[Comprehensive Wear] It's hard to be a princess

Du Rong's poetry meeting hadn't started yet, and it died temporarily. He had to reach an agreement with Fang Ruyan first, lest Fang Ruyan turn around and throw out a copy of "Compendium of Tang Poetry and Song Ci", which would be great fun.Don't think that Fang Ruyan can't do this. Fang Ruyan herself is not famous for her poetic talents. In fact, during the early and mid-Tang Dynasty, Xu Hui and Shangguan Wan'er were really famous for their talented women, but How many poems of these two people are well-known!Perhaps they were not inferior to ordinary men at the time, but in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, they could only be said to be the lights of fireflies, dimmed by a group of poets who looked like they were hanging out.

Fang Xuanling herself is not good at poetry, although Fang Ruyan can compose poetry, but it is just a normal palace style poem, and it is enough to write lyrics according to the rhythm.

Therefore, Fang Ruyan doesn't need to create any talented girls at all. If she really falls out with Du Rong, everyone will fall apart, and then only Du Rong will be unlucky.In later generations, plagiarism still needs to bear considerable moral pressure, but in the present, the officialdom is extremely harsh on morality.Song Zhiwen wanted to keep a line of his nephew's poems for himself, but his nephew didn't like it, so he killed him directly. If he really knew that his poems were all plagiarized, he wouldn't be in the mainstream circle.

Du Rong is quite optimistic. Most of the traversers are relatively selfish. They will not be idle and make it difficult for themselves. Knowing that there are likely to be many traversers, if there is no other way To destroy the opponent humanely, then choosing to cooperate is a good decision.

Therefore, Du Rong first found a way to send a letter to Fang Ruyan, and the two agreed on a time and place to meet, and then began to wait.These days, there are not many restrictions on women going out, especially for aristocratic women. It is very normal behavior to show their faces outside, and no one will criticize them much.Fang Ruyan hadn't gone out for many days due to illness and other family matters. Today, she told Lu Shi that she wanted to go out to relax. Lu Shi not only agreed, but also gave Fang Ruyan a lot of money to let her Feel free to spend.If the money is not in hand, just ask someone to send the things to Xing Guogong to settle the bill.

Fang Ruyan is really 1 satisfied with dressing herself as an aristocratic woman. In her previous life, when she was a child, her family was a working class, and she only had a little lucky money a month. If she wanted to buy more, she would be talked about by her family , how can there be a rich spender like Lu Shi who spends casually.Therefore, she took two personal maids, and then went out in a car.

The place Du Rong chose was the West Market, which is relatively mixed with fish and dragons. In addition, the clothing materials, gold and silverware are also there, which is just right for women to go there.

The place Du Rong chose was a goldsmith's shop in the West Market. After Fang Ruyan arrived, she started shopping.The jewelry here in the West Market is actually quite interesting, because there are many barbarians coming and going here, and the gem elements from the Western Regions are beginning to be reflected in the jewelry.Although the cutting technology of gemstones these days is not as good as that of later generations, the craftsmen of these days are really craftsman spirit. If there is no diamond to cut according to a reasonable optical refraction angle, then polish these gemstones bit by bit. It is round and smooth, the luster is not the kind of dazzling, but it is also warm and radiant.

There is no girl who doesn't like jewelry. Fang Ruyan had no money in her previous life, and she wanted to save money to buy a house. Therefore, the best jewelry is bought for her on her birthday, and she rarely wears it. Except for wearing a string of transfer beads in the year of birth, at most other times, you can only wear a platinum necklace, such as diamonds and gems, just look at the gold shop, it is impossible to buy!Seeing this now, with money in hand, and Lu Shi's promise, Fang Ruyan began to move around.

After observing for a long time, she picked out a pair of gold-plated hairpins with begonia patterns, and then began to hesitate about the exquisite gold bracelets and jade bracelets.Du Rong came in at this time. He saw Fang Ruyan at a glance, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised. After all, he thought that the other party was a young girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, but he was still a half-grown girl.But after thinking about it again, I felt a little taken for granted. After all, girls these days get married relatively early. If they are really seventeen or eighteen years old, they probably have children.

Fang Ruyan didn't pay attention to Du Rong's existence either. She suddenly thought that her life was different from her previous life, and she could want them all. Therefore, not only did she want the hairpin, ring, hairpin and bracelet that she valued just now, but she also chose an extra one. As for the silver incense ball, he ordered: "Wrap these up for me, and send them to Duke Xing's mansion!"

Although this goldsmith's business has been doing well, there are still not many such big customers. He nodded and quickly counted the ones that Fang Ruyan selected. A tortoiseshell mother-of-pearl dressing box puts those jewelry into categories.

Du Rong was envious and jealous, this is called a big dog, he was born in Jingzhao Du's family, the family is actually well-off in this era, but before buying some barbecue spices, he spent almost all the money in his purse It's clean, these days it's all about taking the small money from Duke Cai's mansion, so I don't have the confidence to say that I want it all.From the looks of it, the Fang family is much richer than the Du family!

This is a natural thing. Although the Du family can be regarded as a family of officials, the Jingzhao Du family also has a large population. It was also affected by the war before. Even after the founding of the country, because it has made a lot of contributions , Li Shimin also gave a lot of rewards, but if you really want to say how much money you can give, that's really not enough.But the Fang family is different. The Fang family is much stronger than the Du family in the family lineage, and has accumulated more savings over the years. The Lu family's dowry is also rich and good at management. Therefore, the mansion has always been quite affluent.

At this moment, Du Rong has already started to make small calculations in his heart. He planned to make a fuss about briquettes, but with the financial resources of the Du family, he really couldn't afford many coal mines. Now a little rich woman and the Fang family behind him, Fang Mou and Du decided to join forces, even Li Shimin would have no face to cut him off, now it's safe.

Therefore, Du Rong walked over and said with a smile: "Listening to what Miss said just now, Miss is from Duke Xing's residence?"

Fang Ruyan put on a ladylike appearance: "Exactly, who is this young master?"

Du Rong said with a smile: "I'm Jingzhao Du Rong!"

Fang Ruyan pretended to be pleasantly surprised: "Is it Mr. Du from 'Beauty Dances Like a Lotus'?"

If ordinary people praised it like this, Du Rong's tail would be raised right now, but the one who praised it was also a time-traveling woman. Du Rong felt extremely embarrassed, and he quickly said: "Just laugh at me!"

The two maids beside Fang Ruyan thought Du Rong was a little frivolous at first, but when they heard that it was Du Rong, their eyes immediately lit up. Who doesn't think of a gifted scholar or beautiful woman these days?Therefore, the eyes looking at Du Rong are a little eager now.

Du Rong became more and more embarrassed, he quickly said: "If Miss Fang doesn't dislike it, why don't we have a cup of tea together?"

Fang Ruyan also smiled and said: "So you want it!"

There is a tea shop diagonally across from the Gold Ware Shop. The tea soup these days is quite different from that of later generations, but it’s okay to say it’s unpalatable, because you can choose what to add to the tea soup.If you just add some ginger and honey, this is actually ginger tea.Actually drinking fried tea was already a thing in the Ming Dynasty. The cost of group tea was high. In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, it was a waste of money and people. Therefore, tributes such as dragon and phoenix group tea were canceled at that time, and fried tea was used instead. After that, it became popular.In fact, the level of processing of tuancha these days is not bad. It is then crushed into tea foam with a roller, and then sifted. This is what later generations call matcha. But the taste is not bad. If you add some milk, this is a serious milk tea, so there is nothing you can't get used to.

Because it is not easy for people to know what the two said, so when the two arrived at the tea shop, they simply asked for a private room. Fortunately, this is not the kind of closed private room, it is just separated by a screen, and the inside can be seen from the outside. Therefore, Fang Ruyan asked the two maids to drink tea outside, and sat opposite Du Rong by herself.

The two made tea there by themselves, and then started chatting. At first, they didn't mention anything about time travel. Instead, they praised each other. One said that the other's poems and books were excellent, and the other said that the other's painting skills were ingenious. Then each of them felt a little embarrassed.

In the end, it was Du Rong who lost his temper. He sighed: "Miss Fang, you are lucky. As the prime minister's daughter, you can be carefree in the future. At least there is nothing to worry about for more than twenty years. It's going to be different!" Speaking of this, he was really a little worried, compared to Fang Xuanling's relative longevity, Du Ruhui couldn't last for a few more years.Du Rong still doesn't see anything wrong with Du Ruhui's body now. After all, Du Rong is not a doctor. In fact, even if he is a doctor, only his elder brother Bian Que said has the kind of incurable disease. sickness.Therefore, it was only a few years before Du Ruhui could shield him from the wind and rain. If he could not stand out in these few years, then, naturally, the resources of Duke Cai's mansion would not fall on him.As for the Jingzhao Du family, they really don't have much ability. Even if they have, how much can they spend on Du Rong?Besides, if Du He really followed Li Chengqian to rebel, Du Rong would not know if he would be implicated by then!

Fang Ruyan wanted to beat this guy who stood up and talked without back pain. Isn't twenty years a long time?If Mrs. Li can't change, after that, Fang Yiai's unlucky guy will be killed because of Princess Gaoyang's affairs, and Fang Yizhi can't avoid it, so he will be exiled directly. How can it be?

Fang Ruyan gritted her teeth, snorted softly, and said, "I don't know, Mr. Du is actually a person who only cares about his eyes!"

Du Rong also suddenly realized that the unlucky guy who was cuckolded by the monk was actually the younger brother of the one in front of him. He laughed and said, "If that's the case, what are your plans for the future, Miss Fang?"

Fang Ruyan said angrily: "What plans can I have? Although women's status is not bad nowadays, the marriage is still a matter of parents' orders and matchmaker's words. I can only take a step and see what plans I have. ?”

Du Rong was embarrassed for a moment, then pointed to himself, and whispered, "What does Miss Fang think of me?"

Fang Ruyan calmed down immediately, and suddenly had the illusion that she was on a blind date. She didn't beat around the bush with Du Rong, but pretended to be nonchalant, and while drinking tea, said in the same whisper: "You know if you don't have me With the appearance of the original body, who will the original body marry?"

Du Rong shook his head. If Fang Ruyan hadn't done an original game painting with Chu Tang as the background in her previous life, she really didn't know the situation, but now she knew it. She took a sip of tea, her voice was insignificant Wen: "Originally, she would marry Han Wang Li Yuanjia, who is Li Yuan's son and Li Shimin's younger brother!"

Du Rong suddenly didn't know what to say. Although Fang Ruyan didn't say anything, she actually said everything.She is the dignified daughter of Duke Xing, but the one she can match is a prince with fiefdoms and real power.What about Du Rong?Although he has some fame now, he has no official position, no title, and not much family property. How thick-skinned he is to think that he can marry Fang Xuanling's daughter?

Fang Ruyan is not used to Du Rong, she has seen this kind of man a lot, he is not very capable, but he has strong self-confidence.From Fang Ruyan's point of view, time-traveling men are less reliable than local men. In fact, local men have to abide by local moral values, like people Fang Ruyan knows, although they are not like Fang Xuanling, there is only one Lu family , there is not even a concubine, but even if there are, they are all dominated by the first wife's family. If any concubine provokes the first wife, they will be killed without discussion.But time-traveling men, that's different, they just don't take advantage of it enough.The red flags in later generations' homes do not fall, but there are many colorful flags fluttering outside. Everyone laughs at the poor but not at the prostitutes. Honest men may not be honest. They have no money, and they might spend more when they have money.Traveling to ancient times, without looking at the situation, I feel that three wives and four concubines are normal operations these days.Maybe she felt that marrying herself was an advantage before, and marrying herself later is not as beneficial as marrying a princess.Thinking about Du Rong plagiarizing someone's poems at the Orchid Winery before, Fang Ruyan knew that this girl is definitely not Liu Xiahui when she is a womanizer.If she married a local man, she could at least be able to say the same in the backyard. If she really married Du Rong, he would hook up with one every three days, and when she came back, she would really treat these inexplicable women as sisters. Wouldn't she be disgusting to death?

Therefore, Fang Ruyan simply gave Du Rong a condition that he could never meet. If you want to marry me, that's fine. The hardware meets the standard first!

Du Rong figured it out, even if he still had his golden finger, he would be able to seize the opportunity in the next crisis, and then take the credit of Li Jing, capture Xieli back and dance Huxuan dance for Li Yuan and Li Shimin, probably he would be able to seal a Hou is not bad, but compared to Li Yuanjia who was born directly at the end, it is still far behind.

Du Rong naturally understood that this was actually Fang Ruyan's intention of refusing, and he couldn't help but feel a little helpless. Fortunately, he was no longer a middle school boy in his previous life, otherwise he would have called "30 years in Hedong, 30 years" Hexi, don’t bully young people into poverty.” He pondered for a while, and then probed: “Does Miss Fang just want to follow the crowd like this? If things change in the future, what should Miss Fang do?”

Fang Ruyan didn't answer, but just asked: "Don't talk about me, just talk about yourself. With your current status, you are actually not good enough. What do you want to do? Or, would you do what?"

Fang Ruyan slowly picked up the teapot and began to pour tea for herself, and said, "Papermaking? Printing? Can you withstand the pressure? Glass? Cement? Do you have this technology? Don't tell me, you plan to rely on copying documents Goof around! Take a look at these famous ministers of the Zhenguan Dynasty. You don’t know how many years of talent you can learn just by relying on this. Can you compare with Kong Yingda and the others? Although these people are considered great Confucians, they have never been a high-ranking official. !"

Being hit by Fang Ruyan, Du Rong became more and more embarrassed: "I'm not so bad!"

Fang Ruyan snorted softly, and said, "Tell me, how do you want to become famous? Speaking of which, what did you do in your previous life?"

Du Rong was even more embarrassed. He lowered his head and began to drink tea: "Well, I was a programmer in my previous life!"

Fang Ruyan curled her lips, and in the end, she might as well be a third-rate original painter: "Okay, then, you don't have much advantage in various science and engineering skills, it's good to see that you were injured for so long before. , I don’t think there are any reliable cheats, so what’s your next plan?”

Du Rong has been hit hard by Fang Ruyan, he said honestly: "I just want to buy a few coal mines first, hoard some coal to make briquettes, and sell them when the weather is cold!"

Fang Ruyan didn't think about it. Although it was still cold when she passed through, she hadn't been exposed to cold. Most importantly, she had never seen briquettes in her previous life. She was born in the [-]th generation. Those roadside vendors all use gas tanks. If you haven't seen something before, you can't think of it.

However, Du Rongyi said that she also knew what was going on, and she thought about it: "This is a good idea. Maybe if you pass the briquette method through Cai Guogong, you can still get a title! By the way, is there anything else?"

Du Rong said angrily: "The simplest thing is to refine refined salt and sugar, but this kind of business, let alone me, I don't think my uncle can handle it!"

Fang Ruyan snorted softly, and said: "That's because you want to make money for yourself. If you submit the recipe, how could the superior treat you badly! Alright, I'll stop here for today's tea. In the future, we will see each other less often, so you just pretend you don’t know me as a fellow countryman, okay?”

Du Rong suddenly showed a look of gloating, and he said: "I don't think so, if you didn't show the hand-painted animation before, then it must be nothing, but now that you have this, it won't be long before, I'm afraid some people will figure it out Now that I got your advice, let me remind you that it’s not just the two of us who have crossed over now. As far as I know, there is another one in the countryside of Wannian County! I haven’t dealt with that one before, look His action is to start with agriculture, whether he will come to you, it's hard to say!"

Fang Ruyan suddenly became more and more depressed. Since there are already three, I'm afraid there will be more in the future. Who is the first to register a patent?Forget it, I don't care about it, I made a hand-painted animation, it shouldn't be a common skill, and she doesn't want to be a prince or minister, so there is no conflict of interest with other people, since that's the case , That’s nothing to do with me, so Fang Ruyan simply started to be salty: “Okay, anyway, I won’t get involved in these things, no matter how many fellow countrymen there are in the future, you should copy the text, you should invent, In short, don’t take me with you! However, since I got to know you first, let me remind you first, you should watch first, and make out what you can get out first, otherwise, you will come again later Others, if you want to stand out, I'm afraid it won't be easy!"

Fang Ruyan waved her sleeves, and left directly, leaving Du Rong suddenly nervous, that's right, there are only three traversers now, it seems that although this time and space is not like a sieve, it is almost the same So, I'd better see what I can do, hurry up and do it while Du Ruhui is still alive, so as not to turn around and bump into those fellow countrymen who don't know when they will appear, then maybe at that time It's embarrassing.There is no patent law these days, whoever comes up with it first will benefit!

Thinking of this, Du Rong quickly settled the bill and went back in a hurry.He was fine, he didn't bring anyone with him when he went out, and the Du family was very reassuring about him, so after he went back, he went to the study to study what he could do at this stage, but it was not so convenient for Fang Ruyan to go back Yes, although the maid beside her is loyal to her, she is also loyal to Lu Shi, not to mention there is a coachman. Therefore, not long after arriving home, Lu Shi knew that she met Du Rong when she was out shopping for jewelry. Naturally, Mrs. Lu has heard of this person. If this is Du Ruhui's own son, Mrs. Lu really has plans to get married, but he is only a family nephew. Even if he is optimistic about Du Rong's future, Mrs. Lu can't take this risk.As for her two daughters, if the eldest daughter is married to a low family background, then the second daughter will have to be lowered. If the second daughter comes to discuss marriage, it’s okay if the eldest daughter and son-in-law are already in their early years, but what if they haven’t yet?Didn't that cheat the little daughter too?

Lu was worried that her daughter would be deceived by a talented young man at such a young age, so she quickly called her over, said a few words, and asked, "I heard that you met that Du Rong today." ?”

Fang Ruyan nodded, and said: "Brother Du Shi is indeed quite talented, and his temperament is also humble, he is not a person who is proud of his talent!"

Lu's heart suddenly sank, her cabbage would not really be kicked by a wild boar, she still asked: "Yan'er, what do you think of Du Rong?"

Fang Ruyan immediately became vigilant. These days, it is very common for the aristocrats of aristocratic families to directly marry a daughter because they are interested in a certain potential stock. It is like Li Bai. He has never been a serious official in his life, but he has married several daughters-in-law , are both the daughters of the prime minister. Of course, Li Bai must be much better than Du Rong. Apart from his unsuccessful career, he has long been famous all over the world, and he has fans everywhere.However, Fang Ruyan didn't want to marry someone like Du Rong, so she said bluntly, "Daughter just drank tea with Brother Du Shi once, what can I say!"

Lu scrutinized her daughter's expression, and finally confirmed that Fang Ruyan was indeed not tempted, so she couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "I think that Du Rong, although he is quite talented in literature, may be a bit frivolous in temperament, and he can make people fool him." It won't be a worry for Ji to write poems in the future. My Yan'er will finally marry someone like you, Aye, so I won't be angry about the back house!"

Fang Ruyan nodded with a smile: "What A Niang said is true, it's because A Niang has a good eye, and she immediately fell in love with someone like Aye!"

Lu Shi was elated, and then said: "Well, I saw the jewelry sent by the goldware store before. The style is good, but the material and craftsmanship are still a bit poor. I originally planned to make some fresh jewelry for you, but there were too many things before. If you missed it, I will make it up for you later!"

Fang Ruyan's eyes lit up when she heard it. She remembered that in her previous life, when she was playing games, she spent a lot of time inquiring about the styles of various jewelry in the Tang Dynasty. She also read a report saying that Empress Wu Zetian was buried with him. There are [-] tons of jewelry. Fang Ruyan feels that she should not expect to have [-] tons, but it should not be too much to have [-] catties. Mrs. Lu came to discuss the style of her jewelry, and even took a pen, and drew some of the styles that she made when she was doing the original painting of the game. Mrs. Lu was also very interested in seeing it, so she decided to make some by herself. Although Ruyuan is young and her hair is not too much, she still needs to get some hair out first, and she called Fang Ruyuan again, and the mother and daughter had a lively discussion.

The encounter between Fang Ruyan and Du Rong was just a chance encounter. Du Rong didn't say anything when he went back, and the Fang family didn't mean it. Therefore, Feng Yu naturally didn't hear about it in the palace. Variety.

Today, green salt is used for brushing teeth, that is, the salt mined in Qinghai. This is relatively less impurity and relatively high in purity, but it is still mineral salt after all, and there are still other substances in it, so it is inevitable to be slightly bitter.As a result, on this day, Feng Yu discovered that the salt for brushing his teeth had changed, it was as white as snow, and there was almost no other peculiar smell except the salty taste.

Soon, Feng Yu knew what was going on, and Du Rong presented the method of purifying refined salt through Du Ruhui.Li Shimin asked someone to try it, not to mention the pure green salt, even the worst poisonous salt on the market, after such manipulations, it can become refined salt.If it’s simpler, filter it directly with pebbles and fine sand, and if it’s finer, get some fine charcoal to filter it, and you’ll be fine.With low cost and large output, it can reduce the dimensionality of those so-called fine salts on the market.

Li Shimin was not stingy either. Although he did not confer a title on Du Rong, he also gave him a loose official. That is to say, Du Rong will be a member of the bureaucratic class in the future, and he no longer needs to use the Jingzhao Du family and Du Ruhui to add glory to himself. I can call myself "the official" outside.

Li Shimin is really short of money, but he also knows the reason why he can't eat alone. After all, Li Shimin doesn't have many salt mines in his hands, and relying on the royal family alone, he wants to snatch the salt business from the family. Rebounded, therefore, he simply called all the heroes of the Tiance Mansion who followed him before, and gave them the method of purifying refined salt, and let them discuss how to sell the salt by themselves.Of course, this method is not free, each family has to pay a salt tax every year according to the sales volume.

Even if you have to pay extra taxes, it is a great thing for these ministers. In the past, ordinary people could only use vinegar cloth, and even the army could only use vinegar cloth, but it does not mean that they do not want to eat salt. , it is nothing more than the low salt production, most of which are poisonous mineral salts, the origin of green salt is too far from the Central Plains, and it is still on the territory of Tubo Tuyuhun, the price of transporting it is too expensive, and the Jiangnan side of Shandong is because It is close to the sea, and salt is also produced, but that is the territory of the gentry, and they now monopolize the salt industry of the Tang Dynasty, and they will not share any benefits with them, the Guanlong nobles.

Now with this purification technology, what is consumed is sandstone charcoal, and it can be reused after washing, which is equivalent to no cost. As for the labor cost, it cannot be cheaper these days. It is absolutely possible to lower the price of salt to the point where it is even lower than vinegar cloth. In this way, there will be at least tens of millions of people who need to buy salt in the world. The more people do manual labor, the more they need to supplement salt. In this way, how much benefit should it be?Therefore, a group of founding ministers were so excited that their eyes glowed, and their eyeballs almost turned into the shape of Kaiyuan Tongbao. After they took the prescription, they went home almost immediately to arrange it. Not long after, there appeared on the market Cheap, good-tasting salty salt, cheap coarse salt that has not been filtered by charcoal, you can buy a catty for five dollars, that is, half a bucket of rice can be exchanged for a catty of salt, which naturally triggered a panic buying wave. The snowflake salt that is as white as snow and not too expensive, suddenly, the salt from the Shandong gentry and even the green salt shipped from the Western Regions could not be sold.It is estimated that before long, those families who have monopolized sea salt will also have to let go of sea salt mining.

After this incident, Du Rong's reputation spread among the upper echelons. In the past, he was only regarded as a talented person, but now he is a material for doing practical things. Therefore, it was a pity that Du Rong injured his hand before and could not write such perfect writing. It's no pity for Li Shimin, who is full of thin gold body, and he has no shortage of calligraphers who specialize in calligraphy. He has Ouyang Xun and Chu Suiliang by his side, and their calligraphy is extremely outstanding. Although the thin gold body is unique, Li Shimin is actually Not good for this one.Now that Du Rong is so capable in making money, Li Shimin felt no pity at once. He just wished that Du Rong would stop bothering about calligraphy and poetry, and study these practical knowledge honestly.

Sure enough, not long after, Du Rong even produced sugar. Everyone likes to drink cane pulp, but the purity of the sugar boiled from cane pulp is very low. The main reason is that there is no suitable filtering method. Since coarse salt can be filtered with sediment, it is natural It can be used to filter sucrose, so Du Rong produced white granulated sugar not long after.In terms of sweetness, the sugar of this year is definitely not as sweet as the sugar of later generations, but compared to the caramel and honey that provide sweetness now, it is really much better.Although honey is sweet, there is no such thing as artificial breeding of bees. If there are flowers blooming all year round in places like Caiyunzhinan, then it is no problem to raise bees, but there is no such condition in other places, all year round How many honey-bearing flowers can there be?The transportation is inconvenient these days, you can’t drive to chase the flowering period, and you can’t cut all the honey and feed sugar to the bees... In short, honey is an absolute luxury these days.Although caramel is relatively cheap, ordinary people are reluctant to use grain to make sugar, that is, to get some out in good years, and caramel is not as sweet as sucrose.So in comparison, the added value of sucrose is actually higher.Besides, there is no shortage of sucrose raw materials, among other things, who doesn't provide sugarcane pulp in the wine shops and even tea shops in the east and west markets?Every year, everyone stockpiles a lot of sugar cane shipped from Lingnan, but now the sugar cane is not only used to squeeze juice, but also directly used to make sugar.

The business of sucrose can't be bypassed by Feng An. This is now the local emperor of Lingnan, who is named Duke Geng. Li Shimin just happened to have been suspicious that Feng An was going to rebel. Now he can use the sucrose matter to appease Feng An.With such a credit, Du Rong went a step further and was directly named the man of the founding county.

At this moment, even Mrs. Lu's heart was a little moved. In just a few months, he has changed from an ordinary commoner to a founding county man. It is estimated that after a few more years, it will not be a problem to be named an earl. My own daughter.

It's not just Lu who thinks that way, there are actually a lot of people who are thinking about Du Rong. After all, there are many people who can write poems and articles, but poems and articles are not cheap. Maybe those aristocratic families pay more attention to this, and they are very able to write poems. To hype up a person's reputation and promote him as a celebrity, even if he is not an official, he can still be famous all over the world and bring enough benefits to the aristocratic family.But for these honorable ministers who founded the country, the situation is different. They are actually from humble backgrounds, and their ancestors may have been officials, but they were all low-level officials. If they have gained enough military merit in the war, then their upper limit is officials like county lieutenants in the county, and it is almost impossible to go further.Therefore, they actually value benefits more.

Du Rong's family is actually very simple. Jingzhao Du's family is a big family. Du Rong's family is regarded as a small landlord in the family. The family population is simple and life is not bad, but the help they can bring to him is very limited, so , Du Rong wanted to get ahead, so he had no choice but to come and join Du Ruhui.But Du Ruhui couldn't ignore his own son and focus on pushing him as a nephew!So, if Du Rong was really turned into his own son-in-law, wouldn't the benefits be better than now?They don't need to monopolize, they just need to take the lead.Just like the current Du family, they directly occupy a large area of ​​Guanzhong in the salt business, and there are three years of tax-free privileges, which is a lot of money. With this, the Jingzhao Du family can at least train a group of scholars come out.

Therefore, all of a sudden, Cai Guogong's mansion became full of people. Of course, at the beginning, everyone would definitely not throw their own daughters in. From the beginning, they were the family's nieces, nieces and so on.

Du Rong's eyes are now higher. Thinking of Fang Ruyan's words before, Du Rong pondered, if he wants a family background enough to help his wife, then he should go further, so Du Rong is very happy. He quickly set his sights on something that might allow him to reach the sky in one step.

Du Rong was so busy here that he kept his feet on the ground, ordering the craftsmen of the Du family around. On the Wannian County side, after Zhao Hao discovered the existence of refined salt and white sugar in the market, he quickly figured out that Du Rong was also a traverser.But it's also time travel. He was a relative of the Duke's Mansion at the beginning, but he himself was a fool. He finally became a fool, and was almost regarded as a monster. For this reason, he had to give up his huge family property.

He was right in thinking about raising pigs to make money. For example, in the historical records, Gongsun Hong lived by herding pigs at sea, but he never thought that the pig breeds in the Central Plains are completely different from those in later generations. It is impossible not to keep them for two or three years now, even after eunuching, and the time will not be shortened much.Fortunately, the Zhao family is not in a hurry. After all, they still have a lot of savings in their hands. Their son is smart. Now he is raising pigs and studying at the same time. Maybe he can become a petty official in the future, which is better than being a businessman. Like the previous thing, really If they encounter difficult ones, the Zhao family might really be forced to ruin their family.Therefore, no matter how much money you have, you still have to be an official.

Now that he knew about the things in the market, Zhao Hao also became anxious, don't make it so that Du Rong has already taken the lead before his pigs are raised, isn't this a trick for himself!