woods and mountain recesses made people blow very comfortably.

Seeing that Gao Di and the others were coming, the people sitting got up to greet each other, Liu Qiao stepped forward to introduce everyone to each other, although Gao Di and Zhu Xieyuan, Cai Fuyi and others were all second-grade members, but they knew that these were all people from Chishu Company who wanted to give the emperor some face, so they all greeted politely. Gao Di and others' horses, sedan chairs and entourages were parked at the foot of the mountain, a few people brought some personal guards up the mountain, Liu Qiao said: "A few adults first blow the mountain breeze under this tree for a while and rest before entering the house, the weather here is a little strange, if the sun is strong outside, the house is cold, but when the wind outside is cool, the house is hot." ”

Cai Fu smiled and said: "I have been here for many years, and I can be regarded as half a local, and Lord Liu is not as good as my half of a local in this regard. But when the mountain breeze blows, the house is surrounded by heat and stuffy because the heat can't come out, which is why it's hot outside and cool inside, while the wind blows outside and stuffy inside. ”

Liu Qiao was a little confused, and asked: "Lord Cai, I am a little confused when I hear this, you said that the heat in the blowing room outside can't be seen out, so it's stuffy, the question is where does the heat come from?" Isn't it surrounded and covered? ”

Cai Fuyi said with certainty: "This heat naturally comes from people, if you don't enter the house, you will definitely not feel stuffy." ”

Liu Qiao was wondering, Gao Di smiled: "Lord Cai's words are interesting, people will definitely not be bored if they don't enter the house, even if they are stuffy inside, they can't feel it outside." Okay, now that you're cool, do you go to the house or to the field? We're not here to cool off today. ”

Liu Qiao said: "Then let's go directly to the field to have a look, and if there is anything we don't understand, please ask someone from Chishu Company to talk about it." ”

As soon as they all agreed, they walked together, and they talked in twos and threes and went up to the hillside not far away, and the people who were clearing the weeds and small stones on the hillside put down their work and stood together and waited. Cai Fuyi had something on his mind, and he pulled a person from the Chishu Company to ask in detail about the yield of corn, potatoes and other crops while walking, and when he got the answer, the yield of the new variety was indeed higher than that of wheat and rice, so his heart was relieved. However, after hearing that corn, sweet potatoes and other things taste bad, and potatoes are not good to eat as a vegetable, and they are not good as staple foods for a long time, I felt faintly uneasy in my heart.

When we arrived at the field, we saw that the field was not as smooth as a wheat field, but a ridge of soil that was organized like a vegetable plant, but it was a little wider than the vegetable furrow where the vegetables were grown. Cai Fuyi asked, "What is this statement?" Why do you want to make the field rules like this? ”

A veteran Nirvana came out and said: "Back to Lord Cai, the teacher of Chishu Company said that this has two advantages, one is to facilitate planting to avoid indiscriminate planting and affect the yield of sparse inconsistency, and the other is that drought-tolerant crops are afraid of blisters and are planted above the soil ridge to facilitate water. ”

Cai Fuyi asked in surprise, "Do you know me?" What did you do? ”

The veteran said: "The villain turned out to be the defenders of Guiyang, and in the third year of the Apocalypse, he crossed the Lu Guanghe River with Lord Wang Sanshan to kill the rebels, and then the army was defeated and luckily kept his name back. ”

Cai Fu asked expressionlessly: "Since you are a veteran, why do you want to retire?" Could it be that when you are a soldier and old, your courage has become smaller? ”

The veteran said, "As long as the adult gives the order, the villain will immediately be the first to rush ahead and destroy the rebels!" The villain was persuaded to train and prepare for retirement because of age, not that the villain didn't have the courage to kill the enemy again! ”