Chapter 13 Where there is cotton, I will also plant it

"Brother Yi, you can indeed raise it." When Li Chengqi heard the price, he suddenly realized.

The twelfth jar of soy sauce over there, 6,000 yuan was bought.

One pound and six hundred Wen, my brothers were taken for nothing before.

To say that it is cheap, it is to lie to yourself.

But if you want to say it's expensive, it's not expensive.

Bucket rice is 300 yuan, a liter is 30 yuan, and a liter can usually weigh a catty and eight taels.

Sixteen taels and one catty, one catty is twenty dollars.

When you go to the store to eat soy sauce, you can't eat a pound at a time.

It's about the same as the staple food, it's not expensive.

"If you don't sell 10,000 catties the day before yesterday...... Li Chengqi feels that it was cheaper before.

"If it doesn't sell 10,000 catties, how can everyone in Chang'an City know soy sauce?" Li Yi can think about it, and the previous one belonged to advertising.

"That's right." Li Chengqi figured it out.

Anyway, Brother Yi can continue to make soy sauce, and others will either figure it out by themselves or have to buy it.

It is impossible to rob.

The official robbed, and the third brother just found an opportunity to go under the knife.

The strongman robbed, and when the veteran was found, he was equipped with a bow and crossbow.

It is not soy sauce that is protected, but more things that are beneficial to people's livelihood.

Brother Yi can always come up with a good way, Sinong Temple and Shaofu Supervisor should learn from Brother Yi.

"The last jar, the last jar of soy sauce today, 7,600 yuan, is there anything higher? I'll buy it tomorrow, but it's not the people I have now. ”

The steward Song De shouted, his body was trembling at the moment, and he sold it for a lot of money.

With an average of 4,630 yuan per jar, making soy sauce is very simple, and the cost can be counted.

"Eight thousand, I look at the river building for eight thousand dollars." Someone shouted.

Two palace maids and two eunuchs, dressed in palace costumes, stood beside them.

They use their identities to tell others not to think crookedly.

The two palace maids jointly carried a tray and sent a jar of soy sauce to the person who bought it.

The person who buys soy sauce looks at this posture and understands, understands, knows, knows......

"Big brother, do you like chicken?" Li Yi suddenly asked a question that had nothing to do with the matter at hand.

"Eat, stewed delicious, roasted delicious." Li Chengqi looked at Li Yi expectantly as he spoke.

"I bought some chicken, and I went back and smoked it for the eldest brother, the third brother, and a few brothers I hadn't seen before." Li Yi said.

"What to buy? I'll send you, you, go, catch thirty chickens and come back. Fast. ”

Li Chengqi waited for Li Yi's words, and sure enough, there was something delicious.

Don't doubt, let alone hesitate, the third brother is ready to call the people in the imperial dining room to come over and learn to cook with Brother Yi.

There is actually a method of making dishes called stir-frying.

Why is the stir-fried dish so delicious?

Li Yi looks at the sky and the height of the sun.

Thinking about how long it will take to make smoked chicken, and if you want to take it away before tonight, you have to find someone to help, and you can't do it alone.

In less than half an hour, fifty chickens were brought back by several fast horses.

Li Chengqi said thirty, and the people who went to do the work couldn't really take the thirty back, what if it wasn't enough?

The soy sauce puffs over there were sold out, and everyone sorted out the money and cloth.

The hostess of ten tenants came and helped to kill the chickens.

The clay pot is ready, put water and salt on it, cut the neck of the chicken and bleed, stirring in one direction.

When the chicken is no longer struggling and bleeding, replace it with the next one.

The students who read came out to watch, and there was no so-called gentleman's consciousness of cooking.

They knew that it would not work at noon, but there would be chicken blood to eat at night.

Maybe there's also chicken stewed yam.

Li Yi also beckoned his eldest brother Li Chengqi to kill chickens, and he was skilled.

Pull off the feathers on the chicken's neck, and blood will spurt out with a knife.

"Brother Yi fishing?" Li Chengqi was frightened by the scene of killing chickens and found a topic.

"I don't fish, but I use nets, and I fish for food, not for fun." Li Yi said calmly.

He doesn't take fishing as entertainment, he goes to the net when he wants to eat.

If it's shrimp, it's fishing and nesting, and it's all about eating.

Li Yi put down the second chicken that was killed in his hand, and said: "All living people have no evil crimes, they can be killed but not abused." ”

"What if there is a great sin?" Li Chengqi asked.

"Abuse him a thousand times to set an example for those who come after him." Li Yi said.

Turning his head, he saw that everyone was using boiling water to remove chicken feathers, and said happily: "Remove the hair, dry, fill clothes in winter, and have no cotton people." ”

"Wear it for someone else? The people on your Zhuangzi don't fill their clothes with chicken feathers? Li Chengqi felt that Brother Yi ignored Zhuangzi.

"I bought duck down in the autumn, and the chicken feathers are not as good as duck down." Li Yi said confidently.

Li Chengqi nodded, indicating that he was convinced, if you have money, you can do it.

Speaking of keeping warm clothes this winter, Li Yi remembered one thing.

"Big brother, do tributary white stacks have seeds? If so, I will reduce the paddy fields and plant them. Li Yi asked about cotton seeds.

He knew that there was cotton cloth for sale, and the price was still very high.

Then the people of Chang'an planted that thing as a flower, and some places in the south were already weaving, but the varieties were not very good.

It is better to sell cotton fabrics from the Western Regions to Chang'an.

"Yes." Li Chengqi understands this.

I also know about cotton, but that cloth is not as good as silk.

The price is expensive because it is less, and it is a little better than clothes made of hemp.

Everyone planted it to see the flowers, which is quite fun.

"Then why not plentiful?" Li Yi wondered.

"It's useless, it's not as smooth as silk, and the yield is not as good as mulberry hemp." Li Chengqi gave a reason.

Li Yi took a deep breath and realized.

It turns out that the textile process of cotton is not up to standard, and the yield per mu is low.

Everyone knows it can weave, but it doesn't.

Especially north of the Yangtze River, what are you doing with this thing? Isn't it good to grow food?

And then south of the Yangtze River, there is kapok, and it is not very cold in winter there, so it is good to get a little kapok and stuff it into your clothes.

"Big brother, get me seeds, I'll plant them, it's good to make fillers, and it's warm in winter." Li Yiti requested.

He was ready to reduce the area under rice cultivation and switch to cotton.

Cotton is seen by others as weaving, and then compared with silk, silk, linen, and other fabrics.

But its real purpose is to keep warm, and the fur is also warm, but the fur clothes are heavy and expensive, and there are few people who can afford to wear them?

You don't have to take cotton to weave cloth.

Silk and linen cloth, cotton seri will do.

Moreover, cotton cloth has a characteristic, it is not as smooth as silk, but it is not as harmful to the skin as hemp.

The cloth woven from cotton is filled with cotton as a quilt, and it is comfortable to cover.

Sleep with a cover to keep warm in the winter, and cool down when you sleep in the summer.

Yes, the quilt can also be used in the summer, hold it in your arms.

Compared with pure cotton quilts, what space cotton and air conditioning quilts are all standing aside.

Li Chengqi, who has never covered a quilt, had the first idea of keeping up.

"Brother Yi, how much do you plan to plant?" Li Chengqi asked, he didn't think there would be a problem.

"Two hundred acres." Li Yi decided to reduce the paddy field to 600 acres.

It's not a matter of money, if the cotton is operated well, more will be planted, especially at the border, it will be planted together, and then the life expectancy will be increased.

"Even so, I also plant." Li Chengqi said.

He now has a kind of confidence in his Yi brother.

Whatever Brother Yi wants to do, it will never be wrong to keep up.

So he sent for the seeds.

At noon, in the big restaurant, everyone ate fried chicken offal and fried chicken blood with green onions.

Some hens still have eggs in their stomachs, so they steamed egg custard and drizzled soy sauce for the children to eat.

A man with a tenant opens his mouth to say something.

Li Yi saw it and said directly: "Don't tell me anything about the children who haven't seen the sun and eat badly?" There are also pig tail children who are afraid of eating, and fish roe children who can't know how to count after eating. ”

When he said one, the dealer nodded in agreement.

"That's shameless for adults, good things to eat by themselves, not for children to eat, on my Zhuangzi, not allowed." Li Yi said categorically.

The dealers suddenly realized that the adults wanted to eat, so they deceived the children, but was it really like that?

They absolutely believe in the proprietor's words, and what the proprietor says must be right, and if they have heard others say it before, it is wrong.

The people brought by Li Chengqi ate with them, and the rice was small rice.

But they found that this dish was so delicious, it was obviously chicken blood and chicken offal, how did it make it so fragrant?

Then they went to see what the children were eating, and they were even more greedy.

The children ate mutton siu mai, the leftover mutton the day before yesterday.

I made steamed buns and fried boxes for the children, and the last ones today were steamed and simmered.

The child also dipped it in soy sauce and ate it, and the people who came with Li Chengqi looked distressed.

The last portion of soy sauce is 9,200 yuan, and a catty is 920 yuan.

The children ate a meal, and it is estimated that three or two are gone.

Sixteen taels and one pound, one hundred and seventy dollars.

And it's garlic sauce, are you sure it's a tenant's child? Not born by the proprietor?

The tenants ate their meals in large gulps, eating vegetables, pickles, and chicken soup.

They knew that in order to repay the proprietor, they had to work harder, and that they had to eat well to work with strength.

"Stir-fry with garlic sprouts next time." Li Yi eats chicken blood, which is less spicy.

It's not good for him to take out the chili sauce yet, there are too many people, not enough points.

"Brother Yi, your chicken blood is delicious." Li Chengqi wondered, he had eaten chicken blood and sheep blood.

"Use soybean oil, take the pot of tempeh sauce, everyone always has tempeh sauce, right?" Li Yi said.

"Oh, Brother Yi, I'm also looking for someone to prepare to squeeze oil, the soybean oil is fishy, and it must be exploded?"

Li Chengqi has already learned how to squeeze soybean oil, and now he is learning how to eat soybean oil.

Li Yi shook his head: "Raw oil is not used to fry the pot, you don't need to cook the oil, put the soybean oil in the cauldron, turn off the fire when the smoke is about to rise, and you don't need to burst the pot when you cook." ”

"It's already smoking?" Li Chengqi asked.

"It's okay, it doesn't affect anything." Li Yi understood, the soybean oil that the eldest brother went to from his house did not control the heat in the pot and smoked.

"Put the food in, and it's cooked." Li Chengqi was entangled.

"After the smoke, can't you wait for a cold to cool off? Straight to the top? You can't do that with meat oil. ”

Li Yi was distressed, why is this person so stupid?