Datang romantic little landlord

Although the locust plague will reduce food production, but with so much land in the Tang Dynasty, not all places will encounter locust plagues.

One of the main reasons for the famine was that unscrupulous grain merchants deliberately hoarded grain and did not sell it in order to make huge profits, which caused panic among people and made grain even more precious.

In fact, there was no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the second year of Zhenguan.

When Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne in the previous dynasty, the national population had reached 890 million households, and if one household had 6 members, the national population would not be less than 5000 million.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, causing countless casualties.

After the Tang Dynasty settled the country, the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the Wude period counted only 210 million households in the Tang Dynasty, with a population of less than 2000 million.

Not to mention the grain produced by Datang every year, only the Huiluo warehouse inherited by Datang at the end of Sui Dynasty has a total grain storage of more than 3 million catties, which is enough for the people of Datang to eat for 50 years.

In the 11th year of Zhenguan, Ma Zhou, the supervisory censor, said to Tang Taizong Li Shimin: "The Sui family stored Luokou, and Li Mi followed it; the Xijing government treasury is also used by the state, and it has not been used up to now."

At this time, the Sui Dynasty had perished for 20 years, but the food and cloth at that time had not been used up.

Li Wangyou didn't quite believe this. After all, how could food be stored for decades?Could it be that the Sui and Tang Dynasties had black technology for storing grain?

But this time is the second year of Zhenguan, and it has only been 11 years since the fall of the Sui Dynasty. If those old grains are properly stored, there should be no problem.

It can be seen that there is absolutely no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty. The famine caused by the locust plague is actually because the aristocrats and big grain merchants sat and watched the people starve to death for personal gain.

Regarding Li Wangyou's praise, Qiu Kun was a little embarrassed: "Xiao Lang, don't misunderstand my lord, although it will cause sales of grain, the price will still follow the market, and will not deliberately lower the price."

"Naturally, haha, I understand what Brother Chou said." Li Wangyou said with a smile.

Of course he understood the meaning of the Qiu family, the price follows the market, firstly, the Qiu family will make a fortune as the price of food rises, secondly, it will not attract the hostility of the peers, and thirdly, it will not be noticed by the government.

Otherwise, you, a grain merchant, sell grain at a low price on purpose, what do you want to do?Who can bear the label of "inviting to buy people's hearts" from you?

After figuring out what Qiu's family was thinking, Li Wangyou's grievances disappeared, and he asked Li Heng to prepare dinner and water and wine, and to have a few drinks with Qiu Kun tonight.

According to the current rules of the Li family, there is no distinction between master and servant when eating, and everyone eats at the table.Qiu Kun lived in Li's house for a few days before, so he naturally knew the rules of his house, but he didn't find it awkward.

As soon as it got dark, the Li family gave fat Qiu Kun a fright.

In the main room in the front yard, the old butler Li Heng saw that the sky was getting dark, so he took out a torch and lit a lamp.

Qiu Kun didn't pay attention to it at first, but after the lamp was lit, he was surprised to find that this lamp was not an ordinary candle or oil lamp, but a lamp that he had never seen before.

The lamp Li Heng lit was much brighter than ordinary oil lamps or candles, and there was no black smoke coming out, which made Qiu Kun very curious.

"Butler Li, what kind of lamp is this? It's so strange."

"Haha, this is a biogas lamp made by my lord. It doesn't use lamp oil, and doesn't emit black smoke. I don't know what kind of methane the lord uses. Anyway, this lamp can be lit all night, which is very magical. "

When Li Heng talked about this biogas lamp, he kept praising it. In his opinion, the biogas lamp is simply a trick of the fairy family, and it is a family heirloom of the Li family!

So lighting up the biogas lamp at home every night is Li Heng's favorite thing to do, and even the little girl Pei Lan doesn't allow her to intervene.

In fact, the biogas lamp that Li Wangyou made is very simple, limited by the materials, he can only make it as simple as possible.

In the past, biogas digesters were built in many places in rural areas.Because of his mischievousness and curiosity, Li Wangyou disassembled the biogas lamp at home into parts, wanting to study the principle of this thing.

Although his grandfather beat him up because of this, Li Wangyou remembered the structure of the biogas lamp because of the beating.

A normal biogas lamp is composed of nozzles, ejectors, mud heads, gauze covers, glass lampshades, reflectors and other main parts.But obviously Li Wangyou couldn't make these things in Datang, and any glass lampshades and reflectors were all dreams.

In addition, the biogas digester in his family is just the simplest biogas digester without any pressurization equipment.

So Li Wangyou could only simplify it as much as possible, and finally made the nozzle and mud head of the biogas lamp after a lot of effort.The most critical copper wire mesh is handmade by old coppersmiths in the county with copper wire.

The outer glass cover is naturally impossible, and it is replaced by an ordinary tulle lampshade.

Even so, such a simple and incomparably simple biogas lamp was a remarkable thing in the Tang Dynasty.

At this moment, Qiu Kun seemed to have discovered a new continent. He didn't even wait for the most anticipated delicacies of the Li family. He followed the old housekeeper Li Heng like a curious baby, watching him light up the biogas lamps at home one by one.

Whenever a biogas lamp came on, Qiu Kun would say hello, and then move closer to observe carefully.

However, the old butler Li Heng had a face full of pride and contempt, thinking that Qiu Kun was simply a farmer with too little experience.

Li Heng's appearance made Li Wangyou secretly laugh.

He clearly remembered that several days after the biogas digester was built, cow and horse manure piled into the biogas digester began to ferment to produce biogas. When Li Wangyou lit the biogas lamp for the first time, Li Heng's expression as if he had seen a ghost seemed worse than that of Qiu Kun. ah.

084 Tian Shelang Qiu Kun

The old butler Li Heng led the fat man Qiu Kunxian to display the biogas lamps at home, and went to the kitchen to see if the food was ready, but Qiu Kun followed him to the kitchen.

Now the Li family's kitchen has been taken over by the little girl Peilan.

It must be said that this little girl is very talented in cooking, and in just half a month, she has learned a lot of Su Changqing's cooking skills.Especially the dishes that Su Changqing cooked once, she can perfectly reproduce them.

So now Su Changqing doesn't go to the kitchen very much, but occasionally cooks a few new dishes, and after teaching Peilan, he doesn't care about it.

Speaking of it, the Li family is now small in number, with only four members, it is indeed a bit stretched, and they can't even take care of the twenty cattle sent by the county.

It was Su Changqing who figured out a way, and after discussing with the old villager, all the twenty cattle were fostered in various households in the village.

He also made it clear with the old village that the cattle can be lent to the village for spring farming free of charge, but the cattle have to be raised for the Li family, and they can take the cattle to use at any time when the Li family needs them.

In Li Wangyou's view, this is a very harsh condition, but the old village is overjoyed, and there is an endless stream of families in the village who are willing to adopt cattle, and they almost didn't break the threshold of the old village Zheng's family for these twenty cattle. .

Li Wangyou could only raise his head and let out a long sigh, he was still too poor!

As for the two horses, neither Li Heng nor Li Wangyou were willing to send them to the village for foster care.

Li Wangyou also liked riding horses now, so he took the horse out and rode around the village when he had nothing to do, and he got all kinds of envious and jealous eyes from the villagers.

What Li Wangyou didn't expect was that the beautiful boss could ride a horse, much better than him.

From time to time, the two of them rode out together to relax. It was only during chatting that Li Wangyou found out that Su Changqing was actually a member of an equestrian club in Rongcheng.

Hearing this, Li Wangyou couldn't help gnashing his teeth.

He had heard about the equestrian club, the annual membership fee was 10 RMB, which was a scam.And Su Changqing is actually a member of that club, so rich!

As a department manager, Su Changqing has an annual salary of seven figures, so of course he can afford the equestrian club.

Poor him, he was exhausted, his annual income was only six figures, and he finally got a mortgage to buy a house. Before the day of handing over the house, he was sent to Datang by his beautiful boss. This is really unreasonable!

Fortunately, the way of heaven is reincarnation. If you don't believe me, look up, and the sky will spare anyone.

The beautiful boss kicked the accelerator not only to send Li Wangyou, the pride of the whole village, to Datang, but also bought one and got one free, and somehow brought himself here too.

Li Wangyou couldn't help laughing every time he thought of Su Changqing's dazed look when he fell into his bathtub.