Chapter 4 Let’s Talk About the Tibetan Turks

"Brother Li Yixian, look what I brought you."

In the morning, when Li Yi was looking at a forest where the steward was trying to persuade him to stay, Li Chengqi came.

"Steward, listen to me, sell it, dig it out and sell it to whoever wants it, and then grow grapes for me."

Li Yi told the manager to go and greet Li Chengqi.

Eighty acres of mulberry trees are left here, said to be for raising silkworms and weaving.

Li Yi resolutely refused to agree. He handed over the wheat he could grow to the imperial court.

Buy the rest with money and never leave any mulberry trees.

He wants to plant grapes, a large area of ​​grapes.

When Li Chengqi approached, Li Yi saw that what this man with some skills had sent was a cow.

A cow that has been bled has been killed.

"Brother Xian, I'll give you the cow. I'll eat it with you at noon." Li Chengqi was very happy to see Li Yi's surprised expression.

"I immediately asked them to squeeze soybean oil." Li Yiwei refused.

Take Li Chengqi to the oil press, and the male servant will come over to operate it.

Li Chengqi and the eunuchs around him watched.

Li Yi asked someone to serve tea and ran to the kitchen to handle a whole cow.

During lunch, all the forty-two students had beef bone, tofu and wild vegetable soup.

The staple food has become millet. This is a normal meal. Eating noodles every day is too luxurious.

Li Chengqi and the eunuchs also ate this, including Li Yi.

He had been handling cattle all morning. He was not a professional beef seller, so he had to take his time and had no time to cook other dishes.

Fortunately, he had braised the shank, so he could take away two large pieces of sauced beef for Li Chengqi in the evening.

The process of oil extraction over there has not been completed yet, the blanks are being made, and the wooden wedges can be hammered in the afternoon.

He also exchanged five hours of his life for a pound of chili noodles, excluding chili seeds.

If you want to change the pepper seeds, you need 50,000 hours of life to change them.

Let’s not talk about whether he has that much lifespan, just talk about the lifespan of nearly eleven and a half years, and he is reluctant to part with it.

Li Yi made some spicy beef sauce, as well as chili oil.

In the evening, I asked this brother who had a way to get a whole cow to take away half of the beef tendon. It was spicy.

He plans to freeze the other items on ice for two days and grill them the day after tomorrow.

Because I have money, the soy sauce I took away yesterday, today the eldest brother with the same surname said I would bring 55,000 Wen this afternoon.

He had to buy a thousand catties first, and at the same time he found that his life span had been increased by 320 hours.

Li Yi didn't know why selling soy sauce would increase his lifespan.

But now that he has money, he plans to hold a poetry party for forty-two students.

Invite other friends to come to Zhuangzi to eat and drink together, and then help promote soy sauce.

As for a hundred large tanks, one tank can produce 200 kilograms of oil at a time.

"Dear brother, did you know that there will be more cattle and sheep soon?" Li Chengqi said to Li Yi while eating delicious pickles.

"Where did the cattle and sheep come from?" A map appeared in Li Yi's mind. Upward from Gyeonggi Road was the Turks, where there was grassland.

"Turks." Li Chengqi said as if he knew a lot about the international situation.

Li Yi smiled and shook his head: "Impossible, that person in Mo Chu is too ambitious. He took advantage of the unstable transition of the Tang Dynasty to attack him frequently. How could he stop fighting?"

"Especially now, His Majesty is worried every day. The country and other places are in panic, and he has to coordinate with the generals."

"The local political affairs are in chaos, and the Turks, Western Turks, Tubo, etc. are eyeing it. Tubo is even worse."

"I, Tang Zheng, resisted the Tibetans and fought against the Turks. If I were silent, I would also fight."

"Otherwise, when the Tang Dynasty stabilizes the border between the Tang Dynasty and Tujia, will there still be a time when the Turks will come forward?"

Li Yi briefly talked about the situation.

Snap, the chopsticks of the eunuch next to him fell to the table.

Li Chengqi's eyes widened, wondering whether he was talking to the emperor's younger brother and the prime ministers.

Rejecting the Tubo and resisting the Turks is a matter for the court.

Why do you, a young man who runs a village, know this? Who leaked the news?

"How come my dear brother is so clear? Is this a lie?" Li Chengqi asked.

"Clear? What is clear and unclear about what is stated?"

"My dear friend, please see, Tubo's workshops and farming are not bad. There is constant friction on the border between Tang and Tubo. The Tang Dynasty attacks more but wins less."

"The prince is young. The prince's mother, Mulu, who was the regent the year before last, also died. The prime minister, Wei Kili Xu Shangnian, took over as regent."

"At this time, Tubo was not stable internally, so it was natural to use military force externally. External military use could win the hearts of the people at home."

Li Chengqi: "..."

He no longer knows what to say, you are a young man who has finally inherited a village.

If you don't farm well, why are you thinking about Tibet, which is so far away in the northwest?

Does Tubo have anything to do with you? Did you buy the cattle on your farm from Tubo?

"Why is my good brother so naive...and eager to learn?" Li Chengqi wanted to know Li Yi's purpose in understanding these things.

"If the country is in chaos, the family will be in trouble. If the country is defeated, the family will be lost. How can there be intact eggs under the overturned nest?" Li Yi said confidently.

Li Chengqi could only nod his head and was speechless for a moment. The young man was right.

Li Yi continued: "What's more, if I become an official when I am old and enter the court, your Majesty will ask for advice. How can I respond without a good solution?"

Li Chengqi's eyes lit up: "Brother Xian, do you want to become an official in the court?"

"Yes! If you are poor, you will be good for yourself. If you are rich, you will be good for the world. Being an official is not to be an official, but to educate people in the world." Li Yi replied.

Li Yi spoke from his heart. Only by being an official can he better promote social development.

As society develops, people will be able to live longer.

According to time calculation, if he didn't do something, he could live for one hundred and eight days.

Li Chengqi, whose heart was touched, went to see the soybean oil press after dinner.

The process of extracting soybean oil is not difficult at all. What is difficult is how to extract it better.

Li Yi urged the steward to find someone to buy the tree.

He doesn't want mulberry trees, so he can only make a few bucks by planting trees and raising silkworms on 80 acres of land.

Plant grapes, and wine is wine, much more expensive than turbid wine.

Raisins are also a fruit, and the price is not low either.

It only takes a small part of the money from selling wine and raisins to buy cloth and pay commission.

Li Yi has better planting methods and brewing techniques.

What he needs now are old vines that are looking for fruit. He doesn't want to keep them for a few years and then produce grapes.

Fortunately, people in the Tang Dynasty loved drinking wine at this time, and many people grew grapes.

Some people grow grapes that bear little fruit, and the grapes are not sweet either.

Li Yi had ways to deal with these situations, but he was anxious.

The grapes are about to bloom. How to transplant them after they bloom?

It is usually transplanted in autumn. After winter, take advantage of the warmth of spring to promote root growth.

Transplanting old vines in spring will cause great harm to the vines.

It is doubtful that grapes could have been produced back then.

Li Yi was anxious, and Song De, the manager, was even more anxious.

Because the money came, a hundred pieces of silk worth fifty-five thousand coins were sent.

For the price of five tanks of soy sauce, there are still so many tanks, and each tank can still produce oil.

My boss is awesome and can make money.

If the proprietor says to sell the tree, then sell it.

Song De, the steward, rode the only horse in the village to look for people to sell trees and buy grape vines that were three to five years old.

After eating, the students who were tired ran out to help move the silk.

They didn't have any arrogance when facing Li Yi, the proprietor.

The proprietor is not a rough guy who cannot read a few words. Occasionally, the proprietor will accompany me to write and discuss policies.

The proprietor can write in regular script, and he can also write the kind of calligraphy that looks very thin but proud.

Before dinner, Li Chengqi personally lit the biogas lamp, praised it and left.

By the way, I took away the sauced beef, cold spicy beef tendon, and spicy beef sauce made by Li Yi.

The most terrifying thing is that he didn't even spare the brine for making beef sauce.

It was all taken away, a big pot.

"Remember to heat up the brine every day and use ice when it gets cold."

Li Yi was very afraid that the other party would eat up his stomach, so he shouted when he sent Zhuangzi away.

As for whether the other party has ice to suppress it, Li Yi doesn't have to worry about it.

After seeing off Li Chengqi, dinner was still beef bone and wild vegetable soup, but there was no tofu.

Tofu is more expensive than rice, and soybean production is low.

One pound of beans can usually make two pounds of tofu.

Of course, Li Yi used the squeezed bean cakes to make tofu.

Then even if he uses bean cakes to make tofu, he can make three pounds of bean cakes from one pound.

If the beans are not squeezed out of oil, he can make at least four kilograms of tofu.

People in the Tang Dynasty used brine to make tofu, but he used gypsum.

After cooking the tofu, separate the pulp and dregs, and then eat the dregs.

He boiled the tofu residue repeatedly, burned coal for heating in winter, put a pot on the stove, and cooked.

Now that there is biogas, continue cooking.

The remaining dregs cannot be eaten by humans at all, so they can be used to feed pigs and chickens, and even cows don’t like to eat them.

In this way, he was still thinking about picking out a layer of yuba during the cooking process when making tofu with bean cakes.

Now that the beef bones have been stewed in the soup, they still need to be cooked.

Then continue to stew wild vegetables.

Until nothing can be cooked and the bones will turn into fertilizer.

Qi Min Yao wrote in his art that in addition to farmyard manure, you can also use bone residues and residues from other crops except sesame to fertilize the fields.

However, the bones from Li Yizhuangzi will not be used to fertilize the fields, but will be turned into bone meal to feed the chickens.

Chickens lay eggs. When calcium is lacking, the eggs become soft-shelled and may not even lay.

Li Chengqi didn't know that Li Yizhuangzi had a method of scientific utilization.

He didn't have dinner and was rushing back with his things.

Fortunately, the road is not far away. This time we take Tonghua Gate, and then enter the palace while the palace gate is open.

Entering the Baifu Hall through the side door, you will see your father, the Supreme Emperor.

When he entered Tonghuamen, some people had already gone to Anxingfang to find other brothers, UU Reading www.uukansｈhu.net and went to Baifu Hall together.

Li Longji heard the news and rushed over, taking Queen Wang with him.

The other brothers also brought a princess with them when they came.

After greeting the Supreme Emperor Li Dan and Concubine Doulu, everyone began to taste the food Li Chengqi brought back.

Yesterday's soy sauce opened a new window for them as a foodie nation.

Today is simply a door opened.

They have all eaten beef, but the beef in this sauce is delicious enough without being dipped in garlic sauce.

When they were dipped in garlic sauce, everyone looked so happy.

Take another bite of the spicy beef kick. Oops, how can there be such a taste in the world?

This is spicy. Why do you want to eat it the more spicy it is? It's so spicy.

Two beef tendons and two beef tendons were quickly eaten by everyone, and everyone was still satisfied.

"Brother, why not recruit Li Yi to Shangshi Bureau?"

King Xue Li Longye licked his lips and expressed the common thoughts of several people.

"Yer, don't talk nonsense." Li Chengqi took care of his younger brother.

He added: "Li Yi has ambitions in his heart. Today he talked about the Tibetan and Turkic affairs. He said..."

Li Chengqi told others what Li Yi said.

After everyone heard this, they were as shocked as Li Chengqi was at that time.

It turned out that the young man had a groove in his chest and had great ambitions.

In this case, how could he go to the imperial dining room of Shangshi Bureau to cook?

After sighing, the noodles are cooked. The staple food tonight is soup cakes mixed with beef chili sauce.

"Brother, I heard that you bought back a thousand catties of soy sauce. I wonder how much Li Yizhuangzi has left?"

Li Longye, who had just proposed that Li Yi work as a cook in the palace, was thinking about soy sauce again.