Chapter 3 So Righteous

For a moment, Li Chengqi had an idea in his mind.

Since the emperor's father abdicated, his aunt Princess Taiping was sentenced to death.

The remaining five brothers, the youngest, became the emperor, and the others did not dare to participate in any political affairs.

During the day, I can only play, not do anything.

"Come on, my dear friend, try the secret seasoning of our shop, soy sauce."

Li Yike didn't know what Li Chengqi was thinking about. He was trying his best to push soy sauce.

Li Chengqi regained his soul and followed the instructions to dip the pills in soy sauce.

As soon as he took a bite, he felt an indescribable comfort. His tongue, mouth, and whole body felt extremely comfortable.

Li Yi looked at it and said in his heart: Do you know how powerful monosodium glutamate is? Is it more direct than Jiangli?

Thinking about Li Yi, he turned around and saw those people hired by this man taking a small bite of the dumplings and dipping them in soy sauce.

Li Yi couldn't help but tremble. How much water will these people drink when they go back? Aren't you afraid of being surprised?

Li Chengqi dipped it here twice more, hesitated a little, and asked, "Brother, do you still have more soy sauce?"

"Yes." Li Yi nodded vigorously: "When my dear friend returns, take ten altars with each altar weighing ten kilograms."

As he said this, he glanced at the people growing garlic, which meant that they were being paid for their work.

Li Chengqi did not refuse, nodded and smiled.

Asked again: "Soybean oil method?"

"My dear friend, come tomorrow. This method is not difficult. Qi Min must know the technique well. The oil is obtained by crushing it. I am squeezing it with a wedge."

Li Yi told how people in the past handled vegetable oil.

Sesame oil is the simplest. Grind and grind to complete the sesame paste. After settling, there will be floating oil on the upper layer.

Other plant seeds, crushing method.

When "Tiangong Kaiwu" comes out, there will be a method of inserting wooden wedges and drawing out oil.

Li Chengqi was a little embarrassed and asked: "My dear brother, do you have any instructions at home for the method of crushing beans into oil?"

Li Yi shook his head: "This method is my own creation. I don't want to keep it secret, but it will make the world hungry."

Li Chengqi was stunned for a moment, put down his chopsticks and saluted: "A wise brother is highly righteous."

"Um... my dear friend, take the soy sauce back. If you meet someone who is destined to do so, you can speak on your behalf. Ten kilograms per altar, a coil of copper coins, no, a bolt of silk."

Li Yi, who had just been praised for his righteousness, started directly talking about selling soy sauce.

He originally wanted to sell ten kilograms for one min, which is one thousand coins, but he thought it was expensive.

Then it was changed to a piece of silk. During the Kaiyuan period, a piece of silk was fifty feet long and one foot eight inches wide, worth 550 coins.

So a pound of soy sauce costs fifty-five cents.

Li Yi thought it would work. A pound of soy sauce also had a cost, which was almost five cents. The main reason was that salt was expensive.

He brewed a hundred large vats of soy sauce, and only opened one vat this time, and the oil came out for the first time.

It can come out two or three times in the future. The more you go on, the more salt you need to add. If you don't add salt, no oil will come out. Then add distilled water.

Li Chengqi didn't know what the young man in front of him was thinking and the huge profits from soy sauce.

He was embarrassed again. Ten jars of soy sauce cost 5,500 yuan.

I asked a hundred people to come over. One afternoon, they paid fifty-five cents per person. The wages were too high.

So he decided to help sell it. Selling soy sauce is considered an elegant thing, right?

"Good brother, please be considerate. As a brother, you will naturally seek out the desire for good food and wealth."

"Thank you, dear friend. When something good comes, I will share it with you." Li Yi was in a good mood.

He saw that the other party was quite wealthy, and maybe someone in his family was an official in Beijing.

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After the meal, a group of people came and left silently, waving their hands without taking away a drop of soy sauce.

But the plate used for dipping in soy sauce was clean.

"Proprietor, this is the fuel consumption account today." The steward Song De came to Li Yi's study and handed over a piece of paper.

"It's hard work." Li Yi took the paper and nodded to Song De.

It means that I understand what you mean. We don’t have enough noodles and we can’t treat so many people to eat dumplings anymore.

The steward left, and Li Yi entered the account.

The stewards use the three-pillar calculation method, and when recruiting, there are requirements for them to be literate and able to do calculations.

Li Yi entered his own account and used double-entry accounting.

There are also sets of tables he made.

For example, three tables are equal to two tables plus one table.

It’s not really practical now, but the rules need to be set.

Including line charts, composite pie charts...

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Li Chengqi hurried home with ten jars of soy sauce and one jar of soybean oil.

First cross Ba River, and then you can reach Tonghua Gate within seven miles.

But instead of going to Tonghua Gate, he ran diagonally downward from outside the city to Chunming Gate.

A large area on the north side of the road from Chunming Gate is Xingqing Palace.

It was originally called Longqingfang.

Li Chengqi lives here, and his three younger brothers also live together.

It was moved out this year and moved to Anxingfang diagonally across the street.

If you go back to Anxingfang, you should take Tonghuamen.

Enter Tonghua Gate and pass by Yongjiafang. Below Yongjiafang is Xingqing Palace.

He is equivalent to taking a long trip in a circle.

The purpose is to go to the main entrance of Xingqing Palace and sit facing south. The main entrance of Xingqing Palace is on the south side.

Showing that he had something serious to do, he asked the man with the soy sauce jars to give him two jars before he went home.

He thought that if his third brother did not go to Yongxingfang today and returned to Xingqing Palace, he would inquire as soon as he heard that he had used the main entrance to deliver things.

If you don't go back to Xingqing Palace, the people in Xingqing Palace will naturally go to tell your third brother.

According to Li Chengqi, soy sauce is a small matter but soybean oil is a big deal.

With more oil, people will consume less food.

The key is the oil extraction method. Oil can be extracted from beans, but more oil can be extracted from other oil crops.

In the palace, Li Longji was still reviewing the memorial.

Since he gained absolute power, he has become even busier.

Deploy generals to key positions in various places and place those you can trust there.

Buddhism has annexed too much tax-free land, which is limited to Buddhism.

The struggle for the throne was too cruel, many people were killed, and the people were silent. They wanted to set up a religious workshop so that everyone could improve their spiritual civilization.

Just after the Chinese New Year, we sent out troops to attack the Khitans. They didn't attack others, so they asked them to attack them, and they lost their troops and generals.

A few days after turning around, the Turks took the opportunity to attack. They had not attacked Datang, so they asked Datang to attack them. It was good.

After less than twenty days of respite, a group of Western Turks united and rebelled. Fortunately, they were put under control.

Just in April, Turks came to propose marriage again.

Why are there so many things going on every day?

The lean period is about to come, and people are going to starve again.

The food doesn't even taste good. If the queen hadn't given him a bowl of soup cake just now, he would be hungry now.

Just as I was thinking, someone came to report.

It is said that the King of Song Dynasty went to Huangzhuang in the east of the city today. He heard the sound of children reading in the neighboring village, so he went there.

After having dinner at the neighboring village at noon, he sent a hundred people to the neighboring village to plant garlic. They ate again in the evening and returned with a small jar of eleven.

Two jars of something called soy sauce were left at the main entrance of Xingqing Palace and returned to the palace.

Li Longji was bored. When he heard that his eldest brother went out to help others grow garlic and brought back things, he became interested.

Before he could inquire, someone else came to report.

It is said that when the king of Song Dynasty returned to his mansion, he ordered his three brothers to send a jar of soy sauce to each of their mansions.

Two more altars were opened, and the condemned people were sent to Baifu Hall and the Supreme Emperor.

"What is soy sauce?" Li Longji didn't think his eldest brother would want to use this soy sauce to poison everyone to death.

The person who reported the news hurriedly said: "The supervisor of Huangzhuang in the east of the city said that soy sauce is like water and oil, and is more delicious than soy sauce. It can be used as a dip for shilao pills."

"It is also said that Li Yi from the neighboring village knows how to squeeze beans into oil. There is enough oil and water in the village and there is food accumulation."

"In addition, the bricks and mortar from the kiln in Zhuangzhong were used to make three biogas pools, and the copper pipes were connected to them, just like the gas stored in the swamp, which is flammable when exposed to open fire."

"The marsh gas is used as a lamp in the village, which is brighter than a candle flame. It is used for the children from poor families staying overnight to study at night."

Li Longji took a breath and was frightened.

There is a village next to Huangzhuang. They built a kiln to bake bricks and built a pond like a swamp.

Then insert a tube and light it with the gas coming out. Will it be brighter than a candle?

how did you make it? From now on, you, Zhuangzi, will light lanterns for free?

Li Longji thought and took a look at the candles around him.

The rest of the temple was dark, and only the side of me was bright.

Wax is expensive.

The oil lamp smelled bad and was not bright enough.

He just made a swamp thing, why is it brighter than mine?

I don't know why, but Li Longji is a little bit disgusted.

Thinking about it, Li Longji approved several important memorials and went to his elder brother Li Chengqi to find out the matter.

By the time Li Longji arrived at the Song Palace, it was already Xu Zheng hour, eight o'clock in the evening.

Li Chengqi was waiting to eat Lao Wan. He didn't take a few bites of Li Yizhuangzi, but instead asked for the seasoning to prepare the Lao Wan filling.

When I got home, I asked people to chop the stuffing and make bread balls. The stuffing I gave them was brought from Li Yi.

One third of the mixed package was enough for ten people.

As soon as Li Longji came, the others retreated.

The two brothers faced each other and were in jail.

Li Chengqi first asked the emperor's younger brother to eat the Laowan mixed with seasonings without dipping anything into it.

Then switch to soy sauce.

Add minced garlic.

Mix with vinegar.

Drops of sesame oil.

Li Longji tasted them all and finally understood how delicious soy sauce is.

"Brother, why do the pills taste better today than in the past?" Li Longji asked for advice.

Li Chengqi smiled: "Your Majesty, third brother, I got the stuffing ingredients from Li Yi. The more meaty the Duolao Wan, the more fragrant it is."

"Look again, there is a lot of oil dripping into the dish from the prison pills. I added the soybean oil I got from Li Yi."

"Not to mention there is meat, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net only makes the meatballs wrapped in vegetarian vegetables, and they taste good too."

He talked about good things. Soybean oil tastes better when mixed with stuffing than other oils, not to mention the seasoning.

"What about Li Yi?" Li Longji swallowed his pills and asked.

"He has literary talent, knows how to farm, knows how to cook, and understands fortification. It seems that he has a big heart."

Li Chengqi gave an evaluation, or a compliment.

He has never forgotten the shock when the children recited the Thousand-Character Essay in the early morning.

That kind of power is as bright as the rising sun and as gorgeous as the clouds.

Later, I saw the tenant children wearing the same clothes and carrying schoolbags that I had never seen before, but they were very beautiful.

It gives people the feeling of being like mountains and rivers.

The mountains are majestic and the water is gurgling.

Like a painting.

Then he told Li Longji about the rules for growing garlic, which were not even included in Qimin Yaoshu.

After hearing this, Li Longji had endless reveries in his heart.

I really want to see that place and see that boy.

Li Longji stayed at the Song Palace in the evening.

Lying on the collapse, he could not fall asleep for a long time, muttering: "The cold eyebrows are pointed at thousands of people, and the head is willing to be like a ox."

The next morning, Li Longji still took Laowan at the Song Palace.

But this time it's steamed, with pure beef filling, so there's a meatball in the meatball.

Still dipping it in garlic sauce and vinegar, after finishing eating, Li Longji packed up the food for four people and left.

First, go to Baifu Hall and give two copies of Laowan to his father and Concubine Doulu.

Another portion was given to Queen Wang, and the remaining portion was given to Gao Lishi and soy sauce.

Gao Lishi, the Supreme Emperor, and Concubine Doulu all ate it themselves.

Queen Wang took a sip and called the maids and eunuchs around her to dip them in soy sauce and eat them one by one.