I just want to build a city

Putting money aside in advance, Mr. Qingshu saw that the white fox envoy in front of him had become a lot more casual, and he was no longer bound by etiquette. He rubbed his stomach childishly, he was really hungry.

"Xing, ask the kitchen to prepare another lunch." Qingshu-kun raised his voice to Xing who was guarding outside the door.Although Baihu only ate the beancurd sushi in his meal, no matter from that aspect, he was not fit to eat the rest.

"Ah, by the way, let's serve two more bean curd sushi." The white fox raised its front paw, which was very rude. "Forget it, just give me fried tofu."

Hearing this, Xing glanced at Mr. Qingshu, got his nod in response, and then retreated to let people prepare meals again.In addition, she had to inform the whole manor that from the few words she heard, the Inari God Envoy might follow Qingshu-kun into and out of the manor.Then, the people on the manor can't be allowed to lose their composure like they are today.

It took a long time to prepare the meal, but fortunately Xing took the rest of the sushi back first, otherwise Haruki-kun might really not be able to resist eating first.

"By the way, Genji." The white fox nestled on the futon, suddenly remembered something, raised his head, and waved his paw at him.

"It's fine if God orders me, Haruki-kun."

"Well, Mr. Qingshu. Aren't you curious about what kind of monsters are causing trouble in your territory?" The white fox continued naturally.

Qingshu-kun raised his eyes and looked at the white fox envoy. "Will the envoy tell me?"

The white fox narrowed his eyes, and grinned that half-smile expression again. "Well, you'll know later." After finishing speaking, he lay back on the futon again, choking Qingshu-kun who was aroused by his curiosity for no reason.

Of course, Mr. Qingshu couldn't do anything, he could only sigh lightly, lowered his eyes to endure hunger, and waited for the meal to arrive.

In the manor, we should find more cooks in the future.

After the meal, Qingshu-kun began to think about how to earn money. The next step is to raise horses and build the shrine, which will consume a lot of money and manpower.Although the method of brewing wine is very popular among nobles, not everyone will drink and enjoy flowers every day, and live in elegance.More people are civilians instead.

Moreover, this way of brewing wine is really time-consuming. Whether it is from the time of brewing or the speed at which money is earned, this way of making money is actually not suitable for the current situation where he is in urgent need of money.However, the brewing matter can be planned. At the end of spring, people can pick greengage plums and come back to make greengage wine. In later generations, greengage wine is very popular with men and women who are not very good at drinking.

Seeing that Mr. Qingshu started to sit and write and draw after lunch, Baihu was not curious about what he was doing, so he yawned a little, then rolled up on the futon and began to take a nap.

In just seven days, everyone in the manor territory knew that the lord was following a white fox angel, and they were even more convinced by Mr. Qingshu's words.At the same time, he was even more envious of Koichiro who entered the manor and became a temporary manager.

During this period of time, Koichiro was not as happy as others thought. As a person recognized by the lord, Xing told him with the acquiescence of Mr. Qingshu that the envoy did not come to protect the manor territory, but to supervise the lord of.

Koichiro will not know better than others why the regulation is. He can't do anything else to help the lord at the moment, he can only do his best to help Qingshu-kun develop the territory of the manor.He used the wealth he saved during this time to hire the villagers from Shanglinhai Village, let them visit relatives and friends in villages in other territories, and persuade some reliable civilians to let them live in the territory of Genji Manor.

It's just that it is not easy to persuade people to move out of their original residence and go to a new and unfamiliar territory.In addition, no natural disasters occurred this year. Although everyone's life is not rich, it is not difficult to continue. As a result, the persuasion of the people in Linhai Village did not attract many civilians to join. wait and see.

However, someone brought back good news.There is a group of mountain people who want to live in Genji Manor. There are not many people, only a dozen or so people.

Mountains are not suitable for cultivating fine crops such as rice. They usually rely on hunting for a living. However, after hunting a wild boar and being severely punished by the lord of the land for killing, they dare not hunt casually. In winter , there is no wild game to store grain, and the harvest from farming is not good. For them, this year is really going to be difficult.

After Koichiro settled the brought mountain people, he went to report the matter to Haruki-kun.

Qingshu-kun knew about it from the system's mission reminder long before he came.

Task: Your temporary manager Koichiro lobbied for you a group of mountain people who want to live in the territory, please arrange accommodation for them as soon as possible.

Task: Your temporary manager, Koichiro, has lobbied a group of mountain people for you. They want to live in the territory. Please arrange work for them as soon as possible.

Seeing these two pieces of news, and the not-so-large reward, Mr. Qingshu sighed a little.Koichiro is really a hardworking little angel, although the income he brought didn't help much.

Not long after he sighed, Koichiro came to see him with the chill of the end of winter.

"My lord." Koichiro walked into the room on his knees and bowed to him.

"Sit down and talk."

He said he was sitting down, but it was actually just adding a futon to the seat where he was kneeling. However, at least his knees would not be hurt. He also wanted his capable subordinates to work for him in good health for a few more years.

Koichiro knelt behind the futon, and began to talk about the mountain people with Haruki-kun in detail.

"Did these mountain people come from the back of the manor?" Mr. Qingshu didn't know much about things outside the territory. The back mountain was indeed not included in the title deed, and the map of Cairo was also gray.At that time, when my grandfather bought property for his mother, he chose fertile land, and mountainous land was not considered.

"There is no owner of the back mountain. They are the mountain people in the territory of the Ping family who are separated by a mountain."

"Ping family." Qingshu-kun raised his eyebrows in surprise. He was only six years old. Of course, Heping family had nothing to do with him, but his father and grandfather did.

At the beginning, the Taira clan was also one of the clans that occupied the Kanto region. If the Fujiwara clan hadn't secretly instigated and intervened, his father Minamoto Yoshinobu had been rehabilitated and occupied the Kanto area. Presumably, the Taira clan was still at the forefront of the clan in the middle of the Heian period.

However, it's no wonder that the Ping family chose the mountainous land as their territory. The family is lonely, and there is no place to live in the Kanto. He has his choice.

Mountains are not bad for Qingshu-kun, but for people in this era, they are really not such a good territory. Not to mention white rice, which is the main trade item, the harvest in the mountains is not as good as that in the flat land. The mountains are still the easiest A place where spirits and monsters breed can be said to be the environment that people are least willing to live in.Even civilians would really not choose to live in the mountains if they had no choice, or their survival skills were related to mountains, such as hunting.

"The crops in the mountains are different from the crops in the land. Can they adapt to the farming problem here?" Mr. Qingshu's first thought was this question.

"The cultivated crops they mainly eat are very adaptable. The harvest volume on the flat land is larger than that of beans, but they are just cheap grains. I will let people take them to learn about the cultivation of rice in spring. The cultivation methods are mostly the same. You have to adapt It’s just a matter of water and soil.”

Cheap food?Sounds like food that won't be served at the clan table.

Qingshu-kun thought for a while, then asked. "What is cheap food?"

"It's normal for the lord to not know." After Koichiro said, he leaned over and said. "Please forgive the impoliteness of what I said next. The cheap food that the mountain people sow and eat is called sweet potatoes. Although two fists can make a man full, eating too much will bring bad luck."

Put bad luck on?That is farting.If you eat too much sweet potato, of course you will fart. This food can also cure constipation!

Qingshu-kun slapped the table with his little hand, and stood up with such impoliteness for the first time.

Koichiro thought he was angry and lowered his head, but what he heard was a low and clear laughter.Looking up in astonishment, he did hear correctly, Qingshu-kun was smiling.

Of course Mr. Qingshu should be happy. Sweet potatoes are also known as sweet potatoes. They are not only full of stomach but also used as medicine. More importantly, sweet potato leaves can be fed to horses and grow fat!God knows, this kind of crop is simply the gospel of this era. For people in the Heian period with simple cooking methods and single ingredients, they lack crude fiber and exercise less. Some, it will cause constipation. Mr. Qingshu was worried about what to do if he became constipated earlier, but he couldn’t find sweet potatoes. It turned out that there were no sweet potatoes, but because he would fart if he ate too much, so he was not allowed to serve them. dining table.

Of course, these are not the reasons that make him most excited.These days, Mr. Qingshu has thought a lot, the most suitable and fastest way to make money is to make sugar.

Sugar, whether it is a commoner or a clan, is a condiment that everyone likes very much. Sugar can also bring sufficient energy to the human body.But now domestic sugar is a luxury, and it is hard to be satisfied. Even the manufacturers of dim sum try to use the sweetness of rice to increase the sweetness and reduce the use of sugar.

If sugar can be produced, then there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it. The extracted impurity sugar can be sold to civilians, and high-quality sugar can be sold to the royal family at a high price.

However, as for sucrose, there is no sugar cane in China, brown sugar, and sugar beets were not mutated back to China until later.

A good way to think of, but because of the lack of crops, there is no way to put it into action.

However, now there are sweet potatoes, although they are not as good as the first two, but they can also make caramel. More importantly, sweet potatoes, if you are lucky, you will encounter low-light sweet potatoes, which are modern varieties bred for this reason. Sweet potatoes in four seasons can be planted and harvested in four seasons, not to mention three crops a year, two crops a year is no problem!It's just the end of winter now, and it doesn't take long after the sweet potatoes are harvested. He doesn't have to wait for the sweet potatoes to grow and mature. He can use the sweet potatoes grown by these mountain people to make a batch of caramel. Then brew.

Is there anything better than this news?

"Kiroichiro, Xing, let someone prepare the ox cart, I'm going to meet those mountain people."

He couldn't wait for someone to bring the mountain people, it was sugar, sugar.For a moment, Mr. Qingshu didn't know whether it was because of making money or his appetite that made him so excited.

"Yes." It was the first time to see the lord who was calm at any time so excited, which surprised Koichiro and Xing, and even accelerated their pace to arrange the trip.

The bullock cart that the lord traveled soon reached the area where the villagers lived. Because the villagers from Xialinhai Village who had not been driven away joined in, there were more than a dozen thatched huts.

Under the eyes of everyone, the bullock cart stopped in the middle of the main road, and Koichiro asked his attendants to hurry to call the new mountain people.

Koichiro still didn't know why the lord came over so excitedly, and the attendants who went to call people didn't understand even more, so that the mountain people who were called to come forward were a little timid, and they dragged on for a long time. People just knelt and sat in front of the bullock cart.

When the people arrived, Mr. Qingshu got out of the bullock cart with the help of Xing. Looking at the timid mountain people, their brains, which had become dull because of the discovery of sugar, began to function normally. He felt that he was too eager, let alone Zhuangmin. How do you feel that if the mountain people did not bring sweet potatoes, even if they asked, they would not be able to give him the real thing, and they would directly make caramel.

"Koichiro and I have reported it. I already know about the fact that you want to move into the territory. In the future, Nakata will assist Koichiro in arranging the location of the thatched cottage you will live in in the future."

The mountain people were relieved to be able to move in safely.They also heard from their relatives and friends, don't look at the lord who is only six years old, but if you anger him, you don't even think about driving him away.

"I'm here to ask you a question. Can someone speak on your behalf?"

The mountain people looked at each other, and an old man took a step forward on his knees.

"Your name?"

"Xiaomin is called Shanlang."

"Well, Shanlang, I heard that you mainly grow sweet potatoes in the mountains, don't you?"

"Yes, but when we come to Lord Lord's territory, we have fertile fields. Naturally, we will no longer grow those cheap grains, and we will definitely take care of beans and rice carefully, so that Lord Lord can have a good harvest." Shan Lang thought The lord was dissatisfied with their cultivation of sweet potatoes, so he quickly agreed.

Hearing what he said, Qingshu-kun, who came here for sweet potatoes, would play with the e-fan much faster.

"No. Since you are good at growing sweet potatoes, of course you can grow it in the future."

Shan Lang was a little surprised, but he didn't dare to look up to see what the lord meant. "Don't we have to grow rice like everyone else? Even if we grow the sweet potatoes we are good at, no merchants will accept this kind of cheap food."

Although the output of rice is not as good as that of sweet potatoes, it is the staple food that the clan likes and the main source of income for their farmers.They can't eat up the whole field of sweet potatoes, this thing.It's also hard to sell.

"The merchant doesn't accept it, so I will naturally accept it." Mr. Qingshu tapped his little hand with a painting fan, thinking for a while. "I don't know how the merchants collect the sweet potatoes. I will let people find out. In order to make up for your income from not growing polished rice, I will raise the price of sweet potatoes. At least, so that you can have the income of normal farmland. .”

When Mr. Qingshu said this, the mountain people and some of the village people below started whispering, probably because they didn't believe what the lord said.

Do nobles charge sweet potatoes at a high price?

Of course, there is a reason for Haruki-kun to do this. It is true that there is no problem with receiving sweet potatoes from outside, but gossip will slander Genji and Fujiwara, and he will be restrained in everything he does in the future.

As long as these gossips don't spread, grandfather and father are free to do what he does in the manor territory.

Another point is that when the sweet potatoes are harvested from outside and the sugar is produced in large quantities, it is inevitable that people from other clans will know that the sugar production may have something to do with the sweet potatoes.I am not afraid that they have also learned how to make sugar, but I am afraid that they will spread the word and eat the sugar made from sweet potatoes.It's the same kind of farting.As for the villagers in the manor, they will not say such unfavorable words to themselves. Koichiro is very relieved when he does things. After he leaves, he will definitely tell the villagers to pay attention to their words and deeds.What to plant and what the lords buy actually have little to do with them and will not affect their lives.On the contrary, they angered the lord and were kicked out of Genji Manor. Can they find a better habitat than here?

Mr. Qingshu didn't say anything more, he just told them that he didn't force them to choose to grow rice or the sweet potatoes he was good at.If sweet potatoes were planted, he would buy them as well. As for what the purchased sweet potatoes were used for, these were not things they should know.

Before stepping back into the ox cart and setting off to return to the manor, Qingshu-kun asked Koichiro to bring Yamaro to the manor tomorrow, as he needed them to do some things.Koichiro complied softly and obediently.

Because of the maltose, I came here with a feverish head. Although I didn’t see sweet potatoes, it was not without gains. After meeting more than a dozen new mountain people, the Cairo pixel map can view the panels of these people Attributes, the first thing Qingshu-kun looked at was the panel attributes of the old man who came forward to answer, Shanlang.The system's evaluation of him is: loyal and honest.

Therefore, Haruki-kun wanted him to take Koichiro to do the next thing.This is also something he only remembered when he arrived at Zhuangmin Village. He rushed over in such a hurry, without considering that these mountain people could climb two mountains so quickly and come to the territory of Genji Manor. No matter how you look at it, it is impossible to bring A large number of cheap and heavy sweet potatoes came.Those sweet potatoes harvested in winter, I think, can't be sold, they should have been abandoned by them in the mountain where Ping's family is.

Since these mountain people are already his people, the property of the people is also his property. There are a large number of sweet potatoes that can produce caramel, how can they be cheaper for others.Even if Mrs. Ping dislikes it and is unwilling to want these things after seeing it, good food can't rot there.

If you choose Shanlang to take Hiroichiro and the manor's servants there, at least you can bring back two large carts of sweet potatoes.Moreover, judging from the evaluation given by the system, Shan Lang would not say anything casually.Moreover, by asking Shan Lang to lead people to retrieve these sweet potatoes, it can be regarded as a message to those mountain people that no matter what they are used for, he really needs these sweet potatoes.Since he needs it, some conservative mountain people will naturally choose to cultivate sweet potatoes.

On the second day, Koichiro brought Yamaro to the manor, and under Qingshu-kun's selection and arrangement, he selected seven or eight servants and attendants to follow them to the Ping clan's territory a hill away.

With Yamaro leading the way, Koichiro and others dragged a cart and quietly brought back sweet potatoes from the original mountain people's residence. The amount of the three big carts really exceeded Haruki-kun's expectations. Of course, That's a good thing too.

"Don't you noble clans never like sweet potatoes? Why are you so happy when you see this, Mr. Qingshu, you are really different from the clans in Heianjing." The white fox envoy saw Qing Mr. Shu looked at the three carts of sweet potatoes with vaguely excited eyes, and was very puzzled. The longer he stayed with this human child, the more curious he became.

During this period of time, he was very reasonable and did not urge Haruki-kun to build the Inari Shrine. The end of winter is indeed not a suitable day for craftsmen to start work. Moreover, human beings are quite particular about building shrines. It seems that Heian-kyo Yin-Yang is needed The onmyoji in the dormitory can only start construction after divination of auspicious days.It doesn't matter to him, it's not a lot to be able to eat fried tofu every day.

After hearing this, Mr. Qingshu looked down at the white fox beside him, and asked a question that made people puzzled. "Can the emissary tell me why you like to eat deep-fried tofu and beancurd sushi?"

The white fox raised its front paw and swept across its neck. "Why do you like to eat deep-fried tofu, you really asked me, why? It seems to be a doomed habit from the beginning. If you want me to say, the tofu skin sushi is sour and sweet, and the taste can make the fox addicted, but , After eating, I seem to have more energy, and I am running around the fields and countryside with Mr. Yujinjin."

"Is that so."

"Why do you ask this question all of a sudden? Is today's lunch sushi?" There was an undisguised expectation in Baihu's words.In the temple, they can't eat bean skin sushi and fried tofu every day.

"Master Shenshi's three meals a day are fried tofu or bean skin sushi. For the sake of your diet, today I specially sent someone to the back mountain to hunt game for you. Let's change the taste today."

"Hey~ wild game." It wasn't fried tofu and beancurd sushi, Baihu was a little disappointed, but it's okay to change the taste once in a while.

However, after seeing that the next day's meal was still not fried tofu and bean curd sushi, the White Fox God Envoy became furious.

"I want fried tofu and beancurd sushi!"

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