It is said that after Yan Liyan went to Shangguan Xian's house to issue a letter of appointment, Yan Liyan considered the matter of fireworks in the world.

For a long time, Liyan Villa has only one housekeeper, one nurse, and two maids, so the use of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea has not been large.

In addition, Xuanyuan Jingtian, Shoujie Daoren, Zhu Bajie, Long Xiaotian, etc. are all masters outside the world, and they don't eat fireworks in the world, so they don't have to think about daily life.

As Yan Liyan grew up day by day, especially after having a family affair, Yan Liyan began to consider the development of the industry.

With Liyan Villa as the center, the land of the Yan family is all within a radius of five miles, which is usually distributed to the surrounding tenants for cultivation, and the Yan family is only responsible for collecting rent.

In the past ten years, Yan Liyan has been busy with cultivation, and the affairs of Liyan Villa are all managed by the housekeeper Dugushan.

Dugu Mountain is the family of Mrs. Yan Bi and a member of the Dugu family.

Mrs. Yan Bi is a princess of the previous dynasty, with a noble status, although she arrived in the Sui Dynasty, because she was still a relative of the emperor, she still enjoyed glory and wealth. It's just that after getting married, the eldest lady has not yet given birth to an heir.

Yan Liyan is ready to take over Liyan Villa in an all-round way.

One day, Yan Liyan called the housekeeper Dugu Mountain.

"Dugu Steward, I've worked hard for you all these years, I'm fourteen years old, and I have a marriage contract, so I'm going to manage Liyan Villa by myself" Yan Liyan smiled mysteriously after speaking.

"Young Master, I was sent by the head of the family, if you want to manage the villa yourself, you have to ask the head of the family" Dugu Mountain did not retreat at all.

"Okay, I'll report to my father," Yan Liyan said calmly, still smiling mysteriously.

Dugu Mountain wanted to say something, but he saw Zhu Bajie next to him kick towards Dugu Mountain, and then rolled up a wind and swept Dugu Mountain out of Liyan Villa.

Fortunately, Dugu Mountain has cultivation, otherwise he would have been crushed a long time ago.

Dugu Mountain, ten miles away, climbed up, patted the dust on his body, and knew that Liyan Villa was full of masters who had cultivated to the sky, so he was unwilling to gallop towards Chang'an City.

After Yan Liyan took over Liyan Villa, he didn't look at the accounts.

The accounts are all made for people to see, and the ghost knows if the housekeeper Dugushan has made fake accounts.

Yan Liyan only checked the warehouse to see how much grain and how much material was in stock.

I don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and I don't know that a porridge and a wisp are not easy to come by.

Now the question arises, how to contact these tenants, how to arrange procurement personnel, all of which have become a mess because of the departure of the housekeeper.

It's all on your own.

Yan Liyan walked to the nearby village, found a few tenants, told them that he was the young master of Liyan Villa, informed them to have a meeting in the afternoon, and asked them to tell each other.

In the afternoon, some tenants came from all sides one after another, only some of them came, and some did not hear the news or did not hear the news.

Yan Liyan began to introduce himself.

"Folks, I am Yan Liyan, the young master of Liyan Villa, and in the future, I will arrange people to manage your agricultural production and other related matters." Yan Liyan said straight to the point.

"This is Zhu Bajie, who is specifically responsible for storage, that is, responsible for rent collection, procurement and other work. This is Long Xiaotian, who is specifically responsible for distribution, that is, responsible for distributing seeds, wages, etc." Yan Liyan introduced Zhu Bajie and Long Xiaotian.

Next, Yan Liyan began to talk about his agricultural development plan.

"The farmland is concentrated and contiguous, the fields are square, the roads are in rows, and the fields are staggered. The tenants lived in a concentrated manner, and four villages were established, each family arranged a house, the building materials were provided free of charge by the Yan family, and the labor force was ...... by yourself in the form of mutual assistance." Yan Liyan gushed out.

"It is planned to build four villages, one in the east, west, one in the north, one in the south, and you are free to choose which village to live in. Liyan Villa will select the construction site, make relevant plans, and provide housing construction drawings. All the wood required was provided by Long Xiaotian. Yan Liyan said, pointing at Long Xiaotian to everyone again.

Afraid that it would be difficult for the tenants to choose, Yan Liyan took the tenant register and directly distributed them according to the distance of residence.

Next, Yan Liyan took the tenants to the four construction sites.

Under the horrified eyes of the tenants, Yan Liyan used his magical powers to level the construction plot, demarcate the building area, public areas, roads, squares and other functional divisions, and personally excavated drainage ditches. Next, Yan Liyan drew a scoop according to the gourd and leveled the four construction points. At the same time, Yan Liyan dug a large well in each courtyard, dug groundwater through each well, dug it into a three-meter square, built a wall with granite, and built a wooden house with wood. There are two cisterns outside the well, the inside is a vegetable washing basin and the outside is a laundry sink. The cistern is connected to a drainage ditch.

Each village covers an area of 100 acres, and 50 houses are built, built in the form of a courtyard house, with five exits, a main gate, and four small gates. Each house has two bedrooms and two living rooms, both of which are large kang rooms, and the two living rooms are the living room and kitchen. The kitchen is connected to the thatched house. Water flushing toilets are set up in the thatched houses, and three-level septic tanks are dug outside the thatched houses. The septic tank is made of stone.

In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, Yan Liyan drew a schematic diagram of village construction, house construction, thatched house construction, septic tank construction at four construction sites, and marked the size.

In the next few days, because he was afraid of shocking the world, Yan Liyan took Zhu Bajie and Long Xiaotian out day and night.

Every night, Yan Liyan took Zhu Bajie and Long Xiaotian to harvest and process stones and trees in the mountains, processing stones into cornerstones and beams according to Yan Liyan's house construction drawings, and processing trees into beams, columns, bucket arches, ridges and other components, and then using supernatural powers to transport them to various construction sites. Xuanyuan Jingtian and the Guardian Daoist thought it was fun, so they also joined in.

After these were completed, Yan Liyan also led all the masters to use their magical powers to burn red bricks, green bricks, and gray tiles.

Within a few days, the four construction sites were neatly stacked with a wide variety of building materials.

Yan Liyan was not at ease, and used his divine sense to pass on the construction techniques of his previous life to Zhu Bajie and Long Xiaotian. Every day, Yan Liyan took Zhu Bajie and Long Xiaotian to the construction site, explaining to the tenants how to stir the Sanhe soil, how to build the wall, how to place the cornerstone, beams, how to splice the columns, bucket arches, etc. Xuanyuan Jingtian and the Taoist people also guarded the construction sites according to the gourd painting.

Sanhe soil is made of lime, boiled glutinous rice, clay and water, which is specially used to level the ground and build walls.

The foundation is unified with stone to pad the bottom, with Sanhe soil as the binder, and then with red bricks, blue bricks to build the wall, with columns, beams, the construction of red wall gray tile or red wall gray tile modern building.

During this time, they were officially in the leisure time, and they were all building their own houses, everyone was in full swing, and Yan Liyan funded free food.

Within a month, the construction of the four villages of Liyan Villa was completed, and the tenants all moved into new houses. Yan Liyan asked the tenants to plant jujube trees and persimmon trees in the yard and locust trees and camphor trees behind the houses.

When the people of ten miles and eight towns heard this, they all rushed to see the excitement.

These buildings are not top-notch, but they are quite advanced.

Red bricks and green bricks are rare.

The neatly arranged courtyard houses, the red brick and blue brick walls are brand new and hard as iron, the ground of the three-fold soil tiling in the house is smooth and clean, the water-flushed thatched house is refreshing, and the three-level septic tank is unheard of.

The people of other places are very red-eyed. The surrounding landlords, squires and aristocrats came to watch. For a time, Liyan Villa was like a city.

Yan Liyan immediately asked the four mountain villas to sell tickets, and in accordance with the practice of tourist attractions in later generations, he formulated a tourist map, trained special tour guides, and later began to buy and sell various local products. The ticket revenue is divided fifty-fifty between Liyan Villa and the tenants. The tenants were overjoyed.

When it comes to local products, Yan Liyan also specially trains tenants to make rock sugar gourds.

Yan Liyan asked Long Xiaotian to go to Chang'an City to buy back the hawthorn and make maltose himself.

Then Yan Liyan took Zhu Bajie and Long Xiaotian to the four villages to carry out a touring performance.

In the central lobby of Dongli Villa, Yan Liyan was performing hard.

"Hello audience friends, today I am here to show you the ...... of making rock sugar gourds," Yan Liyan said as he looked at the tenants in front of him, and the tenants responded with curious applause.

Rock sugar gourd is a traditional Chinese snack, which is a string of wild fruits with bamboo skewers and then dipped in maltose syrup, which quickly hardens when exposed to wind. This is theory, easier said than done.

Rock sugar gourds are generally made of hawthorn skewers, but grapes, apples and even yams are OK, the sugar is cold and hard, and it tastes sour and sweet, and it is very icy. And the hawthorn is red, and it looks festive.

First, select fresh and plump, evenly sized hawthorn, wash it, remove the roots and stems, cut the hawthorn at the waist, dig out the core with a knife, and add your fillings such as bean paste and mung bean paste. Then close the two petals and string them together with a bamboo skewer.

Then, Yan Liyan closed the doors and windows, because there could be no wind when boiling sugar, the sugar and water were poured into the pot according to the amount of 2:1, and boiled for about 20 minutes with a fierce fire, during which it could be stirred, and after 20 minutes, the water was already very small, and the boiling was very strong, and the sugar had already bubbled out of fine and dense foam, like light golden beer.

At this time, Yan Liyan dipped his chopsticks in the syrup, and he could pull out the silk slightly, indicating that the sugar was ready. If it takes too long, it will zoom and lose its original sweetness.

Gently turn the skewered hawthorn against the foam of the boiled hot sugar and wrap it in a thin layer. Tilt the pan so that the hawthorns are dipped in sugar.

The dipping process may seem simple, but it requires a lot of skill. If the sugar is too thick, you can't bite the fruit in one bite, and it is a failure. The sugar should be dipped in a thin and even layer, and it will be considered successful.

After an hour of busyness, Yan Liyan was sweating profusely, and the tenants were puzzled. Until Yan Liyan took out the first batch of rock sugar gourds and put them in their mouths.

"Hmm...... It's so sweet. "One kid ate one first.

Another kid also tried one and said, "Mmmm, hawthorn isn't sour at all." ”

"I'm going to try the ...... of mung bean puree," Yan Liyan ate it himself, and it tasted good.

Zhu Bajie also ate one: "It's really delicious......

"You eat slowly, eating too much hurts your teeth......"

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Sweets are almost the universal food of all human beings, although some modern people don't like to eat sugar, but they are used to eating it, tired of eating, and few people don't like to eat sugar when they are young.

Seeing that everyone was happy to eat, Yan Liyan was also very happy, there is a market, a string down, counting artificial raw materials, and even firewood, the capital is at most more than two cents.

Yan Liyan is to sell rock sugar gourds when tourists come to visit, and increase the income of Liyan Villa. Within a few days, the four major villages of Liyan Villa, the four major villages of the east, west, north and south, all began to sell rock sugar gourds.

Yan Liyan carried out high-standard farmland renovation for all farmland, dug canals, ploughed farmland, and renovated ridges. The foundation has been laid for large-scale agricultural production.

After Emperor Wen of Sui heard about it, he personally came to inspect it.

After receiving the news that Emperor Wen of Sui was coming to inspect, Yan Liyan smiled and blossomed, and the opportunity to make money came.

Yan Liyan went to the four major villages in the east, west, north and south non-stop to hold a meeting, and repeatedly told the tenants to clean up, unify the caliber, and vigorously launch various local products, especially rock sugar gourds.

The next day, Yan Liyan specially went to Liyan Villa ten miles away to greet Emperor Wen of Sui and his party.

In the fourteenth year of the emperor's great drought, there were many people in all parts of the country who were hungry, Emperor Wen of Sui was in a bad mood, and he heard about the grain harvest in Liyan Villa, tenants living in new houses and other festive things, so he came to see it.

Emperor Wen of Sui entered Donglizhuang, saw the well bubbling and endless, very curious, personally drank a bowl of well water, and immediately felt that the well water was sweet and delicious, and greatly appreciated.

Next, I tasted the local products of Donglizhuang, especially after eating the rock sugar gourd, I was full of praise.

Next, Emperor Wen of Sui carefully inspected the house buildings in Donglizhuang and praised them.

Xuanyuan Jingtian learned that the emperor was coming, and specially accompanied him throughout the whole process.

Emperor Wen of Sui visited all the Zhuangzi one by one, and then reluctantly went back.

After going back, Emperor Wen of Sui specially convened the ministers to discuss the matter of Liyan Villa, and wanted to give Yan Liyan the title of the household servant, but he was afraid that Xuanyuan Jingtian would not agree, so he summoned the ministers to find a way.

Li Yuanmao then recommended himself and asked to learn from the model of Liyan Villa. Emperor Wen of Sui.

Hearing that Li Yuan came to visit, Xuanyuan Jingtian personally accompanied him.

After Yan Bi heard about it, he personally lived in Liyan Villa for more than ten days, personally painted the mountains and rivers of Liyan Villa, and wrote a "Liyan Villa Record", which was later passed on to his sons Yan Lide and Yan Liben.