Chapter 045: Harvesting Rice
Old Man Yan was embarrassed to himself, but fortunately, Wang Fu came over at this time, and Old Man Yan hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Wang County's order is good." ”
Wang Fu arched his hand to the clans, and said with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard, come from afar to participate in the Halloween Festival Sacrifice to the Heavens, and ensure the prosperity of Yizhou, which is respectable and admirable...... Kindness? Why don't you sit? ”
"Sit?" Old Man Yan glanced at the officials who were sitting upright, and then at the chairs, still a little uncomfortable.
Wang Fu immediately called his entourage to bring a chair and explained fluently: "You see, this thing is called a chair, and it is specially used for sitting, do you know why our Han people are weaker than the Hu people?" It is because of the long-term cross-legged sake, with this chair, the waist is not sore, the legs are not painful, and this backrest can reduce fatigue and prevent hunchback, which is a great weapon for revitalizing the strong people of the Han Dynasty. ”
"So good? How come I've never seen one? A patriarch asked.
Wang Fu smiled and said: "Good question, this is the invention of the state herdsman, the three-character business specialty of the pastoral house, good quality and low price, the cheapest is only 100 Wen, the most expensive is not more than 500 Wen, you can try it first, if you need to, you can go to Xicheng Yushu Street to buy, if there is an extra 20 Wen, we can deliver it to your door." ”
"Oh, that's a good deal." The big man surnamed Yin couldn't help but be the first to sit up, twisted his waist and moved his hips, leaned on the back of the chair and sighed comfortably, and said with a smile: "It's really comfortable, I must buy one when I go back, no, buy one for my whole family." ”
When the others saw this, they also sat up one after another, all of them looked excited, and the old man Yan sighed, why didn't this thing come out a few years earlier, he had a problem with his legs, and he usually had to get up if he couldn't sit on a cup of tea, but now with this thing, he can also sit on it and bask in the sun, how comfortable.
The dignified state pastor, tinkering with these things, is really not a proper job. …… But I have to admit that it's really comfortable.
Wang Fu shook his head and walked away, is this a county order or a hawker on the street? I just hope it can be sold.
The assembly line operation is really much faster than a single person, a carpenter to make a chair to say two to three days, their own concentration of some strong men, seven or eight carpenters, sawing wood for sawing wood, processing wood for processing wood strips, assembling for assembly, nailing on nails, less than ten days, made hundreds of chairs, this is still these workers are not skilled in the case.
At the current rate, if it can't be sold, the so-called Mufu Sanzi firm doesn't know how many chairs to pile up, and the cloth of the Tianzi merchant and the porcelain of the Dizi firm, although the quality is not as good as that of ordinary cotton households and those slow carved private kilns, but the daily output is much more, Wang Fu asked the shopkeeper to calculate, the cost price is at least more than forty percent lower than the latter, with the proficiency of production in the future, this gap will expand.
Wang Fu wondered, Liu Zhang had stayed in the pastoral mansion all these years, enjoying songs and dances every day, how could he have so many wonderful ideas.
When the clans were sitting on chairs and talking excitedly, Liu Zhang's horse team appeared on the shore of the lake, Liu Zhang dismounted and stepped on the arched bridge, Huang Yue and Xiao Furong walked on both sides, and the military generals of Wenchen followed.
These clans really can't guess the reason why Liu Zhang asked them to participate in the sacrifice to the sky, and the sleek and sophisticated old patriarchs of various clans take it for granted that the land order and the price limit order are just to test the attitude of the wealthy people in Chengdu, and the measures that damage the interests of the wealthy families are still behind.
In the face of Liu Zhang's strict policy, will you accept or reject it when the time comes? Accepting the harm to the descendants, refusing is likely to kill the clan immediately, with this kind of mentality, the family saw Liu Zhang coming with a large number of armor soldiers, how could he not be nervous, the old man Yan silently prayed that Liu Zhang would not be too stubborn.
The clans watched Liu Zhang walk into the Donglingtai fixedly, but saw that Liu Zhang did not sit on the main seat in front of him, but walked straight to the place where the clans were sitting, these clans were silent regardless of whether they were patriarchs or children, and Liu Zhang's face was full of smiles when he saw the clansmen, and smiled at the old patriarchs of the clans in the first row: "The villagers have worked hard, and the chair is still comfortable?" ”
"Comfortable, comfortable." The clans were busy.
Liu Zhang smiled and nodded, and sat next to the clans with Huang Yue, Xiao Furong and Yizhou ministers, and the clans suddenly didn't even dare to breathe, but Huang Quan, Wang Lei and other civil officials came to talk to them.
"Old man Zeng, I heard that you are a great-grandfather again, how many great-grandsons are you?" Huang Quan turned his head to an old man with a white beard and asked.
"yes, yes." Old Man Zeng didn't hear Huang Quan's words at all.
"Old Yin, you are amazing, one person with the children of the clan dug a thousand meters of irrigation canals, connecting a hundred acres of fertile land, if we have more people like you in Yizhou, the name of the country of abundance will be well deserved." Zhang Song tried his best to squeeze out a friendly smile, but that thief-eyed face really couldn't be called kind.
"Mr. Zhang has won the prize, Mr. Zhang has won the prize."
Yizhou officials took the initiative to talk to the clan, and the clan was still a little nervous at first, but then they slowly became relaxed and talked cautiously.
Liu Zhang sat next to Old Man Yan, watched several wizards on the altar prepare for the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony, and said casually: "Old Man Yan, I heard that a few days ago, you took the children of all ethnic groups to your family's rice field to harvest rice, right?" ”
Old Man Yan's heart casually mentioned his throat, and he didn't know how to answer Liu Zhang's words, and his heart jumped violently.
Liu Zhang said calmly: "The old man is very smart, he didn't ask the patriarchs of all ethnic groups to go in person, so as not to attract people's eyes and ears, the rice fields are empty, and there will be no ears on the wall, but the old man is also very confused, so many people in gorgeous clothes go to the farmland, won't they be suspicious?" Even if the official can't hear what you're saying, can't he guess? ”
The clans and bureaucrats in the back continued to talk, and the more they talked, the hotter it became, poor old man Yan was so old that he was like falling into an ice cave, and cold sweat rolled down one by one.
"Lord Governor, forgiveness, forgiveness, we will never dare to oppose the Governor's government, and everything will obey the orders of the Governor of the State."
"I don't believe it." Liu Zhang said simply.
Old Man Yan's nerves were about to collapse.
The wizards' magic weapons have been prepared, the great wizard walked to the front of the altar with a snake-headed staff, the sacrificial ceremony officially began, and the officials of the clan stopped talking, Liu Zhang turned his head and said in the ear of the old man Yan: "Old Yan, this official does not believe in any guarantees, you have your ideas, I have my position, but the old man remembers, now is not the time to harvest rice." ”