"Ha~~~ The traditional tricks used by ancient emperors to win over people's hearts."
Looking at the dozen or so beautiful beauties in palace attire in front of him, Li Yunze showed contempt, "The house hasn't been renovated yet, so let's live in my courtyard first."
"The owner of the village."
Seeing the beautiful palace maids walking towards Li Yunze's courtyard one by one, Zuo Hong stepped forward with envy, "Your Majesty accepted the advice and became a palace maid. It's a good time."
Li Yunze glanced over with a stern look, "You idiot, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand anything."
In the autumn of the second year of Zhenguan, due to constant famines throughout the year, Li Er accepted the persuasion of Li Baiyao, a member of Zhongshushe, and released a large number of palace maids to reduce the cost of the palace.
This thing doesn't seem like much on the surface, but in fact it's not that simple.
If there was no tacit consent from Li Er or a secret signal, then Li Baiyao would be in trouble and would he write a letter about the emperor's woman?
You must know that his current job is that of the crown prince's right concubine, and that he is the right-hand man of the crown prince Li Chengqian.
Decades ago, Li Baiyao was the right-hand man of Yang Yong, the prince of the Sui Dynasty. He knew that the first priority of assisting the prince was not to offend the emperor.
When he opened his mouth to talk about the emperor's women, he had no instructions from Li Er, unless he was crazy and wanted to trick Li Chengqian to death.
On the one hand, this was done to improve his reputation. The emperor let the maids out of the palace to get married, which must have a good reputation among the people.
On the other hand, it is to secretly smear his father Li Yuan's face.
These maids were basically recruited into the palace by Li Yuan. Li Er let them go in order to criticize his father's extravagance and thus undermine Li Yuan's prestige.
Li Er used force to force Li Yuan to abdicate, and also put Li Yuan under house arrest.
That's because Li Yuan has been the emperor for nearly ten years, so he naturally has his own power.
To mess with Dad is a political necessity and has nothing to do with the relationship between father and son.
"Your emperor doesn't look like a good person. He is just a lustful ghost. The maids he can let out are either too old or not good-looking." Li Yunze said earnestly and sincerely, "How is it possible to pick up the slack around the emperor?"
This time he just took advantage of this
This is the opportunity to release the palace maids, and they were carefully selected to bribe me. How could a gentleman like me be deceived by beauty."
Zuo Hong, whose head was covered with black lines, responded repeatedly, lowering his head and counting the ants on the ground, "If you are a gentleman, then I am an eminent monk who never kills."
Judging from Zuo Hong's appearance, Li Yunze didn't bother to teach him how to behave.
He simply said, "I heard that a few big households in Chang'an City have been very unlucky recently. Please go to the city and see if any of those who have been laid off are willing to come and work in our village."
The unlucky ones in Chang'an City were naturally killed by Li Er by offering sacrifices to the sky to pray for rain.
Li Yunze was not interested in the many disputes in the Tang Dynasty and did not want to get involved.
After all, he was tired of experiencing these things before.
Since it's a different way of life, then just don't participate.
As for recruiting people, the previous refugees have all been officially registered with the county government in Lantian County. Their place of origin and other things were all moved from Huazhou and became people of Lijiazhuang instead of being refugees.
But at this time, Zhuangzi had expanded to a large area of 12,000 acres, which still required a lot of manual work.
Moreover, Li Yunze also needs technical personnel such as craftsmen, chefs, and professional grooms, as well as people who work in the house.
Refugees are good at farming and tending livestock, but doing other things immediately becomes more difficult.
If nothing else, let’s talk about the brick kiln that Li Yunze built on a small kaolin slope more than ten miles away. When he was there, he was naturally producing bricks one kiln after another. Waiting for work.
I guarantee that there will be no problem if I pat my chest. Li Yunze also thinks that this kind of skill is useless.
The job with technical content was not difficult, so after he left, something happened immediately.
Li Yunze can only find a way to get some professionals to come over. After training, they will at least be better than the refugees.
As for finding some scholars, those who are literate and can do arithmetic are the best. This kind of thing should be very difficult.
Because the knowledge of this era is monopolized, it is basically monopolized in the hands of aristocratic families headed by Wu Xing Qi Wang.
Not to mention that Li Yunze's attitude towards all members of the aristocratic family has always been to destroy them. Even if there was no hostility, it would be impossible for them to come to work for him as a small job.
In later generations, there will be an overwhelming number of college students who will be unemployed after graduation and unable to find a job.
But here in the Tang Dynasty, anyone who is a scholar has no worries about making a living.
Li Yunze came to the brick kiln factory again, and sighed helplessly when he saw the workers who still ignored the rules and regulations he had set.
"Temperature, temperature, temperature."
Li Yunze taught step by step, "This thing is called a thermometer. Don't ask me to repeat it. Just look at the scale on it and it will be fine when it reaches this scale."
"Everyone wears masks and gloves. Don't ask me to repeat this kind of thing every time I come here." Li Yunze's voice gradually became louder. "Pay attention to safety and protect your body. Don't give away your healthy body just for some money."
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As a serious person, of course Li Yunze needs to pay when hiring people to do work.
Moreover, in his opinion, the working environment in the brick kiln factory was so bad that it was very appropriate for him to offer a salary of fifty cents per day.
You must know that even with the continuous disasters in Guanzhong this year, the price of a bucket of rice has not exceeded 20 cash. In the past, it even cost only 5 cash.
"In this era when there are no qualified workers, engaging in industry, even the most basic industry, is a tiring thing."
Li Yunze, who drank a pot of water, arranged for workers to load the dried bricks onto a carriage and transport them to Lijiazhuang.
He wants to renovate the house in Lijiazhuang, and these bricks are necessary.
When he was about to enter Zhuangzi, he saw Li Er picking fruits in his vegetable field. Li Yunze felt no emotion at all.
This emperor is not doing his job all day long. He likes to go to his farm without saying a word, and he doesn't even ask for food from the vegetable field. He doesn't look like a good person!
Li Er, who was holding the cucumber, washed it directly in the water tank, opened his mouth and bit into it, and it was crunchy.
Cucumbers were brought back from the Western Regions by Zhang Qian as early as the Han Dynasty.
The previous name was cucumber, but later Shi Le, the emperor of the Jie tribe who founded the Later Zhao Dynasty, thought it was taboo to call it cucumber, so he changed it to cucumber because of the yellow color of its flowers.
After years of domestication and cultivation, cucumbers have become a type of vegetable, but the appearance and taste of cucumbers in this era are not as good as those brought by Li Yunze from the modern world.
Perhaps because of his Hu ethnic origin, Li Er is very fond of green and plump cucumbers.
"What else happened?"
After arranging for everyone to deliver the cart full of bricks to the village, Li Yunze stepped forward and took a stick of yellow bricks to eat.
"During the morning meeting today, Du Ruhui said that we should send troops to attack the Turks." Li Er ignored Li Yunze's unhappy face, "I also have this intention, but the Turkic cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and I don't have many cavalry in the Tang Dynasty.
Opponent, sir, can you teach me?"
"If you want to use cavalry against cavalry, you can't fight."
Li Yunze responded, "The tradition of the grassland tribes is guerrilla warfare. They will not conflict with you head-on. The only way to win the war is to follow Huo Qubing's example and go straight to Huanglong."
"Um."
Li Er nodded and agreed with this statement.
Although nomadic tribes claim to have grown up on horses since childhood, if they were to fight face to face, they would definitely not be the opponents of the Central Plains cavalry under the same conditions.
The main differences in combat effectiveness lie in training, organization, and weapons and equipment.
But the problem is that the nomadic tribes are not stupid either. They won't fight you head-on, they just keep harassing you again and again. If you want to imitate Huo Qubing and go straight to Huanglong, you have to find where the enemy is.
"I see that there is a shortage of people to serve you." Li Er began to take credit and talk about the benefits. "I have specially selected some people to serve. Shouldn't you express your gratitude?"
I’ve sent you a beautiful girl, so I have to give you something real and good.
"Okay, I've always been a person who doesn't get rewarded for my merits." Li Yunze simply finished the cucumber in his hand, clapped his hands and said, "Wait."
I went back to the room and closed the door. When I came out after a while, I was already carrying a bunch of things.
"Is this a saddle?"
"Is this a stirrup?"
"What's this?"
"You know saddles and stirrups, but these are the ultimate improved version." Li Yunze picked up a few iron pieces. "This is called a horseshoe. In the Sui Dynasty, there was a similar thing called a horse shoe. This is also the ultimate improved version."
"These things can be used on cavalry to effectively improve their combat effectiveness."
Li Er took the cavalry three-piece suit, looked at it carefully and nodded with slight satisfaction.
He handed the things to the guards and asked them to send them to the master craftsman. Then he said again, "It's not enough. Are there any other good things?"
Li Yunze didn't talk nonsense and simply handed the monocular telescope in his hand to Li Er, "Put it on your eyes and try it. If it's reversed, look at the small head."
Li Er figured out the function of the telescope after playing with it for a while. As the emperor of Ma Ma, he immediately understood its huge military role.
This thing is so useful!
Satisfied, Li Er took the next step and asked, "Is there any more?"
"Ha~~~" Li Yunze looked up at the sky, too lazy to answer him.
Li Er briefly pondered, "There are still many maids in the palace who need to be released. How about I send you another team?"
"Who do you think I am, a lustful ghost?!" Li Yunze was furious and scolded him sternly, "I did it so that the Tang Dynasty could defeat the Turks, not for beauties! I won't do this next time."
"What is the most important thing about cavalry?"
When asked, Li Er responded without hesitation, "Good horse."
"That's right." Li Yunze stretched out his hand to point to the cowshed in the distance. "I can raise cattle, and naturally I can also raise horses, and they are really good horses."
There was actually no shortage of good horses in the Tang Dynasty. After all, the horse breeds in this era had not yet seriously degenerated.
Li Er looked slightly disappointed, "There is no shortage of horses in the Tang Dynasty."
"Do you want a heavy-duty draft horse that can drag six to seven thousand kilograms of cargo with one horse? Do you want a war horse that can sprint as fast as the wind, has amazing endurance, and can run for several hours at a stretch? The kind that is supplied on a large scale."
If anyone else had said this, Li Er would have thought it was farting.
It’s hard to say that BMW doesn’t have such fast running speed and excellent endurance, but supplying it on a large scale is nonsense.
The reason why BMW is a BMW and not a Mercedes-Benz is because of its scarcity.
But these words were spoken by Li Yunze, the man who could change everything, and he nodded in response without any surprise.
"I want it! I want as much as I want."
The heavy-duty draft horse is of course the Shire horse. The Shire horse can drag several tons of supplies and can carry a large amount of supplies for combat.
As for the war horses, they are naturally the Don horses ridden by the Cossack cavalry. Not only can they run extremely fast, but they also have super endurance.
Li Er felt that the harvest from this trip was already great, but he still wanted more, "If I can give you more."
"stop."
Li Yunze simply waved his hand, "No more. Even if my body can handle it, there won't be enough time. People have to have time to sleep."
PS: The leader of the alliance will postpone the update for a few days. I have been busy recently. Please forgive me and forgive me.