Northern Dynasties

Chapter 86
In the spring of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies.

The valley and mountain scenery where Shangyang Villa is located are no longer monotonous and boring. The mountain springs are thawed, and the flowing water is gurgling, converging into streams, flowing around the house.The fruit trees transplanted and pruned last year on the slopes have also sprouted new green stripes and bloomed flower buds.

The new beehives in the orchard are buzzing and dancing, and the disturbing butterflies dare not approach.A gust of mountain wind blows, and the whole valley is filled with a scent of honey and sweet flowers.

Outside the small building facing the spring, a number of phoenixes were wearing half-armed jackets, standing by a small red clay stove, watching the heat of the stove, and telling their friends to pay attention to adding charcoal, while waving their small arms, holding a wooden stove. Stir vigorously with the stick the liquid that has become very viscous in the clay pot on the stove.

"Dharma, the jade soap that can be exchanged for Sandou Valley is sold in the shop outside the village. Is it really made of this fragrant soup?"

The little friend was carrying the charcoal into the furnace while observing the movements of the phoenixes, curious and suspicious at the same time.

"That's right, I've visited the workshop many times. That's what the women workers do. Soak the plant ash in water and filter it into a clear soup, then add ointment and salt wine to heat and boil, then pour it into a mold and let it cool until it's hard. .”

Several phoenixes stopped for a short rest, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and took out a mold from their arms to show off: "This is the mold I carved myself, and I will use this to make the shape later. The jade is made Zao went home and gave it to my mother, as soon as she is happy, she will not care about my neglect of studies."

"Can you give me a piece of it? Last month, I was awarded a piece of excellent work by the master, but the village was rewarded with a piece, but it was taken to the outside of the village and sold for me. I saw that my sister was very unhappy, and I wiped my tears several times……"

When the schoolboy heard this, his face was full of hope, and he whispered.

"It's a small matter. This can can make at least five or six yuan. I'll just keep two yuan, and I'll give you everything else!"

Several phoenixes nodded vigorously, patted the classmate on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't feel that you are exploiting your family's expenses, Xu Er, you are the best in school, and you will be a teacher in two years. Appreciate promotion, but are you afraid of a bad future? When the time comes, a lot of merit will be returned to the support family."

"That's right, Aye's mother often said that the people of our village have really fallen into a nest of blessings. With such a benevolent and righteous master to take care of us, if we refuse to make progress with our hearts, we will be committing crimes!"

After hearing the words, the schoolboy nodded vigorously and said, "The poor family is precocious. He is already at the age of knowing the difficulties of human affairs. He still remembers that his family was in a miserable situation in the past two years and could barely survive. After entering the village, life has undergone earth-shaking changes. Be careful. Li's admiration and gratitude to Lord Lang has already overflowed.

A few crisp sounds came from the spring pool, and the two teenagers turned their heads to look, and saw that the spring pressure device that had been set up for automatic fishing had been triggered, and there was a small fish with a finger length hanging on the fishing line. Struggling and flicking in the sun!
"Catch it, catch it!"

Seeing this, the two teenagers clapped their hands and cheered, and several phoenixes ran to the window of the small building, knocking on the window and shouting: "Brother, brother, you are amazing! You really caught it, it's so big!" A fish!"

Li Tai poked his head out of the window, glanced at the small fish hanging on the fishing line by the spring, curled his lips in disdain, knocked some phoenix heads and said: "If you catch it, you lost the bet. Before tomorrow morning, I have to put the copy of "Jijiu Zhang" on my case!"

"Understood, understood, trivial matters!"

After hearing the words, several phoenix laughed, turned around and ran to the edge of the spring, took off the small fish and threw it back into the pool, and carefully put the device back to its original state.

Hearing his companion shouting "It's muddled", he ran back in a hurry and continued to stir vigorously with his teeth, completely forgetting about the copying homework.

"This baby may have to be adopted, should I remind his father to practice a trumpet again?"

Seeing this kid's endless enjoyment of doing things, Li Tai also felt a little helpless. He was obviously a quiet and studious boy when he first came here. He lived in his house for more than a month, but he completely liberated his nature and was able to do everything. Just don't like to study.

Thinking that it was not only Ji Hui's good son who was being raised by him, but also Yu Wentai's good son-in-law, Li Tai couldn't help feeling a little bit of revenge in his heart.

After the meeting in Yuan Yuechao, Yu Wentai completely forgot about Li Tai and never summoned him again.

On the contrary, Yu Wenhu, He Lanxiang, and Yuchijiong brothers visited several times, and Li Tai recognized them all.

Li Tai is also very helpless about this, and really wants to ask Yu Wentai, even if I don't want to be your little licking dog, you don't have to force me to join your dragon-slaying team!
He felt a little emotional here, and continued to review the examination papers of the students in the library before returning to the building.

After the beginning of spring, the affairs of his family became more and more complicated, and the affairs of the dozen or so tribes who followed into Guanzhong at the beginning were gradually insufficient.Fortunately, the first batch of Zhuang Ding trained in the academy has gradually achieved success in learning and is capable of basic calculations and memorization, which will not affect the development of various businesses.

Now his family's affairs are mainly divided into three parts.

The first is the internal affairs of the manor, mulberry farming and various self-operated workshops.

Due to the expansion of the manor and the addition of workshops, a lot of the cultivated area of ​​the manor has been occupied, and there are only a little over six hectares of cultivated land left. The annual income can only meet the internal consumption of the manor, not to mention making a profit.

Fortunately, there is a manor with a width of nearly [-] hectares in Longshouyuan. This spring, we have started to open up wasteland and plow.

However, all kinds of handicrafts are booming. There are sauce workshops that specialize in making sauces and oysters, forging workshops that smelt and repair agricultural tools, and even develop spice workshops that make daily chemical products, as well as ceramics that are becoming more and more sophisticated. workshop.

Of course, the real pillar industries are oil mills and weaving mills.With the blessing of the oil extraction method and the large spinning wheel, these two industries have developed rapidly, which is a solid foundation for the further development of the manor population industry.

The second part is the business of paper printing and military ration production jointly operated with He Basheng and Shuohui.

Due to Yuwentai's promotion of military ration production, a large number of official and non-governmental imitators emerged in the Kansai states in a short period of time, so that the snowflakes of orders that some Hui envisioned did not appear, and the manor was only carrying out small Large-scale production and storage have not been realized in large amounts.

Li Tai is not in a hurry about this either. Right now, the industry is in the throes of the limelight, and people and pigs have to get involved. Rather than blindly chasing the wind and increasing self-consumption, it is better to follow the refined production process step by step and accumulate Technical advantages.

On the contrary, papermaking and printing are developing rapidly, and Beihua Prefecture, which has a lot of benefits, is still falling. With the printed official document booklet, Jingzhaoyin Cuixi achieved a curve overtaking and surpassed Qizhou Zheng Daoyong, who has been the leader in performance appraisal for many years. It was a hot topic in official circles of the Western Wei Dynasty after the year before and after.

So from the beginning of the new year, after the county governors of Western Weizhou found out the source, they came to negotiate with each other.

To be honest, this kind of administrative office method that replaces handwriting with printing is quite shocking to current cognition.

Even if it is just tedious and boring official documents, not a real change in the knowledge carrier, it has greatly impacted and shaken the importance of the civil servant group in the ruling class.If this group gathers together to create public opinion resistance and counterattack, it will also have a great impact.

However, Li Tai's parentage advantage was greatly manifested at this time. As the crown of the northern gentry, the Li family in Longxi did not have the right to speak in culture and academics for a lifetime.

If others engage in these things, they may be scolded for emphasizing skills and neglecting learning, deviant, and engraving woodcuts to blaspheme the righteousness of saints and sages, but if they use this to insult the Li family of Longxi, they will inevitably feel a little guilty.

Li Tai's non-righteous knowledge has the added bonus of family reputation, and the rigid European calligraphy used has a cross-age artistic beauty.At least so far, there have been no voices criticizing him for treating a craftsman over a bachelor.

So from the beginning of the new year, related orders from all over the country have also surged rapidly. According to the current production scale, it is enough to produce from the beginning of the year to the end of autumn, and the expected profit is tens of thousands of pieces of silk!
Although the profit is considerable, it is also touching.Especially when dealing with the government, you must be cautious and cautious.

Although He Basheng and Ji Hui are still backing him for the time being, Li Tai is also planning for the rainy day. In addition to establishing a strict order rule with various governments, he is also considering attracting and introducing new cooperation partners.

The Dragon Slaying Squad, such as Yu Wenhu and his cousins, is a more suitable candidate.

But Yuwenhu has a lenient personality and a taboo inside. Li Tai has to be cautious when dealing with him. Once money is involved, he must be more cautious.

In the honeymoon period of cooperation, you can squeeze as much profit as possible, and then you have to consider making concessions and gradually fading out.So Li Tai is also waiting for a suitable opportunity when to include Yuwenhu in his career.

It is inevitable to be occupied by doves and magpies, but Li Tai also needs to get enough rewards, whether it is political or profit, before he is willing to leave.

The third part of the business is to rebuild the Longshou Canal.

The hegemonic regime of the Western Wei Dynasty did not have enough authority to sink down. Even in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it only completed the military integration from bottom to top with the help of government soldiers.Therefore, this channel alliance is a business worthy of Li Tai's long-term and in-depth management.

He divided the affairs of the canals and set up each person in charge, and he has initially formed the embryonic form of arbitration to determine the situation of the countryside.The reason why Zhuang Shi has been short of talents recently is that many Zhuang people who have the ability to manage affairs have been arranged to deal with specific matters.

Next, he plans to continue to expand the correspondence teaching scale of Zhuangzhong Shushi School, and further include the children of the township tyrants, and then build the status and influence of his Xiangshi Xuezong.

When he was still thinking about the next step of the schedule, a child's cry suddenly came from outside the building: "Master, it's not good, it's not good! A group of villains rushed into the manor, and Bodhidharma was handed over by them." Hit! He blocked the thief and asked me to come back and call for help..."

(End of this chapter)