Chapter 708: Seven hundred and eleventh palm on the snow
Chapter 708 Seven Hundred and Eleven Palms Snow (Part 1)
This time, Li Shan kept his word. He went to the Yamen every day, stayed quietly in Sinong Temple, took a nap after lunch, and when he woke up, he went directly out of the city and returned to Zhuangzi.
People often send greetings, but Li Shan basically doesn't give face to anyone...except Cui Xin and Li Keshi, Li Shan doesn't visit anyone.
Offending someone is bound to offend someone, but in the past nearly two months, Li Shan had already visited all the courtiers he had some relationship with, and he didn't care anymore.
To be a bit exaggerated, Li Shan has contacts with most of the aristocratic families in the world and has good relations with them.
Of course, Li Shan had to go to the banquet because of the invitations of two people, one of whom was King Qi Li Yuanji. Li Shimin might have to postpone it until later.
It was already the end of November, and Li Shan woke up one day... When he woke up at Sinong Temple, he suddenly found that the window was completely white.
"Such heavy snow."
Li Shan walked to the entrance of the yard, looked up at the falling snowflakes, and thought of the venison delivered to him by the Forestry Department yesterday, he hesitated but gave up.
Forget it, let's go back and do it. The barbecue smell is a bit strong, and the Zhongshu Province is next door. If the smell spreads... Cui Xin will come over with a dark face to reprimand.
"Mr. Lang."
Li Shan turned around and saw He Lou Xingshu holding a brochure, "Have you selected it?"
"Yes." He Lou Xingshu explained: "Twelve locations were selected from Tongzhou, Fangzhou and Longzhou."
The purpose of choosing Sinongqing was to promote cotton, and to select the village supervisors for the purpose of farming. Naturally, Li Shan had to make some preparations in advance. He asked He Lou Xingshu to select a location on Guannei Road and prepare to start trial planting in February or March next year.
"Fangzhou..." The first thing Li Shan excluded was Fangzhou. Who knew what Yang Wengan, the general manager of Fangzhou, wanted to do, but he couldn't be involved.
Tongzhou borders Hedong, close to the Yellow River, Longmen, and Fengling. The two ferries are in Tongzhou. Longzhou is also good. It is close to Longyou Road and has convenient transportation. In fact, cotton is best promoted in Longxi... Longxi Road is probably Gansu in later generations.
area.
"Tongzhou and Longzhou, please send people to ask first." Li Shan ordered. Sinong Temple was qualified to intervene in this kind of matter, but after all, it related to the local area and it was impossible to completely bypass the local officials.
Walking out of Sinong Temple, on Chengtianmen Street, dozens of guards were sweeping the snow... It was a bit hard. They swept the snow in a row, and after a short break, it piled up again on the ground. The snow was really heavy today.
Li Shan was a little worried. There was a heavy snowfall the year before last and many houses in Zhuangzi were crushed at night, killing several people. After thinking about it, he said hello and went straight home with Qu Silang, Wang Junhao and others.
During this period, Wang Junhao has been staying by Li Shan's side... The latter was really afraid that Duan Zhixuan would come to trouble him, so he went to ask specifically. Li Keshi hesitated, Duan Zhixuan had let it go in Tiance Mansion, it was so humiliating,
He will be repaid one day!
But this time Li Shan was worried in vain. Zhu Wei arranged it very well. Within a year, all the houses in Zhuangzi were rebuilt with red bricks. The representative who came with Li Shan this time
Although the family members of Shuozhou's personal guards live in a somewhat crowded place, they all have a place to stay.
The whole Zhuangzi went around, and Li Shan asked about the secret treasury of Dongshan Temple.
"The armor and ordnance were all taken to Daizhou last time, but I returned to Beijing a few months ago and picked out the best ones and brought them back." Zhu Wei whispered: "I also brought back a lot of bows, arrows, and crossbows."
Li Shan snorted. The country's dynasty was first established, and the government's military system was implemented. The people were not allowed to use weapons, armor, bows and arrows, but crossbows were strictly prohibited... What do you want to do, Uncle Qi?
Zhu Wei looked very indifferent and continued: "Since July, the price of rice in Guanzhong and Hedong has plummeted. Villagers have been sent to various places to buy. Now the grain reserves are about a thousand dan."
Li Shan calculated in his mind that one stone is about eighty kilograms, and a thousand stones is about eighty thousand kilograms of grain. Now there are about five hundred households in Zhuangzi, and there are about two thousand people, men, women, old and children. Eat as much as you want...
We also don’t know how extensive and how long the drought was in the early years of Zhenguan in history.
But no matter what, it is always necessary to store food.
"No one is willing to grow cotton, right?"
Zhu Wei smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's all good farmland, who would be willing to grow cotton?"
Li Shan smiled and said nothing. In name, the village of Sun Moon Lake now belongs to him. He can grow whatever he wants, but he has never been willing to force others... Everyone is willing to grow food. That's because
Everyone knows that food can keep people alive.
After chatting for a long time, Li Shan asked people to go to the city to buy a batch of charcoal and distribute it to every house. From the looks of it, the heavy snow probably won't last more than a day or two.
"Let's go from Dongshan Temple." Zhu Wei said with a smile: "The pensions before and the housing construction after the year were all from your side."
Li Shan nodded indifferently. Neither Zhuangzi nor Li Zhai are short of money now. Li Shan has served in Daizhou for many years. Not to mention other things, just sharing the profits from the trade route is a huge sum... Passed
The accounts handed over by Princess Pingyang only concern Li Shan's profit sharing from Xia City.
Nowadays, the accounts in Zhuangzi are divided into two books, one is for Li Zhai, and the other is for the entire Zhuangzi and Dongshan Temple, and is managed by Zhu Wei.
When the charcoal was distributed to each household, countless villagers gathered at the door of Li's house to thank him. Li Shan was used to this, but Zhu was very proud... He had really raised a good son!
However, a few members of the Zhu clan told the people who moved here about the Gewurztraminer of the past... Mr. Lang made the Gewürztraminer skillfully and was not stingy, and used it to solve the plight of the whole village.
Well, when he heard this, Li Shan blushed a little... At that time, he was forced to go to jail by his mother, and he nodded with his eyes closed and tears in his eyes.
There were also dozens of copper coins given to Wang Renbiao by his mother... It was about that time that Li Kai really started to have a heart-to-heart relationship with himself.
It has to be said that Li Shan, who has just traveled to this era, is incompatible with this era in terms of outlook on life. Zhu's two decisions really opened the door for Li Shan to integrate into the era.
In fact, even now, Li Shan also feels that money and wealth can leverage huge resources, such as Xia City and Business Road, but he also truly realizes that reputation is the hard currency!
After everyone dispersed, Ling Jing, who was leaving the office, walked over and winked, and Li Shan took the initiative to walk away.
Zhu glanced at it and ignored it. She was increasingly confused about her son's thoughts, but no matter what, he was still her son after all.
Now Ms. Zhu basically has to go out every day and is very busy. Sometimes she goes to Cui Mansion to communicate with her future daughter-in-law, sometimes she goes to Li Mansion to have tea with the Changsun family, and sometimes she goes to the Yanshoufang house to watch the furniture being made.
, I also want to go to the Duke Ying's Mansion next door to see the Yang family with whom I have a good relationship, and by the way, I want to hug the future queen who is only two or three months old.
Over there, Ling Jing asked in a low voice: "How about going to Prince Qi's Mansion for a banquet yesterday?"
"What's wrong?" Li Shan was a little surprised, "It's just a perfunctory thing."
Ling Jing walked back and forth a few steps and said in a low voice: "Today in the Liangyi Palace, King Qi boasted that next year the Turks will invade and he will ask himself to lead the army."
Li Shan opened his mouth wide and cursed: "I want to make him blind!"