Xia Jing thought of the fields on the list, and suggested: "In fact, if these hidden households are cleared, they can re-measure all the fields of the Lou family. ”

Now King Qian himself was in pain, and he said with a sad face: "These properties are the cornerstone of this king's soldiers and horses, if they are assigned to those hidden households, then wouldn't this king be busy in vain this time?" ”

The most hateful thing is that he has taken on the notoriety, and all the benefits are given to those common people, and he has lost a lot!

Xia Jing listened to his words, and rolled her eyes at him without any image, "Now Lingnan is your fiefdom, and the people of Lingnan are your people, the land is reassigned to them, and it is not the same thing for you to overcharge taxes at the end of the year?" ”

The truth is this, King Qian actually understands it in his heart, but the property in his hand has to be given away unconditionally, and it hurts.

The illegal building of the Lou family's ancestral house is now for King Qian to live, which is quite in line with his identity, the large courtyard is set of small courtyards, plus the winding corridor, it took them half an hour to walk from the front yard to the back yard.

Xia Jing didn't go to see the other courtyards, but as the courtyard where the ancestors of the whole mansion lived, she definitely wanted to check it out.

The largest courtyard in the main courtyard is located in the best location, with a garden in the courtyard, which is particularly elegantly furnished.

The group walked around the yard and found that there were countless precious flowers and trees cultivated in the yard, and this yard alone was like a small show of precious flowers and trees.

Xia Jing took a deep breath of the aroma of flowers and trees, and said with emotion: "I finally realized the luxurious life of the family, living in this kind of place, can really kill people's will." ”

She, a person from the last days, has lived in this kind of place for a long time, and she wants to lie down and live a retirement life directly. Not to mention the young people who should struggle.

King Qian was sweating all over, and found a stone bench to sit down.

Even so, the hot weather still couldn't stop his enthusiasm, "Princess, are you satisfied with this courtyard?" Do you need to go inside the house again? ”

Xia Jing must be interested in where she lives, she nodded: "You rest here for a while, I'll go in and have a look." ”

"This king will go with you." King Qian really fought hard today, endured his weak legs, and stood up again.

The room in the main courtyard is as exquisitely decorated as the outside, and there is basically no furniture to be added, Xia Jing looked around, that is, the bathroom and the mouth should be renovated, and everything else is fine.

Let Hongmei write down this matter, and then go to the porcelain factory to order some squatting toilets, and the washbasin will be renovated.

Elsewhere there was nothing that needed to be renovated.

On the way back, because it was already time for lunch, King Qian invited Xia Jing to go to the restaurant outside to taste the special food of Lingnan.

Xia Jing did not refuse, and on the way back after eating, King Qian kept in a good mood.

It's just that when he arrived at the mansion and saw Aunt Wang waiting outside his small courtyard, his mood was not so good.

"Why are you here?"

Aunt Wang said with a smile: "It's been a long time since the concubine has come to visit the prince, and the prince is also ruthless, and he has never come to visit the concubine." ”

said resentful words, but her tone and expression did not mean resentment at all.

King Qian's favorite thing is her attitude of not fighting or grabbing.

For this concubine who has been with her for decades and has no strong sense of existence, after listening to her words today, I feel a little guilty.

He raised his feet and stepped into the courtyard first, "Isn't it hot to stand outside, come in." ”

Aunt Wang smiled at Anu before steadily following in.

King Qian returned to the house, first asked the little servant to prepare warm water to wash off the sweat stains on his body, put on thin dirty clothes and walked out.

He sat on the throne and drank a cup of tea before asking, "Why did you remember to come to see this king today?" ”

In addition to her own maid in the house, there was only Anu left, and seeing that there were no outsiders, Aunt Wang said bluntly: "The prince has found a lot of good things in the house, why only give it to the princess and Aunt Sun, but forget our four rooms?" ”

King Qian scratched his nose weakly, glanced at Anu, and smiled: "There is no secret in the backyard of the palace. ”

Aunt Wang said helplessly: "I know that there is no secret to speak of, and the prince should even level a bowl of water." ”

Qian Dynasty Anu signaled, "Go and prepare some silver taels and send them to the other rooms." ”

gave Aunt Sun and Aunt Wang it's not good to miss the big house and second room of their sister-in-law.

smiled on her face, but in her heart, she had already made a note of Aunt Sun, who was not strict in her mouth.

Hurt him to ruin his fortune!

Why is he so sure that Aunt Sun said that he missed his mouth?

Because Xia Jing went out with him after choosing the house, it was impossible for her to reach Aunt Wang so quickly when she came back.

Back in her small courtyard, Xia Jing yawned after washing and then went to bed for a lunch break.

After sleeping and waking up, he asked someone to send a message to Shopkeeper Ding, asking him to start selling ice cubes directly in the salt shop tomorrow.

King Qian even asked Zeng Yan to go to the salt shop to buy ice the next day, he was fed up with the hot weather during this time in Lingnan, and now that he knew that there was ice for sale, how could he miss this opportunity to enjoy.

King Qian's use of ice means that the entire palace can't hide it, and everyone knows that the princess's salt shop has ice for sale.

As soon as Aunt Sun knew the news, she didn't want to wait for a moment, and directly found Zeng Yan, "Zeng Yan, I heard that the house bought a lot of ice and came back, so let people send some ice to my yard." ”

Zeng Yan took the account book to check whether there were any defects in the purchased materials, listened to Aunt Sun's instructions, and turned around and told the truth:

"The ice sent to buy today is only enough for the prince, and if Aunt Sun wants to use ice, she can send a carriage to the princess's salt shop to buy it. It's just that the old slave has to remind you that there is no ice cellar in the backyard of the government now, you can buy as much as you want, and if you buy more, it will melt if you can't use it, which is a pure waste. ”

How could Aunt Sun be willing to pay for it herself, her face was not very good-looking, "I am a woman who does not go out of the door, how can I know the way outside, I still have to trouble the housekeeper to send someone to run again." ”

Zeng Yan hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, since my aunt is inconvenient, then the old slave will send someone to run again, but you have to pay for the silver to buy ice." ”

Aunt Sun frowned, "Now that there is no separation, why do we have to pay our own money to buy ice, in the past, the ice in the house every summer was not distributed by the head of the house?" ”

"In the past, in Gyeonggi, we had our own ice cellar in the house, and we would store a lot of ice every winter, but in the summer, it was convenient to use ice in the house, and we didn't have to pay for it separately, and of course everyone used ice for free."

Nowadays, the government is unable to make ends meet, and the summer in Lingnan is hot for a long time, and ice is a sought-after commodity, and the price is definitely not cheap.

The prince had already instructed in the morning that whoever in the palace wanted to use ice to pay for himself was not allowed to take the account of the public school.

"Since there was ice in the house in the summer, why didn't you get ice in Lingnan? Isn't it that you are greedy for your share of ice in the summer? ”

This is a bit nonsense, Zeng Yan didn't hear it, and argued with the woman in the backyard, and the prince would only punish him as a minion.

Not caring doesn't mean that he will give her a good face.

Zeng Yan sank his face, "If Aunt Sun has any questions, you can ask the prince, the old slave is busy reconciling today's materials here, if you delay today's ingredients to be sent to the kitchen, the noon meal can not be provided on time, and then the above will be investigated, and the old slave will directly explain the reason to the prince." ”

Zeng Yan's situation soon spread to the ears of several other rooms.

Everyone complained about using ice to pay their own money, but they didn't dare to show it, and at most they only dared to complain a word or two in their respective rooms.

A piece of ice is fifty wen, and an ice basin is placed in the four corners of a room, which is four pieces of ice.

It takes eight blocks of ice a day in a room to meet the needs of the day.

This is only the amount of King Qian's daily consumption, and there is more than one master in the other rooms, and more than one room needs to use ice.

Take the most representative big room as an example, Li Chengshang and his wife live in one room, and there are two sons below, the eldest son has children, and then Li Chengshang's concubine room, the daily consumption is calculated as eight rooms.

It costs about seven taels of silver to use ice a day, and two hundred and ten taels a month.

Moreover, summer in Lingnan is more than three or four months.

Calculate that the silver used in ice for a summer is nearly 1,000 taels.

Hiss!

This account is not unaware, and it is shocking.

The amount of ice used in these rooms of the Wangfu alone is several thousand taels, how many generations of gentry in the entire mansion city?

When the summer passes, Xia Jing can make a lot of money just by selling ice.

To say that the other rooms are not envious is false.

"You said that the princess Yantian has a share of the mansion, shouldn't this ice also give the mansion some dividends?"

Li Chengyi asked this question when he was chatting with his wife.

The fourth lady took a bite of the pastry and shook her head: "How is it possible, when the method of drying salt was handed over to the mansion, I guess she came up with this strategy because everyone had just arrived in Lingnan and wanted the palace to gain a firm foothold in Lingnan as soon as possible." Now that everything is on the right track in the palace, how can she hand over the hen that lays golden eggs to the palace! ”

Besides, except for Xiao Wu, the others are not biological children, how can the princess be selfless and dedicated.

Li Chengyi was a well-known gentleman in Gyeonggi at the beginning, and he spent a lot of money outside the palace with the industrial support allocated to him, which was barely enough for him to spend.

Now that he has fled to Lingnan, it means that all the industries of Gyeonggi are gone.

Lingnan belongs to their four-room property, only a dozen hectares of wasteland given to them by Xia Jing, and 10,000 taels of silver given by King Qian.

If you want to buy any property, you can use the dowry of the fourth lady to buy it.

Later, they were allowed to recruit 5,000 soldiers, but he had no money and now he has recruited less than 2,000.

Raising 2,000 recruits consumes a lot of food every day, not counting the consumption of ordnance and uniforms.

Li Chengyi's current situation can be regarded as penniless and in debt.

As a person who is in debt and unable to repay, he is especially interested in Xia Jing's hen that can lay golden eggs.

He sighed, "Now that we are in Lingnan, we have to start everything from scratch, do you have any ideas to make money?" ”

The fourth lady swallowed the pastry in her mouth unhurriedly, and drank two sips of tea to moisten her throat before she spoke: "Even if I have a little, then you have to be willing to earn it." ”

Li Chengyi asked casually, but listening to his wife's tone, he seemed to have an idea to make money.

His eyes lit up, he leaned over to her side, and asked with a smile, "What ideas does Madame have, might as well say it and help you with your husband's reference?" ”

The fourth lady didn't seem to believe him, and her tone was suspicious: "Even if I have a thousand ideas in my head, can you endure hardship?" ”

Li Chengyi listened, a little hesitant, but thinking of the current situation, there was a trace of expectation on his face, "Madame, don't care if you have to endure hardships for your husband, you can talk about it first, now you know our situation, this person, if he is forced to be in a hurry, he may have unlimited potential!" ”

When the fourth lady saw Li Chengyi's expression, she couldn't help but believe him a little.

But it doesn't hurt to talk about it.

"Every place has a way to make money, just see if you can find out. I don't know anything else about Lingnan, but there are ways to make money in our house, and if you are determined to work hard, you can try. ”

Li Chengyi was whetted by her words, and urged: "What is the way in the house?" Don't sell it, say it quickly! ”

The fourth lady smiled and looked at his anxious appearance, "Snow salt! ”

"Snowflake salt?" Li Chengyi raised his eyebrows and stared at the fourth lady for a moment, waiting for her next words.

"The Snow Salt Mother stipulates that it is sold in Lingnan for ten wen a catty, but there is no regulation in other state capitals, and now taking advantage of the limited number of foreign merchants to know, we can organize a caravan to sell Snow Salt to other state capitals, thinking that it is a way to make money."

Li Chengyi stared straight at the fourth lady, shocked in his heart, "Why didn't I think of this?" ”

The fourth lady shook him expectantly, "What do you think of my idea?" Feasible? ”

Li Chengyi settled down, held the fourth lady's cheek and kissed him on the red lips, "Haha, it's feasible, it's so feasible!" Tomorrow, Uncle Ben will go to the princess's salt shop to order snowflake salt, and the caravan will be escorted with the recruits recruited some time ago. ”

As he spoke, he thought for a moment and added, "Madame went and sent a few stewards out, and after ordering salt for her husband, she divided the two thousand soldiers into four teams, a team of five hundred people, and sold them to four cities. In this way, there is no need to worry about not making money. ”

There is no wife who doesn't want her husband to be motivated, and the fourth lady was happy when she saw Li Chengyi's energy to make money, and nodded without hesitation.

Xia Ji salt shop.

Li Chengyi got out of the stuffy carriage, sweating profusely, and when he saw the curtain hanging at the door of the salt shop, he knew that the temperature inside must be cool.

When I opened the curtain and walked in, it was exactly what happened.

Shopkeeper Ding followed the team of King Qian's Mansion all the way to Lingnan, and naturally met Li Chengyi.

"Ouch, what kind of wind blew the fourth master here?"

Li Chengyi felt the coolness in the store and teased: "Okay, you are a shopkeeper, you will enjoy it better than Uncle Ben, I don't dare to use ice so extravagantly." ”

Shopkeeper Ding smiled and clenched his fists: "It's all thanks to the princess's blessing, otherwise how can there be a small life of enjoyment." ”

Li Chengyi circled around the ice basin a few times, forcibly looking away from the ice.

He walked to the counter, pointed to the snowflake salt in the bucket and said, "I want to lead the team to Jingzhou, do you have this kind of snowflake salt in stock?" ”

"How much does the fourth master want?"

"How many do you have in your warehouse?"

Shopkeeper Ding smiled with a little smugness, "Don't hide it from the fourth master, now our snowflake salt will be supplied to the entire Lingnan, and the rest will be sold to foreign merchants. ”

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