Chapter 368 The people are looking for breakfast, and Yunze comes up with a magical weapon
The night before, Li Shimin thought that Li Yunze might be a Turk with a mental problem.
But on the second night, after hearing the face-to-face report from Wu Yan, the captain of Baiqi Division, he immediately lost his composure.
"You said he brought fifty cattle from the yard?"
Li Shimin stared with disbelief, "Did Fang Qing leave it in that yard?"
"His Majesty."
Wu Yan's expression was extremely solemn, "I guarantee your majesty with the heads on my neck that there are no cattle in Fanggong's courtyard. I checked before and found that not to mention the cattle, even the local dogs were there when Fanggong's people left."
Taken away."
After a moment of silence, Li Shimin finally asked, "Where did the fifty cattle come from?"
This question really got to the point. Wu Yan couldn't explain it and could only be speechless.
Li Shimin, who sensed something supernatural, paced back and forth for a while with his hands behind his back, then stopped and said, "Go and call Fang Qing into the palace!"
After clearing himself, he asked, "Is this serious?"
Fang Xuanling was still waiting to ask again, but Li Shimin said lightly, "I believe him."
Li Yunze nodded.
According to custom, the old man stepped forward and saluted, "May I ask what you are doing in Lijiazhuang?"
I just saw that everyone was dressed in luxurious clothes and had extraordinary bearing. They must be nobles in the city. I didn't dare to be indifferent and could only be submissive.
Li Shimin, who was no one around, simply stepped forward, reached out and took out a piece of Hu cake from the basket.
After that, he snatched the bowl filled with rice porridge from Wu Yan's hand, drank it all and smashed his mouth, "It tastes really good, and it also contains sugar."
Li Yunze gave candy to the refugees just to supplement their sugar content and make their bodies stronger as soon as possible.
Seeing the large number of knights appearing, the people in Zhuangzi were a little flustered, but not too frightened.
Li Yunze also called on the refugees to "keep making breakfast and make better ones."
Not to mention the large-scale population reduction, productivity has also dropped significantly.
Now Fang Xuanling has nothing to say.
Therefore, for Li Shimin, who wanted to prove himself, every person was an important labor force, and every cattle was an important means of production.
The Tang Dynasty he took over was not as wealthy as many people imagined.
Sugar in Datang is expensive because the output is small and the quality is not high.
The refugees looked unhappy, this was their breakfast.
In fact, after the continuous fighting in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the Eighteenth Route Army rebelled against the king, and the Seventy-two Route Army rebelled, the national power of the Tang Dynasty was actually very weak.
The people in Zhuangzi looked at each other, saying what they said was like their own cattle.
It is not difficult to understand why he was angry and tied the cattle outside.
Sugar cane has long existed in China, and sugar rolling technology was later introduced, and it was through this technology that sugar was successfully obtained.
Datang also has sugar.
"This matter, if it weren't for the blindness, I can't figure it out." Fang Xuanling shook his head repeatedly, and then saluted the emperor, "Your Majesty, as soon as the city gate opens tomorrow, I will go and see with my own eyes what is going on."
Seeing the real owner coming out, Fang Xuanling hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "Li Langjun, I'm here to bother you."
After walking around the house, I saw dozens of cattle tied to a row of weeping willows by the stream not far away.
The atmosphere in the threshing floor was a bit awkward, but fortunately at this time, the women brought breakfast out from various houses.
Then, he learned from the emperor that Li Yunze had brought fifty cattle from the yard of his house that once belonged to him.
Indeed, the price of sugar is not low, that is, only noble families can afford it. To actually feed these homeless people in front of you expensive sugar, is there something wrong with your brain, and you are too greedy for money?
Li Shimin waved his hand, "Buy these rice porridge and Hu biscuits."
So there was sugar in the Tang Dynasty, but ordinary people basically couldn't afford it.
Fang Xuanling turned around and looked over, saw Li Shimin shaking his head slightly, and then responded with a smile, "I am an old friend, and you and your husband are from the same family."
Wu Yan, who looked serious, saluted, "I saw it with my own eyes, and even took the opportunity to touch and pinch it. It is indeed a farm cow with a nose ring."
Volume 10 of "Qi Min Yao Shu" writes about many crops that are not native to China, and the twenty-first among them is sugar cane.
Just these words made Wu Yan's eyes turn red, and he leaned over to salute the emperor heavily.
As soon as the two people's eyes came into contact, they immediately became inseparable. Phew! They were looking at each other.
When the Silk Road was opened, the stone honey that came from India was sucrose.
Before he could say anything, Wu Yan rushed over and stretched out his hand.
Li Yunze came out yawning, "You have been arguing so early in the morning, do you still have a sense of public morality?"
He said to do better, it is indeed better.
The old man over there waved his hands repeatedly, "We can't decide, the owner of the village has to make the decision."
After eating a full meal, Li Shimin, with a dark face, was ready to go crazy.
This night, many people had insomnia.
But when he was about to reach the door, he stopped.
Wu Yan ate and chewed it, then reported, "It's been brushed with oil, and it still tastes like sugar."
"The owner of the village is still sleeping." The old man shook his head repeatedly. "The owner of the village is very angry when he wakes up. We dare not disturb him."
There are indeed fifty cattle tied here.
After looking at Li Shimin, he looked at the well-trained knights, then looked back at Fang Xuanling, "Who is that?"
Fang Xuanling chased after him and said with a dark face, "This is too much. Ten taels of gold and one hundred guan are enough to buy several cartloads of rice and noodles."
"Mr. Lang!"
The emperor wins people's hearts, how can he play a negative role?
"Zhe" existed as early as the Pre-Qin Dynasty, and in the Han Dynasty it was called "Sugar".
After the city gate was opened at dawn, Li Shimin, with red eyes, rode his horse and led a large group of people straight to Zhuangzi.
When we entered Zhuangzi, breakfast had just started.
Over there, Fang Xuanling came over with a smile and saluted everyone, "I'm sorry to bother you. I'm so tired from the journey that I haven't eaten yet. I'd like to buy some food and I hope you'll forgive me."
Moreover, his father, Li Yuan, enfeoffed people wantonly. Many people were rewarded with tens of thousands of acres of land just because they were good at talking and pleasing Li Yuan. Even the expressly prohibited gift of slaves was repeatedly prohibited.
Fang Xuanling smiled and nodded, "Then please invite Master Li to come out and meet."
Li Shimin rolled his eyes, and just as he was about to order someone to shout, the gate to the courtyard over there was opened.
After all, this is the foot of the Emperor, right on the edge of Chang'an City. Hundreds of thousands of troops from all directions guard Chang'an City. No kind of horse thieves and bandits dare to massacre Zhuangzi in broad daylight. That's not asking for money, that's doing it for the sake of the whole family.
People dig graves and erect monuments.
"Hahahaha~~~"
Li Yunze's gaze went beyond Fang Xuanling and fell on Li Shimin.
"Okay." Li Yunze nodded and said, "I'll give you all the ten taels of gold. This pot and basket are also free."
Because of this, Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling in shock, "Why is this?"
Li Shimin was not in the right position, no matter how you explain it, he was not in the right position.
Li Shimin immediately stepped over, looked around and asked Lao Niu a few times without saying anything. He even waved his whip and gave Lao Niu a few lashes.
When Fang Xuanling was brought to Li Shimin, even with his strategizing head, he didn't think about anything urgent enough to require him to enter the palace overnight.
Fang Xuanling, who was dumbfounded, was still waiting for further persuasion, but Li Shimin waved his hand impatiently, "Give him ten taels of gold."
Li Shimin frowned, stretched out his hand and stuffed the Hu cake into his hand.
Li Shimin looked at the rice porridge in the big pot.
"I will go with you!"
That's not something he needs to care about.
One."
Li Shimin pushed away Wu Yan who was blocking him, took a bowl of rice porridge and drank it himself.
Coupled with the Turkic nuisance, disasters continued in various places, which can be regarded as a series of natural and man-made disasters.
It is precisely because of this that he wants to work hard to prove himself and prove that becoming the emperor is the most correct choice and that he can do better than his elder brother.
He walked up to Li Shimin and said, "Do you want to buy these biscuits and rice porridge?"
Li Shimin, with a stern look on his face, stood with his hands behind his back and said, "Hmm."
Fang Xuanling, who also followed on horseback, laughed loudly after coming down, and stepped forward and said, "I am Fang Xuanling, and this village was sold by a certain family to the owner Li the day before yesterday."
Wu Yan didn't bother to talk about the palace. The palace was already locked. Summoning important officials of the imperial court to enter the palace at this time would cause uproar and panic.
Since you are willing to pretend to be a tourist, I will pretend not to notice.
There is no reason not to doubt it. After all, the cattle of the Tang Dynasty are strategic materials, and each one must be registered in the Yamen.
Over there, Li Shimin couldn't bear the politeness, so he walked directly to the largest courtyard in Zhuangzi, where the owner of the village lived, with his riding whip in hand.
The Hu Pancake is cut into pieces and stuffed with minced meat.
"There are only six cattle in total in my village." Fang Xuanling's first reaction was to tell him off, "When I sold Zhuangzi to that person, I had already packed up everything."
Let’s go. Not to mention the cattle, not even the local dogs are left.
Just take over and rob this village."
Originally it was just rice porridge with sugar added, but I just beat the eggs, added shredded pork, sprinkled with chopped green onion and even sesame oil, and even put a few bowls of pickles on the table.
The common people didn't know that Fang Xuanling was an important minister of the dynasty. After all, a group of illiterate people didn't even know the emperor's name, let alone a certain minister.
The hot biscuits and the large pot of rice porridge immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Comparing the two sides, Li Shimin suddenly felt that the Hu cake in his hand was no longer fragrant.
But now there is no obstacle for Li Yunze to buy anything, it is very smooth.
But he saw Li Yunze directing the refugees to carry iron farm tools one after another to the threshing floor.
What Li Yunze got was white sugar produced industrially in the modern world.
Then he called to his knights to "eat."
"Hahaha~~~"
He was too impatient and came too early.
After confirming, Li Shimin frowned and turned to look at the old man, "It's cold in early spring, why don't you send the cattle into the cowshed? Just tie them outside like this, what a loss if they fall ill!"
Suddenly fifty heads appear, and the first reaction is to doubt whether it is real.
"It's you who take the initiative to buy it, not me who rushes to sell it." Li Yunze reached out and picked up a piece of cake. "I am a person who pays attention to integrity in business, and I pay attention to your willingness and your willingness. If you don't want to spend money, you can just grab it."
Well. So many people carry knives and swords, right?
Of course, buying sugar on a large scale in the modern world is not an easy task, and it is not a matter of price.
What is seeing is believing? This is it.
It tastes good and is indeed full of sugary flavor.
Looking at the strange-looking farm tools, he couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"
"Curved plow." Li Yunze stretched out his hand to indicate, "The efficiency is many times that of a straight plow, and it is very suitable for cattle plowing."
‘Hiss~~~’
Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling took a breath together.