delicious little cook

Chapter 957 After talking about business, let’s talk about personal issues
The angel found Bai Kou directly at the workshop, waited for her to arrange the business, and took her quickly into the palace and led her to the imperial study.

Bai Kou kowtowed to the ground and shouted "Long Live", and stood up after being allowed to stand upright, standing upright with his arms folded.

"Your Majesty summoned the daughter of the people, what orders do you have?"

The saint shook Gu Yun's joint booklet, and threw it back on the table.

"Can you explain? You dare to bring your idea to Guanzhuang. The idea of ​​leasing the forest to grow fungi is a good idea. Tell me how you came up with this idea?"

"Hundreds of millions of years ago, our ancestors domesticated wild animals into domestic animals in order to have stable meat to eat. Now we grow our own fungi. This is the idea. There are few safe and non-toxic edible fungi scattered all over the country. It is said that there are thousands of varieties. Except for those expensive and rare products, you can try to grow one of the fungi that the general public often eats. As long as the output of artificial cultivation increases, it will replace the common wild fungi in the vegetable market. In the future, you will accidentally eat poisonous fungi There will be fewer illnesses and deaths. What do you think, Your Majesty?"

"Balidu is such a large forest, and you only grow a few common varieties?"

"Different fungi have different growth conditions. We have to spend several years in the mountains and forests to find live fungi and collect spores to cultivate the fungi. It is more economical to start with the most common species, and slowly accumulate experience before we can make the idea of ​​high-end products. For example, tremella, which is a sacred object for women’s beauty, is super expensive. A box of four or five flowers is priced at 50 taels of silver, and the average price is ten taels of silver. We have solved the problem of artificial planting, Your Majesty, I will sell you a sack for 80 taels, okay?"

The saint's shoulders shook suddenly, and he was happy, "Okay!"

"So, you agree to our lease of the forest?"

"I didn't agree, you don't want to climb the pole so quickly. To put it lightly, 50 taels for a sack? How big is the sack?"

"How about the big sacks of rice and noodles in the grain and oil store?"

"Fresh or dry?"

"Fresh products have to be packed together with the base in a box, otherwise they will rot if they are picked and not dried in time. Your Majesty likes fresh products?"

"You understand it quite well?"

"Growing fungi is like planting flowers. When we move the flowers to bask in the sun, we move the flower pots together. We don't directly pinch the flowers and throw them in the sun. They are dried flowers. The same is true for the transportation of fresh fungi. But it’s not cheap to transport it to the capital with such trouble.”

"Well, it used to be 50 taels a box, and now it will be 50 taels a fresh flower. Anyway, you planted it. This is the only one, little girl, you specialize in unique business."

"A unique business, only this one, and the price can be set as you like, but correspondingly, we pay a lot of taxes. Planting crops, is this considered an agricultural tax?"

"Little girl, although you are now the chief manager of the farm and workshop, everyone calls you Mr. Bai, but you have to spend a lot of money and several years in the mountains and forests just to grow fungi. Promise? They bought shares to make money, but you want to take some of the dividends and invest them in agriculture, aren't you afraid of causing disputes in the end?"

"Agriculture is the foundation of all industries. Agriculture supports everything. You can't take the dividends of agriculture and refuse to accept it. The factory area of ​​the farm has a new plan. Using the dividends of industry and commerce to feed agriculture is the next long-term goal. Shareholders It's useless for them to object, unless they don't eat fungus, not to mention, if it is done, they will also get this piece of dividends. The scope of the farm's thousand acres of land includes five villages, plus the manpower sent by the shareholders The daily food and drink of thousands of people is not a small number. The fungus planting also has the purpose of self-sufficiency, and then earns some money, and the villagers who are responsible for planting the fungi will also get wages. Everyone earns money, everyone Only people can make money. Shareholders who eat meat will surely let the people below drink soup. Your Majesty, isn’t it a good thing for rich peasants with thousands of people? The four industries of people’s livelihood, scholars, agriculture, industry, and business, only agriculture, industry and commerce are full of vitality. Vitality, the treasury has revenue, and the court should give firm support to agriculture, industry and commerce when needed. I implore Your Majesty for your permission."

The sage's face sank like water, and he tapped his fingers on the edge of the table for a while before speaking.

"There are many mountains outside the capital, and many mountain people rely on picking fungi in the mountains to support their families. If your artificially planted fungus is done, with the help of the large forest in Guanzhuang, the output is not worrying, and the price can be extremely low. Low, people in the capital can buy and eat whatever they want, which is great, but what about those mountain people? How can wild mushrooms with low yields and unstable quality compare to planted mushrooms? Wouldn’t it cut off their livelihood? The rich peasants with a large population are good. The prospect you describe makes me very excited, but I have to consider more poor peasants. Don’t say that you haven’t smashed other people’s jobs. Soap and mirrors have smashed soap craftsmen, bronze mirror craftsmen and others. Iron Man’s job and soap have also robbed the business of many time-honored fragrance powder shops. You have a criminal record, so I can’t easily agree to you.”

"Soap and mirrors belong to industry and commerce. The birth and development of new technologies must be accompanied by the elimination of backward and old technologies. The women of the people feel sympathy and regret for those craftsmen who have lost their livelihoods, but this is not the reason for us to stop. Neither can things in agriculture. Simply using the status quo of industry and commerce as a cover will blind your eyes and prevent you from seeing a better solution.”

"Hmph, what better solution?"

Bai Kou smiled slightly, and the saint suddenly had a feeling of actively stepping into the sleeve.

"The farm cooperates with Guanzhuang to solve the problems of planting different fungi one by one, and wait until a certain variety of fungus achieves the desired results, and the farmers who plant the fungus have become experienced technical farmers in the process. We Then go to rent other mountain forests, hire those mountain people who have lost their livelihood, and let the technical farmers lead them to plant fungi together. At that time, a single mountain forest will only be planted with a single species, and there are many mountains outside the capital, so there will be many kinds of fungus in the artificial environment at the same time. Under stable production. Shareholders get dividends, people in the capital have cheap and delicious mushrooms, mountain people earn stable wages every month, the treasury increases, no one suffers, everyone wins."

The corners of the saint's mouth twitched a little. He wanted to laugh, but he tried hard to hold it back, but after a few times, he found that it would only make the corners of his mouth sore, so he stopped tense. A smile appeared on the corners of his eyes and brows, and he patted the edge of the table. Pointing at Bai Kou, he laughed and cursed.

"Little girl~ Are you the only smart person in the world?"

"If someone else was smart, someone would have done it long ago, and it wouldn't be the turn of Minnv to grab the business now." Bai Kou shrugged proudly.

The sage laughed loudly, "Okay, you have convinced me, I will draw up an order for you in the next few days, and take it to Balidu Guanzhuang to discuss it with the manager in detail."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Bai Kou was overjoyed, and bowed with both hands.

"Come here, come closer, let's gossip."

Bai Kou stepped forward and stood three steps away from the table.

"Little girl, is it fifteen this year?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Well, the sixteenth year of next year, the little girl is going to get married."

Bai Kou was startled suddenly, her back straightened, and her face was tense.

"Minnv is still young, don't worry."

"Nonsense, sixteen is still young? It takes a year to get married and get married. How young is seventeen?"

"It's only been a few months since the civil daughter was restored to her citizenship, and she hasn't lived a comfortable life yet. I don't want to think about these things."

"Nonsense, you can't find a good man you like, right? As long as you have a brain like yours, a man you can fall in love with must be a real talent."

Bai Kou put on a bitter face and didn't answer.

The saint seemed to be addicted, looking at Bai Kou's face as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis, he was overjoyed.

"In this way, next spring, after the palace examination, you can choose first and second-class young Jinshi first, how about it?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern, but don't you need it? How can a dignified Jinshi look up to a civilian girl? Men are good-looking, and they will definitely be said that they are greedy for the woman's property. Shake face. Minnv is also afraid that some of them really see Minnv alone without family support, falsely cheat and marry Minnv, and then secretly poison Minnv, the property that Minnv finally accumulated will fall into the man's side If they have it in their hands, they will eat delicious food and drink hot food, and where will the lonely ghosts of the people's daughters go to complain about their grievances?"

The saint was dumbfounded by what he said, he pursed his lips and recovered.

"You think too much, don't scare yourself."

"Your Majesty, that's not what you said. There are too many hypocrites who know people and face but don't know their heart. Who knows if looking at the appearance of an honest gentleman has a black heart in his stomach, and he only has one life. It's hard to live until now. I don’t want people to be killed for no apparent reason.”

"It's all nonsense. Next year, I will let you see if there are any young Jinshi you like. You think so much, and you can't see the people? If you don't want to, then the official village will not be rented to you."

"Your Majesty~" Bai Kou didn't expect the majestic king to be so foolish.

"That's it. Go back and think about your business."

"Yes, Minnv resigns."

Bai Kou resigned, and then went straight back to the workshop. When asked by his subordinates, he only said that His Majesty agreed to lease the forest in Guanzhuang, but did not say that he would meet young unmarried scholars after the palace examination next year.

But although she didn't say anything about it, it was still spread from the palace, and it was quickly spread among Juren.

What does it mean to marry Bai Kou? Scholars who can pass the exam want to know it. It is related to their own interests. How can they be confused? There are even many married people who regret how they gave birth a few years earlier.

Gu Yun was socializing with his business partners outside, so he didn't know about it, but Gong Changji heard about it, hurried home, wrote a note and sent it to Lord Ye's mansion, Gu Yun went home to sleep full of wine and food, and saw The note said to talk to him about important matters, and he changed his clothes and left.

Gong Changji told Gu Yun the news he heard on the street, Gu Yun was already dumbfounded with his mouth open, and sat there blankly, without any response for a long time.

"Hey, don't say I didn't remind you, if you don't pass the second-class Jinshi exam next year, just watch Bai Kou marry someone else, and no one will care about you crying to death in a corner."

Gu Yun jumped up violently, before he even had time to say goodbye, he ran home without hesitation.

The palace chief laughed and giggled as he looked at his back as he ran away, and waved to wish him good luck.

(End of this chapter)