Lu Dynasty

Chapter 437 Installation
Although Pu Yuan didn't understand what I meant, he knew that I did this for the good of the common people.Pu Yuan apologized to me: "I'm sorry, Prime Minister, it's not that I doubt you, but I really don't understand why you use businessmen. In my opinion, it's better for the state to control everything!"

"It's okay, it's a good habit to ask if you don't understand. You are all my right and left hands. If you don't understand anything, just ask, and I will give you an explanation. Maybe you don't understand now, but one day you will I will understand. So the most important thing now is not to have any misunderstandings and knots!" As the saying goes: Employing people is not suspicious, but it is not a good thing if the subordinates doubt the boss.In my opinion, whether it is a friend, a brother, or a superior or subordinate, it is better to have something to say. I believe that there is everything that cannot be said to others, at least there is nothing that cannot be said to my own people.Of course, the private room between husband and wife is another matter!
Pu Yuan left with a heart knot untied, I looked at his back and smiled.I never worry about my subordinates having doubts about my decisions, because I definitely have the time and patience to explain them to them.

The next day, Pu Yuan and Ma Jun came to me after the next court and said that [-] stoves had been built!I was surprised and asked, "Don't you say that one hundred is the limit?"

Ma Jun laughed and said: "I don't know what Xiao Yuanzi's nerves are. As soon as he came back yesterday, he borrowed fifty people from Mr. Liu of the Ministry of Industry and divided them into three shifts overnight. In the morning, there were more than 200! The lord's formula made a pile of briquettes like a hill. Now the Ministry of Industry only has a whole piece of coal, and the coal ash has been used up by Xiao Yuanzi, and the fire starters such as saltpeter and sulfur have also been used up. Master Liu is now sending The Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Commerce have applied for a large amount of mining and procurement of these two items!"

"Okay! Pu Yuan, I thank you for the older people under my command! In this way, you first arrange for people to install the coal stoves in each department, and then go to the ministers' homes with old people to install them. Finally, if there are any leftovers, you come to my house to install them! Remember, we must publicize the precautions from door to door to ensure that no one will be poisoned by the gas produced by the coal stove!" In fact, my worry is a bit superfluous, because it is difficult for coal stoves with chimneys to accumulate carbon monoxide and cause poisoning.Still, be careful.

"Prime Minister, don't worry, I also designed a device on the coal stove that can control the firepower, just like a small damper. As long as there are servants who change the carbon regularly, it is guaranteed that a furnace of coal can burn for three hours without going out." Pu Yuan patted his chest and assured me.

"Okay, you can go to rest when you're done. I'll give you a day off and have a good rest. You're almost a panda! Remember, it's not something I ordered or needed urgently in the future. You are not allowed to stay up all night! They are all my treasures, if I get sick, who will I ask to make and develop these new things for me!" Seeing Pu Yuan's red eyes from staying up all night, I feel a little distressed.Ma Jun and Pu Yuan are experts under my command, and they must not be used like cattle and horses!

"Prime Minister, don't worry, we will take care of it. Yesterday, Deheng helped me for half the night!" Pu Yuan didn't want to take the credit all by himself, so he brought Ma Jun with him.

"Okay, I know that you brothers and sisters love each other deeply, so hurry up and go to work! Rest as soon as possible after finishing!" I smiled and sent Ma Jun and Pu Yuan away. These two boys really made me feel at ease.

As soon as Ma Jun and Pu Yuan left, Mi Zhu came over and said, "My lord, the Zhen family has agreed to do business with you."

"Zizhong, I expected the Zhen family's promise! But you have to remember that every year's profits must be paid first and then dividends! When the commercial tax under our rule is sufficient for the imperial court to operate, I will exempt the agricultural tax!" I have long wanted to exempt farmers from the land tax, but unfortunately the commercial tax under my rule is not enough to support the operation of the court.

"My lord, this is not right! If a powerful family annexes the land, wouldn't you give them a chance?" Mi Zhu asked suspiciously.

"Hmph! If they dare to annex the land, I will see if their necks are strong enough! As I said, the land is for the common people to cultivate. If I find any family that dares to occupy the land to a certain extent, I will make them unable to eat it." Walk around! The lightest thing is to ransack the family and exterminate the family, and I will make them disappear for the land!" My cold eyes made Mi Zhu feel a little chilly.I patted Mi Zhu on the shoulder and said, "Brother Zizhong, your Mi family is a big business, so you can do business with peace of mind and don't meddle in land matters. With the profit I give your family, it will definitely be enough for your Mi family." Generations can’t finish it! I will never forget you if anything good happens in the future!”

Mi Zhu understood what I meant. Originally he wanted to buy some land, but now he heard me say that land is not property, it is a steel knife for killing people. He immediately dismissed the idea of ​​buying land.Mi Zhu smiled and said, "If the lord hadn't woken me up, I wouldn't have become the most wronged subject under the lord's command. I'll go back and inform the Zhen family immediately, so that they can do business as well as my family!"

After Mi Zhu left, I went around the various ministries.Not to mention, Ma Jun and Pu Yuan acted very quickly. The coal stoves were all installed, and some of them had already been used under the guidance of Ma Jun and Pu Yuan.Every time I go to a department, the serving officials of that department will express their gratitude to me. It seems that Ma Jun and Pu Yuan have done a lot of work for me.After inspecting the department, I went to the mansions of Tai Shici and Xu Shu. Although they are not in Luoyang, I have to take good care of their mothers.As for Erniang and Grandpa, they sometimes live in Lu Bu's house, sometimes in my house, and in the end, it will be a little later to say that they are my relatives.

Mother Xu and loving mother smiled when they saw me: "Baxian, what do you want us to say about you! There are good things, always the first to think of us useless old things!"

"The two aunts, Ziyi and Yuanzhi are my brothers, and you are my relatives. If I can't take good care of you, how can I face the two brothers in the future? But you have to remember, you must sleep in the window at night. Leave a crack on the top, don’t seal the room completely! It’s okay to use more carbon, if you do something good or bad, I have no place to regret it!” The old man has to remind and ask the servant to take good care of it, otherwise It is possible to regret it later.

"Don't worry, Ba, the two adults from the Ministry of Industry have already given instructions just now. And they even called the servants who took care of us to train! Look at the small transom on that window. From now on, we will always The sisters are not closed. Then you can rest assured!" Now that the two old people have made arrangements, I can go home with peace of mind.I always go to see how the old man in my family is doing!

(End of this chapter)