Li Shu's busy feet didn't touch the ground, but soon someone recommended himself to the door:

The plum bottle is coming.

After Li Bei finished shopping in Shengjing, he had nothing to do at home, so he wanted to come to the shop to help.

Her son Zhuang Fang is now just a little talented, but relying on Zhuang Wen, Li Qiao, Meng Yue, and Xu Ying, it is not difficult to stay in Beijing.

But the housing price in Shengjing is really expensive, Meng Yue, as a seven-rank official, can't afford to buy a house, and Zhuang Fang wants to buy a house when he is a little show, so it is even more impossible.

She had to come out and work and save some more money.

Li Bottle is willing to go to the shop to help, Tao Zhu is naturally very happy, with Li Bottle's help, there are more kinds of fried goods sold every day.

For a time, the fried chicken shop became the most popular shop in Shengjing.

Even Sheng Hong heard about it, and specially sent someone to buy one, and when he came back to taste it, it was really crispy and not greasy.

So, the next day, when Li Qiao was sitting behind the screen to make a review, he asked Li Qiao curiously: "Li Aiqing, how did you make the chicken in your new shop roll in the oil pot without being greasy?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Qiao hurriedly put down the brush in his hand, walked out from behind the screen, and replied respectfully: "If you go back to the saint, it should be the layer of fried powder wrapped outside." This fried flour is specially made by Wechen, which is made from a mixture of flour, starch and yeast. ”

"In addition, there is also a kind of fried flour, which Wechen named breadcrumbs, which is to slice bread, dry it, and grind it into flour."

"Relying on these two kinds of flour, the chicken in Weichen's shop will be crispy and not greasy."

"Oh...... And so it was. ”

Sheng Hong was stunned, and then laughed: "Li Aiqing, your talent in eating is really amazing. Before you came along, I never imagined that a snack would bring so much profit. ”

When Li Qiao heard this, she smiled slightly: "The people take food as the sky, the poor people want to eat enough, and the rich people want to eat well, after all, they are all eating this piece." ”

"We are prosperous, the people are rich and the country is strong, as long as the food tastes good enough, then we don't have to worry about earning silver."

"You're right."

Sheng Hong nodded.

But no, who would have thought that his father, the dignified founding emperor, would love desserts.

His father and emperor are like this, not to mention ordinary people.

The branch of the Royal Dim Sum Shop in Gangnam has opened.

Jiangnan is rich, and the number of rich people is not lost to Shengjing, no matter which branch it is, business is as hot as Shengjing.

Today, there are eight Royal Dim Sum Shops, and the revenue of these eight stores last month reached 800,000 yuan.

800,000!

Or a month!

At the end of the year, that is 10 million taels, which is one-third of the annual revenue of the national treasury.

Who would have thought that a small snack would be so profitable?

Who would have thought!

This greatly eased his financial pressure.

For example, now, the plaster has passed the test of time, exposure to the sun, and rain, but he is not in a hurry to realize it.

Although many people in the city wanted to buy the plaster, he did not plan to sell it at the moment.

He wanted to build the official road and the canal first.

If the plaster is used on the Grand Canal, the quality of the Grand Canal will definitely be improved by several percent.

Yes, he praised Li Qiao a few more words, and then talked about his plan.

"As for this canal, it has been repaired to Jibei Province, and in my opinion, the embankment must be plastered with a layer of plaster, so that it will be firm."

"There was no plaster before, but now if you have to apply an extra layer of plaster, it will cost you more silver. The treasury is empty, and this excess of money must be borne by those who robbed the docks. ”

"Well, then, all those who have docks will come to the palace to-morrow, and I will sell the plaster to these people, and if they give this silver, the □□ of the plaster needed for the canal will also be borne by the treasury. And they took the plaster recipe, and they could use the plaster in their own homes, no matter how much mortar they used to build the house, how many roads they paved, I didn't care, they tossed it. ”

"But it must not be sold for a profit."

"What do you think?"

Li Qiao was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then nodded: "If you add an extra layer of plaster, then the embankment will definitely be stronger, Weichen has no opinion." ”

"Then it's decided."

Sheng Hong smiled with satisfaction.

He didn't ask for much, but each family paid 50,000 taels of silver, and then he could take away the plaster.

50,000 taels of silver to buy one and toss it once and for all, this price is really cost-effective.

Whoever wins the bidding, who is not rich?

Who doesn't have a Zhuangzi garden?

This kind of big project will definitely use plaster in the future, and he only bids 50,000 taels now, which is too generous.

Sheng Hong felt generous, but Li Qiao felt that Sheng Hong had a way to accumulate money, so he sold it for 50,000 taels in this way?

So how much cement do these people have to make to earn the 50,000 taels back......

Fortunately, he is the "inventor" of cement, and he does not need to pay the 50,000 taels of silver.

The other families understood that Sheng Hong was giving them a notice, not discussing with them, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they all happily paid 50,000 taels of silver.

Relying on cement, Sheng Hong easily credited nearly one million taels of silver to the treasury, which was easier to earn than raiding the house.

He still has to make a big move, and this time he opened his mouth.

Sheng Hong has never made money so quickly and easily, he was in a good mood, waved his hand, and rewarded Li Qiao with a Zhuangzi.

This Zhuangzi is quite large, with a full hundred acres, but it is a little far away from Shengjing, seventy miles north of the capital, but it is a first-class field.

This Zhuangzi originally belonged to the Peng family, and after the Peng family was finished, it was returned to the state treasury, and now sweet potatoes and corn are planted on it.

The autumn harvest is coming soon, and this 100 acres of sweet potatoes and corn will naturally belong to Li buckwheat.

Suddenly got a hundred acres of land, Li Qiao was very calm, as a big landlord with 10,000 acres of land, this 100 acres of land could no longer make waves in his heart.

But when he got home, he talked about it with his family at the dinner table, and Li Liang, Wang Guihua, Li Shu, Zheng Tuhu and others were all very happy.

Shengjing's 100 acres of first-class fields, this is all silver with white flowers!

"Xiao Qiao, you and Brother Zhu are really difficult, this Shengjing's family business is no less than that of Pingcheng."

Li Liang deeply felt the difficulty of Li Qian Taozhu and the two of them, and the family's land property was added from time to time, but the husband and wife didn't have time to take a look at it on the spot!

It's miserable.

He said to Li Qiao: "Don't worry, tomorrow your sister-in-law and I will go to this village to see sweet potatoes and corn." ”

"Don't worry, wait for me to rest, let's go together." It is seventy miles away from Shengjing, which is quite far. ”

Li Qiao did not agree with his proposal.

"What is seventy miles? It's a big deal to stay there for two days, and the people in your house will follow, can I and your sister-in-law still lose it? ”

Li Liang is very persistent.

A hundred acres of sweet potatoes and corn, that's a mountain of grain.

He couldn't wait.

Moreover, Sheng Jing didn't make noodles here, he wanted to open a noodles workshop.

Of course, he won't affect the noodle business in Pingcheng, he is going to keep it for his family to eat, and supply hot pot shops by the way.

Now there is no vermicelli in the hot pot shop, and if you add a dish of vermicelli, the business will definitely be better.

"Yes, tomorrow my eldest brother and I will go to see how the sweet potato and corn harvests are." Wang Guihua also said.

The Zheng butcher on the side also helped, and if he didn't take a look at it honestly, he would definitely not be able to sleep that night.

“…… Okay, I'll send a few more people to follow. ”

Li Qiao can only say this.

However, he was really not at ease when he let Li Liang and Wang Guihua spend the night outside.

But according to the nature of these two men, when the day of the farm is busy, they must stay in the field and supervise it, so that the tenants will not quietly drop the grain.

Since the distance cannot be shortened, the only way to do it is to build roads.

The next day, when Sheng Hong was done, he told Sheng Hong his plan: "Wechen wants to build a path leading to his grange to facilitate his travels. ”

"You pay for it yourself?" Sheng Hong asked.

"Yes. The purpose of building these small roads is to facilitate the travel of Weichen's family, so it is naturally Weichen who pays for the silver. ”

"Okay, let's cultivate, you can cultivate as you like."

Sheng Hong agreed very happily.

This road is not only walked by Li Aiqing's family, anyone can walk this road.

What a good courtier, for the sake of his own family, if Dasheng's courtiers are so generous, then he, the emperor, will be much more relaxed.

So Li Qiao prepared to build the road.

Tao Zhu also sent people to the homes of those low-level people who were in urgent need of work, and asked them if they would like to do the job of building roads.

Because there are many roads to be built, there are also many people needed, but no matter which one it is, as long as Tao Zhu sends someone to ask, these people are willing.

Eighty salaries a day, no matter what you eat, this kind of good job is not common, and Lord Li is really generous!

The people responded positively, and Tao Zhu quickly recruited enough manpower, so these roads were repaired, and every road leading to his Zhuangzi was paved with cement.

It took a month to get all these roads repaired.

It's clean and flat, and so far, the time it takes to get to your own Zhuangzi has been cut in half, and the comfort on the road has been greatly improved.

Tao Zhu was finally able to take the three little ones to his own fields.

Although they have grown vegetables and raised livestock in their yards, the three little ones will not be separated from the grains, but the vegetables are not as good as the crops after all.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu hope that the three little guys will have more contact with the fields and the people at the bottom, no matter whether the three little guys will be officials or businessmen in the future, they will have a lot of life accumulation, and they must know the suffering of the world.

At this time, it is already late autumn, and the weather is cold.