The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 383

All the noble families finally accepted Li Yunze's request.

After all, if the spring plowing could not be completed, then Nuoda's fields would have no income.

Now Li Yunze is willing to pay a sum of money that everyone is satisfied with to contract the fields, or to borrow their fields for farming. There is no loss for the nobles. After all, they have already received the contract money in advance, which belongs to drought and flood guarantee.

Even if I earn so much after working hard for a year, I really can't think of any reason to refuse.

Li Yunze's organ beasts dispatched again, and planted alfalfa and soybean rapeseed in the fields of many noble families.

Naturally, this matter could not be hidden from Li Er, not only did he not stop it, on the contrary, he allocated a part of the fields in Huangzhuang and handed them over to Li Yunze to contract for planting.

Everyone is waiting, waiting for the autumn harvest to see what the results will be.

The following days were uneventful, and the people in other places still lived according to the habits of thousands of years, but the people inside and outside Chang'an City lived a more active life.

During the slack season, many people who did not work in corvee accepted the employment of Lijiazhuang to work.

Li Yunze offered generous salaries to hire people in the slack period to work in brick kilns, rubber factories, briquettes factories, cow sheds, water trucks, in one hundred and eight restaurants, and on the construction site of dredging the river in Chang'an City Work in other places.

The brick kiln factory in Lijiazhuang started working day and night, and under the thick black smoke, those who were engaged in building materials business in Chang'an City were almost killed.

The only reason why those building materials merchants who were backed by noble clans failed to kill the brick kiln factory in Lijiazhuang was that they had the full support of the people inside and outside the city.

Unbelievable large-scale mass production, as well as unbelievable excellent quality, and even more unbelievable ultra-low prices.

The heinously cheap building materials have enabled many ordinary people to renovate their own houses.

In particular, many houses that used to be thatched roofs and yellow mud walls have been turned into brick houses and have a new look, even just looking at them is pleasing to the eye.

How could the people who have really benefited allow those building material dealers to ruin their good days.

When the common people of the Tang Dynasty went mad, the emperor had to stay away, let alone a group of building material merchants.

Building materials merchants also have their own brick kiln factories, but no matter how hard they try, even if they poach people from Li Yunze's brick kiln factory with high salaries, they still can't achieve that kind of output and quality, especially because of the super high yield rate. low cost.

They can only rely on experience to control the temperature, and can only rely on experience to determine the opening time of the kiln. Of course, they cannot achieve a super high yield rate.

Li Yunze has thermometers, timers, and various operating procedures in the modern world, and the two sides are not on the same level at all.

As for the rubber factory, the rubber shoes, raincoats and tires produced here are the most scarce and sought-after goods in Datang at this time.

There is a large crowd of people blocking the door every day, as long as there is a carriage delivering products, it will immediately cause a large-scale flock of bids.

This business is truly unique, because no one in Datang can provide raw materials except Li Yunze.

Naturally, there is no need to say more about the briquette factory. Since the last time the nobles were cheated, no one dared to make trouble for themselves.

The young bulls in the bullpen, the first batch of growth cycle has exceeded [-] months, and they can barely start to produce meat.

However, the beef here is mainly supplied to restaurants in [-] Square, and it is not available in ordinary times.

Needless to say, waterwheels, with the vigorous promotion of the imperial court, almost all waterwheels were erected on the banks of rivers throughout Guanzhong, bringing river water into the fields, which greatly alleviated the damage caused by the drought.

Then there is the dredging project in Chang'an City, which directly goes to the Qianjin gate to seal the river, and then drains the water excavator to dig out the thick silt and debris.

Desilting is easy to say, but if it is done in the traditional manual way, it is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task.

For dredging, the water must be cleared first, and the water in the rivers in the city should be dried up.

Not to mention the time and effort, the water in the river is the source of domestic water for many people in the city.

Looking at the turbid waterways, it is indeed the source of water for many people. This is also an important reason for the breeding of diseases and the low life expectancy of people.

"His Majesty."

Standing next to the waterway, Li Yunze said with a little worry, "Whether the domestic water is clean or not is related to the health of the human body, and this must be taken seriously."

Li Er on the side was looking at the excavator on the other side that was rumbling to dig up the silt in the river, and responded casually, "Yes, we must pay attention to it."

What Li Er thought was, if this mechanism beast could be driven to the battlefield, wouldn't it be invincible.

"Heh~~~"

Regarding Li Er's perfunctory, Li Yunze knew very well that it was useless to count on him.

But whenever there is an opportunity, Li Er will try his best to increase his military strength to fight, and the people's livelihood will have to wait behind.

Since they couldn't count on him, then Li Yunze could only come by himself.

"Your Majesty, how about issuing an imperial decree on sanitation of domestic water?"

Speaking of the imperial decree, Li Er's attention finally came back.

After becoming emperor, everything related to war and imperial power has already formed a conditioned reflex in him.

"What is domestic water sanitation?"

"The water here is so dirty that it can't be used for washing clothes, cooking or washing vegetables and rice."

"Why can't it be used, isn't it all water?"

Li Yunze felt that if Sun Simiao came back from Qinling now, he should be able to have a common language with him, and talking about this topic with Li Er would make people irritable and angry.

Feeling Li Yunze's unfriendly gaze, Li Er subconsciously moved away two steps, he felt that Li Yunze really wanted to kick himself into the waterway.

"I know that dirty water cannot be drunk." Li Er explained, "I also knew this when I sent troops abroad. However, the rivers in the city are full of running water, not dirty water, and can be used."

While speaking, there was a sound of exclamation all around.

Looking back, it turned out that the bucket of the excavator actually dug out a bone from the mud.

Feeling Li Yunze's gaze, Li Er felt that his face was a little ugly. "In the past, there were many drunkards in the city, and it was common for them to fall into the waterways when they got drunk. Alcohol was banned when I ascended the throne."

Li Er banned alcohol not because someone was drunk and fell into the water, but because winemaking required a lot of food. For Datang who didn't have enough food, of course it was forbidden.

Li Yunze didn't speak, and went straight across the bridge to the other side.

Dispersing the onlookers, he came to the bone to check, and then he pointed to the missing large piece of head and said to Li Er, "Don't tell me that such a big hole can be thrown out of the skull by falling into the water."

Li Er, who has been on the battlefield, can easily see that this is the wound caused by being hit on the head by a heavy object.

"Chang'an City is not only a water source problem, but also a big security problem." Li Yunze pointed to the scattered copper coins dug up with the bones, as well as the rotten leather boots. "Look at the shape of the wound, it was done with a hammer. Typical homicide. There should be no one during the day

So bold, there is a curfew at night, either a bad person who keeps watch at night, or a city fox and social mouse who is proficient in the environment. "

"In terms of skeleton, it doesn't look like Tang people. Especially the brow bone and cheekbones have typical characteristics of Western Asians. If there is no accident, it should be a merchant who came to Chang'an City to do business. The bones of the left hand have Obvious atrophy, this is the characteristic of the disease. Find the fan merchants to call
Listen, there should be clues. "

"As long as the identity can be ascertained, clues to the murderer can be found based on the business he does."

Li Er on the side stared blankly at Li Yunze who was squatting there carefully observing the bones, "Have you ever been a policeman?"

In the parallel world, Li Yunze, who has swept across Central Asia and West Asia several times, got up calmly, "No. Let's talk about domestic water."

Li Er glanced over, and naturally there were guards who quickly left to find the unlucky people from Jingzhao Mansion to deal with the funeral.

"After the waterways in Chang'an City are cleaned up, garbage and domestic sewage are not allowed to be poured inward, that is, XX. Special personnel are arranged to collect them from door to door every day, and transport them to the outside of the city for composting."

"Mobilize the people in all fangs to keep the river clean. When you see someone throwing rubbish, you will be scolded first. If you don't listen to the scolding, you will be beaten. If you still commit the crime after beating, you will be fined until it hurts you."

"Domestic water and washing powder are fine, but well water is used for washing vegetables, washing rice and even cooking and drinking. Especially drinking water, it must be boiled before drinking. These can be gradually extended to the whole world, especially in the military .”

After listening to Li Yunze's narration, Li Er frowned slightly and asked his own question, "It can't be poured into the river, and it needs to be collected manually, which will cost a lot of money."

"The compost can be sold, it's all fertilizer." Li Yunze immediately gave a solution. "The money from the sale is not only enough to pay the wages of the workers, increase jobs, but also increase food production, purify water quality and increase the income of the yamen."

Li Er was thoughtful, and then asked, "Why is it not easy to dig a well? There are many people in each fang, and at least ten wells are needed in each fang city, which is a lot of money."

"I'll arrange it." Li Yunze waved his hand grandly to contract out the opening of the well. Of course, the benefits he wanted should not be missed. "Your Majesty only needs to grant me the shop in each of the east and west markets."

The East Market and West Market in Chang'an City are the largest commercial markets in this era, where gold, silver, copper, money and silk flow in a real sense.

It is not an easy task to have your own pavement in such a place.

Li Er smiled slightly, and immediately shook his head with his hands, "If it's just to dig a well, it's not enough for the shops."

"It's ok."

Li Yunze didn't care about it, "There is always a chance, and the matter of digging a well should be regarded as a deposit."

Li Er was also curious, "What kind of shop do you want to build in East City and West City?"

"The people living near the East Market are all dignitaries, so of course they sell luxury goods. The West Market has a lot of transactions, so it's natural to build a market for big business."

Speaking of this, Li Yunze stopped and said, "The most important source of income for the Tang Dynasty is land tax. It is not easy to increase income in this area. We should consider strengthening commerce and trade, and then increase income from commercial taxes. The court has money, Nature is able to do more.

"

Li Er was noncommittal about this, and didn't talk much about this topic.

The river channel dredging project in Chang'an City is progressing smoothly. The channel is uniformly dug to a depth of six meters. The river channel walls are repaired and leveled with slag bricks, and then coal gangue is used to burn cement and bricks, and the cement is used to make concrete to smooth the channel.

Stone pillars were also built on both sides of the river to block them, and various trees were planted behind the stone pillars.

Wait until the rivers in various places are cleaned up and built one by one, and then the gates are opened to release water after drying.

Clear river water poured in from outside the city, filling the river channels inside the city.

The previously dirty and smelly river channel, after several months of treatment, reappeared in front of everyone, it was already crystal clear, and there were even fish swimming in the water.

The improvement of the environment made the people in Chang'an City feel good. Fang Xuanling, who presided over this matter, received unanimous praise, and everyone praised him as the prime minister.

Li Er also took advantage of the situation and kicked away a group of old officials left over from Li Yuan's era. He appointed Fang Xuanling as the left servant of the Shangshu, Du Ruhui as the right servant of the Shangshu, and Wei Zheng as the secretary and supervisor to participate in the government. court.

In the Tang Dynasty, because the first Minister of Shangshu was Li Er himself, no one dared to be a minister after he ascended the throne, and the left and right servants were the deputy prime ministers in name, but the real prime minister.

After taking control of the court, the first thing Li Er did was to send troops to the Turks after the autumn harvest!

(End of this chapter)