All the way to the structure of the seventh department of the Tang Dynasty, all the way slowly, at dusk, the convoy stopped in front of a village, in fact, now they are only fifty miles away from Shanyang City, if you work harder, you can arrive overnight, Li Shimin was attracted by the people with hats and light yarns, so he asked the convoy to stop and camp to rest.

Li Shimin, who got out of the car, saw that Fang Xuanling also looked at him, so he pointed to the village road not far away, "Fang Qing will follow me to the village to have a look!" ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I'll go too."

Li Shimin just wanted to invite Fang Xuanling to go into the village with him, but Wei Chigong, who had sharp ears, also jumped out at this time and wanted to follow, Li Shimin naturally did not refuse, and after telling Qin Qiong and Dugumou and others to arrange the guards of the camp, the three of them changed into light summer shirts and walked towards the village.

After a while, they heard the sound of 'urns' outside the village, and the three of them looked under the wall where the sound was made, and found rows of wooden boxes on that side, and a large number of bees flying around on the side of the wooden boxes.

"The guests passing by, they are not wearing gauze clothes, don't provoke those bees, they are stung, so they can only go into the city to find Sun Daochang to grab medicine and eat."

On the wall of the village, an old man in his thirties and forties shouted at the three of them, and his accent was Guan Zhongyan.

Shanyang territory, in addition to the Banhu aborigines who have all been included in Sun Xiangfu's food yip, are the first Guanzhong people who were moved from Guanzhong by Li Shimin, a total of 35,000 households, except for a small number of people who live in the city, the rest of the people are divided into dozens of villages, scattered in the villages around Shanyang City, almost every ten miles of a village, built a fortress, which Sun Xiangfu is worried about the people's living safety and Wang's learning.

The old man is a person who has lived in Guanzhong for half his life, and when he saw the convoy in the distance, he didn't know that Li Shimin and the three of them were not idle, but they didn't wear official uniforms at this time, and the old man was not sure, but he kindly reminded that these beehives are placed under the wall, and they can also play a role in preventing thieves, if they don't go through the main gate, no one dares to approach the wall.

When Li Shimin heard this, he raised his head and shouted to the old man on the wall of the village, "Uncle, can I go into the village to ask for a glass of water?" ”

"There is no white water, but there is a lot of flower tea, so come in and drink it when you are thirsty! Our Shanyang flower tea, there is no guest who does not like to drink. ”

The old man said with a smile, and then walked towards the wall, after a while, when Li Shimin and the three approached the wall, the big wooden door was pushed open by the old man, and Li Shimin walked in after the three of them saw the situation in the village.

"Hey, the brick house of Yishui, that kid didn't treat his people badly."

There are a lot of houses in the village, there are several large rows, hundreds of households, neatly arranged in the village, even on the ground, are paved with green bricks, very clean, Li Shimin just glanced at it, and praised it in his heart.

"The three of them are nobles from Guanzhong! Have you ever used rice, there is a flower cake in our village to come out of the pot, it is best to eat it while it is hot, it is better for the three of you to eat a few flower tea! ”

The old man also heard Li Shimin's Guanzhong accent, so he led the three of them to the direction of the big house in the center of the village without seeing anything outside.

"Uncle, there are a lot of houses in your village, I'm afraid there are hundreds of them! Why didn't I see many people? ”

The density of houses in this village is not less than that in the denser residential areas of Chang'an City, but it is very quiet, and no one is in or out, Li Shimin couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Hearing this, the old man replied with a smile, "Hehe, there are more than 300 households in our village!" Old man, I am the village chief, you can call Liu Dawang, now in the village except for the old people and children, there are indeed few people, young people have gone to the city to work, some do construction, some do blacksmiths, carpentry or something, even women have gone to textile workshops, leather workshops, all year round very busy, not much at home. ”

"Then who will plant the fields in your village?"

"Fields? You mean the flower fields outside the village! Those fields don't need to be planted every year, the Metropolitan Governor said, when planting flowers, it was to save manpower, so that everyone could free up their hands to do something else, what are those flowers that are two-year-old, three-year-old, I don't understand the old man, I only know this field, the Metropolitan Governor said to plant it, and the Metropolitan Governor does not plant, it must be that it does not need to be planted, it will grow on its own, and the field patrol envoy of the Governor's Mansion will arrange it according to the situation.

In normal times, as long as we pick some flower petals and send the flower dew to the workshop in the city, we can get a lot of money. Oh yes, later the Metropolitan Governor also taught us to make flower tea, make honey flower cakes, recently there are a lot of guests from the city, the market is good, our village has to send three carts of flower cakes to the city every day! You are just in time to eat the hot cakes that have just come out of the kang, they are very delicious, eat more, and don't need money. ”

Liu Dawang seemed to be very excited to receive a few nobles in Guanzhong, and he kept talking while walking.

Li Shimin listened to it, and he had a new understanding of Sun Xiangfu's large-scale planting of flowers in Shanyang, it turned out that he wanted to free up manpower and do more things.

These flowers, many do not need to be like crops, planted every year, such as roses, can bloom many times a year, cold-resistant, drought-resistant, sunny, good sun in the ground climate environment, planting roses is very good, and it only needs to be planted once, you can harvest several years of flowers, after three or five years, the old vines that do not bloom will be removed, and the new vines can bloom again, even in later generations, it is also one of the super cash crops, people in this era do not have the method of making perfumes and essential oils, and naturally can not experience the benefits of planting it.

Li Shimin has also eaten Shanyang specialties such as flower cakes, but after they were made from Shanyang, they were sent to Chang'an, and they were already dry and hard, not fresh.

As soon as he walked to the door of the big house, Li Shimin smelled the sweet fragrance of flour mixed with flowers and honey, and immediately moved his index fingers.

"How can I eat your Murakami's things for nothing, Jingde."

Li Shimin gave Wei Chigong a look and motioned him to give him some money, but who knew that Wei Chigong spread his hands and said, "It's a hot summer day, and the minister just changed his clothes, and he didn't bring any things on his body!" ”

"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay, it's a guest, eat a few cakes, what money do you want, the governor also sent someone to say some time ago, whether it's a passing Han or a Hu businessman, if you can give a bowl of tea, you can pour a bowl of tea, if you can give Zhang Cake, you can give Zhang Cake, as long as they love to come to our good yang, how much tea money and cake money, we can earn it back."

Hearing this, Li Shimin seemed to have realized that Sun Xiangfu led the people under his rule to develop the economy in this way.

The big house is the public house of this village, dozens of old men and ordinary women and children who are no younger than Liu Dawang are busy in it, and there are many little children who are following the adults around, but they are not like children in other places, smelling the fragrance of food and flowing Hadazi, obviously, they usually do not lack these foods.

A large pan was brushed with oil, and the rolled out cakes were placed on the pan, and after they were arranged, an old man brought the pan to the direction of the stove with an iron hook with a wooden handle, and at this time, a large red iron pot lid that covered the hole in the stove was hung up by a woman in front of the stove through an iron chain tied to the beams of the house, and when the pan was placed on the stove, the woman slowly loosened the chain, and let the red lid cover the pan, and when this was done, the woman immediately reversed an hourglass next to the stoveObviously, the hourglass in the hourglass is finished, and this pot of cakes is just cooked.

The people in the public house are all old people in this era, but they are very skilled in doing these jobs, which may be the reason why they usually eat and do not lose food, and they look very strong, which makes Li Shimin suddenly remember what Sun Deshou said, 'Everyone should live to be seventy or eighty years old to be normal.' ’

At that time, Li Shimin still felt that this was an unrealistic sentence, but now it seems that it is not impossible, if there is no serious illness, these people will live for another twenty or thirty years, and there should be no problem at all.

"Your Majesty"

"Shut up, how to look at the food, you stutter."

Wei Chigong pointed to an oversized dustpan in the public house, his fingers trembled, and he was about to call Li Shimin to look over, but he was stopped by Li Shimin, and only let these villagers treat themselves as a noble person from Chang'an, if they really let them know that they are the emperor, they will inevitably stop their work and come over to pay homage, Li Shimin does not want to disrupt their work, this kind of production line at the village level, he is very interested in taking a look.

Wei Chigong is not stupid, Li Shimin told him to shut up, that is, he didn't want to reveal his identity, so he didn't say anything more.

When Li Shimin looked in the direction pointed by Wei Chigong, he was also a little surprised.

In the whole public house, I am afraid that there are not more than a dozen stoves working at the same time, and on the oversized dustpan, the crispy and golden flower cakes of the kang are directly as high as a hill, and many women are packaging those cakes, every ten, will be wrapped in a piece of straw paper, and a small note on red paper is pasted with batter, which reads the words "Shanyang Flower Cake".

Looking at this efficiency, this village alone can make tens of thousands of cakes a day.

When Li Shimin was stunned, Liu Dawang brought a few large tea jars with handles on a tray, and gave each of the three people a large tea jar and said, "This is our Shanyang's eight-treasure flower tea, which is brewed with things produced in the flower field, but it is fragrant, you eat cakes with this tea, eat a few more, don't be afraid to hold on." ”

As he spoke, Liu Dawang also used a tray to fill the hot flower cakes that had just come out of the kang for Li Shimin to eat.

Opening the tea jar, Li Shimin saw several petals in the tea, as well as wolfberries, red dates, etc., which were very bright, with at least eight kinds of ingredients.

Wei Chigong seemed to be very impatient, took a big sip, smacked his mouth, and then said to Li Shimin, "It's delicious." ”

Li Shimin never suspected that the people in this village would harm him, knowing that Wei Chigong was testing drugs, and he didn't give him any compliments, he took a small sip of the teapot and tasted it, and immediately felt that his mouth and tongue were fragrant, and the beauty of his taste was better than the tea he usually drank in the palace.

"Hehe, if you can drink this kind of tea and eat this kind of cake every day, even the old man wants to be a citizen under Sun Zhengming." Fang Xuanling also took a sip of tea and stroked his beard.

Wei Chigong nodded while gulping down the hot flower cake brought by Liu Dawang.

It was already time for dinner, Li Shimin was also hungry, so he picked up a cake and ate it, the cake just out of the pot was really more delicious than the dry and hard one, three or two times, he finished eating a cake, seeing Liu Dawang looking at himself and smiling, Li Shimin asked, "Your village doesn't cook and eat at dinner time, do you eat this cake specifically?" ”

Liu Dawang replied with a smile, "That's not it, we have already had a meal in the afternoon, dinner, we have to wait until today's cake is finished before eating." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, and continued to ask, "Do you usually make so many cakes every day and sell them in Shanyang?" ”

Liu Dawang continued to reply, "It's just that when there are many guests in the city, I will do more, and I usually make about one car." ”

"How much money can you make by selling a cart of cakes every day?"

"A cart of cakes is 10,000, and we can get 10,000 yuan if we do a good job and send it to a special store."

Hearing this, Li Shimin was stunned and said, "Earn 10,000 yuan a day? ”

"But there are not so many, we don't farm, these flour for making cakes are bought from Shanyang, plus fire consumption, the cost is almost half, and at most you can earn 5,000 yuan a day!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling glanced at each other and were stunned, just by making this cake, this village can earn 5,000 yuan a day, which is just something made by more than 100 old and weak women and children, that is to say, in a month, at least 150 yuan, which will be distributed to more than 300 families in this village, and the family will almost have half a yuan.

But what about the rest of the village's output? For example, as Liu Dawang said before, picking flower petals and pulling the flower dew to the workshop in the city, such as the honey produced in those honey boxes outside the village, not to mention the young men and women working in the workshop, so that together, the monthly income of each household in this village is at least several times, which is much stronger than a household in Guanzhong!