After crossing the Longmen Bridge, we soon arrived at Hancheng County, Tongguan Road.
As an important military town and an important transportation thoroughfare, this place was still in the hands of the imperial court.
Shi Kefa deliberately ran to the grain store and asked about the price of grain. As he expected, the closer to Chengcheng County, the closer the price of grain. The price of grain here has dropped to 120 cents per bucket, which is only a little higher than in non-natural disaster years. .
The direct effect of the drop in food prices is that the entire city's industries have recovered, the streets have become prosperous again, industry and commerce have begun to recover, and people have smiles on their faces again.
Shi Kefa casually walked a few steps on the street and saw a storyteller in a roadside teahouse telling a story: "Speaking of which, Shi Si arrived at Gaojia Village, Chengcheng County, worked hard for a few days and earned some money. I thought to myself, how could I make a fortune by doing hard work? Then I had to learn some skills, so I packed a bag of flour, carried two taels of bacon, and wanted to find a blacksmith to learn from me, but I didn't expect that he had just walked out of the house. , when I got to the edge of the bamboo forest, I felt a pain in the back of my head, and I was knocked unconscious..."
When Shi Kefa heard this, he actually heard his interest and couldn't help but stop and want to know the follow-up.
But the storyteller put away his fan and said, "If you want to know what happened next time, let's listen to the explanation next time."
Shi Kefa was angry: "Keep talking! If you don't learn from the good stuff, will you learn it out of context?"
"Master, don't be angry, come and have some tea." The waiter offered him a cup of fragrant tea.
Shi Kefa picked it up and drank it casually, his expression suddenly froze. Ordinary people might not be able to drink it, but he could taste it in one sip. This tea was actually a first-grade Yuqian Longjing tea. Was there any mistake? Even in the affluent areas of Suzhou and Hangzhou, this kind of Yuqian Longjing is not something that roadside teahouses can provide.
Only dignitaries can afford it.
In Hancheng, a small roadside teahouse actually poured me a cup?
Shi Kefa: "Where did you buy this tea?"
The waiter said cheerfully: "The shopkeeper's brother brought it back. He is a teacher at Gaojia Village School in Chengcheng County. It is said that this tea is a special gift from the teacher. It was given by Tianzun himself, and he doesn't like to drink it either." I sent someone to bring the tea back to the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper didn’t like the tea, so he just took it out to entertain the guests.”
Hearing the word Tianzun, Shi Kefa instantly understood. What kind of tea is this quality? Tianzun can even directly grant a Yellow River Bridge.
He patted the waiter on the shoulder: "Tell your shopkeeper, this tea is not easy to buy in Jiangnan. It is very expensive. Don't just use it to invite people to drink it."
Waiter: "Huh? Is it such good tea?"
After such an interruption, the storyteller had already run away. Shi Kefa did not hear the follow-up to the story and was quite disappointed: "Then what happens after the storyteller tells the story?"
The waiter smiled: "The story he told was "Gao Piao". In fact, most people in Hancheng have read the book of villains. I just heard that Mr. Shu told it again with added embarrassment to join in the fun. If the official is interested, you can go Buy a little book and read it."
Shi Kefa: "Where is the bookstore?"
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Waiter: "It's just around the corner."
When Shi Kefa arrived at the bookstore, he saw that the place was full of books. Half of them were works in various languages that he was familiar with, such as the Four Books, Five Classics and Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, but the other half was very strange, such as "Chinese", "Mathematics", "Physics", "Chemistry", just by looking at the name, I could only understand the first two books. The "Physics" and "Chemistry" at the back made Shi Kefa completely confused.
In addition to these things, there are also a lot of picture books, "The Legend of Daoxuan Tianzun's Demon Slayer". This name immediately attracted his attention. Thinking of Tianzun's gift of the bridge, he didn't care about it and bought one first. The entire set of six volumes was held by the entourage.
Moving forward, "General of the Yang Family", "Yue Fei's Biography", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and various short-form novels began to appear, and the "Gao Piao" he wanted to buy was also squeezed in among them.
Shi Kefa was considered a rich man, so he bought all the books he had never seen before, whether they were text or picture books, and let his entourage hold them.
Originally he came to buy "Gao Piao" and wanted to read the story of Shi Si after he was knocked unconscious. Unexpectedly, among the books he bought, the one he was most interested in was "The Legend of Daoxuan Tianzun's Demon Slayer". So I started reading this book while walking.
Not long after, the team left Hancheng and headed towards Heyang County.
Shi Kefa was reading the little book on horseback, six volumes in a row, and after reading them all, he finally understood something about "Tianzun".
I couldn't help but be secretly surprised: It turned out that the person I met at Longmen Ferry was the Heavenly Lord in the book. He appeared in the human world and spoke to me.
"Sir, the crops in the farmland in Heyang County are growing extremely well, abnormally good."
When the attendant saw that he had finished reading the book, he hurriedly reported to him.
Shi Kefa closed the book, looked up and looked around. The farmland around him was growing really well. One could tell at a glance that this year would be a bumper harvest, and it would be several times more than in previous years.
If he hadn't read "The Legend of Daoxuan Tianzun's Demon Slayer", he would definitely be shocked now, but after reading the book, he already knew it in his mind, and said calmly: "This is because Tianzun gave the farmers here some fairy fertilizer, and the crops only need If you pour fairy manure on it, the harvest will double. Well, the third volume of this book talks about this, so take a good look at it."
The follower took the book and flipped through it a few times, and suddenly realized it.
Shi Kefa reached out and took out the secret letter from his sleeve, read the paragraph he wrote: "Food prices are abnormally low", and sighed: "Chengcheng County and Heyang County, the combined population of the two counties during the Tianqi Years There are about 160,000 to 200,000 people. In other words, if there had been no drought, the grain output in these two counties could have supported almost 200,000 people. But now, the grain output in these two counties has doubled compared with normal years. The food can feed 400,000 people! If more wasteland is reclaimed, it will be easy to feed 500,000 people."
Shi Kefa: "I wrote a secret letter before, wondering why the food here is so cheap and why can it accept a large number of refugees? Now that I think about it, accepting this small number of refugees is really nothing. Even if Tianzun doesn't take action, we only rely on the food produced in the farmland. It can afford hundreds of thousands of disaster victims, not to mention that the Heavenly Lord will give some supplies from time to time."
Shi Kefa did a good job!
Ever since Li Daoxuan provided rainfall and chemical fertilizers to Chengcheng County, he began to deliberately reduce the amount of food he gave to Chengcheng County, so that the two counties could learn to be self-sufficient. The hard-working people have lived up to his expectations. They have already grown their own food to support themselves, and there is still more that can be sold to the village treasury.
Thirty-two were then transferred from the village treasury and distributed to the reform-through-labor prisoners.
Most of the food given by Li Daoxuan has been transferred directly to Shanxi.
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