Now, when Li Min travels, especially when leaving the city, he must bring at least a hundred guards with him. Shen Wei must be by his side, and the four shadow guards also follow him.
Now Li Min's safety issue has become a top priority.
After walking to the street, Li Min found that there were obviously twice as many government officials on the street today than usual.
Li Min couldn't help but curiously asked Xiao Liuzi: "Xiao Liuzi, why are there so many government servants on the street today?"
Xiao Liuzi smiled and said: "Your Highness, today is the day when the exam starts, that's why we have so many extra people, for fear of causing any trouble."
Oh, it turns out that today is the day when the imperial examination starts.
So, Shangguan Yi has already entered the examination room?
After the results are released in a few days, Shangguan Yi will be in high school and can become an official after training.
Alas, it seems to be getting further and further away from me.
After sighing with emotion, Li Min walked out and went straight to Wucheng.
Now his food allowance has increased again, reaching a total of 1,500 households.
And there are several villages next to each other.
The two newly added villages are called Shangtuqiao and Xiatuqiao, or Tuqiao for short.
The villagers in these two villages couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard that they had become the food envoys of His Highness Prince Liang.
Who doesn’t know that Prince Liang was the most prodigal son of the Tang Dynasty?
The stupid one with more money!
Look at the villagers in Wucheng Village. Following King Liang, their lives are getting better and better day by day!
I heard that King Liang should charge 70% of the rent in their village, and the remaining 30% should be handed over to the state treasury.
And the King of Liang waved his hand, and 30% of what was handed over to the treasury must be handed over.
And the 70% that was handed over to Prince Liang's Mansion will be directly exempted this year.
This alone makes them jealous until their eyes turn red.
Not to mention, every household now raises pigs.
The feed for raising pigs was provided by King Liang on his own initiative, and he would recycle it at a guaranteed price when the time comes.
All the good things in this world have been overtaken by the villagers of Wucheng Village.
But now, their Tuqiao Village has finally become the food seal of King Liang.
How could they not be happy in their hearts?
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After Li Min conducted an on-site inspection, he found that this place was quite suitable for building a paper mill.
Because paper mills need to purchase a lot of wood, reeds, bagasse, straw, wheat straw, hemp straw and other raw materials to make paper pulp.
If it were placed in the city, it might be a problem.
But there is a large open space between these four villages, which is perfect for building a factory.
As for the printing factory, after careful consideration, Li Min finally decided that it would be better to place it in Prince Liang's Mansion.
In the paper mill, Li Min is not worried about leaking secrets.
Because he wants to improve papermaking technology, Li Min plans to purchase some advanced equipment directly from the mall.
Of course, these devices are not electric devices and do not require electricity and fuel.
But it was still much better than the technology at the time.
Even if someone is looking at it, it will be difficult for them to imitate it.
But printing is different. The most important thing about printing is the innovation of a concept.
As long as people know this concept, it won't take long for them to figure it out and explain it.
So if you put it here, it will be difficult to keep it confidential.
In this case, if printing is done, let's just leave it to Prince Liang's Mansion.
Li Min wanted to see who dared to act wild in Prince Liang's palace.
This time, Li Min decided to leave the preliminary preparations for the construction of the paper mill to Liushu.
Liushu is Liushan's nephew, whom Li Min met last time, and he is relatively honest and reliable.
Therefore, after finding the willow tree, when Li Min proposed to build a paper mill here, he asked him to take the lead and help build the factory.
After hearing Li Min's request and benefits, Liu Shu immediately felt grateful and agreed without hesitation.
It is true that the treatment given by Li Min is too generous.
Not only did he take care of three meals a day, he was also given a salary of ten cents a day.
Such wages are worth four times their wages!
His Royal Highness, Prince Liang, is really stupid and has too much money - well, he is really a good person!
…
After settling the matter, Li Min rode back.
After returning, Liu Shan came to report that no one was selling soybeans in Chang'an City.
Currently, all the soybeans are in their hands.
Li Min sent someone to conduct a secret investigation and found that the Wang family had indeed disposed of all the soybeans, leaving no grains in their hands.
Well, in that case, it's time to implement the next plan.
Thinking of this, Li Min couldn't help but secretly give an order to the two chefs on the first floor of the world.
During this period, someone has been approaching the two chefs on the first floor of the world, overtly and covertly, in order to extract from their mouths how the vegetable oil they use is extracted.
But these two chefs themselves hold shares in the No. 1 company in the world.
The King of Liang treated them with great kindness. Moreover, once they betrayed the King of Liang, they might really die without a burial place.
After all, King Liang was a fierce man who dared to kill even the Wang family's children without getting hurt.
Therefore, these two chefs have never revealed the method of extracting vegetable oil.
But now they got instructions from the King of Liang, so the two pretended to be rich, leaked the method of making vegetable oil, and gave each other a part of the finished soybean oil.
So, the Wang family soon learned that the vegetable oil was actually soybean oil, which was pressed from soybeans.
After getting this news, everyone in the Wang family was almost vomiting blood!
Prince Liang is such a grandson!
First, they were deceived into buying a large amount of soybeans, buying them continuously from all directions, and then transporting them to Chang'an.
Is the acquisition completed?
People are deliberately showing false appearances to prove that you have been fooled.
The Wang family had to cut prices and get rid of all the soybeans.
Then the grandson secretly took over all the soybeans and pretended to raise pigs.
In fact, during this period, the Wang family had no doubts.
But King Liang was too treacherous, so after much hesitation, the Wang family disposed of all the soybeans at a low price with tears in their eyes.
However, as soon as they disposed of it here, they immediately learned how to make vegetable oil there. It turned out that it was actually soybean oil, which was pressed from soybeans.
The Wang family even suspected that King Liang had deliberately let them know this news.
Well, by the next day, this suspicion was confirmed. Yes, their suspicion was correct.
Because after they spent a lot of money to buy vegetable oil, which is soybean oil, and how to squeeze it, everyone in Chang'an City knew about it.
If this was not spread by King Liang, they would not believe it even if they were killed!
Now, the Wang family is almost going crazy!
But after all, the news hasn't been conveyed yet, and they still have a little bit of initiative.
So, the Wang family immediately sent an order to buy soybeans on a large scale. They wanted to squeeze out the soybean oil in front of everyone and make a lot of money.
