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For the production of the drip irrigation system, he also sent a set of drawings and samples to Changan.

This thing is still useful even if it is not a severe drought.

The only drawback is that the initial investment is not small, after all, you have to burn a lot of clay pots.

Moreover, clay pots are relatively easy to break.

In modern times, the people who use this crude method are actually large plastic beverage bottles.

The cost is much cheaper.

Solving the irrigation problem can increase food production, which is only the first step.

But if the locust problem cannot be solved, there will still be crops in many fields that will be harmed.

Only potatoes and sweet potatoes buried in the ground are better. Even if the leaves are eaten away, at least the tubers are still underground.

A reduction in production is unavoidable, but it is much better than having everything like corn and rice eaten up by locusts.

To deal with locusts, insecticides cannot be used.

If you buy it in your own store, you won’t be able to buy much.

Now that Yan Kai has money, he might as well write a letter to Li Shimin.

"He wants to buy duck down?" Li Shimin looked at Yan Kai's autographed dog-gnawed letter in his hand, and said with some hatred: "Dengshan has been in Kuoding County for so long, didn't he teach him how to write?"

Ouyang Xun said with a wry smile: "I taught it to both Secretary Yu and I at that time."

"You three taught him, but you didn't teach him well?" Li Shimin didn't believe it.

When it comes to writing, I'm afraid there's no one in the entire Tang Dynasty who can write better than the three of them.

"Just..." Ouyang Xun recalled: "After that boy picked up the pen, he looked like a different person."

"We taught him to write, and within a quarter of an hour, he would start to feel headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and his heartbeat would also inexplicably speed up."

"Ah?" This was the first time Li Shimin heard about it. His eyes widened and he asked, "Why is this?"

"Daozhang Sun said this is called hyperactivity of liver yang, and there is another word called..."

Ouyang Xun thought for a while and said, "It's called high blood pressure! To put it bluntly, I was angry with him. Later, Secretary Yu and I stopped caring about him for the sake of this old life."

Li Shimin scratched his head after hearing this, there is such a thing!

Realizing that the building was crooked, he quickly brought the topic back: "Tell me, why does this guy want us to ask all the state governments to help him purchase duck down?"

Now that he heard that Yan was driving truckloads of gold mines to Kuoding County, he felt heartbroken.

But this was promised to others a long time ago, and there was nothing he could do about it.

"I guess I feel that I have too much money in my hand. Spending it like this can reassure His Majesty in disguise."

Changsun Wuji said.

Everything this fat man thinks is full of conspiracy theories. Anyway, he just thinks that people always think the worst.

He felt that Yan Kai must have thought that digging so much gold now would displease His Majesty, so he simply used the money to purchase eiderdowns across the country, so that the money would return to the entire Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "Auxiliary machine, you still underestimate him. This guy has no profit and can't afford it early. He will never buy something like duck down for no reason."

Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, in fact, no matter what Yan Kai does, he basically doesn't hide it from us. If he buys duck down, let him collect it, but at the same time, we also buy some."

"Whatever he does then, we will follow suit!"

At this point he laughed: "Anyway, that kid has never suffered a loss in business."

"Everyone knows that he sold those Turkic broken leather armors to Silla some time ago, right? Goryeo has been having a lot of trouble with Silla recently!"

They have received the latest report from Xiaozhao, and Goryeo asked Silla to pay tribute to a batch of leather armor.

Silla is definitely not willing to do this kind of thing, and because they have so many more leather armors, they feel that they have the ability to compete with Goryeo, so both countries are now stationing troops on the border.

The only thing is that Baekje has an ambiguous attitude at this time and has not expressed who it wants to support.

If Baekje takes sides, this balance is likely to be broken, and Baekje and Goryeo will probably have a battle.

"Yes, this trick is really clever to drive away wolves and tigers. I think we can add some fire."

Du Ruhui said: "Didn't we also capture some Turkic weapons? We should sell them to Silla at a cheaper price at this time!"

"Silla doesn't have much money now. I heard that not only did they exchange a large number of Silla's maids who couldn't be trained to Boy Yan, but many wealthy families in Silla were also plundered by Boy Yan with a lot of silk and satin. Again."

"Don't worry, there are still three thousand nails left in the broken ship. Tell Silla that instead of keeping this money to use it as war compensation for Goryeo in the future, it is better to use it to buy our weapons!"

"Hey, Cheng Ruffian, can you also have such an opinion?" Others looked at Cheng Zhijie in surprise when he expressed this opinion.

Everyone knows that this ruffian is not stupid, but it is not like he can say such things.

"Shit, I usually just keep a low profile!" Cheng Zhijie looked disdainful. You can't say that this truth is from Cheng Huailiang's letter, right?

I don’t want to lose face, right?

"Well, this can be done. Send the weapons to Kuoding County and ask Yan Guan to trade with the Silla people. They know the price."

The modern proxy war was actually played over and over again by our ancestors many times in ancient times.

It's just that this meeting is open and crooked. Isn't it talking about duck down?

Li Shimin brought the topic back again: "Not many people in the country raise ducks, right?"

The ministers below looked at each other and did not answer.

They may not know whether the common people raise a lot or not, but behind them are actually various aristocratic families.

If the common people don't support it, their own aristocratic families can support it. Yan Kai has now offered a price that no one can refuse.

It turns out that duck down is not valuable, but now that Yan Kai has purchased it, the value of a duck has almost doubled.

Large-scale breeding will only reduce costs.

The cost has been reduced and the price has doubled. Such a good opportunity to make money, the family will definitely not miss it.

After returning, the news will inevitably spread, and various aristocratic families will arrange for people to start breeding ducks in large quantities.

Everyone is not worried about whether Yan Kai can afford it. Didn't you hear what Fang Xuanling said just now?

The imperial court will also follow suit. Yan Kai already has money, and he has mines and gold mines!

Coupled with the current acquisition by the court, this business will definitely not lose money.

Li Shimin looked at the performance of the ministers and sighed in his heart. This boy's handwriting is ugly, but he still sees far away.

He had actually anticipated the reactions of the ministers.

Pulling out the last piece of paper that Yan Kai wrote: "Here, there are also some tips on raising ducks. Let someone copy them for Guangfa Tianxia!"

After taking a look at Yan Kai's words, Li Shimin felt that he was starting to feel dizzy, his ears were ringing, and his heart was beating faster.

This time, the entire Tang Dynasty could not imagine that Yan Kai asked everyone to raise so many ducks mainly to fight against locusts.

Everyone in the world is interested in profit. If Yan Kai only said that raising ducks can eat locusts, there will be a big locust plague next year.

Many people may not believe it, but even if the imperial court implements policies and requires the people and aristocratic families to raise them, many people will only obey and disobey them.

But now Yan Kai only uses one trick to buy duck down at a high price. In order to make this money, these people will inevitably rush to breed ducks themselves.