His words fell, and before Tao Zhu could respond, Li Liang's loud voice came from outside: "Little buckwheat, little buckwheat-"

“…… Big brother and sister-in-law can't wait for a moment. ”

Li Qiao was helpless.

Today, Jiang Mao came to the door, Li Liang and Wang Guihua saw him, and they had dinner together at noon, and Jiang Mao went to the study with him after lunch, and Li Liang and Wang Guihua were busy with other things.

Now that he knew that Jiang Mao was gone, Li Liang couldn't wait to find it.

But his big brother is going to be disappointed.

Sure enough, after listening to his words, Li Liang stomped his feet pitifully, what a baby, but why is his mind so complicated!

Isn't it over to honestly take the imperial examination, and some of them are not, but they have aroused the disgust of him and Xiao Qiao.

Alas!

Li Liang left sullenly, and Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went back to the room to continue to spread the kang.

Although it is sunny today, the temperature is still a little low, this is the third month of the lunar calendar, and the cotton jacket and quilt are still indispensable for the kang to warm the house.

The weather was unusual.

After laying out the kang, Tao Zhu pulled Li Qiao to sit at his desk and talked about business.

Li Qiao wants to open a snack shop, he has already selected the store, and he has also recruited a guy, and he has almost finalized which snacks to sell.

Now it's just for Li Qiao to take a look, if Li Qiao has no opinion, then he will let the guy do it.

The two of them crowded into a chair as usual, Li Qiao wrapped one hand around Tao Zhu's waist, took the paper handed to him by Tao Zhu with the other, and read it slowly.

"Hmm...... Chestnut kernels, assorted crisps, amber walnut kernels, nut lotus root powder, spicy/spiced tofu, pork jerky, red dates and walnuts, corn crisps, spicy gluten, spicy strips, millet pot paste, tiger skin phoenix feet, spicy kelp shreds, honey-roasted chicken thighs. ”

"Yes, it's all common and delicious food."

Li Qiao said, and kissed Tao Zhu's cheek with a smile: "Brother Zhu, let's do this." ”

"Okay." Tao Zhu took the paper in Li Qiao's hand, and his slender fingers dotted on the word spicy strip: "This will definitely be very hot." ”

This is a new food that Li Qiao came up with, the ingredients are very simple, especially easy to make, but the taste is surprisingly good.

The people in the house tasted it, and only a few people who couldn't eat spicy said they couldn't accept it, and the rest of the people praised and praised.

This spicy strip comes in two flavors, one is spicy and the other is sweet and spicy.

He prefers sweet and spicy, but the spicy taste is also good.

Li Qiao nodded with a smile: "I also think it will sell well." ”

Spicy strips, we all know that they are junk food, but there are many people who love to eat them.

Spicy strips and dried tofu are the most affordable snacks in his snack shop, not only for the rich, but also for ordinary people.

If the rich don't like it, that's okay.

Ordinary people should like it.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu thought well, in the first three months of the lunar calendar, the Li family snack shop opened, and on the first day of opening, the business was full.

Tao Zhu hired a hundred men, and the goods prepared two days in advance were all sold out within one day.

Especially the spicy noodles, when their husband advertised the new store in other shops in the Li family, they made it clear that the spicy noodles were cheap and could be tasted.

Therefore, on the opening day of the new store, not only the regulars from the Li family's shop who are well-off went, but also some ordinary people.

After ordinary people tried and ate spicy strips, they liked it very much, buying two taels for less, buying one catty for more, just buying half a catty or one catty, and buying a thousand catties of spicy strips in less than two hours.

As for other snacks, such as lotus root flour, although expensive, they sell quite quickly.

Lotus root flour is pure lotus root powder, more than ten catties of lotus root can make a catty of lotus root powder, plus nuts are added to it, so a catty of lotus root flour costs ten taels of silver.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu felt that the price was very conscientious.

Lotus root is not easy to come by, you need to send someone to dig in the pond, and here in Shengjing, the best season to dig lotus root is in winter, it is spring at this time, and there is not much left of lotus root.

After digging out the lotus root, you have to work hard to make the lotus root powder, and it takes so much time in the middle, which is all cost.

The cost is so expensive, so the price can't be lower.

Moreover, lotus root flour is meant to compete for the rich people's silver, if the price is too low, then why bother to toss Li Qiao?

Besides, even the Emperor Taishang praised the lotus root powder as good.

So on the whole, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu feel that this pricing is very appropriate.

Rich people with silver in their pockets also feel that this price is not expensive, some people can't accept lotus root powder, but there are also people who love lotus root powder very much, and this part of the people who love lotus root powder is willing to pay for it, so the first day of 100 catties of lotus root powder was easily sold out.

The Li family's snack shop became famous on the first day.

These snacks are not only delicious, but also novel, and it is difficult not to think about them.

Not only ordinary people urged the shopkeeper to stock up quickly, but also the dignitaries and wealthy people urged the shopkeeper to stock up quickly.

The six princes, who were originally dissatisfied with Li Qiao, also closed their mouths when they saw the popularity of the snack shop.

Li Qiao pondered for so long with the information of Xiaozhou Mansion and Shangshu County, but only came up with a way to grow chestnuts and lotus root powder, and the six princes were actually very dissatisfied.

He had high expectations for Li Qiao, because Li Qiao took the initiative to get involved in the second question.

Li Qiao took the initiative, even if Li Qiao said humble words in his mouth, he must have already had patches of bamboo in his heart.

But who knows that Li Qiao didn't.

Li Qiao only took out two things to eat.

If it's the kind of food that can make everyone in the province rich, then he naturally has no opinion.

But what Li Qiao took out was chestnuts and lotus root powder.

It's not comparable to vermicelli!

He was so disappointed.

But now lotus root flour is selling very fast, and chestnut kernels are also selling very fast, which shows that there are some tricks in planting chestnuts and lotus roots.

Although these two methods have little effect, they are better than nothing.

And the fourth prince, the eldest prince, and the second prince saw that Li Qiao had come up with a practical method for the seventh prince and the sixth prince, and they all approached Li Qiao and asked Li Qiao to give them ideas.

Li Qiao can't favor one over the other.

The wharves of the eldest prince and the fourth prince are all in Jibei Province, and Li Qiao gave his idea: breeding.

It's okay to raise pigs, chickens and ducks, but don't raise too much in every household, so as not to get sick.

He took all the livestock raised by the people of these two lands.

Jibei Province is close to Shengjing, convenient transportation, and it does not cost too much to transport the livestock raised by the people to Shengjing.

When the Grand Canal opens in the future, the cost will be lower.

The Li family's snack shop needs to use livestock to make meat, and the popularity of the Li family's snack shop is enough to consume the livestock raised by the people in these two places.

As for the dock of the second prince, Li Qiao had more clues at this time.

Chapter 207 The Second Prince's Wharf Peng County Li Qiao is going to open a shop

The wharf of the second prince is located at the junction of Hu'an Province and Jiangshu Province, called Peng County, which is a small county town on the plains.

This small county town has four distinct seasons, abundant rainfall, no mountains, water, and a lot of arable land, and the people make a living from farming.

As for crops, rice is the main crop, and it can be harvested once or twice a year.

In addition, there is water to fish, so the life of the people here is not bad.

What's more, it has been three years since the Grand Canal was built, and the section of the canal where Peng County is located belongs to an ancient canal that existed in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Ministry of Engineering only needs to send someone to dredge this ancient canal, and then divert water from it, and then this section of the canal can be put into use, and the amount of work is much smaller than that of other river sections.

It is estimated that this year, this section of the canal where Xia Peng County is located will be opened, and this section of the canal will connect several provinces in Jiangshu Province, and after the opening of the canal, people from other provinces will pass through Peng County regardless of whether they are playing or transporting goods.

Therefore, Li Qiao really has a lot of ideas.

Previously, he had focused most of his attention on Shengjing, and Sheng Hong's arable land was also in Jibei Province, and he wanted to ensure that the situation in Shengjing was stable.

He neglected the South.

This is not what it should be.

If there is a real shortage of food in the north, then you can pin your hopes in the south.

Even in the south, the temperature is much lower, so at least the grain can be ripened every year.

Peng County is not only suitable for growing rice, but also suitable for growing taro yams, which can be used as vegetables, grains, and snacks.

In the future, when the temperature in the south drops, the people in the south will definitely need cotton, and he also wants the local people to grow cotton.

However, he had already posted a notice in his shop that he wanted to buy cotton, which would be a bit strange if he asked farmers to grow cotton in Peng County.

At least, at this point, it seems, cotton is not needed in the South.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Qiao's suggestion to the second prince was to let the farmers in Peng County plant more yams and taro.

He asked for all the seeds.

Yam can be used to make snack yam tablets, and it tastes pretty good.

Taro can be used to make taro paste, there is no purple potato here, but you can use sweet potatoes instead, and the taro paste made from this is still delicious.

Moreover, the Li family's snack shop is very popular assorted crisps, which need to use yam and taro.

His assorted crisps are made from potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, and taro, which are four starchy foods, not to mention how good the taste is, but it is like magic, one after another, which makes people can't stop.

But this season, there are not many of these four foods left, and there are more potatoes, because the fried chicken shop sells French fries, and Shenghong also has a potato flour shop.

But the sweet potatoes and yam taro are really running out, so he pulled them all over the place, and then he made hundreds of catties of assorted crisps.

If you want to eat it again, you have to wait for these four crops to mature.

However, the hundreds of catties of assorted crisps in the snack shop have become famous in Shengjing, and they are all praised for their taste, crispy and crispy, and the taste is salty and suitable, which makes people want to eat it again.

But the Li family's snack shop is gone.