The wind blows through Qujiang Pond, making the calm water surface sparkle.
Li Tai looked at the cards in his hand with bloodshot eyes, then looked at the four cards in Zhang Yang's hand, and hesitantly played three fives.
"I don't believe you have a bomb in your hand!" Li Tai jumped to his feet and said loudly.
"Four sevens! Explode!" Zhang Yang took out the cards in his hand.
"Gan!" Li Tai shook the cards in his hand and gritted his teeth.
Playing cards can promote language communication. Li Tai can even say the modal particle "gan".
The little fat guy has made great progress.
Playing cards can also promote emotional communication. For example, Li Tai is now anxious about counting money and wants to break off the relationship.
Zhang Yang took out a piece of cloth from his arms and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei has been losing money playing cards today. On November 7, the fourth year of Zhenguan..."
Seeing Zhang Yang finish writing, Li Tai said: "Have you been ready for this?"
Zhang Yang said with emotion: "Just in case of emergencies, especially when playing cards with His Highness the King of Wei."
"No more playing!"
Li Tai stood up and walked to Qujiang Pond.
Zhang Yang continued to count the money sent by Li Tai, which was the dividend from the soap business.
Nowadays, most of the scented soaps are sold out in the market. Li Tai still has some of them, but he plans to sell them at a high price.
Pieces of silver cakes were included in the package, and the weight was very gratifying.
Li Tai lowered his head and said: "The father, the queen, and the queen still knew about the soap business. Now the business belongs to the mother, but your share remains unchanged."
It doesn't matter who owns the business, the main thing is the dividends.
I have the mindset that I can make a fortune, and it doesn’t matter who the owner is.
Cheng Chumo gnawed on a leg of lamb without saying a word.
The three of them each have their own concerns.
After a while, Li Tai said: "Do you think I am useless?"
Zhang Yang grinned and waved his hands: "His Royal Highness, King Wei, can help me earn so much money, which is very impressive."
Li Tai said melancholy, "I can't do anything as good as the prince. My father has let the prince take charge of the government. My father was not so partial in the past. Maybe I have done too many wrong things recently."
After speaking, he looked at Zhang Yang who was still counting the silver cakes. Li Tai said aggrievedly: "Are you listening to what I am saying?"
After putting away the silver cake, Zhang Yang put his hands in his sleeves and asked Xiang Cheng Chumo, "How is that Japanese monk?"
Cheng Chumo swallowed the mutton in his mouth, "I was rescued by the Tibetan envoy Lu Dongzan. I paid the government fine and now I stay in the post house all day and dare not come out."
"That's right. It seems that we will intensify our efforts in the future."
"How to increase the intensity?"
"Let the people who helped him turn against him."
"How come you turned against each other?"
"For example, this Japanese monk slept with Lu Dongzan's woman."
"..."
Cheng Chumo took a breath, "There really is a woman in Lu Dongzan's envoy team."
Li Tai blinked. Did he ignore me again? He reached out and pushed Zhang Yang, "What do you think I should do now?"
"What do you mean?"
"My father is becoming more and more optimistic about the prince, and the business has become my mother's business again."
His business was taken away, and Li Shimin fell in love with the prince. Li Tai felt that his future was dark.
Zhang Yang thought about it and said: "Actually, it's not impossible. I recently thought of doing a business."
"what business?"
Li Tai and Cheng Chumo were both interested. They could indeed make a lot of money by doing business with Zhang Yang.
Li Tai has personal experience.
Cheng Chumo has also made a lot of money recently.
Zhang Yang took out a piece of cane sugar from his arms and said, "This is the cane sugar I made myself. It has a better flavor than maltose."
Li Tai took a thumb-sized piece of sucrose and looked at it.
"Caramel is made from grain, and the production cost is high and the process is too long, but the refining of sucrose is simpler and more convenient."
Cheng Chumo also took the sucrose and looked at it. He opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue to lick it hard. He clicked his tongue and said after thinking: "It's not very sweet, I'll give it back to you!"
Looking at the sucrose he handed over, Zhang Yang saw the wet side and said with a dark face: "This is for you!"
Sugar is also one of the most indispensable nutrients needed by the human body.
Especially in the Ming and Song Dynasties, brown sugar was regarded as a tonic.
Zhang Yang said to Li Tai: "This sucrose is made from a kind of sugar cane in Lingnan, but this sugar cane is not easy to transport. I want to have people make sucrose in Lingnan first, so that it can be stored more easily, and then send the sucrose to
Chang'an, later I will tell His Highness the King of Wei how to make brown sugar."
"brown sugar?"
"It is a kind of sugar made from sucrose. It can be in powder form or block form, which is easier to store."
The soap business became my mother's business when it first started.
Li Tai understood the value of sugar, and the government controlled salt and iron, but sugar was still a rare commodity.
There isn't even much sugar in the palace now.
"I will send someone to Lingnan to take a look."
Zhang Yang handed Li Tai the secret recipe for extracting sucrose and said, "The preparation method is not difficult. A few literate people should be able to figure it out at a glance."
Having found his career goal again, Li Tai left happily.
In fact, Li Tai, a little fat guy, is still worth cultivating. The identity of King Wei is already a backer.
Zhang Yang has a plan in his mind and needs to cultivate it well. Although he is not a cash cow now, he can start fertilizing it now.
After looking at the sky, Zhang Yang said to Cheng Chumo: "Brother Chumo, I will go back first."
Cheng Chumo gnawed on the leg of lamb fiercely and nodded.
Zhang Yang returned home with the money.
Li Yue made a Kongming lantern, watched it fly higher and higher, and said, "Is this the principle of heat rising?"
Zhang Yang nodded.
"If the lifting force is greater, can people be sent to heaven?"
"It's indeed possible."
After receiving the reply, Li Yue had longing in her eyes, "If we make a very big Kongming Lantern and hang a basket under the Kongming Lantern, the two of us can go to the sky."
What an avant-garde idea, Zhang Yang sighed in his heart, this idea of his wife is the hot air balloon of future generations.
It is currently a bit difficult to implement this technology.
After teaching his young daughter-in-law physics, Zhang Yang felt a little worried for no reason. Now she was thinking about going to heaven.
"God is indeed a good ideal, but we still have to study hard."
Li Yue blinked and looked up at the sky, as if he was already yearning for it.
Hot air balloons are indeed quite romantic...
Zhang Yang scratched his head. There were many technical problems that he wanted to overcome in building a hot air balloon.
I have a headache, what should I do?
At the moment, Zhang Yang continues to tinker with some saltpeter, as hot air balloons require more hard fuel than hot air balloons.
Fireworks are better.
At least as long as you know the proportioning method and do a few experiments, you can make it with confidence.
My little daughter-in-law has never seen fireworks in her whole life.
The New Year is coming soon, and it would be a bit boring not to set off fireworks during the New Year.
Li Yue sat on the table with her two short legs dangling in the air. In her mind, she and Zhang Yang stood in a basket under the Kongming lantern, overlooking the entire city of Chang'an.
Just thinking about Li Yue made her blush again.
If you want to go to heaven, you have to study hard, huh!
Li Yue turned her attention back to the question in front of her and worked hard on it.