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Chapter 138 The Fleece of Destiny

After a short snowfall, the weather warmed up again, and at noon, it still felt a bit like summer.

Li Si was standing on the training ground of the Lu Family Courtyard, with his arms bare, holding a wooden sword, and was asking a champion swordsman for sword skills. Next to him was a row of court ladies, all of whom were seventeen or eighteen years old from a good family. , not only well-educated, but also beautiful, his subordinates are not too outrageous.

Li Si has no foundation in swordsmanship, and he didn't deliberately make himself too hard. Now it's just a leisure time after the war. There are too many things that he needs to think about clearly.

Li Si came and beat for more than a hundred rounds, then Li Si laughed, threw away the wooden sword, shook his sore arm, and enjoyed the considerate service of the maids. When he looked up, Zhou Yue also came, It seems that the interest is a little low.

"My minister greets His Highness."

"You don't need to be too polite, get up, you are a busy person, why are you free today?" Li Si half-jokingly said, because this is a fact, with the establishment of a large number of businesses in Xishan County, the determination of taxes, the minting of new money and other things , it was all handled by Zhou Yue, she is now Li Si's big housekeeper, and the money bag is the most important one in the internal affairs team.

"Your Highness, my humble minister—I want to resign."

"Why?" Li Si was taken aback.

"Your Highness, after all, this humble minister is a woman-"

"What's the matter with the women, don't you know what it means to keep women from giving up to men? Do your own thing with peace of mind. If anyone bullies you, just find the lonely king!"

"Your Highness, I'm not joking. Xishan County will soon become the state capital, or I'll go back to Your Highness and be a court lady."

"No!"

Li Si waved his hand and turned to look at Zhou Yue. In just over a month, this former little court lady has grown into a four-star civil servant. .

However, Zhou Yue is a smart person, she should know what it means for her to resign at this time.

Or she doesn't know, but Li Si should know that struggles are everywhere.

and so--

After thinking for a while, he said: "Some time ago, the lonely king ordered that no matter boys or girls, they should go to school to learn to read and write. They don't stop at school, and they don't care about three meals. How is this going?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, the Department of Education and Administration is not under my control." Zhou Yue bowed her head and said.

Hey,
Li Si grinned, "From now on, you will be in charge of the Department of Education and Political Affairs. You will also be the head of the Department of Education and Political Affairs. Those in the Lu family, including my cheap teacher Lu Huai'en, can stay if they want to stay, and kick them out if they don't want to stay." Go out, but there is only one request from the lonely king, boys and girls should be treated equally, read and write, and serve the country when they grow up, um, be loyal to Dayan, not simply marry, take care of husband and raise children, women, it is also okay Top half the sky."

"Really?" Zhou Yue was stunned, and felt that this was crazy.

"Really, you don't need to worry about the old stubbornness of the old generation, and you don't need to worry about the new stubbornness of the new generation, but this group of children, you have to take care of them and teach them well, so that they can follow your example The king hopes that one day, I can make you the female prime minister of my Great Yan Kingdom."

"Your Highness, I am in a state of panic!" Zhou Yue was already frightened.

Li Si laughed out loud, and when he finished laughing, he directly assigned ten champion swordsmen to serve as Zhou Yue's guards.

"Your Highness, this—" Zhou Yue didn't know, so what qualifications does she have to be treated like this?

"You don't have to know why, because this is a war." Li Si said with a mysterious face, or it was useless for him to explain.

In this world, ordinary men do not have the opportunity to study, let alone women?

Knowledge has always been in the hands of aristocratic families. Look at the Nanchu clan that day, they all made cannons, and the Zhang clan of Weicheng made bearings long ago, but they sealed it up like a secret technique. How can this work?
Of course, it is still too early for women to study and become officials. Li Si just comforted Zhou Yue that this matter must be completed in another matter, and it can only be done on a scale.

That is the diffusion of technology.

Yes, a powerful family not only monopolizes knowledge, but also monopolizes technology.

Li Si established the craftsman department, organized craftsmen and trained craftsmen in the name of the government, and now the effect is outstanding. Craftsmen at level 5 are still relatively rare, but craftsmen at level 2 and level 3 are really a lot. Here, more than 5 people have been registered.

There are 5 craftsmen, Li Si only has a total population of 31.

These 5 people are off-duty, and most of them are out of farmland work. Even if they still have farmland in their hands, they will not go to tend it in person, because the income from working is higher.

Thanks to the hundreds of masters of the Lu family, thanks to the wealth of the Lu family, and thanks to those friends who came to deliver food, Li Si can stimulate this strong domestic demand.

The reason why he has so many trebuchets is not because there is a bit of excess production capacity.

Beckoning and asking Zhou Yue to follow, Li Si took her for a stroll in the spacious Lu family compound and said, "Don't be bound by your inherent prejudices, and don't be influenced by other people's ideas, as long as you If you are honest in your heart and do things with no regrets in your heart, then you are the best."

"Your Highness..."

"Don't think too much about those useless things. Here are a few words for you. It was said by a friend of mine. The general meaning is that what a politician wants to pursue in his life is to let the people work hard to get rich, kindness can be achieved in the world, and justice can be achieved. Argue black and white."

"At any time, if you handle the affairs of the common people well, you will find that you are invincible."

"Let's talk about the minting of new coins." Li Si changed the subject. These thoughts are just picking up the wisdom of others, but for Zhou Yue, they are a strong medicine, so he has to take it easy.

"Yes, Your Highness, because our army has acquired a large amount of money confiscated from the Lu family, and the production of copper mines, we have the conditions to try to mint new coins on a small scale. After all, before this, the coins circulating in the market were regulated differently. For example, in Dayan coins, one silver can be exchanged for 100 large copper coins, and sometimes even 120 coins, so the credit is very bad.”

"On the contrary, the coins minted by the aristocrats are more reliable. For example, the Jiangnan Song family minted Jiangnan copper coins, which can be exchanged for 10 silver coins, and the copper coins minted by the Weicheng Zhang family can be exchanged for 15 coins."

"But the most powerful one here is the Tiannan Chu family. Because they control the sea trade, they have formulated the specifications of silver coins. At present, all the major families, including the former dynasty, are adopting this specification, that is, one cent of silver can be used as silver coins. One piece. Based on this, ten silver pieces are made into one piece of gold."

"But gold coins are basically not in circulation, and they are used by the big clans for large-scale trade."

"In a way, gold coins are credit."

"But our army has always seized money, most of which are made of copper and silver. It was only through the technique of robbing gold that we got 50 gold coins."

What Zhou Yue said was very simple, and Li Si naturally understood that although the Jiancheng Order gave information about how much gold each time he won the victory, in fact, it was not how many gold coins he actually got, but the equivalent silver coins or copper coins.

Now there are more than a dozen kinds of large copper coins circulating in Xishan County, that's why Li Si wants to control the right to mint coins, one is to facilitate tax collection, and the other is to prevent financial plunder...

It just so happened that he had already mastered hydraulic forging and was able to make money that is not inferior to Jiangnan copper coins.

Now, some new copper coins have flowed into the market, but they are all endorsed by his credit as the king of Qi. Otherwise, if the common people and merchants don't recognize it, the consequences will be disastrous.

This is why Li Si wanted to arrange ten champion swordsmen as guards for Zhou Yue.

The war has just begun.

In a flash, five days passed.

Within five days, Li Si's popularity dropped by [-] because he had to counteract the curse of destiny.

But in the past few days, both inside and outside have been calm, and the entire Central Plains, including the northern grasslands and the Bashu area, have not seen any beacon fires.

Even the Black Tooth Legion has temporarily ceased fighting.

Unbelievably comfortable.

Li Si didn't care about the external situation, but only focused on sorting out internal affairs.

Dashi County has already started full-scale construction. His [-] craftsmen are no joke, and they don’t do much infrastructure construction. Just paying wages will cause the fragile Xishan County’s economy to collapse and its finances to collapse.

In addition to rebuilding Dashi County, Li Si also started a massive water conservancy project in the east of Luming Dongshan, Futou Mountain, and Yanhui Mountain in the south.

At the same time, the reconstruction work of the four big towns of Huangzhuangji, Mijiazhuang, Sujiazhen, and Dongjiazhuang was restarted.

Counting the newly built Dongshan Village, Beishan Village, Shanxi Village, Shanjiao Village, Linjiang Village, Xujia Village, and even Wangzhuang Town.

This is the basic population of Li Si with a population of 31.

All villages and towns must have official roads.

Every farmer family who is good at farming must own two large animals, which are provided by the government on interest-free credit, all of which are wool gathered from the Black Tooth Legion.

But correspondingly, every farmer's family must use the new agricultural tools provided by the government, especially the curved plows, columbine carts, hoes and sickles made of fine steel, which were designed by Li Si and optimized by craftsmen.

The Chariot and Horse Division in Xishan County and the supply battalions of the various battle camps have already been completely refitted with new-style carriages, and the old-style carts are being loaned to farmers, small workshop owners, small and medium-sized merchants, etc. at a very low price.

However, these released debts will be recovered with the newly minted Yanda Qian as the standard.

In other words, when dealing with the government and the army, you can only accept big money from Yan.

Originally, when a new coin appeared, the common people were very unbelievable.

However, under the circumstances of Li Si's profit sharing and promotion, the acceptance of the people has become very good.

Can it be good, I will give you two big animals and a big car for free, use it for one year for free, pay it back after one year, and there is no interest, even a fool will not refuse.

This trust was established immediately.

Of course, if Master Lu was not too fat, Li Si wouldn't dare to play like this.

In short, in a short period of time, Li Si standardized the internal affairs of Xishan County, and he even added laws, commercial laws, and civil laws late at night.

1 years is too long, seize the day and night.

Destiny only gave him 30 days, and he had to get more bargaining chips.

In fact his hustle and bustle was very effective.

The first is the minting of coins. When all the people who have obtained car loans and cattle and horse loans are willing to accept the repayment with Yanda money, when merchants and workshop owners realize the credit of Yanda money, this new coin will be opened like this up.

People's hearts directly +30000 points.

This is not something that destiny can stop if it wants to.

The right to mint coins is really the lifeblood of a regime.

Then there is the water conservancy project covering the entire Xishan County. Well, everyone else is eyeing it, but you are doing a lot of water conservancy?

Li Si is a wave of fleece in the opposite direction, anyway, I am not afraid of the enemy's attack.

The entire water conservancy project will take about a month, and it is estimated that at least 20000 points of popular support can be provided to Li Si.

Li Si has more than a dozen other methods like this.

Now let's see which fool comes to challenge.

In a word, I, Li Si, can make a deal with your destiny. If you want to borrow chickens to lay eggs, it's no problem, but you have to give Lao Tzu some benefits.

I gave you the rare treasure of the heavenly stone before, for no apparent reason, but what did I get in exchange?
A silver unit card is sent, that's all, why take me as the first pawn?

To be a human being, one has to have a conscience.

To be a destiny, you still have to talk about your conscience.

(End of this chapter)