Chapter Twenty-Three: Three Hundred Dollars

The King of Chu walked a little staggering, but fortunately, there was a servant Jiang Xiang by his side, and after the King of Chu, he was followed by Zuotu Zhaoxiao, seeing him, Huang Xie immediately understood why the King of Chu came so quickly. This is simply a plan planned by the Jing Party. First let the honest public transport Jian offer a waterwheel, and then test it in front of Ling Yin's mansion and in front of everyone's eyes, and finally invited the king of Chu......

Huang Xie felt ominous, but it was useless to regret it. He could only walk behind the King of Chu, and then begged the King of Chu to reward Xiong Jing so as to end the matter as soon as possible.

Huang Xie secretly pondered, Ji Lingjun, who entered the city with Gong Yijian and stood next to the waterwheel, said to the king of Chu: "Tell the king: this is the white dragon waterwheel built by Prince Jing. The doctor saw that it came out of the water and entered the dragon, and the water was white, so it was called the white dragon. ”

The workers on the waterwheel did not stop under the supervision of Ji Lingjun, Xiong Yuan walked closer, the sound of the water was loud, and the splashing waves hit his Zhu clothes, half of his body was wet. Chang Jiang hurriedly persuaded: "King, the water is very cold, I'm afraid ......"

"No problem." In the hot summer, Xiong Yuan, who was half wet by the splash of water, not only did not feel uncomfortable, but felt cool.

"King, the water wheel alone produces ten times the water than the orange tree, and irrigates the fields with it, and my Chu country corn is also abundant." Not only was there water on his body, hair, and beard, but the old man didn't care, and he shouted when he saw the king of Chu.

"How much is a watermill worth?" Xiong Yuan has been king for twenty-five years, and although all matters are entrusted to Ling Yin, he is by no means ignorant of government affairs. The waterwheel is good, even if the single person comes out of the water, it is ten times that of the orange tree, but what is the price? The people can't afford it, no matter how good it is, it's useless.

"The king, Prince Jing said, if it is made on a large scale, it can be as low as three hundred yuan for a single person, only four hundred yuan for a double person, and six hundred yuan for a cattle drive." In the morning, Gong Yijian and Xiong Jing chatted for a long time, and remembered the term 'large-scale manufacturing', which is now being used now.

"Under three hundred dollars?!" Those who heard it were all moved, and the annual cost of buying clothes for a common person was almost 300 yuan. The waterwheel is exquisitely designed and as long as a dragon, and everyone thinks that it must be a gold, but who would have thought that it would only cost 300 yuan.

"Three hundred dollars... Ahem... Three hundred bucks? "There was a lesson from the last ballista, and the worker Yin Dao behind Huang Xie wanted to speak and stopped, only discussing in his abdomen; As a leftist disciple of the Jing Party, Zhao Huang didn't believe that this price could make a waterwheel, he only begged the king of Chu not to study deeply, but he didn't expect the king of Chu to be very puzzled and asked in a deep voice.

"Prince Jing said: Ordinary workshops may cost thousands of dollars, but he can only make three hundred yuan, but they must be manufactured on a large scale." Gong Zhijian also mentioned the term 'mass manufacturing', but his tone was not firm.

"What is mass manufacturing?" Of course, Xiong Yuan can't understand the modern industrial term, but this is the condition of 'only three hundred yuan'.

"Minister...... Ignorance. "Gong Yi was stunned for a long time and found that he couldn't tell what 'mass manufacturing' was, so he had to answer that he couldn't answer." Please summon Prince Jing to ask. ”

"The minister also asked the king to summon Prince Jing. The drought day is coming, and we should build a water wheel as soon as possible to help all people. "It was rainy in early summer, but there was a lot of drought in summer and autumn, and Yin Yin was thinking about the millet in the field, and only hoped that the waterwheel would be built immediately in the house, so as not to miss the agricultural time.

"Summoning Jing'er to enter the court tomorrow morning." Xiong Yuan turned his head and instructed Chang Jiang Dao. As soon as these words came out, Huang Xie's heart beat suddenly, but fortunately he didn't faint - heart disease is a hereditary disease, Huang Xie was born in a royal family, and his heart is not good.

"Yui." Chang Jiang bowed and promised. It was originally an errand for the confessor, but now the king ordered him to go, which has a special meaning.

"Stop. Who are you waiting for? "When the king of Chu left the palace, the people of the palace guarded each other. Not wanting a crowd to pour in from the corner of the street in the dark, the guards naturally shouted, and the sword halberd was also aimed at the comer.

"Don't drown in Yingdu! Don't drown in Yingdu......" The rumors confuse the public, and the crowd rushing from the big city heard the sound of rushing water on the street corner, and stepped on deep water before they reached the foot of Ling Yin's mansion. These people were even more hurried and frightened, and they rushed over in a hurry, just when they were blocked by the palace guards.

"Who wants to drown Yingdu?" Under the sword halberd, all the people who came knelt down, and the emperor Cai Bao stepped forward to ask.

"I waited for Prince Jing to subdue the six dragons of Huaishui and dedicated them to Ling Yin, and now the six dragons spit water, and Yingdu will be ...... in an instant" The suer's voice was very loud, probably hoping that Prince Jing could hear it, so as to stop the six water dragons. In the crowd, Huang Xie's face changed immediately when he heard this, and he felt that his legs were weak, if someone hadn't helped him, he would have fallen to the ground; Zuo Tu Zhaoxiao smiled at the corner of his mouth, this time he finally avenged the last auspicious revenge - after tomorrow, Prince Jing's subdued water dragon will be known all over the city, and he must be the king of Daxing Chu.

"Stop." Xiong Yuan also showed a faint smile on his face, but this smile was fleeting, and he immediately ordered the waterwheel to stop.

After the arrival of the king of Chu, the strength of the people who cared for water was exerted, and now as soon as he said it, the six waterwheels finally stopped. The sound of rushing water could not be heard, and the people who petitioned outside immediately shouted and worshipped, 'Prince Jing...... The words of the Holy King' are endless.

"The people are shocked, and the sin of the widow." Xiong Yuan seemed to blame himself, "Long ginger! The widow gave him food and wine to comfort his heart. ”

"Yui." Chang Jiang promised again. His royal order made the faces of the officials of the Yin Mansion change again. These half-truths and half-truths, coerced by rumors, once the rumors of giving them wine and food prince Jing to subdue the six dragons will spread throughout the Chu country. The spread of rumors is not terrible, what is terrible is the attitude of the king of Chu, perhaps, tomorrow morning the king of Chu will appoint Prince Jing as the crown prince.

"If the king establishes Prince Jing tomorrow, what will happen?" Huang Xie Fengyi outside Shouying City, Li Yuan, who was the most worried about the prince's choice, was restless and walked back and forth in the atrium. Chun Shenjun felt unwell on the road, and he rested when he entered the house, so he could only discuss with Zhu Guan.

"Tomorrow morning, if the king establishes Prince Jing, we have nothing to do." Zhu Guan drank stuffy wine, he really didn't expect that the Jing Dang would also spread rumors and make trouble, 'subdue the Huaishui Six Dragons...... Ying's ...... in an instant, ashamed of what they thought. "The Jing Party is full of pedantic feudal kings, and today's plan must be guided by a master."

"Advice?" Li Yuan is also a smart person, and when he heard this, he said, "Isn't it Ji Lingjun?" Yang or Zhao Guolai? ”

"Ji Lingjun? but a lewd ear; Zhao Guo didn't understand the nature of Chu Min, so he couldn't think of such a plan. Zhu Guan has always disdained those feudal monarchs, "Today's matter, first by the public to sacrifice the car in front of the palace, and then ask the king out of the palace to inquire, and then in the big city to confuse the common people, so that everyone worships and begs." Tomorrow in the court, the king will never appoint Prince Jing as the eldest son, but will only ask him to supervise the construction of a waterwheel of 300 yuan......"

is the so-called success with momentum, in Zhu's view, today's momentum is not enough to establish the eldest son, so just now he advised the lord not to worry.

"Oversee the construction of a waterwheel of three hundred dollars?" Li Yuan is just a guest, not an official of the Ling Yin Mansion, he just heard someone relay today's events.

"The prince Jing's waterwheel, ordinary craftsmen can't do it without a gold, but there is a magic method in his words, and three hundred dollars can be made. The king believes that tomorrow morning, he will summon the prince Jing to inquire, and he will be ordered to supervise the construction of the waterwheel. Zhu Guan said his guess, but in his heart he was very taboo about people who borrowed waterwheels to build momentum. The waterwheel is not a ballista, the waterwheel implicates thousands of households, the king ordered the prince Jing to build a waterwheel, on the surface he did not believe his words, but in fact he was building momentum for it.

"Ziyuan sits less, I have to quickly advise Yin Dao." Thinking of countermeasures in his heart, Zhu Guan hurriedly waved Li Yuan and hurried away.

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"Hehe......, good, great goodness, this battle is a big victory!" In the library of the school palace, Yu Guanzi smiled so much that his eyes couldn't see, and he still had a set of marching and fighting words, saying that today's events were a big victory. "How is Ling Yin?"

The people of the city trembled, fearing that the flood would flood Yingdu, which made Yin speechless at that time. Seeing this, the king stopped the waterwheel, and enjoyed the wine and food, and the people of the city bowed to the ground and thanked him. Ji Lingjun returned to the school palace and explained in detail to Yu Guanzi and others about the matter in front of Ling Yin's mansion, and his eyebrows fluttered, as if the waterwheel was built by him.

"Will Prince Jing be the eldest son tomorrow?" An Lingjun asked on the side. He is also one of the many feudal lords who did not have a fief, but the difference is that because the fief is in Henan, the ancestral fief is gone after the battle of Shuisha. Standing on the side of Prince Tyrant can't get any benefits, he can only hope for Prince Jing, how can there be many twists and turns in the matter of Lichu, he can't wait.

"The momentum has not yet been achieved, and the time has not yet come." He Guanzi is already the commander-in-chief of the Jing Party, and he directed it today.

"When is the time?" Ji Fujun asked, and everyone looked at the crown.

"The people of Chu all said that when the prince of Lijing is established, it will be the right time." The crown replied in a general way, and then got up and said: "Tonight, the left disciple Zhen Yin will meet, and it is a matter of Lichu, and he will leave." ”

"Now that I have seen the left disciple, I am willing to go to it." What Yu Guanzi and Zuo Tu are talking about must be a big deal, and Ji Lingjun also wants to follow.

"Let Yin be deaf and blind, and there are not many people." The crown smiled lightly and bowed to everyone.

Ling Yin has a fief outside the city, and Zuotu Zhaoxiao also has a manor in the city. Xiong Jing, who received the king's order, entered the palace at night under the escort of the palace guards, and Yu Guanzi came to the city of Guo Zhaofu to meet Zhao Huang and Zimo.

The position of Zuo disciple is actually the head of the inner servants of the King of Chu. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the public and private were separated, and the royal family was also separated from the state. The part that is subordinate to the royal family is under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu, and the part that is subordinate to the state is under the jurisdiction of the Xiangbang. Chu also has a Shaofu directly under the king and serving the royal family, but the official system of Chu is different from other countries, Shaofu is called Gaofu, and the position of Zuo Tu is Gaofuqing.

Among the countries, the Shaofu of the Qin State has the greatest power, so large that the Shaofu is responsible for the casting of weapons in the whole country, and Xiangbang is only a civil official, only collecting land taxes and military endowments, and recording the Dingkou Fu nationality, and the Shaofu not only collects the taxes of the mountains and seas and ponds, but also collects the city tax and the mouth tax - the mouth is the head money, as long as the people of a country live, whether Fu is not Fu or not, adults and adults must collect taxes, the result is that the Shaofu is hugely rich, and the status and treatment of Shaofu officials are much higher than those of the county officials under the Xiangbang Mansion.

Although the state of Chu has the power of Fengjun County Yin, but the mountains and seas Chize are very profitable, Gaofu is still not to be underestimated, but at the beginning of the throne, the king of Chu was too fond of Huang Xie, and Gaofu was also inserted by Huang Xie's people, and the appointment of Zhao Huang as the left disciple was purely for the balance of the court, so it was too late to change now.

"Mr. broke the yellow break with the white dragon waterwheel, and the momentum of the eldest son was immediate." Zhao Huang saw that everyone was puffing up, but Zi Mo was different, and he could talk to anyone he saw, so when he saw the crown, he praised today's events, and his smile was harmless.