Chapter 12 Do You Want Veterans?

Gao Lishi was not polite at all. He washed his hands, rolled up his sleeves, and grabbed the sheep bones to eat.

After taking two bites, he dipped it in the soy sauce and looked satisfied.

After finishing chewing a bone, Gao Lishi said with a smile: "I came here to inform Dongzhu Li that unless I come in person, the rest of the palace cannot sell soy sauce at a fair price."

Li Yi understood that buying soy sauce in the palace still costs fifty-five yuan per catty.

How other people buy and bid has nothing to do with the palace.

If someone comes to buy cheap soy sauce in the name of the palace and sells it, the store will not sell it.

"That's very good." Li Yi praised.

The other palace maids and eunuchs who came with Gao Lishi were also eating, and from time to time they glanced at the four colleagues who came first.

Four people are miserable, they know what those people mean.

I hope to be able to replace them when the rotation comes.

Because the emperor will come over and show his face in front of the emperor, maybe there will be a chance to climb up.

If a palace maid is lucky enough to have a child, her quality of life will be different immediately.

After eating, Gao Lishi left with a thousand kilograms of soy sauce.

Li Yi continued to arrange things in Zhuangzi and make rice crops.

Used when pulling out and transplanting seedlings, the feet do not need to sink so deep into the mud.

The yangma looks like a rocking horse with upturned ends that children play with, and its feet slide on the mud.

When another seven or eight hours of life were lost and the soy sauce was sold at dawn, Li Chengqi came with people.

"Brother Yi, I brought you phosphorite, lime, and ten cows." Li Chengqi said happily to Li Yi.

Li Yi frowned, but turned around and smiled again.

The cattle are actually live working cattle.

There are ten cows in Zhuangzi and 800 acres of land. They use cows to plow and rake. One cow can work two acres a day.

Ten cows provide twenty acres, and eight hundred acres are plowed by the cows for forty days.

People have to rush to work, so most of the time they don’t transplant the rice seedlings, but instead throw the seeds after the paddy fields are filled with water.

It is written in the art of Qi Min Yao: First release the water, and after ten days, drag the land axis ten times. The more times it is used, the better. When the ground is ripe, clean out the seeds; if the floating ones are not removed, barnyard grass will grow in autumn. The stain lasts for three nights and then drains out; the inner grass is stuck in a grate. After repeated menstruation for three nights, buds will grow and grow into two parts. Three liters per acre. For three days, people drove away the birds.

The seeds do not turn into rice seedlings. Instead, they are thrown into the paddy fields after they sprout. Three liters of seeds are thrown into one acre of land.

Oxen can plow two acres of land a day, and they can plow three acres of land even if they work hard, not to mention people.

Of course, the current area of ​​​​mu is smaller. Three acres is less than the two acres that Li Yi had at that time.

Moreover, not all the land is planted with wheat and rice, some are planted with trees, vegetables, and hemp.

Unless it is fertile land, such as Li Yi's Zhuangzi, good land.

If the ten tenant households had not seen that the rent was low and they had cattle, they would not even bring them over to death.

Farming this kind of land, without auxiliary tools, would be impossible without sleep all year round.

Ten young-looking adult cows came down, and the tenants held them alive in their hands to watch and touch them.

They seemed to see their relatives. The average family had two cows, which was unimaginable.

Oxen are cattle. They are not as good as buffaloes in plowing paddy fields, but they are much better than humans.

"Brother came just in time. I got a new plow and changed the straight shaft and long curved shaft into a short curved shaft."

Li Yi saw the cow and remembered that there were auxiliary tools.

Last year, we were able to plant wheat because we had done deep plowing the year before. Otherwise, ten families would have been exhausted.

This year the wheat harvest will be converted into paddy fields, but we can no longer use straight plows.

The short curved shaft plow was invented by someone in the Dongjiang River, the main trunk of the Pearl River, in the late Tang Dynasty.

The Quyuanli mentioned in Qi Min Yao Shu and the one mentioned in Tiangong Kaiwu are not the same.

"Brother Yi, please tell me." Li Chengqi grabbed Li Yi's arm sleeve and couldn't wait.

Li Yi took Li Chengqi back to his room and into his small tool room next to him.

There were many small parts on the table, and he put the eleven parts together like building blocks.

A toy Quyuan plow appeared in front of Li Chengqi.

Li Chengqi held it in his hand and looked closely, asking: "Is it possible?"

"There are no craftsmen in Zhuangzi. Brother, please find someone to make it." Li Yi said depressedly.

He directed everyone in Zhuangzi to do their work, including building kilns and building biogas pools, and guided them step by step.

Li Yi knew that the fundamental reason lay in knowledge reserve.

If you replace the tenants on Zhuangzi with... graduates from junior high school, you don't need to have a high degree of education.

He gave us the drawings and ideas, and everyone was able to figure it out.

There is no need for any accountant at all. Just call any one and settle the accounts, and the other party will do it for you.

Asked to draw a curve graph, the other party also drew it.

How worry-free, nine years of compulsory education is enough support.

pity……

Li Chengqi didn't know what Li Yi was complaining about. He ran out with a small plow, grabbed two people and ordered: "Send back quickly and ask the craftsmen to make a bigger one."

The two horses let go and ran away.

"This thing..." Li Chengqi then remembered to ask about its function.

"From two oxen carrying the bar to one ox pulling the plow," Li Yi said.

Li Chengqi gestured, two, one.

Then he said: "It saves cattle, and you don't have to cooperate with another cow to keep a distance. The cow is also very comfortable, right?"

"I think the cow will feel uncomfortable as long as it works." Li Yi said something for the cow.

"Hahaha~~" Li Chengqi laughed: "Brother Yi is indeed a wonderful person."

The two people went out talking, and it was very lively outside now.

People buying soy sauce are bidding.

The steward Song De was responsible for presiding over the auction. Two hundred kilograms of soy sauce were packed in twenty jars.

A group of people were raising prices with each other there.

Li Chengqi said to Li Yi: "Brother Yi, your soy sauce is now spread throughout Chang'an. Anyone without soy sauce will not be allowed in."

Li Yi looked at the sky and thought about garlic. Question: "Is it like garlic?"

"Of course!" Li Chengqi said.

Nowadays, garlic is popular in Tang Dynasty. If any noodle shop says that there is no garlic, the diners will turn around and leave.

Eat garlic when eating meat, eat garlic when eating fish, and eat garlic when eating noodles.

Have a sip of wine and a bite of garlic, it's an elegant thing.

So there are a lot of garlic growers and they still make money.

Li Yi will plant a lot today, and many cooking dishes require garlic.

Now it's the turn of soy sauce. If you don't dip your meal in soy sauce, it always feels like there's less of a sense of ritual.

That's how fast it spreads.

The key is that soy sauce can be eaten with garlic, and garlic sauce is a classic.

And it can also be put together with vinegar.

"Brother, soy sauce, vinegar, and sesame oil are combined together to form triple oil. When eating crabs and shrimps, add shredded ginger to make the flavor even more delicious."

Li Yi provides another classic on the use of soy sauce.

"Really?" Li Chengqi swallowed.

"Of course." Li Yi nodded.

While the two were talking, six altars had been sold over there, the most expensive one costing 1,780 yuan, and the cheapest one costing 1,000 yuan.

The cheapest one was the first one, and when it came up someone shouted it was a thousand dollars.

When others saw that there were still so many, they didn't even bid.

At the sixth altar, everyone found that the situation was not good, because someone else came over.

Not only the restaurants and goulan in Chang'an City, but also the people in the houses of nobles and officials.

If you hesitate any longer, you won’t be able to buy it today.

A total of 10,000 kilograms of soy sauce was produced the day before yesterday. Not counting the local residents, how many merchants were there in Chang'an City?

Any restaurant that sells soy sauce will first explain that the order does not cost more than 100 yuan and will not provide soy sauce.

When it reaches 100 cents, give a spoon.

Even so, diners flock to any shop that sells soy sauce.

Some large restaurants don't care about consumption. They only charge 20 yuan for a bowl of soup cakes. When you go in to eat, they give you soy sauce.

But ordinary people would not dare to enter that kind of store, it is too luxurious.

"Thank you, brother." Li Yi looked at the price increase over there and thanked Li Chengqi again.

If he hadn't turned the soy sauce into a tribute as quickly as possible, someone would probably be knocking on his door right now.

And Gao Lishi also came to tell those who were interested what to do.

"Brother Yi, there is no need to be polite. As relatives of the emperor, your elder brother and I can still handle this matter." Li Chengqi understood and patted his chest.

The seventh altar over there was bought for three thousand coins.

The people in the village watched and decided not to go out for a while, for fear of being trapped in a sack.

If something happens, let the palace maids and eunuchs go outside to handle it, or ask students for help.

At the same time, the people in the village are happy and the proprietor is willing to spend money.

Make new clothes for everyone, buy pens, ink and paper for the children. There is no need for inkstones, just get any rocks.

"Brother Yi, it's time to buy a nursing home." Li Chengqi was worried about Li Yi.

Official guarantees are one thing, but there are always people who want to take a chance.

Li Yi lowered his head and thought, and after a moment, he said: "Brother, do you have any acquaintances? Someone who has no permanent property, no elders, and a wife and children. Move your family here."

Li Yi made a request to find a guard who had no land or house.

Then the family went to live in Zhuangzi, the children were educated, and the wife also arranged work.

Such people should rest assured that if strong men rush in, they will fight tooth and nail.

"How many people are needed?" Li Chengqi also agreed.

"Twenty, the weather is warm, and it is easier to build a house. I want to demolish the house and build a tall building, using bamboo as the bones and concrete as the flesh, to build a house with more than three floors."

Li Yi told the numbers and plans.

He wants to build a four-story building, with one doorway divided into two households, and copper pipes to use methane for cooking.

In winter, use a high-rise heater to avoid the need for secondary pressurization.

The pipes should always be made of copper, which is expensive. The radiators can be made of cast iron.

Don't even think about heating the floor, we don't have the conditions.

To use the restroom, go outside.

Build a large bathhouse and wash there for free, as a benefit to employees.

There is no need to worry about building a house like this now. If "Six Laws of the Tang Dynasty" comes out, someone will be able to cause trouble.

Although everyone is violating the rules, there is no problem in checking you alone.

One hundred square meters of land can be built into a building area of ​​400 square meters.

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Knit it yourself, as long as the gaps are slightly larger so mosquitoes can't get in.

Li Yi plans to build a happy manor, which does not require so much wood to build a building, which is expensive and cannot be built.

Li Chengqi didn't know the great ideals of his cheap brother. He frowned slightly: "Can you afford to support him?"

"Yeah!" Li Yi nodded, why can't I support people? I find work for them.

How much work does it take to wait for the grapes to ripen?

Greenhouses in winter require more manpower.

"By the way, find ten more craftsmen's families. The conditions are the same as above." Li Yi added.

"Do you really have enough money to support it?" Li Chengqi was still worried.

To support such a large group of people and build a three-story house, is it enough to sell soy sauce?

"Yes." Li Yi said firmly.

For him, it is hard to earn a life, but it is easy to make money.

Cucumbers are so expensive in winter. A few kilograms of cucumbers sold from the greenhouse are enough for everyone to eat for a day, and they are still meaty.

"Can you rest assured that big brother will arrange someone for you? A slightly injured person with missing fingers and blindness." Li Chengqi thought of manpower.

"Retired Tang Bing with injuries?" Li Yi knew who it was at once.

"Of course!" Li Chengqi nodded.

"Really? Where did it come from?" Li Yi was puzzled. The military system of the Tang Dynasty was different from that of his time. You could not retreat until you were old.

"I'll find out if I find you. Do you want it?" Li Chengqi said in a cryptic manner.

"Yes." Li Yi nodded vigorously, this kind of guard is the most powerful.

What are you afraid of? If you can breathe, you can kill.

If there were twenty veterans who had fought hard on the battlefield as Zhuangzi's guards, I would feel at ease.

"Six thousand dollars, who will fight with me?" Someone shouted again at the top of their lungs. Six thousand dollars buys ten kilograms of soy sauce.