The name of Yingzhou Pavilion has spread in just a few days, and people who have been there are not only full of praise for the food inside, but also amazed by the layout inside. ，

The restaurant provides a kind of wine called Luoyang Chun, the entrance is extremely strong but it is still evocative, but the price is a bit ridiculously expensive, the price of a small jar of half a catty is twenty yuan, the guy said that this kind of wine is the only one in the world to supply, and after drinking it, I know that this wine is worth this price.

If you drink too much wine or have something to do at night, you can take the free carriage of this restaurant and send it back, and the Wuhou who patrols the night doesn't care, and all the diners guess whose backstage can be like this.

For a time, the wealthy nobles and wealthy businessmen were proud to have eaten at the Yingzhou Pavilion on the edge of the Qujiang River, and some people often said that when they ate at other restaurants, they often said that they were eating in the Yingzhou Pavilion.

The noblewomen in the capital mentioned their jewelry and clothes, and said that they went to the Yao Chi and Zhehualou next to Yingzhou Pavilion to buy them, and there was a little more ostentatious air between their words, and Yingzhou Pavilion seemed to have become the best and most expensive consumption place in Chang'an City.

Many people who came with envy looked at the half of the couplet at the door and were very curious, so they asked the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper said that if anyone can put the lower half of the couplet out, they can eat for nothing in the restaurant for a year without money. Many of the people who come to eat have a little ink in their stomachs, and some don't want to eat a few meals in vain, but just want to show their knowledge, but after thinking about it, the seemingly simple words and five lines are all accounted for, and it is clear that it is absolute!

For a time, this couplet became famous again, and some shy literati even ran over to see this half of the couplet, and after reading it, they looked in enviously and sighed and went to Merlin.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Shimin was still in the study to review the recital, and the eldest grandson pushed the door and walked in and handed him a piece of paper.

Put down the pen, Li Shimin only looked at it twice, and then his hands trembled in surprise, in just a few days, he opened a restaurant and sold a woman's things, and he could sell nearly 35,000 yuan! How much agricultural tax does it take to cover so much money made Li Shimin's heart excited.

"Erlang, Mr. Xiao borrowed 20,000 guan from the treasury and returned it to you with interest, and the rest of the money is the profit of the concubine, but it will go to the yellow treasury of my harem, and it can be used by the concubine in the future" The eldest grandson said diligently, it seems that whoever receives the money is happy.

Li Shimin looked at the income on the account and blushed a little, at that time Xiao Zheng persuaded him to return the income of this money to the treasury, he thought that he could make a few dollars by selling rice and wine plus selling some women's things, so he let the eldest grandson do it. just collected the interest money that Xiao Zheng borrowed from the national treasury, which was proposed by Xiao Zheng on his own initiative.

This also made the eldest grandson say that he was dark-hearted, his own courtiers got so much money for you, and you still charged other people's interest, and there was no heavenly reason, so that Li Shimin was still a little unable to get off the stage, but he didn't expect that it would be returned in less than half a year.

At this rate of making money, the income of this restaurant is definitely a large amount.

"The copper coins in Chang'an City are enough to spread Chang'an City more than one person, it depends on how you take it out of their pockets" When Xiao Zheng said this, Li Shimin was still a little unconvinced, and now looking at the means and ways of making money from this guy, he really didn't tell a lie.

"Guanyin, although you are the mother of the world, but all day long cloth clothes and thorn hairpin for the thrifty image of the hundred officials tree I am very moved, a few years ago we in order to reward the hundred officials, even the local tribute things are stolen for people to be, think about it is embarrassing. I look at it like this, in the future, the money earned by the restaurant and the Zhehualou will be indispensable, and you don't have to be so bitter, but the palace can't spend so much money for a while, you see, this..., can you transfer the money that can't be used to the left treasury to change it to the state."

Li Shimin is very much like the husband who asked his wife for a small amount of money to buy cigarettes in later generations.

"I know that you are a good emperor who cares about the people of Li, if you didn't work so hard with the Ministry of Civil Affairs last winter, how many people would have died of cold and starvation, and now your benevolence has been spread from Chang'an to all parties in the world, but you have to have money to do anything, I am also very good like this, the palace can live tightly, and the people will die if they have no food in their mouths, and all this money will be transferred by you" The eldest grandson smiled and took out a small square seal from his sleeve and put it on the desk.

"Guanyin, I really wronged you, I thank you for all the people in the world" Li Shimin patted the eldest grandson's hand and said.

The two of them were talking, and the chamberlain walked in and said that Du Ruhui, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Xiao Zheng, and Liu Yijie, the waiter, asked to see him.

"It's a good thing to see the concubine," the eldest grandson said with a smile.

"How do you know?" Li Shimin was very curious.

"If it's Wei Zhenglai, it's definitely not a good thing, I don't know if you want to call yourself sick, it's definitely a good thing that the God of Wealth comes to you on this Shangyuan Festival," the eldest grandson said with a smile covering his mouth.

was said to be a sore spot, Li Shimin touched his face in embarrassment and said to the chamberlain: "Biography, don't go, queen, let's see if Lord Xiao has any good things to find us."

As the three of them arrived at the study, Li Shimin found that his guard leader also followed, holding a wooden box more than three feet long with both hands and putting it on Li Shimin's desk, which seemed to be quite heavy.

The three of them saw the ceremony, Xiao Zheng saw that Li Shimin's study had long been changed into tables and chairs, and there were also a lot of files on the shelves, which was a bit of the taste of the boss's office in later generations, and it seemed that the ancients were not slow to accept new things.

Inside the open box was a brass quadrangular shape placed on a wooden frame, and this thing was made with great grandeur. I don't know what it is after watching it for a long time, but I say that it is a weapon but there is no handle, and it seems that it is not light to do other purposes.

"What is this?" Li Shimin opened his mouth and said.

"Sage, the name of this thing is 'Datang Standard Rice Original', his length is the length of your palm index finger starting from an arm, we named it 'Meter', a thousand times the meter is called a kilometer, and one-tenth of a meter is a decimeter....." Xiao Zheng arched his hand and said.

"But how is this used?" Li Shimin suddenly became interested.

Du Ruhui said, "Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, our dynasty has gone through many dynasties, the use of measurement is extremely confusing, the length of this 'standard rice original' is taken from the body of the sage's gold, is smelted with gold, copper, tin and other alloys, generally hot and cold will not change much and will not rust." We are going to make the first batch of samples and send them to the big Daozhou capital county, which is now set at 3 meters, 3 centimeters and 3 millimeters per zhang, and these dimensions will be used for the measurement of the whole world in the future."

After speaking, he took a box from Liu Yijie's hand, opened it was an extremely delicate balance, there were more than a dozen weights placed in it, and installed the balance, Xiao Zheng used the tweezers inside to clamp a minimum and said: "This 'standard rice original' has another use, its weight is just equal to the weight of the sage, I use tweezers to clamp the weight of this thing is just one ten-thousandth of your weight, we take it as the basic unit of measurement ........"

Xiao Zheng told Li Shimin how to use weights and balances, and explained that all the data of these things are taken from you, and only the data on your body is worthy of being used by all the people.

Li Shimin smiled at his words, lowered his body and compared the length of his arm with the rice original device, and the eldest grandson also looked at the balance excitedly and called this thing exquisite.

After the two of them were a little more excited, Xiao Zheng took out two other smaller boxes, one box contained nine gold, silver and copper coins, and the other only contained two coins, one gold and one silver. All the coins are beautifully crafted, except that all of them have no holes in them.

Xiao Zheng picked up a copper coin and said to Li Shimin: "This copper coin is my Tang Zhenguan new coin, one for every five grams, it is one yuan, and one for ten grams is two yuan, and twenty-five grams is for five yuan, the front is printed with the profile of the saint, and the reverse side is printed with the amount of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum and money, the exchange ratio of copper, silver and gold coins is one to ten, and the ministers have been strictly calculated, this kind of coin is fair and reasonable to put on the market, and will not take the opportunity to loot the people's wealth", I know what Li Shimin is worried about.

Seeing that his only doubts were dispelled, Li Shimin smiled from ear to ear with a few coins in his hand.

"Xiao Gong, what should I do if someone falsifies these?" Seeing that Xiao Zheng was not an outsider, the eldest grandson also asked with a smile on the side.

"Niangniang is so knowledgeable, we have already thought of this, please forgive the ministers for their rude behavior" Xiao Zheng finished speaking, picked up a silver coin and blew it hard and put it in the ear of the eldest grandson.

"I heard it, there was a 'buzzing' sound," the eldest grandson said excitedly to Li Shimin.

"I also try" Li Shimin took it and blew it violently, put the silver coin to his ear and said in surprise: "It's really, it's amazing!" ”。

Xiao Zheng said with a smile: "This silver coin can only make this sound if it is genuine, and this identification method is simple and easy to learn. Besides, there are not many large-scale uses of this gold coin, if it is really used, as long as the size is stuck with a special mold, and then the weight can be used to distinguish the real from the fake, and the outer edge line of these three coins is to prevent others from grinding gold and silver crumbs to invent it", Xiao Zheng took out a steel mold from the box and demonstrated the identification method.

"This other box contains two commemorative coins, which are made to commemorate the year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty."

"Commemorative coins? What is it? Li Shimin asked curiously.

Take out these two commemorative coins to tell Li Shimin the role, and said that the two gold and silver coins engraved on the front of a dragon and a phoenix on behalf of the two of you, the back is engraved on the front of the Xiande Palace, and the bottom is written in Li Shimin's flying white font with the size of rice grains Zhenguan Chronicle four words, each pair of commemorative coins have a separate number, after the production of 999 pairs of molds will be destroyed and will never be produced again to show its preciousness.

"Haha......., I can see that a few Aiqing are really attentive, if these things are implemented, it will benefit the people of the world, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs has such a capable official to work for the country, I am very relieved" Li Shimin laughed and said to the three of them, and when he walked to Liu Yijie's side, he patted this guy on the shoulder and praised him, to the effect that he wanted to follow the two adults well, I am optimistic about you and something like that, excited Liu Yijie almost knelt down and shouted Thank you.

Taking advantage of the happiness of Li Shimin and his family, Du Ruhui took out a booklet from his sleeve and said: "Sage, this is the 'Datang Standard Act' formulated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is mainly to unify the weights and measures of the world and submit it to the sage for review.

"Okay, I'll take a look first" Li Shimin didn't put down a bunch of coins in his hand when he took Du Ruhui's booklet, and the two of them were like ringing horses who came back from robbing a fat sheep, and they didn't want to let go of the new coins in their hands.

"The minister suggested that the sage should not push these things off the rails, but should take measures according to the time and not be in a hurry," Xiao Zheng said to Li Shimin.

"Don't worry, I will definitely listen to what you say, but say something else, this is already the fifteenth Shangyuan Festival of the first month, when will you invite me to the tail burning feast?" The expression on Li Shimin's face was a little indignant when he said this.