Chapter 40 Prosperity, the people suffer. Death, the people suffer
"Your Majesty, it's unfair for you to name him a man from Youzhou County." A crisp female voice sounded softly in the tent.
I saw Li Shimin touching the snow-white thighs of Empress Changsun, the skin that could be broken by blowing was still snow-white, although she was over twenty-six years old, her skin was still as tight and white as a girl.
Li Shimin quietly stroked for a while, and then stared at the eyes of the eldest grandson queen and said: "Guanyin, you have entered my Li family since the year of cardamom, and you have no guesses with my childhood sweetheart, you can be described as a roundworm in my belly."
Before he could continue, the eldest grandson spat him, "You are the roundworm~" This coquettish voice was full of complaints, like a bone-eroding sound, which made Li Shimin's blood surge for a while, and he galloped again.
The two of them were cloudy and rainy, and in the pink curtains, the hibiscus tent was warm for the spring night, and the king did not come to court early.
At one point during the Spring Festival, Empress Changsun stroked her clothes and said softly: "This baron of Youzhou County, what is Your Majesty's plan?" It's only 250,000 yuan, and it is still a little difficult to convince the public to award a founding baron. ”
Li Shimin condensed and said: "Guanyin, this son makes glass, cooks, holds song parties, sells strange cars, tea, and good wine, which one can be rich, but why is this son the only one?" It can be seen that the potential of this son is not only that, the shadow guard has already replied, this son was only born two months ago, as if he was conjured out of thin air, and there is no news of him in the whole Youzhou, which makes me very surprised, I guess that this Xu Yang is just the former who shows his face, and the person behind him seems to have the means to reach the sky, I don't know which hidden family is going to appear in the world, I give him a baron, see what waves they can set off. ”
Empress Eldest Sun smiled stupidly and said, "Your Majesty thinks like a concubine." ”
Xu Yang didn't know at this time that the unashamed and impatient old whore in the East Palace was talking about himself, and he sneezed twice, and he was angry.
Xu Yang is a single household, where is the backer behind it, does the emperor's 100,000 water army count?
At this time, Xu Yang was exchanging experiences with Foreman Cai, the chief technologist of Liufu.
"Childe's industrial system theory, the old man has lived for half his life, but it's the first time I've heard of it, and it sounds really fascinating." Although Foreman Cai is a short and hunchbacked little old man, his first-hand craftsman skills are also among the best in the entire Youzhou, and his qualifications are old, so he was elected as a steward by the craftsmen under Xu Yang.
On weekdays, Xu Yang also likes to chat with him often and exchange experiences in later generations.
"Speaking of this industrial system, let's take the bicycle you are building now, among the 25 components such as frame, tires, pedals, brakes, chains, etc., the basic components are indispensable, which of them is the most difficult to do?"
"That's the chain, of course."
"That is, the chain is mostly used for mechanical transmission and traction. It is a very commonly used mechanical tool, Cai Foreman, why is it difficult to do? ”
"Because this chain needs hundreds of iron pieces buckled into a chain chain, and the size of one hundred and ten iron pieces to be extremely small error, although the blacksmith door uses the 'scale' issued by Gongzi, but the scrap rate is still the highest in the whole factory, an average of three out of one is scrapped, the size is not suitable, and now more than half of the blacksmiths in the factory are making this chain." Old man Cai replied regretfully, this chain is indeed too time-consuming and laborious.
"Foreman Cai, how many chains can be made in the whole factory every day?"
"Fifteen at most, it's easy to drop the chain and collapse if you do more."
Hahaha-Xu Yang laughed.
"Why is Childe laughing?"
"Foreman Cai, do you know how many such chains can be made in a day when we have a steam engine and a stamping machine?"
"How much?"
"A hundred is not enough."
"What!" Foreman Cai's gray beard seemed to be about to rise to his eyebrows, Baitiao, he thought that Xu Yang was talking a little big.
"Foreman Cai, I Xu definitely didn't lie to you, I still say less about making a hundred a day, do you know, the steam engine, the stamping machine tool is the most important basic link in the industrial system, is the basis for the science and technology tree to climb upward, I brought you these drawings today, the steam engine has now been manufactured, the performance is still a little unstable, and I will take you to visit another day, the current Datang, the level of science and technology is still in the low-end era of iron, I urgently need a group of outstanding talents to upgrade the entire industrial system of Datang and improve the level of science and technology. ”
The swarthy and thin white-bearded old man Cai is now grateful, he has been a craftsman for five generations, and now he heard that the industrial technology that affected the overall situation of Datang was in his hands, and he immediately burst into tears.
"Thanks to the trust of the son, the villain will definitely be smeared with liver and brains and raise the industrial level of the entire Datang."
Xu Yang was also excited, the steam engine has been improved by a young man named Zheng Wen in the research and development team, and it can be basically used, for which Xu Yang also awarded the young man a certificate of merit and ten bonuses, with this steam engine, Xu Yang has begun to fantasize about the beautiful situation of the first industrial revolution.
It's a pity that the current Datang is not only low in industrial level, but also low in social living standards, according to Liu Qi's own situation, there are even people starving to death in remote countryside, which shocked Xu Yang.
In fact, this is not to blame Xu Yang, since he crossed over, Xu Yang's contact circle has always been a family of businessmen, celebrities and nobles, although they feel that their lives are not as comfortable as in later generations, but they also have three meals a day, full of food and clothing, which makes Xu Yang have the illusion that the people of the Tang Dynasty are like this.
When it comes to those poor peasants, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, sweat beads and eight petals to grow some food, it depends on the sky, once there is a major drought or flood, the year's hard work will be over, and the whole family will have to flee.
Even if the wind and rain are good for a year, in the end there is still not enough food to eat, and the average farmer has to gather wild vegetables in the field and wild beasts in the mountains to barely survive the year.
When Xu Yang heard Liu Qi tell him this, he was almost stunned.
He didn't know much about the Tang Dynasty, and the only memory he had of Li Shimin's time was that he remembered a Tang Dynasty called 'Zhenguan Zhizhi' when he was in school, and he didn't know anything about the rest.
Originally, I thought that the 'rule of Zhenguan' was that everyone in the Tang Dynasty could eat enough and everyone could dress warmly, but now Liu Qisu's situation of starving to death happens from time to time, which makes Xu Yang, who has sympathy for later generations, crazy, and he can't wait to meet those poor farmers immediately now and give them food to live.
"Liu Qi, don't lie to me, how can there be a situation of starving people to death now? You see, in this city, although everyone is not clothed and fed, at least they can eat and clothe themselves. ”
"Childe, of course what you see in the city can be fed and clothed, and the city is full of places where those big families live, and those small families and farmers can only live in the Zhuangzi around the city."
The conversation of the past was in his ears, and when Xu Yang finished visiting several villages near Youzhou all day, his face was already blue, and it was simply miserable. When those skinny children knelt at the entrance of the village tremblingly, Xu Yang shed tears, he has been living under the red flag of later generations, and Xu Yang, who has never experienced the hardships of life, felt the hardships and helplessness of life for the first time.
Years of war have tormented the tired peasants, countless men have been omenated, and the final victor is not to win the world, but to step on the corpses of the people to climb the world again.
The Chinese people are the most simple group of people, as long as they can have a bite of food to live, although they live humblely, they are still strong.
Looking at those emaciated people, Xu Yang even regretted that he helped these families make money for huge profits, originally just planned to be a carefree traveler, spending this life in a glow-in-the-dark glass of grape wine, and now, Xu Yang has a greater dream, so that all the people of the Tang Dynasty can be fed and clothed by this simple dream.
That night, Xu Yang wrote the poem on his desk.
"The peaks and mountains are like gathering,
The waves are like fury,
Mountains and rivers surface Tongguan Road.
Wangxidu,
Hesitation.
Sad Qin and Han meridians,
The palace and all the rooms were made of soil.
Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer. ”