He meditated until it was almost dawn, and Su Bai did not return to his room, he still didn't want others to know that he knew kung fu, of course, his three-legged cat's kung fu was really not good.

Wang Fugui came back in a carriage early in the morning, accompanied by their Wang family's housekeeper, followed by ten nurses, guarding several large carriages, looking at the depth of the ruts, Su Bai understood that it should be all silver, and it was the investment of the Wang family. The housekeeper said respectfully: "Lord Wang, the master said that these are just preliminary investments, and if they are not enough, please tell us, silver or something, it's not a problem."

Su Bai smacked his tongue, look at how atmospheric and bright people say this! Silver is not a problem! Listen and cheer up! Su Bai said politely: "The housekeeper is running hard, I don't know that the housekeeper is coming, and I haven't prepared any wine and food, forgive me, forgive me." The housekeeper bowed his head and said: "Lord Wang is polite, the lord has already instructed the villain to buy a house in Guixian County and settle in Guixian, so that it will be much more convenient to communicate", Su Bai continued to smack his tongue, look, big families are different!

Su Bai said with a smile: "Housekeeper, please tell Master Wang, I have searched through the county annals, there is only this limestone mine in this county, but there is no iron ore, aluminum ore, even clay is not easy to find, I don't know Mr. Wang, do you know this clay iron ore?" The housekeeper bowed and said: "Don't worry, Lord Wang, it's good to leave this kind of trivial matter to me, but iron ore has always been strictly controlled by the imperial court, and I don't know if it is feasible to have aluminum ore alone?" Su Bai smiled: "It's okay, there is one of iron ore and aluminum ore."

The housekeeper bowed and said: "Please rest assured, it will be done within three days", Su Bai nodded with satisfaction, at this time the clerks and servants also came to work, Su Bai called over Tang Ju and said: "Tang Ju, go and write a notice, now the county is recruiting bricklayers to build caves, big workers are 100 wen a day, small workers are 80 wen a day, wages are paid daily, and lunch is managed at noon!" "Day-end? Tang Ju was a little surprised.

"Do as I say, go ahead"

"Yes, my lord"

Tang Ju agreed, went into the house and wrote a notice out, Su Bai glanced at it, there was no problem, nodded and said: "Dynasty, go with Tang Ju to post a notice, study hard, and leave these things to you in the future", Wang Chao smiled: "Don't worry, my lord, just leave these little things to me", the two were just about to go out, Su Bai suddenly remembered something, stopped Tang Ju and asked: "Tang Ju, is there no gambling house in the county?" ”。

Tang Ju was puzzled: "Adults want to play two?" Su Bai shook his head and said, "No, it's just that I'm a little curious, why didn't I see a gambling house on the street." Tang Ju looked left and right to see that no one was eavesdropping, and cautiously leaned over to Su Bai's side and said: "My lord, there was a gambling house in Juxian County before, but there was only one gambling house, and the rest of the gambling houses were all squeezed out", Su Bai nodded and said: "Who are they backstage?" Tang Ju shook his head and said: "The villain doesn't know, he only knows that even Yao County doesn't pay attention to them." Everyone else in our county pays safe silver, only that gambling house, but we don't even dare to ask", Su Bai nodded, there are many people who can make Yao Danian dare not speak, there are many people in Chang'an, and people who come to such a small place to be the king and hegemon are not big people.

"Is there anything else you can do?" Seeing Su Bai in a daze, Tang Ju asked, Su Bai shook his head and said: "No, okay, you go and put the notice with the dynasty" "Yes, my lord", it is actually quite normal to have a gambling house, the current Datang gambling house is a legal behavior, and Su Bai is not easy to interfere with, as the saying goes, the people do not raise officials and do not hold them accountable, this is such a truth.

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"Hey, you see the county government came out to post a notice."

"Hey, it's nothing more than a wanted Jiangyang thief or something."

"Let's go, go see the excitement?"

"What's there to see? Did you know the words? Or do I know words? ”

"What's this, isn't it a wanted warrant, don't we know painting if we don't know words? Maybe we've really seen it, and we can still get a reward for silver when we go to the county office! ”

A few idlers are holding a big bowl, eating in the corner of the wall, seeing the notice posted on the notice board of the county government, they are a little curious, this notice board has not posted a new notice for more than a year, the last time the notice was posted to inform everyone that the emperor is now Li Shimin.

A few idlers looked over and saw that it was really not the wanted warrant they thought it was, it was full of words, and they were a little dumbfounded at the time, what was written on it? A bold idler approached the guard and asked, "Sir, what is written on this?" ”。 The errand officer said angrily: "Recruitment", several idlers were stunned at the same time, recruiting?

"Official, is this a labor service?" An idler asked uncertainly, and the servant glanced at him, but he didn't bother to take care of him at all, so that the idler couldn't get off the stage for a while.

Just in terms of labor, Li Shimin can be said to be a good emperor, the second year of Wude, ah yes, Wude is the name of the era when Li Yuan was the emperor, and Zhenguan is the same meaning. In the second year of Wude, Li Yuan issued a decree to pay rent of two stones, two zhang of silk, and three taels of cotton per year. When Wude promulgated the Juntian system in the seventh year, Li Yuan formulated a detailed rule, that is, each Ding paid rent of two stones per year; The tune is produced with the local area, and the silk, silk, and silk are also blended three or two; Those who lose cloth will hand over three catties of hemp. Fan Ding served for 20 days a year, and if he did not serve, he received a commission of three feet a day.

To put it simply, you have to pay taxes, and if you don't have money, you have to do twenty days of work for the imperial court, such as dredging ditches, or repairing bridges and roads, etc., don't think it's easy, many people die every year because of hard labor. As for the equalization system, it is to distribute wasteland and abandoned land that no one cultivates to the people according to the capitation, and the people will cultivate for a certain number of years, such as ten or twenty years, and the land will be owned by the people. Later, it was gradually defeated by land annexation, and in an agrarian country, this was also helpless.

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"Huh? What are you doing here? When a few idlers were guessing what was written on the notice, an old man asked curiously, and a few people looked back, it turned out to be the old Chinese medicine doctor in the county, and a few people's eyes lit up, the old Chinese medicine doctor wanted to prescribe prescriptions to others, so he must know how to read!

"Sir, you came just in time, what do you mean by the two notices posted on this county office?" The idle man who asked just now walked to the notice and looked at it twice: "The county wants to recruit workers and find people to mine ore, this is a long-term one, as long as fifty people, eighty yuan a day, a meal of rice at noon, and a meal of meat!" ”。 A few idlers swallowed a mouthful of saliva at the same time, rice? Meat still? This, whose workers can have such a good treatment? I'm afraid it's not a lie!

The old Chinese medicine doctor continued to read the second notice: "The second part is to find someone to build a cave, saying that he is looking for an experienced worker, 100 wen a day, 80 wen for a small worker, and also for a meal, and the remuneration is a daily settlement, and the money will be paid that night, so there is no fear of arrears."

A few idlers were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths, this, what is the situation, I have lived for so many years, and I have never heard of anyone's salary being paid daily, and eighty wen! I can build my own house, how difficult can the cave be? At that moment, he was going to tear down the notice to apply, so that the errand officer quickly stopped it, and said angrily: "What? The idler shrank his neck in surprise and said, "The villain wants to apply."

The officer's eyes stood and he said, "If you apply, you will apply, why are you tearing up my notice?" The idle man said timidly: "Didn't you tear up the notice before?" The messenger said angrily: "It was wanted before, but this time it is recruiting, can it be the same?" Recruit more than 50 people, if you come to one, tear it once, how many copies do we adults have to write every day? If you sign up, you will go directly to the county government to find Tang Ju, he is responsible for recruiting people, you know? "Yes, yes, the villain knows" The idler nodded and said.

The other idlers were a little more timid and wanted to wait to see him come out......

The idle man was still a little nervous when he entered the county office, and he didn't know where to go at a loss, but he happened to see an errand passing by and hurriedly trotted over and said: "Official, I'm here to apply, the official outside said that I was looking for Tang Ju and Master Tang, and I bothered to ask, how should I go?" The officer sneered and said, "What kind of adult is he, you follow this road all the way in, and you just come to the end", the officer stretched out his hand and pointed to the road near the wall, "Thank you, sir!" The idler bowed to the officer and walked in the direction the officer pointed.

The direction that the errand officer pointed to just now is the direction of the back three halls, that is, the place where the county orders and scribes usually work, similar to a modern office, Su Bai is reading the county chronicles in the study, and now there are only two scribes in the three halls.

"Hello, I'm here to find Tang Ju and Lord Tang to apply" The idle man walked into the house, Tang Ju glanced at him and said: "I am Tang Ju, don't call adult, there is only one adult in our county government, that is, Lord Wang Chouniu", the idle man didn't understand too much, and nodded in agreement, where did he know who Wang Chouniu was.

"What's your name and what position are you applying for?" Tang Ju asked, the idle man scratched his head and said, "My name is Qiao Dazhu, I am here to apply for a bricklayer", Tang Ju nodded, recorded the three words Qiao Dazhu on a piece of paper, and continued to ask: "Have you built a cave before?" Qiao Dazhu shook his head and said, "No, I built a house before", Tang Wei continued to nod.

"Small worker, 80 wen a day, a meal at noon, pay every day, leave your home address, and someone will notify you of the start time when you have recruited enough"

"Hey, the villain lives in the Cooking Cake Hutong, just count the third doorway", Tang Ju wrote Qiao Dazhu's address on the paper and said: "Go home and wait, don't run around these two days, someone will notify you then."

"Hey, then I'll go home and wait, you're busy, you're busy" Qiao Dazhu walked out of the room backwards, his attitude respectful.