Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

"Recently, I have been calculating the expenditure of the Shaofu. It seems that there are a lot of expenses in this regard. I may have to hold a small meeting with His Highness to discuss whether to allocate funds from the inner treasury. However, if the inner treasury allocates funds, the price will also be reviewed, and it should be cheaper." Chen Xi only glanced at Si Niang and knew what Si Niang was thinking. Based on the idea of ​​strengthening Si Niang, Chen Xi laughed.

Liu Bei glanced at Chen Xi when he heard this. He didn't understand these, but he was very familiar with Chen Xi. Just by hearing this, he knew that Chen Xi was teasing Concubine Xian again.

"Here, these are for you to eat." Si Niang directly opened the drawers of other food boxes, all kinds of food, and looked like she was trying to block Chen Xi's mouth. How to say it, at some times, Si Niang is still very smart.

"Okay, stop teasing the concubines." Liu Bei said to Chen Xi unhappily. It is said that court officials should stay away from concubines, but this aspect is not very strict these days. In addition, Liu Tong's harem is just like Si Niang, so many restrictions are no longer restrictions for Si Niang.

"It's just a joke. I said it back then that the Shaofu will support it. As for whether it is expensive or not, it is not a problem." Chen Xi said to Si Niang with a smile, "And try not to go out to buy. If you need anything, just find the Shaofu Cheng, and he will solve it for you."

"The Shaofu Cheng believes that humans cannot eat 30 meals of mutton for ten consecutive days. I think I can." Si Niang said very seriously.

This made Chen Xi silent. After a long time, Chen Xi shook his head and said, "I think what the Minister of the Imperial Household is right. Humans really can't be like this."

Liu Bei didn't want to answer at this time. Normal humans couldn't possibly have such a situation. No wonder Si Niang went out of the palace to buy food for herself. The Minister of the Imperial Household was also afraid that the concubines would have problems with her food. Si Niang was not an immortal at all. After Chen Xi realized this, he asked Hua Tuo and Ji Xiang to diagnose her. In the end, it was confirmed that all the functions of Si Niang's body were functioning. In other words, she was a living person.

As for why Si Niang, a living person, has so many weird skills, how to say it, this may be Si Niang's own problem, but no matter what, Si Niang is a living person, so the palace kitchen must give Si Niang regular and quantitative food.

For example, the Marquis of Huaiyin and the Lord of Wu'an are orthodox immortals, so they can be treated as they please. However, Si Niang is a living person and a concubine, so she should be managed in the same way as a concubine. If she eats mutton every day and gets prickly heat, can the chef be blamed?

That's not funny, so after confirming Si Niang's condition, the things Si Niang eats are closer to Liu Tong's. Although there are some relaxations, no matter how much relaxation, it is impossible to let Si Niang eat mutton for ten consecutive days. After all, she is a concubine of the Han Dynasty, not the Huns' Yanshi.

Even if she is the Huns' Yanshi, she should not eat mutton for ten consecutive days. What's wrong with this link? Is she too excited?

"Forget it, this is not the problem of the Minister of the Imperial Household." Chen Xi was silent for a while and then said, "Even if you like a certain food, you can't eat it like this, because if something goes wrong, the Imperial Household and the Kitchen will be in trouble."

Even if Chen Xi took the responsibility, if Si Niang ate something wrong, the people in charge of the Imperial Household and the Kitchen would be in trouble, and they might even be attacked by the outside court.

"Si Niang!" At this time, Liu Tong appeared from behind the screen wall with a team of guards and palace maids, and then greeted Si Niang.

Before, Si Niang ran away after destroying the snacks, Liu Tong knew where Si Niang had gone, but the food Si Niang brought back would also be eaten by him, so Liu Tong didn't care. As a result, Si Niang ran away for half an hour and didn't come back. Liu Tong thought Si Niang was lost again.

It sounds outrageous, but this has really happened several times in Shanglinyuan. She was beaten by Dilu, carried away by the adult golden tabby sent by Stina, pecked by the elephant bird sent by the Wu family, etc. In short, Si Niang's embarrassing things happened more than once, so when Si Niang teleported away and didn't teleport back for half an hour, Liu Tong came to find her with the palace maids.

There was no way. The only concubine of the Han Empire did not rely on walking when going out, but on teleportation, so there were usually no palace maids or guards around her.

"Meet Your Highness the Princess." Chen Xi and Liu Bei both bowed and saluted, and Liu Tong also returned the salute.

"Si Niang, I was wondering if you were lost somewhere again." Liu Tong came over and pulled Si Niang's bun and said with a smile.

"I'm just learning new knowledge from Chen Hou." Si Niang was grabbed by Liu Tong and quickly explained, "I learned something new today."

"What?" Liu Tong asked curiously.

Si Niang quickly told Liu Tong what she had learned today, and Liu Tong frowned when he heard it. After listening, he looked at Chen Xi, blinked, and almost said, "Chen Zichuan, do you have the fun of fooling a fool?"

Chen Xi laughed dryly. He could fool most people with some things, but it was difficult to fool Liu Bei and Liu Tong. Liu Bei had worked with Chen Xi for many years, and Liu Tong simply didn't believe Chen Xi's nonsense. Eight thousand coins for a sheep? Liu Tong still believed others who said this, talking about flavor and taste, but Chen Xi's talk was completely nonsense.

For such words, Liu Tong usually cut the price by the bottom of his feet, and cut eight thousand coins directly to eight hundred coins. Liu Tong even doubted sometimes whether this thing was worth eight hundred coins, but there was no evidence, so he couldn't say it too directly, but this did not prevent Liu Tong from expressing his doubts about Chen Xi in this regard.

Chen Xi also laughed dryly when he saw this. Although Liu Tong did not have certain cognition, he had a strong intuition and could call on Chen Xi's thinking logic. In addition, many people actually doubted Chen Xi's Shaofu Special Contribution and Royal Selection. However, the flavor and taste were indeed very different from other mutton, so that people who ate it felt that this thing must have a premium, but not too exaggerated.

There was no way. I spent 8,000 Wen to buy this thing. Of course, I had to find a top chef to handle it. Even if it was a home-raised chef, when I got this so-called top-level ingredient, I would use all my skills to handle it.

The quality of the thing itself has an advantage of about 10%, and it is handled better when it is handled. The cooking skills are even higher and more willing to work hard. In the end, the taste of the thing is much better than before. That is normal.

If we add the style of Shaofu Special Contribution and Royal Selection, and change to an environment where people eat "high-end ingredients", there are indeed many people who are willing to accept this price. After all, this thing is not eaten every day. Most people are willing to accept it if they are extravagant occasionally. After all, it is much better than ordinary places and most food.

This is also the key to this gameplay, which can not only be played, but also continued to be played, because after such a wave of tossing, the things that come out are indeed better. Although the advantage brought by the ingredients is really only 10%, the rest depends on the later stage. If you are really willing to work hard, ordinary ingredients can also achieve more than 90% of the flavor of this level, but how many people will work on ordinary ingredients.

There is a saying that a restaurant that makes home-cooked dishes into signature dishes is a real skill, and the top dishes made by piling up ingredients are just that, because the former is real skill, and the latter is something that can be practiced.

After all, the quality of ingredients still has a great impact on the final output. Most high-end ingredients can get quite good reviews if they are cooked a little bit and retain their original flavor. However, for ordinary ingredients to be at the same level as high-end ingredients, the requirements for chefs are extremely high.

"Generally speaking, the ingredients produced by Shaofu are indeed better in quality than others." Liu Bei said relatively fairly. There is nothing black about this matter. The quality is indeed good, but if this quality is worth ten times the price, it would be too much.

"Right, just say it tastes good?" Chen Xi said with a smile.

Liu Tong glanced at Chen Xi after hearing this, and said nothing. He pulled Si Niang and motioned to follow him back. Liu Tong has almost realized over the years that in terms of economy, they are still quite far away from Chen Xi, so there is no need to entangle in this aspect.

Before leaving, Si Niang took away a few melons from Cookie, which is why Cookie thinks that there are many pests in Shanglinyuan and there is no way to clean them up.

For these few pests today, what kind of pesticide do you think should be used?

"Zichuan's economy is indeed shocking." Liu Bei said with some emotion. He didn't understand this, but the top leaders were really willing to pay attention to whether the lives of the people under their rule were good or bad. In fact, they knew it very well. Obviously, the situation of the Han Dynasty was getting better year by year.

"It's nothing. It's just that it's separated from the land output, liberating some people from the heavy agricultural production and joining the handicraft industry that can provide higher output. In fact, most of these things now are just barely separated from the handicraft workshops." Chen Xi said with some emotion, but the terrifying thing is here. Just barely separated from the handicraft workshops, the profits created by them have crushed agricultural output.

Even if Chen Xi hadn't repurchased grain as much as possible, manufactured other products, and maintained grain prices, ordinary people, that is, more than 90% of the farmers in this era, would probably be forced to leave their hometowns and enter handicraft workshops because of the low grain prices.

This is actually the dilemma that Chen Xi mentioned before. If the grain price is not repurchased and stabilized, and the grain price continues to fall to four cents per dou of rice, the interests of farmers will not be guaranteed, and the agricultural population will inevitably be forced to develop into handicrafts, and then accelerate the development of the industrial system of the Han Dynasty, create more profits, and then further squeeze the living space of the agricultural population.

In the end, the largest number of agricultural population will suffer the greatest loss. They can eat enough, but don’t think about anything else. It is indeed a prosperous era, but compared with handicrafts, there is no future. They can only hold on to that little land and take the meager land output.

Theoretically, taking this path, Chen Xi can gather the wealth that the Han Dynasty has not gathered in 400 years in a short period of time. Even the development of just over a dozen years can allow the Han Dynasty to directly surpass the accumulation of thousands of years in the feudal era. But if this pattern is formed, the road behind will be fixed, and even the sleepers under the rolling wheels of industry can be said to be prepared in advance.

As for the repurchase, that is what Chen Xi is doing now, repurchasing land output, and using the basic industrial system to continuously subsidize agriculture. The final result is that local people can live well by farming, and there will not be a large number of people to supplement and expand the industrial system.

Although in this case, people with lofty ideals and knowledge will continue to invest in this basic industrial system to keep it developing, it is basically impossible to surpass the accumulation of thousands of years of feudalism as quickly as the former.

The basic logic of the so-called industrial revolution surpassing two thousand years of feudalism in one year is that the blood stained by industrialization before its outbreak was not much less than that of feudalism for two thousand years. Some things and some futures can only be achieved through sacrifice.

Chen Xi's current situation is really relying on the Han Dynasty as the first empire, with sufficient resources and territory, and its own restraints. Otherwise, industrial cannibalism would have happened long ago.

To put it bluntly, can’t the Han family see that the price of wool is higher than that of mutton? Don’t you know that the simplest plan at this time is to destroy the people in the north, then let the ranch receive these exiled people for transformation, and then promote wool spinning on a large scale?

Not to mention anything else, one batch after another, one county after another, in a few years, millions of exiled people will be squeezed out from the north. It is definitely not a problem not to cause unrest, but why did it not happen? Is the Han family kind? Is the Han family unexpected? No, I just don’t dare!

When wool spinning first came out, the northern aristocratic families who realized the potential of this thing were eliminated by Li You before they even arrived in Yuan Fengnian.

Chen Xi drew the line and clearly told all the aristocratic families that when I move in a certain direction, you can use force in other directions, but you cannot go against my direction. I say go east, and you go northeast. Southeast, or even directly south or north will work, but if you go west, you will die!

Chen Xi still controls the entire industrial system and economic framework to this day, because at this level, it is left to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang may not be able to withstand the impact of major aristocratic families, so he can only hand it over to Zhuge Liang bit by bit for him to verify and go. To know, to understand.

Because this thing is not as benevolent as the Three Kings era as the Confucianists say, nor is it as clear-cut as the legalists say, nor is it a magic weapon that brings peace and prosperity to the world. In essence, this thing is coming. In the human world, it is more about allowing certain people to eat people in a more efficient way!

In other words, this thing has a big problem at its core. It just needs to be used correctly. Chen Xi's cautious operation is just to avoid a backlash one day.

"Let's take you somewhere." After leaving Weiyang Palace, Liu Bei grabbed Chen Xi and prepared to take Chen Xi somewhere outside the city.

"Where are we going? It's better to go to General Guan. I remember that General Guan has been recuperating in Chang'an these days and barbecues every day?" Chen Xi said casually. Even so, Chen Xi still followed the direction of Liu Bei's efforts and headed to Guan Yu's residence. opposite direction.

"Yun Chang is having a barbecue party tonight. We are still preparing for it now. We can't eat even if we go there." Liu Bei said casually, "Let me go to a place with you first and have a barbecue when I come back tonight."

"Really?" Chen Xi was quite surprised when he heard this. He hadn't received the invitation letter yet, so how did Liu Bei know about it.

"Yun Chang has sent people to notify everyone. Besides, do you still need an invitation letter?" Liu Bei said angrily. With this distance and this relationship, I want an invitation letter from Mao. It's nothing to do, right? Guan Yu will come over then. Notice, you have nothing to do, just take the cub over and that's it.

"Is there anything magical here?" He followed Liu Bei into a long carriage with five pairs of wheels, and then drove all the way to Lantian County at super high speed. At this speed, Chen Xi estimated that it would only take more than an hour to reach Lantian County. .

As for why it is a long carriage with five pairs of wheels, it is because with the establishment of the standard carriage, the long carriage four-wheeled carriage has too obvious advantages in terms of load and comfort. It quickly overthrew the former two-wheeled carriage, and then with the Under the stimulation of the essence of heaven and earth, horses developed more obviously, and carriages with more wheels, larger carriages, and heavier loads appeared.

The one currently used by Liu Bei has almost caught up with the back compartment of later generations of vans. Naturally, the comfort and safety of this thing surpass the two-wheeled carriages of the past. To put it too much, Qin Shihuang If you were riding this thing, even if Zhang Liang's big hammer hit it, nothing would happen. The inner lining of this thing is made of the same material as the thing used by the shield guard.

Although Liu Bei felt that it was unnecessary, Li You still persuaded Liu Bei to commit suicide because his daughter's son could not sit down in court. If he was really unlucky, he encountered a spy from the Kushan Empire lurking in the Han Dynasty, and then he suddenly came over without any plan. , then something really big happened.

Liu Bei thought about it and it was the same thing. He was somewhat of a knight-errant. Although Xu Chu was his bodyguard, he sometimes ran away on a whim without taking Xu Chu with him. Considering that Zhou Yu was unlucky The children were all killed on the spot due to the unplanned and accidental assassination of the Kushan veterans. Liu Bei's trip during this period of time can be regarded as remembering that he still has such a thing.

"Take you to Lantian and let you see it." Liu Bei said cheerfully.

"Is there anything strange in Lantian?" Chen Xi asked curiously. Liu Bei smiled and did not answer directly. He just asked the driver to speed up and drove to Lantian at a fast speed.

Galloping all the way to Lantian County, before entering the city, Chen Xi saw the 80-year-old new eldest elder of the Yuan family, Yuan Sui, with the 70-year-old second elder Yuan Tao and a group of old guys from the Yuan family surrounding Kong Rong. Chen Xi was stunned and turned to look at Liu Bei, who was also stunned.

"Xuan Degong, are you not so bored? You have been running for almost an hour just to show the old Yuan family and the old Yang family besieging Kong Changshi?" Chen Xi said helplessly to Liu Bei. Although this can be regarded as It's interesting, but after traveling hundreds of miles to see this, it's really a bit much.

"Well, I'm not that bored. I wanted to take you to see the new popular education methods in Lantian County. To some extent, it has achieved what you thought and thought back then. But before I took you there, I encountered this." Liu Bei said somewhat embarrassedly. He was not such a boring person. How could he run hundreds of miles to watch the elders of a big family fight? For such a thing, people like him would run a few miles at most, not hundreds of miles.

"Kong Wenju, hand over the people you took away, otherwise don't blame us Yuan family for being too cruel!" Yang Chang pulled Kong Rong's sleeve and shouted loudly. At this point, of course, the Yuan family had to take the blame. Besides, there were many Yuan family members present. As long as they were careful, the Yang family would not expose their behavior of beating Kong Rong, the president of the university.

"The people have been sent overseas long ago!" Kong Rong was very tough even though he was grabbed by Yuan Yang. If he hadn't participated in the grand court meeting at the end of the year, Kong Rong would have gone to New Zealand to do the pastoral idyll in his fantasy. Now he was looking for people from him? Don't you want people? Don't you want your life? I'm here, let's see if you can kill me!

"Overseas? There's no way to go to sea in Southeast Asia! What the hell are you sending overseas!" Yuan Sui said angrily. Their old Yuan family had been keeping an eye on the technicians in the animal husbandry industry, but in the blink of an eye, all the people were gone, and the principal was gone too. Damn it, my old Yuan family has a lot of connections, and can still let you go to sea!

"Jiangdong, right? You have a strong relationship, right? Our relationship is not strong, right!" Kong Rong said very toughly, but these words are not empty words. The Yuan family does have a strong relationship in Jiangdong. After all, Sun Ce is half of Yuan Shu's son, and the relationship is terrible, but so what, my Kong family has no relationship? If you can't find Sun Ce, you can't find the Jiangdong family. What a low-level bureaucrat in a confidential position can do is no less than what you big shots can do.

"This world is still the world of Confucianism!" Kong Rong said very unconvinced.

"Stop talking nonsense, take him back, where is our newly elected head of the Kong family?" Yang Chang called to Yuan Sui, "Principal, right? You can't be ruthless, right? It doesn't matter, we have the head of the Kong family!"

Chen Xi looked out and watched the group of people pushing and swearing, watching a good show, but it was really outrageous that the Yang family was so wicked that they even found a new head of the Kong family. This was really a beast, but think about it, there are indeed many people in the Kong family who are dissatisfied with Kong Rong, and the factions of Confucianism are reflected in the Kong family itself. It seems that overthrowing Kong Rong and electing a new head of the Kong family is really a solution.

"You don't care?" Liu Bei asked Chen Xi who was retreating.

"Why should I care?" Chen Xi answered casually.

Watching a large group of arrogant guys getting on the cart beside them, they were so focused that they didn't even notice me. Among them, Yuan Yang's clan elder Kong Rong stood in the middle, looking straight ahead, and couldn't help but tease, "The aristocratic families are fighting, just don't disturb the people."

Vote for the monthly ticket at the beginning of the month, I'll watch something more in the afternoon, sigh