Li Chengqian's family soon appeared in Li Ke's sight. After seeing Li Ke, Li Chengqian laughed and said: "Sanlang, you are back. It just so happens that your nephew has been clamoring to go out for an outing these days. The weather is so bad It’s finally okay. It’s really boring in the East Palace. I heard that you’re back and I’ll bring you here to play. By the way, there are quite a few small courtyards here. Just give me a small courtyard at random. I won’t live with you. This is the Forbidden Tower."
"Okay, brother, just be happy. Brother, you are not going to this meeting." Li Ke had already begun to complain directly.
"Didn't you say whoever wants to have sex with whomever you want? It won't be a big deal if I go there. I just want to see how you deal with government affairs and other things. I can know these things in the East Palace," Li Chengqian said.
Li Ke: "..."
That's an excuse I made for myself, not for you!
"Brother, just choose whichever courtyard you like." Li Ke waved his hand feebly.
"Okay, then I'll make my own choice. While you're busy with your business, your sister-in-law and I will take a look around." Li Chengqian waved his hand with a smile, and then took the people away without any courtesy.
Li Ke: "..."
You are really welcome. I thought this place was a scenic spot and I came to stay in the hotel because of my love.
The question is, if your elder brother asks you to come and stay for a few days, you can’t help but let him stay, right?
"Which one do you think is prettier?" Li Chengqian asked with a smile as he took Crown Princess Su for a walk in Li Ke's Qinwangzhuang.
"That's it, Dayingyuan. The style of this courtyard is quite interesting. It's all made of stone, and the overall look is quite solemn. I'm used to living in the East Palace. This one is quite interesting, but the name of this courtyard is weird. Yes." The Crown Princess said with a smile.
"Then we'll live here." Li Chengqian didn't care. The architectural styles here are all different. This kind of building purely made of stone is indeed quite interesting. The stone combined with the wooden doors and windows and the addition of glass are quite interesting. It’s an exotic style, I don’t know if it’s the style from Dashi.
After entering the small courtyard, Li Chengqian asked people to put down the things. The people from Qinwangzhuang who followed Li Chengqian helped put the things down. In addition to his concubines, concubines, and children, Li Chengqian naturally brought some personal maids with him. After all, They are all familiar and easy to take care of.
"Where is No. 10 Downing Street?" As I walked, I saw that there were no special signs on some other buildings, but this one was not big, and it was a small, remote house with a sign and a name on it.
"Your Majesty, this is the latrine." A maid from Qin Wangzhuang who followed immediately said respectfully.
Li Chengqian was a little dumbfounded, "Same with Sanlang, what kind of habit are these? Forget about naming other palaces, this toilet has to be given a name, and it's weird. I remember that the toilet outside his side is called What is the Jingguo Society?"
"Yes, Your Highness."
Li Chengqian was a little speechless, but he didn't care. He could call it whatever he wanted. He could call it his own house.
I just don’t know where these weird names come from.
Li Ke didn't care about Li Chengqian. Since Li Chengqian said he didn't need it, he didn't need it.
It just so happened that Li Ke came here too. It was Tian Meng who sent him the relevant news through the channels of Yuelai Trading Company.
Li Ke opened it and took a look.
First of all, Yuelai Trading Company signed large-scale contracts with people in various states in the Tang Dynasty to purchase raw materials such as silk and hemp. Among them, the contracts signed for hemp were the largest, about 2.2 million acres, and the average number of acres signed per household was 10 acres. , more in mountainous areas, 15 acres per household, less in plain areas, about 5 acres per household, and the contract signing methods are different according to different terrains.
The contract for silk is more complicated and is calculated based on kilograms, because both spring and autumn silkworms spin silk more than once.
However, the silk purchase price signed by Li Ke and the people is about 50% higher than the market price. Generally speaking, silk farmers spin the silk into silk thread before selling it, but now Li Ke does not need them to spin, and their labor costs Naturally, it has declined, and people can raise more silkworms at the same time.
At the same time, they also need to plant more mulberry trees. Of course, the place where Li Ke chose to sign a contract with a sericulture farmer is also a place where the land is not suitable for growing food and is suitable for raising sericulture.
Moreover, the amount of the contract is also limited. Otherwise, large-scale sericulture will easily endanger oneself.
At present, in fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, even if Li Ke let go of signing contracts with the people, the people would not change all the land to plant this ancient version of cash crops. The reason is very simple. Chinese people have been afraid of hunger since ancient times.
Especially since the drought of the Zhenguan Year had just passed, and everyone was hungry during the great disaster year, for the people of this era, it was safe to grow their own food.
But even if the people will not switch to cash crops on a large scale at the beginning, Li Ke will not let go of the harvest, otherwise some people will be bold enough to stop planting grain next year.
The bottom line of growing grain cannot be broken.
We must adhere to the red line of cultivated land unswervingly.
Compared with silk, linen's income is probably the largest this year, but it doesn't matter if there is too much linen. Li Ke not only has weaving and spinning techniques, but also has more advanced techniques for processing linen. After his processing The linen of later generations cannot be compared with that of later generations, but it is much softer and stronger than the linen of this era, and the weave is more compact.
For the Tang Dynasty, it was definitely digestible, and these linen clothes could still be sold. Regardless of the people in the surrounding small countries such as Turks, a large number of people also consumed these linen clothes.
In fact, even Datang himself could completely eat these linen cloths.
Moreover, the recycled hemp is not only used for making linen cloth, sacks, hemp ropes, etc., but also has a wide range of uses. Especially if commercial activities are carried out on a large scale, the amount of sacks used is a very scary figure.
In addition to these basic data, there are also the connections established with some small and poor local families that come with the signing of the contract. This means that Yuelai Trading Company's network has gradually begun to penetrate into the entire Datang Village.
In fact, there is no need to go to the village level. It is enough to go to the township level. Once in a township, a prominent family in a township only needs to establish contact with Yuelai Trading Company and ask them to help investigate the situation in each village. It is actually very simple. .
As for this kind of investigation, it stands to reason that the imperial court of the Tang Dynasty also had this efficiency. After all, it was passed down from one level of administrative departments to another, and it was similar to that of Yuelai Trading Company.
However, the work efficiency of the Tang Dynasty court was excruciatingly slow.
