Chapter 114 Can Take Two Concubines
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After Zhang Chao came back from Chang'an, he immediately asked his eighth uncle to leave a few apprentices to continue to make water trucks, and then asked his eighth uncle to take a few people to make a new plow.
Even if you can't keep the technology confidential and do monopoly business, Zhang Chao can at least provide this new plow to his tenants and nearby villagers first.
The technical difficulty of curved plows is very low, especially when Zhang Chao asked Uncle Ba to operate in an assembly line method, set standards for each plow's components, and then separately made it, it was even simpler.
Even the young disciple who has just been in the school for half a year can go on the battlefield.
In order to speed up, Zhang Chao also recruited some young men to do things. They did the simplest preparations, such as peeling tree bark, tug-of-saw, etc.
The beast craftsman Lao Niu family now also serves as the blacksmith in Zhangjiagou.
Last time, Zhang Chao got him a set of blacksmith stove and tools and built a blacksmith shed. The horseshoe had been put on, and now they were just ready to process the plow shovel.
Because iron is more expensive, the plow shovel adopts the most iron-saving method. It is a small triangle shape that is still hollow inside and is used to cover the plow bed. This is the production method of many agricultural tools now. If you can use iron, you don’t need iron. If you can use less, you don’t need iron. If you can use less, you don’t need less.
Many farmers' hoes are made of wooden hoes with iron at the front.
Many people can’t afford small iron pots at home, but they still use ceramic pots.
The villagers in Zhangjiagou all knew that the curved plow invented by Zhang Chao was quite powerful, and they came to the Zhang family to order.
Many people have saved some money when working in the Zhang family during this period. They were originally worried that this easy-to-use plow would be very expensive. Who knew that Zhang Chao did not intend to make money from everyone, but just charged money at the cost price.
Even if you have no money, you can temporarily pay off credit and exchange it for food cloth.
Everyone came to queue up to register. In just half a day, more than 300 orders have been registered in Ma Zhou.
"As soon as this news spreads, I guess more people will come to order tomorrow." Ma Zhou was also from a poor family and clearly understood the importance of this curved plow to the people. With such a good plow, of course everyone wants to grab one.
"It's okay, everyone is willing to buy it, so we sell it to them. Anyway, we will charge money at the cost and will not lose money." Of course, Zhang Chao's cost price actually added a little processing fee, but it's not much. Anyway, we can't really make a profit without making a penny.
Everyone comes to buy it, and Zhang Chao is happy. This thing has no technical content. There are several craftsmen or even several carpenter apprentices who can make it. It is also possible to recruit more ordinary people to help, and it is not a problem to fight dozens of aircraft a day.
Moreover, Zhang Chao believed that the court would definitely promote this kind of plow on a large scale, and that this kind of plow would definitely be made and sold in various places, so everyone would not have to come to Zhangjiagou.
Zhang Chao didn't expect how much money he could make by selling plows, but he was still looking forward to Chang'an's reaction.
But his conditions were given out, but I don’t know if Changsun Wuji will help him fight for it.
After waiting for a day, no one came to Chang'an.
That night, Zhang Chao suffered from insomnia.
He didn't know what reward Chang'an would give to his invention. He hoped to get a medal, but he didn't want to be an official. In fact, the medal was just a level of treatment, neither an official nor a position, and neither an official nor a duty.
The officials of the Tang Dynasty can be divided into four systems: positions, sanct, honor and title. The positions are officials, such as county magistrates, and county magistrates are officials, and the rank of the department is equivalent to the sanctified officials of the Tang Dynasty. However, it is the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, and it will not be until the seventh year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty that two sets of civil and military positions will be officially formed. The sanctified officials of the court still adopts the sanctified officials of the Sui Dynasty, which uses both the sanctified officials of the Kaihuang and Daye dynasties, one is a sanctified official, and the other is a sanctified official. Later, the sanctified official became a sanctified official, and the sanctified official became a sanctified official. Now there are only sanctified officials with a fifth rank or above in the sanctified official positions.
The honorary officials were the military merit system of the Tang Dynasty, which was somewhat similar to a certain combat hero, second-class merit, first-class merit, etc. The honorary officials had neither real or responsibilities, and even the rank was considered, with twelve turns.
Zhang Chao doesn't want to be an official. If his status does not rely on military merits, he can't become an official. He just wants to get a dispersed official or a meritorious official, and just have such an identity to accompany him.
This is actually similar to the fact that some entrepreneurs and enterprises in later generations become bigger and they will think of creating a representative or a member, and it is also a layer of protection for them.
As for the title, Zhang Chao never thought. It would be so easy for a common man to get a title. The lowest-level founding county men are from the fifth rank.
The title is much more valuable than the honorary officials. If the official is a free official, it will be even more valuable. He can directly enjoy a certain number of people's rent and mediocre orders. The tax they originally handed over to the court was transferred to the nobles.
A night of random thoughts.
When I woke up in the morning, Zhang Chao took the silver gun and practiced honestly. Yesterday, it had been interrupted for a day.
With one gun, Zhang Chao slowly recovered his energy.
The three little black dogs didn't see Zhang Chao overnight. They were so happy early in the morning that they jumped around Zhang Chao and leaped around him, and occasionally tearing Zhang Chao's trouser legs.
Because he was afraid of fleas, Zhang Chao built the doghouses of three dogs near the horse shed and refused to let them enter the house every night. The three puppies had bones to chew on every day, and they grew very fast and were round and chubby.
"Where is Zhang Chao and Zhang Wenyuan? Come out to answer the order!"
Two officials suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Chao. Zhang Chao happily put down his gun and finally waited.
The two of them were not the eunuchs Zhang Chao imagined, but they were two bearded officials. They were from the Secretariat of the Secretariat, one of whom was a member of the Ministry of Justice and was responsible for the edict.
When the villagers watching around heard that they were angels who came to deliver the emperor's will, they all took a few steps back in awe. Angel, that was the person around the emperor of the palace.
"Zhang Chao received the order on Zhangjiagou, Bashang!"
The man shouted again with a full breath.
Zhang Chao quickly welcomed the person into the house, then found a handful of incense and burned the incense to welcome the order.
The content of the imperial edict is a bit cool. Anyway, Zhang Chao listened to the clouds and mountains and mists and didn't understand it at all. It was like watching a German movie without subtitles.
The emperor did not follow the heavens and Chengyun's edict, and there was no subordinate. Anyway, when they finished reading, Zhang Chao was still kneeling on the ground.
"Please get up by Zhang Sanlang."
"This, can the angel tell someone what the will mean just now?"
The officials who announced the imperial edict did not despise Zhang Chao, and explained it in "human words" very diligently.
"Congratulations to Saburo, who was awarded the title of founding baron of Yining County, and Saburo also received the position of Yunqiwei."
"Congratulations, congratulations, and I also got a hundred acres of land and a hundred taels of gold."
However, these two people did not bring the gold, they just brought the imperial edict to read it. As for gold, Hotan, and the Lord's documents, Zhang Chao had to go to the capital to handle the handover in person.
"Thank you for your mission to convey the holy wishes, please sit down."
Zhang Chao went to the kang box and took two silver tins. This kind of silver tins commonly known as pork waist silver are big and small. Zhang Chao's hands are one or two, and almost one is worth about one thousand yuan.
The two officials from the Ministry of Education just smiled and did not refuse to accept it, nor did they think it was too little.
Zhang Chao also wanted to keep the two of them for a banquet, but they were in a hurry to go back and reply.
When they left, uncle eight and Muramachi walked in.
Just now, they also heard Zhang Chao dexun outside and his father dexterity.
"Sanlang, are you the Yunqiwei now?"
"The seventh grade is right."
"It's the seventh grade of Vision." Zhang Chao corrected it.
However, no matter what you consider the seventh grade or the seventh grade, everyone only knows that Zhang Chao will be offered a plow and he will change from a white body to the seventh grade. Not to mention anything else, in the future, Zhang Chao will be able to marry a wife, and can also take two concubines.
Zhang Chao doesn’t have to pay taxes and doesn’t have to serve anymore.
"Yunqiwei still has 100 acres of merit fields." Another villager said in an envious tone.
"Iron Gun has been awarded the title, and the founding county man also has 500 acres of Yongye Field."
A group of villagers were even more excited than Zhang Chao, and they were rewarded by Zhang Chao and his son with one word.
In addition to the reward of the Lord, as well as the reward of 100 taels of gold and 100 acres of land, the father was awarded the title and the title was also Yongyetian. This lowest title was also from the fifth rank, and he could get the title of 500 acres of Yongyetian. Although Zhang Chao only received a Yunqiwei honorary official who was regarded as the seventh rank, the honorary official could also get the Yongyetian, and the penultimate Yunqiwei who was the second-to-last can get the Yongyetian.
Together, it is a total of 700 acres of land, and it is all Yongye land, which can be inherited by the descendants without returning.
After the villagers calculated this number, they were all envious.
Seven hundred acres of land are equivalent to half a farmland.
What's more, after getting the Lord, the Zhang family's father and son became even higher.
Zhang Chao did not expect that Li Yuan would reward him in this way. The chute plow he offered was a title for his father, and he only received a title for him.
However, this result also made Zhang Chao overjoyed. He was worried that the court would just give some rewards, so he also asked Changsun Wuji for a special request.
Now I have achieved my honor, and I am still regarded as the seventh-rank Yunqiwei, and my father has also been named a county man.
But my father's title is my own. I am my father's heir, so of course this title will still fall on me in the future.
In the future, I will have people of the same grade. I will have to add a video in the first grade, but it is also a grade seven.
Now I am not just a little landlord, I am an official and gentry.
Local fame.
I wonder how happy my father will be when he learns the news.
"Shuozi, prepare horses!"
"Oh." Shuanzi replied loudly.
Shuanzi's face was flushed, and his master Feng Xun got the title. He felt very proud.
Mr. Muramasa also said, "I have to go to Chang'an to get the documents quickly, so you can't delay it."
"A lord has also appeared in our village."
Zhang Chao felt very energetic today when he turned on his horse.
"drive!"
With a wave of the whip, the old white horse also stepped on its four hooves and ran, and the hooves hit the frozen land, so it was so amazing!
Chapter completed!