This winter, there was not a snowfall. Not only did Xiuwu, but it was said that the entire Central Plains were like this. Without snow cover, the new Tianbao grain output in the three years is probably worrying.

Although he lives in a remote countryside, the news spread very quickly. The court changed the year to a lunar calendar. From this year on, it will no longer be called a lunar calendar, but a lunar calendar.

If Ye Dan saw this long winter without snow, he would have to worry. The old farmers in Wuzepi would also gather together to discuss how to survive the famine next year.

But today, Ye Dan is not very worried.

"Are you afraid of eating less or wearing less clothes? You are nagging every day. If it doesn't snow, it won't snow. In our current situation, there is no food in the field for a year and you can't be hungry.

Knock off the lumps of soil on the soles of the shoes on the stone, Ye Dan slowly taught the eldest son beside him. His eldest son is almost fifty years old, and he seems to be scolding a child

"My jokingly, there is no food in the field for a year, even if our family cannot be hungry, people from other places will also go hungry." His eldest son laughed and said, "If you don't say it far away, their Dazhou Village has always been relatives with our Ye family. At that time, we will have to come to our family to fight Qiufeng..."

"It's not that you are not good at it and have married the Zhou family's wife as the bride."

Ye Dan snorted, and could not hide his son's little thoughts from him. He squatted on the stone and looked down at Wu Zepi in front of him, with a sense of satisfaction in his eyes.

I am really satisfied. Taking advantage of this slack season, Wu Zepi is building a large-scale construction project, and half of the families in the village have built new houses. Even if they don’t want to expand on the original basis, they also want to use cement and bamboo to build their small house into two floors.

It cannot be built at will on the verge of three floors, but two floors are nothing. Moreover, the imperial power does not go to the countryside. The Mingfu and Shaofu in the county do not care about Wu Zepi. Those officials and servants who usually show off their power will carefully clamp their tails when they arrive in Wu Zepi.

All this is simply because Ye Chang is here in Wolong Valley in Wu Zepi.

The increase in the income of villagers comes from Ye Chang's several workshops - the papermaking workshop has expanded to the point where it requires fifty workers, but this is also its limit, because the bamboo materials that can be used for papermaking nearby have been almost entirely collected. The printing workshop is working day and night to rush to get some work, not only printing Ye Chang's own works, but also printing their works for those poets and literati.

"Didn't this marriage begged for you, you're now blaming your son." Ye Dan's eldest son Ye Ge said, "Or why should you divorce your son now? Will you be satisfied with the other adult?"

"I need to give it." Ye Dan stared at him, but saw his son's tired smile, and there was nothing he could do.

"You should learn more with Shiyilang. As long as you learn Shiyilang and get a reward, I will feel at ease if I die."

"No matter what, I am also a eleventh son. What are the benefits of him? I can always be without him in the face of the adults. If I really have any skills, the adults will not be able to sleep." Ye Ge said indifferently.

Ye Dan didn't expect that his unsatisfactory son would have thought of this step, which was a little surprised.

Indeed, if Ye Ge really has any skills, he would have to compete with Ye Chang for clan power, the end would have been a consequence of Ye Lian.

"Shiyilang is here." Ye Ge shouted at this time.

Ye Chang led a group of people slowly walked from the newly paved gravel road. Although he could get some cement from the cement kiln, it was only enough for building a house. As for building a road, he would not even think about it.

"Uncle, uncle, why do you two wait here?" Seeing Ye Dan and his son looking for him, Ye Chang smiled.

"You are not your incompetent uncle. His bride's family has something to ask you for, but he doesn't have the courage to tell you, so he can only let me, the old guy, come out to nag again." Ye Dan sighed.

He completely regarded Ye Chang as an adult, but instead regarded his fifty-year-old son as a child. Ye Chang was used to it, knowing that his clan nemesis was indeed not good. He was idle when he was young and was mediocre when he was old.

"Where is this, uncle, what's the matter? I will tell you, I will definitely care about it." Ye Chang looked at Ye Ge, and saw that he was not embarrassed, so he estimated it for a moment, then said, "But I want to put some people in the village?"

"No, I just knew that Shiyilang was smart. What did people say that he could tell the dentist by listening to the string song?"

Ye Ge's words made Ye Chang laugh: "The Zhou family also wants someone to follow him to Mengzhou?"

"Well, your aunt's nephews are honest and willing. No matter how shameless I am, I will not cause trouble for those unreliable people."

"Since that's the case, you can just ask for a name, and you don't care about how many more people... But, will their Zhou family be assured to let their children be governed by me?" Ye Chang said.

A few days ago, Princess Yuzhen sent someone to ask Ye Chang to go to Mengzhou, saying that the barbarian kapok seeds and the farmers had already arrived, and they just waited for Ye Chang to take them over. Ye Chang had no intention of entering Chang'an, so he invited the envoy back and made an appointment with Princess Yuzhen and asked him to send the person to the manor in Mengzhou.

In this way, the matter of going to Mengzhou will be put on the agenda.

Fortunately, Mengzhou is not far from Xiuwu, which is only a two or three-day trip. However, what Ye Chang did not expect was that apart from the pre-determined list of thirty people, some villages slightly far away had actually asked people to hand over these days, and they also wanted to send their children to go with him.

"That's a natural thing. Everyone has watched what you have done in the past two years. After listening to you, who will not make a fortune or rebel against you, and who will not lose money?" Ye Gexi said: "Even if I send your uncle back to Ning to visit relatives now, I will be proud of my wife. As long as I say this is what my Shiyilang said, no one dares to refute it."

"Haha." Ye Chang laughed.

It makes his neighbors live a better life, which makes him feel a strange sense of satisfaction.

Li Qi and others invited him to the frontier. The reason why he refused was that he was afraid of hardship, fatigue, and insecurity, and the other hand, he felt that planting good fields was much more effective than traveling on the frontier. The battle between the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding barbarians was ultimately a competition for national strength. As long as the national strength of the Tang Dynasty could have an absolutely overwhelming advantage, the area occupied by the barbarians now will sooner or later become the territory of China since ancient times.

After sending Ye Dan and Ye Ge, Ye Chang looked at the fields that had already revealed some vitality and felt very fulfilled. Sure enough, farming was his favorite. Compared with this, it was really a struggle to go to the border to sleep in the wind and eat in the open.

"Shiyilang, you are leisurely"

He was thinking about where to go, but someone heard someone calling him again. When he looked back, his sister-in-law Fang took Xianger, Cizi and Xiaoniang, and was watching him from the edge of the village.

Ye Chang shrank his neck and walked over with a sad face.

"When I saw me, I looked like this. Could it be that I am a female yaksha?"

"My sister-in-law was originally a...a Bodhisattva-like figure, but she forced me to go on a blind date and became like a mother yaksha."

Fang clasped her lips, looking contemptuous. She really couldn't figure it out that other young men were so anxious to get married at this age, but her uncle was so disgusted with blind dates and getting married.

"I don't like my uncle's blind dates either." The little girl was spoiled by Ye Chang. When she saw Ye Chang, she stretched out her hand to hug her, and was held in Ye Chang's arms. She raised her face and said, "If my uncle gets married, she will no longer hug her mother--If my uncle wants to get married, let's get married with her mother."

Suddenly Fang turned red and spat: "Where did you come from your crazy words, you little man?"

But it was not crazy. The Tang Dynasty did not restrict women from remarrying because Fang controlled the three major profit-making industries of wine shops, seal shops and paper shops founded by Ye Chang, and some people in the clan were already muttering that if Fang didn't marry a family and took away these industrial skills, it would be better to let her marry Ye Chang. During the Tang Dynasty, such things were not uncommon.

However, such marriages are often just nominal marriages, just to facilitate family inheritance and child support, and to allow widowed sister-in-law to spend the rest of her life at her husband's house. Both parties get married in name but actually have different houses.

But this is just a little muttering from the Ye family behind the scenes, and no one dares to say it in front of Ye Chang or Fang. Occasionally, some winds came into the ears of the two, and the two pretended not to hear it.

"Uh, sister-in-law called me, but is there something wrong?" Ye Chang could only pretend not to hear this time, and he asked in embarrassment.

"If you have something to do... Is there still going to continue to take orders in Yinfang?"

"Naturally, why not?"

When Ye Chang mentioned this, he found it funny.

Because Yejia Printing House uses bronze movable type and glue ink, the bindings are different, and the printed books are gorgeous and exquisite, either elegant or beautiful, so they are very popular. At first, it was just a book compiled by Ye Chang himself, such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Strategies of the Embroidery of the World". By the second half of last year, Confucian scholars even came to the door and proposed that the Yejia Printing House print them - of course they paid for it.

As a result, the self-paid publishing market of the Tang Dynasty suddenly became prosperous. Those scholars with considerable assets were not stingy with printing their own poems and texts into hundreds of volumes, and then they gave some of their relatives and friends, and the cost was only more than a hundred to a few hundred cents. From September last year to now, in just five or six months, dozens of books have been printed and deducted the cost, which has also brought thousands of cents of profit to the Ye Family Printing House.

Of course, some people are jealous of trying to learn, but movable type is easy to learn. Some printing shops have begun to learn to make wooden movable type and iron movable type, but they are not as good as bronze movable type as the Ye family's seal shop. However, ink is difficult to make. The formula of ink is the highest secret of the Ye family. Even above bamboo papermaking and winemaking techniques, only Ye Chang and Fang are mastered by the entire Ye family.

"If you accept it again, you will recruit people." Fang said in a low voice.

"My sister-in-law just asks for help, and asks more backups. I also want to print a newspaper."

"Sign up the newspaper?"

"That's right, it's like a mansion, but in addition to the major events in the court, it's more about family matters. Chang'an and Luoyang have a population of over one million, so this thing must be easy to sell. If you can sell for 2,000 copies, you can maintain it. If you can sell for more than 10,000 copies, you will make a big profit."

Fang pursed her lips, nodded and said nothing. Ye Chang also felt embarrassed. Although the two were talking about serious matters, the little girl's childish words just now still made them uncomfortable. Seeing that Fang wanted to speak but stopped, Ye Chang said randomly: "I want to go to the winery to see... Sister-in-law, I'm leaving now."

"Just go." Fang said a little hatefully.

Ye Chang immediately fled in panic, running faster than escaping from Luoyang. Thinking of the entanglement between Li Qi and others in Luoyang, Cen Shen should go to the imperial examination now, Ye Chang was wondering if he should go back to Luoyang again.

Although Jia Maoer was kept in Luoyang, there were some things that needed to be checked frequently, otherwise the more than 2,000 qualified workers would not be trained for themselves, but would be used as wedding dresses for others.

The winery was not there, and it was a bit far apart, but Ye Chang was still preparing to go around the winery near Wu Ze outside the village. In order to facilitate transportation, the winery was about a mile away from Wu Ze Pond. Usually, there were two members of the Ye family watching. When Ye Chang took Shanzhi and others to the place, he saw that there was a panic here.

"Shiyilang is here, just right"

"As far as I said, I was sent to the official. Shiyilang was kind-hearted, so maybe he would let this guy escape."

"If you don't make your own decisions, even if Shiyilang is good at accumulating virtue, let this person go, that's his own business. You won't be able to say it..."

“That’s nature, that’s nature.”

The noise ended with Ye Chang's arrival. Ye Chang came to the winery and saw everyone gathering together.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"We just inspected the winery and found this guy." He was angry with his tribe: "This guy somehow broke into the wine cellar, ruined a jar of wine, and was drunk himself."

At this time, Ye Chang noticed that there was a person lying among the crowd. He leaned over and looked at it. The man's eyes were closed, and he made a slight snoring sound, and he slept very sweetly.

"This is……"

The man was dressed in a Taoist costume, with a sloppy body, thin eyebrows and long eyes, and three long beards. He was about thirty or forty years old. Because he was rolling in the wine stains, he was dirty all over. I don’t know if he was beaten by someone in the wine cellar, and there was still half a palm print on his face.

Ye Chang didn't know this guy.

"You carried it out of the wine cellar?"

Although the weather is getting spring, the cold spring is still there at this time, so this guy cannot sleep so peacefully in the open air.

"That's right, we were thinking about whether to report to Shiyilang, and then sent this guy to the official. He didn't just steal wine, but our wine also ruined several jars."

"oh?"

These tribe members who guarded the winery were somewhat frightened. The winery was just a place to store it. Although the precautions were not as strict as winery and paper shops, Ye Chang repeatedly told him to pay attention to safety. However, this time he was caught in the night and they were all responsible.

Ye Chang certainly understood this little thought. He first went into the wine cellar and inspected the situation in the wine cellar.

The wine was originally stored, and the wine smelled so much that I thought the drunkard on the ground smelled the wine at night and touched it in. He should have climbed over the wall into the yard, then used his sword to split the lock on the door, and entered the wine cellar in a big way.

In the wine cellar, he first opened two jars of wine, one sip on the left and one sip on the right, and put the wine on it, but the wine in Ye Chang was drunk, with a degree of nearly fifty degrees, which was the height of the wine of this era. Therefore, without much wine, he was drunk and began to be crazy about drinking. The guy broke a few sips of wine jars and took a drink bath.

These jars of wine are sold on the market, but they are worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cents.

Ye Chang was not heartbroken when he was missing. What annoyed him was that someone dared to stroke his tiger beard in his nest in his old lair, and even
Chapter completed!