Ji looked at the middle-aged Huang Song, then turned to look at Zixiao. Jiang? Ji realized that someone was still too thin.
Hence, she had a new hobby recently. She would feed Wei Ci when she had nothing to do.
In the words of the salted fish in the live-streaming room, it was a large-scale scene of dog abuse. Yet, they watched happily and wished they could die of sweetness.
For example, the following scene —
"Is it sweet?"
Jiang? Ji stuffed a lemon-flavored lollipop into Wei Ci's mouth when he wasn't paying attention.
Wei Ci had recently gotten used to the strange sweet food that his lord had gotten from somewhere. It looked strange but tasted very good. He was stunned for a while and was about to taste it carefully. He didn't expect someone to take the lollipop away and lean forward to kiss it.
She smacked her lips and said, "It does taste quite sweet."
Wei Ci was speechless.
His lord's various flirting methods were really unbearable. Wei Ci was not used to it at first, but he calmed down after a few times.
Jiang? Ji returned the lollipop to him and said with a smile, "It's a new flavor. I heard it's a limited edition Christmas."
Although Wei Ci was in his early thirties, he actually liked sweet food. However, the sugar making technology in this era was very backward. Artificial sugar was mostly made from starch. The sweetness was not strong and impure. The finished product was not easy to preserve and the production was very low.
Even landowning households couldn't eat sweets as they pleased.
For example, stone honey, a solid product made from sugar cane, was still a precious tribute during the Great Xia Dynasty. Not many people had the right to enjoy it. Now the technology had improved a little, but the supply was still limited. Those who were not rich were not qualified to enjoy it.
Jiang? The snacks that Ji took out were bought by the old chief. They were beautifully packaged and had a wide variety.
Wei Ci was not used to this kind of thing at first, but he deeply liked it after eating a few more pieces. Jiang? Ji was also happy to feed him.
"It sounds very precious."
Wei Ci did not ask where these things came from and deliberately ignored this point.
His lord was special. There was no need to make a fuss if she had some inhuman means.
Jiang? Ji said, "It's said that Christmas is a foreign festival. The products produced during the festival are produced and sold in limited quantities."
Wei Ci asked a question that came from the bottom of his heart, "Sell it better?"
"No, sell it more expensive." Jiang? Ji Yunshu said, "It's just a gimmick. It's nothing more than making use of people's mentality of 'the rarer something is, the greater its value' to inflate the price of the item. It's still the same thing, just that it's being sold under a different name, and the packaging material is different. "
Wei Ci was a little surprised when he heard that. He did not expect that there was such a business method.
"The merchant who came up with this method is indeed a genius."
This seemed like a strategy used by strategists to plot against the human heart.
Ginger? Ji laughed. "Aren't businessmen supposed to earn the most money with the least cost? If you're not talented, how can you earn money? "
Wei Ci said, "But if that's the case, isn't it too unfair to the people who sold the goods? It is not advisable to disrupt the market price. "
Merchants made too much money. They could earn several years' worth of ordinary people's money just by reselling their goods. Wouldn't the people be jealous?
At that time, every household would follow suit. Who would be willing to farm in peace?
Without food production, the entire society would be in chaos, and there would be endless troubles.
Wei Ci knew that promoting commerce was beneficial to economic development, but he also had to restrain the merchants to prevent them from harming the country.
"If it's a healthy competition, it's fine." Ji said, "I have the intention to support the merchants, but I won't let them bite me when they grow too big. From the beginning, I have to set up complicated rules so that they are always under my control. The people's agricultural taxes should not be too high or too heavy, but tax is the foundation of a country. If the taxes related to agriculture are too little, it will naturally have to be made up from other places … "
Wei Ci laughed. "My lord is indeed not willing to suffer losses."
Jiang? Ji said, "Of course I'm not willing to suffer losses no matter what."
She saw that Wei Ci loved sweets so much, and an idea popped up in her mind. She could not always let the old chief buy on her behalf. Who knew what messy place he would go next time, and what would happen if there was no sugar? She might as well develop it herself and improve the current sugar production process.
When Wei Ci heard that his lord wanted to expand the scale of sugar cane cultivation, he suddenly had a deja vu.
"My lord is only doing this because of Ci … This is not appropriate!"
Jiang? Ji laughed. "Sugar should be a snack suitable for all ages. Not only do you like it, children like it even more. I like it too. The production of this thing is small, and not many people are qualified to enjoy it. If it can be produced on a large scale, the sales will definitely not be bad. "
Wei Ci said, "But this thing is not a necessity. How can we waste precious arable land for it?"
Jiang? Ji said, "Look at Wanzhou. Because the people's lives are rich, the circle of celebrities now has a trend of 'plentiful beauty'. From this, the better the people's lives are, the more they need to enjoy life, not to eat and wear warm clothes. I'm doing this because I want to put it in the private treasury. After a few wars, the private treasury is so poor that even mice can't take a fancy to it. How are we going to raise children in the future? "
Even if the country had not yet been founded, everyone knew that Jiang? Ji would definitely become the Empress.
Once she became the Empress, she would be part of the royal family. In the past, the emperor's expenses were linked to the national treasury. Since Ji's debut, her private and public treasury had been independent. It would be the same in the future when the country was founded. The royal family would spend money on smuggling, and the national treasury would not be touched to prevent the emperor from being extravagant and causing chaos in the country.
In this way, whether the royal family lived well would depend on whether the private treasury was plentiful.
Jiang? Ji naturally had to think of a way to get a stable income for the private treasury.
She felt that promoting snacks was not bad. She could benefit the people's taste buds and earn some money.
Jiang? Ji analyzed for Wei Ci, "You can't just look at the surface. You have to look deeper. The birth of a new industry will also create a large number of jobs, so that the idle people can settle down. With something to look forward to, they naturally won't think of creating trouble. Don't look at it as a small piece of candy. It can feed thousands of people. Zixiao, don't you think I'm right? I'm really not using my official position for personal gain. "
At most, she could get inspiration from him. While benefiting the people, she could also satisfy the little man's desire for good food.
Wei Ci was speechless.
He clearly knew that his lord had made up this excuse, but this person had the ability to make her words sound convincing.
The so-called sugar in this era was mostly maltose, commonly known as maltose or marinated sugar. The other was maltose.
Sugar was made from sugar cane, but it was very rare because sugar cane was precious and the production was low. Only the nobles had the right to enjoy it.
Jiang? Ji had made this decision on a whim, but the people under her could only bitterly carry it out.
There was no choice. They couldn't win against their lord.
His lord wrote down in detail how to grow sugar cane, how much sugar cane could be produced from one mu of land, how to extract the syrup to make sugar, and the production process of various flavors of sugar. At the end, there was a large analysis. She calculated how many jobs this industry could create, how many people could have jobs, and the final profit. It was reasonable and well-founded.
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