The general's wife is sick

With the "Iron Beast" blueprint, Xiong Jinghai once again closed the capital. In the following half a month, caravans arrived in Yingkou one after another. These caravans apparently came to the northwest border to do business, but in fact they came to transport iron ore.

A large amount of iron ore was transported to Yingkou, and the number of caravans transporting iron ore was also increasing. They came from all over the Chang'an Dynasty. Even if they were not businessmen, with the arrival of these people, their food, clothing, housing and transportation also drove the economic development of Yingkou.

The only two inns at first were quickly filled up, and those who came late had to stay at the homes of Taoist people, handing in a few copper coins a day, and they also ate a bite of the host's cooking.

Gradually, some people couldn't get used to the taste of the host's house, so they tasted other snacks in the street market.

Seeing that there were more people coming and going in Yingkou, many people thought of doing business in their hearts, but they had no money and no money, so under the collusion of Ji Liu and Dai Mengyun, Xiong Jinghai asked the yamen to start "lending".

Yamen’s loan interest is low, and the repayment methods are diversified. In addition to the normal repayment method of principal plus interest, those who grow soybeans at home can also use soybeans to repay the loan, and two loads of soybeans can offset a penny of money.

As soon as the news of this low-cost repayment came out, many people had the courage to step into the Yamen for the first time in their lives, and after inquiring that the news that two loads of soybeans could be offset by a penny was true, they signed loan contracts with the Yamen with their fingerprints.

Before the spring, the people who responded to the yamen’s propaganda about planting soybeans were all elated, and now their fields are all planted with soybeans. If it is true according to what the yamen said, these soybeans will definitely bring them more crops than in previous years after harvesting this autumn. money.

Yingkou Town is full of people coming and going, and there is a lot of traffic. Visible to the naked eye, the number of inns in the town has increased, and food stalls have also sprung up.

In order to encourage business development, Xiong Jinghai specially ordered all soldiers and government officers and soldiers to take care of the people in Yingkou doing business.

The horses that came with the "merchant" occupied all the stables. This is Yingkou, adjacent to the grassland. There is a lot of grass, but someone has to cut the grass. After the cutting, it is dried, and some beans and grains are added as fodder. horses.

Unable to do heavy work, elderly people and children now have great enthusiasm, and someone hired them to cut horse grass.

A basket of grass is 2 copper coins, the price is a bit low, but it can’t last five or six times a day, and the family has many children, so the money earned in one day is enough for the whole family to eat brown rice for two days.

In order to make it easier for the "merchant" to come and go, Ji Liu had nothing to do, so he drew all the future plans of Yingkou Town, and the town expanded more than twice.And when he was fully enjoying his sense of accomplishment as a "designer", the reply letter from the capital arrived.

A few days ago, Ji Liu transported the first batch of beauty clothes to Xianyi Pavilion in the capital, where they carried out fine processing, and let the embroiderers sew some common flowers and plants on the clothes.

At first, he didn't want to sew flowers and plants on such sexy clothes, which he thought had a low sense of fashion, but between Yan Bao's letter, he finally decided to follow Yan Bao's suggestion, even if the simple style is the future development direction, But now that extravagance and exaggeration are popular, it is absolutely unwise to have nothing on underwear or clothes.

This batch of underwear was transported into the capital quietly, and the first one to benefit was the unfavored concubine Cheng in the palace. She had been in the palace for many years before she was promoted to concubine. In the cloud-like harem, she is an inconspicuous existence.

This time, because of her bold innovation, the emperor's eyes shined brightly. In the harem that had been quiet for many years, Cheng Bin won the honor of being the exclusive pet for one month. At first, the queen just gave her admonishment, telling her not to be arrogant because of favors. In the eyes of everyone in the harem, It is expected that the old man for many years will not be able to make any trouble.

But never expected that at the end of the second month when Cheng Concubine was favored, the imperial physician asked the queen dowager for the Ping An pulse. Emperor Xuande and the Empress, Cheng Concubine had been pregnant for more than a month.

At this moment, Emperor Xuande's harem, which had been peaceful for many years, suddenly exploded.

The news of Concubine Cheng's pregnancy came from the emperor's special favor in January, but this special favor came from the beauty of the body and clothes. Knowing the beauty of the body, clothing, and since then, the publicity effect that Yan Shinuo wanted to achieve has come to an end.

The novelty announced from the palace quickly became popular among the ladies after Cheng Concubine became pregnant.

Even Ji Liu himself didn't expect that Cheng Bin's belly was so strong that she could conceive a dragon heir after just one month of pampering.

The old lady Ji, who knows the cause and effect, is stuffing cotton into the quilt she sewed. The quilts and quilts sewed by her old man are made of fine silk and satin. They are silky and warm, and soft to the skin. Variation cotton.

Hearing the news that Concubine Cheng was pregnant, the old lady Ji remained calm, "Whether it is a woman or a couple, in the back house, apart from relying on the favor of the husband, the rest is to rely on the child. The current Emperor Sangong Sixth Courtyard, from Xiu From the time a woman enters the palace to the time when she leaves the palace at a certain age, there are hundreds or even dozens of beautiful women who are not favored by the emperor. However, the number of women and double monarchs who have been favored by the emperor is large, and many people can only see the emperor in two or three months. Next, unless the emperor intends to allow the favored person to conceive, otherwise all the empresses and nobles will drink the Bizi soup afterwards, even if they don't drink it, the frequency of intercourse with Tian's family is so low, it is extremely difficult to conceive."

Ji Liu nodded, even if a girl and Shuang'er who have no financial foundation get married, they will just hand over their destiny from their parents to another man. Whether it is good or bad depends on whether this man has a conscience, but conscience is such a thing, who knows? Can you tell me exactly?

Money is still the most reliable, Ji Liu turned his eyes from the royal backyard to his beautiful body and clothes.

The output of mutated cotton is limited, and the quantity of cotton cloth woven is small.

After the first batch of clothes sent to the capital was sold out, Ji Liu sent the second batch, and the remaining cotton was all intercepted by Mrs. Ji, and used for her future grandson's bedding.

This little undergarment brought huge profits to Ji Liu. Because this little thing has elasticity that ordinary people have never seen before, and because of its special shape and Cheng Bin's special pet in January, Yan Shi promises to give it to her. It sold for a sky-high price.

The profit is so astonishing, Ji Liu saved the seeds and prepared to conduct experiments in Yingkou next spring to plant this mutated cotton on a large scale. At that time, he would find a few experienced farmers to carry out hybridization and strive to breed high-yielding mutated cotton.

After Dai Mengyun took over the winery, he often appeared in front of Ji Liu. Today he brought a bad news.

"You mean the rabbits are overrun?"

Ji Liu was not quite sure what he heard, so he asked again.

"Master Jiang said that in the past years, the food for an old snack and the food for brewing wine in the tavern were transported from the north, so Master Jiang, who has been a brewer for decades, has been paying attention to the price of grain in the north. This year Before all the grain seedlings in the field have grown, many people have found many rabbit holes in their fields."

Dai Mengyun showed Ji Liu some bean sprouts that had been bitten off by some kind of animal.

"It's normal to have rabbit holes in the farmland, why do you say it's flooded?"

Dai Mengyun continued to explain, "Master Jiang said that after the old farmers blocked these rabbit holes, new holes would appear again at a similar distance. Nowadays, there are rabbit holes everywhere in the farmland. It will also step on the air and fall in."

The jagged section of the bean sprout in his hand looks like it was bitten by some kind of rodent, but as a later generation, Ji Liu just wants to laugh, no animal dares to claim in front of the Chinese people that it is flooding, this The little rabbits dare to make trouble under his nose, I'm afraid they still don't know how many ways they can do!

"Do you know the land of Bashu?"

Ji Liu played with the bean sprouts in his hand, and looked up at Dai Mengyun.

"I've seen it in travel notes, and I've heard about it."

"From today onwards, you will remember this sentence." Ji Liu smiled, these rabbits bounced around to give him money, how could they refuse to accept it?

Dai Mengyun saw Ji Liu's smile, as if such a major event related to a year's harvest was as insignificant as an ant in Ji Liu's eyes, so he unconsciously relaxed, "Young Madam, please tell me."

Putting away the playful expression on his face, Ji Liu said word by word, "From today onwards, no rabbit will be able to walk out of Yingkou alive!"

In the afternoon of the same day, after the yamen "lending loans" to the common people, they posted a new notice, "The two big characters of "catching rabbits" are hung in the middle. The catties are weighed, and the yamen collects them uniformly, and those whose skins are damaged, the furs are collected, and the quality is recovered."

The successive movements of the Yamen set the whole Yingkou Town in motion. Young and middle-aged people are more keen to dig rabbit holes when they go to work in the fields. Small rabbits, big rabbits, one litter of rabbits, two litters of rabbits, and live rabbits are exchanged for money in the Yamen. The injured rabbits are skinned and sold, and the meat can be left for the family to satisfy their greed.

Even the "businessmen" who come and go for transportation can roll up their trouser legs and dig down the rabbit hole with the old farmers when they have nothing to do.

Ji Liu asked Dai Mengyun to build a new breeding farm far away from the town, specially raising these live rabbits. The reproductive ability of the rabbits is very strong, and these rabbits can reproduce doubled in a short period of time.

It's a pity that there is no pepper, Ji Liu is a little disappointed, otherwise, just thinking about the spicy rabbit head and stir-fried rabbit meat will make your mouth water.

Speaking of drooling, Ji Liu found that with the increase of the month, he really started to get greedy. He wanted to eat everything he saw. Xiong Jinghai also sent a letter to the capital. Princess Guangyang was very happy. , precious ornaments and clothing materials, as well as gold and silver jewelry specially made for children, were transported to the northwest by several carts.

Because of the lack of seasonings, Ji Liu stripped the seasonings in later generations from the herbs and added them to the diet. When the familiar taste filled his mouth again, Ji Liu realized that sometimes it is a kind of happiness to eat a mouthful of delicacies that he misses.

But when he started to gnaw on a whole leg of lamb, Xiong Jinghai realized something was wrong. At this time, it was about to be the fourth month when Ji Liu found out that she was pregnant.

Xiong Jinghai was worried, and asked Master Sima to take Ji Liu's pulse sooner or later. Even though Sima Jun told him that everything was fine after each pulse diagnosis, Xiong Jinghai saw Ji Liu's amazing appetite and kept asking and confirming again and again. Jun's distrustful attitude directly annoyed Master Sima, "Now he eats alone, and the four make up, so why not eat more!"