ushernet Chapter 184 Red Carp
Chapter 184 Red Carp
in the palace.
Li Shimin sneezed several times in succession.
"Who is talking about me?" He rubbed his nose twice and looked into the distance: "Be careful when digging up that double-petaled Erqiao!"
"Those that are not valuable should be dug up and given to the people outside the palace."
It is winter now, and many of these plants have already withered. If you don't look carefully, you really can't tell the species.
"Your Majesty, will we keep the Yundiezi?" Wang De asked Li Shimin, holding two pots of unrecognizable grass.
Ever since Master Li talked about the benefits of Yundiezi, His Majesty had people find a few more and plant them in the palace. He would come to take a look at it from time to time and then say a few words about Gaochang.
"Keep them." Li Shimin said without hesitation: "Put these in my bedroom."
"I will keep an eye on them day and night!"
Wang De shuddered all over, the hairs on his back stood up, and then he hurriedly ran towards the emperor's bedroom with two basins of Yundiezi.
Almost all the free men in the palace were busy destroying the flowers. After going through the baptism of the factory, the concubines became less sentimental.
Before, I could cry for half a day because of the falling flowers, but now when I pluck them, I even dislike their thorns.
Everyone was cleaning the back garden and it took the whole day to finish it.
On the second day, Wang Dahai's apprentice brought people to build a greenhouse.
On the third day, there were already many people busy sowing seeds in the greenhouse...
Today's morning is over.
Li Shimin called out to the ministers who were about to leave the court.
"My dear ministers, do you have a fish pond at home?"
“???” Everyone was confused.
Why does Your Majesty ask about the fish pond?
"My dear Fang, do you have it at home?" Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling with hope.
The other party considered his words for a while, and finally said earnestly: "Your Majesty, I don't have a fish pond at home."
"Oh." Li Shimin was a little disappointed. He continued to ask Changsun Wuji: "My dear Changsun, do you have a fish pond at home?"
"..." Changsun Wuji was silent for a moment and didn't know how to answer.
"Your Majesty, I do have a small pond at home, and I raise some small fish for fun."
Li Shimin's eyes lit up: "That's great!"
"When you leave later, go find Su Qing and get a bucket of red carp and take it home to raise."
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Zhang Sun Wuji was even more confused: "Your Majesty, this red carp..."
"They are from the lake in the palace. There are too many of them and they consume the nutrients in the lake, so I want to give away a few of them."
"Your Majesty, thank you for the reward."
On this day, all the ministers who had fish ponds at home received a bucket of red carp.
"Wang De, how many have you sent out?"
"Your Majesty, there are 211 in total."
"Okay, let's get some other freshwater fish fry and raise them in the lake. When they grow up, we can go fishing and eat them." There are still many carp in the lake, but their taste is not as good as that of sea bass, crucian carp, etc.
Since we want to raise edible fish in the lake, we naturally choose them based on taste.
"Have you bought those chickens, ducks and geese?"
"I bought a lot. If the ladies in the palaces want to feed them, there will be enough."
Wang De wiped the sweat from his forehead. This huge palace was becoming more and more strange.
Factories, farming, raising chickens, ducks and fish...
If it were usual, the ministers would have impeached the remonstrance long ago, but now they are just keeping quiet.
"Wang De, I want to publish the events in the palace in the weekly newspaper and spread them to all ten places."
Li Shimin paced back and forth: "The royal family has set an example. Who dares to pursue pleasure and plunder the people's wealth?"
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The weather has become even colder these days, and a thick layer of ice has formed on the surface of the river.
"Who would dare to go out in this weather?"
Li Yin put on leather boots and gloves, wrapped a scarf around her neck, and a soft cotton hat on her head: "Uncle Erniu, are all the people here?"
"Anyone who is free, come here." Zhao Erniu also wrapped himself tightly.
Except for the roads that had been cleared by the government, the snow in other places was still deep. The group walked towards the river, one step deep and one step shallow.
Everyone worked together to pull several super large ski carts, and today they had to harvest ice.
"With the ice cellar, penicillin has certain storage conditions."
Li Yin wore a mask and said in a muffled voice: "Other drugs can also be made faster."
"Master, a few days ago a businessman from out of town came to me to discuss the pendulum clock." Feng Sanxi exhaled, and his eyes were blurred for two seconds.
“The clockwork technology should be in their hands, and the other structures should be purchased with money.”
This thing cannot be kept secret. There is no such thing as a technical patent at this time. Once people open it and take a look, they will know what is going on.
Li Yin looked at Feng Sanxi who was shivering from the cold and laughed unkindly: "Uncle Sanxi, I told you to wear a mask, but you refused to listen."
"Fortunately, Sister Xiaochun was considerate and asked me to wear two new ones." As she said that, she handed the spare mask to Feng Sanxi.
"Oh! I'm used to the warmth in the house. Who knew it could be so cold?"
Feng Sanxi took the cotton mask handed to him by Li Yin without changing his expression. Many of the things in the owner's hands were sewn by Xiaochun himself.
How could he ask Xiaochun to sew it for him?
It is not easy to harvest ice, especially at this time. Everyone can only use the most primitive iron tools to knock it, and they have to be careful not to fall into the water.
Several heavy men stood on the shore, pulling the rope, with the other end tied to the person who was breaking the ice. If someone unfortunately fell into the water, everyone could pull him out in time.
Li Yin sorted out the medicine box in her hand, which contained many life-saving items.
She was just about to take out a match to light a fire on the shore to boil water when she caught a glimpse of a black mass flashing by in her peripheral vision.
"what?"
"Dogzi?"
"Uncle Erniu, I just saw a black shadow passing by." It was so cold, if it really was a big black dog, could it survive?
Zhao Erniu looked in the direction Li Yin pointed, and saw that the place was empty.
"No, why didn't I..."
"Muntjac!"
Li Yin shouted excitedly, she had never seen this thing in her previous life, this is the first in the country!
This time there were more people watching. Many people in the village knew how to shoot arrows, and some even carried pistols with them, which they raised immediately.
"Master, do you want to kill him and eat his meat?"
In the eyes of the common people at that time, as long as the meat can be hunted, except for the meat of humans, it can be eaten.
There are all kinds of animals in the market, such as roe deer, minks, and deer. There is nothing you dare not eat, except those you cannot beat.
"Eat whatever you want!"
"Aren't the chickens, ducks, fish, geese, cows, sheep and donkeys in the village enough for you to eat?" Li Yin looked over there and saw the wolf-dog-sized creature staring at them with its big round eyes warily.
"It's looking for something to eat." The muntjac was timid, and Li Yin did not dare to disturb it too much. She could only look at it across a glacier.
Zhao Erniu lifted up his cotton hat and quickly reached in to scratch it twice.
"Master, there are a lot of these little things on the mountain, and everyone kills them to eat."
"There are indeed many now," Li Yin agreed, but they will become endangered in a thousand years.
There are so many good things in the back mountain, she must find time to go and take a look. If there are other great treasures there, she must leave some to plant.