Today is just a market promotion, and Chen Xu doesn't know if the ice powder can be sold for 20 yuan a bowl.

And because honey is too precious, he originally raised two boxes of bees in Xiaohe Village, and after thousands of miles to Xianyang, they were divided into five cages and placed in a farmer's house outside the city for fostering, and later gave Feng Quji a box, Meng Yi also begged for a box, Chen Xu heard that the emperor could not eat honey often on weekdays, so he sent two boxes to the palace, so he only had one box of bees left.

In order to raise bees well, he specially found a few well-versed alchemists and farmers to manage bees, and according to the beekeeping methods he summarized, he told them how to find the queen bee table in the beehive, prick the many queen eggs to death with needles, and then leave one or two separate cages.

Chen Xu doesn't know about the bee cage, but it doesn't prevent him from knowing the principle of bee cage, that is, once a new queen bee is produced, the bees will inevitably start to divide the cage because of leadership problems, and the queen bee is from the special hive that produces royal jelly, and this hive is different from the honeycomb of other worker bees, covering the bottom of the hive, like peanuts are obviously much larger, the last time he went back to Xiaohe Village to get honey, he found the location of the queen bee's nest after special observation, After the two boxes of bees were transported to Xianyang, he asked people to make a few more beehives, and took advantage of the spring when the queen bee hatched, so he divided three more boxes out.

At present, many princes and princes know that Chen Xu can raise bees, and many people come to inquire, and the emperor even specially asked Shaofu to set up a department of internal officials called Bee Husbandry Order, which is responsible for beekeeping and honey, and the experience of teaching is naturally only Chen Xu.

However, this summer has passed, Daqin's first team specializing in artificial domestication of bees has been quite large, there are twenty or thirty people, guarding the palace and Chen Xu's three-cage beehives every day to study how to take honey and divide the cage, and also learned how to collect wild bee colonies in the wild, with the support of the emperor, this team has achieved remarkable results, and now has collected seven or eight cages of bees, and so on until tomorrow after the beginning of spring, a new queen bee is born, it is estimated that more than ten boxes can be divided in one go, three or five years down, it will definitely form the scale of a beekeeping factory, Then all kinds of insect and disease prevention things will naturally be slowly learned and summarized, and with the promotion of this method of artificial domestication of bees, a few years later, the whole Daqin can see the situation of artificial domestication of bees everywhere, and valuable honey will slowly become a more common nutrition and condiment in people's lives.

But at the moment, honey is definitely a luxury among luxury goods, and it is the most expensive ingredient than gold.

Therefore, the extravagant act of adding honey to the snack of ice powder made Chen Xu hesitate for a few days, and decided to give up using honey, but boiled the syrup boiled in Qinghe Town into sugar juice instead of honey water, and the people in the house said that the taste was still very good, but the cost almost dropped by more than a hundred times.

A box of honey can get three or five catties of honey a year, the excess should be kept with bees for the winter and cultivate young peaks, but it is much easier to boil fructose, the wild fruits on the mountain simply do not need too much, in autumn, mountain pear, prickly pear, tang pear is countless, just Qinghe Town can boil out hundreds of catties of syrup in an autumn, now to Xianyang, there are more mountains and fields nearby, and naturally you can also open a workshop for boiling fructose, and now autumn is the right time.

Therefore, today's trial to promote ice powder, using fructose juice, the price has also been changed to ten yuan a bowl, which has also been unanimously praised and welcomed by diners.

The news that Qinghe Garden sells a kind of summer food is also transmitted like a gust of wind in an instant, and many idle idlers who are bored and hot at home are riding horses and cars to Qinghe Garden to prepare for a taste.

The popularity of the trial sales also made the ice powder sales team of Qinghe Park excited, each pot sold, they can get a commission of ten yuan, just half an hour, six pots of ice powder sold out, each pot is almost twenty bowls, six pots of one hundred and twenty bowls, calculated to be 1,200 yuan, this speed of making money is comparable to grabbing money, you must know that a sumptuous banquet in Qinghe Garden is only one or two thousand yuan, but also includes chicken, duck and fish, but also consumes firewood, rice, oil, salt and various spices and condiments, and has to be fried in the kitchen for nearly half an hour, A large group of various helpers, cooks, and maids can serve well, and the cost is more than ten times that of these six pots of ice powder.

A small business can also make a lot of money.

This is something that many people do not understand.

But as a person who has been mixed up in later generations, although Chen Xu himself will not make money, he also knows that many rich people have risen in very inconspicuous small businesses, and in this era, all businessmen always think that dealing in firewood, rice, oil, salt, grain, and cloth is the business, and they will not take this kind of needle and thread business in their eyes at all.

Stimulated by the hot business, the kitchen workers in Qinghe Park hurriedly made several large buckets of ice powder again, and all the ice powder sent today was consumed, but it was still in short supply, and it was sold out again around the afternoon, but the people who heard the news were still endless, and even the housekeeper of the princely mansion personally came to buy the clay pot, and even the palace people came to inquire, so the logistics manager of Qinghe Garden could only arrange people to ride a horse for twenty miles to the Qinghe Courtyard to inform the Hou Ye to send a large amount of ice powder to Qinghe Garden again.

"So hot?" Chen Xu, who was wearing brown sunglasses and lying on a recliner by the pool and chatting with Yu Wuya, was surprised.

"Master Hou, it's not just hot, it's almost so hot that it explodes, the street in front of Qinghe Garden is flooded, and the concubines in the palace arrange for palace people to come and ask ......"

"Miyauchi knows, too?" Chen Xu touched his chin and sat up, put on his clothes and walked to the kitchen in a few clicks.

After moving out of the city recently, except for occasionally going to the factory to check the construction of the cement factory and the smelting results of the new steel, he has only been to the research institute of the fake god of Zheng Boqiao, and he rarely goes to the city, and it is even more impossible to go to the court, and he is not interested in trivial things such as disaster relief and the court.

Zheng Boqiao used a gourd and five poisons soul water to let Chen Xu be an electric small motor for a few days, although it did not cause much damage, but under the nonsense, the water is soft and Chen Jiang's heart is uncomfortable, so Chen Xu is very angry, after catching it, he beat him up again, and imprisoned him in the factory to specialize in the five poisons soul water and various elixirs, Chen Xu also hoped that this good thing would not be lost, so he asked Xu Fu to study with him, hoping to find a medicine that has no toxic side effects after improvement, One day, it will even be possible to develop a powerful purifying potion similar to adrenaline, which can save people's lives at a critical moment.

It seems that I haven't been to the court for almost half a month recently.

And the ice powder palace already knows, and there are concubines who arrange for the palace people to ask, it seems that the emperor must also know that this delicious taste of clearing heat and relieving the heat is not dedicated to the emperor to eat five, six, seven or eight bowls, I am afraid that it will cause a gap in my heart.

So after arriving at the kitchen, Chen Xu asked the steward in charge of purchasing the cold noodles to divide the hundreds of catties of cold noodles collected into two parts, half of them were loaded into a carriage and transported to Qinghe Garden, and at the same time, he also made two pots of ice powder, put them in the ice bucket and loaded them into the carriage with the remaining half of the cold powder, and personally took a cook and a group of guards to the palace with sunglasses. Along the way, countless passers-by pointed and talked in the sun.

Although it is now the end of June, autumn will already be in five days.

But this year's summer is particularly hot, and it is drier and less rainy than in previous years, but fortunately, the Weihe River has abundant water flow, and there are many river streams flowing out of the Nanshan and Zongshan Mountains on the Weihe Plain, plus the entire Weihe Plain is the location of Daqin's old nest, which was developed very early, and various irrigation ditches and farmland water conservancy facilities are relatively complete, so it looks like there will still be a bumper harvest of grain in summer and autumn.

After the dispersal of the noon dynasty, Qin Shi Huang returned to the Zichen Hall where he rested and worked daily accompanied by the palace people and guards, although he was the emperor, but he was still an ordinary person, and after an hour of court discussions, the court clothes on Qin Shi Huang's body were already sweaty and tightly attached to the slightly fat body, and walked all the way back to the Zichen Palace, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead that were the size of beans rolling down.

After washing his face and washing his hands and changing into light regular clothes, several palace maids stood next to him and kept fanning, and after drinking a bowl of herbal tea, Qin Shi Huang still felt irritable.

It is said that the fire in July should be much cooler near the beginning of autumn, but the hot air is still extremely hot, and the inciting wind feels hot on the body, and the summer cicadas in the garden outside the hall are desperately hissing under the scorching sun, converging into a noisy sound, and the people listening to it are upset.

After resting for a moment, Qin Shi Huang picked up a few copies of the recitals on the desk and looked at them.

Although after the restructuring of the three provinces and six ministries, many of the memorandas no longer need him to personally go to review one by one, the important and urgent recitals of the three provinces will still be sent in as soon as possible to wait for the emperor's approval.

A courtier can share the emperor's worries, but he can never make decisions for the emperor.

"I heard that no, Qinghe Hou made another cool and heat-relieving delicacy and sold it in Qinghe Garden......"

"I have just heard that it is said that its quality is like snow, its shape is like ice, crystal clear, fresh and smooth, it is a real fairy food......"

"Shhh

"The weather is so hot and dry, I really want to taste it, I heard that a bowl of ten yuan is a little expensive, but if it is really fairy food, it is still good to eat a few bowls of fairy energy......"

"I heard that you also have to put in fruit vinegar and sugar juice, sweet and sour and delicious......"

The two internal officials muttered and communicated in a low voice at the door, if it was usually Qin Shi Huang who was concentrating on handling government affairs, he would not be able to hear it, but today he was in an irritable mood and watched it for a long time before he finished reading a recital, not to mention that the three words of Qinghe Hou floated into his ears, Qin Shi Huang suddenly remembered that the Ai Qing he relied on the most had not been to the court for a long time, and he seemed to be deliberately avoiding him.

"You two come in!" Qin Shi Huang put down the folds in his hand.

The two officials who spoke quickly shut up in fright, and after coming in, they stood at the door and didn't dare to come out.

"What did you just talk about the Marquis of Qinghe?"

"Poof~" The two internal officials trembled and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Your Majesty spares your life, I don't dare to disturb Your Majesty anymore!" ”

"It's okay, say!" Qin Shi Huang did not reprimand the two internal officials, so the two trembled and told the news they had just heard.

"How can there be such a quick cool and cool food?" Qin Shi Huang stroked his beard and muttered for a moment, as if he remembered another thing, so he said: "Arrange for someone to go to the other courtyard outside the city of Qinghe Hou to invite Qinghe Hou into the palace, and say that I have state affairs to discuss......"

Just as Qin Shi Huang was speaking, a sound of footsteps stopped outside the Zichen Hall from far and near: "Your Majesty, ask to see you outside the Qinghe Hou Palace!" ”

Qin Shi Huang waved his sleeves and stood up and ordered: "Please!" ”