"Speak, before my court, the common people only ate two meals a day, only four meals for the royal family and three meals for the princes. Later, in the former Han Dynasty, on the holy decree of the king of Huainan who was exiled by the rebellion, he also specifically pointed out, 'Subtract three meals a day for two meals.' Although Zhao Lushi said that his official qualities were not in the stream, the people of this kind of Xu official family had actually read books, and they had not seen much.

They are old officials who have the most experience in politics, but it is a pity that they lack background and cannot be officials. Li Xiao's chicken soup hot pot is so delicious, just now I kept saying that I can't walk if I eat a pound of meat, but I have already eaten almost a pound of beef and mutton, plus a lot of other dishes, and even a plate of cucumbers.

Of course, there must be wine if there is meat, and sitting on the stove is the wine sent by Xue Fu. Wine is also good wine, generally the wine drunk in the market is green, but the wine sent by the Xue family is amber, which is a sign of good wine. Zhao Lushi had already drunk a small pot, and although the temperature of the warm rice wine was actually very low, it was just as intoxicating.

If you drink too much, you naturally like to brag and tell stories.

"Nowadays, many people still have two meals a day, and there are not many who can afford dinner. It's still Brother Li, the tenant servants in the family can also eat three meals, and even eat wine and meat. Xue Wu admires Li Xiao very much for this, and says that the Li family has always had a reputation for benevolence, but the most benevolent landlord Lao Cai, it is estimated that there are few who are as generous as Li Xiao.

Li Xiao smiled slightly, he also drank several glasses of wine, but he found that the wine of the Tang Dynasty was really quite ordinary. No wonder Li Baidou has a hundred poems about wine, this kind of wine is estimated to be only a few degrees, and the degree of beer is not much different, such wine, where can you drink intoxicating.

In later generations, although his alcohol consumption was only average, he could not be compared with those who could drink a case or two of beer at every turn, or even those cattle who could drink seven catties of liquor, but it was absolutely no problem to drink ten bottles of eight bottles of beer.

Now he drinks this wine like beer, and he drinks it in small cups, but it's not enjoyable.

I heard that the green wine that the people drink is still lower in degree, and the taste is even worse, because of the problem of brewing process, a kind of mycin in ordinary wine will make the wine green, and only good wine is amber. But even if it is the Xue family's good wine, Li Xiao really feels average.

The degree is low, and it is not pure, there are many impurities, and before drinking, you have to take a wine sieve and filter it. I don't like the way I drink it, and I have to put it on the stove to heat it.

Eating hot pot in winter, with cold beer is king.

"Although they are tenants of the Li family, they are also my Li Xiao's family, our relationship is not only the relationship between the master and the tenant, but also the relationship between relatives. He didn't care too much about the identity difference between the landlords and tenants.

What's more, the dozen or so people who came back from Jiangnan with him were all brothers and sisters who had died together. And those villagers in Zhuangzi, they take care of Wanniang Li Zhen and them like that, and Li Xiao is also very grateful.

The relationship between the landlord and the farmer, Li Xiao feels that it is actually the same as the relationship between the boss and the employee in later generations. Of course, there are bad landlords and bad bosses, but in most cases, the relationship between bosses and employees is relatively good. The boss needs employees to create benefits for themselves, and naturally needs to treat employees well, especially those excellent talents, and they have excellent conditions to retain.

Not to mention promotions and salary increases, you even have to have dinner parties from time to time, give out some welfare prizes, and even get a travel vacation.

Isn't it the same in these years, honest tenants are also relied on by landlords, and if they are capable talents, they have to give some rewards often, and even be polite.

Landlords like Huang Shiren and Zhou Papi are actually only a very small number of people.

However, it is indeed difficult to find others for tenant servants like Li Xiao, and the good ones are too much.

Not to mention three meals a day, it is almost the same as the Lord's family, how can it be reasonable.

"Are you going to cook like this every day in the future? No matter how big the family inheritance is, it will eat the poor. Zhao Lushi kindly reminded.

Li Xiao has also thought about this issue.

I just came back before, everyone was the same poor and couldn't open the pot, there was no overnight food, and there was no last meal, so Li Xiao organized everyone to repair the house and build a thatched hut together, and helped sell cucumbers, and then everyone ate together.

Now that I'm back at the mansion, there are eleven more people here, and the situation is different.

"I plan to ask everyone to help me repair the house, tidy up the ancestral grave, and then give everyone some food to each household first, so that they can have food to survive this winter."

"Is the food given away for nothing? It's better to borrow. It is not stipulated when they will pay it back, but it can't be given away for nothing, and if there is, let them pay it back, which is better. Zhao Lushi was very active in giving ideas to Li Xiao, he always felt that it was appropriate to be polite to the tenants, after all, he still counted on these people to farm and work, but it couldn't be too good.

It's like raising livestock, if you feed too much, then the cows and horses won't want to work.

Li Xiao smiled, he didn't agree with Zhao Lushi's concept, but he didn't bother to argue with him. Now there are dozens of people under his command, and it is really not good to eat a big pot of rice for a long time, but he has not thought about crossing the river and demolishing the bridge or anything, and manpower is a very important resource in any era.

In the future, Li Jiazhuang will definitely have to do something, and Li Xiao can't just sit and collect rent to live. If you want to do something, you have to have people, and in the Tang Dynasty, there was a shortage of people.

Most people are bound by the land of the imperial court, and going out for a hundred miles is like going to another world, usually in this place, the population flow is small, and it is difficult to flow, so if you want to do things, you still have to rely on your own people.

Now send some food to everyone, everyone's relationship will naturally be better, what to do in the future, how can everyone not want to come.

Xue Wu saw that Li Xiao was reluctant to continue to say this, so he told another story.

"In other words, He Yan is the husband of Cao Cao's daughter Princess Jinxiang, and his mother was accepted as a concubine by Cao Cao. If he is white, it is not bad, but the key is that this person also loves Gu Ying and self-pity when he walks, twists his hips and lifts his hips, and shakes his hair when he turns his head, and his eyes are affectionate, confused, drunk, and dreaming of death, which really makes people spurt blood! ”

"Hahaha!"

A group of people laughed, although there were few who really knew who He Yan was, it didn't prevent these people from despising this man like a girl in their hearts.

Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it had just experienced hundreds of years of great division between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it still had a bit of Hu Feng, and it was the most martial. For the kind of scholar style in the Wei and Jin dynasties, he was the most disdainful and despised the most.