Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 699
At noon, after watching and discussing in the field for a long time, they finally returned to the embankment to prepare for dinner. At first, they felt that it was not up to standard to just put tables and stools on the embankment. After all, they belonged to the country. The leaders, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty were also there, however, the aroma of various foods made them dispel this idea.

Different from the pasta in Chang'an, here are mostly vermicelli, which is completely different from the smell of beef and sheep in the north. The main food here is white meat. The cooked food is more fragrant, and there are also a variety of vegetables. It is tender and delicious, and there are some special dishes with more distinctive hot and sour flavors. Don't talk about eating, just smelling the smell will make people appetite.

"When my father came to Shannan Road for the first time, the chief grandson greeted my father for a meal on the embankment. Now, my father is in Jiuyuan County, and I eat this every day." Li Ke invited Li Chengqian , Ma Zhou, and Li Junxian, the deputy commander of the Nanya Forbidden Army who accompanied them, sat at a table and said while helping them arrange the dishes.

As for Heraclius and the others, they can go to the stall to order what they want to eat. With their curiosity, they may order a lot. Li Ke just reminded them not to order too much to eat. Here, usually A person cannot eat more than [-] Wen.

"Father is in Jiuyuan County?"

"That's right! The Supreme Emperor is here too, exchanging dancing skills with their dancing friends every day, living happily!" Li Ke showed a meaningful expression, and Li Chengqian immediately understood.

Yu Gong said that there are many affairs in Jiangling City, and Li Shimin is there. Changsun Wuji must report everything to him before he can implement it. This will give Changsun Wuji a feeling of restraint, which is not conducive to work.

It's private!The legend of Li's pregnancy in Jiuyuan County has long been confirmed. This time Li Shimin brought the entire harem here, including Li Yuan and his concubines. It is estimated that these women are spreading their branches for the royal family, or He said that for the sake of his own status, he did not hesitate to blow pillows to these two fathers and sons, and it just so happened that Li Shimin had a political need to show everyone a picture of fatherly kindness and filial piety. Play together, that is a lot of benefits.

Of course, the most important thing is.The atmosphere in Jiuyuan County makes people feel very comfortable. They usually dress up as ordinary people and mix among ordinary people. Even if they are recognized by the common people, they are just warmly invited to play with them and dance in the square here. , eat snacks, play chess, brag with the people, talk about the mountains, and sometimes hear some discussions about national politics from the perspective of the people, or go to Jiuyuan County to learn and see the children's various activities. The new learning results, I feel very fulfilled every day, and I don’t feel bored at all. Anyway, Jiuyuan County is under the rule of Jingzhou, and the fast boat goes to and from Jiangling City. It only takes an hour.

After watching the cartoons shown by the students of Jiuyuan County School in the palace, the princes and princesses who are not as old as you have long been crazy about it, and now they are directly studying at Jiuyuan County School , led by Li Lizhi, the eldest sister, caused a lot of trouble for Yu Zhen of the county school. After get off work, he had to work with many teachers to make up lessons for them.

"Father entrusted me with the reception of foreign guests. I'm afraid I won't be able to stay in Jiuyuan County for a long time except for official reports." Although Li Chengqian has always been in Chang'an, he has also heard a lot of legends about Jiuyuan County. Anyway, if Sun Xiangfu is there, it will be different there. Li Chengqian, who is more curious, naturally likes to feel these differences, but he has no choice but to have a heavy political task, so he can only feel very regretful.

Li Ke greeted the cook who ran the dining car, gave himself a table to eat, and said, "Brother, there is no need to feel sorry, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future! According to my father, the imperial court will have to work in Jiangling City for a while! At least, they will not return to Guanzhong this year.”

"Why?"

"Because of the new crops here! Let me tell you, a lot of things have already been planted here, but the younger sister said that these seeds have not yet reached a good state, and they need to be planted for another season or two. , after it is more adapted to the environment of our Tang Dynasty, it will be promoted to the whole country. See the red fruit on this booth? Calculated by the current mature fruits, the yield per mu should be more than 500 shi, and the cook will serve a plate of cold tomatoes for you to try."

"Fifty shi per mu?"

Not only Li Chengqian and Ma Zhou, but Li Junxian, a half-life military commander, also exclaimed when he heard this number.Fifty stones, that's six thousand catties!

After Li Ke signaled the three to boo, he said in a low voice, "Based on the current mature ones, the minimum is fifty shi. In fact, it may exceed sixty shi. However, the younger sister said that this is not the same as Master Sun's expected goal." The difference is quite large, this year we just select the best ones to keep the seeds, and put the rest on the market for everyone to eat."

Seeing the fist-sized red tomatoes, Li Chengqian immediately swallowed. The yield of these new crops is really against the sky. The yield of six or seven thousand catties per mu is still far from the expected target, so he planted them. With more than 500 mu, he dares to sell it directly on the market. However, thinking about the output of more than 500 million catties in more than 300 mu, Li Chengqian is also clear. If he doesn't sell it, can he eat it all by himself?
After a while, the cook at the booth brought a large plate of cold tomatoes mixed with crushed ice slag, white sugar foam and sliced ​​tomatoes to their table. Li Ke directly greeted everyone to use their chopsticks. Immediately, several People only felt a burst of refreshing and refreshing sweet and sour taste in their throats, and they nodded repeatedly after eating, and ate several chopsticks in a row without thinking about talking.

You must know that late July in the Shannan Province area is not cool. It belongs to the late stage of autumn tigers. Although the temperature has begun to cool down, it is not as hot as May and June, but there are still temperatures in the [-]s. At noon, wearing unlined clothes Walking in the sun, it is easy to get hot and sweat, not to mention that they are wearing two layers of clothing. Just now Li Chengqian and the others watched the rice fields and climbed the embankment, and their bodies were obviously extremely hot. These slices of cold tomatoes Eat it, it is simply wonderful.

After a while, they ate half of a large plate of cold tomatoes. Then Li Ke said, "Don't eat too much cold food at once, there are still a lot of delicious food in the future! Our Jiuyuan County With my little sister here, there are dozens of vegetables, many of which you have never seen before, and they are cooked in fish head broth, which is delicious."

"Why did I hear that you have a little girl on the left and a little girl on the right? Oh, by the way, you must be interested in her!"

The cook served the food very quickly. After the tomato salad came, several bowls of fish meal and a large soup bowl were served. Inside, there were indeed many kinds of vegetables as Li Ke said, and there were also placed around the soup bowl I bought some small dishes of stewed vegetables, and there were eight small dishes, one of which was braised peanuts. Jinan County also planted more than 500 mu of this crop, but nearly half of the good-looking ones were reserved as seeds. In the market, they are all sold in small dishes, and they are very expensive. In fact, its yield is not low. Shannan Road has grown more than 800 catties per mu.

Hearing what Li Chengqian said, Li Ke's face turned red immediately, and he forced several people to eat food. Everyone in Shannan Road knows that he contradicted Empress Changsun for the sake of Xiaomei Sun, but Li Chengqian was on business in the north before. Just know.

It took a long time to eat this meal. After all, there are only more than 800 stalls, seven or eight thousand tables for four people, and nearly 20 people. In addition to the fixed storefronts on the pier, it took two or three rounds to call everyone. Everyone finished eating, but no one was dissatisfied with the food here. Compared with the expensive dishes they ate in restaurants before, they prefer these foods that are not bad in taste but much cheaper. After all, they are not rich. I owe Datang a huge debt, and I can't always spend money on food and drink.

Li Chengqian said goodbye to Li Ke when everyone had finished eating and boarded the boat. During the meal, the two brothers chatted a lot. The data on planting is relatively clear, and at the same time, I have learned a lot about the folk customs in the lake area of ​​Shannan Road.

The people here rely on water, so they draft water. This year's sports meeting also added a lot of water sports, such as single rowing, double rowing, team dragon boat races, water relay races, etc. The sports venues can be said to be spread across half of Jiangling City. After he brought people to Jiangling City, Changsun Wuji should arrange for him to take people to visit various venues, explain to all representative teams the competition rules of the new events, and so on.

Of course, this is not the point. Datang has already successfully held such a grand competition. This time, it should only be more mature than the last time.

The point is that Li Shimin wants to achieve some political goals through this sports meeting.

Datang, now has the conditions for external expansion, so Li Shimin and the group of generals who occupy half of the voice in the court will not wait any longer. If they wait any longer, they will be old and unable to move.

As for how to start this battle of unification, Datang needs a reasonable excuse to ignite and detonate all the primers that have been planted before.

This is a relatively difficult technical task, even if Li Shimin didn't say it, Li Chengqian would still consider it.

Changsun Wuji is probably the busiest person in the whole world right now. He admires his son Changsun Chong more and more. He is very curious about how he successfully held the Dingxiang city sports meeting without any experience. Yes, Li Chengqian brought representatives from the countries of the Western Regions, but not all participating teams. There were more than 60 participating teams from the mainland of Datang, each state road, and each army, and some did not follow the big teams. Teams from countries that came over, such as Tubo, Jialou Lubo, Piaoguo, Xue Yantuo and other teams that came on their own, all needed him to receive them. As the teams gathered in Jiangling City, the number of tourists and vendors exceeded 500 million. Afterwards, it is not so easy to solve any small matter of eating, drinking and lazing.

Who said that Jiangling City is the heartland of Datang, with the development of water and land transportation, people from any direction can come here to watch the game, it is very fast and convenient.

Who is the economy of the Tang Dynasty? It has developed so fast in the past few years. The common people have spare money, so they can come out to play and watch the fun!
When the conditions are met, the mood of the people watching the excitement is very high, soaring to the point where Changsun Wuji's head hurts.

Therefore, he brought Changsun Chong, who brought several participating teams from the Anxi Protectorate Mansion to Jiangling City to participate in the competition, and recruited a strong man, and asked him to be in charge of the city management of Jiangling City together with Lawyer Pei, the commander of Jiangling City's city guards. Sometimes, even Xue Li and Xi Jun, who were making the final preparations at the training ground, had to pull in these athletes to help.

Today, they received a report of a vicious conflict. The two parties to the conflict were Yi Nan's two sons, Bazhuo and Tulishi. The place was in the Wang's Hotel in Jiangling City. After a group of masters took control of the scene, Chang Sun Chong, who was an old acquaintance with the two, came to negotiate with them.

"Didn't Yinan Khan, Dongzhu, and Yuchi Baolin come over this year?" Looking at the two guys with bruised noses and swollen faces, Chang Sun Chong asked a little strangely.

"Father Khan is seriously ill. My sister-in-law and uncle took him to see a doctor in Shanyang. I'm afraid I won't be able to come to Jiangling City this year." Ba Zhuo replied.

Hearing this, Chang Sun Chong was taken aback for a moment, unexpectedly, Yi Nan's body was hollowed out by wine and sex so quickly, it seems that the purpose of the two brothers' fight is not so simple.

(End of this chapter)