On the desk, the warm tea wafted with a faint fragrance.

He picked up his sip and said slowly: "From now on, we will check the land and households of the four governments."

From the present, he knew the role played by landlords and squire in history.

Not only did he monopolize the land, he also turned the people into their slaves.

If they are not dealt with, they will eat the Thousand Miles of Thousand Miles like termites.

He asked Li Ran to count the land acres and households to understand how many people who lost land in Jingzhou are currently in Jingzhou.

Seeing Liu Jun's serious expression, Li Ran had a vague guess in his heart and said, "The local gentry annexed land and acres have been there in all dynasties, and there are no such changes in dynasties. However, this matter is much more difficult to solve than Gao Hongyun, after all, it will violate the interests of many people."

"Of course I know, does Li Zuofu support me?" Liu Jun's eyes flashed.

People with a little historical knowledge in contemporary times understand that the landlords and gentry are too big because they are one with the scholar-official class.

The ancient scholars and officials were actually representatives of the landlord class.

Such a class will naturally not redeem itself, and this is the root cause of the inability to solve the problem.

"Will Your Highness take out his land and distribute it to the people?" Li Ran asked back.

"I am preparing to do this."

Liu Jun's answer made Li Ran stunned for a while, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

He also thought deeply about the issue of land annexation, but because it involved all the officials from all over the four governments, he eventually dared not to think about this.

"How much land is there in Li Zuofu's family?" Liu Jun walked to Li Ran and stared at him.

He is using Li Ran now, basically to make him an executor.

Not the policy makers.

Although Li Ran's knowledge is profound, he cannot see through the future, while contemporary history allows Liu Jun to do so.

"According to the government's regulations, the officials were divided into 300 acres of fertile land at the beginning." Li Ran did not shy away. "Generally speaking, in addition to their salaries, the government will allocate some land."

"Have you been Tianfen this time?" Liu Jun asked.

"Not yet, because there is no extra official land for the four prefectures to divide, and the subordinate officials are about to ask Your Highness to share the land obtained from the scout to the new official." The more Li Ran said, the less he said, he knew that it was impossible.

"No need to divide it." Liu Jun waved his hand, "From now on, officials in Jingzhou will only receive salary and not divide land."

Li Ran smiled bitterly, thinking that Liu Jun was still a little teenager and was willful, so he advised: "Your Highness, if you do not divide the land and rely on the monthly salary of the officials, you cannot afford to support a family of wives and children and servants, then they will only think about greed, and this will not be worth the loss."

Of course, Liu Jun thought of this problem. This is an era of three wives and four concubines. Some situations cannot be handled according to contemporary rules and need to be gradually improved.

"The land distributed to officials should be the same as the people, and in order to compensate, I will increase their salary, how about?" Liu Jun pondered.

He decided to reform the salary system now, but it was not a decision to do it in a slap in his head, because now was the best time.

First, getting rid of Gao Hongyun, his prestige increased greatly. Furthermore, a large number of officials were raided and imprisoned.

This group of officials is the deep-rooted local snake in Jingzhou.

Among the newly selected officials, only half of them account for local officials in the four governments.

The other half comes from the Rong Dynasty states and the four outer prefectures.

"The officials need to summon officials to find out their words." Li Ran hesitated for a while.

"Well, tell them that only Jingzhou is there can be delicious and spicy food. If Jingzhou is gone, even if they have tens of acres of fertile land, they will belong to Fuyu people." Liu Jun stared at Li Ran's eyes, saying this to him.

When Li Ran heard this, he looked at Liu Jun for a while, and suddenly his old face turned red.

I feel that I am not worthy of being a teacher. In the past, I taught Liu Jun to be diligent and love the people.

Now that Liu Jun has done this, he is afraid of his own.

"Since Your Highness can give up the land and let it be distributed to the people, and the officials can also give up. This matter will be done with all their efforts." Li Ran strengthened his thoughts and changed his words.

Liu Jun nodded with satisfaction, but Li Ran was still aware of the general idea.

At this step, officials and landlords and gentry will gradually become two groups of interest.

By then, it will be much easier to equalize the land.

After explaining this, Liu Jun asked Li Ran to go back.

I took out a technical drawing from the base and started reading it.

If the salary system reform is successful, it will be another financial pressure for the royal family.

This requires more money-making businesses. After all, Jingzhou will need huge wealth support to rise.

He stayed in Qinzheng Hall until noon, thinking about the time coming, and he walked towards the side courtyard.

On the way, I met a servant who came to find him. As he expected, at this time, Gong Ming and the craftsman built the earthen blast furnace.

"Your Highness, exactly the same as the one on the drawing." Gong Ming took the drawing and compared the various parts of the blast furnace to Liu Jun.

"good."

Liu Jun circled around the blast furnace.

The blast furnace built by Gong Ming is more than two meters high and has a diameter of about one meter.

The air blower is also reserved at the lower position in the middle of the furnace.

When smelting iron, just stuff the clay pot into the hole, block the gap with mud, and then connect the bellows to blow the air.

In general, blast furnaces are a very simple thing, and their main technical content lies in refractory bricks.

This kind of refractory brick can withstand high temperatures of more than 1,500 to 1,700, and the melting point of iron is also in this range.

"Then the official will let the mason build the wind-heating furnace." Gong Ming's eyes were full of admiration in Liu Jun's eyes.

This time Gong Ming did not ask Liu Jun what the wind heat furnace was, because he found that Liu Jun had annotated it on it.

According to the drawings, there is a measure called temperature.

The temperature of iron melting is more than 1,530, while the temperature of charcoal used for iron smelting can only reach more than 1,200.

Seeing this, he understood why the blacksmith could not refine iron, but only refine iron blocks called "sponge iron" on the drawings.

As long as this air-heating furnace is built, the thing called "air" is heated to several hundred degrees and blown into the charcoal of the blast furnace with a blower, the temperature in the blast furnace will be enough to increase.

"In the afternoon, I will send someone to send the materials to try to get iron tonight." Liu Jun ignored Gong Ming, who looked like a small fan, and said seriously.

Gong Ming was shocked and ordered the mason to continue working.

In the evening, a small closed furnace slightly shorter than the blast furnace was built.

This furnace only has one vent, an air outlet and an inlet port.

At this time, three carriages carrying goods also came to the gate of the palace.

One car was loaded with iron ore, one was loaded with limestone, and another was charcoal and coal cakes.

After dinner, Liu Jun came to the yard, and the concubine Zhao Yuyan was also alarmed.

However, she gradually became accustomed to Liu Jun's strange ideas, so she took a look and left.

"Put limestone first." Liu Jun directed.

Limestone has been widely used in ancient times, so it is not difficult to find.

Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem "Lime Song", saying: Thousands of hammers and thousands of hammers hit the deep mountains, and burning them like a fire is as easy as it is. You don't have to worry about being crushed to pieces, but you must keep your innocence in the world.

It can be seen that lime was not a rare thing in ancient times, and it was often used to paint white walls.

As for charcoal, it is even easier because charcoal was used to smelify iron in ancient times.

The brazier used by wealthy families in winter also burns charcoal.

You can buy it at the market in Jingzhou.

"Add iron and stone, and finally charcoal." Liu Jun continued to command.

The blacksmith added the materials one after another as he said, ignited the charcoal, and then covered the material mouth with an empty ceramic lid.

At this time, a craftsman stuffed the coal cake into a wind-heating furnace and lit it.

This made a craftsman start to blow the air, coal burned, and the temperature in the wind-heated furnace continued to rise.

Through the air outlet, hot air continues to pour into the blast furnace.

At the same time, the blacksmith on one side of the blast furnace pulled the bellows and blasted the blast furnace.

Liu Jun was waiting quietly, holding his spirits.
Chapter completed!