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

The next day, the morning court ended.

Imperial study.

"Your Majesty, I have counted and registered everything. The national treasury has received 17 million taels of silver and 6.3 million copper coins. All salt mines in the Tang Dynasty have been nationalized."

Dai Zhou, the Minister of Revenue, reported to Li Shimin excitedly.

He had never been so rich since he became the Minister of Revenue. He did not expect that the young man he met last time would have such means.

Li Shimin was quite excited when he heard these figures, and was more shocked. He was about to speak.

"Your Majesty, now the people of the Tang Dynasty no longer have to worry about not being able to afford salt, and the national treasury has increased a large amount of income. Should we consider how to reward them?"

Wei Zheng asked immediately without waiting for Li Shimin to speak excitedly.

Li Shimin's face was full of excitement, and it disappeared in an instant. It was not that he was unwilling to reward Su Chen, but that he did not know how to reward him.

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others also showed a thoughtful look.

If you talk about Su Chen's contribution, grain seeds, curved plow, plus this fine salt, it is more than enough to make him a duke.

If he really wants to be a duke, he is only 16 years old.

So Li Shimin and others did not propose the reward during the morning court today.

If the emperor makes a 16-year-old boy a duke, there will definitely be people in the court who oppose it.

Moreover, Li Shimin and others do not want to announce that the high-yield grain seeds and fine salt extraction methods come from Su Chen, and do not want to make enemies for Su Chen.

After thinking for a while, Li Shimin simply passed the buck and looked at Wei Zheng:

"Xuancheng, how do you think Su Chen should be rewarded?"

Since the problem cannot be solved, the person who raised the problem can be solved.

Wei Zheng frowned and thought deeply when Li Shimin asked this question.

"Your Majesty, now that the Zhenguan plow has been promoted among the people, why not confer the title of county marquis on Su Chen for his contribution of the plow? What do you think?"

Wei Zheng also knew that the other two matters could not be made public for the time being, otherwise it would be disadvantageous to Su Chen.

Everyone nodded and agreed with Wei Zheng's suggestion.

"Xuanling, draft an imperial decree. Su Chen has contributed to the Zhenguan plow. Su Chen will be conferred the title of founding county marquis, and the manor will be expanded five miles outward and granted to him."

"This imperial decree will be kept secret for the time being!"

Seeing that everyone nodded in agreement, Li Shimin definitely had no objection.

...

Royal manor.

"March in step!"

"One, two, one... one, two, one..."

"One, two, one..."

"Stand still!"

"Look forward!"

"At ease!"

"Today, five kilometers of cross-country!"

"The last five people to return to the manor will clean the pig house for ten days!"

"Stand at attention!"

"Run~walk!"

More than 100 guards in the square train every day, and today Wang Chao and Ma Han are the instructors.

...

Su Chen didn't know what title the emperor gave him, and he didn't care.

At this moment, he was lying down, writing and drawing on a large piece of rice paper.

The paper was full of squares, grid lines, and the corresponding lengths and sizes were marked.

"This pencil is still easy to use!" Su Chen murmured.

This pencil was made by Su Chen himself. It is much thicker than ordinary pencils and the lead core is made of charcoal.

A closer look will not make it difficult to find that this is a schematic diagram of the axis of the foundation when building a house. It is not a single house, but many houses, arranged in a regular pattern.

Each house covers an area of ​​about 120 square meters, with a front yard and a backyard. According to the plan on the drawing, there are 180 houses.

There are 12 rows in total, with 15 houses in each row.

There is a 5-meter-wide road in the middle of each row of houses, with a drainage ditch, and green trees are painted on both sides of the road.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host, the main task progress rewards are as follows:]

[Tomato seeds: 20 acres of land]

[Nine-year compulsory education-full set of textbooks]

[Special paper: unlimited]

Su Chen lowered his head and was stunned. Here comes the reward?

"Tongzi, how much progress has the main task made now?"

[Host, there is no specific number to indicate the progress of the task! ]

Su Chen listened, thought about it, and then asked:

"Without a number, how do I know if it has been completed?"

[Host, please rest assured that there will be a prompt after the main task is completed. ]

Su Chen nodded, "What is the special paper? What is its use?"

[Host, this, Tongzi is not clear at the moment! 】

A few days ago, Su Chen wanted to communicate with the system, and suddenly found that the system's attitude seemed to have become polite.

So, he tried to slowly change his tone, and the system was not angry at all.

The system has no temper? Then, Su Chen became tough from then on.

"Zhang Long, go to the warehouse and take those bags of seeds to the villagers to plant. It can plant about 20 acres of land."

The owner often asked them to go to the warehouse to take out some things. They never asked where the things came from or how they came out.Now in the warehouse.

Zhang Long didn't know what kind of seeds they were, so he asked two servants to go with him.

"I haven't seen Li Zhi and her family for almost half a month, and she hasn't been to the restaurant. I wonder if something happened at her home?"

Su Chen thought to himself.

It has been more than ten days since Li Shimin and others left.

Someone went to the restaurant to find Changle, but Changle and Jin'er didn't go to the restaurant for more than ten days.

Su Chen didn't want to act rashly, so he asked someone to take him to Li Shimin's house.

After all, Su Chen had never visited her home before.

...

Just when Su Chen was thinking about Changle and Li Shimin's family.

"Master, the master is hard!"

"Master, the cement has hardened!"

The servant shouted and ran to the living room, shouting excitedly.

Su Chen heard this, and his mouth twitched: What do you mean... the master is hard.

However, Su Chen soon smiled. He knew that the cement he made a few days ago was successful.

Two days ago in the evening, someone used red bricks and cement to build a cube grid with a length, width and height of 1.5 meters, and also made a cement pier mixed with gravel.

The cement pier was surrounded by wooden boards, and no one touched it now.

"Zhao Hu, let's go, let's go and take a look!" He smiled and got up and walked out of the living room.

Su Chen walked for more than 20 minutes to the brick factory. The road from the manor to the brick factory was not easy to walk.

On the other side of the red brick wall, several villagers touched the wall carefully, and some used their fingers to pick the cement in the brick seams.

"It's amazing. I built this wall two days ago. The cement was soft and collapsed. Why did it become so hard today?"

The bare-chested villager touched his head and couldn't figure it out.

He thought that cement was also mud, and it should be broken after it dried.

"The owner is here!"

"Owner! Good morning!"

The villagers on the brickyard greeted Su Chen enthusiastically. This was the way they learned to greet from the owner.

Su Chen smiled, "Good morning, everyone!"

It was not early now, almost 9 o'clock. According to the Tang Dynasty, it was Chenshi (7-9 o'clock).

Su Chen came to the cube-shaped red brick wall, picked up the cement in the brick seams, and nodded.

"Old Zhao, use the hoe to hit this wall and see if you can knock it down."

Su Chen asked everyone to step aside and let the shirtless Old Zhao use the hoe to hit the red brick wall to see the effect.

Old Zhao said nothing, spitted, rubbed his hands, picked up the hoe next to him and swung it at the wall.

"Bang!"

The red brick wall made a dull sound, but only splashed some small pieces of foam.

Old Zhao did not give up, and swung the hoe three times in a row. The result was obvious. The red brick wall was extremely solid.

Unless he smashed the top two layers of red bricks, he would have to use a 80 sledgehammer.

"Old Zhao, it's done. The red brick and cement experiment was successful."

"When enough cement and red bricks are produced, we will start renovating the old houses, and everyone will live in red brick houses in the future."

The villagers present cheered, and they no longer had to worry about the houses being washed away by water.

"Everyone, work harder and produce more cement and red bricks, and we will live in red brick houses in the future."

The villagers were originally hardworking, and now they are more motivated.

Afterwards, Su Chen asked people to remove the template of the cement pier and asked someone to find a sledgehammer.

After hitting it hard several times, sparks flew, and the cement pier was still intact, just some debris fell off.

The villagers were even more surprised. How could the mud before become harder than iron?