"Ha~~~ The traditional tricks used by ancient emperors to win over people's hearts."
Looking at the dozen or so beautiful beauties in palace attire in front of him, Li Yunze showed contempt, "The house hasn't been renovated yet, so you can live in my courtyard first."
"The owner of the village."
Seeing the beautiful palace maids walking towards Li Yunze's courtyard one by one, Zuo Hong stepped forward with envy, "Your Majesty accepted the advice and became a palace maid. It's a good time."
Li Yunze glanced at him with a stern look, "You bastard, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand anything."
In the autumn of the second year of Zhenguan, due to constant famine throughout the year, Li Er accepted the persuasion of Li Baiyao, a member of Zhongshushe, and released a large number of palace maids to reduce the cost of the palace.
This thing doesn't seem like much on the surface, but in fact it's not that simple.
If there was no acquiescence from Li Er or a secret signal, then Li Baiyao's head would be filled with water, and he would write a letter about the emperor's woman?
You must know that his current job is the crown prince's right concubine, and he is the right-hand man of the crown prince Li Chengqian.
Decades ago, Li Baiyao was the right-hand man of Sui Dynasty Prince Yang Yong, and he knew that the first priority of assisting Prince Zuo was not to offend the emperor.
He opened his mouth to talk about the emperor's women, and there was no instruction from Li Er, unless he was crazy and wanted to trick Li Chengqian to death.
On the one hand, this was done to improve his reputation. The emperor let the maids out of the palace to get married, which must have a good reputation among the people.
On the other hand, it was to secretly smear his father Li Yuan's face.
These maids were basically recruited into the palace by Li Yuan. Li Er let them go in order to criticize his father's extravagance and thus undermine Li Yuan's prestige.
Li Er used force to force Li Yuan to abdicate, and also put Li Yuan under house arrest.
That's because Li Yuan has been the emperor for nearly ten years, so he naturally has his own power.
To mess with Dad is a political necessity and has nothing to do with the relationship between father and son.
"Your emperor doesn't look like a good person. He is just a lustful ghost. The maids he can let out are either too old or not good-looking." Li Yunze's sincere words taught him, "How can it be possible to find out who is missing from the emperor's side? This time he just took advantage of this
This was the opportunity to release the palace maids, and they were carefully selected to bribe me. How could a gentleman like me be fooled by beauty? "
Zuo Hong, whose head was covered with black lines, responded repeatedly, lowering his head and counting the ants on the ground, "If you are a gentleman, then I am an eminent monk who never kills." '
Judging from Zuo Hong's appearance, Li Yunze didn't bother to teach him how to behave.
He simply said, "I heard that a few big households in Chang'an City have been very unlucky recently. Go to the city and see if any of the laid-off people are willing to come and work in our village."
The unlucky ones in Chang'an City were naturally killed by Li Er by praying for rain.
Li Yunze was not interested in the many disputes in the Tang Dynasty and did not want to get involved.
After all, he was tired of experiencing these things before.
Since it's a different way of life, then simply don't participate.
As for recruiting people, the previous refugees have all been officially registered with the county government in Lantian County. Their place of origin and other things were all moved from Huazhou and became people of Lijiazhuang instead of being refugees.
But at this time, Zhuangzi had expanded to a large area of 12,000 acres, which still required a lot of manual work.
Moreover, Li Yunze also needs technical personnel such as craftsmen, chefs, and professional grooms, as well as people who work in the house.
The refugees are good at farming and tending livestock, but doing other things immediately becomes more difficult.
If nothing else, let’s talk about the brick kiln that Li Yunze built on a small kaolin slope more than ten miles away. When he was there, he naturally produced bricks one kiln after another. But while those who are waiting for work pat their chests to ensure that there will be no problem, Li Yunze also feels that this kind of skill is useless.
The job with technical content was not difficult, so after he left, something happened immediately.
Li Yunze could only find a way to get some professionals to come over. After training, they would at least be better than the refugees.
As for finding some scholars, those who are literate and numerate are the best. This kind of thing should be difficult.
Because the knowledge of this era is monopolized, it is basically monopolized in the hands of aristocratic families headed by Wu Xing Qi Wang.
Not to mention that Li Yunze's attitude towards family members has always been to destroy them. Even if there is no hostility, it is impossible for people to come to work with him.
In later generations, there are too many college students, who are unemployed after graduation and unable to find a job.
But here in the Tang Dynasty, anyone who is a scholar has no worries about making a living.
Li Yunze came to the brick kiln factory again, and sighed helplessly when he saw the workers who still ignored the rules and regulations he had set.
"Temperature, temperature, temperature."
Li Yunze taught step by step, "This thing is called a thermometer. Don't ask me to repeat it again. Look at the scale on it. Once it reaches this scale..."
"Everyone wears masks and gloves. Don't ask me to talk about this kind of thing every time I come here." Li Yunze's voice gradually became louder. "Pay attention to safety and protect your body. Don't give away your healthy body just for some money." null!"
As a serious person, of course Li Yunze needs to pay for hiring people to do work.
And in his opinion, the working environment in the brick kiln factory was so bad that it was very appropriate for him to offer fifty cash per day.
You must know that even with the continuous disasters in Guanzhong this year, the price of a bucket of rice has not exceeded 20 cash. In the past, it even cost only 5 cash.
"Engineering industry, even the most basic industry, in this era when there are no qualified workers, is a tiring thing for people."
Li Yunze, who drank a pot of water, arranged for workers to load the dried bricks onto a carriage and then transport them to Lijiazhuang.
He wants to renovate the house in Lijiazhuang, and these bricks are necessary.
When he was about to enter Zhuangzi, he saw Li Er picking fruits in his vegetable field. Li Yunze felt no emotion at all.
This emperor is not doing his job all day long. He likes to go to his own village without saying a word, and he doesn't even bother to ask for food from the vegetable field. He doesn't look like a good person!
Li Er, who was holding the cucumber, washed it directly in the water tank, opened his mouth and bit into it, and it was crunchy.
Cucumbers were brought back from the Western Regions by Zhang Qian as early as the Han Dynasty.
The previous name was cucumber, but later Shi Le, the emperor of the Jie tribe who founded the Later Zhao Dynasty, thought it was taboo to call it cucumber, so he changed it to cucumber because of the yellow color of its flowers.
After years of domestication and cultivation, cucumbers have become a type of vegetable. However, the appearance and taste of cucumbers in this era are not as good as those brought by Li Yunze from the modern world.
Perhaps because of his Hu ethnic origin, Li Er likes green and plump cucumbers very much.
"What's the matter?"
After arranging for everyone to deliver the cart full of bricks into the village, Li Yunze stepped forward and took a stick of yellow bricks to eat.
"During the court meeting this morning, Du Ruhui said that we should send troops to attack the Turks." Li Er ignored Li Yunze's unhappy face, "I also have the same intention, but the Turkic cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and I don't have many cavalry in the Tang Dynasty. Opponent. Sir, can you teach me?"
"If you want to fight cavalry against cavalry, you can't fight."
Li Yunze responded, "The tradition of the grassland tribes is guerrilla warfare. They will not confront you at all. If you want to win the war, the only way is to follow Huo Qubing's example and go straight to Huanglong."
"Um."
Li Er nodded and agreed with this statement.
Even though the nomadic tribes claimed to have grown up on horses since childhood, if they were to fight face to face, they would definitely not be the opponents of the Central Plains cavalry under the same conditions.
The main differences in combat effectiveness lie in training, organization, and weapons and equipment.
But the problem is that the nomadic tribes are not stupid. They won't fight you head-on, they just keep harassing you again and again. If you want to imitate Huo Qubing and go straight to Huanglong, you have to find where the enemy is.
"I see that there is a shortage of people to serve you, sir." Li Er began to take credit and talk about the benefits, "I have specially selected some people to serve you. Shouldn't you express your gratitude to me?"
I’ve sent you a beautiful girl, so I have to give you something real and good.
"Okay, I've always been a person who doesn't get rewarded for my merits." Li Yunze simply finished the cucumber in his hand, clapped his hands and said, "Wait."
I went back to the room and closed the door. When I came out after a while, I was already carrying a bunch of things.
"Is this a saddle?"
"Is this a stirrup?"
"What's this?"
"You know saddles and stirrups, but these are the ultimate improved version." Li Yunze picked up a few pieces of iron. "This is called a horseshoe. In the Sui Dynasty, there was a similar thing called a horse shoe. This is also the ultimate improved version."
"These things can be used on cavalry to effectively improve their combat effectiveness."
Li Er took over the cavalry three-piece suit, looked at it carefully and nodded with satisfaction.
He handed the things to the guards and asked them to send them to the master craftsman. Then he said again, "It's not enough. Are there any other good things?"
Li Yunze didn't waste any time and simply handed the monocular in his hand to Li Er, "Put it on your eyes and try...if it's reversed, look at the small head."
Li Er figured out the function of the telescope after playing with it for a while. As the emperor of Ma Ma, he immediately understood its huge military role.
This thing is so useful!
Satisfied, Li Er pressed forward and asked, "Is there any more?"
"Ha~~~" Li Yunze looked up at the sky, too lazy to pay attention to him.
Li Er briefly pondered, "There are still many maids in the palace who need to be released. How about I send you another team?"
"Who do you think I am, a lustful ghost?!" Li Yunze was furious and scolded him sternly, "I did it so that the Tang Dynasty could defeat the Turks, not for the beauty! I won't do this next time."
"What is the most important thing about cavalry?"
When asked, Li Er responded without hesitation, "Good horse."
"That's right." Li Yunze reached out and pointed to the cowshed in the distance. "I can raise cattle, and naturally I can also raise horses, and they are really good horses."
There was actually no shortage of good horses in the Tang Dynasty. After all, the horse breeds in this era had not yet seriously degenerated.
Li Er looked slightly disappointed, "There is no shortage of horses in the Tang Dynasty."
"Do you want a heavy-duty draft horse that can drag six to seven thousand kilograms of cargo with one horse? Do you want a war horse that can sprint as fast as the wind and has amazing endurance and can run for several hours at a stretch? The kind that is available on a large scale."
If someone else had said this, Li Er would have thought it was farting.
It’s hard to say that BMW doesn’t have such fast running speed and excellent endurance, but supplying it on a large scale is nonsense.
The reason why a BMW is a BMW and not a Mercedes... is because of its scarcity.
But these words were spoken by Li Yunze, the man who could move everything around, and he nodded in response without any surprise.
"Yes! As much as you want."
The heavy-duty draft horse is of course the Shire horse. The Shire horse can drag several tons of supplies and can carry a large amount of supplies for combat.
As for the war horses, they are naturally the Don horses ridden by the Cossack cavalry. Not only can he run extremely fast, but he also has super endurance.
Li Er felt that the harvest from this trip was already great, but he still wanted more, "If I give you more..."
"stop."
Li Yunze simply waved his hand, "No more. Even if my body can handle it, there won't be enough time. People have to have time to sleep."
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