At nine o 'clock in the morning, the depressed Li Chengqi came over.
He was indeed very depressed, so he sent someone to contact the restaurant.
In the end, the people he sent returned and said that those people had already gone to buy soy sauce.
Li Chengqi, who felt that he didn't help much, came over to take a look. What he saw was a group of people lining up to buy soy sauce.
"Don't sell it, don't sell it. Call your Dongzhu out. I'll buy it all," someone shouted anxiously.
The people on Zhuangzi ignored him and continued to sell. Each person was limited to ten catties.
If he didn't bring a jar, it would be easy to deal with him.
Back then, Li Yi felt that ten catties at a time was not bad, so he specially burned many small jars of ten catties each.
Now, it had come in handy. He filled a jar, covered it with oil paper, tied it with a rope, and took it away.
Ten catties of pottery jars cost 120 coins per jar.
There were no patterns on the jar, and its surface was rough.
The price of the same jar in Chang 'an was a hundred yuan.
When everyone came, not many of them had brought their own utensils.
Seeing that the price wasn't too expensive, he decided to buy it. Otherwise, he would have to queue up again if he went back to get it.
Li Yi, who had put down his chopsticks and waited in the dining room, was extremely regretful at this moment.
If he had known earlier, he would have burned a jar with a capacity of one catty and limited it to ten catties per person. Selling jars would be more profitable than selling soy sauce.
At this time, those who bought soy sauce outside hurriedly sent people to send it back, and they lined up at the back of the line again.
Nearby, there were also people rolling up silk. Previously, they had to separate a bolt of silk or silk to pay for the jar.
The steward did not agree and cut the cloth into pieces. How am I, Zhuangzi, going to use it?
If Dongzhu had not said that he could not refuse to accept silk, he would have only asked for copper coins.
The steward who collected the money felt depressed. What kind of rags were these? The insides were all rotten. What a profiteer.
Li Yi also knew that the layout was not good, but it did not matter. When the time came, he would make peace with the Imperial Court.
Rent had to be in the form of food, and ordinary rent could be directly given to cloth.
"Brother Yi, why aren't you eating?" Li Chengqi came over and saw Li Yi flipping through a book.
The book he was flipping through was "Yong Hui's Law". It was a legal book that he was currently using.
Li Yi put down his book. "Big Brother is here. Take a seat."
As he spoke, he went to make tea for her. He used boiling water instead of boiling it.
At this time, all the tea was fermented tea and there was no green tea.
Lu Yu, who wrote The Classic of Tea, was not born yet.
Even more so, no one would put the phrase, 'Drifting through wind and rain is not bitter, although frost and snow make one's complexion even more beautiful' into tea.
After brewing the tea, Li Yi placed a plate of dried fruits on the table, and the two of them sat facing each other.
"Why is Brother Yi not eating?" Li Chengqi asked again.
"I haven't eaten yet. I just ate two mouthfuls. Those who buy oil arrive, those who are busy don't eat. How can idle people eat?" Li Yi replied.
This was a habit he had developed. The boss and the employees ate together.
Suddenly receiving a series of phone calls, the employees immediately went to work. Would the boss dare to eat alone? Do you dare?!
Li Chengqi stared blankly at Li Yi for a moment before nodding gently, "Little Brother Yi is right."
"Big Brother, are you free today? You didn't go to collect stones? "Li Yi tried to find a topic.
"I've asked someone to do it. I wanted to invite someone to buy soy sauce, but I found out that someone had already come for supper. Last night in the Pyong Kang Square, everybody said that one thing is soy sauce. "
Li Chengqi explained the situation. Last night was just soy sauce.
Li Yi smiled. It seemed that he did not treat so many people to a meal for nothing.
However, Li Chengqi did not smile. He asked, "Can Little Brother Yi keep the soy sauce secret?"
"Don't let the people in Zhuangzi go out. When I make more money and have new things, soy sauce will not matter anymore."
Li Yi hesitated for a moment and gave a solution.
He was afraid that the people in Zhuangzi would be put in gunnysack if they went out.
"If you don't go out, how can you prevent bad people from entering?" Li Chengqi shook his head.
"Big Brother, teach me." Li Yi understood that his big brother had a way.
"Tribute." Li Chengqi said two words.
"You have a way?" Li Yi was looking forward to it.
"Have you forgotten that we are relatives of the emperor?" Li Chengqi emphasized.
"Tribute? How much a year?" Li Yi planned to give soy sauce to the emperor.
Then, even if others snatched the method of making soy sauce, they would not dare to sell it. If they did, they would investigate how they learned how to make it.
"A thousand catties. The rest of the people in the palace will buy it from the village." Li Chengqi stretched out a finger.
Li Yi did not think much when he heard that a thousand catties would be given for free. However, when he heard that there was not enough food in the palace, he trembled.
This was because Lao Bai had written, "A cart of charcoal weighs more than a thousand catties. Half a bolt of red muslin and ten feet of silk are tied to the ox's head to fill the charcoal. "
For a thousand catties of charcoal, the people in the palace would give half a bolt of red muslin and ten feet of silk.
If it was his own Zhuangzi, would he just take a hundred catties of soy sauce and throw two pieces of rag and call it a day?
Li Yi lowered his head and thought for a moment. He asked, "Who are the two imperial attendants of the Department of Household Affairs? What are their morals? "
"Why do you ask about the Department of Household Affairs?" Li Chengqi was surprised.
"There is not enough soy sauce in the palace. Aren't they the ones who buy it?" Li Yi said.
Li Chengqi smiled and shook his head. "Little Brother Yi, you don't know. The people who buy soy sauce in the palace are in charge of the Precious Shame Department of the Guanglu Temple."
"Ah!" Li Yi suddenly understood. So it wasn't just a eunuch who came out to snatch things.
It was good to be an official. They didn't dare to be too brazen.
"I've troubled big brother." Li Yi cupped his fists. This big brother of his was too kind. He was able to get a special quota for him.
"It's a small matter. It's not worth mentioning." Li Chengqi was happy. He had finally helped his cheap brother.
Otherwise, he would feel guilty if he kept taking things for free.
The two of them continued to chat about the "Law of Eternal Hui".
Li Chengqi told Li Yi about some of the classic punishments.
It was already noon outside when the sales of soy sauce finally stopped.
Today, each person took ten catties of soy sauce and sold fifty large vats of soy sauce.
Each vat weighed two hundred catties, so ten thousand catties were sold.
The soy sauce earned five hundred and fifty thousand taels. Most of it was rag and a small portion was copper coins.
Then, the jars were sold for a thousand taels. Even if the people who came brought their own vats, they couldn't just hold ten catties of soy sauce. Wouldn't they have to wash the vats?
Everyone simply bought the jars. Each jar was worth one hundred and twenty copper coins. That was a total of one hundred and twenty thousand taels.
The steward told them that there was no more. From the day after tomorrow, they could only sell two hundred catties of soy sauce a day.
Those who didn't manage to buy any left angrily.
Li Yi called for everyone to eat and told them not to move the rag for now.
Everyone returned to the dining hall. When they saw that Dongzhu was still waiting for them, they were so touched that their eyes turned red.
Li Chengqi ate some noodles that had been left out for a long time and had a bad texture. Then, he filled a small jar with mixed sauce and left.
"Pick a few bolts of good silk and make a set of clothes for my lord."
Li Yi instructed the people who were moving the silk. Once they had money, they would make new clothes for everyone.
"Dongzhu." Steward Song De tried to persuade him.
"It's good that you know that I'm Dongzhu." Li Yi persisted.
The village was counting on these people. If he didn't give them benefits, they wouldn't work hard.
What he wanted was a lifespan. What was the use of piling up money there?
"Yes, Dongzhu." Song De agreed and turned to look at the others, "Work hard."
Everyone nodded vigorously. They had to do their jobs well even if they had to risk their lives.
Li Yi clasped his hands behind his back and strolled to the side of the students' small huts.
The weather was warm today. Noon was sufficient.
The students removed all the shutters from the windows of their huts and opened the windows to read.
There was no window paper in the huts. There were only three pieces of splicable wooden boards to block the windows.
In the winter, there was a warm wall, so a piece of window board would be lowered.
There were even some who read outside. When it was cold, they would enter the huts to warm themselves up.
In their huts, there were two slender golden characters written by Li Yi for them.
One was: The land is thin and pine trees are planted. The poor children study.
The other was: Without experiencing the bone-chilling cold, how can the fragrance of plum blossoms assail the nose?
Therefore, the students were very diligent. They didn't know if they could succeed in becoming his disciple, but if they didn't have the opportunity, then there was nothing they could do.
The students understood.
This was the capital's Chang 'an. Many people had no place to stay and could only stay in the temples.
Those places didn't allow one person to live in one hut.
Back then, it was this young man, Dongzhu, who strolled on the streets.
He said, "Is there anyone who is willing to put down their face and work for the farmers? Come with me. "
Then, when they couldn't stand it anymore, they followed the young man. What was face?
They didn't expect that after they came, they would have a house to live in. They didn't have to farm every day. They just helped clean up the cowshed, pig house, and chicken coop.
At that time, the young man, Dongzhu, rushed to the front to build a house and work.
Later on, there were people who wanted to come, but they couldn't. Only the forty-two of them were left.
Because Dongzhu said that there was no time to build a house, it wasn't that he didn't want more people to come and stay until next year.
Now that they saw Li Yi coming over, they all greeted him.
"Today we have gained a lot. Go find plum blossoms, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, and measure them. Each of you will wear silk clothes. It won't be rude to entertain guests in the future."
Li Yi told the students to find four female servants to measure so that they could make new clothes.
As for who would do it, of course, it wasn't the people in the manor. There were too many people and they couldn't handle it.
Even Sir Zhuangzi's clothes had to be outsourced. This money wasn't cheap.
The students happily accepted it and didn't refuse.
They understood that Brother Li Yi wasn't someone who didn't understand literature.
Scholars helped each other. It was a matter for scholars.
Of course, he still had to tidy up the cowshed. He couldn't stop teaching the children.
The seventeen children were practicing calligraphy. They dipped their brushes in water and wrote on the wooden board.
Paper was too expensive, even if it was straw paper. Straw paper …
Li Yi used straw paper to go to the toilet. He really couldn't stand the scraping of the bamboo pieces.
Li Yi expressed that he couldn't accept toilet paper.
The five girls practicing calligraphy were the most hardworking. They knew that this was their last chance.
Either they studied well or they worked.
Then, like other girls, they would casually find someone to marry.
Give birth to children, raise children, and be beaten.
Just like in the past, when their parents beat their mothers, their mothers could only cry.
Now, they didn't beat them. Their families had good lives and their fathers were happy.
Also, Brother Dongzhu said that they couldn't beat them. If they did, they would be chased out of Zhuangzi.
And if they studied well, they would find a different family.
The boys were much more mischievous. There were always children who were distracted.
Li Yi saw it but didn't care. In any case, when their exam results were at the bottom, there would naturally be someone to take care of them when they returned home.
I didn't let your father beat your mother, but I didn't say that your father and mother couldn't beat you together.
**
At around three o 'clock in the afternoon, someone from the palace came.
A tall person led the way. This person looked especially handsome.
When the person saw Li Yi, he was very affectionate. "Li Yi, Dongzhu, from today onwards, your soy sauce will be a tribute. This is the official document."
As he spoke, he gave Li Yi a document.
It proved that the soy sauce that Li Yi served in Zhuangzi was a tribute. If others wanted to rush into Zhuangzi to snatch it, they had to think about the consequences first.
Li Yi happily took it. His big brother was reliable and the key was that he was fast.
"Li Dongzhu, go to the imperial harem to buy soy sauce. I will be in charge." This person told him about the future.
"I wonder if this big brother is from …" Li Yi asked.
"Supervisor of the Internal Servants Department." The person who came was still smiling kindly.
Li Yi: "…"
Didn't they say that he was someone from the Treasure and Shame Department of the Guanglu Temple? Why was he still a eunuch?
Big brother, you're doing this wrong.
"Li Dongzhu, do you feel happy?" The other person saw that Li Yi was in a daze and asked in a louder voice.
"Ah, happy, that, how should I address big brother?" Li Yi felt his hands and feet go cold.
"Gao Lishi." The other person said.
Li Yi: "…"
Oh my god, why is it him?
Yes, the current supervisor of the Internal Servants Department was Gao Lishi.
"It's actually Doctor Gao." Li Yi cupped his fists, left hand in front and right hand behind.
"I prefer martial arts." Gao Lishi said in a low voice.
"So it's General Gao, my apologies, my apologies." Li Yi hurriedly cupped his fists again, right hand in front and left hand behind.
Li Yi was relieved. This person wasn't a supervisor at all. He was in charge of the entire Internal Servants Department. Both supervisors were present.
Then there was Gao Lishi, as well as two scattered officials, one civil and one military, one minor third rank.
The key point was that he was one of the emperor's people. Looking at him today, he didn't look like a eunuch at all.
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