On the fifth day of December in the eighth year of Wude, the imperial study of Taiji Palace

"Sage, Captain Feng Daiwen asks to see you." Gonggong Huang bent down beside Li Yuan and said softly.

Li Yuan stopped the fold in the batch and raised his head, and said slightly: "Oh, pass him in!" ”

"Weichen Feng Daiwen knocks on the saint, the saint Wan'an!" Feng Daiwen saluted Li Yuan.

"Aiqing is exempt, how is the construction of Aiqing Manor, is there any difficulty?" Li Yuan asked Feng Daiwen kindly.

"Thank you for the saint's concern, the basic construction of Weichen Villa is completed, and the road to Wannian County is about to be completed, this time Weichen entered Beijing to report the process to the sage, and Weichen wants to fund the construction of the road from Wannian County to Chang'an, hereby ask the sage for royal approval, in addition, Weichen Zhuangzi on the craftsman burned a batch of good porcelain, and the minister specially selected a group of saints." Feng Daiwen hurriedly explained his purpose to Pan, and there was nothing he couldn't say anyway.

When Li Yuan heard this, he was very happy, stood up, laughed and said, "Haha! All right! It's still Wei Guoru and his son who think about me and worry about it. Your father went to the table yesterday and brought another 100,000 stone of sea salt and 300,000 stone of grain for me, and he will arrive in Chang'an in a few days.

I was worried about the gifts I gave to my ministers a few years ago, so you brought me porcelain, and quickly moved in for me to see. ”

Feng Daiwen brought all kinds of porcelain objects this time, bowls, plates, basins, bottles, furnaces, all of which are clear and white high-quality, and each item is also carved with flowers and animal patterns, the porcelain of the Sui and Tang dynasties is still rarely carved patterns, mainly due to the influence of war, and the craftsmen have not developed to that point. At present, many folk bowls are pottery, porcelain needs a higher temperature and special soil, and the royal use is mainly jade and gold and silver inlaid porcelain.

"Good! Good! It's really a rare boutique, no less than the tribute. Li Yuan held a white plum blossom vase and sighed in admiration, as a child of a noble family and an emperor for several years, his vision is naturally not weak.

"It's good if the saint likes it, these are all fired from the clay attached to the Zhuangzi that the saint rewarded, and when the craftsman is familiar with it next year, there will be better offerings to the saint." Feng Daiwen introduced with a smile.

"It's rare that your father and son are so hearted!" Li Yuan said with emotion. After all, as the emperor, he rewards other people with goods, and it is rare for someone to give him so many things without desire, and everyone will be moved, not to mention an old man, a dead wife, and a lonely old man who is staring at his position.

"The saint has won the award, this is the duty of the minister, this minister and Yu Chi Baolin, Cheng Chumo plans to sell it to the merchants and grasslands of the Western Regions in exchange for cattle, sheep and horses, and ask the saint to show it." Feng Daiwen said humbly.

As soon as he mentioned the matter, Li Yuan would be more serious, and thought about it carefully: "But, this is a good thing, there is a shortage of horses in Lingnan, and the horses that are exchanged are left to you, and the cattle will stay in Guanzhong." There was a shortage of cattle in the Central Plains, and when the cattle arrived, they gathered to cultivate and domesticate. ”

"Domestication? Aren't all cattle able to plow the fields? Could it be that the sage is talking about a long-haired yak? Feng Daiwen asked suspiciously

"They can all farm, but the country has never cultivated the land." Li Yuan said with a smile.

Feng Daiwen replied with a little embarrassment: "Weichen has indeed never cultivated himself. ”

Li Yuan took Feng Daiwen to the Imperial Garden to ask someone to find a few cows to plough for a while, pointed to the cattle and said: "Undomesticated cattle don't know how to plow the land, they run around, they have a lot of strength, and they can't control it, so they must be trained from an early age." ”

Feng Daiwen stepped forward to observe for a moment and secretly said to himself, why are you there, it turns out that the current cattle are tied to the head of the ox with a rope like the horse, and the ox that has not been trained since childhood will definitely not dry the land if you let it plough the land, but you can't pull it, modern people know that the ox is to wear the nose ring, and the plough is ploughed with a pointed flat bottom straight plank. One person needs to lead the cow in front and one person to help push in the back.

"Returning to the sage, Weichen has a way to make the oxen used to plough the land, and he can easily plow the land by one person by changing the plowshare." Feng Daiwen saluted Li Yuan.

"That's true!" Li Yuan stared at Feng Daiwen in surprise and asked, and the surrounding guards and eunuchs and palace maids also stared at him in surprise.

"It's simple, just go to the craftsman's workshop for half an hour." Feng Daiwen said confidently.

"Let's go together, I'm going to see it myself, and I'll set up the craftsman's workshop." Li Yuan commanded impatiently.

A group of people came to the craftsman's workshop, at this time the craftsman in the craftsman workshop is the master craftsman Yan Lide, Yan Lide many people have not heard of it, Yan Liben should be very familiar, Yan Liben is Yan Lide's brother, they are all family history, proficient in construction, is a famous painter in the early Tang Dynasty. "The minister has seen a saint." Yan Lide was surprised that Li Yuan actually came here in person, and hurriedly saluted.

"Aiqing is exempt, this is Captain Feng Daiwen, if you want to use a craftsman as a supervisor, you can introduce him." Li Yuan said with a little help.

Feng Daiwen clasped his fists and saluted: "I've seen Master Yan, I just borrowed the blacksmith furnace, because it's inconvenient to go outside, I came here, and it's troublesome for the master craftsman." "For Yan Lide, he can't be rude to other craftsmen, Feng Daiwen calls Yan Lide a master craftsman because he respects Yan Lide, not looks down on him.

"Captain Feng is polite." Yan Lide also felt the respect in Feng Daiwen's tone.

"I didn't expect that Feng Duwei also knew how to forge, please be a saint here, Feng Duwei." Yan Lide returned the salute and said to Feng Daiwen.

"I just understand it." Feng Daiwen replied modestly.

Half an hour later, Feng Daiwen created a few iron rings, and a pointed conical bottom plow, called people to drive a few undomesticated cattle, let a few guards control the cow, with a red-hot iron rod aimed at the cow's nose through, and then put on the iron ring, Feng Daiwen took out the gold sore medicine from his arms and gave medicine to the cow, "Back to the saint, it's so simple, just wait for the cow's nose to heal in a few days, and tie the rope to the iron ring to let the cow go as much as it wants", after saying that, Feng Daiwen replaced the plow and asked someone to try farming.

In the open space of the ,,,, craftsman's workshop, a guard ploughed the new plough for a short while, and said incredibly excitedly: "Back to the saint, this new plough is very labor-saving and can be easily cultivated without pushing."

Li Yuan looked at it and exclaimed: "It's really good, it's labor-saving, and it ploughs deeper, and if it's oblique, the soil will automatically go to the side." Li Yuan has personally cultivated the land, and he understands at a glance,

"Good! All right! Aiqing has made a great contribution. Li Yuan excitedly patted Feng Daiwen on the shoulder and said.

"With this thing, the people of the world are much easier, just look at this thing to know that the nose ring of the cow is also feasible, so that I will never be short of cattle in the future, good, really good!" Li Yuan was indescribably excited, although he founded the country and laid down the Tang Dynasty, after all, he used to be a Sui minister, and with this thing, no one in the world can deny his merits.

"This is the saint's compassion for the people, and it is an object created by the saint who raised the point and the micro-minister, which is the work of the saint, and the micro-minister does not dare to be greedy." Feng Daiwen naturally knew the truth and replied respectfully.

"Well, haha yes, if I don't raise the problem of cattle today, there will be no inferior thing, this thing will benefit all the people, it will be called Huimin plow, and it will be handed over to the craftsman to build as soon as possible, and it must be built more before spring ploughing next year." Li Yuan laughed happily and commanded.

"Decree, Captain Feng Daiwen has made great contributions to General Feng Daiwen Dingyuan, Xu 300 personal guards, can recruit 5,000 soldiers, guard Wannian County, give 10,000 gold, and 100 silk horses." After saying this, he patted Feng Daiwen on the shoulder and sighed: "Aiqing is really my blessed general."

"Thank you for the sage, Weichen is very grateful." Feng Daiwen hurriedly thanked him. 5,000 soldiers and horses, which means that you can recruit soldiers openly.

Yan Lide looked at Feng Daiwen enviously, the 18-year-old real general, the word taken by the sage himself, which represents a promising future.

"This plow, the closed-loop concept is ingenious, and the micro-minister can't do it!" The sedan chair was carried by everyone, and Yan Lide shook his head and exclaimed.

"The master has won the award, this nose ring has been recorded in ancient books, but it was lost in the war, and I don't know how to do it." Feng Daiwen replied modestly.

"Yes, many wars have indeed been lost in the past dynasties!" Yan Lide also replied with a distressed frown.

"I believe that with all of you, there will be better items in the future." Li Yuan comforted the two of them and said that today's harvest was huge, and he was already very satisfied.

"The minister will not let the saint down!"

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