"Recently, I have been calculating the expenditures of the Young Master. There seems to be quite a lot in this area. I might have to hold a small meeting with His Highness later on to discuss whether to earmark funds from internal funds. However, if internal funds are allocated, the price will also be reviewed.
, it should be cheaper." Chen Xi just glanced at Si Niang and knew what Si Niang was thinking. With the idea of strengthening Si Niang for nothing, Chen Xi laughed.
When Liu Bei heard this, he squinted at Chen Xi. He didn't understand this, but he was very familiar with Chen Xi. Just by hearing these words, he knew that Chen Xi was fine and teasing Concubine Xian.
"Here, these are for you to eat." Si Niang directly opened the drawers of other food boxes, and there were all kinds of food, as if she was blocking Chen Xi's mouth. How should I put it, at certain times, Si Niang was still very smart.
"Okay, stop teasing the concubine." Liu Bei said angrily to Chen Xi. It is said that courtiers should stay away from the concubine, but these days, this aspect is not very strict. In addition, Liu Tong's harem is just like Si Niang, and there are many restrictions.
For Si Niang, it is no longer a restriction.
"It's just a joke. I told you back then that the young master will keep it. As for whether it's expensive or not, that's not a problem." Chen Xi smiled and said to Si Niang, "And try not to go out to buy anything. If you need anything,
Just go to Shaofu Cheng and he will solve it."
"Shaofu Cheng thinks that human beings cannot eat thirty meals of mutton for ten consecutive days, but I think I can." Si Niang said seriously.
These words directly silenced Chen Xiqian. After a long time, Chen Xi shook his head and said, "I think what Shaofu Cheng said is correct. Human beings really cannot be like this."
Liu Bei no longer wanted to answer the phone at this time. This situation would never happen to a normal human being. No wonder Si Niang went out of the palace to buy it herself. The young man was also afraid of eating the concubine and causing problems. Si Niang was not an immortal at all. Chen Xi was here
After realizing this, they asked Hua Tuo and Ji Xiang to conduct a special diagnosis, and finally determined that all functions of Si Niang's body were functioning. In other words, this was a living person.
As for why Si Niang, who is a living person, has so many weird skills, how can I put it? This may be Si Niang’s own problem, but in any case, Si Niang is a living person, so the palace dining room is given to Si Niang.
It also needs to be measured regularly.
Like Huaiyin Marquis and Wu Anjun, because they are orthodox immortals, there is no such thing as eating bad bodies, so they can be treated casually. But Si Niang is a living person and a concubine, so use the concubine's method.
Under management, if you eat mutton every day and get prickly heat, can you blame the chef?
That's not funny, so after confirming Si Niang's condition, Si Niang's food moved closer to Liu Tong's direction. Although it was relaxed, no matter how relaxed it was, it was impossible for Si Niang to eat ten food in a row.
Tianyang Rou, after all, is the concubine of the Han Dynasty, not the Yan family of the Xiongnu.
Even the Yan family of the Xiongnu should not eat mutton for ten consecutive days. This is something wrong. Isn't it wrong?
"Forget it, this is not the problem of the Young Master Cheng." Chen Xi was silent for a while and said, "Even if you like a certain food, you can't eat it because if something goes wrong, both the Young Master and the dining room will have big headaches."
Even if Chen Xi takes the responsibility and there is a problem with Si Niang's food, the people in charge of the Young Mansion and the kitchen will be very troubled, and they may even be attacked by the foreign court.
"Si Niang!" At this moment, Liu Tong appeared from behind the shadow wall with a team of guards and maids, and then greeted Si Niang.
Before, after Si Niang caused trouble and ran away with snacks, Liu Tong knew where Si Niang had gone. However, he would eat the food Si Niang brought back for himself, so Liu Tong ignored him. As a result, Si Niang ran out half the time.
After an hour, Liu Tong didn't come back, so Liu Tong thought Si Niang had disappeared again.
It sounds outrageous, but this happened several times in Shanglinyuan. He was beaten by Lu, was taken away by the adult gold gradually given by Stina, was pecked by the elephant bird given by the Wu family, etc.
Wait, in short, Si Niang's embarrassing incident happened more than once, so when Si Niang teleported away and didn't teleport back for half an hour, Liu Tong came with the palace maid.
There is no way, the only concubine in the Han Empire does not rely on walking, but relies on teleportation, so she usually has neither palace maids nor guards around her.
"I have met Her Highness the Princess." Chen Xi and Liu Bei both bowed and saluted, and Liu Tong also returned the salute.
"Si Niang, I asked you if you were lost somewhere again." Liu Tong came over and pulled Si Niang's bun and said with a smile.
"I'm just learning new knowledge from Chen Hou." Si Niang quickly explained after being grabbed by Liu Tong, "I learned some new things today."
"What?" Liu Tong asked curiously.
Si Niang hurriedly told Liu Tong what she had learned today, and Liu Tong frowned. After listening, he looked at Chen Xi, blinked, and almost said, "Chen Zichuan, you are a fool.
Not interesting?"
Chen Xi laughed dryly. He could fool most people with some things, but it was difficult to fool Liu Bei and Liu Tong. Liu Bei had worked with Chen Xi for many years, while Liu Tong simply didn't believe Chen Xi's nonsense. A sheep cost eight thousand coins.
?Liu Tong still believed what others said about flavor and texture, but when Chen Xi talked about this, it was completely nonsense.
For this kind of words, Liu Tong usually cuts the price from the bottom of his head, directly cutting 8,000 yuan into 800 yuan. Sometimes Liu Tong even doubts whether this thing is worth 800 yuan, but it's not.
The evidence cannot be too direct, but this does not prevent Liu Tong from expressing his doubts about Chen Xi in this aspect.
Chen Xi also laughed dryly when he saw this. Although Liu Tong did not have certain cognitions, he had strong intuition and could use Chen Xi's thinking logic. Coupled with Chen Xi's special tribute from the young master, many people actually liked the Royal Selection gameplay.
I doubt it, but there is indeed a huge gap in flavor and texture compared to other muttons, so much so that people who eat it feel that this thing must have a premium, but it is not too exaggerated.
I have no choice but to spend 8,000 yuan to buy this kind of thing. Of course, I have to find a top cook to handle it. Even a domestic cook will take out this so-called top ingredient when he gets it.
All the skills to handle it.
The quality of the food itself has an advantage of about 10%, and the processing is better. The cooking skills are higher and more willing to work hard. The final product tastes much better than what I have eaten before.
, that is really a normal situation.
If you include the special tribute of the Shaofu, the style of the royal family's selection, and change the environment of eating "high-end ingredients", there are indeed many people who are willing to accept this price. After all, this food is not eaten every day, and it is a luxury once in a while.
People are willing to accept it. After all, to achieve this level, it is indeed better than ordinary places and the food is much better than most.
This is also the key to not only being able to play this set of gameplay, but also to continue playing it, because after a lot of tossing, the food that comes out is indeed more delicious. Although the advantage brought by the ingredients is really only 10%, the rest are all
In the later stage, if you are really willing to put in the effort, ordinary ingredients can achieve more than 90% of the flavor at this level, but there are a few people who will put such effort into ordinary ingredients.
There is a saying that restaurants that can cook home-cooked dishes with signature dishes are the ones who are really good at it. Top-notch dishes that rely on piles of ingredients are just that, because the former is real skill, while the latter can only be achieved with practice.
Things you've learned through practice.
After all, the quality of ingredients still has a great impact on the final output. Most high-end ingredients can get pretty good reviews if they are cooked a little and retain the original flavor. But ordinary ingredients must be on the same level as high-end ingredients, then
The requirements for chefs are not generally high.
"Generally speaking, the quality of the ingredients produced by Shaofu is indeed better than others." Liu Bei said relatively fairly. There is nothing sinister about this matter. The quality is indeed good, but the quality is worth ten percent.
If it's twice the price, it's too much.
"Right, just say it's delicious?" Chen Xi said with a smile.
When Liu Tong heard this, he glanced at Chen Xi and said nothing. He pulled Si Niang and motioned to follow him back. Liu Tong had almost realized over the years that in terms of economy, they were still quite far away from Chen Xi, so
There's no need to get hung up on this.
Before leaving, Si Niang took away a few melons from Cookie. This is why Cookie thought that there were many pests in Shanglin Garden and there was no way to clean them up.
Regarding these pests today, what kind of pesticide do you think should be used?
"Zichuan is really shocking in terms of economy." Liu Bei said with some emotion. He didn't understand this, but whether the lives of the people under his rule are good or bad is something that the top management is really willing to pay attention to. In fact,
I know very well in my heart that the situation of the Han Dynasty is getting better and better every year.
"It's nothing, it's just to break away from the land output, liberate some people from heavy agricultural production, and join the handicraft industry that can provide higher output. In fact, most of these things now are also
I just barely escaped from the handicraft workshop." Chen Xi said with some emotion, but the scary part is here, just barely leaving the handicraft workshop, the profits it created crushed agricultural output.
Even if Chen Xi did not try his best to buy back grain, manufacture other products, and maintain grain prices, ordinary people, that is, farmers who account for more than 90% of this era, would probably be forced to leave their hometowns because of excessively low grain prices.
Entering the handicraft workshop.
This is actually the dilemma that Chen Xi mentioned before. If we do not buy back grain, stabilize grain prices, and let grain continue to fall to four cents per dou, the interests of farming will not be guaranteed, and the agricultural population will inevitably be forced to turn to handicrafts.
development, and then accelerate the development of the Han Dynasty's industrial system, create more profits, and then further squeeze the living space of the agricultural population.
In the end, it occupies the largest agricultural population and suffers the biggest loss. It can eat enough, but don't think about anything else. It is said to be a prosperous age, and it is indeed a prosperous age, but compared to the handicraft industry, there is no future, so we can only stick to it.
That bit of land, with meager land output.
Theoretically, by following this path, Chen Xi could amass wealth in a short period of time that the Han Dynasty had not accumulated in four hundred years. Even in just a dozen years of development, the Han Dynasty could directly surpass the thousands of years of accumulation in the feudal era. But this
If the pattern is formed, the road ahead will be determined. Even the sleepers under the rolling wheels of industry can be said to have been prepared in advance.
As for buyback, that is what Chen Xi is doing now, buying back land output and continuously supplementing agriculture with the basic industrial system. The final result is that local people can live well by farming, and there will not be a large number of
Manpower to supplement and strengthen the industrial system.
Although in this case, people with lofty ideals and insight will continue to invest in this basic industrial system and let this thing continue to develop, but they want to quickly surpass the feudal accumulation of thousands of years like the former.
, basically impossible to achieve.
The basic logic of the so-called industrial revolution surpassing two thousand years of feudalism in one year is that the blood stained by industrialization before its outbreak was not much less than that of feudalism for two thousand years. Some things and some futures can only be achieved through sacrifice.
Chen Xi's current situation is really relying on the Han Dynasty as the first-mover empire, which has sufficient resources and territory, and has its own restraints. Otherwise, industrial cannibalism would have happened long ago.
To put it too far, couldn't the Han family see that the price of wool was higher than the price of mutton? Didn't they know that the simplest solution at this time was to destroy the people in the north and then let the ranch accept these exiled people for transformation?
Then promote wool spinning on a large scale?
Not to mention anything else, we pushed forward batch by batch, county after county, and in a few years, millions of exiled people were squeezed out from the north. It was definitely not a problem not to cause unrest, but why didn't it happen?
Is it that the Han family is kind? Is it that the Han family is unimaginable? No, it’s because they don’t dare!
When wool spinning first came out, the northern aristocratic families who realized the potential of this thing were eliminated by Li You before they even arrived in Yuanfengnian.
Chen Xi drew the line and clearly told all the aristocratic families that when I move in a certain direction, you can use force in other directions, but you cannot go against my direction. I say go east, and you go northeast.
Southeast, or even directly south or north will work, but if you go west, you will die!
Chen Xi still controls the entire industrial system and economic framework to this day, because at this level, it is left to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang may not be able to withstand the impact of major aristocratic families, so he can only hand it over to Zhuge Liang bit by bit and let him verify and go.
To know and to understand.
Because this thing is not as benevolent as the Three Kings era as the Confucianists say, nor is it as clear-cut as the Legalists say, nor is it a magic weapon that brings peace and prosperity to the world. In essence, this thing is coming.
In the human world, it is more about allowing certain people to eat people in a more efficient way!
In other words, this thing has big problems at its core. It is just a matter of using it correctly. Chen Xi's cautious operation is just to avoid a backlash one day.
"Let's go, let's take you somewhere." After leaving Weiyang Palace, Liu Bei grabbed Chen Xi and prepared to take Chen Xi to somewhere outside the city.
"Where are we going? It's better to go to General Guan. I remember that General Guan has been recuperating in Chang'an these days and barbecues every day?" Chen Xi said casually. Even so, Chen Xi still followed the direction of Liu Bei's efforts and headed to Guan Yu's residence.
opposite direction.
"Yun Chang is having a barbecue banquet tonight. We are still preparing for it now. We can't eat even if we go there." Liu Bei said casually, "Let me go to a place with you first and have a barbecue when I come back tonight."
"Really?" Chen Xi was quite surprised when he heard this. He hadn't received the invitation letter yet. How did Liu Bei know about it?
"Yun Chang has sent people to notify everyone. Besides, do you still need an invitation letter?" Liu Bei said angrily. With this distance and this relationship, I want an invitation letter from Mao. It's nothing to do, right? Guan Yu will come over then.
Notice, you have nothing to do, just take the cub over and that's it.
"Is there anything magical here?" He followed Liu Bei into a long carriage with five pairs of wheels, and then drove all the way to Lantian County at super high speed. At this speed, Chen Xi estimated that it would only take more than an hour to reach Lantian County.
.
As for why it is a long carriage with five pairs of wheels, it is because with the establishment of the standard carriage, the four-wheeled carriage with a long carriage has too obvious advantages in terms of load and comfort, and it quickly overthrew the former two-wheeled carriage, and then with the
Under the stimulation of the essence of heaven and earth, horses developed more obviously, and carriages with more wheels, larger carriages, and heavier loads appeared.
The one currently used by Liu Bei has almost caught up with the back compartment of later generations of vans. Naturally, the comfort and safety of this thing surpass the two-wheeled carriages of the past. To put it bluntly, Qin Shihuang once
If you were riding this thing, even if Zhang Liang's big hammer hit it, nothing would happen. The inner lining of this thing is made of the same material as the thing used by the shield guard.
Although Liu Bei felt that it was unnecessary, Li You still persuaded Liu Bei to commit suicide because his daughter's son could not sit down in court. If he was really unlucky, he encountered a spy from the Kushan Empire lurking in the Han Dynasty, and then he suddenly came over without any plan.
, then something really big has happened.
Liu Bei thought about it and it was the same thing. He was somewhat of a knight-errant. Although Xu Chu was his bodyguard, he sometimes ran away on a whim without taking Xu Chu with him. Considering that Zhou Yu was unlucky
The children were all killed on the spot due to the unplanned and accidental assassination of the Kushan veterans. Liu Bei's trip during this period of time can be regarded as remembering that he still has such a thing.
"Take you to Lantian and let you see it." Liu Bei said cheerfully.
"Is there anything strange in Lantian?" Chen Xi asked curiously. Liu Bei smiled and did not answer directly. He just asked the driver to speed up and drove to Lantian at a fast pace.
Speeding all the way to Lantian County, before entering the city, Chen Xi saw the 80-year-old new eldest elder of the Yuan family, Yuan Sui, with the 70-year-old second elder Yuan Tao and a group of old guys from the Yuan family surrounding Kong Rong.
Chen Xi was stunned and turned to look at Liu Bei, who was also stunned.
"Xuan De Gong, are you not so bored? You have been running for almost an hour just to show the old Yuan family and the old Yang family besieging Kong Changshi?" Chen Xi said helplessly to Liu Bei, although this is considered worthy.
It's interesting, but after traveling hundreds of miles to see this, it's really a bit much.
"Well, I'm not that bored. I originally wanted to take you to see the new popular education methods in Lantian County. To a certain extent, it has indeed achieved what you thought back then, and the result is...
I didn't take you there, but I encountered this." Liu Bei said with some embarrassment. He is not such a boring person. How could he travel hundreds of miles to watch the elders of a big family fight in groups? A person like him would do this for such a thing.
You can run a few miles at most, not hundreds of miles.
"Kong Wenju, hand over those people you took away, otherwise don't blame our Yuan family for being too cruel!" Yang Chang grabbed Kong Rong's sleeve and shouted loudly. When the matter has reached this point, of course the Yuan family will take the blame.
, Besides there are many Yuan family members present, as long as they are careful, there is a high probability that the Yang family will not reveal that they have beaten Kong Rong, the president of the university.
"All the people have been sent overseas!" Even if he was dragged by Yuan Yang, Kong Rong was still very stubborn. If he had not participated in the imperial meeting at the end of the year, Kong Rong himself would have gone to New Zealand to engage in the pastoral song in his imagination. Now
Want someone from him? Do you want anyone? Want your life? I'm here, let's see if you can kill me!
"Overseas? In Southeast Asia, no board is allowed to enter the sea! What the hell are you doing overseas!" Yuan Suizhen said angrily. The old Yuan family had been staring at the technicians in the animal husbandry industry all morning, but in the blink of an eye, they were all gone, including the principal.
Damn it, my old Yuan family has great hands and eyes, and I can let you go out to sea!
"Jiangdong, right? Your relationship is strong, right? Our relationship is not strong, right!" Kong Rong said very forcefully, but these words are not empty words. The Yuan family's relationship in Jiangdong is indeed very strong. After all, Sun Ce is half Yuan Shu's son.
The relationship is terrifyingly hard, but so what, I don’t have any connections with the Kong family? We can’t find Sun Ce, and we can’t find the Jiangdong family either. What a low-level bureaucrat in a confidential position can do is no less important than what your big shot can do.
"This world is still a Confucian world!" Kong Rong said very unconvinced.
"Stop talking nonsense and escort us back. Where is our newly elected head of the Kong family?" Yang Chang greeted Yuan Sui, "Headmaster, right? You can't be cruel, right? It doesn't matter, we have the head of the Kong family!"
Chen Xi looked over at the group of people giving in and cursing, and it was a good show. However, it is really outrageous that the Yang family has reached this level. They have even found the new head of the Kong family. This is indeed a beast, but
Thinking about it, there are indeed many Confucian people who are dissatisfied with Kong Rong. The Confucian factions are reflected in the Confucian family itself. Overthrowing Kong Rong and electing a new head of the Confucian family seems to be a solution to the problem.
"You don't care?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi who came back and asked.
"What do I care about?" Chen Xi replied casually.
Watching a large group of arrogant walking guys getting into the cart beside them, they were so focused that they didn't even notice themselves. Among them, Kong Rong, the veteran of Yuan Yang's clan, stood firmly in the middle, looking away, and couldn't help but
quipped, "It's okay if aristocratic families fight in a melee and don't disturb the people."
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