Chapter 133 People’s Livelihood Is Better than Writing Articles (Chapter 1)

Queen Wang took a small bite of the carrot piece. When she heard Li Yi say, she chewed it twice and swallowed it, and asked: "How to find the roots of all things?"

"Gewu." Li Yi replied in two words.

"Oh, uncle means that you will know the arrival after observing the object." Queen Wang understood.

"Of course!" Li Yi nodded.

"What's there?" Queen Wang was still curious.

"The sun and the moon alternate, the stars rotate, and the four seasons change in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The great rivers flow eastward, and the wind and water rise and the clouds gather and disperse." Li Yi said a few general sentences.

"Is it beneficial to the people?" Li Longji felt that the Sun, Moon and Stars were too big and wanted to know about the smaller aspects.

"The grains on the ridges are plentiful, and merchants and merchants are prosperous. Boats and carriages arrive every day, and doctors and people govern the country." Li Yi said about scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.

"Then, uncle must make good candidates, and don't let bad people learn his skills." Empress Wang expressed her belief that her uncle has this ability.

Li Longji also believed that at least Li Yi had achieved a good harvest, not to mention doing business, healing people, miraculous doctors, and governing the country. Just look at the thousands of people like Zhuangzi.

All that's left is that boats and carts can travel a thousand miles a day. This...

I guess it can be done, I'll have to wait until Li Yi finds time to do it.

That way... it would be easier to report urgently at 800 miles away.

So he agreed: "Yes, choosing people is important."

"Yes!" Li Yi followed.

"Can we look for someone from the Imperial Academy?" Queen Wang suggested.

Li Yi refused: "If you don't go to the Imperial College, the forty-two people who are willing to do things first will come first."

"Yes." Li Longji felt that the forty-two students waiting for the exam were good, they were diligent in studying and serious in work.

After their family members came over, they sent people to investigate and found out that they were innocent.

As for why he failed the exam in the first place, his literary talent was just not enough. If Brother Yi wanted to teach him literary talent, it would be easy.

"Do you still have the carrots? I want to take them back...make them for heaven and earth to eat." Queen Wang likes to eat carrots.

Li Yi doesn't feel much about this. He always thinks that raw carrots are delicious, but cooked carrots have a worse texture and taste, although he always eats cooked ones.

"Yes, but the raw ones are gone. If they are not washed with water, they can last all winter." Li Yi felt helpless when he said this. Why are you, Yu Huaide, so diligent?

Li Longji sat there, rolling his eyes. He knew that Yu Huaide was still there, so...

The first day of the twelfth lunar month.

After receiving the order, Pei Yaoqing went out and led the team to a house in Qinrenfang, southwest of Dongshi City, where a government official called the door.

"Is Shopkeeper Yu here? I'll be here tomorrow," the Yamen servant said.

Yu Huaide ran out in a skirt and saw Pei Yaoqing. He was impressed and hurriedly opened the door himself.

"The Ming Mansion actually came in person, and I suddenly felt sleepy..."

"Go in and tell me, it's really cold under the skirt." Pei Yaoqing knew something about Yu Huaide's situation.

"Thank you Mingfu for your understanding." Yu Huaide showed a grateful expression.

When the group entered, Yu Huaide asked Pei Yaoqing to take a seat, and he straightened his skirts and sat next to him.

Pei Yaoqing looked at the other party and wanted to laugh, but the other party came back with great ambitions, but ended up bumping his head against Li Yizhuangzi's head.

"Did Ming Mansion come here about the ice sculpture?" Yu Huaide spoke first.

"It's a small matter of ice sculptures. I heard that shopkeeper Yu has carrots?" Pei Yaoqing went straight to the point.

"Yes, there are some." Yu Huaide understood. If he could say the word "carrot", it must be someone from Li Yi.

"How many?" Pei Yaoqing asked again.

"Uh~~~" Yu Huaide hesitated.

"Someone in the palace wants five strings and one catty. Whoever you want to send as a gift, why not entertain me at Pingkangfang another day, and I will go there."

Pei Yaoqing told the other party not to worry about not having anything to give away. I will go and help you. I just want to get to know some people!

"No money." Yu Huaide shook his head, feeling that the whole room was sunny.

"When the palace takes your things by force? Five strings and one catty." Pei Yaoqing insisted on giving money, but it was not him who paid for it anyway.

"There is still less than three hundred catties, no, it is more than two hundred catties, so let's count it as two hundred catties." Yu Huaide chose to earn less.

Turning his head, he said to his men: "Go, wash all the remaining carrots and give them to..."

"Wait a minute." Pei Yaoqing quickly stopped and said seriously: "Don't wash it. Bring it with mud."

This was a deliberate explanation by the messenger Huangmen, and it was more than one sentence.

So Pei Yaoqing left with more than 260 kilograms of unwashed carrots. Calculating the two hundred kilograms and one thousand yuan, he gave Yu Huaide five additional places for ice lanterns.

At noon that day, Queen Wang was watching people cutting carrots with bamboo knives in the palace.

She was giving instructions, and Li Longji was also there.

"Leave an extra half an inch, cut into twenty pieces, send them to heaven and earth, and bring them back. A basin, not a copper basin, but a pottery one. Put twenty heads in it, add water, if there is too much, pour it out..."

She looked like an expert. She just learned how to do it in the breeding room yesterday, and she also drank a lot of distilled nutrient solution.

There is no special equipment in the palace for distilling humus, and the smell during the distillation process is unpleasant.

"This is so strange. Change the water and soak it for a few days. Green shoots will grow and then be buried in the soil. There will also be radishes growing underneath."

Queen Wang has never encountered such an operation.

According to her idea, grow it, cut it off and eat it, then bury the top part in the soil, grow it again, cut it again...

Cut some carrots and plant them every day, one day at a time, and finally you will have carrots to eat every day.

Li Longji stood aside and watched, thinking about what Li Yi said about carrots being easier to preserve in winter than big radishes.

Then there is a shortage of vegetables in winter, so eating carrots is very effective, but the corners of the mouth are rotten and the vision is blurred at night.

If this is given to the soldiers, they can take advantage of it in a night battle with the enemy. The enemy cannot see clearly at night.

Every vegetable that can be stored for a long time in the north is worth promoting and planting.

"My Tang Dynasty is different from the past." Li Longji thought, and suddenly said a sentence, full of confidence.

***

The ice is still being chipped.

Ice sculptures began to be made, and many wealthy households who could not afford to store ice during the winter bought meat and sent it to the ice cutters.

Ask those who work to help cut out more ice, and then take it home and put it in the ice cellar.

If you don’t have an ice cellar, hire someone to dig. UU reads www.uukanshu.net to dig out the permafrost.

The workers have formed a one-stop service organization. If anyone wants to dig an ice cellar, they go there and dig it, and then they take out the ice and put it in.

The money earned is shared among everyone, and since there are many skilled people, the work can be done quickly, making this winter easier.

Their shoes, warm leather pants, thick gloves, and tools were provided by the yamen.

It's just for private work, as long as it doesn't delay the Yamen's affairs.

Pei Yaoqing knew it, ignored it, and acquiesced.

At that time, there will be plenty of ice among rich households in the summer, and the poor will live a good life, which is considered a political achievement.

He was currently strolling next to the carved ice sculptures, which were covered with sheds made of the worst cloth.

During the day, cover the ice sculptures to prevent dust from falling and add a new dimension to the scenery.

In the cold weather, the literati breathed out and studied what to draw and what to write.

Priority will be given to students and rural tributes who are going to take the exam next year. Aren't they going to have no way to contribute? Aren’t they the ones who complain about rich people having connections?

The opportunity has come. If you write well and draw well, leave your identity information below. When the time comes, you can choose one based on it.

If you can't even do this, it's useless to contribute.

"The most difficult thing is poetry." A student put his hands in front of his mouth to breathe and keep warm, and said to several friends.

"No, the most difficult part is painting. You can still do a certain painting as long as you write your name first." Another person said.

The boat of friendship is about to capsize.

Pei Yaoqing couldn't stand it any longer, and stood there and said, "Writing about who painted the paintings, who wrote the poems, and if I can write a policy review on ice sculptures, that would be a higher priority."

As he spoke, he shook his head. These students are stupid. They are not as good as Brother Yi. In his place, he would just draw and write casually when he goes to a place, and then go to the next place.