Li Chengqian's family soon appeared in Li Ke's sight, after seeing Li Ke, Li Chengqian laughed and said: "San Lang, you're back, it's just these days that your nephew is shouting to come out to go out, the weather is finally good, the East Palace is really boring, I heard that you are coming back, I will take you to play, by the way, you have a lot of small courtyards here, just give me a small courtyard, I won't live in your Forbidden Tower." ”

"Okay, big brother, it's good if you're happy, big brother, you won't go to this meeting once." Li Ke has already started to complain directly.

"Didn't you say who wants to go to whom? It's not a big deal for me to go, isn't it just to see how you handle government affairs and other things, and I can know these things in the East Palace. Li Chengqian said.

Li Ke: "......"

That's an excuse I made for myself, not for you!

"Then big brother, whichever courtyard you fancy will be the one you like." Li Ke waved his hand weakly.

"Okay, then I'll choose it myself, you're busy with yours, I'll go shopping with your sister-in-law by the way." Li Chengqian waved his hand with a smile, and then took people away directly and unceremoniously.

Li Ke: "......"

You're really welcome, when I'm here in the scenic spot, I'm in a hurry to stay in the hotel.

Question: My eldest brother said to stay for a few days, you can't stop staying, right?

"Which one do you think looks good?" Li Chengqian took the crown princess Su Shi for a walk in Li Ke's Qinwangzhuang and asked with a smile.

"That's it, Dayingyuan, the style of this courtyard is very interesting, it is all made of stone buildings, and the overall appearance is quite solemn, I am used to the appearance of the East Palace, this is quite interesting, but the name of this courtyard is strange." The crown princess said with a smile.

"Then live here." Li Chengqian doesn't care, the architectural styles here are different, this kind of pure building built with stone is indeed quite interesting, the stone with wooden doors and windows plus glass, but it is quite exotic, I don't know if it is the style of the big food.

Entering the small courtyard, Li Chengqian asked people to put things down, and the people from Qin Wangzhuang who followed Li Chengqian helped put things down, Li Chengqian came over in addition to concubines, concubines, and children, and naturally brought some personal maids, after all, they were all familiar with it, and it was convenient to take care of them.

"What is this 10 Downing Street?" As I walked, some of the other buildings didn't have special signs on them, but this one was not big, and there was a sign on it in the middle of nowhere, and there was a name.

"If you go back to Your Highness, this is a thatched house." A maid of Qin Wangzhuang who followed immediately spoke respectfully.

Li Chengqian couldn't laugh or cry a little, "San Lang is too, what kind of habit is this, even if some other palaces are named, this toilet has to be named, and it is weird and weird." I remember what the name of the thatched toilet outside him was Yasukuni? ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Chengqian was a little speechless, but he didn't care, whatever he called it, his own house, he could call it anything.

I just don't know where these strange names came from.

Li Ke didn't care about Li Chengqian, since Li Chengqian said no, then he didn't need it.

It just so happened that Li Ke also came to live here, and it was sent by Tian Meng, and the relevant news was sent back by the channel of Yuelai Commercial Bank.

Li Ke opened it and looked at it.

First of all, it is about Yuelai Commercial Bank in Datang Daozhou to sign contracts with the people on a large scale to purchase raw materials such as silk and linen, of which the contract signed by hemp is the most, about 2.2 million mu, the average number of acres signed per household is 10 mu, there are more places in mountainous areas, 15 acres per household, and less in plain areas, each household is about 5 acres, and the way of signing contracts is also different according to different terrains.

The signing of silk is more complicated, and it is calculated according to the number of catties, because whether it is a spring silkworm or an autumn silkworm, the number of times the silkworm spins is not just once.

However, the purchase price of silk signed by Li Ke and the people is about 50% higher than the market, generally speaking, silkworm farmers spin silk into silk thread and then sell it, but now Li Ke does not use them to spin silk, their labor costs will naturally drop, and people can raise more silkworms at the same time.

At the same time, they also need to plant more mulberry trees, of course, the place where Li Ke chose to sign a contract with silkworm farmers is also the kind of land that is less suitable for growing grain and suitable for raising silkworms.

And there is also a limit to the amount of contracting, otherwise, large-scale sericulture is easy to play with itself first.

At present, in fact, in the early days of the Tang Dynasty, even if Li Ke let go of the contract with the people, the people would not change all the land to plant this ancient version of cash crops, the reason is simple, the Chinese have been hungry since ancient times.

Especially not long after the drought in Zhenguan year, everyone was hungry in the year of the catastrophe, and for the people of this era, it is safe to grow their own food.

But even if the people will not change to cash crops on a large scale at the beginning, Li Ke will not let go of the harvest, otherwise there will be people who will boldly not grow grain in the next year.

The bottom line of growing grain cannot be broken.

It is necessary to unswervingly adhere to the red line of cultivated land.

Compared with silk, the income of hemp is probably the most this year, but it doesn't matter if there is more hemp, Li Ke not only has the process of weaving and spinning in his hands, but also has a more advanced process for the treatment of linen.

For Datang, it is definitely digestible, and these linen clothes can still be sold, regardless of the Turks and other small countries around the people, there are also a large number of people who consume these linen cloths.

In fact, even if it is Datang himself, these linen cloths can be eaten completely.

And the recovered hemp is not only used to make burlap, sacks, hemp rope, etc., which is very widely used, especially if large-scale commercial activities are carried out, the amount of sacks is a very terrifying number.

In addition to these basic data, it is the connection that has been established with some small local families and Hanmen that has been brought about by the signing. This means that the network of Yuelai Commercial Bank has gradually begun to penetrate to the entire Datang Village level.

In fact, there is no need to go to the village level, as long as it is enough to go to the township level, to a township, a township of the noble family only needs to establish contact with Yuelai Commercial Bank, let them go to help each village to investigate the situation, in fact, it is very simple.

And this kind of investigation, it stands to reason that the imperial court of the Tang Dynasty also has this efficiency, after all, the administrative departments at the first level are passed down, and it is similar to Yuelai Commercial Bank.

But the efficiency of the Tang Dynasty is outrageously slow.