Chapter 6 Rock Sugar Gourd

The merchants of Chang'an are all sensational, in fact, not only the merchants, but also the people of Chang'an City are also running to tell each other, there is a gold mountain in the Datang Bank, as long as you hold a silver ticket, you can exchange the gold in the gold mountain. **

"Your Majesty, this is the latest news from Datang News today." Bai Mei respectfully presented a newspaper neatly in front of Li Er.

Li Er picked up a cup of tea next to the table, took a sip gently, did not open the newspaper, but said in an inquiring tone: "How was yesterday's banknote sale?" ”

When Bai Mei heard this, he immediately said with joy on his face: "Back to Your Majesty, the sale of banknotes is really as Xu Guigu said, the people are scrambling to redeem huàn, and now the 300,000 banknotes invested in the entire Chang'an City have all been sold, and the people who have not exchanged for banknotes are still sighing, waiting for the sale of the second batch of banknotes." ”

"Oh?" Although Li Er's face was expressionless, there was still a faint surprise in his tone, "Those people trust my banknotes so much?" You know, it's just a piece of paper, even the most expensive rockery, it's only a few tens of dollars, how can the people be willing to exchange dozens of dollars into such worthless paper? ”

Bai Mei smiled and couldn't see his teeth, and said happily: "Your Majesty doesn't know, in fact, there are not many people who exchange huàn, but yesterday there was a merchant surnamed Zhou from Youzhou who traded a large amount of goods between Chang'an and Luoyang with the paper money that had just been exchanged for huàn, and the whole three ships of spices and sea coral shipped from overseas added up to almost 50,000 yuan, and the merchant exchanged silver taels from Chang'an for silver tickets, and then took a dozen family members to Luoyang by train, and after the transaction in Luoyang was completed. The seller took the banknote and went to the Datang Money Village in Luoyang. Exchanged all 50,000 pieces of money for gold. At that time, it caused a sensation on the streets of Luoyang, and today even the "Datang News" reported on this matter, that is, after this incident, the number of merchants who exchanged huàn banknotes skyrocketed for a while, and today at noon Datang Qian Zhuang has just opened, and the remaining 100,000 guan have been redeemed by the merchants. ”

Li Er nodded meaningfully, then opened the newspaper and read it with relish......

The winter sun is a little bright. Through the glass windows, it spilled into the room.

"Hmm~" A feminine moan sounded from the room.

Liu Mengli slowly opened her eyes, only to see that the sky was already bright, and she suddenly wanted to get up and clean up quickly, but she found that a big hand hugged her from behind, which happened to be on her chest.

Liu Mengli's face instantly turned crimson, thinking back to last night's affair, beautiful and beautiful spring cheeks felt hot again, pregnant and childless, she had never had intimacy with Xu Yang, and now after giving birth to a heavenly thing, the husband and wife are dry firewood and fire. Tossed until the middle of the night.

Just when Liu Mengli was still struggling with whether to wake up her husband, Xu Yang let out a slight snort. Immediately there was a movement, and the big hands grabbed Liu Mengli's chest dishonestly, almost making her exclaim.

"Hmm...... Well? It's so bright~" A lazy voice came from Xu Yang's side.

"Hmm...... Husband, it's time to get up, the concubine is going to nurse the heavenly things. Liu Mengli pretended to be calm and said.

"Don't worry, isn't there a nurse, it's just a meal, presumably the nurse has already fed it." Xu Yang's big hand began to wander dishonestly on Liu Mengli's body again, making her giggle, and finally had to force a stern sù: "Husband, the sky is bright, hurry up." ”

Xu Yang was a little helpless, so he had to get up together to wash and change clothes, and when he opened the door, he saw that Jin Shengman had already been playing with flowers and plants in the yard.

"Husband~" Seeing Xu Yang come out, Jin Shengman also snorted lightly and hurriedly surrounded him.

"Oh, it's not that my husband said you, don't run around in the winter if you're pregnant, it's not good to stay in the house and learn embroidery." Jin Shengman was only more than a month pregnant, and she couldn't see any obvious bulge in her belly, so she always regarded herself as a nobody, and often wandered around the village in the company of maids.

"Husband~ The concubine wants to eat something sour at noon today." It was rare for Jin Shengman to be coquettish once, Xu Yang agreed repeatedly, and took Liu Mengli to take care of the affairs of the village, and took Liu Qi to the dining room behind the village.

This year's New Year, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the village is extraordinarily rich, chicken, duck, fish, meat and eggs, not losing the future generations, even more sumptuous than the future generations, after all, it is a large family to eat together, Xu Yang told the chef of the Zhuangli dining room almost all the delicious dishes he could think of, today since Jin Shengman opened his mouth to eat sour, Xu Yang planned to make her a few strings of rock sugar gourds to eat.

Rock sugar gourd, this thing still originated in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is absolutely not seen on the streets of the Tang Dynasty, "Yanjing Chronicles" records: rock sugar gourd, is made of bamboo sticks, through the mountain red, begonia fruit, grapes, hemp yam, walnut kernels, bean paste, etc., dipped in rock sugar, sweet and crisp and cool. Teahouses, theaters, streets and alleys can be seen everywhere, from which it can be seen that this flavor of snacks has been deeply loved by the people after the Song Dynasty, Xu Yang felt that if this thing was made for Shengman and Mengli, it would definitely attract attention, and the taste was very good.

Fortunately, hawthorn in the Tang Dynasty has been popularized, and the people in the countryside generally plant a few of these plants for appetizers, and after Xu Yang told the cook of the dining room, the cook drove the carriage to Chang'an Street, and brought back all kinds of ingredients needed to make zuò rock sugar gourd, mountain red, begonia fruit, grapes, hemp yam, walnut kernels, everything. Xu Yang personally put the sugar gourds that were skewered in the burnt syrup and stirred, and after sticking evenly, they suddenly condensed into rock sugar in the cold outdoors.

A string of bright red and festive rock sugar gourds was made out, and then, Xu Yang concocted it in the same way, and made more than a dozen strings of rock sugar gourds, and found someone to weave a straw rack, and inserted all the rock sugar gourds on it, which looked not much different from the rock sugar gourds of later generations, Xu Yang looked at his "work" with satisfaction, and took a photo with his mobile phone very narcissistically, even if he took this string of rock sugar gourds to Chang'an Street to sell, it is estimated that there is no worry about sales, in ancient times, it is easy to make money, Anything you take out is a lucrative business.

Sure enough, when it was time for lunch, Xu Yang carried a huge rock sugar gourd and skewered it out, which startled Jin Shengman and Liu Mengli, and when they heard that this red string of things was actually food, the two girls had a happy look on their faces, and after eating a bunch each, they were full of praise, and Jin Shengman even said that he would eat a bunch every day in the future.

"Husband, not to mention this rock sugar gourd, at noon today, the concubine saw in the "Datang News" that the Datang money village in Chang'an and Luoyang has been repaired, and there is a businessman surnamed Zhou in Youzhou who uses paper money to make it convenient, and he actually carries 50,000 taels of silver tickets, takes the train, from Chang'an to Luoyang, and makes an overseas transaction and earns 10,000 pieces of silver. If you go on a business trip in the future, may your husband get out lightly? At lunch, Liu Mengli was very worried and told Xu Yang about the hidden dangers that she thought of when she looked at it in the morning.

"Haha." When Xu Yang heard this, he laughed out loud, "Our family has made another million dollars of silver." ”

Liu Mengli's incomprehensible look made Xu Yang laugh again, clapped his hands and said, "Come out, Zhou Duan." ”

I saw a young man in a pale cyan velvet jacket in the back hall walk out, bowed his head and saluted Liu Mengli and Jin Shengman: "Little Zhou Duan, meet the head of the family, the eldest young grandmother, the second young grandmother." ”

Liu Mengli pointed at the young man in disbelief, and finally said in surprise: "Zhou! Segment! You're the businessman surnamed Zhou in Youzhou?! Aren't you in charge of roasting tea in Youzhou? ”

Zhou Duan smiled slightly, blushed a little and said: "The Xu family has arranged for the small one to go to Chang'an a few days ago, and now the method of roasting tea has been popularized, and there is an industrial chain for the import and sale of tea, and there is no need for the small one to do more command, so the head of the family called me to Chang'an to deal with affairs." ”…… (To be continued......) R527