When Li Zexuan returned home, it was almost dark, and he brought Tie Dan over by the way, since he accepted this apprentice, Li Zexuan also planned to teach him well. Let's let Tie Dan live in the West Courtyard first, anyway, the West Courtyard is so big, just pick a room for him.

As for Han Yuxi, of course he didn't come with him, Li Zexuan planned to finish his work for a while, and then let her come over to help with the bartending, at that time, it was estimated that the first batch of fruit wine brewed by Hanjiazhuang could be sent over, and he really didn't have time to care about this recently, there were too many things to do.

At dinner in the evening, Li's father and mother both expressed their kindness to Tie Dan, a new member, but Tie Dan, who has always been tiger-headed, was a little embarrassed, and was teased by Lan'er during the banquet.

Lan'er is also very happy about the arrival of Tie Dan, and now she finally has a playmate of the same age. Although my brother is usually very good to himself, he always treats himself as a child, Lan'er will always be a little indignant, at this time Tie Dan came, she is not the youngest, of course, this is just what she thinks, in fact, Tie Dan is a few months older than her.

After dinner, Li Zexuan reported to Daddy Li in the study the number of chickens raised by the households in Hanjiazhuang today, and Daddy Li was taken aback:

"Eighty thousand? So much? Xuan'er, so many chickens, did the farmers raise them? ”

"Dad, don't worry, you will definitely be able to raise it, and the child will arrange it for the farmers. The child plans to purchase chicken seedlings tomorrow and send them to Hanjiazhuang in batches. ”

Li Jingmo nodded and said, "Well, the sooner this matter is, the better!" ”

"Daddy, do you know the chicken market in Chang'an? How much does it cost? ”

Li Jingmo thought for a while and said, "About seventy or eighty pieces." It's just that Xuan'er needs such a large number of chicken seedlings, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the vendors in Chang'an City to supply them completely. ”

Seventy or eighty a piece, so expensive? Li Zexuan was shocked, the chicken seedlings in his previous life were only three or four yuan a piece, which was almost equivalent to about a dozen Wen in the Tang Dynasty, but if you think about it carefully, you will be relieved, modern chicken seedlings are hatched in batches using large automatic incubators, and the cost will naturally be lower.

After hearing the second half of his father's words, Li Zexuan frowned and said, "Dad, do you have a way to provide a large number of chicken seedlings in a short period of time?" ”

In his impression, as long as it is related to business, his father is omnipotent, but unfortunately this time he disappointed him.

I saw that Daddy Li shook his head, revealing a helpless expression.

"Xuan'er, my father did do all kinds of business in the early years, but my father has never set foot in this chicken market."

Well, Li Zexuan was also a little helpless.

"Then you can buy as much as you can and send it over. The child believes that those traders, seeing that the chicken market is in short supply, they will definitely find a way to do it themselves, and then we just need to give a little more money! ”

Li Jingmo smiled: "Hehe, you kid has seen it thoroughly." ”

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Early the next morning, Li Zexuan called Wang Zhong and asked him to take Sanbao Afu and a few family members to buy as many chicken seedlings as possible in Dongshi, and buy as many chickens as he could.

A few people took the money and took their orders. Li Zexuan summed it up in his heart, if it is calculated according to eighty wen, eighty thousand chicken seedlings will probably need six thousand four hundred. Of course, with Li Zexuan's large number of purchases, there will definitely be many vendors sitting on the ground and starting prices. Li Zexuan felt that in the end, if he wanted to buy 80,000 chicken seedlings, it should cost about 8,000 or 9,000 yuan.

That's a lot of money.

Tie Dan was also picked up by Li Zexuan early in the morning, and asked him to learn to read and write with Lan'er, which made Lan'er very happy, she didn't expect that she would have a day as a gentleman. Looking at the little girl, holding her hands behind her back, pretending to be old and serious, and teaching Tie Dan, Li Zexuan couldn't help but want to laugh.

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In fact, Li Zexuan's guess was not wrong at all, after Wang Zhong and the others came to Dongshi, they were like bandits, when they encountered a vendor selling chicken seedlings, they directly bought all the other party's inventory.

The nose of the merchant is the most sensitive, and some of the merchants quickly knew the news from Wang Zhong's side. So one by one all heard the wind moved, have raised the price of chicken seedlings, while sending people to the surrounding counties to purchase a large number of chicken seedlings, half a day, the price of chicken seedlings rose from 75 Wen to 85 Wen, and finally even rose to 90 Wen a sky-high price. For a while, Chang'an chicken is expensive.

But Wang Zhong and the others still didn't care about the price, swept away all the chicken seedlings in the West Market, and told those traders that they still needed a lot of chicken seedlings, so that they could hurry up and buy them.

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"Young master, the old slave bought all the chicken seedlings in the West Market, there were only more than 8,000 in total, and in the end, some traders raised the price, but the old slave still bought them all. Those vendors went back to the surrounding counties today to buy goods, and we can continue to buy them tomorrow. ”

In the front yard of the Li Mansion, Wang Zhong pointed to more than a dozen large wooden boxes on the ground and reported to Li Zexuan. There was a noisy "chirping" sound in the wooden box, and it was not lively for a while.

Li Zexuan nodded and agreed: "Uncle Wang, you did the right thing, I believe that tomorrow the chicken seedlings will only be more expensive." Uncle Wang will now take seven or eight family members and hire a few vehicles to transport these chicken seedlings to Hanjiazhuang and hand them over to Han Lizheng, so that he can give priority to distribution in the order in which everyone signed up at that time. You continue to buy chicks tomorrow. ”

Wang Zhong nodded in agreement, and then immediately went to gather people.

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Li Zexuan returned to the West Courtyard, came to his study, spread out a piece of rice paper, closed his eyes, drew the structure of the Quyuan plow, and marked the size (Li Zexuan also learned about the size units of the Tang Dynasty during this time, and the marked size was naturally converted)

and the precautions required for the processing of each part.

After finishing the drawing, Li Zexuan rolled up the drawings and prepared to go to Yan Shaoning's house to find him. Of course, the sooner the better, the farmers of Hanjiazhuang are still waiting for his Quyuan plough to plough the land.

Under the leadership of a small family member in the family, Li Ze came to Yan's mansion, and after the porter reported, it didn't take long for Yan Shaoning to laugh and greet him in person.

"Haha, how can Xiao Xuan have time to come and see him as a brother today!"

Li Zexuan said with a smile: "Brother Shaoning, as the technical director of our Qiqu Pavilion and one of the four major shareholders, of course the younger brother has to come to recognize the door, haha!" ”

Yan Shaoning's face was full of black lines, he hated the title of technical director, but Li Zexuan didn't agree to change it for him, he was a little embarrassed when he heard these words now, and coughed dryly, Yan Shaoning said:

"Xiao Xuan, come with me to the front hall and sit, standing at the door like something."

Li Zexuan nodded and followed Yan Shaoning into the mansion.

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