area51novel Chapter 390
Chapter 390
At the same time, Li Shimin remembered what Su Chen said, that building schools is a good thing and people may volunteer to work.
However, Li Shimin had no intention of saving the people's wages.
No matter how much it costs, the treasury will pay the workers a penny.
Since the last time he saw people buying pork with the wages for road construction, Li Shimin is more convinced that only when people are paid for their work can the Tang Dynasty become prosperous.
"Your Majesty, the head of the Lu family asked me for a daily limit on the purchase of pork. In your opinion..."
Before Fang Xuanling finished speaking, Li Shimin found the "urgent military information" from yesterday, "Let that kid handle this matter. My Ministry of Internal Affairs also limits the purchase of five catties of pork.
In addition, send someone to deliver this letter to that kid."
From Li Shimin's somewhat annoyed tone, it is not difficult to see that he is blaming Su Chen for not giving him face.
Can't the people sent by the palace to buy pork buy more pork?
"Yes!"
Immediately, Li Shimin asked Wang Defa to call several dukes. Today, he was in a good mood and invited several trusted ministers to have dinner together at Leshan Restaurant.
It was that Su Chen didn't know the situation here, otherwise he would have shouted:
'Do you want to buy more pork? There are only more than fifty pigs left in the pigpen now. The pigs that can be sold will be gone after they are killed. '
Yesterday, Su Chen ordered people to slaughter three pigs, all of which were pickled into bacon for emergency use, so as to satisfy their appetite.
Last month, more than a dozen pigs were slaughtered every day. Excluding breeding pigs and sows, there were only 460 pigs that could be sold in total.
After the remaining 53 pigs are slaughtered, if you want to eat pork again, you have to wait until the new pigs are on the market next year.
After next year, the pork market in Chang'an City can basically remain stable, because sows can produce two or even three litters a year.
One litter is not to say that there are many, but there must be ten piglets, after all, this is a high-quality breed produced by the system.
There shouldn't be a shortage of food, provided that food can keep up.
The scale of Li You's pig farm can now be basically determined, with a house for 3,000 adult pigs. In addition, there is a newly built sow breeding house, which can produce 10,000 piglets a year, based on two litters per year.
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Manor.
After lunch, Li Chengqian and his three siblings gathered in Su Chen's study.
"The sugar is gone, and now you don't make explosives. Why don't you go to school? How can you be the principal?"
Li Tai was unmoved and continued to flip through a chemistry book.
Previously, Su Chen handed all the books to Li Tai and asked the printing factory to print them out.
"No problem, the vice principal is enough!"
Li Tai replied to Su Chen lightly.
Su Chen accidentally glanced at Princess Changle who was knitting wool, and remembered that hand-knitting sweaters was very time-consuming.
"Is there something you are interested in studying?"
Li Tai put down the book in his hand after hearing this, "Tell me, what is it and what is it used for?"
"Can you make a machine to replace knitting sweaters?" Su Chen asked tentatively.
"Why do we need to study the oblique loom? Nowadays, the clothes and fabrics on everyone's body are woven by looms." Li Tai suddenly felt bored. He had no interest in weaving.
Su Chen shook his head, "The loom you mentioned can only weave cloth, not sweaters!"
"Sweater? Let me see it." Li Tai had never seen a sweater before, and stretched out his hand to ask Su Chen for a sweater.
Su Chen slapped Li Tai's hand away, "I'll show you some wool. Didn't you see that Li Zhi hasn't finished knitting a pair of woolen gloves? Where did the sweater come from?"
Li Tai glared at Su Chen, and after thinking, he said, "Maybe you can ask the Shaofujian Weaving and Dyeing Bureau. They are mainly responsible for weaving, dyeing and making clothes, and they have recruited all kinds of skilled craftsmen."
"Weaving and Dyeing Bureau?" Su Chen nodded slightly and decided to go there when he had time.
Only by forming a production line can the cost of wool sweaters be reduced. If they are knitted by hand, the price is very expensive.
"My Lord, the palace sent someone to deliver an urgent letter and a letter." Zhang Long came to the door of the study with a high-level "bamboo tube" in his hand.
Li Chengqian turned his head and was shocked to see the special bamboo tube for military intelligence letters.
"Hehe, this bamboo tube is beautifully made." Su Chen took the bamboo tube and admired it for a while.
"That is only used for urgent military intelligence within 600 miles." Li Chengqian frowned and reminded.
"Six hundred miles of urgent military information? Brother-in-law, don't be ridiculous. Why would urgent military information be sent to me?" Su Chen didn't care and unscrewed the bamboo tube to take out the letter.
"On October 25, the second year of Zhenguan, the King of Shu and Xue Rengui..."
Su Chen finished reading the content of the letter, and then laughed and scolded: "I said, why haven't these two guys returned to Chang'an yet? It turns out that they have done a big deal!"
"Look, it's urgent military information!" Su Chen casually threw the letter to Li Chengqian.
Then Su Chen picked up another letter, which was written by Fang Xuanling himself, telling Su Chen everything that happened in the Wang family.Even the pork was mentioned.
"Haha, these noble families are really rich, so they only donated 20,000 strings of cash."
As for the pork, Su Chen was completely overthinking. Now there are only more than 50 pigs to sell, and he still wants more pork?
"Hiss~, should I also show my appreciation and donate some money to His Majesty?"
Su Chen touched his smooth, hairless chin and thought.
Then he shook his head.
"I can't donate, I can't open this door! What if I'm forced to donate by moral kidnapping in the future?"
'Well, forget it, I'll donate 20,000 strings of cash! There's no use keeping so much money, it's almost catching up with the treasury deposits. '
Su Chen still couldn't make up his mind and planned to donate 20,000 strings of cash.
"Zhang Long, go call the housekeeper, this Marquis wants to donate money!"
Soon, Wang Jia came to the study and stood at the door of the study.
"Marquis, what do you want!" Wang Xi bowed and asked.
"Well, send someone to load a few carts of copper coins to the palace tomorrow. I want to donate money. Each Dao will donate 20,000 strings, a total of 200,000 strings of copper coins."
Everyone in the study was shocked.
Princess Changle suddenly looked up at Su Chen, "Su Chen, you want to donate 2... 200,000 strings?"
Princess Changle didn't even raise her eyelids when Su Chen and the others talked about urgent military information.
But she was still scared when she heard Su Chen say that he wanted to donate 200,000 strings.
"Hehe, it's okay, small money! There's no use for so much money in the manor. It might rust. It's better to use it to do something practical for His Majesty!"
Su Chen didn't care. As long as he didn't starve, money didn't matter to him.
Princess Changle nodded and didn't say anything more.
"Wang Xi, go and prepare!"
Su Chen remembered that Cheng Yaojin said that one string of Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins weighed six catties and two taels. Think about how many catties 200,000 strings would weigh?
"Yes!" Wang Xi bowed respectfully and turned away, thinking about borrowing a bullock cart from the villagers.
Li Chengqian looked at Su Chen with a face full of resentment. Everyone knew that Atana brought back a lot of gold this time, half of which belonged to Li Chengqian.
Apart from the "filial piety" to Empress Changsun, Li Chengqian still had some left.
After Su Chen donated like this, could he remain indifferent as the crown prince?
"Brother-in-law, you have to consider me too. You donated 200,000 strings of cash with such a big wave of your hand. As the crown prince, I can't just watch, right?"
The more Li Chengqian thought about it, the more distressed he felt. He had finally saved nearly 20,000 strings of cash in the past six months.
He was planning to get married at the end of next year when the crown princess turned 18!
Now it's good, I guess all of it has to be donated.
"Haha, it's purely voluntary, you don't have to donate." Su Chen said with a smile.
Li Chengqian said that he made a bad friend!
Li Tai didn't care, and looked like he was just watching the fun.
Everyone knows that his pockets are cleaner than his face.
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