After some conversation between the two, but the next day, Di Xin's edict came down, and Lu was recruited as an official of the court.

Lu Zhi didn't put any sages and scholars in the spectrum, so he had to ask Di Xin to personally visit the thatched house to invite something, and even if he followed the edict, he entered the Great Shang Dynasty and became a small 'engineer', in charge of hundreds of workers, which was equivalent to the Ministry of Industry of later dynasties.

After all, Lu Zhi originally relied on waterwheels, qu ploughs and other creations to gain fame, although he also wrote a few medical miscellaneous books, but in this era, witch worship is the mainstream.

Moreover, the witch Gu rituals of this era are not the gods of later generations who dance and feed you the ashes at the bottom of the pot, they really have the ability and ability, so the medical books written by Lu Zhi are indeed not valued by those dignitaries.

If those dignitaries are sick and injured, they can invite the witch Zhu canonized by the imperial court to treat the disease and heal the wounds.

In addition, although Lu Zhi has become an official in Yin Shang, he still hasn't visited that person for the time being, Emperor Xin.

After all, although his official position is not big, it is not small, but he is mainly responsible for manufacturing all kinds of tools and utensils.

However, Lu Zhi didn't care too much, after all, it was still early, and there was always a chance to meet Di Xin.

And to be honest, Lu Zhi didn't have much interest in visiting Di Xin, anyway, he was just here to help improve people's livelihood, and when the time came, it was time to leave, but he was not interested in really doing anything with Di Xin.

Chaoge City, Shang Workshop.

Lu Zhi picked up a pile of yellowed coarse paper and looked at it, twisted it with his hand, checked its texture, and then instructed his craftsmen.

"Still no, the toughness of the paper is still poor, and it can't meet the requirements for writing, so you can continue to try to improve the process."

After checking the progress of paper manufacturing, Lu Zhi turned around and checked the progress of several other projects, and then took the two officials in charge of recording all the way to a village outside Chaoge City to observe and record the growth of hybrid rice seeds.

As soon as a few people arrived in Zhuangzi, they saw an old man leading people to greet them, and said with a smile: "Engineer Lu, you are here, please come in quickly, the old man has prepared a drink in Zhuangzi, please enter the village for a banquet." ”

Lu Zhi shook his head with a smile and politely refused: "Mr. Song, I won't eat this banquet, every time Poor Dao comes, you have to arrange a banquet to entertain Poor Dao, and Poor Dao is embarrassed." ”

"So forget about the banquet, Mr. Song won't be so polite in the future... Let's go to the field first to see how the rice seeds are growing. ”

The old man surnamed Song saw that Lu Zhi refused and it was not easy to continue the invitation, so he nodded and came to the farmland outside the village with Lu Zhi and the others.

I saw that the crisp rice seedlings outside the village were growing just right, a breeze was blowing, and the rice flowers were fragrant... No, the rice seedlings have not yet tasseled, and they have just applied natural farm fertilizer once, so how can there be any rice flower fragrance...

When Mr. Song saw the green rice seedlings, he couldn't help but show a smile on his face and said.

"Engineer Lu, thanks to you, you provided new rice seeds to the people in the village, and taught everyone how to compost and make manure... It's the first time I've seen crops growing so well in decades. ”

In this era, the concept of people planting grains and grains is still at the most primitive level of slash-and-burn cultivation, although because of the aura of this world, there will be more grain in the end and it will survive smoothly, but how much can be harvested in the end depends on the will of God and luck.

Lu Zhi smiled and said, "Mr. Song, now the growth of this rice seedling has almost stabilized, so in the next two months, the poor road will no longer come. ”

"After two months, when the rice seedlings begin to set ears and fill the grain, the poor road will come again... During this period, Mr. Song led the villagers to take care of these wheat seedlings, and every ten days, they weeded to prevent insect pests. ”

"Finally, during this time, we will prepare more fertilizer to provide some nutrients for the rice when it starts to fill the grain..."

After a few words of advice to Old Master Song, Lu Zhi turned around and returned to Chaoge City again, after all, there were still a lot of new projects that he had launched in the Shang Workshop that needed to be dealt with, and he couldn't just stare at this side.

Since Lu Zhi became the director, every once in a while, several new objects will be circulated in the workshop, such as waterwheels, curved plows, brocades, cotton, abacus...

Lu Zhi took out some of the things that could be restored to the future generation little by little, and spread them to the people through the convenience of the Shang Workshop and the Yin Shang court.

At first, it was only a place in the Song City, and later the princes and merchants from all over the world also sent people to come to the Song City to learn the scriptures, and slowly spread all over the world.

In particular, Lu Zhi's newly improved rice seeds, since the autumn harvest of the villagers of Songjiazhuang a year ago, harvested nearly six or seven times the previous harvest, Lu Zhi's improved rice seeds and the new method of cultivation and composting suddenly became famous all over the world, attracting princes from all over the country to send people to play, asking Emperor Xin to give him the method of rice planting and cultivation.

However, Di Xin directly rejected them, and even ordered that not a single grain of improved rice seed should be allowed to flow out of the court, and the new method of compost cultivation should not be passed on.

Lu Zhi can understand why Di Xin behaves like this, after all, although he is the nominal co-lord of the world and controls the princes of the world, but in fact, except for Chaoge City and Wuguan Central and other places, in other places, almost those princes are autonomous, and Di Xin can't control them at all.

And if the princes seem to be obedient today, but in fact, everyone has their own careful thoughts, and the rebellion is continuous, and the Yin Shang army is still suppressing rebellions all over the world, how can Di Xin spread these good seeds and new farming methods to the enemy?

But it's not about Lu Zhi, anyway, he just needs to try to take out some things that improve people's livelihood and educate the people little by little, and then spread them to the world, as for the power struggle between Di Xin and those princes, he doesn't want to pay attention to it at all.

It is also worth mentioning that Lu Zhi was promoted.

After all, since Lu Zhi took office, he has done a lot of things that benefit the country and the people, and he has gained a bit of good reputation.

However, Lu Zhi is above the court, but he never speaks, and he will not put forward any opinions, which is nothing to say.

He was also received by Di Xin a few times, and he could be regarded as having a close observation of this famous faint tyrant in later generations.

However, judging from his contact with Di Xin and his observation of him, this faint monarch is not as unbearable as recorded in the history books, but he is by no means a Ming monarch.

Di Xin is lustful, this is well known, although this is not a big stain, but it is enough to make people lower their evaluation of him, and secondly, Di Xin is conceited and rebellious, to put it nicely, it can be called domineering, heroic, and even now Bigan and other ministers, the evaluation of Di Xin is also 'male lord'.

But it's a pity that Di Xin doesn't have the ability and courage of the hero, after all, Lu Zhi commented that he was conceited and frivolous, and his ability was not enough to support his self-confidence.

Di Xin didn't know what Lu Zhi said about him, after all, he didn't take Lu Zhi too seriously, and the great talents in the mouths of Bigan and others were nothing more than Erer for him.

It's just a little bit of novelty and a few stones of rice that he has come up with, and it's not worth his other eyes, Corporal Lixian.

What really makes him value is the pillar of the country like Wen Taishi, who can help him calm the world, and in his opinion, others are not as good as Fei Zhong Youhun's two ministers who can best figure out his intentions and cater to his preferences.

In general, in Lu Zhi's view, Di Xin is a person who is very happy, conceited but has limited ability, and he doesn't pay any attention to the affairs of people's livelihood and internal affairs, maybe he is not ignorant of internal affairs and people's livelihood, just because... He doesn't care!

What does the livelihood of the people below have to do with him, the king of men on high?

All the people in the world are just dogs and dolphins in his eyes, just people ruled by him, how can he really care?

Therefore, after knowing Di Xin's temperament, Lu Zhi instantly became more and more transparent, silent, and did not come out of his head, until the seven-year period was approaching, he began to prepare again, and wanted to resign and leave Chaoge.