First Class Concubine

Chapter 179 The Wine Comes

Qijing was very curious about the high priest, but unfortunately, after that day, he was never found again.She had some doubts that the other party was actually still there, but that the other party was so much stronger than her that she couldn't find him.

She was a little curious about how strong that man was.So he asked Le Chen: "Compared with that priest, who is stronger and who is weaker?"

Le Chen hesitated for a moment: "It should be on par. But if I try my best, I will definitely win." Because he didn't want to die.

Qijing was overjoyed: "That's great, you really are the best." Holding his head, he kissed him on the lips.Then I happily went to toss about the salt mine.Said it was a toss, but in fact she just listed the things to do.Others are naturally arranged by someone.She found that the job she was doing was somewhat similar to that of a secretary.

No matter how good the salt mine is, if you want to be useful, you have to mine it.

Therefore, the first thing is to arrange for people to mine it.Of course, for this, as long as someone can solve it.So she wrote down on a piece of paper: Mining, Tool, Artisan, Labour.

Secondly, salt is indispensable, but each household has limited use.The deductions for personal use are naturally exchanged for money.

As we all know, all countries have salt, official salt.The source of salt is completely in the hands of officials.They have salt, channels, but it's a big problem.

Therefore, how to sell salt has become the most important problem to be solved at present.

"Don't worry about it. The reason why salt is so expensive is because it is rare. We don't need to find those private forces to buy and sell, we can directly find the emperors of various countries and the heads of the forces to trade." The only thing Le Chen needs to consider is to buy and sell with Dayan's relationship here.

According to his current status, even if he has salt, he should report it to the court and cannot sell salt privately.But this salt is such a great benefit... If the father is kind and the son is filial, he will give it away as well.But in this situation, how could he take advantage of his father, who was determined to put him to death?

However, the elders of Lejia are now waiting to see his performance.If he doesn't send it, it will be a trouble.After all, the closer they are to Dayan, the better they understand Dayan, and of course the business is easier to do.

Seeing that he was paying attention, Qijing stopped worrying about it.

"Well, there is no rush for these. First of all, we need to find people who can mine salt..." Digging salt from the ground and how to process the salt mine into edible salt all require technology.She knows about salt mines, but she doesn't know how to make salt.So, still busy.

"Leave these to me." How many people are in Le Chen's hands?There are all kinds of talents.

"That's right." After all, she was still unmanned.

However, she did it on purpose.Even if she occasionally feels a little inconvenient, she is still not ready to change.

"By the way, what are you going to do with those people?" Qi Jing crumpled up the paper on the salt mine and threw it aside.The "those people" she mentioned refer to the prisoners captured by Le Chen and others after they entered the city.

Most of the original city guards surrendered.They were broken up by Lechen and incorporated into the original C-word battalion.Of course, in view of the fact that the A-character camp has become a dragon wing, he named the second-character camp Tiger Wing, and the C-character camp was named Wolf Wing.

Those recruited later can't do anything in a short period of time.Every day is just about working your ass off and keeping yourself up to the workout.Today's Three Battalion is not what it used to be.Ordinary people can't keep up with the progress when they go in.

Of course, the captives were not just city guards.There are also the original city lords, city guards... and other officials' families.There are also some aristocratic families that are closely related to the capital.

These people are different from those ordinary soldiers and cannot be treated in the same way.At this point, everything is under control!
"How does Xiaoqi want to deal with it?"

"They are all the people of Dayan, at least give them a way to survive." Qijing said solemnly: "If you are willing to redeem them, let them redeem them; if you are not willing, send them to us to farm. Now the land reclamation side is motivated It’s very full, and a lot of good fields have been opened up, but no one has plowed them!”

"Good idea." Le Chen responded with a smile, hugging him into his arms and kneading him.Take her out to visit Sunset City.

Sunset City had just experienced the flames of war and was very depressed.No one on the street dared to come out to do business, but since Le Chen was strictly prohibited by the army, no one dared to harm the people in the city.

Therefore, there will be a few bold ones who will come out and walk around.Seeing the two of them passing by, they took a look, and most of them retreated back.

There were also those who were very brave, who came up to greet the two of them: "Oh, little brother, take your wife back quickly. Be careful not to be snatched away."

Qijing was funny, but Lechen's face changed slightly: "Uncle, do you always see people robbing people?"

"Uh, I haven't seen this yet."

"Among your relatives and friends, who was robbed?"

The old man thought for a while, then shook his head: "Hey, really not." His face was full of joy, and he turned his head to look around, especially the orderly and imposing soldier patrols.When I saw them, I still had a smile on my face, very kind.I was a little confused for a while: "Why is it different?"

Seven Scenery's timely guidance: "What's different?"

"Old man, I escaped from Luoyang City. As soon as the Xuanwu army entered the city, they went door-to-door to search for food and rob things. If anyone had a beautiful little lady, they would all be ruined by those beasts and then robbed... Sigh !"

"Uncle, you also know that they are the Xuanwu Army and the rebel army. But we are the Western Conquerment Army, a righteous army, and the leader is the Fourth Prince. Can it be the same?"

"It's different, it's different!"

The two left quickly. Along the way, like that uncle, there were quite a few people with dazed faces.Lechen looked at it, feeling astringent in his heart.

"The conditions in Sunset City are much better than those in Xiliang City. There are more big families and more granaries." Qi Jing looked at the pavilions on the side of the road, "If the winter is difficult, we can let the big families open their warehouses to release food for relief. .”

"Xiao Qi is right. But what if they don't want to?"

Qijing rolled his eyes to the sky, this person was a hundred times more cunning than her, but he was easy to tease her.I simply ignored him, and suddenly thought: "At this moment, the wind and knives should be blowing in the north. Are they still fighting?"

"The Xuanwu army is there all the year round, not afraid of the cold. Therefore, during this period of time, the Beijing soldiers have greatly increased their momentum. They just want to end this battle before the snow falls. Unexpectedly, the Xuanwu army formed an alliance with the people in the south. We dragged it back again, once it snows, it will be time for the Xuanwu army to counterattack."

"We're not far from Yongcheng, they won't retreat to us, will they?"

This point, who knows!

Qijing stayed in Sunset City for two days, and discussed with Lechen about the follow-up construction.

Although Lechen doesn't want to continue the fight for the time being, since Sunset City has already been taken down, it is natural to defend and build it.We can't let the common people spit on the ground and curse at him when Le Chen is mentioned.

It took Qijing a day to go around the city and discuss with him for another day.In fact, in the final analysis, there are two principles.To give people what they want, the other is not to disturb them.

Really, the demands of the common people are very low, very low.

Before dawn on the third day, she got up and went back to Xiliang City.

It's almost October, and it's getting colder every day.It's time to urge the garment factory to hurry up and ship out the cotton clothes.There is also carbon, a lot of trees have been cut down in Xiyi recently.She didn't let anything go to waste.Build a house, play furniture, play various tools.Some leftover branches and leaves were dragged back to be used as firewood.

She doesn't want to let her cut wood and burn charcoal, a one-time loss.Therefore, during this period of time, she asked Mingsha to look for salt mines.But more people were sent to find the coal mines.But there has been no result...

After much deliberation, Qijing decided to buy it.

Just go to Dayue Kingdom to buy.

Wouldn't it be a waste for them to send a second prince here and leave it unused.

As soon as he entered the city, he received a message: "There is someone from Zhuangzi in Jingli."

"Oh? Who, what is it?"

"The steward who took over after Ma Chang'an left sent several carts of wine. The wine was very strong..."

"Have you tasted it?"

"Back to the master, yes."

Qijing smiled: "Let's go, go and have a look."

When we got to the backyard, we changed our clothes.It was only when we arrived at the room connected to the outer courtyard that Qijing specially used it as a room for handling official business.The steward's name was Ma Changping, and he was Ma Changan's cousin.The two look alike, but Ma Changping is even more flattering.

"Little Ma Changping, I have met the princess, the princess Wan'an."

"Get up." Qi Jing waved his hand and glanced at the wine jar at his feet: "Is this the wine you sent?"

"Back to the princess, this is it." The wine jar was specially fired, and it was very small.He opened it with his own hands, held it in both hands and sent it forward.

Su Li took it, then turned around and handed it to Qijing.

Qijing took a sniff, "Bring a white porcelain cup here."

The cup was brought up, and Qijing poured half of it.Sure enough, it is clear and colorless, smells sweet and tastes spicy.Swallowing it in one gulp, it was hot and burning from the throat to the stomach.

"Good wine." Putting down the glass, Qi Jing's heart turned over and over again: "This wine, how much did you bring? How much did you brew this time? How long will it take to make wine..."

A series of questions were thrown away, but thanks to Ma Changping's preparations, he opened his mouth and came.

"Back to the princess, this wine has been brewed in six tanks this time. One of the tanks was broken. Five tanks of wine were produced. Seventy large jars and thirty small jars were installed. Five jars were kept in Zhuangzi, and the rest, So they brought them all over. The brewer said that this wine is easy to brew, as long as there are people and things, it can be brewed at any time. Start slowly. Later, there will be wine from time to time."

He said again: "People in our village like this wine very much. Although it is easy to get drunk, but after drinking the hot wine, if it is winter, it must be refreshing. Before the little one came, it started to brew again. The master said , those sweet potatoes are all stuffed..."

"Okay." Qijing praised: "You have done an excellent job, you deserve a reward, a big reward."

"Thank you, Princess."

"Let that master brewer bring out more apprentices. When the time comes, bring them here, the county will mainly employ people." The vicinity of Xiliang City is mostly sandy.The ones next to the plant can't produce much food, so after thinking about it, she just planted some sweet potatoes that don't pick the ground.

In famine years, it is very good to wrap the belly.It can also save a lot of food when used for wine making.

Now it seems that besides salt, she has finally found a second characteristic industry.

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)