The emperor's words were frivolous and his expression was casual.

However, Tian Fu, Liu Wen, who was waiting beside him, trembled all over, looked at the emperor obscurely, and then silently ignored him.

Although they were just eunuchs, the two of them were very politically sensitive and could not hear anything wrong in the emperor's words.

The great Tang Dynasty territory, the imperial court has no jurisdiction and can only collect taxes. Do they still take the imperial court seriously?

The court is the emperor's tentacle. Despising the court means despising the emperor. The crime can be big or small. Now the emperor is a master who pursues the wool and has to strip away the sheep if he catches a wool. The consequences are unpredictable.

However, the emperor currently lives in Lushan Temple and should be controlled without looking at monks and Buddha's faces.

"Mr., why don't you go back?" Liu Wen asked with his head slightly lowered.

"What are you doing when you go back? Haven't you seen it yet?" Li Jia shook her head, opened a paper fan, and continued to watch with great interest.

Tanzhou has eight counties under its jurisdiction, of which Changsha County is the capital and is also the capital of Changsha Prefecture. Yuelu Mountain has always been a famous scenic spot, and countless people are visiting it. However, a large market is formed at the foot of the mountain.

Yuelu Mountain is not far from the Xiangjiang River, and it is just right for you to deliver goods to the gathering. When you go to the Xiangjiang River, it can be said that it is a good place to concentrate scattered goods.

Naturally, merchants from Manliao, Han people, and merchants from all over the country would come here to gather for business. If it were to be prosperous, it would be no less than a county town.

After walking a few hundred steps, I could only finish the market.

Although the market is small, it can still be seen through the leopard.

For example, the most concentrated sales are cloth, tea, ironware, cinnabar, and even cotton cloth can be seen.

During the Ma Chu period, Hunan's textile industry was booming, and almost every family expressed their business in an organic way. Ma was very enthusiastic about business, so he asked the people to use cloth instead of taxes, thus encouraging the rise of the textile industry from the government.

Tea is an important goods exported by Ma Chu, and is used to exchange horses and silk strategic weapons.

Hunan is mountainous and naturally has more tea, so the court adopts a tolerant policy of tea, allowing the people to grow and sell tea independently, rather than the court's control, and even the government takes the initiative to build a large number of warehouses to facilitate merchants.

As for iron tools, due to the large number of mines in Hunan, Zhuzhou in later generations was a home of minerals, with a large number of metal ores of various colors, so it is naturally quite useful now.

Cinnabar is a specialty of Tanzhou, and it produces cinnabar when the landslides.

As for the appearance of cotton cloth, Li Jia was surprised:

Nowadays, almost all the cotton in the imperial village is collected and reserved for military purposes, especially the army of the Hei Shui Protectorate almost consumed all the inventory.

Now there are cotton cloths on the market. Is it corruption?

Thinking of this, Li Jia's anger rose.

"This gentleman, do you want to buy cotton cloth for clothes? Although we saved it since last year, it is absolutely warm!"

The man on sale saw that Li Jia was still watching the cotton cloth, thinking that he wanted to buy it, so he quickly promoted it.

"Peopleman, where did you come from?" Li Jia asked with a gloomy face.

"I planted it myself, and bought it from my neighbor's house!" The peddler was in his twenties and explained with a smile: "I accumulated a lot of praise at home last year. There were still some left in winter and autumn. Now I take advantage of the spring plowing, so I will take it out and buy it!"

"It's a hot day, someone buys cotton cloth?" Li Jia immediately breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that it was planted at home.

"Of course some people buy it, we sell it cheaply. After a few months, the autumn wind will get colder again. In recent years, the weather has become more and more evil, and the autumn and winter are getting colder. Many people want to buy our cotton cloth to make clothes to keep warm!"

The peddler spoke quickly and with a little smugness.

"A ordinary piece of silk cloth is always more, but our cotton cloth is two pieces. Today, it's cheap, just keep it alive!"

"Many of you grow cotton?"

"We didn't plant it, but the native races in the mountains were spun and sold, so we started planting..."

Understanding the reason, Li Jia was quite happy. He never thought that the cotton industry in Lingnan had not yet developed, but Hunan had already started. In this way, the full expansion among the people would definitely work, after all, it has already begun.

"I have something to give you, I'll give you a reward!" Li Jia threw over a Shenwu Tongbao and left with a smile.

"Brave!" The peddler looked around and carefully stuffed the copper coins into the soles of his shoes. He breathed a sigh of relief. Then he said with his lips and started shouting again: "Cotton cloth, the best cotton cloth is very warm--"

Along the way, I saw most of the people who looked disgusted, but at least they could survive. In a sense, it was already a prosperous era.

From time to time, when he saw monks patrolling with sticks, Li Jia turned a blind eye. He listened to various shouts and estimated that there should be more than a thousand people in this market at this time, which was extremely noisy and prosperous.

"Let's go outside and take a look!" Li Jia looked at it too much, and she lost her meaning and said casually.

"Mr. Lang, this is far away from Lushan Temple!" Tian Fu obviously didn't want to.

"What are you afraid of? It's in broad daylight. Aren't you there to follow me?"

Li Jia didn't care. His group of people, dressed in a furious manner, looked like they were not ordinary people, and some gangsters didn't dare to mess with them.

After all, it is really not something that ordinary people can provoke if they can lead a dozen horses. There are countless envious eyes along the way, but none of them dare to say hello.

Riding on the horse, Li Jia felt more like a playboy, so she let go of the reins of the horse and ran along the dirt road. The guards behind her chased her and controlled them half a distance.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Jia stopped immediately.

Looking back, dust filled the way, his face, clothes, and hair were all earthy, and he was quite embarrassed.

"Cough cough! Langjun, slower, slower-" Tian Fu and Liu Wen ate the dirt all the way, even more embarrassed than Li Jia, covering their mouths and noses, coughing non-stop.

"What are you afraid of? The soil is rich in minerals, so you should use it as a supplement to your body!" Li Jia patted the dust on her body and said with a smile.

The two eunuchs looked confused and couldn't figure out what this means. There were too many people and they would lose their words, so they simply stopped talking.

"Is that the field?"

The rice fields just after transplanting the rice seedlings were green and the seedlings had reached their knees. Some ears had been drawn out, and they were still shriveled.

Although farmers do not understand the principle of spatial distribution, according to experience, the transplanting of rice seedlings is very neat and not many are crooked. The distance between the seedlings is still very good, leaving enough growth space.

This rice fields are located in a hilly area and are not in harmony, so Li Jia can see many people carrying water, urging weeds, and catching insects. Although they are not as busy as spring plowing and fertilizing, there are still many things to do and less time to rest in this summer.

In short, compared with those of Lingnan, the people of Hunan know more about farming and have richer experience, while Lingnan is rough and unruly, and fewer people apply farm fertilizer.
Chapter completed!