In the evening, by the lotus pond in the backyard.

Li Xuan instructed the housekeeper Li Zhong to transplant the bamboo he had just gotten from Princess Taiping's Mansion next to him to the lotus pond.

Liu Jinyu sat behind the table under the house, and took the account book to calculate the income and expenses of the entire imperial village.

Outside, you can see a lot of servants and maids cleaning up, as if their two new masters want to run this place seriously.

This Huangzhuang Emperor has already rewarded Li Xuan, and they will be responsible for the internal and external income and expenditure every year after that.

After finishing the bamboo forest, Li Xuan waved his hand and let the other subordinates leave, leaving only the housekeeper Li Zhong.

Li Xuan walked behind Liu Jinyu, put her hands lightly on her plump shoulders, leaned forward, Li Xuan looked at the account book in front of her from her shoulder, and asked softly, "How's the calculation?"

Liu Jinyu frowned and said, "There are a total of one hundred and three households in the manor, two thousand acres of land, and the average household is less than twenty acres, and the annual income is less than two hundred yuan of rent except for the tenants to keep for themselves, but these two hundred yuan are also used to repair the villa and entertain visitors, and it is not self-sufficient at all."

As soon as Liu Jinyu pulled the abacus, she calculated everything clearly.

Even without the shrewd algorithms of later generations, Liu Jinyu has quickly calculated everything

The entire Huangzhuang has less than 20 acres of land per household.

Fortunately, there is no need to pay taxes from the government here, and the rent and taxes of the owners of the imperial village in the past dynasties are very small, and the people here are barely enough to live, and few people have heard of anyone leaving here.

This is Guanzhong, Chang'an, a place where every inch of land is valuable.

If there is no guaranteed way out, the people would rather stay here.

At least there are no officials here, no harsh government servants, and even the owner of the Huangzhuang does not come here many times.

If it weren't for the fact that there were too few acres, I'm afraid this place would be like heaven on earth.

And even so, the people will have enough food left every year to live until next autumn's harvest.

In the event of a disaster, the owner of the Huangzhuang will also waive the rent in the form of a reward, and the pressure on life will be even less.

"There is no way to increase the number of fields." Li Xuan shook his head and said softly, "The people who live in Zhongnan Town are all relatives and nobles of the emperor of the court, big families, ordinary people, and they have no place here at all.

It's good that the queen of heaven can squeeze out 2,000 mu to us, but there are also many problems, and the yield per mu is too small."

"Yes, the concubine almost forgot that the husband is still a master of this way, building waterwheels, communication channels, placing seedlings, and applying fertilizer...... It's all Lang Jun's specialty!" Liu Jinyu looked at Li Xuan with teasing, and when it came to applying fertilizer, the tip of her nose couldn't help but twitch.

Li Xuan directly reached out and pinched Liu Jinyu's small nose, and let it go.

Liu Jinyu called, Li Xuan hurriedly flashed aside, and then he smiled and said: "You don't know much about the means of being a husband, if this piece of land is renovated according to the means of a husband, now it seems that the yield per mu is only one stone and three, and when the husband is finished, this number will at least double."

Li Xuan raised her head slightly, her face full of confidence.

Li Zhong, the housekeeper on the side, had a face full of horror and disbelief.

Liu Jinyu nodded seriously instead, and said: "The concubine has checked the mu yield records of Peng Wangfu and Nanchang Wangfu, under the rule of Fujun, the mu yield is more than two stones, and in some places it can even reach three stones, and the queen of heaven has already ordered people to implement it in Huainan, and Lang Jun seems to have made arrangements in Wuzhou, maybe just wait until the end of next month, when the autumn is summarized in various places, Lang Jun's ability will really be shown."

Li Zhong's eyes widened even more when he heard this, could it be true.

However, for some reason, Li Xuan suddenly lost her interest in fighting.

He sat down beside Liu Jinyu and sighed softly: "If everyone in the world can eat well, and everyone can remember the kindness of His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven, then the world will be safe, and it will be difficult for any careerist to withstand any storms."

Li Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and two words appeared in the bottom of his heart in an instant: Empress Wu.

The reason why Empress Wu was able to successfully ascend the throne was on the surface

It seems that it is her personal business for decades, coupled with the fact that Li Xian and Li Dan have not succeeded, and the major families have deviated from morality, which finally caused such a situation, but in fact, in Li Xuan's view, people's uneasiness is the biggest reason.

People don't have enough to eat and don't have warm clothes, so they naturally want to see someone stand up and change the world.

Empress Wu just happened to cater to and take advantage of this time, and then chose an opportunity to replace Tang with Wu.

That is to say, in the next few years, Li Zhi died of illness, Li Xian was dismissed immediately after ascending the throne, Li Dan ascended the throne and was imprisoned in the inner court, the whole world was uneasy, and the people's harvest was sharply reduced, so they would expect someone to change the world.

Li Xuan had long been aware of this, but he didn't understand whether all this was a natural disaster or a deliberate act by someone with a heart.

But no matter what, as long as the people don't worry about eating and drinking for more than ten years in the future, then no matter who wants to rebel, the people will not agree.

Without people's hearts, it will be difficult to do what you want to do.

Liu Jinyu looked at her husband, and seemed to be able to faintly hear some deeper meanings from these words, but she still couldn't figure out what it was.

Liu Jinyu gently held Li Xuan's hand and said softly, "Lang Jun is ambitious, not to mention anything else, maybe it won't be long before he can see that everyone has three autumns of surplus grain in their homes."

"Your Majesty just casually said that King Sanqiu, I am even joking with you now!" Li Xuan shook his head, turned his head to look at Li Zhong, the housekeeper beside him, and said softly: "Wait until tomorrow, let's take a look at how the canals and waterwheels here should be built and arranged.

The placement of waterwheels has always been a very troublesome thing, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the waterwheels are huge, the cost of water conservancy is serious, and the water power that can be converted is insufficient, so once the Han Dynasty, the first thing to be removed in the court is the waterwheel of the powerful family.

But if the body of the water is small, but the fan blades are very large, the water consumption is low, and the water power of the conversion is large, this is a good thing.

Liu Jinyu's eyes lit up, she knew that her Langjun had already made these things, but they had not appeared near Chang'an.

But there is one thing she doesn't know, Li Xuan has never planned to offer these things.

The waterwheel involved huge interests, and the magnates behind it even hooked up with the crown prince, the king of England and the prime minister, and even the queen of martial arts.

Li Xuan quietly built in his own fiefdom and quietly built in his own office, but once he tried to implement the whole world, he would immediately suffer from unimaginable pressure.

The reason why he is so sure is because Li Xuan has tried.

The benefits that such a watermill can create are absolutely amazing.

At that time, he spread some of it secretly, and was obtained by some people who were interested in it, some of whom were sold to wealthy families, and some of whom were played to the imperial court.

The man who went to the court finally disappeared without a trace.

The person who sold it to the powerful ran away after getting a lot of money, and the powerful family who got the drawings was just quietly building it themselves, and had no intention of making it public.

So half a month later, someone reported that the powerful family was suspected of rebellion, and the government immediately searched it.

However, not many things that really plotted rebellion were found, but there were many other crimes of murder for money, which were verified.

In the end, the family was beheaded in the name of rebellion, and all adult men were beheaded, and the children of uncles were exiled for 3,000 miles.

The woman in the family was verified to be the oppressed person and was immediately released, but the housewife and young children of the family were all unofficial.

The drawings disappeared without a trace, and it is unknown who got them.

Since then, no matter how much Li Xuan thinks about it, he has quietly hidden.

Now this imperial village, as well as the nearby 2,000 acres of land, is equivalent to his own fiefdom, so he naturally wants to do whatever he wants.

After driving the housekeeper Li Zhong away, Li Xuan began to count all the properties of the entire imperial village with Liu Jinyu.

Land is not only land, but also manors, farm tools and iron, and even tenants, which are one of the assets.

Before I knew it, the reckoning was on the bed.

One

In the dark room, Li Xuan looked sideways at her mother-in-law, beads of sweat had wet the sideburns on Sanniang's forehead, and she fell into a deep sleep, and she couldn't wake up in a few hours.

Li Xuan lightly tapped on the black sweet hole behind Liu Jinyu's head, then turned over and got off the boat, turning around and he had already come to the outer room.

A pair of bright eyes looked straight at him, and the moonlight fell, falling on the blade of the sword, flashing a burst of frost.

Qiqiao, Li Xuan's personal maid Qiao, she actually has good martial arts.

Li Xuan nodded lightly, and the next moment, he had already left the big house through the window and disappeared into the darkness.

Qiqiao's clear eyes converged, his back to the inner room, his eyes looked out of the window vigilantly, his eyes were sharp, guarding the inside and outside.

Li Xuan has never neglected the protection of his own safety, and he has never underestimated anyone.

In particular, there is a precedent, who dares to ignore it.

The crown princess who honored Emperor Li Hong was originally the daughter of Siwei Shaoqing Yang Sijian, but she was succeeded by He Lanmin.

Yang Sijian was born in the Hongnong Yang family, and the family family is extremely high, and the internal and external guards are strict.

Siwei Shaoqing is the Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple.

Li Xuan's uncle Ouyang Tong is now the Weiwei Siqing, who is in charge of the 16th Guards and Armor, and is in charge of the arsenal, weapons, and palace guards.

There has never been a shortage of soldiers in the army to protect him, but such a family's daughter was actually won by Helan Minzhi.

Either this whole thing is a conspiracy trap, or there are indeed masters among Helan Minzhi's subordinates.

There was this matter first, and now in this imperial village, they didn't even take it on the first day, how dare they relax.

Li Xuan quietly avoided most of the guards, quietly left the Huangzhuang through the passage deliberately left by the secret sentry, and returned to the official ship.

In the innermost cabin of the inner room, Li Xuan pushed the door in, and the room was dark and gloomy.

Outside the window, the moonlight shines in and sprinkles on the floor, bringing out a piece of light.

Li Xuan closed the door, took advantage of the moonlight, walked to the table in the deepest part of the room, and sat down.

At this time, a figure in the corner who had been hiding for an unknown amount of time walked out and arched his hand at Li Xuan, "I've seen the king!"

The body is plump, the skin is fair, the face is like a silver basin, the eyes are like apricots, the eyebrows are like willow leaves, and the lips are light like frost.

Heavenly Desire Palace Master Su Lianyu.

Li Xuan glanced at her indifferently, and asked very casually, "How is Chang'an's inner line closed?"

"No one rebelled against the king." After a slight pause, Su Lianyu continued: "There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that the subordinates have snatched the soul essence left behind by the Tianyin Sect Lady, and everyone in the sect is afraid that the strength of the subordinates will greatly improve, so no one dares to rebel."

The Heavenly Desire Palace has Su Lianyu as the sect leader, and the three halls, the sixth floor, and the twenty-four rudders under his command.

Among the three halls and six floors, Su Lianyu controlled more than half of them, and the remaining small half was in the hands of the elders of the previous generation.

As long as Su Lianyu does not die or die, even if the sect members fight, they are still among Liao Liao.

But since the Muzhou incident, Tianyu Palace doesn't know how many people are targeting.

Those who don't know think that she got the soul essence left behind by Tianyin, and those who know think that she has been possessed by the queen, and it will be the queen who will show up at that time, so now, not only the inside of the demon gate, but even the court and the court and the opposition family are also eyeing the Tianyi Palace.

The twenty-four rudders on the periphery of the Heavenly Desire Palace are all external institutions, and many people know their location and composition.

It is not impossible to lure and control some people to rebel, and the only ones who are truly trustworthy are the insiders.

"Did the King of the East Sea send a message to the queen?" Li Xuan said lightly and looked at Su Lianyu solemnly.

"Yes, but according to the king's command, do not look, do not ask, and do not pay attention." Su Lianyu bowed slightly.

Li Xuan nodded, and then said emphatically: "The Empress Tianyin is dead, you should not contact any news related to the Empress and the King of the East China Sea, you just need to remember one thing, only the Emperor Taiyin will exist in this world in the future."

"Obey, Emperor!"