Bi'er's surname is Jiang, but the palace calls the women who are close to the palace by nicknames, such as Bi'er Tuan'er Luo'er and the like. Her grandfather was a small official in Chang'an City, and he was considered a good family, otherwise he would not have been elected to the palace. But it fell into the hands of my father.

The two elder brothers, one named Jiang Wenquan and the other Jiang Wenchen, also because of the poverty of the family, one is twenty-eight and the other is twenty-two years old, until the first month of this year, they barely scraped together some money to buy two women from the victims as wives, and they usually work in the workshop in Dongshi to make a living.

The group, led by Bi'er, entered the alley of Dongshi. All the shops along the street in the East Market are very glamorous, but they are workshops inside, which are very dirty and messy. Li Xian kept shaking the fan and forcibly endured it, Li Xian, Li Xulun and Li Lingyue had already covered their noses.

found the workshop and called his brother out, and the eldest brother Jiang Wenquan asked in surprise: "Bi'er, why did you leave the palace." ”

Bi'er whispered, "It's the prince." ”

Jiang Wenquan saw a group of people behind her, and he didn't know which one was the prince, so he was so anxious to kneel down, Li Wei stepped forward to support him, and said, "We are here in civilian clothes, don't alarm others." ”

"Huh," Li Wei answered, and then Li Wei looked at it, the two elder brothers were probably very thin because of malnutrition. He glanced at Bi'er, who found her way and said, "I'll take a leave of absence for my two brothers." ”

Xingtou was very displeased, and suddenly saw a group of people behind him, where the Jiang brothers stood were very uneasy, and suddenly remembered the identity of this sister in the brothers' family, they were shocked, reacted, and immediately smiled, nodded and said: "Little lady's order, dare not obey." ”

Watching them leave, a craftsman complained: "Liu Xingtou, life is so tight, in broad daylight, why did you put them back." ”

"You know a fart, do you see? The people in the back were dressed up, and I guessed that there was probably a prince in it. ”

"Prince?"

"Yes, the daughter of the Jiang family is waiting for the prince in the East Palace, and when she heard that her mother was seriously ill, the prince also took out some money to help. The Jiang family is about to ascend to the sky in one step. Liu Xingtou muttered.

Follow the Jiang family brothers, through the South Square Gate of Dongshi, to Shengpingfang, is a small plateau, is the highest place in Chang'an City, there is a pleasure park, whenever March has been and September Chongyang, Chang'an City ladies like to come here to climb high and enjoy. However, the Jiang family is in a slum in the northeast corner.

Rows of houses of varying heights, mostly small two-story lofts, crowded together. There are also piles of smelly garbage at the mouth of the alley.

Jiang Wenquan said embarrassedly: "Your Highness, we are too simple here. ”

"It's okay, the second brother, the third brother, the fourth brother, and the little sister, you stay here first, I'll go to the Jiang family to take a look, and I'll come back." After saying that, Li Wei was secretly happy in his heart, but he didn't expect this environment to become the best excuse for him to send a few tails.

This time, even Li Lingyue nodded. Don't dare to go in!

When she walked to Jiang's house, a thin old woman was splashing water, and when she saw her daughter coming back, she said in surprise: "Bi'er, why are you home?" ”

"Mother, it's the prince," Bi'er said in a low voice as she walked over and poured water into the gutter for her.

"Prince," the woman was so anxious that she didn't know where to put her hand, but just rubbed it.

Let Bi'er cover her mouth and pull her into the house. Li Wei also went in, the house was very simple, Bi'er's father and two sisters-in-law didn't know where they went, and they probably went somewhere, working to support the family.

Bi'er's mother wanted to bow down and let Li Wei hold it with her hand, in his heart, she had already regarded Bi'er as one of the indispensable women in the future, and she was also her mother-in-law, which was not good.

He touched his nose and said, "You all sit down." ”

I thought to myself, I feel like the master.

Let the guards go out, leaving Liu Qun, Li Wei said: "Bi'er, you have also seen that there are many victims in the city. ”

"Well, but Your Highness, there are too many victims, even if you move out the East Palace's belongings together, you can't save them."

"What Lone said is this, not only can it not be saved, if the drought continues, even the treasury will be tight, and the expenditure of the East Palace will definitely be compressed." From this point of view, I still admire my cheap parents, if I change the Emperor Yang of Sui, regardless of the life and death of the people, and then send troops to Tuguhun, coupled with the rare disasters in history in the past few years, the country will have to collapse. It's not easy.

"But seeing the situation of the victims, I can't bear to be alone."

"But, prince, even if you renovate the inner palace, the inner palace can't afford much silk."

"So Lone called the two brothers to discuss one thing."

"Prince, don't you be a servant." The elder brother of the Jiang family was so frightened that his face turned white, their brother who was qualified to be the crown prince.

"The two brothers don't have to be afraid, I treat Bi'er as a relative in the palace."

"Prince Xie," Mrs. Jiang moved quickly this time, and before Li Wei could react, she had already knelt down, but her face was shining with joy. What does Li Wei's sentence mean!

Li Wei was also dizzy, this is not the Qing Dynasty, why do you kneel down at every turn. Helping her up again, he continued, "Do you still know that toffee?" ”

Bi'er and Liu Qun nodded at the same time, because the little princess was greedy in the past few days, she had boiled toffee three times.

"I want to put it on the market."

"But ......"

"Bi'er, Lone knows what you're thinking. Of course, Lone knows that even officials are forbidden to do business, and Lone himself. So Lone couldn't come forward and relied on the help of his two brothers. Of course, the orphan will allocate a part of the proceeds from it and transfer it to the names of the two brothers. This is just the beginning. Lone doesn't have the right to give your family a lot of money now, but he can use this method to make your family live a well-off and prosperous life. ”

"Thank you, Prince." Bi'er said happily. I don't know if I am well-off and wealthy, but being able to help the prince do things is equivalent to bringing the family closer to the prince. Liu Qun was very envious on the side, Li Wei saw her expression, and said, "Gu asked you last night, you also have a brother in the family, come and help." ”

Most of the maids of the inner palace are from the city of Chang'an. But this head is not easy to choose, after all, the scale will not be very large at the beginning, and he bears the name of a cheap businessman. Therefore, last night I interrogated the family members of several "trustworthy" palace maids. However, Liu Qun's family situation is suitable, and he is also in poverty, so he curry favor with Li Wei that day and inform the news. There is also an older brother in the family, who can also read a few words. This is to be a helper, the Jiang brothers are very applicable because of Bi'er's relationship, but they are illiterate, and they are ultimately defective.

Liu Qun also thanked excitedly.

But the production method of the East Palace is not good, Li Wei took out a piece of paper, on which was written the procedure for large-scale production, as well as the method of refining crystal sugar. However, Li Wei still had doubts about the quality of the refined crystal glycans, firstly, there was no relevant machinery, and secondly, he himself was not very proficient, and only knew the approximate process. The main thing is that there is no quality of sucrose.

If you want good cane sugar, you must go to the source, that is, the season is suitable, and there are many things involved, Li Wei can only sigh.

In fact, since the more I know, this helplessness has been engraved in my heart. This position of the crown prince might as well be worn on a commoner, he doesn't know a lot, but he is enough to make a fortune, and he will not be constrained everywhere like this. Look at how good that Yulangjun is, he actually came up with the idea of playing with foreign girls.

handed the paper to Liu Qun and said, "In the future, the Gu Association will arrange some excuses to let you out of the palace, and you will cooperate with the two brothers of the Jiang family and your brother to handle this matter for Gu Hui." ”

"Oh," Liu Qun felt the feeling of ascending to the sky in one step.

"There's another thing, you guys can do it for Lonely."

"Your Highness, please command."

"Papermaking."

Stunned together, Li Wei said again: "A new paper, if successful, will reduce the cost of paper by ten times." ”

The history of bamboo paper has been confused, just now Li Wei went to the very large paper shop, just to see if there is any, there may be a appearance, but the skills are not mature, even this possibility is very small. Good bamboo paper has more than 70 processes, Li Wei is also not clear, fortunately he has seen "Tiangong Kaiwu", can still be the method of making bamboo paper in the Ming Dynasty, first soak the tender bamboo for 100 days, wash the coarse shell and green skin with the mallet, and cook the lime juice for eight or nine days, decompose the bamboo fiber pulp, swing the material into the curtain, cover the curtain and press the paper, and dry it through fire.

There must be defects, but after all, it is a mature process in the Ming Dynasty, and it is at least worse than the current paper, and the biggest advantage is that it is cheap.

There is bamboo on Zhongnan Mountain, but it is best to be bamboo in Fujian and Zhejiang. For this bamboo paper, Li Wei is not greedy, it is given to his mother to do credit, once the cost of paper drops, it means that more people can use paper, read and write, Wang Hua will quickly popularize, what impact will it have on parents, Li Wei also did not estimate, but know how much will save the mother's current embarrassing situation, add a great righteousness.

This merit is too great, if it is exclusive, it may not be impossible, but he is the prince, once the bamboo paper is published, it will cause a great sensation. If you have a heart to check, you will find out that there are thousands of links with yourself. Even if the parents don't care about it, there are too many people who have offended, how many papermaking industries are there in the country, what kind of background is behind it, and how many officials will be instigated? Li Wei couldn't afford this consequence. And doing this means that you are selfish, and your parents really don't care?

It's better to let the court have a headache.

Of course, if possible, the Jiang brothers can also be allowed to expand this workshop.

Or maybe a little more movable type? After thinking about it, I cut off this idea, and launched too much at once, which undoubtedly proved that I was "not doing my job", and I would become the Ming Dynasty, the carpenter emperor. On the contrary, the painting snake is enough.

Bi'er and Liu Qun are not stupid, they will save ten times the cost when they hear it, and they also know the meaning.

Li Wei made another explanation, and then Wei said solemnly: "In any case, the craft must not be passed on." ”

A few people nodded, and Li Wei took out the silk and said goodbye under the gratitude of the Jiang family's mother and son.

At this time, the sky is approaching dusk, and the lush trees of the Leyou Garden on the high slope turn yellow and green, shining in the soft evening sun, shrouded in a halo. It's just that the weather is dry, and the air is full of dust, and some gray.

Looking at the sky, Li Wei said to Li Xian and them: "Go back." ”

The eldest brother is going to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law, so it is naturally difficult to follow, but Li Lingyue is still doing an uninteresting little tail.

Yang's Mansion is in Changshoufang, south of Xishi, fortunately, on a street, one in the south and one in the north, and the carriage didn't take long to arrive.

Yang Sijian and his wife had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw him coming, they immediately greeted him at the gate. However, Yang Min was shy and hid at home and did not come out. greeted him and immediately gave him a warm welcome, poured tea and handed over water. Mrs. Yang is also looking at Li Wei carefully, her face is pale, and she is very thin, but she is also delicate, and her face is slightly bloody, which is not as unbearable as she imagined, and Li Wei's gentle personality is also very happy.

sat down to talk, so far Li Wei has not yet been conscious of being a prince, his words are very easy-going, and the more he talks about Yang Sijian and his wife, the happier they are.

When he was about to eat, a servant suddenly came in from outside and reported: "Zhou Guogong greets." ”

Li Wei frowned. He had only heard of his name, but had not yet seen him. But through all the things that Bi'er has said, this person is not very friendly to herself. It had nothing to do with him, and this person was the only descendant of his mother's relatives, and if he didn't know what happened later, his mother put him to death, but there was no need for him to be evil. So wait and see what happens.

A clear laugh came, talking to Yang Chengyou, obviously moving around a lot. This is not surprising, the two families are still relatives, and it is normal to move around. Li Lingyue stood up from under him, greeted him, and shouted loudly, "Cousin." ”

"Oh, little princess, come and let me hug me." After finishing speaking, a young man with a face like a crown of jade, a delicate appearance, and more beautiful than a woman, walked in with Li Lingyue in his arms.

Seeing Li Wei, he put Li Lingyue down in surprise and said, "Uncle, your family has come to the honored guest, isn't this the prince of Shiyu?" ”

Li Wei has a gentle personality, but it doesn't mean that he is weak, he has come to the door, but he is not in a hurry, where to sit, and said slowly: "Who is talking to Lonely, is it possible that Zhou Guogong is still having fun during the mourning period?" ”

He writes poetry, which will cause some controversy at most, just like Cui Rong's comments on him. But since the Han Dynasty, filial piety has always been attached, and it is okay to be happy, and even many people think that it is a graceful thing, but during the mourning period, it is not filial piety, and this crime is added, and this person's morality is corrupted to the extreme.

didn't use the status of the crown prince to oppress, didn't fight back with his fists, didn't even scold, just an understatement, and hit Helan Minzhi's door fiercely!