In March, it was the season of spring ploughing.
This is not a good time to send troops to fight, and if the government soldiers send troops at this time, the cultivation of the family's fields will be affected.
If you miss the spring farming, the harvest of the season will be gone.
However, because of this, Li Chao believed that Liang Shidu would not have thought that Datang would send troops to attack him at this time.
In Li Chao's words, he just wanted to take him by surprise, maybe Liang Shidu was also busy with spring plowing at this time.
A new artillery workshop was set up in the Ordnance Superintendent, specializing in the production of the core components of the Shenwei General Cannon and the Weiyuan General Cannon.
This workshop was heavily guarded and became a top-secret workshop, and the artisan's family lived in the workshop, and they were not allowed to leave the workshop.
The workshop started working day and night to catch up.
The war machine of the Tang Dynasty was launched, gathering government soldiers, raising grain and grass, and rushing to make weapons.
Li Chao is quite leisurely, he is the head of the march, but he will not do everything by himself, anyway, he has nine marching managers such as Cheng Yanjin and Li Xiuning, and they are responsible for the reorganization of the government soldiers, etc.
Li Chao went back to Zhangjiagou, well, now this place has been renamed Lijiagou.
Li Jiagou is very lively, the Li family gave the three hundred palace maids rewarded by the emperor to the Li family's own slaves to marry, and also held a group wedding.
There were a lot of banquets.
Li Chao, as their master, sat on the top and accepted their salute.
Every couple came over to thank Li Chao.
Li Chao gave two red envelopes to the newcomers, the red envelopes are not much, and one person has always had a banker ticket.
Two pieces of money are not much for Li Chao, but for these Li family slaves, it is not too little.
These two pieces of money can be regarded as the Li family's reward for the newlywed slaves, so that they can buy some clothes and the like, and it can be regarded as buying people's hearts.
"More than 300 strong guys have married, 300 people have become 300 families, and it won't be long before many families will have children, and in a few years, a family may be three or four, or even seven or eight in ten years.
At that time, it became two or three thousand. ” The old butler said with a smile.
The Li family's business is getting bigger and bigger, and the population in the house is also increasing.
The slaves in Taozhou, the slaves in Bashang, and the manor slaves brought by Cui Yingying, the Li family now has more than 1,000 slaves alone.
This is not counting the long-term workers and servants hired by the Li family.
Like those powerful and powerful families, the Li family has also embarked on the road of being strong and powerful, with groups of slaves, fields and deep mansions.
Li Chao is now also accustomed to being a master and a slave owner.
He would no longer think about freeing the slaves and giving them freedom.
Rather, it is just a few exemptions every year to motivate these slaves.
The Tang people like to use slaves, and slaves can be trusted, especially those who are born to the family.
Of course, the cost of slavery is also low, much cheaper than hiring a servant.
"There are still too few people in the house, I plan to buy another three or five hundred people this year, if there is a family, it will be better."
Cui Yingying also sat next to Li Chao and accepted the salutes of these newcomers.
Buying three or five hundred slaves is as easy and prosaic as buying a few hundred chickens and ducks.
Zhao Siniang stood next to Cui Yingying, "Our Langjun has given 98,000 acres of land, and it can't be wasted there, so it is better to buy more people, so much land, it is not too much to buy one or two thousand people." ” "It's not so easy to buy one or two thousand people."
Zheng Hongxian answered on the side.
Now that the world is unified, it is indeed not so easy to buy slaves.
Unlike in the early years, when wars were fought everywhere, in the cattle and horse market in Chang'an, there were a large number of newly arrived slaves every day, and sometimes, tens of thousands of them were transported over.
Now that all parts of the country are almost unified, it is not easy to buy a large number of people in Chang'an.
"Let's go to Taozhou to buy it, the last time I chatted with the princess of Qingluan, I heard her say that they have a lot of slaves there.
Many of them are fangs, barbarians, and Qiang, Tubo, etc., there are quite a few of them.
She also said that if we wanted slaves, we should tell her directly, and she would have her mother bring a letter and ask her to send troops to capture more barbarians and fangs. ” Li Chao is also used to it now, and there is no discomfort for them to talk about such a heavy topic.
She knew that in the southwest, there were still many uncivilized barbarians and fangs, in fact, they were the ancestors of many ethnic minorities such as the Tu, Zhuang, Miao, Yi and other ethnic minorities in later generations, and these people were still very primitive and backward, and often fought with each other.
Dongnu was often robbed by these barbarians, and often sent troops to retaliate against these people, and for the barbarians caught, they were either executed or enslaved.
These barbarian slaves were even very cheap in them, and in the border market trade of Taozhou today, slaves were an important commodity in the southwestern trade with Han merchants.
Every day, there was a steady stream of merchants, transporting groups of slaves to Taozhou and selling them to Han merchants in exchange for tea, silk and other goods.
With the Li family's relationship status in Taozhou, buying slaves is the first to buy slaves, and they can always buy the best quality and cheapest slaves.
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Recently, not only the price of grain in Chang'an City has been rising, but the price of slaves has risen even faster, and the price of cattle and horses has been decreasing.
Cui Yingying, Zheng Hongxian, Zhao Siniang, and even Qi Niang and Du Shi Niang also happily talked about buying people, what fangren slaves are not easy to use, short and fierce.
What Kunlun slave is obedient and easy to use, but it is too dark, when it is dark, the whole person can't see it, a mouth, a mouthful of big white teeth can make people startle.
What is the bearded girl of the Western Regions is big, with big breasts and round buttocks, but unfortunately she is blonde and blue-eyed like a monster, her nose is too high, her mouth is like a blood basin, and she is all very coquettish.
"If you buy a maid, you have to buy a Silla maid, and the Silla maid is the most obedient and tame."
"Silla is good, but it's expensive.
The money to buy a Silla maid can buy ten fangs.
Silla maids can only buy the servants around them, and other rough servants still use barbarian women, these strengths are very useful. ” In order to expand the number of slaves of the Li family, Cui Yingying and the others are also very attentive, for example, all the maids of the Li family who have reached the age of fifteen must be married to the unmarried male slaves of the Li family.
Pregnant female slaves can also enjoy two months of maternity leave, and the Li family will help take care of the babies born, and there will be regular check-ups by doctors.
These measures can be said to make the servants of the Li family grateful to Dade.
But in fact, Li Chao knew that this was not benevolence, but just the maintenance of their property by these nobles.
Yes, slaves were only property in the eyes of the nobility, like cattle and horses.
Marriage to slaves is the same as breeding cattle and horses, in order to increase the value of slaves.
Taking care of a slave baby is the same as taking care of a calf and a foal.
This is true even after marriage, arranging a house, etc.
The Li family may be more benevolent than other families, provide better food and shelter for the slaves, will not abuse them, and can even receive a certain salary, and there will be rewards for good work.
There were even a few exemptions every year, and slaves were allowed to redeem themselves after saving enough money, but these were really just administrative measures.
Some use strict rules to manage slaves, but the Li family just uses a more clever means to manage these slaves, making them more loyal to the Li family and working more for the Li family.
The essence of these things is so direct, but this era is like this, and it is impossible for Li Chao to be the madman who goes against the times.
"There are a lot of slaves this year, but we still have to hire some long-term and short-term workers this year.
There must be 3,000 acres of rice to be planted in the bathing ditch this year, and the soaking and seedling raising must be well managed, and the time for transplanting seedlings must not be lost.
The wheat and millet in the field must also be well managed.
The waterwheel will be set up with a waterwheel, and the well will be drilled. ” Several stewards listened attentively.
"The mill we repaired on the bathing ditch, and even our newly built workshops of hydraulic coinage, hydraulic sawing, and hydraulic forging, must also be well managed."
The use of water power to grind and process grain, and even sawn wood and wrought iron, this is almost the industry of the nobles, after all, these require a lot of upfront investment, and the most important one, it must also be able to occupy the water source.
Water conservancy machinery, no less, no.
If there is no certain strength, ordinary people do not dare to dam and build milling workshops, otherwise, when it comes to the difficult period of water use, people downstream may come to pick up your ba, rob your water.
In some places, small clans in some places build small mills or something, or some villages dam upstream to grab water, and when the water is scarce, people downstream have to come to grab water, and even often break out to fight for water, clan fights, just like wars.
Only when the nobles were powerful and built dams to hold back the water, the common people did not dare to do anything.
But the government often comes to restrain them, and the nobles who are less powerful sometimes have to bow their heads.
However, the Zhang family built a bathing ditch to store water and build a mill house, but few people downstream dared to say that they wanted to come to the dam.
However, Li Chao is not such a domineering person, and he also instructed his family to stop the use of water mills and other uses during the drought period, and distribute water to the downstream.
"Our mill can also expand its business in normal times, we have cattle and horses, and we can take the initiative to go to various villages to help the villagers transport grain to the mill to process grain.
We don't charge them for processing, as long as we leave the chaff and rice bran that we go. ” In later generations, many grain processing factories in the countryside did this, helping you mill rice without money, and even sticking you a few dollars, they just need you to leave the bran, which can be processed into feed and sold to pig farms, which is no less than the processing fee.
The Li family now raises pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks and geese and fish, and has a great demand for chaff and rice bran.
In fact, the Li family does not lose money, and can get the bran husk and rice skin left over from grain processing, and use it to feed chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, how good.
This can be regarded as a part of the ecological planting and breeding of bathing ditches.
Li Chao does things and likes this model very much, he can not only benefit but also get a good reputation, anyway, he has face.
A simple and crude way to make money, Li Chao can't look down on it, it's too untechnical.
"We won't go back to Taozhou now, so we have to arrange someone to take care of it.
San Lang, look at who will go over."
Li Chao originally thought that he was going to stay in Taozhou for a few years, but he didn't expect that Xuanwumen would be launched a few years in advance, and he would not be able to go back for a while when he returned to Beijing.
The Li family's industry over there is not small, and the bureau is very large.
"Let the cow steward pass, and the big cow and the two cows will also pass.
Anyway, there are people in charge over there, Uncle Niu is an old man in the family, just look at it in the past. ” "Well, that's it." t1706231537: