Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 315 Drink Tea and Eat Cakes
I imagined the structure of the seventh department of the Tang Dynasty all the way, and walked slowly all the way. At dusk, the convoy stopped in front of a village. In fact, they are only fifty miles away from Shanyang City. If you work harder, It was possible to arrive overnight. Li Shimin was attracted by the people wearing bamboo hats and light veils, so he asked the convoy to stop and set up camp to rest.

Li Shimin, who got out of the car, saw that Fang Xuanling was also looking at him, so he pointed to the village road not far away, "Fang Qing, follow me to the village to have a look!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I will go too."

Li Shimin originally only wanted to invite Fang Xuanling to take a look at the village in micro-clothes, but the sharp-eared Yu Chigong also jumped out at this time, and wanted to follow, Li Shimin naturally did not refuse, and told Qin Qiong, Dugu Mou and others to arrange After the camp guards, the three of them changed into light summer shirts and walked towards the village.

After a while, they heard a sound of "urn urn" outside the village. The three of them looked under the wall of the village where the sound came from, and found rows of wooden boxes over there, and a large number of bees were living in the wooden boxes. Flying over there.

"Guests passing by, don't wear gauze, don't provoke those bees, if you are stung, you can only go to the city to find Daoist Sun to grab medicine."

On the wall of the village, an old man in his 40s and [-]s shouted to the three of them, his accent was exactly that of Guan Zhong.

In Shanyang, apart from the Banhu aborigines who have been included in Sun Xiangfu Shiyi, these are the Guanzhong people who were first moved from Guanzhong by Li Shimin. There are a total of [-] households, except for a small number of people who live in the city. In addition, the rest of the people were divided into dozens of villages and scattered in the villages around Shanyang City. There was a village every ten miles, and a fortress was built.

The old man has lived in Guanzhong for half his life. When he saw the convoy in the distance, he didn't know that Li Shimin and the three of them were not waiting for nothing. However, they were not wearing official uniforms at this time. The beehives are placed under the wall of the village, which can also play a role in preventing thieves. If you don't go through the main entrance, no one dares to approach the wall of the village.

Hearing this, Li Shimin raised his head and shouted at the old man on the wall of the village, "Old man, can I come into the village and ask for a glass of water?"

"There is no white water, but there is a lot of scented tea. Come in and drink it when you are thirsty! There is no guest who does not like to drink our Shanyang scented tea."

The old man said something with a smile, and walked towards the wall of the village. After a while, when the three of Li Shimin approached the gate of the village, the old man pushed open the large wooden door, and the three of Li Shimin walked in. After that, I saw the situation in the village clearly.

"Hey, Yishui's brick and tile house, that kid did not treat his people badly."

There are quite a lot of houses in the village, there are several large rows, hundreds of households, neatly arranged in the stockade, even the ground is paved with blue bricks, very clean, Li Shimin just glanced at it roughly, and praised it in his heart One sentence.

"The three of you are noble people from Guanzhong! Have you ever had dinner? There are flower cakes in our village that are about to be baked. It's best to eat them while they're hot. Why don't the three of you have scented tea?"

The old man also recognized Li Shimin's Guanzhong accent, so he led the three of them towards the big house in the center of the village without looking outside.

"Old man, there are quite a few houses in your village, I'm afraid there are hundreds of them! Why don't you see many people?"

The density of houses in this stockade is no less than that of the densely populated Fang area in Chang'an City, but it is very quiet, and no one is seen coming in and out. Li Shimin couldn't help but asked in surprise.

Hearing this, the old man smiled and replied, "Hehe, there are more than 300 households in our village! I am the village head, you can be called Liu Dawang. Now there are not many people in the village except for the elderly and children. The young people go to the city. I went to work, some did construction, some worked as blacksmiths, carpenters, etc., and even women went to textile workshops and leather goods workshops.

"Then who will plant the fields in your village?"

"Field? You mean the flower fields outside the village! Those fields don't need to be planted every year. The governor said that the purpose of planting flowers was to save manpower, so that everyone can free up their hands to do other things. What are those flowers? Two-year-old, three-year-old, I can’t understand the old man, I only know this field, the governor said to plant it, and the governor didn’t plant it, it must be that it doesn’t need to be planted, it will grow by itself, the field patrol officer of the governor’s mansion It will be arranged according to the situation.

In normal times, as long as we pick some flower petals and send the dew to the workshop in the city, we can get a lot of money.Oh, by the way, later the governor also taught us to make scented tea and make flower cakes with honey. Recently, there have been a lot of guests from the city, and the market is booming. Our village sends three carts of flower cakes to the city every day!You are just in time to eat the hot pancakes that just came out of the kang, they are delicious, eat more, and you don’t need money. "

Liu Dawang seemed very excited about being able to receive a few nobles from Guanzhong, and he kept talking while walking.

Li Shimin listened, and he had a new understanding of Sun Xiangfu's large-scale planting of flowers in Shanyang. It turned out that he wanted to free up manpower to do more things.

Many of these flowers do not need to be planted like crops. They are planted every year. For example, roses can bloom many times a year. They are cold-resistant, drought-tolerant, sunshine-loving, and the climate in the sunny ground is very good for planting roses. Moreover, it only needs to be planted once, and it can harvest flowers for several years. After three to five years, the old vines that do not bloom will be removed, and the new vines will bloom again. Even in later generations, it is also one of the super economic crops. First, people in this era do not have the methods to make perfumes and essential oils, so naturally they cannot appreciate the benefits of planting them.

Li Shimin has also eaten Shanyang specialties such as flower cakes, but they were all made from Shanyang and sent to Chang'an. They were already dry and stale.

As soon as he walked to the door of the big house, Li Shimin smelled the sweet scent of noodles mixed with flowers and honey, and immediately moved his index finger.

"How can I eat things from your village for nothing, Jingde."

Li Shimin gave Yu Chigong a wink, signaling him to give him some money, but Yu Chigong spread his hands and said, "It's hot in summer, I just changed my clothes, and I didn't bring any things with me!"

"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay, you are a guest when you come, eat a few cakes, and what money do you want? , if you can give a cake, let’s give a cake, as long as they love to come to our Shanyang, we can earn back as much tea money and cake money as possible.”

Hearing this, Li Shimin seemed to realize something. It turned out that this is how Sun Xiangfu led the people under his rule to develop the economy.

The big house is the public house of this village. Dozens of old men no younger than Liu Dawang and ordinary women and children are busy in it. There are also many little children running around behind the adults, but they don't smell the smell of food like other children. Just Liuhadazi, obviously, they don't lack these foods at ordinary times.

A large pan was brushed with oil, and the small noodle cakes rolled out one by one were placed on the pan. After being arranged, an old man brought the pan to the direction of the stove with an iron hook with a wooden handle. , Covering the stove hole, a large iron pan covered with charcoal fire was hung by a woman in front of the stove through an iron chain tied to the beam of the house. When the pan was placed on the stove, the The woman loosened the iron chain slowly and let the red-hot pot cover cover the pan. After finishing this work, the woman immediately turned an hourglass next to the stove upside down. Obviously, the hourglass in the hourglass had run out. The pot cake was just cooked.

The people in the public dormitory are all old people for this era, but they are very skilled in doing these tasks, which may be the reason why they usually eat well. They look very strong, which reminds Li Shimin suddenly of Sun Deshou's words There is a saying in the past, 'everyone should live to be 80 or [-] years old to be normal. '

At that time, Li Shimin thought it was an unrealistic statement, but now it seems that it is not impossible. If there is no serious illness, these people should live for another 30 to [-] years without any problems.

"Your Majesty..."

"Shut up, no matter how you look at the food, you will stutter."

Yu Chigong pointed at an oversized dustpan in the public house with trembling fingers, and was about to call Li Shimin to look at it, but was stopped by Li Shimin, just let these villagers treat themselves as a nobleman from Chang'an, if they really let them know As the emperor himself, he would inevitably stop what he was doing and come to worship. Li Shimin didn't want to disrupt their work. He was very interested in taking a look at this kind of village-level production line.

Yu Chigong was not stupid, Li Shimin told him to shut up because he didn't want to reveal his identity, so he didn't say anything more immediately.

When Li Shimin looked in the direction Yu Chigong pointed, he was also a little surprised.

There is not one stove for kang flower cakes. In the whole public house, there may not be more than a dozen stoves working at the same time, and on the oversized dustpan, the crispy and golden flower cakes of kang are piled up like hills. Generally tall, many women are packing those pancakes. Every ten pancakes will be wrapped with a piece of straw paper, and a small red paper note will be pasted with the batter, with the words 'Shanyang Flower Pancake' written on it.

Judging by the efficiency, this village alone can probably make tens of thousands of pancakes a day.

When Li Shimin was in a daze, Liu Dawang brought several large tea mugs with handles on a tray, and gave each of the three people a big tea mug, and said, "This is our eight-treasure scented tea from Shanyang, all of which are produced in flower fields." It’s made with tea, it’s delicious, you just eat cakes with this tea, eat a few more, don’t be afraid to hold on.”

As he said that, Liu Dawang also used the tray to put the hot flower cakes that had just come out of the kang for Li Shimin to eat.

Opening the tea mug, Li Shimin saw several kinds of flower petals in the tea, as well as goji berries, red dates, etc., which were very bright and had at least eight ingredients.

Yu Chigong seemed impatient, took a big sip, smacked his lips, and said to Li Shimin, "It's delicious."

Li Shimin never doubted that the people in this village would harm him. Knowing that Yu Chigong was testing poison, he didn't give him any compliments. He picked up the tea mug and took a small sip. The beauty is much better than the tea he usually drank in the palace.

"Hehe, if I could drink this kind of tea and eat this kind of cake every day, even this old man would want to be a citizen under Sun Zhengming's rule." Fang Xuanling also took a sip of tea, stroked his beard and praised.

Yu Chigong nodded while devouring the hot flower cake brought by Liu Dawang.

It was time for dinner, and Li Shimin was also hungry, so he picked up a pancake and ate it. The pancake just out of the pan was much more delicious than the hard one. Seeing himself smiling, Li Shimin asked, "In your village, you don't cook for dinner, do you eat this cake exclusively?"

Liu Dawang replied with a smile, "That's not true, we have already had a meal in the afternoon, and we have to eat dinner after today's cakes are finished."

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, and continued to ask, "You usually make so many cakes every day, do you sell them in Shanyang?"

Liu Dawang continued to answer, "It's just that when there are many customers in the city, we will make more, and usually only make about one car."

"Selling a cart of cakes every day, how much money do you get?"

"A cart of cakes is 1 pieces. Let's send them to a special shop for [-] yuan."

Hearing this, Li Shimin was stunned and said, "A daily income of [-] yuan?"

"But there are not so many. We don't farm. The flour for these cakes is bought from Shanyang. Including fire consumption, the cost is almost half of the cost. At most, we can earn five thousand yuan a day! "

Hearing this, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling looked at each other and were stunned. Just by making this cake, the village can earn 100 yuan a day. After a month, there are at least 150 yuan, which is distributed to more than 300 households in this village, and the family has almost half of the money.

However, what about other outputs in the village?For example, what Liu Dawang said before, picking flower petals and bringing dew to the workshops in the city, such as the honey produced by the honey boxes outside the village, not to mention the young and strong men and women working in the workshops. The monthly income of the family is at least several times, which is much stronger than that of a household in Guanzhong!
(End of this chapter)