"Marquis Changning, please stay!"

Someone shouted loudly, but it was the drunken Wuyang Hou Fan Li, who staggered over, wanting to reach out to Yang Chuan's shoulder, but was avoided without a trace.

Yang Chuan has always been cautious, except for a few people such as Cao Xiang and Huo Quzhi, he rarely hands over his vital neck to others.

"Wuyang Hou, you are drunk, go and rest for one night first, and tomorrow the Japanese Hou will ask you to continue to eat garlic elbow flowers." Yang Chuan smiled, turned around and was about to leave.

Fan Li took a big step forward, staggered over, grabbed Yang Chuan's arm, and said, "Changning Hou, what surprise do you want to give you?" ”

Sure enough, there was not a single fuel-efficient lamp in this big dog household.

Hugh wants to underestimate this rough appearance and short-tempered Fan Li, it really has a bit of the meaning of his ancestor Fan Xu, the outside is thick and the inside is thin, it is very eye-catching, just such a sentence, if it is sold on both sides.

Sure enough, those big dogs got up one after another and asked, "Changning Hou, what is this surprise?" ”

"If you don't say it again, we'll ...... We'll eat your lamb hard! ”

There was laughter all around.

Yang Chuan leaned half of his body on Sima Qian, turned his head and smiled: "You gluttonous beasts, just know how to take advantage of my family's food, and don't keep any benefits for Benhou." ”

"Okay, Ben Hou said it."

"Originally, Ben Hou wanted to take out hundreds of thousands of acres of wasteland in Shuofang County, so that everyone could claim some more, which could not only help Ben Hou solve the urgent needs of seeds, livestock, and farm tools in Shuofang County's tuntian, but also help the nobles solve problems for the emperor for the imperial court......

The old thieves smiled a little.

And so it was.

Yang Chuan was about to speak, but a violent cough interrupted the conversation, so he had to wave his hand, and whispered in a hoarse voice: "That's it, Ben Hou is sick, I have to go back to drink medicine and rest, if there is anything, you can find Zhang Tang and Sima Qian to handle it." ”

After finishing speaking, he beckoned Dongfang Shuo to 'support' him, and returned to Zhuangzi like a smoke......

……

The next day, Yang Chuan woke up naturally from a sleep.

The sunlight poured into the attic through the window paper, making him squint and get used to it for a while before he fully woke up, and reached out to touch Sister Leopard's fat waist: "Okay, Sister Leopard, the sun is shining to the navel, it's time to get up." ”

Sister Leopard lazily moved her body bones, put her head over, and wanted to rub Yang Chuan to sleep for a while, but Yang Chuan pushed her away.

This guy has been getting more and more talkative lately.

Yang Chuan sat on the embroidered couch, rubbed his cheeks a few times, and began to wash; Nowadays, Yang Chuan's brushing tools have long been updated, from the earliest willow branches to the current bristle toothbrush, it can be said that a qualitative leap has been achieved; And what is especially envious of those big dogs is the special 'toothpaste' made by his family, which is jointly prepared by a group of young ladies of the Huangfu family in Longxi, with a faint medicinal fragrance, which smells very good.

Because the formula of toothpaste has not yet been completely finalized and is still in the 'primary research and development' stage, Yang Chuan is not in a hurry to produce it for money.

However, it is only a matter of time before this daily necessities become popular......

After washing, Yang Chuan forcibly dragged Sister Leopard up again, helped it wash its face and brush its teeth, and carefully removed the raw meat shreds between its teeth, and then went out to the kitchen.

Zhang Tang, Sima Qian, and Dongfang Shuo were all there, and Huo Guang and Yang Yi were wearing pure white aprons, and they were busy serving tea and water.

For this kind of ordinary life, Yang Chuan likes it very much.

He always felt that this person, the most important thing in living in the world is actually food and clothing, and secondly, he can take into account major events such as the Qi family governing the country and leveling the world.

"Marquis of Changning, more than 3 million acres of wasteland in Shuofang County were leased out last night."

"Everybody signed the deed paperwork."

"By the way, in the middle of the night, Pingyang Hou Cao Xiang and Champion Hou Huo led five hundred forest troops to gallop over, with the emperor's holy decree, leasing millions of acres of wasteland......

Listening to Zhang Tang and Sima Qian's returns, Yang Chuan showed a smile on his face and said, "It's okay, dozens of boxes of garbage are exchanged for the rent of three or four million mu of wasteland, and everyone is happy." ”

Zhang Tang and Sima Qian nodded in unison: "Yes, everyone is very satisfied." ”

"It's right to be satisfied, I'm afraid that they won't be satisfied and won't cooperate with us in the future," Yang Chuan took a sip of the bowl of tea handed over by Huo Guang, sat in the center, and then said: "However, this kind of good thing can appear once or twice every once or twice, and you can't give them any problems." ”

"This person, the most unaccustomed, you let them take advantage of it every time they come to our Zhuangzi to eat and drink for a day, and slowly, they will get used to it, thinking that this is a natural and natural thing."

Recently, he has been busy with government affairs and various miscellaneous affairs, and he has to pretend to be sick, so he has been a little lax about the studies of Huo Guang and Yang Yi, and he simply said a few more words while the mutton steamed bun has not been served.

"I'll tell you a joke."

"A long, long time ago, there were two good friends, who ate and slept together every day, and the relationship was iron, I couldn't wait to wear the same pants, sleep in the same bed, and marry the same wife."

"Later, with the passage of time, the two of them got married and had their own families and lives, but the relationship between the two people remained the same, except that they were not together in sleep, they were together in eating and working."

"The relationship between these two people is iron."

"How iron?"

"I'll give you an example."

"As for one of them, he doesn't like to eat mutton, so every time he eats mutton steamed buns, he will scoop up a few chopsticks from his bowl and give them to the other person; The other person slowly got used to this kind of care and took it for granted. ”

"So."

At this time, the little chef brought mutton steamed buns, pot helmets, small cold dishes, mustard and garlic cloves, Yang Chuan pinched the chopsticks, picked up the mutton in his bowl and took a look, and said with a smile: "So, finally one day, something happened between these two people." ”

"What's wrong?"

"It turns out that the person who doesn't like to eat mutton, his wife and children like to eat mutton, he doesn't want to give the mutton in his bowl to others, but wants to take it home and feed his wife and children."

Therefore, when he was eating on this day, he told the other one who liked to eat mutton that he would take it home for his wife and children to eat. Then the other man was furious. ”

"Why are you so angry?"

"The man scolded, you are so bad that you actually took my mutton to feed your wife and children......"

This is a very vulgar story in later generations, but after Yang Chuan told it, it had a new idea.

Zhang Tang, Sima Qian, Dongfang Shuo, Huo Guang, and Yang Yi were all silent.

Some of the stories are very vulgar, they sound like the gossip of the women in the streets and alleys, at first glance, they are unbearable and make people squirt, but after you chew them carefully, you feel terrible in your heart, and you can't help but say secretly: 'Wo grass, isn't this talking about myself?' ’

Yang Chuan began to eat mutton steamed buns.

In the city of Chang'an in later generations, mutton steamed buns were divided into several ways to eat, generally speaking, there were about three kinds of dry baer, a mouthful of soup, and water siege.

Among them, the practice of dry bal requires that the soup completely penetrates into the bun, and there is no soup, no bun and no meat in the bowl after eating; A mouthful of soup, only one mouthful of soup is left in the bowl after eating; As for the way to eat the water siege city, the buns are often in the middle, and the soup is around, and the soup, juice, and buns must all be eaten.

For these three ways of eating, Yang Chuan doesn't like it.

Because he knows that whether it is a dry baer, a mouthful of soup or a water siege, it is actually evolved from the 'mutton soup' two thousand years ago, and in the earliest days, if it was mutton soup and boiled noodles, until the 'dead noodle steamed bun' appeared, this kind of 'mutton steamed bun' that was talked about by Chang'an people in later generations was basically stereotyped, and gradually became a signature dish.

It sounds good, but it doesn't taste good.

Why?

Because, the kind of dead noodle bun itself is not delicious, when that thing is hot, you can roll mutton and side dishes, which gives people a feeling of being quite distinctive, and the taste is also good; However, the dough that has not been fully fermented is extremely difficult to cool down.

Someone once laughed and said that when the dead dough cake is hot, it is a small fresh meat, it looks white and clean, and it looks good, and it is full of juice when you eat it, and it is very tender; When it cools down, it becomes hob meat, which can't be chewed and torn, just like a dog chewing a pig's intestine, and you have to tear it to get a piece off.

As for the time that has been left for a long time, after such three days and two nights, good guy, that thing is just like a piece of pig iron, cold and hard can be used as a kitchen knife to chop meat.

Cold and hard dead dough cakes, don't say put them in your mouth and chew them directly, even if you break them and roll a cup of tea in the hot mutton soup, that thing is still full of tenacity, and the old people and children with bad teeth can't eat it at all.

Of course, if there were only these reasons, Yang Chuan would not be able to react and be angry.

After all, the steamed bun with mutton soaked bun is just an auxiliary food, not the focus of this meal.

The point is.

In later generations, the mutton steamed buns in Chang'an City, the steamed buns are changing the way to update you, just poke out hundreds of small yellow flowers with combs and grates on it, but the mutton in the bowl is an embellishment, if you are not careful, you may be stuffed between your teeth.

In a word, that thing can't be called 'mutton steamed bun' at all, but should be called 'mutton soup steamed bun'.

Yang Chuan's mutton steamed bun does not need dead flour cakes from the beginning, nor does he learn the practices of Chang'an people in later generations, but a bowl of mutton in clear soup, sprinkled with minced garlic and coriander, and eaten directly on the pot helmet.

Or, if it is an elderly child, you can also soak and eat.

All in all, Yang Chuan always thinks that since this dish is called 'mutton steamed bun', mutton is the main dish, and your special mother always works steamed buns, isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

There is no wife in the wife's cake, and there is no beef in the beef noodles.

To put it simply, it's not that the people in the city have deep routines, but this fine tradition of the Han Empire, with some cunning from the beginning, makes you not angry, but it is quite responsive......

"After eating, you should also go to Chang'an City."

Yang Chuan ate slowly, and casually ordered: "Zhang Tang, Sima Qian, you two are responsible for collecting the money and grain of those Chang'an nobles and transporting them to Taicang, Ganquan, Huacang and Jingshi, among them, Ganquancang accounts for half of them, as the second batch of grain and grass during the northern expedition of the army." ”

"Also, send a message to my second aunt to increase the price of the goods in our family's jade shop in Chang'an City by 20%, and increase the price no matter how they are sold."

At this time, Dongfang Shuo frowned and asked, "Changning Hou, if the price of the sale is increased, will it become a loss-making business?" ”

Yang Chuan said with a smile: "This business is like playing money in a gambling house, if you win every game, it doesn't matter if you win seven or eight times in three or five days, but after a long time, when everyone reacts, who will still play with you?"

Therefore, we have made a lot of money in the sale of wasteland in Shuofang County, and we have to make some profits in other small businesses, and we can't just take advantage of them without suffering losses. ”

Zhang Tang and the others almost understood.

However, there are some things that Yang Chuan did not say, that is, he actually didn't want to waste time on this kind of thing at all, and the reason why he asked the jade shop to increase the price was nothing more than a balancing measure.

He spit out dozens of boxes of jade antiques in one go, which will inevitably cause the price of mutton fat jade in Chang'an City to drop, once the price drops by more than two or three percent, those big dogs will feel that they have suffered a loss before, and maybe they will quickly sell the jade in their hands, and then, naturally, it will be a blood collapse.

If you want to continue the jade business for a long time and continue to grow bigger and stronger, when necessary, you have to suffer some losses.

People, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, common sense is also ......

……

In the early spring of the first year of Motokaku, it slipped quietly in chaos and busyness.

The plan of the year lies in the spring.

Yang Chuan's thousands of acres of crops and vegetables have been planted, and the spring plowing and spring sowing of 300,000 acres of tuntian in Shanglinyuan is also being carried out in an orderly manner.

On this day, after Yang Chuan had breakfast, he rode a chestnut mare and took Huo Guang and Yang Yi to the Tai Academy on the other side of Weishui, and handled a large mess of chores casually, and it was almost dusk.

After the spring ploughing and spring sowing began, Tai Academy was in a semi-paralyzed state.

According to Yang Chuan's meaning, all the scholars who go to Tai College to study must go to the mountains and go to the countryside during the busy farming season, eat and live with the military households in Tuntian, and experience the difficulties of people's livelihood at the same time, but also require everyone to be at least familiar with the things of farming and mulberry crops.

These people, in the next few years, will be hired by the imperial court one after another to become officials of the Han Empire, if they don't learn to cultivate the fields at the beginning, and when they become officials, who knows what kind of things they will become.

Therefore, the voice of complaining about Yang Chuan, the Marquis of Changning, has never been cut off, and almost every scholar feels that Yang Chuan is not a human ......

"Isn't this the Marquis of Changning?"

As soon as Yang Chuan and a few people walked down the attic, they met a person, but it was Dong Zhongshu, who had not been seen for a long time, and the old thief laughed: "You are too incompetent to be a priest of the academy, and you can't come three or five times this year." ”

Yang Chuan arched his hand and smiled: "With Dong Gong in charge, what kind of moth can a small Tai Academy make?" ”

Dong Zhongshu laughed a few times, then sighed and said: "But Changning Hou, since the old man went to Shuofang County, he suddenly felt that this Chang'an City was boring, except for reading, he was eating, drinking, pulling, pulling, and having fun, and the whole person felt that it was going to be moldy."

Therefore, the old man has a reluctant request......"

Yang Chuan waved his hand: "Since it's a reluctant invitation, don't invite it." ”

Dong Zhongshu didn't care about Yang Chuan's vulgarity, and continued to take care of himself: "At the beginning of next month, when you go to Tuntian in Longxi County to fight, can you bring the old man with you?" ”

Yang Chuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "Dong Gong, you just said that Benhou is going to Longxi County?" ”

Dong Zhongshu was stunned: "What's the matter, Changning Hou doesn't know yet?" The emperor's will has come down, the champion Hou Huo went to the sick to lead the 3,000 Yulin army to Longxi County, Pingyang Hou Cao Xiang is the military Sima, Changning Hou Yang Chuan is the Taishou of Longxi County, responsible for preparing grain and weapons for the Yulin Army. ”

This time, even Yang Chuan was not calm.

I am a big farmer, how can I become too guarded in Longxi County in a blink of an eye?

(End of chapter)