Seeing that the prince was deep in thought, Du Jie did not interrupt.
However, His Highness the Crown Prince did not see the cold look in the Minister of Industry's eyes when he left.
His analysis does make sense, but who knows what his intentions are?
The prince's sitting was as long as a stick of incense.
"His Royal Highness, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry is very thoughtful, and you may not have good intentions when you come here today."
"I know." The prince sneered. He was not a waste, how could he not understand Du Jie's thoughts.
But everyone's recent interests and needs are the same, so they can naturally unite.
"Is the fiefdom the key?" The prince lowered his head and pondered, "Although I don't know what this old dog wants to do, what he said does make sense. The fight for the emperor will not officially begin until two years later, so we have to do it."
He does not allow anyone to surpass himself and become a threat to himself.
Only he can do such a thing as unifying the continent in the future.
"It seems that we really need to plan the fiefdom carefully. Lao Jiu has a big plan!"
Jiaozhou, Hailong County, Qingyun County, Longyang Township.
Li Zhao stretched himself against the rising sun.
It's certainly a good thing if it doesn't rain, but it may not be a good thing if it doesn't rain for a long time.
The grain harvest is officially coming to an end and will be completed in a day or two at most.
The grain output of this era was not high. One acre of land only had less than 200 kilograms. It was still the Tianzihao field with the best harvest. It was not comparable to the 800 kilograms per mu of super hybrid rice produced in later generations.
He confiscated a total of 37,625 acres of quarter-field land from the Du family in Hailong County. Calculated at 200 kilograms per mu, that is 7,525,000 kilograms.
But the actual number is definitely less.
The food consumed by Li Zhao every day is also extremely shocking.
Prince You has two thousand guards and 6,423 workers. The total number of idlers in Prince You's palace is 826, making a total of 9,249 people.
In later generations, ordinary adults could only eat one kilogram of grain a day, but here, Li Zhao found that the average person started with at least one and a half kilograms. Even his appetite now has greatly increased, and he has no chance to grow meat. Among farmland The work is really tiring.
Li Zhao calculated based on two meals a day, each person needs at least one and a half kilograms of grain per day, which is 13,873.5 kilograms per day for these 9,249 people.
It is definitely not something that ordinary people can afford.
But this time, if all the Du family's property hadn't been seized, Li Zhao would have gone bankrupt long ago.
According to the current number of people and food intake, Li Zhao can sustain 7,525,000 kilograms of grain for at least three years.
Three full years.
What is this concept?
Li Zhao couldn't even imagine how much evil the Du family had done to accumulate more than 30,000 acres of land.
The villagers in Longyang Township didn't have enough to eat at all before he came, and they were still worrying about food.
This shows how crazy the Du family is.
During this grain harvest, Li Zhao became fatter.
He finally stopped worrying about the food problem, and informed the kitchen that there may not be enough food, but there must be enough rice.
If you don’t open it to eat, how can you keep it for the New Year?
Just when Li Zhao was in high spirits, Wu Diao Si ran over quickly with a worried look on his face: "Your Highness, something happened."
"What's wrong?" Li Zhao looked at the personal eunuch in confusion.
"There are a lot of rumors outside now." Wu Diao Si looked ugly.
"What rumors?"
Li Zhao is exercising his body and strengthening his bones.
"Every major village is spreading rumors that Your Highness will soon be deprived of the title of King You by His Majesty. They are also saying that your death has come."
"Tsk—" Li Zhao couldn't hold back and laughed.
Wu Diao Si on the side couldn't laugh at all.
Things spread through noses and eyes.
Now, the people at the bottom know that the news that the prince is using the threshing machine to make money in Kyoto, more than 600 miles away, has aroused the anger of the court.
The public dissatisfaction boiled, and thousands of people blamed him.
Except for those who helped Li Zhao with his work or were close to Li Zhao, even those who saw Li Zhao operating in person now have extremely poor sense of Li Zhao.
Many people were beaten for speaking up for Li Zhao.
The impact is very bad.
Among them, the reaction from Jinyun Township was the most intense. Many villagers denounced Li Zhao for competing with the people for profit. He was a traitor. Such a person actually slaughtered the people unharmed. Dawu must be finished.
Li Zhao felt a little want to laugh when he heard it. It seemed that the big families were already preparing to attack him.
In addition, many fights occurred in places such as Wujiaxiang, Lijiazhai, Liujia Village and Longmen Village where Li Zhao was close.
Because they were close to Li Zhao, they were denounced by countless people as Li Zhao's lackeys.
When they took the initiative to stand up to defend Li Zhao, they were insulted by people who were eighteen generations of their ancestors. They were all strong-blooded men. Who could bear this humiliation?
Started working immediately.
Because of the long distance, some people were surrounded by some resistant villagers when they came to work at Li Zhao's side and were beaten severely.
These people may have injuries all over their bodies and can barely walk on the ground, or they may have broken bones and can only stay in bed.
For a time, the entire Jiaozhou area was pessimistic.
Even the villagers who had been friends with Li Zhao and had been working here for a long time began to feel unconfident and worried.
Wu Diao Si was worried, but could not find a good solution.
Li Zhao wiped his sweat after hearing this, without any panic on his face.
Not surprisingly, Du Xinyun and others should have taken action. They can be 100% sure that they will succeed in targeting Li Zhao this time.
Even if Li Zhao is still alive, he will only be a dumpling of clay for others to manipulate. When the time comes, it will not be too easy to kill Li Zhao with their ability.
Li Zhao threw the wiping towel to Wu Diao Si and said, "How many people are still helping me work now?"
Wu Diao Si murmured and did not dare to speak. He was kicked by Li Zhao, and then he hesitated: "There are only 3,653 people who came to help harvest the rice today."
Li Zhao frowned slightly and reduced the number of people by at least half?
Of the half reduction, how many of them were holding back because they were afraid of being implicated by him?
Seeing that Li Zhao was silent, Wu Diao Si did not dare to disturb him and could only hold his breath.
After a while, Li Zhao said: "Follow me for a while."
As a prince and a prince, he used farm tools to make money, which touched everyone's objections.
First of all, as a member of the royal family, competing with the people for profit is something that is denounced and looked down upon by all the people in the world, and it damages the prestige and majesty of the royal family of the Wu Kingdom.
Secondly, the people are already living a hard life, and it is even more difficult to buy farm tools. Why is it that you, King You, are still making money through farming?
Are you going to push everyone to the edge?
Finally, a threshing machine with 30,000 guan allowed countless ordinary people to directly break through the defense.
They had seen the power of the threshing machine, and naturally they were eager for it.
If ordinary people like them could have such a magical weapon, why worry about not having enough to eat and not enough to wear?
However, the treacherous and evil King You has set such a high threshold that it is prohibitive.
Shouldn't such treacherous and disgusting people be put to death and kept for the New Year?
