"Am I taking all my beloved ladies to look for Xuan Ba?"
Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but be startled.
As for Li Chengqian, he was slightly relieved after hearing this.
"Exactly!"
Speaking of this, Kong Yingda couldn't help but look embarrassed.
"According to the temperament of His Highness the King of Jin, if I were to go there myself, I might not even be able to get in through the gate of Lijiazhuang! And such a precious pen can only show sincerity by personally visiting His Highness the King of Jin.
Therefore, I can only boldly plead with Your Majesty!"
On the side, Wei Zheng, Yu Zhining and others could not help but feel moved, and they all looked at Li Shimin expectantly.
"In that case, I will go to Lijiazhuang with all my dear friends!"
Li Shimin thought for a moment and then said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Kong Yingda, Wei Zheng and others were immediately overjoyed.
After a while, a motorcade drove out of Tai Chi Palace and headed toward Lijiazhuang along Zhuque Street.
And at the entrance of the East Palace.
Cheng Chusi, Li Chongyi and others were still waiting there with anxious faces. Every quarter of an hour, they asked a servant of the East Palace.
"How is it? The prince is back?"
"Back to you gentlemen, His Highness the Crown Prince has not returned yet!"
The waiter replied with a helpless expression every time.
"well……"
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Lijiazhuang.
As the New Year approaches, the entire Lijiazhuang's workshops, under Li Xuan's arrangement, begin to suspend work one after another, and Lijiazhuang enters a period of hiatus.
All the farmers in Lijiazhuang also dressed up as a family and headed to Chang'an City to start shopping and relaxing.
As for the farmers in the glass greenhouses, they all rotated with each other and took their families to Chang'an City to go shopping and buy items.
Especially cloth that can be used to sew clothes.
Now, as we age, what everyone is looking forward to is wearing new clothes.
As for other items, the farmers in Lijiazhuang have no shortage of any. You can just buy them directly from the workshops in the village.
There are only new clothes, so each family needs to go to Chang'an City, find those cloth shops, buy the cloth, and come back to sew it themselves.
Therefore, when Li Shimin brought Fang Xuanling, Kong Yingda and other ministers to Lijiazhuang, they just got off the carriage and saw groups of children, all in twos and threes, gathering together, or showing off to each other.
new clothes.
Or, they were just showing off to each other about the toys they bought for them from Chang'an City.
Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining and other ministers looked at it with their mouths agape and shock on their faces.
"Your Highness, are these children from rich families nearby?"
"No, they are just the villagers' children in Lijiazhuang!"
Li Chengqian chuckled lightly and said: "However, those piles are the children of the Jin Prince's personal guards, the dozen or so children are the servants of the Jin Prince's house, and the pile are from the craftsmen's homes of the ink masters."
, that pile is..."
Li Chengqian introduced them one by one.
On the side, Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining and other ministers had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"These are ordinary children. How can they be so cleanly dressed? What's more, all these children are wearing are cotton jackets, cotton gloves, and even things in their hands sewn from white sheets...
The children of many aristocratic families are not as well-dressed as these children and have as many toys in their hands!"
"My dear friends, you may not know that these children are not only well-dressed, but also spend more than half of the year in school.
There are even some children who are better at numbers and arithmetic than you are!"
Li Shimin looked at the children and couldn't help but chuckle subconsciously.
"How can this be?"
Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining and other ministers who did not come to Lijiazhuang often were full of suspicion.
At this time, before Li Shimin could speak, a child ran over from one side and shouted to a young man next to the square: "Brother Li Kun, Uncle Dazhu asked you to go back and tally the ledger of the glass greenhouse for this month!"
"Isn't there still a few days until the end of the month?" Li Kun was a little reluctant to be called.
In the past few days, I have finally been able to stop reading and writing. I can just go out and play for a while, and I have to keep statistics on those boring account books.
"Uncle Dazhu said that after you finish counting your family's account books, you still need to help our family take a look at it, and then if you are not busy, you can help the king and collect all the account books in the village!" The child who ran over continued.
Hearing this, all the children surrounding Li Kun couldn't help but feel moved in their hearts, and they pushed Li Kun back with all their strength.
He also persuaded: "That's right, Brother Kun, you should finish counting your family's account books as soon as possible. You still need to help me do the counting!"
"You don't know, last year I made a one-day miscalculation, and because one number didn't match up, I checked three account books from beginning to end for five days!"
"That's right, that's right, I had it checked for ten days last year!"
"Brother Kun, let's help each other this time..."
Looking at the group of teenagers surrounding each other and leaving, the teenagers around them seemed to have remembered something scary and hurriedly dispersed.
"The young man named Li Kun manages three glass greenhouses at home. He sells more than 200 kilograms of vegetables every day on average and earns more than 60 yuan. They have to keep track of how many kilograms of vegetables they sell every day and how much they sell for.
on the ledger.
Then, these account books must be tallied every month. Finally, after the glass greenhouse is demolished, all these account books must be tallied, and there cannot be a single penny error!"
Li Chengqian explained slowly: "Most of the children around me have three glass greenhouses in their homes, and they are the ones who register the daily ledgers.
However, it is children like them who keep the monthly accounting books! In addition, many farmers also raise chickens, ducks, hogs and fish for the village, and they also need statistical accounting books..."
Following Li Chengqian's words, Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining and others' expressions changed drastically, and then they became silent.
It's okay to let them see the ledger, but how is that possible with the statistical ledger?
After a long while, Yu Zhining said dryly: "I didn't expect that His Highness Prince Jin's Li Family Village would be so wealthy!"
"If Datang could have all the villages and be half as wealthy as Lijiazhuang, then we, Datang, would be truly powerful!"
Li Shimin said with emotion.
At this time, even Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others remained silent.
Catch up with Lijiazhuang?
Those villagers in their houses can only catch up to half of Lijiazhuang. As for all the villages in the world, if they can be 10% as wealthy as Lijiazhuang, these ministers will be enough to be passed down through the ages!
Seeing this, Li Shimin could also understand the thoughts of these ministers, so he couldn't help but sigh and went to the King's Courtyard.
"Why is Your Majesty here?"
After coming down from the second floor, Li Xuan couldn't help but be stunned when he saw so many ministers brought by Li Shimin.
Moreover, why were these ministers looking at him so eagerly?
Could it be that the Chinese New Year is about to come and you come to him to greet the autumn breeze?
Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining and others, who were glanced at by Li Xuan, could not help but smile with ridicule.
As expected, His Highness Prince Jin did not welcome them very much!
"Xuan Ba, I came here this time because Su Guogong and others heard that you can make a pen that is tens of thousands of times more exquisite than a bamboo pen, so they have been asking you for one or two!"
Li Shimin said with a smile.
Behind him, Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining and others also hurriedly smiled apologetically, "This kind of pen is simply a treasure tailor-made for literati like us.
Therefore, if His Highness King Jin has any requests, please feel free to put them forward!"