I have a backstage in Datang

Li Jiancheng was anxious and angry, and said suddenly: "I will never agree with you to seek death. I will not watch my sister follow you to die."

It's a pity that Gu Tianya didn't refute, as if he didn't want to continue this topic

He suddenly turned his head to look to the south, and said with a smile: "This time the baby tiger is being baptized on the full moon, and the second elder brother came with all the civil and military officials. I asked Cheng Chumo and others to act as guides and lead them to see the people's livelihood in Hebei Road. Mr. After this tour, many people have already been fascinated by the situation in Hebei Road. Then, do you know the reason why I did this?"

Li Jiancheng was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't keep up with his jumping turns, but Li Jiancheng was such a character, he quickly heard the charm from these words, and said in a deep voice: "You are tempting them."

Gu Tianya nodded, and said with some emotion: "Zhaoning is arrogant and unwilling to take advantage of her natal family's interests. She once told me that the things she owned before she got married belonged to her natal family. So even though Hebei Road was managed by me painstakingly, but Our husband and wife are still willing to return this area to Datang. Because my wife doesn’t want to take advantage of her natal family. Similarly, I don’t want to take advantage of my wife’s natal family either.”

Li Jiancheng hesitated for a long time, and said: "Even if Hebei Road is to be returned to the Li family, you already have Yunzhou in your hands. During the first battle of Liang Guo, we deliberately avoided Yunzhou and let the women's army capture it. It is to let you and Xiuning have a place to live, which can be used as a place for food and clothing after she gets married. This place does not need to be returned to Datang, it will belong to the wealth of your Gu family for generations."

Gu Tianya let out a breath slowly, and said softly: "The land of ditches is not suitable for fishing."

This is clearly an answer to what Li Jiancheng said just now.

Li Jiancheng hesitated for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "Then there is still Tanzhou, and this area is also given to you. Although I have become the hidden prince of the Tang Dynasty, as long as I am alive, I can say As long as I express my opinion, both the father and Erlang will agree. And the baby tiger is the Duke of Tanzhou who was conferred by the father. This means that the land of a state is given to the little grandson for food and clothing. Big brother Shun Take this reward one step further, let the Li family give Tanzhou to your Gu family for generations to pass on, how about it, this should be enough."

It has to be said that Li Jiancheng really has a deep heart for the Gu family.

After all, he is the elder brother of the Li family's royal family, but now he is willing to give the land of two states to the Gu family.Among them, Yunzhou was captured from the Liang Kingdom, and it can be claimed to the outside world that it was the result of the Gu family's expansion of the territory.But Tanzhou has belonged to the Hebei Province since ancient times, and giving such a place to the Gu family is purely to split the ancient land of the Tang Dynasty.

If the Li family really agreed to Li Jiancheng's proposal, then it would definitely be a real heartbreak for the Gu family.

The land of two states, especially with Yunzhou, can already establish a small country, which can fully satisfy Gu Tianya's wish to be emperor.

You must know that Yunzhou is a land in the northwest, and one state is almost equivalent to three states in the Central Plains. After such a rough calculation, the Gu family almost owns four states. food and clothing.

Li Jiancheng made such great sincerity, obviously he was really thinking about Gu Tianya.

But Gu Tianya never said anything, obviously he never gave up his thoughts.

But he was very touched after all, so he didn't want to argue with Li Jiancheng, a loyal elder brother.

He suddenly picked up the fishing rod from the ground, and then picked up Li Jiancheng's fishing rod, and said with a smile, "Brother, it's time for us to have lunch."

Li Jiancheng sighed.

He knew he hadn't been able to persuade the brother-in-law.

But Gu Tianya suddenly looked to the south, and seemed to be referring to something else: "According to the time calculation, the second brother and the others have already walked halfway, and they must have been very satisfied with watching the people's livelihood in Hebei Road along the way. I didn't prepare anything specially, but they sure What can you see, then, maybe many people have become greedy..."

"Since I have greed, I will wonder why I can do those things. Hebei Dao is a land of long-term battles, but it took me less than a year to lay the foundation for Hebei Dao to take off richly. Those People pay attention to interests, and after seeing Hebei Road, they must have desires, so they will involuntarily want to show favor to me."

"And these are exactly the things that support me to have the confidence to build a country by myself."

Benefit from ancient times

Chapter 187 [Ambition from Tang Baiguan]

Datang officials have been squatting on the ground for a long time.

There is no image, eyes wide open, looking around, there are hundreds of people squatting in a row, if you don't know the status of this group of people in advance, you will think that a group of stupid idiots came from somewhere.

In fact, this is not only the case with Baiguan, but also Li Shimin, who has always paid attention to his image.

Who would dare to believe that the soon-to-be Emperor of the Tang Dynasty actually squatted on the ground?

It's nothing more than squatting on the ground, but the posture is still so strange. This posture is very common among the people. Usually, when the common people have a stomachache, they rush into the field, then spread their feet apart, inhale and hold back their strength, and then there is a landslide The tsunami, let out a comfortable moan.

At this time, if you hold another piece of dirt in your hand, the image will be pure and perfect.

It just so happened that Li Shimin was holding a piece of dirt in his hand, and he was about to throw the dirt down to try...

There is a ditch in front of me, the width is only one foot at most, the water in the ditch is gurgling, and occasionally some green grass floats, it is said that this scene is nothing to see, the officials of the Tang Dynasty have never seen any battle, but everyone is squatting in the ditch By the side, I have been concentrating on watching for half an hour.

From time to time, someone imitated Li Shimin, took a piece of soil and tried to throw it down to see the movement, and then listened to the sound of humbling water, and watched the soil being smashed by the water in admiration.

Because an old farmer couldn't help coming, he stood far away and plucked up his courage and shouted angrily: "Anyone who dares to throw the soil down, I will drown in the river, my life is cheap, you are nobles, I dare not change my life with you, but my death in front of you will make you unlucky...you still throw it, you still throw that fat man..."

The official known as the fat man withdrew his hand in a sly manner, and put the soil on the ground in a pretentious manner. But when the old farmer didn't pay attention, the fat man picked up the soil again, and threw it into the water with a bang. The officials craned their necks together, staring intently into the ditch.

The old farmer was trembling all over, his eyes had turned red and overflowed with tears, he suddenly sat on the ground with a thud, and shouted: "It's a crime, it's a crime, why didn't God open his eyes and kill him..."

It's a pity that the farmer is timid. Even though he was angry, he still didn't dare to swear the next words. He just buried his head in tears not far away, but a little granddaughter beside him glared at each other.

Li Shimin glanced at it from a distance, and suddenly said with emotion: "It can make a loyal and honest farmer angry, and force him to muster up the courage to swear two words. It can be seen that this utensil in the ditch is more important in the hearts of the people." Their lives matter."

"Is it not important? This is simply an artifact."

Next to him, Li Xiaogong subconsciously opened his mouth, and said sincerely: "With this thing, the common people will no longer have to look at the sky when farming. No matter how severe the drought is, the crops will still not be afraid of drought. That is to say, drought will no longer lead to a reduction in grain production. , and what is food? Food is the life of the people.”

Li Shimin nodded slowly, then shook his head again, and said solemnly: "Xiao Gong made a mistake in saying that food is not only the life of ordinary people, even our royal family will die without food. So I understand that very well." Old farmer, it's a good thing he didn't jump over to scold his mother."

As he spoke, he looked at the officials beside the canal, especially the officials of those aristocratic factions, and said meaningfully: "I don't know if the people of the aristocratic families care, after all, a big family doesn't have much shortage of food."

The officials of the aristocratic family looked at each other, and suddenly cupped their hands together and said: "Your Highness, don't be ridiculous, how can we not care about food? To be honest, the aristocratic family has the most land in their hands. Although we are known as heirs of poetry and books, However, no one can escape the fate of throwing food into the soil. We do not shy away from greed, and we care more about the harvest of the land than anyone else..."

After finishing speaking, these family officials looked at the people in Tiance Mansion, sneered and mocked: "I don't know if the other group of people care, after all, some people are good at robbing. Others have accumulated painstakingly for generations, and then they gradually become rich. family, and some people have been used to being poor for generations, and want to snatch good things from other people's homes when they see them. Bandit people don't know the pain of saving, so naturally they don't care about the harvest of the fields."

"Damn it, who are you talking about?"

Most of the officials of the Tiance Mansion faction were Wu Xun, and when they heard the words, they yelled and cursed at the top of their lungs, saying in a vicious voice: "If you dare to point fingers at Sang and Huai, believe it or not, I will throw you into the ditch. Fill your belly with water and shut your mouths. "

The family officials sneered, not taking these threats to heart at all.

Li Shimin's expression was flat, as if he didn't care about the quarrel between the officials of the two factions. It could even be said that he deliberately caused the quarrel.

Li Xiaogong's expression was also flat, as if he didn't see the officials cursing, he suddenly stretched out his hand and picked up a person, who was called a fat guy by the old farmer just now, and asked this person: "Brother Duan Lun, you have been transferred to the Ministry of Industry for half a year Now, looking at the entire court officials, you should be the person who is most often in contact with Gewu. You squatted on the ground and watched for so long just now. Among all the people, you belong to Huan who throws dirt and garbage. After all, you can see if there is any way to do it. Hurry up and give it to me. Tell me, guys."

That fat man is Duan Lun, and his status is the same as that of Gu Tianya, he is a relative of the emperor, but Duan Lun is a son-in-law, and belongs to the situation of Li's family, while Gu Tianya is married to Zhaoning, so strictly speaking, he is not a son-in-law. .

However, Duan Lun, as a captain-in-law, was not in a situation where he would be enraged. This fat man had a good family background, his ancestors belonged to the Xianbei royal family, and his father had served as Minister of War in the Sui Dynasty, and his status and power even surpassed that of Li Yuan back then.

Before Datang was established, this fat man had already married the daughter of the Li family. Afterwards, the Li family raised troops in Jinyang, and this fat man used all his family wealth as military resources. To be able to establish Datang, this guy has made great contributions.

So even though he is now a captain consort, civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty seldom regard him as a married man. Even the Li royal family regards him as the core figure of the royal interest group.

Looking at the entire court, no one would underestimate this fat man.

Because, he is the minister of the Ministry of Industry who just took office.

You must know that the Tang Dynasty followed the Sui Dynasty's system of three provinces and six ministries, and all the big bosses added up to only nine people.

……

However, although Duan Lun was dragged up by Li Xiaogong, the fat man was really fat, he was panting and wiping his sweat, his eyes were still staring at the drain.

His pair of small mung bean eyes have clearly turned into a round outer circle and an inner square, just like two copper coins, shining brightly.

Li Xiaogong was extremely bored, couldn't help but sneered coldly: "Wipe your halazi, don't be like a turkey, the dignified minister of the Ministry of Industry, have you never seen the world or what?"

"Have you seen it? You won't ask me if you've seen it."

The fat man didn't piss on Li Xiaogong's pot at all, and directly pissed off Li Xiaogong.

However, the fat man was so tugging, but Li Xiaogong's eyes lit up, and he came up excitedly and said: "No way, you really see the way of this thing?"

"I can see a little bit, but I'm not sure."

The fat man hesitated for a moment, pointed to a vortex in the ditch and said, "Did you see that iron wheel that keeps turning? We all smashed it with dirt just now, but the rotation of this thing has not diminished at all, and it has been continuously providing Power, precisely because of the power it provides, drives those leaves to rotate continuously, from low to high, and back and forth. Through such a continuous cycle, water is continuously sent to high places, and then extends along a ditch. to the places that need to be irrigated..."

Li Xiaogong obviously didn't understand, but it didn't prevent him from continuing to ask questions, saying: "What if some fields are higher than the ditch when the next ditch flows to the end?"

"It's very simple, just get another device like this and continue pumping water."

The fat man agreed absently, and continued to stare into the ditch, then suddenly turned his head to look into the distance, looked at the ditch at the end of the field, and murmured: "It's amazing, using the power of water to drive the water, under such a continuous cycle, even It can lift water up a mountain."

At this time Li Shimin had already got up, looking at the ditches in the field as well, and after a long time, he let out a deep breath and said: "The dry field has become a paddy field. One mu of land can harvest at least fifty catties of grain. "

This is the real reason why all the officials squatted on the ground and watched for half an hour.

An extra [-] catties of grain is harvested per mu of land, and [-] mu of land equals [-] catties of grain, which is enough food for a grown-up man for a year.

Ever since Gu Tianya made the move to compete for the family's land, the world's family has returned [-]% of the field, and only these [-]% of the field have given the common people enough to cultivate.

A family is given land by Ding, and the male Ding first has a piece of Yongye farmland, which alone has as much as [-] mu, and secondly, there is the sub-field, which is astonishingly as much as [-] mu. The total number of acres is exactly [-] acres under the equal-field system.

Then there are women, who can get about [-] mu of land, and children and the elderly, who also have [-] mu of land.

In this rough calculation, a family of five has at least three or four hundred acres of land. If any heirs in the family reach the age of maturity, they will immediately receive an additional [-] acres of land. Not less than five hundred acres. [Recorded in Tang History]

With 25000 mu of land, if each mu can harvest an extra [-] catties of grain, how much would it be?That's [-] catties.

Equivalent to 250 stones.

And what is the minimum grain required for a family in Datang for a year?

The Ministry of Household Affairs has done specific statistics.

If you are not full enough to eat, you only need 5 shi for a family of 10.

There is one full meal for two meals, and it is about 5 shi for a family of 15.

If two meals are full, or even one meal is added when the farming is busy, how much will it be? 25 shi of grain is completely enough.

But now, everyone sees the hope that a family with one family can harvest 250 shi of grain a year.

What is the concept of eating enough for everyone?

What is the future of every family having food?

At that time, the common people will no longer have to worry about hunger, and there is no need to worry about the court's taxes at all. With the treasury full, it is no problem to raise as many soldiers and horses.

What does that mean?

It represents that Datang will have the unparalleled power to dominate the world.

Now that the power is tyrannical, is it possible to hide at home and enjoy the blessings?

Hehe, the ancients were much more ruthless than the later generations.

I'm rich and powerful, so I won't pretend to be a foreigner with a big smile on my face.

The grassland Turks that I couldn't offend before, now I really want to beat you up, the reason is very simple, your grasslands are full of cattle, sheep and horses.

Now that I am powerful and powerful, these wealth should be enjoyed by me.

The jewel carpets from the Western Regions are very exquisite. This thing must be brought to our Central Plains. Even if you obediently send it to me as an offering, I still feel dissatisfied.

Because you can only get a part of the offering.

And what we want is...all of them.

When I am powerful, I will not help outsiders for the sake of reputation. On the contrary, I will beat you, I will rob you, whether you accept it or not, my first thought is to send troops to fight.

This is the most simple way of benefiting the ancients.

Expansion of territory and wealth, as long as the national power of the Tang Dynasty is strong, it will inevitably fight against the Quartet, which means that many officials will make meritorious deeds.

The duke's title is no longer a luxury.

Sealing a wife and Yinzi is no longer a longing.

But everyone has a chance, but everyone has a possibility.

The premise of all this is that the common people can have enough to eat.

……

...... The first update, starting from today to rewrite the farm for a while, after growing and growing, the next step is to bully outsiders.In fact, I don't want to write about my own fights, because all the fights hurt the Central Plains.

Chapter 188 [Everyone stretch out their necks and let Gu Tianya strangle them casually]

Almost everyone's Adam's apple rolled, which was caused by a kind of greedy mind.

But Li Shimin was not worried about this kind of greed. Instead, he deliberately encouraged him, and said again with deep meaning: "If every mu in the world can increase the yield by [-] catties!"

Before Li Xiaogong could make a move, he suddenly saw Changsun Wuji rushing over. The old bastard grabbed Duan Lun's hand, squatted down by the side of the ditch with the fat man, and asked through gritted teeth, "If all of us support you together, Can your Ministry of Industry imitate this kind of equipment?"

The fat man didn't care about his rudeness, instead he calculated with a serious face. The more than 100 people present held their breaths and dared not disturb him. After a long time, the fat man let out a breath slowly and said: " It can be imitated!"

Everyone was overjoyed.

Unexpectedly, the fat man spoke again, and said, "But it cannot be imitated."

Everyone froze immediately.

But the fat man pointed at the utensils in the ditch, and said in a deep voice: "If only one or two of these things are imitated, the old craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry will definitely be able to imitate them, but if you want to manufacture a large number, I think the Ministry of Industry Doing this is putting the cart before the horse.”

Li Shimin was thoughtful, and suddenly interjected: "Is it because of this iron wheel?"