Tang's dining table

For the rulers of the Tang Dynasty, the most harmless and popular behavior of their ministers was to create a large amount of materials for the empire.

Among all supplies, food is the most important.

Lou Shide came from a poor family, so he knew the importance of food to the people. From an official's perspective, he also knew that as long as there was food in the family granary, the people would have no urge to rebel.

Longyou Road has a vast territory, with a large number of snow-capped mountains and criss-crossing river networks. Whether it is Guzang, Ganzhou, or near the Yellow River Basin, there are large tracts of fertile land waiting for people to cultivate.

Lou Shide, who is familiar with history books, knows that the farming policy since ancient times will bring a large amount of food to the government. Whether it is Cao Cao's farming in the late Eastern Han Dynasty or the farming business of Zu Ti in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they have achieved their goals.

Lou Shide was a cautious person, so he planned to use the prince's power to farm in Longyou, and then open up a new situation for him to serve as an official in the East Palace.

Li Hong strongly agreed with Lou Shide's plan to go to Longyou to recruit refugees of all ethnic groups to work in the fields in the name of the prince.

This matter is relatively simple. As long as Lou Shide is given a prince's education and a force of about a thousand troops, Lou Shide can go to farm and get food for the prince.

The above are things that the prince can do, but there are things that the prince cannot do, such as the funds to purchase farm tools and the food to feed this team. Li Hong thinks he can ask Naha for help.

Naha took away his princely education gold medal.

Li Hong also took the key to Naha's treasure house.

Just when Lou Shide was thinking hard about how to avoid embarrassing the prince and then obtain funds and food, the prince Li Hong took him to the Great Ci'en Temple.

After paying homage to Queen Wende, the monk Xiangjichu of Daci'en Temple took the prince and Lou Shide to a rockery.

Then Zhike Monk left.

In front of Lou Shide, the prince pulled out an iron chain from the rockery. After pulling hard, the rockery split from the middle, revealing a dark tunnel.

The prince's personal eunuch lit a torch and went down first to light the candles in the tunnel. When the smoke was almost gone, the prince took Lou Shide down to the tunnel.

After the prince opened an iron door with a key, Lou Shide's expression became extremely different.

He never imagined that His Highness the Prince would hide so much money in private.

From this, he immediately felt that His Highness the Crown Prince was a gloomy-minded person, less like a wise master and more like a villain with ulterior motives.

What is in front of you is a treasure cave. Countless copper coins are randomly packed in the grain hoards. You can't tell how many there are. You only need to look at the size of these seven or eight huge grain hoards to know why there are always so many coins in Chang'an City. There is a shortage of copper coins to use.

Next to the grain store, there were hundreds of huge wooden boxes. Li Hong opened one of them, and Lou Shide was shocked by the golden light emitting from the gold and took two steps back...

"All this money belongs to His Royal Highness?"

Li Hong looked at the wealth in front of him and seemed a little sad. He grabbed a handful of gold sand from the ground, watched the gold sand flow through his fingers, and whispered: "This belongs to a woman who is good at saving money..."

Lou Shide cleared his throat and said: "If all this money belongs to His Highness, I think that the money cannot be touched. I even think that Your Highness should not have so much money.

This money will do a lot of harm to His Highness but nothing good.

As for the needs of farming, your Majesty naturally has a way to solve it. There are many merchants in Chang'an City. As long as Your Highness is willing to spread the income from farming, he can raise enough for farming. There is no need for Your Highness to expose too much strength, so as not to arouse the suspicion of Your Majesty and all the ministers. . "

After listening to Master Lou's words, Li Hong looked back at him. This was the first time he felt that his master's inference about this man was correct.

The reason why I valued Master Lou's morality before was entirely because the master vowed to guarantee this person's ability and loyalty.

Now, from what he just said, he could tell that although the fat man in front of him looked stupid, he did not show any greed when faced with this mountain of money. Instead, he believed that the money was Harm, not benefit. On this point, Li Hong at least has no objection to saying that this person has talents as a prime minister and assistant.

"Don't worry, your lord, I am not a two-faced person like Pili Yangqiu. The money here is not mine. I brought you here to borrow money. Just take the money and leave the IOU."

Lou Shide looked around and saw an IOU from a box containing gold. He took a look and found that it was an IOU personally written by His Highness the Crown Prince. The IOU was from the third year of Xianqing... It was for lending money to an official in the East Palace. Holiday costs.

There are five or six similar IOUs. Wherever the money was taken, the IOUs were placed there. Among them, the IOU placed on a pile of white jade was actually for borrowing eight pieces of mutton-fat jade to celebrate the birthday of the current queen.

Lou Shide coughed lightly, cleared his clogged throat and said to the prince: "Your Highness, there will be a beginning and an end to such a large debt."

Li Hong smiled, and his smile was a little gentle. He stroked a huge piece of white jade with his hand and said: "Then I owe her, then just start and end. What I owe her is not clear yet, so I might as well owe her more." .”

Lou Shide looked at Li Hong suspiciously and said, "Your Highness, this woman is..."

Li Hong's eye circles were slightly red, he coughed to cover up his embarrassment and said: "She is a woman who I am destined to mistreat for the rest of my life.

Okay, how much money are you prepared to ask for? Just take it and I'll just write the IOU. "

When Lou Shide saw the prince like this, he didn't know that there was a connection between men and women, but he was also secretly frightened. He didn't know what kind of woman could make this young boy, who usually seemed as tough as iron, act like this. The soft intestines are full of knots.

At the same time, he also couldn't figure out why there was such a wealthy woman in Chang'an City, but he had never heard of it.

Therefore, Lou Shide once again disturbed Li Hong, who was lost in memories, and said softly: "Your Highness should not be too close to the rich and powerful at this time. Except for Your Majesty and the Queen, Your Highness should not be so gullible. Even if everything goes well now, once things happen, The sea changes will be more harmful to His Highness.”

Li Hong said with a smile: "You have never met her, so you don't know what kind of good woman she is, and you don't know how kind-hearted a good woman she is. Even if things change, she will be hurt the most, not me."

Lou Shide said doubtfully: "Since we are in love, His Highness can just accept her as his concubine."

Li Hong shook his head and said, "She can't become a princess."

Lou Shide said: "The side concubine is enough."

Li Hong smiled and waved his hands and said: "Okay, you don't know anything, so don't humiliate her and don't embarrass me too much.

Take your money, don't worry, you can use the money taken out from here openly. My father knows where the money came from, and there will be no gossip among the ministers.

Just do your farming work wholeheartedly and don't let the money go to waste. It's not easy for her to save the money. "

Lou Shide was going to take 8,000 guan from the bank. The money would have many uses. Although there was a lot of money here, Lou Shide still used the 8,000 guan very restrainedly. Moreover, he secretly decided not to Three years later, he must pay back the money for the prince.

The prince wrote an IOU of 10,000 guan, so Lou Shide took away 10,000 guan, and more than 60% of it was copper coins.

Regarding his views on money, Li Hong followed Yun Chu's habits very well. This thing is just a tool. If he wants the people below to get things done smoothly, he must not be shabby in terms of money.

Just when Lou Shide was about to call someone to carry the money, the Zhike monk who had disappeared came back again.

According to Lou Shide's needs, he put a seal of 10,000 yuan in the treasury, and then gave Lou Shide a stack of beautifully printed notes.

For the first time, Lou Shide learned that among the money circulating in Chang'an City, there were not only copper coins, cloth, brocade, but also this kind of beautifully printed paper.

From the contemptuous eyes of Zhike Monk, Lou Shide found that he had become a country bumpkin.

He only needs to take these slips of paper to go to major commercial banks to transport the supplies he needs. He can also use these slips of paper as security to write down the types and quantities of supplies he needs on the flow sign in Qujiangfang, and wait for the flow of flow. If the next party who takes over appears on the card, you can ask the next party to deliver the goods. After the delivery of the goods is completed, the next party will take the security note from the flowing water card, and finally come to Daci'en Temple to withdraw the money, or deposit it. money.

There is more than a 90% chance that the money will not leave the Xiangji Kitchen of Daci'en Temple, but will just be moved from this treasure house to another treasure house.

On the way home, Lou Shide was still recalling the IOUs that His Royal Highness the Prince had left in the treasure house.

His Royal Highness the Prince was very serious when writing these IOUs. Although the amount of money was decided by the Prince, the amount of money taken away would be filled in the IOU.

I saw His Highness the Crown Prince writing the IOU carefully, using his seal... and putting his fingerprint on it... This is a method used by illiterate people in the countryside when selling pigs. When used on His Highness the Crown Prince, there is no violation at all. Come with a sense of harmony.

As for His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince was very particular when pressing his fingerprints. Not only did he press his fingerprints completely, they were also very clear. What was terrible was that he was very skilled... What Lou Shide couldn't understand the most was that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was pressing his fingerprints. I couldn't feel any humiliation when I was there, and my face was still filled with indescribable affection.

The prince's performance made Lou Shide wary. This is probably the prince's biggest weakness so far.

In the ever-changing imperial court, this kind of woman who the prince loves to death but cannot marry will not end well.

I heard that the prince is now discussing to accept Wenxi's Pei daughter as his concubine. There is no doubt that the prince does not like this Pei daughter. However, the emperor and the queen hope that the prince will marry the Pei daughter. On this point, His Highness the prince cannot refuse.

Thinking of this, Lou Shide felt a severe headache and decided to punish Youshi when he returned home.

This stinky woman threw him into a huge whirlpool for a basket of copper coins. She really lacked discipline.

Chapter One