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The winter snow fell intermittently for twenty days, and it was not until this morning that a touch of crystal-like blue appeared in the gray clouds.

The golden sunlight broke free from the clouds and sprinkled down, gilding the white snow with a brilliant golden layer.

"Your Royal Highness, this Li San has been gone for more than 20 days, did you say that this perfume and drunk Qingzhou have made the queen mother and the emperor tempted."

Pothos stretched out her little hands, roasting her hands on the briquette stove while supervising the distillation of rice wine by the people in the yard.

"Counting up the days, it's time to come back." Xiao Ming was wrapped in thick felt, and the deeper the winter, the more unbearable the cold weather in the north became.

Especially when you sit still, the cold is like an invisible hand moving around the body.

"Hmph, I don't know if the things he purchased have been left behind." Pothos is still thinking about her maltose.

Xiao Ming knocked on the pothos's head, "You, you like to eat." ”

"Hee-hee." The green pothos squinted her eyes and laughed, as if she was looking forward to Li San's return, and her saliva flowed out.

Xiao Ming tightened the felt on his body, looked in the direction of Chang'an, which was the political and economic center of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, thinking with his ass, he also understood that few people who could live in Chang'an were good people.

He only hoped that Li San could bring good news and try to make some moths as possible.

Although I don't know the news of Li San, but Qin Mu's news came quickly, Zui Qingzhou was very popular in Chang'an, literati and scholars, pawn giants, and nobles all rushed to buy after tasting it.

The price of Zui Qingzhou exceeded the price of 20 taels of daughter red in a short period of time, and it directly doubled, and now a jar of Zui Qingzhou can be sold for 40 taels of silver.

Even so, Zui Qingzhou is also seriously out of stock, after all, Xiao Ming only distilled a hundred jars.

For this reason, Qin Mu really couldn't wait, and directly sent a fast horse, and brought the news back in five days, Qin Chuanyun learned the news, and personally came to the door to ask Xiao Ming to increase the supply of Zuiqingzhou, and at the same time promised to increase the cost price of Zuiqingzhou to thirty taels and one altar.

The profit of one jar and ten taels made Qin Chuanyun, an old fox, deeply appreciate the benefits of cooperating with Xiao Ming, and the matter of the Liang family's shipyard was also done smoothly and directly given to Xiao Ming, which was also an exchange of interests.

The fiefdom is in ruins, and what Xiao Ming lacks most at present is silver, so he naturally will not refuse this proposal.

At that moment, he asked Chen Qi to make him nine more sets of stills, and directly transformed the side hall of the palace into a small factory, and the production capacity of Zuiqingzhou increased from ten altars a day to one hundred altars a day.

At this scale, Xiao Ming didn't dare to continue to expand, because because Xiao Ming needed green ant wine in Qingzhou City, this grain was purchased in large quantities to make wine, and the price of staple food rose a lot for a while, and if the scale was expanded again, the people's lives would become more and more difficult.

This winter, the life of the common people was sad, and as a vassal king, the parent vassal king of the people of Liuzhou, he always had to think about the lives of the people.

Therefore, he thought of building a whole wine-making system and setting up a government-run winery, but the grain was no longer purchased from his fiefdom, but from the places where the grain was rich.

When the people in the fief have enough food, he will purchase in the fief to drive the economic development of the fief.

"By the way, Your Highness, when Sister Ziyun went to Haizhou this morning, she said that our palace was not full of manpower, let me tell you if you want to buy some slaves." The pothos remembered something and said suddenly.

Aster was sent by Xiao Ming to the fief of King Wei to purchase ploughing cattle today.

Compared with the 5 million households in the fiefdom, the shortage of ploughing cattle is too large, and there are still three months before the beginning of spring, and if the production tools cannot keep up at that time, it will definitely affect the next year's harvest.

And the old fox King Wei seems to have a big gap in his ploughing cattle, and the price of the ploughing cattle in his fiefdom has been raised by three taels, and now a ploughing ox needs twenty taels of silver, which really gives him a headache.

He also wanted to go to other places to buy cattle, but the distance was too far, and the transportation risk was still not cost-effective.

"Buy!" Xiao Ming said categorically.

Li San went to Chang'an these days, he has been thinking about the problem of development, in this era of backward science and technology, people are the production of resources, in the previous wars with the barbarians, the purpose of satisfying many battles is to plunder the population.

Because the conversion of these people into slaves will greatly promote all kinds of production.

Xiao Ming is facing the same problem now, one is the lack of money, and the other is the lack of labor.

Now the fiefdom is limited, and four or five million people can only be used to restore production, while the workshops need a large number of workers.

In the modern West, a large part of the initial accumulation of industrial wealth benefited from the slave trade, during which about 20 million slaves were sold.

This is also one of the reasons why the world of capital has been able to rise rapidly.

Xiao Ming knew that he was not capable of participating in the slave trade now, because he didn't even have a decent ship, and he didn't have the heart of the Virgin Mary at this time.

To live in this era, you have to do things that conform to the laws of development in this era, so he is not against the slave trade, for him, this is even a necessary condition for his Zhongxing fiefdom.

"If Your Highness wants to buy it, Sister Zi said that there is a slave trader in this Qingzhou City, and he has a slave market in the East City." Pothos said again.

Xiao Ming's spirit was shocked, if it weren't for Aster to mention this stubble, he would have to delay the slave matter for a few days, he said: "Still Aster is careful, you let Zhao Long and Zhao Hu go to the East Market and bring the slave dealer over." ”

Now Xiao Ming is gradually adapting to his identity, and he is also aware of his supremacy in the fiefdom.

In order to develop as soon as possible, he said not to use his vassal rights flexibly.

Lu Luo answered yes, and went to find Zhao Long, Zhao Hu, and in half an hour, a man with a thief's eyebrows and rat eyes was brought to the Qi Palace.

"Grass people Liang Dahai has seen His Royal Highness King Qi" Liang Dahai bowed his head, and he didn't dare to breathe.

When Zhao Long and Zhao Hu appeared, he was very frightened, thinking that the government was going to take him, after all, no one who was engaged in the slave trade was clean.

"Excuse me, you are Liang Dahai?" Xiao Ming was in the center of the main hall, sitting upright, and half of his face was reflected in the red flames of the furnace.

"Exactly." Liang Dahai carefully glanced at Xiao Ming and said.

Xiao Ming said solemnly: "This king asked you to come over, not for anything else, but for your business."

Liang Dahai's face turned pale, and he immediately knelt on the ground, "Your Highness! The slaves sold by the grass people were all sold voluntarily or bought from other places, and all of them had a deed of sale, and none of them were abducted. “