Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 18 Fish into Chang'an

After seeing the ceremony, Qin Qiong began to talk about serious business with Sun Xiangfu. It turned out that Li Shimin's enthronement ceremony will be held the day after tomorrow. It was the most in the history of the Tang Dynasty. First of all, the number of people attending the imperial banquet was a terrifying number, over ten thousand, and all of them were high-ranking officials. Members, as well as all officials above rank seven in Beijing, so the dishes must not be shabby.

A minister suggested that Chang'an must have some of the more popular stir-fried dishes recently. Li Shimin also knew that they were delicious, so he wanted to share them with those foreign ministers who were far away from the center, so he agreed.

But the weather has turned cold in the past two days, and the Fisheries Department of the Animal Husbandry Supervision Office can't salvage a few catties of fish a day. The people in charge of buying in the inner palace searched the fish market in Chang'an, but they didn't buy much, so they sent Li Shimin to the emergency. Yes, and complained a lot in front of Qin Qiong.

At that time, Qin Qiong thought of Sun Xiangfu who delivered fish to the house every day, and suggested that the matter might be resolved, so when he returned to the house, he wanted to send someone to Xingfu Village to ask Sun Xiangfu for questioning, but he had to report to the boy. In my house.

"Fish, there are, and the color is very good. If you want it, Mr. Yi can send someone back to the village with me to get it."

"That's very good. I'll ask my guards to send a fast boat back to the village with you to fetch fish. If you can fetch ten thousand catties before tomorrow, the crown prince will definitely remember you as a great achievement."

"It's only ten thousand catties. I dare not take credit for small things."

Not much to say, the two hundred-stone fast boats from Yiguo's mansion quickly took Sun Xiangfu out of the city and returned, while the villagers in Xingfu Village were mobilized to get up the pond overnight.

"Village chief, each pond can produce more than two taels of rice field eels and more than three hundred catties. We have so many ponds, we can't afford tens of thousands of catties!" Sun Dali watched as a bucket of poked fish was poured into the big pond In the tank, he said in a daze.

"Well, here we have at least [-] to [-] catties of fish. Now they are transferred to the cellar for feeding, and they can still be fed for two or three months. The villagers' cellars have been cleaned out, and all the fired pottery tanks are transported in. In the future, the feeding will be transferred to the ground."

There is geothermal heat in the ground, the temperature can reach [-] to [-] degrees, and it resembles the night, which can greatly stimulate the appetite of rice field eels and loaches. Therefore, Sun Xiangfu had a plan early in the morning.

"Okay, when these fish goods are sent to Chang'an, we will start all the ponds."

After a busy night, in the early morning of the next day, two fast boats carrying dozens of large tanks set off from Xingfu Village to Chang'an. When the sun rose, Jinshuimen Wharf became lively.

"Wow, there are a lot of rice field eels. This big tank has a big tank. I'm afraid it weighs a few thousand catties."

"It's over ten thousand catties! Where did it come from?"

In the morning, the Jinshui Wharf was mostly filled with fresh food vendors. When they saw the large fish tanks carried by several people on the boat of Yiguo Mansion, everyone gathered to watch the excitement.

At this time, in the private room on the third floor of Xinxiang Building in Dongshi, Wang Lin, who had finished his breakfast, received a mysterious note.

"There is a large amount of fish coming ashore at Jinshui Wharf, which can solve the shortage of ingredients for Xinxianglou's new dishes."

"Who sent it?" Wang Lin frowned and asked.

"A boy on the street delivered it to us and left."

"Send someone to ride a fast horse to Jinshui Wharf to see if someone has sent a large amount of fish into the city." Wang Lin ordered.

"promise."

In less than two quarters of an hour, the man who received the task rode back on a fast horse, and reported after entering the door, "Young Master Qi, there are indeed, and the number may not be less than ten thousand catties, but those people are under the banner of Duke Yi's mansion. The subordinates dare not act rashly."

"Then go and inquire about the origin of these fish products from Duke Yi's mansion."

The man took Wang Lin's order and went to the street again. Similar situations, of course, there were more than one or two. When Sun Xiangfu delivered the fish and sat on his knees in the side hall of the Qin Mansion waiting to be summoned, his roots were It was almost cleared up by some dignitaries in Chang'an. It was probably a farmer who became a village head by hugging Yi Guogong's thigh. It was also him who bought the fish, but the fish had never been sold, and it turned out that it was all saved for the Duke of Yi.

Well, it's very common. There are no low-level people in the Tang Dynasty who don't want to cling to the powerful, including the powerful, and they are always thinking about how to please the emperor, or Li Shimin, unless you can be as big as the seven clans and five surnames, so that the emperor will move. No, otherwise you have to abide by such survival rules.

"Farmer? Interesting, it's going to be completely cold this day, and the fishmonger can collect less and less fish. You can send someone to his village to check. If there are still stocks, buy them all. In terms of price , don’t shorten his, it’s to give Duke Yi some face.”

Wang Lin made a casual confession, then got up and left, it was just a restaurant, and he didn't need a noble man like him to worry about everything, the people below would do things according to his will.

In the Qin Mansion, Uncle Fu personally arranged a table of food and wine for Sun Xiangfu to enjoy. When he received the fish from the pier, he sent someone to inform the mansion quickly. At this moment, Qin Qiong had already taken the fish to Tai Chi Palace .

"Your Highness, the matter of the imperial banquet can be solved. A certain person brought rice eel and loach weighing more than ten thousand catties, and presented it to His Highness."

"Ten thousand catties?"

On the throne, Li Shimin was stunned when he heard the words, and then he said happily, "Shu Bao is worried about being alone, please tell me quickly, where did you get these fish?"

"This minister has to mention Sun Dalang, the head of the small village next door." Qin Qiong smiled and stroked his beard seeing that Li Shimin was in a good mood.

"Sun Dalang? The same Sun Dalang who invented cooking?"

Even if Sun Xiangfu was killed, he would not believe that his name as a little farmer would be heard in the ears of Li Shimin, the first emperor through the ages, and he would be remembered.

"That's right, it's Sun Dalang, but his talent is not limited to Pao Chuer. According to the servants in the mansion, this kid is self-taught. Although he was born in a farming family, he can write and count. The guards reported that in his village, there are no less than hundreds of ponds for raising loaches and eels. Even if more than 1 catties were sent to Chang'an, it was only a small half of his pond. You haven't seen it. Send it away The fish that come to Chang'an are all carefully selected, even the size is the same. Now that Chang'an fish is expensive, I'm afraid this kid's village will become very rich."

"It's true that there are talented people in the countryside! It's also a blessing for my Tang Dynasty that farmers can have a means of livelihood other than farming, and this person should be rewarded."

Li Shimin likes to have banquets with his officials the most. He is a serious foodie. He heard that the 1 catties of fish are only a half of the output of Xingfu Village.

"In this way, I congratulate Your Highness for gaining another talented person." Qin Qiong too understands Li Shimin's diabolical nature. Now that the new dynasty is about to be established, although the old part of the Qin Palace has set up the main framework, there is a shortage of talents in all aspects. Li Shimin attaches great importance to it, and he is afraid that he will be able to get an official status in the future.

After leaving the Prince Qin's mansion, Qin Qiong hurried back. Li Shimin's mood improved, and Qin Qiong's mood naturally improved a lot. The fish was presented to Li Shimin by Qin Qiong, so Li Shimin would not pay for the fish, but in his words, he already It was revealed that the reward that was originally planned to be given to Qin Qiong at the enthronement ceremony was raised by a small level. The food township was raised from [-] households to [-] households. Of course, the real food township was only raised from [-] households to [-] households.Don't underestimate this level. One hundred households are equivalent to hundreds of laborers, which can cultivate thousands of acres of land, and it is an industry that can be passed down from generation to generation.

The reason why there are [-] households in Shiyi and [-] households in Shishi is because the population is constantly increasing. In fact, Qin Qiong has [-] households. Before the increase to [-] households, these The population belongs to Qin Qiong, but if it exceeds [-] households, you have to hand it over to the imperial court. Of course, this kind of situation where the actual controlled population is greater than the maximum limit of the food town was impossible at the beginning of the founding of the country, at least After several generations of reproduction, the dignitaries at that time had already learned to conceal the number of tenants.

The first thing Qin Qiong did when he returned to the mansion was to summon Sun Xiangfu, who was full of food and drink. After telling Sun Xiangfu about Li Shimin's views on him, Sun Xiangfu was wandering in the ocean of happiness, never thinking that he was a mountain village Husband, let Li Shimin hear his name several times, and he is about to be appointed as an official, but my brother just went to Chang'an to sell fish, how can he be appointed as an official?
I think Qin Qiong's face is here. You know, Qin Qiong has followed Li Shimin for so many years, but he has never recommended any talents in front of him. If Sun Xiangfu knows that Li Shimin is purely for the fish in his Happy Village, he probably wants to With the two big mouths of Yu Chigong and Cheng Yaojin, it is hard for Li Shimin not to know about Sun Xiangfu. During this period of time, Li Shimin is very clear about everything that happened in Xingfu Village. Li Shimin personally used it to collect it.

(End of this chapter)