Jiang Lan relied on her apple-like little face and crisp children's voice, and quickly became the pistachio of Daxiangguo Temple. A group of high-ranking monks have fallen, and the fat Yuanguang abbot always wants to hug Xiao Jianglan, but unfortunately Xiao Jianglan dislikes the smell on his body.

Through the efforts of several craftsmen in Bianjing and the teenagers brought back by Jiang Zhi, Pu Jing Nunnery has successfully dug up the corner of the northeast wall of Daxiangguo Temple, and the big plaque of "Pu Jing Nunnery" has been hung high, looking very inconspicuous, but Jiang Zhi doesn't care, the old monk has earned her enough gold along the way to eat and drink for a long time.

Other competitors of Puhua Temple and Daxiangguo Temple spread rumors that Daxiangguo Temple had given up their house to the little nuns to "pour out the fire" from time to time, so Master Yuanzhi went door to door to "ask for teachings", and the wind in Bianjing was quiet. After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Master Yuanzhi went all the way south from the hometown of Liao and really saved many orphans and orphans.

After cultivating the monk Huiming into a big pork household in Nanxunmen, he got inspiration from the more than 100 little monks brought back by Jiang Zhi, and prepared to launch the "chanting group" composed of 998 small novices, specially for the dignitaries and large households to chant and pray for blessings.

The news that the Great Xiangguo Temple, which regards the land as its fate, actually gave up a few courtyards to make a place for the homeless orphans to live in, and this news actually shook the government and the opposition. Zhou Qinzong found it quite interesting, and specially summoned Master Yuanguang Yuanzhi, and after learning the details, he was deeply frightened of the cruelty of the Jurchens, so he stopped paying attention.

Zhao Ding, Li Gang, and Yu Yunwen were busy with the disaster relief in Huaibei and the major events of the expedition to Fangla, and were not interested in this kind of market anecdote. Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and Cai Jing's son Cai Quan and others also wanted to get more say in the major affairs of Fang La, and they didn't care. Only the circle of noblewomen in Tokyo is very interested in these little nuns, and they go to eat fast from time to time, and Jiang Zhi, a "fake nun", has gradually gained some fame. That was, of course, a year later.

Li Xiang also heard about this Pu Jing Nunnery, but he was not born to know it as Xiong Chengwen suspected, and at this time he didn't think that Pu Jing Nunnery would intersect with him, although the northeast corner of Daxiangguo Temple and the back door of the Ma family's courtyard were on the same street, and they were still very close. At this moment, he was holding a secret letter from his cheap father-in-law Liu Chengdong, and he was worried.

With Hedong, Guanzhong, and Sichuan and Shu regions as new sources of wealth, Mingyuezhuang's Gongzhong will not collapse, but the growth rate of profits is limited. The scale of Ge Lao Ying, Mengxue and Gongzhong continues to expand, Mingyue Fort will be fully built in the spring of next year, and there are more and more displaced people from the north, and the output of the workshop in Mingyueji is ten times that of the past but cannot be sold...... Many troubles hit together, and in Li Xiang's view, there is only one core problem, expanding the market.

Liu Chengdong, who retained the position of the commander of Mingyuezhuang, sent a secret letter asking Li Xiang to solve the livelihood problem of the families of the soldiers under his command. Li Xiang knew that this problem must be solved, because it is related to the military morale of Liu Chengdong's troops, and the military morale problem is related to the question of whether Liu Chengdong can defeat Fang La, and whether Liu Chengdong can be promoted is directly related to the life and death of Mingyuezhuang......

It's really irritable, Li Xiang was a little angry, and then he felt a swelling pain in his lower body. Ahem, after all, it's a young man in his twenties, and it's inevitable to have this reaction, it's normal.

Li Xiang thought of Liu Susu, and then shook his head again. No, girls in this era can't accept premarital life, which would be disrespectful to the man's family. Thinking of Yang Yingdong and Zhang Qingping's description of Liu Chengdong's knife technique, Li Xiang had a cold war, and his anger disappeared a lot.

Liu Chengdong has thousands of people under his command and tens of thousands of family members, and if he wants to solve their livelihood problems, he will need thousands of positions. But the current situation in Mingyuezhuang is that there are too many people and things can't be sold, so the problem becomes how to expand the market. Li Xiang could only wait for Cheng Jianghai to inquire about the market situation in Bianjing and Gyeonggi Province clearly, and then think about how to open up the situation.

Li Xiang's vision is good, and Cheng Jianghai is very competent for the role of intelligence chief and staff, and he is willing to do it. Cheng Jianghai lived next door to Li Xiang, Xiong Chengwu, Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan dug out a secret passage and secret room underneath, but the three of them once slandered and doubted Li Xiang's orientation and vision.

Of course, Li Xiang won't explain so much, the less people know about Cheng Jianghai's identity, the better. So Cheng Jianghai kept cowering during the day, and when he returned to the secret room, he began to read all kinds of documents hungrily, and he felt very good.

"Dun, Dun, Dun Dun......" There was a negotiated knocking sound in the bedroom, Li Xiang walked into the bedroom, opened the desk and entered the tunnel, it was all dark......

Cheng Jianghai did not look obscene during the day at all, he wore a clean scholar's robe and saluted Li Xiang, and then the master sat on the kang from the two.

The buttocks were a little cold, Li Xiang frowned and said: "It's going to be cold soon, it's not good to stay here all the time, I know a kind of earth dragon, it can be warmer then." ”

Cheng Jianghai thanked him, and then took out the information that had been sorted out, "What is there in Mingyuezhuang, what Liu Datong obtained, what was obtained by those good hands who were sent, and what Sister Ma provided, all together it looks like this." ”

Mingyuezhuang arrived in batches of thirty good hands in Bianjing, Li Xiang asked Ma Rulan to select a few good materials for learning martial arts, and the rest were scattered to all corners of Bianjing, and all of them were cultivated as spies. These people will be the backbone of the new intelligence department, and their first challenge is to find a job in Bianjing City to settle down, and choose the opportunity to pass information to Cheng Jianghai.

Li Xiang took care of this situation from the time of Zhuangzi's selection, most of the thirty people were clever, most of them were from homeless people, they were used to seeing all kinds of situations in the market, and they also had a certain amount of strength in their hands. Two weeks later, sixteen of the twenty or so people sent out had settled down, but the information provided was very simple.

Many of Liu Chengdong's acquaintances in the Xiang Army back then went to Bianjing, and they also provided some painless news. However, there are everyone in Mingyue Village, who provided some dry goods under the reward, and Li Xiang's eldest sister Ma Rulan provided a lot of key information, after all, the Ma family was also beautiful.

On the whole, the prosperity of Bianjing is still above Li Xiang's expectations. After looking at the basic situation of Bianjing after completing Jianghai's arrangement, Li Xiang took a long breath and suppressed the shock in his heart.

In the middle and early stages of the previous dynasty, the big cities all implemented the lifang system, that is, the city was divided into squares, which was quite the style of the blocks of European and American countries in the original time and space. But the alleys of the previous dynasty are all walled, and there are several gates! There is a curfew every night, and the gate of the village will be closed after the bell rings dozens of times, and the slightest offense by the people will be punished with a board, and the head will be cut off directly.

In the turbulent times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the circulation of commercial goods was extremely prosperous, and the Li Fang system was too rigid to restrict the purchase and sale of commercial goods, so some stable cities such as Yangzhou and other cities successively canceled Li Fang.

The Great Zhou Dynasty established the country, Emperor Taizu waved his pen, let the people do their own thing, and everything was for the benefit of the people! As a result, Bianjing was further expanded, forming a pattern of an outer city, an inner city, and an imperial city.

The outer city of Bianjing is the residence of the common people, and the grain, rice, oil and salt needed by more than one million people every day are unloaded here; The inner city is divided into the west city and the east city, the east side is the concentration of people's houses, tile houses and markets, and the west side is mainly the imperial court yamen and special departments; The palace is somewhat northwestward, and the royal road outside the south gate is more than 200 meters wide.

There are no alleys in Bianjing, only various streets. The Fan Building, which integrates restaurants, green buildings and tile houses, and the Pan Building, which is equivalent to a comprehensive supermarket, are of course the most prosperous places in Bianjing. Tianshuijing Street, where restaurants and restaurants are gathered, is the best place for Bianjing citizens to call friends, and the Goolan tile shop represented by Sangjia Wazi dominates the cultural life of the middle and lower classes in Bianjing.

Li Xiang attaches the most importance to the trading of goods, and Bianjing has good news and bad news for Mingyuezhuang in this regard. But Bianjing is undoubtedly the center of the whole Great Zhou, six canals connect Jinghu and lead to Jiangnan, Shaanxi and Hedong can also go directly to Bianjing through the Yellow River, Sichuan and Shu can also go straight down to Jingzhou, and then through the waterway to Xiangyang, and then to Bianjing.

All in all, if you don't consider the issue of national defense, Bianjing at this time is the best place to build the capital of the traditional dynasty of the Central Plains. However, after Li Xiang was shocked by the prosperity of Bianjing, he also frowned deeply on the market environment of Bianjing.

Li Xiang leaned against the cold wall of the secret room, "In other words, if you don't have excellent means and backing, if you want to open a store directly to make a lot of money, you are killing yourself in Bianjing?" ”

Cheng Jianghai spread his hands, "In the past, his subordinates were only suspicious, but now they are basically confirmed." In Bianjing, the gold caves such as Goolan Washe are basically the self-reserved land of Jiangmen and the royal family, and the bulk transactions such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea have long been divided, and the water of silk, tea, porcelain and other industries is deeper, involving all the big clans. Jewelry, cow wool skin, charcoal and spices, these businesses have a tacit understanding with the tooth industry, officials, and the government, and outsiders are not allowed to interfere. ”

"Small households sell some gadgets and snacks with their craftsmanship, and there are special street markets and night markets, so that enough money is stable. This kind of game is only available in night markets, and it is maintained by a group of brave and ruthless idlers, and there are also amazing people behind it. ”

"In my humble opinion, in the existing industry of our Mingyue Village, ordnance must not be revealed. It's not easy to sell ironware directly in Bianjing, even if we can't afford it, that will offend too many people. ”

"Cold-proof clothing and down jackets and things like that, there are no competitors, but you have to keep a low profile. The subordinates have limited knowledge, which is this foolish opinion. ”

Li Xiang nodded with satisfaction, Cheng Jianghai was already very attentive, he was serious and organized, and he was the material to take charge of himself. But even if Mingyuezhuang works overtime, it can't produce much clothing, and how much profit it brings? The market capacity of cold-proof clothing and down jackets can only be developed step by step, and it is impossible to sell them as quickly as ironware.

The main source of wealth in Mingyuezhuang is still iron products, iron-making furnace plus assembly line, every day to produce a large number of scissors, kitchen knives, needles and kettles, iron pots and other things, agricultural tools are extremely important, among which the iron pot began to be popular in the big week, very popular with small and medium-sized landlords. If the Bianjing market can be successfully opened, and then the entire southern part of Dazhou can be leveraged through developed water transportation, Li Xiang will no longer have to worry about running out of money in his pocket.

Therefore, Li Xiang understands that he now needs a commodity to pry Bianjing, which can not excessively stimulate the existing interests, but also consume a large number of Mingyuezhuang's iron tools and other products, and it is best to solve the employment problem of a large number of people.

Li Xiang had a headache and began to use his brain, recalling that in the future generations, everything would be used by every family, and it would consume a lot of labor. This magical product also needs to meet the premise that it is simple enough for anyone to participate.

Cheng Jianghai saw Li Xiang closing the closing and thinking with a serious look, he didn't dare to disturb, and took the kettle to refill the water. This kind of kettle with a grip and lid is very comfortable to lift, and it saves firewood and charcoal, and Cheng Jianghai was surprised when he first used it. Li Xiang didn't notice Cheng Jianghai's departure, and was still using his brains with all his might.

In the end, Li Xiang gave up, it turned out that although he was very smart, he didn't have a flash of inspiration every time, he was not the little Fusang monk who was resting after all. Seeing Li Xiang's frustrated face, Cheng Jianghai carefully added tea, put two plates of dim sum on the table, and then wanted to change the topic again with his wit.

Cheng Jianghai found that it was indeed cold this day, and said with a smile: "Owner, this day is really cold, and it will be cold again after just going out for a while." Charcoal is too expensive, so it would be nice to have a stove that could suck the charcoal away and burn firewood and charcoal directly, and put a pot of water on top of it, and drink tea whenever you want. ”

"Bang dang!" Li Xiang's teacup shattered to the ground, "You, what did you say." You ...... again Say it again...... Think, want, what stove? ”