The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 50 The strange Li Shimin

Wanchundian. Li Mingda's residence. At this time, Li Mingda was lying on a soft bed and eating cherries.

This cherry was the king of fruits in the Tang Dynasty. It was basically supplied directly to the royal family and some dignitaries. The royal family specially opened a cherry orchard in Da Nei, and it became a royal practice to give cherries to ministers.

This kind of gift does not mean picking the cherries for the ministers to eat, but asking the ministers to stand under the cherry tree and eat the cherries on the branches directly with their mouths.This is a bit interesting.

Moreover, in the Tang Dynasty, cherries were not eaten dry, but with a little cheese on the side and eaten like this. This way of eating was not something ordinary people could afford. Even if Ang Lee became a rich man, if Without status, you still can't eat cherries.

"Sizi. If Sizi gets rich, we will get rich."

At this time, Li Zhi ran into Li Mingda's Wanchun Palace with a small baggage on his back and shouted.

Seeing the irritable look of his Ninth Brother, Li Mingda said disdainfully: "Ninth Brother, what's going on? It's really unbecoming to yell like this. You don't have to face things when you encounter them." Don't worry about changing your color, we are royal people, we must maintain our dignity, look at you like this, you are really bad."

Li Zhi did not go to argue with Li Mingda. Instead, he directly drank the warm water on one side. After he was satisfied, Li Zhi wiped the water stains around his mouth, leaned into Li Mingda's ear and said: "Brother Li Come to Chang'an."

"Oh!" Upon hearing Li An, Li Mingda put down the cherries he was about to import and asked, "Is it true?"

"Of course it's true. I just came back from Brother Li. This time, Brother Li is going to lead the soldiers in Huatian Village to rebuild a Li Family Village. I have asked the Ministry of Industry to bring craftsmen and bricks to help Brother Li build it tomorrow. .”

"That's great, why don't you take me there?" Li Mingda looked at Li Zhi unhappily.

"This is not the point!" Li Zhi waved his hand and did not answer the question, but continued: "Do you know what the point is? The point is that Brother Li's daughter will stay here in Chang'an forever, so Brother Li is prepared to earn money for his daughter. Get some money and get some industry.

I don’t know who stole the ice cream that Brother Li made last time, so this time he made a new rock candy. "

With that said, Li Zhi took out the rock candy in his bag and said, "This is rock candy."

"Eh." After Li Mingda saw the rock candy, he quickly sat up from his couch and was a little surprised when he looked at the rock candy in Li Zhi's hand: "It's so beautiful, so crystal clear, it's like ice, but what does sugar mean?"

"Rock sugar is as crystal clear as ice and can be eaten!"

"Oh?" Li Mingda's little head turned: "Then isn't it a higher-grade stone honey?" After saying that, Li Mingda picked up one and stuffed it into his mouth. The sweetness made Li Mingda feel a little excited. Pleasure.

Then Li Mingda nodded excitedly: "It's so sweet, as sweet as Shimi. If the cost of this rock candy is low, it can replace Shimi."

"No!" Li Zhi shook his head: "Brother Li said that rock sugar does not replace Shimi, but is superior to Shimi. The price of Shimi is one to two hundred cents, but the price of rock sugar is one to two hundred cents.

Shi Mi can only be our Bingtang’s little follower. "

As he spoke, Li Zhi showed a hint of excitement: "Brother Li also said that the three of us, brother and sister, are involved in the rock sugar business. He contributes labor and technology and holds [-]% of the shares. The two of us have identities and do not allow others to harm rock sugar. The two of me make [-]% of each other.

Brother Li did some math with me. If we can sell 450 kilograms of rock candy a day, we can earn 120 kilograms a day. "120 sticks!" "Li Mingda's little eyes lit up with excitement.

"That's 3000 guan a month, and 43 [-] guan a year." Li Zhi looked at Li Mingda and said more and more excitedly: "This is because our rock sugar business is now a small business. If we wait The rock sugar workshop has expanded and can sell [-] kilograms of rock candy a day, so the two of us have [-] kilograms a year."

"Pfft!" Li Mingda squirted out every drop of the water he just drank, and then shouted in a broken voice: "43 guan?"

"Yes, it's 43 yuan. Let me forget it. It can really be done. Stone honey can be sold to our Tang Dynasty, and our rock sugar can also be sold to Tianzhu, and even all other countries. In this way, Come on, we’ll just make more money.”

Li Mingda also believed what Li Zhi said, and then he saw Li Mingda burst into laughter: "Get rich, get rich!"

Those bursts of laughter completely lacked the dignity of a royal person as she said just now. This scene made Li Zhi smile slightly and said: "Stop laughing now. Brother Li said, this rock candy is better than Shimi." Well, we still need you and me to work on it."

"How does it work?" Li Mingda immediately stopped laughing and turned to look at Li Zhi and asked.

Li Zhi nodded, and then explained the operation method explained by Li An, and Li An's operation method was also very simple. First, he got the approval of the Li Tang royal family, and asked the Li Tang royal family to exchange Shi Mi for Turn it into rock candy, and then promote rock candy to the mansions of ministers, and as long as it is the mansion of some famous ministers, such as Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong. There is no need to do anything with these.

Naturally, someone will guide this matter.

Even if the person who sells Shimi wants to intervene, it is too late. As the same saying goes, what goes up and has an effect below is just like when a star wears a piece of clothing, his fans want to buy it, no matter how expensive it is. This is the power of what goes up and has consequences. .

If you try to shake it, it will be in vain.

At that moment, Li Zhi and Li Mingda went to Li Shimin's Manna Hall and dedicated rock candy to Li Shimin, who loved sweets. However, what surprised Li Zhi and Li Mingda this time was that Li Shimin's love for rock candy was somewhat unexpected. The two of them were surprised.

Although Li Zhi and Li Mingda knew that Li Shimin loved sweets, and his favorite was rock honey in the past, what they did not expect was that this time Li Shimin showed unprecedented joy after seeing the rock candy. After eating the rock candy in his mouth, he immediately burst into laughter. Like the rock candy is delicious.

He also said that rock sugar was many times better than stone honey, and then took the initiative to issue an order to replace all the stone honey in the palace with rock sugar. Not only that, he also purchased a thousand kilograms of rock sugar in advance to reward all the people in Chang'an. Officials of rank five or above.

What made Li Zhi and Li Mingda even more ridiculous was that Li Shimin actually offered to write a calligraphy for Bingtang. You must know that no matter how you ask for the emperor's inscription, you can't get it, especially for someone like Li Shimin who cherishes his own handwriting. The emperor.

But today, Li Shimin took the initiative to write a word for Bingtang. Although there were only four words: sweet in the heart, these four words were allowed to be posted by Li Shimin. This is Tian's grace.

After the people behind Shi Mi learned about these saucy operations and Li Shimin's preferential treatment of Li An Bingtang, they all couldn't help but asked loudly: "Is this Li An the illegitimate son of Li Shimin?"

Of course, some people explain that it is impossible for Li An to be Li Shimin's illegitimate son, but Li Shimin is probably doing it for his own children, because Li Zhi and Li Mingda are the masters behind Bingtang, so Li Shimin supports Bingtang and

But no matter what, Li An's Bingtang has gained enough attention in Chang'an, and has also obtained a higher level than Shi Mi. Li An's first pot of gold is about to come.

(End of this chapter)