Bi Gou left Yao Chong's mansion and went home to deal with the people queuing at his house.

Yao Chong was gone, and he was thinking about it in the study.

Bi Gou told him about the follow-up to the price increase of kerosene lamps and hot water bottles, which was not the point.

The matter of the balance between the collection of taxes and the performance of officials involved the entire court.

The Ministry of Officials should coordinate with the Ministry of Households to avoid the situation of local officials persecuting merchants due to tax collection.

At the Bashui Bridge next to Li's Zhuangzi, there was a long queue of people buying kerosene lamps and thermoses.

Among them, the merchants are the most numerous, and they want to buy and ship them elsewhere to sell.

Usually the merchants who do this have shops in other places.

If the item is broken, take the pieces to the store.

When the store was waiting to come to Chang'an again to sell and buy goods, he brought it by the way and exchanged it with the Li family Zhuangzi.

Naturally, the shipping fee is not needed, and the credibility of the store is retained.

Those who bought kerosene lamps and thermos carefully wrapped them in muslin and fur so that they would not be broken.

The two things brought from Zhuangzi were dry grass on the outside, and they didn't look careful at all.

At noon, Li Yi had dinner with the people of Right Qianniuwei at the bridge.

Qianniuwei's people served dishes on plates, and they ate quickly outside, afraid of being cold.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhuangzi provided more green vegetables to the sixteen guards who rotated here.

On weekdays, there is a lot of meat to ensure that the people of the Sixteenth Guard are willing to come over and be on duty.

When the people of the Sixteen Guards were on duty in their own places, they did not eat well.

The money given is wheat, millet, yellow rice, sorghum rice, and so on.

If you want to buy something else, you have to buy it with rice, not necessarily with copper coins or silk.

When the guard of honor is on duty, he eats in the palace, and the palace does not mean that the food is good.

Recently, Li Longji has become rich, so he took out some to let the queen subsidize the harem.

The money is mainly the profit of Li Chengqi's partnership with Li Yi, and Li Yi's has never wanted it, so he threw it in to continue to invest.

Li Chengqi has to give money to his brothers, and everyone shares one point, and Li Longji has the most.

Liulizhuang grows cotton and greenhouses, and in addition to using a part, the rest is sold.

The quality of the food in the palace has improved a little, but it is still not as good as the Li family Zhuangzi.

The sixteenth guard is now rotated every ten years, and the left and right Qianniu guards don't want to change, and the other guards don't do it.

Left and right Qianniuwei looked at it, and it was only one turn in one hundred and sixty years.

So the means were taken, and the team of the guards had a special job of being on duty at the head of the Baqiao Bridge.

Other guards are not allowed, so Qianniuwei can arrange for his brother to eat as many good things as possible.

"Happy New Year, Proprietor Lee." Yu Jiang came, smiled and saluted Li Yi and said hello.

Li Yi returned the salute: "Brother Yu, Happy New Year." ”

Then he said, "Brother Yu, it's better to eat some together." ”

"It's okay, thank you so much, Lord Li." Yu Jiang did not refuse, went to get the plate by himself, put a few dishes at random, and brought them over.

"It's a good year." Yu Jiang sat down and began to find a topic.

"That is, in the east of Taihang Mountain, locusts still have to come out, and last year some places were late, and locust eggs entered the soil.

Deep ploughing and soaking in water are easy to use to deal with insect eggs, but ordinary people are powerless to operate, so they can only wait for the locusts to come out.

The larvae are best dealt with, and once they become adults and form large swarms, they can only be booby-trapped with smoke and fire, and cannot be eaten. ”

Li Yi talked about locusts, when he brought chickens and ducks over, some of the locusts were still larvae, and there was no overwhelming situation.

The time he chose was just stuck at the critical point, and this year the locusts will appear again, and the people who raise chickens, ducks and pigs will be happy.

Yu Jiang listened carefully, remembering that this is a knowledge, and it will be easy to deal with it when there is a locust plague there in the future.

He didn't know that there could be no locust plague in the current northeast, and there were many trees, birds and beasts.

Locusts can find food on their own, and the food is sufficient, and at the same time they are eaten by birds.

"Proprietor Li, I have a way to cure the Khitan, about locusts." Yu Jiang followed Li Yi's words.

"How?" Li Yi expressed curiosity.

"Catch a large number of locusts and send them to the outside of the place occupied by the Khitans, and after they are released, the locusts will swarm and eat the food of the Khitans."

Yu Jiang gestured and said, it seemed that he had a bad impression of the Khitan.

"No, the Khitan will die if there is no food, and at the moment I am in contact with the Khitans and want to have friendly exchanges.

The life of the Khitan people is bitter, if it weren't for the Turkic invasion too much, the Khitan would still be good with my Tang Dynasty.

I can understand their situation and am willing to help them, so that there will be no war and everyone will have a good life. ”

Li Yi waved his hand, looking compassionate.

Yu Jiang was stunned, he really didn't know if Li Yi was telling the truth or a lie.

"Li Dongzhu, you have arrested 390 of them, what should you do? Send them back? That's a soldier. ”

Yu Jiang asked casually.

"Misunderstanding is not grasping, it is teaching, teaching them all kinds of things in life, especially farming.

They can leave at any time, and when the weather is warm, they take a batch of goods, and they follow them back, go to Khitan to change things, and then transport them back.

By the way, we will ask for the people who were arrested in Datang, don't fight, people will die if they fight. ”

After Li Yi finished speaking, he lowered his head and ate violently, and if he didn't eat again, it would be cold.

Yu Jiang had something to ask, and when he saw Li Yi's current appearance, he didn't say anything anymore and ate.

When Li Yi finished eating, Yu Jiang just finished eating.

"After the New Year, Brother Yu don't forget to help manage the market in Qiaotou, if you are familiar with it, I will find a way to arrange an official for Brother Yu."

Li Yi put down his chopsticks, went to fill a bowl of soup and came back, and told Yu Jiang about the future arrangements.

Yu Jiang hurriedly agreed: "Okay, I watched it before, yes, I can manage it well after the New Year." ”

After dealing with this matter, he changed the topic: "Li Dongzhu said that he exchanged things with the Khitan, the weather is warm, what is there to exchange for the Khitan?" ”

"There are many bellflowers, and there are thorny old buds, and the thorny old buds are the best, which are better than toon buds." Li Yi emphasized the thorny old buds.

This is a specialty of Tohoku, and there are few other places.

"What does it look like? As soon as proprietor Li said, I am hungry again. Yu Jiang asked with a smile.

"I'll draw you a picture, and you'll see it when you look at it." Li Yi said as he opened the box next to him and took out paper and pen.

He used a pencil, drew a sketch, and after a long time, the drawing of the old bud came out.

After thinking about it, he took out the red and blue pencils again and colored the picture.

"Brother Yu, look, just this thing, it's delicious, take it to Chang'an, I'm willing to collect a hundred yuan for a catty."

Li Yi showed the picture to Yu Jiang, and he drew it again as he spoke.

"In addition to these, there are also mountain carrots, which are also good, like ginseng and bellflowers, but they are neither, I will draw them for you."

After a while, he drew the mountain carrot again, which had nothing to do with the carrot.

Just like the Northeast mountain pepper seedlings have nothing to do with chili peppers in the future, it is called Northeast clematis, and some eat as spicy as chili peppers.

Yu Jiang took it over again, and Li Yi painted it again, and the painting was the Northeast clematis.

"Brother Yu may not know, this is my favorite, eating spicy food, comfortable all over, but unfortunately I can't find the same anywhere else."

The third picture is good, Li Yi said to Yu Jiang regretfully.

"This, all of this is worth a lot?" Yu Jiang is thinking about selling for money now, and he has seen everything painted on the picture.

Even the mountain is long, but I didn't expect that someone would be willing to spend money to buy it.

"Others don't know, I bought it, I can sell it at a higher price, but unfortunately, the Khitan occupies it there, and the Khitan people themselves don't understand, and I can't get by."

Li Yi showed a distressed look, and there was no longer any excitement when he was drawing.