Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 29 The Weapon of the Nation
Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was the restaurant. Conception, site selection, and preparation all required Sun Xiangfu to complete. This can be considered as fun for Sun Xiangfu's life in Chang'an. However, some people said that he was looking for death. The first one to say this was Wang Lin from the Wang family in Taiyuan. After that, almost all restaurants with aristocratic backgrounds in Chang'an expressed their rejection of this restaurant that had not yet started construction. Therefore, the restaurant that Sun Xiangfu wanted to open was not only in the Things that are crowded with people can't be bought in the two cities, and even bricks, wood, and craftsmen can't be found anywhere, and the aristocratic families are so ruthless when they unite.

The plan to open the restaurant can only be prepared in secret. When Sun Xiangfu escaped and returned to Xingfu Village, Wang Lin set up a large banquet in Xinxianglou to celebrate. A victory.

The village is changing every day. The most obvious one is the chicken coop and pig coop on Chaishan Mountain. I haven’t come back for more than ten days. Those chicken coops and pig coops that have been built have been filled with chicks and piglets sent by traders. .

"Xiangfu, there are over [-] chickens in the chicken coop, and there are hundreds of piglets in the piggery. We consume a huge amount of feed every day, and we will soon run out of supply." Sun Dali began to complain when he saw Sun Xiangfu. road.

"Tell me what's missing." Sun Xiangfu said calmly. If the productivity of Xingfu Village can't even satisfy chickens and piglets, then there is a mismatch between the scale and the labor force and needs to be adjusted.

"Hey, first of all, there are not enough people. There are more than 20 people in the fishing team. We can't move. They have to ensure the food supply of the whole village. A dozen and a half people can't take care of such a big fishing ground. I sent ten more people. The strong men help hunt fish and weeds for feed.

The chicken farm needs someone! More than 1 chicks!According to your requirements, it is divided into several pieces for raising. There must be no more than 30 people, so take turns to guard it!I send all the women here, the same goes for the pig farm. According to your requirements, the pig house must be clean, the feed must be fine, and it takes a lot of labor every day. Zhao Da can’t handle it all alone leading a bunch of women. The eels and loaches in the family cellar also had to be fed with chopped fish. Originally, after the autumn harvest, the days should be the most leisurely, but now the whole village is so busy that their feet don't touch the ground, and even the children are busy working all the time. "

"Uh, you all know that after the autumn harvest is the most leisurely time, then there must be a lot of people in other villages who have nothing to do! You can go to recruit workers! Don't talk about the salary, I guess as long as the food is full, give them a few They will come to help our village when the fish come home for the tooth festival. Dali, as a leader, you have to use your brains to find a way to solve the problem. Such a trivial matter is not a problem at all, what is missing, you say."

Sun Dali was taken aback by Sun Xiangfu's words, scratched his head and thought about it, there is a village a few miles around, but not every village is like a happy village, especially those villages where new apprentices moved, although the autumn harvest, But for families with few farms, there must be insufficient food reserves at home. Let them help with the work, and only need to provide stuttering, which is simply too cost-effective.

"Also, there is still a shortage of food. It's cold, and it's hard to find chicken food. We can only feed food. Half of the [-] shi of food in the village has gone to the chicken farm, and some have been divided between the pig farm and the fish farm. Now people are almost out of food. It's gone."

"Buy, now that the autumn harvest is just over, it's time for low grain prices, so use all the money in the village to buy grain." Sun Xiangfu answered without using his brain.

"It's still short of money! Before you finished making winter clothes, you said you wanted the villagers to make shoes and socks and quilts. You need to buy leather goods and white folds, which are too expensive. So, now, except for those few gold bumps, all All the copper coins have been spent." Sun Dali spread his hands.

"Gold is also money. I exchanged gold for the convenience of carrying, so spend the gold too! Keeping money is a dead thing. It cannot be eaten or worn. It is meaningful only when it is spent." Sun Xiangfu explained.

"I'm just afraid that all the money will be spent, and I won't have anything to spend in the future." Sun Dali said worriedly.

"Don't worry, these investments are all worthwhile. When our village starts to ship goods, you will know that what you spend is not money at all. By the way, the work of the two groups of Wang Fu, Wang Gui and Ma Lin Zhangquan Didn't you stop!" Seeing that they were not in the public house, Sun Xiangfu asked.

"No! The things they made are all in the warehouse! This should go to the cave dwelling. They are firing the thing you mentioned these days."

After saying that, Sun Dali took Sun Xiangfu to the storeroom, opened the carpentry room first, and it was full of round tables, square tables and wooden stools, many of which had a round hole in the middle. In Sun Xiangfu's view, it is far from enough.

On the other side of the blacksmith's room, there are a lot of fine iron pots, spoons, and even small charcoal stoves with a hole in the middle. Sun Xiangfu checked it out and found that the quality is acceptable, but the same problem is also there. The quantity is far from enough. However, Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali couldn't talk about these things. With Sun Dali's current ability, it would be great if he could arrange the personnel in the village.

When going to Chaishan, Sun Xiangfu first went to the few acres of off-season vegetable fields he planted to have a look. All the bamboo sheds were set up, and the covers made of silk cloth would be sealed before dark in the afternoon, and the fog would dissipate during the day. , They will only open after the sun comes out. These vegetables are only planted one or two months later. According to this method, they can fully mature before the snow falls, and their pollen fruit seeds will be the object of Sun Xiangfu's research.

After praising his younger brothers and sisters who took care of these vegetables, Sun Xiangfu went to the newly opened cave dwelling behind Chaishan Mountain.

"Xiangfu, you are back. These days we have ground and fired according to the method you explained. We have burned a lot in the past few days, but I don't know what you are doing with these lime powder." Marin greeted him at the entrance of the cave. Sun Xiangfu said.

"This thing is called cement. Once it's wet and poured with a mold, it's like a stone. It's a sharp tool for building a house. From now on, the houses in our village will use this kind of thing a lot. The more the better, but you just have to figure it out. , Let’s hire workers for a large number of firings! Your main business is to build the things I have told you, if you can’t do it, find more craftsmen, give them the blueprints, and let them be responsible for the building, and we will pay for the labor and materials.”

Sun Xiangfu knew from the beginning that these things could not be kept secret, and there was no patent law in the feudal society, so he only needed to get what he wanted, and he had no control over what others would do with the technology, like Things like cement, no matter who uses them for large-scale production, will promote the progress of this society. If you hold them as treasures in your hands, you will not live long.

On the second day after Sun Xiangfu returned to the village, the recruitment plan of Xingfu Village began. With these basic production technologies, Sun Xiangfu had a little more confidence in the next series of plans. In three days, Xingfu Village recruited craftsmen More than five hundred people alarmed the county magistrate Zheng Peicheng, and even the emperor Li Shimin began to pay attention to the changes here, drafted an imperial decree, and summoned Sun Xiangfu back.

In the Palace of Lizheng, Empress Changsun was looking through the account books of the harem expenses. She found that the harem expenses had actually been reduced this month, and there was actually some surplus money in the treasury. This surprised her who had actually controlled the harem for three months , it was not enough before, and I still owe some.Just at this time Li Shimin came to Lizheng Hall, and she told Li Shimin about the matter.

Holding the account book and looking at it for a while, Li Shimin immediately found clues, pointed to one of the words that appeared every day, and said, "Guanyin maidservant, look, the words 'Excess supply of the Fisheries Department' are written on the daily supply column, How much did you ask for from the Fisheries Department in this month's requisition order?"

"Your Majesty said this, and my concubine remembered it. The requisition order for the Fisheries Department is 800 catties of eel, [-] catties of loach, and [-] catties of big fish weighing more than three catties. However, the Fisheries Department has an excess supply of every kind of fish, especially big fish, which can send more than [-] catties of live fish weighing more than five catties to the imperial dining room every day."

"That's it. I remember that when you first took charge of the harem, the fishery department sent only two to three hundred catties of fish every three days. Now, the fishery department sends more than one thousand catties of fish to the palace every day. This month, you can There is only a shortfall of more than 2 catties! Now that all palaces like to eat fish, the consumption of beef, mutton, vegetables, etc. has been greatly reduced, and the expenses of the harem will naturally have a surplus."

"It turns out that the problem lies here. It seems that the Department of Fisheries has contributed a lot. Is the newly appointed Jian Cheng the one who wants to lure me into business?"

Empress Changsun figured out the reason, and she was overjoyed. Li Shimin was on the throne for the first time, and her expenses were tight in all aspects. As a good housekeeper, she naturally wanted to help. Now that the Fisheries Department can exceed the task, it proves that they still have spare capacity If she has spare energy, she must use it, so she decided to add more weight to the fishery requisition order. Don't people in the harem like to eat fish, so it will definitely save more daily expenses.

"He's a shitty lord, a little bastard who only knows how to play tricks. He has good things, but he doesn't know how to dedicate himself to the monarch. He's an asshole." Although Li Shimin was yelling, there was a smile on his face. , apparently in a good mood.

"Why, what novelty did that young master Sun get?" Empress Changsun was a little confused by Li Shimin's lines and expressions. He had never seen Li Shimin show such an attitude towards a person he had never met.

"That's not a joke, it's not an exaggeration to say that it is a weapon of the country." Li Shimin said with a slightly excited expression.

"What is it that makes His Majesty so excited." Empress Changsun put down the account book and poured a cup of tea for Li Shimin.

"It's a new kind of plow, which can hold four plowshares, and can be easily pulled by only two oxen. With just a few plows like this, the boy turned more than 2000 mu of wasteland into fertile land in just two days. , You said, is this a sharp weapon of the country, but now, that kid actually asked someone to grind the powder with a stone, add some things to bake something called cement, just add water and stir it, and after drying, it will be as hard as a stone , used to build cities and houses, it is simply getting twice the result with half the effort, you say, is this a powerful weapon of the country..."

Li Shimin was still waiting to say more, but at this time the servant reported that Sun Jiancheng from the Fisheries Department of the Animal Husbandry Supervision Department had been called to see him, so he had to stop talking temporarily.

(End of this chapter)