Walking by the Wei River, it was already noon.

Although he walked very slowly, Li Shi still had a lot of beads of sweat on his head.

Thinking that they had gone so early in the morning, they should have been hungry, so Wei Renshi took them to the market.

"It's the most interesting place to eat and play on this street." Wei Renshi said.

As if he was cooperating with Wei Renshi's words, as soon as the words fell, there was a burst of tempting fragrance wafting from the side, and a shout: "Mutton skewers!" Cumin lamb burrito! Come and try it! ”

The scent is so enticing that when you smell it, you can't walk.

"It smells so good!" Li Chun shouted.

Before everyone walked to the stall, Wei Renshi said inside: "Four skewers of meat, one wrap, cut in the middle and divide it into three parts." ”

Then he turned his head and explained to Li Shi: "There are a lot of delicious things in the back, but I don't dare to eat enough here." Take a bite of the same, and when this street passes, I'm afraid it will have to hold on. ”

Li Shi nodded, the meat skewers had already been handed over, Wei Renshi took the mutton skewers, one person divided a skewer, Wei Renshi took the meat skewers, demonstrated a piece of mutton, and chewed a few times: "Delicious!" ”

Li Chun followed Wei Renshi out for a barbecue I don't know how many times, he would eat it, but Li Shi had never eaten like this, and when he saw Wei Renshi's way of eating, he learned to take a bite, and his eyes immediately lit up: "It's really good!" ”

"Hehe, it's all thanks to a few spices. Evodia, cumin, that is, benzoin fennel, especially this cumin, is the most suitable meat. Wei Renshi said: "It's just that our Datang doesn't have cumin, and we have to rely on caravans to bring it back from the Western Regions." ”

Everyone walked down the road, quite dazzled.

Those snacks were all kinds of things, and even Li Shi showed great interest in those snacks.

As soon as you come across a snack stall, you should walk up and have a look. Li Yu also ate happily, a plate of fried noodles Li Shi tasted two bites, and the rest was wiped out by Li Yu with a few bites.

There are also a lot of people gathered around the game stalls in the middle of the snack stalls, Li Shi can't look like the emperor at this moment, holding a xiaolongbao in one hand, and a fried fish in the other, while gnawing, while standing in the crowd to watch the people ring, seeing that he was almost about to lasso things, and it was a pity to shout with the people around him, it seemed that even he himself had forgotten that he was the king of a country.

Wei Renshi has been following him, and he said in his heart that the people who secretly protect them are so worried.

Everyone had been playing in the Weinan Bazaar for almost an afternoon, and Li Shi had a good time, tried almost every game, and also gained a lot of loot.

In fact, they are all small things that are not valuable, but the happiness of harvest is no less than those precious treasures.

Li Chun is miserable at this time. Originally, it was those guards who wanted to go over to help Li Shi take the loot he won by playing those games, but Li Chun rushed to take it himself in order to show himself in front of his Ah Weng.

But he didn't expect that Li Shi would play so many games, and those loot would already occupy his arms.

It wasn't until the sun went down that Li Shi finished walking the entire long street, sat on the stone chair on the riverside embankment, blew the warm breeze, and rested.

Wei Renshi saw that he was sweating profusely, panting and rubbing his stomach, so he went over to an old woman next to him and left a few pennies and brought over a few bowls.

"Red fruit water, with rock sugar." Wei Renshi went over and presented the bowl to Li Shi with both hands: "Be careful, it's a little hot." ”

Li Shi ate and played all the way, at this time it was a belly support and dry mouth, so he took it and swallowed a few mouthfuls, the red fruit water with sugar was sweet and sour, and he was tired of eating, and he went down a bowl and a few bites, and suddenly felt a burst of warmth.

"If you say you didn't get these things, then I'm the first to don't believe them." Li Shi went down with a bowl of red fruit water, and seemed to have regained some strength, and while getting up to return, he said: "I heard Chun'er say it before, and I also read it from those newspapers you gave to the prince, Weinan Ji is extremely interesting, and your households are very rich. Come to think of it, that's it, right? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, these people in Weinan are indeed the farmers of Weichen. Their family members come here to do it, and they can also make a lot of money. Wei Renshi said: "This is actually a good thing. The dealers came to do business and had money in their hands. If you have money, you will want to improve your life, and you will spend it. When they buy something and spend it, the other people get money, and they get it, and they spend it again. In this way, the total amount of wealth in a certain period of time has not changed much, but because of circulation, everyone's life has improved. Wechen noticed that the imperial court paid a lot of taxes to farmers, but not much to merchants. This is a big piece of wealth, Wechen dared to make a prediction today, as long as no one deliberately obstructs the development of commerce, don't look at this group all day long to talk about the word profit, one day, if the imperial court begins to collect taxes on this group through various projects, then this group will become the main source of national wealth, and even can offset the taxes that farmers have to pay, so that farmers do not have to pay taxes. ”

"You're not right, if all the people in the world go into business like your farmer, then who will go to farming? If there is no one to cultivate, where is the food? Food is the foundation of the country, and if there is no food, there will be chaos. Li Shi shook his head and said.

Wei Renshi smiled: "If there really is that time, Weichen should go and grow food." If the majority of the population gave up their fields to go into business, there would be a shortage of food, and the shortage would mean that the price would be higher. If the price is high, the wealth will be high, and it will be more profitable to sell grain, so there will be people who will see this opportunity and grow grain to sell. There is naturally a set of supply and demand laws in this. Of course, this is also inseparable from the intervention of the imperial court. The policy of the imperial court could be tilted towards farming, encouraging people to farm. According to different situations, the imperial court adjusted its policies to support different groups of people, and to maintain balance. ”

"No, food has to be guaranteed. If the number of people who grow grain is not large enough, there is not enough food. As Wei Qing said, some people think that growing grain can be exchanged for money, so they go to grow grain to sell. But in fact, it is too late to wait for someone to grow food when they think it is more profitable to grow food, and the famine has already happened, and the displaced people have already appeared. Li Shi shook his head again and said.

"Your Majesty is wise." Wei Renshi nodded: "That's why Weichen only thought of Zhancheng rice before." The only way to make the output of food meet the needs of the population that can still meet the needs of the farming population is at least not to go backwards, and that is to increase the yield. For example, if 100 people farm the land, they can grow food for 200 people, but now 50 out of 100 people do not farm the land. If the grain production can be increased, and the remaining fifty people will grow more than the previous hundred people, and the food can still be supplied to two hundred, then the problem that Your Majesty fears will not arise. ”

Li Shi nodded, with a melancholy on his face, and sighed: "This Zhancheng rice is indeed a good way to increase income, but unfortunately, there are too few places in Datang that can be recropped three times...... Ring Kingdom ...... Alas! ”./15_15603/