This winter, there was no snowfall, not only for Xiuwu, but also for the entire Central Plains. Without snow cover, the new Tianbao three-year grain output is worrying.

Although living in the countryside, the news spread very quickly, the imperial court changed the year to Zai, from this year, it is no longer called Tianbao a certain year, but Tianbao a certain year.

If it was in previous years, Ye Dan would have to worry when he saw this long winter without snow, and the old farmers in Wu Zepi would also get together to discuss how to survive the famine in the coming year.

But today, Ye Dan is not too worried.

"Are you afraid of less food or less clothing, you are nagging every day, if it doesn't snow, it won't snow, our current situation, there is no food in the field for a year, and there is no hunger

Knocking off the lumps on the soles of his shoes on the stones, Ye Dan slowly taught the eldest son beside him. His eldest son was almost fifty years old, and he scolded him like a child

"The adults laughed, if there is no food in the field for a year, our family will not be hungry, and people in other places will also starve." His eldest son accompanied him and said with a smile: "Not to mention the distance, they have always been close to our Ye family in Dazhou Village, and they will have to come to our house to fight the autumn breeze when the time comes......"

"It's not that you are not angry and married the mother-in-law of the Zhou family as a bride"

Ye Dan snorted, his son's little caution, where could he hide it from him, he squatted on the stone, looking down at Wu Zepi in front of him, there was a kind of satisfaction in his eyes.

I am really satisfied, taking advantage of this slack season, Wu Zepi is building a large number of buildings, and half of the families in the village are building new houses - they don't want to expand on the original basis, but also want to use cement and bamboo to build their own small house into a two-story building.

More than three floors cannot be built at will, but two floors is nothing. Moreover, the imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the Ming Mansion and Shaofu in the county don't care about Wu Zepi's affairs at all.

All of this is nothing more than because in Wu Zepi's Wolong Valley, Ye Chang is here.

The villagers' incomes have increased due to Ye Chang's several workshops, which have grown to the point of 50 workers, but this is also its limit, because the nearby bamboo that can be used to make paper is almost empty. The printing workshop, on the other hand, worked around the clock, not only printing Ye Chang's own works, but also printing their works for those poets and scribes.

"Isn't this marriage an adult, but now you are complaining about your son." Ye Dan's eldest son, Ye Ge, said: "Or, my son will go and divorce his wife, and you are satisfied with changing to an adult?" ”

"Underdrawn." Ye Dan glared at him, but when he saw his son with a tired smile, there was nothing he could do.

"You should learn more from Shiyi Lang, as long as you can learn from Shiyi Lang, you can rest assured that Lao Tzu will die."

"No matter how you say it, I am also the eleventh Lang clan, what good is he for, I will always have a share in the face of adults. If I really have any skills, I won't be able to sleep. Ye Geman didn't care about the authentic way.

Ye Dan didn't expect that his son, who was not angry, could still think of this step, and he was a little surprised.

Indeed, if Ye Ge really has any skills, if he wants to compete with Ye Chang for clan power, the most difficult thing will be the general consequence of Ye Neem.

"Eleven Lang is here." Ye Ge shouted at this time.

I saw Ye Chang leading a group of people and slowly walking from the newly paved gravel road. Although he could get some cement from the cement kiln, it was only enough to build a house, and as for building roads, he didn't even think about it.

"Uncle, uncle, why are you two waiting here?" Seeing that Ye Dan's father and son looked looking for themselves, Ye Chang saluted and smiled.

"It's not your uncle, his bride's family has something to ask you, and he doesn't have the courage to tell you, so he can only let my old guy come out and nag again." Ye Dan sighed.

He completely regarded Ye Chang as an adult, but treated his fifty-year-old son as a child. Ye Chang is also used to it, and he knows that he is indeed not a clansman, he is idle when he is young, and he is mediocre when he is old.

"Where is this uncle, if there is something wrong with my uncle, I will definitely be concerned." Ye Chang looked at Ye Ge, saw that he was not a little embarrassed, estimated it, and then said, "But you want to put some people in Zhuangzi?" ”

"But no, I just know that Lu Dao Eleven Lang is smart, what do people say to know that dentist when they hear the string song?"

Ye Ge's words made Ye Chang laugh: "The Zhou family also wants people to go to Mengzhou with them?" ”

"Well, several of your uncle's nephews are honest and willing, I don't have the cheekiness anymore, and I won't stuff those unreliable people to make trouble for you."

"Even so, I don't care if I give a name, and I don't care how many people there are... However, their Zhou family can rest assured that their children will be controlled by me? Ye Chang said.

A few days ago, the eldest princess of Yuzhen sent someone to ask Ye Chang to go to Mengzhou, saying that the barbarian kapok seeds and farmers were already in place, just waiting for Ye Chang to go and receive them. Ye Chang had no intention of entering Chang'an, so he invited the envoy to go back and make an appointment with the eldest princess of Yuzhen, and asked him to send people to the manor in Mengzhou.

In this way, the matter of going to Mengzhou will be put on the agenda.

Fortunately, Mengzhou is not far from Xiuwu, that is, a two- or three-day trip, but what Ye Chang didn't expect was that in addition to the list of thirty people who had been decided in advance, some villages that were a little farther away had actually found someone to deliver messages in the past few days, and they also wanted to send their children to follow him.

"That's a natural thing, what you have done in the past two years, everyone has watched and listened to you, which one is not rich, which one is not bankrupt?" Ye Gexi said: "Even if I send your aunt to Ning Province now, I also have face, as long as I say that this is what my family Eleven Lang said, no one dares to refute it." ”

"Ha Lu Ha." Ye Chang laughed.

It can make the neighbors live a better life, which makes him feel a strange sense of satisfaction.

Li Ji and others invited him to go to the frontier, but the reason why he refused was that he was really afraid of hardship, tiredness, and insecurity, and second, because he felt that planting good fields was much more effective than going to the frontier. The dispute between the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding barbarians is ultimately a competition of national strength, as long as the Tang Dynasty can have an absolute overwhelming advantage in national strength, the place that the barbarians occupy now will sooner or later become the territory of China since ancient times.

After sending away Ye Dan and Ye Ge's father and son, Ye Chang looked at the fields that had already revealed some vitality, and his heart was very full. Sure enough, farming is his favorite, compared to this, running to the border to eat and sleep in the open or something, it's really a toss.

"Eleven Lang, you're leisurely"

He was wondering where to go, when he heard someone shouting at him again. Looking back, his sister-in-law Fang was watching him from the edge of the village with Xiang'er, Cinu and Xiaoniang.

Ye Chang shrank his neck and walked over with a sad face.

"When you see me like this, could it be that I'm a dominatrix?"

"Sister-in-law is ...... A bodhisattva-like character, just forcing me to go on a blind date, is like a dominatrix. ”

Fang's lips pursed, her face was full of disdain, she really couldn't understand that the young man from another family, at such an age, was already in a hurry to get married, but her uncle, was so strongly disgusted with blind dates and marriages.

"I don't like my uncle's blind date either" The little lady was spoiled by Ye Chang, as soon as she saw Ye Chang, she reached out to hug her, and was hugged by Ye Chang in her arms, she said with a small face: "If my uncle is married, I won't hug my mother anymore - if my uncle wants to get married, I will marry my mother." ”

Immediately, Fang's face turned red, and he took a sip and said, "You villain, where did you get your crazy words?"

But it's not crazy, Datang doesn't restrict women to remarry, because the Fang family controls the three major money-making industries founded by Ye Chang, the wine workshop, the printing workshop and the paper mill, and there are already people in the clan muttering, if the Fang family doesn't marry the next family and takes away these industrial skills, it is better to let her marry Ye Chang - when the Tang Dynasty, such things are not uncommon.

However, this kind of marriage is often only a nominal marriage, just to facilitate the inheritance of family property and child support, and also to allow the widow and sister-in-law to spend the rest of her life in her husband's family with peace of mind. The two parties are nominally married, but in fact they do not live in the same house.

It's just that this is just some Ye family members muttering behind their backs, and no one dares to say it in front of Ye Chang or the Fang family. Occasionally, some rumors came into the ears of the two, but the two of them pretended not to hear it.

"Uh, my sister-in-law called me, but something?" Ye Chang could only pretend not to hear it this time, and he asked with some embarrassment.

"Something...... Over there, do you want to continue to take orders? ”

"Naturally, why not?"

When he mentioned this, Ye Chang felt funny.

Because the Yip Family Printing Workshop uses bronze movable type and glued ink, the binding is also different, and the printed books are gorgeous and exquisite, elegant or beautiful, so they are extremely popular. At first, it was only Ye Chang's own compilation of books, such as "Embroidered Like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Embroidered like the Warring States Policy", but in the second half of last year, some Confucian scholars even came to the door and proposed that the Ye family printing workshop would print the books for them - of course they paid for it.

As a result, Datang's self-financed publishing market suddenly boomed, and those scholars with considerable assets did not hesitate to print their own poetry scrolls into hundreds of volumes, and then send some to relatives and friends, and the cost was more than 100 to hundreds of yuan. From September last year to now, in just five or six months, dozens of books have been printed, deducting the cost, and it has also brought thousands of benefits to the Ye Family Printing Workshop.

Naturally, there are also people who want to learn the sample, but the movable type is easy to learn, and some printing workshops have begun to learn to make wooden movable type and iron movable type, but it is not as good as the bronze movable type of the Ye family printing workshop. The ink is difficult to make, and the formula of the ink is the top secret of the Ye family, and even in the bamboo papermaking and winemaking techniques, the entire Ye family is only in the hands of Ye Chang and the Fang family.

"If you take it again, you'll have to recruit people." Fang Clan whispered.

"Sister-in-law, just recruit and recruit more, I still want to print the newspaper."

"Prints?"

"Exactly, like Di Bao, but in addition to the major events in the court, it is more about the shortcomings of the parents, Chang'an and Luoyang have more than one million people, and this thing must be easy to sell. If you can sell 2,000 copies, you can maintain it, and if you can sell more than 10,000 copies, you will make a lot of money. ”

Fang pursed his lips, nodded and didn't say anything more, Ye Chang also felt embarrassed, although the two were talking about business, but the little lady's fairy words still made them uncomfortable. Seeing that Fang wanted to speak and stopped, Ye Chang said nonsense: "I'm going to go to the winery to have a look...... Sister-in-law, I'm leaving. ”

"Just go." The Fang clan was a little hateful.

Ye Chang suddenly fled, running faster than escaping from Luoyang. Thinking of the entanglement of Li Ji and others in Luoyang at the beginning, now that Cen Shen should go to the imperial examination, Ye Chang pondered whether to go back to Luoyang again.

Although Jia Mao'er was left in Luoyang, there are some things that still need to be visited often, otherwise the more than 2,000 qualified workers will not be trained for themselves, but to make wedding dresses for others.

The winery is not going, it is a little far away, but in the wine warehouse near Wu Ze outside the village, Ye Chang is still ready to go around. In order to facilitate transportation, the wine warehouse is a mile away from Wu Zepi, and there are usually two clansmen of the Ye family watching, but when Ye Chang took Shanzhi and others to transfer here, he saw that there was a panic here.

"Eleven Lang is here, just right"

"According to me, it was sent to the official, Eleven Lang is kind-hearted, maybe he will let this guy get away."

"If you don't make your own opinions, it is Eleven Lang's good heart and accumulation of virtue, let this person go, that is also Eleven Lang's own business, and it is not your turn to talk about ......it."

"That's nature, that's nature."

This noise ended with Ye Chang's arrival, and Ye Chang came to the wine cellar, but saw everyone gathered together.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"Just now we inspected the wine cellar and found this guy," one of his clansmen was angry: "This guy somehow broke into the cellar, spoiled a jar of wine, and was drunk himself."

At this time, Ye Chang noticed that among the crowd, there was a person lying down. He leaned in to look, and the man's eyes were closed, he snored slightly, and slept very soundly.

"It's ......"

The man was dressed as a Taoist priest, with a little sloppy on his body, thin eyebrows and long eyes, and three locks of long beard. He is between thirty and forty years old. Because of the rolling in the wine stains, he was dirty, and I don't know which one of the wine cellars was beaten, and there was still half a palm print on his face.

Ye Chang didn't know this guy.

"You carried it out of the cellar?"

Although the weather is turning spring, the spring cold is still there at this time, and it is impossible for this guy to sleep so peacefully in the open air.

"Exactly, we are thinking about whether to report to Eleven Lang, and then send this guy to see the official, he not only stole wine to drink, but also ruined several jars of our wine"

"Oh?"

These clansmen guarding the wine warehouse were somewhat panicked, the wine warehouse was only a place where wine was stored, and although there were no places such as wine shops and paper mills that were heavily guarded, it was also a place where Ye Chang repeatedly told him to pay attention to safety. But this time, they were mixed in at night, and they were all responsible.

Thinking about this, Ye Chang certainly understood, he first entered the wine cellar and inspected the situation in the wine cellar.

Originally, the place where the wine was stored, the smell of wine was tangy, and the drunkard who wanted to come to the ground smelled the wine at night and then touched it. He must have climbed over the wall into the courtyard, and then used his sword to break the lock on the gate, and entered the cellar in great shape.

In the wine cellar, he first opened two jars of wine, drank one sip from the left and one sip from the right, and drank the wine with the wine, but Ye Chang's wine here is drunk sorghum, with a degree of nearly 50 degrees, which is the height of wine in this era. Therefore, he didn't drink much, so he got drunk and began to play drunk. This guy broke a few sips of the wine jar and let himself take a wine bath.

These jars of wine are sold on the market, but they are worth dozens or hundreds of times

Without Qian Yechang was not heartbroken, he was annoyed that someone dared to brush his tiger whiskers in Xiuwu's lair, and he did it

"Use cold water to sober him up," Ye Chang, who looked uncertain, ordered.