"What? I...I was knighted?" Gouzi looked at the envoy sent by the King of Han in confusion.

He took the canonized bamboo slip with trembling hands, and suddenly felt that the bamboo slip seemed a bit too heavy.

My mind was even more blank.

Although he had really fantasized about it, until the experiment in Guantian in Luoyang, he still only dared to fantasize in his heart.

Although this was the result that I had long expected, when I was actually canonized, it still felt unreal, as if I was in a dream.

"Not only can you be conferred, but the king has also given you the surname of the king. From now on, you will be the prince..." Sima Xin looked at the confused Gouzi with a smile.

Presumably, with Wang Gouzi's canonization, more talents will be attracted to come, right?

"I...I am Wang Gouzi?" Wang Gouzi continued to be confused. This is the surname given by the king, the same surname as the king.

My mother, my glorious ancestor, this is...

"Here, take this..." Sima Xin handed over another bamboo slip and explained: "Now Xiangyi is not a royal land, so you have to go to Yongqiu to get your food. When Xiangyi becomes

Wang Tu, you can take it in Xiangyi."

Seeing that Wang Gouzi not only got the title and the land, he was also given a surname by the king.

A group of people around them felt sad and sad, secretly imagining how great it would be if they were themselves...

Then, craftsman Tang Bu also received the same reward.

Tang Bu is a craftsman who suggested that the plow blade head should be made of copper or iron to save materials.

And he personally built the necessary parts of this experimental plow.

Although this content had already been discussed in the court, Wang Buxu still blocked this kind of secondary improvement suggestions without discrimination.

Spend thousands of gold to buy horse bones.

With these two canonization precedents.

Next, whether it is contributions from the common people or improvements by craftsmen, everyone's enthusiasm will inevitably be very high.

After the test is over, all that's left is to arrange the construction.

Wang Gouzi's journey to the capital is over, and he returns home with infinite glory.

Tang Bu worked with other craftsmen to start making the metal parts needed for the plow. As for the rest, that was the carpenter's job.

…

Inside the carpenter's workshop.

Lao Liutou received the latest task, to build as many inclined plows as he could. In the spring of next year, the person who built the most would get a reward.

As for the rewards, no one has said anything, but it is basically impossible to get a knighthood, and the most they can do is give some food or something.

But how can this be as exciting as being granted a title or a city?

That's a hundred acres of food. You can earn one or two hundred shi a year just by sitting at home. Where can you find such a good thing?

Once you miss this opportunity, you don't know when the next time will be.

After receiving the notice, Lao Liutou racked his brains to think that he could also do carpentry, so he focused on farm tools.

But what he didn't expect was that someone would get ahead of him.

What made him even more depressed was that he didn't think about this at all.

There are six children in the family. Even if he is a carpenter and has a stable income, if it remains like this, he will not be able to feed those six bastards.

Lao Liutou also felt a lot of pressure. The pressure also made Lao Liutou, who was in his thirties, look like he was forty or fifty years old.

"Are you still worried?" Lao Miao, a friend in the same group, joked with a smile.

"Bullshit, your two children are grown up, and I have seven mouths waiting for food. Do you think you'll be worried about just this little food?" Lao Liutou replied angrily.

"I told you to have fewer children, but you just didn't listen. Now you know how worried you are, right?" Lao Miao said.

"I'm so stubborn. I'm nothing like you. You can't give birth even if you want to!" As soon as the two of them talked about the child, the scene immediately turned to a scene of hurting each other.

Lao Miao's third child was born before he was twenty-five years old, but something went wrong during the birth. The child died as soon as it came out of the mother's womb. Death in infancy is so normal these days. Lao Miao was just sad for a few days, and then

I just did whatever I was supposed to do, but I never expected that I would not be able to regenerate for the next ten years or so.

Fortunately, the eldest and second child are still healthy and have grown up smoothly.

Lao Liutou was different. His first wife gave birth to three babies. When the third baby came, he had bleeding for no apparent reason. The little one survived, but the big one was gone.

Sad not to marry?

That is absolutely not possible.

When it comes to finding a wife, ancient times are definitely good news for modern singles.

This is really a good era when the government distributes wives to you. Of course, if you don't get married when you reach the age, the one the government distributes to you may not be what you like.

Before the deadline came, Lao Liutou and a young widow from the same village began to live together, and even brought a little girl with them.

Who the hell do you know why you are so lucky? After the two of them got together, they gave birth to two children in three years. Before Lao Liutou could taste the taste of his new wife, he had been cleaning himself up for two and a half years...

No, in seven months, there will be another mouth to eat in the family.

Just when he was worried about how to live his life, Lao Liutou waited for the good news. Unfortunately, before he could exert his efforts, he was overtaken by others.

Looking at the piles of wood, Lao Liutou was very depressed. Even if one person was the fastest, it would still take two days to build a plow if he worked overtime at night.

It is not easy at all to get that reward before spring.

However, Lao Liutou still did not give up and could not give up. Once he gave up, his family of eight would starve to death.

"Chief, I have an idea that I don't know if it will work..." Lao Liutou found the chief in charge of him and said in front of everyone.

It is not appropriate to talk about this kind of thing in private as there is a possibility of taking credit for it.

It's different when you say it in front of everyone. Although everyone may be threatened, the Han Dynasty has a secret reporting model. After the reporting is successful, you can get rewards yourself or give the rewards to your family members. Generally, family members have joined the army.

Sometimes military exploits will be used on them, indirectly protecting the whistleblower.

As for the betrayal of whistleblowers, once investigated, they will be executed.

"The fastest it takes for a craftsman to build a plow is three days. Most of them take about three and a half days, and they have to bring several apprentices. If each craftsman is responsible for different parts, and finally assembles the plow, it will be faster.

Quite a bit..." Old Liutou said, he didn't know how fast it would be, but he felt it should be fast.

"You're not very good at this..." The boss frowned. Without actual data to support it, he was afraid it would be difficult to stand up. But he knew the difficulties Lao Liutou was in, so he didn't intend to embarrass him: "Let's do this.

I'll sign up and give it a try, I don't know if I can succeed."

"Thank you, sir..." Old Liutou quickly expressed his thanks.

The carpenter's workshop is affiliated to the imperial court, and there is currently a shortage of high-ranking officials, so it is temporarily under the jurisdiction of Right Prime Minister Chen Ping.

Therefore, this method was presented to Chen Ping's case early the next morning. Chen Ping also felt that it seemed feasible, but the content submitted by the carpenter's workshop lacked actual data to support it.
Chapter completed!