When he came back from the palace, Li Chao called Cui Yingying and Zhao Siniang.

Because Hong Shi was pregnant, all the family affairs were left to Zhao Siniang. Fortunately, Cui Yingying was able to take some time to manage the affairs occasionally, but she didn't let Zhao Siniang die of busyness.

"Take half of the food in the house and someone will take it away later."

"What?" Cui Yingying frowned when she heard this, "Collection of grain, take half of our family's grain, why?" The Li family now has a lot of fields and a lot of grain. This summer, I harvested more than 20,000 stones of rice alone. This is not counting millet, wheat, beans, etc. Well, it is not considered the harvest of fields in Hebei, Longyou and Shuofang.

Just counting the land in the capital, the Li family now has tens of thousands of acres. With so many fields, the Li family has harvested tens of thousands of stones of grain this summer. In addition, the Li family also has a business shop, grain shop, and mill. The family has built granaries in several places, and the warehouses are full of new grain this summer.

The old grain has been cleared out of the warehouse and taken to the grain shop to start reducing the price.

Whenever she looked at the food in the account book, Cui Yingying was extremely satisfied. Now Li Chao said that she would take out half of it, how could she be happy?

"Official and buy, market price."

"Market price? What is the market price? Who doesn't know that there may be a drought this fall? Who is not stocking up and collecting grain? At this time, the market price and buying it, who is stupid?"

Li Chao walked aside and sat down.

"I'll tell you, don't tell others. There is a drought now, and this fall will definitely be drought. The autumn harvest will definitely not be good this year. It would be good to have 30% or 40% of the harvest. But the court estimates that there may be drought next year, and then there will be a big locust plague."

"Severe drought, a big locust plague?"

"Well, the severe drought and great locust plague that may sweep the Central Plains. After the severe drought and great locust, it will definitely be a great famine." Li Chao briefly told them the situation, "The court is now actively planning to prepare for disaster relief, and food is the top priority. Let the court buy grain merchants, landlords and grain. This is my suggestion."

"You raised it?" Cui Yingying was a little surprised.

"The world is in chaos, and the world is in chaos, and the world will be in chaos. Then everyone will have no good life. Business is difficult to do, and life is hard to live. We take out some food for the poor people in the world, in other words, for us to have a peaceful life ourselves."

"But if there is a big famine, we will take out all the food in our family. What's the use of tens of thousands of stones?"

"Start with us, take the lead. If everyone can contribute, this natural disaster will not be so terrible. Besides, we have such fields and land. Now we have some food to sell it to the court without losing money. We can still leave half of the food ourselves." Li Chao advised.

Cui Yingying is a very smart woman, but sometimes she is not the kind of petty person. She quickly figured it out that since this was the one that her husband proposed, she certainly had to support her.

That afternoon.

Jingzhao Mansion and Taifu Temple Shaofu Supervisor Taicang and other yamen came to the Li family together to beat drums and drums.

Li Chao opened the door and announced to the onlookers in front of the stone lion of the Li family that the Li family would buy voluntarily and took out 30,000 stones of grain to the court at once.

The court paid the Li family the 30,000 stones of grain at the current market price.

Then the officials took truckloads of grain back, and took a walk around Chang'an Sixth Street, paraded in the streets and made loud noises.

Thirty thousand stones of grain, and the whole grain bag alone is more than 300,000 bags and millions of kilograms of grain. The tollers pulled hundreds of trucks at a time, but only took away a small part of it.

However, the effect is indeed not to mention that Li Xiangguo, the most popular in the dynasty, actually sold 30,000 stones of grain to the court at one time, which was amazing.

It is now rumored that the drought will continue this year, and the drought will continue. The autumn harvest will be poor, and the grain will definitely rise. At this time, Li Xiang's family actually sold food to the court at the market price and selling grain. It is really hard to understand.

Of course, Li Chao took a good start and did not lose much after buying 30,000 s of grain at once. After all, the grain was sold at the market price, and it was not a waste of money. Besides, Li Chao has now taken a large government order.

His disaster relief cake project is a hot topic. Although the court has now started to make disaster relief cakes, the court needs a large number of disaster relief cakes. Therefore, the prince of Li Chao and others is the leader, and the workshop where countless bureaucrats and local tyrants participated, received many outsourcing orders.

The workshop took the order, then bought grain from the government, and then combined it with various materials, processed it into disaster relief cakes, and then sold it to the government.

Money is made in and out.

Li Chao packed his luggage at home and went to Dengzhou. The place was far away, 800 miles away, walked the Lantian Ancient Road, Wuguan, and then to Dengzhou Rangcheng. This was the most convenient route, Chang'an, Bashang, Lantian, Wuguan, Dengzhou.

Eight hundred miles away, not far, but not near.

Cui Yingying wanted to follow her, but the child was still young and dared not be bumpy on the road.

Even Zheng Wanyan and Hongxian were pregnant, so there was no wife and concubine who could accompany Li Chao to Dengzhou.

The wives and concubines stopped going, but Li Chengqian and his group of naughty children were going. At the beginning, Chengqian was going to go, and Li Chao asked the servants to inform the children's homes and asked them to take the people away.

Who knew that in the end, each family just sent a few servants to come over, brought the children's clothes, and then left a sentence. The husband and wife at home thought that it was good to go outside with Li Xiang and the prince to experience it.

After hearing this, Li Chao almost wanted to curse himself.

What does it mean to go to practice?

Yijun is only ten years old and the younger one is three or four years old. Do they know what training means? Throwing the child to himself and taking him to Dengzhou is to treat himself as a teacher in the summer camp and take them to camp?

Their parents are really relieved.

Li Shimin is like this, and now these prime ministers and dukes are like this.

Bath ditch.

The continuous drought has also lowered the water level of the bathtub reservoir a lot. Now the mills and mills are greatly affected. Hydraulic sawings and hydraulic castings have not started enough.

Water shortage.

The terraced fields that had been harvested after the rice had been turned over, crushed the mud and built into ridges, and then planted soybeans. Due to the drought, the water trucks started day and night. A group of long-time workers were lying on the water trucks all day long and struggling to move the water trucks.

The water in the reservoir became clearer and clearer.

Li Chao and Pingyang had a tryst on the boat.

Pingyang also has a vacation villa in the bathing ditch, which is quite far from Li Chao's, but the two of them will have a secret meeting on the boat, which will make it difficult for others to discover.

"You really won't take those two children home? It's eight hundred miles away. When I get there, I don't have so much time to take care of you. Are you so relieved?"

Pingyang sat there and peeled shrimps for Li Chao. It was not crayfish, but it was just as spicy and delicious after cooking.

"It is better to follow you to Shannan than to throw it away in the capital without anyone taking care of it. I found that those two children were afraid of you even if they listened to you. But they were not all afraid. They were willing to listen to you and obey you. They were just afraid of me, hey, I think I just couldn't take care of the children."

"Why is there no one to take care of staying in the capital? Where are you going?" Li Chao asked.

"Go to Tangzhou!"

"Tangzhou?"

Li Xiuning nodded. Her slender hands were very clever and very beautiful to peel the shrimp. She peeled a shrimp ball in a few strokes and sent it to Li Chao's mouth.

Li Chao lay on her lap, opening her mouth with great pleasure, and biting her fingers.

"I begged Shimin to let me go to Shannan, I begged several times, and asked for a position as a governor of Tangzhou."

Tangzhou is located east of Dengzhou and north of Suizhou. Tangzhou is Fangcheng Mountain in the north, Tongbai Mountain in the south, Huainan to the east, Xiangyang to the southwest, and Yuzhou to the northeast.

It can be said that the Tang Dynasty wanted to build a new capital in Dengzhou, which was the eastern part of the Xindu, which was very important.

"Do you think your Majesty already knows our relationship?"

"I don't think so."

Since the two of them really got together, although they often had a secret meeting, they were always sneaking and careful. In public, they always acted like they turned from hatred because of love.

"Did you go to Tangzhou because of me?"

Pingyang nodded.

"You went to Shannan, it would be meaningless for me to stay in this capital."

"But when I got there, I'm in Dengzhou and you're in Tangzhou, so I didn't have a chance to be together."

"I don't care, at least I'm not far from you."

Well, Li Chao doesn't understand the thinking of women.

"It's a pity that our public relationship is still an enemy, so I'll go with you. It just so happens that your wives and concubines are not there. What a great opportunity, but it's a pity."

"If the love between two people lasts for a long time, how can they stay together day and night?"

"Sanlang, I like to listen to you when you recite poems and lyrics the most. Let's read a few more poems."

"As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, it will be better than countless people in the world!"

"Don't talk, kiss me!"

It’s quite troublesome to go out, and you have to bring a lot of things, but Li Chao doesn’t need to worry about it.

In fact, Li Chao didn't want to go out. He liked to live like this in Chang'an, which was relaxed and idle, lived a life without restraint, had a virtuous wife, a gentle concubine, a beautiful concubine, and a warm family.

Occasionally, I will take a look at the development of my family's industrial layout, give me some advice, or train the prince to teach my noble students.

Every now and then, I went to the palace twice, talked to Li Shimin and the prime ministers about national affairs, and occasionally gave some advice. Most of the time, I still enjoy comfort and freedom at home.

Riding a horse and practicing arrows, swimming with iron spears, and when you have time, you can go into the mountains to hunt and go down the river to catch fish. How comfortable it is.

But comfort is also relative. When the real thing comes, you still have to do what you should do.

"Husband, bring the girls Qiuyue and Dongqing with you. You are holding your mouth. I'm afraid that you will not be willing to cook by yourself when you are busy. These girls have learned the skills of you. After you have been with you for a long time, you are used to it. We can rest assured if you have them by your side." Cui Yingying said considerately.
Chapter completed!