MTL - My Backyard is the Tang Dynasty-Chapter 10 new business

The public sale of the shampoo immediately set off a round of bidding in Chang'an City. The three merchants who took the goods from Li Yin sold out all the goods in their hands, and kept urging Li Yin to deliver the goods. It lasted for a while. The sales gradually ushered in a stable period. Now the aristocrats and ladies in Chang'an basically use shampoo. A bottle of shampoo is enough for them to use for a month, but ordinary people can't afford such expensive luxury goods. Therefore, it was within Li Yin's expectation that such a situation would appear after the frenzied sales. Of course, he was also happy to be at leisure, tossing back and forth between the two worlds, which made him exhausted.

   "Left! No, right! No, left..."

Su Mo'er's small face was flushed with embarrassment, and her teeth were itching with hatred. The sixth prince is getting worse and worse, always trying to take advantage of her. Tickle his back, while Su Moer scratched the right side, he said the left side was itchy, scratched the left side, he said the right side was itchy, a few minutes passed, but he couldn't scratch the right place.

With the money in the palace, Jin Daqian replaced three of the previous four maidservants in the palace. Except for the fourteen-year-old Yun'er, the other three maidservants over the age of twenty received their severance pay and went home. Speaking of which, Jin Daqian It was also for the sake of their marriage. In the Tang Dynasty, they were real older leftover women.

Su Mo'er is one of the three newly recruited maidservants by Jin Daqian. According to him, this girl is a lady from a noble family who was defeated in the previous dynasty. He also fell in love with her, and bought her for ten pennies. Jin Daqian thought that the maidservants in the palace were actually some peasant children who could not understand poetry and books, and they were not worthy of Li Yin's status at all. He is handsome and can read and write, so he assumed the name of Li Yin and brought Su Mo'er back to the palace.

  The little girl looked like she was about to cry, and Li Yin felt that he had gone too far. Although he understood that it is very easy for a prince to possess a maidservant in this era, he still couldn't make it through psychologically. "Your Highness, let me come!" Compared to Su Mo'er, Yun'er was much more relaxed, her fiery eyes did not shy away from Li Yin's eyes, and there was a spiritual hint that you would come if you had the guts.

   "Ahem! Ben Wang suddenly feels that his back doesn't itch anymore!" Li Yin got up and left the study, and fled.

   "Sister Yun'er, thank you!" Li Yin left, and Su Morer gave a blessing to Yun'er, thanking her.

Yun'er sighed, "Your Highness treats you differently, that's your blessing. There are countless girls outside the palace compound who think that one day they will be favored by His Highness and enjoy the glory for a lifetime. Looks like it's not enough."

   "It's not that Mo'er is ignorant, it's just that before my mother died, I swore to her that I would never commit myself to anyone until I found my sister!" Thinking of the sad things, Su Mo'er burst into tears.

Yun'er handed over the silk cloth and comforted her: "You think too much, Your Highness is just playing with you, if he wants to occupy your body, can you stop him? If he is a pervert, I will How could it be possible to still be a perfect body!"

   "I know His Highness is a good person, everyone in the palace said so, but men and women can't get along..." Su Mo'er couldn't continue.

  Pulling her lips, Yun'er said: "You, even though you came to the palace to be a maidservant, you still have the temper of that eldest lady!" After speaking, she pulled Su Mo'er out of the study.

  Li Yin left the study and went directly to the apse. Now the second half of the palace seems to be Li Yin's factory.

  The matter of shampoo came to an end, and the palace did not relax because of it, but became more and more busy. The newly recruited servants were arranged by Li Yin to do another brand new job—distillation.

After the six modern distillers purchased by Li Yin arrived, Li Yin transported them to the palace. In the shape of copper coins, the passion glows instantly.

Before approaching the apse, a strong smell of wine wafted over. Now the wine distilled in the palace is all ordinary rice wine bought by Jin Daqian from the market. After all, wine making is a very time-consuming process, and it is faster and easier to buy it directly. , the price of these common rice wines is very cheap, you can buy a large jar for a few pennies, and the cost is very low.

In the wine steaming room named Xinghuafang by Li Yin, six stills were running at the same time, and more than a dozen servants kept adding fire. Drops of wine dripped continuously from the condenser tube of the distiller. Below the condenser tube was a one-meter-high wine vat. After a few days, the wine vat had been replaced twice, and this was the third batch.

"The output is still not high!" Li Yin inspected it and said in his mouth. He understood that the heating method of the still was a factor that affected the output, but the habit of using coal was not yet used in the Tang Dynasty. He asked around, Chang'an It is not used in the city, so now he can only use the original heating method.

Of course, the new news of the Prince’s Mansion did not escape the attention of interested people. The story of Jin Daqian, the housekeeper of the Prince of Liang’s Mansion, buying rice wine on a large scale has already spread, and there are many versions of various rumors. Everyone is staring at the Prince of Liang’s Mansion. I don’t know if this suicide by jumping into a well is not dead. What kind of tricks can a successful little prince play.

   "Your Highness, Wang Anzhi is here!" When Li Yin spooned up the baijiu and was about to taste it, Jin Daqian came over to report.

   This Wang Anzhi was called by Li Yin to Jin Daqian. Alcohol has a wide range of uses, not just for making liquor, but also for making perfume. Li Yin is most familiar with making perfume.

  The preparation of perfume requires not only alcohol, but also spices, and this Wang Anzhi is a well-known spice merchant in Chang'an City, which is one of the reasons why Li Yin entrusted him with the sale of shampoo in the first place, for today's cooperation.

The shampoo that was taken from Li Yin for 250 Wen was sold for 300 Wen in the market. The huge profit made Wang Anzhi sleepless for several nights. Today, when Jin Daqian told him that King Liang wanted to see him, he He rushed over without even eating breakfast. If he offends anyone, he can't offend the God of Wealth.

   "Cao Min, Wang Anzhi greeted King Liang!" Li Yin came in, and Wang Anzhi hurriedly bowed, "I don't know why Your Highness invited the villain to come!"

"It's nothing serious, just sit down!" Li Yin sat down carelessly. Now he gradually understands why the world likes to fight for power and profit. The feeling of being respected is indeed as addictive as drugs. "How is Mr. Wang's spice business now?" ?”

When King Liang suddenly mentioned spices, Wang Anzhi couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but he still said honestly, "Hey, the spice business is becoming more and more difficult now. Persian merchants are pouring into Chang'an in large numbers. The spices brought from the Western Regions are a good variety." There are too many, and we, the local spice merchants, are almost overwhelmed."

Li Yin knew that Persian merchants mainly exported spices, corals, gems and other commodities to the Tang Dynasty at that time. It was normal for Wang Anzhi to encounter such a situation. Naturally, spices were needed to make perfume, and buying from Persian merchants must be expensive. This Wang Anzhi He has cooperated with himself, and the spice business is not well managed, which suits Li Min's mind. In this way, Wang Anzhi will not raise the price when he provides his own spices.

"You must have also heard about the recent purchase of rice wine in the Prince Liang's Mansion. To tell you the truth, I am currently developing a special fragrance, which I call perfume, and the preparation of this perfume requires a lot of spices. I want to cooperate with you, you provide the fragrance, and the Wangfu is responsible for configuring this perfume, and after the matter is completed, you can enjoy the exclusive right to sell it, what does Wang Lao think?"

"Perfume!" This is a new term. Wang Anzhi hesitated. The price of spices is very high. It is very risky to provide spices for free to develop a new thing that does not know the market prospects, and what he gets is only the exclusive right to sell. How is the profit fundamental? There is no way to get it, what Li Yin gave him is undoubtedly an overlord clause, which is tantamount to paying for the Liang Palace to earn his own money.

   "Your Highness, Wang is a small business, this is really embarrassing for Wang..."

  Li Yin understood what he meant, and was a little disappointed, but he didn't force it. After all, Wang Anzhi didn't know anything about perfume.

  My calculations were in vain, and Li Yin sent Wang Anzhi away. People in this era really don’t have the spirit of adventure at all, Li Yin secretly thought.

Leaving the palace nervously, Wang Anzhi heaved a sigh of relief, but he still felt a little weird in his heart. He always felt like he had made a wrong decision. Just as he was about to leave, a fat man in a satin round-neck robe came over, full of excitement. With a smile on his face, "Isn't this the shopkeeper Wang? He came to the palace so early."

   "So it's Mr. Tong, Your Highness also invited you?" Wang Anzhi was a little surprised.

After hooking up with Li Yin, Tong Nian ran to the Prince Liang's mansion every three days. When Li Yin was there, he ran over to flatter him. When Li Yin was not there, he went to Jin Daqian and the high accountant to drink tea and chat. Now everyone in the palace knows everyone. His, today he came to the palace as usual, but he didn't expect to meet Wang Anzhi, he turned his eyes and thought about it, "That's right, Steward Jin informed me last night, what did His Highness say to Brother Wang to make Brother Wang like this?" Annoyed? Can I make my brother prepare."

  Wang Anzhi didn't know that Tong Nian had set him up. He thought that Liang Wang would always talk to him about the perfume, and said, "His Royal Highness Liang said that he has developed a new perfume and asked me to provide it..."

   After rambling on for a while, Tong Nian understood the cause and effect, and he was overjoyed, "Then I'll go in, and I'll treat Brother Wang to tea some other day."

  When Li Yin was hesitating whether to make perfume independently, Jin Daqian came to report to Tong Nian to meet him. He was familiar with this guy who didn't see him today, but Li Yin let him in.

   "Your Highness, I am willing to provide His Highness with the spices he needs for free!" Tong Nian met Li Yin and went straight to the point.

  Li Yin was a little surprised, "How do you know!"

   Tong Nian then told Li Yin about meeting Wang Anzhi.

After hesitating for a while, Li Yin nodded. After getting along, Li Yin felt that Tong Nian was a good person. Apart from being greedy for money, Li Ke had a good eye for seeing people. Otherwise, Tong Nian would not be allowed to be in the Shu Palace. doormen.