"I said to call the children over to learn from Dongzhu. Your family's, my family's, and our family's."
Wan Zhaoyuan's wife was anxious. She didn't understand, but she saw that the children understood. The officials wrote vigorously.
A good opportunity came. Her husband exchanged his life for it.
The children of her husband's family, her own family's children, and her husband's children all came to Luoyang.
How could the school next to the family's house compare to the Li Family Zhuangzi? The two families all came over and found a broker to take care of the house.
Based on their situation in Zhuangzi, the broker wouldn't dare to take care of the house.
Wan Zhaoyuan's wife thought of many things.
She was smart. If she was as stupid as her husband, the family couldn't survive.
"I'll listen to you." Wan Zhaoyuan followed her advice. It was always like this. Others laughed at him.
Then he foolishly went home to beat his wife to prove that his family's status was stable.
In fact, some people were jealous that he had a good wife and deliberately played tricks.
If his wife's family wasn't powerful, he would probably be like other people who married a beautiful wife and went down the wrong path with gambling. In the end, he lost his wife.
Of course, this kind of thing was illegal in the Tang dynasty. Moreover, no matter how much he lost, it had nothing to do with the wife. The wife wasn't a private property.
It wasn't a problem to change her to a concubine. She could be given away or used as a bet.
The class lasted for two hours, with a quarter of an hour break in between.
The children were asked to stay for lunch. Li Yi wanted to cook a big pot of dishes.
Yuzhou's population was small. The local tribute had small pieces of gold that looked like wheat bran. There were also local smelting knives, colorful cloth woven from hemp, and ash wood wax.
Yuzhou, which was the Chongqing of Li Yi's time, had sand gold. Sand gold was very small powder when it was washed out.
The local people didn't know how to wash sand gold. Their skills weren't up to standard.
Unlike Li Yi who found people to help Li Longji get sand gold, the sand gold he found had a high yield.
The local people usually released ducks and geese. The ducks and geese knew how to eat.
They didn't eat those that were too thin. They ate the bigger pieces of gold.
Then, if they couldn't digest it, they would excrete it. The common people saw it and collected it.
While Li Yi was cooking, Provincial Governor Zhao Chenlu ordered someone to send over some bran. A small box of bran weighed about half a catty, eight taels, or 320 grams.
Li Yi stewed two dishes and cooked rice in a big pot to save time.
As for the side dishes, there was Dongzhu pickled vegetables here. Fuling was also here.
The lives of the commoners improved by selling salted vegetables. Their lives were still okay.
Li Yi finished preparing the appetizers and saw a box of bran gold. "Did you collect this locally?"
"The goodwill of the people." Zhao Chenlu nodded.
Li Yi looked at the gold and lowered his head in contemplation. Half a minute later, he raised his head and said, "There's an open-pit coal mine in Kaizhou. We can go down the Yangtze River from Yuzhou and ship it back to Kaizhou.
We can also burn cement here. You all know about the open-air iron mine.
Some of the gold was in the mountains, and some were in the rivers.
The river was easy to handle. They just had to build concrete ladders at the side and design some small horizontal ditches on each slope. The ditches had to be shallow.
Lead the sand from the river upstream into the ladders. The gold is heavy and will be left behind. The more ladders there are, the more gold you can get. "
Li Yi looked at Zhao Chenlu and said, "I want this box of bran gold. I'll give you an idea. Is it worth it?"
Zhao Chenlu was speechless.
The commoners collected the gold to thank you for teaching them how to make Dongzhu pickled vegetables. They didn't think of anything else. You're a god.
You're really a god! There's an open-pit coal mine in Kaizhou? Can the gold in the river be fished out so easily?
"Remember, every commoner has to get a share of the benefits. There aren't many people in Yuzhou.
You all know how to smelt simple iron. You don't have to buy it from so far downstream. You can pick and burn it yourself.
The provincial capital here is Ba County. It's sand gold, or gold as in gravel. "
Li Yi reconfirmed. It was here. There was nothing wrong with it. Yuzhou's bran gold was Ba County's sand gold.
Ba County got its name from Mount Ba. Usually, people wouldn't remember Mount Ba, but …
"Jun Wen's return is uncertain. Mount Ba's night rain swells the autumn pond. Why should we cut the candle on the western window together, and talk about the rainy night on Mount Ba? "
These were the Seven Absolutes of each poem. Qi, Chi, and Shi all had the same rhyme.
At that time, Li Yi couldn't read it, but these three words were placed in the Ping Shui rhyme, and they were all in the Ping Shui rhyme.
Shangping refers to the Shangping in Pingyun. The four branches are the four branches of the First East, Second Winter, and Third River. Using the word 'zhi' as a rhyme.
"Good poem!" Li Yi's poem was heard by Zhao Chenlu, who immediately praised him.
"I didn't do it." Li Yi waved his hand.
"Yes, I know. The people who were copied were killed and buried." Zhao Chenlu nodded his head to show that he understood.
"Yes, it was indeed copied. Alright, let's not talk about this anymore.
I'll draw some useful local mines and you can do as you see fit.
There are a lot of wild boars on the mountain. Clean them up when you need to. They can be used to smelt iron and make tools. "
Li Yi waved his hand again. He could not talk about the poem anymore.
He had a group of drones that could fly and look at the ground. Through comparison, he could find the location of good mines.
Chongqing was quite important and would be used in the future. He should take the opportunity to develop it.
Zhao Chenlu continued to nod his head. Alright! Tell me, I'll write a memorial to Luoyang and ask for the imperial court's opinion.
As he asked, he would mine first. Even if the imperial court did not agree, he would still mine.
The imperial court was so far away. If the people knew where to mine, what could he do?
Zhao Chenlu had already thought about it. Listening to Doctor Li was not wrong.
Before the imperial court reacted, he would mine as much as he could. What if he had to collect fees in the future?
He could write the memorial later or push Doctor Li to the front. Who would dare to catch Li Yi?
"Doctor Li, shall I tell the people the good news now?"
Zhao Chenlu asked for advice. If Li Yi did not find the specific location, the people would be happy for nothing.
"En!" Li Yi nodded. No problem. Could the location be changed?
Zhao Chenlu happily ran out to find people to tell the people. Fang Ao listened at the side and felt that the opportunity to make a fortune had come.
"Li Dongzhu, my Fang family … …" Fang Ao asked softly.
"Your Fang family dares to interfere with the imperial court's matters. Old Bi, oh, Bi Zaifu, will take care of you?"
If Li Yi does not agree, do you dare to take the mine? Do you dare to get sand gold?
I don't care. You can ask the other people in the political hall.
"I am saying to find another place." Fang Ao changed his words.
"The upper reaches of the river that produces sand gold? You can go down there and pay taxes. You can also get some gold. The premise is that you can hold on to it. "
Li Yi's words dispelled the other party's thoughts. If you take the gold, you will definitely be in big trouble.
"Oh! I will help to mine. I will listen to the imperial court. "Fang Ao realized that it was more important to give the family's disciples the opportunity to take the imperial examinations.
Not long after, cheers came from outside. The people nearby were the first to hear the news.
They did not have the slightest doubt. If the gods said there was, there must be. Without the gods, even stars could be caught. What was a mine?
If there was a mine, it meant money. There was also gold. As for how to divide the gold, it could be used to build roads or houses. If there was more money in other places, it would be used to build houses for the people.
In Yuzhou, if they made a lot of money, could they build new houses?
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