The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

"Don't worry too much about the money. Find more people." Li Fu said, "The autumn harvest has been over for a while now. Find all the idle and capable people in the surrounding area to speed up the progress."

"We are not short of money. Don't worry about things that can be solved with money."

The furniture business in Chang'an City brought Li Fu a lot of profits.

The money at home was piled up in the warehouse. It was hard to count after people went in.

What was the money for?

As for the capital, the workshop had already left it. What could be sent to the Jingyang Wang residence was the pure profit they earned.

Now, Li Fu has money in his hands.

If you want to do a good job on the farm, you must spend a lot of money, and spending this money now can save lives in the future.

Money is nothing. You can earn it again in the future. For Li Fu, everyone on the farm is more important than money.

Besides, isn't the money earned to be spent?

"My dear, if that's the case, the cost will be much higher than before." said Lao Zhou.

When people come, according to the treatment given by my dear, it's not just a matter of wages. Food, drink, defecation, etc. are also a big expense.

In order to ensure that people work here every day and save time, the farther away the people's homes are, the more things they have to take care of.

Those who live far away have to live in the manor at night, but where in the manor are there so many places to accommodate so many people?

The weather was not too cold before, so it was okay to build a shed outside.

But now it's warmer during the day and cooler at night. Living outside, you have to wrap yourself up tightly at night to avoid being woken up by the cold.

At present, people on the construction site live in the dormitory of the workshop.

There are not so many people in the workshop for the time being, and most of the craftsmen in the workshop are from the manor, all locals, and live at home at night.

Therefore, the dormitory of the workshop was vacated, and those who worked on the construction site squeezed into the dormitory at night and made do.

Some even slept on the floor in the dormitory.

There were too many people.

Even if they slept on the floor in the dormitory, at least there was a room to shelter from the wind and rain, which was much better than living in a shed outside.

If more people were added, where would they be arranged?

These were all things, and once the arrangements were made, the expenses would naturally go up.

"Don't worry about the expenses." Li Fu said, "Just spend it."

"In that case, the temporary shed will have to be modified." Lao Zhou said, "The weather will get colder in the future, and the shed can't be lived in."

"Then build a temporary residence." Li Fu said, "There are so many people working on the farm, and there will still be workshops in the future, and houses need to be built."

It doesn't mean that after the two workshops are built, there will be no more workshops, nor does it mean that after the houses for the guards are built, new houses will not be built on the farm.

In Li Fu's opinion, this is just the first phase of the project.

"Whatever is missing on the construction site, send people to buy it. Don't be stingy with money. Try to improve the treatment of the craftsmen." Li Fu said: "Just like you said, when the weather gets cold in the future, don't let people catch a cold. This thing spreads everywhere. So many people live together. If one person catches a cold, the whole house may be unlucky.

If people get sick, won't it delay things? So don't be stingy with the money you should spend. When the time comes, I will ask Lao Zhao to transport more money from the house in Chang'an City. Or, if you need to buy things in Chang'an City, go directly to the Jingyang King's house, find Lao Zhao, and use the account book there directly."

"Yes." Lao Zhou responded.

After explaining almost everything, Li Fu asked Lao Zhou to leave. He wanted to look at the account book here by himself.

Anyway, the night is long, and there is nothing to do. There is no entertainment. Just sleep when you are tired.

The lack of entertainment forced Li Fu, who wanted to lie down, to spend the night reading the account book.

The next morning, when the kitchen knew that their husband had returned, they prepared an extra rich breakfast.

All the people under Li Fu knew that Li Fu was very picky about food.

Therefore, in order to keep his job, the cook worked hard, but many things were not available outside, and even if he wanted to learn, he had to learn from the people in the mansion.

After Liu Niang left, Xiao Tao was the only one who could cook.

So, Xiao Tao also helped in the kitchen early in the morning.

I can't let my husband see that I have no appetite for breakfast when I go to the manor on the farm.

They dare not say that the imperial chefs of the Shangshi Bureau in the palace can compare in terms of skills, but in terms of fresh dishes, no one can compare with the Jingyang Wang Mansion.

Li Fu sat on the stoolOn the round table in front of him was today's breakfast.

At this moment, he suddenly wanted to drink cornmeal porridge.

Things that he didn't want to drink in his hometown before, now, just thinking about it is a luxury.

There is no cornmeal porridge in the Tang Dynasty...

Recalling the cornmeal porridge and pancakes in my memory, I suddenly felt that they were really delicious.

People are cheap. When they see things that are easy to get, they don't cherish them when they see them normally, and they think they have eaten enough.

Now that they are gone, they start to miss them again...

If I see people from the Western Regions or people from the southern Xinjiang coming from the sea in the future, I can ask about them. Maybe they have them in other places at this time?

But they didn't come to the Tang Dynasty with the ships across the ocean.

When I return to Chang'an in the future, I still have to go around the East and West Markets more often and communicate more with the Hu people. Maybe I can see some familiar seeds or something.

In the current Tang Dynasty, there are not so many Hu people coming to Chang'an City. There will be some in the future.

Li Fu was thinking about this while eating breakfast.

The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty would attract many Hu people to Chang'an. Even though they were treated poorly and had low status in Chang'an, they still yearned for Chang'an City and flocked to it.

After breakfast, Li Fu rode his horse with his guards and went out to the construction site.

After the autumn harvest, the idle young and strong people in the farm came to work at the construction site.

They had to make money, and the wages offered by the owner were also high.

All the farmers in the farm worked here, and their wages were 20% higher than those of the outside workers.

This was the welfare that Li Fu gave to the farmers in his own farm.

The purpose was also to attract more people to settle down in the farm.

In the early Tang Dynasty, there were few people.

There were so few people that many lands were abandoned.

Why did later generations say that the food left by the Sui Dynasty was enough for the Tang Dynasty to use for a long time?

It was because there were few people.

According to this calculation, wouldn't it be enough for a long time?

But the most important thing is that these grains are not in the hands of ordinary people.

So, the account is not calculated in this way.