In the spring of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies.

The mountain scenery of the valley where Shangyang Villa is located is no longer monotonous and boring, the mountain spring thaws, the flowing water gurgles, gathers into a stream, and flows around the house. The fruit trees transplanted and pruned last year on the slope ridge have also been green and blooming.

The new beehives in the orchard, the bee colony buzzed and danced, and the butterflies did not dare to approach. A gust of mountain wind blew, and the whole valley was filled with the smell of sweet honey and flowers.

Outside the small building near the spring, a number of phoenixes wore half-armed jackets, guarding a small red clay stove, while paying attention to the heat of the stove and telling their friends to pay attention to the charcoal, while waving their little arms, holding wooden sticks and vigorously stirring the liquid that had become very viscous in the clay pot on the stove.

"Bodhidharma, the jade soap that can be exchanged for three buckets of valley is sold in the shop outside the village, is it really made of this fragrant soup?"

The little friend was carrying the charcoal to the furnace, while observing the movements of several phoenixes, curious and suspicious.

"That's right, I've been to the workshop many times, and that's what those women and workers do, soak the ashes of plants and trees in water and filter them into clear soup, add fat and salt wine, heat and steam, pour them into molds and cold and harden them."

A few phoenixes stopped to rest for a while, wiped the fine sweat on their foreheads, and by the way, took out a mold from their arms to show off: "This is the mold I carved myself, and I will use this to make a shape later." I made jade soap and sent it home to my mother, and as soon as she was happy, she didn't care about my studies. ”

"Can you give me a piece? Last month, I was full of excellent workers, and Zhuang Shang was rewarded with a piece, but it was taken to Zhuang and sold out to buy me a robe. I saw that Sister Ah was very unhappy, and secretly wiped her tears a few times......"

When the schoolboy heard this, his face was also full of hope, and he whispered.

"It's a trivial matter, this can make at least five or six pieces, I'll only keep two pieces, and I'll give you the rest!"

Shu Feng nodded with an atmospheric face, patted the shoulder of this classmate and said with a smile: "Don't think you have exploited your family, Xu Er, you are the best in school, and you will be taught after two years, and my brother will appreciate and promote, are you afraid that the future will not be beautiful?" When the time comes, a lot of merit will be rewarded back to support the family. ”

"Yes, Aye and Mother often say that we have really fallen into a nest of blessings. With such a benevolent and righteous lord to take care of him, if he still refuses to work hard, he is really evil! ”

After hearing this, the schoolchild nodded vigorously and said, the poor family is precocious, he is already a shallow age of difficult personnel, he still remembers the first two years of his own family was miserable, almost unable to live, after entering the village, life has undergone earth-shaking changes, little heart in the arms of the admiration and gratitude for the Lang Lord has already overflowed.

A few crisp sounds came from the spring pool, and the two teenagers turned their heads to look, and saw that the elastic pressure device that had been arranged to automatically fish had been triggered, and a small fish with more than a finger length was hanging on the fishing line, struggling to flick its tail in the sun!

"Catch it, catch it!"

Seeing this, the two teenagers clapped their hands and cheered, and several phoenixes ran by the window of the small building in excitement, knocking on the window and shouting: "Brother, brother, you are amazing!" It's really caught, what a big fish! ”

Li Tai poked his head out of the window, glanced at the small fish hanging on the fishing line by the spring, pursed his lips disdainfully, and only knocked on a few phoenix skulls and said, "If you catch it, you lost the bet." Before tomorrow morning, I will put a hand-copied copy of the "Urgent Chapter" on my board! ”

"Understood, understood, little things!"

When they heard this, they laughed, turned around and ran to the spring, picked up the little fish and threw it back into the pool, and carefully put the device back to its original state.

Hearing his companion shout, "The lake is the lake," he hurriedly ran back and continued to grit his teeth and stir vigorously, completely leaving the copying work behind.

"This baby may have to be raised, should he remind his father to practice a trumpet again?"

Looking at this kid's tirelessness, Li Tai was also a little helpless, obviously he was a quiet and studious good boy when he first came, but he lived in his home house for more than a month but completely liberated his nature, and he was full of energy to do anything, but he didn't like to study.

Thinking that it was not only a good son of Shuhui who he had given to him, but also a good son-in-law of Yuwentai, Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little revenge in his heart.

After the Yuanyue Dynasty met once, Yuwentai completely left Li Tai behind and did not summon him again.

On the contrary, Yuwen Hu, He Lanxiang, and the brothers of Wei Chi visited a few times, and Li Tai recognized it all.

Li Tai is also very helpless about this, and wants to ask Yu Wentai, even if I don't be your little licking dog, you don't have to force me to join your dragon-slaying team!

Extreme Soul Chaos

He sighed a little here, returned to the building, and continued to review the examination papers of the students in the library.

After the beginning of spring, his family affairs became more complicated, and the dozen or so subordinates who initially followed into Guanzhong were no longer enough. Fortunately, the first batch of Zhuang Ding trained in the academy has gradually learned and can be competent in basic calculations and notes, so as not to affect the development of various undertakings.

Now his family's affairs are mainly divided into three parts.

The first is the internal affairs of the estate, the cultivation industry and various self-operated workshop operations.

Due to the expansion of the manor and the addition of workshops, the cultivated area of the manor was also occupied, and only a little more than six hectares of cultivated land remained, and the harvest could only meet the internal consumption of the manor, not to mention profitability.

Fortunately, there is also a manor with a width of nearly 30 hectares in Longshouyuan, and this spring it has already begun to open up the wasteland, even if it is extensive cultivation, the area is also placed there, and the rations can be replenished a little, otherwise a large amount of grain will have to be purchased from outside this autumn.

However, all kinds of manual work are booming, there are sauce factories specializing in making sauce, there are forging and repairing agricultural tools, and even the development of spice workshops for making daily chemical products, and ceramic workshops with more and more exquisite skills.

Of course, the real pillar industries are oil mills and weaving mills. With the blessing of the oil extraction method and the large spinning wheel, these two industries have developed rapidly, which is a solid foundation for the further development of the manor population industry.

The second part is the business of paper printing and military ration production in cooperation with He Batsheng and several Hui.

Due to the promotion of military ration production promoted by Yuwentai, a large number of official and non-governmental imitators emerged in the Kansai prefectures in a short period of time, so that the situation of snowflakes drifting in some of the orders envisaged by Hui did not appear, and only small-scale production and storage were carried out in the manor, and no large-scale cash was realized.

Li Tai is not in a hurry to this, the current industry is in the limelight of the outlet, is a person or a pig have to plug in a hand, rather than blindly chasing the tuyere, increase the involution of self-consumption, it is better to refine the production process step by step, and accumulate technical advantages.

However, the development momentum of papermaking and printing is rapid, and some of the favored North China Prefecture is still down, Jingzhao Yin Cui Ji with the printed official document book to achieve corner overtaking, in one fell swoop over the Qizhou Zheng Daoyong, who has been the leader in performance appraisal for many years, can be said to be a hot talk in the Western Wei Dynasty officialdom before and after the year.

Therefore, from the beginning of the New Year, after the county magistrates of Western Wei Prefecture found out the source, they came to contact and negotiate.

This kind of administrative office method of replacing hand-copying with printing is, to be honest, quite shocking to the current cognition.

Even if it is just a cumbersome and boring official document, and it is not a real carrier of knowledge, it has also greatly shocked and shaken the importance of the clerical group in the ruling class. If this group gathers together and creates public opinion resistance and counterattack, it will also have a great impact.

However, Li Tai's background advantage was greatly reflected at this time, and the Li family in Longxi, as a famous clan in the north, had a discourse in culture and academia.

If others engage in these things, they may be scolded for emphasizing art and ignoring learning, deviating from the scriptures, and blaspheming the righteousness of the sages and sages in the carved woodcuts, but if they insult the Li family in Longxi, they will inevitably be a little weak-hearted.

Li Tai's involvement in non-righteous reasoning has the addition of his family's reputation, coupled with the stereotyped European calligraphy he uses, and has a cross-era artistic beauty. At least so far, there has been no murmur criticizing him as a craftsman.

Therefore, from the beginning of the new year, the relevant orders around the country have also surged, according to the current production scale, enough to produce from the beginning of the year to the autumn, the expected profit is tens of thousands of horses!

Although the profits are considerable, they are also very rich. In particular, when dealing with the government, it is necessary to be cautious and cautious.

Although he still has He Batsheng and some Hui as his backing for the time being, Li Tai is also taking precautions, in addition to formulating a meticulous order rules with various government offices, he is also considering absorbing new partners.

A dragon slaying team such as Yuwen Hu and his cousins is a more suitable candidate target.

But Yuwen Hu has a wide personality and is taboo inside, and when dealing with each other, Li Tai has to be cautious, and once he is involved in money transactions, he must be more cautious.

During the honeymoon period of cooperation, you can squeeze as much profit as possible, and then you need to consider concessions and gradually pour out. So when to include Yuwen Hu in his career map, Li Tai is also waiting for a suitable opportunity.

It is inevitable that the dove will occupy the magpie's nest, but Li Tai must also get enough returns, whether it is political or interest, so he will be willing to leave.

The third part of the affairs is to rebuild the canal of Longshou Canal.

The Western Wei Dynasty, a hegemonic regime, had insufficient authority, and even in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it only completed the military integration from the bottom to the top with the help of government soldiers. Therefore, this Qumeng is a cause worthy of Li Tai's long-term and in-depth operation.

He divided the work of the canal and set up each person in charge, and he already had the rudiments of arbitration to decide the situation of the countryside. The reason why there is a shortage of Zhuang Shi in recent days is that many Zhuang people with the ability to manage affairs are arranged to deal with specific matters.

Next, he plans to continue to expand the correspondence scale of the Zhuangzhong Shushi School, and further include the children of those township tycoons, and then create the status and influence of other township scholars.

When he was still thinking about the next step of the schedule, a child's cry suddenly came from outside the building: "Lord Lang, it's not good, it's not good!" A group of wicked people rushed into the village, and Bodhidharma was beaten by them! He blocked the thief and told me to come back and shout for help......"