A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 341 Sheep, Sheep and Sheep

Cheng Chumo can really eat now.

And there is no meat.

Get up at five o'clock in the morning, go out with Huaiyu to race horses and practice arrows, drink morning tea after returning, and add a bowl of chicken soup to a bowl of beef soup.Around seven o'clock, I was hungry, four cages of steamed stuffed buns, and a big bowl of shredded chicken noodles.

It was only ten o'clock, and he started to drink deer soup again. At eleven o'clock, his maidservant brought him another cup of ginseng soup. At twelve o'clock, he had to eat meat for dinner.

Wu Huaiyu couldn't stand it anymore.

"Where did you learn the diet method?"

His amount is more than ten ordinary people. The key is that the combination is unreasonable. This guy not only likes to eat meat, but also likes to make up for himself.

When I was young, I had beef soup and chicken soup early in the morning, and I also drank deer soup and ginseng soup in the morning. I like to eat roast goose for dinner. Seam, or come to a plate of eggs to make a bottom.

No wonder this figure has gained weight several times after not seeing him for more than half a year. This guy seems to be flushed now, but something is obviously not right.

Cheng Chumo patted his thick waist and said proudly, "This is the appearance of a great general, you must wear a waist."

"Aren't you insane? A general is a general based on his military exploits, not his bulk. Although your father is also thick, he didn't eat like this with you. You are young, and as a general , it is right to eat more meat appropriately, but you can’t make up for it randomly, do you know that it will hurt your body if you make up too much.”

"I feel pretty good, I'm very strong now." Cheng Chumo said proudly.

"stop."

"You really think this is a good thing. Your current condition is that your body is already rushing with qi and blood in your meridians, and you have nowhere to vent when you replenish too much. So you are very excited all day long, but you don't know that this is a very dangerous signal."

"impossible."

Cheng Chumo was dubious.

"Let me ask you, don't you often feel toothache and constipation recently?"

"how do you know?"

"You eat a lot of meat and supplements. Naturally, your internal fire will not vent, and the accumulation of medicinal power will gradually induce various diseases and hidden poisons in your body. You are still young, and your body still has some foundations. Listen to me and don't make up for it. I Give you a rest."

"You stopped ginseng and deer fur soup, and all kinds of tonic pills, don't take them in the future, it's three-point poison,"

"In the future, you will have three meals in the morning, noon and evening, and snacks in the morning, afternoon and evening,"

Wu Huaiyu helped him re-plan his diet. Breakfast and lunch are mainly mutton and beef, but they are mainly stewed or boiled, with some rice or pasta.

As for snacks, eat boiled chicken, or cold vegetables, gluten, etc., eat boiled eggs, not egg yolks.

"Eat more vegetables, less oil and salt."

Although Huaiyu's list is still far beyond ordinary people, but Cheng Chumo's body is indeed consumed a lot now.

Cheng Chumo originally wanted to show off to Huaiyu that he is now a standard general figure, and wanted to laugh at Huaiyu for being so 'slim' until now, but he was very frightened by Huaiyu's words.

He remembered that Wu Huaiyu still had the skill of medicine to rejuvenate.

"Well, my side won't be really hurt, will it affect it in the future?"

"For the past three months, it's best to abstain from sex and let it recover properly,"

Cheng Chumo was startled.

For dinner, Huaiyu prepared mutton noodles, but he only ate noodles instead of mutton.

"Eat it with confidence, this is not beyond the standard."

"This diet is very healthy when paired with exercise."

Cheng Chu became a little depressed silently.

On the one hand, I always feel that my stomach is not full, on the other hand, I stopped the ginseng, deer patch and Budan today, and I feel that there is something missing, but Huaiyu said that I am a little scared and dare not eat it.

"Don't eat meat, can you drink some wine?"

"A glass or two of ale is all right."

"That's it."

"Let me tell you something, I met Li Sanniang earlier, and she really became a Taoist nun in Nanshan. You said, you boy, why did you seduce him so much that you were so ruthless?"

"Do you think I can't say no?"

When Cheng Chumo talked about this kind of lace, he regained his spirits, "Li Sanniang is dressed as a Taoist nun, but she doesn't have a dusty taste."

"Let me tell you, about this matter, I think your master knows that Li Sanniang can't change his mind, so he just let her go, saying that he is a monk and a Taoist nun, but the status of a Taoist nun is actually quite good. From then on, I am no longer a secular person, and I am not bound by those secular rules.
Next time you go back to Chang'an, if she comes to see you again, the Li family probably won't bother."

Huaiyu wondered, "What do you say?"

"A Taoist nun is no better than a nun. A Taoist nun like Li Sanniang just finds a Taoist temple, pays a sum of money, and then gets an identity and puts on a Taoist robe. Nothing else changes.
But she became a monk again, so she is no longer the daughter of the Li family. Do you know what this means?This means that she jumped out of the five elements, just like those widows from famous families, and she can't be controlled. "

"Just like your father and Widow Cui?"

Cheng Chu smiled silently, which was the default.

Wu Huaiyu just snorted, "Don't make random guesses about others."

"Aren't you tempted? I know you were concerned about Li Sanniang's identity before. You can't divorce your wife and marry another, and she can't be your concubine. But now you don't need to get married to be together."

"Stop it, don't talk about it, I have no intention of it, this is bad enough, I don't want to make things worse, Mr. Yongkang is my teacher,"

Cheng Chumo looked at Huaiyu for a long time, confirmed that he seemed to be telling the truth, and couldn't help admiring, "If someone else had such an opportunity, how could I miss it?"

"Do you know the eldest son of the Chai Shao family? That guy saw that Li Sanniang had returned to Chang'an, but he didn't want to be ashamed. He went to Pingkangfang to visit the Li family every day. Even if the Li family disappeared later, he would go there every day. He gave them all kinds of gifts. He also asked matchmakers to propose marriage again and again, and even asked His Majesty for a marriage,
But Li Sanniang didn't care about it at all, and finally went to Zhongnan Mountain to become a monk and became a Taoist nun.

In fact, I think it was obviously Li Jing and his wife who let her leave Li's house, and they probably didn't want her to marry that guy Chai Zhewei. "

"Chai Zhewei later ran to Zhongnan Mountain, but it was said that he came back with a bad nose anyway, but it is said that this kid really hates you."

"None of my business."

"You stole someone's love. Besides, your majesty planned to attack Liang earlier, and it was the governors and governors of all the major governors. The whole plan was for you to wear down the beam first, and Chai Shao was to take the lead to destroy the beam in the final blow.

But you tired Liang became Mie Liang, especially you Wu Huaiyu was originally the queen of the palace, but ended up destroying Liang alone in the end, didn’t you take the credit of Chai Shao? , and is still a guard of a thousand bulls, can you not be jealous or jealous? "

"There's also the Qiu family. The Qiu family is injured this time, but they also hate you, especially Qiu Shengong. I heard that they wrote your name on the target and shoot you every day."

Wu Huaiyu disagreed, "Honghu doesn't associate with sparrows, so I don't bother to care about them."

Cheng Chumo gave a thumbs up, "It's well-structured, it's worthy of being a duke of the state, it's worthy of my study," he said, looking at Huaiyu's manor, "I heard that you have acquired [-] mu of land in Saishang? "

"Well, the land here is sparsely populated, and the land is worthless, but there is a shortage of people."

"That's just right. What my Cheng family lacks most now is people. I plan to buy three to five hundred hectares of land as well,"

"Now there are still a lot of land in Lingwu and Shuofang, plus Yanfu and Qingfu. It's not difficult for you to buy land." Wu Huaiyu also supports Chu Mo's farming, as long as it doesn't violate the rules.

"Uncle Cheng has made so much contribution in Luzhou this time, and it seems that he has benefited a lot." Huaiyu laughed.

Cheng Chumo didn't hide it from him, they were all his brothers or relatives.On the part of the governor, he also commanded the troops to suppress the rebellion. This is the most lucrative opportunity. There is no need to talk about violations and crimes. If you operate casually, you can get a lot of benefits in a reasonable and legal way.

It's like talking about captives, who were not slaves to officials, and then sold.

Or the members of the Cheng family were engaged in military caravans, and they ate the best quality at a low price first, and then resold them to make a lot of money.

The biggest feature of aristocratic bureaucratic capital is not how innovative they are, but their monopoly and comprador nature.

Old Cheng is the governor and the war zone manager. With just a word and a note, the Cheng family can make a lot of money in the supply of military supplies, or in the purchase of trophies, slaves, and livestock.

Lao Cheng doesn't need to fight on his own now, he let the [-] people from Jilong Prefecture he conquered to fight the dissatisfaction, he reaps the rewards, and now spends more time building roads and widening the road leading to Nanning (Yunnan) road, this road not only has the significance of strategic military deterrence.

It is a golden trade route.

The Cheng family organized commercial goods from the interior of Guanzhong, transported them to Xichuan, Nanning and other places, and exchanged them for native products from those local barbarians. The profits were extremely high and they made a lot of money.

"Actually, the division of the Cui family and the Zheng family has gained a lot of benefits." Cheng Chumo said truthfully.

Although the Cheng family is also a local powerful, but in terms of background, it is not as good as the five surnames and seven families. The old Cheng was the governor of Luzhou, and the Cui and Zheng families also got on the boat. Zheng's people and goods,

The three families are followed by many in-laws and friends as vassals. Anyway, in the southwest, it is like stealing money.

"Erlang, you shouldn't be idle here, right?"

"I'm not as capable as your father. Besides, although Shuofang is destroyed, there are Turkic people in the north. We have to be careful. If we are not careful, the situation will collapse."

Wu Huaiyu's main focus now is to maintain stability. As for making money, of course he has to make money, buying land to farm, opening saltworks, and mining and trading.

It has been slowly advancing, but it is certainly not as bold as Cheng Yaojin and the others in Luzhou.

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On the Shuofang Silk Road, caravans of camels came and went on the road one after another.

Wu Huaiyu and Cheng Chumo led a group of officials and stood by the Wuding River to watch the camel horse caravan.

"So many live sheep?"

"Well, these sheep are one of the border market agreements that our Xiazhou Governor's Mansion has just reached with Yu Sheshe. They will be driven from Hetao along the Yellow River to Yulin in Shengzhou, and then along the Great Wall to Yinzhou."

This route is just on the important branch line of the northern main line of the third line of the Silk Road.

This route was first developed in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it was called Tongguanyi Road.

Now Wu Huaiyu is also using the Turkic Yu Sheshe Ashina Momo who is occupying Dongtao to be at odds with Jie Li Dahan. It is just that Turkic is having a hard time this year, so he used the relationship he had with Yu Sheshe when he was in Yanzhou before, to get along with him. Several big orders were negotiated.

Live sheep were transported from Hetao to Shuofang before snowfall, and frozen sheep were slaughtered after snowfall.

These live sheep are generally called hot sheep by the Turkic people.

At this time in autumn, there is still grass to eat along the way, and it is still more convenient to drive the sheep to Yinzhou, and the loss is not big.

Yinzhou is an important midpoint that Wu Huaiyu wants to build. Go north to Hetao via Yinsheng, or Turkic Yinshan Khan Court, and go west to Lingzhou and Lanzhou to Hexi via Xiayan.To the south, it arrived at Chang'an via Yanfufang and Tongguan.

At the confluence of the Yulin River and the Wuding River is Rulin, the city of Yinzhou within the Great Wall, and Huaiyu established a new border city, Yulin City, at the north point of this point.

Now the biggest trade in Yulin City is sheep, live sheep.

Some Han merchants went directly to Hetao to sell sheep, and some Turkic people directly drove sheep to trade, which was very prosperous.

"We in Chang'an have the habit of eating mutton after autumn. Every year after autumn, the demand for mutton in Chang'an will increase greatly. Generally, sheep are used for sacrifices during the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the usual times, Chang'an will consume hundreds of thousands of sheep during the Mid-Autumn Festival. gone."

"To eat so many sheep?" Cheng Chumo was surprised.

"The Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival. Sacrifice and rewards are in great demand. Do you know that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Fanshang Suwei in the capital, and how many officials are added?

For example, in your family, there are three people with titles. According to the rules, there are sheep rewards every month, and there are extra sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival.Your Cheng family has a big business, and you have to buy a lot of sheep, right? "

"That's right."

"In the Mid-Autumn Festival, even ordinary people in Chang'an City will find a way to get two catties of mutton to pay for their families, not to mention that there are so many merchants and scholars in Chang'an."

The demand for mutton in Chang'an is huge, and the supply in the Guanzhong is insufficient. The situation this year is obviously better than last year. Although Shandong is drought, at least Guanzhong is recovering this year.

Their Xiazhou Governor's Mansion is next to the Turks, so they must make a fortune from this resource.

In fact, since July, businessmen have been selling sheep from the grassland to Guanzhong.

Wu Huaiyu just integrated resources, scaled up the business, cleared checkpoints along the way to ensure a smooth journey, and established Yangyangtong.

When Turkic sheep enter the territory of the Xiazhou Dudufu, they need to register, and then issue a sheep pass, so that they can go all the way. The government offices in various places, and even local tyrants are not allowed to collect money at various levels. The Xiazhou Dudufu sent Specialized goat light cavalry patrols.

In addition, sheep villages are also being established along the way to provide convenience for these sheep dealers.

Finally, let these sheep gather in Yulin, Yinzhou, where they can be directly traded to buyers from Guanzhong, or they can continue to drive to Guanzhong after a rest.

"These merchants are very powerful. Two workers and sheep workers drive five hundred sheep into a flock. Ten flocks of sheep collectively form a house. When they start walking, each flock starts one after another. The distance between the whole flock is twenty or thirty li. When the sheep of the flock fall behind, the ones behind gather together."

Cheng Chumo didn't know that there were so many details in selling sheep, "Are you making money?"

"If I don't make money, would I be so motivating?" Huaiyu pointed to Yulin City in front of him, which has now become the largest sheep trading market in northern Shaanxi, and relying on such a large sheep flow, Wu Huaiyu is still planning the sheepskin and wool processing workshop area , and have even prepared a slaughtering workshop, a frozen sheep processing workshop, and even plans to make sheep belly wrapped meat for the coming winter, so that in winter, there is no need to worry about the live sheep being sold on the road, and the sheep meat can continue to be transported to Guanzhong.

Even because of the large flow of sheep in this market, many Beijing sheep buyers now come here to buy sheep, and many sheep traders who used to sell sheep from outside the Great Wall to the south are more focused on selling sheep from the grasslands to trade here, so as not to continue to go south this ride.

Wu Huaiyu's main business is the platform. When the platform is up, it is impossible to just buy and sell sheep. It will definitely drive the sale of cattle, horses, camels, and even furs, as well as medicinal materials, plus the sale of Chinese pots, bowls, pans, boots, cloth, salt and tea. These.

"Then I didn't take advantage of it. As soon as I took office, I took such a big advantage from Yulin Border City?"

Huaiyu smiled, "The table has been set up for you, and it's getting up now, but you still have to work hard in the future."

Sheep are not worth much in Turkic, but when transported to Yinzhou, their value has doubled, and if they can be successfully transported to Chang'an, they still have fat, so they are very valuable.

People in the Tang Dynasty regard mutton as the most precious meat, ranging from royal nobles to merchants and ordinary people, all regard mutton as the most precious meat.Even if the poor cannot afford mutton, they can still buy mutton offal and mutton bones.

There are more than 50 kinds of sheep-related snacks in Chang’an, which are simply a black hole for sheep, and there is not enough to eat. Often due to insufficient supply of sheep, the price of Chang’an sheep is extremely expensive, but the supply is still in short supply.

(End of this chapter)