After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was another good place in the city, and the Ande Mansion actually began to buy pastries, which were nothing else, but the moon cakes made by Li Xiaoyu. On the day www.biquge.info of the Mid-Autumn Festival, many civil officials wrote a lot of witty words for Li Xiaoyu's moon cakes, so the moon cakes became popular in the capital all of a sudden.

The next day, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu discussed with Li Xiaoyu to ask for some moon cakes to give to some foreign envoys, and many literati and writers also came to his house to ask for one or two moon cakes to taste fresh.

Under the rule of the Celestial Empire, the family gate valve is indeed powerful, but they have been suppressed by the imperial power, and over time they feel that they are not as good as those royal relatives and relatives in their hearts, and the things that come out of the palace are a symbol of status, so as soon as the dim sum shop of the Ande Mansion came out, the moon cakes made by Li Xiaoyu were ridiculously expensive, one or two pieces of silver and two cakes, in the homes of ordinary people, these two pieces of silver can be exchanged for half a year's rations, but for them, the children of the gate valve, it is nothing. The birth of moon cakes suddenly pointed out a consumption direction for them.

Of course, it is not only those who are willing to buy moon cakes, but also a large number of wealthy businessmen in the capital who also come to join in the fun. After a long period of war, in the early days of the founding of the Celestial Empire, the people's livelihood withered, but a large number of merchants hoarded for profit, and many people starved to death. At the suggestion of Prime Minister Feng Liangbi, Shen Daoquan began a series of policies to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, first "to make the Jia people not allowed to ride in cars, and to impose heavy rent taxes to humiliate them", and then strictly prohibit merchants from purchasing land, these policies effectively avoided the obstacles to the recovery of the economy caused by the illegal profits of merchants.

In the end, measures such as official coinage of currency, monopoly of salt, iron and liquor, government-run trafficking, price control, and increased taxation of industrialists and merchants were also collected, which suppressed the power of wealthy merchants to a certain extent. The four identities of scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants represent their status in the country.

For example, Shen Xiao, the sixth prince who was demoted to a concubine, he made his fortune by doing business, and he was able to become the richest man in the capital area in a short period of time, which has nothing to do with his identity, if it is other ordinary people, how can he become the richest man in the capital in just a few years? Obviously, he was not suppressed by the policy of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, and he was the only rich businessman who dared to wear silk in the capital!

But the other businessmen of this Celestial Dynasty are not like Shen Xiao, although they have money, they have money and have nowhere to spend, do people live for clothing, food, shelter, and transportation? The clothing, housing, and transportation of these businessmen were suppressed by the regime, and they could only think of some tricks in eating, and Li Xiaoyu's dim sum shop couldn't help but become a good place for those businessmen. So much so that when these wealthy businessmen drank tea and talked about business, if there were not a few plates of dim sum produced in the Ande Mansion on the table, the proprietor would feel shameless.

As soon as it was past the morning (nine o'clock in the morning), Li Xiaoyu let those subordinates collect the stalls, this is the rule, you can't delay the work of the house, there are more than 300 mouths in the Ande Palace, which are divided into two kitchens, the outer kitchen is the place where those people cook, and the inner kitchen is the place where the princess and princess of the mansion and the servants who live in the inner courtyard cook.

Now the chef in the kitchen, the subordinates have special respect for Li Xiaoyu, including the chef who was uncomfortable with himself a few days ago, and they all obeyed Li Xiaoyu's orders. The reason why so many people can be subdued, in fact, is nothing more than relying on money, buying moon cakes to earn a considerable amount of money, these cooks in the back kitchen, can be busy with more than 400 moon cakes every day, this is more than 200 taels of silver, Li Xiaoyu to those subordinates each send one tael, the cook sends five taels, and she can still leave more than one hundred and eighty taels.

You must know that those subordinates only have three dollars of silver a month, and some of the minions are directly bought back, and they can earn one or two silver a day, and they all "love" Li Xiaoyu to death. The subordinates in the outer courtyard were extremely red-eyed.

"Gan Ping, in the past few days, I have seen that the people in the house are quite happy, is there any happy event?" King Ander and Kampin walked on the road one after the other.

"Back to the prince, Mrs. opened a dim sum shop in the concierge at the back door, and gave a little money to those subordinates." Gan Ping, as the big housekeeper in the house, Li Xiaoyu takes great care of him, although he is loyal to King Ande, but he has no enmity with the reward, so naturally he will not speak ill of Li Xiaoyu.

"Oh, I see, you prepare a carriage for me, I'm going to visit the Prime Minister's Mansion today."

"Lord Wang, the slave said something that he didn't like, in fact, our wife is also quite good, those young ladies from big families are pretentious, but it is better for our wives to live freely." As Gan Ping spoke, he saw that King Ande's face was a little strange.

"Alas, that girl is indeed different from them, but with the current power of the Li family, it really doesn't help me at all, if you want to blame it, the Hou Ye is not there, and his brother is really too angry!" King Ande said helplessly.

Although Gan Ping still wanted to say something, he didn't know how to speak, so he could only silently prepare a horse for King Ande.

The Prime Minister's Mansion is a house in the Brick Tower Hutong, this Brick Tower Alley is named the Brick Tower Hutong because there is a blue brick pagoda outside the Hutong, King Ande entered from the back door, and the old man who watched the Prime Minister's Mansion was familiar with the road, and the two masters and servants were introduced into the Prime Minister's Mansion with a smile.

At noon, Li Xiaoyu made a few specialty dishes, and only when they were ready did they let Qingluo send them to King Ande, but after a while, Qingluo came back with red eyes. When she entered the house and saw Li Xiaoyu, she quickly forced a smile and said, "Madam, my lord, he is busy with official business and is not in the study, so he may have gone out." ”

Li Xiaoyu knew that this girl was lying when she saw Qingluo like this, usually Qingluo always called her Miss, but today, Qingluo's tone was obviously wrong. Li Xiaoyu immediately asked seriously, "What's the matter?" Where did the prince go? ”

Qingluo's body trembled, but her tears couldn't stop flowing out and said, "Wow~ Miss, Lord Wang, he secretly went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to have a tryst with Miss Feng's family!" ”

"Who told you this? Besides, the prince and Miss Feng have a tryst, why are you crying? Li Xiaoyu really can't do anything about Qingluo, but thinking of this girl's loyalty to herself, she can't help but feel that this girl is a little cute, touching Qingluo's forehead, it really looks like a big sister comforting her little sister.

"I... I'm feeling sorry for Miss! That..... What kind of Miss Feng family can compare to our Miss, if you have no looks, if you have no skills, and you have no skills, and you steal other people's men, bah~ It's a shame that she is still a famous lady! Qingluo was crying and scolding, but Li Xiaoyu was secretly powerful in her heart, Qingluo, this girl usually wilts, is this quite a bad loss?