Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Weapon of the State

Rome was not built in a day, and the restaurant is not, conception, site selection, preparation, these works need to be completed by Sun Xiangfu, which can be regarded as finding some fun for Sun Xiangfu's life in Chang'an, however, some people say that he is looking for death, the first one to say this is Wang Lin of the Taiyuan Wang family, and then, almost all the restaurants with family backgrounds in Chang'an have expressed their rejection of this restaurant that has not yet started, so the restaurant that Sun Xiangfu wants to open is not only unable to buy land in the densely populated east and west cities, even bricks and tiles, Wood and craftsmen are nowhere to be found, and the family is so ruthless when united.

When Sun Xiangfu fled and returned to Xingfu Village, Wang Lin set up a large table of banquets in Xinxianglou to celebrate, which was regarded as a victory for the family interest group against the royal interest group.

The village is changing every day, the most obvious is the chicken coop and pig coop on Chai Mountain, which have not returned for more than ten days, and those built chicken coops and pig coops have been filled with chicken seedlings and piglets sent by the traffickers.

"Enjoy the blessing, there are more than 10,000 chickens in the chicken coop, and there are hundreds of piglets in the pig house, and the feed consumed every day is huge, and we are almost out of supply." As soon as Sun Dali saw Sun Xiangfu, he began to complain.

"Tell me what you're missing." Sun Xiangfu said calmly that if the productivity of Xingfu Village can't even meet the needs of chickens and piglets, it is a mismatch between scale and labor force and needs to be adjusted.

"Na, first of all, there are not enough people, we can't move the fishing group of more than 20 people, they have to ensure the food supply of the whole village, such a large fishing ground, a dozen and a half children can't take care of it at all, I sent ten more strong men to help catch fishing grass for feed.

The chicken farm has to have someone! More than 10,000 chicks! It is also divided into several pieces according to your requirements, which must not be guarded by thirty *** streams! I send all the women on, the pig farm too, according to your requirements, the pig house to be clean, the feed to be fine, it takes a lot of labor every day, Zhao Da alone led a bunch of women are too busy, plus the eel loach in the cellar also has to chop fish meat to feed, originally after the autumn harvest should be the most leisurely days, now the whole village is busy with feet do not touch the ground, even the children are not idle all in the work. ”

"Well, you all know that after the autumn harvest is the most leisurely day, so there must be a lot of people in other villages who have nothing to do! You can go and recruit workers! Not to mention how much wages are given, I estimate that as long as the food is full, give them a few fish and goods to go home for a tooth sacrifice, they will come to help our village work, vigorously, as a leader, you must use your brains to find a way to solve the problem, such a small thing is not a problem at all, what is missing, you say. ”

Sun Dali was stunned by Sun Xiangfu's words, scratched his scalp and thought about it, a few miles of land around is a village, but not all villages are like happy villages, especially those villages that new disciples have moved over, although the autumn harvest is over, but there are not many people who have not opened many fields, and the family's reserve food must still be insufficient, let them help with the work, just give the stutter, it is simply too cost-effective.

"Also, there is still a shortage of food, the weather is cold, the chicken food is not easy to find, can only feed the grain, half of the 3,000 stone grain in the village has been divided to the chicken farm, the pig farm and the fishery have also been divided, and now people are running out of food."

"Buy, now that the autumn harvest has just passed, it is the time when the grain is low, so take all the money in the village to buy grain." Sun Xiangfu didn't need to use his brain, so he answered.

"I'm still short of money! After making winter clothes before, you said that you would make shoes and socks and quilts for the villagers, which required buying leather goods and white stacks, which were expensive, so now except for those few gold bumps, all the copper coins have been spent. Sun Dali spread his hands and said.

"Gold is also money, and I exchanged gold for the convenience of carrying, so let's spend the gold too! Money is a dead thing, it can't be eaten, it can't be worn, and it only makes sense to spend it. Sun Xiangfu explained.

"I'm just afraid that the money will be spent, and I won't spend it in the future." Sun Dali said with some concern.

"Don't worry, these investments are worth it, when our village starts to ship, you will know that what you spend is not called money at all, by the way, Wang Fu, Wang Gui and Ma Lin Zhang Quan have not stopped working!" Sun Xiangfu saw that they were not in the public house, so he asked.

"No! Everything they build is in the storeroom! This should be going to the cave, the thing you said, they're firing it these days. ”

Saying that, Sun Dali took Sun Xiangfu to the warehouse, and first opened the carpentry room, which was full of round tables, square tables and wooden stools, and many of them had a round hole in the middle, although there were a lot of them, but in Sun Xiangfu's opinion, it was far from enough.

And over there in the blacksmith room, there are a lot of fine iron pots, spoons, and even a small charcoal stove with a hole in the middle, Sun Xiangfu checked it, the quality is still passable, it is the same problem, the quantity is far from enough, but Sun Xiangfu can't talk about these things, with Sun Dali's current ability, it would be good to be able to arrange the personnel in the village.

When he went to Chai Mountain, Sun Xiangfu first went to the acres of off-season vegetable fields he planted to take a look, the bamboo sheds were all set up, and the cover made of silk cloth would be sealed before dark in the afternoon, and the fog would dissipate during the day, and the sun would open after it came out.

Complimenting his younger siblings who took care of these vegetables, Sun Xiangfu went to the newly opened cave on the back of Shibayama.

"Xiangfu, you can be counted as back, in the past few days, we have been grinding powder and firing according to the method you explained, and a lot of it has been burned in the past few days, but I don't know what you are doing with these lime powders." Ma Lin greeted Sun Xiangfu at the entrance of the cave.

"This thing is called cement, once it is stained with water, poured with a mold, it is the same as a stone, it is a sharp tool for building a house, in the future, the houses in our village will use a lot of this kind of thing, the more the merrier, but you can find out this thing, a large number of firing or please workers! Your business is to build the things I have given you, if not, find more craftsmen, give them the drawings, and let them be responsible for building, and we will pay for the wages and materials. ”

Sun Xiangfu knew from the beginning that these things could not be kept secret, and there was no patent law in feudal society, so he only needed to get what he wanted, as for what others did with technology, he couldn't control it, things like cement, no matter who used it for large-scale production, were to promote the progress of this society, and if they were held in their hands as treasures, they would not live long.

On the second day of Sun Xiangfu's return to the village, the recruitment plan of Happy Village began, with these production technology foundations, Sun Xiangfu had a little more confidence in a series of plans after that, in three days, Happy Village recruited more than 500 craftsmen, all of which alarmed the county commander Zheng Peicheng, and made Emperor Li Shimin begin to pay attention to the changes here, and drafted a holy decree to recall Sun Xiangfu back.

Lizheng Palace, the eldest grandson queen was looking through the account books of the harem, and she found that the use of the harem had been reduced this month, and there was actually some money and food surplus in the treasury, which made her a little surprised that she had actually controlled the harem for three months. At this time, Li Shimin came to the Lizheng Palace, and she told Li Shimin about it.

After taking the account book and looking at it for a while, Li Shimin immediately found clues, and pointed to one of the words that would appear every day, "Guanyin, you see, the words 'Fishery Division's oversupply' are written on the supply column every day, how many things do you ask for from the Fisheries Division in this month's levy order?" ”

"Your Majesty said this, the concubine remembered that the requisition order to the Fisheries Department is 100 catties of yellow eel every day, 100 catties of loaches, and 500 catties of big fish above three catties.

"That's it, I remember when you first took charge of the harem, the number of fish sent by the Fisheries Department every three days was only two or three hundred catties, and now, the Fisheries Department sends more than 1,000 catties of fish to the palace every day, and this month, it is more than 20,000 catties! Now that all palaces like to eat fish, the purchase consumption of beef and mutton, vegetables and other uses has been greatly reduced, and the consumption of the harem will naturally have a surplus. ”

"It turns out that the problem is here, it seems that the credit of this fishery department is not small, the newly appointed supervisor is just to pull me and others to do business?"

The eldest grandson Wu Wu figured out the reason, and was happy in his heart, Li Shimin first ascended the throne, and all aspects were nervous, she was naturally trying to help as a virtuous helper, and now since the fishery department can exceed the task, it proves that they still have spare power, and they have to use it if they have spare power, so she decided to add more weight to the fishing levy order, don't the people in the harem like to eat fish, that will definitely save more daily use.

"He's a bullshit adult, a little bastard who can only play tricks, and when he has good things, he doesn't even know how to worship the monarch, and he's a bastard." Although Li Shimin was scolding in his mouth, he had a smile on his face, and he was obviously in a good mood.

"What, what kind of novelty did that little grandson do?" The eldest grandson Wuwu was a little confused by Li Shimin's lines and expressions, and he had never seen Li Shimin show such an attitude towards a person he had never met.

"That's not a thing, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it's a weapon of the country." Li Shimin's expression was a little excited.

"What is it that makes His Majesty so excited." The eldest grandson put down the account book and poured a cup of tea for Li Shimin.

"It is a new plough, which can be loaded with four plowshares, and can be easily pulled with only two oxen, that is, with a few such plows, the kid only took two days to open more than 2,000 acres of wasteland into fertile land, you say, is this a weapon of the country, and now, that kid actually let people grind with stones, add something to burn out something called cement, only need to add water to stir, after drying, it is as hard as a stone, used to build cities and houses, it is simply twice the result with half the effort, you say, is this a weapon of the country······"

Before Li Shimin could say more, the chamberlain reported that Sun Jiancheng of the Fisheries Department of the Animal Husbandry Supervision Bureau had been summoned to see him, and he had to stop talking for the time being.