I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

In the following time, Li Shimin completely lost his father's avatar of Gao Leng in front of Li Chengqian on weekdays, and gently took the stack of reports on the table, and chatted with Li Chengqian.

For each report, Li Chengqian first explained the reasons for his approval, and at the same time interpreted the meaning contained in the report, and then dealt with it himself.

And after Li Chengqian finished speaking, it was Li Shimin who commented on what Li Chengqian just said.

As an emperor who had long been dealing with major military and political affairs as King Qin, Li Shimin's skills were more sophisticated than Zhang Nuo's.

Therefore, even Zhang Nuo would explain it to Li Chengqian from time to time every day. At this time, Li Chengqian had to admit that his father was really powerful.

Looking at his son's adoring eyes, Li Shimin became more and more proud, and explained more vigorously.

The servant who had been following Li Shimin had wanted to urge Li Shimin back to the palace, but seeing that they were chatting happily with the prince, he didn't dare to interrupt him at all.

Just because he has been serving Li Shimin all the time, he knows how rare this situation is for Li Shimin.

And it wasn't until Li Shimin realized that it was so dark that he couldn't read the copy clearly that he realized that the father and son had chatted all afternoon by accident.

However, none of the father and son complained. Li Shimin felt that he had enjoyed the family happiness, while Li Chengqian spent an afternoon with the father whom he admired and learned a lot of knowledge, so even at this moment, the father and son feel that their stomachs are full. I was so hungry that I growled, but I didn't feel any regrets.

Li Shimin touched his son's little head, and said with relief,

"Chengqian, judging from what you said today, you have indeed learned a lot from your Uncle Zhang in the recent period. I am so relieved!"

"However, this learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. You must not slack off. Your Uncle Zhang has a lot of skills. If you are not afraid of learning, then you should study hard!"

Li Chengqian nodded hastily. If it was only for himself before, then Li Shimin's words must have encouraged him again. Now Li Chengqian felt that the difficult and tiring work in his daily life had become cute.

It was getting late, and if we delay any longer, I'm afraid we won't be able to return to the palace today before closing the city gate, so Li Shimin rushed directly to Chang'an without even having dinner.

Leaving Li Chengqian happily running home, he ate two extra bowls of rice for dinner, so full that he clutched his stomach and didn't want to move anymore.

During dinner, Zhang Nuo heard Li Chengqian talking about his relationship with his father in the afternoon, and nodded with a smile. It was a trivial matter, and he was happy to see the old Li family's father and son get along well.

If he really stood in line with the various battles for succession like the Whip Dynasty in the later TV series, then he, Zhang Nuo, would definitely be in trouble.

After all, he is no longer a simple emperor who makes friends and worships brothers. The title of King Qin is on him. As long as he lives in this world for a day, he is truly one person under ten thousand people. If there is a situation of seizing the heir, it will be strange that no one comes to him.

Life is always running like water, Zhang Nuo sometimes did not think, how he put on summer clothes in a daze, and how the whole city became different unconsciously.

As the Lantian new city that Zhang Nuo devoted himself to building, in just a few months, thanks to Zhang Nuo's investment regardless of the cost, it almost changed every day.

Perhaps there is no convenient and fast machinery here, or there may be no exquisite construction equipment here, but with the cement produced in the workshop and the huge and terrifying labor force, the whole city has taken on a completely new look.

Parks, theaters, communities, commercial streets, schools, factories, and buildings were completed according to Zhang Nuo's arrangement.

And not only that, after the guy Asba took office in the Finance Department, it can't be seen in other places. In the workshop area alone, a new workshop will pop up almost every few days.

Some produce glass, some produce toys, and then food, spices, daily necessities...all kinds of things pop up.

All of these were created by Zhang Nuo after he casually produced blueprints and samples, and then threw them to Asba, and then Asba went to Chang'an City to find someone to build them.

Asba is completely crazy under Zhang Nuo's hands. There are endless new products, the background of the emperor's backing, Zhang Nuo's almost unreserved support, and the top partner in the Tang Dynasty. Ba felt like he was about to become the god of business.

Moreover, after Zhang Nuo discovered his talent, he directly threw the basic accounting foundation and economics and management textbooks over, and Asbad immediately began to study eagerly.

It has to be said that interest is the best teacher for a person. With the support of strong driving force and excellent business talent, Aspar is like a wild animal, opening his mouth wide to devour the wealth of the world.

However, there was basically no one to criticize Asba's wanton money-making, because Zhang Nuo spent the money as soon as it changed hands.

Lantian City can be built so fast now.In the final analysis, it was still made with money!

Chapter 449 Aspar's Pride

Zhang Nuo has always pursued a principle, that is, talking about money hurts feelings, and not talking about money has no feelings!

Therefore, regarding the matter of recruiting civilian husbands to come to work, Zhang Nuo could have used his authority as the King of Qin to recruit them. This is what Rent and Servant Modulation is for.

But Zhang Nuo was not willing to do this, or Zhang Nuo didn't have such a mind at all!

In his opinion, he already has enough money, so what if he is rich?

No matter how extravagant people's life in this era is, it is nothing more than that, and it is still incomparable with later generations.

With the system in hand, Zhang Nuo has already transcended the ordinary level of material needs, and is pursuing more spiritual satisfaction.

No amount of money is just a tool for him to realize his spiritual pursuit.

Therefore, in just a few months, not only Chang'an City, but even the idle population of several surrounding counties have gathered in Lantian City.

The demand for labor here is really too great!

Miners, workers, road builders, tree planters, and house builders, almost all have a shortage of people, and the treatment is good and the wages are sufficient. As long as you work hard, almost all of them cannot make money.

It is precisely this attitude of smashing people with money that is not appropriate for money that has attracted the construction of Lantian City to rush forward at a speed that is astonishing.

Of course, it was precisely because nearly 10 people suddenly came in, all the yamen were working overtime every day, and then went through several rounds of recruitment.

But at the same time, these people who came to work in Lantian City also further prospered the local economy.

No matter how poor they are, after getting their salary, they will always buy a little something to go back. After all, many things can only be bought in Lantian City, and you can't see them anywhere else.

And this is how the economic cycle comes about. Asba pulls people with his left hand to build infrastructure and factories, and sells goods with his right hand to create a monopoly. Not to mention making a lot of money, he has also formulated a very detailed business tax under the guidance of Zhang Nuo. bill.

To say that this commercial tax is also a strange thing, at present, only here in the entire Tang Dynasty has such a commercial tax.

There are different tax rates for different industries, and different tax rates for different business scales. In line with the policy, there are tax credits and incentive tax reductions.

I heard that the thick book of business and tax clauses has been studied in Guangchaotang for more than half a month, but I haven't studied it clearly. I can only study the actual situation in Lantian City while studying it.

In addition to the vigorous development of these industries, the other fastest growing industry is education.

To open a school in Lantian City, you need to apply. Even if it is a private school with a small class that teaches more than ten people, you must apply. You can't mess around. It is reasonable to go to the Education Department for the record, otherwise you will directly ransack your home and arrest you.

At the beginning, apart from a few schools, there was only one normal school for real vocational education, but in just a few months, accounting schools, engineering schools, and adult night schools sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

The most interesting thing is that the accounting school was not established by the Education Department at all, but by the Finance Department. In the beginning, it was just a private school specially set up for the Finance Department and Zhang Nuo's other industries to train the accounting talents he wanted to use. That's all.

In the end, Li Shimin, a stinky and shameless person who didn't know how to be so clever with a dog's nose, sent a group of people over immediately after the school started teaching.

These are some small officials of the household department, don't look down on them, but in fact they are doing a lot of complicated work in the household department.

It turned out that after only one month of training, it was completely different when I went back and tried it. Whether it was doing accounts or calculations, it was like countless others.

And this news spreads from time to time, which rich and powerful family doesn't lack a few accountants these days?

Besides, for the school opened by King Qin, it’s not enough for everyone to pay the tuition. Please help to train a few accountants. Now that the family’s property is increasing, there are really not enough accountants. I’m afraid it’s not appropriate to hire from outside for a while Ah, it's still reliable to train your own family well.

Since Changsun Wuji got the news from Li Shimin, and then came to the door and stuffed a few people with snot and tears, well, it was a complete mess after that.

Civil servants and military generals, aristocratic families, wealthy merchants, as long as they have property at home, they will dig holes in the mountains to find ways to stuff people here.

At this time, Asba was not only the director of the Finance Department, but also the principal and chief professor of the accounting school. All the teachers in the school were trained by him.

Today's accounting school has changed from a school for children of the Finance Department to a well-known technical school in the whole Tang Dynasty.

As long as they can graduate from the accounting school in Lantian City and pass the assessment, a large number of people will come together to apply for the letter of appointment almost as soon as the graduates without a master leave the school.

It's easy to talk about treatment, as long as you are willing to go.

In just less than half a year, the accounting school has proved its unparalleled strength in accounting with batches of short-term students, and at the same time it has built itself into a gold-lettered signboard.

What Asba is most proud of now is the school he created unintentionally.

As a foreigner, at the very beginning, even with the backing of Zhang Nuo, who forced him into the position of director of the Finance Department, most people would not accept it, and some even had eccentricities.

But now let alone in Lantian City, even if you go to Chang'an City, as long as you walk into almost a slightly larger store, you can basically be respectfully called "Mr. Asba" or "Asba" by the shopkeeper. headmaster.

For the face-saving Aspar, this is simply a supreme honor.

Moreover, it is not just large merchants. You must know that from the beginning of accounting school to the present, the Ministry of Accounting has never stopped training officials. After all, there are nearly a thousand low-level officials in the Ministry of Accounting. How can a performance training be good.

So even if Asba went to the household department because of the financial problems in Lantian City, it would be the same as going back to his own home. There are students everywhere, although the relationship is not particularly close.

But just because these students have learned the real skills from him, at least a respectful teacher can never escape, and those Tang officials who originally looked down on him, or even made him look up to him, can call this teacher , Asba has already died at this moment, and he has died in peace.

And it is precisely because of this reason that Asba almost never relaxes his study. He has to read books as soon as he returns home from work every day, just to live up to the teacher!

Chapter 450 Zhang Nuo's big killer was born

Everyone can see the rapid changes of Lantian City. Chaotang has a special project to follow up and judge the development of Lantian City.

After all, Lantian City’s Datang Policy Experimental Field is not for nothing. It’s right under Chang’an’s nose. Now that it’s developing so well, which policies can be used in other places, and which policies have problems that need to be adjusted? These are things that the court needs to consider.

At the same time, basically every few days, imperial officials, led by the big bosses, came down to various yamen in Lantian City to visit and study.

All the data of Lantian City are backed up in the imperial court, population, taxation, expenditure, armament, case, construction...

The only thing that can't be imagined is not impossible. Whenever Lantian City records any data, the officials who study here will immediately copy it down, and then return to Chang'an City and file it later.

If there are no secrets in other aspects of Lantian City before the imperial court, then the huge courtyard on the outskirts of the city, which has gradually attracted people's attention due to the repeated expansion of the city, has become the most secret place in the entire Lantian City .

Regarding this courtyard, everyone knows that this is the essence of the entire Lantian City, because Qin Wang Zhang Nuozai said that this is a place for research, and it can be said that all new products, tools, even weapons, and medicines in Lantian City are here. The people in the yard researched it.

However, except for a few people, everyone avoided it because it was too scary.

It's not just a question of tight defenses, the explosions that sounded from time to time are scary enough, not to mention that this is a restricted area that has been demarcated by His Majesty and the King of Qin. Only the two of them can enter with their faces in the whole world. Everyone has to verify their identity no matter who they are.

And it's not just one time, it takes four times of repeated verification to get in and out, not to mention things like registration and body search.

At this time, Zhang Nuo was standing in a certain courtyard of the research institute, looking at the black thing in front of him, ecstatic!

It can be regarded as a special creation!

The frighteningly solid thing in front of him is the first-generation artillery of the Tang Dynasty, which was jointly manufactured by a large number of senior craftsmen from the research institute.

For this thing, Zhang Nuo had suffered enough.

The first is the adjustment of the smelting technology, otherwise it is impossible to produce qualified steel, and if there is no qualified steel, the barrel is a waste, and it will explode after a few times of use.

Then came the adjustment of the gunpowder. The ones I made when fighting Luo Yi were actually just the most basic black gunpowder. , that is a combination of the head start and insufficient quality and quantity.

Gunpowder and explosives are completely different things. One is something that can be rubbed out by hand back in ancient times, and the other is an industrialized product after the development of modern chemistry to a certain extent.

The production difficulty of the two is very different, and the power is completely different.

However, if you want to use artillery and muskets in the future, you must make a breakthrough in explosives. Otherwise, if you only use gunpowder, unless the steam engine comes out and achieves a certain degree of standard industrialization, the production will actually be a big firecracker. That's all.

Fortunately, Zhang Nuo has a system. A group of Taoist priests who used to make pills of mercury and other heavy metals as elixir for the sake of longevity, together with craftsmen who were slowly recruited, started to learn from the most basic chemical knowledge.

Learning while practicing, there is a lot of new knowledge in the left hand to tempt you, and the right hand has more generous material rewards at your fingertips. Absolute material spirit will not be spared, pushing this group of people forward.

Fortunately, they don't need to invent and create anything, just copy and mass-produce according to Zhang Nuo's requirements, which invisibly reduces the difficulty by more than half.

Because they don't have to experiment and explore slowly like those real inventors and scientists, Zhang Nuo directly puts the correct answer in front of their eyes.

After countless explosions and adjustments, a suitable propellant was finally produced.

Moreover, in the end Zhang Nuo found out, what the fuck, guns and cannons were originally filled with gunpowder instead of explosives. They were just blending and producing finer gunpowder. It's too advanced, but the smelting technology can't keep up, and it's easy to explode.

So Zhang Nuo, who was dumbfounded, had to arrange the adjustment of the industrial production of gunpowder, the further expansion of the power, and the calibration of the ammunition.

With regard to standardization, Lantian City is undoubtedly ahead of Datang by an entire era. From length to weight, from volume to density, Lantian City has come up with a whole set of new standards under the leadership of Zhang Nuo.

Then, it didn't take long for him to travel all over the country with almost no greeting from the court.

There is no way, this is no longer a question of advanced or not, but a question of generational difference.

Lantian City’s standards are so simple, they are all in decimal, and it’s easy to calculate. You can even guess what it means literally, millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters, kilometers...

Then a series of tools such as vernier calipers, protractors, and compasses were also produced along with Zhang Nuo's rapid progress on the road to industrialization.

As for tools, you can know whether they are easy to use, and as long as they are useful tools, they don’t need to be popularized by the court at all, and they will spread by themselves, let alone there are schools of all sizes in Lantian City.

Zhang Nuo bought a large number of tools to all the schools, not only for the students to operate them, but also for them to be familiar with these new measurement units.

Among them, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households are the most popular for these things. God knows how long they have been complaining about those old-fashioned measuring tools that are difficult to calculate and full of errors.

It was precisely these improvements and changes in various aspects that finally replaced the cannon that didn't look very delicate in front of Zhang Nuo.

If you look at this gun from its appearance, it is actually the red coat cannon of later generations, a very primitive front-loading gun, and its weight is extremely astonishing.

But as far as it is concerned, this is already the acme created by Zhang Nuo under semi-artificial and semi-industrial conditions. The real rear-mounted artillery can only be mass-produced after full industrialization.

However, even if there is only this seemingly primitive red cannon, for Zhang Nuo at present, it is enough to become a big weapon for him to attack the city and destroy the enemy.

After all, his opponent is just an old-fashioned stone city wall. He still understands the reason why the quality is not enough and the quantity is not enough, so let's take it easy!

Chapter 451 The Scientist Named Jin He

Originally, Zhang Nuo didn't intend to get the artillery out so early, because in his opinion, the artillery without explosive bullets is only useful in sieges and naval battles, and the effect is actually not good for cavalry and infantry charging at high speed. Very good.

It can't be said that it didn't work, it's just that the solid big iron ball hit it, and it felt like it was a loss no matter what.