A delicate little girl timidly called out to Li Zhi, "Father."

"Ha ha."

Li Zhi laughed and held the little girl in his arms, saying happily: "My little princess has grown up so much, father must miss her very much."

The little girl pouted, and Wu Zetian quickly took it over, smiling apologetically at Li Zhi, "Taiping can't even remember your Majesty, please forgive me."

Li Zhi sighed and said with a smile: "It's my fault. I've been out for too long. It will be fine once I get familiar with it."

Li Zhi reached out from behind and took out a little tiger doll made of tiger skin. He handed it to Taiping and said, "Come here, this is a toy that your father brought back for you. It was made by the steward himself. Take a look. Do you like it?"

Taiping grabbed the tiger doll, rubbed it against his face, and said with a smile, "Thank you, father. Taiping likes it very much."

The boy ran away, but the strong woman was still scolding him, "I think the steward has spoiled you. You are living such a bad life that you even hate meat. If I go back and beat you for 20 years, can I not kill you?"

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Wu Zetian pondered for a moment, nodded and smiled, "That's good. Since a saint can't be high and mighty, then let's be vague and visible."

After taking a few mouthfuls of noodles, the boy took a bite of a garlic clove, then picked up a large piece of pork from the bowl. After looking at it with some disgust, he moved his chopsticks and first nibbled the pig skin, and then the lean meat.

Li Zhi nodded and looked towards the entrance of the block.

“Can you still sell it at the price of pork?”

There was a boy of about ten years old, holding a large bowl and slurping noodles. Seeing how energetic he was, Li Zhi actually felt a little hungry.

Wu Zetian laughed and said, "Your Majesty is worrying too much. According to Wang Zheng's regulations in Yuzhou, this kind of business with several times the profit is not taxed at 15%, but at least 30%, no matter how much profit they make.

But if rich people want to eat more vegetables, what can we do? Let alone the students from Yuzhou, even if it's Wang Zheng, we can't control him. "

"hey-hey."

Wu Zetian explained: "After all, it is dried goods, so the price cannot be too low. In fact, there is not much profit now. After all, there are taxes in Lingnan and Chang'an. The price of pork in the store is much cheaper than that of the wholesaler."

A sturdy woman crossed the wide gate in two or three steps and slapped the boy on the back of his head. With a crisp sound, the boy's entire head was slapped into the big bowl.

"You piglet, that's meat, meat, do you know what meat is? When I was a kid, I had to wait at least a month to eat a piece of fat like this, and you actually threw it on the ground to feed the dogs. You're a useless thing, you only care about size but not brains, right? I sent you to school for nothing, is this how your teacher taught you to waste food?"

The woman cursed loudly, but the boy did not talk back. He just stood up and ran away with the bowl in his hand. His head was not much shorter than the woman's, but he looked very thin.

As the carriage entered the city, Li Zhi sniffed hard and said with a smile, "Chang'an City smells so good now."

But the amount used is much less than pork. Now almost every household will buy some to keep in stock. Even when stir-frying vegetables, they will add a little bit to make the taste naturally fragrant. "

Just like this time when he returned to the court, I asked him to come with me into the city, but he went straight back to the Grand Steward's Mansion, saying that it was too troublesome to deal with people. "

Li Zhi was delighted and said with a smile: "Haha, isn't this getting intimate?"

Wu Zetian covered her mouth and chuckled, explaining: "It's all the work of those merchants who built the greenhouses. They carried encyclopedias and advertised everywhere that eating vegetables and meat together is good for the body.

After all, it hasn't been many years since those people in Yuzhou became fat to death. Being too fat is indeed bad for your health. It's just that those businessmen made a fuss about it and said it was a little excessive. The students in Yuzhou can't do anything about it.

The encyclopedia is right there, explaining in detail that growing some bean sprouts and eating some kimchi in the winter will meet the body's needs, and it doesn't matter whether there are green vegetables or not.

Wu Zetian said sarcastically, "Our chief steward doesn't care about the big things now, but is busy with these little things."

Wu Zetian pointed at the smoke from the cooking on the roof and said with a smile: "Every household is really cooking. Spices from the South China Sea are continuously sent to Chang'an. They were very expensive at the beginning, but now they are only the price of pork.

Li Zhi was very happy to see this. When the carriage left the gate, Li Zhi smacked his lips and said with a smile: "That's great. My people have become so wealthy that they have begun to dislike fat meat."

Li Zhi looked at it and pulled the corners of his mouth hard.

Eating too much fatty meat will make you fat and sick, so you have to eat more fresh vegetables. As a result, even rich people don’t like to eat meat anymore. In winter, the vegetables in the greenhouse are more expensive than pork but easier to sell.”

Li Zhi frowned and said, "It's not good for merchants to make too much profit, right?"

The little bit of fat meat that was left between the chopsticks was thrown to the ground by the boy. A fat yellow dog came over and licked the fat meat away in one go.

Li Zhi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Didn't the students from Yuzhou come out and speak?"

Li Zhi was a little confused, then nodded and smiled: "That's not bad."

Li Zhi smacked his lips and said with a smile, "It's a bit unfair to say that he doesn't care about major events. At least he has a hand in many things happening in the borderland, he just doesn't like to be in the limelight.

Wu Zetian laughed and said, "What he said is not wrong, what are you talking about?

Li Zhi nodded, agreeing with Wu Zetian's words. As long as the ordinary people at the bottom of the society were not affected, the more taxes the better. This would also help balance the gap between the rich and the poor.

"How is the construction of the large reservoir in Jianghuai going?"

This was the debt that Li Zhi owed when he spread rumors to purchase tickets for the large reservoir. Wang Zheng once chased him and yelled at him a few times. In order to restore his reputation, Li Zhi had to agree to pay for the construction of the Jianghuai Reservoir.

Wu Zetian smiled and explained, "We don't need to worry about it. Liu Zheng first planned the large reservoir of Li Jingye and the wasteland of the Yuzhou aristocratic family at the beginning of the year. Later, when he went to Jianghuai, he directly planned the official road.

Because there is not much space to build a large reservoir in the Jianghuai area, and people see that large reservoirs can make money, so the local wealthy people have already occupied the land themselves. "