I was a prince in ancient times

Lu Chengjie wrote down Xie Anlan's favorite flavors, and he was not idle in the hot weather, and went out to prepare for the fructose shop under the scorching sun every day.

She came back with her face flushed from the sun all day long, and every day she went to the bathtub to wash up in a sneaky manner before appearing in front of Xie Anlan.

Lu Chengjie came out of the bath, washed off his dry body, took the handkerchief from Lu Chuyi, wiped his wet hair, closed his eyes and slightly parted his lips, the meaning was obvious.

Lu Chuyi looked at a pack of freshly made lemon candy in his hand, hesitated, "Master, do you still want to eat?"

"En." Lu Chengjiao responded, signaling Lu Chuyi to hurry up with his eyes.

Lu Chuyi reluctantly squeezed a piece of lemon candy and handed it to Lu Chengjie's lips.

A sour and astringent taste spread from his lips, Lu Chengjie frowned sourly, his hand that was wiping his hair trembled slightly, and the handkerchief almost fell to the ground.

"Princess, let me do it." Qiutang quickly picked up the handkerchief that had slipped from Lu Chengjiao's hand, and stood on her toes to help him wipe it off.

Lu Chengjie didn't insist, he found a chair and sat down, and let Qiutang carefully wipe his hair for him, savoring the sour taste between his lips and teeth.

"It doesn't taste right." After one candy was finished, Lu Chengjie shook his head, stretched out his hand and asked Lu Chuyi for another one.

Lu Chuyi looked at him tremblingly, and reluctantly took out another bag of candies.

Lu Chengjie took it and couldn't wait to throw one into his lips. This one was so sour that his little face wrinkled.

"Master, after trying so many ratios of sugar, it still doesn't work?" Lu Chuyi was really sour for Lu Chengyu. Their young master's taste was not sour, but after several days, he has been sour. Can you taste other flavors?

"No." Lu Chengjie picked up the teacup by the table, took a few sips, and said affirmatively to ease the sourness in his lips.

Lu Chu looked at the candy in his hand, and muttered, "It doesn't taste the same, no matter how you do it, it still tastes the same."

Lu Chengjie put down his teacup and looked at him, "It's different, Your Highness likes this taste, but he doesn't like this kind of thing either."

"Then what kind of flavor does the prince like?" Lu Chuyi frowned, wondering if there are many kinds of sourness.

"Your Highness likes the kind of sour taste that is slightly sour at the beginning, slightly bitter after a while, but can bring a little bit of sweet aftertaste." Lu Chengjie savored it when he secretly drank Xie Anlan's lemonade these days taste, said with a smile.

Lu Chuyi looked sad, and looked at the packs of candies on the table that had been tried by Lu Chengjie, "I'll try them one by one, until when."

"I can always try it out." Lu Chengjie pursed his lips, pushed the tried candies on the table to Qiutang who was standing aside, "Take these and share them among the servants."

"Yes." Qiutang blessed Fuli, picked up the candy on the table, and went down to share with the servants.

Although this sugar is sour, it is also sugar. The servants all know how expensive a pound of brown sugar outside is, let alone the rock sugar that the princess rewards is only for the rich and powerful. Therefore, no matter how sour the sugar, there are still plenty of People are rushing to ask for it.

After Lu Chengjie gave the order, he looked at Lu Chuyi again, thought for a while, and said, "Let them share the remaining candy from the fruit sugar shop."

"Also..." Lu Chuyi frowned and disagreed, "Master, this fruit sugar shop has only been open for a few days, and you have divided the candy several times. Of course, this candy is worthless in our hands, but in our hands Those workers’ money is worth a lot more than the wages paid to them.”

"It's just a few batches. When the taste I want comes out, I won't get points even if I want to." Lu Chengjiao is not stupid. He didn't make much candy made of lemons in total. With so many workers, one person can at most Just one or two.

One or two candies can get the workers to work hard, so it's worth it.

Even though Lu Chuyi didn't want to, but his young master said something, he had to do it as usual.

The fructose shop has only been opened for a few days, and the workers are all recruited from the common people on the outskirts of the imperial capital.

With the status of the class of scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce, it is not easy for workshops to recruit workers. Most of the people who are willing to come are still aiming at the name of the Prince Chen's Mansion.

As the Chenwang Mansion opened up more and more industries, more and more workers were needed, and Xie Anlan and Lu Chengke were not stingy people who liked to exploit, not to mention the generous wages, and there were still some workers during festivals. Additional benefits, so many people not only don't feel that there is anything wrong with surrendering their status as craftsmen, but they are also proud of being able to enter the workshop under the name of the Prince Chen's Mansion.

The fructose shop, which has only been open for a few days, has attracted attention. It is really that the treatment of this fructose shop is too good.

In just a few days, the concubine distributed sugar to the workers several times. Although the sugar was sour and astringent, it was still sweet when savored carefully.

Especially when you taste the sweetness after being sour, the sweetness is more refreshing than eating honey.

What's more, this candy is not ordinary candy, but rock candy that has been newly produced in the past two years. Rock candy is more precious than icing sugar, and few people see it.

As soon as it appeared in the hands of these workers, many businessmen gathered in the imperial capital immediately followed it.

They were not short of money, they just wanted to see rock candy, so they bought it from workers without spending much money.

After tasting it, I was amazed.

This fructose is much better than candied fruit, and it is also purer than the sweetness of candied fruit. Although the candy in the hands of the workers is sour, they heard from the worker's description that there is only a small part of the sour candy, most of which are Other fructose.

These merchants soon set their sights on other fructose.

The final result was that the fructose shop hadn't opened for a few days before Lu Chengjie received a flood of fructose orders.

Among them, businessmen from other countries placed the most orders.

Thanks to the unique natural environment of the Yong Dynasty, there are fruit trees all year round, which is not necessarily the case in other countries.

If the people of Xueguo didn't come to Yongchao, they might not see a few fruit trees from birth to death.

And fresh products such as fruits are the most difficult to transport, so businessmen from other countries want to do this kind of business, but they can't find a way. many.

Because goods such as candied fruit are not easy to store, and if they bring too much, they are also afraid of falling in their hands.

But fructose is different. They found that even in such a high temperature environment, as long as the wrapped oil paper is not peeled off and exposed to the hot sun for a day and a night, there is no sign of melting.

This means that the fructose can withstand the long distances and long journeys that they can take back to their country.

Think about it, sugar is also a precious thing in their country, and this sugar mixed with fruit flavors is even more precious.

Businessmen from other countries trembled in their hearts, they had to do this fructose business.

Holding a stack of orders in his hand, Lu Chengjie was also very surprised, and asked Lu Chuyi who was beside him, "How long has our fructose shop been open?"

"It's less than a month." The fructose shop is run by Lu Chengjie himself, and Lu Chuyi is naturally there.

"What do I think? I've been here for several years." Lu Chengke looked at the orders handed over from the sugar shop one by one, and said with a little shock that each one required a lot of money.

"This is due to the kindness of the young master." Lu Chengke didn't need to inquire about the outside world, but Lu Chuyi, as Lu Chengke's eyes and ears, had to inquire.

He was also shocked for a while when he learned that the candy that the young master gave to those workers was rushed to buy by the merchants.

After the shock, he beat the workers and fueled the flames. It is not unusual to have so many orders.

After looking through the orders one by one, Lu Chengjie shook his head, "No, the amount is too big, our workshop can't afford it, and Yongchao can't produce such a large amount of sugarcane."

Yongchao's productivity is low now, if he wants to take so many orders, he will inevitably occupy the farmland of the common people for planting, which is not advisable.

As soon as Lu Chuyi heard his young master finished speaking, his face turned pale. Indeed, when he was contributing to the flames, he only wanted to attract more people's attention, and many more people came to place orders, but he didn't think about people's livelihood.

Thinking still stays on the thinking of a businessman.

They completely forgot that their Chenwang Mansion is no longer a simple small businessman like this, but has developed into a behemoth, the kind that can shake the imperial capital by stomping their feet, and they have to think about things in the long run.

"What's the matter, you look so sad." Xie Anlan was in a good mood today. She bought a kite and played it in the palace. If there was no wind, the kite wouldn't blow up. It would be boring to play. I happened to see the master and servant discussing things in the gazebo Two, walked over with a kite smiling, but seeing Lu Chu's face turned pale, he asked a question.

"My lord." Lu Chuyi quickly saluted.

"No, no." Xie Anlan waved his hand, put the kite on the railing of the gazebo, walked to Lu Chengjiao, looked at the list in his hand, and said cheerfully, "This business is very good, what are you doing with a sad face?" .”

Without his words, Lu Chengjie first looked at the sun outside the gazebo, then at Xie Anlan's slightly sweaty face, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe off his sweat, "Is it hot?"

"It's okay," Xie Anlan fanned with a fan, pointed to the python robe on her body, and pursed her lips, "It would be fine if the clothes weren't mysterious."

Black is too heat-absorbing.

Lu Chengjiao smiled, "Your Highness, the Yong dynasty is located in the south, and the south is water, and the water is black, so the python clothes are all black. If your highness feels that the python clothes are uncomfortable, why not change it?" A regular suit."

Xie Anlan pursed her lips and looked at him, he understood the reason, but he just didn't want to change.

After a few words of persuasion, Lu Chengjiao met Xie Anlan's unwilling eyes, smiled dully, took the fan in his hand, fanned it for him, and let him go.

Sitting in this gazebo, surrounded by the lake, he calmed down, and then Lu Cheng fanned him. After a while, the heat from his body dissipated and he became cooler.

While fanning the fan, Lu Chengjie picked out the small and large orders in his hand.

Xie Anlan asked curiously, "Are you not going to pick up these?"

"No," Lu Chengjiao denied, "These are all planned for the future, and the rest are not accepted."

"Don't do big orders, it's interesting to make small orders." Xie Anlan raised a few orders with her slender fingers and raised her eyebrows.

"The workshop has not been open for a long time, one is that it can't eat, and the other is that the productivity is even lower. It can't be for the money, and it doesn't care about the life and death of the people." Lu Chengjia sighed helplessly when he said it.

Xie Anlan embraced the big unwanted orders in Lu Chengjiao's hand, calculated them one by one, and said with a smile on his face, "It's not much, just take it."

"No, no, no." Lu Chengke shook his head, "I have asked many officials and gentry to plant sugarcane in Tangfang this year, and it is not easy to have some left over to make fructose. If these lists are added, then Lingnan It is bound to occupy large-scale farmland for planting, and there are many floods in Lingnan, if there is not more food, there will be corpses everywhere in the disaster year."

"Besides, if we start this way, the orders will only increase, and we will get there." In several countries, sugar is a necessity in people's life, and once the opening is opened, countless businessmen will rush to buy it.

Xie Anlan let out a breath of steam, looked up at Lu Chengjiao with a serious face, tapped her fingertips on the stone table of the gazebo, "Who told you that sugar cane can only be planted by our people."

Lu Chengjiao narrowed his eyes slightly, followed Xie Anlan's train of thought, and frowned slightly, "You mean to find the state of Chu to plant?"

Snow country is often cold and winter is obviously not suitable, and the grassland is even more impossible. Nanyue country is not short of money, and will not do thankless things for this money. The other countries are too far away, so only Chu country is left.

Xie Anlan nodded, "Why not."

Chu State has a good terrain, summer all year round, no cold winter, many crops can be grown twice a year, but...

Lu Chengjiao pursed his lips, "Your Highness is not worried about being an enemy."

Xie Anlan laughed and said, "How can it be said to be an enemy?"

"Once they plant a large amount, the gold and silver from the Yong Dynasty will inevitably flow to Chu State. This will not only accelerate the development of Chu State, but once they stop the supply, we will definitely be restrained." Not worth it.

Xie Anlan picked out a bunch of bills from a pile of bills in his hand, put them in front of Lu Chengjiao, and tapped them with his fingers, "But we have these, and the gold and silver of the Yong Dynasty will not be reduced because of this, will it? ?"

Lu Chengjie took a look at the stack of orders that Xie Anlan picked out for him, and they were all orders from merchants from other countries.

"The first day of junior high school, the abacus." Lu Chengjia had a vague idea in his heart, and immediately asked Lu Chuyi for the abacus.

Lu Chuyi carried a pocket abacus in his sleeve all the year round, and when he heard the order, he immediately took it out and handed it over respectfully.

Lu Chengjiao's thin knuckles pressed on the small abacus, which looked very beautiful, and moved quickly.

Xie Anlan waved the fan in a calm manner, so that both of them could feel the cool breeze, watching him burying his head in his calculations comfortably.

"If the candy can be sold at a high price in other countries, it can perfectly offset the gold and silver circulating in the Chu country, and even make you rich." After Lu Chengjie calculated it, it was not surprising to come to this conclusion, but he had a vague feeling in his heart Still a little unhappy.

There is always a feeling that Chu is helping Chu, and Chu is not weaker than their Yong Dynasty. They have a lot of food and maintain good relations with the Grassland Department and Snow Country. Once they become stronger, they will be the first to follow It must be Yong Dynasty.

Xie Anlan saw his gloomy brows, guessed what he was thinking, and lightly stroked the word "candy" on the order with her fingertips, leaving a line of eye-catching scratches, "Don't you still have candy, take it out Gold and silver, and candy can be exchanged for it.”

Lu Chengjiao's eyes paused for a moment. Although it can be done in this way, there are still a lot of difficulties in it.

"Don't be afraid, do it boldly." Xie Anlan tapped Lu Chengjiao's palm with the tip of his fan, giving him confidence.

Lu Chengjie clenched his hands, tilted his head and thought for a while, "I'm not afraid, I'm just thinking that His Highness's hand seems to be used in other places."

"Huh?" Xie Anlan seemed puzzled, but also surprised that he could think of it so quickly, and was startled.

Lu Chengjie said with burning eyes, "As long as businessmen from other countries continue to supply Yongchao with processable things like sugarcane, and we sell the processed finished products to them at a high price, will we be able to reduce the financial resources of other countries in the long run? As the products of the Yong Dynasty become more and more abundant, other countries will be inseparable from the supply of our Yong Dynasty, and they will be able to attach themselves to the Yong Dynasty invisibly, so as to achieve victory without fighting."

"That's right." Xie Anlan nodded, "But this can't be done in a few years, it will take a long time, and it will take a long time until someone as smart as you doesn't appear in other countries."

Lu Chengjiao raised his eyes slightly, "As long as Yongchao can take advantage of the opportunity and become stronger again during this period, then there is no need to be afraid. Besides, businessmen are chasing profits. This business digs the corner of the country's wall and pockets the businessman's pockets." , even with that smart man, how could those businessmen allow someone to kill his chickens."

As soon as Lu Chengjie said the word chicken, Jin Jin, who was looking for food by the side of the pavilion, immediately stretched his neck, clucking, clucking, clucking, clucking non-stop.

It made Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjie laugh together.

After laughing, Lu Chengjie collected all the orders and said to Lu Chu, "Go and contact more merchants from Chu."

Lu Chuyi was listening to the conversation between Lu Chengjia and Xie Anlan, and was already stunned. He even dared not look directly at the little candy.

Is that candy?

Those are the young master and the prince's thousands of troops, and if they are thrown down, other countries can be destroyed without attack.

When Lu Chuyi left, he thought for a while and said, "In this way, the fructose candy shop is still small. Do you want to expand it?"

"Expand it." Lu Chengjiao nodded.

"That's good." Lu Chuyi smiled happily. He didn't understand the important affairs of his family and country, but he understood that he was asked to make his business bigger and wider, so he went down to do it with excitement.

Lu Chengjie glanced at the conspicuous kite placed on the pavilion fence, and asked Xie Anlan, "Your Highness, are you still playing?"

"I'm not playing anymore, there's no wind." Xie Anlan stretched out his hand to check outside the gazebo, but there was only a little breeze, which couldn't be picked up.

"I'll take you to fly it." Lu Chengjie got up and picked up the kite, proudly saying.

It was rare to see him so confident, Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows, got up and followed him, to see how he could fly the kite in the summer.

then……

The two climbed up the wall to the roof of Chenwang Mansion, and Xie Anlan's heart raised his throat when he saw Lu Chengjiao running on the roof and flying a kite, for fear that his feet would slip and fall off.

"Don't let it go, take the boat." Xie Anlan sat on the roof, looking down with a little trembling hands and feet.

At this moment, Lu Chengjie had already flown the kite. Although it wasn't flying very high, at least it looked like it was flying from the ground. He pulled the string and came to Xie Anlan's side, and handed the spool to Xie Anlan.

Xie Anlan looked at the kite that was flying on the ground about the same height as him, and was speechless for a while, "That's what you said to fly a kite, don't die."

"It's okay, the Chenwang Mansion has only been refurbished not long ago, and it is solid." Lu Chengjie clapped his hands, and sat side by side with Xie Anlan, watching the sunset that was about to set in the sky, and the kite that was not flying high, confidently explain.

"You really can." Xie Anlan pulled the string of the kite and glanced at the people beside him.

"Didn't His Highness want to let it go? I won't help His Highness let it go." Lu Chengjiao pretended to be innocent.

Xie Anlan was completely helpless with him, and looked at the countless eyes attracted by their kites.

Not only the servants in the mansion, but also many ordinary people passing by outside the mansion were watching. They curled up their lips and said with a smile, "You fly the kite in a high-profile way."

Lu Chengjiao looked down, he didn't see those curious common people and servants, but instead saw the hidden guards hiding on the beams and between the eaves.

At this moment, the hidden guards were also looking at them quietly, and caught Lu Chengjiao's eyes unexpectedly, and Lu Chengjiao smiled at them.

Xie Anlan followed his gaze and raised her eyebrows, "Why did you fall in love with my hidden guard?"

Lu Chengjie looked away, and gently pinched the back of Xie Anlan's hand.

Xie Anlan was just joking with him, but didn't take it seriously. Watching the sunset gradually turn red, she handed the kite spool into Lu Chengjie's hand, and stood up tremblingly.

"Wait for me here for a while, I'll go get something." Xie Anlan said while supporting Lu Chengjiao's shoulder.

"Whatever Your Highness wants, I'll go get it." Seeing that Xie Anlan's feet were flabbergasted, Lu Chengjia said worriedly.

"It's okay, I'll just get used to it." Xie Anlan wasn't afraid of heights, but he hadn't climbed this high for a long time, so he felt uncomfortable for a while. After moving his hands and feet, he slowly turned down the way he came up.

Xie Anlan first went to the storeroom to pick up a glass jar filled with lemon peel, then ordered someone to find some small bamboo tubes, fiddled with it in the kitchen by herself for a while, and when she came out again, there was only one filled with water in her hand. Glass jars and several thin bamboo tubes of different lengths.

Carrying these things, he slowly climbed up to the roof, and just halfway through the climb, a familiar hand stretched out, Xie Anlan put it on it without thinking, and used his strength to get on the roof.

"Drink?" Lu Chengjia asked after seeing clearly what Xie Anlan was holding.

He saw Xie Anlan go to the kitchen on the roof just now.

"No." Xie Anlan denied, put the bamboo tube between her knees, slowly twisted open the glass bottle, and a very strong lemon fragrance came out, with a little bit of soapy fragrance.

Xie Anlan handed the glass bottle to the curious Lu Chengjie, dipped the bamboo tube in it, brought it to his lips and blew gently, and transparent and fragile bubbles came out of the bamboo tube after a while.

Under the refraction of the light, it emits colorful brilliance, or falls slowly from the roof, or is blown in the air by the breeze, which is very beautiful.

"Pretty?" Xie Anlan asked with a smile at Shang Lu Chengjia's beautiful and shining eyes.

"Pretty." Lu Chengjia nodded undeniably.

"Here you are." Xie Anlan shared one of the bamboo pipes in his hand with Lu Chengjiao, and the two of them sat on the roof blowing bubbles to play with the setting sun.

The kite on the side had already fallen down, hanging on the roof without anyone paying attention.

"Does lemon and soap have this effect?" The two blew for a while, and a lot of colorful bubbles gathered around them, some of which floated out with the wind, attracting some children outside Chenwang's mansion, scrambling to be below. Touching to play, Lu Chengjia couldn't help asking curiously.

"It's not that simple." Xie Anlan stretched out her finger and popped a bubble, "This is a fresh cleanser I made with lemon peel and added a little soap."

It was not the first time for Lu Chengjie to hear about cleaning agents. Hearing Xie Anlan's words, there was no surprise on his face, and he asked a little curiously, "What does the cleaning agent do?"

"It's the same as soap, but it can't be used on the body. It can be used to wash dishes and laundry." Xie Anlan explained.

Lu Chengjiao nodded, and asked again, "Did you use a lot of lemons that time?"

"Not much, one can can be used repeatedly for a long time." Xie Anlan took a bamboo tube and dipped it in some water, and tapped it on Lu Chengjie's nose.

Lu Chengjie didn't mind, blowing bubbles and laughing, "Then the cost is much cheaper than soap."

"En." Xie Anlan responded, pinching her chin and watching Lu Chengjie blowing bubbles comfortably.

Sensing Xie Anlan's gaze, Lu Chengjie turned his head and smiled at him. At that time, the afterglow of the setting sun was falling on his face, reflecting his infinitely bright smile.

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