Great Qin Shi Empress

==·Bedding·==

Lin Qian looked at Ying Zheng, thought for a while, and suddenly said, "I know a way that can quickly promote a group of strangers to quickly get acquainted and develop feelings for each other."

Ying Zheng looked at Lin Qian: "What?"

"Military training." Lin Qian explained, "The world school I live in includes kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university. When students go to kindergarten and elementary school, they are too young, so there is nothing wrong with them when they first enter the school. It is a special arrangement, but after entering junior high school, all children will be given military training before school officially starts."

"Junior high school and high school university, every time they step into a new school, all students will be given military training."

"Because the military training is very hard, the students who have just entered the school will generally get acquainted with their classmates after one to two weeks of military training together, and they can also develop a relatively good emotional foundation with each other."

"If you are a soldier, you will have a deeper relationship with life and training year after year."

Military training?

Ying Zheng looked at Lin Qian: "Does it mean to train together before going to the battlefield, just like Qin's military service?"

When the Qin army went to the battlefield, they also used the whole team as a unit to attack the enemy. In order to achieve a better coordination effect during the battle, they also trained people together when recruiting people for military service every year.

Although the training method may not be as systematic as modern military training, it also gave Ying Zheng an idea when Lin Qian mentioned military training.

Lin Qian nodded: "Military training generally only includes simple queue training and running training, but some schools will add more content, such as military boxing, military stab training, target training, etc."

As she spoke, she told Ying Zheng everything about standing at attention, taking a rest, turning and walking forward.

After hearing this, Ying Zheng said: "If all soldiers are really allowed to complete these trainings perfectly, the biggest advantage should be that they can be ordered and prohibited when they go to the battlefield? The physical training is not enough."

Lin Qian said with a smile: "After all, they are training students, not real soldiers. The training of soldiers is much stricter than military training."

There are also many film and television dramas with military themes in modern times. Although some of the modern military-themed film and television dramas are not entirely true, most of them are actually based on the military.

Although Lin Qian didn't watch much, she still watched several military-themed TV dramas that were popular back then.

Among them, the TV series that struggled from ordinary soldiers to special forces has been repeated many times.

After thinking about it, she simply told Ying Zheng all the training methods in that TV series.

but……

Lin Qian said with a smile: "The training method is second. If you just want those Baiyue men to fully integrate into the Qin Dynasty, ordinary military training is enough. The distance between people is really far, but if it is close It’s also really close, and sometimes two people who are unfamiliar with each other don’t get in touch with each other not because of any prejudice and estrangement, but because there is no opportunity to break the ice.”

After listening to Lin Qian's words, Ying Zheng nodded seriously.

Ying Zheng called Wei Liao and Wang Jian over, General Xun told them about the method, and asked them what they thought.

One is good at planning and the other is capable of fighting. They are not ordinary people.

Therefore, after telling them the basic training content of Ying Zheng's general training and the soldier training content mentioned by Lin Qian, the two realized the benefits of this training method almost immediately.

Wei Liao said directly: "Young and strong men have one or two months of military service every year. When they are not fighting, they can train those soldiers according to the military training you mentioned."

"The training content of ordinary soldiers mentioned by His Majesty is actually not very intensive. It may not be effective when used on ordinary people, but if it is handed over to the generals who have been stationed at the border all the year round, it can greatly improve the soldiers. The degree of tacit understanding between combat effectiveness and mutual cooperation."

"But the special forces training method you mentioned..." Wang Jian suggested based on his many years of experience in leading troops, "Ordinary soldiers may not be able to withstand such intense training. Training may not be able to sustain it at the beginning. But the training method is somewhat reasonable, and it is not impossible to promote it, but it is necessary to select sufficiently good people from among the soldiers."

Ying Zheng nodded. Lin Qian did say at the beginning that soldiers who use the latter training method are often called soldiers kings. They are all selected from millions of ordinary soldiers. Just different from ordinary people.

Seeing Ying Zheng nodding, Wei Liao immediately understood what he meant.

but……

He was a little worried: "Now is the harvest season, and it will be some time before the people start to serve in the military. According to the previous plan, we will send troops to attack Yelang and Dian this year. This series of military training methods may No effect."

Yingzheng naturally knew it too, so he said: "Nothing, first teach the latter two methods of military training to Meng Tian, ​​Li Xin and Wang Ben, and let them start training soldiers from now on; the method of military training is not in a hurry, and there is no need to promote it next year." Late."

Wei Liao and Wang Jian looked at each other and nodded in response.

When he came back in the evening, Lin Qian asked Ying Zheng, "Have you discussed with Wei Liao and General Wang Jian?"

Ying Zheng nodded: "Let Li Xin train first, and we'll talk about it after the military training."

Lin Qian nodded, and asked curiously: "Then according to your intention, the list of young and strong men who want to go to the front to earn meritorious service sent by the governor of Yuedi will be invalidated, so they don't need to go to the battlefield?"

Ying Zheng said frankly: "Currently we still focus on insurance, and we will wait two years before letting them go to the battlefield."

Almost next year, the cement roads from Xianyang to all parts of the country will be completely completed, and the people will have a bumper harvest every year. After two years of saving, the tax collected will be enough for Qin to fight for a year or two.

And as long as there are no natural or man-made disasters, the follow-up food and grass will be fully supplied.

Lin Qian was a little puzzled: Will he go to the battlefield in two years?

What other countries are there around Qin?Or, he was talking about... grassland?

She looked at Ying Zheng's expression, thought for a while, and didn't say much after all——

As long as it can be defeated, let alone the grassland, she will only fully support it even in Siberia and America.

== Prejudice ==

Ever since Ah Hu signed up at the government office to join the army, this matter has always been in his heart, and he has to go to the city to ask about it almost every day.

The county lieutenant in charge of this matter initially thought to wait for news from Xianyang, and then tell all those who signed up, but seeing Ah Hu and others coming to ask every day, they obviously had great expectations for this matter. Worried that after looking forward to it for a long time, he could only get a negative answer——

This possibility is quite large.

So after thinking about it over and over again, the county lieutenant finally told the other party about the approach of the Qin army to recruit troops nearby: "Although Xianyang has not given the result yet, you should not have too much hope. Go back and live in peace, the court After the news comes, I will inform you as soon as possible.”

Ah Hu suddenly heard the news, and the hope in his eyes dissipated instantly.

The county lieutenant couldn't bear to see it, so he couldn't help asking him: "Although you can earn meritorious service in war, but the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and you may be injured and lose your life at any time. Why are you so anxious?"

Ah Hu sighed and said, "I'm going to get married after the harvest, but I don't have much money. I only have one mu of fertile land and a few pieces of newly reclaimed wasteland. Isn't this in a hurry to earn more money to support the family?"

The county lieutenant looked at Ah Hu, pondered for a moment and then said: "If you just want to make money, there may not be other ways."

Ah Hu looked expectantly at the county lieutenant.

The county lieutenant smiled and said, "It was a good job to help the government grow grapes and make wine, but recently the illnesses of the people suffering from big bellies in Chu and Yue are basically under control, and the snails in the fields have been dried and burned. It’s clean, the area of ​​grapes can no longer be expanded, so you can’t grow grapes either.”

Ah Hu nodded again and again: "Exactly, because I went late, people didn't accept me at all."

The county lieutenant liked Ah Hu's straightforward temperament, and laughed loudly: "But the sugar cane is about to be harvested recently. This sugar cane is also a good product brought out by Gu Fenghou. It can be squeezed into sugar, but because the sugar cane was transported to Xianyang Tai Trouble also takes too much time, so after asking His Majesty for instructions, Sun Taicang plans to directly build sugar factories in Chuyue and Chuyue, and will recruit some workers at that time."

Ahu nodded again and again, and immediately signed up according to the county lieutenant's intention.

He has little land, and when the other people are busy with the harvest, he has nothing to do. He can have a job and make money.

If you want to squeeze sugar, you need to chop sugar cane, wash sugar cane, cut sugar cane, and then squeeze the juice to cook the syrup...

When the sugar factory was opened, the counties in Chuyue that opened sugar factories to extract sugar were almost filled with the fragrance of sugar every day. Every corner of the whole county was filled with the smell of sugar. Going around the sugar factory.

But no one dared to ask the price.

Only the nobles can eat sugar, and it has long left an impression in the hearts of the common people, and no one thinks they can afford it.

If you are really greedy, it is the same to break off the tender corn stalks and chew some juice in your mouth when harvesting corn. Although it is not sweeter than sugar cane, it can also sweeten your mouth and appease your gluttonous family. child.

The common people have been tortured, not to mention the people who work in the sugar factory?

Compared with the people who can make some sugar to worship the gods during the Chinese New Year when there is a good harvest, and can share some maltose with the family after the sacrifice, Ahu, the Baiyue people who have just come down the mountain, have never eaten it. sugar.

There are not many fields on the mountain that are suitable for farming. The food they grow every year can't even feed people. In addition to farming, they usually need to hunt frequently to maintain the family's life. Naturally, it is impossible to use the precious food for food. Make maltose; there are many wild fruits on Erze Mountain. Although most of the fruits are sour and unpalatable, there are always one or two fruit trees that produce sweet and sour fruits. When there are fruits, others are naturally more reluctant to use them. grain to make sugar.

However, Ah Hu just came to work to earn money, so he fell directly into such a sugar pit.

Smelling the smell of sugar and making candy every day, Ah Hu swallowed several bowls of saliva every day!

Today, Ah Hu was helping to squeeze out the juice from the sugarcane. He could not hold back the sweet smell of the sugarcane, and swallowed again with a "gudong".

The workers in the sugar factory could hear each other swallowing saliva from time to time, and they had long been used to this phenomenon, so no one tried to cover it up.

Who would have thought that just after Ahu swallowed back his saliva, he heard someone behind him suddenly say: "The taste of sugar cane looks good, it makes people drool."

Ah Hu was taken aback, and when he looked back, he found that standing behind him was the main person in charge of the sugar factory——

Sun Taicang.

During this period of time, Sun Taicang mainly watched the harvest of sugar cane in the field. Except for showing up at the sugar factory at the beginning, he never showed up again after that.Everyone is about to forget that Sun Taicang is the person in charge of the sugar factory.

Who would have thought that he would suddenly come here today?

What was even more unexpected was that after sighing, Sun Taicang actually asked Ah Hu himself if he wanted to buy candy.

Ah Hu thought that Sun Taicang saw him swallowing his saliva just now and made him angry, so he quickly shook his head in denial, apologized immediately, and said a lot of confession.

Sun Taicang was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "If you don't want to eat candy, you don't want to eat it. Why do you have to apologize? I thought that the price of this candy is not expensive, and many people will like it."

Seeing that Sun Taicang was not angry, Ah Hu was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but noticed the second half of his sentence: "Not expensive?"

Sun Taicang thought for a while: "A piece of brown sugar the size of a thumb is priced at two sugars for a dollar. It shouldn't be too expensive? The main reason is that the number of sugarcane this year is not too large. Wait until next year, and the planting area of ​​sugarcane will expand next year." , then the price of sugar will come down."

Ah Hu immediately became happy: "Just one money?"

Sun Taicang laughed, and took out a paper-wrapped candy from his clothes: "Here, it's just this big, you can buy two for the price of one. Do you need it? If you want it, go directly to the officials in the factory and buy it with money." yes?"

Ahu looked at the candy in Sun Taicang's palm, feeling a little dizzy: "Can I buy it directly?"

Sun Taicang laughed: "Of course."

This sugar is nothing more than ordinary brown sugar. The price is actually a bit expensive, but if the price is not set higher, he is worried that too many people will buy it. When the time comes, the supply will exceed the demand and it will be easy to resell.

That being the case, it might as well set the price higher from the start.

Ahu almost wanted to go to the officials in the factory to buy it immediately, but fortunately he remembered that he was still squeezing the sugarcane juice in time, so he didn't force himself to keep calm.

Sun Taicang smiled, didn't bother Ah Hu anymore, and left the sugar factory with his people.

After the people left, a circle of people surrounded Ah Hu in an instant.

Most of them were fellow clansmen who went to work with him in the sugar factory, but there were also quite a few people from Qin who came to inquire about the news because they were too curious.

Ah Hu didn't hold back, and directly repeated what Sun Taicang told him just now.

Almost instantly, an astonishing cheer broke out in the entire sugar factory.

Sun Taicang, who had walked some distance from the sugar factory, heard the voice, smiled and looked back at the gate of the sugar factory.

His attendant asked him curiously: "Sun Taicang, why did you tell the locals about the brown sugar? These sugars were sent directly to Xianyang for sale. Didn't more people buy them? Maybe, you can use this to contact some people." What about connections?"

Sun Taicang patted the attendant: "What are you thinking? The sugar cane planted in Chuyue and Yue is for sale to the common people."

The attendant was stunned: "Don't you need to transport it to Xianyang?"

Sun Taicang looked at him amusedly: "Did you forget the beet seeds that were sold to those nobles before? According to Gu Fenghou, the sugar yield of beets is higher than that of sugar cane, and they may not be able to eat them all by themselves. It will definitely be sold, we only need to transport some brown sugar to Xianyang to maintain the price of sugar, and there is no need to transport the sugar back to Xianyang."

The attendant felt a little pity, but he didn't say anything more after all.

Soon, people from all over Chuyue discovered that there was a shop selling all kinds of sugar near the county sheriff's office.

There are three main products, brown sugar, white sugar and rock sugar.

The latter two are more beautiful, and they are products that have been processed twice and three times. After the cost is raised, the price can't be kept too low, and the people obviously can't afford it. Raise the price of rock candy even more, and simply earn more money from the rich.

Ying Zheng naturally had no objection.

After the white sugar and rock sugar were put on the store and started to be sold, the common people soon discovered that the price was simply not affordable for them.

But fortunately, the brown sugar is quite cheap——

Most of the brown sugar was cut into small cubes the size of your thumb, and two of them cost only [-] yuan; in addition, there were some unformed powdered brown sugars, which cost only [-] yuan per catty.

however……

The idea that only noble people can afford sugar has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of every common people. Even if all the candies in the shop have marked prices, no one dares to try it, let alone walk into the shop to buy sugar. up.

What is even more frustrating is that the rich people in the county city suspected that the sugar in the shop was fake or unclean after finding out that the price of brown sugar in that shop was so low that no one bought it. I don't want to go to the shop to buy sugar.

In the first few days, although there were many people around the shop, the shop assistants didn't sell a single candy.

This guy is so depressed, he can't wait to yell at the guests to come in and buy sugar.

And he did.

But the result...

It wasn't until all the sugar cane in Yuedi was sent to the sugar factory to be squeezed into juice to make sugar, and Ahu and others left from the sugar factory with their wages, that there were finally customers in this shop.

It's not that Ah Hu and the others were greedy, they couldn't eat enough sugar in the sugar factory.

It’s just that most of these people are young and middle-aged people who have not yet married or have just married. They used to rely on their parents for a living and failed to give them anything in return. Now that they have made money, they naturally want to buy some rare things to give their families a taste, right?

The price of white sugar and rock sugar is high, so they can't afford it, but brown sugar is still available.

Anyway, I don’t buy a lot. Is it okay to buy a piece of brown sugar sweet mouth cut into cubes for each family member, or simply weigh half a catty and take it home and turn it into sugar water to drink?

What's more, there are young men like Ahu who are about to get married, so it would be nice to buy some candy and take it home as a bride price!

As a result, a group of young and middle-aged men came directly to the sugar shop to buy a lot of brown sugar and went home right after they left the sugar factory.

When they came out of the shop, each of them still had a paper bag in their hands.

Seeing this, the common people who ran to the sugar shop whenever they had time these days couldn't help calling out to a few people curiously: "Several strong men, stay here!"

Ah Hu and the others looked back.

Is it someone you don't know?

Ah Hu and the others looked at each other, and after confirming, they couldn't help feeling a little wary of the next life, and everyone approached Ah Hu in an instant, looking at each other warily.

But I didn't want the man to scratch his head in embarrassment: "I just want to ask, the price of this brown sugar...is it true that you can buy two yuan for one money?"

Ah Hu understood his concerns as soon as he heard it——

After all, he didn't believe that he could buy two brown sugar for one.

He immediately relaxed and frightened you, and patted his chest to promise: "Believe me, this brown sugar is really so cheap. This is the price set by Sun Taicang from Xianyang himself. Others will never dare to cheat. You don't want to I am worried that there is something wrong with this candy, we produced it ourselves, and we buy it ourselves, which is enough to show that this candy is good or bad!"

When the man heard this, he wanted to continue to ask about the situation, but he didn't want the other people who were chatting nearby to rush into the sugar shop as if they had received an order in an instant.

The man panicked, and he didn't care about other problems, he quickly thanked Ah Hu and rushed into the sugar shop.

Ah Hu and the others looked at each other, froze for a moment, and suddenly burst out laughing——

Don't these mountain people seem so difficult to get along with?

==·Looting·==

Like the people of Chuyue who were caught in the rush to buy brown sugar, there were also several counties near Xianyang.

When the newly appointed Taicang Cheng found that the beets in the field were ripe for sugar extraction, he immediately took people to the homes of the noble officials who had bought the beet seeds and told them about it.

What I told them together was the news that the imperial court would buy brown sugar.

Those people were puzzled: "Why don't you just tell me how to make sugar? We can buy it with money."

Needless to say?Of course it is because if I tell you the method of making sugar, the white sugar and rock sugar produced by the sugar factory they opened will not be able to sell at a high price!

Taicang Cheng smiled: "You are joking, how can the method of squeezing sugar be spread to the outside world?"

……

In fact, Marquis Gu Feng and Zhi Su Neishi originally thought of telling the nobles who planted sugar beets the extraction technology of brown sugar. After all, the extraction technology of brown sugar is not difficult to find, nor is it too technically difficult, and it will not affect white sugar. Selling price with rock sugar.

But the problem is that beets can only be used to extract white sugar and cannot be used to make brown sugar.

All the brown sugar sold in supermarkets in later generations are all extracted from sugar cane.

Lin Qian didn't know about it at first.

It's not that she forgot, but she didn't know from the beginning to the end that although beets can be used to produce white sugar, it is the best quality soft granulated sugar, but they can't produce brown sugar at all.

Because no matter in various videos or novels, most of them will write a lot about sugarcane, a cash crop with a long history in China, but completely ignore sugar beet, a cash crop that was only introduced to China in modern times.

No one wrote or photographed it, and Lin Qian didn't bother to check it out, so naturally he didn't know about it.

It was an accident that she knew that beets were a biennial and how they were preserved.

And Lin Qian will find that beets can't produce brown sugar. It's because she has eaten all the sugar in her hand. It just so happens that sugarcane is no longer planted here in Xianyang, and beets are fully planted, so she wants to use beets to squeeze sugar.

Then she noticed that when the beets were shredded and juiced to boil the syrup, the whole process gave off a very pungent smell.

Not only that, but the "brown sugar" extracted from beets also has a very bitter taste.

This strange taste of bitterness and sweetness is completely unpalatable, not to mention there is still some residual pungent smell. In order not to waste it, Lin Qian even had to refine all of it into white sugar.

After discovering this matter, Lin Qian immediately told Zhi Su Nei Shi about it.

Zhi Su Nei Shi was a little confused.

After asking about the specific situation in detail, he looked at Lin Qian with some helplessness: "You have hurt the old man, Gu Fenghou. We persuaded the nobles to grow beets with the reason that beets can be used to extract sugar. Originally, we also planned to use brown sugar Tell them how to extract, now you say that brown sugar cannot be extracted from beets, how can we explain to those nobles?"

This was indeed Lin Qian's mistake, she could only help others find a way.

"There is no way this year. After all, Sun Taicang probably has already started to squeeze sugar at this time. Even if we send him a letter, it is estimated that brown sugar, white sugar and rock sugar will be on sale by the time he gets it."

She thought for a while and said, "Why don't you discuss with those nobles and say that this year you can only buy beets for some reason, and next year the price of white sugar will drop, and you will tell them the production method of white sugar?"

This is also a no-brainer.

Otherwise, those nobles might not be willing to use their own fields to grow sugar beets for others, and earn hard money every year.

Zhi Su Neishi is also aware of the urination of those nobles, so he can only reluctantly give up this part of the benefits of sugar.

but……

Even if he wanted to tell these nobles how to make sugar, Ji Awanaishi didn't intend to make it too easy for them to get it.

……

The aristocrats now have some aftertaste——

Dare the imperial court treat them as suppliers of raw materials?

Although they didn't know the word "raw material supplier", they did immediately understand the meaning of Taicang Cheng's words.

Taicang Cheng's smile remained unchanged: "The land you use to grow beets is not that important. The income from growing food is not as good as growing beets. If you don't want to extract sugar from beets, you can also sell them directly to us for treatment. The official office of Shi Awanuchi, keeping you all in charge of planting sugar beets can earn more income than growing grain."

When these people heard Taicang Cheng's rascal's words, they were so angry that they wanted to throw rotten eggs in each other's faces.

however……

Taicang Cheng said directly: "If you don't want to plant beets, it's fine, just send someone to the official office that governs Su Neishi to inform you, and we won't bother you when we sell beet seeds next year."

Nobles: "..."

This is a threat, right?This is definitely a threat!

They were so angry that they almost wanted to give up this year's beet harvest and keep it in the ground as seeds, so that they would no longer be controlled by others!

It's a pity that they quickly gave up the idea in a self-defeating manner.

One, even though these nobles have been reluctant to sell beets to Ji Awanaishi, there is a considerable amount of brown sugar on the market——

It was originally used to curb the price of brown sugar.

The nobles thought that the beets in their hands were not that important to Zhi Awanaishi.

Second, they soon discovered that a catty of brown sugar can only be sold for [-] yuan in the market, and even if they produced brown sugar, they could not sell it at a higher price.

After discovering these two facts, a group of people among the nobles began to waver, thinking that it would be fine if they agreed to Taicang Cheng's request.

Just like what Taicang Cheng said, growing sugar beets is at least more profitable than growing grain.

Ordinary people can't help but want to grow beets——

When taxes are collected every year, only food is recognized, and the people have no extra land to grow cash crops.

But there are still some nobles who don't like this little money, so they think about not planting beets next year.

It's not that they can't see that beets are more valuable than food, but they are smarter and know that food is the most valuable thing in the world.

If you don't make much money, you might as well choose safer food.

Fortunately, at this time, Taicangcheng appeared again: "If the area of ​​sugar beets planted by you this year and next is large enough, next year Zhisu Neishi may not be able to tell you how to make brown sugar and white sugar."

Not only brown sugar, but even the method of making white sugar can tell them?

All the nobles cheered up.

Taicang Cheng promptly poured cold water on it: "The price of white sugar will definitely drop next year, and it won't be much more expensive than brown sugar."

The nobles didn't take it seriously——

What they thought at first was that it would be enough to get a way to make sugar.

In addition, they thought that they could not get a sugar production method before, but now they have not only achieved the expected one sugar production method, but also unexpectedly learned that they can obtain the second sugar production method. How could they still count on white sugar? Such a trivial problem as price reduction?

Ever since, all the people approached by Cheng Taicang voluntarily sold their own beets to the sugar factory under the name of Ji Awanaishi to squeeze sugar.

……

Not long after those nobles sold the beets to Taicang Cheng, a large amount of white sugar and rock sugar appeared on the market.

The price is cheap and affordable, but there are not many brown sugars with a sweet taste.

But no one sees this as a problem.

Because many people in Xianyang City have tasted the taste of sugar last year, the sugar shops in Xianyang City did not appear to be as unpopular as Yuedi after their opening. These three kinds of sugar, especially brown sugar, were listed It was snapped up by everyone.

It didn't take long for the brown sugar to be sold out.

But the business of the sugar shop did not decline, because after the common people who bought brown sugar faded away, those nobles who were not very interested in cheap brown sugar finally sent people to the sugar shop.

There are not many of them, but the number of purchases is quite large.

Almost every person who enters a sugar store buys a minimum of ten catties of white sugar and rock sugar, and even buys more.

== Taste ==

As a person who has a share in the sugar store business and also likes desserts very much, Lin Qian naturally appeared in the sugar store immediately after hearing that brown sugar was starting to be sold in the market.

However, there are really too many customers in the sugar shop.

Lin Qian was stunned and couldn't squeeze in. Even the Seventh Princess beside her squeezed herself into a chicken coop and retreated resentfully.

There is no way, the fighting power of the people is really too strong.

Lin Qian had no choice but to go back home, and after hearing that the first batch of brown sugar transported by Chu Yue was sold out, he strolled down the street again.

After entering the sugar shop, Lin Qian saw the wooden lattice that had been sold out at a glance——

It was originally filled with brown sugar.

Then I saw the little rock sugar left and the white sugar that was still a lot left.

Lin Qian was a little puzzled: "Why is there so much white sugar left?"

That guy also knew Lin Qian, and when she saw her question, he immediately came up and explained: "Because many people think that only rock sugar is enough this year, and white sugar can wait until next year to buy."

White granulated sugar is not very popular compared to rock sugar because Taicang Cheng revealed that "the price may be lowered next year".

In the final analysis, it is the fear of losing money.

The guy said with a smile: "Don't worry Gu Fenghou, Zhi Su Nei Shi said, it's okay if this white sugar can't be sold."

The corner of Lin Qian's mouth twitched——

Is it okay?Those nobles were unwilling to buy white granulated sugar, and the white granulated sugar would be transported back to the sugar factory for further processing, and then turned into rock sugar and sold to them at a high price.

Anyway, this product will not fall into their hands.

Lin Qian shook his head with a smile, weighed two catties of white sugar casually, and returned to Xianyang Palace.

Recently, it was the harvest time for the people, and the officials who governed millet internal history were extremely busy, but because the harvest was too important to the whole country, usually everything had to give way to the people's harvest at this time.

As a result, Lin Qian became idle instead.

When she was free, she would have time to worry about her own affairs.

For example, make a few cups of milk tea, make some desserts, or make some candies that make people feel happy after eating.

What's more, it was almost the Chinese New Year, and Lin Qian also wanted to make some candies to eat during the Chinese New Year: during the Warring States Period, supplies were too scarce, and she hadn't prepared the New Year's goods herself.

Because of his illness, Lin Qian has always liked sweets, especially all kinds of hard candies and soft candies.

Hard candy is easier to make. Generally, it is enough to add some juice directly when you first squeeze the juice. Although the taste may not be as strong and sweet as the one with food additives, it is still very delicious.

For fudge, it's a little more complicated.

Just during this time, when the grapefruits were ripe, Lin Qian asked someone to pick a few grapefruits for himself.

It may be because the domestication has not yet been completed, and the pulp of pomelo is not particularly delicious.

But Lin Qian didn't throw it away, but prepared to use it to make honey grapefruit tea.

But what she really wanted was never the pulp of the pomelo, but the sponge-like soft pulp between the pomelo shell and the flesh.

Remove the pulp from the skin and cut it into small pieces, wash it, squeeze out the water and put it aside, pour white sugar (rock sugar is better) into the pot, add a certain proportion of water and cook to melt, then pour the grapefruit pulp into the Stir fry it continuously, wait until the water is completely dry, and some white frosting has precipitated on the edge of the pot and the flesh of the melon, then take it out and eat it.

This grapefruit fudge tastes soft and bouncy, and because the taste is mixed with the fragrance of grapefruit, it is not greasy. Lin Qian likes it very much.

After making the honey citron tea, Lin Qian went back to the palace with two kinds of food.

Ying Zheng was still dealing with government affairs, with a cup of tea beside him.

He loves sugarcane juice very much, but he seems to prefer the taste of green tea, and it is the kind of green tea that is fried from bud tips and not too bitter.

Lin Qian is willing to take a sip or two occasionally.

She sat directly next to Ying Zheng, put the teacup in his hand aside, asked someone to fetch two cups and made two cups of honey grapefruit tea, filled another plate of grapefruit jelly, and enjoyed it leisurely beside him Life.

Ying Zheng was concentrating on government affairs, when he suddenly smelled the fragrance and sweetness of grapefruit, he couldn't help but look up.

Seeing that it was Lin Qian, he felt helpless: "It really is you."

But apart from Lin Qian, no one else dared to sit beside him so loudly.

Lin Qian smiled, and pushed the honey citron tea in front of Ying Zheng: "Drink it, it tastes good."

Ying Zheng picked up the cup and took a sip: "It tastes really good."

Lin Qian smiled, picked up another piece of grapefruit jelly candy and stuffed it into Ying Zheng's mouth: "This is the grapefruit jelly candy I just made. It is my favorite kind of candy. You should try it too."

Ying Zheng was a little helpless, but after taking a few bites, his eyes lit up a little: "This kind of candy tastes better than rock candy."

As he spoke, he took another piece of fudge and put it in his mouth.

Seeing this, Lin Qian simply lay down on the table and watched Ying Zheng eat, and occasionally picked up a cup to drink tea.

Ying Zheng ate a few and stopped eating. He picked up his teacup and took a sip.

Meeting Lin Qian's gaze, Ying Zheng smiled helplessly, and then immersed himself in government affairs again.

Lin Qian had nothing to do today, and originally planned to accompany Ying Zheng to deal with government affairs. After all, the two of them had their own business to do, and they didn't have much time to get along and cultivate their relationship except for their rest at night.

Relationships are always to be maintained.

But unexpectedly, not long after Lin Qian stayed by Ying Zheng's side, the Seventh Princess quietly whispered into her ear, "Ma'am, Lin Mo is back."

Lin Qian paused and stood up suddenly.

Ying Zheng looked up suspiciously: "But what happened?"

Lin Qian smiled and said, "Zhang Tingwei and Xiao are back after finishing their business."

Zhang Liang and Xiao were given important tasks by political commissar Ying to set up mutual markets, soap factories, and woolen factories in several border counties. After spending more than a year, they finally returned to Xianyang.

Ying Zheng paused, and suddenly said: "You