Chapter 19: The Arrogant Chai Shao

After Li Feng got "Heavenly Creations", he began to formally contact the content of the book, and immediately felt deep awe and admiration for the author.

I've heard of this as an ancient encyclopedia before, but I don't know much about its contents.

I did not expect that this book would include agriculture, handicrafts, such as machinery, bricks, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, dyeing, salt making, coal mining, oil extraction, and other production techniques.

This is a real encyclopedia, with the book "Heavenly Creation", knowing that if you don't die, you will be able to walk sideways.

Through the book, after Li Feng studied for a whole day, he began to be eager to try, but he couldn't find a clue for a while, and he didn't know what to do first.

After this is done, what should I do, sell it to others or do it myself.

While he was struggling, two guests came to the tavern. They are Tang Jian and Chai Shao.

"Shopkeeper Xiao Li, I haven't seen you for many days, and the old man misses it very much." Tang Jian said with a smile.

Li Feng came back to his senses, and when he saw Tang Jian, he immediately smiled, stood up and said, "It turned out to be Lord Tang, a rare guest, really a rare guest, please take a seat, please take a seat." ”

After Li Feng guided the two of them to sit down, he turned around and poured them two cups of tea.

Tang Jian took the tea with a smile and said, "Thank you." ”

Chai Shao knocked on the table and nodded at Li Feng, without even saying a word of thanks.

Li Feng sat down indifferently and said, "Lord Tang, the so-called Three Treasures Hall is not going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, this time I won't come here just to catch up with the past." ”

Tang Jian said with a smile: "There is indeed something serious, I will introduce you to someone first." He pointed to Chai Shao beside him, "This is the brother-in-law of His Majesty today, Huo Guogong, and the general of the right guard, Chai Shao, General Chai Shao." ”

"It turned out to be General Chai, and I have admired it for a long time." Li Feng said complimentally, no wonder I don't give me face so much, people with big shelves are not easy to get along with.

Chai Shao nodded casually, in response to Li Feng's words.

Li Feng frowned slightly, and said in his heart: "It's really hard to get along with the big shelf, they are all generals, Cheng Biting Jin and them are much easier to get along with, no wonder Cheng Biting Jin's reputation in history is greater than everyone else." ”

With a smile on his face, he asked, "I don't know what the two of you are doing when you come to me?" ”

Chai Shao opened his mouth and said: "Shopkeeper Xiao Li, the Ming people don't say secret words, the court already knows that you have alcohol, so it sent the two of us to negotiate with you about alcohol." ”

Li Feng had already guessed that the court officials could find what they could do, and it wasn't for alcohol.

A few days ago, when Cheng Biting Jin and them came, Li Feng had already guessed that Li Er would inform the court of the alcohol, but he didn't know that Li Er was added to the knighthood by the imperial court, and he would have the opportunity to ask later.

"General Chai, I'm sorry, I don't have any alcohol at the moment, if the imperial court wants it, I have to wait. As for when it will be, it will have to wait until my brewery is built. ”

Chai Shao frowned slightly, and said: "Shopkeeper Xiao Li, now the court asks you for alcohol, are you looking down on the court if you push back like this?" ”

Li Feng looked at Tang Jian and said, "Lord Tang, how pleasant the two sides were when we bought and sold grain last time, but now ......"

He didn't finish his words, and glanced at Chai Shao.

Chai Shao couldn't hear the meaning of Li Feng's words, his face became gloomy, and he said, "Do you know who you're talking to?" ”

"Lord Tang, the alcohol is gone, please go back." Li Feng was also angry, as for Chai Shao, the birds don't bird him, you have the ability to arrest me.

Once you arrest me, I will let you know why it is so easy to ask God to send God.

Tang Jian's head was as big as an ox suddenly, he didn't know what the relationship between Li Feng and Li Er was, but judging from the situation of buying grain last time, Li Er attached great importance to Li Feng.

What's even more strange is that Li Feng actually asked himself to be an official for Li Er, that is the current emperor, how dare he give the emperor an official position.

Without knowing the relationship between Li Feng and Li Er, he didn't dare to offend Li Feng, Tang Jian could only be sorry for Chai Shao, who made you not as deterrent as the emperor.

"General Chai, don't forget Your Majesty's entrustment, and please control your emotions."

"Lord Tang, don't forget Your Majesty's entrustment, now that the alcohol is gone, how can we explain to Your Majesty." Chai Shao said in a deep voice.

You old Tang took the wrong medicine, why did you target me, do you still want to fulfill Your Majesty's instructions?

"I will explain this matter to Your Majesty, as for General Chai, please be polite to Xiao Li's shopkeeper, as the so-called business is not there, benevolence and righteousness are here, this is not a military camp, not your right guard, everyone has to do what you want." Tang Jian went back.

"You ......" Chai Shao flicked his sleeves, "Okay, I don't care about this matter, I'll explain it to Your Majesty myself, you can do it yourself." ”

Chai Shao just left inexplicably.

Tang Jian smiled bitterly and asked, "Shopkeeper Xiao Li, I'm sorry, I don't know what this Chai Shao is crazy about, and he is making trouble here." I will explain this matter to His Majesty, and as for alcohol, I will ask Xiao Li's shopkeeper to help me a lot. ”

Li Feng saw that Tang Jian was speaking quite politely, and he also became very polite, and said: "I am not satisfied with Lord Tang, I really don't have alcohol at present." And the three thousand invitations in the early stage have been booked, if the imperial court wants to buy alcohol, it will have to wait until after three thousand catties.

Of course, this time will not be too long, as long as you give me a month, I can sell it to the imperial court for 10,000 catties.

You can also sign a long-term contract with the imperial court, such as giving the imperial court 10,000 catties of alcohol every month. ”

Tang Jian began to think about it, and after a while, he asked, "Can you inform the imperial court of the method of making alcohol, and the imperial court is willing to spend a lot of money to buy the recipe." ”

"I can't." Li Feng directly refused, "Lord Tang, you are smashing my job." Alcohol is made in the same way as fine wine. Please wait a minute. ”

Then he didn't speak, but ran quickly into the inner hall, and after a while he hurried out again, but with an extra jar in his hand.

He opened the sealing mud and poured a small cup for Tang Jian, with the experience of the past, he didn't dare to pour more for the other party, in case he was drunk, he didn't have to talk about anything.

"This is the wine I brewed, please taste it Lord Tang, don't take a sip, taste it in small sips, otherwise it will be easy to get drunk."

Tang Jian picked up the wine glass in confusion, took a small sip of wine, and suddenly showed a look of shock on his face.

Then, he stood up and arched his hand at Li Feng and said, "The old man understands, please wait a few days for the shopkeeper Xiao Li." ”

"There's Lord Rautang."

"Where, as it should be."

Tang Jian also left, and took the wine jar with him when he left.

……

After Chai Shao left the tavern, he went directly to the palace to see Li Er and told him the ins and outs of the matter, and some of them added oil and vinegar, which was mainly aimed at Tang Jian.

Li Er didn't get angry, nor did he comfort Chai Shao, but asked him to stand aside and wait.

It didn't take long for Tang Jian to also come to the Manna Palace.

"See Your Majesty."

"Excuse me, how is Tang Jian?"

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen has already negotiated with Xiao Li's shopkeeper, and when his brewing workshop is built, he will sell it to the imperial court for 10,000 catties per month. There is no alcohol anymore. ”

Chai Shao said in a deep voice: "How does Lord Tang know the truth and falsehood, and why don't you just let him offer alcohol, and let the court buy it, do you have a lot of money in the household?" ”

As soon as he heard about the money, Tang Jian was furious, and he scolded: "If your military can reduce the consumption of war horses every year, the household department will have a lot of money and grain to buy millions of catties of alcohol." ”

"You...... The wear and tear of the war horses is not what we want, but a helpless move, if the cavalry does not use the war horse practice, how can they fight with foreign people. Chai Shao was anxious, he was afraid that Tang Jian would make a fuss about this matter.

He also knows that the annual consumption of cavalry is particularly large, especially the consumption of war horses, and almost every year a new batch of war horses has to be replaced, and it has to be replaced for five years at the longest.

This is more than the cost is often mentioned by the ministers of the imperial court, and it is generally to reduce the cost, and the people in the military also fight on the basis of reason every time, but fortunately, Li Er helps them, and this cost has always existed.

Today, Tang Jian brought it up again, and it was Chai Shao's heart that suddenly brought it up, and he had to stand up and argue.

"You don't need to change it every year, you can change it twice every three years, or once every two years."

"No, the new war horse needs to have a certain run-in period with the soldiers, and the loss during this period is not trivial."

"That is to say, the purchased war horses have not yet been put on the battlefield, and they have already been lost, which means that part of the money is lost."

"Enough. Now we are talking about alcohol, not war horses. Chai Shao, your arrogance has caused Li Feng to be reluctant to deal with him, if you have the chance, you go and apologize to him.

Tang Jian, you have done a good job, the matter of alcohol will be handled by you, and you must buy alcohol. "Li Er has spoken, if he doesn't speak, he can't do it, and if they continue to talk, they may expose more scandals.

Under Li Er's reprimand, Tang Jian and Chai Shao left the palace, and the two of them went back to their homes with a cold snort.

Fu Bo didn't know that now the entire imperial court was waiting to build a winemaking workshop with the name of Taiping Village with alcohol.

And during this period, an uninvited guest came to Lee's Tavern.

"The shopkeeper is not there?" A heavy voice rang out in the small Lee Tavern, and it echoed.

Li Feng, who was sleeping on the recliner, was woken up, feeling a little irritable, and seeing the two people at the door, one old and the other young, Li Feng said unhappily: "Be quiet, disturbing people's dreams is going to eighteen layers of hell." ”

The old man smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, you will lose money in doing this." ”

"How do I do business, you don't bother the two of you, say, what kind of wine do you want to buy?" Li Feng's attitude was very bad, not like his usual appearance.

The young man wanted to get angry, but was stopped by the old man.

"Huh...... Young people should not be so angry, introduce yourself, the contemptible surname is Li, a single name and one word, a person from the Li family in Longxi. ”

Li Yi? What a quirky name. Li Feng frowned slightly, and said, "Although my surname is also Li, I am not from the Li family in Longxi, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

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