Different from the current farmers who raise poultry and livestock, through efficient centralized large-scale breeding, it can save costs and improve efficiency.

10,000 chickens and ducks, chickens lay eggs and eggs, and the cycle repeats, the number can be increased by two or three times in less than half a year, and the pigs can give birth to two litters a year, with five to eight piglets per litter, and the number can be increased several times in the second year.

However, the current pig is not like the modernization of the industrial breeding, three months to slaughter, the current pig is still the original ecological pig breed, no improvement, slow growth, it takes a year to a year and a half to slaughter, plus the grain is fed less, the long meat is slow.

But even so, when farming enters a virtuous cycle, the income from meat is very considerable.

Seventy percent of the rice kept by the tenants could not only feed their families, but also be converted into copper coins to buy many daily necessities such as meat, cloth, lamp oil, and salt.

Only when the laborers are rich and have the money to buy other commodities can other walks of life be stimulated. Of course, Bai Liyan knows this truth, but Chen Yunfeng's limitations and the constraints of the cognition and concept of the times make it impossible to imagine the long-term benefits that can be generated by the virtuous cycle of economic industrial chain.

Nowadays, the peasants are tenants who are dependent on the government and the powerful, and the tax burden per mu is as high as more than 4 or 50 percent, and even 70 percent during wartime.

Based on the calculation of a family of seven purely cultivated land by manpower, at most 20 acres of fields can be cultivated in a year, and more than 2,000 catties of rice will be harvested in a season in the thin field, and 70% of the tax burden will be discarded, leaving only more than 700 catties of rice for tenants, which is about 500 catties of polished rice, which is about 1,000 catties of japonica rice according to two seasons, and for a family of seven, this harvest is not enough for the livelihood.

Even if the land is fertile under the rule of Guangxin Gong, the tax on the middle field with a yield of two stones per mu is 50%, and the fertile land with more than 3 stones is 60%, and the people can barely be regarded as food and clothing. Chen Yunfeng heard at first glance that Bailiyan only needed 30% of the tax, which was naturally difficult to understand.

Walking out of the field, it was the scorching sun, and the two returned to the village and came to Yicaotang.

The Yicaotang in Tunken Village is very simple, and the thatched shanty houses can barely accommodate people. Bai Liyan has been thinking about having more money next year, so that the Liu family and his son can expand some manpower and open a brick factory to burn bricks, which can not only solve the problem of building houses, but also sell them to the outside world, killing two birds with one stone.

In the scorching summer, Chen Yunfeng is used to being gentle on weekdays, rarely engaged in manual labor, and he is already sweating when he walks down in a circle.

Under the pergola, Xiao Er brought a clay pot, which was filled with snow-white ice cubes, and seeing this scene, Chen Yunfeng was taken aback:

"It's ...... Ice! ”

"Exactly, I think Brother Yunfeng has never seen such cold ice in the Northland."

"This ......"

A chill hit, and Chen Yunfeng believed that it was definitely not an illusion, it must be ice.

Chen Yunfeng came here to see what Bailiyan had been doing in the past three months, and secondly, to sell ice for Bailiyan yesterday.

Guangxin City's largest wealth Dong Qin Han and Guangxin Gong Jiang Min are extraordinary, Bailiyan rashly went to Zui Xiangju to sell ice, Jiang Min naturally didn't believe it. I thought it was a big fraud by Baili Yantuo, but I never thought that the white flowers were a jar of ice, and Chen Yunfeng could not deny it.

Thinking of this, Chen Yunfeng asked:

"Brother Xian, where did this ice come from?"

Bai Liyan smiled mysteriously, and he said:

"Brother Yunfeng thinks that an inch of silver is worth buying ten stones of cold ice?"

"Brother Xian wants to sell ice?" Chen Yunfeng asked knowingly.

"Exactly. Yesterday, I went to the city and deliberately went to Zuixiangju, and I gambled with the shopkeeper of Zuixiangju with a gold collar as the quality. If I take out ten stones of ice, I will sell it to him at the price of ten stones and one inch of silver per day, and Brother Yunfeng thinks it will be worth it. ”

"Worth it, it's worth it. The summer night is difficult, and the rich families in the city are all trying their best to cool off the heat, even if they are extremely poor, how can there be a cold and cold summer to enjoy. It's just that how can this cold ice be transported to Guangxin City, have you ever thought about it? ”

"Hehaha......" Bailiyan laughed: "There is naturally a plan in the future." Thinking that Qin Caidong is also well-informed, he must not have thought of how I can transport this cold ice to Guangxin City. ”

Ten stone ice is only about 1,100 catties, which cannot be used by a large family, and the largest consumption is still public consumption places and Guangxin Mansion. As long as it is sealed with a thick wooden board and covered with a quilt, no matter how much ice can be transported to Guangxin City, dozens of miles away, with the most primitive method

After a simple light meal at noon, Chen Yunfeng hurriedly returned to Guangxin Mansion by car and explained in detail what he had seen and heard in Tunken Village:

"Lord, Wei Xian's sale of ice is definitely not a lie, so I got a stone of cold ice from Wei Xian's hands, and asked the lord to take a look."

"Really?" Jiang Min said in disbelief.

"Really. Wei Xian wrapped the cold ice in a gypsum board quilt to prevent it from melting. The road was bumpy all the way, and a stone of ice did not move. ”

Chen Yunfeng asked people to carry the wooden box into the study, and they felt cool from a long distance. When I opened the futon and lifted the wooden cover, I could see a piece of snow-white ice lying in the box.

"Lord, how." Chen Yunfeng was quite proud.

Jiang Min is also well-informed, and he has never seen ice, but in the Northland, he has never seen ice.

"It's really a divine skill, you can know where Wei Xian got the cold ice from." Jiang Min reached out to touch it, and a chill welled up in his heart.

"I haven't heard him talk about this matter, but Wei Xian's talent is by no means in vain, and I think that the villages of Guangxin City should also implement the policy of reducing the amount of money and supporting the people, so that we can accumulate more people's and material resources for the use of the Lord."

"Taxation should be considered in the long run, and it is necessary to have its own opinions. You just said that Wei Xian is willing to sell Han Bing for ten stones and one inch of silver? ”

"Exactly, ten stones and an inch of silver, it is very cheap. With the degree of residence in the mansion, even if it is twelve hours a day, ten stones of cold ice is more than enough. ”

"Well, you go to inform the Inner Mansion, and tomorrow you go to Tunken Village to buy ten stones of cold ice from Wei Xian to relieve the heat in the public mansion."

"No!"

Then Jiang Min ordered someone to chisel the ice into pieces, part of it was sent to the He family's house in the main room, and part of it was sent to his daughter Jiang Rong's room, leaving dozens of catties to continue to exist in the study and enjoy it slowly.

The maidservant put the crushed ice cubes into the vat and carried them into Jiang Rong's small courtyard by the servants. Jiang Rong had just returned home from the east of the city, she was sweating profusely, changed out of men's clothes, put on women's clothes, and was about to go to the small pond to enjoy the wind.

"What is this?" Jiang Rong didn't know Jiang Min, Chen Yunfeng and others, and she didn't know what it was when she saw the ice cube for a while.

The maidservant stepped forward and said:

"Back to the county lord, it was the lord who got it to cool off the heat and cold, and asked the slave and maid to send it to the county lord."

"Ice!"

Jiang Rong raised her eyebrows in surprise, and the coolness and comfort in her heart reached the point of no return.

Where did the ice come from on this hot day, not to mention that Guangxin City didn't even snow in winter, how could there be ice. But this refreshing feeling is not fake, is this the legendary ice?

Jiang Rong asked again at this time:

"Do you know where my father got it from?"

"The maidservant doesn't know."

"Oh......"

Jiang Rong was thinking at this time, if this was only cool once, it would be boring, and it would be nice if it could be so cool every day.

Before dawn the next day, Bailiyan organized people to put the ice into the plaster wooden cabinets that had been laid, wrapped it in a quilt, and loaded it onto a flatbed cart, ready to pull it to Zuixiangju. Before leaving, he and Xiao Er commanded:

"Xiao Er, if someone from the Gongfu comes to buy ice today, he will sell it to the Gongfu for ten stones of cold ice at the price, remember that it can only be sold for ten stones, not more."

"The Gongfu is a big family, so why not sell it for ten more stones, anyway, there are more in the ice cellar." Xiao Er said willfully.

"It's not easy to make ice, we only have fifty stones in stock nowadays, and the government can't use ten stones of cold ice, and it's easy to run out of stock if you sell too much."

The ice cellar is a project excavated together when digging the pond at the beginning, which can store about 200 stone of ice, but at the moment there is not enough manpower, the output is limited, the ice cellar only has 50 stone of ice, and it sells 30 stone a day, and it can not make up for 30 stone of ice in a day. Selling 20 koku a day is already the limit of daily production.

With the expenses of the Guangxin Mansion, there is no heavy banquet, and the ten stones of ice cannot be used at all, and the excess can be stored in the ice cellar. However, Zuixiangju is a public place, and the amount of ice used is very large, and ten stones is definitely not enough.

The carriage set off from Tunken Village before dawn, and arrived at Guangxin City, all the way to Zuixiangju, and the shopkeeper was settling the account on the counter that day. Outside the car parking shop, the Baili Yanjing entered from the beginning, and said with a little salute:

"The king's shopkeeper."

The king's shopkeeper followed the prestige, and his eyes lit up:

"Yo, guest officer, you're here."

"The goods have been delivered, and I ask the shopkeeper Wang to inspect and inspect it."

"Yes, I have already told Qin Caidong about this matter, and Qin Caidong said that as long as the guest officer can get cold ice, he will have ten stones of cold ice for one inch of silver. I don't know the surname of the guest official. ”

"Under the surname Wei, please ask the shopkeeper Wang to inspect the goods."

The shopkeeper Wang looked out twice at this time, and there were already curious onlookers on the street, seeing this, he said:

"In this way, Mr. Wei drove the carriage into the backyard of the shop, and I will wait for you there."

The backyard of Zui Xiangju is located in the south of the stove room, which is the back door of Zui Xiangju and the place where the sundries are piled up, and there are fewer idle people around, and the usual unloading and loading are all in and out of the backyard, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble in and out of the main gate.

Drove the car to the backyard of Zuixiangju, where the shopkeeper Wang and a few guys were already waiting.

Ten stones of cold ice were contained in ten gypsum wooden cabinets, Bai Liyan casually opened a wooden cabinet, and the cold air of white flowers gushed out, which surprised the shopkeeper Wang and others:

"It's really cold...... "The king's shopkeeper praised endlessly, and the miscellaneous work was also breathtaking.

At this time, Bai Liyan said proudly:

"The king's shopkeeper, there are a total of ten wooden cabinets here, with a stone and a piece of cold ice inside, and the gross weight is slightly different, and I hope the king's shopkeeper will forgive me."

"That's that, this thing is not easy to come by, how can there be no access." Shopkeeper Wang rubbed his hands with a gleam in his eyes, and took out a gold collar and an inch of silver from his sleeve pocket: "Mr. Wei, this is the gold ingot that Your Excellency pledged to the small shop that day, and this is the inch of silver that you bought ten stones of cold ice, you can keep it." ”

Bailiyan accepted the gold and silver, and the shopkeeper Wang randomly organized handymen to unload the ten wooden cabinets from the cart, poured out the ice cubes and quickly dragged them into the room for use.

The money and goods were cleared, and Bailiyan drove the car to leave Zuixiangju and go to the West Market. At this time, ten pieces of ice in the backyard house were lying quietly on the ground, there was no trace of the king's shopkeeper and the handyman, Jiang Min and another middle-aged man with purple satin straight clothes walked down slowly from the upstairs, facing the ten stones of cold ice on the ground, the middle-aged man said:

"Jiang Gong, that young man is Wei Xian."

"It's him, he was the one who defeated Hanhe four times in Jiangdong back then." Jiang Min was a little smug in his tone.

The two came to the ground on the first floor, and the middle-aged man reached out and touched the ice, and said puzzledly:

"It's really weird, how did this son get so much ice, could it really be that he could turn decay into magic."

Jiang Min said disapprovingly:

"Brother Qin, although such a miracle is rare to see, it is not beneficial to the conspiracy between you and me."

"But the time is not ripe yet, Jiang Hai's eyeliner is moving in private, so it's better not to act rashly."

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(End of chapter)