"Uncle Ma, how was the harvest this time?" Li Xiu asked Ma Ye in front of him with a smile while making tea, he only came back from the field yesterday, and he came to chat with him today, after all, Princess Pingyang didn't pay much attention to the coal mine, and the only one who could discuss this matter with him was Li Xiu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's okay, anyway, as long as it is an open-pit coal mine that can be seen, I have bought it, but most of them seem to have low reserves, and there should not be many real large coal mines." Ma Ye replied with a smile, after acquiring so many coal mines, he finally put his mind at ease, and when the honeycomb coal is promoted, he can count the money with peace of mind.

"Hehe, you are content, open-pit coal mines are rare, you can seize the opportunity is already very good, in the future if others want to dig and burn coal mines, you can only dig those coal mines buried deep in the ground, this kind of coal mines are not easy to dig, just from the cost can not compare with you." Li Xiu laughed again when he heard this.

Human beings must have started with simple open-pit coal mines, the Tang Dynasty was okay in this era, the large-scale utilization of coal has not yet begun, so the number of open-pit coal mines is still relatively large, but when it comes to later generations, the real open-pit coal mines are relatively few, after all, after more than a thousand years of use, even if the mining technology of the ancients is backward, it is possible to mine some coal mines cleanly.

As he spoke, the tea in Li Xiu's hand was also brewed, and he handed a cup of tea to Ma Ye and said: "Uncle Ma, taste it, this is a new tea that has just been fried, the princess and Princess Qin said it after tasting it, and it has not been spread yet, but in the future, it will definitely replace the current tea cake!" ”

Ma Ye noticed Li Xiu's tea-making action just now, and he took it curiously and tasted it at the moment, but he frowned and said: "This taste is too light, and it is bitter and astringent, not delicious at all!" ”

"Uncle Ma, try it again!" Li Xiu thought that Ma Ye didn't taste the taste of tea seriously, so he proposed again.

However, what Li Xiu didn't expect was that Ma Ye tasted it again and still said that it was not delicious, and then put down the teacup, which also made Li Xiu stunned, and then suddenly woke up, fried tea is not omnipotent, everyone's taste is different, there are naturally likes and hates tea, even if it is in later generations, there are still many people who don't like tea, not to mention that Ma Ye is still drinking it for the first time, and it is normal to not like it.

In addition, this incident also reminded Li Xiu that the promotion of fried tea is definitely not so easy, after all, it is not easy to change the taste of most people in this era, he was lucky before, and the princess Pingyang and the eldest grandson and others he met liked fried tea very much, but it did not mean that everyone liked it, fortunately, he did not plan to make money with fried tea, but just gave it to Yiniang and Fan Er to improve their lives.

Ma Ye doesn't like to drink tea, Li Xiu didn't force it, and asked Yuechan to bring him sour plum soup at the moment, which is almost a must-have drink for nobles in summer, especially when drinking tea is very troublesome, sour plum soup can also be used to entertain guests.

After Yuechan sent the sour plum soup, Ma Ye suddenly winked at Li Xiu and said, "Boy, I found that Yuechan's little girl is getting more and more beautiful, how about it, did you ask her to warm your bed?" ”

"Uncle Ma, don't be kidding, don't you know what kind of person I am?" Li Xiu shook his head when he heard this, and said with a wry smile, as a man, he could understand the concept of an ancient nobleman like Ma Ye about women, but the moral concepts he had cultivated since childhood made it difficult for him to act completely instinctively like them.

"I doubt that your kid is a monk, he doesn't drink and doesn't play with women, how can you say there is a man like you?" Ma Ye criticized Li Xiu, and then he suddenly thought of something, and then lowered his voice and said, "Are you worried about the princess's attitude, in fact, you are thinking too much, it is normal for a man to have a few beautiful maids around him, and the princess will not say anything." ”

"Forget it, let's talk about it later." Li Xiu said again when he heard this.

Seeing that Li Xiu could not be persuaded to move, Ma Ye couldn't help but shake his head with pity, and then chatted with him about the promotion of honeycomb coal, in order to purchase coal mines at a low price, so honeycomb coal has been kept secret, and now the coal mine has finally been acquired, then the next step is to promote honeycomb coal, and those coal mines will definitely be worth a hundred times at that time.

"Uncle Ma, now that the weather is so hot, I'm afraid the promotion of honeycomb coal will not go well, right?" Li Xiu said with some hesitation when he heard this, in his plan, honeycomb coal is best promoted with heating stoves after the weather is cold, so as to achieve the best effect.

"It's okay, don't look at the heat these days, but I asked someone, and the weather will cool down after a while, and then it's time to prepare for the winter, and those heating stoves also need time to build, so I plan to promote honeycomb coal first, and when it's cold, the heating stove is also built, and there should be a lot of people using honeycomb coal at that time, which can be more convenient to promote!" Ma Ye was a little impatient, he was still waiting for honeycomb coal to make money, so he could buy houses and land everywhere.

"This ...... Since Uncle Ma, you have decided to do this, then I don't have any opinion, but how to open up the sales of honeycomb coal at the beginning, I don't know if Uncle Ma has thought about it? Li Xiu finally agreed, but asked another question.

"Hehe, I've thought about this question for a long time, just like you reminded me before, honeycomb coal is simple to make, and it is easy to be imitated, and the power of our princess's mansion alone can't stop others from copying, but we can't do it but we can unite a few more, I plan to find a few powerful nobles to sell honeycomb coal together, so that with their influence, honeycomb coal can also be quickly promoted, and all the carboniferous mines are in our hands, so the real big head is still ours!" Ma Ye smiled sinisterly.

People who do big things understand the importance of cooperation with others, which is the same as the truth on the battlefield, and at most they can only make small fights on their own, especially the new energy of coal, which needs to be participated in by others.

"With the participation of those people, there is no need to worry about the promotion of honeycomb coal." Li Xiu couldn't help but praise when he heard this, in fact, his previous idea was more radical, that is, to let the princess mansion completely withdraw from the production and sale of honeycomb coal, and only supply coal, but then I thought about it, if you completely withdraw from the sale of honeycomb coal, you may be choked by the neck of the sales in the future, so it is also a good thing that the princess mansion also participates in part of the sales.

In the next period of time, Ma Ye was busy again, and occasionally when he encountered some problems, he would come to discuss a few words with Li Xiu, and after the two discussed a result, he ran away again, and it was not easy for Princess Pingyang to find him.

In contrast, Li Xiu seems to be very leisurely, spending time with fishing almost every day during the summer vacation, and occasionally when the weather is too hot, he will also go to the small pond in the valley to swim, which was originally discovered by Ma Ye, but unfortunately he did not have time to come, but became Li Xiu's best leisure place.

However, just a month passed quickly, and after the summer vacation, Li Chengdao and Li Chengqian came here again to take classes, which made Li Xiu very reluctant to cheer up, but Li Xiu also learned smart this time, he began to deliberately slow down their education, and more to take them to participate in some practical activities, such as going out for a picnic, by the way to know nature, using a telescope to observe the moon, etc., so half play and half teach, Li Xiu is happy, and the children are also easy to learn.

The hot summer has finally passed, autumn seems to have come suddenly, one day after Li Xiu celebrated, he found that he was covered with a relatively thick blanket, but he didn't feel the heat, he didn't need to ask and knew that it must be Yuechan who helped him cover it in the middle of the night, when he opened the door in his small clothes, he suddenly felt a chill, which made people feel that autumn was finally coming.

"Autumn is coming, I wonder what happened to the bearded guest?" Li Xiu looked at the somewhat gloomy sky outside, and suddenly thought of the fact that the bearded guest was going to the Americas, according to his estimate, the bearded guest should choose to set off in autumn and winter, because the wind and waves in the Pacific Ocean were the smallest at that time, but I don't know when he will come back?

At the same time that Li Xiu thought of the bearded guest, a large port at the southern end of Tsukushi Island was also in full swing, a group of sailors with open clothes and dark and strong chests shouted trumpets, like rows of ants carrying all kinds of supplies to the ship, and the heavy iron anchors were also pulled up, waiting to set sail.

Standing on one of the largest ships, looking at the busy scene in front of him, he couldn't help but show a proud expression on his face, as the uncrowned king of the sea, he had been to almost all known places on the sea, but now there was an America that he had never been to, and there were also high-yield crops mentioned by Li Xiu, if he could bring these crops back to the Central Plains, then his merits would be comparable to that of the Shennong clan who tasted a hundred herbs, no matter how the Central Plains Dynasty changed in the future, His credit for saving all nations from hunger cannot be erased, and his name will live on for generations to come.

Thinking of the above, the bearded guest couldn't help but feel the blood boiling in his chest, and when the prepared supplies were transported to the ship, he immediately said in a somewhat irrepressible excited voice: "Set sail!" ”

Only to the bearded guest's order, Zhang Shiyi, who was standing behind him, also immediately agreed, and then conveyed this order, in the sound of war drums when the army set out, the fleet finally slowly left the port, they had to go to the east side of Honshu Island to find the ocean current that went straight to the Americas, and then follow the current to the Americas! (To be continued.) )