A small political meeting began with the demotion of the samurai Tong, but it was far from over, if it was to discuss the punishment of a Ministry of Works, a petty official of Sun Xiangfu's level was not qualified to enter the venue at all.

Sure enough, after it was decided that the Criminal Department would continue to strictly investigate the case, Li Shimin's next topic was Sun Xiangfu.

Last night, it was he who offered the tofu of the country and the people into the palace, and on the way home, he found out about the thief's movements, and reported it in time, so as to avoid the loss of the people in the city, which is a great achievement.

But he is a minister of my family, the reward will be decided by the inner palace, and then we will discuss the matter of this tofu, this tofu is invented by him, it is said that the process is complicated, thousands of things, ordinary people, just afraid of a rare essentials, yes, I want to set up an independent yamen in the pastoral supervision office, so that this person is also the chief, specializing in tofu production, selling at a low price, benefiting the common people, what do you think? ”

Sun Xiangfu sighed in his heart when he heard this, Wei Zheng was sitting down, Wang Gui didn't know himself, Wei Zheng represented the Yanguan, Wang Gui represented the family, and Li Shimin added a high-sounding reason to benefit the common people, which was to use the mouths of the two to block the royal business and compete with the people.

"Your Majesty's move is very good, but if you have to be a professional to make tofu, why not set up a prison in the Ministry of Industry and include it in the official camp of the imperial court."

Wei Zheng is definitely not a brainless person, and he is still an extremely smart person, although he has never seen what that tofu is, and what the emperor said. Benefiting the common people', but he also knew that once soybeans began to be planted on a large scale, then the yamen specializing in making tofu must have great rights, and if it could be sold to the common people like salt and iron, the benefits would be incalculable, and one of his duties was to limit the rights of the monarch, so he felt that such rights should be controlled by the imperial court, rather than falling into the royal self-operated institutions.

"Didn't I just say that? My purpose is to benefit the common people, and when the common people themselves master the method of making tofu, then I will abolish this yamen, and if it is set up as a court institution, the first is that the court will raise a large number of officials. The second is that the imperial court yamen was withdrawn at night, which damaged the credibility of the public. This is the third! Sun Zhengming, who knows how to make tofu, is a retainer of my family, and I have no intention of putting him in the courtier sequence. ”

Li Shimin said these three articles, each of which is very reasonable, Wei Zheng wanted to refute, but found that he couldn't find a reason, especially the third article, the things that the emperor's retainers got should have belonged to the royal family, you can't dig people's retainers to the court to be courtiers because of the needs of the court, as soon as this example is opened, the ministry may be useless in the future, because the emperor can directly transfer the retainers who feel available to the court as courtiers without passing the selection and evaluation of the ministry, because there is a precedent! For the sake of a yamen that was destined to be abolished in the future, Wei Zheng felt that it was not worth opening this example.

"Your Majesty is far-sighted, but the old minister is not thoughtful, so the minister agrees to set up this office." Wei Zheng shut up first, and Wang Gui, who had never eaten tofu, also felt that this matter did not affect his interests, so he did not object, so after the eldest grandson Wuji took the lead in supporting Li Shimin, Pei Lin had to nod again, which also did not involve his interests.

Li Shimin smiled when he heard this, it was rare to shut up Wei Zheng once, and he also admitted his mistake.

"In this way, I will send an order to the Pastoral Supervision Department to set up a food supervision department, with Sun Zhengming of the Fisheries Department concurrently serving as the chief official, and the manpower, tools, and expenses required to make tofu should be played by Sun Zhengming and the queen's instructions, and the inner palace will fund it."

With a word, Li Shimin took the tofu workshop that Sun Xiangfu was going to open to the royal family, and he also used various excuses to block the mouths of the officials and the family, which was really a good means.

After entering the imperial study, Sun Xiangfu, who didn't say a word, was robbed again, it seems that this imperial study is the same as the Lizheng Palace, it is not a good place to go, and it will be less likely to come in the future.

After talking about tofu for a long time, of course, I want to show everyone the real thing! So, Li Shimin left his ministers to have a luncheon banquet in the palace, and the staple food was tofu.

"Damn, next door, I really asked Lao Tzu to cook."

After being robbed, Sun Xiangfu broke a sentence, and went to the imperial dining room angrily, here, Luo Tian has already made a lot of soy food raw materials according to yesterday's method.

Sauerkraut tofu flowers, fried tofu cubes in lard, fried tofu with celery, mapo tofu, tofu and fish head hot pot are all ready, and Sun Xiangfu was passed on to the Lizheng Palace by the queen's decree.

"Wechen meets Niangniang." Sun Xingfu, whose face was not too good, bowed and saluted.

"What, there is a grudge in your heart?"

It was lunchtime, and the eldest grandson queen was eating a bowl of tofu flowers with honey, looking at Sun Xiangfu's face, and smiling.

"Wechen doesn't dare, but Wechen is the lower pastoral supervisor from the sixth grade, not the imperial chef of the imperial dining room, can you let Your Majesty not let Weichen cook in the palace every day? In this way, I feel that Mr. Luo is a white eater. Sun Xiangfu arched his hand slightly.

"Hehe, you kid actually dares to tell the truth in front of the palace, it's really bold, but what you said is reasonable, and you don't let Luo Khotan continue to eat white food, this matter will not be investigated by the palace, in addition, Your Majesty ordered the establishment of a food supervision department, specializing in making tofu, how profitable it can be, you tell the palace." The eldest grandson smiled lightly, staring at Sun Xiangfu's eyes.

"Your Majesty has said that this move is to benefit the common people, why does Niangniang think that making tofu can be profitable?" Sun Xiangfu was surprised.

"Because Hongu knows you can."

In a simple and direct sentence, Sun Xiangfu was speechless, reasoning with a woman is a stupid act at any time.

"If Niangniang can meet the needs of Wechen, then Wechen can indeed make the Food Supervision Department benefit the civilians and benefit the royal family." Sun Xiangfu retreated in defeat under the gaze of Empress Eldest Sun.

"Tell me what you need?" The eldest grandson said with a smile when he heard this.

"The queen sent a hundred internal guards to Weichen to protect the workshop, of course, some of them I want to put in my house to guard my mansion, and in addition, the captain of Renyong, Xi Junmai, will be the captain of the escort team." Sun Xiangfu didn't even want to say it. The safety of his own family comes first, which is the most important issue for him now.

"This palace is for you."

Empress Eldest Sun also replied simply.

"And ······"

Sun Xiangfu put forward many requirements for manpower and tools, venues, paving, etc., and Empress Changsun agreed to all of them, and finally mentioned the profit distribution plan.

"This, the profit income, Wechen thinks that it is still in accordance with the old practice of the Fisheries Division, the royal family accounts for seventy percent, and the remaining three percent, Wechen uses it to pay to his subordinates, craftsmen, and servants."

Empress Eldest Sun's eyes narrowed when she heard this, but Li Shimin once told her that Sun Xiangfu, this kid, is mercenary, and today he actually took the initiative to give the royal seventy percent, I am afraid that there is fraud in this.

"No, this palace has provided all the manpower and expenses of the venue, and you are only responsible for providing technology and supervision, but you have to take 30%, don't you think that the imperial dining room can't make tofu now?" Empress Eldest Sun refused.

"Then since Weichen has handed over the method of making tofu to the imperial dining room, why doesn't the queen choose another meritocracy and let someone else take charge of the food supervision department!" Sun Xiangfu spread his hands and said.

The eldest grandson was stunned when she heard this, through the past of the Fisheries Division, she intuitively believed that only by letting Sun Xiangfu run this food supervision department could she continue to surprise herself, he was a person who could think of ways to fish under the ice in winter.

"The royal family accounts for eighty percent, it can't be less, if you dare to disobey the order, do you know the consequences?"

All right! Sun Xiangfu almost forgot the iron law again, don't reason with women, so he made a very painful appearance and said, "In this way, the minister has received this difficult task!" ”

"That's pretty much it."

The eldest grandson Wuwu said proudly with the posture of an overcomer, but he did not immediately let Sun Xiangfu retreat, and ate a few more mouthfuls of tofu before saying, "Last night's work, Your Majesty ordered the palace to reward you, but now you are only seventeen years old, but you are in the lower pastoral prison under the sixth grade, and the official position is too high, so the palace will promote your wife to the sixth grade!" Later, a decree will be sent to your house. ”

Crooked? Brother is a person from the sixth grade, you give my brother's wife a promotion to the sixth grade? What is the purpose of this?

Giving up reasoning with Empress Changsun, although Sun Xiangfu wondered in his heart, he said, "Thank you for your kindness." ”

After bidding farewell to the eldest grandson, Sun Xiangfu went home with light steps and waited for Yizhi with his wife, while Li Shimin, who accompanied the ministers to finish a meal of tofu meal, habitually came to the harem to chat with the eldest grandson Wuwu to relieve his boredom.

"Guanyin, how is the matter of the Food Supervision Division?"

"The concubines have been arranged, and all the affairs and manpower recruitment are entrusted to Sun Zhengming, and in addition, he has agreed to his request to transfer Renyong Captain Xi Junmai and a hundred internal guards to guard the kitchen supervisor's workshop." The eldest grandson replied without worry.

"What percentage of the profits are obtained by the harem?"

The eldest grandson proudly raised his separate thumb and index finger in front of Li Shimin and said, "Eighty." ”

"Eighty?"

Li Shimin was a little surprised, and said, "Can you tell me about the conversation with that kid?" ”

So, Empress Changsun told Li Shimin how she reached an agreement with Sun Xiangfu, and after listening, Li Shimin shouted to the inner servant on one side.

"Pass the imperial dining room to Khotan."

So, half an hour later, the eldest grandson Wuwu almost hid his face and cried, shouting, "I fell for that thief boy." ”

Sun Xiangfu's mastery of the tofu production method is a more mature production method in later generations, a pound of soybeans, properly can produce four catties of tofu, some water, can produce five catties. Even if it is dried tofu and tofu skin, it can produce two to three catties, and there are a lot of leftover bean dregs, and the royal family will sell tofu at half the price of soybeans at that time.

However, even if the tofu is sold at half price, there is still a profit of more than double the price of the soybean itself, and if the food supervision department controls the production of tofu in the country, the tofu made in a year, not to mention the huge million, how big the profit is of twenty percent, it is unimaginable, no wonder the kid took the initiative to give the royal seventy percent of the profit, in fact, the royal family is considered to take ninety, and Sun Xiangfu can still get huge profits.

"Your Majesty, the concubine wants to regret it."

Women still can't be reasonable, but who let her have a more shrewd husband.

Li Shimin smiled slightly, "There is no need for this, if the harem is short of money in the future, just ask him for a meal supervision." ”

The eldest grandson's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he almost forgot that he could give an order at any time.