"Stop messing around, this kiln is abandoned."

Next to a large kiln in the village, Wang Xiao felt the temperature with his hands and knew that the kiln was definitely ruined again.

As the most awesome large-scale industrial production equipment before the arrival of the machine era, the fire kiln was the technological peak of the entire world.

When the Chinese kiln was firing various things, Europeans didn't know what the kiln was.

It was not until the thirteenth century that the first kilns appeared there.

Wang Xiao, who has had experience in firing kilns in every world, after getting the manor, attracted a lot of labor from several nearby villages and built a large kiln factory here.

There are clay and other minerals in many places near Chang'an City, which meets the conditions for firing kilns.

For Wang Xiao, who is experienced, even without a thermometer, he can simply splice his hands to feel the temperature, right?

He wants to burn cement and glass. These are all industrial products with great practical value.

When firing these things, temperature is extremely important.

The temperature is high or low.

Nowadays, there is no thermometer, so Wang Xiao cannot stay here and watch it every day. That can only be made from one kiln after another to train skilled workers.

"Owner."

The servants in the manor rushed over and said, "The customer is coming to the manor."

Wang Xiao washed the dust on his hands, "Who is that?"

"I didn't report my name, I just said that it was the boss's old friend. I brought a lot of people in, and all the fierce gods were wandering around the village."

Wang Xiao roughly knew what he wanted and called the people from the kiln factory to "clean up when this kiln is opened, and then everyone goes to have a meal and rest. Let's talk about it in the next kiln in the afternoon."

Everyone cheered.

The spring plowing has not started yet, so I feel distressed to stay at home all day to eat food.

Now that I come here to work, I can not only receive grain, cloth and copper coins, but also eat three meals in the kiln factory a day. This kind of good job is really a rush.

Wang Xiao washed his hands, changed out of dirty clothes and returned to the village.

Before entering the village, I saw a large number of men in costume wandering around. The people in the village hid and didn't dare to show off.

When I walked into the yard, I saw Li Shimin, who had changed into a black suit, looking at the large jar full of soy sauce.

"You are a man who has some skills."

Li Shimin looked at Wang Xiao with his hands behind his back, "You said that Changsun is going to do business here, and the matter is over before the person is in his mouth. He is not wrong. You said you will meet each other, how do you see with me?"

Wang Xiao bowed his hands and said, "It's so expensive."

"Hahaha~~~" Li Shimin waved his hand. "This doesn't count. Anyone with a little bit of eye can see it. Tell me, have something big happened recently?"

Wang Xiao calculated with his fingers, "There will be a Tiangou Food Day in the past few days."

When Li Shimin heard this, he suddenly changed his expression.

The celestial dog eclipse is a solar eclipse, which is the phenomenon that the moon moves between the earth and the sun and blocks the light.

For modern people, this is an astronomical scene. But for ancient people who did not understand the reasons at all, this is a complete omen and will cause great panic.

When encountering such a thing, you must take action to save the Japanese. The most important thing is that the emperor repents his sins to God. Even the prime minister has to follow the unlucky ones.

Li Shimin had just had a Xuanwu Gate Incident and forced Li Yuan to abdicate.

If such a solar eclipse suddenly came, it would definitely be a heavy blow to his prestige and the legitimacy of his ascension.

Li Shimin's aura changed, "What did you say?"

The guards around quickly surrounded him and saw that he was going to kill him with a disagreement.

Wang Xiao seemed to have not realized it and bowed his hand to salute, "The sky is coming out, and the world is shocked. The sky is the warning that someone must be responsible for this to calm the anger of the sky."

Li Shimin's face became swollen with anger, and he was about to order to take action immediately.

"Pei Ji, the prime minister of the dynasty, did not practice literature, and did not have virtue." Wang Xiao changed his words and covered the blame on Pei Ji's back. "He is tyrannical and virtue is not worthy of his position. This is God's warning to him."

Li Shimin's face was very wonderful, and he couldn't speak for a while.

Pei Ji is Li Yuan's person, and he previously supported Li Jiancheng. In his early years, he even framed Li Shimin's confidant Liu Wenjing.

The Pei family is in great power, and Li Shimin adopted a tolerant strategy just as soon as he ascended the throne and gained a foothold.

Now Wang Xiao gave him a chance, a chance to use astronomical phenomena to force Pei Ji to abdicate and even force him to die.

Such things must be arranged in advance, and it will be meaningless if you wait until the solar eclipse occurs.

Wang Xiao said it a few days in advance that if Li Shimin's operation went smoothly, he could indeed handle Pei Ji.

After a moment of silence, Li Shimin turned around and said, "The people of the countryside dare to discuss the government affairs."

Judging from the rules and laws of this era, Wang Xiao’s identity at this time would basically not have any good endings when he talked about such things.

However, his words came into Li Shimin's heart.

If this opportunity is true, then Li Shimin can successfully operate and successfully win this damn Pei Ji.

This bastard relies on the power of the Pei family to fight against him everywhere. He has long wanted to mess with him.

"It's time to eat, get me some mutton I ate last time."

Wang Xiao rubbed his hands and cooked himself.

During the meal, Wang Xiao gave Li Shimin a whole sheep feast.

Stir-fried mutton with onion, cumin mutton, hand-catched mutton, braised lamb legs, mutton soup and rouxyamo.

Many merchants from the Western Regions and the Middle East transported a large amount of spices to the Tang Dynasty for sale along the Silk Road and the Sea Road.

Among them is the silensis, which is cumin.

These stir-fry dishes add soy sauce and a lot of oil, which is very attractive to Li Shimin.

"It tastes good, I really want you to go to Shangshi Bureau."

Li Shimin, who had eaten and drunk enough, threw away the sheep bones in his hand, took the linen and wiped his hands clean. "If what you said fails, I will send you to the frontier to cook for the soldiers."

Wang Xiao smiled and asked someone to take a jar of soy sauce over, "Brother Li, some small gifts are not respectful."

Li Shimin looked at it, "It is said that you sell thirty cents per pound of soy sauce in the city, but this jar costs about ten pounds, right? thirty or four hundred cents, you are quite willing to pay for it."

He was indeed angry.

Last time, Wang Xiao gave Changsun Wuji ten jars of soy sauce. Although Changsun Wuji gave the Nine Jars to Li Shimin, it was indeed Wang Xiao who gave the ten jars.

Now Wang Xiao has guessed his identity, but he has only given him one jar. Do you look down on me?

"The Changsun family is engaged in iron smelting business, and maybe there will be any business intersection in the future."

Wang Xiao means that I may use the Changsun family’s business in the future. As for you, if it weren’t for your identity, you wouldn’t even think of a pound.

Facing Wang Xiao’s pure realism, Li Shimin, who had just eaten someone’s meal, sneered and said, “Your farmer’s rent is more than other families.”

The so-called rent is the state allocating 100 acres of land per 100 acres. Then, each 100 is paid two stones of grain per year.

Chang'an City has many people and few land, so the number of people is usually reduced by half, and even no points are given. In the past, Wang Xiao only had to pay the municipal tax.

However, now that Wang Xiao has this manor of 2,000 acres, he has to bear twenty rents, that is, paying for forty stones of grain every year.

I am a labor force, bringing your own dry food for twenty days to work for the court every year.

Compared with the thirty days in the Han Dynasty, this regulation of the Tang Dynasty was very good, and at least one-third of the time spent working in vain was reduced.

Labor and other things are simply unimaginable for modern people. How could there be no one who works in vain and doesn’t pay for money? But for the ancients, this was a fate that no one could escape.

If you want to not be able to do labor service, just use money, grain, cloth and silk to exchange for redemption.

Similarly, Wang Xiao also had twenty parts of corvee labor here. If he wanted to be exempted from labor, he would also have twenty parts of money, grain, cloth and silk.

The final adjustment is to pay silk.

The regulations are two zhang silk, three zhang cotton, two zhang and five zhang cloth, and three kg of hemp. No matter how they match it, just satisfy this share every year.

Of course, for Wang Xiao now, these silks are also twenty pieces.

These rent and mediocre adjustments will be reduced or even exempted during famine years.

If it increases, it will not increase. The ones above are the top ceiling.

But the so-called ceiling has become a boundary that can be broken at any time when Li Shimin, who has already sat on the throne.

"Niu Er."

Wang Xiao raised his hand to greet the servants, "Get twenty jars of soy sauce over and give it to Guan Li for his enjoyment."

Li Shimin hummed twice with satisfaction.

Wang Xiao’s soy sauce is not expensive, but the problem is that he sells it very little.

Although more than a hundred tanks are opened in the farm, it will take several months to come in handy.

Now Wang Xiao sells more than 20 tanks arranged in the backyard of the Xishi Tavern. Because the quantity is small, he still needs to use it in large quantities, so naturally there will not be many that can be sold.

The reason for selling is of course to sell soy sauce on a large scale in the future to advertise.
To be continued...