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Young people will inevitably have times when they complain.

But at this age, they are only attracted to the opposite sex and do not understand what feelings are and what love is. It's more of a three-point heat, and few will stick to it. If you feel like it, you like it, and if you feel like it's gone, it's okay.

Time is a knife to kill pigs, and it is also a frustrating knife to sharpen away the enthusiasm of teenagers.

After listening to this, the eldest sister of Hippo felt that what Li Chengqian said was very reasonable, so she nodded and left happily.

It seems that the next day, the eldest sister of the hippo pulled Li Zhi aside at the door, and a few words made Li Zhi very sad after being overjoyed, and finally nodded and agreed.

In the next two days, Li Zhi really didn't come to guard the door.

However, on the third day he came again, and the hippo sister went crazy and scolded him, and then he didn't come for several days.

After half a month, Li Zhi should have started to feel numb after being sad and suffering from gains and losses.

Li Chengqian thought about what kind of state his current psychological state was, and he felt amused.

Recently, the right side of Longyou has been fenced.

The nobles of Chang'an grabbed the territory there, and after some hard fighting, they finally drew the territory.

Now that the land has been settled, it is necessary to have people go over there to farm the land.

Clearing the wasteland is not just a matter of saying it, but also requires a lot of manpower, financial and material resources.

What is needed now is manpower.

Li Chengqian asked Zhu Fatzi to make preparations and transfer some of his Zhuangzi peasants to Longyou.

But there is simply not enough of these people. It was the land that had been run by horse for two or three days, and it had to be big. Anyway, you can't see the edge with your eyes, and it's still dominated by plains.

So what to do. Buying slaves, of course.

So Li Chengqian has several families, and the first strike is stronger. The slaves in Chang'an were swept up first.

Wait until the other families find out. also came in to grab it immediately, but at this time, the price of slaves in Chang'an had already increased.

At this time, Li Chengqian had already stretched out his hand to other places outside Chang'an, Luoyang was the eastern capital, and there were many slaves there, so the people he sent also swept there.

If you get a batch, several will be divided. Then send it to Longyou.

Later, the other families reached out together.

In just two months, the price of the slave market in Datang has increased by five or six times, and what is even more ruthless is that those strong slaves have risen tenfold.

At this moment, there was almost a suspicion of disrupting the market, so in the court, a counselor sued, saying that this gang of evil slave landlords, how could they do this. Fattened the slave traders, and now Chang'an wants to buy a slave, but it has reached the point where it can't afford it.

In fact, this is something they can't afford.

As soon as the official told him, the slave landlords, mainly the eldest grandson Wuji, also jumped out and said. Yes, those that sell so expensive, they should be arrested and beheaded.

That's right. He said it was for sale, and that was the slave traders. And it was the slave landlord who bought it, and there was no sin at all.

It makes sense of common sense. The person who bought is the consumer, the victim, and of course innocent. Could it be that all evil merchants sell too expensive, do they still want consumers to suffer crimes?

The officials choked, and this was also true, and the slave landlords did not mean to raise the price, and also wanted to buy slaves at a low price.

So in the next half month, the imperial court also contributed manpower and material resources to rectify the slave market, and if anyone bought it expensive, he would be arrested and fined.

But in this way, the price of slaves is cheaper?

No, slave traders are all human spirits, and if the court wants to arrest them, then they won't sell them, and the more people the court arrests, the more strange the slaves are.

If it is not sold, it is not them who are in a hurry, but the landlords who need it.

As a result, a small number of slave traders were arrested, and the landlords did not say that they could not buy slaves at a low price, even if they said that they could buy them with ten times the original price, they would not sell them.

The landlords were anxious: "Then why are you willing to sell to the King of Ease?" ”

The slave dealer looked at them like idiots and said, "The King of Freedom is genuine, and he won't report us, he came to buy it, and no one will report it, why don't you sell it?" ”

"Then we won't report it?"

"Cut, no one in your family works in the Criminal Department? Didn't have a kongo? No Kyung Zhao Yin? If you dare to say that you have counselors, then you just can't get in and out! ”

The nobles in Chang'an, which family did not serve as an errand in these parts?

When he heard this, he immediately retreated.

In this way, Li Chengqian's family is sharing slaves, but the other families can't get any of them, isn't this a hurry?

So I had to work together to fill in the hole that had been dug.

First of all, of course, the counselors who made this opinion. Let them shut up, and say in the early morning that this is the economic law of the market, which should not be artificially destroyed, and should be developed according to it.

Several other heavyweight ministers also went to talk to Lao Li, saying that this matter is not easy to do, and without hard work, how can they contribute to the cause of Datang's wasteland?

Lao Li also knows what these people are doing, since they have come to it, then don't toss, tell them okay.

Then they go and arrange for the people below, arrest them, punish them, and then leave everyone else alone.

The ministers happily agreed.

However, they didn't find out that Lao Li did not cancel this decree, but just let the people below turn a blind eye.

Next, the slave market opened again. But because the slave traders who were arrested were all big dealers, they were caught, and the following organizations stopped operating, so the supply of goods was out of stock.

In this way, slaves have really become a strange commodity.

Overnight, the value of slaves was raised to fifty times.

Although the big families know that after a while, the price will be reduced.

But after a month or two, the season will be over, and the next season will be planted, which will be one season slower than the other families. In this way, aren't you going to eat the dirt behind someone else's ass?

Seeing that King Xiaoyao and General Cheng's slaves were sent up again, they had to grit their teeth and buy them.

At this time, some officials who were not rich in the family, but had bought one or two slaves in the past, also moved their minds at this time and took out the slaves in their families and sold them. Fifty times as much money as I made at once. It was a windfall, but it made them happy.

Although the slave market is so crazy, the slaves received are still not enough for Longyou's needs.

This has to be done temporarily, and as many people come over, we will plough as many fields as we want.

Manpower is temporarily solved, but what about seeds?

Li Chengqian is the superintendent of the Agricultural College, and the principal is not his own business to ask for seeds.

And other families came to the door. But the Faculty of Agriculture said that priority should be given to those farmers who ordered.

…… (To be continued......)

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