Pei Yaoqing was today's main character. He arranged for people to send some gifts to the other students who were not good enough. He had done his duty as a parental official.
As for those who were better, he invited them, saying that there would be delicious food.
When there were too many people, it was a mess. It was hard to tell who was who.
There were two people in the crowd. They wore scarves on their faces to block the wind and snow. They also wore hats on their heads to prevent the snow from falling on their hair.
"Daoji, Li Yi is asking for a name." Yao Chong lowered his head and said to Zhang Shuo. Zhang Shuo's name was Daoji, the same as Ji Gong Li Xiuyuan's Dharma name.
"He's already famous." Zhang Shuo looked at the rice wine in front of him. He did not want to drink it because it did not taste good.
He hated the poem that said anything can drink a cup of wine.
It was obviously lousy wine, but with a poem, it changed.
"His fame is different this time. He donated 400 taels and said that he would take it out today." Yao Chong reminded him.
"What's 400 taels? Compared to the good tools he gave, it's more than 40,000 taels. It's a complete set of farming tools. How many people would use it? "
Zhang Shuo said as he put a piece of mutton into the copper hot pot in front of him.
He and Yao Chong had a hot pot in front of them. When other people came over, they were forced to retreat by their eyes.
They had never seen a copper hot pot before, but they had eaten a pot many times.
A pot placed on a charcoal stove in winter naturally had to be eaten in it. It was a hot pot.
This copper hot pot had a chimney, and charcoal was added from the middle.
No one knew that this would be the most widely used copper hot pot in the future northeast region. At first, it was the Manchus. Later, the capital also had it, and then it spread to other places.
The difference between this kind of pot was that when cooking pickled vegetables, the pickled vegetables would be green. When other pots were not copper, the pickled vegetables would be yellow.
"When he gets up, in the imperial court …" Yao Chong was narrow-minded. He always felt that Li Yi would steal his position.
Zhang Shuo was also narrow-minded. Li Yi had already told Li Longji.
He picked up a piece of meat and cooked it in the chicken soup with oyster. "Does he not have a position now? His Majesty is always happy when he talks about the new Linon things in court, and he always runs to the Forbidden Garden to see the three thousand Winged Knights. "
"The Winged Knights are really strong." Yao Chong commented gloomily.
He had seen the Winged Knights training in the Forbidden Garden before. They were truly putting their lives on the line.
The most frightening thing was that not a single one of the three thousand people complained. Their willpower was firm.
There was no such army in the entire Tang dynasty. What had they experienced?
The phrase they always said was' the most comfortable day is always yesterday '.
What was going on today?
Yao Chong felt that even the entire Thousand Bull Guards would not be able to defeat the three thousand Winged Knights. Each of them only wore boxers during training and were covered in scars.
Li Yi, what did you do to them?
"The hundred-worker strategy doesn't seem to work on him." Zhang Shuo recalled the matter of the stainless steel manufacturing. His head was spinning, and he wanted to bang his head against the wall.
"Even so, we still have to persevere. What if there's a good one? Why is the mutton rolled? "
Yao Chong only found the problem after eating two slices of meat. How was the mutton rolled?
Zhang Shuo had already found out. He sighed: "That's why Li Yi's methods are beyond our imagination."
***
Li Yi's courtyard.
"Brother Yi, how is the mutton rolled?" Li Longji and Empress Wang came again. The weather was cold and snowy, and they were in a bad mood. So they came to adjust their mood.
"It's frozen. Put the lean and fatty meat together and freeze it. Then, cut it into rolls. It's delicious when the fat and lean match."
Li Yi casually explained how to do it.
Generally, rich people like to eat lean meat, poor people like to eat fatty meat, and delicious people like to eat a mixture of fat and lean meat.
After eating a lot, you will find that too lean meat does not taste good, and the texture will be bad.
"Uncle, we just put some lean meat first, then some fatty meat. Once it's frozen, the texture will be so beautiful?"
Empress Wang was curious about the meat rolls.
Li Yi shook his head: "No, sister-in-law, they are eating the meat. We are eating the mutton itself. It's also frozen, but it has its own texture."
"Isn't the glycerin in this small bottle leftover from the soap production? You want to sell it for 1000 copper coins a small bottle?"
Empress Wang picked up a small glass bottle. It contained glycerin, a by-product of soap production.
She had been using it for a long time. It was very comfortable, especially now that the weather was cold. When she applied it on her lips, her lips would not be chapped. It was better than other oils, and it did not have a bad smell.
"Uncle, how much would the glycerin you sell to them for?" Empress Wang applied some glycerin and felt that it was different from the glycerin she used.
"It's not for sale. Third brother and sister-in-law used beeswax, borneol, tea oil, and glycerin to make the cream together. It's enough for them to use the glycerin."
Li Yi said the formula. There was no need to keep it a secret. There was no need to mix with glycerin, unless someone could directly produce Vaseline, then there was no need for anything else.
Unfortunately, even he could not get Vaseline, so he used beeswax instead.
Li Longji swallowed a mouthful of meat and suddenly asked: "Little brother Yi, you seem to dislike the rich?"
"Third brother is only partly right. I dislike the rich who are heartless, and I dislike the rich who collude with officials and businessmen."
Li Yi expressed his opinion and continued, "Every time a dynasty changes, it's actually because the distribution of wealth has broken through a critical point.
When more and more people accumulate wealth through unscrupulous means, an avalanche will occur.
And when an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent.
When a person has an endless amount of food, but does not take out the food when many people starve to death, that person will die.
The constraints of morality and law, at that moment, will appear pale and useless. "
"Uncle, you're right." Empress Wang felt that he was right.
Because when Li Longji did not have his current status, he was also very poor.
On his birthday, he could not even eat a bowl of noodles. It was her father who sold a fur coat to make a bowl of soup biscuits with meat for Li Longji.
"Those who are heartless should be killed." Li Longji thought for a while and seemed to understand the problem of social distribution.
"Third brother, there's no end to killing. Just like the war between the Tang dynasty and Tubo, killing to stop killing is not the best strategy. Subduing the enemy without fighting is the right way."
Li Yi said. He wanted to pass on some theories of national struggle through his third brother.
"Not killing? How can there be peace if we don't kill? "Li Longji said domineeringly.
"It's enough to turn the enemy into one of our own. Tubo is strong now because of the Heavenly Dao. It's warm there. Since Songtsen Gampo, we can cultivate large areas and even grow rice.
Originally, it was not possible. Originally, we could only grow highland barley. Then, Songtsen Gampo married one of our people and brought a lot of craftsmen and skills.
Now, it's impossible to use military force to subdue them. The climate there is high altitude, lack of oxygen, and it's hard to breathe.
But if it's me, I can use business to pull people over. All the battles are the thoughts of the people at the top. It's called willpower.
The commander of the army can be seized, but the will of an ordinary man cannot be seized. We don't seize those things. We integrate and use a good life to integrate.
Third brother and sister-in-law, look at my Zhuangzi. If Zhang Family Village is the enemy, I have crossbows, armor, money, and take care of the people of Zhang Family Village.
Even if Muramasa Zhang Xiao wants to hit me, he can't. If I want to cripple him, it's easy. Under the deterrence of military force, money is enough. "
Li Yi talked about geography, astronomy, politics, economics, human nature, and struggle. With these words, everything was made clear.
"If that's the case, we can use troops to defend and not fight?" Li Longji summarized.
"Yes, as long as the military force is at the border and they don't dare to come over, the rest is easy. I can even destroy them. Third brother, this is called economic war."
Li Yi said confidently, because in history, there were many huge empires that were crippled like this.
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