The next day, the investment promotion meeting about the steel mill was held on time. Li Yuanxing prefers to believe that Cui Junsu and Li Jing and others went over, not to watch, but to town.

Even when it mattered, they could come out and be called!

Today is the day for Li Yuanxing to go home, and every time Li Yuanxing comes to this day recently, he will feel troubled, because he doesn't know what to bring back. And today, because the seven princesses are busy, there is no gift from Li Lanshan.

But when you go back empty-handed, you always feel like something is missing?

Li Yuanxing sighed softly, and said in his heart that Wu Cao would not know what he was busy with.

If Wu Cao was in Qinwangzhuang, he would probably be able to help him come up with some ideas.

Wu Cao, Wu Cao's eyes were already red, and he was patting the table excitedly, but the three daughters of Wang Yuyan, Li Changying, and Zheng Xiuyan beside Wu Cao were already surprised and couldn't close their mouths.

"Add another 500 catties of iron!" Wu Cao waved the small bamboo board in his hand.

Ma Yuan, who was standing in front of Wu Cao, picked up the small flag and waved it twice vigorously, the steam engine stopped, and then he shouted: "Her Royal Highness the princess ordered, add another five hundred catties of iron." ”

What's going on here?

A hillside was built with cement on a slope of about 20 degrees, with a length of 300 zhang.

At this time, a steam car on the slope has loosened its gears, made of silk, linen, and glue, and the long rope with the thickness of a child's arm is also slowly being replayed, and a large iron car on the slope is slowly sliding down.

This iron car is already loaded with 10,000 catties of iron, plus the slope. and the weight of the iron car itself.

Wu Cao believed that this steam car had reached at least seventy horsepower, or even one hundred horsepower.

And this steam engine, in terms of large volume, is only a few cubic meters, and it is really miniaturized. And the newly manufactured, already ready to be put into service, is ready to be replaced by a steam car for the train, and preliminary estimates have reached seven hundred horsepower, this huge guy. It really used a lot of steel.

But. That's not enough!

Wu Cao calculated that the weight of this small steam engine was about 700 kilograms, plus water, and the body. wheels, etc. Then the weight of the whole vehicle will definitely not be less than two tons. Seventy horse-drawn carts to propel a two-ton cart, plus the coal to be carried by themselves, is at most a person.

Really want to pull the goods. This little thing is too little practical.

That is to say, the steam engine is still large enough to be practical, unless there are newer techniques that can reduce the weight of the whole vehicle, otherwise the three- or four-ton car will be scrapped in a few months on Li Yuanxing's newly built highway.

The result of Wu Cao's calculations is that the weight of a steam car will exceed that of a road roller.

When the people below were loading the iron blocks, the people in Lu Maofeng's hands were brought to Wu Cao: "Her Royal Highness Princess Mingyue, His Royal Highness the King of Qin." His Highness has decreed that it must be handed over to you, otherwise it will be ruined! Then the guard took out another envelope: "Her Royal Highness Princess Mingyue, this is Cui Changshi's letter!" ”

After Wu Cao took the letter, he jumped down from the chair of his own meeting and walked quickly to a corner.

After reading the contents of the letter, Wu Cao directly threw the two letters in the furnace of the steam engine, and then returned to the chair and sat down: "Herald, stop shiyan." Ma Yuan took the craftsmen in your hands to go back to rest immediately, and after lunch, the palace has tasks to arrange, and the rest of the stewards will discuss with the palace! ”

Wang Yuyan walked beside Wu Cao and asked in a low voice, "Is there an arrangement on His Highness's side?" ”

For Wang Yuyan, Wu Cao is not easy to say directly, you better not ask.

Therefore, Wu Cao thought of the content of Cui Dunli's letter, and immediately said: "Your Highness considers letting the slaves in Yaozhou buy themselves, and then everyone in Yaozhou, there is a reward for a woman to give birth to a child, and the more she has a child, the more rewards she has, and when she gives birth to five babies, the woman in the family will not be used for work, she will receive a salary, and she will be exempted from food tax." ”

"Ahh Wang Yuyan didn't believe that there would be such a government decree to discover.

Don't say it's Wang Yuyan, this is shiyan, Wu Cao didn't deliberately lower his voice, there were at least hundreds of people around who heard this, and among these hundreds of people, who dared to say that he didn't have a family and didn't want a baby. What's more, among these hundreds of people, there are more than 30 slaves.

Wang Yuyan asked again at this time: "Then why did the princess burn the letter!" ”

"I don't know when the official decree will be issued, the details are still being discussed, what Cui Changshi said is too messy, if it is passed out, it will be different from the official decree in the future, wouldn't it be that there are many people who say gossip about our Qin Palace, and the things that His Royal Highness has proposed, the two long histories have not been included in the decree?"

Wu Cao's hat buckle is huge.

Wang Yuyan immediately agreed with Wu Cao's statement, after all, she was still young and her thoughts did not have such a depth.

In the eyes of others, there is nothing wrong with not having an official decree and not being seen.

On this day, Li Yuanxing threw out two peanut-sized pebbles, of course, through Wu Cao's hand.

The first peanut-sized pebble was thrown into a lake with at least the size of Taihu Lake, but it turned up huge waves. At the end of the lunch break, four people who had only known each other, but were not friends, and who were not very familiar with each other, sat at the same table to eat.

Of these four people, the first one is a woman, and it is estimated that Li Yuanxing doesn't remember her name. She was the woman who had worked as a medical officer in the Goguryeo royal palace, and now she was working as a second-class steward with the income of a third-class steward, and there were more than 4,000 female workers in charge of the pharmacy under her command.

The other was a blacksmith, the one who offered the repeater. To be able to build such a complex repeater, his jishu level is not ordinarily high, and now he is a steward in Ma Yuan's team, and the only second-class steward among the slaves.

The next one was a black man, an old black man, Kunlun Nu, who offered Roman cement.

In the same way, he also took the income of the third-class steward and did the work of the second-class steward. Among the cement factories, his status ranks seventh among all people, and it can be said that he is the number one in Jishu.

Zuihou is a former official in Goguryeo, which is equivalent to the level of the governor of the Tang Dynasty.

He was also a slave, but he had three specialties, one was that he was proficient in four languages, Chinese, Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje. The second is that he has been an official, and he is also a cadre. The third is that he actually compiled a book similar to the management of later generations, although it is still very shallow, but it is already an introduction.

Li Yuanxing specially rewarded him with a book of modern management, and he actually learned it.

He took the income of the fourth-class steward and did the work of the second-class steward.

These four people sitting together can be said to be the wish of most of the slaves in Yaozhou, because the four of them represent the slaves of all ethnic groups and classes in Yaozhou, whether they are Tang people or Goguryeo people.

The female medical officer ate her lunch slowly, glanced at the blacksmith who was gobbling up, and said softly: "Before the lunch break, the Xuanxu Jurchen told me that my worth was not high when I bought it. I can't remember the exact number, but like me, three people for one cow! ”

None of the three spoke, except that the blacksmith ate slowly.

The female medical officer continued: "If I want the status of a civilian, I need to pay ......"

When the female medical officer said this, the entire large cafeteria, nearly a thousand people around her, stopped, and countless pairs of eyes stared blankly at this side, this number is too important, it is important for all slaves.

And those who can eat in this big canteen are the foremen in this workshop area, the lowest level, and the fifth-class plumbers who manage more than 20 people.

"Seven pieces of money, but it needs to be added to all the goods allotted to me, and of course they can be returned, and the rewards are not counted. I did the math and needed to add another 1,100 yuan. If I still want to live in the house, I can either buy it or rent it, and of course if my workshop performs well, I can reduce the rent as an incentive. ”

The female medical officer spoke very slowly and loudly.

But the people at the next table had already quickly passed her words to the back.

The blacksmith put the bowl in his hand on the table: "You have more than three times a month, how much have you saved?" ”

"If I want, I can become a civilian after eating. Moreover, I have about two pieces of money, and two horses of fine linen, and half a piece of brocade. ”

The third-class steward, who is in charge of four or five thousand people, is also the leader of a factory under a certain group in later generations.

A monthly salary of 100,000 is very ordinary.

And the monthly income of this female medical officer is more than three yuan, plus rewards and rewards, in modern terms, it is also a market value of 167,000, and it is also the income of a wealthy family in Datang.

"Of course, I know the price of the three of you!"

"Really?"

"I asked curiously, I didn't expect to get an answer, but I knew."

"Speak quickly!" The blacksmith was in a hurry.

The female medical officer first mentioned Lao Hei: "When Lao Hei bought it, the price was the lowest for the four of us, and he asked for a civilian household registration, which only cost 1,700 Wen, and the other rules were the same, hand over the distributed things, or buy them back at a discount." ”

Lao Hei cried, he had been a slave for decades, but he didn't expect to become a civilian one day.

But the officer said, "The slave is the property of the master's family, and so is the allotment, so it is reasonable to take it back." Not to mention the fact that slaves were also paid, which was surprising. I probably knew that there was a five-run dollar when I bought me, because I was an official. According to what you said, I want a civilian household registration, and it takes fifteen times. ”

"Almost!" The female medical officer gave a reply.

Then the female medical officer said: "Actually, the blacksmith is the highest, because he is from the Tang Dynasty, and he bought it back as a craftsman." So he, together with his woman, asked for thirty money. ”

The blacksmith laughed and let out a loud daxiao.

"Laugh, it's worth a drink!" The officer said softly.

Who wanted the blacksmith to say loudly: "I don't want to redeem myself, I will be a slave to His Royal Highness King Qin in this life, and we will die for His Royal Highness King Qin in this life." ”

With that, the blacksmith ate all the rice in the bowl in a few bites, and strode out: "Work!" (To be continued......)

PS: Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a monthly pass, and return to everyone tomorrow on the fourth day, up.