Listening to Xiao Yu's complaint and seeing Li Shimin's face becoming more and more serious, Yang Shidao felt uneasy and his eyes floated out from time to time to hope that Li Chengqian would come over quickly.

Ma Zhou sat under him and saw him look uneasy, and quietly patted his hand, signaling him not to worry.

The person who sent the letter to Li Chengqian had already arrived at the Chongjiao Hall, but Li Chengqian was not in the Eastern Palace at this time, so Li Chengqian never appeared.

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After the tenth day of the first lunar month, a warm southwest wind blew. As soon as the southwest wind blew, the frozen earth became crisp after the severe cold and heavy snow.

Hardworking farmers began to go into the fields. In the Tang Dynasty, there were machines that could plow hundreds or thousands of acres of land a day. Most of the farmers in the Tang Dynasty had no cattle or plowshares. It would be nice if they could have two iron rakes. One person would turn the ground with an iron rake bit by bit. A strong laborer would be so tired that he could pull out half an acre of land a day.

A person who earns 200 kilograms of grain per acre of land must eat at least four to five hundred kilograms of grain a year. In addition, various taxes do not encounter famine. In the past, family members need to plant at least 30 acres of grain if they want to eat a full meal. If the tenant farmers pay 40 to 60% of the land rent first, and a few dozen kilograms of grain left for a acre of land, a family member who wants to eat a full meal must plant at least 50 acres of land.

According to the rate of turning the ground, it will take about a month to sow seeds around the Qingming Festival. Farmers usually start turning the ground after the Spring Breeze begins after the New Year.

The more than 100,000 victims rescued by the Eastern Palace last year were the poorest people and had no tools. Li Chengqian planned to reclaim millions of acres of farmland under the Longshou Yuan to support these people.

After the fifth day of the lunar month, Zhao Jie and Du He had already taken people to the bottom of Longshouyuan to dig irrigation ditches and build houses.

There are not many government affairs today. When Li Chengqian came back from Changsun Wuji's mansion, he left the city from Xuande Gate, the north gate of the East Palace to see how they built their houses.

Li Chengqian came to the place where the house was built not far from Xuande Gate, and saw only a hundred old and weak people digging soil to bury pillars here.

They were clearly asked to build their residences before Qingming Festival, but at this speed, they would probably get next year if they wanted to build a place where nearly 100,000 people lived.

Li Chengqian was displeased and said, "Go and find the manager here for the orphan king!"

After a while, a little old man followed the guards of the East Palace to Li Chengqian. The old man Li Chengqian also knew him. He was a bricklayer named Hu An in Chang'an City. The house was snowed at that time. He met Li Chengqian in Shengdaofang. He made a lot of efforts when he was repairing the house in Shengdaofang, and later he was promoted to be the chief security officer.

"The villain Juan greets the crown prince!" Juan came to Li Chengqian to salute.

"Platform, the Lonely King of Juan asked you, why are there only these people here? When will you be so slow to build the house?" Li Chengqian was very upset with the people who dared to change his arrangements.

When Hu An saw Li Chengqian, he knelt down quickly and said, "Go back to the prince..."

"Get up and talk!" Li Chengqian was so scared that he knew that he had gotten angry because he was wrong.

"Oh," Juan got up again with great effort, and then slowly said to Li Chengqian: "Go back to the Prince, this is all our security chiefs. After Chief A discussed with Lord Zhao and Lord Du, he asked most of them to turn the ground, leaving these old, weak and villains to continue building houses here."

Li Chengqian was even more puzzled when he heard this, so he wanted to go and see it himself, so he asked Hu: "It's still early before Qingming Festival, what's the point?

Take the Lone King to find them, and the Lone King also see what they are doing!"

Li Chengqian said, turning around and getting on the carriage. It was now a large wasteland, with uneven heights and wild grass growing. The carriage slowly shaking and walking forward.

Li Chengqian was in a worse mood while sitting in the bumpy car. He thought that these people didn’t know what was going on. He asked him to build a house first, and then open up land and farm, so that everyone can live in a place, so he can rest assured to cultivate it here.

Why are you so anxious?

A long group of guards protected a swaying carriage and slowly came to the bank of a lush river.

Li Chengqian was helped by the old ghost and walked off the carriage. He slowly glanced around the working people here with a serious expression, not knowing what to say.

Tens of thousands of people were in chaos on this wasteland. Some were digging soil to build embankments, some were cutting grass, and some were turning over the ground.

After Li Chengqian got out of the car, Du He and Zhao Jie came to Li Chengqian and bowed.

"I've seen His Highness the Crown Prince!"

As Li Chengqian became busier and less and less time spent with the two, the two people who had followed Li Chengqian at first were full of awe for Li Chengqian.

"Forget it, why don't you obey my arrangements? First build a house and build a canal, and then divide the land to each other according to the direction of the canal, and then let him reclaim it?" Li Chengqian said angrily.

"Go back to the Crown Prince, this was discussed with the chiefs..."

"Why didn't I do what I said?"

Du He was interrupted by Li Chengqian before he could finish his words.

"If you follow what His Highness said, you won't have much land to grow this year. These people will have to be raised by His Highness in winter." Zhao Jie, who was impatient, said the key point.

"What does it mean?" Li Chengqian realized that there might be a problem.

Du He hurriedly stopped Zhao Jie, and he said to Li Chengqian: "Your Highness, you see, these tens of thousands of people have only reclaimed more than 10,000 acres of land in one day. If we wait until the house is built and the canal is built and the people have sowed the seeds, we will start to turn the ground. How much can we plant it?"

Li Chengqian looked at them with iron rakes and iron mills and said angrily: "Why don't you use your hands to snatch them?

That's slow!

Where are the plowshares you bought?

Didn’t you ask Li Yifu to give you all the money for the house search?

Why don’t you buy some plowshares and oxen?”

Du He and Zhao Jie were speechless by Li Chengqian's series of questions. Li Chengqian thought he was not very good when he asked the right question. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, you have worked hard, I can't understand it. Go and arrange for someone to buy some plows and oxen, and let someone build a house and dig a canal first."

After a long time, Du He said in embarrassment: "Your Highness the Crown Prince thought so yesterday."

"Oh, why did it change today?" Li Chengqian said curiously.

Zhao Jie saw that Li Chengqian didn't understand and pretended to understand, and said angrily: "Now spring farming is right in front of you. Who has taken crazy medicine to sell their own oxen? We even bought all the plowing plows in Luoyang, and we only bought more than a hundred handfuls in total..."

"Say less!"

Seeing that Zhao Jie's tone was not good, Du He was afraid that he would anger Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian looked at the place where the grass had been cut in the distance and it was indeed someone pulling the plowshare and turning it over. Because it was far away and there were few, Li Chengqian didn't notice it just now.

"No one sells the plowing ox, no one sells the plowshare? Is anyone deliberately going against the orphan king?" As soon as Li Chengqian finished speaking, he immediately became arrogant, and even Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian stood beside him and became serious.

Du He smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't dare to make things difficult for His Royal Highness. There are really not so many plowshares to buy, but His Royal Highness doesn't have to worry too much. We have all deposited the surrounding counties, the east city of Chang'an City and the blacksmith shops in Luoyang. We can still make a hundred plowshares before Qingming Festival..."

Li Chengqian rolled his eyes and said, "Then we'll fight ourselves!"
Chapter completed!