When Su Chen left the canal embankment, his heart was still turbulent. He didn't expect that the old man who painted the painting was Han Xizai, an veteran of the Three Dynasties of the Southern Tang Dynasty, temporarily stayed away from the temple and was resting in his old house in Runzhou.

Han Xizai was from Qingzhou in the north and was a Jinshi of Tongguang in the Later Tang Dynasty. Because his father was killed by Li Siyuan, he fled to Yangwu. During the reign of Li Bing in the Southern Tang Dynasty, he served as secretary and assisted the prince in the East Palace. Later, Li Jing ascended the throne, and he was moved to serve as the Minister of Personnel, a compiler of the History Museum, and a doctor of Taichang, and was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat.

In fact, Han Xizai had great talents. When he joined Yang Wu Guangling, he was also ambition higher than the sky. However, after the Wu Kingdom, he was disliked by Xu Zhigao, who was in power at that time because of his luxurious life, and he loved the wind and moon. Xu Zhigao was the later Liezu of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Bing lived a simple life, was cautious in dealing with things, and did not like to be arrogant, but Han Xizai was just the opposite. He was arrogant and did not care about details, so naturally it was difficult to gain Li Bing's appreciation.

Han Xizai stayed in the Eastern Palace for seven years, and talked with Prince Li Jing every day, wrote essays and poems. Such a long time of getting along, Li Jing had a deeper understanding of Han Xizai's talent. After Li Jing ascended the throne, he began to reuse Han Xizai. Unfortunately, the party struggles within the Southern Tang Dynasty were constantly in conflict, and because of the differences in the strategy of resisting the Later Zhou Dynasty, Li Jing did not obey Han Xizai's advice, which led to the disaster of Jiangbei. Later, Li Jing was forced to move the capital to Hongzhou, and died of illness.

Two years ago, after Li Yu ascended the throne, he appointed Han Xizai as the Minister of Personnel, and was in the third rank. However, due to the change of coins last year, Han Xizai argued with Prime Minister Yan Xu in front of the imperial court. He was harsh and opposed it strongly, and offended many colleagues. He offended many colleagues and was impeached by his ministers. Because of the pressure of the court, Li Yu temporarily dismissed him from office and demoted to Runzhou.

Han Xizai has just been in Runzhou City for half a year. The property is rich and the streets are prosperous. He usually travels around the mountains and rivers, fishes and paintings, enjoys singing and dancing, talks about poetry and essays at home, and lives a free and easy life.

But the ambition in his heart cannot be displayed. The heroic spirit of expanding territory at that time occasionally surged in his heart and had nowhere to vent, so he could only rely on the characters in the painting. However, he thought of the hard-working old man as himself, with the world in mind, worrying about the country and the people, and showing the weakness of "difference from reality and not understanding the truth among the people."

After all, we are not a pragmatic person, but are still in the methodology of using books of sages to govern the world. We have never truly studied the working class, enriching the country and maintaining peace, and we are finally looking at flowers in the fog and water in the mirror.

Su Chen had just chatted with Han Xizai for a while and said goodbye. He was considering whether he should deepen his relationship with Han Xizai. According to historical records, although Han Xizai had a rise and fall in his career, he was repeatedly activated until the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty. It is very likely that in another half a year, he would be able to restore his official position and return to Jinling to serve as a senior official.

"No, I have no intention of the career of Southern Tang, so I should keep some distance and not be recommended by him!" Su Chen had his own thoughts in his mind.

He knew the direction of history. Ten years later, the Southern Tang Dynasty would perish. Su Chen did not want to take root in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and finally followed the Southern Tang Dynasty and the country was destroyed.

Su Chen returned home and continued to go out to hawks with the prepared candied haws. When he walked on the bustling street, he was a little surprised because there were hawkers selling candied haws one after another on the street.

"Candy candied haws, sweet and crispy Wangji candied haws!"

"Sweet and delicious Zhang Ji candied haws!"

"Only made secret recipe, Cui Ji candied haws, it doesn't taste good, it's not expensive!"

Su Chen stood on a main street at the entrance of Dashi, watching the endless stream of people, red candied haws had appeared one after another, Zhang Ji candied haws, Wang Ji candied haws, and Cui Ji candied haws all appeared.

Although he guessed that imitations would appear, he still underestimated the flexible thinking of people from Runzhou, Southern Tang, in doing business. In just three days, imitations appeared.

"Cooking cakes, candied haws--"

There was a short middle-aged man who was carrying candied haws and passing by, and on his other shoulder, he was carrying a carrying pole box selling cooked cakes.

Yes, those who sell cooked cakes also sell candied haws.

Su Chen was stunned and asked Qingtian speechlessly.

If the old man who picks up manure on the street knows that selling candied haws can make money, then the project will not have much profit.

Su Chen asked and found out that the candied haws sold by these people cost three cents each. As the holder of the authentic secret recipe, he set the price at four cents per string, and ten cents can be given three strings!

"Su Ji Candied Haws--" As soon as Su Chen shouted out, some other people selling candied haws turned their heads and looked contemptuous, as if they were hatred.

Su Chen felt inexplicably and still shouted Su Ji Candied Haws.

"This little brother, if you do this, you will not be righteous." A middle-aged crazi man passed by him, carrying candied haws and inserting poles, and reminding Su Chen.

"Why?" Su Chen didn't understand.

"Who doesn't know that the first person selling candied haws in Runzhou City is Suji candied haws. It's okay if we follow the trend to make and sell them, but we can't pretend to be someone else!"

Made, it turns out that these accomplices of Daoer who sell candied haws thought Su Chen was deliberately pretending to be an authentic candied haw seller at this time, and was in unfair competition!

Su Chen said angrily: "Look at my face and the 'Su Ji' logo on the stick. I am the first authentic Su Ji to sell candied haws!"

"It's really you..." The rough man also turned black, lowered his head and ran away quickly.

Although there is competition, Su Chen's candied haws are still more delicious than other candied haws, and they have created an authentic brand, so even if they cost 4 cents, it is easier to sell. Even so, a hundred strings of candied haws were sold out until dusk, and it took two more hours than yesterday.

Su Chen sighed softly and understood that the process of making candied haws is relatively simple. Even if other people are not as authentic as he made, it won’t take long to study it repeatedly and it is likely that it is more delicious than what he made, because don’t underestimate the creativity of the working people at the bottom. These foods were originally invented and created by them.

Su Chen is not a foodie, he just took the lead. His techniques and production standards can only be considered medium, and he has a little talent than mediocre. However, compared with the hard-working grassroots people, this simple craft is easily surpassed.

In addition, there are so many users who eat candied haws in Runzhou. New things have passed. The children of the lower class are very happy to be able to eat a string of ordinary candied haws every now and then, and there is no need to eat his authentic Su Ji.

On the way home, Su Chen was mentally prepared. He wanted to get out of this candied haws project as soon as possible. It would be better to promote the soap and soap project as soon as possible. That was the trump card that he had accumulated 500 marks in 20 days.

When passing by Fanjialou, Su Chen had a whim and walked into the lobby. He saw Zhang Dachuan explaining a storytelling on the stage. He specially chose a table near the door, away from the stage, so as not to be discovered by the storyteller and found a bloody troublesome thing that he recognized on the spot.

There were many listeners in the restaurant, almost full of people. The guests chose to be close to the stage, so that they could hear it more clearly, but the tables near the door were empty.

Zhang Dachuan was talking about the second chapter at this time, his voice was hoarse and a little thick. When talking about Empress Dugu's death, Emperor Wen of Sui began to favor Mrs. Xuanhua and Mrs. Ronghua. That night, Yang Jian dreamed of a flood that almost flooded him. After waking up, he asked the people who interpreted the dream. It was said that the court had a crisis, and some people who had the name of water would harm the country in the future and overthrow the court. So Yang Jian first killed Li Hong and demoted Li Yuan, but Yang Guang and Yu Wenhua refused to let Li Yuan's family go, so he decided to ambush and kill people on the way!

"The two of them made a plan to harm Li Yuan. I don't know what life is like, so I can listen to the next breakdown - bang!"

After Zhang Dachuan knocked on the gavel, the audience was silent at first, and then burst into applause. They all felt that the story was very exciting, and it was even more tortuous and shocking than the short stories of talented men and beautiful women in the past!

"Reward!" Many guests grabbed a handful of copper coins and threw them on the stage. Some people also gave some rewards to the copper basins passing by. Each table ranged from more than ten to dozens of coins. In short, this storytelling performance received a considerable amount of copper coins.
Chapter completed!