Molested Zulong at the beginning

Bai Su sat on the side with a drink in his hand, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Hu Yanxiu's beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly: "This place is messy and noisy, why don't we drink in the mansion?"

Bai Su withdrew his gaze and said with a smile: "Because the people's voices can be heard the most in the noisy market place. Don't look at their noise, but what they say is from the bottom of their hearts."

Hu Tan was stunned for a moment, turned his head, looked at Bai Su's handsome cheeks, and his meaningful eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little obsessed.

She dragged her cheeks with her hands, looked straight at Bai Su, and asked: "Isn't it true that you can't hear what you say from the bottom of your heart in the mansion?"

Bai Su took a sip of his drink and said, "It's not that he can't hear the words from his heart, it's just that due to the complex factions in the imperial court, many people will exaggerate the good things they have done and downplay the bad things for their own official career."

"If you just listen to other people's words, it is difficult for you to judge who is true and who is false, and it is easy to be misled. Therefore, the more you are in a high position, the more you have to visit the people and listen to other voices, so that you can have peace in your heart. a standard of judgment."

"The reason why His Majesty toured the world back then was to frighten the remnants of the six kingdoms, and to see with his own eyes the real situation in all parts of the world, understand?"

Hu Tan looked straight at Bai Su, and said with a smile, "You know a lot."

Bai Su looked at her helplessly, and saw that she didn't listen to her at all, her cheeks were as white as jade, her nose was delicate, her lips were rosy, she was humming a folk tune softly, her voice was agile.

He stretched out his hand angrily, and pinched her baby-fat cheeks.

Hu Yan was in pain, and quickly covered his cheeks, his delicate skin was already slightly red.

Her slender black eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and she stared into a pair of amber-colored eyes, angrily said: "What are you doing!"

Bai Su said helplessly: "Since you want to compete with Fu Su for the heir apparent and the crown prince, at least you have to work hard."

Hu Yan said with a smile: "I have you. Knowing how to know people and how to employ them is enough."

Bai Su said with a half-smile, "Aren't you worried that one day I will become a minister of power, take away your power, and hold you, the emperor, as a plaything?"

Hu Yan blinked his strange eyes, and after pondering for a moment: "Don't worry, anyway, you are not interested in power, you won't do that, even if you really become a powerful minister, it doesn't matter."

"Anyway, you can be regarded as a member of the royal family. After we get married and have children in the future, we will hand over the throne to our daughter. In this case, why should I worry?"

Bai Su was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he found that this was really the case.

After all, succession to the throne these days pays attention to the integrity of the name, and only the heirs of the royal family are eligible to inherit.

Even if he became a minister of power, he didn't want to mess with the empress's belly. Besides, with his character, he didn't seem to be able to do anything else. After raising his daughter in the future, he would sooner or later have all the power in his hands Give it to the other party.

For some reason, Bai Su suddenly had the feeling of being prostituted by sister Zheng and Hu Tan while working in Xianyang.

Hu Yan looked out the window and looked at the caravans passing by on the street, a little enviously said: "My lord, it's true, why did you give up the business of medicinal materials and cloth to others? How good it is for me to manage it."

Bai Su came back to his senses and looked at her with a regretful expression.

He couldn't help laughing and said: "As Your Royal Highness, you are favored by His Majesty, why should you covet such a small profit?"

Hu Yan turned his head, pouted and said: "Don't look at me as a princess, I am actually very poor, and I don't have any business under my command, so I can only count on the salary given by my mother every month. I usually have to visit the court from time to time. Officials in the palace, rewards for the maids in the palace, plus the daily expenses...it’s not enough at all.”

She rolled her eyes and said coquettishly: "You help me tell my mother, how about letting me manage the business of this medicinal material?"

Bai Su took a sip of his drink: "As the saying goes, you don't give anything for doing things with money, which makes it very difficult for me."

Hu Tan hesitated for a moment, then approached and kissed Bai Su on the cheek.

With a ruddy face, she said, "That's all right."

Bai Su was taken aback for a moment, it was just a joke, but she didn't expect that she would actually do this.

After pondering for a moment, he said, "It's better not to go to the palace. After all, these common goods are conducive to the improvement of private trade."

Hu Yan glared at Bai Su in embarrassment: "You...you bad guy, you obviously collected everything, but you didn't do anything."

Bai Su smiled and said: "No, you have misunderstood me, instead of taking profits from the common people, why don't I just give you one, it will make you a big business."

"Big business?"

Hu Yan was taken aback for a moment, blinked his strange eyes, and asked, "What kind of big business is it?"

Bai Su gently shook the wine bowl in his hand, looked at the slightly whitish rice wine, and said, "Of course it's wine."

Hu Yan said with a look of disdain: "Cut, what am I thinking, this wine is everywhere, what's so strange about it?"

Bai Su smiled: "My wine is a little different. This ordinary wine has a lot of impurities, and the brewing alcohol is too low. It is not suitable for drinking in the north or outside the customs where the climate is cold."

"If it can be improved, it can warm up the body, keep out the cold, and clean the wound. Naturally, the supply outside the pass will be in short supply, and the daily income is only a wave of hands."

Chapter 110 I Suspect You Have Something To Do With Your Mother

"Wine that can warm the body and drive away the cold?"

Hu Yan looked at Bai Su suspiciously: "This wine is not warm, how can you warm up, and... this wine has been produced for thousands of years, even ordinary people can make wine, no matter how special your wine is, it is impossible Make money every day, you won't be lying to me, will you?"

Bai Su rubbed his nose, said with a smile: "I never lie to people during the day, since I say that I can make a lot of money every day, then it must be worth thousands of gold."

What he said is not nonsense. Since the popularization of distiller's yeast in the Central Plains, wine has already entered the homes of ordinary people. Whether it is a prince or aristocrat, or ordinary people, they will have a drink after dinner.

Alcohol, as ubiquitous as it is, has a fatal flaw.

That is, due to the constraints of brewing technology, it is impossible to produce high-alcohol wine, most of which are mainly brewed from grains and fruits. The alcohol content is very low, basically not exceeding ten degrees, and there are many impurities.

This kind of wine not only tastes bad, but also is not easy to store for a long time, and it is easy to deteriorate the taste.

And high-purity liquor has a better taste. Those are actually secondary. The biggest advantage is that it is convenient for long-term storage.

After all, this alcohol content is high, so there is no need to worry about the growth of bacteria.

In this way, this wine has the attributes of a long-term trade commodity. Like silk and pottery, it can be sold not only to the prosperous Guanzhong area, but also to the difficult borders, Liaodong, grasslands, and Western Regions.

Especially in the grasslands that are far away from the Central Plains and where materials are relatively scarce, they prefer this kind of ordinary wine that will go bad in a year compared to the first half of the year. A white wine that warms you up with just one sip.

Therefore, with the increasing prosperity of the trading business in the future, it is naturally not difficult to make money every day.

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Bai Su came to Shaofu with Hu Yan. As Daxia's workshop, it has the world's top craftsmen. It is not difficult for them to make some distillation equipment according to the blueprints.

It didn't take long for the appliance to be built.

He specially bought some grain wine and came back. The smell of this wine was very light, with a hint of sweetness.

Under Hu Tan's curious eyes, he poured the wine into the pot and covered the steamer on it.

Soon, the wine boiled, and the water turned into steam and came out of the main tube of the steamer, and Bai Su brought clean water and poured it on it.

After a round of steaming and cooking, the ten catties of wine was all but less than three catties. Because of the distillation, the wine at this time was not much different from the transparent white wine in the previous life.

Bai Su took a sip and found that the taste was still a bit bland, so he continued to steam. After three rounds, there was only less than a catty of wine left.

He took a sip at this moment, and couldn't help but frown, yes, it was this familiar smell.

Hu Tan saw him busy back and forth, tossing a big pot of wine just a little.

She couldn't help asking curiously: "Is what you did useful?"

Bai Su chuckled lightly: "Come on, how about you try it?"

Hu Yan didn't refuse either. The wines that are popular in the world today are very light, generally only seven or eight degrees, and even very few ten degrees, so she didn't have any scruples and took a big sip directly.

"Pfft, cough cough cough!!!"

Hu Yan was choked immediately, bent down and coughed involuntarily.

And Bai Su seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and brought the clean water that had been prepared in his hand to her.

Hu Tan took several sips of "gudong gudong", but still felt his throat burning.

Like a scalded kitten, she stuck out her tongue, looked at Bai Su with a smirk beside her, and couldn't help but lift his calf: "You... What kind of wine are you making? It's so choking."

Bai Su smiled and said, "How does it taste?"

Hu Yan rolled his eyes at him, recalled the taste just now, and said seriously: "When it enters the throat, it's hot like a fire, and when it enters the stomach, it's like a knife is being scraped."

Bai Su nodded: "As expected of Her Royal Highness, what a good name, then what Your Highness said, it should be called Burning Knife."

Hu Yan was a little speechless in his heart. Is this name so casual?

She glanced at the clear wine in the pot with lingering fear: "This wine is so strong, would anyone drink it?"

Bai Su smiled and said: "Of course, Yanzhao has been a place of bitter cold since ancient times, so if you can have a glass of wine to warm up and keep out the cold, there will naturally be a lot of people buying it. Besides, it doesn't matter if you don't like it, it's just One, and I have other flavors."

After all, the so-called Burning Knife was nothing more than the wine he bought casually, which was purified by distillation.

There are no really good wines to be made.

After all, in the era when materials are extremely scarce at the frontier, grasslands, and drinks are sold out as soon as they are pulled over, there is no need for him to be anxious for the time being to make drinks with more complex tastes.

Hu Yan asked curiously: "Bai Su, how much do you plan to sell this drink for?"

Bai Su stroked his chin: "For the time being, let's sell it for a hundred yuan a catty."

"Ah, so expensive!!!"

Hu Yan's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it.

It's no wonder she was so surprised, she followed Bai Su when he bought the wine just now, this ordinary food wine is only a few pennies a catty, but Bai Su just fiddled with it, and the price soared dozens of times.

This is simply faster than robbery, and the money comes in faster.

Bai Su chuckled, and said, "When you're on the desolate grassland at the edge of the sky filled with yellow sand, and you haven't touched a drop of wine for a whole month, if you have a jug of wine by your side, let alone a hundred pennies, it's five hundred pennies." Wen will still be bought by people."

He could not help but feel a little funny when he looked at Hu Tan's dumb, long mouth.

Da Xia has been emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business for too long, so he doesn't know how to do business at all.

In fact, this hundred essays are just the beginning.

If it wasn't that he likes to touch fish and finds it too troublesome, then he can make some more expensive drinks.

For example, specially made some kidney-reinforcing, yang-strengthening and nourishing wines, paired with some jars with more beautiful patterns, and sold them to some princes and nobles in Xianyang City, let alone a hundred coins, even one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand...

For these nobles, the price is very cheap.

"It's just a prescription, and the price has soared so much..."

Hu Yan felt that his three views had been impacted, and he stared blankly at Bai Su, as if he saw the reincarnation of a God of Wealth.

It took her a long time to come back to her senses, and there was excitement in her strange eyes: "Great, with this method of raising money, I don't have to worry about money anymore, Bai Su, come with me into the palace." See your mother."

"Why?"

When Bai Su saw that Hu Tan suddenly wanted to drag him to meet his parents, he couldn't help being stunned.

Hu Yan curled his lips: "My mother always thinks that I have a bad personality. Naturally, such a big business will not be handed over to me easily, but it will be different if you go..."

"My lord mother admires your business talent quite a lot. If you say to help me from the side, then my lord mother will naturally have no objection."

"Sometimes I wonder if you have anything to do with your mother. Her attitude towards you is even better than mine."

She turned her head angrily, and looked at Bai Su.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Bai Su's forehead, and he coughed a little guilty: "Perhaps, it's because I'm not interested in rights that His Majesty trusts me so much."

Chapter 110 Your Majesty, I'm an Honest Man

Xianyang Palace.

Hu Tan hummed the folk songs of Guanzhong, bouncing and walking ahead.

Bai Su followed closely behind, and the two walked along the high steps all the way to the main hall.

On the shelves in the hall, there are famous swords resounding throughout the Central Plains. There is the famous sword Tai'a, which was once a national treasure of Chu State and is now used as a sword for political sisters.

There is the pure Jun sword of Goujian, the former king of Yue, and the dagger of Mrs. Xu worn by Jing Ke when he went deep into Xianyang.

Among the countless collections, there is a golden scimitar that was added recently, which is the spoils captured by Meng Tian's attack on the Huns' royal court.

The swords worn by countless heroes in the past have now become collections in Xianyang Palace.

Sister Zheng sat alone in front of the table, reviewing the memorial with her eyes lowered. Her graceful and luxurious figure, set off by countless famous swords, presented a noble and inviolable feeling, as if she was the only king in the world.

Seeing Bai Su and Hu Yan coming in, Gong E lowered her head and approached Zheng Jie's ear to report.

Sister Zheng gently put down the memorial in her hand, raised her head and glanced at Bai Su, paused for a moment, couldn't help but think of the scene in the bedroom in the past, her slender hands trembled slightly.

Immediately, her face returned to normal, she looked away from Bai Su, looked at Hu Tan, and asked, "Little Bin, why are you here?"

Hu Yan bulged his cheeks, and put the drink in his hand aside: "My lord, what are you talking about, I am your favorite emperor, it is not right to come to visit my lord."

Sister Zheng's red lips curled up: "Do you think I will believe your words? Tell me, bring Bai Su with you today, is there anything you want to ask me?"