After being forced to raise a tyrannical prince, I was stalked insane

Chapter 341 You Don't See the Rabbits and Don't Scatter the Eagles
Luo Qingqing shook her head and stopped thinking about the intricacies.

Anyway, the matter of the Dajing court has nothing to do with her.

She was even more curious about another thing: "Then why did Wei Tao hire people like my fourth brother? Just let them do the work of the nursing home? Or, they don't even need to do the work of the nursing home, just need someone to come out to take care of them?" The number of places..."

"It stands to reason that those people are obviously at a disadvantage when it comes to things like this? Could it be that they don't know about the increase in military pay? Even if they didn't know it at the beginning, wouldn't they know it afterwards? Don't they have any opinions? ?”

Luo Qingqing frowned slightly, and asked a little puzzled.

"Of course not only that, Luo Qiulai..." Li Baiyu glanced at her nervously: "They have other tasks, and every time they complete an order, there will be a generous bonus."

"Kill?" Luo Qingqing's face darkened when he thought of what those people in the forest said.

She didn't know how she would feel if her fourth brother really participated in it...

After all, those people are all traffickers!
Li Baiyu was slightly surprised: "Why did you think of killing people... Although Wei Tao is a businessman, he doesn't do human flesh business."

He said: "It's grain transportation!"

"Food delivery?" Luo Qingqing looked at him puzzled.

Li Baiyu hummed: "That's right... the tens of millions of catties of grain that disappeared from the Anzhou government were all transported out by people like Luo Qiulai."

He slightly pursed his lower lip: "Luo Qiulai is still the little leader of one of the teams."

That's right.

Thinking of what those people in the forest said, Luo Qingqing felt relieved for a while, and brought it up again.

"That's right! Luo Qiulai and these people are responsible for transporting all the food that Wei Tao was greedy for outside the region." Li Baiyu's face darkened: "Sold at high prices to those sea merchants, fan merchants, and even places like the desert and the Tartars. !"

The desert and the Tartars are places where Bian Dajing has been violated all the year round.

Selling to these people is tantamount to collaborating with the enemy!

It would be fine if there is friendly trade between the two places...

However, some of the other party's urgent supplies have been sold to Dajing at a high price, and they have always been able to grab Dajing's output, so they will never pay.

"Wei Tao exchanged a large amount of gold, silver and war horses with greedy food!"

Li Baiyu said coldly: "The Tartars and the desert have always been rich in fine-bred horses, which are used as war horses. It can be said that they are invincible! It's because we don't have good horse breeds, so we have been suffering in this regard..."

Almost every year, the border of Dajing would be plundered by cavalry troops of these foreign enemies, causing heavy losses, but Dajing was almost powerless to fight back against this kind of attack.

As a result, every year I fight every year and lose every year, and every year I lose every year and retreat every year.

"We have been thinking of ways to find suitable breeds of war horses through various channels, and even pay a lot of money to acquire them."

Li Baiyu said: "But the desert and the Tartars are not stupid. Once they know this kind of thing, once it is leaked to us, their innate advantage will no longer exist. When the time comes to face us, the chances of winning will be much less, so even if we Willing to pay a lot of money to buy, they will only send the worst knockout stallions."

"However, the ones eliminated by others are better than our self-produced ones... Even if you know that you are being taken advantage of by buying such things, you have to hold your nose and buy them."

Li Baiyu obviously had more empathy for this matter, and the look of anger on his face was very obvious.

It is a rare emotional leak: "But no matter how many good horses we buy, after breeding with local horse breeds, most of the offspring produced are useless."

His eyes were gloomy: "If you can pick out one or two horses out of a hundred horses, that's a pretty good ratio."

Luo Qingqing raised her eyebrows slightly.

"If I remember correctly, there is a place in Anzhou Prefecture, which is rich in fine horses." She said.

She remembered that such a place was mentioned in Anzhou Fuzhi.

And because that place is rich in horses, that place is called the town of horses.

According to the government records, the yards produced in this place can not only travel thousands of miles a day, but also have excellent endurance and a long lifespan.

However, Luo Qingqing had never seen the details.

Li Baiyu shook his head: "You should be talking about Qianlima Town... The horses produced in this place are indeed among the best in the Dajing area. But this alone is not enough to fight on the battlefield ..."

As he spoke, he couldn't help sighing: "This kind of horse has very good stamina, but if you charge into battle, patience alone is not enough to deal with it."

"Others' war horses are fighting in the front, but ours can only stay where they are. Isn't it just passive and beaten?"

Li Baiyu lamented: "At the beginning, we didn't think about using this kind of war horse, but the loss was very heavy. Because of this incident, many generals were confiscated and exiled, and even sentenced to death. .”

"Even later, the various good horses purchased by Dajing with a lot of money were used to breed with the horses in Qianlima Town first."

He shook his head: "It's a pity that this kind of horse is used, and the pony produced is not as good as the horses in other places, which are slightly worse..."

Because of this incident, Qianlima Town has also received a lot of infamy, and now it is almost gone.

If Luo Qingqing hadn't read the Fu Zhi, she probably wouldn't have known about such a place now.

"Is there a possibility that it's not that this kind of horse is not suitable for the battlefield, but that there is a problem with your training methods. It's also not that this kind of horse, after breeding with the so-called thoroughbred bloodline you bought with a lot of money, caused The more you match the genes, the worse it is... It's because of your breeding methods that you can't produce high-quality horses."

Luo Qingqing said with a serious expression.

Li Baiyu was startled when he heard the words: "What kind of statement is this?"

He said: "The ones responsible for the guidance are all Dajing officials who are best at selecting good horses..."

"Why did the Anzhou government fall into the current situation?" Luo Qingqing sneered: "Is it because I listened to the blind guidance of the so-called agricultural officials."

She snorted: "I'm actually quite curious. How do you choose these officials in charge of special projects, and what is the criterion for judging them?"

"Do the people who give advice on farming really know how to farm the land? Does every regulation that is formulated really take into account local conditions? Do they have any experience in participating in it? Have the people who give advice on horse breeding really raised horses? ? Have you had enough breeding experience?"

Luo Qingqing's words directly stunned Li Baiyu.

"Let me say something that I shouldn't have said..." Luo Qingqing glanced at him: "When you were making preparations, and when you decided to conduct the experiment, did you find anyone with relevant experience? And did you ask them about it? question, use this as a reference?"

Li Baiyu shook his head: "I don't know..."

He was about to say no.

Think about it or not speak conclusively.

Luo Qingqing smiled and didn't continue the topic: "You can continue talking. Selling horses to buy horses, breeding good horses, etc. are none of our business."

"Yes……"

Li Baiyu swallowed his saliva, but he was always thinking about what Luo Qingqing just said...

Could it be that besides growing vegetables, she also breeds horses.

It seems that the chickens and ducks she raised lay a lot of eggs?There are also many double yolk eggs...

The words that he wanted to continue talking at first reached his mouth, but he swallowed them back suddenly.

He couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he couldn't help asking: "Do you have any tricks for raising horses? I see that the chickens raised in your family are very different from other people's...the output is very high , the quality is also very good, do you have any related tips for raising these chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, horses and sheep, just like you grow vegetables, obviously everyone grows the same vegetables and uses the same varieties , but what you plant in your hands will be much better than other people's. This cycle goes on from generation to generation, and the seeds left in your family are far superior to many other people's seeds."

Luo Qingqing hummed, and didn't deny it, but she didn't admit it either: "I've never raised a horse before, but many things are indeed easy to understand. Or, what do you want to raise, especially this kind of living horse? Things, if you want to raise them well, you have to understand them, and only when you understand them thoroughly can you raise them well.”

She said lightly: "To give a simple example, if a thing likes the shade, you can't expose it to the sun. If it likes to be exposed to the sun, you can't always put it in the shade to let him see it." No sun. Raising other things is similar. As for more details, such as raising chickens and ducks, if you want their egg yolks to be darker, you have to feed them food that will increase the color. You want them to lay eggs. For those with double yolks, we need to understand the circumstances under which they produce double yolk eggs, and then create such an environment for them.”

Li Baiyu was enlightened for a moment, and stood up excitedly.

"That's why I asked you if you have asked relevant experienced people. These people may not understand the key points, but after a long time, they will naturally find out certain rules."

Luo Qingqing said: "In order to sell their own things at a better price, they will naturally follow this rule to cultivate better ones."

"I see!"

Li Baiyu excitedly said: "It turns out that we went in the wrong direction at the beginning..."

So no matter how much you persist, if you go in the wrong direction, you will always be wrong.

Luo Qingqing hummed: "It can't be said that it's wrong, some things may be right when they say it, but it will be much worse after it is actually implemented..."

"If I had met you sooner, maybe we would have been able to breed better horse breeds, and we wouldn't have to do this every year. It doesn't count if we spent a lot of money on them, and we would waste a lot of our own manpower and material resources... In the end Still nothing worked."

Li Baiyu sighed and regretted.

Among the people who were implicated in the Liangma case back then, some of them had good friendships with him. In the past, they often drank together.

now……

Things have changed.

After feeling a little emotional in his heart, he talked about Wei Tao again: "In order to cultivate cavalry capable of fighting against the desert and the Tartars, Dajing has been using a lot of money to buy horse breeds, and this Wei Tao earned that much. The money..."

Luo Qingqing looked at him with raised eyebrows.

Li Baiyu explained: "He used greedy grains to exchange for good horses from the desert and the Tartars, which are much better horses than the good horses we bought with a lot of money."

His face darkened slightly: "Although it is still not as good as the ones used by Da Mo and the Tartars themselves, it is much better than the ones that have been eliminated by them, but come to give me our inferior horses!"

"Wei Tao picked out one or two of the best horses and presented them to the capital. In the name of buying high-quality horses, he asked the court to allocate funds..."

Every year, most of Dajing's large expenditures on buying horses end up in Wei Tao's pocket.

Li Baiyu said: "With the good horses provided by Wei Tao, everyone in the court felt hopeful, especially the people on the border, but gradually, bad news came out frequently from the horse breeding place, and people turned from expectations to disappointment. , gradually became numb..."

Even the people on the border no longer trust the imperial court.

"The Holy Majesty was furious at Long Yan for this, and severely punished several people who were in charge of breeding horses. Now, no one is willing to stop this work, so we can only increase the number of horses purchased from Damo and Tartar. It will cost more money.”

Li Baiyu sighed, his face full of helplessness.

Luo Qingqing was not very interested in these.

As she listened, she couldn't help but become careless.

"Originally, the Holy Majesty issued a strict order to breed high-quality horses within a time limit of one year, otherwise the whole family will be exiled. In the court, seven or eight officials in charge of this matter have been exiled... But if they can't be bred, they just can't be bred!"

Li Baiyu sighed: "Later, I had to recruit people who are good at breeding horses from the people. As a result, some people dared to try it at first. Of course, under the strict order, even those who didn't want to try had no choice. Rewards come to seduce, and the result is..."

When Luo Qingqing heard the word "reward", she immediately regained her spirits.

"Now even if there is a reward of ten thousand taels of gold, no one dares to try it." Li Baiyu lamented: "Those who tried at the beginning failed. Naturally, the end is very tragic, so that even if there is a huge reward now, it is impossible It’s not worth it that everyone has self-knowledge.”

"Is there still room for improvement with this reward?" Luo Qingqing looked at the person with slightly bright eyes.

Li Baiyu was slightly stunned: "There are already a lot of gold ten thousand taels..."

"Oh~"

Luo Qingqing's passion suddenly faded.

"Do you have a way?" Li Baiyu was excited all of a sudden, and played the emotional card: "If you have a way, I can send someone back eight hundred miles to discuss the matter of increasing the reward! You don't know how much money we have to spend every year because of this matter, and the wasted money just runs out like running water... It's all the hard-earned money of the common people. I thought it was for better protection Common people, who would have thought that after so many years, more and more money has been spent, but things have not been done at all."

That's none of her business.

Luo Qingqing said in her heart: I am not from Dajing.

Her sense of belonging here is weak.

The original owner's sense of belonging to this place is even weaker...

Not to mention, there is still a long distance from the border here.

However, there are no eggs under the overturned nest, if it can improve Dajing's national strength as a whole, it will not be harmful to her.

After weighing it, she said, "I can try, but there are a few conditions."

"What conditions?" Li Baiyu became a little nervous.

According to their investigation, Luo Qingqing was very good at talking loudly.

He was sitting on a small bench, with his hands slightly cramped on his knees, and he loosened his grip.

"If it fails, I and my family cannot be blamed."

Luo Qingqing said: "If my fourth brother's matter...don't implicate me and my family."

Li Baiyu was slightly startled, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, even if you don't tell me, I will fight for it."

Luo Qingqing shook her head: "I want a 100% promise."

"Okay." Li Baiyu gritted his teeth and agreed.

Luo Qingqing hummed, and then said: "I want an additional [-] mu of land purchase quota from the Anzhou government!"

"Tax free for five years."

She originally wanted to say ten years, but she swallowed it when the words came to her lips.

It's better to take time to figure out things like tax exemption. It's not good to talk too much at once and make the emperor feel rebellious.

"Isn't five years too much?" Li Baiyu asked.

Luo Qingqing seemed easy to talk: "Then three years... No, you tell the Holy Majesty that you hope to be tax-free for three to five years!"

With comparison, it is better to make a choice!

"This is fine." Li Baiyu nodded.

What he thought was that he wanted to be exempted from taxes... that's also inevitable, so it doesn't matter for a few years.

As for the quota for land purchase, it is very easy to handle.

"Then I can try it when the reward is awarded." Luo Qingqing didn't say anything to death.

While Li Baiyu breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help joking: "You really don't see the rabbits and don't throw the eagles!"

"Of course, otherwise, what should I do if I waste my feelings for nothing." Luo Qingqing said indifferently.

Luo Qingqing talked to Li Baiyu for a long time, her expression was tired, and she was a little sick and lack of energy. Li Baiyu was afraid that she would hurt her "fetal gas", so she didn't dare to quarrel with others to continue talking.

Anyway, it's still a long time, not to mention that today is not nothing.

There are a lot of things to verify and send a letter to the capital...

Li Baiyu simply said: "You should take a rest first? Would you like me to make you a glass of iced drink? You can cool off."

"No more." Luo Qingqing shook her head. Although she really wanted to drink it, her rationality helped her refuse it: "Drinking too much will make your stomach hurt."

"stomachache?!"

Li Baiyu stood up in a flash of shock, and hurriedly stepped forward: "What's going on? Is it serious? Is it still hurting now? Do you want to call a doctor..."

He blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.Is the child all right?Will it hurt...

Luo Qingqing waved her hand and interrupted Li Baiyu's babbling voice: "Why are you reciting the magic spell like Tang Seng? No one in our village can babble like you... I just said that it is possible, if you drink too much cold water , easily irritate the stomach and cause discomfort, it is possible! It is possible! It has not happened yet!"

She glared at him: "However, from the perspective of health preservation, drinking too many cold drinks is really easy to irritate the stomach, especially now when the heat is severe."

Li Baiyu hastily said "oh oh" a few times, reminding himself in his heart, write this matter down in a small notebook, and be sure to focus on it: don't drink cold, it's not good for the stomach, it's not good for the stomach, it's not good for the fetus Okay, if the fetus is not good, the adults will be the first to suffer...

Luo Qingqing didn't know the twists and turns in this person's heart, but she thought of drinking cold drinks, and reminded her specially: "You can always keep some cold drinks in the village for everyone to cool off, without mulberry ice drinks, mung bean smoothies are also fine. Bean paste milk is also good, but you must remember not to be too greedy, so as not to hurt your body."

Li Baiyu hummed.

I'm still thinking about the baby...

When he got out of Luo Qingqing's room, he went to Cheng Yue immediately, and told people about the fact that pregnant women should not drink cold water: "...we must take strict precautions, and we must not allow the Lord to drink any drop of cold water anymore. Otherwise, it would be a small matter to hurt the fetus in the womb, but it would be a big problem if it hurt the mother's body!"

"You're right!" It was rare for Cheng Yue not to choke with Li Baiyu.

The two instantly united the front.

(End of this chapter)