Princess True Jade looked at her brother, Li Longji. Li Longji used to sell the princesses casually. The price was usually fifty taels, and he would give a small official.
Those princesses who sold the official position worked together to poison the Middle Sect. If he wanted to sell the official position, would he also be poisoned to death …
Li Longji looked troubled. He didn't think that Brother Yi didn't have the idea to help his sister make money.
He didn't want Brother Yi to make money for people who didn't do anything. Today it was Princess True Jade, tomorrow it would be Princess Jinxian. In the future, would everyone in the imperial clan be able to order Brother Yi around?
"I can't give you the gold mine and salt well. Choose a position for the Tang dynasty's Chao Tian Fund and send someone to manage it."
Li Longji looked for it from his brother. Most of the imperial clan members worked there.
"Tang dynasty's Chao Tian Fund can't do it." Li Yi refused again. "The salaries of the imperial clan members are specially arranged for projects to be given to Princess True Jade. If she sends someone to manage it, there will be corruption."
Li Yi didn't need to think too much. The management of the fund was very strict. Whoever was in charge of what, the better the results, the more they would get.
Who would supervise the fund if it was singled out? The princess didn't have money. If she wanted to get some money, it would be blatantly using public funds for private use.
Princess True Jade bit her lip. She didn't dare to refute Li Yi. She looked very wronged.
"Li Lang, have a bite of walnut." Princess Yongmu came over and fed Li Yi a walnut.
She wanted to calm her aunt down. Mountain road construction was slow to make money. Advertisements couldn't be placed in poetry books. It would steal her family's business.
She had no idea, so she could only ask Li Lang for help.
"Some students have a lot of money. If their literary talent is slightly poor, you can find someone to help edit it. At the same time, you can give such students a chance to promote themselves. Print a book and charge them for the cost …"
Li Yi stopped here. Did everyone understand what he meant?
He wanted to resist selling official positions. There was nothing wrong with charging others for publishing, but didn't it cost money to publish a thesis?
The key was that some people's standards were too low. Writing a poem was hard enough. Asking them to write essays …
Princess Yuzhen stared fixedly at Li Yi, her eyes bright. She was about to get up.
Princess Yongmu rushed over as fast as she could and fed him the walnuts. "Eat the walnuts. My Li Lang bet a lot of them just now."
She emphasized the words' my Li Lang '. "Don't even think about my husband. Isn't your husband repairing the roads? Go find some time to visit him."
"I'll do it myself." Princess True Jade snapped out of her daze and took the walnut. She used a toothpick to dig at it with all her might, as though she was dissatisfied with someone and was competing.
Princess Yongmu understood this time that it had nothing to do with Li Lang. It was that unlucky Ron again.
…
In a tent halfway up the mountain in Lantian County, Ron woke up in the middle of the night.
He wasn't bothered by the mosquitoes. He applied toilet water and lit mosquito coils in the tent.
He slept alone in a tent, while the other thirty people slept around him in tents of five.
There were four temporary treehouses on the tree next to him. There were two hunters and a mountain guard dog in each treehouse.
The hunters were afraid that something would happen to them while they slept in the wild, so they took the initiative to help keep watch at night.
Ron was woken up by someone from Princess True Jade's residence. They had previously reported that the project was going to be expanded and gave him twenty kilograms of walnuts.
"Scholar Ron, the opportunity has come. If Li Dongzhu speaks up for you, you can make a lot of money here later." The steward congratulated him first.
"Thank you. Can I go back?" Ron didn't want to stay here for even a moment longer.
"Only after the road is repaired. I brought more people to repair the road, dig canals, build ponds, and build houses."
The steward said as he placed a bag of walnuts in front of Ron. "The princess asked me to bring it."
Twenty kilograms of walnuts were quite heavy and large. Dried walnuts could form a pile of one kilogram. Northeastern pecans were denser and relatively less.
"The princess is thinking of me?" Ron was moved.
"Yes, the princess asked you to think about how to quickly open the walnuts and try to ensure that the walnuts are intact." The steward organized his words before speaking.
"Walnuts are easy to open. The walnuts here in Lantian County … Now is the time to harvest."
Ron thought that the bag contained local walnuts and that the skin was not thick.
"Last year's walnuts were a tribute from the Xi tribe. The princess tasted them and they tasted good, so I sent them to you."
Once again, the steward tried to make his words sound less sad. Poor man!
"Any walnut is fine. I want a hammer, when it's time to fall …"
Ron said as he took out the walnuts from the bag. Under the light of the kerosene lamp, whether it was the feeling or the visual effect, it was the reason why he didn't finish his words.
"Scholar Ron, ordinary hammers are not easy to use. It collapses." The steward said as he took off a small hammer from his back.
He turned the hammer around and handed the handle to Ron.
Ron took it and placed a walnut on the ground. The ground was soft and had to be filled with stones to press it down.
He hammered down and the walnut was smashed into the ground.
The steward ran out and soon moved a piece of flat stone.
Ron placed the walnut on top and raised the hammer. The steward turned around.
Ron's hammer fell, and with a bang, the walnut flew out, startling him.
The steward turned around, took the hammer, and took out another walnut. He pinched it with one hand and gradually increased the strength of the hammer in the other hand, smashing it down.
Last year's walnuts had little moisture, shrank, and were very hard.
After a few hits, the walnut finally cracked with a crack, and the stone below had a little powder.
"Turn the stone over. There are bumps and depressions, and the walnut is stuck." Ron thought of a way. He found a side of the stone and placed the walnut on it.
The steward smashed again, and it was indeed easier than before. "Scholar Ron is smart, but not fast. The kernel is not easy to pick. Look."
Ron picked it up and looked. The walnut's split-heart wood was not easy to find. The wall inside was thick.
"Make the place where it's stuck into iron. Smash it with a bigger hammer. It's faster." Ron gave a solution.
"It will smash the kernel together." The steward shook his head.
"This kind of walnut is impossible … Li Yi has a way?" Ron wasn't stupid. He instantly figured out many things.
The steward slowly nodded and stretched out two fingers. "Two processing methods, one is …"
He said that this kind had to be soaked first. After a year, it was guaranteed to break a lot, and the shell and kernel would be dry.
"I can't live anymore. Did the princess say when she would return home?"
Ron was powerless and helpless. He knew Princess True Jade's personality. She liked to compare a group of men with each other.
It was fine to compare him with others, but why did she compare him with Li Yi? Li Yi wasn't anyone to her.
"Scholar Ron, when I came out, the little robot found me and passed on Li Dongzhu's words.
He said that repairing the road required stones to be pressed repeatedly, and when it was about done, the walnuts would be put on.
Once the stones and rollers passed, the ground could be said to be neither hard nor soft. He could find the right time to press the walnuts apart.
At the same time, he could leave a hole in the ground and add small stones to press it down, making it even more solid.
Li Dongzhu said that the people's family seeds are shelled and pressed for grain. Apart from the roller, there are … other things. You can treat walnuts as grains. "
The steward really couldn't bear to see Ron suffer and told him what Li Yi had passed on.
"I know. Make a big stone mill and grind the walnuts inside." Ron clenched his fists.
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