After hearing this, Li Shimin took a deep breath and said seriously.
"Xuanba, I want to take these Mohists to the military weapons prison!"
"Your Majesty, these ink masters are here for me!"
Li Xuan looked at Li Shimin quietly, with a very decisive look in his eyes.
Seeing this, Li Shimin was startled. He didn't expect that Li Xuan, who had always seemed indifferent to everything, would actually have such a side.
"Xuanba, a master of ink can only use what he has learned in the weapons inspection or on the battlefield!"
Li Shimin persuaded in a slow voice.
"Then why, in the past hundreds of years, no Mohist has ever joined any king's sect?"
Li Xuan asked rhetorically.
Li Shimin: "..."
"Your Majesty, those who govern Mohism live for the sake of farmers!"
Li Xuan continued: "Let the ink masters work for the farmers, and they can use all their knowledge. However, if you force the ink masters to make killing weapons, your majesty is not afraid that the ink masters will hide in the city again?
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"Moreover, why does Your Majesty think that after thousands of years of development, these descendants of the Mohist family still have the talent of their ancestor Mozi in the forging of weapons?"
"this……"
Li Shimin couldn't help but look thoughtful.
"Your Majesty, Lao Cheng suddenly felt that what His Highness Prince Jin said was not unreasonable!"
On the side, Cheng Zhijie said quickly.
"In this case, Xuanba, these ink masters will stay with you!"
Li Shimin nodded slightly, "However, if these rulers want to go to the weapons inspection, you can't stop them!"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will never stop anyone!"
Li Xuan glanced at his mouth.
Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction, then turned his head and looked at Li Chengqian aside.
"Gao Ming, hurry up and pack me half a catty of tea. I want to take it back!"
"Your Majesty, I have been working too hard lately and I feel drowsy and exhausted every day..."
Seeing this, Cheng Zhijie looked anxious.
Just now, His Majesty the King of Jin said that your Majesty will share the half kilogram of tea with him!
After a while, Li Shimin had no choice but to share half a catty of tea with Cheng Zhijie, and each held a bottle of tea and returned to Chang'an City.
Without outsiders to disturb him, Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously.
I drank a cup of tea, moistened my throat, then stood up and walked to the paddy field.
He was also very curious. It had only been two days, but the ink masters had already started tinkering in the fields?
Seeing Li Xuan walking out, Cheng Chusi, Li Chengqian and others followed closely.
Seedlings have been planted in the entire paddy field, and a group of finger-sized fish swim through the turbid water from time to time.
In just a few fields in the corner, Cheng Laosi and others were planting vegetables and grapevines.
Therefore, the calligraphers such as Le Tai were particularly conspicuous in the paddy fields.
This group of painters are very attentive.
When Li Xuan and others came closer, they stopped and looked at it for a long time without even raising their heads.
Li Xuan, on the other hand, did not show any sign of anger.
On the contrary, the more he looked, the more shocked his face became.
These painters took various hammers, wooden wedges, saws and other objects, and nailed a wooden board to the steel pipe waterway that had been buried between the fields.
Then, a few small pieces of wood and wooden sticks were installed on it to create a small mechanism.
As long as the water level in the paddy field on one side drops to a certain level, the small wooden stick on the waterway will float down, and the blocked wooden board will be opened directly, and the water in the paddy field on the other side will flow along the waterway.
There is flow in this paddy field.
Similarly, the water in this paddy field flows to the paddy field on the other side, the water level drops, and the water in the paddy field above starts to replenish this paddy field.
In sequence, the tributaries of the Jianhe River supply water to the nearest paddy fields.
"As expected of a master of ink!"
After understanding the working principles of these small mechanisms, Li Xuan couldn't help but praise them.
"With this mechanism, as long as the water level in any paddy field drops, water will be replenished quickly!"
"In the future, those farmers will no longer have to keep an eye on these paddy fields every day, diverting water from field to field!"
At this moment, all the ink masters realized that Li Xuan was already standing behind them and quickly stood up to pay their respects.
"King?"
"I've met the king! I've met all the gentlemen!"
“I didn’t expect that in just two days, you would make such great improvements to the paddy field!”
Li Xuan chuckled and said: "With this small mechanism, many farmers can be relieved."
"Improving farming is the lifelong goal of those who govern Mohism!"
Le Tai said solemnly.
"I said that as long as there is any improvement, I will give you a big reward!"
Li Xuan said: "Li Chang!"
"King!"
Li Chang quickly stood up from behind everyone.
"The ink master who builds an automatic water diversion mechanism will be rewarded with fifty strings!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Li Chang responded quickly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Hearing this, Le Tai and others suddenly felt overjoyed.
"I always believe that the more you work, the more you get. As long as anyone can improve everything in the village, I will reward you. However, how to distribute those rewards is your internal decision!"
After saying that, Li Xuan slowly waved his hand and walked away.
Next, he had to take a look at his group of animals.
Along the way, Li Xuan was in a good mood.
These ink masters are indeed good hands.
With the addition of Zhimo, the farmers in Lijiazhuang soon felt the convenience.
To grow vegetables, there are special farming tools.
Around the chicken pens, duck pens and pig pens, there are defense nets specially arranged by the rulers, which can block weasels and other animals that want to enter the chicken pens and duck pens from outside.
And the craftsmen who built the other courtyards were also forged by the Mohists into various tools!
Lijiazhuang is showing a prosperous situation.
However, in Chang'an City, the price increase in salt shops is getting more and more intense!
Although Fang Xuanling came forward and appeased the salt merchants for a while.
But wait until a few days later.
I saw that the salt shops selling snow grain salt have not closed down, nor have they increased their prices.
In fact, with the investigation, many aristocratic families became more and more certain that the snow grain salt was Li Er, who was even more angry after boiling refined salt from the Hedong salt pond using a secret method.
The price of bitter salt has increased again, reaching ten cents per pound.
Therefore, as soon as the Xueli Salt Shop opened, it would be robbed by a crowd of common people and nobles from aristocratic families.
In less than half an hour, the door had to be closed.
In the first few days, the people could still hold on.
However, as time passed, and when they discovered that the price of bitter salt was getting higher and higher, they couldn't help but start looking for the reason.
"The price of snow salt is too low, which has delayed the business of the salt dealer Qinghai Salt. Those salt dealers cannot make money, so they have no choice but to increase the price of bitter salt!"
"Is it those snow salt shops that have harmed us?"
"Exactly!"
"Oh, we can't let that Xue Liyan continue to act like this!"
"Exactly, I'm going to ask Mr. Mingfu to come forward, otherwise we won't have any salt to eat!"
"Let's go and see Mr. Mingfu!"
"Let's block that Xueli Salt Shop!"
"Yes, let's go find the shopkeeper of Xueliyan..."
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Inside the Wannian County Yamen.
Zheng Yunde was sitting upright on his official chair, looking at the government affairs reported by the officials below with a sad face.
A government servant ran in with a panic expression on his face.
"Lord Mingfu, something big has happened!"
"Why are you so alarmed?"
Zheng Yunde's eyelids twitched and he asked quickly.
"Go back to my lord, at the gate, there is a crowd of ordinary people in darkness, begging you to live!"