The son put away his sobs under the gaze of everyone, and turned his head to look at Xu Qilin, with a few crystal tears on his face.

Xu Qilin smiled, stretched out his hands in front of his son, and said, "The princess has dropped the golden bean, this has to continue." ”

Poof, the son broke into laughter, this momentary change stunned everyone.

After being stunned for a moment, everyone looked at Xu Qilin in unison, probably thinking: This guy really has a hand at coaxing children!

As the son smiled with tears, the atmosphere in the room suddenly relaxed, and everyone was relieved and laughed.

Li Li glanced at Xu Qilin gratefully, bowed her head slightly to express her gratitude, turned her face to wipe her tears for her little sister, and was in a ridiculous mood, and said with a smile: "It's all a little flower cat, but it looks more cute!" ”

The son was a little embarrassed, but turned to anger others, glared at Li Sipang, and said, "It's all to blame on the fourth brother, what kind of jokes about 'bald heads everywhere'." ”

Li Sipang scratched his head with a wry smile, and said in his heart: Is that a joke of mine? The first thing I said was Xu Qilin. But he couldn't defend himself, so he had to nod his head and admit his mistake, "Yes, yes, it's all the fourth brother who is not good." ”

Li Li held back a smile and pretended to echo: "In the future, no jokes are allowed at the banquet, let alone any bald ......" Before she finished speaking, she couldn't help it and covered her mouth and smiled.

Everyone laughed, their mood relaxed, and they returned to their seats, and the banquet continued.

After three rounds of drinking, the smell of the Tang people came again, and several men jumped up.

"Why didn't Qi Lin come?" Chai Lingwu seemed to be a little stammered, and his attitude was very good, "It's easiest to shoot Zhang Dancing, it should always be, right?" ”

The so-called Pai Zhang Dance is a simple dance that has been popular among the folk since the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

The general rhythm is like this: one, two, three, pat on the shoulder; One, two, three, pat your chest; One, two, three, pat your arm...... Anyway, if you can shoot all parts of the body, you can shoot them all in turn.

Of course Xu Qilin will, not to learn, just watch others skip it once. But it's not beautiful, it's like a gorilla, roaring and roaring.

"Brother Chai jumps first, and so-and-so fills his stomach first." Xu Qilin casually found a very low reason, which did not match his identity at all.

Chai Lingwu laughed, not reluctantly, and danced to the side.

Xu Qilin chewed and drank slowly, smiling and watching the demons dance wildly. Out of the corner of his eye, the little figure of the son turned out and ran straight to his side.

Turning his head to Xiao Gong and smiling, Xu Qilin said, "Why did you come here, did you watch them dance?" ”

The son shook his head, approached his uncle, reached out and poured him a glass of wine, picked it up and said, "I'm here to thank my uncle." ”

Xu Qilin smiled, took it and drank it all, and said, "Thank you, it's too outward." However, the wine toasted by Her Royal Highness the princess is to be drunk. ”

The son laughed twice and asked casually, "They all dance, why doesn't my uncle go?" ”

Xu Qilin was a little anxious to drink this wine, and blurted out as soon as he heard the question: "This dance is too low, and it is not beautiful at all." ”

Hug, floor, leak?! The son pondered several pronunciations, but he couldn't find the right words, but he always guessed that the uncle was saying that the dance was not good.

"Uncle, then you can dance a beautiful dance?" The son looked at Xu Qilin expectantly.

Xu Qilin nodded and said, "I'll teach Xiao Zhao, let her teach you again." It's not only good-looking, but also invigorating. You learn to teach the palace maid again, and the more people there are, the better you can dance! ”

"Then you can dance now!" The son blinked his eyes wide and stretched out his hand to push Xu Qilin.

"But this-" Xu Qilin listened, shook his head and said, "This music and rhythm are not right, I can't dance." By the way, I sent someone to the palace to send the story, haven't you seen it yet? ”

"See, I'll send someone to wait at the gate of the palace!" The son was distracted from his thoughts, so he forgot about dancing, and grinned: "Sister also saw it, and she was being copied in the back!" ”

Are spoilers really good? Xu Qilin didn't expect that the princesses were all anxious, and as soon as the serial began, he had to see the end of the book.

After chatting casually for a while, Xu Qilin asked the little princess to go back to the palace and tell Sister A, saying that she had nothing to do, so she didn't have to worry.

The banquet went straight until nearly evening, and Xu Qilin said goodbye first on the grounds of going out of the city. As for whether the others will feast all night, he doesn't care.

……………

Time passed quickly, and Xu Qili became married in a blink of an eye. Xu Qilin also followed to greet his relatives and appreciated the process and steps of marrying a daughter-in-law in the Tang Dynasty.

What hypnotic, cross-brazier, cross-saddle...... It's so fresh, but it's also very lively.

After a busy day, it's really tiring. When Xu Qilin left the old mansion, he still teased that his brother was tossed enough, and whether it was okay to spend candles in the cave room.

It is said that when he returned to the door with the bride, the woman of his mother's family would serve him with a stick, and Xu Qilin knew that he couldn't beat him too hard, but he didn't try it.

Xu Qili has just entered the career and has no connections, but he has received a lot of congratulatory gifts.

Of course, most of them were given for Xu Qilin's sake, but Xu Qilin also left all of them to his brother, leaving only the gift list, preparing for him to repay this favor in the future.

The next day, Xu Qilin still wanted to be lazy and absent from work, but someone came to the palace and announced that he would enter the palace for an audience.

Xu Qilin didn't know what was going on, he stayed at home until the time, and it was estimated that the dynasty was dispersed early, and then rushed to the palace. After entering the palace, he was familiar with the road, and he came directly to the Qianqiu Hall to meet His Majesty Li Er.

"Have you finished writing the first aid?" After His Majesty Li Er announced that Xu Qilin entered the palace, he asked at the head, which made Xu Qilin stunned.

I don't know if His Majesty Li Er is still a lover of medicine, why is he in such a hurry?

Xu Qilin suppressed his doubts and bowed down and replied: "It is said that it is a book, but in fact, it is some commonly used first-aid knowledge and methods, and there is not much space. ”

"Print it out as soon as possible." His Majesty Li Er paused, looked at Xu Qilin and said, "Then you teach the palace people, especially the princess who serves beside her." ”

Xu Qilin blinked his eyes and understood. This is frightened by the fact that the son is choking, and is ready to train the palace maids next to the princess to be first responders.

Well, this idea is not wrong, although the imperial doctor is waiting in the palace, he has to rush over when he hears the order, and sometimes it is really not so timely.

Xu Qilin hurriedly agreed, some small methods of bandaging and first aid, there are few things in total, and it is not troublesome to teach.

His Majesty Li Er put down the fold, took a sip of the teacup, and asked, "In the Jin Palace, you said anti-Buddha words again. Could it be that because Lu Yu Immortal is a Taoist, he wants to be an enemy of Shamen? ”

Xu Qilin replied: "Your Majesty is aware of this matter, and you should also know the anti-Buddha basis mentioned by the master, and the influence of Shamen on the world is not to add more lay monks, but to teach people to be sincere and quiet. ”

His Majesty Li Er groaned and did not speak, if Buddhism can continue to play an educational role, and there will not be too many monks who do not cultivate or weave, it will naturally be good.

But to suppress Shamen, there is always a reasonable excuse. It's like dealing with the third-order sect, there are no twists and turns at all, and it is easy to succeed.

"Although you can be regarded as a member of the Taoist Sect, don't say much about anti-Buddha." His Majesty Li Er said: "The country is strong, and I have my own plans. ”

I understand, it is all related to the country's strength, and there will definitely be a blow to Shamen, but it is better to wait for the time to find Shamen's crimes.

Xu Qilin nodded yes, and by the way, he reported to His Majesty Li Er the cooperation agreement with the Feng family on the mirror.

"There is a huge profit to be made by exporting mirrors overseas, so it is okay to give a piece of the pie to the Feng family." His Majesty Li Er felt that Xu Qilin took such good care of the Feng family, and it seemed that he had other plans besides sugar cane, "Why do you treat the Feng family so favorably, but there is still a plan?" ”

Xu Qilin did not hide it, and said: "Weichen wants to try to grow pepper in Lingnan, and he needs the Feng family to give convenience. ”

"Can pepper really be grown in my Datang?" His Majesty Li Er had heard Xu Qilin say a few words before, but he didn't expect it to be put into practice.

"I think I can grow it!" Xu Qilin didn't say anything, "Anyway, it's right to try, there are so many fields in Lingnan, even if the pepper can't be planted, the Feng family won't care about the 180 acres." ”

"If it's planted, it's a huge profit." The corners of His Majesty Li Er's mouth pursed, and he said with a smile: "With white sugar rock sugar as a precedent, and the current mirror, the Feng family is willing to befriend you, even if the pepper cultivation fails." ”

"That's how it should be." Xu Qilin smiled and said: "There are still many people who are willing to make friends with Weichen, and the so-called bustling world is all for profit." ”

After a pause, Xu Qilin continued: "Wechen has recently studied the materials of the Silk Road, and has increased the construction of Didian along the way from Jingshi to Yumen Pass and Yangguan. If white sugar, rock sugar, silk porcelain, and even mirrors are used as commercial goods, merchants will be attracted to come and go, which may promote the development of the Hexi region. ”

His Majesty Li Er nodded and said, "This proposal is feasible. The Han Dynasty had this method, and the Sui Dynasty also sent Pei Ju to manage Hexi, passing through the Western Regions, which shows that the trade routes leading to the Western Regions are very important. ”

After a pause, His Majesty Li Er continued: "Pei Ju has three articles of "Atlas of the Western Regions", have you read it? ”

Xu Qilin shook his head and said honestly: "Weichen has never seen it. ”

"Although time has passed, it also has reference significance." His Majesty Li Er said: "You don't know much about Pei Ju, right?" ”

Xu Qilin smiled and said, "Pei Ju, Weichen knows something." This person was a famous minister in the early Tang Dynasty, but it was very controversial. ”

Weichen thought that his derogation in the Sui and in the Tang Dynasty was not due to the change in his nature, but because of the difference between the virtuous and foolish monarchs he served. When the king hears of his mistakes, he will turn into a slander; When Jun Le heard about it, he turned it into a slander. His Majesty is wise and humbly admonished, showing the sage of Pei Ju. ”

Pei Ju is such a seemingly contradictory guy, you can call him a minister, because he gave Emperor Yang of Sui some bad ideas, which made the people's resentment boil.

But he can also be called a virtuous minister, because he dared to advise loyally, and in the early Tang Dynasty, he did not give His Majesty Li Er a thorn.

How can a guy who used to be sycophant and slap horses go against the norm and become a loyal and honest minister?

Sima Guang's evaluation in later generations is very clear, which probably means that people only dare to tell the truth, are willing to tell the truth, and are willing to tell the truth only in front of those who are willing to listen to the truth and can listen to the truth.

To put it bluntly, the root is in the emperor. The emperor is virtuous or mediocre, which directly leads to the temperament of the courtiers below.

Xu Qilin is telling the truth, but this is indeed equivalent to a slap in the face. And it's colorless, that's the case!

His Majesty Li Er smiled, but his heart was beautiful.

Xu Qilin looked at him like that, and he also knew that this sycophant was just right. He pondered for a moment and continued: "As for running Hexi, Weichen still has to talk about cotton planting. ”

Hehe laughed twice, Xu Qilin seemed to laugh at himself, and said: "Weichen knows that His Majesty wants to despise him again, this stinky boy, he always talks about broken cotton, where is it so important?" ”

His Majesty Li Er laughed and said, "Spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, I didn't think so. Tell me, how important is this cotton to the management of Hexi? ”

From cotton planting to cotton spinning industry, it can play an important role in the development of the national economy and become one of the pillar industries of the national economic development.

The so-called "compared to the mulberry silkworm, there is no labor of raising, and there is an effect that must be harvested." It can be said that it is not a hemp cloth, not cocooned and flocculent, and it is also used as a felt blanket to make up for the cost of brown clothes.

If you think that if the cotton yield is high, the price will be low, you are very wrong.

From the large-scale planting of the Southern Song Dynasty, until the Ming Dynasty, cotton surpassed silk, linen, wool, and became the main textile raw materials, and cotton cloth also became the main clothing material for the people of the country.

Therefore, for a long time, the price of cotton cloth is not much more than that of silk, and it is not much different, and it will not become the clothing of the public.

Just like the saying in the Southern Song Dynasty: Kapok harvests thousands of plants, and eight people are not worried about poverty. This is definitely much more economical than growing food, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a profiteering industry, at least for ten years.

Since the Caoyun reform has lowered the price of grain transportation from Jiangnan to Guanzhong, and Hexi is sparsely populated and cotton is planted on a large scale, it is not too worried about the lack of grain.

It's a big deal, half cotton and half grain, and being able to be self-sufficient is considered a success. Cotton becomes cotton cloth, cotton clothes, quilts, cotton shoes, etc., and the benefits are enough to attract more immigrants to the settlement.

Moreover, you can also call on big families, powerful and high-ranking officials to recruit people to go to cultivate, which is equivalent to the farm of later generations, and the speed of development will be faster.

"The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit. Xu Qilin spoke a lot in the vernacular, and finally made a summary, "After Hexi, Longyou can be developed, as well as Hetao, not competing for land with grain producing areas, but the profits are extremely rich......"

His Majesty Li Er was extremely moved when he heard this, but he also had doubts, mainly because of the idea that big families and bureaucrats would go to Hexi to divide land for business.

Suppressing annexation is a national policy practiced by all feudal dynasties except the Song Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty's system of equalizing land, as well as its control over the sale and purchase of land, was still very strict. His Majesty Li Er is worried that after letting go, it will be difficult to restrain it.