"Speaking, before our Zhenguan period, the people only had two meals a day, only four meals from the royal family and three meals from the princes. Later, in the former Han Dynasty, they specially ordered the imperial edict of the rebel and exiled King of Huainan, 'reduced three meals a day to two meals.'" Although Zhao Lushi was not of a good official status, people from such clerks and family members had actually read books and had a lot of knowledge.

The old officials like them have the most experience in civil affairs, but unfortunately they lack the background and cannot become officials. Li Xiao’s chicken soup hotpot is so delicious. He just said that he couldn’t walk if he eats a pound of meat, but now he has eaten almost one pound of beef and mutton, and has added a lot of other dishes. He even ate a plate of cucumbers by hand.

Of course, there must be wine when there is meat. The one sitting on the stove is the wine sent by Xue's mansion. The wine is also good wine. Generally, the wine drunk in the market is green, while the wine sent by the Xue family is amber, which is the symbol of a top-notch good wine. Zhao Lushi has already drunk a small pot. Although the warm rice wine is actually very low, it is also intoxicating.

If you drink too much, you will naturally like to brag and tell stories.

"Now many people still have two meals a day, and few can eat dinner. Brother Li is better. The tenants and servants at home can also eat three meals, and even eat wine and meat." Xue Wu admired Li Xiao very much. Everyone said that the Li family has always been known as kind, but there are probably not many of the most kind landlord Lao Cai who are as generous as Li Xiao.

Li Xiao smiled slightly. He also drank several glasses of wine, but he found that the Tang Dynasty wine was really average. No wonder Li Bai’s hundreds of poems on drinking wine. This kind of wine is probably only a few degrees, and the degree of the beer is not much different. How can such wine be drunk?

Although his alcohol tolerance was average in later generations, he could not compare with those who could drink one or two boxes of beer at any time, or even those who could drink seven kilograms of white wine, it would be absolutely fine to drink ten or eight bottles of beer.

Now he drinks this wine like beer, and he still drinks it in a small cup, which is not satisfying.

I heard that the green wines that people drink are lower in degree and have worse taste. Because of the brewing process, a kind of mycin in ordinary wine will turn the wine into green, and only good wine is amber. But even the good wine from the Xue family is very ordinary.

The degree is low, not pure, and there are many impurities. Before drinking, you have to use a sieve to filter it. You don’t like the way you drink it very much, and you have to put it on the stove to heat it.

It is the best way to eat hot pot in the middle of winter and ice beer.

"Although they are tenants of the Li family, they are also my Li Xiao's family. Our relationship is not only the relationship between the master and the tenant, but also the relationship between relatives. When I eat meat, everyone has to drink some soup." He didn't care too much about the difference in the identity of the master and the tenant.

What's more, the dozen people who came back from Jiangnan were all brothers and sisters who lived together. Li Xiao was also very grateful to the farmers in the village who took care of Wan Niang Li Zhen and the others so much.

Li Xiao thinks that the relationship between landlords and farmhouseholders is actually the same as the relationship between bosses and employees in later generations. Although there are bad landlords and bad bosses, in most cases, the relationship between bosses and employees is still relatively good. Bosses need employees to create benefits for themselves, so they naturally need to treat employees well, especially those excellent talents, and they are even more in good conditions to retain them.

Not to mention promotion and salary increase, I even have to have dinner parties, give some welfare prizes, or even have a travel vacation. The best talent I do has to be given to stocks.

Isn’t it the same these days? Honest tenants are also trusted by landlords. If they are capable talents, they will have to give them some rewards often, and even be polite.

Landlords like Huang Shiren and Zhou Papi are actually only a very small number of people.

However, it is indeed difficult to find anything else to treat tenant servants like Li Xiao, as it is too good to be too good.

Not only did it say three meals a day, but it was almost the same as the owner's food. How could this be done?

"Do you plan to eat like this big pot every day in the future? No matter how big the family business is, you will be poor." Zhao Lushi kindly reminded.

Li Xiao thought about this question.

I just came back before, and everyone was as poor as I couldn't get rid of the pot. I had no overnight food and had no meals. So Li Xiao organized everyone to build a house and build a hut together, and helped sell cucumbers, and then everyone had a meal together.

Now that I have returned to the mansion, there are eleven more people here, and the situation is different.

"I plan to ask everyone to help me repair my house and erect the ancestral grave, and then give each household some food first so that they can have food to spend this winter."

"Is the grain given for free? It's better to borrow it. It's not a matter of when they will pay it back, but they can't give it back for free. If there is, they will pay it back. This is better." Zhao Lushi was quite active in giving advice to Li Xiao. He always felt that it was necessary to be polite to the tenants. After all, he still counted on these people to farm and work, but it was not too good.

It's like raising livestock. If you feed them too much, then the cows and horses will not be willing to work.

Li Xiao smiled. He did not agree with Zhao Lushi's concept, but he was too lazy to argue with him. Now he has dozens of people who have eaten a big pot for a long time, but he has not thought about destroying bridges or something. Moreover, manpower is an important resource in any era.

In the future, Lijiazhuang will definitely have to do something, and Li Xiao will not be able to live by just sitting there to collect rent. To do things, there must be people, and in the Tang Dynasty, there was even a shortage of people.

Most people were bound by the imperial court with land. When they went out for a hundred miles, they were just like going to another world. They were usually in a place with a small population movement and it was difficult to move. Therefore, if you want to do things, you still have to rely on your own people.

Now I will give you some food, so your relationship will naturally be better. What will happen to you in the future?

Seeing that Li Xiao was not willing to continue this, Xue Wu told another story.

"By the way, He Yan is the husband of Cao Cao's daughter Princess Jinxiang. His mother was taken as a concubine by Cao Cao. With such a stepfather and father-in-law, He Yan has very white capital, but he is so white that some people suspect that he applies powder. If he is white alone, it is quite good, but the key is that this man loves to be self-pity when walking, twisting his hips and lifting his hips, and shaking his hair when turning his head, and his eyes are affectionate, confused, and drunken and dreaming. It really makes people spit out blood!"

"Hahaha!"

A group of people laughed. Although there were not many people who really knew who He Yan was, it did not prevent these people from despising this man like a woman in their hearts.
Chapter completed!