Chapter 381: Spices for the Fire
Spices? This carriage is full of spices? The people of Lijiazhuang looked at the carriages that could not be seen at a glance, and suddenly fell into a stupor. How precious spices are! Even if the rich and noble buy spices, they buy them by the pound, and the price is higher than gold and silver, when is the spice calculated by the carriage? The people of Lijiazhuang who were watching next to them were also shocked, for them, spices only exist in legends, and this carriage is full of spices? It was unbelievable, but the guards muttered.
"That's all there is to it?"
In fact, you can't blame them, they are all from the navy, and they are no longer strange about these things, in fact, the naval military department emphasizes the collection of various crop seeds and the like, these things are just accessories, Wei Chi Baolin smiled a little embarrassedly.
"That's all, go and report to Master Hou!"
"Come in! Let's go and report to the Hou Ye. ”
The north wind outside the window is cold, the snow is white, but the house is warm like spring, Li Lizhi Danqing in hand, a few brushes, a peony blooms on rice paper, full of spring, Li Yong nodded beside him.
"It's so well drawn!"
Li Lizhen said with a smile.
"But there's still something missing!"
Li Yong asked with a smile.
"What's the difference? I don't think anything is bad! ”
Li Li said with a smile.
"It's still missing Lang Jun's words!"
After that, Li Li studied the ink with his hands, Li Yong pondered for a moment, and wrote:
Who doesn't love peony flowers, occupy the good things in the city.
It is suspected to be the work of Luochuan God, and it is beautiful to break the morning glow.
Li Yong wrote the payment of the two again, and then put down the pen and said with a smile.
"Oh, the princess's painting and the words of the Hou Ye really complement each other!"
Li Lizhi pouted.
"I think Lang Jun's calligraphy compares my paintings to me!"
Cui Mo walked in and said slightly.
"Master Hou, princess, I came from the front yard to report, saying that Cheng Chuhei and Yu Chi Baolin, who went to sea, are back, and they have brought a lot of spices."
In fact, the news from the front yard was dozens of carriages of spices, but Cui Mo thought about it and changed her words, because she felt that it must have been a mistake, how could she bring back dozens of carriages of spices? That's spice and not wood, I don't know who heard it wrong, it's too uncommonsense, and I don't want to think about how this is possible? Li Yong was very surprised when he heard it and said with a smile.
"It's great that I've been out for so long, and I'm finally willing to come back!"
Cheng Zhihei and Wei Chi Baolin because the current situation was unclear at the time, they had to go to Huating County to seek refuge with Li Yong, but they liked life at sea, so Li Yong arranged them all to go to the navy, which can be regarded as bringing them out, and they will be able to take charge of themselves in the navy in the future, Li Yong originally wanted them to come back as soon as possible, after all, now that the situation has stabilized, Li Er's suspicion of himself is much less, and other forces are also hibernation by their own suppression. But these people are like wild horses out of Chang'an, none of them come back, what can he do, fortunately, Cheng Biting Jin and them are not worried, and now they are finally back two, not bad.
"I'll go see them!"
Li Yong said happily, and Li Li said curiously.
"Lang Jun, I'll go and see it too, right?"
For going to sea, Li Lizhi was full of curiosity, because she had heard Lang Jun talk about the scenery of the sea and the story of the sea, although she had also been in Huating County for a long time, but she had not really gone to sea, because she understood that she had never had the opportunity to go to sea in her life, so she could only listen to the stories of the sea and see what these people brought back from going to sea.
"Okay, let's go, let's go and have a look!"
Yu Chi Baolin and the others waited excitedly and expectantly, until they saw Hou Ye and a beautiful woman walking side by side, and they immediately understood that this was their master mother Li Liqing.
"Meet the Hou Ye, meet the princess, the little ones are fortunate to be alive and finally back!"
"Okay, okay, your father and I have been thinking about you all the time! You've done a great job! ”
Li Yong stepped forward and helped them up one by one with his own hands.
"Great work! You've all worked hard! It's all dark, but it's stronger! Welcome back, virgin! ”
Li Yong smiled sincerely, he admired Cheng Chuhei's courage very much.
"Fortunately, thanks to the charts of the military department, according to the charts of the military department, everything went smoothly, and it was the first time for me to go to sea so far, and I benefited a lot! And your nautical manual, amazing! ”
Cheng Chuji smiled happily.
"Come in, all the way, have a glass of wine and rest, Changle, let the kitchen prepare, I will give the virgin and Baolin them the wind and dust!"
Li Yong said with a smile, and Li Lizhi replied slightly.
"Okay, I'll let someone arrange it."
Cheng Chusi smiled.
"Then bother, I just have something to ask the admiral."
"It's easy to say, your father and your mother have always been worried about you, I don't know how many times I've asked me, but I'm looking forward to you back, little cow, go to the Lu Guogong Mansion to say that the heir has returned to Chang'an."
After Li Yong finished speaking, he turned his head and ordered, and Xiao Niu, as the head of the guard, immediately jumped on his horse and galloped away when he heard this.
Cheng Chusi smiled.
"Admiral, let's put these things away first!"
Cheng is now a member of the navy, and he is also used to calling Li Yong an admiral, Li Yong looked at the carriages that could not be seen at a glance, and asked in surprise.
"What are you bringing all the way back? A souvenir of the Wa country? ”
Cheng Chusi smiled.
"Originally, I brought a boatload of Japanese souvenirs, but later I encountered a strong wind and was blown to a small island, and the island was full of spices, so I had to throw all the Japanese specialties down and fill a boatload of spices, all of which are here."
Yu Chi Baolin said excitedly.
"Master Hou, there are forty-two carriages, full of spices."
Cuimo was stunned, it turned out that people were not wrong, it was really the spices of dozens of carriages, she blamed people for not having common sense before, it turned out that she was short-sighted, not to mention Cuimo and their maids, even the well-informed Li Lizhi was stunned, forty-two carriage spices? Don't say she saw it, she hadn't heard of it, even if there were only a few carriages of spices in the palace at most, but now there were forty-two carriages of spices in front of her, spices were really scarce good things, at that time Li Lizhi didn't see those endless spices in Huating County, and she was not so surprised when she saw it, only Li Yong was very calm, spices, there were a lot of them on the sea, it was not surprising, he wanted strategic materials such as rubber, which was needed for the future development of Xishan and Huating.
"It's also a coincidence that you actually let you meet an island."
Li Yong said with a smile, and Yu Chi Baolin smiled with a smile.
"Master Hou, the little one has already written down the location of that island, and there are still a lot of spices on that island, and he can definitely pull several boats."
Li Yong said with a smile.
"Well, you have made meritorious contributions, and you will have the opportunity to pull spices again in the future, in fact, there are many spice islands on the sea, some of which are very large, and there are still people living on them, and people there usually build houses with spices, and even use spices as firewood for cooking."
Sluggish, everyone is sluggish, Li Lizhi, Cui Mo and others opened their mouths slightly, cooking spices as firewood? Build a house with spices? What does this equal to? This is equivalent to building a house with gold, and it is equivalent to using the best Shu brocade for fire, it is too extravagant, so extravagant that it is impossible to imagine, what Shi Chongdou is rich compared to others.
"Lang Jun, is this true?"
Li Li asked incredulously, and Li Yong nodded with a smile.
"Of course it's true, scarcity is expensive, and spices are everywhere on some islands, so naturally they are not worth much."
Of course, this is the truth, once the glass was also very precious, but now the glass is not a rare thing in Chang'an, it's just that Li Lizhi can't imagine the scene of spices everywhere for a while, and using spices as firewood, Cheng Chuhei nodded.
"Hou Ye is right, that island is full of spices, no one picks them at all, there is a thick layer on the ground, all of them have rotted, and it is normal to burn spices on an island where people live, there are too many spices, it is better than falling on the ground and rotting."
The people around him swallowed their saliva and took spices to light the fire? Aren't you afraid of hurting the sky? The spices all over the place are rotten and no one picks them up? No one picked it up! Pick up a basket casually, you don't have to work in this life, you can marry a three-room daughter-in-law, eat and drink spicy food every day, even Li Lizhen was stunned when she heard it, not to mention others, Yu Chi Baolin asked.
"Does Master Hou know where the other islands are? Let's grab it, no, let's pick it up! ”
Li Yong said with a smile.
"The navy knows a few small islands, and they are full of spices."
What does it mean to find an island full of spices? It means wealth, boundless wealth, endless wealth, it is simply a treasure plate, because after the spices are picked, they will grow, Li Li asked.
"If there are people living on the island, and the spices belong to other people, can they let them pick them?"
Li Yong said with a smile.
"In fact, life on the island is very difficult, there is a lack of food and clothing, and you can exchange a piece of cloth for a boatload of spices."
A single piece of cloth can be exchanged for a boatload of spices? Isn't this just a book of great profits! Cheng Chuhei, Wei Chi Baolin and others felt that Hou Ye was too merciful, and they still needed to exchange cloth? Wouldn't it be okay to grab it directly, not to occupy that island directly? Their navy is like this, when they encounter a good one, they will exchange things, and if they meet resistance, they will be destroyed directly, Li Yong glanced at the carriage and said with a smile.
"You should each share one of these spices, Cheng Chu and Wei Chi Baolin! I haven't been home for so long, so I can take some souvenirs home. ”
Cheng Chuji waved his hand and said.
"These spices are for you, I don't want them, I don't care about power and wealth, I just want to swim on the sea now!"
Looking at Cheng Chuhei, who looked yearning, Li Yong also smiled helplessly.
"Let you take it, you don't know, now our merchant ships bring back every time they go to sea, you should spend more time with your parents, and your hands naturally can't be empty."
Cheng Chusi smiled casually.
"Admiral, a shipload of spices is worth a fortune to the fools of the world, but it is worth nothing to you and me, because the islands are all over the place, and if you want to send a ship out to sea at any time to pull a few ships back, to put it bluntly, it is just a boatload of firewood, and I don't have merchant ships at home to go to sea with us, and they are not lacking."
Li Yong couldn't help laughing when he heard it, Cheng Chuhei still saw it clearly, but it was just a boatload of firewood.
"After staying on the ship for so long, what the virgin should miss the most is the bar in Chang'an? Let's have a few drinks today, and we won't go home if we don't get drunk! ”
Li Yong smiled, and Cheng Chuhei laughed.
"I really said it, what I miss most is the wine of Chang'an, last year I buried a few jars of osmanthus brewing, and today I will dig it out to entertain you."
Li Yong said with a smile, and Cheng Chuji waved his hand again and again after hearing it.
"No, no, no, if you don't drink osmanthus stuffed, just drink the Decepticon you made, and come to a Decepticon! If there is anything in Chang'an that I can't give up the most, it is this Decepticon. ”
How sad it would be if Cheng Yanjin and his wife heard this, the son who had been raised for more than 20 years was not as good as a jar of Li Yong's medicinal wine.
"The most important thing in my house is spirits, and the brewery has improved the process, and the Decepticons I brew are more mellow."
Li Yong and Cheng Chuhei, Yu Chi Baolin walked in side by side, the others followed, some people who failed to go to sea regretted that they were about to cry, the wealth on the sea is also too amazing, when the Hou Ye and other families recruited people to go to sea, they still didn't believe it, now they can only look at the greed, the little guys in the house are simply regretful, these people are Li Yong bought Li Jiazhuang to take in, they want to go to sea for only a year, but even a lifetime of capital has been saved, who doesn't want to go? Now they only have one thought in their minds, how stupid am I! It's true! Li Lizhen did not return home with Li Yong, because there were still forty-two carriages waiting to be packed!
"Pull all these wagons into the western courtyard first!"
Li Lizhi commanded, and the guards stepped forward to start their hands, and the heavy carriages squeaked towards the West Garden.
Yingluo smiled.
"Let's live in Xishan Villa and Lijiazhuang, if we live in a mansion in the city, there is no place to put so many spices."
The maids all laughed when they heard this, and Cui Mo smiled.
"But our Xishan Courtyard and the warehouse here are almost full, even if the warehouse here is squeezed, the spices of more than a dozen carriages can barely be released, but where can the spices of so many carriages be released?"
When Yingluo and the others heard this, they suddenly had a headache.
"Yes, the warehouse is not enough, it's winter now, and it's too late to build a new warehouse!"
What a blissful trouble! Because there is a lot of open space in Zhuangzi, although Li Yong's mansion is not as much as Chang'an's mansion, it is much larger than Chang'an's mansion, and the treasury is even more one-by-one cover.
"Let's take off all the tarpaulins first!"
The guards started together, and lifted the tarpaulin very quickly, and suddenly the strong smell of spices spread, only to see a bag of spices stacked full, it looks like transporting grain and grass, too rough, whether it is the surrounding small people or Cuimo, these maids are very distressed, this is a precious spice! How can this be? Even Li Lizhi was a little distressed and commanded.
"Open a few bags and take a look."
The guards opened the bag according to the words, and the spices inside were suddenly exposed, Li Li couldn't help but nod when she saw it, so many spices, she thought that the quality would be bad, but she didn't expect the appearance to be unexpectedly good, in fact, the spices on the forty-two carriages were in excellent condition, after all, it was a whole island of spices, in the case that only one boat could be loaded, of course, the good ones were picked and taken away, and they were all rotten anyway, as the tarpaulins of the carriages were opened, everyone was a little numb, after all, there were too many spices, Now they suddenly have some understanding of Yu Chi Baolin's feelings, when they have experienced the situation of spices everywhere, will they still treat these spices as treasures? Li Lizhi covered her nose with a handkerchief, the fragrance was too strong, a little rushed, originally she thought that the spices were neatly stacked on the carriage, but now it's good, although they are full but very messy, and they have to be slowly organized from the beginning! Headache! It's a headache! Li Lizhi said helplessly.
"Let's turn on the tarpaulin first! Let's put it away slowly when you have time! ”