During the Zhenguan era, iced juice should not have appeared.
These days, everyone likes goat milk, yogurt, rice wine and other things. Even tea with onions, ginger, garlic and salt is not very popular, let alone juice. Fruits are not something that everyone can enjoy.
It’s a great thing to have arrived, not to mention who except the royal palace and super nobles can afford ice in the summer?
But the arrival of Li Yuanjia changed a lot of things.
Although the efficiency of making ice with saltpeter is very low, and if the amount is not enough or the purity is too low, it cannot be made at all, but sometimes you don’t have to have ice cubes to drink cold juice. As long as the saltpeter can lower the temperature of the water
After taking it down, the effect is actually similar to that of ice cubes, there is not much difference.
Therefore, in the summers of the past few years, Prince Han’s Mansion has never been short of iced juice.
Natural, fresh and nutritious.
Although there is no juicer or anything like that, making juice has become a complete chore, but since Li Yuanjia doesn't have to do it himself, Yu Niang and Chun Yan can naturally do it all.
Idle time is idle, what's wrong with sweating a little?
In the summer of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Li Yuanjia had completely brought himself into the aristocratic mentality of feudal society. He no longer felt embarrassed about letting the maids busy making a glass of juice for half an hour. In fact, there were two
When the girls were busy in the tofu shop all day and were too tired to straighten their waists, the most Li Yuanjia could do was say "Today's tofu was good" at the dining table, which was the greatest compliment to them.
If I really wanted to say thank you or something, I might scare them...
That's too far.
So when Han Shan said solemnly that iced juice appeared in the East Market and sold for ten grand a bowl, Li Yuanjia understood what he meant after a moment's thought.
Not many people know the "exclusive secret" of making ice from saltpeter!
The emperor Li Shimin must have known about it. The emperor and his concubine, the crown prince Li Chengqian, Li Yuanjia's younger brother Li Lingkui, his father-in-law Fang Xuanling, his uncle Yu Wenshi and... if they were all in Chang'an City, they should not
There will be more than ten companies! Moreover, this technology was sent by Prince Han’s Mansion. I don’t think anyone would be shameless enough to engage in this business. The little money they make is not embarrassing enough.
Seeing the astonished look on Li Yuanjia's face, Han Shan asked carefully: "Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to check? I heard that their ice is not stored in winter, but also comes out of nowhere..."
"Check? Why check?"
After listening to Han Shan's words, Li Yuanjia gave him a strange look.
"Well……"
After being stunned for a moment, Han Shan didn't know what to say.
Why check?
Of course, they need to find out where their ice cubes come from. If it has nothing to do with Prince Han's house, that's fine. If they really secretly learned the ice-making method discovered by Prince Han, then naturally they have to let them understand our king.
It’s not something to be trifled with!
In Han Shan's opinion, isn't this a matter of course?
"hehe……"
Li Yuanjia quickly guessed what Han Shan was thinking and laughed.
These days, ordinary people basically live in the soil, and if they don’t have land, they rely on crafts to survive. Therefore, blacksmiths, carpenters, and paper craftsmen all regard their craftsmanship as more important than their lives, otherwise they would not do anything about it.
Just pass it on from male to female, from within to outside, let alone something as big as making ice in the summer.
So it’s not surprising that Han Shan has such thoughts.
And what he meant was to go to Dongshi to check out the iced juice shop. If it was opened by the Fangfu or Yuwenshi and his family members, that would be fine. After all, they were all relatives and elders of Li Yuanjia, but
If it were anyone else, they could naturally be shown the anger of King Han...
But after laughing, Li Yuanjia waved his hand and said: "Okay, Old Han, it's just a method of making ice, not something very powerful... Haha, let them go."
Making ice from saltpeter is not even a technology. It is at best a natural phenomenon in this era. If Li Yuanjia wants to keep it a secret, then he might as well not take anything out of the house in his life and keep it all in his heart.
Okay. He is a prince of the Tang Dynasty, he has no shortage of food and drink, he has never thought about competing with anyone for wealth, and he cannot blatantly do business, so why should he hold it tightly in his hands?
So no matter what Han Shan thought, Li Yuanjia had no interest in pursuing this matter.
And he also knows that those who can obtain the technology of making ice with saltpeter and dare to open a store in Dongshi are probably not ordinary people. Otherwise, Han Shan would not have hesitated just now. He can't make a lot of money for such a person.
There is really no need to go to war over a small thing like money...
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After Han Shan left depressed, Li Yuanjia narrowed his eyes.
The appearance of iced juice in the East Market is actually nothing to him. A cup of juice costs ten bucks, which is not something ordinary people can afford. Even people with a small fortune may have to think carefully if they want to drink a cup. After all,
That’s the price of dozens of kilograms of grain!
Therefore, after this thing appears, it is destined to be a luxury that only a small number of people can enjoy.
And Li Yuanjia knew that there would never be too many such people in Chang'an City. In addition, saltpeter is not a particularly rare thing. Li Yuanjia also handed over the method of making ice to Fang Xuanling and his uncle. It should be done soon.
It will spread to their friends and colleagues.
In other words, this thing is actually not valuable.
But someone can get this method and dare to sell it on the East Market, which makes Li Yuanjia a little confused. If it is the work of a certain big boss, this seems a bit too stingy; but if it is a big boss,
If the servants in the boss's house leaked it, then he must be a little too courageous.
Can the unique secret book of the Prince's Mansion be sold casually?
After pondering for a long time but unable to figure out the reason, Li Yuanjia drank up the juice in the cup and simply put the matter aside.
As July approaches, now is not the time to worry about such trivial matters.
News came from Luoyang that the emperor would be driving back to Chang'an in about mid-July, and in two months' time, Li Yuanjia's filial piety period would expire.
For him, it will be a key node in this life.
Living in the Shengyefang mansion gifted by the emperor was not a big deal, because Li Yuanjia did not have high requirements for living. It was not even important that he would marry the eldest daughter of Fang Xuanling, a famous minister through the ages, because he knew that he already had a wife.
From the day he married his fiancée, Li Yuanjia had already accepted his fate. He knew that he was not qualified and had no ability to resist such an arrangement.
But the expiration of the twenty-seven-month filial piety period means that Li Yuanjia will be free.
Although it is still a limited freedom, after he has established an image of a pure and filial prince, and Li Shimin's wariness towards his brothers has been greatly reduced, this freedom is enough to ensure that Li Yuanjia can live the life he wants.