How expensive is pepper? Although it is cheap now, only Qiongya is currently trying to grow it. Pepper is a traditional expensive spice and is grown a lot, but the price is not very cheap.

If you can become one of the three spices, the value of peppers will definitely be extremely huge.

Now the Song Dynasty has started to stir-fry tea. People are no longer satisfied with adding a little salt to cook rice. All kinds of spices have begun to be used at homes with conditions.

Yiling.

Liu An originally planned to be up to seven days, but he has been half a month and has not yet left.

A group of guests chased Yiling all the way. These people were called Wuling Man, which is a general term. At least thirty tribes came from south of Yiling, and they also brought their own tribe's specialties.

Liu An held a banquet to welcome the elders of these tribes.

To appease them is to appease the stability of the southwest.

Black chicken, honey, citrus, and fairy rice.

Fairy rice is not rice, it is a kind of lake-born algae, which is very strange.

Liu An ordered the use of black chicken to stew the soup for Pan Ziling that day, which made the guests feel grateful.

Liu An had been away for four months and was still along the Yangtze River. This was a pain for the prefect of Yuzhou. He waited around but did not see Liu An's ship, so he could only send people to guard the pier every day.

Let’s talk about Bianliang.

The emperor has not been very stable in court recently and travels outside the sky every day.

But I asked Lu Mengzheng once a day how the progress of the trial-built Tunyun Fire Dragon Car in Hangzhou was? When could he have a look in person?

On the day of court, Lu Mengzheng reported eight new changes in overseas use of Song money and tariffs. This was a very important state matter. The emperor did not listen to a word and only ordered Lu Mengzheng to take care of it.

After resigning from the court, the emperor asked Lu Mengzheng again.

In the front palace of the palace, Lu Meng was frowning and coming to the room where the major issues were discussed. Bi Shi'an, Wang Dan and Xiang Minzhong were all there. Xiang Minzhong was asking Wang Dan and Bi Shi'an for the restructuring of tariffs. If the government did not care about this, whether it was implemented, how it was implemented, etc.

Seeing Lu Meng coming in, all three of them stood up.

Wang Dan asked: "Is the official family staying with Brother Meng Zheng alone?"

"Oh..." Lu Mengzheng sighed heavily: "It's still the same. The official asked how the Yun-Swallowing Dragon Beast Car was built in Hangzhou. I just sent a messenger three days ago. After calculation, I have sent it ten times in total."

Bi Shi'an shook his head: "That's a road with steel. There are countless gravels with wood and then on the rails. This is not easy. Besides, the Cloud-Swallowing Fire Dragon Beast heard that building a good steel that can pull 50,000 stones of goods requires 300,000 guan. This is not considered labor or mechanical consumption."

Xiang Minzhong added: "The carriage also requires a 10,000 yuan material fee, forty cars, plus training coaches, and maintenance craftsmen. This car is worth millions of yuan."

"It's useful, millions of dollars are not expensive. If you arrive in Youzhou day and night, this car will be a magic weapon for the country. But the official only wants..." Lu Mengzheng shook his head and didn't say it anymore. He didn't want to say it anymore.

The emperor seemed to have a magical disease, and he only wanted to cultivate from Bianliang to Mount Tai and let him go to Fengshan.

Bi Shian said, "I won't mention this, I've heard some news about it."

"What news?"

"Liu An may still be in Yuezhou or Yiling."

Lu Mengzheng was surprised: "It's been four months, how many miles he walks every day?"

"It's not that he doesn't want to leave. The news I heard is that every time Liu An arrives, tens of thousands of people welcome him. Officials at all levels set up schools to invite Liu An to give lectures, how to govern a county and a state, and how to enrich the people. The business alliance in Yuezhou has been established, and investment has begun to promote agriculture. I heard that Dongting shrimp, Dongting lotus, Dongting lotus powder, and a large number of aquatic products and workshops have begun to be built."

Xiang Minzhong was very interested after listening: "This is a good thing, but I didn't see the official document?"

Wang Dan said: "According to the normal process, such things are reported every six months, or there will be reports on official documents at the end of the year. Prosperous agriculture is the responsibility of the prefecture and county officials."

Bi Shian said: "That's right, but with another news, they didn't report it because they were selfish."

"What news?"

"It is predicted that the industry of Dongting planting lotus roots will have a total of 2 million stones in addition to the remaining lotus root production within three years. It is planned to produce lotus root powder no less than 60,000 stones. Not to mention the others, how much does a pound of lotus root powder cost per kilo of Bianliang City?"

When Bi Shi'an asked, Xiang Minzhong immediately replied: "One pound costs 120 cents per pound. Xizihu lotus root and Dongting lotus root powder cost 150 cents."

"Forget it." Bi Shi'an knew it in his mind.

No need to count, everyone present knows what this count means.

Dongting Lake alone is worth millions of guan. Of course, this is the price to transport to Bianliang, and there are also the profits of merchants, etc., plus the huge transportation costs, so one hundred and fifty cents of guanliang are not expensive.

The local value is worth 350,000 jin.

This is just a lotus root.

In addition to other things, Dongtingdong's new industry value is millions of yuan of output value.

Lu Mengzheng said with emotion: "When governing the people to make money, only Liu An in the world, no one is above his right."

Bi Shi'an said: "He is also very powerful when it comes to war."

"Yes." Wang Dan and Lu Mengzheng sighed at the same time.

Xiang Minzhong asked: "What happened to the Liao Kingdom? I heard that the Liao army was in chaos, but it was calm so quickly. I heard that the Datong garrison began to strengthen the Cao army. The official documents given to Bianliang were abnormal movements in the grassland, and they had to be careful to defend. I specially sent someone to ask if the Liao army threatened Datong and if the response I received was the Liao army, the grassland Tatars."

Bi Shi'an picked up the teacup and didn't answer the conversation.

Xiang Minzhong is a civil servant, rigid and upright.

Only Bi Shi'an was present at the military's nonsense.

Bi Shi'an knew in his heart that the Datong Army would definitely go on a war, not defense. Because it can be seen from the supply list that if the defense is used, it is necessary to use food and grass, rather than emergency wounded medicine powder packs.

If it is a defensive battle, there will be medical officers in the city, so it is better to use herbs.

The real value of the medicinal powder bag is that it is easy to carry and is mostly used for emergency rescue on the battlefield, but the effect is not as good as the wounded medicine made from herbs, so the materials they purchase are for offense, not for defense wars to defend the city.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty stopped listening to the questions from the Privy Council.

What did the soldiers of the Song Dynasty do? Even the capital was hidden.

This is a bit scary.

Without anyone to support him, do they dare?

Hearing the military affairs of Datong, Wang Dan immediately stood up: "Suddenly I remember that there are still some official duties to be handled, which is very urgent." After saying that, Wang Dan had already left before the others could react.

Xiang Minzhong was stunned for a moment. Although he was a little muscular, he felt that he had said something inappropriate at this time.
Chapter completed!