The noble daughter of the splendid medical picture should be married

Chapter 687
"I heard you made money again today?" Li Yuanbai asked her with a smile after returning home for dinner.

Huo Qiqi knew what was going on in the mansion, so he definitely couldn't hide it from him.She jokingly asked with a smile, "Does the lord feel that I'm embarrassing you?"

"The concubine exhausted her brains to think of the heated kang. They borrowed money from others, and it is impossible to get something for nothing. The concubine is kind-hearted, so she only asked them for ten taels of silver for a heated kang, which is really cheap for them." Li Yuanbai opened his eyes and said nonsense.

Huo Qiqi nodded in satisfaction, "My lord's words are good, and they won my heart."

Huaxi laughed out loud.

"The conditions of the soldiers in the army are difficult. The prince can send a few more people to learn how to cook the kang with a few bricklayers. Although the soldiers can't enjoy it too much, they can build a long kang to solve their basic living facilities." Huo Qiqi is picky, she All the dishes she didn't like were put aside by her.

Li Yuanbai didn't dislike it either, and ate it directly.

Huo Qiqi was delighted to see it, and continued, "The population in the Northland is small, and people are wealth. We husband and wife can't be bare commanders. I'm thinking, the villages around the border were attacked by the Tartars, causing many people to be displaced, orphans and widows Mothers or the elderly are weak, and their life must be very difficult in winter. We can use this money to build some Ansheng halls. The houses should not be too good. In order to save money, we can transform abandoned ancestral halls or earth temples. Together with the soil kang, it will also allow them to survive the cold winter safely."

"Even if the government provides them with a safe place to live, without a suitable source of livelihood, their life is also difficult." Li Yuanbai explained with a frown.

This is also his most troublesome problem over the years.

"This is the second thing my lord and I want to talk about." Huo Qiqi chuckled, "It's definitely not good to sit and eat the mountains and empty mountains. No one can bear it if one person raises so many people. Our northern land is also considered a treasure land. There are many mountains and forests, and there are wild animals in the mountains. There are also a lot of fungi. However, it is not feasible to rely solely on picking up goods in the mountains. First, there are many wild animals in the mountains. They have to learn to fend for themselves.”

"Is there a way for the princess?" Li Yuanbai asked in surprise.

"My lord, what is the most abundant food in our Northland?" Huo Qiqi asked with a smile.

"Thanks to the princess, rice has been planted in Beidi this year, and the harvest is not bad. At the very least, the military camp can provide food for half a year, and with the grain and grass in the capital, the soldiers don't have to worry about starvation all year round. It's just for the common people, rice planting is not enough. Widespread. Sweet potatoes, potatoes and soybeans are their staple foods.”

"Sweet potatoes and potatoes must not be moved." Huo Qiqi sighed. "That is the basis of people's survival, so we can only find a way from soybeans."

"Soybeans?" Li Yuanbai shook his head. "Soybeans seem to be able to satisfy the hunger, but they cannot be used as food. Soybeans are too oily. After cooking, people eat too much, and they are prone to flatulence, not to mention diarrhea. For three days, he would vomit and vomit again and fall down."

Huo Qiqi chuckled, "Anyway, I have a solution, the prince will just wait and see."

Li Yuanbai saw that she was trying to keep her secret, so he held back his curiosity and did not ask further.

With the departure of the merchant's wife and the official's wife, Operation Huo Kang finally started in full swing in the north.

The officials' wives and business women who didn't come to the door that day, after seeing the benefits of the kang, couldn't help sending someone to intercede, wanting to borrow someone to use it.

In fact, although Pan Kang has skills, ordinary bricklayers are not fools.

However, no one dared to come forward.Because the idea was conceived by the concubine, all the people on the kang would pay Huo Qiqi a price of ten taels of silver per room, whoever dares to cut him halfway would be tantamount to going against the prince and concubine.

So for the sake of insurance, those merchants are even more cautious, not to mention that there are no bricklayers who are willing to show their heads.

Anyone who can afford the price feels that it is more at ease to pay money for enjoyment.

Huo Qiqi raised tens of thousands of taels of silver in a short period of time.

And the masons didn't dare to pick up the work privately, they honestly worked according to the price given by Huo Qiqi, even if someone wanted to build another firewall, the price they gave was also very fair.

1 taels of silver is not a small amount, enough for Huo Qiqi to open many An Shengtang.

Huo Qiqi said that the wind is the rain, and after receiving the 1 taels of silver, she immediately called a large number of bricklayers, and then Anshengtang began to develop.

"Wizard, really a genius." The magistrate returned home, his face flushed with excitement.

"Master, what happened?" Madam Zhifu asked in surprise.

"Just say that you are short-sighted, and you are still not convinced. Although Princess Hui's temperament is unpredictable, she acts aboveboard. She saved people that day, which is enough to be admired. I didn't expect her to be so righteous. She is the only one like this." Only a strange woman like him can be matched with a man like Wang Ye." The magistrate was so excited that he was a little incoherent.

"Master, after talking for a long time, you still haven't told me what happened?" Madam Zhifu asked suspiciously.

"The princess said that the kang doesn't need money, but she didn't contradict what she said, but she did what she said." The excited magistrate didn't answer what he asked.

"It's the first time I've seen the old man so excited. Didn't the concubine collect the money herself?" Madam Zhifu asked in surprise.

"You have misunderstood the princess. Such a magnanimous person, the princess, is the kind of short-sighted woman who smells like copper." The magistrate glared at her. "The princess received the money in order to build the Ansheng Hall and take in the orphans, widows, old, sick, disabled and homeless people."

"Anshengtang?" The magistrate's wife asked in surprise. She didn't expect that Huo Qiqi would actually do what he said, and asking for money was not extortion or bribery, but a good arrangement for the money, "Not only did the princess not use the money , and she herself took out money to make up for it. All the people in Anshengtang will be provided with coarse grains during this winter. In the coming year, the princess will open a breeding farm, saying that she will domesticate roe deer and deer, and We need to raise foxes and toads, so that everyone can move. For those who can’t move, there will be farms to take care of them. Strange woman, strange woman!”

The magistrate's wife was dumbfounded when she heard it, like a fox, a roe deer or a deer?Want to raise toads?To her, it sounded like an obedient script.

"The list of all those who donated money to the kang was posted on the notice at the gate of the city, and the expenses of Anshengtang were also listed. Who will dare to say that the princess is greedy and accepts bribes in the future?" The magistrate sighed, "There will be no people who freeze to death in this winter. It's happening."

"No, although it's not really winter yet, it's still snowy outside. How to build a house at this time?" Madam Zhifu suddenly realized.

"The unused land temples and the ruined ancestral halls are all put to use." The magistrate replied with a smile, "The princess said that if the development is good in the future, new houses will be built again."

(End of this chapter)