Seeing the box full of copper coins, Li Yanzhao's eyes couldn't help but widen. He raised his head and looked at Taishou Xin Fei in disbelief, and asked in disbelief, "Fujun, is this...... These are all ...... Is the harness profitable? "In the past, he was calm and calm in the face of being too punctual, and he talked eloquently at this time, which has long disappeared.

Taishou saw Li Yanzhao's incoherent appearance, and laughed happily: "All this money is a horse harness profit, and it is all deserved." ”

Li Yanzhao had already recovered from his brief shock. He is not a person who is easy to make his mind faint, and he hurriedly bowed down at this moment: "The reward of the prince of the mansion, Yan Zhao is ashamed and dare not take it." And please take back your fate! ”

Taishou still smiled on his face, stepped forward to help Li Yanzhao, and said: "Jun and I offer this stirrup manufacturing method, but in just over a month, I have earned such a huge profit, and I should share it with you." ”

Li Yanzhao stood up, still clenching his fists and said: "Yanzhao came up with this thing by chance, and he offered it to the prince, not for profit. The government was busy with this, gathering craftsmen, building workshops, and organizing construction. Its hard work is far more than Yanzhao ten times and a hundred times. How can Yan Zhao enjoy his success? And ask the prince to take back his fate. Or the copper coins here will be distributed to the craftsmen of the workshop. ”

Tai Shou saw that Li Yanzhao still refused, and his face was a little uncertain, so he immediately said: "You can see the graphics, and build them according to it, this is a small skill." If there were no drawings from you, how would you have obtained such wealth today? If you have already been with you, you will accept it! The copper money here is not only to share the benefits with the king, but also to persuade the king, to encourage the rest of the people in my county, as much as possible to express their wonderful methods, thinking that I use them. ”

Li Yanzhao saw that Taishou was resolute, so he had to agree to accept the box of copper coins. However, he still offered to give half of the money to the craftsmen of the workshop.

Taishou knew Li Yanzhao's style of acting early, so he was not surprised by this. Then he ordered two servants to come, and took out half of the copper coins in the box, and took another box of them. At Li Yanzhao's request, the Taishou people prepared to drive, so they called Li Yanzhao to go to the harness workshop in the city that had been built not long ago.

The box of copper coins was also moved to Taishou's car, and Taishou got into the carriage and only ordered a few people to guard the side. These people are all Taishou's own private soldiers, and Li Yanzhao looks at them all with dignified appearances, tall figures, and powerful martial arts. All of them are helmed through armor and are mighty.

Seeing Taishou get into the carriage, Li Yanzhao was also sitting next to the coachman. With the coachman's shout of "driving". This team of light chariots and chariots left the gate of the county government and drove towards the county town.

Li Yanzhao also knew something about the extravagant hedonistic style in the Western Jin Dynasty gate valve family, which was very noisy. There was a family Shi Chong and the country's relatives Wang Kai to fight for wealth, Wang Kai's family used syrup water to brush the pot, Shi Chong heard it, and ordered the family to take white wax as firewood.

Wang Kai went forty miles out of the gate of his house and made a step barrier with purple silk. When Shi Chong heard this, he took more valuable brocade and laid a fifty-mile barrier.

Later, when Shi Chong's family was feasting, he sent Mei Ji to wrap her sleeves around the tree to help the wine, and sent beautiful concubines to persuade her to drink, if the guests refused to drink, or drank inexhaustibly, Shi Chong ordered to kill the Mei Ji who persuaded the wine.

The absurd deeds of fighting for wealth recorded in these historical books once made Li Yanzhao, a person who reads history books, always disgusted with the chaotic and arrogant atmosphere of the Western Jin Dynasty, where the powerful and the family class wantonly squeezed the people's wealth, took it unscrupulously, and spent extravagantly.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was already in the sign of defeat. This is Li Yanzhao's brief evaluation of the Western Jin Dynasty as a descendant.

Once, Li Yanzhao once thought that the big families, high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the Western Jin Dynasty, and even the rich and powerful were all so ordinary. It wasn't until he arrived in this era and witnessed Liangzhou, especially Xin Taishou's style, that he knew that his previous views were biased.

Xin's is also regarded as a local family in Liangzhou. Among the Xin family, there are as many as four or five high-ranking officials in Liangzhou, and the rest of the children who hold real power in the state or locality, or who are ineffective, do not know how many. However, Xin Taishou's practice of often being light and simple and not talking about pomp and circumstance is completely inconsistent with Li Yanzhao's impression of the extravagant pomp and circumstance of the family during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

However, Li Yanzhao personally admires Xin Taishou's style very much. Whether it's because of Liangzhou's remoteness, lack of productivity, or other considerations. At present, Liangzhou's top priorities are undoubtedly agriculture and defense.

Extravagance and enjoyment are far from what the status quo of Liangzhou at this stage can bear and allow.

It didn't take long for Tai Shou's car to stop in front of a simple shack in the middle of the city. Still outside the gate of the courtyard wall, Li Yanzhao could clearly hear the clanging sound of iron inside, as well as the shouts of craftsmen from time to time.

Taishou lifted the curtain, stepped out of the car, and immediately ordered the guards who followed to carry down the box of copper coins placed in the carriage. pulled Li Yanzhao and walked into the door of the workshop.

It was morning. The door of the workshop was also half open, and a small official stepped forward to push open the door and welcomed Taishou and Li Yanzhao in.

When Li Yanzhao entered the gate, he saw a row of low shacks facing the gate, among which there were twenty or thirty men and women, sitting together in twos and threes, gossiping and doing the work in their hands. In each hand was an unformed saddle, or a semi-finished product, as well as leather materials, coarse needles and twine.

The courtyard is more spacious, with two stoves on the left side of the courtyard wall. Next to the stove were two teenagers in each year, taking turns pulling the bellows. There were seven or eight anvils in the courtyard, and next to each anvil, a blacksmith wielded a hammer and struck the red-hot iron on the anvil.

Although it was the middle of autumn, the blacksmiths were bare-chested, and they barely stopped, their right hands holding the hammers striking the iron on the anvils with the right force. There are also several assistants next to him, constantly shuttling between the blacksmiths, providing necessary assistance to the blacksmiths.

Seeing Taishou come in, a middle-aged man wearing a small official's soap robe hurriedly rushed out of the shack, walked quickly to Taishou, and slammed to the ground: "The prince of the mansion is here, and the officials feel honored." ”

Taishou hurriedly supported the little official and said kindly: "No need to be polite, today I came to see the situation of the workshop." ”

When the little official heard this, he said respectfully: "It is an honor to have the prince of the Lao Mansion to pass down, and the lower officials are very honored." These days, the craftsmen in the workshop are all working hard, and there has never been half a day of leisure. However, the demand for this item is huge, and although the lower officials have repeatedly mobilized manpower, the supply is still in short supply. Now it is even more difficult to see a little relief from the craftsmen's families and the female dependents who volunteered to come to work in the workshop. ”

When Tai Shou heard this, his face was full of approval, and he raised his eyes and looked at the inside of the shack, where the men and women were still busy with their own work, occasionally raising their heads and saying a few words to each other. However, the work in hand has never been put down.

Taishou then pointed at Li Yanzhao and said to the little official: "The pattern of the stirrup is offered by this gentleman." This gentleman also served in the army, and returned with the team to counter-insurgency last month, and was immediately promoted to the commander of 100 cavalry in the army, Li Yanzhao. ”

When the little official heard Taishou's introduction, he also solemnly saluted Li Yanzhao and said: "Jun went out to quell the rebellion, repeatedly made strange plans, and defeated the enemy. To solve the danger of our county and the counties being overhanged, Cheng Junjie is also! When I saw it today, it was a dignified appearance and extraordinary heroism. And accept the bow of Hu Lian, the right to show respect. ”

Seeing this, Li Yanzhao also hurriedly replied: "The gentleman's words are heavy, and the work of the next little is not enough to worry about." ”

Xin Taishou saw that the two of them saluted, and then each made a polite exchange. Then he smiled and called for that Hu Lian. Pointing to the big box at the door, he said, "This box contains ten thousand dollars." It was Li Bairen, the head of the hundred people, thinking of the hard work of the craftsmen such as Er, and specially asked someone to bring it and wanted to distribute the reward money to everyone. At the end of today's work, there will be a lot of work, and these rewards will be distributed to everyone. ”

That Hu Lian listened too obediently, so naturally he didn't allow it. Naturally, Li Yanzhao is a word of thanks, which is beyond words. Li Yanzhao humbled himself. Then he offered to go inside the shack and have a look. Hu Gongcao smiled all over his face, and greeted Li Yanzhao and Taishou and the others towards the row of low shacks.