"It's better to eat in Zhuangzi, Li Dongzhu. Before coming here, I heard that the East Market sells oysters and scallops of the same size for five yuan."
Xiao Lan and Princess Yongmu didn't eat just now. They sat and ate melon seeds.
There were several varieties of watermelons in the Tang Dynasty. Among them, there were watermelons that specialized in seeds. They weren't sweet, but they had large seeds and many seeds.
Seed melons were planted in Longyou Road. They were the food of the upper and middle class. How could the lower class have the money to buy melon seeds?
Li Yi looked at the small pile of melon seed shells and smiled. "If you think Zhuangzi is good, you can live there for a long time. If you like to eat melon seeds, there will be enough for you to eat all year round."
"I don't like to eat melon seeds. I'm waiting for you." Xiao Lan retorted. Her tongue hurt from eating melon seeds.
Li Yi nodded and said, "The Gobi area is the most suitable for planting melons. I have a technique called the stone pressure technique.
Put stones on the soil of the Gobi and plant the melons. Don't worry about it. Wild beasts generally don't cause much harm. There are no wild boars there.
When the season comes, all that's left is income. Take out the melon seeds and dry them. I have a way to fry them. "
"I know about five-spice." When Xiao Lan heard about melon seeds, she couldn't help but reach out to grab them.
Princess Yongmu tapped the table with her finger. Xiao Lan stuck out her tongue.
Princess Yongmu looked at the melon seeds and asked curiously, "Li Lang, why do you use stones to put them on the ground?"
"I also learned it. It's said that when stones are pressed on the soil, the soil won't be easily dried by the wind. When it rains, the stones can also retain water.
The seedlings of cold melon are particularly tenacious. After sprouting, they drill out of the soil and don't care about the stones on top.
Soak the seeds in warm water and plant them. People don't have to care about them anymore. They don't even have to hoe the grass. "
Li Yi compared the information and said that there was nothing wrong with it.
"Do birds eat watermelons in the wild?" Princess Yongmu didn't know who ate watermelons.
"Hedgehogs, wolves, badgers, wild horses, sheep, wild boars, pheasants, and so on."
Li Yi looked at the information and gave the answer. He realized that he would eat anything, including people.
"You want to tell the people?" Princess Yongmu first thought of the Li Family Zhuangzi. Ordinary technology was not confidential.
"People who live near the Gobi Desert have to harvest the seeds and transport them out. Only by raising the price of watermelon seeds will the merchants buy them. "
Li Yi didn't care about the technology. What he cared about was whether the people who planted the seeds could make money.
The melon farmers themselves did not have sales channels, so everything depended on the acquirers.
Princess Yongmu lowered her head and thought for a moment before asking, "How much will the merchants pay for the current melon seeds?"
"It depends on what the merchant thinks, how far away it is, and how good the seeds are. Usually, the price offered is very low."
When Li Yi mentioned merchants, he shook his head.
He gave the merchants benefits and promoted the development of business, but he also knew the nature of the merchants.
Planting melons in the Gobi Desert was better than planting watermelons. Watermelons had a short shelf life, so the seeds could be harvested.
If the watermelon seeds collected in Zhuangzi were 20 coins per catty, the merchants from the nearest place in Longyou Road would only collect 1 coin per catty of raw melon seeds.
Excluding the transportation fees, the merchants made a lot of profits, so they had to collect taxes. 20 coins per catty.
How many watermelon seeds could one mu of land produce? According to the current watermelon varieties, land area, fertilizers, and care, one mu of land could produce about 50 catties of seeds.
Longyou Road was slightly better, producing more than 70 catties of seeds.
Princess Yongmu obviously thought of the same question. "Is it worth it to plant watermelon seeds?"
"How should I put it? If people don't take care of it, they can earn 50 coins per catty after deducting the cost. If they plant wheat, one mu of land can produce 120 to 30 catties, which is about ten buckets of rice, and 20 to 30 coins per bucket of rice."
Li Yi talked about the output and price, but he didn't say anything else.
"It's worth it to plant food." Xiao Lan directly compared and gave the answer.
"Xiao Lan, I'll let you plant wheat in the Gobi Desert tomorrow. If you want to produce one stone per mu, you have to take care of it every day.
I'll give you heavy armor, modao, crossbow, and bow. You see, first, plant ten mu of land, and then … "
"No, no, I don't want to. I'm a girl, I can't, I'll die." Xiao Lan shook her head like a rattle-drum.
"The wheat we eat only produces one stone per mu?" Princess Yongmu was thinking about the output.
"Our land is good, one mu of land can produce two to three stones. The Gobi Desert can't grow wheat at all, it won't be enough.
The people who live there all grow some vegetables and then let the sheep, which are still goats, eat grass and dig out the roots.
After a heavy rain, if the number of sheep is not many, it will always be like that. "
Li Yi frowned when he talked about the people who lived in the Gobi Desert during the New Year.
It was very difficult there, and it wasn't very far from the capital.
Those people raised sheep, and when they wanted to sell them, they didn't give them grass to eat. When they were sent to Chang 'an, the sheep were so hungry that they kept crying.
It was like raising pigs, they were hungry, otherwise, they would be full.
In other people's eyes, it was a way of life, but in Li Yi's eyes, it was helplessness.
He considered the whole Tang dynasty and the imperial court. If there were people who didn't have a good life, he had to think of ways.
Just like the story, two pairs of father and son saw a beggar.
The father of one pair of father and son said to the child, "If you don't work hard, you'll be like him in the future."
The father of the other pair of father and son said to the child, "If you don't work hard, you won't be able to help them in the future."
Li Yi was now in the second level, he had to think of ways to let more people live a good life.
Today, he happened to see watermelon seeds, so he wondered if he could let the locals try to grow them.
If he provided the seeds and the method, the locals would be a little tired for ten days to half a month, he could increase their income, and their living standards would improve.
"Who knows that the grass floating in the sky, the years will make people old, the wind, the moon, flowers and birds, a smile of the fate of the world …"
The singing on the stage, the 'audience' sang along, and their voices suddenly became louder.
Li Yi suddenly stopped talking and clapped his hands to the rhythm.
Princess Yongmu blinked her big eyes, she still didn't understand why they had to raise goats and the number of goats.
She also didn't know how much per mu could yield. How could they grow vegetables if they couldn't farm in the Gobi Desert?
When the song ended, the host went on stage to announce.
"Eat, it's ready. Use a colander to scoop it out. If you cook it for too long, the scallops will shrink too much, and the oysters will be cooked to pieces."
Li Yi came to his senses and used a small colander to scoop out the two kinds of seafood he had just put in.
He glanced at the empty plates in front of the two people and took a small bowl to scoop the seasoning.
Chili oil, garlic juice, ginger juice, cold noodle soup, sesame paste, beef mince, soy sauce, aged vinegar, white sugar, tofu, oyster sauce, chopped green onion and coriander foam.
He didn't put leek flowers, because these seasonings were salty enough. If he put more leek flowers, he would need to add more cold noodle soup.
"Come on, each of you take two spoonfuls. I put salt in the dumplings this year. When you eat them, don't dip them in soy sauce. Dip them in vinegar or eat them directly."
Li Yi scooped the seasoning he had mixed into his big plate and talked about the dumplings.
"You cooked the dumplings?" Princess Yongmu craved the dumplings. The dumplings she had eaten were all taken from the Li Family Zhuangzi.
When it came to the stuffing, Empress Wang didn't trust others. Li Family Zhuangzi wrapped the dumplings and hurriedly took them and sent them over.
Li Family Zhuangzi didn't put much salt in the dumplings, so that they could be dipped in soy sauce.
There were still many people, including captives, during the New Year. There weren't so many plates to use, so they directly put more salt.
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