Sheng Hong smiled and raised his hand to Li Qiao.
But Li Qiao was stunned again. I really don't blame him for being stunned. Others would have been stunned as well.
He looked at Sheng Hong with wide eyes, what kind of wind was this?
Just now I was inquiring about his relationship with Magistrate Ming, but now he was directly rewarded with 10,000 acres of land plus a farm in Shengjing?
"Your Majesty, Wei Chen is really scared right now." He nodded his heart, looking pitiful, weak, and helpless: "If you have any explanation, just tell me directly. Wei Chen can go up mountains of swords and seas of fire. I’ll try my best to make it happen for you.”
"Tsk, how can I explain anything?"
Sheng Hong couldn't help stroking his beard, with a look of introspection on his face: "Li Aiqing, you will make me feel that I have treated you badly."
Was he too stingy with Li Aiqing in the past?
…
That's right. Apart from promoting Li Aiqing, he has never really given Li Aiqing any material things. Because he knows that Li Aiqing is not short of money, he rarely rewards gold and silver. As for land, he has not given Li Aiqing anything.
Li Aiqing's current property in Shengjing should be less than one thousand acres, right?
As a third-rank official and a popular person in front of him, the land in Li Aiqing's hands was indeed shabby.
I'm afraid no one will believe me if I tell you.
"Let's do this. I will reward you with another 10,000 acres of first-class farmland in Jibei Province. Where exactly will it be located? Since you are the head of the household department, you can find the chief doctor of Jibei Province and you two can choose."
"I don't have much fertile land left in Shengjing."
Sheng Hong said again.
Li Aiqing became rich too late, and the fields around Shengjing had long been divided up by nobles and powerful officials.
The only place farther away is Jibei Province.
Li Qiao: "!"
He took a breath of cold air, then raised his hand and patted his heart gently: "Your Majesty, you really have not treated me badly. In just a few years, Weichen has grown from a sixth-grade official to a third-grade important minister. Such a speed of promotion , how can it be called mistreatment?"
"You don't need to reward these fields to the humble ministers. It's a matter of eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor. Do you really have no confidential matters that need to be handled by the humble ministers?"
"Of course not. Considering your contribution to the people and the court, the land I reward you is nothing. You can calculate for yourself how much you have earned for me in terms of money alone."
After hearing Li Qiao's words, Sheng Hong became more introspective. He was indeed stingy before.
He turned to Qian San behind him and ordered: "Go and help Li Aiqing up, just a little bit of land. It scares Li Aiqing. It seems that the rewards I usually give to Li Aiqing are indeed less."
Qian San smiled slightly and walked towards Li Qiao, but he said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Xiao Li is young and has a shallow foundation. The twenty thousand acres of land is indeed a very big place for Mr. Xiao Li. Mr. Xiao Li It’s normal to be scared.”
"That's right. Li Aiqing's farmland in Pingcheng is only 10,000 acres, right?"
"Exactly ten thousand acres."
Qian San replied.
"Then Li Aiqing doesn't like land?"
Sheng Hong looked at Li Qiao and wondered: "Speaking of which, it's been ten years since you made your fortune, right? Why did you just buy so much land?"
"...If I return to the Holy Spirit, it will be nine years, and this year is the tenth year."
Li Qiao stood up with Qian San's help and answered. He thanked Qian San and then continued: "It's because the Weichen family has few hands and there are too many fields to manage."
"It's so true."
Sheng Hong was a little incredible.
Unexpectedly, this is the reason why Li Aiqing has so little land...
"Just hire people to farm. You contact the local officials in Weiqing County and Jibei Province and ask these people to take care of it for you. When the crops mature, you can send people there."
He gave Li Qiao thoughtful suggestions.
"……yes."
Li Qiao agreed. Sheng Hong allowed him to have more contact with local officials. He lifted up his clothes and knelt down to thank him. He didn't feel any malice from Sheng Hong now. Sheng Hong must have had a seizure suddenly, so he wanted to reward him. Land property.
Since Sheng Hong had to get the reward, he would continue, but he got 20,000 acres of land and a village in Shengjing for nothing.
He must kowtow to Sheng Hong.
Seeing this, Sheng Hong coughed lightly and said: "Li Aiqing, land is the foundation of a life. Anyway, you are not short of money. If you need to buy land, buy it. It's up to you to pick the land in Dasheng. Keep it far away." Yes, you can just contact the local magistrate or magistrate directly.”
Li Qiao: "...Yes."
He agreed without refusing.
He really should buy some land. There may be a food crisis if there are many natural disasters in the next ten years.
He needs to store more food.
Or if tenants rent their fields, he will reduce or reduce the rent to give these tenants some way to make a living.
After coming out of the palace, Li Qiao went straight home. It was not the Lantern Festival yet, and the officials had not officially gone to work yet. The Ministry of Household Affairs only had servants and petty officials on duty at the moment.
If he wants to choose his own 20,000 acres of land, he has to wait until after the Lantern Festival.
He returned home briskly. It was noon when he returned home. Lunch was almost ready, but Tao Zhu, Li Xiaorui, Li Changfeng, and Li Yunfan were not at home. Tao Zhu led the three little guys to select the poor children they wanted to sponsor. .
Therefore, he could only endure the good news for now.
After lunch, he did not go to the study to look at the information on the prince's wharf, but went to the tool room in the front yard.
There are some farm tools and some carpenter's tools in the tool room. He will "invent" some new objects from time to time, so he has a full set of carpentry tools at home.
It is actually a bit difficult for him to make money from rich people.
His first thought was soap.
He only knew how to make soap. He had never actually done it himself. He wanted to make soap naturally like making cement. He couldn't find a reasonable reason for a while.
Since he couldn't give everyone a logical explanation, he couldn't take action easily.
In addition to soap, there is of course glass.
He only knew how to make glass, but had no actual experience with it.
There is colored glaze in this time and space, but the transparency is far less than that of glass. If the glass can be hammered out, the rich man's wallet will definitely be open to him, and he can make whatever he wants.
But because he had never done it in practice, he was a little hesitant whether to do it or not.
After much hesitation, he finally decided to make bicycles first.
Nowadays, Shengjing is full of cement roads, and scooters are also very popular. If he "builds" a bicycle, someone will buy it...
Li Qiao stood in the tool shed, and when he was undecided, a familiar voice came from the door:
Tao Zhu came back with three little guys.
He immediately walked out of the tool shed, forget it, and first shared the good news about the 20,000 acres of land with Tao Zhu.
Twenty thousand acres!
He is now a big landowner among big landowners!
Sheng Hong felt that the land in his hands was small, compared with families like the Xin family, which had been accumulated for several generations and only had 500,000 acres of cultivated land.
It has only been nine years since he traveled to this time and space, and he now owns 30,000 acres of farmland, which is really a lot!
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Chapter 202 Selecting Farmland A big landowner with 40,000 acres of land!
Twenty thousand acres of cultivated land, this figure is astonishing to anyone.
According to the price set by the court, one acre of unowned wasteland and first-class land is thirty taels. Now that Sheng Hong has directly rewarded 20,000 acres, that adds up to 600,000 taels.
This is almost two or even three years of vermicelli earnings.
Who would be unhappy?
Tao Zhu was happy anyway.
Hearing the good news shared by Li Qiao, he was surprised and happy, and grabbed Li Qiao's hand: "Happy event, great happy event!"
"It's a happy event to be promoted to magistrate, it's great."
"Yes, let's cook a few more dishes tonight and let's celebrate."
Li Qiao nodded with a smile.
Li Xiaorui, who was standing aside, heard that he was going to add more vegetables and quickly reminded: "Uncle, don't waste it!"
"Okay, don't waste it."
Li Qiao smiled and took out a hand from Tao Zhu's hand and flicked his forehead: "Call your father, second uncle, third uncle, and uncle Shen back. Let's all eat together tonight. We will definitely not waste anything."
"good!"
Li Xiaorui agreed crisply.
There are so many people and it’s lively.
No need to waste food, he loves eating together as a family!
After a while, Li Liang and Wang Guihua came back from the sweet potato workshop. They heard that their family had newly added 20,000 acres of farmland. Li Liang's legs went weak and he almost fell down: "Xiao Qiao, what merit have you performed for the Holy Emperor recently?"
Wang Guihua was also shocked: "You're so good, why did you suddenly be rewarded with so many fields?"
Both husband and wife were not happy, but worried.
In the past, the Holy Spirit rewarded small buckwheat fields with dozens or hundreds of acres, but now they rewarded 20,000 acres without any warning!
Fear.
Li Qiao hurriedly explained: "It's true that I haven't done anything for the Holy Sage recently, but I have been working for the Holy Sage faithfully. Especially recently, I have built two schools and plan to buy cotton myself so that I can donate it to Shantang.”
"The Holy One felt that I had spent a lot of energy and money on behalf of the people and the court, so he rewarded me with so much farmland."
