No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

After dinner, Li Erlang and Li Aweng moved the garlic to the granary and hung it up for storage. After finishing, Li Erlang went back to his room and saw his mother in his room, while Li Silang had fallen asleep.

"Aniang?" Li Erlang thought she was still worried about Hu Suan, but he didn't expect that Aniang Li was talking about another thing, which made him blush.

Aniang Li pushed her son: "Reply, you are seventeen now, it's time to see the girl. I asked someone to inquire about her, she is a diligent girl."

Li Erlang hesitated: "How do you look at me for my mother...?"

"Why, I was the one who made a joke before. Now that I'm old enough, I shouldn't look after you? We can still afford the bride price that girl wants. Why don't we decide it first and then slowly prepare for the wedding?"

The joke Li Aniang told about wanting to arrange a marriage for Li Sanlang was entirely due to a drama about a man from a poor family meeting a girl from a rich family who abandons his mother. When they hid in the study and Li Aniang hesitated to tell Sanlang her concerns, Ji Qingyue and Li Sanlang almost suffered internal injuries from laughing.

Li Aniang pushed Li Erlang: "I'm asking you something, why are you so dazed."

When Li Erlang thought of marrying a strange woman, he couldn't help but shudder. Somehow he thought of Ji Qingyue. If there was one more person in the family, would he not be able to meet Ji Qingyue? Thinking of this , he shook his head firmly: "Aniang, I don't want to get married yet, let's wait until later."

Aniang Li asked: "How late will it be? We can come up with the betrothal gift now. The two families have decided to get married next year. The age is just right, not too early and not too late."

Li Erlang looked helpless and had no choice but to tell the truth. As it concerned Ji Qingyue, Aniang Li hesitated. Erlang is right, Ji Qingyue is indeed a problem. We are all stupid and bold in our family, so we can accept him, but as for the bride who comes in, if the matter is publicized, I don't know what will happen.

Thinking of this, Aniang Li looked melancholy.

Li Erlang quickly hugged his mother and comforted her: "Mom, it's okay. I have no intention of getting married at this time. I will still be busy in the fields, especially with Hu Suan. I absolutely don't want to and cannot fail." "

Aunt Li sighed, this is all she can do now. "You are also a person with ideas, so I won't say more and go to bed quickly. Now the spring plowing can be completed in three or four days. When you go to the county tomorrow, be careful and don't get into arguments with others. "

"Don't worry, grandma." After sending grandma out, Li Erlang lay on the kang unable to sleep. He was very excited when he thought about implementing the first step of the plan tomorrow.

Ji Qingyue couldn't sleep even while lying in bed. Now the weather was slowly getting hotter. He opened the two windows completely. The slightly cold night wind blew and covered him with quilts. The cold moonlight shone in from the window, projecting some bright light. He looked at the palm of his hand and thought, why did he appear at Bai Qingshan Temple that day? Is it possible that all this is really the blessing of Buddha?

Although he was very tired, the scene five years later still appeared in Ji Qingyue's mind. He was anxious when he thought that the Li family outside would end up with their family destroyed.

The current situation is like this, no one can escape. Even if the emperor in Chang'an survives, the country's situation is deteriorating. Not one person can stop it, but it is not irreversible.

Ji Qingyue turned over again and faced the window. He could see the bright moon in the sky tonight.

His thoughts drifted to Li Yu who was in Guangde's second year.

"There is a great sycophant in the imperial court! Everyone calls him a traitor! The foreign enemies are not trying to stop them, but they insist on sending troops to catch the Lao Shizi bandits. They say that Brother Li died because he could not wait for reinforcements!!"

Do you have to catch the bandits during the border battle?

After the emperor's death, Mr. Lu took charge of all affairs in the court. Did he really have evil intentions and become interested in the throne? Did he have any hand in the emperor's assassination?

"I heard that Mr. Lu often went crazy and would kill people when he went crazy! Not only did he kill many wealthy businessmen at once, but he also wiped out many bandits in the northwest! I heard that it was because his daughter died here...!"

Why does this have anything to do with Mr. Lu’s daughter? Could it be that he is a daughter slave?

Between tossing and turning, the night gradually deepened.

Suddenly, he saw the mole on the palm of his hand slowly fade away, becoming blood red under the moonlight.

Um? Is it time to go out? What time is it now?

The moon is high, similar to when I returned yesterday.

Has it been exactly twenty-four hours? Maybe it’s still Xu Shi?

Try it next time.

If this pattern continues from now on, to be honest, it is of no use. Although the interval is very short, he can only stay outside for two hours. In such a short time, there is no guarantee that he can pretend to be a normal person. Be careful of disappearing in plain sight...

It scares me just to think about it.

One night passed and the rooster crowed.

The Li family began to get up and move.

Ji Qing, who couldn't sleep, decided not to sleep anymore. He brushed his teeth and walked up the stream. Suddenly he saw many little ones swimming in the blocked stream.

He squatted down and took a closer look. These were actually small fry!

Unexpectedly, these big fish laid eggs quietly and hatched so many fry!

Densely packed small dots were swimming in the water.

In this case, can the big fish be made into pickled fish? The pickled cabbage happens to be already pickled!

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Li Erlang calling him in the study.

We passed Minglu yesterday, are we so bold today?

he likes!

Ji Qingyue rinsed his mouth hurriedly and rushed to the bridge. At the same time, I was wondering: At this time, he would have gone to work in the fields, why is he still at home now?

It turned out that Li Erlang was going to the county today and came in to ask Ji Qingyue what he wanted to buy.

When Ji Qingyue heard that Li Erlang was going out, his eyes lit up: "Can you take me with you? I thought about it for a while last night. Although I can't appear in the village, I should be able to appear in the county, right?"

"Yue Lang means to let me take the painting into the city?"

Ji Qingyue begged, "Can you?" When he got up, he looked at the palms of his hands and saw they were still red, which meant he could still go out.

The original plan was to kill a fish and make it into pickled fish and take it out for dinner with everyone. Unexpectedly, Li Erlang wanted to go to the county and he wanted to go too!

Li Erlang thought for a moment and agreed. The county gate would check documents such as road signs, but the county would not. If there is nothing serious, the yamen patrolling in the county will generally not stop people for questioning.

So he found a bamboo tube, took off the hanging painting, rolled it up and put it in the bamboo tube, telling Ji Qingyue not to make any noise.

Ji Qingyue's voice was trapped in the bamboo tube and sounded muffled: "I will never speak if you don't let me speak!"

After greeting his family, Li Erlang went out carrying a bamboo tube.

The swaying donkey cart had no impact on Ji Qingyue. He listened to the people on the donkey cart chatting and hoeing the ground leisurely, just like listening to a radio broadcast on the stereo. It was very lively.

After staying alone in a painting for a long time, one becomes very fond of this kind of excitement.

The donkey cart arrived at the county in a swaying manner. Li Erlang hugged the bamboo tube tightly and turned to the hidden place on Chaoming Mountain where Sanlang Academy is located. He opened the painting and let Ji Qing come out.

Ji Qingyue had been waiting for a long time. As soon as he heard that he could come out, he walked through the barrier and came outside with a face full of joy. The last time he came down from Bai Qingshan, he just walked around by himself. No one introduced him, so he didn't understand anything. Now when he goes out with Erlang, he is like a child who goes out to play with his parents. Everything he sees is new.

Li Erlang pointed to the academy on the mountain and introduced: "On the mountain is the academy where Sanlang studied, Chaomingshan Academy."

Ji Qingyue specially dressed like ordinary people and had his hair wrapped up to make himself look less unusual.

He raised his head and looked around. Time was running out, so he couldn't wait to pull Li Erlang down the mountain.

"I'm just taking a look later, no need to buy anything. By the way, Erlang, I've almost used the money you gave me before. Now I only have a few hundred coins left. Do you have enough money? Do you want to give me too?" Take it?"

Li Erlang didn't care where Ji Qingyue spent his money. He just sighed in his heart that he could buy things in paintings?

"Nothing, I haven't asked Uncle Quan for the dividend after the new year. We'll go there together later."

"Don't worry about me yet, you are busy with your business." Ji Qingyue knew that Li Erlang came out for business, and he would definitely not disturb his business. "Make an appointment with me at a time and place, and we will meet there."

It was a rare trip, and he wanted to observe the order and customs here. It would be best to know about the issuance and changes of some government orders, especially those in the direction of the capital, so as to prepare for future plans.

Li Erlang took Ji Qingyue to the vicinity of Hu's shop. There was a notice board with many notices posted there. After Li Erlang left, he went to the notice to see what the notices on the list were.

In addition to information about deserters, there was some news about the South posted on it. The earliest one should be a notice in early February, in which the Shandan County magistrate sealed several grain stores in the county, and all the stewards and accountants of the grain stores were arrested and imprisoned.

If some grain stores are squeezed out, new competitors will naturally enter.

Not long after the closure, several new grain stores were opened on the original site.

Ji Qingyue craned his neck at the notice board, and Li Erlang turned his head three times and walked into Hu Shang Market.

As the name suggests, Hu Shang Market is a paradise for merchants. Businessmen who come from south to north, east to west, gather here. The trade here is so developed that commercial tax and city gate import and export tax have become important financial revenue for Shandan.

This is the largest market in Shandan. If they have time, people from outside the city will come here to buy things. They will also find many casual jobs here: feeding and washing livestock, carrying goods, running errands and delivering letters, cleaning the streets, etc. It seems to be a place where many people in the county rely on for survival.

Li Erlang came to a food store and looked up at the sign above - "Fengshou Food Store".

The shop is not big, with several jars containing grains, noodles and beans inside. There is only one waiter guarding it. The new store has just opened two months ago and has already passed the novelty period. Everyone’s grain prices are the same. At this time, The focus is on repeat customers, so the new store naturally seems deserted, with not many customers coming in during the day.

Li Erlang walked into the grain store. The clerk looked up and saw that he knew this man. Isn't it Li Erlang who went to Licun?

"Erlang, you're fine." The boy stood up from behind the counter and asked Li Erlang why he was here.

The clerk guarding the store is the clerk who often goes to the north to receive goods with Manager Zhang. They meet each other every year when they go to the village to harvest goods. They have known Li Erlang for ten years.

"Alang, I wonder if Manager Zhang is in the store? I want to ask him something."

Manager Zhang had a good impression and evaluation of Li Erlang, so the waiter naturally responded politely: "Unfortunately, he went out to order some goods in the morning. It will take a while to see the time. Why don't you drink some water with me and talk first?" , Uncle Zhang will be back soon."

Li Erlang naturally agreed.

From the clerk, Li Erlang learned that something big had happened in Jiangnan. The officials broke the stable order in Jiangnan and disrupted the game of cards. This was one of the reasons why the Fengsu Grain Guild appeared in the northwest.

When the snow melted, Li Erlang was still surprised when he met Manager Zhang in the county. Usually at this time, Manager Zhang would have gone south to deliver mountain goods.

It turned out that after a long period of survival of the fittest and running-in experiments among the major nobles in Jiangnan, three families with stable positions were finally produced, including countless supporters of these three families. They swallowed up most of the industries in Jiangnan, except for salt, iron and Water transportation is still in the hands of the government, and other businesses are controlled by these three families. Other outside merchants cannot compete with them.

They opened grain stores and cloth stores all over the country, raising prices if they wanted to, and lowering prices if they wanted to, in order to squeeze out their competitors from the local area.

The officials had been staring at them for a long time.

"Guess what happened to them? They were so bold that they invaded the state's military grain depot. In one year alone, they were short-changed by millions of shi of grain, creating a huge problem for the officials. The officials were so angry that they The leading officials in the state capital and counties have been killed, and the people below have also been replaced!" The man talked incessantly, and Li Erlang listened with interest. "At the end of February, the newly arrived governor, with the official's decree, mobilized the soldiers in the barracks and directly invited all the heads of the three families to the Yamen of the state capital, and ordered them to replenish the military grain storehouse and pay all the money. Shaona’s food is really satisfying.”

In order to fill these millions of stones of grain, they had to bring back grain from grain stores in various places. As a result, the three major families could only shrink their industries. The grain stores that expanded outside the country closed down one by one, leaving food stores in other areas to enter and develop. Opportunity.

"Erlang, there's something really exciting about it." The clerk caught a person talking, and kept talking non-stop: "Before the news came out that the state officials were executed, the outside world didn't know that they were no longer in the state capital. Wait. After the news came out, the officials had already tried the case thoroughly, and it was too late for the three families to cover up the news. Those corrupt officials lost their lives, so the officials put all their debts on the heads of the three families. Food supplements, silver fines, and arrests have been made. Jiangnan has been very lively in the past two months, and it's not over yet! Erlang, do you know what the officials did in the end?"

Li Erlang listened attentively. He shook his head. The clerk smiled wilfully and finally revealed the answer: "The official family opened a grain store in Jiangnan, so the price of food has been stable these days! I think the official family has already made plans. Got it!"

The market left behind by the three major families was quickly occupied by other forces.

Li Erlang felt excited and nodded.

"The officials established a new tax law in Jiangnan for this purpose, called two taxes."

The clerk continued: "Tax money is collected in June and grain tax is collected in October. The more fields there are, the more tax money will be paid, and the more grain tax will be paid."

Which big family in the south of the Yangtze River does not own thousands of hectares of fields and ten thousand acres of fertile land.

Li Erlang thought for a while and pointed out keenly: "Alang, do you think that the grain store opened in Jiangnan is not just a grain store?"

The clerk glanced at Li Erlang with admiration: "Yes, the grain store is owned by an official, so it's certainly not easy. The accounts haven't been settled yet."

"Isn't this Erlang? Why come to my place when you have time?" A middle-aged man in dark robes walked into the grain store with a box in his arms. Li Erlang and his waiters stood up one after another: "Manager Zhang."

Manager Zhang seemed to know the reason for Li Erlang's visit: "You are waiting for me in the store to discuss anything?"

Li Erlang bowed respectfully as a junior: "Yes, I have something I want to discuss with the manager to see if it's possible to do it."

So, Steward Zhang smiled and took Li Erlang to the house behind the shop and to the study. The servant served two cups of tea. The steward put the box away, turned around and asked Li Erlang to sit down, and he held the teacup and looked like he was listening. .