Qiao Dengdu Chou and the others walked for a while, and then they saw that not far to the left of the official road in front of them was full of people and dust, and a group of people were busy back and forth there.

The first thing that caught Jordden's attention was that many people were pushing strange vehicles, large and small, deep and shallow, and flatbed. But most of them have only one wheel underneath. This completely subverts Joeden's impression that vehicles are all two or four wheels. Some of the workers were dressed in tattered clothes, but most of them were shirtless, pushing a wheelbarrow filled with sand or stones, and placed in the appropriate place.

Du Chou obviously saw Qiao Deng and Ling Pu's curiosity, and said with a hearty smile: "Those are called unicycles, and my lord personally designed them. I couldn't have imagined that one wheel could run. My father-in-law said that this official road was too narrow, and it was even more muddy on rainy days, so he had to build another official road on the other side of the official road. ”

"This official cultivation is a big project," Ling Pu frowned and said, "How many mouths are you Hou Guo, he has done such a big job, how long will this work?"

"Hahahaha," Du Chou laughed when he heard this: "Brother Ling is compassionate, I understand it very well. At that time, when I first heard my lord say that he wanted to cultivate the official road, he was the first to oppose it, saying that there was not enough manpower at all. Since ancient times, only the government can organize enough manpower to build this kind of thing. And guess what my lord said?"

This time, not to mention Limpu, even Jordon was already aroused. It's just that with his arrogance, he naturally won't ask. His mind was spinning wildly, wondering what he would do if he were to do this. He was thinking hard here, and Ling Pu had already asked, "What did your Gaohou say?"

"He said that the thing about forced service, that was the primitive method. Say that others have to give money to work, and when they have money, people from here will come to build roads. ”

"Tsk," Ling Pu heard that Gao Ming was not forcing the people under his rule to build roads, and his face immediately looked much better, but looking at the bustling flow of people not far away, he couldn't help but ask: "With so many people working, not to mention other expenses, this salary alone is an astronomical amount, right?"

"A worker here has a copper baht a day, and a day with food materials, and the cost of road construction alone is as high as three gold baht a day. "In fact, Gao Ming originally set a person three copper baht a day, but Du Chou blocked it, saying that those people would break their heads to work for one copper baht a day.

"Three gold baht!" Ling Pu was shocked when he heard this, his family is also a well-off family, there are seventy or eighty people in the family, but the total cost of each month is less than ten silver coins, and at most one gold baht will be spent in a year. Hearing Du Chou say that it would cost three gold baht a day here, how could he not be shocked, "With so much money, how can your father-in-law afford it?"

Seeing Ling Pu's expected reaction, Du Chou laughed and said, "Brother Ling, I also reacted like you at that time. However, my father-in-law said a way, Brother Qiao, Gongzi Ling, you can guess again. ”

Seeing that they still couldn't come up with it after pondering for a while, Du Chou then smiled and said: "He asked me to invite all the people in charge of the rich families in a county of Yandao to come over, saying that since this road was built by their Hou Guo himself, it will naturally cost a fee in the future." Of course, ordinary people don't take it, only those who have traveled in the past. It is said that if everyone is interested, they can contribute capital to the shares, and the income of this road will be distributed according to the proportion of shares in the future. ”

"This method is really a good way," Ling Pu suddenly realized: "This Gaohou really has a lot of methods, Ling admires and admires!"

"His method seems to be clever, but in fact it is very harmful. Qiao Deng said unconvinced: "Like him, this road will be built naturally." But since ancient times, it is natural for the people to serve. He has money to take here, and those people are naturally willing to come to work, but what will he do in the future? Will the government also give money if it organizes the people to do things? He is clever that this is a broken rule!"

As soon as Qiao Deng's words came out, Du Ling and the others were stunned, and then fell silent. After a few steps, Ling Pu raised his hand and pointed to break the silence between the few people, "What is that thing doing?"

Jordon had actually seen what Ling Pu was referring to. Just look at a log that neither of them can hold about seven or eight feet long, and it is tightly tied to a bracket of a horizontal bar, and at the two ends of the horizontal bar are two wheels more than one zhang high, and a bracket more than two feet high is made in the middle. The log is not tied to the bar from the middle, but is short at the front and long at the back. In front of the log was a boulder that looked like it was several thousand pounds flat below bound with several thick ropes. There were also two thick ropes hanging from the back of the log, and the boulder hanging in front of the log was easily lifted as several people below shouted the trumpets. When the back of the log had been dragged to the ground, everyone shouted and let go, and the boulder slammed into the ground.

"That's smashing the foundation. Du Chou explained: "The more solid the road surface is, the smoother the road will be in the future." The top is pressed with fine sand, and you can walk as usual on rainy days in the future. At first, people couldn't move such a huge boulder, but my father-in-law designed this kind of vehicle after he found out. Now, not to mention monks, even a few civilians can lift such a large boulder and smash it down. ”

"Tsk, this was also designed by your father-in-law? ”

"That's right. Du Chou's words were full of pride, "All of this is from the handiwork of my father-in-law, but the production is made by skilled craftsmen." ”

"Hmph," Qiao Deng heard that these were all done by Gao Ming, and his heart was really mixed, and he snorted lightly and whispered: "It's just a strange trick." ”

Although Qiao Deng's voice was low, the two of them were deeply cultivated, so they naturally heard it clearly, and they both wondered in their hearts why this famous son of the Qiao family had such a big opinion about Gao Ming. It's just that they have all been honed in society for many years, and if they haven't heard this kind of talk, they naturally won't ask why.

The three of them walked along the official road for a while, and finally saw several buildings in front of them, and the flow of people was even denser than on the side of the road.

"Those two buildings are still under construction," Du Chou pointed to the east and introduced, "In the future, all school-age children in our Hou Kingdom can be enrolled." ”

"Great goodness, great goodness," Ling Pu nodded and said, "Gao Hou's such a good deed is really unheard of in Great Jin. If all the counties and counties are like the high marquis, the world will be prosperous just around the corner. ”

Listening to Ling Pu's praise of Gao Ming, Qiao Deng felt even more uncomfortable in his heart, and said in his heart What I have been implementing these days is the best policy to make the world peaceful and make the Great Jin prosperous, and Gao Ming's small favor is nothing.

"Brother Du," Qiao Deng was really young and vigorous, and he couldn't hide his thoughts on his face, and said coldly in his mouth, "How did I hear that this academy is not going to teach the learning of saints in the future? Is there such a thing?"

"Ahem," Du Chou, who was originally in high spirits, heard Qiao Deng's words, and his face showed a little embarrassment, "The study of saints is naturally the focus of teaching. But my father-in-law had to set up some other courses. ”

"Oh," Ling Pu asked curiously, "what other courses are there?"

"Astronomy, geography. ”

"These Confucian saints also studied it back then. Limp was not surprised.

"There are some others, called what arithmetic, gewu, and so on. ”

"Hmph, Brother Du, this is to put gold on the face of your father-in-law. There was a hint of sneer on the corner of Qiao Deng's mouth: "What kind of sage learning is just practicing literacy, what kind of language is it called? ”

"Ahem, let's start with the basics. Du Chou argued, but his tone sounded unreasonable.