As a famous figure in the Southern Dynasty, after Liu Zhongli was captured that year, although he was discredited by Li Tai's public approval and fighting, he still received a certain degree of courtesy after entering the Western Wei court.

After all, Liu Zhongli has been famous for a long time, Wang Shengbi, Chen Baxian and others are his juniors, and even He Batsheng had been deflated when he was at war with him, so he is also quite well-known in Guanzhong.

At that time, Yuwentai did not directly use Liu Zhongli, but Yuwenhu summoned him into his command, and when he was in Hedong later, he also relied on Liu Zhongli. Liu Min had also complained to Li Tai before that when Liu Zhongli was in Hedong Township, there was no lack of acts of relying on Yuwen's momentum to make a fortune.

However, in Yoo Joong-ri's narration, it is a different version. According to his own account, when he was recruited by Yuwen Hu to his disciples and served in Hedong, he was hated and slandered by the villagers in order to publicize government decrees and suppress local lawless tyrants, so he did not settle down in the township after that, but returned to Guanzhong with Yuwen Hu.

According to Li Tai's understanding of the urine of both parties, he feels that what the two sides said is estimated to be true, and at the same time, there must be water in each side, which is not all the facts. However, he didn't bother to investigate this, but was more curious about why Liu Zhongli settled in Xihe County.

After following Yubungo back to Guanzhong, Ryu was soon appointed as the Assassin of Shikiju reorganized from Fukijo County, which happened to border Xihe County and was located south of Xihe County. According to his words, when he was in office, the villagers in the governance felt his meritorious service, so when he left office, he gave him a job in Xihe County, and he also chose to settle in Xihe County because he liked the folk atmosphere in northern Shaanxi.

Li Tai, as a newly landed big rat, of course understood what Liu Zhongli had not said in his words. As a local assassin Shi Fangbo, it is too simple to get some industry for himself.

And Liu Zhongli took the initiative to resign from the post of Assassin of Fuzhou after he entered Guanzhong at the end of last year, which is quite interesting. After that, it was estimated that he was worried that after losing his backer, he would be retaliated against by the villagers when he returned to Hedong Township, so he simply settled in Xihe County.

After listening to Liu Zhongli's self-description, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh that the phoenix that has changed over time and fallen off the shelf is not as good as a chicken!

But if Liu Zhongli was able to be a little more effective when he rescued Jiankang and did not let Hou Jing's rebellion expand and erode, then he would be a well-deserved hero of King Qin and the first general of Southern Liang, so why is there almost no place for him to stand in embarrassment now.

Therefore, people always feel that they will not receive any immediate punishment for doing evil, so they repeatedly lower their moral standards, but the evil consequences accumulated will eventually come to them in some form.

Li Tai originally wanted to find a grange to see the specific business situation, but since he met an acquaintance like Liu Zhongli, he proposed to go to his home to have a look.

When Liu Zhongli heard this, his face turned pale, especially when he saw the heavily armed guards around Li Tai, he was even more frightened to the point of cold sweat on his forehead, probably because he was worried that Tang Gong still refused to let him go, and wanted to behead him all over the house.

Li Tai saw that he was frightened like this, so he smiled and said, "Liu Hou has lived in the country for several years, and I must have heard of my deeds. However, if you abide by the law, you don't have to worry about being unprovoked by the government. The Liang family's national business has become a thing of the past, what old grudges do I have with Liu Hou that can't be resolved?"

"Sin, thank you, thank you, thank you Tang Gongren for your kindness!"

After Liu Zhongli heard this, his expression changed a few times, and he bowed with excitement and a choked tone, and then stood up again and led the way in front of him, heading towards his home.

Liu Zhongli's manor is located not far from the southwest of the county, with convenient water and land transportation, and a quiet and livable environment.

The whole manor building plus cultivated land and mulberry fields, etc., has an area of about a dozen hectares, and the scale is not too large, but the land is mostly flat and fertile watered land, plus dozens of mulberry trees that grow quite well in the plateau, there is such a good foundation for cultivation and weaving, and it is absolutely impossible to feed one or two hundred people.

Because there were personal soldiers who entered here first to patrol and guard, when Tang Gongyi arrived here, Liu Zhongli's family was already standing in front of the village to greet them. There are more than 30 men and women in the household, and in addition to Liu Zhongli's wife, children, brothers and other relatives, there are more than 20 men and women

Female, the number of family members is about the same as when Li Tai first entered the customs center.

Therefore, in ancient times, especially in the Middle Ages, it was said that some people were in the middle of the road and left their hometowns, but it was not really poor to the point that they were exhausted, and it was extremely difficult for the real destitute families to even obtain a household registration and become a homesteaders, let alone soar.

A more reliable way to achieve class leapfrogging is to rely on young strength and courage to join a strong family and be a cangtou house slave, and you can be called an absolute winner in life when you mix to the point of Liu Taozhi of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Li Tai was not very interested in the population of the Liu family, and kept asking Liu Zhongli about the details of the manor's operation along the way.

Liu Zhongli did not dare to hide this, and said in detail: "Thanks to the Tang Gongzhi water conservancy farming, the two sides of the Kuli River are mostly fertile fields, and the one-year-old diligent cultivation can harvest more than two stones of millet per mu, and three stones of harvested corn. The Han family has nearly nine hectares of land, and after deducting grain and human and animal food, it can still make a surplus of more than 700 stone at the end of the year. Accumulate grain and prepare 200 stones, and the rest can lose to the officials, and you can get 200 catties of salt for short, and 100 catties for long, and you can get more than 100 catties of corn when you sell them in the market......

The main crops planted in northern Shaanxi are millet, sorghum and various beans, Liu Zhongli's family has a population of more than 30, and there are several cattle and horses, and the annual consumption of grain is estimated to be thousands of stones, and then deducting the consumption of crop seeds, nine hectares of fields can also harvest 700 stones every year, such a harvest is very good, basically three years of cultivation can have two years of accumulation.

With the development of the times, farming technology and yield per mu are also improving. In addition, Liu Zhongli's family is not an ordinary homesteaders, and their subordinates are hidden households, with labor and no rent, and it is relatively normal to have such a harvest.

Salt is divided into long and short leads, which are distinguished by the distance of transportation and sales, and the higher the natural price and profit if it can be transported farther, and the lower it is. But not everyone will sell salt after getting the salt introduction, like Liu Zhongli's family to make a hundred and ten catties of salt introduction is not enough to toss, so it is better to simply sell it directly to those big salt merchants, so it is also an income.

But the manor of the Liu family is obviously not just a simple farming, as far as Li Tai can see, there are more than ten hectares, in addition to the nearly nine hectares of cultivated land, there are also several hectares of mulberry fields and orchards.

The commodity economy of the Southern Dynasties was relatively developed, and many dignitaries and dignitaries did not shy away from business, and even personally operated the manor industry and bought and sold with merchants, so Liu Zhongli introduced the home industry very methodically.

"Three years of mulberry, a one-year-old can pick 30 catties of leaves, harvest 50 catties, between 20 acres of mulberry plants, mulberry can be used as food, leaves are fed silkworms, an acre of mulberry can be fed with 50 catties of silkworm cocoons, more than 20 catties of silk......

Regarding Tang Gong's question, Liu Zhongli answered in great detail, but he didn't know that he had touched Tang Gong's knowledge blind spot in such detail.

Although Li Tai also survived a hard life, he really couldn't do it like Liu Zhongli to treasure all the output and data in the manor, according to the data he could understand, that is, one acre of silk made of mulberry trees and silkworms is about twenty horses a year.

Of course, the actual conversion is certainly not so simple, especially since each process consumes a lot of time and manpower, so it cannot be equated with 20 horses of mulberry harvest per acre.

Even when the government collects household surveys, there are options such as silk, cotton, cloth, and hemp for people to choose from, because for many Juntian households, there is simply not enough labor and time to spin cotton and linen into silk cloth, and they can only hand over semi-finished products as household surveys.

Although Liu Zhongli's family also had a large number of slaves and maids, they did not plant mulberry trees all over their mulberry fields, because silkworm raising and weaving cloth were not busy at all, and if they only sold semi-finished products such as silk and linen, the profits would not be as good as planting other crops with higher economic attributes. Among them, Liu Zhongli focused on his tea garden.

"The small people's old residence in Xiangchu, because of the disease of drinking tea, I thought that after leaving the hometown, I was afraid that I would have to alienate this smell, but I didn't expect that many people in Beizhou were fond of this smell. Therefore, I asked someone to find a few good tea trees in Hanzhong and transplant them in this manor, although the time and land were lost, so that the tea leaves had a very short sweet return and a long bitter taste, but because of this, there were very few varieties in the countryside, and there were many profits from harvesting and selling in the market!"

Liu Zhongli led Li Tai to the tea garden and pointed to the garden

The dozens of tea trees with different growth introduced. Although he resigned at the end of last year, this manor has been in business for more than a while, and it is precisely because of the success of the operation that he simply settled here after his resignation.

When Li Tai heard this, he couldn't help but point at Liu Zhongli and said with a smile: "Why should you say Tao Zhu to be virtuous, Liu Hou is also very good at managing things!" The trend of drinking tea has not been widespread in this township for a long time, and Liu Hou has already investigated it and benefited from it."

Although the trend of drinking tea has a long history, it did not flourish until the Sui and Tang dynasties, and tea, as an important foreign trade commodity, was not established until the Song and Ming dynasties. When Li Tai was building the Shifo Temple, he had already intended to use religious ceremonies to promote the custom of drinking tea among Jihu, and it was slightly effective in a few years.

When he was in Shannan, he had already begun to grow tea and improve its varieties, and he was also promoting it as an important commodity to Guanzhong and other regions, not only for the sake of profit, but also to strengthen the exchange of cultural customs and food habits between regions.

Unexpectedly, in this Xihe County, Liu Zhongli also felt this trend without a teacher, and has launched a localized operation for the purpose of profit, I have to say that this business sense is also very sensitive.

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