Cao Cao and Guo Jia felt that they had finally found a feasible farming strategy to survive this period of peace in the world. They would not have been widened by other border princes in the next few years.

But what they didn't know was that this kind of farming attempt that could only make up for the gap in national strength growth with Yuan Shao's camp, but it would never be able to keep up with the prosperity and strength of Liu Bei's camp.

Because Li Su's ability to farm was beyond their imagination. In the eyes of Cao Cao, Xun Yu and Guo Jia, Li Su's farming talent may be limited to the construction of water conservancy, shipbuilding and maritime business, the construction of new looms, porcelain-making and steelmaking, and the cooking of salt in fire wells...

But in fact, there are more things, but the time is not yet ripe, and Li Su hasn't taken it out yet. Compared to farming, Li Su has never been afraid of anyone.

Cao Cao likes martial arts and fights, and if he likes literary battles, he can accompany him to the end.

...

It was still mid-November 194. While Cao Cao and Guo Jia completed their development strategy, they had not finished their long holidays for him in Chengdu, Yizhou and Chengdu.

After a month of travel since mid-September, Li Su returned to Chengdu in mid-October, and then spent a rest with his wife. He took a bath every day to enjoy food, music, singing, dancing and massage, and served his wife for childbirth and confinement. Now, his first child is about to be full moon, and he will be holding a full moon wine these days.

Li Su is not in a hurry at all for the new round of farming affairs. It is mainly because Zhuge Jin is helping him with daily internal affairs. It is the same whether he will come back or not. And those revolutionary technologies and developments are nothing to do in the middle of winter.

Li Su had suffered four months of hardship during the Northern Expedition. When Jingzhao Yin suffered another four months, he had suffered for two months. He was in a row for ten months. He was uncomfortable all over and could not take a shower frequently and had to eat coarse food with acorn noodles. There was no second meat dish for every meal, and it was exhausted by boat and train...

After suffering so much, of course I have to give myself a long vacation when I come back, and I don’t get some good things I have never eaten or drunk before, how can I be worthy of myself?

Guan Yu had already gone to Tianshui and took office as the governor of Liangzhou, so Zhang Fei was the one with the highest position in Chengdu.

Zhang Fei has to be responsible for the military management work in Yizhou in the past six months, and has put the withdrawn Northern Expedition troops into training or organized the military camp or water conservancy construction and repair. However, the workload is not large in general. Zhang Fei subcontracts the specific work to his subordinates layer by layer. Once he has freed up his time, he will come to Li Su to drink and have a meal.

Except for Zhang Fei, other officials who are now staying in Yizhou are much lower than Li Su's level, so Li Su can almost enjoy himself like a local emperor.

The local officials in Yizhou in this lifetime were much more loyal to Liu Bei than in history.

It was mainly Liu Yan's "cleaning Liu Bei's internal response", and the later reform of the renting and mediocre remediation law cracked down on the profiteering merchants who saved up brocade and suppressed grain prices, and wiped out at least 70% to 80% of the local thorns, so not so many people could sigh that they were not allowed to share the spoils and had no rights.

The proportion of talented people among officials who had just been promoted from the poor people among the people was very high. In addition, Liu Bei succeeded in the first Northern Expedition in this life, which was a hit. Guanzhong was so badly harmed by Li Jue and Guo Si. Liu Bei could even bring Yizhou people and Jingzhou people north to become officials. This treatment is simply too dreamy.

In my previous life, people from other places robbed Yizhou people of their official positions. The cake was so big. Now I don’t need to be introverted and exported official positions to the outside world. Who doesn’t feel secretly happy?

When Liu Bei arrived in Chang'an, he took away senior officials such as Cai Yong, Xun You and Zhong Yao, and even the prefect was vacant and many positions were found.

When he first entered Shu, Liu Bei often used the Yuan Cong old ministers he brought to control the place. Only Chen Shi, the four scholars of Shu Confucianism, was the prefect; there was only one scholar in Dongzhou who was the prefect, and only one scholar in Pang Xi and Zhuti.

Now the prefects of the four major counties, Shu County, Guanghan, Ba County, and Hanzhong, are all vacant.

In addition, when Li Su returned to Chengdu this time, he would have to split Yizhou into Yi and Yunnan provinces within half a year, so Nanzhong had to be divided. In this way, Yizhou has a little fewer counties and can be further refined in the county. Therefore, plans that were originally not fully implemented can be implemented now.

At least six counties in Yizhou have freed up, and most of the positions will be replaced by locals! However, Liu Bei also trusted Li Su very much, saying that Li Su has great discretion in this civil service arrangement. Basically, Li Su can see who is suitable, give a list, and Liu Bei himself circled and fine-tuned it, and then he could use it. Liu Bei has never cared about the appointment of financial officers and affairs officers.

It is conceivable that Li Su had so many guests every day after returning to Chengdu, and everyone wanted to get to know him further.

Thanks to Li Su's good conduct, she never receives real gifts. There is really no way for her child to get a full moon wine and someone gives her gifts, and it is also stipulated that she cannot exceed ten gold cakes.

Moreover, even Zhang Fei is only allowed to give away ten gold cakes. Others have to consciously reduce the level of their official positions and ranks of Zhang Fei according to the traditional Chinese official culture.

...

November 16th, two days later, the full moon wine will be held. The Marquis’ Mansion is making final preparations, and the atmosphere is very good.

The dishes and ingredients used for the banquet have been prepared. Even the river food and meat are mostly raised in the fish pond and sheep pen in the fiefdom of Zhuzi outside the city, and they are slaughtered half a day before cooking.

As for Li Su himself, of course, he ate so well every day regardless of whether he was serving wine or not.

The cold winter is a good day to take a bath. Cai Yan was unable to go into the water before because of confinement, so she could only let her maid wipe her every day. Now that life is almost done, she will be soaked in the greenhouse together, but if she can do it, try not to soak it. Li Su soaked herself and asked Zhou Ying to rub his back.

After taking a bath in the afternoon, the whole family was refreshed and sat together to prepare for dinner.

The food on the table is also extremely exquisite, and many dishes are unprecedented. While serving, there was also a servant from Zhang Fei's family who came to Li's house to carry two food boxes, and the dishes inside were also special dishes made by Li Su's family every day. There was also a stone interlayer inside the food box, which was fire-proof and heat-conducting. Then put some charcoal on the stone interlayer to ensure that the food did not get cold halfway.

Even though Zhang Fei's servant was used to Li Su's luxury, he couldn't help but admire him when he saw the new dish today.

"This...is it just that General Zhang ate so much that he poured soup into Xiaolongbao five days ago? It looked like it, but it didn't look like it when he smelled the fragrance."

The soup dumplings were made by Li Su after returning to Yizhou this time. The steamed buns themselves are no longer uncommon now. The steamed buns have become popular in just two years after Li Su entered Sichuan. The key to filling soup dumplings is the technique of skin jelly. It is easy to point out the layer of window paper.

It's winter now, and the pig skin is so cold that it's easy to condense. When wrapping, you can wrap a lot of rich soup. Five days ago, Li Su's mansion made soup dumplings for the first time, and Zhang Fei's eyes were straightened. Later, if Li Su's mansion didn't do it, he asked the chef to make it himself.

Facing the way that Zhang Fei's servant had never seen the world, the servant of Li's mansion proudly introduced: "This month, will our Pihou Mansion repeat it to you? You said you didn't know it. It's true that this is a small bun, and the stuffing has been replaced, it's Jiang'er's."

After explaining this, the servant of the Li family sniffed and felt the fragrance in the courtyard, he realized that it was indeed the fragrance of Minjiang eels.

The reason why he didn't believe it at the beginning was mainly because he didn't expect the fragrance of the river eel to be so rich, even... dense.

That's right, it's just dense, and in the future, the strong fragrance can only be smelled in the Puba Eel Rice Processing Factory.

The servants of the Zhang family looked left and right and found a fact that shocked him: it was dinner time, and the servants of the Li family were also eating together, and the lowest labour among them was also eaten tonight, all of them were eels, but they seemed to have been peeled, leaving only the white eel meat inside.

"The Right General is so generous and kind? He will eat Jiange for every person who does odd jobs in the mansion?" The servant of Zhang's mansion asked in shock. For a moment, he even felt sorry for why he was a servant in Zhang Fei's mansion. Unfortunately, he is not popular these days and resigns to the master.

Fortunately, the servant of Li's mansion quickly dispelled his unwillingness: "Today is an exception. The Marquis ordered that whenever the wife makes her eel skin frozen soup dumplings, the eel meat should not be wasted. If these things cannot be stored, they will be dispersed for the servant to evenly eat them. In the future, the wife will not have to eat them often after her confinement period."

It turns out that since Cai Yan gave birth, Li Su often arranged fish soup for her to keep her healthy. However, there were too many crucian carp bones. Cai Yan, as a northerner, did not like to drink the southern soup that filtered out the residue after boiling. So the day before yesterday, Li Su changed her tonic method and let her eat eel skin or hairtail skin to nourish her. He knew that the tonic effect of giving birth to mothers was much better than cheap fish soup, which was a cumbersome problem. In addition, people in later generations were worried about gout, so they could not be popularized.

Hairfish are from the sea, so of course they can't get it in Chengdu. Li Su asked the fishermen in the fief to catch it in the Minjiang River, carrying half a load of river eels to the Hou Mansion every day. After the eels are slaughtered, washed and peeled, they will steam them on low heat for five minutes. After peeling, they will immediately peel the fresh eel skin that is tender and smooth, filled with glue. They will continue to be eaten by Cai Yan in a single cage, and the peeled fish will be given to the servants.

Later, after eating for two days, Cai Yan thought it was indecent to eat like this. The fish skin was steamed and it was still creepy. Li Su tried to make the eel skin filled with collagen and guanine into the frozen soup bun, and added some other delicious gravy and ginger juice to cover the fishy smell.

Li Su himself also enjoyed this luxurious and extremely luxurious delicacy with his wife. If he had to eat seafood every now and then, he would definitely not dare to touch such guanine-filled things. When he thought about it, his toes would have a slight pain.

But who made Sichuan people at the end of the Han Dynasty have no seafood at all? Li Su thought that gout was difficult in her life, and she even cared about guanine.

...

After Zhang Fei's servant took the food box, Li Su was refreshed in the inner hall to teach his wife and concubine how to eat this new style of small bun. The house was warm and harmonious.

However, as Li Su was getting closer and closer, Cai Yan's eyebrows were slightly locked and remembered some regrets.

"Husband, I'm useless. We have to drink when we have a daughter. Will people say that we are arrogant?"

It turned out that she thought that she had not given birth to a son for Li Su this time, and she always had knots.

However, when Li Su just returned to Chengdu, there were still several days before Cai Yan's childbirth period. In order to comfort her wife and stabilize her mood, Li Su had already decided to hold a drink during chatting. Cai Yan didn't expect the issue of having a daughter at that time. Later, when there was a result, Li Su didn't want her to be sad, so she continued to hold a drink.

When his wife mentioned this matter again, Li Su smiled indifferently: "It's all the same. I'm only twenty-six. Why are you anxious? The man decides to give birth to a child. How can you blame you? As long as you can give birth to a daughter, it means you have no health problems.

The first time you have worked so hard, maybe it will be smoother in the future. In another two or three years, you will be twenty-three or four years old, and you will be the best age to give birth to a stronger one.”

He could not say "The X chromosome or Y chromosome depends on the man", so he could only give the answer directly. This statement is very contrary to the common sense of women at that time. Cai Yan's first reaction was that her husband was comforting her. But later, seeing Li Su's expression as if he was not a fake, and with his powerful prophecy ability that he had known for many years, Cai Yan believed it temporarily.

Cai Yan sighed: "I had known that the days before delivery, I would not advise you to announce the drinks in advance. I was also anxious. Seeing that the Princess Wu had given birth to a son for the king, I thought I could stay for you this time, but I didn't expect it.

You are twenty-five or six years old, so there is no need to hurry, but who has made you promoted so quickly? The right general is in charge of the governor of Yizhou. I am really afraid that someone will be stabbed in the backbone."

Li Su was very serious about using common sense he heard from later generations to enlighten Cai Yan - Li Su in later generations originally did not want to breed, so he would not specifically understand these messy things. However, as a negotiating expert in the unit, there were always other female colleagues who talked about the gossip, and occasionally they would see a lot of experience sharing in the circle of friends of those crazy kids.

Li Su said: "I have read a lot of miscellaneous books and have also heard discussions from previous people. They all say that the first child is easily spoiled by his parents, too arrogant, and he speaks slowly since elementary school, and is not smart in other aspects. Because he doesn't need to ask for resources, he will be slower to grow up.

When the second child is born, especially if there are brothers and sisters who are just children and are not very different in age, they will realize that they cannot be favored by themselves at birth. They will take the initiative to learn, speak early and compete for favor from their elders. Therefore, the child must give him a sense of competition at the moment of birth so that he can grow up and become healthy in the future. The first one is now a daughter. It doesn’t matter if her daughter is stupid, it will not affect her lifelong happiness. It is not very good."

The reason for Li Su's words was entirely because after the emergence of the second child wave in later generations, those colleagues of the crazy child-showing child shared their experiences such as "How serious is the disease of the first child, being spoiled, studying slowly, and practicing large numbers is useless but not motivated", and Li Su believed it.

However, Cai Yan obviously did not understand the context of these words, so she insisted: "It would be even worse if you say this. The noble person speaks too late. The most important thing for a son is to be upright. What's the point of being frivolous and able to speak kindly? No wonder people say that the eldest son is mostly a good character, and the youngest son is frivolous and invites favor. Besides, if you have an older sister, you may even love your younger brother, and you will be arrogant at that time."

Li Su thought about it and felt that Cai Yan's words made him confused, but he quickly figured it out.

Cai Yan said that the sister caused the younger brother to be arrogant, which was mainly because there were too many sisters and finally gave birth to a family like a son. Such young children would get too many love resources from their parents, and sisters might also become brother-supporting demons.

But this should be easy to solve. Li Su has experienced so many years of experience, is this problem still difficult to deal with? He continued to comfort him: "It's easy. As long as we don't value boys over girls and don't love him with a young son, he will not be arrogant. In addition, the age difference between the sister and the younger brother is too far, so that the elder sister will not love the arrogant younger brother as much as the mother."

Hearing this, Cai Yan couldn't help but feel shy, and pushed her husband away and spat: "You say how old you are, how old you are. Do you think I am a pig! When do you want to have a second child?

It's so hard, I won't give birth to your first son! Anyway, you have taught me, so how can I get pregnant if I count the time? It's been several years. It's quite accurate. Four times a month in the future, first two, second two, and don't mess with me at other times!"

Li Su looked to the side with a bitter smile, and happened to see Zhou Ying, and shrugged helplessly: Fortunately, your life cycle is different from that of your wife.

In the late Han Dynasty, having too many wives and concubines was too harmful to the body, and it was too difficult to have fewer babies.
Chapter completed!