The Taifu, the Zhongshu Ling, and the third-rank Li Ji, the subordinate of the Zhongshu, came to the Corn Prison personally to inspect, but he saw that the corn Prison was eating well.

After sucking his nose, Li Ji turned to the officials next to him and said, "The meal at the Corn Supervisor is probably the first serving of the Hundred Secretariats in Beijing."

"Yes, it smells fragrant. Not only are there chili peppers, sesame oil, but also peppers and peppers. What a good guy, enough for you to finish your books." An official smiled.

The pepper in Chang'an City is extremely expensive and most people can't afford it. Even many ordinary officials from Beijing cannot afford it. However, the working meals in the corn prison can smell the pepper from afar.

"Who wants other people's corn prison to be rich? This year, the watermelons and peppers grown in Shayuan have been sold for a lot of money."

Several officials in the red green official robe said and expressed their envy and even jealousy towards the Corn Prison.

In fact, the corn prison not only has land rent income from the public farm, but also the loan income from the public farm. They also grow watermelons and sell peppers. These two things are very popular in Chang'an this year. After selling them a lot of money, they all entered the bank of the corn prison.

But I met Li Xiao, a senior official who didn't take money.

Li Ji smiled, and he knew in his heart that the income of the corn prison was not only that, but the most secret and largest source of income was that they secretly sold corn seedlings.

A single corn seed can be sold for one or two cents, and not everyone can buy it just by wanting it. Only those senior officials of honors and relatives have the opportunity to buy it.

Originally, it is obviously a violation of the rules for selling corn species privately.

But since the buyers are all those with identities, naturally no one will tell this matter.

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Even Li Ji's family planted several plants, two of which were given by the emperor, and the other plants were given by Li Xiao and bought by the Duke of England.

He felt that Li Xiao was too good at doing business and making money. He sold corn by grain, but it would cost thousands of dollars per piece. They were all limited in quantity. You can only buy it if you have the status. Not to mention the price, but you can buy a few pieces if you have money.

For a corn cob, Li Xiao can earn thousands of guan by selling one or two corn cobs. For the court, it is normal to harvest more than 8,000 corn cobs this year, and it is not a good idea to have a few thousand grains. After all, how many grains are on each corn cob are not accurate.

Even if the settlement is the same, there is no loss or anything?

Fortunately, Li Xiao made money and didn't put it in his pocket. The money was all in the Corn Supervision Office, which was built ploughing tools, purchased oxen, dug wells, built water trucks and repaired canals. The rest was given to the officials and craftsmen in the prison, and improved the food level. It was nothing.

Li Ji is not a rigid person. On the contrary, he likes Li Xiao who is flexible and capable of doing things very much.

However, the more he admires Li Xiao, the more he wants to oppose the sudden promotion of Li Xiao in front of the emperor. He is still so young, and it is not a good thing to be promoted too quickly.

"The food is good, the oily noodles are splashed, the color is bright, the taste is fragrant, and the technique is authentic." Li Ji brought in with a group of officials.

In the courtyard, a group of officials who were sweating all over the head of their stomachs saw a large group of green officials coming in, and there was even a purple robe in front of them. Looking closely, it was the Secretariat Ling, so they all stood up in shock.

Li Xiao was not panicked at all, just to eat some noodles. Although the noodles were a little luxurious, they also used the money from the government and did not steal or rob them.

"It just so happens that I haven't had lunch yet, so I'll give me a bowl, and they haven't eaten yet. I'll have a free meal here at your lunch today." Li Ji was very rude.

When the group of officials heard about it, they also looked happy as a big dog-eating man.

Li Xiao was holding the bowl of noodles, but he didn't plan to put down the bowl. Although the people who came were the officials led by the prime minister, Li Xiao just turned around and ordered the chef in the prison to let him go down.

"Just follow my previous method, add more noodles and add more oil and spicy food."

Soon, bowls of noodles were cooked, and then the hot oil was spoonful of hot oil onto the chili noodles and garlic sprinkled on the noodles. It was spicy and fresh and fragrant, and the aroma was everywhere.

Li Ji held up the big bowl and squatted directly next to Li Xiao. He picked up the chopsticks and stirred them a few times, then picked up a large chopstick noodles and put them into his mouth.

I ate several large chopsticks in one breath, and then sweat immediately appeared on my forehead, but the old man ate very happily.

"Since the South China Sea chili you got, I've become addicted to eating it now. If you don't eat spicy food for a meal, you feel that the food is not fragrant. Although it's often spicy and sweaty, I just feel refreshed."

Nowadays, chili peppers in Chang'an City are very popular. Chang'an people have become more and more fond of this spicy feeling. Many people are happy with the steamed cakes, chili peppers, soup cakes, and even the flax cakes fried by the Western Regions are also filled with chili peppers.

With more people who like to eat spicy food, this pepper is naturally not cheap either. There are fewer seeds, and the supply is in short supply. The price is rising steadily. Although it is far less than that of pepper than gold, it is indeed not cheap.

Li Xiao believed that Li Ji would not be able to come here for a meal. Although peppers are expensive, the grand tutor Li Ji, with a wealth of billions of dollars, will definitely be ranked among the top 100 on the Tang Dynasty wealth list.

Yang Guozhong was the prime minister, with a family fortune of tens of millions, and Li Ji was also the prime minister. In the past, he was a landlord and powerful man, so his family's fortune would not be bad.

"Your Majesty is going to give you a title as the Minister of the Du Jun, but I will reject it." Li Ji continued to pull the noodles and said while pulling them.

Li Xiao said oh, "I have expected it too."

"There is no dissatisfaction or resentment?"

"How can it be? Actually, it doesn't matter if I don't become a minister or a wife. I also know how much I have. Now I have been awarded a county, which is enough."

"It's good that you can think so, I'm afraid you're too young and stubborn. It's for your own good if Duzhilang doesn't let you do it. But before that, although you can't be this Duzhilang, you can't just throw your hands on how to issue bonds."

The bond issuance was ultimately handed over to the Ministry of Revenue, and the Du branch official Wailang, but this official Wailang is not Li Xiao.

But as the prime minister, Li Ji was still very concerned about this matter.

No one has issued bonds before. In the event of a great war or a famine, they basically seek wealthy households or even officials to pay tribute.

Those wealthy businessmen who had no background backing became fat pigs raised by the court at this time.

"It's just one million guan, but it doesn't have to be so troublesome, and it doesn't even have to alarm the Chang'an merchants. The internal digestion of the aristocratic circle is finished. If the bonds are tied to Baekje's land and slaves, the land and slaves are cheaper, the nobles will rush forward and subscribe to the million in an instant." Li Xiao felt that a mere million guan was not worth the trouble.

"You can come." Li Ji snorted.

Is it more than one million? For ordinary people, there are a lot, but for Chang'an City, there are really not many. The ones here are the nobles and honors, all of whom are rich. It can be said that one-third of the wealth in the world is concentrated in Chang'an.

"Let's hold an auction and invite the nobles of Chang'an to come and directly link the bonds to Baekje's land to buy ***. For example, a million guan of land can be divided into three to five hundred pieces, two to three thousand acres a piece of large ones, seven to eight to eight acres a piece of small ones. In addition, some slaves are packed on each piece of land, dozens or hundreds of packs. The price of land and slaves does not need to be high. If you count, the fertile rice fields are only one to two acres acre, and a slave is only one to two cents acre, and it is also a piece of fertile land. Yinggong, do you think you don't want it?"

Land will always be the best asset of this era and is also the first choice for aristocratic and powerful people to buy property.

If it is scattered and scattered land, it will be even more attractive. scattered land is easier to manage. This is a fact that everyone knows. However, the Tang Dynasty has been established for decades and has experienced three emperors, such as the Guanzhong Plain and the Henan Plain. In fact, it has already been owned by the fertile land. Not only is it difficult to trade, but it is also expensive. Especially when land is built in these places, the fields purchased are also broken, so it is difficult to trade large-scale land.

There are still some border areas like Lingnan and Hexi, but the land in these places is not that attractive.

Although Baekje is in the east of the sea, the land is as fertile and excellent as the Jianghuai River, not to mention that Li Xiao also proposed to sell the land in pieces and also accompany a large number of slaves.

With large fertile fields and a large number of slaves sold in packages, such fields are definitely worth buying, and Li Xiao also offered such a cheap price.

"Will the price be too low?" Li Ji asked, "One or two acre of land, one or two acres of land, is like giving it for free. You must know that although some mountainous land is only four or five hundred yuan per acre in mountainous areas such as Shannan, some of the best irrigated land has been sold for more than ten acres of land on the banks of the Weishui River in Chang'an.

"What's the lower? The land in Baekje is worthless. Only when it is sold is profitable. It doesn't matter how much land is sold. The key is that someone will plant it. Only when the land is planted will there be grain output. If someone is willing to plant it, there will be people there." Li Xiao said the key point.

Where is Baekje? After all, it is an enemy country overseas. It is just attacking and has not yet been defeated. Even if it is defeated, the court will not be able to distribute all the land to those Baekje people. The land is in the hands of the court, and the military and civilians cannot keep up and plant it. People must still plant it in the past.

But someone must take the lead, especially the powerful nobles who need to go, and they have the ability to take the lead.

In the long run, even if the court took out 10,000 or 20,000 hectares of land to give to these people who stood in front of the station for free, it was actually a deposit.

Of course, it is not good to give it for free, and it is still good to sell it at a cheap price. One acre of fertile land is sold for one or two acres. A Baekje slave can be worth at least five or six cents or even seven or eight cents in the Central Plains, and only one or two cents are sold for one or two cents. Although slaves are definitely worth different in Baekje and Chang'an, one or two cents are definitely half-buy and half-get.

The purpose is to attract the nobles to take the lead in the court in Baekje.

Since the court has obtained one million yuan, why not do someone else to take the lead in developing Baekje?

Although the nobles seemed to take some risks, the benefits were also extremely high.

This is a win-win situation.
Chapter completed!