What kind of bad intentions can the little prince have?

There are also a group of big dogs who have the same idea. For the Central Plains, cattle are more important productive forces than people. If you want to kill a cattle, you have to get an approval from the county. You have to prove that it is old. You can't work anymore, or you're injured so badly that it's impossible to heal it, otherwise, you can only eat a bite of beef until the cow dies of old age.

The same is true even for those high-ranking officials and nobles in the court. Even if they have a way to get permission from the government to kill cattle, they seldom do so.These days, everyone likes to buy land. If there is more land, it will naturally need to be cultivated. If there are more cattle in the family, it is also a capital to attract tenants. Otherwise, the tenants have to do everything by themselves, and the tenants have to consider the rent they pay. Is it a good deal.Therefore, everyone is actually very restrained about eating cattle.

The cattle on the grasslands are different. A calf can be put on a nose ring to domesticate it as a farm cattle, but that kind of adult cattle is not easy to operate in this way. Ready to serve the table.

Therefore, these days, a lot of businessmen have come to Ningzhou to buy those livestock.As for Li Yue, he took the opportunity to spread a few recipes out. In the past, eating beef was nothing more than roasting and stewing. Isn't braised beef delicious? What about stewed beef?Li Yue even created Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot. Of course, it should be called Ningzhou Beef Hot Pot now. All parts of the beef are cut into thin slices, boiled in boiling soup for a few minutes, and dipped in sauce. It is really tender and juicy. , the hand-made beef balls Q bounced so hard that people couldn't bear to spit out their tongues.

As for mutton, there are already many ways to eat mutton these days. As long as there are enough spices, mutton is delicious no matter how it is cooked.However, the mutton on the grassland eating pure grass is much more delicious than the sheep in the Central Plains, so those sheep are also very popular.As for the horses, the Ministry of War picked out a batch of good ones first, and the rest sold well.

Li Qia was so busy these days that his hands cramped from counting the money, but when he thought of his commission, his heart became even more burning.Although my father is already able to make money, Li Yifu is not a high-ranking official after all, and you are more tough than him. He is just making money now. In short, Li Qia is no longer Putting the assets of the family in your eyes, if you want to make money, you have to be like King Ning, hundreds of thousands of people pass by without blinking.

Li Yue didn't care about the years before, even though the purchasing power of copper coins is very high these days, but Li Yue actually doesn't have much idea, you don't deserve to appear on the list of billionaires in future generations.But now, hundreds of thousands of guan, it's drizzle!He actually values ​​other things more, for example, wool is a good thing.

Li Yue didn't expect this crop before, and when he saw the sheep traded by those tribes, he realized that all the sheep were raised now.For example, the Turkic side usually shears wool to make felt to keep out the cold.But this quality, that’s a big deal, the felt is very rough, because the grease on the wool has not been completely washed off, the felt has a strong fishy smell, but this is not a problem for the Turkic people. It also smells great, but this kind of felt is thick, but how warm it is is still open to question.Like the Turkic people, felt is used in tents, and they mainly wear various leathers.Every year, some silk is sold on the grasslands, and only the heads of those tribes and the nobles of the big tribes can wear it.They wear silk not because silk is so comfortable, but because if silk is used as an inner garment, even if they are shot by a sharp arrow, it can reduce the damage after being hit by the arrow.This is also something after the Southern and Northern Dynasties. After all, these barbarians once ruled the Central Plains and have experience in this. Therefore, silk is also a hard currency on the grassland now, just like the Weishui alliance back then. , had to spend money to buy Taiping, and a large amount of silk was given to the Turks.

It is difficult for others to deal with the grease on wool, but Li Yue does not lack this ability. Ningzhou is close to Qinghai. Where is Qinghai? There are a lot of natural saline-alkali mines there. The so-called green salt refers to the color on the one hand. On the other hand, it is the natural refined salt produced in Qinghai.In Qinghai, there is also natural soda ash, which is naturally no problem for washing wool. By the way, cheap soap can also be made with the oil washed from wool.

Thinking about it this way, Li Yue immediately took action. Anyway, those people bought sheep for food. If you are willing to shave before buying them, then the price can be discounted for you.Naturally, those businessmen had nothing to say about this, and they didn't plan to raise these sheep until the beginning of spring. How could there be so much hay for these sheep in winter, and they would be killed when they were transported to the place, so it was okay to keep the wool for a few days.Therefore, Li Yue quickly purchased a batch of wool, and began to find someone to experiment with, and he also started to build a spinning wheel and a loom.Li Yue visited the corresponding museums, combined with his mechanical knowledge and the structure of the current textile machine, soon, Li Yue initially designed a textile machine and asked the craftsmen below to build it.

The wool business can be done, but Li Yue actually values ​​cotton more. Washing wool is too much water. Originally, the water resources here in Ningzhou can't be said to be particularly rich. China's water resources are relatively abundant, and it would be impossible to go a little further.As the mother river, the temper of the Yellow River is much more irritable than that of the Yangtze River. Although it is not as if it has been over-developed hundreds of years later, there is a trend now. Li Yue is not a water conservancy expert, and has no experience in managing the Yellow River. What kind of experience, what kind of afforestation, fixing water and soil are not impossible, but the problem is that this cannot be solved in a day or two, and we must guard against obstruction from the grassland.You must know that many years ago, Ningzhou was on the edge of the Hetao area, and it was actually a place with a lot of trees. On the one hand, it was climate change, and on the other hand, it was actually war.Among other things, during the Han Dynasty, the two sides fought one after another, and the environment in many places was destroyed. As the dividing line between farming and nomadic, Hetao has always been the hardest hit area in the war between the grassland and the Central Plains.The people of the grasslands have never stopped coveting the Central Plains. If you wantonly plant trees and forests here, in a sense, you are blocking their way to march south. It's no wonder they don't destroy it!

Although Datang is very strong at the moment, it has not yet reached its peak. Whether it is Turks, Tubo, or even the Western Regions, they are not very friendly to Datang.The Western Regions were okay at first, but when Hou Junji wiped out Gaochang without saying a word, he naturally made all the countries in the Western Regions sad, and dared not get too close to the Tang Dynasty.

If you are not in your position, you will not plan your own politics. Strategic matters are the business of Li Zhi and his wife. Li Yue, right now, just wait to make money.Winter has come, and as a feudal lord, Li Yue also got the order to return to Chang'an to attend the Zhengdan banquet. After tidying up, before the snowstorm arrived, Li Yue led the crowd to set off.