A bowl of noodles, a few side dishes, in terms of people's basic dietary needs, enough to eat, Jiuyuan County's special catering is to ensure that people are full in the case of not bad taste, and not like a big hotel, the selling point is on the environment, service, and taste.

However, the comparison of these two business models will make these officials and magnates who are accustomed to eating in hotels feel incredible.

The most perceptive is Li Shimin, he originally thought that a few pennies of things, just like the cold skin and cold noodles in the Chang'an night market, can not be put on the table, now it seems that the grade of these foods can be completely supplied to the ministers of the DPRK and the central government for breakfast or lunch, the palace also provides a meal for thousands of courtiers, and the money spent is as high as hundreds.

Red heart salted duck eggs, braised duck neck, braised duck legs, fish meatballs in sour soup, steamed egg dumplings with fish cakes, and rice dumplings with various fillings, the ministers who dined, whether they were southerners or northerners, nodded while eating, and the satisfaction was very high, even the harem concubines who were used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Empress Changsun, who usually loves to be thrifty, after learning the price of these foods, felt that the use of the harem could definitely be reduced by more than 30% again, mainly from the food, but she didn't know that once this kind of policy was reached, the pain must be those eunuchs who were responsible for purchasing.

However, with Li Shimin here, she will not be asked to make the decision to announce in public to reduce the use of the harem, but just tell her that she can announce that these foods will be introduced into the usual food supply of the palace, with the wealth of the Tang Dynasty and the wealth of the royal palace, there is no need to be as frugal as before, what she should do more is to scatter wealth and let everyone take advantage of the royal benefits.

Sure enough, this decision was announced, and everyone nodded their heads and said yes, which was also to save money, but in everyone's opinion, this was a welfare policy for the queen to make everyone's catering taste richer.

After the meal, everyone set off again, and soon, they arrived at the old town of Gangneung City, but at this time, it was already encompassed by a tall new city wall, and the city wall was a busy construction scene, and the buildings such as palaces and restaurants had not yet been built, and it was only the old building blocks of the old city that could live in them.

The eldest grandson Wuji explained the situation here, and at the same time led everyone to live in the yamen of the governor's mansion, of course, many courtiers and entourages were arranged to stay in the restaurant inn.

"King Pu, King Shu, King Jing and others planted rice in Jiuyuan County, and it is said that now it is a critical period, and they can't leave, so they didn't come to greet them." After entering the living room of the chief manager, the eldest grandson Wuji reported to Li Shimin alone.

"It's okay, it's their honor to be able to contribute to such a good thing as planting rice, I plan to visit various construction sites tomorrow, including those places that have been planned as fields and have not yet started, you can arrange for someone to help me count the gifts I brought from Guanzhong, and then I will give them to the workers and local people who come to work in the local area."

Since he wants to carry out inspections, Li Shimin of course wants to collect the hearts of the people by the way, especially for the people of the former Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje and other places who have just entered the ruling area, they used to live a life of being taxed and exploited by the rulers, but after being included in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor brought them all kinds of benefits and rewards.

Eldest Sun Wuji nodded and said, "This, the minister has already made some arrangements, you can rest assured, but if you give them gifts, it may not have a good effect of giving them a promise." ”

"Promise? What promises? Li Shimin was a little surprised.

"If you promise them that as long as they continue to complete the project, they will all be able to move here in the future, then they will be happier than receiving your gift."

"Really? But isn't it a bit too much to move all of them? Li Shimin looked at the eldest grandson Wuji in surprise and asked.

He knew that there were as many as one or two million workers who had not yet returned north in Shannan Province, and if they brought their families here, it would be at least more than 3 million people, plus the population of Shannan Province and other surrounding areas that might have migrated over, then there would be more than 5 million households here, more than 10 million people, and there might be more than the population of Guanzhong, and it would be even more dense than the population of Guanzhong.

However, the eldest grandson Wuji shook his head with a smile and replied, "Not much, not at all, you have already seen that just the Jiuyuan County, Jinan County, and Zhongxiang County, which are about to be built, have placed more than 100,000 households, and in the future, this area can build more than 500 fields and establish fifty or sixty counties like this, with a population of one or two million households, absolutely resettled, and even if it is built here, it can also develop in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhengming said, If the entire plain area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the surrounding areas of several major lakes are built with fields, then the possibility of the entire Yangtze River basin being hit by floods in the future will be much reduced.

Moreover, the yield of crops will increase dramatically, because the climate in the south is more suitable for growing cash crops, but he thinks that it may take more than 60 years for these fields to be fully built, but I think that it can be done at a faster pace and in 30 years. ”

More than three years have passed, and until now, the construction work of the third county has been completed to the extent that it is about to be completed, if it is really at this rate, fifty or sixty counties, it will take almost fifty or sixty years to complete, however, since the eldest grandson Wuji said to speed up, then, there must be some ways he has thought of, and now, he has some people who don't want to let these young people who work in the local area go back.

If all of them were left here and built all year round, the speed would have more than doubled, and the entire construction project would have been completed in 30 years.

However, this is just some of his own immature ideas, Datang can't ignore the development of other regions just because he wants to develop Shannan Province under his management, labor is the primary productive force, he wants to keep all these people here, and the chief officials of other places will not agree to it first.

The north still needs to develop, and the northeast needs to be developed, one place is better, and the other place is worse, which is a deformed development, and the phenomenon of imbalance in the middle may lead to chaos.

After thinking about it again and again, Li Shimin felt that it was better to discuss it with the ministers again.

Jiuyuan County, the pollination and hybridization of different rice varieties has been completed, Sun Xiangfu spends a lot of time in the rice field every day to check the growth of these rice seeds, the technology he uses are the mature technology studied by later generations of scientists, but he still expects that in different eras, these technologies can burst out of some unexpected surprises, perhaps there are some talented wild rice varieties in this period, which are extinct in later generations!

Of course, even if he didn't pay much attention to the outside affairs during this time, the people in the village who followed the chamber of commerce also brought the news that the emperor arrived in Jiangling and ate the food he cooked at home and brought it back to Shanghe Village.

If it was the time when they had just arrived here, Li Tai and the others might have thought that their hard days were coming to an end, but now, they were afraid that their results would not be bright enough, and they followed Sun Xiangfu all day long to see how they could take care of their fields and make them more perfect, which was completely a temporary speculation.

"Don't bother in vain, Your Majesty will not come here in Jiuyuan County." At the end of the day's field patrol work, Sun Xiangfu once again picked up the yellow eel he had caught from the rice field and said to the half-grown boy behind him.

There is no way, the ecological environment is good, there is no electric fish machine, the speed of reproduction of these things is fast, and every year it is like cleaning up barnyard grass in a rice field, cleaning up several rounds.

"Why?" Behind Sun Xiangfu, there were more than a dozen questions from the middle and half sons.

Sun Xiangfu didn't reply, so he replied, "Because I asked him not to come!" It can cause a lot of trouble. ”

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The half-grown children suddenly felt that their eyes were a little red, and they wanted to jump into the rice field and trample down all the rice they had worked so hard to plant, which was exactly the reaction that the secondary two teenagers should have.

However, there are still one or two unusual ones, for example, Li Tai and Li Ke, after communicating with Sun Xiangfu, Li Tai has figured out some things, so he has been able to rationally recognize the true meaning of planting rice to the people of the world, and use this matter as a bargaining chip to ask his father Li Shimin for merit and reward, Li Shimin will definitely reward them, but he will definitely look down on them, because their starting point is to seek benefits for themselves.

Li Tai himself, he has done a lot of this kind of thing in front of Li Shimin and his wife to sell good rewards, now after he realizes that he seems to be really stupid at that time, if he was showing a single-minded for the country, for the welfare of the people, dare to assume the responsibility of the country, regardless of personal fame and fortune of the image, then, he will never fall into the father to seduce those ill-intentioned people.

Therefore, Li Tai was stuffy throughout the whole process, and walked back to the small courtyard of the accommodation without saying a word, lighting a fire, killing fish, washing vegetables, and boiling powder, originally each meal was five bowls of noodles, but he was ruthless, only cooking four and a half bowls, this is a decision he forced himself to make after chatting with Sun Xiangfu, he felt that he would be able to lose weight by eating half a bowl less per meal.

However, the fact is that after a period of time, the fat on his body has not been seen at all, and the second middle school boy, even if he has some understanding, is only a smarter middle two boy.

If Sun Xiangfu knew that he was secretly doing this, he would definitely give him a reliable suggestion, that is, save the whole thing, only eat half a bowl of each meal, and save four bowls of noodles, which may have some effect.

As for Li Ke, he realized it completely on his own, because his biological mother was Concubine Yang, since he was sensible, he knew that he should have no fate with that position, so he was more able to calm down to learn and do things.

In Jiuyuan County, he felt some warmth brought to him by the people, understood what the country should look like, and knew how difficult it was to make the whole country a 'good'.

In history, Li Ke was the only concubine proposed by Li Shimin to be the crown prince, that is to say, in Li Shimin's heart, Li Ke is much stronger than Li Tai and Li Zhi, and it has reached the extent that he gave up the distinction between concubines and concubines, however, this matter was finally stopped by the eldest grandson Wuji, he couldn't let others shake the status of his eldest grandson, until the eldest grandson Wuji framed him to death, he was very passive, no way, who called his biological mother Yang Guang's daughter! The people standing in the hall of the Tang Dynasty were all ministers who opposed the Sui Dynasty.

Sun Xiangfu has recently seen the signs that these two people are different from the other second lords, and feels that he may be able to cultivate them to be good students, so that they can be relied on in the future.