Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

Leshan Restaurant.

After the heads of the noble families, led by the Longxi Li family, brought back their share of gold from the palace, they immediately summoned all the heads of the families living in Chang'an City.

The gold on the 160 carriages was weighed separately.

The result was just as Su Chen had expected, a total of more than 22,800 kilograms of gold, equivalent to 3.6 million copper coins.

Each family could get 280,000 copper coins, which exceeded the annual income of their families.

At this moment, the nine heads of the noble families were full of excitement, standing at the door of the restaurant waiting for the arrival of Li Shimin and others.

The eight people were divided into two rows, like welcoming guests in the restaurant.

It is not known whether it was because the emperor agreed to the appointment or because they easily earned a year's income.

A long time ago, in order to express goodwill to Su Chen, each of these noble families gave Su Chen 200,000 strings of coins, which was equivalent to their family's annual income.

The slightly inferior families even had two years' income.

Finally got the reward today...

It is noon now, and there are still a few scattered tables of diners on the first floor of the restaurant.

With the status of the family heads present, they can easily let a restaurant clear out and book it.

But they know who is behind the Leshan Restaurant.

"Everyone, the money for glass and tea has not been settled with Su Hou yet. We need to discuss it at that time." Lu Changfeng smiled and whispered to everyone present.

The price of glass is 150 coins per car, and 300 cars are less than 50 strings.

The cost of tea is more expensive. Su Chen gave a price of 100 strings per catty, and more than 300 catties of tea are 30,000 strings.

As for fine salt, it is the output of each of their families. There are also 300 carts of fine salt, and the cost is less than 800 strings.

The caravan has a total of 750 carriages, 300 carts of glass and fine salt, and the tea only needs to be scattered on the glass carriage. The other more than 100 carriages are used to carry food and drinking water for the caravan.

At the beginning, tea was purchased from Minzhou through government channels. Chang'an City and the Imperial Palace also had tea, but it was the kind of tea processed into tea powder.

Now these noble families have developed the kind of tea used in restaurants.

They also drank tea before, but it was tea powder with seasonings. It's not that they had never seen tea before.

"What the head of the Lu family said is very true!" The other heads of the families nodded in agreement.

Compared with the profit this time... that little money is insignificant.

The people of the noble families are very smart. The biggest profit this time is fine salt. They all have fine salt in their hands, but they dare not and do not want to do it alone, because fine salt is prohibited from being sold outside the domain.

Only cooperation with Su Chen can be considered legal business, otherwise it will inevitably offend the emperor and Su Chen at the same time. They are clear about the interests involved.

Not long after, Li Shimin and his party slowly walked towards the restaurant.

The heads of the noble families saw that Li Shimin and the ministers were in casual clothes, so they did not pay homage in a big way.

He bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please!"

Li Shimin nodded with a smile and bowed in return, "Thank you for waiting!"

Soon, a man who looked like a butler led the way in front and led Li Shimin and his party into the private room on the third floor.

The old king walked at the back and gave a look to Li Junxian beside him. The latter understood and walked to the back kitchen of the restaurant with several guards.

Came to a larger private room with two round tables.

"Your Majesty, please!"

Li Shanhuai took Li Shimin to a relatively empty round table.

Although the space of this private room is not small, the advantage is not obvious after placing two round tables.

Unless it is a luxurious private room exclusively for Su Chen and Princess Changle.

Su Chen and Li Chengqian sat on both sides of Li Shimin. After Li Shimin and others took their seats, Li Shanhuai took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and presented it to Li Chengqian.

Said:

"Your Highness, this is a record of the shipment of the caravan." Then Li Shanhuai took out another piece of paper.

"This is the detailed information of the gold we weighed earlier. Please take a look, Your Highness!"

The noble family is very reliable. They recorded the number of carriages and the total amount of goods in all the caravans.

After Li Chengqian browsed casually, he handed it to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin took it and threw it directly to Su Chen, looking at Li Shanhuai, and said:

"Master Li, are all the people here?" Li Shimin glanced at the heads of the noble families present, there were only eight people.

"Your Majesty, the heads of the families currently in Chang'an have all arrived. The other heads of the families are busy building cement and red brick factories, and they are not in Chang'an now."

Li Shanhuai answered respectfully.

Li Shimin nodded, intending to ask about the progress of the factory construction later, and then turned to look at Wang Defa.

The old king stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, I have ordered people to prepare the meal!"

Li Shanhuai and the others all knew the rules of the emperor's meal, so the emperor's eunuchs would be responsible for serving the dishes to the table.

And safety issues must also be strictly controlled, so there is no dish on the table now.

"Old king, did you bring beef?"Su Chen casually looked at the family records handed over by Li Shimin and found that the best-selling products in the Western Regions were fine salt and tea.

Glass could not be sold for a long time because the price was too high.

But he was in no mood to care about these things now, as he was very hungry.

"Marquis Su, five pounds of beef has been delivered to the kitchen."

Su Chen nodded, "Tell the chef to cook the beef according to the method of boiled pork slices."

The chef in the restaurant knew other new dishes, but Su Chen had not had time to teach boiled beef.

"This old servant is confused. I will go to the kitchen and tell the chef." Lao Wang bowed and left the private room.

Su Chen smiled faintly. He himself had not made boiled beef yet, so how could others know this dish?

Although the cooking steps were the same as boiled pork slices.

Just after Su Chen's stomach growled twice, the dish was finally served.

"Boy, if you're hungry, pick up your chopsticks!" Li Shimin smiled and looked at Su Chen and joked. He just heard Su Chen's stomach making a sound.

Su Chen didn't pick up his chopsticks before all the dishes were served. He smiled and said, "That's right, it's already twelve o'clock!"

"Haha, everyone pick up your chopsticks, no need to be polite!"

Eight family heads were at one table, and Li Shimin and his table were nine people.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Several family heads came to Li Shimin's table with wine cups. They said some words of gratitude and then drank the wine in the cups.

Li Shimin said a few words of encouragement and took a sip of the wine cup.

"Family heads, please return to your seats!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After a few rounds of wine, a group of family heads came over with wine cups to toast Li Shimin's table again.

Li Shanhuai stood on the side of Li Chengqian, "We would like to thank His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Marquis Su!"

No extra words, just drank it all.

Li Chengqian stood up and smiled elegantly in return, "You are so polite, all the family heads!"

He is not Li Shimin. As a junior, he must be polite in front of the elders, otherwise he will be looked down upon.

On the other side, Lu Changfeng bowed to Su Chen and said, "Lord Su, the glass that the caravan previously transported to the Western Regions... the top-grade colored glass and tea money, we will send someone to the manor later, Lord Su, do you think it's okay?"

Su Chen didn't think much about it and answered casually, "It's a small matter, Master Lu will arrange it!"

"By the way, when are you going to leave next time?"

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