Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 593;
Chapter 560;

Lijiazhuang, Lantian County!

"I'm dizzy, it's too hot this day, Li Yi hurriedly asked them to make some popsicles, it's really cool to eat."

"It's Mr. Lang, let's go down and make arrangements."

It has been half a month since Li Yu came back from Chang'an, last time he got drunk and got into trouble and smashed the gate of Cui Guang's house, but when he woke up the next day, he was called to the palace by His Royal Highness to give him a severe reprimand.
Although Her Highness the Queen was not willing to beat him, she did not escape the disaster. After being reprimanded in the palace, she thought she would be fine, but when she returned to the General's Mansion, General Qin learned of this and whipped Li Yu three more times, and He knelt for two hours, and then went to the study room and woke up for three days. He was so hungry that he was dizzy and dizzy, and finally he was carried out after three days.

No one smuggled food this time, and the six soldiers in the small courtyard of the study were closely guarded from the beginning to the end.

Li Yu recovered from the whip wound, Her Royal Highness the Empress gave birth to a prince again, the emperor had a grand feast for the officials, Li Yu was also called to attend the grand event, but the palace people arranged by the emperor watched closely and did not let him touch a drop of wine, eating and drinking After a meal, he stayed in Prince Li Chengqian's palace for a few days before returning to Lijiazhuang in Lantian County.

Li Yu went to inspect the farm that day, saw the pleasing autumn crops, came back to the house humming a song, and hurriedly asked Li Yi, the second manager in the front yard, to make popsicles to cool off the heat.

After Li Yu finished explaining, he turned to look at Lady Liu next to him;

"The chief steward asked someone to call some ladies in the backyard to come out. There is nothing left and right today, let's get together and talk to relieve boredom!"

"promise."

"Come here, go and invite the four ladies in the backyard, and say that your lord is calling, and enjoy today's lunch in front of you."

"It's the big steward."

But after a while, Wang Kexin, Situ Yunsha, Lin Rongniang, and Mrs. Wei each brought their personal maids to the main hall.

"The slave family has seen Mr. Lang."

"All without courtesy, and sit down and talk."

"Thank you sir."

Li Yu turned his head to look at Manager Liu who was sitting a step behind him;

"Where did you just say that?"

"Returning to Mr. Lang, you just talked about the sale of tea in the south."

"Oh yes! It's been another two months?"

"Yeah, sir, it's been almost three months. I heard that the tea is growing well this year. The third uncle came back last time and said that he was spitting all over the place. I heard that it seems that this year's harvest is full. It's not bad." , it should all be fried by now."

Lady Liu, as the chief steward of Li's second-bedroom inner house, does not need to stand and serve her. Her seat has always been a little behind the patriarch.

"Well, I threw in a lot of money, and I should be able to come back this year. By the way, Mrs. Situ, how much money did we throw in the tea?"

Situ Yunsha, who was sitting to the east, responded with a smile;

"If you go back to Mr. Lang, you will pull out 47 carts of money and silks back and forth. It's a lot of sincerity."

Li Yu nodded;

"It's really quite a lot. The high-class tea bricks are kept and sold to princes and nobles and big merchants. The middle-class tea bricks are sold to the influential people on the grassland. The low-class tea bricks are exchanged with herdsmen for cattle and sheep. Send a letter there. , middle-grade and low-grade ordinary teas are all packaged and taken away, and are not circulated in the territory of Datang."

"It's Mr. Lang."

As soon as Mrs. Liu agreed to Wang Kexin over there, she frowned and said;
"My lord, if the middle class and the low class are all dragged to the prairie, there won't be much goods left in our Tang Dynasty."

As soon as Wang Kexin spoke, the remaining three women began to nod in agreement, and Lin Rongniang also interjected gently;

"That's right, sir, the stewards of the superior tea slaves have also heard that it is the kind of small sprouts we usually eat. If we only keep this kind of sprouts for sale, how much money can we get back? The real slaves think There are still more medium-sized tea leaves!"

Mrs. Wei was airborne from the palace. Although everyone in the mansion was polite to him, she always felt that she had no roots. So when she went to the palace to visit her highness, she asked the queen to send some of the people who usually served her. The maids were released, and Empress Changsun also took good care of this lady Wei who had been serving her closely for ten years. Without saying a word, she waved her hand and told Ye Qingzhi that she had found a wrong excuse to dispose of the places of four palace ladies. Standing behind Mrs. Wei to wait.

Mrs. Wei has seen the world, so she explained directly;
"Sister Lin, don't worry. Since ancient times, things have been rare and expensive. I think it's a good arrangement for Mr. Lang. All the tea leaves of medium and below are taken to the prairie. Let's not talk about how many cattle and sheep can be exchanged, just the leftovers. There were not many sprouts in the first place, and now there is no inferior goods to choose from. Those civil and military ministers and wealthy families can't buy them elsewhere, so they can only spend a lot of money to buy sprouts and eat them back. As for how much? Of course, our lord has the final say on a catty.

What's more, when there are too many things, people think it's commonplace. The less you have, the more difficult it is to buy, the more you can show that you can eat people. They have great skills and noble status, which are different from ordinary people. Those big families have a lot of wealth. ! "

After Mrs. Wei analyzed what she said, the remaining three women all nodded in agreement, and Wang Kexin turned around and asked;
"Miss Wei is right. It's just that the few things left in this way can't be sold at a sky-high price per catty, right?"

Situ Yunsha sat next to Wang Kexin and immediately answered the good sister;
"Yeah, if you sell too little, you won't get back much of your capital. If you sell too much... I don't know how much I can sell, but it can't be too much!"

Lin Rongniang sat on the west side and got together;
"I think it should be ten to thirty guan for a catty. After all, it takes a lot of tea fields to make up a catty of tender shoots."

Wang Kexin frowned when she heard about Thirty Guan. His family background is not considered low, and his family used to be a small family, but she has never eaten a pound of Thirty Guan, and the price is really scary. of;

"Thirty guan? Is the price offered by sister Lin too high? We don't even set this price for our baijiu, it's a fairy wine!"

Li Yu looked at the four women in front of him with a lustful smile;

"Then ladies, what do you think should be the price to set it up properly?"

When Situ Yunsha heard Li Yu's inquiry, he immediately rushed to speak;

"Thirty guan is indeed a bit high, I think [-] guan is about the same, ten guan can't bring out the nobility of Niaoya! What do you think, sisters?"

Lin Rongniang took Situ's words unhurriedly;

"If thirty is a bit high, how about setting it at 26 per catty?"

Several people discussed and discussed and finally agreed on the number of 26 guan, but Lady Wei shook her head;
"It's not high. Sister Lin said that [-] guan is really not high. The price I thought in my heart is actually [-] guan for a catty."

"Forty strings? My God!"

"Sister Wei has lived in the palace for a long time, maybe she doesn't know much about folk money and silk. Forty people in the world and many families can't earn this amount in their lifetime!"

"Yes, yes, the money that the Lord Lang rewarded us in the past, several pennies, dozens of coins, we all saved up, and the amount of forty pennies is too scary!"

The four of them couldn't stop arguing with each other and could only turn their heads to look at Li Yu above, Li Yu laughed;
"Your prices and numbers are not in line with the wishes of a certain family, and none of them can be used."

"Huh? None of it, sir?"

"How much should it be, sir?"

"Yes, yes, is it possible that Mr. Lang is thinking about thirty pennies and five catties?"

"Wrong! A certain family is thinking of 77 yuan a catty, and they will not sell them for a big money. If you like to eat or not, you can buy it or not, and you can't afford it? It doesn't matter. Can you eat the old mutton tea soup and add some mutton?" Mozi, add some white flour, add some chopped green onion, how fragrant will it be? You can also eat it as a meal, and you can solve it with two mustard pancakes! This is the most economical way!"

After Li Yu's 77 puns came out, the four women stopped talking. You look at me and I look at you. Even Mrs. Wei was sweating like the other three women!
After Lin Rongniang wiped off her sweat, she spoke;
"The selling price is up to the lord. It's just that the slave family is worried. If you set this price, lord...will it be difficult to sell?"

Wang Kexin nodded immediately, and Situ Yunsha stood up;
"Yes, sir, you will of course carry out what you said. You are the head of the family and the only owner of Li's second house. However, the price is so high that the slave family is also worried about our tea business."

Li Yu shook his head indifferently;
"What's the point? It's a luxury item, it's not for the common people at all. If the common people want to eat it, they can only wait until there are more tea fields in three to five years. We have experience in growing tea, so that we can enjoy the medium-sized goods in the future. Now The output is not high enough to sell, so please tell me, Madam Wei, what kind of tea is your Majesty drinking now?"

"If you go back to Langjun, His Majesty will only eat the young bud green tea you sent, and you will not eat mutton soup tea for a long time. Officials below the third rank will not serve tea at all when they go to the study. Not enough!"

Li Yu said triumphantly;
"Listen, your majesty doesn't eat the old tea anymore. As long as you eat the tea from a certain shop a few times, you don't want to eat the old mutton soup. This is what I usually tell you about the trend, fashion, for your majesty. Although filial piety is a loss if you don’t need money, but the name is famous, even the supreme is rare, and others still don’t come to buy it?
What's more, I have sent them to rich families and civil and military ministers twice, and I have made it clear that the first two times were given away for free, which can be regarded as the filial piety of the younger generation, and I will have to spend money to buy them later.

A lot of people came to ask when the goods will be available for sale, because a certain store has cut off their goods, haha!They haven't had to eat for a month or two! "

Situ Yunsha said suddenly;
"It turns out that Mr. Lang deliberately cut off their goods because he wanted to open a shop?"

"Of course, a certain family is going to open a shop, and this is the only one in the entire Tang Dynasty, so let's not talk about it. Let's see if the popsicles are brought, and hurry up and share them with everyone."

Li Yu, who was talking, watched Li Yi, the second steward, ask someone to bring in a wooden box, yelled loudly, took Li Yi's popsicle, and stuffed it into his mouth, slurring praise;
"Hmm... It's delicious with boiled mung beans and rock sugar. It's really sweet and cool... Mmm... It's all divided up. Ask the servants to have one too. It's not a rare thing..."

"promise."

After a while, there were more than 20 men and women in the main hall who were shaking their heads with a mung bean old popsicle, and Li Yu ate two to satisfy his hunger;

"Comfortable! By the way, you have all packed your things these few days. Your Majesty didn't let me go out to play when it first entered the summer. It was because I was worried that the people of the world would imitate our cloth sheds to cultivate high-yield grain. Now it is almost autumn harvest. The common people should be about the same! Miss Wei, you have been walking in the palace for a long time, so you should know some news, right?"

"Your Majesty, I know that one of my sisters is the steward of the study. I heard her mention it several times, saying that officials from the household department went to the study to report errands. Most of the places are positive and cultivated with the high-yield method passed down by Your Majesty. ,

I also heard that big families from all over the world take out old cloth to exchange for money, and the common people take it back to build cloth sheds. It should not cost too much money, because I heard that His Majesty also praised many big families who know how to accumulate blessings and do good deeds. and sell it to the poor people,
However, there were also some who took advantage of the opportunity to rob and make money from the poor, and the old Chen cloth had to sell it for the price of new cloth. It was said that Shandong had taken several of them into prison. As for the charges, the slave family did not inquire. "

Li Yu leaned back in the grand teacher's chair carelessly;
"Why do you keep them in custody? Those who make money from the country and refugees should be beheaded at Caishikou. The drought is so severe. If there is no shed and high-yield seeds, if there is no harvest in autumn, there will be refugees all over the place. It's rampant, and the mother wants to change children to eat, killing them is light, I wonder, Shandong is the birthplace of saints, why so many weird and disgusting things always happen in Shandong Woolen cloth?"

Among the four women present, only Situ Yunsha was born in Shandong, and she covered her mouth with a silk scarf and responded with a smile;

"There are good people everywhere, and there are bad people everywhere. There are only two saints, Confucius and Mencius. Not everyone in Shandong can read and write."

Li Yu waved his hand;

"Let them go. It has nothing to do with us. Of course, the imperial court won't just sit back and ignore it. Let's just go out and play in the mountains and rivers."

"I want to report to you, sir, when my servant returned to the palace a few days ago, His Highness explained that I had told my servant to come back and report to you, saying that you can't go out to play until the crops are harvested! Anyway, it's only a few days, why don't we hold on?"

Li Yu sighed helplessly;
"Okay! If you don't want to go out, just wait, I can't figure it out, if you hold me down here, will the people's crops grow well and taller?"

Seeing Li Yu's discouraged appearance, the four daughters came to persuade him, Wang Kexin spoke patiently;
"Don't worry, Mr. Wei. Sister Wei is right. Anyway, it will only be a few days. Let's bear with it!"

Situ Yunsha also gently enlightened;

"Yes, Mr. Lin, when I went to Sister Lin's room to talk last night, she said that the harvest would be ready in a few days!"

Lin Rongniang nodded;
"Yes sir, when I went back to my slave's house the day before yesterday, I ran into Mrs. Zou, the farm manager, talking to me at home, Aye. I listened to a few words, and said that the tassels are quite plump and almost ripe."

Li Yu looked at Lin Rongniang depressedly;
"Didn't you ask how many days it will be until they are ready to be harvested?"

"I didn't ask, sir, but I, Aye, asked a few words. I heard from Manager Zou that it will take seven or eight days. The slave family has not planted land for a few days. You know, sir."

"That is, you have been enjoying the blessings in the mansion since you were a child. How do you know about this? It doesn't matter, isn't it just seven or eight days, just wait, and you don't care about the few days after waiting for several months, Li Yi!"

"He's here. Sir, please tell me."

"Tell Lin Wudi, Chief Lin, that after presiding over the autumn harvest and worshiping heaven and earth, we can set off and tell them to prepare in advance."

"Wei! The villain will pass it on in person."

"Go!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, make preparations in advance, ask the servants to follow, what clothes to bring, etc., so we don't have to panic when the day comes."

"Yes, sir!"

(End of this chapter)