I don't want to be a saint

Chapter 91
The next day, early in the morning.

Eunuch Sun is still working continuously for more than three months without a break, defeating 90.00% of the old social animals.

Guo Yi took the pillars, bid farewell to his family and fellow villagers, sat on a bullock cart, and rushed to Jiangling City facing the rising sun.

Back then, the sage Confucius traveled around the world in a bullock cart, and Lao Tzu rode a bull out of Hangu Pass...

As for him, this can be regarded as going to the post in a bullock cart, full of sense of ceremony.

Zhuzi sat on the shaft of the car with his legs crossed, his face couldn't conceal the joy, and he waved his whip excitedly, but he was finally going out of the village and into the city. No Newsletters came from Beijing.

After bumping all the way, he finally came to the outside of Jiangling City, and he saw the huge brick and stone monster crawling on the horizon from a long distance away.

But outside the West City Gate, it is now a lively scene.

Rows of thatched huts are neatly arranged, and people come and go inside and outside.

In the southwest is the blacksmith workshop, which makes new Luoyang shovels; in the northwest is the bobbin workshop, which is used to make bobbins.

Guo Yi was very curious, so he asked Zhu Zi to stop and walked over to have a look.

Before they got close, they could already hear the sound of tinkling irons, and the hot air rushed towards their faces.

I saw that in the rows of thatched huts, there were large stoves, those blacksmiths, in groups of three, one pulled the bellows to light the fire, and the other two were on both sides of the iron platform, beating the iron billets non-stop.

And in the aisle outside, there are mule carts pulling stone carbon through from time to time, distributing some to each hut.

Guo Yi looked at it with interest for a while, then walked to the thatched shed in the northwest.

But as soon as he came over, he ran into Guanshi Zhu, who was following a young man in luxurious clothes and wearing gold and jade, and the two of them were looking around.

In the entire Jinghu North Road, the identity of the young man who can let Guanshi Zhu follow behind him is ready to be revealed.

At this time, Guanshi Zhu also saw him when he turned his head, he couldn't help being surprised, he waved to him, and then took two steps forward and said something to the young man.

The luxuriously dressed young man turned his head instantly and looked at him.

Although they were already staff members of his own house, this was the first time the two met.

Guo Yi didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly stepped forward two steps, stood up straight, bowed neatly, and said: "Guo Yi, a grassroots man, has met His Royal Highness the King of Chu!"

Grass people?

King Chu immediately became interested, this title is very fresh!

Because the usual young literati students would call themselves students when they saw him.And this young man in front of him, who is said to be a scholar, or a student in Shangshe, actually calls himself a grassroots?
interesting.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing: "I've heard for a long time that you have the name of Guo Yi Guo Erlang, but today I saw you so young! You are a young boy!"

Although he already knew Guo Yi's age, after meeting him, he couldn't help being surprised when he saw this handsome young man with red face and white teeth.

Young boy?

There is such a name?

Guo Yi was a little speechless, and responded, "It's the same! It's the same!"

"Say! Hahaha!" King Chu was immediately amused and couldn't help laughing.

Guanshi Zhu rolled his eyes at the side, what nonsense are you talking about, kid?
"Well, I heard from Zhu He that it is reasonable for you to go home to report safety first, and Gu also understands. Well, how is the construction of the salt field?" King Chu asked while continuing to look around.

Guo Yi and Zhu Guanshi followed him from left to right, looking around curiously. When they heard King Chu's question, they immediately responded: "My lord, the first phase of infrastructure has been completed and is under construction. Building supporting facilities, but this does not affect the normal production of salt.

I have already discussed with Special Envoy Sun that the salt production rate should be stabilized first, and then expand after this severe drought is over. "

After he finished speaking, he explained some of them in detail.

There are more than 20 large iron pots, and more than 5000 catties of salt are produced every month.Calculated at 120 Wen per catty of salt, that is 750 Guan.

It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's enough to fill the gap between these two workshops.

Guo Yi's great talent can be seen.

The King of Chu nodded in understanding. He really deserved to be such a monster as Guo Erlang. He didn't even mention it. People already knew that the current Jiangling Mansion was desperately short of money. Let the saltworks stabilize production first, so as to support Jiangling Mansion.

"Then what do you think of the severe drought in front of us?" Although thousands of new Luoyang shovels and thousands of barrel carts have been built so far, and all of them have been distributed, as the drought continues, he still has a lot of thoughts in his heart. drumming.

Ugh!
Guo Yi sighed and said carefully, "If it doesn't rain again, then get ready to open the big lake."

"Open a big lake? What do you mean?" King Chu was very puzzled.

"There are thousands of lakes, large and small, on our Jinghu North Road. Excluding the dried ones, there are still a lot left. If the drought continues, we can only find a solution from these large lakes."

"What do you think?"

"Build some wooden pedal water carts or buckets to water as much as you can, at least to ensure the rations of each household. As for the spring tax, find a way elsewhere."

As soon as he finished speaking, Guanshi Zhu frowned and said, "The entire North Jingbei Road, except for the prince's food town, the spring tax of hundreds of thousands of households will be handed over to the imperial court. What can we do?"
Guo Yi shook his head and explained: "As I said just now, there are thousands of lakes on our Jingbei Road, subtracting all kinds of inappropriate ones, and there are still many left. As long as we find solutions from these lakes, we can solve many problems. "

But the King of Chu grasped the point, and then asked back: "Then why didn't you say it earlier? Instead, you want to block the river mouth to store water first?"

"Hehe!" Guo Yi couldn't help laughing at his silly words: "Because most of the villages are built along the river, and the branches are on both sides of the river. There are very few people who live near the lake!"

Uh... Chu King Guo Yunzhe blushed immediately, thinking that His Majesty the King of Chu is so ignorant, shameful!

But Guanshi Zhu was a little puzzled and said: "But how did I hear that there are some yamen in Jiangling City who are filling lakes and reclaiming land, and plan to sell those merchants."

Guo Yi was taken aback when he heard the words, then immediately shook his head and said, "This wind can't last long! The harm is endless!"

As soon as he said this, the king of Chu and Guanshi Zhu became even more puzzled: "It's just filling the lake to create fields. It can increase a lot of cultivated land, so why is it causing endless harm?"

"Lakes, especially plain lakes that are suitable for filling lakes and fields, are mostly formed by the siltation of river water or floods. As the name suggests, lakes can be silted there because of the low-lying terrain. After all, water flows to low places Well.

And those lakes will rise and fall with the amount of rain.If there is more rain, the area of ​​the lake will increase; if there is less rain, the area of ​​the lake will shrink.

That is to say, these lakes are used to regulate rainwater.When heavy rains come, these lakes are used to discharge floodwaters. "

Good guy!
Both King Chu and Guanshi Zhu were shocked by his words and broke out in cold sweat.

　Follow-ups are so rare...

　　Wow cool wow cool!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)