Wind rises time and space gate

Chapter 431 Can’t be cheap anymore

The capital city of Daqi is beautiful and prosperous, and there is an endless stream of cars and horses lining up to enter the city every day. The motorcades coming from the state are hidden among them and are inconspicuous.

Lin Zhaoxia, who received the letter, sent a steward to the city gate early to pick him up.

Yan Gui was taken to a house in the capital. The heat in the room made him feel comfortable, "We're finally here." He hurriedly walked slowly along the way, and the weather got colder as we went north. Even if he was nestled in the carriage, the breath he exhaled , all with a layer of cold air.

"It's been a hard journey, Manager Yan. The princess asked you to have a good rest today and come back to the mansion early tomorrow morning to report the matter."

"Okay, steward, I would like to thank the princess for her troublesome arrangements."

The steward nodded, told the entourage to settle down, and ordered a table for them from Huixian Tower, and then returned to the palace to report to Lin Zhaoxia.

In the evening, Zhao Guangyuan came back from outside. He shook off the snow particles on his body outside the house, and then went inside after getting rid of the cold air.

Lin Zhaoxia lifted the thick curtain and welcomed him in. When she lowered the curtain, Zhao Guangyuan hugged her and swept her to the table, "Are you going to eat pot today?"

Lin Zhaoxia pushed him to wash up and then took him to the dining table, "It's getting colder and colder. No matter how close the small kitchen is, the food loses its heat when it is brought over. I don't know when you will come back. The food will be quite delicious." Take it and heat it.”

These days they mostly eat hot pots.

Zhao Guangyuan nodded. He had no appetite and was not picky about food. He would always eat whatever Lin Zhaoxia arranged for him.

The two of them sat down, not wanting anyone to wait on them. Lin Zhaoxia scooped up half a bowl of hot soup for him and let him drink it first to warm his stomach, then put down the slices of meat and scalded the vegetables, "Why are you back late today?"

I can't go to pick up my eldest son, so it seems I can only go over there and stay with him at night.

"It was cold, and I was worried that there would be a problem with the winter wheat over there in Huangzhuang, so I went to Huangzhuang. I took a look at the greenhouse over there."

Huixianlou serves hot pot and sells the juicy vegetables every day. Many people stare at it with green eyes and beg to come.

It can't be sold, because the vegetables grown on his farm are not enough for the Immortal Tower to consume. But Zhao Guangyuan didn't want to offend anyone. After his good father Huang repeatedly hinted, he led people to build a vegetable greenhouse in Huangzhuang.

In order for the palace to eat fresh vegetables in winter, the Imperial Palace also has a greenhouse, but the cost is extremely high, it requires a lot of manpower, and there are not many varieties of vegetables, and the daily output is not enough to feed the empresses of the palace.

Zhao Guangyuan took the people from the Agriculture Department to build two vegetable greenhouses in Huangzhuang. They used large pieces of glass and did not stop people from learning.

So this wave of glass sales has led to a lot more sales, and now almost every household has to buy a rotating glass tabletop. The glass workshop earns many times more than Huixianlou.

The two of them ate the pot lively and chatted about what they had done that day.

There is no such thing as eating and sleeping. Zhao Guangyuan just likes to chat with Lin Zhaoxia about what he has done that day at the dinner table.

I am willing to share all the joys, sorrows and joys of the day with her.

Sometimes he couldn't say a word in front of others when he was outside, but when he got home, he was willing to report the day's whereabouts to her. Only when he talked to her about these things in front of her did he feel that life was interesting. .

"I told him that in addition to supplying the palace with the vegetables produced in the greenhouse, I want to sell the excess."

"Can the Emperor agree?"

"You have to agree if you don't agree. It's winter, so he can't enslave me in vain. Moreover, I told him that the officials of the Agriculture Department are poor and usually don't have much money to make. They are all his ministers. They can't watch waterlogging until they die of waterlogging. Drought. Death from drought."

Now that he is working as an errand in the Agriculture Department, he cannot let them live much worse than others. "The money earned from selling the vegetables will be divided among them."

Winter vegetables are expensive, and now a pound of green vegetables costs one or two taels of silver, so they are still unavailable. Even if they have to supply most of the palace, Si Nongsi will still be left behind a lot.

Lin Zhaoxia smiled and nodded. Regardless of whether he was trying to win over or show favors, or he just couldn't bear to see the hard life of the officials in the Si Nong Division. Anyway, everyone in the Si Nong Division, from Mr. Yao to the handyman, was treating him badly. Just obey.

I blanched a few thin slices of venison for him. When I saw him dipping it in the dipping sauce and putting it into his mouth, I scolded him, "You don't mind it too hot."

His subordinates kept burning a few more slices for him, "Although we don't have beef in Daqi, we can often eat venison."

And those wild game, where can you eat them in modern times?

Lin Zhaoxia ate a few chopsticks and then talked about the Yanzhou workshop manager coming to Beijing today...

"I've had people take a look, and I've brought over ten carts of dried vegetables, pickles, and kimchi of over ten varieties. After all, in half a month, a second convoy will be arranged to enter Beijing."

"Well, then I'll meet him at the house tomorrow."

I tasted the various kimchi and pickles on the table, as well as the various dried vegetables soaked in the copper pot. After soaking, they looked just like fresh vegetables, and I was satisfied.

When the disaster hit Lizhou in Yanzhou, most of the people abandoned their fields and homes and left their homes to escape famine. When they came back, it was difficult to eat and there was no food to grow. Even if there was food, it was too late.

Zhao Guangyuan asked people to sign many land use contracts with local people. It was no longer possible to grow food for another season in the land, so he asked them to grow various vegetables, promised to buy them all, and opened a local workshop.

Giving the people along the state a chance to survive has won numerous praises.

Nowadays, all kinds of dehydrated dried vegetables made in the workshop, as well as various pickled pickles and pickles are also shipped here.

"There are more than a dozen cars delivered in this batch. I'm afraid Huixianlou won't be able to use many of them. Where do you want to sell them?"

"Take half of it to the grocery store in Bei City. Many merchants from other places like to visit there, and let them buy it and sell it wherever they want. The remaining half is for Huixianlou to eat, and the other half is sold in Huixianlou."

At the beginning, he asked people to rent fields to grow vegetables in Yanzhou. Many people in the capital knew about it. Some praised him for relieving the people from water and fire, while others poured cold water on him, saying that his simple idea would lead to too many vegetables being sold, and he would not be able to solve the problem for the people of Yanzhou. The problem of food shortage.

But now there is a bumper harvest in the vegetable fields over there. In the middle of winter, when the people in the capital are short of vegetables, they bring them over and sell them at a high price. The people get money from selling the vegetables, but are they still worried about not being able to buy food?
The next day, Zhao Guangyuan and Lin Zhaoxia met the manager Yan Guiyan who braved the winter snow to come to Beijing.

Yan Gui did not expect that he would be received by the King of Yue and his concubine, and he was very excited.

"Everything is good there. The workshops are large and many locals are employed. The vegetables in the fields are also sold at a good price. People who plant little can still get three to five taels of silver. It is not a problem to survive the winter."

Thinking back to the time when he leased the land, many people were worried that they were trying to take over their land as a ploy, and they refused to rent the land to them. When they saw that many of the neighbors around them were getting money for selling vegetables, they were so regretful that their intestines turned green.

“At that time, many people got wind of the news and imitated us, renting fields and planting vegetables, but they didn’t have our method of making dried vegetables, nor did they have the method of making kimchi and pickles. In the end, those people sold those vegetables to us."

At that time, they rented a lot of fields in the local area, and they harvested most of the vegetables. The prince also sent an official letter to the county offices in Lizhou, Yanzhou, in the name of the Agriculture Secretary, asking the government to encourage the people to grow vegetables. Most of the vegetables grown by the people were It was also sold to their workshop, which was another sum.

As long as the prince can sell these goods, he can make a lot of money.

Zhao Guangyuan let Lin Zhaoxia ask him, while he flipped through his account book. How much did he spend?

Then this dish cannot be sold cheaply.