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Chapter 17: Chapter 17: Lack of Money
Seeing Li Hao's distraught appearance, Jin couldn't bear it, stepped forward to comfort him: "Master, do you love money?"

"Can you not feel bad, more than 800 hits..." Li Hao continued to wail.

Du Hong also realized that Li Hao was a miser, but he didn't think he had done anything wrong, because this house was going to be repaired, and it would naturally cost a lot of money to repair such a big house.

He thought that Li Hao was a local tyrant with plenty of money, because when Li Hao was about to leave, he threw away a thousand coins to him. How could he be so generous without a net worth of tens of thousands? Moreover, Li Hao also said at the time: "Not bad money."

In fact, it was Li Hao who was pretending. In front of the servants, it was necessary for the owner to pretend occasionally, but he overplayed it, and Du Hong almost didn't spend all his money.

"Du Hong." Li Hao called out with drooping eyelids.

"The old slave is here." Du Hong answered with a bow.

Li Hao said in a daze: "Actually, you are really not a housekeeper."

Du Hong: ...

Du Hong's job as a housekeeper was actually retained. Li Hao was too sad at the time, and he had a good time to make himself feel better. In fact, he could not find a more suitable housekeeper. Fortunately, Du Hong was merciful and left him After more than 100 guan, Du Hong finally knew that Li Hao was not a local tycoon, and his entire net worth was only that one thousand guan. Du Hong was so remorseful that he took the initiative to admit his mistake to Li Hao.

Li Hao is still very lucky. Fortunately, he didn't buy dozens of servants. He only hired a concierge called Wang San. Otherwise, he would have declared bankruptcy as soon as he entered the new house.

Li Hao gradually put away his sadness and settled down in this house.

That night, in his room, he opened the first kit given to him by Master Zhi Yuan. There was a small folded note in the kit. When he unfolded it, there was a line written on it, "Wood is beautiful in the forest, The wind will destroy it!"

After reading it, Li Hao was silent for a long time, slowly closed the note, and chanted softly several times to completely understand the meaning of Zhiyuan Zhenren. Don't be too sharp to attract the suspicion of those big bosses in the court, just shoot the top bird.

I have to say that Zhiyuan’s exhortations are definitely not superfluous. Li Hao can imagine that he is only 14 years old this year. If he enters the court prematurely, with his own ability, Li Shimin may not have any official positions to seal in a few years. He's gone, when the time comes, hehe, not to mention the jealousy of the courtiers, even Li Shimin probably won't tolerate him, he won't be able to eat hot tofu in a hurry...

Uncovering the lampshade, lighting the note, and burning it until nothing was left, Li Hao secretly decided in his heart: before, he would not enter the court.

The first night at the mansion in Lantian County came so quietly, and then we started to live. Since we want to live, we need money. Although Li Hao has a small family and fifty acres of fertile land, the daily expenses are also It's not small, you can't live a tight life, this Li Hao doesn't accept it, it's fine to live a hard life in the mountains, how can you live a hard life in a big house, this is absolutely not possible!make money!To make money! .

Li Hao had already thought up a plan to make money in his heart. First of all, he must not be able to farm [-] mu of land by himself, and he didn't have the ability. He asked Du Hong to hire ten tenant farmers and rent [-] mu of land to them for planting. Li Hao's way of collecting rent is also different from others. He agreed with those tenant farmers that he would not want any grains of rice and wheat harvested in the field, as long as these tenant farmers help him plant ten acres of corn land. Of course, these corns belong to Li Hao. In fact, it's a bit like asking them to do long-term jobs.

It was the first time for the tenant farmers to encounter such a strange thing. When they heard that there was no need to pay rent for the grain harvested in the field, they were very happy and agreed without hesitation.

There is a reason why Li Hao wants corn, which is related to the second step of his money-making plan, which is to raise chickens.

When he was crossing, he brought more than a dozen eggs, and he bought them from farmers in Yili. When he was in Jingyun Temple, he had hatched a few chicks artificially. Fortunately, one of them was a rooster. Then the chicken lays the egg, and the egg hatches the chicken. Now there are a lot of chickens in Jingyun Temple.

The breed of these chickens is different from that of Datang’s grass chickens. These are all Xinjiang chickens. He can’t tell what the breed is. Anyway, the meat is very delicious. Maybe this is the reason why Xinjiang Dapan chicken is delicious. Maybe these eggs happened after crossing. Variation, these Xinjiang chickens grow very large, and their adult weight is three to four times that of grass chickens, and the maturity period is very short, and they can be ready for slaughter in 45-50 days. Moon started laying eggs, which was amazing.

The amazing thing is that such a short growth cycle did not make the taste of the chicken any worse. On the contrary, the chicken is still very delicate and delicious. Even a picky eater like Li Hao can't find fault with it. It is simply an excellent broiler chicken.

Li Hao plans to raise broiler chickens in large quantities, and the best feed for chickens is corn bran, so he will plant ten acres of corn.

Li Hao asked Du Hong to hire people to build a simple artificial hatchery specially used for incubating eggs. At this time, the thermometer he brought came in handy, but when he first proposed to hatch chickens artificially, everyone They thought he was crazy, and the news spread throughout the village, and Li Hao became the talk of the whole village for a while, but Li Hao didn't have time to talk to them, making money is the big deal, a penny can't beat a hero.

In fact, raising chickens is not his ultimate plan, his last plan is the focus, which is to sell fried chicken wishbones!
Modern people like to eat fried food. Although eating too much of it is not good for your health, KFC’s business is still very good. Li Hao liked to eat it in his previous life. His father is a star chef, and he has been eating food since he was a child. big.

Although he doesn't like to eat KFC, he likes to eat a chicken wishbone near their home. He is very talented as a chef. His tongue is inherited from his father. He is very sensitive and can taste the ingredients in the dishes. He ate the supermarket After praising the chicken wishbone, he slowly researched it and actually found out the secret recipe of marinating chicken wishbone. Now, he is going to use this secret recipe of chicken wishbone to open his own deep-fried chicken fork in Datang In the bone shop, the level of cooking in the Tang Dynasty was very low, and there was a serious lack of food, and there were many rich people in Chang'an. Li Hao firmly believed that his chicken wishbone business would be very hot.

If you want to make chicken wishbones, there is still a lot of preparation work. Raising chickens is only one of the steps. There is also a very important thing, which is to prepare the seasoning. With the current conditions, his seasoning is still missing a few things. Fortunately, the important seasoning He has all the ingredients, so he opened up several vegetable plots in the backyard to grow the seasoning ingredients he brought.

The first batch of chicks hatched successfully, and everyone in the village was stunned. They finally realized that Li Hao was not just a monkey invited by a monkey. Humans can really hatch chicks. A popular figure in the village.

Li Hao asked Jin to take good care of this group of chickens, while he went to the field to check his cornfields every day. He was afraid that those tenant farmers would be lazy and fool around with his cornfields, and they would mess around with errands. However, he found that his worries were a little unnecessary. The people of the Tang Dynasty were very simple and honest, and took good care of his cornfields.

The crops he brought seem to have been more or less mutated when passing through the space-time tunnel. This corn is also mutated. The maturity cycle of these corns is very short, and it only takes 60 days to mature, while normal corns mature. The cycle is generally between 100 days and 130 days, and his corn is resistant to cold, heat, drought and waterlogging. Basically, it can be planted in other seasons except Lajiu, and its vitality is comparable to that of weeds. Not only that, the corn The yield is also high. He has tried planting in Nantuo Mountain. One mu of land can produce 1000 kilograms of corn kernels, which is 2000 catties in his previous life (a catty in the Tang Dynasty was equal to 16 taels). Under the premise, the maximum yield of corn is only 1500 catties, which shows that the mutation of corn with this gene mutation is relatively severe.

However, his corn also has shortcomings, that is, it is not delicious, it tastes bitter, and the corn meat is very old. Even if it is a tender corn cob, it will not be chewable in the mouth if it is boiled for a long time, and the flour from the corn is very coarse. , Even if you cook porridge, it will make your throat sore, hard to swallow, and cannot be used as a daily ration. It is good to feed pigs and chickens. There should be no loss in nutrition. Anyway, those chickens grow very quickly after eating corn bran.

Another 10 days later, Li Hao's chickens grew up and began to lay eggs. The first batch of corn in the field was also harvested. The [-] mu of land produced a full [-] tons of corn, covering the entire granary of Li Hao's family. After a half pile, those tenant farmers were stunned and asked Li Hao what kind of crop it was, which had such a high yield and matured so quickly. Li Hao told them that it was a grain specially used to feed chickens. For food, those tenant farmers didn't believe it, so they asked Li Hao for seeds one after another. Seeing that they didn't believe it, Li Hao specially asked them to take a few catties of corn flour, and then cooked corn paste for them to eat. Several tenant farmers frowned and ate it. It's really loud, it can't be boiled into powder, it's hard to swallow, they finally believed Li Hao's words, and they were extremely disappointed. Now that Tang Dynasty has been governed by Li Shimin for many years, most of the people are no longer starving, Lantian Closer to Chang'an, the life of the farmers here is better, and they can basically eat enough. Since they can eat enough, they naturally lose interest in this extremely rough corn.

Li Hao is now living on money all day long, and he is so worried. There is not much money left. What if he sadly finds that the chain of funds is broken after he raises a large flock of chickens? He simply dare not think about the consequences. At this time, He suddenly wanted to remove Du Hong as a housekeeper again, and it was all because of this guy.

Another month later, the chicken farm was built, and there were already more than 200 chickens in it, and all his cash assets were only 40 pennies.

The plan I had planned in my heart was about to face a difficult delivery due to lack of money. This was really embarrassing. Li Hao couldn't sit still. He decided to go out to look for business opportunities and see if there was any way to earn money as soon as possible. At least let himself get through it first. Let's talk about this difficulty.

(End of this chapter)