Bi Gou left. He took two handfuls of pine nuts and took the pliers away.
He walked very quickly as if he had taken advantage of the situation and was afraid that Li Yi would snatch it back.
His sidekick was hugging the ores behind him. In his sleeve was a bag of two catties of pine nuts, which Li Yi gave to him to eat for fun.
He was going to share a few handfuls with his colleagues in the Ministry of Revenue and bring the rest home.
"Brother Yi, Brother Yi." Li Yi was about to enter the car to rest when he heard his third brother's voice.
Li Longji came. He did not go through the Anfu Gate. Instead, he came from the front. He wore a bamboo hat and was followed by his bodyguards. He was sneaky.
Li Yi opened the door of a car waiting to pick up the examinees and motioned for his third brother to enter.
"This year's exam questions are not difficult. Almost all of your students in Zhuangzi will pass." Li Longji looked out of the car window.
"Third brother, I plan to arrange jobs for them in half a year." Li Yi talked about the future of the 220 students.
"Where will they be placed?" Li Longji did not care whether it was half a year or a year. Anyway, they will be studying in the Li Family Zhuangzi.
"They will be placed in the capital's village. They will lead the villagers to become rich. If they lack investment, the Li Family Zhuangzi will give them money. If they have the ability to pull in investment, they can also do it. "
Li Yi wanted to cultivate the students to be down-to-earth. If they were placed in the village, they would not even be considered as outsiders.
Outside of the village, they would usually do the work of officials in the county. The village chief would not be promoted.
Some of the bigger villages would only be promoted to outside of the village.
The village chief represented power. Without prestige, they would not be able to become a village chief.
After the examinees passed the imperial examination, they would be directly promoted to a level nine official after an interview with the Ministry of Appointments.
"Be the village chief in the village?" Li Longji thought of the matter of seizing power.
"No, be the village chief's assistant. Give advice to the village chief, manage the village's accounts, familiarize yourself with the situation of the villagers, apply for help, find economic growth projects, pull in investment, etc. "
Li Yi introduced the students to the task of being a village official. The rank was low, but there were many things to be done. They had to do their best.
Li Longji smiled. "Should the other students who passed the exam also be sent to the village?"
"They won't agree because they think it's beneath their status. They have the ambition to rule the country and have the talent to be prime ministers. "
Li Yi mocked. All of them were taking the imperial examinations, wanting to ascend to the heavens in a single step.
"OK, arrange for them to go to the village." Li Longji decided.
First, the students who passed the exam this year would be sent to the village to be officials for a year. If the villagers could not understand, then they would be sent to work for another year.
Three years was the time limit. If the village still couldn't improve in three years, then go home. The imperial court didn't want them.
If someone was able to help the villagers earn more money in half a year, they would be promoted and given the position of county registrar, county deputy, county lieutenant, and other officials.
"Third Brother, Bi Goo's Minister Bi just told me that he wants to build a trading hall.
I was thinking that Your Majesty has a lot of tributes. Why don't you sell them? Your Majesty doesn't need many of them, except for gold and silver. "
Li Yi didn't mention the issue of the allocation of officials. He talked about another matter.
Li Longji picked up the thermos and poured half a cup of hot water for the both of them. "Is it to earn money?"
"Your Majesty, don't rely on selling tributes to earn money. Your Majesty needs money. I have other mines and businesses here." Li Yi waved his hand.
"Of course." Li Longji was happy. He didn't lack money. If he needed it, he could ask Brother Yi for the location of the mines.
"Providing tributes to the local government is actually not beneficial to the local government. If Your Majesty auctions it, the tributes will be valuable if the price is high. "
Li Yi said his thoughts. The local government had been sending things to the Emperor.
Like his soy sauce. Now that the recipe for the soy sauce was thrown out, the tributes were changed to other things in Zhuangzi.
In the remote areas, the people had to prepare the best things in the area for the Emperor of Chang 'an every year.
The palace used it, but others didn't know.
Taking it out for auction, it told others that it was produced from where and how precious it was.
If others wanted it, they could go to the local government to buy it. Then, the local government could use these things to make money.
It turned out that things that were sold for 10 coins could be sold for 1 coin.
Even the Emperor said it was good. He had a lot of places to sell things at that time. He talked about Qianlong and Kangxi.
It gave people the feeling that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty ran around all day. He went to at least three to five places a day.
He praised this thing and said that it was wonderful.
The key was that the Emperor had a good appetite. He ate everything. He ate all the snacks in Sha County. They were everywhere.
He went to other places to eat. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Hunan, Hubei …
There was no place that the Emperor didn't go. There was no food that they didn't eat or play with.
This was called the Emperor effect. The Tang dynasty gave tributes to the local government. They couldn't just leave it in Zhuangzi for themselves. They had to help the local government advertise.
Li Longji listened and thought. He felt that he owed the Emperor a lot.
In the past, he didn't have the money and the means. Now that he didn't lack money and the means, he could help the local government sell things.
"Brother Yi, where do you think the Ministry of Revenue's trading hall should be?" Li Longji wanted to arrange a place.
"Xuanyang Lane." Li Yi said three words.
"Why is it … I understand." Li Longji smiled.
He arranged the trading hall to be in Xuanyang Lane. After the businessmen finished talking, they could take a bath and go to Pyong Kang Square to relax. It was not bad.
It was very convenient to send someone to Heaven on Earth to order takeout.
The two of them chatted for a while until it was noon.
The smell of food floated out of the examination hall. There were 12 dishes. Even the meat dishes were mainly lean meat. There was a lot of green vegetables and not much salt.
He was afraid that some examinees who usually ate little oil would suddenly eat fatty meat. It was delicious, but after eating it, they would have a stomachache.
"Brother Yi, let's eat." Li Longji smelled the smell of the north wind. He was hungry.
Li Yi went out and went to the carriage where Taohong and the others were resting. There were people on duty. There were dishes on the pot. It was pork trotters.
He used a pair of tongs to pick up the pot and carried it back to the carriage.
"It's been simmering since early morning. It's delicious." Li Yi began to boil the wine. There were six taels of wine, three taels for each person.
In the pot, there were only pork trotters and prawns. The frozen prawns were transported from the land and frozen in ice.
It was very popular now. Li Chengqi made a fortune by transporting them from Lai Zhou.
There were also a few washed vegetables dipped in pickles to replenish vitamins and chlorophyll.
Bi He ran over to take a look. She turned around and called the others to eat together.
The eight of them carried the small pots and ran into the carriage. There were four on each side, ready to listen to orders.
Li Longji ate a piece of pork trotter and spat out the bone, "This year's transport needs to be improved. Otherwise, we won't be able to transport the food and will have to run to Henan to find food."
"The number of people in the capital office is still small. If the number of people doubled, there won't be a shortage of food. The grain merchants are more anxious than us." Li Yi explained the need for food.
The fewer the population and the less developed the economy, the more scarce the food and the more expensive it would be.
The capital office was big. The lack of food was because the merchants did not think there was a shortage of food.
When a gap appeared, the Emperor ran away with his people.
"Where are we going to settle with so many people?" Li Longji did not think there was much space left in Chang 'an.
"The surrounding counties need to be repaired this year. At the same time, they need to build canals. When Minister Bi told me about this, I mentioned that there was a coal mine near the iron production area.
I thought of something. Tracks. If there are no iron tracks, we can use wooden tracks. If we can lay tracks in the mining area, we can also lay tracks on the road from Luoyang to Chang 'an. "
Li Yi proposed something new.
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