At dusk, Aunt Qing weaving cloth in her dormitory and chopping wood in the yard. Li Zhao walked around the small study with her hands on her back. There were several rows of tall bookshelfs next to her, filled with books, about three to four thousand volumes, including classics, history, and literature collections.

Some of these books were passed down from the ancestors of the Li family, and the other part was the dowry brought by Mrs. Bai. However, Mrs. Bai passed away early. Over the years, Aunt Qing has been teaching Li Zhao to study. Her knowledge is quite good, even better than ordinary old Confucian scholars.

In addition, Aunt Qing is also a great contemporary poet - Li Bai's ashes fan. She often recites his poems, understands the artistic conception, and is full of admiration!

Even if a dowry maid is so powerful, how knowledgeable should Mrs. Bai be?

This made Li Zhao very suspicious about what this cheap mother does at home, but she searched it many times in her mind, but she had no memory of this. She didn't even know where her grandma's home was and who else had relatives?

When I was young, Xiao Li Zhao also asked about this, but Aunt Qing did not answer, saying that the time was not yet ripe and would tell herself in the future. It seems that there are many stories hidden in her parents' marriage?

But, Li Zhao is not interested in exploring his parents' love story. Now he has only one thing in mind - making money!

...

In order to cure my illness, I spent all my family’s short savings, and I also sent some of the slightly worth of money to the pawn shop. The family of three was so poor that they even had a problem with eating.

After that, by hunting in the mountains, the problem of eating was solved, but living at home, tea, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea... there are too many places to spend money, and it is far from enough to catch a few pheasants.

In addition, after practicing hard for more than three months, my iron sand palm has already seen the path, and the fine sand has been replaced with coarse sand. The number and types of medicinal materials needed have also increased suddenly. Some of them can be collected in the mountains, but some of them cannot be collected.

If you can't collect it in the mountains, you can only buy it in large medicinal materials shops, which requires a lot of money.

What should I do if my family is so poor that it is ringing like a lot?

Of course I’m trying to make money!

Li Zhao is a top student at Wudaokou Vocational and Technical College. Using the scientific knowledge he has learned and combined with the development of the Tang Dynasty, he quickly came up with several methods: movable type printing, black gunpowder, burning glass, soap, steam engine... If you invent it casually, it will be enough to shock the world and make a fortune!

But after careful consideration, Li Zhao gave up these plans. It was not because of insufficient knowledge level, but because the external conditions were immature. To put it simply, "A common man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure!"

If you are in a high position and hold the weight of power, you will naturally have no problem in making some technological inventions, and you can still gain both fame and fortune.

But now I have no power and power. Once I make a technological invention, it will definitely attract the covetousness of countless greedy people. I am afraid that what I will attract will not be a double gain of fame and fortune, but a disaster of killing!

Therefore, for the sake of my own life, technological inventions cannot be made, and big money cannot be made for the time being!

Since you can't make a lot of money, then make some small money first, but how should you make this small money?

Li Zhao studied mechanical engineering and was good at designing and manufacturing various mechanical products. However, there were no factories in the Tang Dynasty, only backward small handicraft workshops, and even assembly lines did not appear, let alone machinery.

I only have the skill of slaying dragons, but I have no place to use it at all. I am depressed!

Farming, you won't be able to do it at all.

Doing business, no capital!

When working, I am a clan of the royal family. Even if I can give up my value, who dares to hire me?

After some thought, Li Zhao was depressed to find that he, a top student, seemed to have become a waste. If he had known this, it would be better to study traditional Chinese medicine or architecture. No matter which dynasty that he traveled, he would be able to make a living.

Let's go to the city tomorrow to see if there is any opportunity to make money?

...

The next day, Li Zhao and Baimo got up early. After breakfast, they took the thirty-money copper coins given by Aunt Qing, and then took a ox cart to Wu'an County to deliver mountain goods.

"My little master, your complexion is getting better and better, completely different from before. Look at this energetic look, you really have the style of the old man back then!"

"Oh, Uncle Cai, how charming my grandfather was back then?"

"Of course, it's both civil and military, and a hero among men. Unfortunately, I haven't encountered a good world. I have only one skill but cannot use it. Otherwise, the generals and the generals are only in the blink of an eye!"

The person who drove the car was a gray-haired old man named Cai Fu. He was once the old housekeeper in the Li family's ancestral home. He served the Li family's father and ancestors for three generations and has always been loyal. Because of this, after Li De occupied the family business, he felt that Cai Fu was too intrusive and opposed him everywhere. When he couldn't buy it with a lot of money, he used some dirty means to drive him out.

Although he left the Li Mansion, Cai Fu did not leave Qianlonggang, and built several thatched huts in the valley. He took his old wife and two sons to cultivate several acres of mountain fields and collect mountain goods for a living. His life was always tight.

Even so, Cai Fu still did not forget his old master. He often visited Xiao Li Zhao in the small ancestral hall and secretly sent some food, vegetables, etc. Otherwise, Aunt Qing alone would have been unable to maintain her life.

Now that Li Zhao has changed his timid and cowardly at the beginning and has become glorious, this former old housekeeper is naturally happy, and he hopes that his little master will grow up soon and regain his own family business!

...

The ox cart walked slowly. After about an hour, a wide river appeared in front of me - the waterfall!

The waterlogging originates from the depths of the Qinling Mountains and flows into the Wei River through Xianyang to the north. The process is more than 180 miles long. The river surface is wide and the water flow is relatively slow. It is conducive to irrigating the fields on both sides of the river. It is one of the important rivers in Guanzhong area!

Wu'an County is located on the east bank of Laoshui. It is a typical four-sided city with a circumference of about twelve miles, with city gates on all sides, and a large pier on the west side. From here, you can take a boat to enter the Wei River through Laoshui and finally arrive at Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Empire!

Someone asked, why is it called Wu'an City?

It turns out that during the Warring States Period, the famous Wu'an Jun Bai Qi once built a city here, accumulated food and grass, and trained people. It was named as a base for attacking the Chu State!

Unlike other dynasties, the Tang Dynasty did not have commercial taxes, and there was no tax on entering the city.

The three of them successfully entered the city. Cai Bo went to the market to sell mountain goods. When he was about to part, he advised Li Zhao not to cause trouble in the city and pay more attention to safety. Finally, he handed over thirty coins.

Li Zhao was not polite either. After receiving the copper coins, he and Baimo began to visit Wu'an County and check if there were any opportunities to make money.

"Premium lint cloth, 400 pieces per piece."

"Look, take a look, the colorful brocade from Bashu, a piece of 1880 text."

"It's cheap to sell purebred Persian male camels, and you can buy two large ones, and give one small ones!"

...

There are many shops on the street, and there are constant hawking sounds, and there are also many business travelers from all directions. Not only the people of the Tang Dynasty, but also the thick, short and strong Turks, Tubos with golden rings, and the blond and blue-eyed Persian merchants!

Wu'an County is very prosperous, but how to make money?

A blacksmith shop is recruiting apprentices, with 400 cents a month. It requires strong body and can lift a stone lock of 120 kilograms. It is definitely not good for his small body, and his wages are too small.

There is also a restaurant that hires young men, which costs 400 cents a month. Not only can you keep food and accommodation, but you can also bring leftovers to your house.

The yamen recruits people to pick "yexiang". What is Yexiang? It turns out that they are just picking manure. This job... let's forget it!

...

After wandering around the street for a long time, he couldn't find a way to make money. When he was depressed, Li Zhao suddenly found a strange building on the side of the road, which was very large in area, but it didn't look like a restaurant, an inn, or anything else. Instead, there was a rooster made of brass standing on the gate, with her head held high and her chest majestic!

The door was open, and people were in and out from time to time, and some were holding chicken cages in their hands, looking extremely excited.

"Baifu, what is this for?"

"If you go back to the master, this is a cockfighting venue. Someone is setting up a ring in it, playing cockfighting, and you can also place bets and bets!"

Unlike Li Zhao who stays at home all day, Baimo often goes out, which is also very lively and lively, so he is very familiar with the situation in Wu'an County.

...

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the powerful and powerful played cockfighting, and the same was true in all dynasties. In the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the trend of cockfighting became even more popular because today's Zi-Li Longji was a hard-core cockfighting enthusiast.

In the Royal Imperial Garden, there is a special "chicken shop", which has more than a thousand cockfighting people in captivity, and 500 children were selected from the army to feed and train these cockfighting people.

It is said that every time after the court scatters, Li Longji changed his dragon robe, and he was no longer a majestic emperor, but he was laughing and joking, leading a group of emperor brothers to fight cocks and shouting, and enjoying it.

In the 13th year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji ran to the top of Mount Tai for Fengshan. For such a major and serious political activity, he did not forget to bring three hundred chickens. He took a break and immediately organized a cockfight. The official road from Chang'an to Mount Tai was covered with chicken feathers!

If you have something to do, you will follow it. Under the leadership of Dangjinzi, from royal relatives, civil and military officials, to small officials, and ordinary people, all of them were involved in the vigorous cockfighting movement, and various cockfighting grounds also appeared... In Wu'an County, there are more than ten cockfighting grounds of all sizes, and the simple cockfighting rings on the roadside can be seen everywhere!

"Haha, it's really a road... Let's go in and take a look!"

"Master, what are we going in and doing?"

"Of course it's making money!"

Li Zhao may not dare to brag about other things, but things related to play are definitely experts!

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!