Chapter 135: The Reception Banquet

The popularity of the live broadcast room quickly increased several times, because the Silver Alliance appeared, and this is not an ordinary live broadcast room! It's a live crossing!

Although Shaoxi Mansion is not as big as Lin'an, perhaps only a few tenths the size of Lin'an City, Li Xiang is still full of a sense of intimacy, because in his previous life, this was the place where he lived for more than twenty years. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Li Xiang and his father came all the way to the Fuxi River, where there are many wharves, only to see that the wharves are crowded, I don't know how many workers are carrying white salt, that is the pillar industry of Shaoxi Mansion! Hundreds of boats look particularly spectacular on this not wide river, and these boats transport salt from here to all parts of the country through the Tuojiang and Yangtze rivers!

This is a special product of Yandu in history, such a grand occasion, so that the fans in the live broadcast room can see it loudly, you must know that on the earth, the scene of the production and transportation of the ancient salt industry can only be glimpsed from some historical books and local chronicles, like such a clear 3D movie-like live broadcast picture, it is unimaginable.

Especially the fans here in Sichuan are particularly interested in the live broadcast.

Of course, there are also powerful people who take screenshots of the live broadcast screen, or copy the video, and soon these videos and screenshots are uploaded to the Internet!

The rewards in the live broadcast room came wave after wave, and Li Xiang was overjoyed to see it! However, he also knows that everything is rare and expensive, like this kind of live broadcast, playing is a kind of freshness, so if you want to see it, you can accept it, so that the audience wants to see it but can't see it, this is the strategy of wanting to catch and indulge.

Li Xiang smiled at the audience: "Okay, everyone has seen it, this is the cityscape and salt industry of the ancient salt capital, and today's live broadcast ends here!" Let's wait for the next live broadcast! ”

Li Xiang and Li Kang walked to the dock and looked at the prosperous salt transportation dock.

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Father, it seems that this Shaoxi Mansion is really good, according to what some officials say, it is fat!" Of course, the water in it is estimated to be very deep, father, you have to be careful, it is not easy to get these officials and salt merchants to obey you! ”

Li Kang said solemnly: "Yes, I don't know much about this Shaoxi Mansion as a father, just take this salt industry as an example, it is indeed very prosperous, but in terms of the salt industry, it is mainly managed by the Transshipment Division, I'm afraid my father can't interfere!" ”

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Father, don't worry, isn't there four major salt families in this Shaoxi Mansion?" I think they must have had a great deal of dissatisfaction with the Transshipment Division, which could be exploited. ”

Li Xiang, as a traverser, has a super 3D printer, so he knows that there has always been an open and secret battle between the salt merchants and the transshipment department of the Great Song Dynasty. There is also a well-known case of a dispute between the government and the salt merchants.

During the reign of Song Renzong, Shaanxi businessmen Wang and Li contracted the salt industry in Rongzhou, and drilled wells to absorb brine and boil well salt for sale in various parts of Rongzhou, and the business was booming.

The Tongchuan Road Transit Division saw that the salt industry was very profitable, so he set up a pot in Rongzhou. He dug wells and fried salt, set up a government-run salt factory, and competed with private entrepreneurs for the market.

Although the official involvement caused Wang Li and other four salt factories to accumulate salt at the beginning, they could not sell it. However, private entrepreneurs are undoubtedly more familiar with the market, and at the same time they are better at opening up and operating, and in addition, the government-run factories are all greedy for ink, and they have stagnated in terms of technology, and in a few years, they have almost destroyed the government-run salt works.

From the fifth to the seventh year of Qingli, the tax payments of Du Sheng and other six households were 130,000, 180,000, and 200,000 respectively; The annual income of the Yeongju government-run salt factory is only 51,000, 32,000, and 35,000.

Later, in order to save the loss-making Rongzhou government-run salt farm, the local government of the Great Song Dynasty decided to withdraw the contracting rights of the four private salt farms and take the family affairs of the salt farms into the officials. In the future, we are not ready to let private salt production, this industry is too profitable.

Wang Li and other four households were dissatisfied and jointly sued the Tongchuan Road Transit Division, demanding that the Tongchuan Road Transit Division stop the infringement.

At that time, Ouyang Xiu was ordered to investigate this dispute, believing that the Tongchuan Road Transit Division had breached the contract first, and also said that the official sold the homemade salt, seeing a small profit for a while, which made it difficult to do it for a long time. Therefore, he opposed the transfer of the private salt farms to the government and suggested that the officials should sell the salt farms, and only ordered Wang Li and the other four households to still manage the annual contract amount, and the four major households continued to contract the salt industry in Rongzhou. The Transshipment Department only needs permission to manage these salt farms, and later there are more and more salt farms, but in any case, they can't surpass the Wang and Li families. Of course, the official also saves trouble, just collect money.

The father and son went around the city again, basically walking around the small city, and they were familiar with the environment in the city.

In the evening, Wang Lin also came to the prefect's mansion in person and took Li Kang and Li Xiang, father and son, to the best restaurant in Shaoxi Mansion, Drunken Night Building!

After the father and son went up, they saw more than 20 officials and squires greeting each other and receiving gifts from others, and the father and son also politely got to know everyone one by one.

Receiving such warm hospitality, Li Kang is the first time, there was no such good thing as a general as a prisoner before, and now he is also an official who has been promoted a few levels, and this prefect is equivalent to the emperor of the soil, which is much more powerful than in Beijing.

Moreover, these squires did not know where to select a dozen beautiful maidens and made them dance and dance on the drunken night tower.

This is the dance to greet the absolute guests, more than ten beautiful girls, wearing shiny silver jewelry on their heads, hand in hand, dancing a special dance in the southern Sichuan region, dancing charming......

The wine and dishes on the banquet are even more abundant, all of which are unique dishes of the salt gang, although the salt dishes of the Southern Song Dynasty are still just budding, but the taste is even more original.

Li Xiang also has a great appetite, he knows that Yandu cuisine is known as Xiaohebang Sichuan cuisine in the Sichuan cuisine faction, and it is the development of the salt industry that has created this famous dish, so it is also called "Yanbang cuisine" and "salt merchant cuisine". The "Xiaohe Gang" represented by the Jinghe River, the Fuxi River food flavor, the "Shanghe Gang" represented by the Chengdu taste, and the "Xiahe Gang" represented by the Chongqing taste are called the three major cuisines of Sichuan cuisine.

The high status and attainment of Yandu cuisine is inseparable from the development of the salt industry in Yandu. With the development of the salt industry, a large number of people poured into Shaoxi Province, and different eating styles and taste habits converged here. At the same time, the huge consumer market has also attracted famous chefs with unique skills from all over the country, making the restaurants and restaurants of Shaoxi Mansion all over the country, all kinds of delicious gatherings, rich and colorful food culture, and beautiful, and then gradually formed the "Xiaohe Gang" represented by the Jinghe food flavor, and is famous all over the world.

The main officials of the four counties under the jurisdiction of Shaoxi Mansion are here, of course, Li Xiang is also one of them, and the squires of Shaoxi Mansion are even more enthusiastic to persuade wine, Li Xiang took on the heavy responsibility of blocking wine at this time, after all, he has a super 3D printer, which is equivalent to a space treasure, and there is not much to drink in those wines, most of them go into the printer. (To be continued.) )