Half an hour later, Bai Fan stopped the drilling machine and nodded with satisfaction, this shield machine (shield tunnel boring machine, shield machine has appeared since 1840 in history) has a simple structure and easy to operate, although the block is not large, but in this era, the first trial to build a usable shield machine can be said to be really unprecedented.

Bai Fan's concept is that as long as this thing can be worth hundreds of people digging mountain rocks together, it is worth spending a month of steel and labor for it.

Li Jiancheng saw Bai Fan stop work and get out of the car to compare with the Drill Mountain Beast, he was puzzled, and stepped forward and asked, "Jian Zhi, didn't you say that the steel plant was the first batch to focus on the production of iron cattle?" How did you get a Driller? What does Datang want to do with this? Do you want to drill through Zhongnan Mountain? ”

Bai Fan shook his head and said: "Where do I want, it is your precious third son Li Chengxun, his teacher Li Chun is determined to build a bridge, but Chengxun is determined to build a road, to build a straight road to Bashu, open the road in the mountains, and build a bridge in the water."

I saw this thing in the academy, and I pestered me to ask for one all day long, saying that I wanted to chisel through the Qinling Mountains, but I had no choice but to agree to him. ”

Li Jiancheng was speechless, why is the reason still in his son?

But Li Er was not so easy to fool, and asked: "Jian Zhi, you are the master, he is a disciple, he dares to disrespect the master's order?" You said that there was no way to be entangled, but I don't believe it. ”

Bai Fan was speechless, he couldn't see through it, he was still a good friend, Li Er deliberately exposed it.

"Chengxun is twenty years old this year, and when he reaches the age of marriage, he has not been going on a blind date, Ping'er and I have been persuaded, but to no avail, what else does the kid say about how to start a family?

This matter was known to my mother-in-law, and it was all buckled on my head, blaming me for teaching the disciples crookedly, so for the sake of my brother-in-law's apprentice, I can only speed up the cultivation of Shu Dao.

Moreover, it is urgent to penetrate the Shu Road, which is also a national plan, and the west is connected to Bashu and Wu Yue in the south, only in this way can the Tang Dynasty really rise, and these two things will depend on Master Li Chun and Cheng Xun. ”

Li Er nodded and said: "Okay, this is a great good, the west is connected to Bashu and Wu Yue in the south, if this matter is successful, I can foresee that Datang will be at least three times more prosperous than it is now." ”

"In that case, isn't this Drill Mountain Beast a little less?" Li Jiancheng asked tentatively.

Bai Fan: "......"

Everyone laughed, as soon as King Jin heard that his son's marriage was blocked, his position was different in an instant, and a drill beast was slow to build roads.

After Bai Fan's explanation, he knew that ten units had already been manufactured in this batch of Drill Mountain Beasts, if not for anything else, just to open up the Qinling Mountains.

"In short, how much can the Iron Ox make in a year? Immortal grain has been successfully bred this year, and it can be widely promoted and planted in Chang'an next year. Li Er asked.

Since the weapons and armor are hopeless, it is not bad to get more iron bulls.

"The Iron Ox can produce about 100 units a month, of course, for ordinary farmers, not our hand-built big guys.

There are about eight months left between now and next year when it is put into use, so only 800 units can be produced.

And Chang'an County breeding success, the seeds, only Chang'an can not eat, my prediction, probably can cover two state roads, we can in Hedong Road, Luoyang two places to carry out promotion, plus Chang'an three as the second breeding place of fairy grain, should be able to cover the whole country the year after tomorrow. ”

"Okay, that's it." Li Er was overjoyed.

Who knew that hearing this, Fang Xuanling frowned, pondered for a moment, and decided to remind: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid there is a problem with this plan, Hedong and Luoyang are all places where nobles are located, if we give them the first immortal grain, I'm afraid there will be no return." ”

Bai Fan was puzzled: "Why is this?" Who of them dares to covet my immortal food? Tired of living? ”

"No, they don't dare, but the land in Luoyang, Hedong and Luoyang is in their hands, we give them seeds to plant, but after the harvest, they will not hand it over to the state, because of the Tang law, the scholar is exempt, and the nobleman is the scholar, so ......"

This one......

Li Er groaned, and Bai Fan also reacted, the privileges of the nobles in ancient times were unimaginable, there is a good saying, ninety percent of the people in the world, one percent of the nobles, and ninety percent of the wealth in the world are occupied by the nobles.

It wasn't until Fang Xuanling mentioned it today that Bai Fan understood that his ancestral hometown of Baijiazhuang was a commoner, so he continued to pay taxes year after year.

Later, he had the Marquis of Lantian, and he never took care of these things anymore, he thought that he was too powerful and no one dared to provoke him, but now he knows that it was the privilege of the nobility, no wonder how many people in the world have squeezed their heads and want to enter the aristocratic circle.

There were many rural landlords, but if they were not nobles, they were just a large and wealthy peasant family, and when it came time to pay rent and taxes, they were still not exempt from vulgarity.

Du Ruhui sighed: "This is difficult, the immortal grain is very important, if it is planted elsewhere, it is too far away from Gyeonggi for fear that it will not be safe." Therefore, Hedong and Luoyang are chosen, but if they are only distributed to ordinary people, then these nobles who have been red for a long time will definitely not be willing, so this matter is quite tricky! ”

Bai Fan said with a firm look in his eyes: "Since this is the case, let's change the rules, the tax exemption will no longer be there, up to His Majesty the Son of Heaven, down to the butchers of the households, all of them must pay taxes, isn't that okay?" ”

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "How can it be so easy?" Taxis have been exempt since ancient times, and the rules of the ages can be broken if they are broken? Don't look at your kid once committing a crime of coercing five surnames and seven families, but if you provoke all the nobles in the world and smash other people's jobs, you can't bear it even if you are the first in the world. ”

"Hmph, can't bear it? No, it's more than whom? See if there are more nobles or commoners? It's a big deal to have an agrarian revolution to fight local tyrants and divide the land, and collect the land of the world for everyone to share, and see who dares not to pay taxes? Bai Fan snorted coldly.

Li Er patted him on the shoulder and shouted: "Don't be reckless, the land is a big deal, a bad one will cause civil strife, go, go back to the council hall to discuss, you must come up with a plan as soon as possible, there are only eight months before the next cultivation." ”

Everyone rushed back to the Chang'an Palace from the Yaozhou Iron and Steel Plant non-stop, and Li Er immediately summoned all his henchmen and ministers to the council hall to break the monopoly of the aristocratic land, which was something that the emperor had not dared to do for many years, because the royal power came from the support of all the nobles, and now the Tang Dynasty may also face this problem.

I think that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was because the nobles of the world were too greedy, and they were still not satisfied with ninety percent of their wealth, so they wantonly annexed and collected land, so that many people were displaced and had no land to grow and no grain to eat.

After the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, including the current Tang Dynasty, the rise of the royal family depended on the balance of the interests of the aristocracy, so the royal family would not easily stand on the opposite side of all the nobles unless it was absolutely necessary.

Even with Bai Fan, a freak who is messing around, many big nobles who are pressed can't raise their heads and dare not resist, but in fact, the vast majority of people forbear not because of fear, but because Bai Fan is a talent, a talent worth investing in, and following Bai Fan can take a ride, Datang is prosperous because of Bai Fan, so the tide rises, and naturally everyone follows Datang to become richer and stronger, so as long as Bai Fan does not take the initiative to provoke, no one wants to provoke Bai Fan, and even showing a little fear is nothing.

Today's second chapter, thank you for your support.

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