Chapter 458: How much is the price of rice reduced to

"Xiao Bei and the others are still working very hard." Wang Juan looked at Xiao Bei who was whining in front of everyone and praised him.

"This is the benefit of family conditions. Except for the children of some royal families, other children have no chance to go to a big world. Perhaps the children of ordinary families are also promising, but the proportion is absolutely not as big as those of the royal families."

Zhang Xiaobao was also very happy to see Xiao Bei who had turned slightly darker. He knew that this was the power of role models. What his younger brothers and sisters did not really want to be a qualified official, but to treat things as a game.

Other people's children play house, while Xiao Bei and the others are more practical and will work hard to make the game well.

Wang Juan stroked the hair hanging down to her face with her hands back. She saw the people in more than a hundred counties below discussing how to transport this year's rent to the capital, and shook her head slightly.

"Xiaobao, now we are also the governors, and can control local taxes. Do you need to exempt the taxes in Jian'an County? Otherwise, with their ability, not to mention transporting the rent to the capital, even if it is transported to Jilizhou, the food eaten along the way will be several times more than the rent."

"It is inevitable that paying rent is an obligation. The rent they paid can be transferred directly to the Jian'an County government. I decided to move the mansion, and the mansion of the Bohai Jiedushi was moved here, right next to Jian'an County, near the sea.

At that time, vigorously developing marine aquaculture will be a long process, but it must continue. It cannot always make the Northeast region lack a population. If others do not come, they will attract them. When people who go to North America come back, various seeds will be planted in the entire Northeast region first.

Whoever wants to taste the freshness will come to transport it by himself. If it is developed by sea, it will naturally need to be built by land. Now that the medical conditions are good, there will be few dead babies. In more than ten years, there will be a sudden explosion."

Zhang Xiaobao talked about the future development direction as he talked about the rent. At the same time, he was worried that the people sent out had not come back yet. It was too long since the past New Year, and it has been two years.

Wang Juan frowned and thought about it and asked, "Aren't we promoting new crops in the entire Tang Dynasty?"

"Don't hurry, promote it directly. Others may not be willing to plant it. For fear that if there is a problem, it will affect the original income, so they have to give them an example and send a telegram to Jilizhou on a boat to send ceramics and other daily necessities here."

Zhang Xiaobao started to jump again as he spoke.

"Oh, I'm going to send it here, I guess the people can't afford it."

"It's not selling, it's giving. They pay rent as an obligation. We will give them benefits and send a report to those who run to the border of Silla to let them do it."

Zhang Xiaobao thought of something again. As soon as he finished speaking, the radio station on his back rang driply.

The sound was not loud, but it was heard by people in the yard. The unique movement made them watch around and try to figure out what was calling.

"Ah, I saw that there were two savages in the room." Xiaobei looked sharp and looked up and saw Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan crawling on the ridge of the room. However, the two of them had a bit embarrassed and they didn't recognize who they were for a while.

The guard who was responsible for protecting her was stretched out his hand and pulled out a few pistols, looking vigilantly at the two people.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan shrank their heads at the same time, and Zhang Xiaobao shouted: "If you dare to point the gun at me again, I will blow you all."

"Ah! It's my brother's voice." The familiar voice changed Xiaobei's face, and then he shouted vigorously, "Brother, I miss you, come down quickly, why are you going up to the house?"

The people of Jian'an were slightly stunned and suddenly became excited again. The legendary figure was finally seen. Li Bai also looked expectant, wanting to see how the person who could decide his official position was.

As two sounds of landing sounded, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan jumped down one after another.

Everyone was stunned again. When they looked at the two people, they found that Rulun could not overlap the image in their minds with the two people in front of them. Their hair was messy and their clothes were mostly damaged, which was even worse than those who escaped from famine.

Is this the legendary God of War and God of Wealth? I feel comfortable and believe it, it seems a bit difficult.

Xiao Bei didn't care about that much, with his arms wide open and his calves tightly, he rushed into Zhang Xiaobao's arms and kissed Zhang Xiaobao hard on his face, "Brother, where have you two gone to play? Have you killed a few big tigers with bare hands?"

"Mr. Zhang County, can you arrange a residence for me? I am tired from traveling, hungry and tired?" Zhang Xiaobao also kissed his sister hard, then turned his face down and said that the official was like this.

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Xiao Bei smiled happily, put his arms around his brother's neck with one hand, and pointed at the house with the other to guide the way. He was full of curiosity about the things behind his brother's back.

While walking with her sister in her arms, Zhang Xiaobao said, "This is a baby. I want to communicate with my grandparents and parents in the capital in the future. I can use this thing to pass it over quickly and send it back. Let me see, why did Xiao Bei turn black?"

"It's been a secret, brother, I'll help them build a greenhouse. When will we go back with you? It's not fun at all, and I can't hear the story. I don't want to be a county magistrate. I want to go back to be another official and follow my brother and sister."

Xiao Bei suffered a little regretful and complained to his brother.

"Okay, we won't be the county magistrate, we will be a bigger official, and we will still be here. I will accompany you. Let's go and do it first, and wait for my brother and sister to rest before telling you stories."

Zhang Xiaobao was really tired, so he kissed his younger brothers and sisters one by one, took a hot bath with Wang Juan, hurriedly finished his meal, lay on the kang and fell asleep.

Li Bai had never found a chance to talk to Zhang Xiaobao and the others, so he had to helplessly go to work on his own affairs and figured out what to say when the two of them got up to make a better official position for him.

Compared to the joy of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan after a long journey with their younger brothers and sisters, the French governor Zhang of Fanyang said that it was very bad. The family followed him to a remote place and could no longer see the prosperity of the capital.

He was busy in the capital city, and he was busy, and he was not free here. He was waiting for him to take care of many trivial matters. The most annoying thing was that the ability of the officials under his rule was far worse than that of the Beijing management.

When he was in the capital, he didn't have to say it too clearly. The officials could understand it. Even if someone did something wrong occasionally, he could say that the officials did not understand his intentions.

If he doesn't explain it clearly, the officials will be stunned and ask about the specific situation over and over again. In addition, the roads here are not smooth and far away from the sea, and many people are migrating out, which makes him very uncomfortable.

"Sir, after the autumn harvest, we should plant winter wheat for a while. I heard that the Sinong Temple in the imperial court has produced new seeds. I wonder if I can buy them from there. After all, I was familiar with Sinong Temple before, so that there will be more harvest next year?"

The official in charge of the farming department found Zhang Shuo and discussed the issue of seeds with him. It can be said that they are all ethnic minorities, and they will not turn around and go straight, without considering Zhang Shuo's feeling of loss at all.

Zhang said that he felt uncomfortable when he heard the word "Beijing". When he heard the word "Sinong Temple", the first thing he thought of was not seeds. As for Zhang and Wang's family, the two families of Zhang and Wang raised the status of Sinong Temple. Many objects in Sinong Temple were all responsible for Zhang and Wang's family.

The seeds are indeed well studied, with high yield and short growth cycle, but if you ask yourself to write a letter to them, it is always uncomfortable. They will definitely laugh at themselves and laugh at themselves for being overestimated and insist on going against Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

If not, I must not ask for seeds and cannot afford to lose that person.

If you consider this, Zhang Shuo said calmly: "The seeds of Sinong Temple are being studied, not to mention that the journey is long. Even if they get the letter and wait until the seeds are delivered, it is time to sow. You are responsible for the farming. Why don't you think about it yourself? Are you inferior to the officials of Sinong Temple?"

"Ah? Think about it yourself? Where to start? Sir, you used to work in the capital. Why don't you remind me that I can find someone to do it, oh? Sir, I remember something. Sinong Temple is far away and Jilizhou is close. Zhang Xiaobao must have a way to get good seeds. Why don't you ask him for it? It's good, the official will send someone right away."

This person in charge of farming is very real. In the blink of an eye, he thought of a good idea. He thought that he could succeed and wanted to get the seeds. It is said that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are very supportive of the lives of the people.

"No, no one is allowed to go. Whoever dares to go to punish his crimes? How can the seeds of Jilizhou be planted in Fanyang? If you don't adapt to the environment, go and take care of your own affairs."

Zhang said that he seemed to be sitting on a bucket, and then exploded the fire. He scolded the person in charge of farming, waved his hand, and drove the person out like a fly.

When the whole house was empty, he was the only one left. Zhang Shuo seemed to have grown a lot earlier in an instant, and fell on the chair weakly, and said angrily: "Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan, do you think I will be in a slump after I cleaned up my body? Wait for me, want to build the road? When I am Fan Yang, I will not let you complete it."

Standing outside at the door waiting for the summoned guard, he shook his head helplessly when he heard Zhang's voice and said to the other person next to him: "Mr. Zhang is crazy and wants to deal with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. It seems that he has to pay his life before he will give up."

The other man looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, and nodded. "The adults were angry. Listen to the solution they thought of, but they fell into a bad situation. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had no time to pay attention to him. He wanted to obstruct the road construction. He heard that the railway was going to be built, and he got a lot of money. If the adults really stopped him, the emperor would probably chop off his head. Alas~!"

"That's right, just think of a way to leave as soon as possible. You can't be with him, otherwise you won't know if you're going to lose your life one day. If you don't believe it, you can look at Silla. They didn't let the river repair at the beginning. Now that they're taking out the money, I guess they don't expect to go."

The guard who had spoken before lowered his voice and wanted to find a new way out.

As he said, the road from Jilizhou to Daxing City is still under construction, and many people have been recruited to work together, so that they can be repaired before the winter begins.

But apart from this section, the road from Jilizhou to other places that had been agreed upon was not moving at all. The river in Silla was opened, and the merchants in Silla spent more than 500,000 yuan, and the bridge, although it was just an iron chain, still cost 200,000 yuan.

The merchants were waiting for the road to be repaired smoothly, so that it was convenient to deal with goods from the Tang Dynasty and collected some tolls. However, the one million guan he had taken out was only a short distance, and most of them were in Silla, and the Tang Dynasty did not have any new actions.

No matter how Li Dong and others calculated, they didn't think that the road they had built in front of them could be worth one million yuan. They were always in a state of shack. They stood at the place where the tariffs were collected. Seeing batches of grain transported over and paid the money from piles of silk, they finally couldn't help but walk across the bridge to find Zhang Tie, asking what was wrong.

Zhang Tie had just received the order to start the action and found the person in charge of other aspects and was ready to act in concert with each other. He had just handed over the command power and was assigned a task. Before he could go to implement it, Li Dong came over with a listless look.

"Li Dong's family, do you have free time today?" Zhang Tie greeted Li Dong with a sincere smile.

"It's okay, come out for a walk and take a look at the newly built roads, as well as the various shops and restaurants here. The transactions look good and the crowds are busy."

Li Dong tried his best to suppress the situation that he said the way out, and circled with Zhang Tie, sweeping his eyes around the trades on the river side, making him feel even worse.

It was clear at the beginning that the roads built by Silla accounted for 80% of the rent and tolls received by Silla accounted for 20% of the roads built by Silla accounted for 20%. However, there was no shop on the road built there, and there was a shop near Daxing City. It was the sphere of influence of others and could not collect money.

Since the river opened and the bridge was built, no businessman's team had arrived directly from Daxing City. The current situation is that merchants from other places directly took ships from Jilizhou or Dengzhou and paid a portion of the money to a new dock in Sashui.

Then unload the goods at the wharf, take another land route, and go to the bridge, and only pays 20% of the tariff, without paying tolls. When resting, it is only a river to rest. Instead, in the restaurants and inns of Datang, these stores do not belong to the part of the original contract.

Li Dong realized that he had spent money and had not earned any money he should have earned. The transportation fee was made by Zhang and Wang's family, and the consumption income made the shops here succeed.

So he was a swearing man again, and no matter how he thought he was cheated by Zhang Xiaobao.

This liar, a big liar, deceived Tubo and ***, and then tricked me into Silla. Li Dong was whispering in his heart.

"Ah, someone misses me. It's probably Silla. I just started and reacted too quickly." Zhang Xiaobao, who took his younger brother and sister to the top to tell stories, sneezed and said.

Wang Juan pursed her lips and smiled, "Yeah, I guess I'm praising you. I've finally got a place to use it."

"Sister, are international fraudsters very powerful?" Xiao Bei asked with his head raised and blinked his big eyes.

"That's quite awesome." Wang Juan was sure.

Li Dong didn't know that Zhang Xiaobao had this professional quality. He cheated directly when he could cheat. If he couldn't cheat directly, he would find a way to go around the circle, otherwise he would lose his reputation.

What he is now considering is how to get back the money and how much he can get, and he doesn't expect the road to continue to be repaired.

So he said without saying a word: "Manager Zhang, I see that your fleet is frequent and has transported a lot of grain and cloth. The harvest this year seems to be good."

"This...is still good. I'm not very clear about it. I only care about construction and know nothing about farming. Since Dong Li's family has free time, it's better to go to Shuiyun to have a drink so that I can spend the entertainment expenses. It's winter to celebrate the New Year. If I don't spend it this year, I won't save it next year."

Zhang Tie enthusiastically pulled Li Dong toward the Shuiyunjian Restaurant not far away, and said to Li Dong on the way: "Last time I gave you a lot of vouchers, and I can't use it after the New Year. I can't use it if I should."

Li Dong thought that it was really not appropriate to say things outside, so he followed Zhang Tie. After hearing Zhang Tie's words, he looked like he agreed, but he cursed in his heart that the Zhang and Wang families were crazy and wanted to ask someone to spend money when they caught someone, but they could not be used as money as money. For every 1,000 yuan spent, they had to spend nine thousand yuan.

The price of wine and food is five times that of Changfeng Pavilion, and the fool went to Shuiyunjian and Bihai Yinsha for dinner.

A few steps away, the two of them quickly entered the restaurant between the water and clouds. The three floors were still relatively solid. They chose a room where they could see the river. They ordered the guy to warm up the wine, and then chose two signature dishes at will. The guy gave the cold plate first so that everyone could drink.

Zhang Tie spread out a piece of dried tofu, brushed some sauce on it, sprinkled some chopped green onion, rolled it up and took a big bite, chewed it hard, swallowed it later, breathed a lot, and said, "Li Dongjia tried this, it looked simple, and it could be eaten in his mouth and raised his breath."

Li Dong was obviously unwilling to smell the scent of green onion, and responded with a smile, but picked up a garlic eggplant and tasted it. He had to accept that the wine and food in Shuiyunjian was worth the price. The same ingredients made were delicious compared to Changfeng Pavilion.

"Manager Zhang, when it's cold, it's snowing and the ground is frozen, will the road be repaired?" Li Dong looked at the river and asked Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie's expression was very serious and explained to Li Dong: "If the Li Dong family is willing to pay more money, they can repair it in winter. They are not afraid of snow, but they melt it if they are sprinkled with salt. The ground is frozen and roasted with fire. It's just that the flowers are very expensive and it's not worth it. It's better to wait until the spring is coming next year."

"Mr. Zhang said it right, it's not worth it. Mr. Zhang. I have seen that in recent days, there are a few businessmen coming by land. Is it because the road is difficult to walk and it is difficult to build?"

Li Dong naturally refused to continue investing money. He said against his will, there were fewer merchants. In fact, there were no merchants coming from there at all, and they were transported by ship.

Zhang Tie showed a embarrassed look. "To be honest, it's not difficult to build roads. The main reason is that there are some minor problems with the raw materials. The price of the ** that needs to be used to fry stones has increased, which has increased by three times. On the other hand, the people's lives are better, and no one is willing to do the wages they have given in the past.
To be continued...