The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 41 Beautiful Blueprint
The cry of "Lang Jun" means that these soldiers have surrendered to Li An. Calling "Sir" is a sign of respect for Li An, and calling "Lang Jun" is a sign of surrender to Li An.

"Lang Jun. What should we do next?"

Liu Fangzi looked at Li An with expectant eyes.

Li An looked at the soldiers with a slight smile and asked, "Do you know Shi Mi?"

"Shimi...!" Liu Yi quickly raised his head and said from the side: "Lang Jun, I know that Shimi is a kind of candy, an exotic product, very sweet. All the high-ranking officials and nobles in Chang'an City are fond of Shimi. Duzhong, this kind of stone honey is very expensive, and there is no market for it.”

The people around him said 'Wow', and Li An nodded with a smile: "Brother Yi is right, Shimi is a kind of candy from ancient Tianzhu. It was praised by His Majesty today, so it is loved by high-ranking officials and nobles. And the price is high, and I have a way of making a better block of candy than stone honey, which I call rock candy."

"Bingtang..." Everyone present looked at each other with expressions of joy.

Later, Li An took out a glass from his backpack and said: "Fangzi, take this glass to Lao Jin and sell it, then you can buy several hundred kilograms of brown sugar from Lao Jin, and then I bought five large copper pots and ten vats, and then rented a storefront in Dongshi. From now on, this storehouse will be the storefront dedicated to selling things in our Lijia Village. Finally, I bought some grain, meat, and vegetables.

Oh, right. I also need to buy some things to kill mosquitoes.Then we will buy some bricks. We will build houses in the future and all of them will be brick houses. "

The building materials of the Tang Dynasty included wood, tiles and bricks. The Tang pagodas preserved in our country are all masonry pagodas. Of course, the price of these bricks is high, and only the rich can afford them. Ordinary people live in thatched cottages.

So just when Li An said he wanted to build a brick house, the soldiers present began to get excited again.

"What a good recipe. You and Liu Yi will take some more people with you. Be sure to come back early." Liu Xiatian happily ordered Liu Fangzi, Liu Yi and others.

"Don't worry, Dad, we will leave early and come back early." Liu Fangzi stood up quickly in surprise, bowed respectfully to Li An, and then walked out with Liu Yi and others.

Seeing Liu Fangzi and others leaving, Li An looked at the remaining people and said with a smile: "We can't be idle either. We must first quickly build a hidden place as our secret workshop for making rock candy. This time we can't Let others know how we make rock candy."

"Lang Jun, you can rest assured this time. If anyone dares to spread the secret of Bingtang again, I, Liu Xiatian, promise you that they will definitely regret it." Liu Xiatian assured Li An fiercely.

In this way, Li An was relieved. Just when others felt that the atmosphere was a little tense, Li An smiled again: "Don't be nervous, everyone. As long as we can stick to this method of making rock candy, then every family in our Lijia Village will live in it in the future." In a brick house, there will be meat for every meal.”

"No!" All the men in Lijia Village shouted joyfully.

Liu Xiatian laughed loudly and said: "Okay, let's start preparing to build a workshop for making rock candy now."

"That's right!" Li An said again: "Do we have anyone who is good at carpentry? I will also make some drippers, and then let the children and women go outside to get some grass. We will also build some big stoves, so Only then can I come back to make sugar.

Um.! Li An nodded: "That's almost it. Let's go and do it separately." "

After that, Liu Xiatian was busy assigning tasks to everyone. Those who knew carpentry made drippers, and those who knew how to build stoves built stoves. The children and women came back from picking up weeds and firewood, and the remaining people built a stove together. Sugar workshop.As for Li An, he went out to find Huang Ni.

What Li An is going to use now is the yellow mud glazed sugar method: this method was first recorded in the "Min Shu Nan Zhi Zhi" in the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that there was a person named Huang who opened Xiaotangfang in Nan'an, Fujian Province in the Yuan Dynasty. When a house wall collapsed to remove the yellow mud, it was found that the covered brown sugar had turned white.

After repeated tests, it was confirmed that the yellow mud on the wall can indeed turn brown sugar white.Sugarcane juice contains more pigments and impurities, and the directly produced sugar is black, while yellow mud can absorb these impurities and pigments.

This is the "yellow mud pouring sugar method" for making white sugar.

So this yellow mud is very important. According to the book, the yellow mud drenched with sugar should not be too wet and must be very dry. The drier the yellow mud, the better. Li An searched twice and found this lavender field. There is a small hill, and the yellow mud on this hill is the best.

After Li An found out, he hurriedly called people over, and directly transported them to the selected rock sugar workshop address by car.

They were busy from the morning until around 14:[-] in the afternoon. Liu Fangzi and others came back. This time they went to Chang'an to ride on three carriages, but when they came back, there were five carriages because the things they bought were too big. More than that, the ten large tanks took up a carriage.

This time Lao Jin was quite generous. He still gave him [-] guan for a glass. He rented a storefront in Dongshi for [-] guan a month. After paying [-] guan, he rented it for three months.

Then he bought [-] kilograms of brown sugar. One kilogram is [-] yuan, and five hundred kilograms is [-] guan. Here we will see how Li An made the [-] guan money more.

Next, I bought grain, rice, flour, oil, oil lamps, which are for lighting, I must buy some, mosquito nets, mosquito medicine, then mutton, chickens, ducks, goose, vegetables, etc. Then there are bricks, bricks. I just made a reservation and gave a deposit of [-] yuan, and then the other party started to make money. I don’t know how long it will take. This is a troublesome place.

Li An thought that it was the same as in modern times, as long as you spent money, you could buy it. However, the bricks in the Zhenguan period were not like this. Because the price was a bit high, they were all booked in advance. Otherwise, what would happen if people burned them and couldn't sell them? .

However, fortunately, the other party has some bricks in storage, which can be delivered tomorrow. Li An thought that he could build a wall to block the rock sugar workshop first, and then build a house for himself. Li Duoduo had been sleeping outside, and Li An was very worried. Worried, let alone Li An being selfish, for Li Duoduo, Li An is the most selfish, and no one can compare with Li Duoduo's position in Lian's heart.

All these seven, seven, eight, eight, and eight thousand guan were not spent. The carriage driven by Liu Fangzi was all filled with money, a total of 360 guan. In the end, Li An handed over the two thousand, 360 guan to Liu Xiatian. Then Li An asked Liu Xiatian to pay wages to the people in Lijia Village. Men were paid fifteen guan a month and women were [-] guan a month, regardless of age. Li An also told Liu Xiatian that in the future, he would build a school for the children. Let all children in Lijiacun go to school.

This is really a beautiful blueprint, so everyone is intoxicated by it.

What is even more gratifying is that the wages just promised were paid out in the afternoon, fifteen guans for men and ten guans for women. All the people in Lijia Village cheered, and their loyalty to Li An was even more satisfying. .

This is what Ang Lee wants to see. These people are Ang Lee's original followers. Ang Lee must be good to them. Only if he is good enough to them, will more people follow him.

Of course, not everyone follows Li An, and Li An pays fifteen or ten dollars in wages. Isn’t that stupid?
In the future, people who follow Li An will be divided into a class, layered on top of each other. Well, it turns out that the art of controlling people is exactly the same.

(End of this chapter)