said that he was going to visit Chen's side, but in fact, Dongcheng County to Huaipu County (Lianshui District, Huai'an City), it was more than 300 miles, so Li Ming asked Bai Xin and Dian Jie to go back first, and he went to Huaipu County accompanied by Lu Su and Chen Ying.

What makes Li Ming other than Li Ming is that the huge Hongze Lake is gone, and even in the Hongze Lake area, there is a city called Suiling County.

In this way, it took more than three days for Li Ming and his entourage to arrive in Huaipu County. The Chen family's Zhuangzi is outside the city, and of course there are houses in the city, but it seems that Chen Cong and Chen Qi are both inside the Zhuangzi outside the city.

"My lord, all the fields within my sight are in the name of the Chen family. The Chen family is a famous family, and over the years, it has also accumulated a lot of land properties, and the Lu family's business in Xiapi and Guangling is also the result of the Chen family's help to a large extent. Lu Su pointed to the surrounding fields, and he didn't know how many hectares there were, but there were indeed enough fields anyway.

"Speaking of which, I have been to San'in for so long, except for a Zhuangzi with only more than 100 acres of land, there is no other farmland...... Li Ming smiled bitterly, in this era, farmland is the real hard currency, only because grain is the main currency that constitutes the market economy in these years.

If you have money, you can't buy food, this is the embarrassment of five baht in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the key is that he has encountered such a situation. If it weren't for that, why did he come all the way to Xuzhou to buy grain? In the future, if one is not good, it may not be impossible to go directly to Jizhou to buy grain!

"That's the righteousness of the adults, and they don't intend to compete with the people for profit. However, now the Han Dynasty is not peaceful, natural and man-made disasters are continuous, and the price of food is not stable, so it is better for adults to buy more land to prevent accidents. Lu Su kindly reminded.

"It's not just a natural disaster or a man-made disaster...... Li Ming shook his head, when Emperor Han Ling hung up He doesn't know, the princes seem to be fighting Dong for 190 years, so there are probably less than four years.

"Your Excellency?" Chen Ying keenly heard Li Ming's words, and looked at Li Ming at the same time.

"Huh...... It's nothing, I just think that as long as Huiji County is well managed, everyone grows the grain, the government buys it at the market price, stores it, and sells it in the disaster year. Li Ming seemed to remember that there had been this policy in history.

"Your Excellency, do you mean that you often close positions?" Lu Su's face changed, "In the past during the Yuan Emperor period, the reigning Confucian ministers used to be abolished together with the salt and iron officials and the northern fake field officials in the name of constantly closing positions and competing with the people for profit. Although Emperor Later Ming also intended to reinstate, he was opposed by King Xiao (Liu Pan) on the same grounds, so in the end it has not been reinstated. ”

What a strong sense of immediacy, such a familiar excuse!

After listening to Lu Su's words, Li Ming directly had a strong sense of sight at the end of the Ming Dynasty, compared to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in fact, he was still a little familiar with the end of the Ming Dynasty, just because the lawn mowing game he made was itself the background of the end of the Ming Dynasty, so he checked some information.

Open the sea and compete with the people! Commercial tax, compete with the people for profit! As long as the interests of the family are damaged, TMD is competing with the people!

Lu Su's words were actually telling Li Ming that what His Majesty can't do, if you do this, it will be easy to be do. Not to mention anything else, the interests of these grain merchants will be the first to be harmed.

However, grain is the hard currency of this period, and behind every big grain merchant, there is often a heavyweight gate valve to support it, and the interests of grain merchants are damaged, and in the end, they are only afraid of a certain gate valve, and they will inevitably take action against Li Ming.

Not to mention anything else, if Li Ming dares to open a regular position in Huiji County, then the Gu family will almost be able to fight with Li Ming endlessly. If they dare to add iron officials and salt officials, and investigate illegal salt and mines, the Zhu family and the Zhang family will also fight Li Ming to the death.

"Well, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, don't worry, I'm not a pure reckless man." Li Ming nodded, how to improve, or how to forcibly promote, or how to compromise, this itself requires a balance.

Not to mention anything else, Li Ming's identity as a county guard is really not qualified to do these things. If he really becomes a prince of one side, and has a heavy army in his hand, and gives up some of his interests, then he may be able to force the family to compromise.

Chen's estate is also very large, but it is not a dock fort.

"The Chen family was originally a wang family, and if they built a dock fort again, it would inevitably be criticized. Not to mention the Chen family, the great family of the Central Plains rarely builds a dock fort. Although the Lu clan is also a scholar clan, but now there are only old women and children left, if you don't build a dock fort to protect yourself, I'm afraid that someone will plot against you! Chen Ying may have seen Li Ming's doubts and explained directly.

Li Ming nodded, and when he turned around, he saw that the doors of Zhuangzi had all been opened.

"I didn't expect it to be fully open, it seems that my father and uncle value important people very much!" Chen Ying couldn't help but be surprised when he saw this, the identity of the Chen family was there, although it was declining, but the temper was still there, ordinary guests were at most half-open, and the door was fully open, that was only for entertaining the assassin Shi, and even the emperor would do this. Unexpectedly, Li Ming could also enjoy such treatment.

"I didn't expect Huiji Taishou to come to visit in person, and Chen Cong (Chen Qi) has seen an adult!" As the gate opened, two young men appeared behind them, followed by a group of servants.

"Uncle, father?" Chen Ying was even more surprised, his uncle and father actually came out to greet the guests in person, what was going on?

"Without prior notice, come and visit directly, and I hope the two of you don't blame!" Li Ming also stepped forward and bowed.

"Where is it, the adults are kind to me Chen, we wanted to visit in person to thank you, but I didn't expect the adults to come in person, we naturally want to be hospitable!" Chen Cong smiled and lured Li Ming and the others in.

"Grace?" Li Ming is very strange, when did he be kind to the Chen family? You know, Huiji County is hundreds of miles away from here, and he doesn't remember that he has any records of contact with the Chen family before.

"Maybe for adults, it's just a gesture! Adults invented anti-worming medicine, and it was reported that there are symptoms of parasites in the body, so we found out that each other, including my eldest son in Dongyang County, had similar symptoms.

After taking the insecticide, a large number of insects were discharged, and we were also shocked. It is very scary to think that there are so many insects wandering in our stomachs, but fortunately, adults have invented insect medicine to save us from suffering. Chen Qi said with a somewhat grateful tone.

"Do you know what causes the parasite infection? I remember there was a release! Li Ming nodded, and then asked.

"I already know, this is also a kindness!" Chen Cong smiled, "Our family likes to eat fish tart, especially the fish made from fish in the Huai water. According to the parasitic route transmitted by adults, the eggs of parasites should be parasitic in these fish rays. It's just a pity, the fish is dipped in the extremely flavorful soy sauce to eat, it's delicious! ”

"Maybe you can consider marine fish, where the flesh is firmer and more elastic, and the key is that it doesn't contain many parasites. If you want to remove the fishy, marinate it with rice wine and ginger and then put down the chopsticks. Li Ming proposed.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect adults to know the way of food, now there is a topic!" Chen Cong laughed, he and Chen Qifu were idle at home, in addition to making people and sports, they only had to read books and play the piano or something, but over time they began to like food again.

Anyway, the old man of the sage also said that "you don't get tired of eating, you don't get tired of being fine" and "you don't get tired of eating color", so it's nothing to pursue some food. The key is that it seems that today is a good news, but it is necessary to share this experience.