Chapter 21

Cotton like snowflakes are still in full swing.

Pang Yukun came all the way, covered with a layer of white. When he came to Xiao Ming, he bowed and said, "Your Highness."

"No gift, Pang Changshi came to bake the briquette stove, and it was warm."

Pang Yukun wears thin clothes, and his face turns purple with cold. The state of Dayu is no more modern. Every family has cotton padded jacket and down jacket. Cotton padded jacket is a luxury here. At least Pang Yukun can't afford it.

Trembling with the cold, Pang Yukun said, "Your Highness, there are differences between the superior and the inferior. I'd better stand."

Xiao Ming has learned a lot about Pang Yukun's rigid character in the past month. Every time he behaves out of line, Pang Yukun will reprimand him with great righteousness, not caring that he is the king of Qi.

As for why Pang Yukun was like this, Xiao Ming also generally understood after asking aster and lvluo.

There is no other reason, because Pang Yukun was a speech officer in Chang'an.

To be more specific, people who do nothing with their salaries and stare at other officials all day long to find the wrong ones. These officials are of low rank, but they are not afraid to scold as small as nine grade sesame officials, as big as the first grade officials of the current Dynasty, or even the Emperor.

The reason for this is that there is an unwritten rule in all dynasties, that is not to kill the officials.

Over time, all those who killed Yan Guan were scolded as HunJun.

With this layer of moral restraint, even if the emperor does not like officials, it has to endure.

Pang Yukun, who was sent here by Xiao Wenxuan, can kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand, he can keep an eye on Xiao Ming to prevent Xiao Ming from acting out of control. On the other hand, Chang'an is short of someone who bothers him.

"Pang Changshi doesn't have to be restrained. You and I are in Qingzhou together. According to my father's wishes, I'm afraid neither of us can go back to Chang'an. In this case, we should help each other a lot." Xiao Ming's eyes twinkled and began to sow discord.

Pang Yukun's face is moving. His parents are in Chang'an. Like Xiao Ming, he has only returned to Chang'an once in five years.

The emperor's chance to let him return to Chang'an is slim.

Pang Yukun is upright, but he is not a fool. He knows that Xiao Wenxuan sent him to Qingzhou because he was angry with him.

"Your Highness is the king of Qi, and I'm the long history of Qingzhou. It's the duty of an official to assist your highness. As long as your highness is diligent and loves the people and doesn't behave perversely, I will not sue your highness to the emperor." Pang Yukun has a straight face.

Elm pimple! Xiao Ming secretly scolds Pang Yukun for being a private minister. I'm afraid it's impossible for a short time, because Pang Yukun's heart is filled with the state of Chongqing.

Xiao Ming is working so hard now, but in the end, he is still working for his own fiefdom. As for the state of Dayu, he has little feelings, and the man sitting on the throne has little to do with himself.

"Pang Changshi's words are reasonable. He understands the past without remonstrance, and knows that the coming can be pursued. In fact, it's not far away. I feel that today is what it was, but yesterday was not. I was ignorant in the past and offended. Please forgive me. Today, I let Pang Changshi come here in the snow for farming Xiao Ming leans on the chair, the warmth of the stove makes his voice a little lazy.

Pang Yukun said: "since his highness gave the order to reclaim the land, the people of all the states have been cheering. In just one month, the number of acres reported by the government of all the States has reached more than 300000 mu, which has been registered and recorded in the name of the reclaimers."

"Three hundred thousand mu?"

Xiao Ming has measured it. According to the census register in Qingzhou, there are one million families in six states in his fief. According to the minimum number of three families, it is three million people. If they are five people, there are five million people, and he believes that the figure five million is accurate, because the death rate is very high in this age. It's a little bit hard.

The population of five million people in Dayu state is not much, not much. Because of the unification, the population of Dayu state has been greatly increased in a stable environment.

In Xiao Ming's opinion, it is almost equal to that of Song Dynasty.

It seems to feel that Xiao Ming is not very satisfied with this figure. Pang Yukun added: "there is no way to do this. Some rich families have cattle, so they plough more, while poor families lack tools, which naturally slows down."

Xiao Ming nodded, "this time I'm looking for you just for this matter. I'm going to set up production teams in each state, county and village."

"Production team?" Pang Yukun's puzzled look was something he had never heard of before. But Xiao Ming's words just now surprised him a little.

Because Xiao Ming could not say such elegant words before.

Xiao Ming waved to Pang Yukun, "I'm afraid it's going to take a long time. Pang Changshi'd better sit down and speak slowly."

At this time, lvluo came over from the snow with her skirt. She trotted into Xiao Ming's bedroom and put a chair beside the fire.

When she smiles at Xiao Ming, she rubs her red face and goes to fight with aster.

Pang Yukun feels that his feet are going to freeze numb. Xiao Ming's "long time" makes him unable to hold on any longer. If he goes on like this, he may be frozen stiff.He had no choice but to sit down in front of Xiao Ming's briquette stove.

As if to cover up the embarrassment, Pang Yukun said: "this is the briquette stove invented by his highness. It's really a good thing to keep warm in the house this winter. I heard that since the beginning of winter, the business of the Qin family's briquette stove is very hot."

"Naturally, this briquette stove is convenient and practical, especially in the cold winter. However, if the Qin family makes money, it means that our equipment department makes money. Now the equipment department has hundreds of taels of money every day." Xiao Ming looks excited. The heavy snow really helped him.

Pang Yukun was slightly surprised. Now the equipment department, a big money consumer, has become a big money maker. What he didn't expect is that the real money maker is the coal briquette business. Xiao Ming also takes 30% of the profits from the Wang family.

"In this case, I hope your highness can make good use of the money, and don't take it to do that romantic business."

Pang Yukun's old faults have been committed again. Xiao Ming is surprised, but he has no choice but to smile. This Pang Yukun really has three words in his line.

He said: "Pang Changshi, though relieved, I didn't use the silver indiscriminately. Instead, he asked Chen Wenlong to buy a batch of farm cattle and forge a batch of farm tools from Uncle Wei's fiefdom."

"Oh?" Pang Yukun, it's amazing.

Xiao Ming continued: "what I just said about the production teams has something to do with these materials, because the wealth is uneven, and the land cultivated by the people is also different. Now we divide the people into production teams, and each production team selects a team leader. The government provides cattle and farming tools, the production team is responsible for management, and the people of the whole production team use them together. This will greatly speed up the process The reclamation of wasteland and the cultivation in the future... "

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