"Emperor penguins are so scary."

Li Chaosheng introduced the experience of emperor penguins to Guzi. The more he talked about it, the more terrifying Li Chaosheng felt. An emperor penguin, with traffic and cash flow in hand, could do anything against him.

Gu Zi also widened his eyes, obviously shocked.

The two strolled forward and soon came to the front, where food and drinks were sold, and a few people had a meal.

Gu Zi couldn't help but sigh: "A year ago, I felt that the prosperity of Xi'an City was irreplaceable. Now the prosperity of our Lantian is second only to Xi'an City. In a few years, I am afraid it will not be inferior to Xi'an. These are all thanks to you, Brigadier."

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This sentence was not a compliment, but a sincere expression. Several guards behind him also agreed with their faces. This year, it was entirely under Li Chaosheng's wise management that the transformation from the year of famine to the current prosperous age was completed.

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There is a scale in every human heart, and who doesn’t know the depth within it?

The group of people walked forward. Many people they knew saluted Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng responded one by one, especially the many gray two-story buildings newly built on the street. These are the properties of local wealthy families.

It can be regarded as an exchange of interests for Li Chaosheng. Li Chaosheng needs their land and needs them to reduce the land rent from 50% before to the current 30%. In the future, Li Chaosheng hopes to reduce the land rent by another 10% to 20%.

This is what Li Chaosheng wants.

As wealthy households, they had no land income, so Li Chaosheng used various methods to let them do business, so that their money could be circulated and drive the economic development of the entire Lantian.

After all, if silver does not circulate, it is just a pile of metal. Only when it circulates can it reflect its monetary attributes and drive people's productivity. How is wealth born? Wealth is the result of the struggle of the people.

Money is the catalyst that can mobilize the enthusiasm of the people. If the struggle of the people is lost, then money is meaningless.

Li Chaosheng has been in this world for several years, and he understands that things must be done according to the local environment, and he cannot do things that are too far-reaching. The transformation to the proletariat is what Li Chaosheng wants to complete, but Li Chaosheng finds it difficult in this world.

There is no soil for success. Besides, landlords are not human beings. Except for a few who are exploited too harshly, the rest should be reformed as much as possible. Only by using them can they improve their own strength as quickly as possible.

The current model in Lantian County is good. The landlords give up their land interests, and Li Chaosheng gives them commercial support. The land interests are given to the people. When the people have spare money, they have purchasing power. At this time, the landlords can

Earn the money back, and at the same time, Li Chaosheng can collect commercial taxes from the landlords.

What? Emperor Chongzhen did not allow commercial taxes to be collected.

Oh, that's okay. What we collect is not called commercial tax. What we collect is city entry tax, shop management fee, and urban road maintenance fee. It's not easy to collect a tax with clever names.

As for commercial tax, we didn’t mention it at all. We responded to the imperial court’s call and will never collect commercial tax.

There's nothing wrong with that, right?

Commercial tax, I have to say, it is sheer stupidity for a country not to collect commercial tax. Business in Lantian County has just started, but the commercial tax collected already accounts for one-third of the county's total tax revenue. If this is fully developed

It is absolutely no problem to be on par with agricultural taxation, and it can even far exceed agricultural taxation.

In the end, if the economy really develops to that point, agricultural taxes may not even be collected. For example, in the real world, agricultural taxes were officially abolished on January 1, 2006.

This is a sign of a highly developed society and is also the goal that Li Chaosheng aspires to.

In this way, Lantian County was revitalized by Li Chaosheng. Lantian County in Noda started its own commercial era. However, among many businesses, Li Chaosheng controlled the most critical points. Needless to say, salt and iron, national regulations, and the imperial court

Monopoly, and secondly, Li Chaosheng controlled the grain. Now the largest grain store in Lantian is owned by Li Chaosheng.

In addition, Li Chaosheng established a grain bureau, which was mainly responsible for distributing food stamps and distributing grain to all private grain stores in the county with unified prices.

Generally speaking, all grain stores in the county are branches of the Grain Bureau. Li Chaosheng's Lantian Grain Store is a directly-operated store, while other grain stores are franchise stores, but the goods are distributed by the head office.

Commercial development and private sector continued to build canals and grow grain. Now half of the land in Lantian is planted with corn and potatoes. The high yields of these two grains have given people in the county a high level of awareness.

For these two crops, Li Chaosheng found original corn seeds without genetic modification in the real world after a long search.

The advantage of this kind of corn seed is that you can save your own seeds and do not need to rely on imported corn seeds. The disadvantages are also obvious. The yield is much lower than that of imported corn seeds.

But it doesn’t matter, even if the yield of these corn seeds that can be saved is slightly lower, this yield is still considered high in this world of the late Ming Dynasty.

This corn seed was planted by Li Chaosheng on his land in Tanggou Town in order to save seeds.

It’s impossible not to save seeds. In the future, as the land becomes larger and more corn is planted, high-yielding corn seeds will be planted. In the future, just transporting seeds will be exhausting.

These high-yield corn seeds are all castrated. The first generation has bigger cobs and more corn kernels, but the second and third generations have really impressive yields.

There are more than twenty corn kernels growing on one big corn cob. How can one be so miserable?

So Li Chaosheng found the original corn seeds. In the future, this kind of corn seeds can be unified, so that he doesn't have to pour corn seeds back and forth by himself. However, now this corn is only sown in the corn fields of Li Chaosheng's Tanggou Town.

Li Jinli looked at that piece of land several times and looked unhappy. The corn cobs were too small, only two-thirds the size of other people's houses, and the yield was too low.

As for potatoes and sweet potatoes, you can save seeds, but the storage time of these two items is not long, and the storage conditions are a bit harsh compared to corn.

Therefore it can only be used as a staple food for a few months.

However, recently there is a vermicelli shop in Lantian County. This is a new industry. It is said that the county magistrate opened it.

Lam Tin Noodle Shop!

Li Chaosheng saw the house with a big sign in front of him and walked in. As soon as he entered the house, the waiter in the house came up to him and said to Li Chaosheng: "Your Majesty, you are here."

Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said, "You guys are busy?"

After hearing this, the clerk said: "I just received an order from Yuxianlou for three hundred kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli and two hundred kilograms of potato vermicelli. We are working overtime to make them."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "By the way, how is business lately?"

The waiter said: "It's not bad, but there are not many people. Basically, it's just the rich families who come to have a taste, and the poor families don't come."

Li Chaosheng didn't think there was any problem after hearing this. After all, making vermicelli costs a lot of sweet potatoes. Although Lantian now has a little surplus, he is not yet so wealthy.

Generally, rich people come here to try it, but the one that uses the most is Yuxianlou. The sweet potato vermicelli tastes very good. It tastes like meat when put into meat, and it tastes like vegetable when put into vegetables.

Whether it's a chicken stew or a cabbage stew, a handful of it adds an extra flavor, and it's so fresh that when you first take it out, many rich and well-off people thought it was a bird's nest.

Therefore, some people also call this fan Saiyan's Nest.

Li Chaosheng asked the waiter, and suddenly someone came in with a bag on his back at the door. The waiter glanced at Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Let's pick up the guests first."

After hearing this, the waiter came forward and looked at the old man carrying a sack in front of him.

"Uncle, what are you doing here?"

After hearing this, the old man was stunned, looked at the waiter and said, "You guys are making bird's nests, right?"

The waiter was stunned for a moment, not knowing where the old man heard the news. He smiled: "Yes, but that thing is not called bird's nest, but sweet potato starch. Sir, would you like to make some?"

The old man nodded after hearing this, and reluctantly took out the pocket behind him and said, "I have twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes. See how much I can make."

After hearing this, the waiter looked at the old man and said, "Uncle, we are just like us, with seven pounds of sweet potatoes and one pound of vermicelli."

"Ah, seven pounds of sweet potatoes, this, this is too expensive."

After hearing this, the old man protected the sweet potato in his hand, looked at the waiter and said, "Can it be cheaper?"

The waiter shrugged and said, "This is really unavoidable."

After hearing this, the old man was a little disappointed when he mentioned the sweet potatoes and was about to leave. However, after just a dozen steps out, he turned back and looked at the waiter and said, "I did it."

The waiter looked at the uncle like this, turned to look at Li Chaosheng and said: "Okay, uncle, for your twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes, I will give you three kilograms of rice noodles."

After hearing this, the uncle's originally unhappy face gained a little more smile and said, "Thank you then."

The waiter nodded, turned around and took the sweet potatoes to put on the scale. At this time, Li Chaosheng looked at the old man with a smile and said, "Uncle, where are you at home?"

"Languan Town."

The old man said. After hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Languan Town has a good harvest this year."

After hearing this, the old man's face cracked up and he burst out laughing: "Thanks to the county magistrate, it's better than in previous years."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "That's good. If it weren't for a good harvest year, your twenty pounds of sweet potatoes and three pounds of vermicelli would be a bit..."

The old man sighed after hearing this and said, "You're a prodigal, right?"

Li Chaosheng smiled: "No, I'm just curious. Does your old man like to eat vermicelli very much?"

The old man shook his head: "I haven't eaten it."

"Oh, you haven't eaten it before, so you want to make three kilograms of vermicelli?"

After hearing this, the old man smiled and said: "Hey, this year has been good, and my family has plenty of food. A few days ago, there was a refugee girl in our village. Our family used fifty pounds of corn to get her back as a daughter-in-law.

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"I was thinking that it would be difficult for our old Sun family to find a wife, so I made a lot of efforts and bought ten kilograms of meat. I heard that this bird's nest stew is the most delicious, so I thought about making some and have a brand when I go home.

Face, isn’t it?”

Li Chaosheng laughed after hearing this: "This is the truth, haha..."

Li Chaosheng chatted with Lao Suntou for a few words. At this time, the clerk took out the vermicelli and weighed it in front of him. It weighed three kilograms.

Lao Suntou went home happily with the vermicelli. This vermicelli was made in advance by the workshop. It is so convenient. It cannot be made freshly. It would be too troublesome to make it freshly. It would take several days to be shipped. Who can wait for you for several days?

At this time, Li Chaosheng went to the back workshop to inspect the work with his hands behind his back. When he arrived at the back, there were several workers washing the sweet potatoes. After the sweet potatoes were washed, they were cut into pieces and placed in a stone mill for grinding.

After the sweet potatoes are ground, the sweet potato powder and sweet potato water are put into a large basin. The big basin is very large and the top is full of water. The sweet potato powder falls into the water. The decomposed starch is insoluble in water and sinks directly to the bottom of the basin. Then the water is poured out.

Pour it out, and what remains on the bottom of the basin is the primary starch.

This is the sweet potato starch that everyone usually uses for cooking.

The sweet potato starch precipitates, then wrap the starch with tofu buns, hang it on a rack to drain, and dry it for a while.
To be continued...