Wine is still the same good wine, the dishes are still not the same superb dishes, anyone to the table of the Tama Mansion, will inevitably eat and drink a few mouthfuls before they are in the mood to speak, the banquet is a very ancient tradition of the Chinese, the so-called food does not speak, sleep silent, in fact, most of the people outside the monk's self-cultivation are used, especially after Yanglin popularized the habit of drinking and feasting at the same table in the Tang Dynasty, the atmosphere between people's wine tables became a little more lively.

The ladies opened another table headed by the queen mother, not to mention, the four little adults were the first time to sit at a table with the emperor to eat, the feeling of glory looked at their straight waists and knew it, the banquet room of the horse house was full of large round tables with water, and there were a lot of large tables for more than a dozen people, since Li Er came, he naturally wanted to open the largest platform in the most luxurious room, a glass disc was held up by a ball shelf, and placed in the center of a round table of about five square meters, which was very novel.

In a moment, the servants filled the large glass disc with more than a dozen dishes full of color and aroma, and Yang Lin gently pushed the disc with his hand, and the whole table of dishes turned, just turning a plate of the largest roast suckling pig in front of Li Er, signaling him to move the chopsticks first.

"Hahaha, good, the color is delicious, crispy and sweet, fat but not greasy, just your dish is a few points better than those cooks in the imperial dining room." Li Er took a piece of roasted red and tender suckling pig skin and chewed it in his mouth, he was no stranger to this new style of drinking and banquet mode in Datang.

In fact, in order to show the intimacy with the ministers and save ingredients for various banquets to enhance the atmosphere, Li Er will go to some ministers' homes to drink with them at the same table recently, which has led to a sharp increase in the sales of goods in Datang Furniture Factory and Liuli Factory. A glass disc for eating, that is, a glass turntable, can be sold for ten dollars in Chang'an, but also by a large number of foreign businessmen to order in bulk, high prices to sell to other places, and its manufacturing cost is less than 500 Wen, of which the huge profits can be imagined, the ten major factories in the east and west alone sell goods every year to bring direct income of more than 20 million.

"Although the suckling pig is good, Weichen advises His Majesty to eat less, once the atmosphere is formed. Then all the powerful and rich people in the world follow suit, a young pig has not yet grown fat out of the meat, it is slaughtered and eaten, but it is a very wasteful thing, in the country and the people, are not good, please Your Majesty be careful. Without waiting for Li Er to chew the suckling pork in his mouth and swallow it, one of the four little adults got up and said with a serious expression.

He was about thirteen or fourteen years old. is the youngest among the people present, Yang Lin knows that his name is Zhang Jizhi, he is thirteen years old, and he got a seventh-grade official body when he entered the officialdom at the first day of junior high school. It can be seen how much Li Er loves him.

"Hehehe, it doesn't matter, my Datang farm is now huge, and it produces more than 100,000 suckling pigs every month. The father can still eat a few suckling pigs, and besides, this is a god-given horse mansion. In order to serve my brother-in-law well, the people in the house do everything they can, and there may be a shortage of suckling pigs elsewhere. ”

Li Chengqian said with a joking smile, and his hands were not slow, because he was sitting next to Li Er, and his identity was the most noble except for Li Er, so he naturally became the second person to move chopsticks, and his target was a piece of suckling pig skin next to Li Er's clip just now.

The four little adults have their own strengths, and this Zhang Zhi dares to speak, to be honest, he is after the end of the Southern Expedition, when Li Er returned to Beijing and passed through the land of Jingxiang, the local officials recommended him to know the prodigy, when he was only seven or eight years old, and Li Er was about the same size when he saw Yanglin ten years ago, at first sight, Li Er loved it very much, after some torture, he thought that the Tang Dynasty had another character like Yanglin, when even if he ordered it to be brought back to the palace and entered the Li clan to study, but he was not as whimsical as Yanglin, Amazing, just in the palace rules and regulations, the clan of the assignment of the homework to study thoroughly, several school examinations over the past few years, he is all with an absolute advantage to win the first place, now just turned thirteen, to this era can be mixed in the officialdom of the age, Li Er directly gave him a seven-grade official position to the imperial history platform to walk, this starting point is not high, you know, when the first military merit of the dynasty Cheng Yanjin's eldest son Cheng Chumo also entered the officialdom at the age of thirteen, but also from the seven-rank military attache captain, This is equivalent to the status of the first prince of the dynasty, when there was only one Yanglin, at the age of ten directly entered the court with a five-grade official position.

After Li Chengqian's words were finished, Li Er had already swallowed the suckling pork into his stomach, and he was not annoyed that Zhang Zhizhi was dry when he was eating, motioned for him to sit down and eat first, and then looked at the other of the four little adults, Yang Lin remembered that this guy's name was Ma Zhou, and it was Zhenguan who wrote a policy for Chang He in the fifth year of his help, and was favored by the prime minister Sun Wuji, who stayed in Chang'an at the time, and then submitted it to Li Er, Li Er didn't care after reading the strategy, because, compared to the big plans given by Yanglin, The content written in Ma Zhou's policy is just a small role in picking up and filling in the gaps, just icing on the cake, but he did not deny Ma Zhou's talent, and sealed a county order to him, never thought that in just three or four years, Ma Zhoukai was to govern a remote poor small county into a prosperous county full of rich businessmen, in fact, he didn't do much, just took the people in the county to do one thing, pig raising, yes, pig raising.

You know, Ma Zhou is a person who has been displaced in Chang'an since the first year of Zhenguan, he has witnessed the rapid development of Chang'an City step by step, in countless shocks, he even has doubts about his talent, however, when he plans to devote himself to the Chang General's Mansion as a doorman, when he spends his life, an unexpected opportunity is to give him a chance to be a county order, when he came to the west of Yiling, this small county town with more ethnic minorities than Han people, he had an idea.

In a few years in Chang'an, he has seen the whole process of the top ten factories from scratch, but also because of the livelihood problem, in one of the breeding factories that are not noticed by everyone for a period of time, although he does the work of accounting records and other paperwork, but he also knows most of the work process of a large breeding plant, but also got acquainted with the management of some breeding plants, that is, those villagers who have become bigger after Wangjia Village, after seeing the geographical and ecological environment of the county. He thinks that this is the most suitable place to raise pigs, and the pig vegetables all over the mountains are his confidence.

So, in the year after joining the company, he did a lot of work, many ethnic minority tribes did not have the habit of raising poultry and livestock at this time, they were hunting and a small amount of planting for a living, to change their life pattern, he needs to do ideological work one by one. For large-scale breeding, there is a relatively strict process on the side of the breeding plant, which is even more difficult for ordinary people to understand. Why do a few dirty pigs live in a room that is cleaner than the room where people live, yes, the grass houses where those ethnic minority tribes and Han civilians lived at that time were really not as clean as the pig houses of later generations, which required his patient teaching.

It wasn't until the following year that some of the people followed his advice and succeeded in raising a batch of fat pigs and selling them for a good price. Two years later, each farmer in this small county raised at least seven or eight pigs, and the living standard of the entire county was completely lifted out of poverty. When the thirtieth branch of the Datang Breeding Factory officially settled in this county, the county with a total population of only 20,000 or 30,000 people completely became a wealthy county, pork food processing, to Shuzhong. The supply of major supermarkets in Jingxiang, Yuezhou and other places has become a very stable income in this county. The breeding branch with an annual output of more than 100,000 adult pigs recruited a large number of people from ethnic minority tribes who could not get along in southern Xinjiang to work, so that those small tribes voluntarily moved to the vicinity of the county seat to build villages, entered household registration, and were subject to the control of the imperial court, which nearly doubled its population, which was a great achievement, and also gave Ma Zhou the nickname of the pig-raising county order.

Ma Zhou also received Li Er's attention again when the poor small county town was officially promoted to Shangxian a few years ago, and he was transferred to the center and given an official position on the sixth grade.

"Slaughtering young pigs is indeed a wasteful act, but there will be no disadvantage to the country and the people, do you know how many adult pigs our Datang breeding factory can produce a year? More than five million heads, this is still in addition to the suicide of the people, the most conservative data, plus cattle and sheep and other livestock that can be used for meat, with the current population of the Tang Dynasty, each person can eat a head of livestock per year, the average to every day, is enough to eat a pound of meat, most of the people on the table now have meat, this is the reason, and pigs as one of the fastest breeding animals, too much will hurt the farmers, when the number of pigs to a certain extent, there will be a shortage of food for pigs, so the price increases, And too much pork hoarding, and so that the market price of pork can not be raised, and even plummeting, the impact on the entire meat and vegetable market, resulting in farmers working hard to raise livestock for a year, but can not make money The situation of overcapacity, which will appear in the economic development outline mentioned in the overcapacity, and the imperial court to control overcapacity, it is necessary to limit the number of adult pig breeding, slaughtering young suckling pigs is inevitable, after all, delicious suckling pigs can also be sold at a high price, but can prevent too many adult pigs from impacting the meat and vegetable market. ”

Ma Zhou got Li Shimin's eyes, and naturally had to get up and speak, in fact, at the dining table of the Horse Mansion, if you want to speak, you can say it directly, and there is no rule of standing up, but it is true that because the identity gap is too big, these two dick-level characters can't adapt to it, so the serious circle headed by the four small ones is in stark contrast to the relaxed and natural circle headed by Li Chengqian, Yanglin and others.

"What Master Ma said is right, the lower officials have been taught." Ma Zhou's words were only halfway through, Zhang Zhizhi's face relaxed, and at the same time, his mind also opened the mode of deep thinking, a thirteen-year-old boy can ignore the top dishes in front of him and think about political affairs, from this point, Yang Lin has recognized his excellence, and another, this is the same as Xu Jingzong, he is a super long-lived guy, it is conceivable that in the future of the Tang Dynasty, his weight is definitely sufficient.

Of course, these two little adults opened the topic, and the other two will not be idle, Xu Jingzong is an old minister of the Qin Palace, and he has the merit of following the dragon, although he may have done something wrong halfway and was demoted, but his later career was quite smooth, saying that he was a little adult, not that he was young, he was forty-two years old, and he called himself in the Tang Dynasty. The old man's is not a problem at all, here is that his official position is small, because he returned to the center after being demoted, the official position is only six grades, a veritable petty official, but he is good at fighting, often called himself Taizong's henchman, but no one dares to underestimate him, at least the current four little adults, are headed by him. (To be continued......)