That's it.

If we can't let the people live a better life than we have now, then we can have the ability to keep the good life we have now.

The current days are a peaceful and prosperous era that is rare for ordinary people in hundreds of years, and he is also happy that the heirs he picked out can keep this prosperous era.

So Li Aiqing can make a move if she wants to.

The more Li Aiqing appreciated the holy decree, the more the Danshu iron coupons.

Moreover, I hope that Li Aiqing can use this matter to have a good relationship with every prince, and he must keep a talent like Li Aiqing.

Sheng Hong and several princes were willing to let Li Qiao interfere in the second question, Li Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately put forward the first suggestion.

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

It just so happens that there is plaster, and it is cheap and easy to use to build roads, so the first thing that several princes have to do is to build roads.

Moreover, by virtue of Sheng Hong's promise to the Seventh Prince to dig the river, he gave a second suggestion.

If you want to make the people prosperous, you can find a way to increase the yield of local grain per mu before there is no better way.

And the harvest of grain in the field was abundant, and the people were given more silver.

Even if it can't be exchanged for silver, just like the sweet potatoes and corn in Hexi Mansion in the past, but there is plenty of food at home, which is also an excellent thing for the people.

If you want to have more grain in the field, you need to have good seeds, enough fertilizer, and enough irrigation.

Improved seeds and fertilizers have been like this for thousands of years, and they cannot be improved for a while.

But with enough irrigation, this can be done if the princes work hard.

The two suggestions put forward by Li Qiao were approved by several princes.

That's right, if there is really no practical way, then this can only be used to increase the income of the people.

Then dig wells, dig rivers and ditches first.

There is also the keel waterwheel, since it is used a lot in Pingcheng, then they also arrange for the location of their dock.

Chapter 200: Establishing a Free School Only Recruits Children from Poor Families

When it comes to ways to increase the yield of crops per acre, Li Qiao really has no other means than to ensure adequate irrigation.

Breeding, he doesn't know anything about this, he doesn't even have common sense.

As far as he knows, in the seventies of the last life, the state built more than a dozen fertilizer factories, which solved the problem of insufficient chemical fertilizer and increased grain production.

The chemical fertilizer is chemical, it is industrialized, and he has low ability, so he can't do it.

In fact, there are already a lot of fertilizers in this time and space, such as manure, green manure, plant ash fertilizer, etc., which are all commonly used by farmers.

Moreover, the farmers have long mastered the technology of manure, mixing human and animal manure with weeds, straw and other things to seal and ferment, this method is recorded in detail in the "Book of Victory" and "Qi Min Yaoshu" and other agricultural books.

Therefore, in the area of fertilizer, Li Qiao really does not have a particularly good method, and the methods he can think of are all habitual methods.

If you're near water, you need fertilizer from the water, and the mud at the bottom of the river, the mud in the pond, that's all fertilizer.

Where there is a mine, then use mineral fertilizer.

If there is no proven innovation in fertilizer, it will only be necessary to work on irrigation.

Ensure irrigation, and the yield per mu of crops will naturally increase.

In short, the most feasible means of making the people rich is to increase the yield of the peasants' crops before a suitable way to make the people rich is found in the place where the wharf is located.

Moreover, the next natural disasters continue and the climate is abnormal, in fact, making money and boosting the economy is not the most important thing, there is enough food to ensure that the people can eat even if they are affected by disasters, which is the most important thing for Dasheng to do.

As long as there is food in hand, the people will not panic.

If the people don't panic, Dasheng's country will be very stable.

Therefore, in the next few years, Li Qiao has set himself the focus of his work to increase the income of grain in Dasheng.

Not only grain, but also cotton.

The weather is bitterly cold, and the people can't live without cotton.

But because of the climate, basically only the farmers in the north grow cotton, and if the Yangtze River freezes in a few years, the people in the south will definitely need cotton.

Therefore, starting next year, the north will have to plant a large area of cotton.

Cotton is easy to store, and after picking it, the seeds are removed, and it is no problem to leave it for ten years.

In addition to increasing grain production, Li Qiao is also ready to do one thing:

Earn rich people's money.

He now donates 500 taels of silver and 500 catties of grain to Shantang every month, this is just the beginning, and when any drought and locust plague come together in the future, the crops will not be harvested, then the silver he donated will definitely increase greatly.

This is just the good hall in Shengjing, Shengjing has a good hall as the capital, and the people in other places need it even more.

At the very least, he had to open a charity hall in Yuanhe Province - Hexi Mansion was very rich and could not be used, so this second charity hall was either in Weiqing County or in the capital of Yuanhe Province.

The expenses of the two good halls will definitely not be small, and he can withstand it with his current financial resources, but the silver, naturally, the more the better, and who knows how much it will cost in the next ten years.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, it soon reached the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Even if he is already a member of the third grade, the custom of making dumplings in the Li buckwheat family is still there.

In the afternoon, in addition to the few who need to take care of the shop, the rest of the family, even the two little cubs, have started, and the family is happy to make dumplings.

Today, the Li family's dumpling fillings are rich, there are more than 20 kinds of them, flying in the sky, swimming in the water, and running on the ground, all of which have been caught and become dumpling fillings.

And the dumpling skin is no longer monotonous white, Li Qiao made people add vegetable juice to it, which is colorful and bright.

Li Xiaorui and Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan are three little guys holding the colored dough and standing next to the board and kneading it, making dumplings is boring, it just so happened that yesterday they went to their own maltose shop to play with a few small animals made of maltose, so they wanted to knead the colored dough into small animals.

Pinching and pinching, their clothes and faces were stained with flour, the three little guys, look at me, I look at you, they all thought each other's appearance was interesting, so they began to grab the flour and rub it on each other's bodies.

Li Liang was immediately distressed, this is a bit of a waste.

"I think that when Xiao Shu was Xiao Rui's age, he could cook any home-cooked meal, paste cakes, wrap buns, and steam nests, and was proficient in everything."

But looking at Li Xiaorui, he is about to be six years old, and he can't even wrap a dumpling well, so he picks up the dough and just cares about playing.

Li Xiaorui, who was named, raised his little head a little dazed and looked at his grandfather: "Huh? ”

Wang Guihua looked at his ignorant and cute little expression, and immediately glanced at Li Liang: "Can this be the same?" Xiao Shu's main business at that time was to shave food from the fields, and every day was to eat and drink. ”

"Xiao Rui doesn't have to dig in the fields, Xiao Rui will do reading and doing business in the future. Now Xiao Rui has memorized the "Analects" at a young age, and he is also very good at his main business. ”

However, she also felt sorry for the flour, so she smiled at Li Xiaorui again: "Xiaorui, why don't you and your two little uncles start making dumplings?" How about you eat your own dumplings tonight? ”

Li Xiaorui blinked his eyes when he heard this: "Okay! ”

So his grandfather was criticizing him just now?

"Xiao Rui, what your grandfather means is that you shouldn't lead the two little uncles to waste flour, this flour is not easy to come by."

Zheng Qianqian looked at the doubts on his eldest son's face, and couldn't help but say something to solve his doubts.

Actually, with the current family background, there is no need to care about this bit of flour.

But waste is not good.

Education should be education.

Li Xiaorui understood now, he looked down at the flour on his body and the two little uncles, on his face, and on his head, and immediately admitted his mistake.

"Daddy, grandpa, grandma, I won't waste flour in the future."

"Xiao Rui is so good."

Wang Guihua immediately smiled and praised.

Li Liang also smiled: "If you waste something else, I may not feel distressed, but waste flour, this grandfather really can't control his mouth, he really wants to say a few words." ”

Having planted crops for half his life, he knows all too well how hard the process from wheat seedlings to flour grinding.

"Come on, no matter what you waste, you can't control your mouth and have to say a few words." Wang Guihua said.

"Then I'm right."

Li Liang said and pointed at Li Qiao: "Xiao Qiao, did you say?" ”

Li Qiao, who was silently making dumplings, nodded seriously: "It's true that it's not good to waste anything." ”

With Li Qiao's support, Li Liang immediately straightened his waist, but in the next second, Li Qiao said again: "Sister-in-law also loves Xiao Rui, the child is small, teach slowly, don't worry." ”

When Wang Guihua heard this, she immediately glared at Li Liang: "If you want to reason with Xiao Rui, you can reason well, Xiao Rui is so well-behaved, it's not that he doesn't understand, why do you have to pull Xiao Shu out?" ”

Her eldest grandson is actually amazing!

Li Liang: "...... I just thought of Xiao Shu's situation when she was a child, how could I have thought of today's good days back then. ”

"Little buckwheat, did you say?"

Li Qiao, who was pulled out again, said with a smile: "A good life is indeed not easy to come by, so let's take them to Zhuangzi or Shantang more in the future, they are young, teach slowly." ”

"Going to the Shrine?"

Tao Zhu on the side was a little surprised when he heard this.

"Let them see what children of their age but poor families do every day."

Li Qiao said.

"Hmm...... Good. ”

Tao Zhu thought about it and should go down.

Li Liang: "......"

Wang Guihua: "......"

Zheng Qianqian: "......"

Row horn.

In terms of educating children, Li Qiao is definitely better than them, so they won't say anything.

As for Li Xiaorui, when he heard that he was going to Shantang, he was very happy, and the two little cubs were also happy, Tao Zhu stayed in Shantang all day before, and they wanted to go but Tao Zhu didn't let him.