In the blink of an eye, the Gaochang delegation had arrived in Chang'an for ten days.
Except for the reception banquet on the first day, Li Mu never participated in any welcoming ceremony or court meeting. Firstly, he did not like politics and did not want to get involved in it. Secondly, he was too busy. The Ministry of Internal Affairs was newly established.
Apart from receiving an imperial edict as support, he didn't even ask about other matters.
Where will the yamen gate be opened? What kind of people will it be used for? The Ministry of Civil Affairs will have to assign a few clerks, right? What about money? After all, it is a yamen gate, and the imperial court is not going to give out even a penny in salary?
All questions have only one answer.
No, nothing!
Only now did Li Mu understand why Li Shimin was so generous and even delegated the power of appointing and removing officials to him. Daqing wanted to be the hands-off shopkeeper, and as a shopkeeper, he was the kind who didn't have to pay for anything!
This kind of behavior is really despicable, but it suits Li Mu's thoughts. He would rather buy his own money for freedom than have others control him for everything. Now is the stage of steady development, and he should guard his three acres of land.
It is serious to divide the land and improve the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is why he does not participate in other things. Every aspect of the affairs of the court is the territory of a certain force. If he reaches out everywhere like an octopus
, aroused public outrage, which would be greatly detrimental to the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Due to the need to receive the mission, the repair project of the lanes in Chang'an City was postponed. As a result, the craftsmen were idle, so Li Mu dispatched the craftsmen to his valley to lay the foundation. The craftsmen were also happy to work.
They are the only ones who have wages, let alone working for Li Mu. In the hearts of the craftsmen, Li Mu is like their reborn parent. Even if they are not paid, they are still willing.
The valley was officially named "Xiaoyao Valley" by Li Mu. The word "Xiaoyao" was taken from the first name given to him by Li Yuan, which was also in line with his expectations for this valley. Li Mu was very happy with the results of the field investigations in the past few days. This
This valley simply fits his requirements perfectly.
The first is the climate. The climate in Chang'an City is dry and cold, with little snow, but strong wind. It blows in the face, like a knife cutting it. But in this valley, it is not like that. With the surrounding mountains as a shield, the wind cannot come in.
, the relative temperature is much higher than that of Chang'an City. Li Mu even found an unfrozen spring, which shows that the temperature here is around zero degrees.
At such temperatures, the frozen soil layer is very expensive and does not hinder foundation construction at all.
Then there is the layout. A small river divides the valley into two halves. At the end of the river is Baishui. Here, a small dock can be built for traveling and transporting goods, which can save a lot of manpower. On the south side of the valley,
The land is flat and suitable for farming. There are dense forests on the north side of the valley, which can be used as shelter. The terrain on the east side is high and suitable for building houses. On the west side, along the river, workshops can be built to facilitate transportation.
All in all, this is a very nice place, and it is private enough to feel like a paradise.
Li Mu attaches great importance to this valley and takes it seriously. How to design it has become a difficult problem. Li Mu thought about this for a long time, and finally made up his mind to build it with the deputy position system as the core.
In the game "Heroes of the Tang Dynasty", the development path of players in the deputy system is no easier than that of normal game players.
When you are at the elementary level, you can only work as an apprentice next to the NPC who teaches the skills, and slowly improve the skill level. After reaching the intermediate level, you need to have money to open a shop of your own, or join a gang to 'work'. But no matter it is
Whichever choice you choose, it all depends on ordinary people. Real money-making players will not work so hard.
Krypton gold players will directly buy a "Gang Building Order" and a "City Building Order". First build a gang to recruit people, and then apply to establish a town garrison. Only in this way can you truly be regarded as the number one person in the server. The gathering of gangs
The "Yi Ting" and the "Yamen" in the town can be upgraded with the level of the gang and the town. The higher the level, the higher the experience bonus for the gang members to fight monsters. The higher the level of the "Yamen", the more people can practice and use their deputy positions in the town.
The higher the speed of proficiency improvement. This is also the most attractive condition for the snowballing of big gangs. You must know that whether you are a normal game player or a sub-class player, the higher the level, the harder it is to improve. At this time, add little by little
Chengdu seems extremely precious.
This is a costly undertaking, but generally speaking, after a server is opened, the first batch of players who earn money usually gain more than they invest. This is the group brought about by everyone eager to join his gang.
Benefits. This will directly lead to the early money spent, the early money earned, and the more money spent, the richer. This is also the situation that game companies most want to see.
Before time travel, as the deputy director and head of the data balancing team, Li Mu contributed a lot to this.
Now, he will do the same.
If compared with game players, Li Mu can now be said to be a complete krypton player. So he plans to bypass the only way for deputy players and start directly from the top. Xiaoyao Valley corresponds to the town in the game, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is his.
Gang', the imperial edict Li Shimin presented to him in the valley was his "City Founding Order", and the seal of the "Minister in Charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" that he carved himself and took to the Ministry of Personnel for filing became his "Gang Founding Order".
Everything was so perfect. Li Mu stood on the high slope of the east mountain of Xiaoyao Valley, looking down, watching the craftsmen clearing weeds and digging the foundation. Suddenly, the memory of his first contact with a computer fifteen years ago came to his mind.
In that "Red Alert" game, the moment he clumsily controlled the deployment of the base vehicle, from now on, this is my base!
After finishing his emotion, Li Mu pointed to the platform at his feet and said to Gongsun Kang who was following him: "Build a pavilion here and call it 'Dongpo Pavilion'. I urge people to finish it as soon as possible. When spring gets warmer, I can bring my wife to enjoy the scenery."
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Gongsun Kang hurriedly wrote it down, secretly calculating the manpower in his heart.
Li Mu saw his expression and frowned: "What, is it difficult?"
"Uh..." Gongsun Kang lowered his head, not daring to look into Li Mu's eyes, and said, "There are indeed some difficulties."
"explain!"
Gongsun Kang gritted his teeth and said: "Materials are secondary, the main thing is manpower. Lord Marquis, we agreed a few days ago to assign some craftsmen to Yu Wengui to take away to build roads, and then he brought up the matter of repairing the lanes of Chang'an City.
The schedule has been shortened, and now we have to take care of the valley side as well, so the manpower is really not enough."
"It's not enough..." Li Mu pondered for a moment and said: "We can't stop on either side. Now that the Gaochang mission is in Chang'an, the tunnel construction can be stopped for a month. This month, we will first have manpower here in the valley and I will find a way.
Just arrange the work."
"Yes!" Gongsun Kang responded and stopped talking. He had no doubt at all whether Li Mu could solve the problem. In his impression, what Li Mu said was never impossible.
As the two came down the hillside, Li Mu suddenly thought of something and said: "When you design the house, build me a pigsty nearby."
"Pig, pigsty?" Gongsun Kang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but remind him carefully, "Master Hou, pork is smelly and is something the poor people eat. Master Hou has a noble status, how can he eat pork?"
"You will build it if you are told, so much nonsense?"
Seeing Li Mu frowning, Gongsun Kang hurriedly suppressed his words and said: "Master Marquis, calm down, I will definitely handle it well." As he spoke, he wrote this item down in his notebook.
The reason why Li Mu thought of raising pigs was because of the "Dongpo Pavilion" just now. He chose this name because he thought of Su Dongpo. It was originally intended to be a prank, but suddenly he thought of Dongpo Meat, and then thought of raising pigs.
Pigs are a good thing, but in this era, not many people eat them. Li Mu specially studied why this is the case, and one of the main reasons is that pork has a fishy smell. Li Mu has tasted pork, and it is indeed fishy.
So why is this happening? By asking pig farmers, he got the answer. It turns out that pigs are animals with very strong desires. Especially boars, after they reach adulthood, in addition to eating and sleeping, they only think about mating.
.Smell is inevitable.
And why didn’t the pork he had eaten in his previous life behave like this? That’s because most of the pigs in his previous life were slaughtered before they reached adulthood. Moreover, as long as they were boars, they had to be stabbed when they were young.
After being stabbed by this knife, they will have no more desires and will not produce any fishy smell.
Another point is that because of the fishy smell, rich people don’t eat pork, but only mutton and venison. As for the poor, few can afford to raise pigs. People don’t eat enough, and there is nothing for pigs to eat, so they
In terms of population, there are not as many pigs as there are cows in Datang.
But Li Mu understood that a healthy person would lack a lot of things without eating meat. Of course it would not be so serious as death, but the physique would not be particularly strong. The Tang Dynasty was a martial country, and Li Shimin was
A monarch with great ambitions will inevitably have to fight in the future. So how to strengthen his body? The only way is to eat more meat.
I can’t afford mutton, dare not eat beef, and the pork is fishy and smelly. How to solve this problem?
As the Minister-in-Chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who "cares about the world", Li Mu is determined to start from himself and carry out an epoch-making research "the castrated pig experiment".
He wants to raise a group of pigs and develop a method of castrating pigs, so that the pork will no longer smell fishy. The reproduction rate of pigs is much faster than that of cattle and sheep. In this way, it will not take a few years for grain production to increase.
Once they get up, the number of pigs will increase explosively.
Even if it is not possible for everyone to eat meat, at least the meat problem of the soldiers at the front can be solved. This will definitely have a great impact on combat effectiveness.
Changing the world starts with me.
Li Mu got on the carriage and was still sighing, when did it start? I turned out to be a person with such sentiments? If everyone was like me, why would the Tang Dynasty worry about not being rich and powerful!
"Brother, shall we go home?"
Dugujiu jumped on the carriage, raised his whip and asked.