Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Li Chengqian's family soon appeared in Li Ke's sight. After seeing Li Ke, Li Chengqian laughed and said: "Sanlang, you are back. It’s finally over. The East Palace is really boring. I heard that you are back and I will bring you to play. By the way, you have a lot of small courtyards here. You can just allocate a small courtyard for me. I won’t live with you. This is the Forbidden Building."

"Okay, big brother, as long as you are happy, big brother, you won't go to this morning meeting." Li Ke has already started to complain.

"Didn't you say who wants to go to who? It's not a big deal if I go, just to see how you handle government affairs and other things. I can know these things in the East Palace." Li Chengqian said.

Li Ke: "..."

That's my excuse for myself, not for you!

"Brother, whichever small courtyard you like is the one." Li Ke waved his hand feebly.

"Okay, then I will choose by myself. You are busy with your work, and your sister-in-law and I will take a stroll." Li Chengqian waved his hand with a smile, and then took him away directly and unceremoniously.

Li Ke: "..."

You are really welcome, I thought this was a scenic spot, so I came here to stay in the hotel.

The question is that my elder brother said that he will stay for a few days, you can't refuse to live, right?

"Which one do you think looks better?" Li Chengqian asked with a smile while taking the Crown Princess Su Shi for a walk in Li Ke's Qinwangzhuang.

"That's it, the Great British Courtyard. The style of this courtyard is very interesting. It is made of stone buildings, and the overall appearance is quite solemn. I am used to living in the East Palace. This is quite interesting, but the name of this courtyard is strange. Yes." The princess said with a smile.

"Then live here." Li Chengqian didn't care. The architectural styles here are different. This kind of pure stone building is really interesting. The stone is combined with wooden doors and windows and glass, which is quite interesting. Exotic style, I don't know if it is the style of Dashi.

After entering the small courtyard, Li Chengqian asked people to put the things down, and the people from Qin Wangzhuang who followed Li Chengqian helped put down the things. Li Chengqian naturally brought some personal maids with him besides concubines, concubines, and children. They are familiar and easy to take care of.

"Where is this No. [-] Downing Street?" As we walked, there were no special signs on some of the other buildings, but this one was not big, and there was a sign with a name on it.

"If you go back to Your Highness, this is the hut." A maid from Qin Wangzhuang followed immediately said respectfully.

Li Chengqian couldn't laugh or cry, "So is Saburo, it's all a habit, it doesn't matter if some other palaces are named, this latrine has to be given a name, and it's weird. I remember that the latrine outside his side is called What Yasukuni is here?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Chengqian was speechless, but he didn't care, he could call his house whatever he wanted.

I just don't know where these weird names came from.

Li Ke didn't care about Li Chengqian, since Li Chengqian said no, then he didn't.

It just so happened that Li Ke also came to work here, and it was Tian Meng who sent the relevant news back through the channel of Yuelai Commercial Bank.

Li Ke opened it and took a look.

First of all, Yuelai Commercial Bank signed large-scale contracts with common people in various Daozhou states of the Tang Dynasty to purchase raw materials such as silk and hemp. Among them, hemp signed the most contracts, about 220 million mu, and the average contracted mu per household was 10 mu. , There are more mountainous areas, 15 mu per household, less in plain areas, about 5 mu per household, and the signing method is different according to different terrains.

The signing of silkworm silk is more complicated, and it is calculated according to the weight of the catty, because the number of silkworms spinning is not just one time, whether it is spring silkworms or autumn silkworms.

However, the purchase price of silk that Li Ke signed with the common people was about 50% higher than the market price. Generally speaking, silkworm farmers spun silk into silk and then sold it, but now Li Ke does not need them to spin silk, and their labor costs Naturally, it will drop, and the common people can raise more silkworms at the same time.

At the same time, they also need to plant more mulberry trees. Of course, the place where Li Ke chose to sign a contract with silkworm farmers is also a place where the land is less suitable for growing grain and suitable for silkworm rearing.

Moreover, the amount of the contract is also limited, otherwise, large-scale silkworm farming will easily stretch themselves first.

At present, in fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, even if Li Ke let go of signing contracts with the people, the people would not change all their land to plant this ancient version of cash crops. The reason is very simple. The Chinese have been hungry and afraid since ancient times.

Especially not long after the drought in the Zhenguan Year, everyone was hungry in the year of the catastrophe. For the people of this era, it is safe to grow their own food.

But even if the people will not switch to cash crops on a large scale at the beginning, Li Ke will not let go of harvesting, otherwise some people will boldly not grow food in the next year or the next.

The bottom line of growing grain cannot be broken.

We must stick to the red line of cultivated land without wavering.

Compared with silk, the income of hemp is probably the most this year, but it doesn't matter if there is too much hemp. Li Ke not only has weaving and spinning techniques in his hands, but also has more advanced techniques for the processing of hemp. The later linen cannot be compared with that of later generations, but it is much softer and stronger than the linen of this era, and the weaving is more compact.

For Datang, it is definitely digestible, and these linen clothes can still be sold, regardless of the people in the small countries around Turks and so on, there are also a large number of people consuming these linen clothes.

In fact, even Datang himself could eat all these sackcloths.

Moreover, the recovered hemp is not only used for making sacks, sacks, hemp ropes, etc., especially if large-scale commercial activities are carried out, the amount of sacks is a very scary figure.

In addition to these basic data, it is the connection with some small and poor families in the local area brought along with the contract.This means that Yuelai Commercial Bank's network has gradually begun to penetrate the entire Datang Village level.

In fact, there is no need to go to the village level, as long as you go to the township level, it is enough. In a township, a prominent family in a township only needs to establish contact with Yuelai Trading Company and ask them to help investigate the situation in each village. In fact, it is very simple. .

As for this kind of investigation, it is reasonable to say that the court of the Tang Dynasty also has this efficiency. After all, the administrative departments at the first level are passed down, which is similar to that of Yuelai Commercial Bank.

However, the work efficiency of the Tang court was ridiculously slow.