The 34th Section of the Great Tang's Agricultural Cooperative Society

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  "Speak freely, I won't scold you if you say something wrong, and there will be a reward if you say something good!" Li Yuanxing took a sip of tea, trying to make his tone as gentle as possible.

  Li Zheng first gave a big gift, then said: "Your Highness, we dare not disobey your orders, but this instruction seems to have no allocation of land for each household. All the work is done together by everyone, and I don't know how to distribute the harvest. Please instruct us, old man has misspoken!"

  What Li Zheng just said is good, Li Yuanxing really forgot about dividing the land among households.

  It's not surprising that Li Yuanxing didn't consider these things, because modern agriculture has already become mechanized and large-scale, making the work efficiency of small households too low.

  "Come, reward!" Li Yuanxing nodded in satisfaction, finding himself becoming more and more like a prince.

  The old wolf was stunned: "Your Highness, how much is the reward? We don't have a single copper coin here! The copper coins are all in the treasury of the palace, or else let's make a note and make up for it in a few days!"

  Li Yuanxing raised his head and stared at the old wolf, but it seemed that the old wolf had no idea what he was doing wrong.

  "Old wolf, you really don't give me any face." Li Yuanxing laughed and scolded: "However, I like your personality. Alright, girl, go get a small blue bottle from the box for me."

  The older maid servant went to get it, and the old wolf smiled and said: "It's because of your kindness, Your Highness, that I, an old wolf, dare to be a bit bold. However, Your Highness, I also have something to say - shouldn't you give those two girls names?"

  "Alright, I know you want something, so take a small bottle too! The small one is called Spring Orchid, the big one is called Autumn..." As he said "Autumn", Li Yuanxing thought of Ye Qiu Shuang and almost blurted out her name. He paused for a moment, then gently shook his head: "The big one is called Autumn Fragrance! Autumn is originally a season when fruits and melons are fragrant!"

  "What great talent the prince has!" The crowd exclaimed in unison.

  Li Yuanxing waved his hand: "Lizheng, work hard for a while, you old folks too. There's something arranged for you, do it well, I have my own calculations!"

  "It is our honor to serve Your Highness!"

  "Li Zheng will serve as the general manager, and the remaining ten elders will be divided into accountants, personnel managers, warehouse managers, household managers, and land managers. You can divide them up specifically and come up with a plan. Then I want to say that all household matters, including births, weddings, and funerals, must be managed. We need to take care of families who have newborns, pay attention to families with elderly members who are ill or celebrating birthdays, and take care of families who are getting married!"

  Li Yuanxing had not finished speaking when everyone knelt down in unison: "Your Highness is benevolent!"

  "Get up! As for this field, it's best if there are two or more people in charge, or everyone takes care of it a bit. This field is everyone's livelihood!"

  "Your Highness is benevolent!" They all bowed down together.

  Li Yuanxing wanted to persuade, but his own persuasion was useless. After everyone finished their bows, he spoke again: "Right, add one more person in charge of the work. Those craftsmen's products need someone to take care of them. Don't bow yet, what I'm going to say next is the key point - each household's allocation plan, half of the income from the fields will be divided, and the other half will go to the public!"

  Everyone nodded in agreement, and to them, all of this was naturally a part of what came after paying the land rent.

  "Divide the land into halves, with labor force divided accordingly. Strong labor gets three shares, ordinary labor gets one share, weak labor gets seven shares, and half-labor naturally only gets half a share. You go and decide on this. Then, for every ten households, there is one head who manages the village, getting five shares. For those who have fought for Great Tang and have military achievements, add three to seven shares; for the disabled and wounded, you can add even more!"

  Li Yuanxing spoke while the clerk on the other side recorded it.

  "Children, six years old enter school, public support. Under six years old, three-tenths of grain, public support. Above six years old and below twelve years old, five-tenths of grain, public support. Above twelve years old, according to labor force to share public support no longer provided. Pregnant women add three-tenths, from pregnancy to four months after childbirth do not go down to the fields, public support again adds three-tenths of grain. Old and weak people, public support five-tenths of grain, childless and dependent people, all public support."

  Li Yuanxing said after standing up: "If there are any objections, speak out."

  "Your Highness is benevolent!" Again, they all bowed down together.

  Li Yuanxing's face sank: "The village elders will add another rule, whoever dares to slack off in their work will be punished. Lightly, they will be fined grain, severely, they will be flogged with a whip."

  This time Li Yuanxing used his experience from later generations to look at the Tang Dynasty.

  Although there were also some idle men in the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuang households would never do such things.

  Although that's what he said, Lizi stood up and expressed: "Your Highness is kind-hearted. If it's really like this, there's no need for Your Highness to punish him. I'll use a stick to break his legs!"

  The rest of the old men also expressed their stance: "Whoever dares to slack off will have his leg broken!"

  "That's it, everyone be careful." Li Yuanxing said, turning around to take the small blue bottle from the 15-year-old maid named Qiuxiang. Inside was two taels of Longjing tea, which Li Yuanxing had brought for himself to drink. He wasn't used to the tea in the Great Tang, but he also didn't have any intention of changing the habit of drinking tea that people in the Great Tang had.

  He knelt down and thanked loudly.

  "Some teas should not be brewed with boiling water, but rather after the water has been boiled and left to sit for a dozen or so breaths before being used to rinse the tea leaves directly. After drinking it, you will naturally understand its flavor."

  Li Zheng once again expresses his gratitude to Li Yuanxing.

  The old wolf said beside him: "Old man, go back and enjoy it secretly, this is immortal tea. Drinking a cup can make you live a few more years!"

  Li Zheng smiled and hugged the blue porcelain bottle in his arms, leaving with the other old men.

  The farmer's affairs have just begun. The corn has not been truly planted in the ground and has not grown green, Li Yuanxing will not be at peace.

  He glanced back at the old wolf holding a small bottle and said seriously, "Make arrangements, I want to visit Lord Li Jing tomorrow." Li Yuanxing knew that the sand table had been moved to the military department, but before his manor was built here, the three thousand guards would not withdraw.

  "Your Highness, you have an appointment with the merchant the day after tomorrow!" The old wolf reminded him, because he knew that as soon as Li Yuanxing saw Li Jing, it was only for one thing, which was the Turks, and it was likely to be several days and nights without eating or sleeping.

  Li Yuanxing nodded: "Understood."

  "There's another thing, the Qin Wang Fu wants to arrange a new manager, sent from the palace. Do you want to personally select one, see which one meets your eyes!"

  Eunuch! Li Yuanxing had such an idea in his mind, then shook his head: "You go and do it, one requirement, loyalty is good."

  "Dare to be disloyal, and I'll chop him off!" The old wolf made a slashing motion with his hand.

  Li Yuanxing patted the old wolf: "If you want to go to the battlefield, this time I will definitely help you get a chance to make great achievements!"

  "Thanks, King Qin!" The old wolf gave a very formal military salute.

  Li Yuanxing nodded, Tujue! This battle must be won.

  In the afternoon, Li Yuanxing went to the carpenter's house. More than a dozen carpenters were working with their heads down. Judging from the situation, it seemed that they wanted to make more than a dozen plows at once.

  "Halt! Pass the blacksmith!" Li Yuanxing took one look and knew that these people were going to scatter in all directions.

  Fortunately, Ye Qiufeng reminded herself that in order to have a truly smooth workflow, she first needed to have a ruler, and it was Li Yuanxing who had forgotten earlier.

  A two-meter long steel ruler was placed on the table. Li Yuanxing said to the blacksmith, "Use this as a standard and make twenty of them. How long will it take?"

  "Your Majesty, it will take five days!"

  "Five days?" Li Yuanxing wanted to scold someone, if only he had known to buy a few more long steel rulers earlier.

  The blacksmith pointed at the scale on the steel ruler: "These are too fine, it's really too difficult to be so precise, please forgive me, Your Highness!"

  "What about these large scales?" Li Yuanxing asked, taking half a centimeter as the standard.

  "In just one time period, five workers worked together, with the small one in charge of carving."

  "Go to work!" Li Yuanxing waved his hand, the blacksmith retreated with the steel ruler in both hands. Li Yuanxing then said to the carpenters: "First prepare the wood, wait for the steel ruler to arrive before starting work. Today I'll accompany you all to work, it seems we won't have to wait until tomorrow, tonight we can see a finished product!"

  "Yes!" The carpenters replied in unison.

  As the prince entered the humble abode of a craftsman, it was absolutely unbelievable. But Li Yuanxing did come in and even had the carpenter make a stool for himself, then gestured that he wanted a chair.

  Carpenters would show great respect even to a low-ranking official, but this prince was so approachable.

  At this time, a carpenter wrote down a contract of sale, wanting to sell his whole family to Li Yuanxing, to be raised as slaves in the Li household.

  "I've accepted this, but don't consider yourselves slaves. From now on, you are people of the Qin Wang Fu, work diligently and naturally you will be able to eat well and dress well."

  Li Yuanxing had no choice but to accept the deed of sale, otherwise it would have disappointed the craftsmen.

  This slave system needs to be changed, but it's absolutely not something that can be changed overnight.

  Not even an hour had passed, just over half an hour, the blacksmith sent over ten well-made ones for Li Yuanxing to review. "Very good, next make them more delicate, and take note of the merits!"

  "Thank you, Your Excellency!" The blacksmith happily retreated.

  "Gentlemen, I don't understand carpentry, but I understand the way of heaven." Li Yuanxing started bragging, anyway, not many people can clearly explain what the way of heaven is, but Li Yuanxing needed the carpenters to do things according to his own meaning.

  "This plow has three major components and over forty minor ones. Now let's start dividing them up, each of you choose a few components to work on, assign a measuring rod to set the size, best to arrange one person to assemble. Assign someone to tell the blacksmith that all the iron parts must be ready for me by tonight!"

  Li Yuanxing doesn't need to bluff, these people unconditionally obey Li Yuanxing's orders.

  The carpenters were working hard, and Li Yuanxing sat there watching, this plow was his hope, his promise to the farmers.

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