Chapter 59 Jincheng Fragrant Cake Coal

Wang Biao heard that He Li Bo seemed to see the moon falling, and "Teng" jumped from under the bed.

He Libo muttered, "I should also live in this store. I think I'm in the second ear room in the east."

The king wanted to open the door to find him, and He Liba grabbed him. Why are you going? I can't see it clearly outside in the middle of winter, and I don't know if it is. If you make a mistake, it's a shame.

Wang just ignored his way. He went out and saw that the light in the room had not been turned off. There seemed to be a figure. Just as he was about to ask, when he saw that the candle was blown out, his psychological hope that had just lit up was also blown out.

The person in the room at dawn has left. Wang asked the shopkeeper if he remembers what the man looked like. The shopkeeper said that he must remember the woman who was sixteen or seventeen years old. Oh, she was really handsome. The shopkeeper's daughter-in-law next to him took the account book and patted him on the head. The shopkeeper quickly smiled and said, and didn't see it clearly.

His father-in-law and mother-in-law were in a hurry. The shopkeeper really didn't see it clearly. I couldn't describe it even if I saw it clearly. Wang asked, "Can I carry such a jade on the girl's chest?" He pointed to his jade and said. The shopkeeper shook his head and didn't bring it

"Are you sure?" The king asked again.

The shopkeeper said, "I definitely didn't bring it." The shopkeeper answered very simply, and the king turned back to the room with a stone on the ground.

Wang and He Liwa were playing chess while waiting for the news of Yin Shijie. The shopkeeper suddenly got into Wang's room and looked back that everyone behind him did not follow him before greeting Wang.

Looking at the shopkeeper like this, he smiled and said, "Did the shopkeeper be beaten by his daughter-in-law? Why are you so panicked?"

He Li Bo smiled and said, "Are all the people who open the shop afraid of their daughter-in-law?" Wang knew that He Libo was talking about Lu Shenyan and also smiled.

The shopkeeper whispered, "I saw that the prince asked the girl and thought that the prince was looking for someone. The girl who left this morning was indeed not wearing jade."

Wang said that he knew. The shopkeeper sighed and said, "I didn't dare to say it in front of my daughter-in-law. The girl didn't have money for a long time. It was worth the money in the hairpin shop. I also secretly gave the girl dozens of money."

The king put down the chess pieces in his hand and turned his face to look at the shopkeeper. He Liyu said, "What do you mean?"

"Hey, I don't mean anything. I'm just chatting with the two masters. I'm afraid the girl will encounter a big deal." He said, pointing to the face near his ear and said, "This, a scar is like a new wound. I think I met a robber on the way. Alas, poor, handsome girl, broken. I can see that you two are rich men. They usually don't live in small shops like ours. I just remind you to be careful on the way. It's almost the Spring Festival, and the robbers have to celebrate the Spring Festival."

After saying that, he turned around to go out. The king shouted at him and asked He Liwa to take two taels of silver and said, "You leave these on the cupboard. If the girl comes back, give them to her for me."

He Liwa said to the shopkeeper while taking out the money, "We are not afraid of robbers. I guess even we have to be robbers to get entangled back to the capital."

The shopkeeper shrank his neck, picked up the silver and hurried back to the front yard.

He Li Bo said, "That shouldn't be the girl under the moon."

Wang wanted to have the jade protection under the moon, and there should be nothing wrong, but I don't know why I still feel uneased.

After another day, Yin Shijie came. Wang was happy at a glance. The two of them came in an ox cart, which was much more than the donkey's loading. A donkey can be three or four times as much as a donkey. And the ox cart doesn't have to walk slowly. Yin Shijie and Yu Danian can sit in the car all the way back.

I was very satisfied to look at the "flavored cake" beside the king. Two-thirds of the palm size. I don't know how these two people did it. Each of them is very smooth. When asked how the two of them did it, they said that they asked the carpenter to cut the wooden mold one by one. Seeing that they were still full of cleverness, they looked back at He Libo, who stared at him with the package in his arms. Wang's heart was funny. If it hadn't been for He Li's expression, he really couldn't afford to reward the two of them, but it was really good to be able to throw rewards casually.

That also has to be paid for money, and Wang side paid twelve pieces of one camel and three pieces in advance. The two of them said that this was also a handle now, and they paid Sanwen. Wang side smiled and said, "Take it, Yin Shijie, you send it back first. Let's do something and meet again."

Wang asked Yu Danian to carry a basket of fragrant cakes to the county government, and the fat man looked energetic. Cheng Hao saw that the king was coming, carrying a basket of gifts and didn't know what it was. The king mysteriously said that this thing was only used by Wang Sun's nobles and ministers.

Take out a piece to make a demonstration and put it in the stove. Suddenly, there was a fragrance in the room. Cheng Hao is really happy. Wang's side is not a free gift, and he will come and go often in the future.

Regardless of whether Zhang Yi was satisfied with the homework handed in by Wang Bian, Wang Bian finally returned to the capital on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. When he crossed the gate, Yin Shijie and Yu Danian looked at the ox cart and were happy. It turned out that he took 10 catties of tax. Now it's 400 catties a camel, and it's a big deal of money by smoking ten catties.

How do you know that when the officers and soldiers stopped, the king stared and didn't know me? If you don't know me, you should know the gold medal, right? Do you dare to pay taxes on things that pay tribute to the emperor?

The ox cart staggered to Wang Anshi Mansion. There were so many people on the street that Wang Bian remembered that today was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Unlike Chenzhou, Bianjing has more medical pharmaceutical agents, such as Hutou Dan, Eight Gods Tusu, and Chuyi Jiangbao, which is called wax medicine.

Wang Bian couldn't help feeling that at this time last year, he was watching the monk temple porridge on the street at this time. The poor drove away the epidemic, but this year, the Laba King was alone on the street of Bianjing.

Wang Anshi's house was very happy to hear that Wang was back. Yuan Ze ran out to meet him. The two brothers were very intimate when they met. Wang Bian met Wang Anshi and Mrs. Wu. After a brief conversation, he brought some fragrant cakes to Kaifeng Mansion. Needless to say, Lord Bao was happy. Naturally, he hadn't seen Wang for many days. He asked about the way carefully and talked about it until it was dark.

Speaking of this fragrant cake, Lord Bao said that he would go to see the emperor on the same day. It was still waiting outside the hall.

This time, Wang did not let Yu Danian carry the basket, but asked him to buy dozens of beautiful food boxes. Buy good paper alone, wrap each piece of fragrant cake in paper, and write the words "Jincheng fragrant cake" on it in small regular script. Pack it in a food box.

Wang Bian and Yuan Ze looked at Yin Shijie and Yu Danian together. When doing these jobs, Yin Shijie and Yu Danian muttered, "This cinder still need to be done like this. This paper box is much more expensive than cinder."

Wang said, "You don't understand that this is called packaging, and next time you go back, let the carpenter cut out these four words in the mold."

Yu Da Nian asked puzzledly, "What is this?"

Yin Shijie said, "Isn't there a word for the cake that comes out?"

Yu Danian said that there is no need for packaging. What he wanted to say was wrapping rice paper. Wang side looked at them working and said with a smile, "The packaging still needs to be packed, but there is no need to write on rice paper."

It's all divided, and only half of the fragrant cakes are used. Yin Shijie said, "Son, don't we give away all our fragrant cakes like this?"

Wang Zan deliberately looked very confused: "Do you want to give it away?"

Yu Danian is about to cry: "Then how much silver do you have to pay?"

Wang laughs: "Hahaha, this is the advertising fee." He said he was happy.

The two asked at the same time: Advertising? What is advertising?

Wang suddenly felt that it was interesting. There was no audience for a long time. He took a sip of water and said, "Of course, the advertisement is widely known. Look at the Hengfan made by the Beijing Shifan who sells cooked food. This is the advertising propaganda."

"Good to say," Yuan Ze said with a slap.

He Li Bo said, "I think your cookies are so crispy: "The road is wrapped up, and the fragrant cakes are put into the furnace tripod." Everyone laughed when they heard it

Yuan Ze said, "It's better to write it like this. It smells like a beam, and the Jin cake is not fragrant." The king clapped his hands and praised, right, right, right.

Yin Shijie said, "Why don't you tell me again? If there are any other advertisements, we will also learn"

Wang said, "That's a lot. It's famous for celebrities, such as Bole. Then raise the price of the horse, in the official name, such as this "Sun Diancheng Pharmacy: Chongxin Chuan: Jinan Liujia Kung Fu Needle Shop advertisement, with "buy high-class steel bars, make kung fu fine needles, do not steal work, people use it, if you are sold, don't add mercy; to make a sound, "Fengle Building" with a large amount of internal and external decoration."

Yu Danian asked, "How do we spread this fragrant cake?"

The king smiled. Which of these will he not take?

Half of the fragrant cake was used and sent to the imperial city the next day after it was loaded. Renzong was very happy to see the king. When the fragrant cake was put into the emperor's Jiulong tripod, the wood chips of the spice tree in the hanging arch hall emitted a faint fragrance.

Renzong looked at Wang's side and seemed to be stronger. He was happy. Seeing the number of fragrant cakes he reported, he asked why it was so divided. The king said that the emperor has always been sympathetic to the minister. Several ministers in the hanging arch hall smelled this for a long time and looked at the red incense cakes burned in the tripod and praised them. Hearing what he said, Renzong and the ministers all felt that Renzong rewarded the incense cakes to the ministers. Even Wang Yaochen and Liu Chang, who had slandered Di Qing before, had a share.

After letting the ministers retreat, Renzong asked Wang about his experience all the way. Every time Wang told Renzong that Renzong was always like listening to a book, which was much more wonderful than listening to a book. When Wang said about the son of Zhongyi, Renzong laughed: Nowadays, children are becoming more and more shrewd. After laughing, Renzong asked, it seems that you have gone to Yanzhou?

Wang said, "I went around. I have a deep feeling about one thing here."

Renzong asked him to talk about it, and Wang Pian said, "Although our system of raising horses is relatively sound, there are few horses, covers a large area and costs a lot. There are often conflicts between agriculture and horse ranching. Secondly, the horses of the herdsmen are not suitable for riding, every "driving to the border, freezing the dead without a fight**".

Renzong listened and nodded: "If everyone in the court has the king's opinion, it would be good to make suggestions to me."

Wang said with a smile: "I should."

Renzong wanted to add an official position again, but the king refused to accept it. Renzong specially allowed the fragrant cakes used in the palace. From next year, the exquisite "Jincheng fragrant cakes" next to the king will be specially provided according to the consistent silver per catty.

This business is indeed a lot. If you get three catties of cinders, you will have already sold the original price of a bag of whole coal.

Renzong rewarded it again, just after the king's flowers were entangled, but if the king came, he would also be rewarded. The coal mine had expenses, at least he could not move for a few months, so he had to spend money to buy a horse. Wen ultimatum took his hand and he was going to Xixia generously to find the moon.

(Note: Zhuang Zhuo: "Chicken Ribs" Volume.) Note: Gauss: "The Precious", see "All Song Poems" Volume 3229.)

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