Hearing Li Chengqi talking about tea leaves, Noble Consort Lu looked at the teacup in front of her and raised her eyebrows. "We drink too much money every day. One tael of this Grade One tea costs a thousand taels."
"Mother, Brother Yi only asks for this price. This tea is not for sale at all." Li Longji smiled.
He knew how Li Yi fooled people. It was priceless.
The tea that could be bought outside was only Grade Three tea. The tea that Heaven on Earth gave Yao Chong was Grade Two tea.
Only the Six Li Village had Primary Grade One, Secondary Grade One, and Primary Grade Two teas. When Gao Lishi went to get them, he could only get a hundred catties of Secondary Grade Two tea and one catty of Primary Grade One, Secondary Grade One, and Primary Grade Two tea.
However, the price was marked. Grade One tea cost one thousand taels, which was one million taels.
Grade One tea cost eight hundred thousand taels.
Grade Two tea cost five hundred thousand taels.
Grade Two tea cost one hundred thousand taels.
Grade Three tea cost ten thousand taels, which was ten times lower than Grade Two tea. The highest grade that could be bought outside was this.
Grade Three tea cost eight thousand taels.
From Grade Four to Grade Five, the prices were: five thousand, three thousand, one thousand, eight hundred, five hundred, three hundred, one hundred, and fifty.
It was calculated according to two.
The rest were tea fragments, which were divided into five grades. Ten taels per catty, fifty taels per catty, one hundred taels per catty, five hundred taels per catty, and one thousand taels per catty.
The tea did not include Grade One or Grade Two tea fragments. It was not for sale. It was for Zhuangzi to drink.
This set gave people the feeling that drinking this tea was different from drinking other teas. Their status was raised.
"Brother Yi can make a lot of money with just an idea. Mother, don't worry. This tea will never be sold. It will be worthless if it is sold."
Li Chengqi said. He understood that things that could not be bought were precious.
"What's the difference between these teas?" Noble Consort Lu took a sip of the tea.
Empress Wang gave the most appropriate explanation. "The difference between cabbage heart and cabbage leaves."
"I see." Noble Consort Lu nodded, indicating that she understood.
She turned around and asked Li Chengqi, "How's the drilling of those wells going?"
"Currently, they are spread across twenty prefectures. There are a few people in each of the three alliances, and they have formed six hundred well digging teams. They are all craftsmen from all over the world.
Once the new craftsmen were proficient, they would choose new people to form a new well drilling team and continue to spread out to other places.
Third Brother paid for all the wells to be called Kaiyuan Wells, telling the people that Her Majesty dug them for them.
Maintenance was a problem in the later stages. Some villages had craftsmen who would naturally find the wells useful and repair them if they were damaged.
Some need to be managed by the state or county. Third Brother, you can allocate a sum of money to each state every year for them to maintain. "
Li Chengqi treated this matter as his own career and did it very seriously.
"If the government takes the money but doesn't fix it, what should they do?" Li Dan raised a practical question.
"Then let's make money. Third Younger Brother has allocated the money, but they don't want to fix it. We can use this as an excuse to arrest people. If we catch a greedy person, we can make a lot of copies."
Li Chengqi said with a smile. He already had a plan. Otherwise, why wouldn't he let the local government pay for it?
This was what he learned from Brother Yi. He had to give others a chance before he could make a move.
Li Yi, who was hurrying on the road, didn't know that someone had picked up the skill of scheming very quickly instead of learning the good things.
There were many mountains in Luoyang, and there were official roads. People came and went on the official roads.
Li Yi's six-wheeled carriage was particularly conspicuous, and the 500 Winged Knights were even more eye-catching.
When it was almost dark, the troops arrived at Xiong Er Mountain. Without Li Yi's instructions, Fan Fan arranged for people to start digging ditches and cutting trees with saws to make barricades on the side of Xiong Er Mountain.
There were also people who ran to hunt animals to save on army provisions.
When the passersby saw a large group of Tang soldiers, they immediately came forward and said that they wouldn't leave and would stay together tonight.
They weren't too close to each other, about one li apart. Those who had cars hitched a ride with them, and those who didn't gathered together.
There was actually a temple on the mountain, but they didn't go there. There was no one in the temple. It was said that at night, one could always see things that one shouldn't see.
Because there had been a great battle on Xiong Er Mountain, the leader of the Wagang Army, Li Mi, died here.
Some people said that they had seen many people appear at night, and they could also hear the sound of eating meat and drinking wine, followed by the sound of fighting.
Li Yi didn't believe it. Li Mi was running away, so where could he get the wine? There could be meat.
And even if there was a natural magnetic field, he needed a specific environment to record and play it in a specific environment.
There was no light at night, so how could he record? Recording in darkness?
It was normal for the army to camp and the common people to be next to them.
If it was Li Yi's time, if the road was difficult to walk and the army had set up camp, the common people would go directly without any fear.
Now the common people didn't dare to come over, but they felt safe with the army next to them.
It wasn't a li away, and Li Yi could even see the expressions on the common people's faces with the military binoculars.
"Ask them to come over and help to dig wild vegetables. There are a lot of bracken in this season. Use a stick to hit the grass. Don't get bitten by snakes."
After seeing the people, Li Yi decided to cooperate with them.
The Non-commissioned Officer would build fortifications and hunt, and the common people would help to dig vegetables.
The soldier who was called hesitated for a moment, and Li Yi immediately taught him, "Go over and say that you are His Majesty's private army, the Winged Knights. You don't hurt the common people. As long as there is danger, you will listen to His Majesty's order and stand in front of the common people. Go."
"But …" The soldier was not used to teaching the common people.
"Then forget it. Don't bother the common people. I'll take you to play." Li Yi said.
When the soldier heard this, he trembled and ran away without riding a horse.
Li Yi laughed and muttered, "Why did I repeat that ridiculous thing again and again? It's for the critical moment. "
Soon, two large groups of common people came over, one from the east and the other from the west.
Li Yi shouted through the loudspeaker, "These are His Majesty's soldiers. His Majesty always said that he should treat the common people of the Tang dynasty as warm as meat porridge.
When they saw you hiding so far away, they were afraid that you would be in danger and couldn't rescue you in time, so they told me to ask you to come over.
They went to hunt for meat. Let's not idle around. Let's dig for wild vegetables together, okay? If you see any mushrooms, dig them up too. Let me see. "
The common people had already seen the luxurious carriage. When they saw the young man speaking so amiably and knew that there would be meat to eat, they agreed one after another.
Before the sky was completely dark, they quickly spread out to dig for vegetables.
Li Yi rolled up the sleeves of his white coat and asked some people to help build an earthen stove, set up a big pot, and bring water from the small river on the mountain to boil.
Li Yi also took a sample of the water into the carriage to test it in case it was poisoned.
"Young man, are you an official?" An 'old man' in his fifties or sixties who was holding the hand of a six or seven-year-old boy came over and asked.
"It doesn't matter what my identity is. It's His Majesty's private army that is willing to protect the common people of the Tang dynasty."
Li Yi said with a smile. At the same time, he took out a piece of fruit candy wrapped in a piece of glutinous rice paper and a piece of rough paper from the pocket of his white coat.
He peeled off the outer paper and stuffed the candy into the child's mouth.
The little boy, who didn't dare to make a sound, looked at Li Yi again the moment the candy entered his mouth. There was a hint of intimacy in his eyes.
"We're going to Luoyang. How is it?" The old man touched the child's head and asked Li Yi.
"Go ahead. There are a lot of locusts, but it won't delay the wheat harvest. There are also a lot of eggs and ducks there." Li Yi still maintained his smile.
Then, he asked, "Old man, where did you …"
"Lantian County. We went to my son-in-law's house. In the end, they said that they wanted to collect taxes based on the number of people there. I quickly took his child and left. We're from Zhengzhou, so we could only go to Luoyang to rest first."
The old man sighed and shook his head.
Li Yi narrowed his eyes.
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