Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

The announcement is not complicated.

It's a recruitment announcement.

The Duke of Taihe County plans to invest his own money to build a road to Xingping County. He will recruit [-] laborers at a monthly salary of one to two and five cents, and an additional [-]% for the people who live in the food towns. Food and accommodation will be included. The people in the food towns will be given priority, and the people in the non-food towns will be given priority. Recruit on the basis of merit.

click...

When the content of the announcement was read out, several people suddenly trembled and everything in their hands fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Oh my God, what did I hear?

Recruitment?

The kind that gets paid!

Not labor!

One to two to five cents a month, which is higher than the harvest from growing grain!

And the people in their towns are given priority in hiring!

This...this is the grace of survival!

pat! !

After some people came to their senses, they suddenly knelt heavily on the ground and shouted with sobs: "My lord is unparalleled in benevolence and virtue, and my lordship will last forever!"

"My lord, your lordship will last forever!"

"Your Majesty, Lord Lu, all generations of princes!!"

"..."

At this moment, the reputations of Gu Simiao and Lu Chen in the fiefdom had completely reached their peak.

Nearly [-] people from eight hundred households in the city almost shouted their names at the same time, expressing their most sincere gratitude and blessings.

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Recently, almost everyone in Taihe County is paying attention to the situation of the Black Mountain fiefdom.

After all, there was suddenly a new county prince in the county, and he was a big figure that the emperor relied on. Moreover, he did not just want to be a hereditary prince, but wanted to run the fiefdom in a serious manner. With such a variable, how could they Don't care?

Therefore, not long after Gu Simiao's bodyguard read out the fiefdom's decree, the contents of the decree spread to the county.

At this time, the Li family.

"what?!"

After seeing the fiefdom decree, Li Zhiping's expression suddenly changed and his face was full of disbelief.

"Income tax...abolition of labor...the people in the fiefdom are protected by the county government. Bullying the people in the towns is equivalent to offending the county government? This..."

He never thought that General Gu would go to such an extent for those ordinary people who had no value at all. He not only implemented decrees in the fiefdom that were different from the current laws of Daxia, but also used his own power to protect the fiefdom. People will not be bullied.

why?

The Black Mountain is obviously all coal, and the nearby land is extremely barren and cannot grow any food at all. It should have no meaning to her. In this case, the Taihe County Duke is just a hereditary title in name only. Logically speaking, it should be ignored. Instead of exploiting the local people, they should be left to fend for themselves.

As for Taihe County, a lower-class county, logically speaking, it shouldn't be taken seriously by a big shot like her.

Why does she love the people like a child and build roads at the same time?

What is her purpose?

Are there any unknown treasures in Montenegro?

Can't figure it out.

I can't figure it out at all.

However, one thing is certain.

If Gu Simiao is serious and protects the people of the fiefdom from the bottom of his heart, then the Lin family, which has become a public settlement in Taihe County... will definitely become someone they can't afford to offend.

To disturb the Lin family is to agree to provoke Taihe County Duke.

At that time, General Shenwu, the highest military attache in the empire who was in charge of military affairs, how could they possibly offend a local snake in Taihe County?

At this thought, Li Zhiping's face suddenly turned extremely dark.

The next second, he suddenly slapped the table next to him with an unwilling look on his face.

"Come on!"

As he shouted, within a moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and then the figure of the Li family's old housekeeper appeared outside the door.

"Patriarch, what are your orders?"

The old housekeeper asked in a hoarse voice.

Li Zhiping took a deep breath, calmed down, and then said to him: "From today on, our Li family will no longer interfere with the Lin family's property, and will return all the shares that we took advantage of before. The store will no longer target Lin’s store in the future, in a word..."

At this point, he paused for a moment, and then said in an inexplicably deep voice: "From now on, my Li family and his Lin family will not interfere with each other."

Hearing this, the old housekeeper suddenly looked shocked and subconsciously wanted to ask why.

But when he thought of Li Zhiping's strength, he quickly swallowed back what he originally wanted to say and nodded in agreement.

Li Zhiping waved to him, and the old housekeeper left without hesitation.

Looking at his hurried away figure, Li Zhiping's eyes became more and more gloomy.

At the same time, other families also put away their gluttonous mouths and did not dare to speak lightly about the Lin family's affairs. Later, they vomited out everything they had eaten before.

Without any discussion, each family made the wisest choice in a tacit understanding.

One family is happy and the other is sad. While the Li family and other well-known families in Taihe County have ceased their activities, Zhao Dafu's family almost didn't set off a firecracker to celebrate.

"Qian'er, you are truly a lucky star for your father!"

Zhao Dafu looked excitedly at his daughter who was also looking happy in front of him, and laughed loudly without any scruples.

I am as happy as a child weighing more than 200 pounds.

"The General attaches so much importance to the people of the fiefdom that he has specially created so many unprecedented government decrees to benefit the people. The Lin family is now the people of the General's city. Under the protection of the General, it is very likely to rise again in the future. The Lin family is...a blessing in disguise. ah!"

"Qian'er, you got engaged to Lin Yi when the Lin family was in the most difficult time. Our family gave you such a generous dowry, which is undoubtedly a timely help for the Lin family. With the rise of the Lin family, our Zhao family... will definitely be able to ride on this strong wind and move forward hundreds of feet. One step further!”

Seeing her father so happy, Zhao Qian also laughed.

"Dad, my daughter has told me a long time ago that Brother Yi is mentally tough, determined and a filial person. He will definitely be a great person in the future, and his destiny will not be much different."

Zhao Dafu laughed.

"My daughter is right. It was my father who was short-sighted before, but my daughter, you are more discerning."

After hearing her father praise her without hesitation, Zhao Qian couldn't help but blush, feeling a little embarrassed.

But no matter what, whether she had foresight or whether she was a blind cat or a dead mouse, the current results undoubtedly proved that her choice was right.

She, Zhao Qian, has chosen a promising husband.

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Of course, Lu Chen, who was hundreds of miles away in Luojing, didn't know what happened in Taihe County.

Helping Gu Simiao formulate the fiefdom law was just something he did casually, so naturally he didn't care about the impact it would have.

After returning to Beijing, Lu Chen focused his energy on the Tiangong Division.

The structure of the Tiangong Division has almost been set up, and it has been studying coal for some time, and it is almost time to speed up the progress.

At this time, the Tiangong Division was in the Wanxiang Office.

"Miss Su."

Lu Chen sat on the main seat and said calmly to Su Ning, who was not far away and was thinking about something key:

"I have recently thought of a way to strip out the harmful substances in charcoal and turn it into a fuel that can burn stably like charcoal without producing those harmful smoke."

Hearing this, Su Ning's eyes suddenly froze, her attention instantly peeled away from all the thoughts in her mind, and then she looked at Lu Chen expectantly.

"any solution?"

Others also stopped what they were doing and focused on Lu Chen.

For this big man who advocated the establishment of the Tiangong Department and put forward the concept of rejuvenating the country by studying things, they did not think that Lu Chen was a layman, but respected him from the bottom of their hearts.

Naturally, they attached great importance to Lu Chen's opinions and ideas.

Chapter 219 Separation

Under the expectant eyes of everyone, Lu Chen asked someone to bring a few things over and then placed them on the table in front of everyone.

Among these things, in addition to a piece of charcoal the size of a fingernail and an ordinary sink, there were several powders of different colors.

There are black, yellow, gray, etc.

Everyone quickly recognized that the yellow ones were sulfur powder, the gray ones were scale powder, and the light yellow ones were Xihuang.

There are two kinds of black powder. They both look like pebbles, but if you look closely, they are slightly different. The most obvious difference is the particle size. The pebble powder on the left near the lumpy pebbles is obviously finer than the one on the right.

Except for charcoal, other powders are either used to make elixirs, to form formations, or to be used as medicine, or they are waste materials that have not yet been found to have any value, and the amounts are very small, so they are not commonly used.

They were a little confused and didn't know why Lu Chen brought out these irrelevant things.

"Everyone, please see."

As Lu Chen said, he asked someone to take out the fire stick and use some combustion aids to ignite the coarser coal powder and sulfur powder.

It didn't take long for the two powders to start burning.

As everyone expected, both powders released a pungent smell when burning.

Although they are all pungent, the smell of coal powder is obviously stronger, and it seems to be mixed with many kinds of smells. The white smoke emitted by burning sulfur powder is also unpleasant, but the smell is relatively single.

"Remember these smells."

Lu Chen explained it, and then asked someone to light another pile of charcoal powder.

As expected, after the pile of charcoal powder was ignited, it still released a thick smoke, accompanied by a pungent smell.

"Smell it carefully."

Everyone did as they were told.