"You, head of the house!"

Liu Hong hurriedly made a silent gesture and said softly: "Don't disturb everyone, I'll take a look at the side first." ”

"Whoa." The craftsman who happened to find Liu Hong while standing at the door replied.

"Everyone!" Liu Bei said loudly, attracting everyone's attention, if at the beginning, these craftsmen were just afraid of this young master, and even because of their age, they were a little contemptuous; But now they have a lot more respect in their eyes - no matter what time a person wants to be recognized by others, strength is the best way.

"Assemble!" Liu Bei ordered.

With Liu Bei's order, the craftsmen who couldn't wait for a long time hurriedly picked up the parts one by one and assembled them.

"Is it okay this time?"

Hearing the voice in his ears, Liu Bei turned back in surprise: "Father, when did you come?" ”

"I just came, and seeing that you guys were busy there, I watched it for a while." Liu Hong replied.

"By the way, is it okay this time?" Liu Hong asked again.

"No problem." Liu Bei looked confident, "I even have a name in mind, so I'll call it Liu Gongli." ”

After saying this, Liu Bei was already full of emotion in his heart, this year he has been studying, making friends, practicing martial arts, engaging in Fang Ming, step by step to gain his father's trust, and has the right to allocate a certain amount of resources to the Liu family, and now, he is finally going to come up with a big killing weapon.

That's right, Liu Bei's so-called "Liu Gong plow" is the famous Quyuan plough in later generations, and its appearance officially marks the maturity of China's farming tools.

Compared with the popular long straight plough now, the curved plough is not only convenient to turn the head and flexible in operation, but also can adjust the tillage depth to adapt to the different tillage needs of shallow tillage and deep ploughing, and most importantly, it can save a lot of manpower and animal power.

"Liu Gongli?" Liu Hong thought he had misheard.

"Exactly." Liu Bei nodded in confirmation.

Liu Bei can also understand the reason for Liu Hong's consternation, taking what is not his own as his own, this is a shameless thing, there are high requirements for the thickness of the skin, and the admiration of integrity in this era is not as adulterated as the Ming and Qing dynasties.

However, Liu Bei naturally had his own set of rhetoric, and asked with a smile: "If it weren't for my father's name, could it still be said that I was a hairy boy?" ”

Liu Hong was stunned for a moment, there was some truth in what he said, but was it a little too shameless.

"We will meet the head of the house." When Liu Hong was stunned, those craftsmen had already assembled the Quyuan plow, and they were happily turning around and preparing to call Liu Bei to come and see, by the way, he didn't want to raise his eyes, but he saw Liu Hong's figure, and hurriedly bowed one by one.

"It's all right, get up." Awakened by everyone, Liu Hong was not flustered, his right hand was weak, and he said with a gentle expression.

"Father, let's go and test this plow now." Liu Bei waited for everyone to get up and followed closely.

"Okay." Liu Hong responded.

So, the group carried the plough to the field outside the house, where a ploughing ox was prepared early, and a group of craftsmen quickly put harnesses and zigzag plough on the ox, and then an old farmer appeared to support the zigzag plow, shouted twice, and the ox began to walk slowly in the field, dragging the plough behind him to turn over layers of wavy soil.

"This-" Liu Hong hurriedly ran to the ploughed field, stretched out his hand to test the depth, and looked surprised, "It was so deep." ”

After sighing, Liu Hong got up, looked at Liu Bei and said, "Xuande, this thing is extraordinary." ”

The Han family governs the country with filial piety, based on agriculture, although no matter what the actual situation is, but the mouth has been so promoted, so the treatment of all kinds of equipment, especially the tools that are conducive to agriculture, has not yet reached the point where the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations denounced it as "prostitute skill", this plough tool in Liu Hong's view, not only can greatly improve the efficiency of farmers' farming, but also a great achievement, with this merit can not say that they have to survive for a few years in the county can move in advance.

Thinking about it this way, Liu Hong's already unfirm position was even more shaken, and he no longer shirked the naming of "Liu Gongli", after all, no matter who or everything in this world, there is a certain bottom line, and vice versa.

After the experiment was completed, Liu Hong told the craftsmen a few more words, asking them to build "Liu Gong Plow", and strive to build more before spring ploughing, and then returned with Liu Bei in the carriage when he came.

On the carriage, Liu Hong has been thinking about how to persuade Liu Bei, after all, he has just taken advantage of his son's invention, and this time he wants to reprimand the uselessness of the invention, so that his son can study wholeheartedly and return to the right path, which is not like what a noble Confucian doctor can say.

But father's love is so great, Liu Hong pondered for a moment and asked, "Xuande, do you know Zhao Guoqi?" ”

Liu Bei replied: "Returning to my father, but the Sosu Lieutenant when he was Emperor Xiaowu?" ”

Liu Hong nodded and said: "Exactly, you know that Xuande is a human deed." ”

Liu Bei also nodded and said: "Xuande knows that Zhao Duwei has promoted the method of Daitian, which has benefited the world, and has always been admired by Xuande. ”

"Father?"

After finishing speaking, Liu Bei was waiting for his father Liu Hong to express his opinion, but he didn't get a response for a long time, so he couldn't help but speak again.

Liu Hong glanced at Liu Bei and said, "That's it, it's fine." Then he closed his eyes and recuperated.

Liu Bei: "......"

……

After returning home, Liu Bei kept thinking about what Liu Hong wanted to say, the worst deeds in the world should belong to arousing the curiosity of others but being silent is golden, but the helpless thing is that Liu Hong is his father after all, Liu Bei can only do the last thing he can do after thinking about it is to try to forget this curiosity.

In the afternoon, Liu Hong informed his wife, and then drove to the county government in a carriage, Liu Bei's matter still made Liu Hong very troubled, he planned to use Zhao Guo as a negative example to educate his son in the morning - you see, Zhao Guo's credit is not great, but he is just a little lieutenant until he dies, it can be seen that these things are just side doors, and the future is not bright.

But when it came to the point, Liu Hong felt that this was a bit too utilitarian, and if his son was young and ignorant, he said, "Then what's the matter, if it can benefit all the people in the world, what is the official rank?!" How should I deal with it?

Thinking like this, time passed imperceptibly, until the coachman outside the car said, "The head of the family, the county government has arrived." Liu Hong was awakened from his thoughts.

Liu Hong responded, got out of the carriage, and walked towards the county office.

In the main hall of the county government, it was full of people at the moment, Liu Honggang pushed the door in, and several eyes shot in unison, and then the sound of compliments sounded.

"Lord Xiancheng, you're finally here."

"yes, yes."

“……”

Liu Hong returned the salute with a smile, walked forward, knelt and sat in the chief, now, the new county order has not yet arrived, as the second-in-command of Zhuo County, he is naturally the temporary acting county commander, and coordinates the overall situation.

Liu Hong's left hand is sitting on the county lieutenant Chen Yan, and on the right hand side is a strange and familiar face - Wang Yi, who is the chief of Lou Sangting that Liu Hong met when he was in the province, and his current position is the chief of Zhuo County.

As for the original master bookkeeper Li Ke, after He Ming moved to Luoyang, he resolutely abandoned the official and followed He Ming to Luoyang, but Liu Hong could understand his thoughts, after all, the news of He Guiren in the palace flowed out of his big mouth, compared with such a big backer, what is the small master book in Zhuoxian?

There are also many familiar faces below, such as Liu Hong's brother-in-law Wang Wu is in the list, of course, he is not a small patrolman, under the leadership of Liu County's selfless virtuous and unavoidable relatives, Wang Wu has become a Zhuoxian Gongcao honorably.

Whether it is Wang Yi or Wang Wu or the county government suddenly added some more clerks are the result of Liu Hong's painstaking operation, since his son Liu Bei invented a lot of money-making things last year, Liu Hong did not hold on to it like a miser, but after purchasing some fields, real estate, and shops, he spent most of them in an uproar.

Whether it is making friends with colleagues or dealing with superiors, Liu Hong does not blink, and he regards money as dung, because Liu Hong knows that when he comes, wealth is moving, and it is impossible for him to eat alone; Second, Liu Hong understands a truth, money in this world is unreliable, how many rich businessmen have emerged in the Han family since the founding of Emperor Gaozu, but how many of them have died well?

Under Liu Hong's powerful money offensive, Zhuo County can be said to be run by him, especially after the previous county commander He Ming was transferred, it has simply become Liu Hong's word.

Chen Yan is a person who is not good at words, and he is even more taciturn under Liu Hong's guidance; The main book, Wang Yi, was pulled up by Liu Hong, and he also took Liu Hong as his horse.

"Colleagues." Liu Hong said in a deep voice, "What is the situation now?" ”

One by one, you look at me, I look at you, but they don't say a word.

Liu Hong's heart sank, it seems that the situation is not good.

After a long time, it was Wang Yi who opened his mouth: "Lord Huiyu, now that the epidemic has spread to Taoshui, I am afraid of it-"

Having said this, Wang Yi didn't say any more, but Liu Hong already understood what he meant-Fear Zhuo County is in danger!

Thinking of this, Liu Hong is extremely headache, these county government lords usually don't take this Zhuoxian county government in their eyes, and they will take the blame for this matter, after this epidemic, I am afraid that they will have to break the bill again.

After hastily instructing everyone, giving some orders to isolate the epidemic and strictly abide by the city ban, Liu Hong left and got into a carriage and went to Zhang's mansion.

Liu Hong doesn't have much hope for his measures, Taoshui is on the north side of Zhuo County, and when the epidemic arrives here, where can it be avoided by a little means? What's more, whether this information is accurate or not really needs to be considered.

"Damn Xianbei barbarian! One day, I will raise troops to step into the royal court and avenge this great revenge for the people of my Han family! In the carriage, Liu Hong said in a low voice.