Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 350
Li Shimin's family had a great time in the arena, but Sun Xiangfu, who worked for them, died a lot of brain cells. The family was more difficult to deal with than he imagined. They had noticed Sun Xiangfu's intentions early on.

Therefore, even if all of Sun Xiangfu's plans are successful, at most it is to let them switch from the aggressive mode to the dormant mode. When a powerful monarch appeared in the past, they passed it so peacefully. After thousands of years of inheritance, they, There are already plans to deal with various situations, and it is as difficult as heaven to completely eradicate them.

Jiangnan, Baihua Pavilion, Hongzhou, Wang Hao drank his last glass of wine gracefully, threw the glass on the ground, and left with his sleeves shaken.

The person Wang Rui sent to announce the withdrawal of his family's power was still the big man representing the elders of the clan, and Wang Hao's successor was just a collateral child of the Wang family, not even Wang Rui's concubine, what does this mean?
The Wang family no longer paid much attention to Jiangnan. Even if the annual production of tens of millions of grains here is only worth a million guan.

However, throwing the cup on the ground did not mean that he was angry, maybe it was just a scene he played for others, he seemed to have expected this day long ago, so, after leaving the Baihua Pavilion, he hardly took an extra step , came directly to the pier outside the city.

"Young master, where are you going?"

"Go to sea, go to Nanzhao."

"promise."

After the simple question and answer, the big boat immediately went down the river. Wang Hao at the bow was facing the autumn wind, with a smile on his mouth, and murmured, "Sun Zhengming, the show is about to begin. I don't know. This time, you Can you accept the move, but whether you succeed or I succeed, it is a success."

Sun Xiangfu in Shanyang naturally doesn't know about Jiangnan. He is busy supervising the workers in the food workshop making moon cakes, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. If he doesn't find an excuse to celebrate, how can he stimulate consumption in Shanyang.

There are many theories about the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was first seen in "Zhou Li", and the "Book of Rites" in the Spring and Autumn Period said, "The son of heaven springs to the sun, and the autumn to the moon."

That is to say, at that time, there was already the ritual of worshiping the moon in autumn.

As for the product of moon cake, it is more well-founded to say that it was invented by Pei Ji in the 13th year of Daye, and it was mainly used to distribute the military pay of the anti-Sui soldiers. Anyway, when Pei Ji was alive two years ago, Sun Xiangfu had never eaten the moon cake he invented. Maybe it's because Wangjianglou's various cakes and pastries surpassed the round hard cakes he made, so he was embarrassed to make them again!
A matter of making cakes, of course, does not need Sun Xiangfu to supervise in person. The reason why he appeared in the food workshop is because Li Shimin wants to use moon cakes to make a fuss.

There must be a reason for the people to spontaneously contribute to help them build the palace!It was Li Shimin's reason to distribute moon cakes for free.

"Old Chu! Go back and report all the money for making these mooncakes to the Cui family. Didn't they say that they will not let the Wang family be more beautiful than before? Your Majesty's distribution of mooncakes to the people is also a part of the construction of the palace. , it is their responsibility.”

Chu Suiliang, who was also watching the workers packing mooncakes in the food workshop, said with a smile, "In this case, let the workshop produce more. It is too little for a family to distribute one box, only four. There are many children in the family, and one person may not eat them all." If you get one, send two boxes!"

Sun Xiangfu nodded and smiled, "You're right. The minister's family has a large population. It's not too much to send out ten boxes or eight boxes. Don't worry, you can eat a little bit, and you can't eat enough from Cui's family."

Benefit from the cheap ingredients, like moon cakes, the cost of one is less than two yuan. This is because a little honey is added to the filling. If you only make mooncakes made of pure flour, you can buy a stone mill for 150 yuan. Four or five hundred of them can be made from the same flour.

And even if two mooncakes are distributed to all the people in Shanyang, it is only more than 100 million mooncakes, and the cost is only two to three million yuan, or two to three thousand yuan. For the Cui family, it is just a drizzle.

Some mooncakes with eggs and more honey are what the food workshop really uses to make a profit. Of course, even so, the cost of mooncakes is not high. Now Datang’s eggs are not like the previous two years. After the chicken farm here was established, an egg was only sold for two yuan, but what really raised its value was the exquisite packaging box.

On this day, the fifteenth day of the eighth month, Li Shimin wore a rare dragon robe and arrived at the competition site. With a wave of his hand, hundreds of carts were pushed to the front of the central high platform by the soldiers.

Then, under the loud repetition of the sergeants, the strange people finally knew what the emperor was going to do. It turned out to be food for them. You can go to Yamen to get two boxes of mooncakes based on your household registration. This is the Mid-Autumn Festival gift from the emperor, and the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-] is officially designated as a holiday for the imperial court to take a bath. Everyone can eat mooncakes and enjoy the moon to celebrate.

Then, the meat scene came. Under the leadership of a group of people from the Wang family and the Cui family, there was a tsunami of thanksgiving on the playing field. A huge long silk with countless names signed was very fast. It was almost passed by the crowd to the high platform, and unfolded.

No one would think about who the hell would bring such a large piece of silk to the venue to watch the match.

And no one would think about how tens of thousands of people would sign their names on this long silk cloth in just a short moment.

They just felt that the content written on this long silk cloth was correct.

We should retain the emperor to live in our Shanyang for a longer period of time. The people of Shanyang are willing to contribute money and efforts to build a palace for the emperor in Shanyang, and invite the emperor to come to Shanyang to live for a period of time every year.

"Your Majesty, this is the will of the people, and it is the common will of hundreds of thousands of people in the Northland. I ask Your Majesty to grant it." Fang Xuanling and Sun Xiangfu clapped their hands to Li Shimin from left to right as if they had rehearsed.

"Your Majesty, please allow me..."

"Your Majesty, please allow me..."

Fang Xuanling and Sun Xiangfu had a head-to-head fight, followed by the courtiers, and after that, all the common people in the competition venue. The waves of voices were higher than the waves. Who could refuse this posture.

Anyway, no matter what other people think, at this moment, Li Shimin's heart feels like he has eaten a elixir, ready to rise with the wind at any time, soaring to [-] miles.

Using moon cakes made with other people's money, earning such a large amount of popular support, and getting a magnificent palace for nothing, how can the word 'cool' be used to describe it.

Soon, everything began to operate according to the pre-designed routine. Sun Xiangfu designated a large spare area next to the government affairs area in the north of the city as the emperor's palace. There was no need to recruit workers from outside. Every day, tens of thousands of people came to Here, they don’t eat, and they bring their own tools, so they asked the construction team if there was any work they could do.

Moreover, this is not the main point. More common people came to the construction site holding a handful of copper coins and asked how to donate the money to the emperor so that he could use it to buy building materials for the construction of the palace, or to buy property in the palace. , This situation once disrupted the construction of the professional construction team.

For this reason, Chu Suiliang had to send some people to the construction site to explain to these people. Moreover, he had to tell them in a deceitful way that the donations for the construction of the palace had reached hundreds of thousands, which could never be used up. Bring the money back by yourself,
No way, don't fool around, they will really put down the money and leave.

People in this period, as long as they are not really unable to uncover the truth, are still more grateful to the emperor who brought them a good life, because the previous emperor was too fucked up, and a comparison revealed the gap.

People like Liu Dawang, if they can't contribute money, they can only bring the people in the village to contribute.There are many Han people like this. They all remember that it was the emperor Li Shimin and the governor Sun Xiangfu who brought them here in a year of catastrophe. Yang Guang, the guy who exploited the people with cool methods, is much better.

Therefore, Li Shimin's palace was built very quickly. Tens of thousands of people worked on the site and dug the foundation, and it took only two or three days to complete. Sun Xiangfu estimates that if he comes to Shanyang next year, he will be able to live in this luxurious building. It's an incomparable palace, because the Wang and Cui families have invested a total of 30 yuan!Most of the money was taken by Sun Xiangfu to major workshops in Shanyang for research and production of emerging building materials.

Of course, building a palace for the emperor can only be regarded as a hot spot among the people in Shanyang. The real hot spot that the upper class pays attention to is a news released recently by the Cui family.

The Wang family actually negotiated with the Anbei Governor's Mansion to exchange the fertile land inside the pass for the barren grassland outside the pass, and what's more, one mu is only exchanged for two mu?
Not only the court, but also the elders of the major families were a little stunned when they received the news, and they held emergency meetings one after another to analyze the Wang family's intentions.

Then, within two days, under Cui Ti's continuous disclosure of new news, they finally knew Sun Xiangfu's overall plan. Then, considering the imminent implementation of the citizenship system, the full implementation of the labor protection law and the new tax system, everyone finally knew The purpose of the Wang family to do so.

Then, to fight against the situation of the Wang family, the clan elders of the major families had to hold a joint meeting, and the Cui family participated. Therefore, the benefit of Sun Xiangfu's use of the Cui family as a hidden son was reflected, because they could Help influence the wind direction of the meeting.

The issue of whether to enter the dormant period was discussed by each family for three days before a relatively unified result was obtained. Now, the military power of the Tang Dynasty is too strong, the Turks have been destroyed, Xue Yantuo surrendered, and showed respect. The land outside the customs is no longer an enclave beyond the control of the Central Plains regime as before. On the contrary, after it is developed, it is a piece of fertile land that produces much more than the land in the Central Plains.

Entering the dormant period at this time, showing respect to the emperor will not only keep the family stable, but also gain more benefits in the future, why not do it?
Therefore, when Sun Xiangfu was preparing to leave for Chang'an, they received joint invitations from several families. This was an important moment for the five surnames and seven families to make a decision. Sun Xiangfu had to stay and discuss the matter with them in person. OK.

(End of this chapter)