055 Business Complex
In the evening, there was a banquet in the inner courtyard and front yard of the Li family’s house. The people were naturally in the front yard. Xu Zhongming’s family, Chen Wei, and Gouzi all came to the inner yard. The front hall of the inner yard is here. Three tables were set up, including Su Yang and others, it was considered full.
During the banquet, Xu Zhongming said to Li You: "A Lang, next spring, the prefecture and county exams, I plan to let a few people from Su Yang go. In addition to them, there are a few people in the academy who can also participate. They are all the children of the farmers. Together, they are still very good, I don't know what you think?"
"Mr. Changde, you are the mountain leader of the academy. Everything is up to you. If you think they can take the test, let them try it. Whether it passes or not, it's a good thing. A few tributes, don’t my Lijiazhuang also have light on my face."
"Father, I also... want to go." Xu Chengrui also said at this time.
Li You smiled and said, "Brother Cheng Rui, go if you want. Now there are four gentlemen in the academy, so I think Mr. Changde will definitely not stop him."
Of course, Xu Zhongming will not refuse. His son has such an idea. He is too late to be happy. He also said to Xu Chengrui: "It's a good thing that you want to go. How can your father stop him? If you can really win the future, he will be happy."
Li You then asked Xu Zhongming again: "Mr. Changde, the children of the dealer households you mentioned can really go to the exam?"
Li You never planned to go for scientific research by himself, so he really didn't know much about these things. Although these dealers were civilians, they were low-ranking ones. He didn't know whether this matter would affect them.
"Alang, although they are low-ranking households, their household registration has already fallen to Lijiazhuang, and Alang, you haven't let them become slaves. Now they are regarded as regular households, not cheap, of course they can participate in the county test." Xu Zhongming gave Li You After explaining it, Li You was relieved.
After the banquet, Li You called Gao Huailiang, Qin Feng, and Su Yang into his room, asked about their studies, and compared them a little bit. He felt that the three of them were pretty good, and they seemed to have worked hard.
At the beginning, Li You asked the three of them to go to the academy and spent a lot of money to change their slave status. Looking at it now, it is indeed not in vain. Afterwards, Li You threw a book of poems to them, some of which he wrote silently and could still be remembered.
"The three of you, please read the poems above, memorize it first, and then comprehend the artistic conception in it. Use it as a reference to study carefully. It should be helpful to your poems. If you are admitted to the Jinshi, you can really use it. You can also just upload the poem above."
Su Yang flipped through an article and read: "Three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo, the spring river plumbing duck prophet. The basket of wormwood on the ground is short, just when the pufferfish is about to go up." Then he flipped through another article and read: "A setting sun. In the water, half the river is sore and half the river is red. Poorly on the third night of September, the dew looks like a pearl and a bow."
After hearing this, Gao Huailiang asked, "Young Master, who did this?"
"Don't worry about who does it, you just need to remember that if you wrote this poem, it belongs to you."
Qin Feng looked at Li You in surprise, and asked, "Young Master, really?"
"Nonsense, is it possible that I still need to lie to you!"
Qin Feng smiled honestly, and then said, "Don't be annoyed by the young master, it's all because of the stupid mouth."
"Well, you all go back first, I'm going to rest."
"Yes, young master." After the three of them promised, they left quickly.
Li You then took out paper and pen, and began to design an iron pressing roller driven by gears, which was prepared for next year's cane sugar production. Today's pressing is still very primitive, and large-scale cooking and precipitation of cane sugar crystals cannot be achieved. Come.
Many hydraulic workshops have been built on the river course of Lingnan Manor. It is absolutely feasible to use hydraulic power and use gears to drive the pressing rollers. In this way, the crushing of sugarcane will become easy and simple, and the production of cane sugar will also become large-scale.
In the next few days, Yao Ping began to recruit people again. This time, he will focus on finding some shipbuilding craftsmen. After all, this is Yangzhou. It is not difficult to find someone who can build ships. In addition, the Li family recruits people. The reputation is not bad, and no matter the conditions are good, people will come naturally. This time more than a thousand people were recruited, a lot more than the previous time. Li You is still asking Yao Ping to find orphans and buy and sell juvenile slaves.
Yao Ping didn’t know what Li You was going to do anyway. He recruited three groups of young people, more than 300 people, and now he is still recruiting. He doesn’t know what to raise so many people for. These young people don’t work much, except There is basically nothing to do for training. Li You seldom let them do work, and just confessed to good student training.
This time, Yao Ping asked a few dental shops to help recruit people. In ten days, more than 200 households were willing to go to Lingnan, which Yao Ping did not expect. For these people, as long as they can lead a good life, where the family goes is not so important. Who keeps them unchained
At home, Li You is listening to Yao Ping talking about this. Yao Ping meant to get more people over. Anyway, there are more than 200,000 mu of land in Lingnan, and two or three thousand people can't cultivate that much. ground.
However, after thinking about it, Li You said, "No, there should be no more than 3,000 people. If there are more than 7,000 people, it will be really eye-catching. If 7,000 or 8,000 people are placed in Lingnan, the court will absolutely not allow it. We are not a family. Big clan, you have to be thoughtful and considerate when you do things." New 81 Chinese website update the fastest computer terminal: https://
"A Lang, you have the final say. By the way, some artisans from the Cheng's Iron Shop also came to ask me if they can also follow to Lingnan."
"Isn't the Chengjia Iron Shop a good business? Why do these craftsmen want to leave?"
"The old owner of the iron shop of the Cheng family passed away six months ago. Now the young owner of the Cheng family is only twelve years old. No matter where he can carry a heavy burden, Mrs. Cheng is helpless. I’m so stingy, I’m so stingy with my own craftsmen, not to mention others." New 81 Chinese website update the fastest mobile terminal: https:/
"How many craftsmen are there in the Chengjia Iron Shop?"
"Thirty-two people, twenty-six households, some of them are inherited from their father's inheritance, and they all work and live in the Cheng family."
Li You nodded after hearing this, and said, "Uncle Ping, I want these people. I will let them sign papers in the next year and take them to Lingnan. By the way, how many people did I find?"
"It's all here, Yaxing is quick to do things, but this time, Yaxing has stuffed over thirty girls over here."
Li Youyi frowned when he heard this, and asked in a puzzled way: "Why?"
Yao Ping explained: "This time, Alang, you asked me to find more than 300 people, and we also found a hundred people. The rest were found by Yaxing, but they have too many girls and they are too old. Not too big, most of them are under ten years old, so they can’t work at all. This time they squeezed people in. The price is not expensive. Each girl only has three skills, but I have no choice but to take care of it."
"Oh, well, I have already bought them anyway. Where did you arrange for them, Uncle Ping?"
"Where else can they be arranged? They are all in the training camp. It has been three days, and there is Chen Fan there. It won't matter." (End of this chapter)