On the side of Pingcheng, ninety percent of the people are farmers.

Where can farmers get rich if they rely on the sky for food?

In short, this is an ordinary and featureless small county town that he can't even find local products.

Really, there are no specialties here in Heijo.

Anything that is available here, the next county has it.

Therefore, the New Year's gifts he gave to his relatives and friends during the first two years were all purchased from Fucheng.

The local ones in Heicheng really can't do it.

When the magistrate of a county like Pingcheng wants to make a political achievement that makes the saint's eyes shine, it is really more difficult than ascending to the sky.

In the past three years, he has wanted to go bald, but he has not come up with any good methods.

If you don't have outstanding political performance, you can't be promoted.

He himself has no background, he was born in a poor family, and his family was also wide in the previous dynasty, and it was a small family, but after the war, and when the Sheng Dynasty was established, his family completely declined.

has no political achievements and no connections, in order to avoid stepping out of the sight of the saint, he originally thought that this year, he would be ruthless and use his ancestral property to have a relationship with the officials of the ministry, so that he could choose a county that would allow him to show his strength next year.

But now.

Pingcheng, which is not ordinary and ordinary, finally has a souvenir that can be used!

With a single vermicelli, the people of Heijo can be twice as rich or even more than before.

This is his political achievement!

After two years in the Hanlin Academy, he can probably figure out the mind of the saint: the people are rich and the country is safe.

Whether the people are rich or not is an invisible criterion for evaluating officials.

Therefore, he still has to use his ancestral property.

Because according to Dasheng's regulations, the magistrate is transferred every three years, and if he wants to continue to stay in Pingcheng, he must be trusted.

As long as he can stay, what is it to spend some ancestral property, relying on the vermicelli, he can make the saint's eyes shine.

We must support the great cause of vermicelli in Sanliu Village!

Jiang Zhi County gave an order, and soon the village chiefs of hundreds of villages in the county came to the county office.

Of course, the villages that are far away, even if they have to walk for a day and a night in an ox cart, come more slowly.

But it doesn't matter.

This did not affect Jiangzhi County's announcement to the village chief who came early that Sanliu Village would purchase starch.

Twice a year, the officials personally go to each village to collect taxes, so the village chiefs of these villages have a close relationship with Jiangzhi County.

Now that Jiangzhi County has announced the matter of vermicelli, these village chiefs are surprised after the accident.

Vermicelli has been popular in the county for more than a month, and many village chiefs know vermicelli, and now Sanliu Village wants to buy starch, which is a good thing.

The sweet potatoes in their village can also be turned into silver!

There were even individual village chiefs who pulled Zhuang Fengshou's sleeves and asked Zhuang Fengshou with a distressed face why he didn't make this decision earlier.

Because it is now the lunar month, and it is not a few days before the Chinese New Year, every household has consumed a lot of sweet potatoes.

What a shame.

But no one really complains about the harvest, which is a mutually beneficial thing.

Although the families who grow sweet potatoes have already consumed a lot of sweet potatoes, these people still have some sweet potatoes left in their homes. Because according to the custom of Heijo, sweet potato balls will be fried during the New Year.

Sweet potatoes are needed for the Chinese New Year, so every household naturally has sweet potatoes at this time.

Zhuang Fengshou taught the village chiefs how to make sweet potato starch, and the village chiefs went back to their respective villages to teach the villagers how to make starch.

Of course, Zhuang Fengshou also deliberately emphasized that the starch must be clean, and all impurities will not be harvested in Sanliu Village.

When the time comes, don't blame him.

Jiang Zhixian also agreed to this condition, the vermicelli is to become a specialty of Pingcheng, which represents Pingcheng's face and his face.

He didn't want to lose face.

Jiang Zhixian spoke, and the village chiefs did not dare not pay attention to it.

Upon returning to the village, the villagers were taught how to make starch, with a strong emphasis on hygiene.

This is what the county magistrate said!

The county magistrate's deterrent power to ordinary villagers is like God, after all, the farthest place that most villagers go to in their lives is the county seat, and in this area of their activities, Jiangzhi County holds their power of life and death such as taxation and servitude.

This is indeed their day.

Now that the heavens have spoken, they dare not listen.

As a result, all the farmers who planted sweet potatoes in Pingcheng suddenly became extremely busy in this wax moon, which should have been a winter idle period.

Six catties of sweet potatoes produce one catty of starch, and Sanliu Village collects starch at a price of fifteen wen a catty, and if it can make one hundred catties of starch, it can be sold for 1,500 wen.

If you make 200 catties of starch, you can sell it for 3,000 wen.

That's a lot of money, enough for them to live a prosperous year.

So, you have to throw off your arms and work hard!

When others were busy making starch and making vermicelli, the life of Li Qiao's family was as usual.

After Zhuang Wen returned to the village, he would come to Li Qiao's house every other day to discuss his knowledge.

He memorized the Four Books, Five Classics, Three History, and Three Legends very well, so he often acted as a master and randomly checked Li Qiao's most basic recitation.

I will also take a test of Moyi.

Although Li Qiao bought the commentary book of the Four Books and the Five Classics, the commentary is a person's understanding, so there are different versions of the commentary.

What's more, there are also special commentaries for commentaries.

It's like a matryoshka.

Therefore, it does not mean that it is enough to take the annotation book and memorize it by rote against the Four Books and the Five Classics, but you also have to consult with the master and classmates to see which version of the commentary is used in the mainstream today.

Zhuang Wen has studied hard for 30 years, and in this area, he can naturally temporarily act as Li Qiao's master, teaching and solving doubts for Li Qiao.

But Zhuang Wen is also not good at it.

As an authentic ancient, the farthest place he went to was Fucheng, and he only had a general understanding of natural disasters such as typhoons, tornadoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes.

When I asked the master and classmates of the private school, the master and his classmates were just like him, and their scalps were tingling in the face of this strange topic.

Li Qiao understands this.

But Li Qiao can only pretend not to understand now.

He used to make dim sum from miscellaneous books, but with so many natural disasters, he definitely can't be fooled with miscellaneous books.

Therefore, he can only exert his superb acting skills, make a look of hard thinking and sorrow, and frown together with Zhuang Wen.

On this day, the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, go and cut the meat.

When Zhuang Wen came in the afternoon, Li Qiao was staying in the kitchen to stew meat.

He has lived two lifetimes, and this is the first time he has spent the New Year with his family, so he has had much less time to read every day since he started the sacrificial stove.

Books can be read again after a year.

But the lively preparations a few years ago, he had to do it with Tao Zhu.

Li buckwheat stew added a lot of ingredients, Zhuang Wen smelled the rich fragrance as soon as he entered the courtyard gate, he couldn't help but take two deep breaths, the fragrance died!

He must have eaten the stew today before going home.

Li Qiao saw Zhuang Wen coming through the kitchen window, so he put down the chopsticks in his hand.

cough, he was holding a fritter just now, and he had to eat it with Tao Zhu.

Of course, eating together refers to him and Tao Zhu each biting one end of the fritters.

Tao Zhu's cheeks were dyed with a faint red, and when he turned his eyes, he also saw Zhuang Wen, so he pushed him out: "Brother Wen is here, don't make trouble." ”

"Okay, let's go to the shower room that night." Li Qiao nodded with a smile.

When Tao Zhu heard this, the flush on his cheeks became heavier, but seeing that Zhuang Wen was about to enter the kitchen, he didn't answer Li Qiao's words, but turned around and took two plates, respectively containing the glutinous rice lotus root and fried lotus root that had just been made today.

"Brother Wen, someone sent a cart of lotus root today, and Li Qiao made these two dishes according to the method written in the book, you can taste it."

Tao Zhu handed the plate to Li Qiao and asked Li Qiao to take Zhuang Wen to the backyard study.

Li Qiao responded, and before leaving, he also said the word shower room with his mouth.

Tao Zhu understood his mouth shape, and directly closed the kitchen door with a "snap", in broad daylight, ashamed or not.

But after closing the door, thinking of the wonder of the shower, the heat on his face couldn't go down.

The best design of this new house is the shower room, and I will never forget it once I have experienced it.

"You have a good little day, someone sends food, and you can make something delicious."

Zhuang Wen didn't see Li Qiao and Tao Zhu's eyebrows, he looked at the tempting food on the plate just by looking at the appearance, and couldn't help but smile and speak.

"This is sent by Niujiazhuang on the other side of the town, Niujiazhuang planted a lot of sweet potatoes this year, sold them for money, and today sent someone to come with Uncle Zheng to deliver lotus roots. Later, when you go back, bring back a few catties, my family can't finish eating. ”

Li Qian explained.

"Okay." Zhuang Wen was not polite to Li Qiao.

Now there are too many people who send New Year's goods to Li Qiao, in addition to those from other villages, as well as those from this village.

The people of Sanliu Village relied on the sweet potato workshop to earn a lot of money in this winter, since the sweet potato workshop did not make starch but concentrated on making vermicelli, a day can make up to 1,500 catties of vermicelli.

With so many vermicelli, you don't have to worry about sales at all.

In addition to the people in Heijo who want to buy, the vendors also want to buy.

In this case, the villagers wanted to thank Li Qiao.

Although Li Qiao made it clear that he would not accept the things of the villagers, the previous non-collection and the current non-collection are not the same thing, because now it is the New Year.

Celebrate the New Year.