Chapter 111: Busy

Gongsun Yan didn't know what happened at the banquet after she left, she only knew that the next day, everyone, including Zhao Yun, was respectful to Zhao Xi.

It is said that Tian Kai still pulled Zhao Xi to sleep last night.

And today's place to sleep was grabbed by Xia Houlan, and Zhao Yun had to go to the back row.

For the people's thirst for knowledge in this era, I understand a little, but I haven't experienced it in person, and Gongsun Yan, who can't empathize, has to sigh with emotion and let it go.

Zhao Xi needs time to learn and simulate to adapt, and she can only give some instructions through the system, not completely controlled.

Therefore, she is happy to see that everyone sincerely accepts Zhao Xi and helps Zhao Xi learn and grow.

At the same time, she is also happy to see that her subordinates can get close to each other, although Zhao Xi is a little special.

Gongsun Yan sat in the mezzanine room on the left side of the main city of Guzhu, and the tables and chairs built according to her intention had been properly placed.

A large stove was placed in it, and the charcoal fire burning inside dispelled the chill of early spring.

There were no spices in the house, and the main courtyard had been empty ever since, and the air smelled faintly damp and musty.

Gongsun Yan's desk was placed on the edge of the window, and the window was pasted with several layers of plain silk.

The window is open to reveal the caisson in the courtyard.

In the house, there are also quaint clay pots filled with several pots of green plants.

At this time, in the elegant little study of Gongsun Yan, more than a dozen stewards led by the steward Zhou Xing moved bamboo slips in and out.

This should have been done yesterday.

Inventory of the treasury, counting the acres of land, counting the population of the households, the resettlement of 100 workers, and so on.

After the inventory, it was necessary to make large-scale adjustments according to Gongsun Yan's ideas, so from early in the morning, the entire manor was busy.

After research in the morning, Gongsun Yan still decided to build the system warehouse next to the original Guzhu Manor Treasury.

Originally, because she often needed to collect supplies, a wide loess road was opened, which also saved her the trouble of having to rebuild the road.

Zhao Xizheng took a few stewards to inspect and take inventory in the treasury, in addition to checking the quantity, it was also necessary to arrange people to clean up the old rice and grain in the treasury for many years, and the rotten farm tools and so on, and send them to another use.

After the inventory of the original treasury was completed, he immediately strengthened his defense, and ordered the hundred carpenters in the village to start cutting wood and leveling the land to prepare for the new warehouse.

This kind of work will take more than a month for others, but for Zhao Xi, it will only take a few days.

Zhou Xing, who had already admired him to the point of throwing himself to the ground, was not surprised by this, for him, Mr. Zhao was such a capable person.

Even Zhou Xing deliberately cheekily sent his eldest son Zhou Jing to Zhao Xi as a follow-up assistant, and he wanted to watch and study hard.

And Zhou Xing himself took a few assistants early in the morning to move the account books and household registration books of the past years, and began to check Gongsun Yan.

Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan did not have any leisure, and the two of them got up early in the morning, took the map, and divided them into two ways to inspect the wall and the defense pass.

Make a note of places that have fallen into disrepair and decay, vandalism, or defenses that need to be filled in a timely manner.

After that, Gongsun Yan would recruit laborers in the form of recruiting laborers from the shade households to expand the warehouse and rebuild the wall.

Only Tian Kai, Gongsun Yan was worried about his body, and he didn't dare to let him be as tired as yesterday, so he was only in charge of the group of people who were currently being detained in Xishan Camp.

The Wuhuan people who were captured in the first war in Yangqiuli before, no one would waste medicine to treat them after the war, and those who survived were all transferred to the Xishan camp.

The system reminded Gongsun Yan several times that she violated the system's humanitarian rescue rules, but she deliberately ignored them.

In her values, the humanity of these executioners is a secondary injury to the dead villagers in Yangqiu.

She wasn't a person who was so good at thinking about the past, the future, and philosophy, she only knew that these people who had raised butcher's knives against innocent villagers were not worthy of life.

Now wasting rice to feed them is just waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a funeral.

Zhou Xing sat on a high chair in front of Gongsun Yan's desk, and moved a little uncomfortably.

pointed to the bamboo slips that were unfolded one by one and explained them to Gongsun Yan one by one.

First of all, there is the population, there are a total of 1,970 households in Lingzhi and Guzhu Manor, with a total of 10,244 people.

The population of Guzhu Manor was originally less than that of Lingzhi, but Gongsun Yan brought nearly 400 households this time, and the population of Guzhu at this time had exceeded that of Lingzhi Manor.

"Little lady, please see, the number of hundreds of workers and the skills they hold are here."

Zhou Xing reached out and reached for a moment, picked out a bamboo slip, and unfolded it.

The second half of the scroll is in new ink handwriting, which is apparently a recent record of the bamboo slips.

On the two-finger-wide plate, a bunch of traditional numbers are densely recorded in small characters, and there are no punctuation marks.

Gongsun Yan closed his eyes in pain, only feeling that it hurt a little to look at it.

Seeing her like this, Zhou Xing took the initiative to explain to her.

According to the records of the scroll, this lonely bamboo manor is actually complete with 100 work.

In addition to the common smelters, carpenters, and bricklayers, gold and silver households, salt households, and specialized sake brewery households.

And because of these skilled winemakers, and a fine well in the estate.

The wine and cheese produced by Guzhu Manor are well-known, and the family of the grandson often sends people to ask for the newly brewed cheese.

When he heard Gongsun Master's house, Gongsun Yan snorted impatiently.

Zhou Xing scratched his thinning hair, looked left and right, but didn't hear it.

Gongsun Yan wrote it down in his small book: making wine and good wells.

Then she drew a circle on these two keywords, and she suddenly had an idea, thought of something, wrote a few more words next to her, and then raised the corners of her lips.

"Steward Zhou, continue."

In addition to the above-mentioned salt households, sake brewers, and there are also four craftsmen who make lacquerware, as well as some ayara weavers, herdsmen, and so on.

"Little lady, please see, this is the craftsmanship of the lacquer household in the village." Zhou Xing pointed to a teacup on Gongsun Yan's desk.

Gongsun Yan picked it up and watched it with interest.

This is a wooden lacquerware, black on the outside and red on the inside, and it is decorated with a very fine stick figure swimming fish pattern.

This kind of pattern, Gongsun Yan has only seen it on the unearthed artifacts in later generations, she appreciates such patterns and craftsmanship, but personally, she doesn't like to use such a tea bowl.

So I didn't pay much attention to this tea bowl at first.

At this time, it feels oily in the hand.

Seeing her looking at the tea bowl, her eyes showed appreciation, and Zhou Xing also felt quite happy.

Although he was bent on getting rid of his lowly status, it did not affect his sincere love for the two estates he had built.

At this time, seeing that the products of Zhuangzhong were liked by the owner, he was also happy with the feeling of honor.

"There is also a Ayara family in the village." Zhou Xing introduced again.