Chen Xiaoyi is planning to sell all his belongings and use them to open a restaurant for Chen Ping.

A Lao Tzu can do this, and it is in this era that Chen Ping is a little moved. But if Chen Xiaoyi really wants to sell his chickens, ducks and livestock, Chen Ping has no place to cry.

"No, the money is enough." Chen Pingdao.

Chen Xiaoyi knocked on Hei Yan's back, estimated it, and saw what kind of price it could be sold for, and turned back when he heard the words: "Where did you get the money again?" ”

"Grandpa, you come out first." Chen Ping lowered his voice, looked at both sides, there happened to be a village person walking outside the backyard, seeing Chen Ping, smiled, Chen Ping also smiled in return, the village people walked by, Chen Ping immediately lowered his head and said to Chen Xiaoyi, "This matter can't be heard by outsiders." ”

"What's so mysterious?" Chen Xiaoyi threw the wooden stick, and when he didn't toss, Hei Yan shrank into the big corner again, and continued to curl up, arching the dirt around his head.

Out of the backyard, the father and son arrived in the courtyard, there was no one around, and Chen An led the little lady to tease Xiaohua in the hall.

"Grandpa, you know, I have collected a lot of feathers in the past few decades." Chen Ping quickly went to Chen Xiaoyi's shoulder and leaned into Chen Xiaoyi's ear and said.

A penny and a pheasant tail feather, Chen Ping collected a lot, from the village, the nearest ones have Xia Tu Village, Shang Tu Village, and further away is that people in the county have taken pheasants and other feathers to find Chen Ping.

The most expensive peacock feather, nearly six feet long, was sent by a hunter in the village on the other side of Liuhe Mountain, dozens of miles away from the mountain road. Now it is still placed under Chen Ping's bed, pressed with linen.

Fifty yuan, just that tail feather, Chen Ping spent fifty yuan to buy it.

"What's the use of those things you want? I asked you to use it as a jacket and refused to do so. Speaking of this, Chen Xiaoyi counted down Chen Ping again, "Those feathers you put in the west room also cost five taels of silver, which is really a loser." ”

Chen Ping smiled, five taels is less. The feathers are light and do not occupy much space, so they are placed in a place deliberately left under the kang and kept dry, and right there, there is a whole bag of feathers, all compacted.

Those in better condition were taken out by Chen Ping and put them separately, including the dozens of peacock tail feathers. It's just that Orion alone took more than one or two pieces of silver from Chen Ping.

Of course, Chen Xiaoyi was not on the side of the peacock tail feather trade with Orion, and now he only thought that Chen Ping had bought a peacock tail feather.

"It's useful, it's useful." Chen Ping said, "Grandpa, have you heard?" Today, the emperor wants to inspect Jiangdu. ”

"Where did you hear that?" Chen Xiaoyi shook his head, he didn't hear about it.

Jiangdu is more than 100 miles away from Liuhe County, it is not close to it, it is not far away, it is not far away, it is possible to arrive in half a day without sparing horsepower, if it is to cherish horsepower, two days is enough.

In the past, Chen Yuanliang's grandfather took care of him, and Chen Xiaoyi's labor service was mostly in Liuhe County, and he had never traveled far away, so he didn't know about external affairs. But when the current emperor was the vassal king, he had spent a lot of time in Yangzhou, and Chen Xiaoyi still heard of this.

The emperor thinks of Jiangdu, and it is not strange that he wants to inspect.

"I heard it from the county." Chen Ping vaguely made an excuse, the emperor's whereabouts were secret, and Chen Yuanliang was not involved, "The emperor wants to levy men and women from all counties in Henan, open the Tongji Canal, together with the two rivers of the river and Huai, and is preparing to build a boat, just wait for the canal to be connected, and then go down to the river." ”

"What? The emperor wants to requisition the people to dig ditches? Chen Xiaoyi exclaimed, "How is this good, the big river and the Huaishui are so well connected?" How much manpower does it have to be, is Liuhe County in the requisition state and county? ”

With an anxious look and a sad face, Chen Xiaoyi forgot about the feathers and remembered the labor.

"Grandpa, don't worry, I heard that the emperor is mostly men and women from various counties in Henan." The counties of Henan, according to the geographical division of later generations, mainly include Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, Chen Ping's Liuhe County does not belong to the counties of Henan, but is divided into the Huainan River, the two are bounded by the Huai River, "Don't worry, even if it is really requisitioned to Liuhe County, where you go, Grandpa, I will open the restaurant wherever you go, so that you can taste the food I cook and relieve the pain of lovesickness." ”

Chen Ping did not tell the truth, the Tongji Canal will indeed be opened, leading the water from Xiyuan and Luoshui to the Yellow River, and the water from Banzhu to the Huai River. At the same time, Yang Guang sent officials to collect timber from the south of the Yangtze River to build river boats such as dragon boats.

The people will be in the millions, both men and women, and tens of thousands of boats will be built. Boats and boats are connected, more than 200 miles, which is almost twice the distance from Liuhe County to Jiangdu County.

At the same time as the opening of the Tongji Canal, the ditch will also be excavated. Hangou is the ancient canal that connects the Yangtze River and the Huai River, there are many names of canal water, Hanjiang River and Shanyangdu, starting from the Yangtze River in the south and reaching the Huai River in the north. Before the Sui Dynasty, the ditch had been dug once, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, a ditch was dug near Yangzhou in the Wu State to communicate with the Yangtze River and the Huai River.

This time, Yang Guang is preparing to dig the ditch again, from Shanyang to Jiangdu, in fact, it is also to dredge the ancient ditch, the people of Huainan are among the levies, and Liuhe County belongs to Huainan, so it is possible to be requisitioned.

"Well, that's okay, I don't know how much labor will be mobilized this time, I'm afraid it will be two or three hundred thousand." Chen Xiaoyi was relieved when he heard that it was only men and women from Henan counties, "You just said that the emperor wants to build a boat, what does this have to do with your purchase of feathers?" ”

One is a boat, in the water, and the other is a feather, and the two have nothing to do with each other, Chen Xiaoyi doesn't understand.

"Today's emperor doesn't know how to be thrifty, so extravagant. Even if it is to the Jiangdu cruise, the costumes of the boats and accompanying personnel will inevitably be decorated, and the imperial court will definitely collect feathers, but where to find so many feathers for a while? Chen Ping said, "If you can't find it, you can only buy it, there are many people who buy it, and there are few feathers, but the imperial court stipulates that each household needs to pay feathers as an additional tax, which forces people to buy feathers at a high price." ”

After saying it in one breath, Chen Ping glanced at the yard twice. This cannot be spread to the outside world, and if people know about it and report it to the government, they will lose their heads.

"You can't let people know what you say, slandering the emperor and letting people know that they will kill their heads." Chen Xiaoyi was also worried, pulled Chen Ping, entered the hall, saw Chen An and Xiaoniang, thought about it, and took Chen Ping into the west room, closed the door, "Where did you hear all this?" ”

"When I went to the county and city, I heard people talk about it." Chen Pingdao.

"If that's the case, then these feathers can really be sold for a lot of money." Chen Xiaoyi nodded, and glanced at the fire kang, "Where did the silver money in the wooden box you hide come from?" ”

Chen Ping was shocked when he heard this, Chen Ping spent a lot of thought on hiding the wooden box, but he didn't think about it and was discovered by Chen Xiaoyi.

"My name is still written on the head of the household, and I lived in this house when you were not born, and I don't know what places I can hide things in it?" Chen Xiaoyi was very satisfied when he saw Chen Ping's surprise, it was rare that there was something that surprised the eldest child, "Chen An is still young, and there are some things that can't be known to him." ”

"This kid, I hid those things after he fell asleep." Because it turned out to be here, Chen Ping suddenly said, "The silver in the wooden box is not mine, it was given by Aunt Wang." ”

PS: There is another chapter sent at eight o'clock in the evening, forgive me.