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Chapter 249 I will never waste my life

Yunchu has been waiting for Master Li's counterattack.

Unfortunately, he waited for a full ten days, but he still didn't get the counterattack he expected.

In the past ten days, even though Li Keshi's family has moved into the post, the attacks on him have not stopped.

Just this early in the morning, his housekeeper died when a feathered arrow pierced his throat just as he was leaving the house.

I don't know why, Mr. Li was unlucky, but Jinchangfang ushered in the biggest wave of living since the opening of Jinchangfang.

Moreover, everyone who enters the gate must worship Juhuang devoutly.

The entrance fee of Jinchang Fang is also increasing rapidly.

The shabby houses were overcrowded, and the hostels prepared for merchants from all walks of life were also overcrowded. Even the quiet rooms for female pilgrims in the Da Ci'en Temple were rented out, and more people intended to live in the Da Ci'en Temple.

Yunchu felt that this might be Wu Mei's attempt to establish her prestige, paving the way for her to ascend the throne of queen.

It is easy to be a queen, but it is very difficult to be a queen that everyone fears.

It was also at this time that Yunchu discovered that the generals group was not united at all.

When they drank and ate together, the appearance of Yi Bo Yuntian that appeared disappeared at this moment, because most of the people who lived in Jinchang Fang were the important nephews of these generals.

For this reason, Yunchu had to arrange a large number of unscrupulous people in Jinchangfang to guard the safety of the paid guests.

Li Shen also wanted to live in Jinchangfang, but was rejected by Yunchu straight away. Li Shen who was rejected didn't get angry, but just shrugged his shoulders casually. It seemed that he knew very well that he was not on the hunting list, and the reason why he wanted to come in was to join in the fun.

Li Shen likes Wu Mei and Li Zhisheng's fat child very, very much, whenever he comes to Jinchang Fang, he will hug him for a while, probably he has never cared so much about his own child.

"This child is blessed at first glance." Li Shen touched the child's eyebrows carefully, and said to Yunchu.

Yun Chu said angrily: "My lord can say this in front of His Majesty next time."

Li Shen stretched his neck to look at Yun Chu and said, "You will tell Wu Mei about this kind of thing, won't you?"

Yun Chu sighed, took the child over and hugged him in his arms, saying, "Life is not easy, so if you can help, you should help."

Li Shen nodded, and said to Yunchu: "I admire your adult beauty and generosity the most."

While speaking, he took out a small suet white jade pendant from his bosom, hung it around the fat boy's neck, and said softly: "I heard that girls wearing this pendant can make their skin as white as jade."

Yun Chu sneered and said: "Which family's girl is as fair as my Naha, that child is now afraid that she will become too white, and runs under the sun all day, living a more comfortable life than the daughter of the Chang'an family. "

Li Shen just smiled and didn't answer. Don't think that Li Shen didn't have any airs when he was alone with Yunchu, but as soon as he left Yun's house, all the nephews and nephews of honorable families he met on the road would have to give way, and even Stand by the side of the road and salute.

After the Shangyuan Festival, the spring in Chang'an has basically come, and people have no reason to continue to be lazy.

The land is most sensitive to the news that spring is coming. Hard-working farmers have already started to transport manure and plant ash to the field, and then sprinkle the manure and plant ash evenly on the field.

At the end of January, the fields had thawed, and the oxen dragged the plowshares to cut straight furrows in the fields, and then turned over the land that had been sleeping all winter.

This year, many farmers in Wannian County seem to be more relaxed than any other year, because they have received this season's harvest from the government, and now they just work step by step.

It was a new experience for them to just drive the cattle into the city and go to the construction sites that the royal family would not use for the time being.

Many farmers have moved to the city this year, not only from Wannian County, but also from Chang'an County.

Since the house in Anyefang started to be built in an orderly manner, Liu Rengui's reputation as the county magistrate for sweeping snow has become the magistrate for saving lives.

It was indeed a life-saving county magistrate. If Liu Rengui hadn't ordered to vacate the houses of the county government to let those people without houses spend the winter, Chang'an County would definitely have many more people who died of freezing last winter.

When the farmers entered the city, Yunchu and Liu Rengui rode out of the city.

Different from Yunchu's view of Qujiang, Liu Rengui was extremely envious of the seven brick kilns in Qujiang that were emitting heavy smoke, the countless adobes stacked on the flat ground to dry in the shade, and the carts of green bricks pulled out of the cooling kiln. Brick is extremely envious.

He even spread out his hands to catch the soot falling from the sky, looking envious.

In the previous era, he would be scolded by Shangguan, but in Liu Rengui's case, it became a symbol of happiness.

"It's really nice—"

Liu Rengui looked at Yunchu, and the wrinkles on his old face seemed to burst open with a smile.

Yunchu triumphantly picked up a brick and said to Liu Rengui: "Master Xian, there was no such brick in this world before, but now that we have this brick, can it be said that these kiln workers have created a wealth of bricks?" ?”

Liu Rengui also picked up a brick, and hit the blue brick with the iron hoop on the head of the horsewhip. Hearing the slightly dull sound made by the blue brick, he said with a smile: "It really is."

Yunchu pointed to some tall houses under construction in Qujiang and said, "In four months, the paper-making workshop here will take shape. From now on, all the paper produced here will be used for supplying barbarians and merchants, and will not be sold internally. .”

Liu Rengui was puzzled and said, "Why don't you sell it domestically? Could it be that the prices paid by those barbarians are high?"

Yun Chu nodded and said: "There are considerations in this regard, but it is more for other papermaking workshops in Datang."

Liu Ren track: "For their consideration, why?"

Yunchu pointed to the paper-making workshop that was still under construction and said: "Once the construction starts here, the paper produced every day will be more than ten times the output of ordinary paper-making workshops.

In this way, the cost of making a piece of paper here is much lower than that of other paper workshops. If all of them enter the market, they will be destroyed quickly, and the paper workshops elsewhere will make those people have nothing to eat.

Therefore, the paper here is only for external use, not for internal use. I can earn more, and those paper workshops can live longer. "

Liu Rengui: "Can't the price be reduced? This is definitely a good thing for people who use paper."

"It's not good at all for those who rely on paper making for a living. In our Tang Dynasty, scholars are not the priority, but the stomachs of farmers and craftsmen are the priority.

In this world, scholars can always live easier than farmers and craftsmen. "

"Why do you think that the cost of your paper-making workshop must be lower than that of noodles in a small workshop?"

"The purchase cost is different, and the papermaking process is different, so the paper here must be cheaper."

"In many small workshops, the raw materials for papermaking come from their own labor, and there is no purchase cost."

Yun Chu laughed and said, "Master Xian, I remember telling you once that money buys other people's labor time, no matter where the paper-making raw materials and labor in small workshops come from, they have no way to save labor time after all.

When the cotton textile workshop of the county priest in Chang'an County is built and put into operation, you will know how the assembly line method passed down from Daqin will continue to grow once it starts to circulate. "

Liu Rengui is a very down-to-earth person, he will not express his opinion easily without seeing the actual situation.

Coming out of the Qujiang River, which is full of soot, is opposite to the Qujiang Pond, whose water surface is as smooth as a mirror.

There is only spring news, so the wind blowing from the Qujiang River is still bitingly cold, but the ice on the edge of the pond has melted away, and even the willow trees that have not sprouted have begun to swing their long branches, which seems to be very happy.

"In a few days, it will be the spring cattle hunting time on February [-]nd. Are you going to hunt spring cattle at the suburban social department in the imperial city, or come here to hunt spring cattle by the Qujiang River?"

Yun Chu smiled and said: "Your Majesty will hunt spring cattle every year in the fields of the big community in the suburban social department. I am a small official who is as big as a sesame seed, and I can't control so much. I still want to hunt spring cattle on the edge of the Qujiang River. All my hopes are betting on the land of Wannian County."

Liu Rengui smiled and nodded, "Very good."

Perhaps because of the same goal, Yun Chu and Liu Rengui actually felt very happy during their time together.

From Dashe, we talked about farmland, then we talked about water conservancy projects, and then there were worries about land salinization in Chang'an and Wannian counties, as well as the hope of cotton planting and a bumper harvest.

On this day, the two rode horses to see Wannian County, as well as the land and water conservancy projects near Chang'an County.

It judged the quality of the land in each place, the convenience of water conservancy, where to focus on development, where to subsidize development from the government, and where to put it in the final consideration.

Drink water when you are thirsty, and eat a piece of mustache when you are hungry. Before you know it, the sound of bells and drums urging people to return to the city rang again.

The two hurriedly entered Chang'an City before the last sound of bells and drums stopped, and when they parted on Zhuque Avenue, Liu Rengui looked at Yunchu and said, "Master Li's matter is his own fault.

The case of their family is best left to Dali Temple. Although the incident happened in Wannian County, it really has nothing to do with your Wannian County. "

Yun Chu was silent for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "Teach me."

Liu Rengui waved his hands with a smile and said, "The old man is really looking forward to seeing how you spread gold leaf on Chang'an."

Yun Chu laughed and said, "When I cover Chang'an with gold leaf, I invite you to ride a horse and see every golden corner of Chang'an City together."

Liu Rengui raised his whip, and the horse under his crotch automatically turned his head to go to the West Market. Yun Chu also urged the bay red horse, and the bay red horse immediately galloped towards Jinchang square with interest.Although the two are going in opposite directions, Yunchu believes that as long as they are really doing something, they will always meet at the end.

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