Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

Back at the farm, Su Chen had a temporary pig pen built on a piece of wasteland.

In the future, a pig house will be built here to raise pigs.

A septic tank has also been dug.

The man who sold the piglets never dreamed that someone would spend 100 coins to buy his 15 piglets.

Now there are 15 more piglets in Su Chen's farm, all of which are very small and only weigh about 5 kilograms.

It's not time to castrate them yet, so keep them first.

...

Evening!

After dinner, there was nothing to do.

Su Chen asked Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others to perform martial arts for him.

According to them, they don't have the kind of light skills that can fly around, but they have no problem climbing over walls and roofs with good jumping ability.

They are much stronger than ordinary people, weighing more than 200 kilograms with one hand.

After following their performance for a while, I felt that I couldn't bear the pain.

"Zhang Long, how many guards are there in the farm?"

Su Chen touched his chin and had a sudden idea.

"Master, besides the four of us, not counting the servants, there are 52 guards."

Li Shimin valued Su Chen very much, if he didn't want to reveal his identity.

He would have transferred 500 Jinwu guards to the manor.

Su Chen nodded, thinking: There are really a lot of people, no wonder his mother-in-law sent him so much money

"Can you write?"

Zhang Long replied: "Master, I can write."

"Okay, come with me, I say, you write."

Su Chen turned around and led them to the living room.

...

Half an hour later, Zhang Long finished writing the last word.

"Zhang Long, this is called the "Special Forces Training Manual". In the future, let the guards on the manor train for at least 4 hours a day."

"You will be the captain for the time being."

Zhang Long didn't know what a special force was, but he had to do whatever the master said.

"Yes, Master!"

Su Chen thought about it and realized that they might not understand some of the words above, so he simply asked Zhang Long and the other four to practice a few times first.

He guided and explained on the side.

"Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Wang Chao, Ma Han, you four should practice first, and then you can demonstrate to others for reference."

The four answered in unison: "Yes".

...

"Put your feet together, raise your head, straighten your chest, and tighten your stomach!"

"Stand at attention!"

"Look forward!"

"Turn around!"

...

Su Chen shouted commands while standing in front of them to demonstrate.

Start with the most basic queue.

Half an hour later, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and the other four understood these basic commands and the corresponding body movements.

Su Chen shouted commands in front, and they made corresponding body movements according to the commands.

Their movements were very standardized, and Su Chen nodded with satisfaction.

But he always felt that something was missing.

"Oh, right, it's the clothes and hairstyle, and the main thing is the hairstyle."

This long hair doesn't look that solemn.

After thinking about it, the ancients emphasized that the body and hair are inherited from parents, so they should not easily accept short haircuts.

Let's do it this way for now.

Then every day in that square, you will see more than 50 people doing "military training".

Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Wang Chao and Ma Han take turns to be instructors.

Those guards are Jinwu Guards, and their military posture is also quite majestic. The team is horizontal and vertical, which is very beautiful.

...

A few days later.

"Wang Chao, Ma Han!"

"Here!"

Wang Chao and Ma Han came to Su Chen outside the living room.

"Call a few tenants, follow me around the manor, and bring hoes and chisels."

Last night, Su Chen thought about the coal in the furnace again, and wanted to go out to investigate today to see if he could find a coal mine.

Su Chen and his party went to several hills and found nothing.

Soon they came to a bare hilltop, and Su Chen squatted halfway up the hill.

He used a chisel to remove the surface soil and debris, and found something different inside.

"Uncle, dig deeper in this area."

The tenants immediately started to work hard.

After a while, Su Chen stopped them.

Because Su Chen knew what was inside the mountain.

"I didn't find the coal, but I found this thing!" Su Chen immediately got excited. What is this?

Saltpeter! This is a saltpeter mine.

"Summer is coming, and this saltpeter can be used to make ice, and it will also be used to make gunpowder in the future."

Su Chen nodded with satisfaction, then took out a pen and paper and marked on his temporary map.

"Wang Chao, when you return to the village later, bring people to dig a few hundred kilograms back. This thing is called saltpeter."

After saying that, he turned and looked at the tenants.

"Uncle, do you know where coal has been found?"

Su Chen felt that it was too tiring to look for it this way, so he just asked casually.

The tenants shook their heads.

Seeing that everyone said they had never found it, he was not disappointed.

After all, the Tang Dynasty had not discovered the use of this coal, so naturally no one had seen it.

In fact,Su Chen was wrong from the beginning. The people of the Tang Dynasty knew about coal and knew that it could burn.

But they thought that burning coal would cause poisoning, so no one used it.

They didn't call it coal, they called it 'black stone'.

"Master, can you tell me what the shape of this coal is and what it is used for?"

The tenant didn't know what coal was, but he thought that since it was charcoal, it should be similar to charcoal.

Su Chen thought about it and thought about how to describe it, "Coal is a black stone that can be burned with fire."

When the tenant heard that black stone could be burned,

"Master, you are talking about black stone, right?"

Several tenants said in unison.

"Black stone?"

This name is quite appropriate! Su Chen immediately nodded and said yes.

The tenant immediately stepped forward and said with a smile:

"Master, we don't have to go so far. There are several barren mountains not far from the manor's wasteland and woods. They are all black."

Su Chen wanted to slap himself a few times. Why didn't he ask first?

But it's good. This trip accidentally discovered the saltpeter mine.

The tenant continued: "Master, this black stone will emit poisonous gas when it burns. You can't use it as firewood!"

Su Chen smiled, "Don't worry, uncle, you will know when the time comes. Now let's go back and see the black stone."

The group went down the mountain and walked back.

...

"Hahaha! This is coal!"

Everyone came to the foot of the mountain near the mountainside. Wang Chao, Ma Han and the tenant worked together to dig out a large deep pit.

Su Chen saw the dark gray soil layer exposed, jumped into the deep pit and picked up the hoe to dig a few times.

Black mud and stones appeared.

This is coal!

Then, under the leadership of the tenants, they went to the other three hills where black stones had been found.

They also easily dug out coal.

Su Chen had to sigh that this undamaged environment was rich in resources.

In modern coal mining, do you want to dig out coal without digging hundreds or thousands of meters?

Su Chen roughly estimated that these four coal mines would be enough for the civilian coal of the Tang Dynasty for the next 50 years.

If blast furnaces are to be developed for iron and steelmaking, that would be another matter.

Back to the village, the tenants were about to leave.

"Uncles, thank you for your hard work today. This is today's wages."

Su Chen gave each of them 20 coins. He asked the guards and servants and roughly understood the income of the people in the Tang Dynasty.

The wages were pitifully low, and it was good enough to have food provided.

The wages were at most 3 or 5 yuan a day, and don't forget that the Tang Dynasty still needs to perform corvée labor.

That is, the government conscripted them to work for free.

The tenants were unwilling to accept the money. They thought they had never met such a good landlord as Su Chen.

He gave them seeds and plows, and only collected 10% of the rent in the future.

They refused to accept 20 cents for such a small thing.

Su Chen patiently told them that in the future, except for collective labor in the village, they would be paid for other things.

He also asked them to go back and elect a village chief, and in the future they would not be called tenants, but villagers.

The tenants could not refuse, and accepted the money after thanking him profusely.

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In the evening, Su Chen went to see the 15 piglets, who were very lively, and 5 of them were boars.

Then he went to see the sweet potato seedlings.

Su Chen was shocked to see that they could be transplanted only 9 days after being buried.

They grew very lushly. After cutting this crop, they could probably cut it again in a few days.

"Wang Chao, send someone to Leshan Restaurant to find Jin'er and ask her to tell her mistress to plant sweet potatoes tomorrow."

"Yes, Master!"

Wang Chao immediately went to Leshan Restaurant.