Iron Dynasty

Your Highness, the soldiers are waiting for this day.

Lu Fei laughed heartily. Today's King Qi is different from the past, and he feels more close to the soldiers.

He is a straightforward person. In the past, if Xiao Ming hadn't made things difficult for him, he wouldn't have despised Xiao Ming so much. Now he doesn't know why Xiao Ming's personality has changed a lot, but this is good news for him. Continue to follow Xiao Ming for a while.

Li Kaiyuan gnawed at a bone, and the special fragrance of horse meat made him unable to swallow the meat directly, but chewed it carefully in his mouth.

With a look of hope in his eyes, he asked, Your Highness, it is said that this city of Chang'an is very prosperous, so the common people can eat steamed buns.

It's not necessarily that we can eat it all, but life is always more comfortable than ours. Xiao Ming said after a while.

In Xiao Ming's opinion, the people at the bottom of the Great Yu Kingdom would not be very wealthy. Today's law of equalizing land in the Great Yu Kingdom has long since collapsed.

The Great Yu Kingdom is like an old man in the twilight, exuding a decadent aura.

Qian Dafu recalled the life in Chang'an and said, It's just a wealthy businessman, there are more noble children, and prosperity can be said. At least as long as you have money, you can buy whatever you want, unlike Qingzhou, you can't buy it with money. Salt, it is still Ziwan who went to the fief of the Wei King to buy some back.

Salt? Xiao Ming was stunned. He said how could this horse meat be white water meat. It turned out to be because there was no salt in the palace. He said, The east side of the fief is the sea. Isn't the way to boil the salt in this sea water? understand?

His Royal Highness, it's not that the common people don't understand the method of boiling salt, but since ancient times, this salt has always been an official business, and selling illicit salt is a capital offense, and Your Highness, you don't pay attention to the official salt of this fief, so... Qian Dafu said politely.

Xiao Ming blushed for a while, it turned out that this was all the fault of Xiao Ming in the past.

In the past five years in the fief, this guy didn't care about the world, and didn't think about how to build his fief at all. He was just blindly seeking pleasure, and many institutions on the fief had not been established.

With a long sigh, Xiao Ming said, Since this is the case, when Pang Changshi returns, let him prepare for the establishment of this salt transportation department and set up official salt in Dengzhou and Laizhou.

Your Highness is wise. Qian Dafu was overjoyed, and King Qi was finally enlightened.

Twilight gradually enveloped Qingzhou City, and before the sun set, Lu Fei and Li Kaiyuan took their soldiers back.

They still need to patrol at night. There is a curfew in the night city of Dayu Kingdom, and the same is true for Qingzhou City.

At this time, the palace was dark, and only two or three rooms were lit with candles. The lack of material in the fief also made the palace not have the luxury of having so many candles to light every corner.

In the side hall of the palace, where the servants lived, the servants with firewood were coming in and out, braving the smoke.

Just after turning around the front hall, Luluo suddenly appeared in front of him. The night was pitch black. If it wasn't for her green clothes, he really couldn't tell.

His Royal Highness, the hot water is ready. Today, His Highness captured the barbarians. He must be tired. His Highness should bathe and change clothes earlier, and rest. Luluo said softly.

It has been three days since I came to this strange world, and every night is the time Xiao Ming hates the most. A night without entertainment is really boring.

Occasionally, it's just one day, but now it's been like this for three days in a row, and he really can't stand it now.

He looked at Luluo, there was nothing he could do, and if he went on like this, he would probably go crazy and could only tease the two maids.

The side hall on the side of the sleeping hall is where Xiao Ming takes a bath. Follow Luluo back. The hot water in a large wooden bucket has been prepared. Aster is standing beside the wooden passage waiting for Xiao Ming.

After three days of living a life that was not even as good as hanging silk, Xiao Ming finally felt a little psychological comfort. At least this prince still has a maid to serve him. This is how many single dogs roll around with envy.

Your Highness, this servant will undress for you. Aster and Luluo stepped forward.

Xiao Ming straightened his body and stretched out his arms. He didn't take a bath every day. In this evil ancient times, taking a bath was quite a luxury.

Getting water from the well and boiling it required a lot of servants to be busy, and even if there were a lot of money in his palace, there were only ten people.

These ten people undertake all the sanitation, meals, and chores in the palace.

Moreover, the area of ​​his palace is not small, with a distance of 200 meters from north to south and from east to west. In Qingzhou City, Qi Wangfu is the only luxurious building.

Squinting, Xiao Ming enjoyed the personal service of Luluo and Aster. For the first time since crossing the road, he felt it was worth it.

Luluo and Ziwan blushed. They only served Concubine Zhen before, and they had never seen a man's body before. Their emotions such as shyness, fear, and curiosity were intertwined repeatedly.

But they knew in their hearts that since Concubine Zhen gave them to King Qi, they had already belonged to King Qi, and they could only suppress the shyness in their hearts.

Would you like to wash together? Xiao Ming smiled wickedly.

Luluo lowered her head and did not dare to speak, Ziwan said crisply: Don't worry, Your Highness, Empress has instructed, when Your Highness gets married in the future, Luluo and I will both be His Highness's people sooner or later.

Xiao Ming was just teasing them to find some fun in their boring life.

Sitting in the hot tub, he glanced at Ziwan, who was more courageous than Luluo, and the explanation in Concubine Zhen's letter seemed to have such a line.

It's just a joke, don't take it seriously. Xiao Ming said while taking a shower, he wasn't a sperm, he knew what the focus was now.

After a pause, he asked Ziwan: Aster, this king asks you, if you want to make this king's fief rich, what is the most important thing at the moment?

Aster was surprised that King Qi would ask her this question, and replied instinctively, Aster is a woman, how can she understand these things.

This king ordered you to answer. Xiao Ming frowned. At this time, he was still following the principle that ignorance of a woman is virtue, but Ziwan's answer was not what he expected.

Startled for a moment, Zi Wan was afraid that King Qi would have his old surly temper again, and said, Land.

Xiao Ming nodded. The wealthy clans were sitting on the top, the threats of the northern barbarians, and the intrigues of the princes seemed to leave him little time for development.

He has been thinking about it these days, and the first thing to do is to solve the land issue.

In ancient times, there was a strange phenomenon in any dynasty, that is, the people were always richer than the land, and once large-scale land annexation appeared, it basically heralded the end of the dynasty.

At present, the same is true of his fiefs. A large area of ​​high-quality land is monopolized by local prominent families, and many people have no land to cultivate. Now he will solve this problem first.

At the same time, the second problem he wants to solve is the inheritance of knowledge. He guards a technology library without using it, which is simply a waste of time.