The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

Li Fu has not been idle these two days. He has accumulated experience from the large-scale construction in Zhuangzi, especially the trading area in the workshop area. To put it bluntly, it is currently a small service area. After the design is finalized, it is not completely unchangeable.

It is also being modified while being built, and there is also room for future expansion.

The more Li Fu thinks about it, the more he feels that this thing is like a space station. It can be built bit by bit, connected and connected into a whole.

Therefore, when building, you have to keep a backup plan.

"Students cannot be brought up in one job." Li Fu said: "Maybe after finishing the work on Zhuangzi this year or next year, there will be more important things waiting in the future." Li Fu sighed.

"There are already three or four major projects in Zhuangzi. Aren't these enough?" Yan Liben looked surprised.

Li Fu shook his head.

"It's just a manor. How many manors like this are there in the Tang Dynasty?" Li Fu asked in return: "The Tang Dynasty wants to prosper, manage, and change. There is still a long way to go, and there are still many things to do. I once told Your Majesty that this manor in Jingyang County can be seen as a microcosm of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is composed of thousands of such manors.

It is not a big deal for a manor to become what it is now.

But what about the second, third, and fourth manors in the future?

There will be more and more such prosperous manors. One day, they will be spread all over the Tang Dynasty. In most places, at that time, what kind of Tang Dynasty would it be?

If the village in Jingyang County is a spark, many years later, it will be a spark that can set the prairie on fire. "

"The court is not really rich when it is rich, but when the people are rich, that is the real wealth.

Only when the people are rich can the country be strong and rich.

What does the money in the treasury rely on? One is the people's taxes, and the other is the national revenue. The people can only pay taxes if they have money. If the people have no money and no food, they can't pay even if you kill them, and they may even be forced to In a hurry, they all hid in the mountains and became illegal residents.

"The Zhenguan period must have been an era of great construction for the entire Tang Dynasty." Li Fu said: "Talents like you and Yan Shaojiang should shine, but the Tang Dynasty is too big, and there are not many talents like you, so I thought, now there is this occasion, this opportunity, let you bring a few people around you, train them, and when you can be independent in the future, when there is such a need in other places, these people can directly take over. By then, they will become experienced and have the ability to lead students. It's their turn, generation after generation, to pass it on like this."

"Including me spending so much effort to set up such an academy, the purpose is the same, everything is for inheritance and innovation." Li Fu had a smile on his face: "The court is full of talents. When the officials in the court are in their seventies and eighties in the future, after they retire from the court, I will think about catching them all to be teachers in the academy.

They have been ups and downs in the court all their lives, and they are all old treasures."

Yan Liben smiled when he heard this.

He felt that His Royal Highness Jingyang Wang was unrealistic.

Even if the officials in the court retired from the court, their skills would only be taught to their own children and nephews. How could they be taught to outsiders so easily?

There are still few great scholars like Lu Deming.

The good things are hidden and left to their own family members, and they will not be taken out.

Because these are things that can ensure the prosperity of their own family.

"Like you, and your brother." Li Fu said with a smile: "When you are old and feel that you can no longer work in the court, if you want to come to the academy, there must be a place for you in the academy. After all, this grand academy was built by you two brothers. I have seen with my own eyes how many real chapters you two brothers have.

Speaking of this, your brother is also planning to get a piece of land here in Zhuangzi and build a house. In the future, he will come here to retire."

Hearing Li Fu say this, Yan Liben was excited.

"Does my elder brother really plan to do so?" Yan Liben asked curiously.

Is this Zhuangzi really that good?

Yan Liben has only been in Zhuangzi for a few days. As soon as he arrived here, he devoted himself to the construction business in Zhuangzi. Every day, he lives between his residence and the construction site. He knows nothing about other things in Zhuangzi.

"Yes, the place has been chosen." Li Fu smiled and said, "He helped with the work here on the farm last year. Wasn't my new house designed and built by him? He also oversaw the construction of the workshop. He has made an indelible contribution to the farm's success. If it were me, I would have set up a workshop, but it would be too rough.It doesn't matter. I can only do half of the residential planning work. At most, I can make a request and give an idea. I can't design the whole, including drawing. "

Li Fu sat here and chatted with Yan Liben about family matters.

Yan Liben really didn't know that his brother wanted to retire here.

In his opinion, the two brothers are in their prime, and it's a bit early to consider these things now.

The more Yan Liben listened to the King of Jingyang in front of him, the more he felt that His Royal Highness King of Jingyang was a person who liked to imagine.

Although many imaginations were unrealistic, he wanted to question them, but everything that happened now was created by King Jingyang based on his own ideals. He was already taking action, so how could he question it?

He had ideals and actions, and he ran the manor seriously. It was visible to the naked eye that because of this manor, people from ten miles and eight villages followed and benefited from it, and their lives became better.

At least the locust plague this year will not starve the people around the village.

In just a few days, the craftsmen who were busy working here had accumulated more than ten kilograms of grain in their account books. At the end of the settlement, plus the grain subsidies from the court to the people affected by the disaster, there will be no worries about food this year.

After the grain subsidies are over and the granaries are emptied, there is still a large amount of money to pay their wages.

The manor is so pretentious that it really makes the people working around earn money, enough to eat and drink for a whole year.

And will the granary on the manor be emptied?

Yan Liben is a little skeptical.

Because when the two brothers went back to chat, Yan Lide told him that there are caravans coming to Chang'an City, pulling carts of grain to the workshop to exchange for Wude wine.

In the restaurants and taverns of Chang'an City, those wealthy diners are so eager to get Wude wine, even if the price is sky-high, they still like it.

Chang'an City is not short of rich people.

How much money and grain are accumulated in the treasury of the rich families?

The ropes that string copper coins in the warehouse are rotten, and the money can't be spent.

After generations of accumulation, the wealth in their hands is a very terrifying amount.

So Li Fu made so many things in order to kill those rich dogs.

The rich dogs pay for enjoyment, he makes money, and invests the money he earns into these constructions to benefit the people.

The money is circulated.

This is called money, otherwise, it is called scrap copper and rotten iron.

Currency is to play its value, not to be piled up in the warehouse .

There were more than ten tons of copper coins in Liu He's tomb, all piled up into a mountain. After digging it out, it was found that there were so many that they were worthless.

The caravans in Chang'an City and the surrounding areas continuously sent grain. The wine-making workshops used part of the grain sent for wine-making, and sent part of it to the granary for storage.

The grain stored in the granary could be taken out as wages to be paid to the people working here, so that they could take it home to subsidize their families, because this year's locust plague caused a serious reduction in grain production in the fields. These grains could keep their families alive.

Li Fu did everything he could do. His ability was limited to this. There were too many people in Guanzhong, and he could not recruit all of them to work on the farm and give them grain.

The rest were the affairs of the court. If he did what the court wanted to do.

Then his neck would be cold.

Therefore, he could only do his best to help the people in Jingyang County get through this difficult time this year.

Li Fu planned to chat with Yan Liben when he was free in the future.

Li Fu wanted to build good relationships with all the talented people who came to the manor.

Of course, he didn't mean to win them over.

The main reason was that he was impressed by their abilities and hoped that they would teach students and train a group of talents in the future, so that they could form a new team to build a beautiful Tang Dynasty.

Yan Lide and Jiang Que had already talked it out. If Li Fu asked them to help with something in the future, they would definitely help Li Fu do it without saying a word.

As for Yan Liben, he had just arrived and Li Fu hadn't talked to him many times. He still needed to work hard.

Li Fu didn't believe that if he just presented facts and reasoned with big promises, he would not be able to keep his talents.

Li Fu and Yan Liben had talked for a while, so he stood up and said goodbye.

Sometimes chatting also requires skills.

Take your time. You have to give people time to digest and react, right?

Let Yan Liben go back and digest what he said today.

Just like Jian Zhi.

Li Fu is still a bluff. He is the main bluff.

Anyway, Li Fu is not burdened at all.No, it's not like they are working here for nothing, and I pay them generously.

Everyone just gets what they need.

Li Fu is not like some dog leaders who talk about ideals, ambitions, career development, and the future of the company all day long, but are reluctant to give you a 200 yuan salary increase.

What does this mean? His shitty ideals and ambitions, as well as the future of the company, are not worth 200 yuan in his eyes. He brags more in front of employees than he does with his secretary on the kang.

After bidding farewell to Yan Liben, Li Fu took his horse and guards to see the river.

As for the river, he couldn't make any speeches. At most, he encouraged everyone to work harder. Once the river was repaired and the canals were dug, everyone would benefit from farming and irrigating the land in the future, so everyone must do a good job.

The workers knew that the King of Jingyang and the government of Jingyang County jointly carried out such a large project, which was not available in other counties. They were the only ones who could do it. This was all thanks to His Royal Highness King of Jingyang. How could they not be serious when working for their own land?

Therefore, there were so many people repairing the river, but there were only three people in charge, the main one was Jiang Que, and there were two assistants from the Ministry of Works who cooperated with Jiang Que.

The three of them managed the entire large project properly. No matter what the three of them said, the workers were extremely obedient and worked hard.

For example, except for Li Fu's new house on the farm, which he wanted to enjoy, the others, whether it was a workshop, a college, or a water conservancy project.

These were all projects that benefited the people.

Don't ask which people it was, one above and a large area below, all benefited.

After a day of going around, Li Fu even felt that his image had become great and glorious.

He was really fucking awesome!

He returned to the house contentedly.

Originally, when he returned to his own yard, he would see Xiao Tao chirping and coming to greet him. Today, after a quarter of an hour, he still could not see Xiao Tao.

"Shuangxi, where is your sister Xiao Tao?" Li Fu asked.

"Sister Xiao Tao is in the kitchen yard with Liu Niang. She said she wanted to make rice dumplings for my husband." Shuangxi said with a smile: "My husband, the Dragon Boat Festival is in two days."

Li Fu suddenly realized.

"Yes, I've been busy all this time and I've been so busy that I've gone crazy." Li Fu smiled and said, "Then make more dumplings. Let those who are free make them. After they are done, send them to the construction site and give one to each person. Everyone will celebrate the festival together."

"Yes." Shuangxi replied, "What about the thousands of dumplings? Everyone in the house will make them. I'm afraid it will be too late if the fire in the stove is not extinguished."

"Then call all the women in the farm together. This year is special. Let's celebrate the festival together. Let Shitou find the head of the village and ask him to come. I just happen to have something to say to him."

"Yes."

Li Fu also wanted to talk to the head of the village about the children in the school. He asked the parents in the village to go back and take good care of their children. The construction site is not a place for them to play.

The maids in the house all took action, intending to let their husbands eat dumplings tonight.

Shitou called the old head of the village to the front hall. Li Fu asked the old head of the village to sit down and asked Shuangxi to serve tea.

"Old village head, I want to discuss two things with you today. The first thing is about the children who are studying in the school in our village..."

Li Fu briefly told the old village head about the matter and explained the pros and cons.

The old village head nodded repeatedly.

"You are right, young man."

"These kids are young and they just know how to play wildly. Country kids are wild. I will talk to the people in the village after I go back and discipline them. As you said, we can't let these children get into trouble. When the time comes, it will be too late for their parents to regret it."

The old village head agreed deeply.

Matters concerning children should be taken seriously.