"Dong Gongzi, this is a great event, how many businessmen want to serve the country, what else do you consider?" Lu Dongzhi saw that Dong Ce was silent for a long time, and couldn't help but remind him!

"!" Dong Ce sneered in his heart.

In this world where security is not guaranteed, isn't the tax he pays a contribution to the country?

And doing the government council, just serving them, the better you do, the higher their merits, and when the court commends them, you have nothing to do at all.

This is the officialdom of the Ning Dynasty, there are few capable people in it, nine times out of ten they occupy the pit and don't, and those who really govern one side with their hearts are often the people of the government councillor and the county councillor, and they get very little, such as Dong Ce's grandfather, who has been a government council for more than 20 years, and as a result, he got a piece of mulberry field, and it still cost several times the price, in addition, that is, his foundation will not be divided by the greedy scholars!

Perhaps in the eyes of today's businessmen, this alone is attractive enough, but for Dong Ce in later generations, it is pure!

"To be able to contribute to the country and Jinling, I can't ask for it!" Dong Ce couldn't refuse, otherwise, as the art garden became bigger and bigger, the covetousness of the scholar clan would become stronger, so his relationship with the Qin family must be good, as long as the Qin family became his backer, he wouldn't have to worry about these for the time being.

Qin Qi smiled very happily, looked at Dong Ce with satisfaction, and said, "Go back and go with Lu Fucheng to handle the trivial matters of joining the council, and what you have to do is to let all the fields in Jinling be irrigated by cylinder carts as soon as possible." ”

Dong Ce's head suddenly grew when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "Master, this is still an attempt now, and the irrigation of the cylinder car is related to the water level, which fluctuates all year round, if it is to be like my art garden, it will cost a lot!" ”

Dong Ce is right, in order to make the waterwheel run all year round, he deliberately built pools and canals, which cost no less than 100 times, and this is not counting labor, if it were not for the people who dug the ground and excavated the soil were the victims he adopted, he was reluctant to do it.

And if you want to let the whole Jinling use the upper cylinder car, there are not tens of millions, Dong Ce can't think of it!

After being reminded by Dong Ce, Qin Qi thought of the question of money, and his brows immediately furrowed, but he quickly stretched out, looked at Dong Ce with a smile and said, "Then how does Dong Yilang think to start?" ”

"You're changing your tunes so quickly!" Dong Ce smiled bitterly in his heart, thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and said: "If you do it directly, firstly, there will be a shortage of funds, and secondly, it will not be convincing, so I feel that I should find more than a dozen acres of experimental fields, and make it first to let people see the results. ”

"Huh!" Qin Qi smiled and said meaningfully: "I think that the way to make money by Yanjiao must be to catch money when you see it!" Hahaha......"

Dong Ce's rare blushing made Qin Qi even happier: "Well, I also know your predicament, you have adopted four hundred disaster victims before and after, but now the business of the art garden has plummeted, I will help you and myself, so let's try it...... What kind of field, just use my Qin family's field, of course, the money is indispensable to you, but you also have to give me a price first, and I can discuss it with my family when I go back. ”

"Does the master want to do a good job, or is it just average?" Dong Ce asked.

Qin Qi glanced at the stone platform and canal, and asked, "How much do you need like this?" ”

Dong Ce stretched out three fingers and said, "Three hundred!" ”

"What!" Qin Qi was shocked.

Lu Dongzhi frowned, immediately glanced at Dong Ce, and said urgently: "Dong Yilang, it's not business now!" ”

"Of course not!" Dong Ce smiled and said: "But I haven't completely built it here, three hundred guan is a complete set, in addition to the cylinder car, there is also a waterwheel mill, cold and warm air equipment and so on!" ”

The two couldn't help frowning when they heard it, they could guess the waterwheel mill, but what was the cold and warm wind?

But without waiting for the two to ask, Dong Ce said: "Three hundred or remove labor, of course, the old man does not need to do this, only use the cylinder car for irrigation, and the pool and canal do not need so many stones to build, the price is less than one-tenth, like this wheel of the cylinder car, can be around the clock, so irrigation of more than ten acres is not a problem, in addition, you can set up drip irrigation for vegetable fields, fruit groves and so on." ”

"Drip irrigation?" Qin Qi and Lu Dongzhi glanced at each other, as if they had never heard of this word.

Dong Ce smiled and said: "In fact, it is to drill a small hole in the wooden trough, so that the water inside falls like rain, or you can use the open bamboo tube to connect it as a whole, place it on the ground, and drill some small holes in the bamboo tube, after the water is passed, it will also drip out, and keep the land moist at all times." ”

"Shhh I see, I didn't think that this waterwheel had many wonderful uses, so it was not a loss. Qin Qi took a deep breath and said.

Now ninety percent of the land is in the hands of the scholars, of course, the poor and remote areas are not counted, so they are not short of this money, as long as they can save manpower and animal power, it is still very profitable.

Otherwise, they are ordinary small farmers, and they will spend dozens of times to make waterwheels when they are crazy.

Now Qin Qi also took this into account, but when all the fields of their Qin family were irrigated by waterwheels, he found that the benefits were far more than that, and the biggest one was actually the harvest!

There is a lot of rain in the south of the Yangtze River, but no matter how much it is, the ground will soon dry out in summer, and if it does not rain for more than ten days, it will affect the growth of crops, and the lack of nutrients will naturally reduce the harvest.

But this is also the Ning Dynasty, if it is the Ming and Qing dynasties of later generations, the crops in the south of the Yangtze River are rare, the mulberry fields are everywhere, the silk workshops are as many as cow hair, some large workshops are day and night, the number of weaving mill workers is not less than thousand, eighty percent of the grain is purchased from other places, how can you use the waterwheel.

But now it's different, food is still the most important thing for the imperial court, and Dong Ce naturally took this opportunity to make a windfall!

"I'll go back and discuss this matter with my family, and I'll give you an answer tomorrow, okay, there are still many important things to deal with in this mansion today, and I'll leave here."

Dong Ce personally sent Qin Qi out of the art garden, and when Qin Qi got into the carriage, Lu Dongzhi suddenly approached him and said with a smile: "Dong Yilang will also go to the government with me, and the matter of joining the council will be completed as soon as possible, and you will be at ease as soon as possible." ”

"There's a Laolu Mansion!" Dong Ce arched his hand.

"You and I'm polite." Lu Dongzhi smiled, suddenly took a step closer, glanced left and right, and made sure that no one was near, before he whispered: "In half a month, I will go to Huzhou to take office. ”

Dong Ce couldn't help crying and laughing when he heard this, and asked, "Dare to ask Lu Fucheng, what position are you?" ”

"Cough, it's just a county order, and I don't know if it's a promotion or a deprecation!" Although he said this, Lu Dongzhi could not hide his smile.

Although Fu Cheng is said to be the second-in-command of a government, it also depends on the person, like Lu Dongzhi, who was born in a poor family, is basically hollowed out, and has no real power at all, but the county order is different, first, he has absolute real power, and second, he is one or two levels greater than Fu Cheng in terms of official rank.

Dong Ce thought for a while and said: "Appeasing the people's hearts is the first priority, but don't blow it too much, it is necessary to keep the people food and shelter, followed by public security, up to the remnants of the rebels, down to stealing chickens and dogs, we must be severely punished." ”

"Aren't you going to have a good relationship with the local Shu clan first?" Lu Dongzhi frowned.

"If it is necessary in other places, but it is really not used in Huzhou, and now those who are there can still survive and build in the Xiaoshu clan, do you say that their relationship with the rebellious people can be simple! For this alone, they don't dare to publicize it, otherwise you will use the excuse of investigating the remnants of the traitor to go to his house again and again to sit down, so can he be dishonest! ”

Lu Dongzhi's small eyes are thieves in time!