Since Li Gu has been over there, anyway, Weiqing County will have to open a duck shop and a fried chicken shop sooner or later, so it is better to open it now.

Therefore, he wrote a letter to Li Gu at this time to let the farmers of Qiu An Province raise chickens and ducks.

Chu An Province borders Dong Son Province, and whether the chicken and duck defense line of Chu An Province can resist locusts is left to fate. He really didn't have a good idea.

Halfway through the letter, Li Dao came.

Li Dao routinely reported Gao Zhiyuan's movements to him.

Gao Zhiyuan has not yet returned from the border city, but Gao Zhiyuan gave Li Zugen, one of the believers in the envelope, to sell cotton at the branch library outside the city today.

Li Dao knew the content of the letter written by Gao Zhiyuan, so he was naturally very concerned about the believers who had believed.

Last year, Li Zugen tenanted the Li family's land, and he reported it to Li Qian as soon as possible.

This year, Li Zugen's eldest son and second son entered the branch of the school library, and he also let Li Qiao know about it in time.

Today, Li Zugen has a new development, and he immediately came to report to Li Qiao.

"Got it, keep keeping an eye on them, go down." Li Qiao's expression did not fluctuate after hearing this.

This coincidence was not intentional on his part.

He didn't interfere with anything.

Although Li Zugen is a believer of Gao Zhiyuan, he is also a real poor peasant, and his family is in difficulty, so he will not embarrass Li Zugen.

Go with the flow.

As for Gao Zhiyuan, he didn't let Li Dao go to the border city with him, so he didn't know what Gao Zhiyuan did in the border city. But with Gao Zhiyuan's ability, he will definitely not be able to set off any storms - if there were really storms, Sheng Hong would have received the report a long time ago.

Now Sheng Hong attaches great importance to the border city, and he has to ask about everything.

This year, it was cold early, and the life of the Hu people must be not easy, and today Sheng Hong specially transferred manpower to the border city to strengthen the defense of the border city.

Now that the border city is solid, the six princes have no intention of going to the front, and Gao Zhiyuan should stay in the border city for a short time.

After Li Dao went down, Li Qian quickly finished writing the letter, folded it, stuffed it into an envelope, and then handed it to Li Man, asking Li Man to send an express mail to the royal logistics after he went to work tomorrow.

After finishing his business, Li Qiao went back to the main room, the room was hot, and after entering, he took off his cloak first, and then entered the inner room.

The two little guys were sitting on the kang playing nine rings, and when they saw him come in, they shouted Daddy in unison, and after he answered loudly, they continued to bow their heads to play with the toys in their hands.

Tao Zhu sat at his small desk and read the account book.

"Finished writing?" Tao Zhu turned his head to look at him.

"Yes. How's your reckoning? ”

Li Qiao walked over and sat down on the chair, his body was next to Tao Zhu, he wrapped one hand around Tao Zhu's waist, and the other hand supported the table to look at Tao Zhu's account book.

"It's almost over. This month's spending is a bit more than last month's. ”

Tao Zhu Road.

The extra bit is mainly in the purchase of cotton and the Shantang School and branch library.

Not to mention the purchase of cotton, it will definitely cost silver.

The reason for the increase in the expenditure of the two schools is that the students of the two schools are currently extremely proficient in making keel waterwheels. The proficiency increases, and the finished product increases.

To make a keel waterwheel, the salary is 500 Wen, and there are related raw material expenditures, which together are nothing for the Li family's huge family property, but compared with last month's expenditure, it does increase a little.

After listening to Tao Zhu's words, Li Qiao immediately said: "This is a good thing. With so many keel waterwheels, if the people of Shengjing can't use them up, they will give them to the farmers in Jibei Province. ”

His family has 90,000 acres of arable land in Jibei Province.

"I think so, and that's a good thing."

Tao Zhu nodded.

Subsequently, remembering that Ming Xi was here today, he turned his head to look at Li Qiao: "Ming Xi tasted our lotus root powder, and he was full of praise, he said that Beihu Province is rich in lotus roots, if our family has a lot of hands, you can go over there to make lotus root powder." The Ming family tried their best to help us. In this way, not only will we be able to get silver, but the people over there will also be able to increase their income. ”

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Chapter 215 Trivia, the Situation in Peng County Li Yuning did not go to Dongshan Province, Tao Zhu opened a cotton warehouse

Knowing that he was very diligent in running to the Li family, he came to Shengjing this time for a blind date, and he respected Li Qiao in his heart, so what he was thinking about all day long was the Li family.

He was full of praise for Shengjing's good hall, but he was not capable of emulating it in Beihu Province, he was only a small man now.

However, there are a lot of lotus roots in Beihu Province, and if the Li family can send someone over, it will be a benefit for both sides.

At this time, it is the season when the lotus root is ripe, and when the Li family snack shop first opened at the beginning of this year, the lotus root ripening season was missed, so there are very few finished lotus root flour products.

People who don't like to eat lotus root flour feel slimy and don't want to taste a mouthful, but there are also people who are good at this bite, and people who are good at this bite have been urging the Li family snack shop to hurry up and launch a new one this year.

But lotus root flour is more troublesome to make than vermicelli, so the output is unstable and cannot meet the demand of the market.

Since you know that you have the intention, it is not impossible.

Li Qiao nodded: "Yes." Beihu Province is adjacent to Yuanhe Province, so let the people of Heijo go there. ”

For specific matters, I must say hello to Sheng Hong, so that the local magistrate can do it conveniently.

Tao Zhu also intends to do this.

Shengjing is too far away from Beihu Province, so we will not send people there, Pingcheng is very close, and from now until the end of spring next year, Pingcheng will have many foreign merchants every day.

Bringing the finished lotus root powder back to Pingcheng for sale is more trouble-free than transporting it back to Shengjing.

"Okay, I'll send someone to the Ming Mansion tomorrow to find Mingxi and ask him to come over to discuss this matter."

Tao Zhu lowered his eyes as he spoke, looked at the account book in front of him, and was about to continue settling the accounts, when he suddenly remembered that he had received a letter from Peng County today, so he looked at Li Qiao again.

"Li Zhen Li received a letter, the snack shop in Peng County has a good business and is stable, and the two of them asked us if we want to open other shops."

After Li Wei Li Shou and the eighteen men in the Li family's shop arrived in Peng County, the people of the second prince directly approached the magistrate of Peng County and asked the magistrate of Peng County to assist Li Wei and Li Shou to spread out the Li family's snacks quickly.

The magistrate of Peng County did not dare to slack off, and personally accompanied Li Zhen and Li Shou to find shops, find raw materials, and after running, he informed the two of them in detail about all the situation in Peng County.

With the help of the county, in less than ten days, this Li family snack shop opened.

The main products are snacks, egg scones, pancakes and fruits, meat buns, xiao long bao, fried buns, fried skewers, and rice rolls.

These are not serious meals, they can only be regarded as snacks, and they are unique in Peng County, which belongs to the south.

These snacks taste good, and the Li family shop is famous, so after it opened, business has been good.

These things are white flour and polished rice, meat and sugar, and ordinary people only occasionally go to taste them, and the guests on weekdays are mainly local rich people.

But how many rich people can there be in an ordinary and somewhat isolated small county?

And it's not like a restaurant, you can sell food and wine.

Therefore, in the first three months of the opening of the Li family's snack shop, the profit was ordinary, and he could only earn two or three hundred taels a month.

But in the middle of summer, the ancient canal where Peng County is located was navigable, and this canal was in Jiangshu Province, connecting several prefectures in Jiangshu Province.

After the opening of the ancient canal, many people along the shore went out by boat out of freshness.

Coupled with cargo ships, there are more outsiders in Peng County.

Li Qiao's fame is too great, and the saint rewarded him with 200,000 acres of land this year, and he is really the most favored courtier in front of the saint.

Many people come here, although it is said that there is no signature food of the Li family in this snack shop, but it is also good to come and have a look, and try it.

There were more customers from other places, and the turnover of the snack shop was rising, Li Yan Li was observed for two months, and couldn't help but write a letter to him, while reporting the local situation in detail, and talking about the idea of opening a new shop.

Peng County is located at the junction of Hu'an Province and Jiangshu Province, which is not the real Jiangnan, so the local people are not wealthy.

But those people in other provinces who can travel by boat and do business, these people have money.

When the Grand Canal is really opened in the future, there will be more outsiders.

It's a big market.

If you want to make more money, then other shops have to be opened, and the snack shops sell ordinary food, the price is not very high, and the profit is thin.

The Li family's signature shop is the real killer.

"The two of them said that the people over there wanted to see our signboard and kept urging them to open a duck shop and a fried chicken shop, what do you think?"

"Let's get on then. It just so happens that now it's the season when taro and yam are ripe, and you can make some of that assorted crisps. ”

"And taro paste is a good filling, and it tastes good to make snacks."

"There are few people over there, don't open a hot pot shop for the time being, and make these foods that can be taken out without dine-in."

Li Qiao has no objection to opening more shops.

Of course, the more silver, the better.

Peng County has 50,000 acres of cultivated land, and the corresponding irrigation and farming tools must be arranged, which are all expenditures.

Not only the cultivated land in Peng County, but also the cultivated land in other places, the more rivers, ditches and ponds, the better.

In times of drought, these rivers, ditches, and ponds can be irrigated. In the event of a flood, these rivers, ditches, and ponds can drain floodwater.

There is also cotton, with the cold weather, this year he can only take care of the people outside Shengjing City, but there are still many poor people in other places in Dasheng.

Expenditures in this area will be made every year in the future.

This year, he has spread a lot of stalls, and this is just the beginning.

Next year, the test will really come.

I'm afraid there will be more places to spend money next year.

So, of course, the more silver, the better.

It's not just Peng County that wants to open a shop, he also "studied" the bicycle almost, and when it comes to the Chinese New Year, the bicycle is on the market, and he has to make a lot of money.

"Okay. I'll write back to both of them tomorrow. Tao Zhu saw that Li Qiao agreed, so he said like this.

"It's not bad for a day and a half, you've been busy lately and you're about to catch up with me."

Li Qiao said, the arm holding his waist tightened, and the other hand poked the side of his face: "Don't be tired." ”