Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 528 Sun Demon King's Iron-Blood Education
Sun Xiangfu was not in a hurry to see the results of Wu Meiniang's tinkering. He roughly understood Li Shimin's meaning of entrusting these little princes to his training. Datang does not need careerists, especially such careerists with the status of a prince. Xiangfu is basically the least ambitious person in the Tang Dynasty. He is not even keen on growing his family, or passing on his knowledge exclusively.

Therefore, Li Shimin wanted to use Sun Xiangfu's character to influence these children who had gradually become sensible. From this, it can also be seen that he is currently very satisfied with Li Chengqian, the heir.

Moreover, not only he is satisfied, but most of the princes in the court are also satisfied, because Li Chengqian has shown a more mature and generous side than most 34-year-old teenagers in the court, which is what he has experienced for dozens of years. This kind of occupation, after experiencing a lot of things, a kind of temperament is naturally formed.

In the Tang Dynasty, men of his age are actually considered adults. At this age, Li Shimin has almost married the eldest grandson empress. Therefore, his marriage has recently been the focus of controversy in the court. Regarding the matter of Guan Yuan's Sun Xiangfu in Shannan Road, he just knew that Li Shimin would go to Shanyang after the summer grain harvest in Guanzhong, and that for the first time Li Chengqian would stay in Chang'an to supervise the country. The world's number one sports event.

Sun Xiangfu will definitely participate. At that time, the general managers of various state roads in Datang will lead their own sports teams to participate in the competition. Moreover, there is not only one official team in the Shannan Road area.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, Jingzhou has been a place where aristocratic families gather together. There are many second- and third-rate aristocratic families. These aristocratic families basically do not have the strength to fight for power in the court now, but they care about fame and fortune.

After Sun Xiangfu and Samurai Xun came to the hall of the farmhouse, they first talked with him about work. Samurai Xun was the first to talk about the three representative teams in the Shannan Road area.

"Cai, Huang, and Deng each united with the rest of their surroundings to form a state-level sports team, and they are still recruiting talents in various states and counties with great fanfare, but they have recruited a lot of people."

If this matter was just a sports team organized by a local tycoon to participate in a national sports meeting, then Samurai Yu would not be the first to bring it up. You know, he has been working in Shannan Road for the past two years. The main purpose is to cater to Li Shimin's political ideology, attack local tyrants, and lead the people at the bottom to get rich.

Sun Xiangfu understood the meaning of his words and said, "They have already realized some problems. Now, those farmers who farm for them can easily find a job with higher income and stability, and they have left their hands one after another. Going out, they must be in a hurry, they want to make some noise, recruit some people under their own doors with higher treatment, and help them give birth."

The samurai Xun nodded and said, "Exactly, from last year to this year, the number of people from Shannan Province who went to Guanzhong or joined the industry led by the Ministry of Commerce exceeded 20 young and strong. More than half of these people are from the hired hands of each of their houses.

Moreover, after the imperial court's war against Goguryeo ended, the people all over the country breathed a sigh of relief. The price of grain in my Shannan Province fell to a low price of [-] cash per shi, and the value of the output from their fields became smaller. , and because of the large loss of labor force, the production has been reduced a lot, resulting in a great reduction in the income of each family, and the children in the clan have begun to cut back on food and clothing. "

This year, the price of grain in Chang'an is only around [-] Wen per shi, and the local price is even lower, especially in the land of Jingxiang, which is rich in this kind of crops, it is [-] Wen per shi. The large grain expenditure was stabilized by purchasing in Changping warehouses. If Datang had not taken down the surrounding areas in advance, the price of grain might be lower than the price of fifty or sixty yuan per stone in this period of history. , because Datang's current grain output is nearly double that of history.

"Frugality may become a normal state for them in the future. When those who go to Weinan and work in industries developed by the Ministry of Commerce widen the gap between their lives and the lives of employees under their families, there will be More people leave them, and when the income and living standards of these people get better and better, and the economic value of each family's field industry becomes lower because I planted higher-yielding rice, Not to mention the hired workers under them, even the children of their own clan will not be able to stand the reduction again and again, so they will leave the family. At that time, it is basically time for us to completely eradicate these local forces."

Sun Xiangfu has never been willing to use a knife to solve problems that can be solved by economic means. In this world, no one will willingly endure poverty. The reason why those descendants of aristocratic families are loyal to the family is because in the past, the family was able to maintain and protect their interests.

When this model is turned upside down, and following the call of the family, they can barely make ends meet and break away from the family, but they can achieve prosperity and freedom, will they still cling to the leg of the family?

This is Sun Xiangfu's big game against local forces, including the introduction of capital investment from the aristocratic family, so that the people in power of the aristocratic family can enjoy the benefits, thus gradually ignoring the role of manpower in their clan.

When the income enjoyed by investment is far greater than the income brought to them by these basic labor forces, their focus will be on capital investment. A homeowner only needs to earn a lot of benefits through his own investment. He is still willing , share the money earned with other family members who didn't make much effort during the whole process?
Even if they are willing, they will lose some respect for these people, because now the family's profits do not need to rely heavily on them to obtain, which is a very real problem.

This kind of phenomenon will create some opportunities for Sun Xiangfu to break the situation, and alienating the relationship between the direct descendants of the family and other ordinary members is only a part of it.

"Zhengming's plan is chained together, so that they can't even find the reason why they are getting more and more embarrassed. It's really clever. You will succeed the chief manager of Shannan Road. The old man is 1 rest assured. Now here Everything has been sorted out, and the official business is not busy. If there is something to do, the chief officials of each state will directly send a messenger to send the copy. You can study rice planting here with peace of mind. However, the things that the old man handed over to you are simple, I'm afraid it will be very difficult for you to hand over to the old man, please try to be as detailed as possible, let me make some notes on the key points."

If the state road manager of Datang was so busy, many ministers in Chang'an would not be in charge. If there is no catastrophe or war, the governors and governors of the states will basically handle it by themselves. Four or five.

It was the same when Sun Xiangfu was in charge of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate. After the governors of the counties and cities were appointed, he only needed to look at the situation they gathered and grasp the general direction. In the Shannan Road area, every month, you only need to approve some routine official documents. If you are interested, go to the states to inspect it, and even the imperial court does not have to set up this official position at all.

As for road construction, Sun Xiangfu has all kinds of industrial construction talents under his command. When he came, he made a survey and made some suggestions that he could think of, and then completely handed it over to his subordinates. Just go through the accounts at a later time, but Sun Xiangfu might not be able to finish talking about the matter of Investment Exploration Co., Ltd. for three days and three nights with Samurai Xun.

Therefore, he suggested that the warrior Xun should not be in a hurry to go to Chang'an, but stay here for a few more days, and then set off after discussing the matter more thoroughly. This caused a problem. The rooms arranged by the warrior Xun in the village were arranged according to Sun The number of Xiangfu's group is arranged according to the number of people. Now, two groups of people will live here, but this is just a village!How much space can there be?
"Or, the old man took people to several other villages to spend the night." Sun Xiangfu chatted with the samurai for two or three hours, and after a simple dinner with some fish, meat and vegetables prepared in the village, he proposed come out.

"No, I'll ask someone to combine the rooms of the princes and make room for you." Sun Xiangfu waved at the warrior who was about to get up, and immediately called Zhang Ke to arrange the matter.

On the other hand, the samurai Xun felt that something was wrong, and persuaded, "The rooms in these village houses are not big, how can you let the princes live in one room, or..."

"Hehe, don't worry, I do this for a reason. At their age, it is time to establish a correct concept of life. If they are allowed to live a life of reaching out for clothes and opening their mouths for food, they may be idiots all their lives." Trash, His Majesty entrusted them to me to train them, just because he didn't want to see them become a bunch of rice bugs that only consume people's fat and people's anointing."

Just after Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, Zhang Ke left and returned, reporting, "My lord, the lords don't agree, and I'm having a temper tantrum."

The title of "Grandpa" is the new name given to him by the people in the mansion after the dissolution of the Anbei Dadu Hufu, especially Zhang Ke who married the maid of the mansion as his wife. Of course, this is what Sun Xiangfu really said. I don't like the word "old" of the master.

As for the court, except for a few top bosses who would call Sun Xiangfu by his name, most lower-level officials would call Sun Xiangfu's current highest official title, Master Sun.

Most of the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture responded to Sun Xiangfu's request and called him Sun Shangshu directly, so that he could distinguish who was his subordinate and who was someone else's subordinate. Can't remember everyone's identity.

"Disagree? Here, how can it be their turn to disagree? Call them to me, and I will give them a lecture. Moreover, you can directly tell the servant in charge of taking care of them that they will follow. ordered to be executed."

The so-called internal servants are actually secret guards who obey orders, and Sun Xiangfu has Li Shimin's imperial order, so they naturally need to obey Sun Xiangfu absolutely.

Soon, many princes gathered in the center of the courtyard under the leadership of their own servants. Sun Xiangfu also specially called the guards, and took the box of the leather whip that Li Shimin gave him to discipline these princes to the courtyard.

Seeing this box, including Li Tai and Li Ke, the princes who originally planned to listen to Sun Xiangfu's arrangement, trembled in their hearts. However, they expected Sun Xiangfu to use this whip even more. Flog the prince's subjects.

"Do you think that you came here to enjoy the pastoral life? That's a big mistake.

You come here to learn how to be a farmer and to experience the life of a low-level peasant.This is His Majesty's painstaking efforts to make you grow up to be useful to the country.

In order to complete the tasks entrusted by His Majesty, I don't mind if you hold grudges against me, or call me a big devil. Your birth status as a prince makes you completely ignorant of obedience and respect, let alone that as a person, To live on, we have to face many basic problems.

So, starting today, you not only need to learn about farming, but you also need to deal with your own life problems and adapt to the daily life of most people in the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty, I don’t want to see a prince who can’t even take care of himself. , living above a high position, wasting people's fat and people's anointing in vain..."

(End of this chapter)