On the third day after the results were released, the students who passed the exam entered the Ministry of Personnel again and were exempted from the exam.
All of the students carefully dressed up. Some put on rouge and blush to make themselves look prettier. Their clothes were smoothed out.
Everyone entered. The officials of the Ministry of Personnel looked at their appearance, tested their eyesight, and asked a few simple questions.
In the end, all of them passed. Everyone was happy.
Before noon, they left the Imperial City. Just as the others were about to meet up with the officials of the Li Family Zhuangzi, the 42 students had already boarded the carriage.
The carriages turned around and returned to Zhuangzi.
The 42 students continued to study the textbooks. They would first study by themselves, mainly physics, chemistry, and arithmetic. They did not need to study Chinese.
They listened to her advice and knew that Xinyan would not lie to them. Therefore, they should study hard. Now was not the time to play with others.
As for the other seventeen quasi-officials, they rode on horses borrowed from others out of friendship and began to stroll along the side streets.
Unfortunately, there were fewer commoners than last year. The commoners ran to find a place to pick tea.
After picking the tea leaves, they quickly sent them to the Li Family Zhuangzi to exchange for money. They did not have time to watch others parade.
When the carriages headed east and arrived at Pyong Kang Square, the girls of Beiqu opened their windows and waved their handkerchiefs as they shouted.
It was only at this moment that the seventeen Grand Scholars felt that their status was respected.
"From now on, the tea leaves can be picked until the summer harvest." Pei Yaoqing invited Li Yuanhong to eat at Earthly Paradise.
Seeing the commoners coming from the west of the city and passing by Earthly Paradise, they hurried east with bamboo baskets and said to Li Yuanhong.
Li Yuanhong seemed to be in a good mood and said, "This way, the people in the two counties who are not rich can save up some money. Huanzhi went to Li Yi and found a job, which should be a great contribution."
"Thanks to the general director's understanding, he did not make my Chang 'an angry."
Pei Yaoqing expressed his gratitude. His Chang 'an order allowed the people of another county to work, and the other party did not say anything.
"The main thing is that I don't dare to stop you. Let's not talk about whether it benefits the commoners or not. Just the fact that the bailiffs can earn more money makes it difficult for me to stop you." Li Yuanhong said with a smile.
He did not fight. It was fine as long as the matter was done. Taking money that he did not dare to take was risky.
Moreover, Pei Yaoqing's money was still being used on the people of the two counties.
"In the future, you don't have to spend money to buy tea. Li Yi agreed." Pei Yaoqing changed the topic.
"The taste of the tea is indeed different." Li Yuanheng nodded. He did not care about the tea because he did not know what price Li Yi would sell the tea for in the future.
At this time, the people of the capital government were busy looking for wild tea. Some people couldn't enter the tea garden, so they asked the owner of the tea garden if they wanted people to pick the tea.
The people in the tea plantation knew that the tea leaves would grow slowly. Right now, they were still young shoots. The Li Family Zhuangzi offered a high price.
Depending on the quality, the most expensive one could reach 50 yuan per catty, while the cheapest one could reach 10 yuan per catty.
It was even more expensive than the tea that had been made in the past. However, there were more requirements. The freshly picked tea could not be sent to Zhuangzi for more than three days.
At the same time, they were not allowed to pile up a thick layer, otherwise, the price would continue to drop.
Ordinary people who found the tea trees and picked them for a day would have to rush to Zhuangzi. If there were many people nearby, they would have to hire a horse carriage, donkey cart, mule cart, or ox cart.
People who lived near Zhuangzi could pick the tea for two days and then send it to Zhuangzi. It would not take more than three days.
The owner of the tea plantation saw that there was money to be made. After discussing the price with the tea pickers, a group of people rushed in to pick the young shoots.
It seemed that both parties were very happy. One party did not have to look for the tea trees themselves, while the other party felt that they had earned money for free.
When the first basket of tea leaves was sent to Zhuangzi, the farmers started to get busy.
The place to dry the tea must be kept a secret. Cooking tea must not be taught. They were counting on this to make money.
Song De looked at the quality according to the pictures and instructions drawn by Li Yi. Every time he offered the high price of 50 yuan, he laughed even more happily than the other party.
The people who made the tea later started to process the young tea according to different techniques. According to the water requirements of the tea, the yield of the tea would be different.
The drier the tea, the more green tea would be needed. Under normal circumstances, more than four catties of green tea would be needed to produce one catty of green tea.
If a large pile of green tea was sent over and four to five catties of good buds were selected out of ten catties, then the quality of the tea would be equivalent to one catty of green tea.
However, the selected buds could still be fried.
If it was to make very dry tea, perhaps ten catties of green tea would need to be selected out of twenty catties and then fried for one catty.
If the young shoots from the capital office were selected well, five catties of green tea could be sold for a sky-high price.
As for how to sell it, Dongzhu had a way.
Beside Zhuangzi, the people who were not making honeycomb briquettes for the time being formed a group. They hired carriages with Zhuangzi and ran to various places to pick the tea.
They had to be hired and paid. When they went, the carriages were loaded with fodder, salt, and large buckets of water.
Generally, it was a day's journey and the horses had to rest midway.
After picking for a day, or at most half a day, they would rush back and sell the tea buds to Zhuangzi.
However, Zhuangzi promised to give them some inferior tea to drink.
It was to supplement their vitamins and cleanse their stomachs. If it was not suitable for tea, then don't drink it.
The people from the Zhang Family Village did not move. They were tidying up the land and planting cotton this year.
It was February in the lunar calendar and April in the solar calendar. They were going to plant.
Not only the village, but Zhuangzi also planted a lot of cotton.
The people from the Zhang Family Village cooperated with Li Yi and Zhuangzi to plant cotton. Zhuangzi provided the seeds and technology, and the villagers were responsible for the work.
The manor gave the village some money to rent the land and some money to hire a worker.
It was equivalent to the villagers earning an extra wage. Their tourism industry had to continue.
This included raising toads and planting paddy fields. They raised crabs in the paddy fields.
It was equivalent to the Li Family Village Zhuangzi getting rich first. They led the local area to get rich later.
The Imperial Plantation in the north was the same. Everyone was waiting to continue earning money this year and then build new houses.
On February 28th, ten days after the imperial examination, Li Yi stood at the bow of the ship and watched as the ship slowly docked.
The boatmen said ten days, so it was ten days. It was indeed accurate.
The Luoyang dock was now the Henan Prefecture. The highest official in the Henan Prefecture was the Henan Prefect.
There was a prince who claimed to be the Henan Prefect, but he did not care about anything.
The current Henan Prefect was called Bi Goo. He was sixty-five years old this year.
According to the information, he would return to Chang 'an this year as the Minister of Revenue. Then he would fall ill next year and die before he could recover.
Li Yi knew this person. Some of the reasons why the locust plague could not be dealt with well was because of him.
It was probably because he was old and an old official. He stubbornly refused to deal with the locusts under Yao Chong, so Li Longji transferred him back.
Normally, Yao Chong could not do anything about the locust plague this year. Next year, he would dare to give an order without a key person.
This Bi Goo named his children according to the five elements. His name also had the word 'Mu' next to it.
He was also called an outsider. You are an official of the imperial court. You are an outsider, okay?
As for the other officials in the Henan Prefecture, Li Yi did not find any information. They were all a mess. They were all nameless people in history. There was no need to pay attention to them.
Li Yi watched and thought. The ship came to a stop and the gangplank was placed.
The boatmen helped to move things down and send people away. They also had to wash the ship. At the same time, they asked if there was anyone else who wanted to ship goods. They would do it if they paid.
Li Yi did not work. He got off the ship and watched from the dock. It was the last day of April in Luoyang. The weather was very hot, and the Yellow River was obviously shallow.
The grass on the dock was yellowish, and grasshoppers were hopping around.
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