Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

"Aren't you bored? I just want to go out and take you to have a look. Maybe I can feel better." Liu Bei said with a smile, then handed the horsewhip to the groom beside him, and followed him into the carriage, "Go west Tun, don't stop in the middle."

"This is considered AWOL." The carriage shook slightly, and then started to move smoothly, with an increasing speed. Chen Xi was sitting on the soft chair, looked at Liu Bei and rolled his eyes and said.

"It is also the responsibility of the Sangong to understand the people's sentiments. Compared with being aloof in the Political Yuan, on-the-spot inspections are more meaningful. After all, I am not you, and I can know the autumn with a leaf." Liu Bei said with a smile, not because of Chen Xi's words And give birth to a bad feeling.

"I just think that General Xu is very embarrassed that you ran away like this." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "It's better to take into account General Xu's senses."

"That's not necessary, Zhongkang has already gone back on vacation. I used to take Zhongkang with me when I traveled, but it's a pity that Zhongkang is too easy to expose." Liu Bei said resentfully. To be able to know Liu Bei, but to be able to grow up to be such a cruel person as Xu Chu as a guard, he must be a noble person.

"It seems that Mr. Xuande often goes out to play!" Chen Xi crossed his hands, with a resentful expression on his face. He had a good job during this time, but Liu Bei actually went out to play.

"The higher the position, the farther you are from the common people. Perhaps this is not a problem for those who come from high-ranking families, but I was once one of these mortal beings. I also made a wish to give them a full meal, and I also swore that I would It's not easy, if I just leave like that, I'm not me anymore." Liu Bei's expression was extremely calm, but Chen Xi was moved by that demeanor.

Maybe Liu Bei is indeed changing, but some of his original intentions have not changed. Even now, he is still practicing his beliefs.

"Well, that's right, Mr. Xuande has always been like this." Chen Xi nodded, not denying this. The thing Chen Xi admires most about Liu Bei is that no matter whether he fails or succeeds, no matter whether he is downcast or proud, Liu Bei has always They all know what they are doing.

"Let's go, I'll take you to have a look." Liu Bei said with a smile. Chen Xi's most convincing Liu Bei was not his own talent and ability, but Chen Xi's unchanging ambition for years, and the behaviors he practiced for that ambition. Liu Bei I have always thought that this is the compatibility between myself and Chen Xi, they are all such people, the goal is far away, I don't know if it can be achieved, but they are always moving forward.

The carriage quickly passed the construction site outside Chang'an City, because the weather is still quite cold, even if the construction has started, it is mainly to build civil frame structures, and the road is mainly to level the land and lay roadbeds. After all, the current concrete technology is really not to standard.

Although the technology of cement firing has spread, new attempts have been made in various places, higher-level cement firing formulas have also come out, and concrete used at lower temperatures is also available, but after all, it has not reached the current level. A standard that can be used to a certain extent.

However, according to Chen Xi's estimate, with the original formula and demand, sooner or later someone will come up with concrete or additives that can adapt to low temperatures, but the Han Dynasty officials will not invest too much in this aspect, as long as it is enough .

"Chang'an is still in full swing." Chen Xi said with a smile looking at the scene of the car retreating rapidly outside the window.

"It's not just in full swing. In other eras, starting work in winter must be a waste of people and money, and a representative who doesn't care about people's power, but you are not only not wasting people and money, but the people are actively signing up. I have to say, it completely refreshed my understanding of people's power." Liu Bei also looked at the people working outside the window with a look of emotion on his face.

"They are eager to start work in winter. Even after they proposed to adjust the corvee to before May this year, they are now the kind who take the initiative to work and don't need money." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "To a certain extent , and now they are all just serving corvee.”

"..." Liu Bei fell into silence. In his impression, anyone who dared to make the people serve corvee in the winter would be beaten to death. There seemed to be few such capable guys in history.

"Are they really in corvée?" Liu Bei asked suddenly.

"Yes, last year I was not exempted from part of the corvee time, but I found that our situation can't completely exempt it." Chen Xi said casually while looking out the window.

In fact, Chen Xi's current social structure is such that corvee can be exempted, converted to official employment, and can even set up a business organization, and prepare some people to do these chores professionally. After all, the time of corvee itself is not long. If you replace it with a professional, you will be responsible for it all year round. If so, it's not too expensive.

But Chen Xi later found out that corvée is very useful during mobilization. This thing is equivalent to compulsory. As long as it is not very crazy, everyone is used to it, so Chen Xi has no idea of ​​​​completely exempting corvée——I can Exemption, even if I don't need you this year, but sometimes when I am short of manpower, it is not bad to send hundreds of thousands of people to work!

"This is corvée now, will there really be no disturbances?" Liu Bei looked out the window and asked with a frown. He really didn't know that the people outside were doing corvée. Before, he thought that these people were here to make money. After all Chen Xi has always been you to do the work, and the government will pay you.

"What's the turmoil?" Chen Xi rolled his eyes, and also leaned on the car window to look out, "If you drive them away and don't let them serve corvee, they will still scold you."

"What's the reason?" Liu Bei asked with a question mark. He didn't care about this group of people recently. He just asked people to send a soybean cake as a New Year's gift to these working people after three days of work. That's right, it was Chen Xi's. Those in stock were left alone after that. After all, this has been done for more than a year, and even the engineers have not been replaced. Just continue with last year's policy.

"Reason?" Chen Xi glanced at Liu Bei, "Finish the corvee as soon as possible, and then make money, it's winter, there's not much work in a day, and the supervisor can't pick things up, and the days are short, and the construction site is in charge of meals, and there is heat. Tea, finish the corvee early, and when the summer is long and the piece-rate wages are paid, work hard, and do the work of the current two days a day."

Liu Bei was taken aback, it was the first time he knew there was such an operation.

"Working hours are different in winter and summer. The daily minimum standard for corvee work in winter is at least half less than that in summer." Chen Xi said very cautiously, "Besides, tea in winter is much more expensive than dandelions in summer, so you know."

Liu Bei said that he was shocked, and this kind of operation, this is simply a simple way to take advantage of the country, who said that the people have no brains, it is about the details of their own lives, each of these people has brains, and All are fine.

"I didn't think about what you said at all." Liu Bei said that Chen Xi didn't go out very much, why did he know all about these Xialiba people? Talk about it all.

"That's why I'm relatively more powerful." Chen Xi said proudly, "Actually, drinking hot tea in winter is mainly because I can't run out of hot water in the big bathhouse that people burn, and it can save some trouble if I provide it together. It just happens to be in the north of Chang'an There is anthracite, anthracite is used as charcoal for winter stoves, and smoke is used to burn boilers. Speaking of which, the super-large pottery boiler took us a lot of energy."

Chen Xi's previous impression of the boiler was made of iron, but the Han Dynasty really couldn't play with that, and there were some problems with the sealing, so he burned a pottery one. Needless to say, the craftsmanship of the people in the Central Plains has always been Is the strongest in the world.

However, making such a big thing is terrible, and finally gave up the sealing to get it done, but after one step is in place, this thing is erected next to the bathhouse, and the person who burns the stove does not turn off the fire all year round. It is mainly used in winter Hot water is provided.

"Coal mine." Liu Bei thought for a while. He had an impression that there was an open-pit mine in the north. The Xitun he often went to, and there were people who used carts to pick up coal balls and burn them there. However, this is an official coal mine. , Liu Bei said that he didn't know at all.

"Yes, there may be a lack of other things, but this one is enough. There are quite a lot of coal mines in Yongzhou and Bingzhou, and there are also a lot of open-air coal mines. The cost is low." Chen Xi said with a smile.

In the past, wood was burned in winter, so it was inevitable to cut down trees everywhere. Although the Han Dynasty was full of trees at this time, Chen Xi still had to weigh the problem of cutting down baldness.

So Chen Xi set up a coal mine, and by the way, he also sold briquettes and coal stoves. The firewood sellers in the villages, villages, and villages were all incorporated into coal sellers, and the mine said in a grand manner that they paid first after receiving the goods.

Anyway, a few hundred catties of coal is only a few hundred pennies, and what Chen Xi does is almost no-cost business. Whoever let the open-pit coal mine belong to the state, just pick up money on the spot.

"I heard that if the common people go to collect coal, it doesn't matter in the mine." Liu Bei asked curiously.

"Come on, who ignored my order and let the people run into the mine to pick up coal." Chen Xi asked with a depressed face, "My order to the mine is that the coal balls picked up by ordinary people should be handed over in a cage. Two-thirds, the rest is taken away, and whoever changed the order for me again."

"..." Liu Bei blinked, isn't this a free gift? But then Liu Bei thought of a question, "Why the cage?"

"If I don't talk about carrying cages, some bastards pretend to be ordinary people, use a cart to do it, and then leave half of it for you. I have caught this kind of bastard several times." Chen Xi said angrily. So many, that now Chen Xi can only be limited to carrying cages, one person per day, one cage per day, too many, you really can't afford it?