Fu Tang

Shi Xueting was also very helpless: "Someone threw it into my house in the middle of the night."

Throw it into... his house?

National Teacher's Office?

Li Congjia turned his head to look at Shi Xueting and said, "Your National Teacher's Mansion... isn't the guard too loose? It's a good thing it's a blood book, what if it's a bomb?"

Shi Xueting: ...

"Can't you think about it? Am I so hated?" Shi Xueting felt a little tired.

Li Congjia laughed and said: "You are the most attractive, but, this is just my idea, as for others...you can ask those who were killed by you."

Shi Xueting couldn't help pinching his chin and said, "Is it itchy?"

Li Congjia broke free and said, "I'm not kidding anymore, let me see what's written here."

Co-author, you were only thinking about it just now, and you didn't read carefully what others wrote?This blood book was probably written in vain.

After Li Congjia lowered his head and read it carefully, he looked up at Shi Xueting with a shocked expression.

Shi Xueting didn't find it strange either, because he had already read the contents of this blood book.

"What do you think?"

It took Li Congjia a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "Qilang really... endured the humiliation."

Shi Xueting raised his eyebrows: "How do you know that he is bearing the burden of humiliation? What if he really loves Ye Luxian?"

Li Congjia tilted his head and said, "If it's true love, shouldn't this be the time to bow down and surrender, and hand over your territory?"

Shi Xueting asked: "If it were you, what would you do?"

Li Congjia patted the table and said, "You can do it. Why do you keep asking me what I would do today? If I hadn't, such a thing would never have happened."

Shi Xueting didn't speak anymore, Li Congjia looked down and said, "Who do you think wrote this blood book?"

Shi Xueting said: "Didn't he make an appointment? I'll go and have a look."

Li Congjia reflexively said: "No. What if he sets up an ambush?"

It was written in the blood book that he still knew more things, but if Shi Xueting was to go to see him alone, Li Congjia was of course unwilling to let Shi Xueting take the risk.

Shi Xueting laughed: "Could it be that I won't bring people there?"

Li Congjia looked down at the blood book and said: "Since the blood book has been written, it proves that he is more anxious than us. Don't be in a hurry, wait a minute, and I'm also wondering why this person came to you?"

Shi Xueting said: "Of course his goal is not me, but you."

Li Congjia nodded: "The culprits are big, forget it, don't worry, it's better to let them take the initiative, I really want to know how they bypassed the defense and threw things at the National Teacher's Mansion. After finding out the reason, Where you should replace, replace.”

Shi Xueting didn't care. Since Li Congjia said so, he wasn't obsessed with taking risks. What's more, he was also very strange. The defense of the National Teacher's Mansion was planned by him alone. Not to mention that no flies could fly in, it was also very tight , How did the other party do it?

For three days in a row, there was no response from the other party. Just when Li Congjia and Shi Xueting thought that the blood letter written by the opposite party was just to stimulate eyeballs, the second blood letter arrived.

When Li Congjia saw that Shi Xueting was holding a blood book that was almost the same as before, he was speechless.

"So much blood from where they wrote the blood book, did they use pig's blood?" Li Congjia complained as he opened the blood book.

This time, there was only one sentence in the blood book: I have the defense map of Xiuguo.

After reading it, Li Congjia patted the table and said, "I think I know who it is."

Shi Xueting chuckled: "I seem to know too."

Li Congjia raised his head and said, "If you want to kill Li Congshan so tirelessly, there should be no one else but Pang Qian?"

Shi Xueting nodded: "Maybe it's his diehard loyalists, but it should be them."

Li Congjia asked again: "Do you know how they threw the blood book this time?"

Speaking of this, Shi Xueting's expression was a little dumbfounded: "They were thrown over by the leader."

Li Congjia: ...

Really ingenious!

"It seems that next time...you not only have to guard against people, but also keep birds out." Li Congjia wanted to laugh when he said that.

Shi Xueting said sternly: "It's not me who should be on guard, but you. This time he has good intentions and wants to rely on us for revenge, so he just chose the National Teacher's Mansion. What if he has malicious intentions and the target is the palace directly? "

Li Congjia thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, according to the current technology, unless he can control a group of crows..."

Before Li Congjia could finish his sentence, Shi Xueting covered his mouth.

"In that case you'd better not say it."

Li Congjia slapped his hand off, pretending to be angry: "What are you worrying about, I don't curse myself!"

Shi Xueting chuckled lightly, and then said: "The deployment map...is it necessary to get it?"

Li Congjia leaned back in his chair, thought for a while and asked, "How's the special forces training going?"

Shi Xueting understood: "You want them to go?"

Li Congjia nodded: "Although the deployment map is useful, if we really fought at that time, Xiuguo would not be our opponent at all, and we would simply crush it. Why let you take the risk to get this deployment map? If you let the special forces go... But I still I'm a little worried, the training time is too short, I train them, I don't want them to die."

Shi Xueting patted Li Congjia's head and said, "Don't worry, they are stronger than you think."

In fact, even if there is no special forces training plan, the Tiance Mansion is the most powerful army among all the troops. For them, it only adds some training that they have never been exposed to before. The amount of training has not increased much, and they can bear it.

As for special missions, to be honest, they are still very eager to try. After all, the family has no worries about food and clothing, and they have higher pursuits. Those who can be selected into the first special forces team are relatively outstanding talents. ordinary.

Li Congjia directly handed the blood book to Shi Xueting and said, "Then I will leave this matter to you."

Shi Xueting asked: "Won't the cabinet and the Privy Council be notified?"

Li Congjia said categorically: "No need, this matter has nothing to do with the cabinet, and the Privy Council...you forgot that I came up with a code of secrecy before? Don't ask if you shouldn't ask, and I will let them know if you should let them know .”

Shi Xueting kissed him in response, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Congjia hugged his neck and deepened the kiss. As for what Shi Xueting was going to do, he didn't ask, anyway, as long as he knew the final result.

Three days later, Shi Xueting brought a defense map, and Li Congjia looked up at him: "Where's Pang Qian?"

Shi Xueting said: "I arranged him in another place. Although he is not good enough to be an emperor, he is not incompetent. It depends on whether you are happy or not."

Li Congjia was a little hesitant: "I don't want him to make a mess of smoke in the court after he comes."

Shi Xueting chuckled: "Partisanship also has its benefits, or you don't need to cultivate faction, but you just need different opinions. The cabinet is too united now. Song Qiqiu is probably about to retire. Zhao Pu can also join the cabinet after a period of experience in the household department. right?"

Li Congjia nodded: "Well, Zhao Pu's qualifications are about the same. Why do you suddenly mention him? He doesn't get along with other ministers?"

"It's not a disagreement, it's just that the views are different. Compared with these people, Zhao Pu seems a little more radical."

Li Congjia fully agrees with this assessment. Zhao Pu has a gambler's nature in his bones, of course not the kind of desperate one. Anyway, it's different from the current cabinet's comfort, and he doesn't know what he will do after entering the cabinet.

Two days after Shi Xueting said that Song Qiqiu was going to be an official, Song Qiqiu could not go to court, it is said that he had contracted a cold.

Li Congjia had always given preferential treatment to the old ministers, directly giving medicines and sending Fengyu, and Fengyu's reports all agreed that Song Cifu was tired.

Li Congjia simply gave Song Qiqiu a vacation, and Song Qiqiu also knew that Tang Dynasty seemed peaceful now, but in fact there were many complicated things, without him alone, other people's jobs would change a lot, and then Song Qi Qiu asked his son to directly write the book about begging for bones.

As usual, there are three requests and three resignations. Li Congjia complained while trying to stay, "I don't know who invented it. It must be such a trouble. What's the point of being hypocritical? It's not that he made a mistake. I'm waiting for him to resign."

However, this kind of form still needs to be taken for a while, after all, it needs to show the appearance of the monarch and his ministers getting along well, so Li Congjia waited until Song Qiqiu's third pass, and then he was ready, and then he promoted Zhao Pu to the cabinet in a blink of an eye. At the same time, Tian Wen went back to continue to be his secretary of the household department, and the Ministry of Communications was handed over to Xu Kai.

The court did not have much reaction to such a personnel change. In fact, everyone felt it as early as when Zhao Pu was thrown into the household department to be a minister.

Before, everyone was guessing who the next cabinet minister would be, and no one listed Zhao Pu on the list. To be honest, Zhao Pu was so ordinary at that time that no one thought he was qualified to be in the cabinet.

Later, Li Congjia asked him to be the governor, and he went to Shangzhou. However, from here on, Zhao Pu was like hanging out. In a year and a half, the place that was originally a medium-sized state was basically able to compete for one. Competing for the number of places in the upper state, and the interior of the jurisdiction is considered stable and stable, everyone realized that they underestimated Zhao Pu.

After Zhao Pu returned to the center, he almost went through the six parts, and everyone knew that Li Congjia was going to train Zhao Pu as his next minister.

But everyone was wondering, when exactly did Li Congjia start training Zhao Pu?

Did it start by making him the governor?To be honest, according to Zhao Pu's resume at that time, it was a bit reluctant to let him become the governor, but at that time everyone thought that Li Congjia had no one who could use him, so they let Zhao Pu go.

Looking at it now, perhaps Zhao Pu has been trained since then?

Many people find it unbelievable. They summed it up. Li Congjia’s military value is not good, nor is it good at arranging troops. He doesn’t have these two most important attributes of the founding king. The only thing that makes people feel incredible is his ability to recognize people. .

It seems that he can always find out the person when the other party has not made a fortune, give him the most suitable position, and then wait for this person to shine a little bit in return.

So, abruptly, from a village of horse thieves, he became rich in the world now.

No one knows the basis of Li Congjia's recognition of people, only know that from the beginning to now, Li Congjia has almost never missed anyone.

From this point of view, from ancient times to the present, there are far fewer monarchs who can know people than those who can lead troops to fight.

As a result, Li Congjia was still alive, and all kinds of magical jokes about him began to spread. Datang's language environment was very loose, and Li Congjia didn't even want to avoid taboos, but it was the cabinet's insistence that he agreed.

But the question is, what words to avoid?

His real name is Li Congjia. In order to conceal his identity, he said that he was Li Yu, so everyone in the world knew that he was Li Yu, and not many people even knew that he was Li Congjia.

In the end, Li Congjia followed suit and changed his name. The only thing that is more regrettable is that Li Houzhu's words may not be widely spread in the world. After all, he did not perish, nor was he given poisoned wine. If he really wrote those words, it is estimated People in the world still wonder if he is controlled by powerful ministers!

After expressing his emotions, Li Congjia turned around and began to think about how to increase food production.

This is the most urgent thing. To be honest, although his living standard has been good since he came here, he also knows that the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties is just for the environment of the whole world at that time. If it is really compared, This era is much different from later generations.

At least the common people still cannot guarantee food and clothing, let alone the right to choose food and clothing.

But in this day and age, it is not easy to increase production. The top-grade fields are limited, and people have basically been sent to the places on the plains that can open up wasteland. Now the only place with relatively rich land is the south.

Of course, this south does not include the Southern Zhou Dynasty. Li Congjia does not want to fight in the Southern Zhou Dynasty for the time being, so let's talk about it later.The Southern Zhou Dynasty almost occupied most of the southern plains, and the rest of the area was mountainous and full of rivers.

Li Congjia thought about it, don't think about mechanical farm tools in this kind of place, unless he can solve the fuel problem, so he can only think about the later dynasties, after all, it is not difficult to restore things before the industrial revolution technically , the only thing is the lack of brainstorming.

So Li Congjia entered the crazy design stage again. He set the design goal at the Ming Dynasty. In the future, the Qing Dynasty was basically a big step back from the entire social civilization. suitable.

Among them, the only thing Li Congjia got back were five kinds of "wooden oxen" and "substitute tillage frames", and of course irrigation farm implements, wind-powered waterwheels, and rice beds for husking grains.

Both the wooden ox and the farming frame use the principle of leverage. From the perspective of modern people, these things are really clumsy. However, one advantage of these things is that they do not require a farming ox, especially the five types of wooden ox can correspond to different Field conditions, mountains, paddy fields, and flat land all have ways to deal with them. Substitute tillage racks are easier to use than these five kinds of wooden oxen.

The only thing to worry about is that although the production cost of this thing is not too high, it is easy to break, and the disguised form makes this thing not so practical.

Now the entire Tang Dynasty is still in a state of small-scale peasant economy. Even if Li Congjia wants to change, he will have the opportunity to promote the change, so he can only think about how to make it more solid.

However, if you want to be strong, you can only use metal. Li Congjia thought about it and asked the people from the Ministry of Industry to ask if they could make a hard alloy.

If it was just metal, the price would be even higher. Li Congjia gave everyone the blueprint of the farming frame, and then turned to Yang Xin and asked him to buy land for himself.

Yang Xin was surprised when he found out, "Are you... all right?"

Not to mention the emperor, but ordinary wealthy businessmen also buy flat and fertile land when they buy land. What is going on with his majesty to buy mountain land?And if you buy a large piece, what is the use of it?

Li Congjia glared at him: "How do you talk? It's not big or small."

Yang Xin stuck out his tongue, thought for a while and said, "Let me help you pay attention."

Li Congjia said: "As long as the water source is sufficient, other requirements are not high."

The more Yang Xin thought about it, the more strange he felt, thinking that His Majesty must have lost his mind, so he turned around and ran to complain to his master.

Shi Xueting didn't care about this matter. Once Li Congjia made any convulsions, it proved that he had a new idea, but this idea may not be mature, or he himself has to experiment with the possibility, so he will Come up with these surprising commands.

However, in order to satisfy his curiosity, Shi Xueting went to Li Congjia and asked, "What do you want to do again?"

Li Congjia stroked his chin and said: "I have made several farm tools, but I don't know if they are useful or not. I want to try them out. Some farm tools are suitable for use in mountainous areas, so I asked people to buy land. Isn't Yang Xin such a brat? Sued you again?"

Shi Xueting couldn't help laughing and said, "He thinks it's a bit strange for you to buy mountain land."

Li Congjia snorted and said, "How can such mortals understand my thoughts? Why can't this child learn to be obedient?"

Shi Xueting said frankly: "If he is the kind of person who will listen to what others say, you dare to use him?"

Also... I dare not, Li Congjia really needs obedient people, but what he needs more is someone with brains who knows how to remind his boss not to be stupid. .

Shi Xueting didn't discuss Yang Xin with Li Congjia anymore, but he was very interested in the farm tools Li Congjia said. He picked up the drawings designed by Li Congjia and looked at them and asked, "Is it really possible?"

He didn't question Li Congjia, but just felt strange, Li Congjia was a prince since he was a child, and he had never seen him tinkering with farm tools before, so how could he design this thing?

Feeling Shi Xueting's suspicious gaze, Li Congjia said calmly: "I think about it every day, and I dream about it at night. I didn't know if it would be useful or not, and I didn't dare to promote it. I just wanted to try it myself, and you didn't." What kind of farm work did you do, so I didn't want to ask you."

If this explanation is given to modern people, it will feel too ridiculous. If you think about it every day and dream at night, can you improve your tools?Then if you sleep twelve hours a day, won't you be able to go to heaven?

However, in this era, there is a market for such a statement!Shi Xueting believed it!

Anyway, there is more than one miraculous thing about Li Congjia, which is nothing, he just asked: "If you want to know, why don't you find an experienced carpenter or farmer to see it? Why try it yourself?"

Li Congjia explained: "What I want to try is not only whether it is easy to use, but also how long it can be used. After all, even if it is a useful tool, if it is not used for a long time, then it cannot be promoted. Yes, because ordinary people can't afford it, and as for those wealthy households... it's cheaper to hire people than this farm tool, so why should they spend more money?"

Shi Xueting asked: "What will you do if you don't use it for long enough?"

Li Congjia was in a dilemma for a while, he didn't know what to do. One thing was very good, but it couldn't be promoted, which made him very tangled.

Let him say, it's very simple, use metal, wood is perishable, then use metal, but the problem is that now with explosives, mining raw ore has become very easy, but metal smelting technology has not kept up, or It's not that metal smelting technology is not easy to use, it's just that there are too few talents engaged in this field!

Li Congjia decided to recruit metal smelting talents while experimenting to improve these agricultural tools, and then experimented with coal or oil, which was more useful as a metallurgical fuel.

Anyway, the current oil is not expensive to get from abroad, and if you keep it, you can keep it. There is no way to save it, or they don’t have the conditions to save it, so just use it if you can.

Li Congjia listed the talents he needed, and finally decided to issue an edict to let all useful talents come to apply for the job. After all, he also thought that every time he came out, he would come out one after another, in case he needed some kind of talents in the future, but found that he didn't recruit them. Want to recruit now?Is it troublesome?

As for the cost of raising these people, they are not officials anyway, and they will not be appointed as officials. At most, they will be thrown into the college to teach a few subjects. The money required is not much, and Li Congjia can fully support them alone!

After Li Congjia's edict, it can be regarded as arousing a thousand waves among the people. Many people who like to study heresies cried with joy, thinking that they had a bright future, and then they met to go to Chang'an to try their luck.

Then Chang'an, which had just passed the imperial examination once, actually has the atmosphere before the imperial examination again. The only difference is that before the road was full of literati saluting and greeting each other, but now the road is full of foreigners greeting each other, and accompanied by what are you studying? greeting.

Because of the wide range of talents recruited this time, after Li Congjia received the list, he found all kinds of people with special skills, some could attract birds by singing, some could dance on the palms of people, and some could stuff themselves into Jar, and some people even offered a bottle of elixir, calling it the elixir of immortality.

When Li Congjia saw the black pill exuding an inexplicable smell, his entire face turned green.

The most deceitful thing is that he began to receive all kinds of advice from courtiers again.

The author has something to say: Li Congjia: Xue Ting, the people who come this time have everything, and there is also a performance of swallowing bananas!

Shi Xueting: Swallow a banana?

Li Congjia: They peel off the banana skin completely with their mouths without damaging the bananas, and then spit it out. They can really do it.

Shi Xueting: Oh, want to try it?

Li Congjia: If you have something to say, talk about it, what do you do when you untie your belt? !