Queen Wang took a small bite of the carrot piece. When she heard Li Yi say, she chewed it twice quickly and swallowed it, and asked: "How to find the roots of all things?"

"Gewu." Li Yi replied with two words.

"Oh, uncle means that you will know the arrival of things after observing them." Queen Wang understood.

"Of course!" Li Yi nodded.

"What's there?" Queen Wang was still curious.

"The sun and the moon alternate and the stars rotate, and the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter change. The great rivers flow eastward, and the wind and water rise and the clouds gather and disperse." Li Yi said a few general sentences.

"Is it a policy that will benefit the people?" Li Longji felt that the Sun, Moon and Stars were too big and wanted to know about the smaller aspects.

"The crops in the fields are plentiful, and merchants and merchants are doing a prosperous business. Boats and carriages are traveling thousands of miles a day, and people are able to heal people and govern the country." Li Yi said about scholars, farmers, industry, and commerce.

"Then, uncle must make good choices, and don't let bad people learn his skills." Empress Wang expressed her belief that her uncle has this ability.

Li Longji also believed that at least Li Yi had achieved a good harvest, not to mention doing business, healing people, miraculous doctors, and governing the country. Just look at the thousands of people like Zhuangzi.

All that's left is that boats and carts can travel a thousand miles a day. This...

I guess it can be done, I'll have to wait until Li Yi finds time to do it.

That way... it would be easier to report urgently at 800 miles away.

So he agreed: "Yes, choosing people is important."

"Yes!" Li Yi followed.

"Can we search for the person from the Imperial Palace?" Queen Wang suggested.

Li Yi refused: "If you don't go to the Imperial College, the forty-two people who are willing to do things first will come first."

"Yes." Li Longji felt that the forty-two students waiting for the exam were good enough to study diligently and work seriously.

After their family members came over, they sent people to investigate and found out that they were innocent.

As for why he failed the exam in the first place, his literary talent was just not enough. If Brother Yi wanted to teach his literary talent, it would be easy.

"Are there any more carrots? I want to take them back...make them for heaven and earth to eat." Queen Wang likes to eat carrots.

Li Yi doesn't feel much about this. He always thinks that raw carrots are delicious, but cooked carrots have a worse texture and taste, although he always eats cooked carrots.

"Yes, it's just that the raw ones are gone. If they are not washed with water, they can last for a whole winter." Li Yi felt helpless when talking about this. Why are you, Yu Huaide, so diligent?

Li Longji sat there, his eyes rolling. He knew that Yu Huaide was still there, so...

The first day of the twelfth lunar month.

After receiving the order, Pei Yaoqing went out and led the team to a house in Qinrenfang, southwest of Dongshi City, where a government official called the door.

"Shopkeeper Yu, can you be here at Mingfu in this county?" said the Yamen servant.

Yu Huaide ran out in a skirt and saw Pei Yaoqing. He was impressed and hurriedly opened the door himself.

"The Ming Mansion actually came in person, and I suddenly felt sleepy..."

"Go in and tell me, it's really cold under the skirt." Pei Yaoqing knew something about Yu Huaide's situation.

"Thank you Mingfu for your understanding." Yu Huaide showed a grateful expression.

When a group of people entered, Yu Huaide asked Pei Yaoqing to take a seat. He straightened his skirt and sat next to him.

Pei Yaoqing looked at the other party and wanted to laugh, but the other party came back with great ambitions, but ended up bumping his head against Li Yizhuangzi, causing a huge bump.

"Did the Ming Dynasty come here about the ice sculpture?" Yu Huaide spoke first.

"It's a small matter of ice sculptures. I heard that shopkeeper Yu has carrots?" Pei Yaoqing went straight to the point.

"Yes, there are some." Yu Huaide understood. If he could say the word "carrot", it must be someone from Li Yi.

"How many?" Pei Yaoqing asked again.

"Uh~" Yu Huaide hesitated.

"There is someone in the palace who wants five strings and one catty. Whoever you want to send to me, why not entertain me at Pingkangfang another day? I will go there."

Pei Yaoqing told the other party not to worry about not having anything to give away, I will go and help you, not just because I want to get to know some people!

"No money." Yu Huaide shook his head, feeling that the whole room was sunny.

"When the palace takes your things by force? Five coins and one catty." Pei Yaoqing insisted on giving money, but it was not him who paid for it anyway.

"There is still less than three hundred catties, no, it is more than two hundred catties, so let's count it as two hundred catties." Yu Huaide chose to earn less.

Turning his head, he said to his men: "Go, wash all the remaining carrots and give them to..."

"Wait a minute." Pei Yaoqing quickly stopped and said seriously: "Don't wash it. Bring it with mud."

This was a deliberate explanation by the messenger Huangmen, and he explained it in more than one sentence.

So Pei Yaoqing left with more than 260 kilograms of unwashed carrots. Calculating the two hundred kilograms and one thousand yuan, he gave Yu Huaide five additional places for ice lanterns.

At noon that day, Queen Wang was watching people cutting carrots with bamboo knives in the palace.

She was giving instructions, and Li Longji was also there.

"Leave an extra half an inch, cut into twenty pieces, send them to heaven and earth, and bring them back. Don't use a copper basin. If it's pottery, put twenty heads in it. Add water. If there's too much, pour it out..."

She looks like an expert. She just learned how to do it in the breeding room yesterday, and she also drank a lot of distilled nutrient solution.

There is no special equipment in the palace for distilling humus, and the smell during the distillation process is unpleasant.

"This is so strange. Change the water and soak it for a few days. Green shoots will grow and then be buried in the soil. There will also be radishes growing underneath."

Queen Wang has never encountered such an operation.

According to her idea, grow it, cut it off and eat it, then bury the top part in the soil, grow it again, and cut it again...

Cut some carrot seeds every day, one day at a time, and finally have carrots to eat every day.

Li Longji stood aside and watched, thinking about what Li Yi said about carrots being easy to preserve in winter and easier than big radishes.

Then there is a lack of green vegetables in winter, so eating carrots is very helpful, and the corners of the mouth are rotten, and the vision is blurred at night.

If this is given to the soldiers, they can take advantage in a night battle with the enemy because the enemy cannot see clearly at night.

Every vegetable that can be stored for a long time in the north is worth promoting and planting.

"My Tang Dynasty is different from the past." Li Longji thought, and suddenly said a sentence, full of confidence.

***

The ice is still being chipped.

Ice sculptures began to be made, and many wealthy households who could not afford to store ice during the winter bought meat and sent it to the ice cutters.

Ask those who work to help cut out more ice, then take it home and put it in the ice cellar.

Those who don’t have ice cellars hire people to dig out the frozen soil.

The workers have formed a one-stop service organization. If anyone wants to dig an ice cellar, they go there and dig it, and then they take out the ice and put it in.

The money earned is shared among everyone, and with more skilled people and faster work, this winter will be better.

Their shoes, warm leather pants, thick gloves, and tools were all given by the Yamen.

It's just for private work, as long as it doesn't delay the Yamen's affairs.

Pei Yaoqing knew it, ignored it, and acquiesced.

At that time, there will be plenty of ice among rich households in the summer, and the poor will live a good life, which is considered a political achievement.

He was currently strolling beside the carved ice sculptures, which were covered with sheds made of the worst cloth.

During the day, cover the ice sculpture to prevent it from falling dust and add a beautiful view.

In the cold weather, the literati breathed out and studied what to draw and what to write.

Students and villagers who are going to take the exam next year will be given priority. Aren’t they the ones who have no way to contribute? Aren’t they the ones complaining about the rich and well-connected people?

The opportunity has come. If you write well and draw well, please leave your identity information below. When the time comes, you can use it to make your choice.

If you can't even do this, it's useless to donate.

"The most difficult thing is poetry." A student put his hands in front of his mouth to breathe and keep warm, and said to several friends.

"No, the most difficult part is painting. You can still draw a certain painting as long as you write your name first." Another person said.

The boat of friendship is about to capsize.

Pei Yaoqing couldn't stand it anymore and stood there and said: "Writing about who painted the paintings and who wrote the poems, if you can write a policy review on ice sculptures, that would be a higher priority."
Chapter completed!