Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 611 Alliance
After seeing off Lai Yong'er and the other man, Wu Yong and Le He went to see Li Zu, who came from Huaixi.

Speaking of which, there are now 295,158 households and 932,837 people registered in Liangshan Prefecture. There are no less than 300,000 people in Liangshan County alone. Liangshan City is no longer the remote place it used to be.

Nowadays, Liangshan County is thriving in all kinds of business, with a wide variety of goods. There are many shops and stalls, and there is no curfew on weekdays. Business is going on day and night. Especially the restaurants in the city are brightly lit all night long.

Li Zhu lived in the largest restaurant in South City, the Eight Immortals Restaurant. The flow of people here was even more lively than the Taiping Restaurant opened by Tong Jiaoxiu. There were often more than a thousand patrons, making it very convenient to get information from here.

This store was indeed opened by Zhu Fu on orders. In addition to providing food and accommodation, it also sells wine and vinegar. Liangshan is also a wine and vinegar store, but there is no restriction on brewing and drinking at home. The only requirement is that the wine and vinegar used in the restaurant must be purchased from places designated by the government.

This Baxianlou is a regular store that also sells wine and vinegar. There are regular stores like this in every prefecture. There is a separate counter, run by two clerks.

In addition, the government set up a quyuan and a wine business, appointed a wine supervisor, and sold qu zao, wine and vinegar.

Liangshan was able to support so many soldiers, thanks to the monopoly of wine and vinegar. Otherwise, there was a folk song in Bianjing saying: If you want to be an official, kill people and set fires to be recruited. If you want to be rich, sell wine and vinegar in the palace.

But the profits from wine and vinegar are very high, even more than those from salt and iron.

Those that can sell wine and vinegar are called official stores, which never close day or night, regardless of the weather. The rest are called foot stores. Of course, the wine and vinegar sold in official stores are all brewed by the government.

If you have a secret recipe, you can also go to the government to register, and only after the government's approval can you brew. This kind of store is also a legitimate store, but you have to pay liquor tax and can only make this kind of liquor. If you want to sell other liquors, you still have to purchase them from the government.

Speaking of which, in this fantasy world, Zhao Zhen has seen few people who don't drink. The more heroic they are, the more they drink. Therefore, the village wine is not prohibited. These people don't have much money, but they can't do without wine and vinegar in their daily lives.

Wu Yong and Le He went to meet Li Zhu. In Baishi Manor, Zhao Zhen, who was pretending to be sick, and others washed off their makeup, sat down in the hall, and looked at the gifts sent by Lai Yonger one by one.

world log
Ginseng (fourth grade, 800 years old, human-shaped root, weighing 8 liang 2 qian.)
Effect 1: It can prolong life. It can nourish the five internal organs, calm the spirit, stop panic, and remove evil spirits. It can prolong life even when the oil is exhausted and the lamp is dying.

Effect 1: Strengthens the body, nourishes and strengthens the body. Eat taels and your physical fitness will increase by .

As for Salvia miltiorrhiza, Bupleurum chinense, and Forsythia suspensa, they are also top-quality medicinal materials, and there is a box of first-grade medicinal materials in each of them.

Those that did not meet the criteria were sent to the pharmacy, and those that met the criteria were also sent to the treasury and placed together with the two boxes of first-grade Polygonatum sent by Chai Jin for use by An Daoquan, Gongsun Sheng and others.

world log
"Luoyang Peony Records": (Duke Wen Zhong once said: Peonies come from Danzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou in the east, and Yuezhou in the south. But those from Luoyang are now the best in the world.)
Features: Career guide. After reading this book, you can become a flower farmer. One person/year. Flower farmer soldiers. Five people/year.

Flower farmer: Tourists only praise Wu Minjiao, but flower farmers shed tears for farmers. Planting flowers and trees is their profession.

Occupational skills: Planting level 1 (farming, strength +1), breeding level 1 (targeted cultivation, spirit +1), peony appraisal level 1 (understanding the temperament of peonies, spirit +1)

As for the peonies sent, Zhao Zhen had also seen them. When the peony garden was first built, the number of flower colors and varieties was not as many as the Sanyi sent by Lai Yonger. There were eighteen different species, and three of them were of high rank. Now this peony garden can be said to be colorful and beautiful.

Some are red, some are yellow, and some are white. The newly transplanted ones have names on their branches. A quick glance at them shows that there are many names, such as Yitiaohong, Helinghong, Zhushahong, Yubanbai, Duoyezi, Gancaohuang, Jiuxinzhenzhu, Lianhuacalyx, Yedizi, etc. Now that there is this volume of Luoyang Peony Records, Zhao Zhen asked Cheng Wan'er to select five maids to work as flower farmers and take care of this peony garden.

In the future, when the palace is completed, a peony garden will be built specifically in the imperial garden.

The two black horses were both first-class and fortunately both were mares. They were sent to the Liangshan Horse Farm to breed war horses.

Zhao Zhen also looked at the pastry secret recipe. He didn't hold out much hope, but unexpectedly, this secret recipe turned out to be a guide.

The Eight Great Items of Xijing (Secret recipe, containing candied beans, golden dates, smile, nut crisps, egg yolk crisps, sweet and salty biscuits, longan crisps, and honey three-knife method. After reading, you can work as a chef (pastry) profession, one person/year. Military type, five people/year.)
Kitchen (pastry): good at making pastries.

Professional skills: Cooking Level 1 (using flour, eggs, sugar, honey, dried fruits, etc. as ingredients, Strength +1), Plating Level 1 (pursuit of refinement, Constitution +1).

As for the large quantities of Xijing peony porcelain, Tang white porcelain, Du Kang wine, peony paintings, Huisheng Palace inkstone, Chengni inkstone, palace lanterns, honey, silk cloth, etc., after Zhao Zhen looked at them, he asked Zhao Xing to pick out the good ones and send them to each room, and the rest should be stored or sold.

At the same time, in the Eight Immortals Tower, Wu Yong and Le He were having a secret conversation with Li Zuo.

After greeting, Wu Yong asked, "Mr. Li, why are you here at Liangshan again?"

Li Zhu thought to himself: I came here to inquire about Zhao Zhen’s injury, but it’s not easy to ask.

It turned out that the twinkling stars of the Big Dipper were a prophecy fabricated by Li Zu.

The Big Dipper comes out from the east, and the benefits come from the west. This sentence is the most straightforward. Another sentence: The inspector becomes the emperor, and the vice card is turned seven times.

The first half of the sentence was said when Chai Rong, the Emperor of Zhou, was in power a hundred years ago, foreshadowing that Zhao Kuangyin, the then chief inspector of the imperial court, would become the emperor. Li Zhu borrowed this sentence and used the latter part to refer to the emperor taking turns to be replaced by a deputy general. This refers to Wang Qing's former position as a deputy general in Bianjing.

Li Zhu said, "Military Advisor, I am not here for Miss Tong."

"The stars of the Big Dipper twinkled, strange phenomena appeared in the sky, and prophecies were heard everywhere. Your Excellency is in charge of the Jingdong Road, with more than a hundred generals and strong troops. This is the right time to start an uprising. The King of Chu sent me here to form an alliance with your Excellency to destroy Zhao and Song together."

Wu Yong heard this and quickly shook his head and said, "Mr. Li, don't talk nonsense. Your father-in-law is the current Grand Commandant. He has endless wealth and glory. How could he be willing to risk his head and rebel?"

Li Zhu said: "This is a different time. The stars of the Big Dipper are shining, which should be in Shandong. Haven't you heard that if you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences? The military advisor is your think tank, and now he should advise you to start a rebellion to respond to God."

Le He said, "Who can tell what this celestial phenomenon means? Now my husband is seriously ill..."

"Ahem, ahem, umm..." Wu Yong interrupted hurriedly, "Mr. Li, there are so many prophecies, who knows which one is true and which one is false. My husband has no ambitions, and he only recruits heroes to protect one side. If my husband wants to raise an army, I'm afraid it won't be an alliance. How can you lure him into a disaster with empty words?"

(End of this chapter)