Happy peasant girl

Chapter 261 Fruit Wine Jam (4)
"I like to eat it, and I will eat it every day from now on!" Mrs. Ye said happily.

"This jam is delicious, but it's not too sweet!" Yun Shi whispered.

He likes to eat sweets the most. Although he knows that there is a lot of sugar in these jams, he just doesn't think it is very sweet.

"Yunshi, I'm getting tired of this sweet stuff, why do you still say it's not sweet, so what is sweet?" Lin Qingxi asked.

"The leaves I make tea are sweeter than this. If you don't believe me, I'll take them for you!" Yun Shi didn't mean to contradict Lin Qingxi, he really felt that way.

"Yunshi, I think you have a problem with your sense of taste. Otherwise, you can get it quickly. I also want to know what is sweeter than sugar in this world." Lin Qingxi said unconvinced.

Yun Shi didn't argue, and really ran back to the medical hall to get the leaves that he put in every time he drank tea, which he brought out specially from the magic doctor island, who made himself like sweet taste.

Seeing the dried leaves that Yun Shi brought over, Lin Qingxi chewed them in his mouth, and then laughed.

"Yunshi, where did you get these leaves? Do you have any more?" Lin Qingxi hurried to Yunshi's side and asked enthusiastically.

For Lin Qingxi's sudden closeness, Yun Shi reflexively took a big step back, his master's eyes could kill, so he wouldn't seek death.

But Lin Qingxi still had to answer the question, so he said: "I brought this from the magic doctor island. There are many leaves of this kind on the magic doctor island. They are not poisonous and can be brewed with tea. The tea leaves will become sweet."

"I know it's not poisonous, so have you seen this kind of sweet leaves in other places during the years you've been with Jingxiu?" Lin Qingxi asked again.

"No, this kind of leaf is only found on Magic Doctor Island, what's so special about it?" Yun Shi asked puzzled.

This kind of sweet leaves is a weed on Magic Doctor Island, and no one usually pays attention to it. He likes sweetness, so he picked some and dried them specially, and then brought them with him to make tea.

"Of course it's special!" Lin Qingxi said loudly.

"Xi'er, do you know this sweet leaf?" Jing Xiu asked curiously.

"Well, this kind of leaf should be called stevia leaf. The stevia syrup it brews is hundreds of times sweeter than the sugar used in Xiyuan. For example, if you boil something, you need two to three hundred bowls of ordinary sugar. Then you can achieve it with a bowl of stevia, so stevia is the best sugar.”

When Lin Qingxi was making fruit wine in modern times, she once cooperated with a stevia sugar factory in Guangzhou, and visited their production factory, so she has the best impression of stevia sugar compared to sucrose and caramel sugar.

"There is such a sugar in the world!"

Everyone else was shocked by Linqingxi's statement. If this kind of sugar can be brewed in the future, then a small drop of sugar water can make a pot of porridge sweet. It's really amazing.

"Xi'er, can you make this kind of stevia sugar?" Jing Xiu saw that when this kind of sugar was mentioned, Lin Qingxi's face was full of brilliance, and he already had an idea in his heart.

"I don't know, but I probably remember the process of making it. However, only the magic doctor island has this kind of stevia leaf. Even if you want to make it, there is no way!" Lin Qingxi's fighting spirit just ignited It started getting smaller.

"It's okay, I'll write a letter to Master and ask him to send someone to pick some stevia leaves, and then you can brew them." Jing Xiu said with a smile.

"Really? Will it be troublesome, haha!" Lin Qingxi said troublesome, still smiling and flatteringly looking at Jing Xiu, it would be great to have stevia leaves.

"No trouble!" Jing Xiu said with a smile.

Xin Moyang was also sitting next to him. He listened carefully to the conversations of several people. He had only heard of the "Magic Doctor Island" mentioned in it, but almost no one knew where the Magic Doctor Island was or whether it existed.

Now it seems that Magic Doctor Island exists, and Jing Xiu has a very special relationship with Magic Doctor Island.

"Xi girl, what are you going to do with making so many jams and fruit wine at once?" Linyuan Shan asked.

"Grandfather, I plan to reopen Yipinxiang in Yunzhou Fucheng, and besides selling jam and fruit wine, I also plan to sell some snacks." Lin Qingxi said.

"Xi girl, who do you plan to open this incense with?" Linyuan Shan asked.

"Grandfather, I don't open it with anyone. Master sent me a letter yesterday. He said that he wrote to the master in the capital to ask about the business affairs of women in Chu State. The master said that the current emperor has already said that women Those who are capable can also do business, and it will not affect the future of their brothers, sisters and family members in the scientific examination, but the identity of a businessman can only be certified after the assessment by the local officials." Lin Qingxi said with a smile.

"How to assess?" Linyuan Shan asked.

"It just depends on how much money I can earn a month." Lin Qingxi said with a smile.

In the state of Chu, merchants are classified according to their payment amount. Generally speaking, merchants in Chu state are divided into five classes, namely small merchants, store merchants, big merchants, giant merchants and imperial merchants.

Generally speaking, ordinary people are mostly small merchants and shopkeepers. Small merchants pay [-]% of their income a month, shopkeepers pay [-]%, and big merchants pay [-]%. Business is [-]%.

A businessman is not something that one person can become if he wants to. First, you have to go to the local county government to pay a certain business certification fee, which will be determined according to your business level. Then the local government will check the accounts every month. This account defines how much Shangrui you pay.

Usually, the minimum monthly payment for small merchants is three taels, for shopkeepers it is 30 taels, for large merchants it is 2000 taels, for giant merchants it is 20 taels a month, and for imperial merchants it is [-] taels a month. The monthly minimum is [-] taels.

If a businessman’s business payment fails to meet the minimum standard within two months, the government will order him to close his shop. If this happens more than twice, he will no longer be a businessman and will not be able to do business again for life.

Therefore, the most merchants in Chu State are store merchants and big merchants. The other three types of merchants are very few, and the imperial merchants are even rarer. There are only six imperial merchants in Chu State.

Lin Qingxi believes that the reason why the laws of Chu state are so heavy on agriculture and suppress business is that they are worried that the people will see the benefits of doing business, and they will all leave their fields to do business, resulting in no one to cultivate the land.

Therefore, in order to prevent this from happening, especially since the current emperor of the Chu State values ​​land, the restraint on merchants is more serious.

Now, Yingxian Restaurant and Yunyifang in Yunzhou Fucheng can only be regarded as shopkeepers, and Yipinxiang, which reopened in Linqingxi, is naturally also a shopkeeper, but first of all, she must make her monthly income the lowest. It is necessary to reach 100 taels so that she can be recognized as a shopkeeper by the government.

(End of this chapter)