Chapter 206 Prodigal Son (Part 2)
When the first ray of sunshine in the morning spread across the earth, Li Chengqian and his party drove their carriages away from the manor and walked towards a mountain in the distance.
Along the way, Li Xiaogong kept turning his head to observe the carriage that Li Chengqian was riding, and always felt that there was something different. Finally, he couldn't help but say, "Boy, what's the name of your carriage? What is the circle held by the bald head?"
"That's the auxiliary steering system." Putting down the confession given by the young man in his hand, Li Chengqian said to Li Xiaogong through the car window.
"What does it mean?" Li Xiaogong thought for a while, but finally couldn't understand it. He couldn't figure out what the steering system meant.
"It's something that makes the body more stable when the carriage turns at high speed." The little loli sitting next to Li Chengqian stuck his head out of the car window and said showing off.
"Mei'er is so smart, but you'd better go back and sit honestly, otherwise you'll be not beautiful if you knock your teeth off." Li Chengqian dragged the little loli back from the window and pressed it to sit next to you.
"Uncle Wang, how about you selling this car?" After comforting Wu Mei, Li Chengqian said to Li Xiaogong, who was riding on the horse again.
"What trouble do you want to do? Let me be honest, I will never be fooled by you today." Li Xiaogong laughed and clearly stated that he was not fooled.
Li Chengqian shrugged indifferently, no longer mentioned the carriage, pointed to the front and said, "It's coming soon."
Following the direction of Li Chengqian's finger, Li Xiaogong looked up and saw countless people busy on the road. When he listened carefully, he could hear the faint sound of horns.
As Li Xiaogong finally saw clearly as he moved closer.
The main road that could have been parallel with four vehicles was completely dug up. Countless people smashed some big stones, then threw the larger ones into the dug out main road, and tried to make them as flat as possible. Other finger-sized stones would be collected together and piled to designated places on the roadside.
The sound of trumpets that Li Xiaogong just heard was made by people when they smashed stones.
"Are you mobilizing the civilians?" Li Xiaogong looked at Li Chengqian who got out of the car, frowned and pointed his hand at the people who were working.
Because Emperor Yang of Sui conquered the people and spared no effort, the land of China eventually caused the war to rise up everywhere, and the Sui Dynasty was destroyed. Therefore, the most taboo thing in the early Tang Dynasty was this kind of disturbing the people's behavior of recruiting the people.
"Uncle Wang, don't put on the hat randomly. You can ask yourself if these people were recruited." Li Chengqian looked at the main road where the roadbed was laying, and said lightly.
"The Prince is coming down!" Before Li Xiaogong could speak, some people who were working were screaming sharply.
Li Chengqian and his group had dozens of people, and the Xuanjia Army was dressed conspicuously, which attracted the attention of the people.
But what surprised Li Xiaogong was that the people who should have complained seemed to like Li Chengqian very much. When they saw him coming, they saluted him from afar and asked him all the time.
"How did you do it?" When he saw the scene of a recruiting civilian husband being welcomed by civilian husbands for the first time, Lee Hyo-gong felt that his values were about to collapse.
"Each person involved in the work is one kilogram of grain per day." Li Chengqian stretched out a finger and shook it and said to Li Xiaogong.
Li Xiaogong twitched his lips and said in surprise: "One pound of grain per day? Are these people hired by you?"
"Yes, I'm hired. And Uncle Wang, I tell you, the people of the Tang Dynasty are so simple. At the beginning, I planned to have three kilograms of grain per person a day. But the people always think that it's too much and will never work. Even if you have one kilogram of grain per day now, I still force it to deliver it."
Li Chengqian proudly bragged to Li Xiaogong, but he didn't pay attention to the look of the old man looking at an idiot.
In the early years of Zhenguan, a piece of rice and silk was sold for 12.5 kilograms of rice.
Look at the working people, there are probably thousands of people. According to Li Chengqian's approach, only a hundred buckets of rice will have to be divided every day. Even if the rice price is cheaper, four buckets per day, so many people will have to spend about tens of coins a day.
Li Xiaogong only has these two words in his mind now. Apart from prodigality, he really doesn't know how to describe Li Chengqian's current approach.
Even if the 78,000 guan was in vain, it could not be so spent.
"You, have you replaced all 78,000 guan with rice?" Li Xiaogong asked in a deep voice through the area where the people worked.
"Uncle Wang, why have you been unable to understand that the 78,000 guan is just a concept. The merchants actually paid food and other essential goods for daily life, and there was no actual money at all." Li Chengqian sighed, turned his head to look at Li Xiaogong, and said helplessly.
"No money? Do you mean you don't have a penny?" Li Xiaogong looked at Li Chengqian with complicated eyes and said.
"Of course I don't have money. When I came out, the money given by my mother had already been spent. I still came back from credit at Huichunlou yesterday." Li Chengqian rolled his eyes and said.
Li Xiaogong was blocked by Li Chengqian for a moment and had nothing to say.
Li Chengqian's crazy money making in Qingzhou has been spread all over the city of Chang'an, and Li Er even had the intention to escort this kid from Chang'an.
Li Xiaogong was actually very angry on the way here, and he wanted to get Li Chengqian over and beat him up. But now after he figured out the matter in front of the confrontation, Li Xiaogong suddenly felt that his uncle was not a big deal.
"Without money, what do you eat in Qingzhou?" Li Xiaogong asked curiously.
"We will eat whatever Lao Xue's two thousand-yue cyclist eats. Anyway, there are many people, so we can eat in this bite." Li Chengqian said with a sad face, holding his arms.
The old man drove him out too quickly and did not mobilize the local government's authority to make money and food. So when he arrived at the local area, it was the duty to entertain him. If he didn't entertain him, Li Chengqian really couldn't force him because it was called asking for bribes.
Besides, it would be too embarrassing to find a local official to eat it in one bite.
Li Xiaogong didn't know what to say for a moment, and glanced at the pitiful Li Chengqian and suddenly felt like she wanted to laugh.
After standing there for a while, Li Chengqian's carriage finally moved over for a long time. When Li Chengqian got on the car, the group continued to rush.
But this time everyone lost the desire to speak. Until half an hour later, when they arrived at the foot of a small hill, Li Xiaogong looked at the smoky hill and said in surprise: "Boy, why did you build the cement factory here?"
Li Chengqian also poked his head out of the car and said complainingly: "What else do you do? I have to get some money for myself, so I can't always eat with others for credit!"
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