Zhang Wenyi brought the food, and Li Zhi was also very hungry, and almost swallowed a bowl of rice in two bites. Zhang Wenyi was afraid that he would choke, so she hurriedly poured a bowl of soup and put it in front of him.

Li Zhi saw that she was so attentive regardless of her previous suspicions, and he felt even more guilty in his heart. grabbed Zhang Wenyi's hand and said, "I'm sorry." ”

Zhang Wenyi turned her head at him and said, "The concubine is just a woman, and what she can do is these trivial things of washing and washing. Raising you white and fat and having the energy to govern the country is all the wishes of the concubine. You are a dignified man, you don't need to say sorry to the concubine, if you can think of what the concubine just said in the future, just give the concubine a chance to confess. ”

The more Zhang Wenyi retreated, the more Li Zhi felt guilty. After eating the second bowl of rice, he put down his chopsticks, reached out and pulled Zhang Wenyi to his side and let her sit on his lap, Zhang Wenyi shrunk, and saw that Li Zhi was very resolute, so he sat down gently.

Li Zhi saw that she was cautious for fear of provoking herself, so she simply straightened her face. Zhang Wenyi felt that this was almost the same, so she gently snuggled into his arms, and saw that Zhang Wenyi was obedient to Li Zhi and became happy again.

The two hugged each other like this for a moment, and Li Zhi asked, "Why does my father want me to accompany you in business?" ”

Zhang Wenyi shook her head and roughly described the process of being summoned that day. Li Zhi listened to Zhang Wenyi's opinion, and his heart suddenly moved.

Zhang Wenyi's words are extremely demagogic, and it is impossible for a member of the royal family not to be moved when he listens to it, let alone Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Salt, iron, and tea are said to be government-run, but in fact, the share of the real government-run is not much. Li Zhi knew best about the salt industry, and most of the salt in the salt works was supplied for smuggling, and officials also used it to enrich their own pockets. Lu Guogong Cheng Zhijie once sold illicit salt, and I have to say that selling illicit salt among the people is a shortcut to making a fortune.

Those gate valve families have also done similar things, and most of the so-called chores of various big families are land rent and store management.

In the past, Li Zhi only knew that those gate valve families devoured land and hid people, but he couldn't find enough examples.

Since the last time he went on an expedition, he learned the calculation method taught by Zhang Wenyi, and Li Zhi found this calculation very useful. When distributing grain and grass in the Chinese military battalion under his jurisdiction, he used it to calculate how to distribute the grain in the most reasonable way in time.

This made Li Zhi interested in numbers, and after looking through the records of the previous dynasties, Li Zhi found that the population grew extremely fast in the first 30 years of the nearly 100 years of the Chengping period, and the population nearly doubled, and then the population growth became more and more stable, and by the middle of the 70 years, the population had only increased by less than 30%, and the population had decreased in the next 30 years.

The same is true of the increase in land, which increases rapidly for the first 30 years, then increases slightly in a steady manner, and then decreases sharply.

The number of officials has increased year by year, and the number of officials has increased sevenfold in the past 100 years.

The same thing happened with the army, which had tripled in size in a hundred years, but there were reports from all over the country that there was a shortage of troops to suppress bandits.

Li Zhi only vaguely felt that the land problem had caused the country to make ends meet, but by comparing the data, he could clearly feel where the problem was.

The sevenfold increase in the number of officials is not enough, which shows that the actual number of people and land is far greater than the number of people in the books and household registers.

On the contrary, the number of troops was falsely reported far greater than the actual number of troops, and from the later reports from various places, it was found that the counties and prefectures were conscripted by local soldiers with less than 300 bandits, and the local soldiers with more than 300 were actually recruited by local soldiers.

The full number of government soldiers stationed in a county is 1,200 people, and the government soldiers of 1,200 people are unable to recruit more than 300 bandits. The native soldiers are just civilians who have undergone a certain amount of training, and what Li Zhi knows is that this kind of training is often superficial, and many times the native soldiers are directly recruited civilians.

It is no wonder that the exiles of the last dynasties are often overflowing, and the army is simply ineffective. Where did all the money and food go to feed these armies? The answer is obvious.

At this time, Li Zhi realized that Li Shimin might want to go into business, but he didn't know what his father would do. But no matter what you do, you need to understand the whole process of doing business, otherwise you won't be able to get started.

Zhang Wenyi is a woman, even though she is a princess, but she is not as reliable as her own son.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi no longer bothered about the saying that business is the last stream, and he said to Zhang Wenyi: "Where do you want to start?" ”

Zhang Wenyi replied: "Our daughter's family will be nothing more than sewing and mending, and the concubine wants to start from the Xiufang ready-to-wear shop." ”

Li Zhi was instantly dumbfounded when he heard this, Zhang Wenyi wants to make women's clothes, what should he do if he is a big man? Seeing that he became sluggish in seconds, Zhang Wenyi also felt funny, but she didn't dare to laugh at Li Zhi, and it would be difficult to do it if she got angry.

Zhang Wenyi smiled and said, "My father gave us a lot of money, you can start with Land." ”

After the couple agreed on their respective industries, they began to prepare for themselves.

The first to encounter difficulties was Zhang Wenyi, due to the suppression of commerce by the imperial court's policies, those who did business had to be naturalized. Once you have entered the municipal register, there is no possibility of changing it, and your children are not allowed to join the government. Due to the existence of one article, most of the common people are reluctant to join the city.

Zhang Wenyi himself could not become the owner of the shop, and there was no one in the palace except for the eunuchs. Don't think about the palace maid, the head of the household will only register as a woman if there is no male in the family, and both the eunuch and the palace maid have a higher status than the city register, so no one will be willing to join the city register.

Only then did she realize the superiority of the ancient gate valve family. Large families have generations of slaves. These people are called "sons of the family", and they belong to the slave nationality, which is a lower class than the municipal registration. Therefore, many children will be willing to enter the city registration and become nominal shopkeepers. There is no embarrassment that no one is available for these wealthy families.

Fortunately, Zhang Wenyi has a palace maid named "Huan'er" by her side, one of her cousins was framed and robbed of his family property, he is willing to serve the royal family, but there is a condition to ask the princess to try to avenge him.

Zhang Wenyi didn't want to use him, but there was no one at hand, so he had to use it for the time being. When I met, I didn't expect this person to be a scholar, his name was Feng Deyao.

With the owner, everything started to go smoothly. First, he set up a store in the East Market and registered with the Equalization Department. The interior decoration was constructed by the subordinate personnel of the Ministry of Peacekeeping, and the quality was so-so, but the effect did not achieve the effect imagined by Zhang Wenyi.

It seems that from ancient times to the present, all government camps are mostly the same so-so quality standards.

Then Zhang Wenyi, who wanted to take the boutique route, encountered the second problem - no business. Although Zhang Wenyi set up a booth and models in the store, some people came in to inquire.

But many people were intimidated by the high price, and Zhang Wenyi also underestimated the Chinese's ability to imitate. Several of the special styles of clothing she displayed in the store were copied and circulated among the noblewomen.

Zhang Wenyi's work was successful, but her shop did not make a single business for three consecutive months.

The situation on Li Zhi's side is not much better than Zhang Wenyi's side, the first time he bought land, he was cheated, and someone sold a piece of inferior land that needed to be fallow to Li Zhi at the price of high-grade fertile land.

This incident angered Li Zhi, and he asked people to report to the official. As a result, the broker was beaten with a cane, while the profit-making seller was not punished in the slightest. Li Zhi learned that someone had been punished, and he didn't think much about it.

After that, he successfully bought dozens of dumps of fertile land, recruited more than a dozen tenant farmers, and entered the landlord class of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin was also a little strange about this result, before he thought that Princess Jin was the daughter of a businessman, and she was naturally good at business, but he didn't expect that the King of Jin, who was not hopeful, took the lead in achieving a small success.

After a little questioning, he learned that Zhang Wenyi didn't understand the art of breeding, and was only operating it on assumptions. After losing a few hundred taels, Zhang Wenyi was about to close the shop when her first customer came.

The first person to patronize this embroidery workshop called Qiushui Yiren turned out to be Xiao Ying.

After giving birth, Xiao Ying's mother-in-law was going to hold a party, so she went to the street to choose some jewelry. I accidentally saw this shop, and when she saw a few clothes on display, she suddenly thought of Zhang Wenyi's modified palace clothes, and such slim clothes are also available here. At the moment, she plans to customize a costume and plan to wear it at the banquet.

The shopkeeper's method of measuring the size is also very similar to Zhang Wenyi's, Xiao Ying didn't care too much, she felt that since they were all slim dresses, the steps required must be quite quite.

Ancient Chinese women's clothing except for the cheongsam of the Manchu Dynasty was not slim, the main reason is that the ancient Chinese aesthetics did not pay attention to the beauty of the body. In addition, it is not uncommon for girls to marry and have children at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and they usually have not yet experienced that the female body has been destroyed by childbirth when it is at its best.

Women love beauty, and after giving birth, the body is out of shape, and it naturally needs to be covered in every way, so most of the ancient Chinese dresses are wide as the melody.

Modern women's clothing will highlight the female body lines, and will make up for the difference between Eastern and Western women in terms of figure. Zhang Wenyi's appearance was not good in her previous life, so she naturally paid more attention to her clothes, so she felt more deeply in this regard.

Since she was the first customer in the store and the wife of the British princess, Zhang Wenyi saw the list of measurements, thought about it, and decided that it would be better to go to the Guogong Mansion in person.

To be honest, Zhang Wenyi is very afraid to see Xiao Ying now. Because she was too involved in designing and displaying the clothes for the store in those days, she didn't show up for the child's full moon wine.

Xiao Ying was enjoying the shade in the back garden when she heard the maid come to report: Princess Jin has arrived. Hearing that Zhang Wenyi was coming, Xiao Ying dropped the notebook in her hand, and snorted: "She still dares to come, see if I don't clean her up." ”

As he spoke, he stood up and hurried away. The maid was new, and she had heard that Mrs. Shizi had a hot temper, but she never expected it to be so hot. Even the princess of Jin dares to clean up, Amitabha, don't get into trouble.