Volume 2: The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 126: Establishing Words as Evidence
"Can you think more about how to benefit the common people?" Lu Chen pointed at Wang Gui and Wei Ting and continued to scold, "Don't sit on your kang all day long, holding a few tattered books, thinking that you are a human being.
You are here, His Majesty has appointed you as an official so that you can take care of the people for His Majesty, not for you to make things out of thin air all day long! Do you understand?" Lu Chen became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke, and Lu Chen's last words were so good that he immediately couldn't give in.
The young military general said hello. After all, many military generals were really killed from the common people, unlike these officials from aristocratic families. When Li Yuan heard Lu Chen's words, he felt something in his heart. He stroked his beard and squinted his eyes, and continued to read.
Lu Chen performs.
"You know what it means to be an official and not make decisions for the people, why not go home and sell sweet potatoes? Do you know?" Seeing that no one stopped him, Lu Chen continued, "If you have nothing to do, you should pay more attention to the livelihood of the people. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty,
Everything is waiting to be done, so don’t just stare at me all day long. Do you have any control over what I am willing to do on my one-third of an acre of land? Of course, Your Majesty is an exception!" When Lu Chen said this, he did not forget to mention one sentence.
Li Yuan, this made Li Yuan feel very happy immediately, "To put it bluntly, what am I doing in Zhuangzi? Is it none of your business?"
Lu Chen's scolding was a scolding for Wang Gui and Wei Ting, and he felt quite relieved.
"Um... Mr. Lu County, I would like to ask, what is this sweet potato you are talking about? And what is this kang head?" After Lu Chen finished cursing in a comfortable tone, Lu Chen kept listening to the sidelines.
Pei Ji, who was speaking, couldn't help but asked curiously. After all, there are no such things as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and hot bricks in this era.
"Uh..." When Pei Ji asked, everyone looked at Lu Chen curiously. As for "sweet potatoes", Li Xiuning and Chai Shao knew about it. After all, Lu Chen was cultivating three of them in his greenhouse.
One of the treasures that can make people eat well is this thing called "sweet potato", but after the two of them looked at each other, they both kept silent in a tacit understanding. After all, the yield of this thing that Lu Chen said was too scary.
They don't dare to talk nonsense until they see the real thing.
"This sweet potato is a kind of crop. It is produced in Huangjin Continent. It is said that the yield per mu can reach thirty or even fifty tons. As for Kangtou!" Lu Chen scratched his head. "Sweet potato" is easy to explain. It is a kind of crop.
, the kang head explained, he did not have a bed, and these people had never seen such a magical thing that was only available in later generations. Lu Chen thought for a while, and then continued, "This kang is something similar to a bed.
, it’s just a bed made of blue bricks or adobe, and you can light a fire to keep warm in winter!”
"Could it be that this kang is something like a warm bed? It's just that the texture is different?" Pei Ji thought for a while and looked at Lu Chen and asked, "How easy is it to find sweet potatoes? If you find this thing, people all over the world will grow it.
Wouldn't there be no famine?" When he heard that Lu Chen said that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu could reach 30 or even 50 dan, Pei Ji felt as if he had been injected with chicken blood and saw Lu Chen saying excitedly.
"Want to warm the bed? That's about it!" Lu Chen was too lazy to continue explaining what a "kang" is, "The Golden Continent with Sweet Potatoes is far away overseas. I'll be honest, but with Datang's current capabilities, we still can't go there!"
Lu Chen looked at Pei Ji and shook his head. Lu Chen thought to himself: "Even if I give you the sea map now, the Tang Dynasty is not yet stable. How can you use wool to build a ship?"
"Hey!" After hearing Lu Chen's words, Pei Ji shook his head in frustration.
"Don't be sad, Mr. Pei. When the Tang Dynasty is stabilized, we can build ships and go to sea. Anyway, there are not many people in Golden Continent now! There are some savages who drink hair and drink blood!" Lu Chen said with a smile.
"Could it be that the Marquis of Lu County has ever been to Golden Continent?" After hearing Lu Chen's words, Pei Ji's eyes immediately brightened up again, and he looked at Lu Chen and asked with burning eyes.
"No!" Lu Chen shook his head simply, and thought to himself: "I've traveled all over the world!" However, Lu Chen couldn't say that he had been there at this time, otherwise who knows what the old man would have to ask again.
Lu Chen didn't want to continue discussing with the old man Pei Ji. Lu Chen didn't expect that Pei Ji would be so difficult to deal with. He looked like he was asking for answers, "I've only seen the records in the classics of the predecessors of the Mohist family.
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"What a pity!" Seeing that Lu Chen didn't seem to be faking it, Pei Ji could only shake his head and sigh.
Chai Shao and Li Xiuning on the side curled their lips inconspicuously, secretly complaining in their hearts: "This guy is just fooling the old man. If he has never been there, where would he be like the three treasures in the greenhouse?" But so did the couple.
There was a tacit understanding and they didn't say anything, just watching Lu Chen's performance.
"I'm telling you, Mr. Pei, His Majesty ordered you to summon me down here just for this little trouble, right?" Lu Chen looked at Pei Ji with a knowing expression.
"Oh! That's right!" Hearing Lu Chen's reminder, Pei Ji came back to his senses. Just now, his mind was filled with the "sweet potatoes" that Lu Chen said, and he almost forgot about the real thing. "Then His Majesty issued an order to let Lu County
You came here to inquire about the charcoal!"
"Charcoal?" Lu Chen still looked confused, "What's wrong with the charcoal? It can be used for heating, cooking, and ironmaking! It's very good!"
"Hmph!" Just as Lu Chen finished speaking, Wang Gui on the side snorted coldly, as if grasping at straws.
"What the hell! You're the only one with a lot of trouble!" Lu Chen directly glared at Wang Gui.
"Marquis Lu Xian, this is the Tai Chi Hall, don't say dirty words!" Wang Gui looked at Lu Chen coldly and said, as if he had a chance to win again.
"What! You're the only one with so many things? You're the most prominent person in such a big Tai Chi Hall! What do you want to say? Hurry up! I'll have to go back and think about my past behind closed doors for a while!" Lu Chen glanced at Wang Gui impatiently, and finally
The words "close one's door and reflect on one's faults" were spoken very strongly, obviously meant for Wei Ting who was standing by.
"Marquis of Lu County, who doesn't know that burning charcoal can produce extremely poisonous effects? It can cause you to fall into coma at worst, or even lose your life! Do you think you are disregarding the lives of the people by advocating the use of charcoal so much?" Wang Guike got the chance and breathed a sigh of relief.
After I said what I was accusing Lu Chen of, I felt so happy in my heart that I even looked at Lu Chen proudly, looking aloof.
"That's right! Lu County Marquis just said that he wanted to benefit the people. Is this what you do? Encourage the people to use charcoal? Disregard the lives of the people?" Wei Ting seemed to have found the direction and started to accuse Lu directly.
Chen, even now he felt that he was standing on the moral high ground, looking down at Lu Chen in front of him.
Even many officials from aristocratic families were staring at Lu Chen with an expression of "Let's see how you die".
After listening to the accusations made by these two people, he glanced around at the group of family officials who were ready to watch the show, and smiled contemptuously: "I would say that you either have bad brains or you are lacking a thread; you have a strong heart.
You are healthy, but you are missing an eye. I am now afraid that you will drown yourselves in your sleep!"
"Marquis Lu County, what you said is a bit too much!" At this time, an official from an aristocratic family shouted.
"What? Are you talking about your pain point?" Lu Chen still looked at these people with a contemptuous expression, "Think about it with your brains full of wisdom, what I am not sure about can make so many people in Lujiazhuang
Bankers use charcoal?"
"You..." Seeing Lu Chen's arrogant and domineering look, some officials from aristocratic families were so angry that their fingers trembled.
"People say that charcoal is poisonous, do you believe it? Why, I also said that eating too much pickles will make you sick, why are you not sick?" Lu Chen continued to mock these officials, "I guess you haven't even seen what charcoal looks like.
However, you are arguing that charcoal is poisonous and you can’t remove the poison. Isn’t there nothing I can do? A bunch of trash who use their ignorance as their personality and their incompetence as their carefreeness!”
"Marquis Lu County, don't talk too much! If you really have a way to eliminate the poison of carbolic acid, you might as well let us all see it. As the saying goes, hearing is deceptive and seeing is believing. If you can really eliminate the poison of carbolic acid, I will give it to you.
Apologize to you in court!" Wei Ting knew that they couldn't win over Lu Chen with words, so he directly started to play the trick of "presenting the facts".
"Apologise to me? Do you deserve it?" Lu Chen looked at Wei Ting and sneered, "Let's play a game! If I can get rid of carbolic toxins, you, Jingzhao Weishi, will donate 5,000 acres of fertile land. If
I can't remove the toxins, so what if I just let you be miserable?" Lu Chen looked at Wei Ting with a sneer, and wanted to send me, Lu Chen, away with just "apology"? Not to mention the door, there are no windows, so I won't let you.
There is some blood in these aristocratic families. If you impeach me today, and he will impeach me again tomorrow, then I, Lu Chen, will not be able to sleep.
"Okay!" Wei Ting thought for a moment. Five thousand acres of fertile land is not a problem for Jingzhao Wei. Jingzhao Wei's family is also a wealthy family. Five thousand acres of fertile land is just a drop in the bucket. If this fertile land can be used to kill Lu Chen,
All things considered, this business is not a loss.
"Oh, by the way! I heard that it was you, the old guy, who impeached me!" Lu Chen directly pointed the finger at Wang Gui, who was standing aside, "He Jingzhao Weishi gave out 5,000 acres, what's wrong with your Taiyuan Wang family?
Isn’t the land also worth 10,000 acres? Do you dare to play with it?" Lu Chen looked at Wang Gui contemptuously.
"Okay!" Wang Gui stared at Lu Chen and said through gritted teeth, let alone 10,000 acres, as long as he could kill Lu Chen, Wang Gui would not even blink an eye even if he had twice as much fertile land.
"Your Majesty, you have heard everything! When the time comes, you have to make the decision for me!" Lu Chen turned directly to Li Yuan and saluted.
"Yes! I have the final say on this matter!" Li Yuan responded with a smile while stroking his beard.
"It still doesn't work!" Unexpectedly, when Li Yuan agreed to make the decision, Lu Chen still felt that it was not safe. "In order to avoid fainting, I think it is better to rely on the words!"