The productivity of the ancients was low, the pace of life was slow, especially in the cold winter, almost eighty or ninety percent of people would choose to cat at home, but Sun Xiangfu did not think so, the time of the year lies in spring Yes, in fact, it is also in winter.

There was little snow this winter, Sun Dali took advantage of the sunny weather in the past two days and the Wei River frozen, so he drove a boat to Chang'an Sun Mansion to send fish goods, and he found that Sun Mansion was actually a busy scene.

"Village Chief, what are you doing here?"

"Oh, rehearsing the play, there are not enough people, Manchang has collected some, and is selecting, it's a bit messy."

As the script takes shape day by day, Sun Xiangfu and his wife have more and more ideas and ideas, which requires a large number of people to design props, a large number of musicians to rehearse the score, and a large number of singers to rehearse the singing, so now it is not limited to those people who have been collected by the four major gentlemen, even the painter team of Yan Li's family, as well as the more famous Qinglou singing poetry girls in Chang'an, have also been invited to Sun's mansion, each with its own division of labor and rehearsals.

Looking at the busy scene in the Manfu Mansion, Sun Dali, who couldn't figure out what the drama was, felt that he seemed to be embarrassed to stay as an idler, so he scratched his head and said, "Then why don't I go back to the village?" ”

"Wait, there's something else to tell you! This year is almost the wax moon, only two light snow, it seems that next year is a dry year, take advantage of the snow, you go back and let the villagers put the plow on the cover, first plow the ground in our village, so that the insects in the field can be turned out and frozen to death, in addition, every day in the future, we will send a boat to the tofu workshop in Quchifang to pull bean dregs, this is the best pig feed, go back and mix some rough pig food for the pigs to eat, chickens can also eat. By the way, is the money for buying bean dregs in the village's account? Sun Xiangfu beckoned Sun Dali to come back.

"There should be! Our village has harvested a lot of pankang during this time, and more than 3,000 stone soybeans are about to be sold, and there is a lot of money on the account! However, it is all in the custody of Mr. Zhang, and I don't know the specific number. ”

"More than 3,000 stone soybeans, all of which are sold with tofu?" Sun Xiangfu asked with some surprise.

"Well, there are bean sprouts, after the fishing team stopped working, they were busy with this, and now the surrounding markets, and even the vendors in several county towns have come to our Xiaohe market to buy goods, and we can sell at least two boatloads of tofu and bean sprouts every day." Sun Dali said with some excitement, the emergence of tofu and bean sprouts not only ended the situation that you can only eat sauerkraut and pickles in winter, but also the price is not high, many civilians can afford to buy it, because there are only so many people in Xingfu Village, it can only ship so many goods a day, and only sell two boats a day, about 30 stone of tofu sprouts.

"At what price?" Sun Xiangfu asked again.

"At the beginning, tofu was three dollars a pound, bean sprouts were five wen, and then it became popular, there were a large number of merchants from the surrounding markets who came to buy goods, and the tofu rose to four wen, and the bean sprouts were eight wen, but it was still sold out every day, and I was working with the big guys to get some dried tofu and tofu skin to sell in the market, and the price also rose again."

Now the price of soybeans in Chang'an is only 500 wen and one stone, and one stone of soybeans can almost beat four to five stone tofu, and one stone of tofu is 120 catties, which means that soybeans worth 500 wen are almost more than 500 catties of tofu, and the price of each catty is four wen, and the tofu made from each stone of soybeans can be sold for more than 2,000 wen, and the net profit is more than three times, not to mention the weight conversion rate and higher price of bean sprouts.

Moreover, Happiness Village is not only a transaction of tofu sprouts, Chang'an East and West Cities, two shops that specialize in selling eggs are also the industry of Happiness Village, eggs are sold to 12 pieces in winter, and they are also very popular, selling hundreds or thousands of pieces a day, easily earning more than a dozen yuan, and hundreds of dollars per month.

In addition, the largest head is also sold to the fishery department and the drunken immortal building of the yellow eel, loach, are according to the market price, now Chang'an City's yellow eel two hundred wen a catty, loach one hundred and eighty wen a catty, every day shipment is almost five hundred catties each, this is a daily income of one hundred and ninety pounds of trading, calculated, happy books, at least there is a balance of at least ten thousand catties, who called this era of winter edible things too little, the magnates from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift difficult! Without these things to eat, they can't live their lives.

Sun Xiangfu estimated that such financial resources could make it easy for Xingfu Village to buy all the bean dregs from the tofu workshop of the Food Supervision Division, and said, "Just make some tofu and eat it yourself in the future, and the rest of the soybeans will sprout!" In addition, don't point to the soybeans in the village, you can buy more soybeans in Chang'an, only do the more cost-effective bean sprouts business, and don't only sell them in Xiaohe, the Wei River is frozen, and you can pull two boats to Chang'an every day to sell. ”

"Aren't I here to ask if you want to open up sales in Chang'an, but tofu is also quite profitable! Why don't you do it? Sun Dali asked puzzled.

"The tofu food supervision workshop has already begun mass production, shipping thousands of stones every day, and the sales will soon be paved to the surrounding counties and markets, and the price is only two pennies a catty, dried tofu, and bean skin, they also have a large number of production, you make it yourself according to their selling price, although you can also make a little money, but the profit is far less than bean sprouts." Sun Xiangfu explained, Sun Dali, who has read a lot of books recently, has a much better brain, and he will understand it immediately.

Before leaving, Sun Dali squirmed and said that he was going to get married, and if he was free on the eighth day of the lunar month, he would go back to the village, Sun Xiangfu patted this good brother on the shoulder with laughter, and said that he would definitely arrive, and then he saw them go back to the village by boat.

Li Shimin's imperial study, Pei Lian, Wei Zheng and other important ministers are there, today they are discussing the topic, is tofu, the tofu produced by the Food Supervision Department has been sold in the Chang'an market for more than half a month, the reputation is excellent, now, whether it is a large family, or a small family, they all love to eat this bite, because the price is cheap!

The food supervision department set the retail price of tofu at two cents per catty, which is more than double the price of soybeans more than four cents per catty, and more than twice as low as the price of grain and rice.

Li Shimin, who saw the chapter, was of course happy in his heart, this tofu, eating one pound is enough to be full, but the cost of the people is only one-third of the food, and more importantly, even so, the Food Supervision Department is still making a lot of profits for the royal family, Li Shimin, who has read the account books, knows that once the workshop of the Food Supervision Department is opened in the country, then the royal income will be magnified many times again, and it can also reduce the living costs of some poor people, which is really beneficial to the country and the people!

"What you have played, I have been accurate." Li Shimin said with a smile.

What the? Is this accurate? It's so easy!

Wei Zheng, who is a general person, found a trace of greasy, this is a matter of asking the emperor to pay for charity, and it is also a big money, the emperor should not even ask whether the finances of the harem can afford it, and directly agree.

With doubts, Wei Zheng said again, "However, Your Majesty said a while ago that this food supervision department is a temporary yamen, if the people learn to make tofu by themselves, then this yamen will be abolished, but the day before yesterday, the old minister wanted to go to the food supervision department's tofu workshop as a royal doctor, but he was also prevented, Your Majesty acted like this, when will the people learn this tofu making method?" Could it be that Your Majesty doesn't want this method of making tofu to spread outside and affect the inner palace for profit? ”

"Well, of course, there's something inside."

Li Shimin felt a sigh in his heart when he heard this, his heart was not good, he was anxious just now, and he was seen by Wei Zheng as tired, but now he doesn't know what reason to find to get around.

"What's the inside story? Can't even the important ministers of our country say it explicitly? ”

Wei Zheng felt that he was about to catch the emperor's rat tail again, and shouted excitedly.

"I don't know about this, so why don't you pass on the Sun Xiamu, who is in charge of the Food Supervision Department, to tell the ministers clearly?" Li Shimin said depressedly and embarrassed.

Who knows, his depressed expression fell into the eyes of Ren Jingwei again, and he immediately made a face and said, "It's better to take care of your majesty, go to the workshop of the food supervision department with us and others to inspect, and order Sun Xiamu to take over in the workshop." ”

"This ······"

Li Shimin hesitated, but when he saw that Pei Lin and the others also showed a trace of doubt in their eyes, he knew that if they were not allowed to take a look, tomorrow, these courtiers might collectively question the royal family, and the reputation they had collected because of the tofu incident might collapse instantly, so he said, "In this way, let's drive Quchifang!" It's just that it's cold this day, and you have to work with me to blow the cold wind. ”

Sun Xiangfu is playing rehearsals at home! There was the emperor's will to order him to go to the tofu workshop to pick up, and, with Pei Lian, Wei Zheng, Wang Gui, Cen Wenwen and other ministers, suddenly knew that whether the tofu workshop was profitable or not inevitably aroused the suspicion of the courtiers, however, in this regard, he had already made preparations, so he changed his official uniform, led the horse, and went to the tofu workshop in Quchifang.

Less than a mile from Furong Garden to Quchifang, Sun Xiangfu arrived in a moment, and the first thing he did was to directly let Ma Yongquan send the accounts to the inner palace to hide, as long as Wei Zheng couldn't see the accounts, this matter would be easy to do.

In less than half an hour, Li Shimin and the chariots and horses of a cadre of ministers arrived at Quchifang, and after a greeting visit, Sun Xiangfu gave each person a white hood and a big robe, so that the guards in charge of vigilance got out of the way.

"Sun Xiamu, why did you make me wait for this mourning dress?" Wei Zheng looked at the white hat and white clothes, and was immediately annoyed, and said.

Sun Xiangfu said seriously, "Lord Wei, this is not a mourning dress, this is a sanitary dress, people who enter the workshop must keep their bodies clean, do not lose their hair, speak, and do not splash saliva, otherwise, it will cause hidden dangers in food safety." ”

"Food safety?"

Wei Zheng and the others were stunned by Sun Xiangfu's words, but when they saw that Li Shimin, who was smiling, was wearing the big robe, they didn't say more, and after three or two sets, they walked into the workshop with Sun Xiangfu, who was also wearing a big white robe.

As far as the eye can see, there are seven large calligraphy written on the wall, 'Food safety is more important than the sky'.

Heaven, in this period represents the emperor, this food supervision department actually looks at food safety more seriously than the emperor, is this tofu a very unsafe factor?

Then, Sun Xiangfu, who gave Li Shimin a reassuring look, began to talk to the ministers about food safety.

"Nowadays, the tofu produced by the workshop of the Food Supervision Department reaches 1,000 stones, and most of the people in Chang'an have this thing on their tables, if the tofu made by our workshop is unclean, spoiled, and poisonous, it may lead to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City who are unwell or poisoned, so food safety is more important than the sky, and we are not allowed to even have a small mistake or omission in the production process."