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 and the third will be the emperor, and the others dare not participate in any political affairs.

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

"Come on, my dear friend, try our secret sauce, 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 dipped the pills in soy sauce according to his words.

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

Li Yi looked at it and said to himself: You know how powerful monosodium glutamate is, right? It's more direct than the one in the sauce, right?

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 vigorously into the soy sauce.

Li Yi couldn't help but shiver. How much water should these people drink when they go back? Aren't they afraid of being caught?

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

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

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

Li Chengqi did not refuse, nodded and smiled.

Asked again: "How to use soybean oil?"

"Come tomorrow, my dear friend, this method is not difficult. I have learned the technique to bring order to the people. 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 to draw 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, and if you meet someone who is destined to do so, you can speak to me on your behalf. Each jar will cost ten kilograms, a reel of copper coins, or, no, a bolt of silk."

Li Yi, who had just been praised for his righteousness, immediately started 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.

So 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 to 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.

Little did Li Chengqi know what the young man in front of him had in mind 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 attentive. As a brother, you will find a good food and a good fortune."

"Thank you dear friend, I will definitely share some good things 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.

***

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 is clean.

"Proprietor, here is the account of fuel consumption today." Song De, the steward, 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 manager left and Li Yi took over 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, using the double-entry accounting method.

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...

***

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 in 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.

It's like taking a long trip and taking a detour.

The purpose is to go to the main entrance of Xingqing Palace. Sit north and face south. The main entrance of Xingqing Palace is on the south side.

Showing that he had something serious to do, he asked the person with the soy sauce jars to give him two jars, and then he went around and went home.

He thought that if his third brother did not go to Yongxingfang today and returned to Xingqing Palace, he would also ask if 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 them, 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 recession is about to come, and people are going to starve again.

The food doesn't even taste good. If the queen hadn't given me a bowl of soup cake just now, I 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.
To be continued...