On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the entire Datang is still in the excitement of the New Year.

There is no reason to be unhappy this year, and although many people have not been able to find a job with a stable income, the days are really getting better day by day.

Although the entire Tang Dynasty is on holiday, the things discussed at the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting still quickly spread throughout the country.

Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty announced in public that he planned to abolish the system of miscellaneous labor and color labor in the next three years, abolish the mediocrity system within five years, and reduce the rent and adjustment by half within ten years.

The specific plan will be discussed by the various ministries after the year, and strive to come up with an exact timeline as soon as possible.

Although it is only an announcement at present, and there is no specific way to come out, this still does not affect the excitement of the people of Datang.

Miscellaneous and erotic servitude were additional duties that the common people had to bear in addition to the system of rent adjustment, while the mediocre system was twenty days of forced labor per year, that is, within five years these things would disappear completely.

Although the most worthless thing for the common people is strength, the compulsory recruitment of the imperial court and the non-recruitment are completely two different concepts.

There are many kinds of forced labor, those who go to do hard work, build roads and bridges, and also go to serve as retinues for officials, for example, a government soldier is eligible to enjoy the treatment of two retinues, that is to say, his entourage is from the implementation of the mediocre system of forced labor, a group of people for 20 days, this batch of people has gone to the next batch, and the retinue will not be broken all year round.

Therefore, the most irritating thing for the people is to be conscripted during the busy agricultural period or the Chinese New Year, which is the most fatal.

Of course, time has passed, and the government soldiers are undergoing restructuring, and the government soldiers will also become history.

The new military system does not need these personnel to serve them, and they are not allowed to do so.

The imperial court is vigorously developing the economy and has money in its hands, so there is no need to recruit these free laborers to work.

Give a few wages casually, and the people will work happily, because now it is different, the work is paid for, you are lazy, people directly let you get out, you don't do it, some people do it, and the days of grinding foreign workers are completely different.

Cheng Chuliang embodies the ugly face of capitalism very well, and in the mechanical workshop, Cheng Chuliang directly 'arrested' the most skilled group of people, and was stunned to detain these people and not allow them to go home for the New Year.

Li Chengqian's plan has come to an end, and during this time, many officials of the Ministry of Industry have been running on this road to do preliminary research and preparations.

According to what Cheng Chuliang learned, Li Chengqian planned to come up with a complete plan by mid-February, and then assign tasks in place by March, and start work in early April at the latest.

Although he has not seen the latest machinery, Li Chengqian has also made a rough estimate that if the number is enough, the official road from Chang'an to Tongguan should be repaired by the end of the year.

At present, the only problem is in the mechanical aspect, which is also the reason why Cheng is ruthless.

Of course, this group of people is also happy to be stayed, and Cheng Chuliang, who is rich and wealthy, does not lack their wages, and directly waved his hand, and those who were left behind during the Chinese New Year will be paid three times, and each person will be given two chickens and a jar of wine.

As everyone knows, in order to be able to stay, many people in the workshop have broken their scalps, and they have their own magic for a while.

Although it is during the Chinese New Year, this time Li Chengqian directly pulled Li Shimin over, anyway, he is idle, and it is good to let his father take a look at these new things.

"Where's your Uncle Wang?" Li Shimin has been able to clean up a few days throughout the year, and when he looked left and right, he found that Li Yuanjing was not here.

"Uncle Wang said that he wants to nurse the baby at home......" Li Chengqian said with a black line.

"......" Li Shimin was speechless: "Don't do your job!" ”

What else could he say?

Why doesn't the dignified prince do it at home?

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, you are ready, you will be able to start soon!" Cheng Chuliang ran over excitedly and said.

"Cheng boy, can you still work in this weather?" Li Shimin couldn't help but be a little curious, this kind of civil engineering has been started in spring since ancient times, and it stopped in winter, and even Li Yuanjing did not avoid this rule when he built a mansion area.

"It's not realistic, but it doesn't stop us from doing a demonstration." Cheng Chuliang smiled.

The piles of dirt in the site are actually dug out by the excavator little by little, and it is really this ghost weather, people can't dig at all, even if the excavator digs it, it is a little difficult.

At present, the excavator still uses animal power, and Cheng Chuliang plans to wait until the end of the year to get a steam engine to try.

"Let's get started! I want to see what the godlike thing that the prince is boasting about is capable of? Li Shimin smiled slightly.

"Okay, Your Majesty, just watch with wide eyes, it will definitely shock you!" Cheng Chuliang waved excitedly to the field.

Li Shimin laughed and scolded in his heart, and he still stared at it with wide eyes, right? This product is really like his father, no big or small, but his father is much stronger than him, at least measured.

Immediately afterward, the three machines began to ignite and add coal, but they still did not move after waiting for a long time.

Just when Li Shimin couldn't wait, Cheng Chuliang explained: "Your Majesty, don't worry, this steam engine is like this, when it is first ignited, it needs to be pressurized internally, that is, to boil the water, otherwise it will not move, but as long as it moves, except for a short stop when adding water, basically it does not need to stop for a day." ”

Li Shimin nodded, he knew about the steam engine, but he only heard about it, and knew that Li Yuanjing had built one on the ship, and the effect was very good, and this batch of ships was also going to be on the steam engine, but this was the first time he saw the real thing, so he couldn't help but be a little curious.

The machines are of different shapes, but the upper part is basically the same, one person sits on the top and is responsible for the operation, which seems to control the direction, and there is a small boiler room at the end, and one person holds a shovel and throws coal into it, and another person stands by and watches, as if manipulating something else.

Soon, the machine with a shovel in front of it at the front began to move slowly, shoveling away the piles of dirt in front of it.

The position of the shovel was fixed, and the machine moved forward with a clatter, and the frozen and solid piles of dirt split apart in an instant, one after another.

Immediately after that, the second grader began to move, and its task was to make further leveling, scraping the ground as much as possible.

Finally, the road roller is a big killer on the road, at the beginning may be limited by the pressure in the cabin, so the speed is not fast, but as time goes by, the speed of these three machines is getting faster and faster.

"Your Majesty, shall we go down and have a look?" Cheng Chuliang greeted with a grin.