"Your Majesty, minister..." Fan Qiuli was about to speak when Emperor Wu waved his hand and said, "Let's go try it together."
Although Emperor Wu didn't fully display his drama just now, he still knew the priorities of the matter.
When he got Li Zhao's letter and tools, he had already ordered people to prepare them in advance.
There was also a field in the palace, and Emperor Wu waited for them to come over and test it himself.
Countless torches lit up the night sky, and the commanders of the Forbidden Army stood around to block it.
Emperor Wu took them and their tools to the field. Fan Qiuli ignored the cold autumn weather and started working directly with the tools.
The others wanted to try it out, but they still didn't overtake Fan Qiuli.
Emperor Wu has an operation guide here, and they will know it after reading it once.
However, when they saw with their own eyes how quickly and conveniently this tool could plow the land, everyone was shocked and silent.
In the past, plowing required four cows and four people. It was not only difficult to operate, but more importantly, it could not turn.
The efficiency is ridiculously slow, but what about now?
One person and one cow can do it, and it saves energy.
How does King You's head look like?
They never thought that such a genius would come out of Emperor Wu's royal family.
Everyone took turns to test, and came to the conclusion that Jiaozhou did not lie.
Maybe the limit is not 18,000 acres at all, just because Li Zhao only needs to expand these for the time being.
The courtiers were still in shock, and their minds had begun to dream about the future involuntarily.
Li Zhao has made meritorious deeds again!
grass!
What reward will be given to him this time?
The ministers really wanted to die.
They really want to refuse to think about this problem because it is a real headache.
But this time I have to give a reward.
Because once this product is promoted nationwide, the benefits will be endless.
This is a great merit and benefits everyone.
"Your Majesty, this product should be promoted immediately!"
"No!"
There was immediate support and opposition.
Their respective attitudes and opinions are also very clear.
"I think it's not allowed!" This time Zuopushe Chen Shixiu stood up and said, "Since we have set the rules before, we should abide by them."
"Even if this thing is of great use, the rules cannot be abolished. You must know that since King You has helped us open up the situation step by step, he must have subsequent arrangements."
"Therefore, the three-month protection period must not be abolished."
Chen Shixiu hasn't said yet, if he doesn't charge now, then all Li Zhao's previous efforts will be wasted, which is not acceptable.
It will cause turmoil in the entire Wu Kingdom.
Because people who spend money will feel uncomfortable and may cause trouble.
In serious cases or greedy cases, he might demand the return of his silver coins and have Li Zhao executed.
This kind of thing cannot happen and is not allowed to happen.
"I also object!" Prince Zhao spoke.
Now everyone can see that Li Zhao wants to use these things to extort money from wealthy families.
The key point is that Li Zhao did not use the money indiscriminately, and all of it was fed back to the people.
If Li Zhao used the money for pleasure, they would definitely not agree.
If Li Zhao doesn't have money, the court may have to provide him with money, which is something no one wants to see.
Therefore, they would rather Li Zhao continue to use this method.
Of course, what they were more afraid of was that Li Zhao would stop from now on.
They may not know that they have begun to look forward to Li Zhao, expecting him to bring more surprises.
…
Li Zhong looked at everyone and said seriously: "The accounts must be checked clearly, and no mistakes are allowed."
The number of staff in the palace has already exceeded the 15,000 mark, and the daily consumption is huge.
He didn't start extravagant and wasteful just because Li Zhao made a lot of money, but instead became more and more frugal.
Although Li Zhao's family was rich, the food and wealth he could accumulate were shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Especially for food, the number of people recruited alone has exceeded the 15,000 mark. This does not include Youwang Guard. Youwang Guard already has 5,000 people. If you include the ordinary personnel of the palace, the total is 6,000.
There are more than 20,000 people, and each person needs at least one and a half kilograms of rice per day, which is equivalent to consuming 30,000 kilograms of rice in one day.
That’s 900,000 kilograms a month, which is a pretty scary number.
Li Zhong didn't dare to be careless in the slightest.
…
Li Zhao ignored these chores and left them to Li Zhao and Qian Duoduo to handle.
Now, he is already moving forward with the second project.
Public restroom!
The vast majority of people actually work here, and eat, drink, and relieve themselves here.
But going to the toilet is always a big problem, and the newly reclaimed wasteland also needs regular fertilization.
Li Zhao convened everyone to discuss and finally built a public toilet.
In order to reduce trouble in the later stage, Li Zhao personally produced the design drawings and then discussed it with everyone.
Public toilets are located in several areas in the east, west, south and north. They are very large and have twenty pits in a row, which greatly meets everyone's needs.
Manure pits are the most important nutrients and nutrients for fields and crops in this era.
Therefore, Li Zhao also offered a high salary and hired a special manure picking team.
When there are more people, there will be more feces and urine. If it is not cleaned and dealt with in time, it will fill up quickly, and then the place will become smelly.
A manure picker's daily wage is twenty cents, which is much higher than the average worker's fifteen cents a day.
Therefore, there are many applicants, and they are all elderly people in the village.
They couldn't do heavy work, but they didn't want to be idle at home, so they just joined forces and took over the job.
Li Zhao is not worried that they will be lazy, because there is a lot of excrement in the cesspit. If they do less today, there will be more tomorrow, so there is no time to be lazy.
Of course, people in this era rarely engage in cheating and cheating, and are generally quite honest.
The main responsibility of the manure picker is to clean the manure pits and water the manure in the newly opened grain fields.
With such rich nutrition, Li Zhao couldn't believe that there would be no harvest at all from what he planted next year.
Li Zhao was very busy, busy researching gunpowder, and bought a lot of materials, but the failure rate was also high.
He discovered that all the time-travel novels he read in his previous life were ridiculous.
Everything of his has failed dozens of times, and nothing can succeed once, and the time span is also very long.
Although the ratio of this gunpowder is known, it is very troublesome to actually prepare it.
If you want to succeed, it is impossible to succeed in just ten or twenty times.
"My lord, it still doesn't work!"
“Make notes, adjust, and continue!”
Li Zhao has nothing else to do recently, mainly focusing on the research of gunpowder, or going out to find some work.
He rarely goes to see Zhao Jingru recently, not because he doesn't want to see her, but because everyone is busy.
