Hearing this, Li Qiao immediately showed a smile: "Okay."
He took the paper with one hand and held Tao Zhu's hand with the other: "Let's go back to the main room and take a look."
Tao Zhu also smiled when he heard this, and with a hum, the two of them returned to the main room holding hands.
After entering the house, Li Qiao explained: "Gao Zhiyuan ran to the border town. I don't know what he wanted to do. This is what Li Dao came back to talk about."
Li Dao and several nursing staff were away from home for a long time, which was definitely something he couldn't hide from Tao Zhu, so he told Tao Zhu half of the truth to dispel Tao Zhu's doubts.
He only said that Gao Zhiyuan had become a Taoist priest and said nothing about the pamphlet.
Tao Zhu didn't care about Gao Zhiyuan for a long time. When he heard Li Qiao's words, he hummed to express his understanding, and then said directly: "You take a look at the wedding menu first, and I will check the guest list."
He said, pulling Li Qiao towards his small desk.
Li Qiao stared at his slender neck, took two steps to come to him, and with a light pounce, directly took his body into her arms.
Li Qiao's move was without warning, and Tao Zhu couldn't help but exclaimed, staggering forward two steps before regaining his balance.
Li Qiao buried his face in the crook of his neck, and his warm breath tickled his neck. He grabbed Li Qiao's hands on his shoulders and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I want to hug you." Li Qiao said and tightened his arms.
He was really happy knowing that his Brother Zhu had a great life in his previous life.
"Then sit down and hug her." Tao Zhu raised the corners of his mouth when he heard this.
So the two of them didn't feel too hot and squeezed into the same chair again. One looked at the wedding menu and the other looked at the guest list. Although they were busy with their own work, they would kiss or kiss twice from time to time, and they just finished the work that could be done in a few minutes. Extended to half an hour.
However, the sweet time was short-lived. After dinner, Li Qiao did not sit in the yard with Tao Zhu, Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan to enjoy the cool air, but went to the study again.
A drought that is so dry that even domestic water cannot be guaranteed.
This drought was heard by Gao Zhiyuan in the 20th year of Shengping, and it happened before the 20th year of Shengping.
And next year will be the fifteenth year of Shengping. If there is no accident, it will probably be next year or the year after.
Moreover, Gao Zhiyuan believes that this drought should occur in Jibei Province and not in Shengjing.
In fact, according to the information he found at the Ministry of Household Affairs, there are also many droughts in the Shengjing area, but they are not so severe that even domestic water is gone.
There are several large rivers outside Shengjing City, such as the Yongding River. There is no record of its flow being cut off in history.
So this drought is 80% in Jibei Province?
He dug out the map of Jibei Province. The map in his hand was much more detailed than the maps circulating on the market.
Moreover, when choosing farmland before, he had a detailed understanding of the situation in every prefecture in Jibei Province. He knew exactly what rivers flowed through each prefecture.
For this level of drought, he had no good solution. All he could do was divert water.
There is a large river outside Shengjing City, and there are also five large rivers flowing through Jibei Province. If you want to divert water, although the project is large, it is not impossible.
Furthermore, he also has supernatural powers.
In his previous life, he would occasionally be asked by people at the base to irrigate crops. Of course, in this life, he would definitely not blatantly use his powers to irrigate crops.
But can he use supernatural powers to raise the water level of the groundwater? Or quietly release water into the river?
…
Bold ideas.
It should be very difficult to operate. If he really does this, he may have to stay in Jibei Province often.
That’s all, after all, one should practice cultivation first.
Chapter 212 Preparation for the fight against locusts Fan Yuanyuan and Li Ershan get married
It’s important to practice your superpowers.
But the massive locust plague that will affect three provinces next year is equally important.
Gao Zhiyuan cursed and talked a lot of nonsense, but did not give a specific time for the locust plague next year, which is rubbish.
However, locust plagues mostly occur in summer and autumn.
Moreover, Gao Zhiyuan also gave the location of Xishan Province in addition to Hexi Prefecture.
So, while Fan Bubu came home to finalize the procedures for the wedding day, Li Qiao specifically told him about the Li family's plan to open a duck shop and fried chicken shop in Xishan Province.
Chickens and ducks can eat locusts. In Li Qiao's previous life, he had seen news about the country using chickens and ducks to control locust plagues.
A single locust is usually green. This kind of locust is edible, full of protein and rich in nutrients.
However, if the locusts gather in large numbers, their bodies will turn yellow. This yellow color of locusts contains toxins.
Li Qiao didn't know the specific amount of toxins contained. However, every time there was a locust plague, farmers would catch yellow locusts and eat them. Maybe they ate less. At least he had not heard of any cases of poisoning due to eating locusts.
However, to be on the safe side, it is better to use chickens and ducks to deal with locusts.
Over the years, every household in Pingcheng has raised chickens and ducks, with each household raising dozens or even hundreds of chickens, but there has never been a highly contagious disease such as bird flu.
Therefore, Li Qiao became bold now. He clearly told Fan Buza that he would open duck shops and fried chicken shops in Jincheng Prefecture, where Fan's family is located, and in Yuncheng Prefecture and Changzhi Prefecture, which are adjacent to Jincheng Prefecture.
He needs farmers to breed chickens and ducks.
Fan Buzhu was very happy after hearing Li Qiao's words.
The Li family's duck shop and fried chicken shop are important pillar stores of the Li family. Now Mr. Li is willing to open a branch in Xishan Province and leaves the matter to his Fan family. This is recognition of his Fan family. And trust!
He immediately assured Mr. Li that he would keep the recipe and provide a stable supply of goods so that the Li duck shop and fried chicken shop could make a lot of money smoothly.
After Fan Buzhu made a promise to Li Qiao, he returned to Fan's house that day and immediately wrote a letter to his hometown, telling people in his hometown to first post that Li's shop would open duck goods and fried chicken in Jincheng Prefecture, Yuncheng Prefecture, and Changzhi Prefecture. The chicken branch calls on farmers in these three prefectures to raise more chickens and ducks.
The reason why Li Qiao chose these three provinces in Xishan Province is because these three provinces border on Yuanhe Province.
I don’t know whether next year’s locusts will come from Tay Son Province to Nguyen Ha Province or from Nguyen Ha Province to Tay Son Province. What Li Qiao can do is arrange chickens and ducks in the three prefectures bordering the two provinces to block the locusts.
Fan's family happened to be in Jincheng Mansion, so he didn't have to find reasons to explain to everyone. He only needed to say that he wanted to make more money, and that would stop everyone's curiosity.
There is also the original river province.
Hexi Prefecture is quite far away from Xishan Province. It would seem deliberate if he opened a shop in a prefecture on the border between the two provinces.
He could only write letters to Li Gu and Zhuang Fengshou, asking the Li duck shop and fried chicken shop to open branches in the two neighboring prefectures in Hexi Prefecture, so as to form a line of defense against locusts.
As for how effective these two lines of defense will be next year, let's leave it to fate.
There is also a third province, not only Xishan Province or Dongshan Province, but also Jibei Province.
Xishan Province was too far away, and Li Qiao had no acquaintance there, so he was really helpless.
But Dongshan Province and Jibei Province now have Ming governors.
After Governor Ming arrived in Dongshan Province, he first inspected several large rivers in the province, and then planned to dig rivers and build canals so that the water from these large rivers could irrigate more fields.
Now that individual prefectures have completed planning, they have begun digging rivers.
The government provided a small part of the money needed, and the Ming governor subsidized a large part from his own pocket.
When the Governor-General of the Ming Dynasty was the prefect, his monthly salary was quite high. In addition, he received some harmless filial piety. Over the years, he had accumulated a lot of money and his family was very strong.
Now that he has been promoted to the governor-general with the power of two provinces, his salary is higher, and he can receive more harmless filial piety money.
With so much money, he would first subsidize building roads and build as many roads as he could.
Li Qiao praised Governor Ming for being so selfless.
However, he really couldn't get involved in the affairs of Dongshan Province for a while, because he knew that this official had not arrived in the capital yet.
There is no word on the marriage between Li and Ming families. He wants to open a shop in Dongshan Province, but that is far away.
As for Jibei Province, he has not thought about it for the time being. Jibei Province is close. If he has any better ideas, he can implement them quickly.
When Fan BuZhu remotely controlled people in his hometown to do things for Li Qiao, the marriage between Li Ershan and Fan Yuanyuan went on as scheduled.
Li Qiao did not invite many guests, but only sent invitations to people with whom he had a good relationship.
After the lively marriage, the Li family gained a new bride.
Fan Yuanyuansheng has round eyes and a round face. Not only is she cute in appearance, but she also loves to laugh. She is also a complete foodie. From the first day she married into the Li family, she has been full of praise for the Li family’s home-cooked meals.
Fan Yuanyuan gets along very well with the Li family.
Li Liang and Wang Guihua are very satisfied with their second daughter-in-law.
Tao Zhu was also very satisfied with his niece-in-law, because in addition to the above advantages, Fan Yuanyuan saw that he often went to Shantang, Shantang Academy, the Shantang Academy branch outside the city, and the medical center, so he followed him there.
Fan Yuanyuan saw that although the students in the three schools were from poor families, they worked hard at studying and learning skills, so he directly donated money to set up scholarships.
Scholarships will be evaluated monthly, and those with outstanding performance will receive a reward of ten taels of silver.
There are three schools, each with ten places.
The establishment of this scholarship surprised even Li Qiao.
He hadn't thought of this before...
In fact, scholarships are also available at the Imperial College and official schools in various places, but in this time and space they are not called scholarships, but tuition money.
There was no electricity in this time and space, and reading at night required candles and lamp oil, so this subsidy was called tuition money.
But Li Qiao only stayed at Zhengxin Academy in Pingcheng for a few months and was not deeply impressed by the academy's various systems, so he ignored the tuition fee.
Now Fan Yuanyuan has taken the initiative to set up a scholarship, which makes him a little impressed.
Three schools, each with ten places, would cost three hundred taels of silver a month.
Although the Fan family is rich and Fan Yuanyuan has a generous dowry, three hundred taels of silver is not a small amount.
Therefore, he specially went to Li Ershan and told Li Ershan about his plan. If Fan Yuanyuan is willing, he can serve as the honorary deputy director of the three schools. In this case, Fan Yuanyuan can learn from him every month. Get a wage.
In these three schools, except for him and Tao Zhu, all other staff members were paid.
Fan Yuanyuan is generous in doing good deeds, which is a good thing. He cannot dampen the enthusiasm of his niece-in-law, but he can use this method to supplement her.
Fan Yuanyuan was overjoyed when she learned that she could become the deputy director of three schools.
She is a woman who can hold such an important position. My brother-in-law and uncle Zhu are so enlightened!
After becoming the deputy director, Fan Yuanyuan became very attached to the three schools and visited them almost every three days, running more frequently than Tao Zhu.
