Sweet potatoes, this thing cannot be used as a staple food. Because eating too much will cause bloating and acid reflux, which is extremely uncomfortable.

And there is a way to solve it, and that is to make pancakes.

In some parts of Ludi, the people have been relying on sweet potato pancakes as their staple food in the last century.

The sweet potatoes made into pancakes do not have considerable stamina to bite, but they can feed hundreds of people.

The only problem is that Li Ji has to do everything himself.

Sweet potatoes don't need to be kept as seeds, because the yield is huge, and all this land is planted.

Although it is not said that the output of four or five thousand catties per mu of land, the output of ten million catties of land is not a problem to feed the entire Luoyang City.

Unlike other food crops, sweet potato storage requires digging cellars, maintaining humidity and ventilation. This also has a disadvantage, that is, it is inevitable that some of them will rot.

In addition, it can be sliced with a wheel and dried in the sun and stored like ordinary grain.

Then there are pancakes, sweet potatoes are ground into a pulp with a stone grind and put on a pancake to form pancakes. The pancakes that come out of this way will not spoil for a year. Sprinkle a little water when eating, and it will restore its softness and can be folded.

"Bring it on!" Li Ji waved his hand, and the two guards carried up a wheel. Thanks to the new life, Li Ji still remembers that his grandfather took him to use this kind of guillotine when he was a child, which is a hand-cranked slicer made of cast iron.

The guillotine needs to be fixed to a wooden stool, one guard carries a bag of sweet potatoes and puts the sweet potatoes into the guillotine's slot, and the other guards shake the guillotine with his hand, and the sweet potato slices are cut out in this way.

This thing immediately aroused Han E's great interest, and the other ministers were also shocked. Who has ever seen this kind of strange and ingenious thing in this era, the real dragon emperor is simply a living Luban.

Han E was very excited: "Your Majesty, this thing can save more than half of the manpower, amazing, wonderful!"

"Zhang Wenwei ordered the household department to build a cellar in Qi'er Ridge in the north of the city. Be big, big! can accommodate these sweet potatoes, the military department, send 2,000 forbidden troops to garrison. This is my Datang granary, and there must be no mistakes! ”

Zhang Wenwei and the squire of the military department both bowed down to receive the order, and as for the expenses for building the cellar, the household department paid for it. In dealing with this matter, Zhang Wenwei made a big move again.

The household department allocated 700,000 yuan to build a cellar and hire people to cut sweet potatoes.

After working for more than a month, he obtained more than 300,000 stone sweet potatoes, which was enough for the rations of the imperial army for a year. This is still the only sweet potato, and the whole government and the opposition are in an uproar.

All the people of Luoyang City, almost every household set up an iron pan at home, used a stone mill to form a ball of ground sweet potato flour, and baked pancakes on the pancake.

All peasant households who make pancakes are exempted from paying taxes by the imperial court for one year. The baked pancakes are opened in 28, which means that eighty percent of the court comes back to buy them, and the remaining two percent go to individuals.

For a time, the entire Luoyang City was full of smoke, and every household was busy baking pancakes.

The baked pancakes were sent from the capital to the garrisons as military rations, including the Gejia Army, the Zhaoyi Army, the Anwu Army, and the Shence Army...... Wait, Xishan, Huangling Mountain, Yanchang, when the vassal kings were still worried about grain and grass, the imperial court was already full of grain.

Ordinary people work hard all year round, and sometimes they can't even solve the problem of food and clothing. Especially in the early spring, they can only dig some wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and they can escape the famine and ask for food.

In today's Luoyang City, although the people still eat bran vegetables, they finally basically bid farewell to hunger. Corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes were all distributed free of charge by the imperial court.

Especially the displaced people who have been resettled in the north of the city, they will not go hungry again this winter.

The 10,000 pigs are finally ready to be slaughtered, and the night market in Luoyang City is full of pork fragrance. People were surprised to find that these pigs were different from the past, and they did not have a half-fat smell, but instead had a strong meat aroma.

The New Year is approaching, and ordinary people can afford to eat a pound or two of meat.

Compared to the food distributed by the imperial court, the people found the corn they had grown in the past to be difficult to swallow.

The construction of glass greenhouses is booming, and many seasonal vegetables are ripe for picking. Li Ji does not make loss-making transactions, and has invested heavily in glass greenhouses, and now he has gained a lot.

There is already a government-run vegetable market in Emerald Lane, which is different from the winter in the past, and only some cabbage and radishes appear in the vegetable market. Today's vegetable market has a wide variety of vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, potatoes, sweet potatoes, garlic sprouts, bastard Zhu Lao spicy, everything, has been close to the modern vegetable market.

However, these out-of-season vegetables are ridiculously expensive, and they are not affordable for ordinary people. There are many dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital, but they are not worried about sales, and Zhu Youneng has made another profit.

Luoyang City, almost overnight, has undergone amazing changes.

Hanyuan Palace, Li Ji's face was full of red light, and the ministers were desperate to admonish.

This time, the entire court was surprisingly unanimous, and the ministers had only one purpose, to canonize the queen.

Datang is already on the right track, and its current economic strength is already against the sky. If we wait for next year, it is estimated that grain production will increase several times, and the next step should be to cut the feudal domain.

The mother of the country is related to the country, and the emperor can't have an heir. After this year, Li Ji will be seventeen, even in the people, he has long passed the age of marrying a wife.

According to the trajectory of history, Li Ji will be returned to heaven by Zhu Wen with a cup of poisoned wine next year.

But now the wheel of history has changed direction, and the end of the Tang Dynasty is no more, replaced by a brand-new, rising Datang. Zhu Wen has long been hanging, Li Ji is young, except for the problem of the town, everything in Datang is developing step by step.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Wenwei loves her virtuous and virtuous daughters, and she has the courage of a mother in the world, and she is the mother of the country." Prime Minister Dugu said.

Prime Minister Kong Lin also said: "Exactly, Zhang Wenwei is an important minister of our court. The household department was well managed, and the treasury became richer day by day. The tiger father has no dog son, and the tiger father has no dog girl, and the daughter of the Zhang family is virtuous and virtuous, generous, benevolent and filial, and is the queen's choice. ”

The two prime ministers of the dynasty recommended Zhang Wanxi together, not because they knew that the emperor liked this girl. Ministers don't think about this, they think about who is the most suitable from a political point of view.

The reason why they elected Zhang Wanxi was because of Empress Dowager He's instructions. Two days ago, the Empress Dowager He called the two prime ministers to Jishan Palace, and the Empress Dowager He liked Zhang Wanxi, and secondly, he was the daughter of the household servant, and he could be regarded as a good match.

And Dugu and Kong Lin knew that Zhang Wenwei was humble and would not pose a threat to his political career. So the three hit it off, and they all agreed that Zhang Wanxi would be the queen of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Ji is thick-skinned, he has to pretend to be this. Although he was overjoyed in his heart, his face could not be seen: "All of you Aiqing are my ministers, and this matter is up to you to decide."

"Your Majesty, the sooner the canonization of the queen, the better, and the dowry is indispensable. Also, the canonization ceremony and the sacrifice to heaven were held at the same time, and the pomp and circumstance could not be small. This time to canonize the queen, the vassal kings from all over the country will inevitably send envoys to Beijing, let's not let people say that we are a small family. So Cui Yuan stood up and said.

Liu Dewang, the young superintendent, also nodded, and he said to Zhang Wenwei: "That's it, Lord Zhang, as a household servant, you can't be stingy this time." How much money is needed for the canonization ceremony, it must be a big show, and this money cannot be saved. ”

Zhang Wenwei is a dead stubborn donkey: "The minister thinks it's impossible, my dynasty has always been frugal, how can I be extravagant in order to show off in front of the feudal towns." The majesty of the court is determined by the words and deeds of the Son of Heaven, not by extravagance and waste. ”

Li Ji was secretly annoyed, and his mother Zhang Wenwei really pulled out flowers. This is your own daughter, and if you are not afraid of cold when the time comes, I still feel ashamed.

The canonization of the queen is a major event of the country, and it must not be sloppy. How much money is made, the bigger the scene, the better, the more grand the ceremony, the more the national prestige is demonstrated, what the hell is Zhang Wenwei thinking.

In ancient times, the canonization and sacrificial rituals were cumbersome, and the canonization of the queen and then the amnesty of the world, the sacrifice of the temple and the society, all kinds of rules were complicated and messy.

Great rituals: heaven, earth, temple, five emperors and the emperor and queen of the posthumous honor. Worship: She, Ji, Sun, Moon, Star, Chen, Yue, Zhen, Hai, Du, Emperor's Society, Silkworm, Seven Rites, Wenxuan, King Wucheng and Ancient Emperors, Gift Prince.

Small rituals: Sizhong, Si Ming, Si Ren, Si Lu, Feng Bo, Yushi, Lingxing, Shanlin, Chuanze, Si Han, Matsu, Xianmu, Ma She, Ma Bu, Zhou and County Sheji, Shi Dian. And there are four out of twenty people in the ancestral hall of the Son of Heaven. Three-year-old, five-year-old, when the age is lifted. The remaining twenty have two, and if they cannot be enumerated between the ages of one, there will be a regent. Its non-worshippers sometimes do it. The queen and the crown prince each act in one year, and the rest have a division to act.

This is just a drop in the ocean, if you really want to sacrifice, 10,000 rules, 10,000 etiquette, the Ministry of Rites is doing this.

Regarding the sacrificial ritual music, the New Tang Dynasty Book spends a lot of space on detailed records. It is estimated that with Li Ji's personality, he has to pick and choose not to do it after a set of etiquette.

The emperor should worship again and again, worship the heavens and the earth and worship the ghosts and gods, and worship the land and the wind and rain. All natural phenomena that cannot be explained in this era will be linked to ghosts and gods, and you have to worship.

The emperor worshipped for the sake of the world and prayed for the blessings of God for the people.

"Zhang Wenwei, in your opinion, how much silver taels does the canonization ceremony cost?" Li Ji asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, it takes 300,000 yuan."

300,000 guan, although it is not much, it is reasonable. The ministers also knew that Zhang Wenwei wanted to save money to prepare for the future war of cutting the domain.

Li Ji probably knew what he meant, and he pouted: "It's enough for the household to give out 200,000 guan, and I will give 600,000 guan privately, making up 800,000 guan." To canonize the queen, you have to have a big show. I know you don't have any money, but I do! ”

To be rich is to be capricious, and everyone has long known about the unsightly transaction between the emperor and the loser Zhu Youneng. Since Li Ji uses his own private money, you can't care about one million people.

Zhang Wenwei was a little displeased, this is too loser. However, it was Li Ji's private money, and he had no right to interfere, so he had to bow down and say, "Minister, obey the order!"

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