Datang Nongwang

Chapter 825

What happened in the planting base, at this time, Li Chongyuan didn't know.

I have left so far, how can I know what happened in the plantation base.

If Li Chongyuan is here now, maybe he will pay more attention to this little doll named Xiao Mao.

Such a caring person, if he continues to grow up like this, he must be a person who will not do anything wrong.

but.

Although Li Chongyuan didn't know it at the moment, and he wasn't in the plantation base, Xiang Shiqi followed Li Chongyuan's confession and recorded today's events in the form of a daily newspaper.

"These little dolls are not bad. I know that you are good at reading Mr. Xiaolang. However, although this river crab is delicious, you can't eat it often. If such a good river crab is sold in Chang'an, it will definitely make a lot of money. Money. It's just a pity that this place is too far away from Chang'an, and river crabs are not easy to transport long distances. However, this matter can be mentioned to Xiao Langjun. Even if Xiao Langjun doesn't like the money, it is still meat anyway. After Xiang Shiqi finished writing the daily newspaper, he sat in front of his residence and said to himself.

The river crab in Ningyuanshui is delicious, and Xiang Shiqi has tasted it long ago.

Now, he has become the steward of this planting base, and he is beginning to know how to save money for Li Chongyuan.

Li Chongyuan has always been extravagant, spending money without restraint.

And he, when he was on Xisha Island, heard Xiang Jiu and the others mention that Li Chongyuan's money is not much and is about to bottom out.

If there is no further income, I am afraid that I will really have to sell some things obtained from robbing pirates to survive.

Of course, although Xiang Shiqi knew the cost of Xisha Island, he didn't know the revenue of Chang'an.

Before, he was just a guard.

Now, as the steward of the plantation base, suddenly, his heart seems to have changed, he no longer thinks about things as a guard, and has officially begun to fulfill his duties as a steward.

Think it and do it.

He who has been with Li Chongyuan for many years, after having this thought in his mind, he immediately got up and called a few guards from his clan over, "You guys saw those little dolls coming to deliver crabs to Mr. Xiao just now. You said, how about we catch some river crabs and raise them?"

"Seventeen, there are so many river crabs in Ningyuan water, why do you need to catch and raise them? Seventeen, if you want to eat, just to say a word, I will catch you dozens of catties, so that you can eat until your legs are stretched." I can't stand up." Yi Xiangjia's guard joked.

"Haha, this is good, this is good, let's go, let's catch river crabs, I have to see how Shi Qi can't stand up because of stretching his legs." Someone echoed, wanting to see Shi Qi's joke.

He waved his hand to Shi Qi, motioning everyone to stop joking, and said, "We were left here by Mr. Xiao Lang to guard the planting base, and the planting base spends money every day. Are we going to watch it like this? Last time we passed Xisha Island Didn't the old nine say that Mr. Xiao Lang doesn't have much money? You see, this river crab is so delicious, can't we catch it and raise it, and then send it to sell elsewhere to earn some money for Mr. Xiao Lang? Small money? Even if Mr. Xiao doesn’t like it, he can give us some benefits, right?”

As soon as Xiang Shiqi's words landed, everyone looked at Xiang Shiqi.

There was nothing wrong with what Xiang Shiqi said.

Although they are Li Chongyuan's guards, their salaries seem to be quite a lot, but they have to support their families.

In addition to supporting their families, they also want to earn some money for their families, save more money, buy some land and so on.

They were just ordinary guards. Although they were members of Xiang's family, what they ate was the Li family's food.

Even those officers and soldiers of the Xiang family in the palace, they eat the food of the court, but how many years can they eat this kind of food?
The final direction of the Xiang family's soldiers is nothing more than to hold the Li family. In this way, the Xiang family may go further.

If there is no Li family, the Xiang family will also collapse.

At this time, it is normal to seek some money for oneself.

After everyone heard Xiang Shiqi's words, after a moment of silence, they all expressed that Xiang Shiqi's suggestion was feasible, but felt that it was not feasible.

"Seventeen, this matter can only be done with Mr. Xiaolang's consent. Besides, it doesn't matter if the river crab is in Zhenzhou or Wan'an Prefecture. If no one else tastes it, where can we sell it? What about it?” Although everyone has a heart, they don’t know how to act.

Xiang Shiqi nodded and replied: "It must be the consent of Mr. Xiaolang. However, let's arrest and raise him first. It doesn't cost money anyway, and we can also satisfy our greed properly. After I ask Mr. Xiaolang for instructions Let's see what Mr. Xiaolang said. As for you saying that no one in Zhenzhou eats this river crab, we can get it elsewhere for sale. Anyway, Mr. Xiaolang has many boats and the speed is fast enough, even if you can't get it to Chang'an , you can get it elsewhere.”

"Extremely, extremely. Seventeen is right, this matter is feasible." One person agreed.

"Okay, let's do this, and see what Xiao Langjun has to say after he replies." Everyone echoed.

After everyone reached a consensus, they immediately took action without saying a word.

Some went to Ningyuan County to buy nets, and some went to dig pits to raise crabs they hadn't caught yet.

Each divides its own business and does its own thing.

In the water of Ningyuan, there are many river crabs, no one catches them, and no one eats them.

In the eyes of the local people, this thing is a kind of iron general without meat, and it is easy to clean up, and it tastes very tasteless.

Therefore, over time, there will be more and more river crabs in this Ningyuan water.

Moreover, the Ningyuan River leads directly to the sea, which increases the number of river crabs even more.

of course.

In this Ningyuan water, besides river crabs, there are also sea crabs and various seafood.

The collision of salty and fresh water makes the products of Ningyuan water quite rich.

If a large net is cast down, hundreds of catties of aquatic life may be caught for a single piece of meat.

Of course, this is just an exaggeration, but there are really so many aquatic creatures in Ningyuan water.

Xiang Shiqi and the others acted together, that was really a quick move.

In the afternoon of that day, someone bought back the big net, and someone dug a big hole out.

While it was still early, Xiang Shiqi led the crowd straight to the place with the most crabs.

at dusk.

The big pit they dug out for raising river crabs was already full of river crabs and some sea crabs.

But after these things got into the pit, Xiang Shiqi and the others ran into another problem, "Seventeen, this won't work. Crabs have many legs and can climb walls. If we catch them like this and keep them inside, I'm afraid it will be a crab tomorrow." It's all gone."

"Yeah. You see, these are all crawling outside. Isn't it a waste of us to catch them?"

"It's not easy to make money."

Of course, this money is not easy to earn.

They have never been involved in crab farming, how do they know how to prevent the crab from escaping.

Everyone thought of a lot of ways, but they couldn't solve this problem.

In the end, everyone wasted a lot of energy and spent some money to buy a big net, and finally had to sit aside and eat ashes.

That night, I wrote to Shi Qi about what I thought and what happened today.

On the second day, the letter was handed over to Ningyuan post station, and sent to Chang'an from the post station.

As for when the letter will be delivered to Chang'an, they don't know, not even the people at the post station.

Zhenzhou is thousands of miles away from Chang'an. If you want to send the letter to Chang'an, you have to go through so many post stations. Maybe the letter will never reach Chang'an.

After all, it is not impossible for the letter to be lost after being delivered all the way.

Five days after Li Chongyuan left Zhenzhou.

The Zhenzhou Yamen suddenly ushered in another unexpected visitor.

"Li, don't drive, is there any news from Li Chongyuan recently?" The uninvited guest asked directly after sitting down with Li Qing after arriving at the Yamen of Zhenzhou Prefecture.

Li Qing replied respectfully: "This... Going back to Feng Inspector, I don't know about it. On Li Junwang's side, the lower officials didn't dare to send anyone to ask again, so..."

The uninvited guest in front of Li Qing was none other than Feng Zhizai, Governor of Leizhou, who had come to Li Chongyuan to discuss cooperation.

After several months, Feng Zhizai came to Zhenzhou again, and when he saw Zhenzhou, he asked him about Li Chongyuan's recent situation.

It can be seen that Feng Zhizai's visit to Zhenzhou this time is probably to discuss cooperation with Li Chongyuan.

Unfortunately, Li Qing didn't know how Li Chongyuan was doing.

That is true.

Although Li Qing is the highest official in Zhenzhou, he does not send people to watch Li Chongyuan, the county king, every day.

Besides, Li Chongyuan had so many guards at the plantation base. Li Qing sent him a few times, and after he was driven away by Li Chongyuan's people, Li Chongyuan also asked someone to send Li Qing a message, so that he would send less people to him in the future. The words of the planting base.

Therefore, since then, Li Qing did not dare to send anyone to Li Chongyuan's plantation base.

For this reason, Feng Zhizai asked Li Qing about Li Chongyuan's recent situation, how could he know.

Even the news that Li Chongyuan left Zhenzhou this time, Li Qing didn't know anything about it.

Seeing Li Qing's response, Feng Zhizai understood it in his heart, but he felt a little dissatisfied with Li Qing's failure to respect his own words, "Since Li Bie doesn't know how to drive, then prepare a carriage for me, and I will go to Li Chongyuan personally. The so-called planting base to visit him."

With Li Qing's words, he quickly sent someone to prepare the carriage.

Feng Zhizai originally left some people in Zhenzhou.

However, something happened to the Feng family a few months ago, and Feng Zhizai called back his people who stayed in Zhenzhou.

And that incident was the mysterious disappearance of Ma Er and his 23rd brother Feng Zhizai.

After several months, the Feng family sent countless people to investigate, but the news they finally got was still nothing. In the end, the Feng family only regarded Feng Zhizai's disappearance and Ma Er's disappearance as a strange and mysterious case. Here comes the place.

However, no matter what happened to the Feng family, they still sent some people to investigate everywhere.

Even, the Feng family sent people to Chang'an.

In doing so, the Feng family suspected that the disappearance of Feng Zhizai and his wife might be caused by the court.

Not long after, Feng Zhizai led some cats and dogs to the planting base.

As soon as Feng Zhizai and his party entered the plantation base, someone sent a message to Xiang Shiqi.

When Xiang Shiqi got the news, he went straight to Ningyuan County.

Outside the planting base, Feng Zhizai's carriage stopped, and dozens of guards stopped in the middle of the road.

After Feng Zhizai saw this, he didn't dare to force his way in, he lifted the curtain of the car and cupped his hands and said, "I am the Inspector of Leizhou, I am here to pay a visit to King Li, please go and inform me."

"My little lord has told me that if Governor Feng comes, let me deliver this letter to Governor Feng in person." Xiang Shiqi handed over a letter that Li Chongyuan had prepared earlier.

Feng Zhizai didn't understand, so he took the letter from his entourage, opened it and read it, and said: "Your young gentleman is a good man, and now he is thinking about marrying a wife. And marrying a wife is such an important matter, and it is difficult to get married. I didn’t need to go to Leizhou personally to inform the official, and then I went back to Chang’an without saying a word, is your little man afraid that the gift from the official will not be enough?”

"Lei Cishi, my young man is old and has not married a wife so far. He only took a concubine last year. Therefore, my young man is eager to go back to Chang'an to marry a wife. Thin." Xiang Shiqi replied.

Feng Zhizai saw that Li Chongyuan had returned to Chang'an.

Said that he wanted to go back to Chang'an to marry a wife, so Feng Zhizai had no choice but to leave the plantation base.

He, Feng Zhizai, has no interest in the affairs of the planting base.

What he wanted was a boat, and a big one at that.

After Feng Zhizai left, he confessed to Seventeen to the guards, and then went back to his residence to write a letter.

Ten days after leaving Zhenzhou, Li Chongyuan returned to Xisha Island.

When Li Chongyuan returned to Xisha Island, he met Chen Juan, Su Dingfang and others, said something, stayed for two days, changed boats, and then continued northward, heading for Chang'an.

half a month later.

When Li Chongyuan arrived at the boundary of Chang'an, it was already evening.

When the boat arrived at Bashui Wharf, the gate of Chang'an City was already closed.

Li Chongyuan, who was standing on the deck, heard that the gate of Chang'an City was closed, so he had no choice but to sigh and said: "At the beginning, I used to live outside Chang'an City, but today, I am afraid that I will be staying on this ship. Yes. Hurry up, hurry up, or slow down."

"Xiao Langjun, look." Just as Li Chongyuan looked back at Xing Ba and the others and said helplessly, several balls of fire appeared in the sky above Chang'an City.

Li Chongyuan turned his head and looked at what Xing Ba was pointing at, he was a little startled, "It's strange, today is not the season, why did the sky lanterns be set up in Chang'an City? Could it be that someone passed away?"

Li Chongyuan was curious, and also wondered why several Kongming lanterns suddenly floated in the sky above Chang'an City.

At present, Kongming lanterns are called sky lanterns.

Except on major festivals, put some sky lanterns for blessing.

Or when important people pass away, sky lanterns will also be released to save the dead.

of course.

Some important people will also release sky lanterns when they celebrate their birthdays.

More importantly, sky lanterns represent war.

Not everyone can release sky lanterns casually, let alone anyone, even if you are an honorable official, you are not qualified to release sky lanterns.

When Li Chongyuan saw the sky lantern floating above the city of Chang'an, his first reaction was definitely not war, but thinking of who had passed away.

It's like the sky lantern was released after the death of Kong Yu, the former Guozijian sacrificed wine.

Whether it is a person's birthday or death, or even the sky lanterns that are set off on major festivals, there are countless of them.

According to Li Chongyuan's knowledge, the number of sky lanterns released on a birthday or death is never allowed to exceed five. For this important festival, the number of sky lanterns released can be more, but the number cannot exceed twelve.

(End of this chapter)