Ninety-nine percent of the people here in Pingcheng are farmers.
How rich can farmers be if they rely on the sky for their livelihood?
All in all, this was an ordinary small county town with no special features that made him unable to even find souvenirs.
Really, there aren’t any specialties here in Pingcheng.
Everything that is available here is available in the next county.
Therefore, the New Year gifts he gave to his relatives and friends during the past two years were all purchased from Fucheng.
The locals in Pingcheng really can't do anything about it.
When you are the magistrate of a county like Pingcheng, it is extremely difficult to accomplish something that will impress the emperor.
In the past three years, he has wanted to go bald, but he has not come up with any good solutions.
If your political performance is not outstanding, you will not be promoted.
He himself had no background. He came from a poor family. During the previous dynasty, his family was also wealthy. It was a moderately aristocratic family. However, after the war and the establishment of the prosperous dynasty, his family completely declined.
With no political achievements and no connections, in order to avoid being out of the sight of the Holy Emperor, he originally thought that he would be ruthless this year and use his ancestral property to cultivate relations with officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so that next year he could choose a county where he could show his strength.
But now.
The ordinary Pingcheng finally has some special local products!
With just one vermicelli, the people of Pingcheng can be twice as wealthy as before or even more.
This is his political achievement!
After spending two years in the Hanlin Academy, he could probably figure out the emperor's thoughts: the prosperity of the people and the security of the country.
Whether the people are rich or not is an invisible criterion for evaluating officials.
Therefore, he still had to use his ancestral property.
Because according to Dasheng's regulations, county magistrates are transferred every three years. If he wants to stay in Pingcheng, he must have a trust relationship.
As long as he can stay, it doesn't matter if he spends some of his ancestral property. With vermicelli, he can make the eyes of the Holy Emperor shine.
We must support the great cause of vermicelli in Sanliu Village!
Jiangzhi County issued an order, and soon the village chiefs of hundreds of villages in the county came to the county government office.
Of course, for villages that are far away, even if you take an ox cart, you have to walk for a day and a night, so the arrival is slower.
But it doesn't matter.
This does not affect Jiangzhi County's announcement of the purchase of starch in Sanliu Village to the village chief who came early.
The taxes collected twice a year are collected by the government officials in person in each village. Therefore, the village chiefs of these villages have a close relationship with Jiang Zhixian.
Now that Jiangzhi County has announced the vermicelli issue, these village chiefs are in for a surprise.
Vermicelli has been popular in the county for more than a month. Many village chiefs know about vermicelli. Now Sanliu Village wants to buy starch, which is a good thing.
The sweet potatoes in their village can also be turned into silver!
There was even a certain village head who pulled Zhuang Fengshou's sleeve and asked Zhuang Fengshou why he didn't make this decision earlier with a distressed look on his face.
Because it is now the twelfth lunar month and the Chinese New Year is just a few days away, a lot of sweet potatoes grown by every household have been consumed.
What a pity.
But no one really complained about Zhuang Fengsheng. This was a matter of mutual benefit.
Although the people who grow sweet potatoes have consumed a lot of sweet potatoes, these people still have some sweet potatoes left at home. Because according to the custom here in Pingcheng, sweet potato balls are fried during the New Year.
Sweet potatoes are needed during the Chinese New Year, so every household will naturally have sweet potatoes at this time.
Zhuang Fengshou taught these village chiefs how to make sweet potato starch, and these village chiefs returned to their respective villages to teach the villagers how to make starch.
Of course, Zhuang Fengshou also specifically emphasized that starch must be clean. Sanliu Village will not harvest any impurities.
When the time comes, all your work will be in vain, so don't blame him.
Jiangzhi County also agreed to this condition. Vermicelli should become Pingcheng's specialty, representing Pingcheng's face and his face.
He doesn't want to be embarrassed.
Jiang Zhixian made a statement, and the village chiefs dared not ignore it.
After returning to the village, when teaching the villagers how to make starch, hygiene issues were emphasized.
This is what the county magistrate said!
The county magistrate's deterrent effect on ordinary villagers is like God. After all, the furthest place most villagers go in their lives is the county seat. In the area where they operate, Jiang Magistrate controls their taxes, corvee, etc. The power of life and death.
This is indeed their day.
Now that God has spoken, they dare not disobey.
As a result, all the farmers who planted sweet potatoes in Pingcheng suddenly became extremely busy in this twelfth lunar month, which was supposed to be the winter leisure period.
Six pounds of sweet potatoes produce one pound of starch. Sanliu Village collects starch at fifteen cents per pound. If it can produce one hundred catties of starch, it can be sold for fifteen hundred cents.
If you make two hundred pounds of starch, you can sell it for three thousand Wen.
This is a large amount of money, enough for them to live a prosperous year.
Therefore, you must put your arms aside and work hard!
While others were busy making starch and vermicelli, life in Li Qiao's family continued as usual.
After Zhuang Wen returned to the village, he would come to Li Qiao's house every other day to discuss knowledge with Li Qiao.
He memorized the Four Books, Five Classics, Three Histories and Three Biographies very well, so he often acted as a tutor and randomly checked Li Qiao's most basic recitation.
I will also take a test on Mo Yi.
Although Li Qiao bought commentaries on the Four Books and Five Classics, each person has his or her own understanding of the commentaries, so there are different versions of the commentaries.
What's even more amazing is that there are also special commentaries on the Commentary.
It's almost like a matryoshka doll.
Therefore, it does not mean that it is enough to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics by rote with annotations. You also have to consult with teachers and classmates to see which version of the annotations is currently used by the mainstream.
Zhuang Wen studied hard for thirty years, so naturally he could temporarily serve as Li Qiao's tutor, teaching Li Qiao and solving his doubts.
But there are also areas where Zhuang Wen is not good at.
As an out-and-out ancient, the farthest place he has ever been is Fucheng. He only has a general understanding of natural disasters such as typhoons, tornadoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes.
He asked his wife and classmates at the private school. Like him, he felt numb when faced with this weird question.
Li Qiao understands this.
But now Li Qiao can only pretend not to understand.
It can be said that he learned how to make snacks from miscellaneous books, but with so many natural disasters, he would definitely not be able to get through them with miscellaneous books.
Therefore, he could only use his superb acting skills to look like he was thinking hard and worried, and frowned together with Zhuang Wen.
On this day, the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, I went to cut the meat.
When Zhuang Wen came in the afternoon, Li Qiao was in the kitchen stewing meat.
In his two lifetimes, this was the first time for him to celebrate the New Year with his family, so he had spent much less time reading every day since he made sacrifices to the stove.
You can wait until the next year to read the book.
But he had to do the lively preparations a year ago with Tao Zhu.
A lot of aniseed ingredients were added to the buckwheat stew. Zhuang Wen smelled the rich aroma as soon as he entered the courtyard. He couldn't help but take two deep breaths. It was so delicious!
He must have eaten stew before going home today.
Li Qiao saw Zhuang Wen coming through the kitchen window and put down the chopsticks in his hand.
Hey, he was holding a fried dough stick just now, and he had to eat it with Tao Zhu.
Of course, eating together meant that he and Tao Zhu each bit one end of the fried dough stick.
Tao Zhu's cheeks were dyed with a faint red. He turned his eyes and saw Zhuang Wen, so he pushed him out: "Brother Wen is here, stop making trouble."
"Okay, let's go to the shower room to have fun that night." Li Qiao nodded with a smile.
When Tao Zhu heard this, the blush on his cheeks became heavier, but when he saw Zhuang Wen about to enter the kitchen, he did not answer Li Qiao's words. Instead, he turned around and took two plates, which contained the glutinous rice lotus root and fried rice just made today. Coupling.
"Brother Wen, someone sent a cart of lotus roots today. Li Qiao made these two dishes according to the instructions in the book. You can try them."
Tao Zhu handed the plate to Li Qiao and asked Li Qiao to take Zhuang Wen to the backyard study.
Li Qiao agreed and mouthed the word "shower room" before leaving.
Tao Zhu understood his mouth movements and closed the kitchen door with a bang. It was broad daylight and he was not ashamed.
But after closing the door, thinking about the wonder of the shower room, the heat on his face couldn't go away.
The most wonderful design of this new house is the shower room. I only experienced it once and I will never forget it in my life.
"You're living a good life as a kid. If someone brings you food, you can make delicious food."
Zhuang Wen didn't notice the flirting between Li Qiao and Tao Zhu. He looked at the food on the plate that looked very tempting just by its appearance, and couldn't help but smile.
"This is from Niujiazhuang over there in the town. Niujiazhuang planted a lot of sweet potatoes this year and sold them for money. Today they sent someone with Uncle Zheng to deliver the lotus roots. You can bring them with you when you go back later. If you bring back a few kilograms, my family won’t be able to eat them all.”
Li Qiao explained.
"Okay." Zhuang Wen was not polite to Li Qiao.
Nowadays, there are too many people sending New Year's goods to Li Qiao, not only from other villages, but also from our own village.
People in Sanliu Village have made a lot of money this winter by relying on the sweet potato workshop. Since the sweet potato workshop stopped making starch and focused on making vermicelli, it can make up to 1,500 kilograms of vermicelli in a day.
With so many vermicelli, there is no need to worry about sales.
In addition to people in Pingcheng who want to buy it, traders also want to buy it.
In this case, the villagers wanted to thank Li Qiao.
Although Li Qiao made it clear that he would not accept anything from the folks, his refusal in the past and his refusal now are not the same thing, because it is the Chinese New Year now.
New Year's Eve.
