The next day, all the preparations were done. The Zhang San brothers and sisters were at home waiting for Li Shimin to arrive. Since Li Shimin was going to come over in person to inspect the potato planting, Zhang San naturally had to wait for him to arrive before planting.
"If you don't come yet, it's getting hotter and hotter today. You really don't have to go into battle yourself, right?" Zhang San said angrily while sitting in the living room, looking at the sun rising very high outside.
"Sir, I saw a group of carriages coming towards our house." Zhang Fu hurried over and said to Zhang San.
"Okay, I'll go out to greet you." Zhang San got up and went outside. When he saw a group of carriages approaching, he quickly walked a few steps to meet them.
When Zhang San saw Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling getting off the carriage one after another, he quickly saluted and asked, "Zhang San has met the emperor and the prime minister."
"Okay, let's go to your house to look at the potatoes first. It's too hot outside, so you can just call me Li Erlang outside." After Li Shimin finished speaking, he immediately went to the Zhang County man's residence.
Zhang San is filled with sadness, you still know how hot it is!
Coming to the living room, Li Shimin sat in the main seat and said to Zhang San: "When are we going to plant potatoes in the field?"
"Your Majesty, would you like to drink a glass of water and take a rest?" Zhang San replied.
"It's okay, planting potatoes is important. If you are ready, just go ahead." Li Shimin said.
"Okay, I'll ask my sister to come with me." After Zhang San said that, he walked to the backyard.
After Xiaomei and Xiaoyu greeted Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling respectively, they followed Zhang San on the carriage and drove to the fields.
Everyone came to an open field, and Zhang San asked the guards to carry the potatoes down.
The three brothers and sisters put on bamboo hats and stood in front of the potato basket with a small shovel. Seeing Li Shimin get off the carriage, Zhang San came closer and said: "Your Majesty, this is a piece of fertile land that I have set aside. Yesterday I ordered the farmers to plow the land.
Once again, let’s start work now?”
"You are an expert. Plant potatoes as you wish, and I will plant them with you." Li Shimin rolled up his sleeves and said eagerly.
"Your Majesty, you are rich in gold, isn't that bad?" Zhang San did not expect that Li Shimin would also ask to grow potatoes in the fields, and said in surprise.
"If there's anything you can't do, I can naturally do anything you can do. Stop talking nonsense and get started. The sooner you finish planting, the sooner you can feel at ease." Li Shimin replied.
"Mistress, just follow the emperor's arrangements and go get two more shovels. I will accompany you," Fang Xuanling said.
Seeing that the two insisted on working in the fields, Zhang San had to ask Xiaoyu to find two small shovels and give them to Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling.
Seeing that Li Shimin was working in the fields himself, as the emperor's confidant general manager, Xu Huang was naturally not to be outdone, and also found a small shovel to accompany several people to work in the fields.
Seeing Li Shimin learn his own way of growing potatoes, Zhang San had some different views on this legendary emperor, and he also had a kind of respect in his heart.
"Your Majesty, please rest first. The weather is too hot. Let's drink a bowl of mung bean soup to avoid heatstroke." Zhang San brought a bowl of mung bean soup and handed it to Li Shimin and said.
"Prime Minister, Eunuch Xu, you guys also have some mung bean soup. I'll use iced ones. Try it." Zhang San brought two more bowls of mung bean soup and handed them to Fang Xuanling and Xu Huang.
"Zhang San, did you add ice to this mung bean soup?"
Li Shimin refused and Xu Huang wanted to come over and taste it first. Eunuchs usually taste the food that the emperor eats first to avoid anyone with bad intentions.
I took a sip and felt a chill in my heart. It was very refreshing. No wonder I could feel the coolness even while holding the bowl.
"Yes, it tastes good!" Zhang San replied after taking a sip of mung bean soup to relieve the heat.
"Where did you get the ice this season?" Li Shimin asked.
"I made it myself, otherwise I wouldn't know where to buy ice." Zhang San said casually.
"You're the one who sent Ying'er that ice cream, right?" Fang Xuanling said after taking a sip of mung bean soup.
"Uh, yes." Zhang San replied sheepishly.
"You know so many things, can you make this ice by yourself?" Li Shimin asked curiously.
"Of course, it turns out that I accidentally discovered at Xuande Temple that putting a kind of stone called saltpeter into water can make the water freeze. I was curious and took it back to experiment." Zhang San was now telling lies.
I don't feel guilty at all.
"Let me demonstrate it to you later when you get back." Li Shimin replied.
Zhang San suddenly felt that another good thing of his was about to be snatched away by Li Shimin.
A few people rested for a while and started working again. With the participation of Li Shimin and three others, potatoes were finally planted in this acre of land before noon.
"I'm so exhausted, I finally finished planting." Zhang San thumped his waist and muttered to himself.
"Is this enough?" Li Shimin asked.
"Okay, let's go, it's too hot outside." Zhang San didn't want to stay here for a moment.
"You continue to stay and garrison here, go to the military camp and bring the camping equipment, watch this place carefully, and do not allow outsiders to enter this land." Li Shimin said to the leader of the guards.
"No need, this has been planted, no one will steal it!" Zhang San felt that Li Shimin's order was a bit fussy and said subconsciously.
"What do you know? Go back and show me what kind of rocks can make water freeze." Li Shimin said angrily.
"Let's go!" Fang Xuanling patted Zhang San on the shoulder and said.
Zhang San pouted, "It's up to you, as long as you don't live in our house anyway."
Everyone returned to Zhang San's home again. Before Zhang San could rest, Li Shimin urged Zhang San to quickly show him how to make water freeze.
Fang Xuanling also looked curious.
Zhang San refused in his heart, but sincerely ran to find water and saltpeter.
"Is that all?" Li Shimin asked when he saw Zhang San throwing the saltpeter into the water.
"It will be fine in a while, Your Majesty, please be optimistic." Zhang San replied.
After a while, mist began to appear on the water surface, and waves of coolness came from the basin.
Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling were shocked when they saw the water in front of them condensing rapidly and visibly to the naked eye.
"It's incredible." Fang Xuanling exclaimed.
"That's right, pack some saltpeter for me when you come back." Li Shimin ordered.
"Damn it, sister, you, an emperor, want these things, don't you think it's easy? You want to steal mine, it's unreasonable." Zhang Sanyi wailed in his heart.
"Why, you look reluctant."
Li Shimin was also surprised. Others tried their best to give him things to please him, but Zhang San always looked like he had suffered a great loss.
The more he saw Zhang San like this, Li Shimin felt rebellious. Even though he could get a lot by opening his mouth, he just wanted to take it from Zhang San.
"No, how dare you. It's too late for the kid to be happy. I'll ask someone to prepare it right now, but I don't have many here." Zhang San squeezed out a smile and said to Li Shimin.
"Huh, look at how stingy you are." Li Shimin snorted angrily.
"Xiaosan, I heard from Yiai that the bookshop is being jointly attacked by major bookshops in Chang'an. How is the situation now?" Fang Xuanling changed the subject.
"It's such a trivial matter. I really don't know if those bookstores are showing off their brains. After a while, they will be unable to hold on and leave." Zhang San said disapprovingly.
"Watch what you can do, be careful of capsizing in the gutter." Li Shimin exhorted.
"Yes, mistress, it's better to be careful. The Zheng family and the Cui family are behind those bookshops, so we shouldn't take it lightly." Fang Xuanling also said.
"Don't worry, what they are doing is like committing suicide. There is nothing to be afraid of. They will kill themselves." Zhang San replied.
"Oh, what do you say?" Fang Xuanling also became interested upon hearing this.
"It's like this. Our activities were launched after I calculated the costs. Our paper costs are low, and we use movable type printing technology to publish books. It is not only fast, but more importantly, the cost is low. We can sell a book
Fifteen cents or even ten cents will do, but if they do this they will definitely lose everything."
"When they can no longer support themselves, they will naturally not dare to be enemies with us. In addition, I asked shopkeeper Sun to buy a large number of books from those companies. I don't believe how many books they have can sell. By then, their bookstore will
There are no more books, so what kind of bookstore is it?”
Zhang San briefly explained the matter to Fang Xuanling, and Li Shimin listened attentively while sitting in the main seat.
