Although it was called the Imperial Manor, it was actually a small village. However, the farmers in the small village were all tenants who grew grain for the royal family.
Li Chongyi was quite satisfied that Li Shiming had chased him here. He was not ignorant. He knew that Li Shiming had no intention of punishing him too severely. As long as he had a good attitude and said something nice, this matter might end up unsettled.
But who asked him to be an imposter! If he followed Li Xiaogong back to the Hejian Prince's mansion, he might be exposed. Although he had inherited the memories of his predecessor, his personality was completely different from his predecessor. After all, he was a modern person, and his mindset was very different from that of the ancient people.
Thus, he deliberately teased Gao Yang once more in the main hall to anger Li Shi Ming. And before angering Li Shiming, he had deliberately displayed some of his talents. This way, Li Shiming would have some love for talent and punish him, but not too severely.
The twenty strokes were all light, and the eunuch who held the cane was very respectful. If it was in the yamen, twenty strokes of the cane could directly kill a person. He had also suffered twenty strokes of the cane, but he could still walk. When he took off his pants and looked, there was not even a blood clot on his buttocks.
The steward of the Imperial Villa was also a eunuch, called Wu Dayong.
Eunuchs in the early Tang Dynasty had a low status. Therefore, even though Li Chongyi was sent here by Li Shimin, Wu Dayong was still very polite to Li Chongyi." Greetings, Your Highness. I have already arranged a place for you to stay. Do you want to take you there to rest now?"”
"Manager Wu is too polite. You can just treat me as an ordinary chicken farmer. It's best not to let the people in the village know my identity. Otherwise, it's boring to be polite. By the way, Steward Wu, how many chickens are there in our manor now?”Li Chongyi asked a crucial question.
"Replying to the prince, a few days ago, there was a chicken plague in the manor. Now there are only thirteen chickens, two roosters, and eleven hens.”Wu Dayong replied.
"So little? Why didn't they hatch any chicks?" Li Chongyi asked.
"Replying to the prince, hatching chicks requires eggs. If the palace doesn't agree, this old minister won't dare to make his own decisions.”
Li Chongyi was speechless. This steward even needed the palace's approval to hatch a few chicks. This Wu Dayong was too cautious.
However, facing such a powerful emperor like Li Shiming and such a shrewd empress like Zhangsun, the life of a eunuch was indeed not easy! This couple was famous for being stingy!
That night, Wu Dayong held a banquet for Li Chongyi. There were two stewards from the Imperial Manor, an accountant, and two elders from the manor. It was an unprecedented grand occasion!
Unfortunately, there was only plain food and tea at the banquet. There was not even a drop of wine.
After the 'banquet' ended, Li Chongyi returned to the residence that Wu Dayong had arranged for him. He closed the doors and windows and opened the system interface.
The interface of the system was somewhat similar to QQ Farm. It was an open space surrounded by a circle of railings. Inside, a golden, furry chick stood alone.
On the way to the palace, he had already thrown in a pack of feed. At this moment, half of the pack of feed had been eaten.
What made Li Chongyi happy was that not far from the Golden Chicken, there were four eggs lying there quietly.
Three ordinary eggs and one green egg. The four eggs added together were bigger than the golden chicken!!
With a thought, a green egg appeared in Li Chongyi's hand.
"Ding! The host has obtained a green colored egg. Do you want to smash it?”
"Of course!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for breaking open the Easter egg and learning beginner archery.”
Immediately after, a stream of information entered his mind. It was all related to archery. After digesting this information, Li Chongyi felt as if he had practiced archery for decades.
Archery? Not bad. In this era, it was considered a more practical skill. Even if he was banished to the army by Li Shiming, with this archery skill, he could become an archer instead of cannon fodder!
As for the remaining three eggs, Li Chongyi chose to sell them and obtained 6 exchange points.
There was only one golden chicken, and it was a female. It could lay eggs, but it could not reproduce unless he could find a male golden chicken or use exchange points to exchange from the system.
For him, the biggest problem now was feed. Although the feed was sold in the system, it was too expensive. It required 10 exchange points per pack. He only had 100 exchange points now, so he could only buy 10 packs of feed. Each Golden Chicken needed to consume one pack of feed every day.
Therefore, he had to prepare the feed as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the ingredients in the formula could be found in the Great Tang. Li Chongyi calculated that the cost of a bag of feed was about 500 wen.
If he was still in the Hejian King's mansion, 500 wen was nothing to him. However, he was now in a state of exile and was penniless.
Therefore, before he formulated the feed, he had to think of a way to earn money first. Moreover, it had to be a project with quick results.
The business opportunity was right beside him! The next day, Li Chongyi discovered a business opportunity.
"Big Uncle, is everyone in the Great Tang like this?”Li Chongyi asked an old farmer who was plowing the land.
"Of course it's all like this. If it's not like this, what else can it be? Anyway, I've been using it for decades.”The old farmer answered casually. He did not find it strange that Li Chongyi would ask such a question. Li Chongyi had soft skin and was dressed like a young master. It was normal that he did not know about farming.
"Uncle, how much land can you plow in a day? Can it be seven or eight acres?" Li Chongyi asked.
"Seven or eight acres? How was this possible? At most, it would be three or four acres of land. Usually, it would be two acres. Otherwise, it would tire the cows out.”The old farmer smiled and asked,"Why are you asking this? Do you want to learn farming from me?"”
"Uncle, if there was a plow that could allow you two to plow seven to eight mu of land in a day, and this plow cost two hundred coins each, would you buy it?”
"Buy it! He had to buy it! "If we had such a plow, we could grow 30 mu of land every year. Let alone 200 copper coins, even 400 copper coins would be enough.”
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