Women's House
Yu Shanshan asked Xue Zhihai to help find a female gentleman, the gentlemen of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, etiquette, embroidery, cooking, and tea art are easy to find, arithmetic, Yu Shanshan asked Dong Niang to teach, these basic arithmetic, Yu Shanshan taught her as early as in Jiangnan, and she is fully capable of the junior class......
Soon, Xue Zhihai brought a group of grandmothers released from the palace, including grandmothers who specialize in training court etiquette, and grandmothers who are responsible for music, in short, all of them are old people who have been in the industry for a lifetime in this era......
So Yu Shanshan's girls' school has not yet been built, it is already famous, usually big families want to invite such a grandmother to come out to help train their daughters, it is not easy, now there are so many top-notch people, they naturally inquire about school matters, looking forward to sending their daughters to study is also a good thing!
What's more, there are many people in the know, and these people were sent by the queen herself, which shows that this Xue Gongzi has been recognized and supported by the royal family......
The school was soon built, and the school was named the Women's Academy, which means "women do not let the eyebrows be shaved".
During this period, Xue Qi participated in various parties, trying to find out Xue Huai, but he had nowhere to start, first an ingenious opening ceremony, and then a girls' school, which made him popular......
Xue Qi secretly hated, but she was helpless, she didn't dare to go too far, firstly, her father valued this cousin very much, and secondly, she also wanted to take away the wealth in his hands, and she didn't want to ruin such a cornucopia......
Yu Shanshan released the list and determined the enrollment time and enrollment conditions, but unexpectedly received sixty-two students......
The youngest of the first batch of students was six years old and the oldest was fifteen years old, and Yu Shanshan divided these students into two classes, one class of 31 people......
In the women's courtyard, Yu Shanshan asked Nameless to find eighteen female guards with strong martial arts skills, who were responsible for the safety of the women in the academy.
There is a sign at the entrance of the college, the women's courtyard, prohibiting male guests from entering, no way, in this era, although the male and female defense is not so harsh, but it can definitely force people to death because of the name.
In the college, Yu Shanshan arranged a variety of extracurricular activities for them, combining work and rest, which also made these women happy to accept ......
The women of this era only need a husband and children, Yu Shanshan can't change this era, and she can't get them rid of the shackles of male superiority and inferiority, so all she can give them is to teach them the means to make a living and one more hobby of their own......
"Miss, this is a letter from the patriarch." Qi Hai suddenly appeared and handed her a letter with both hands.
"You're improving again!" Yu Shanshan took the letter and glanced at Qi Hai, although the Purple Cloud Technique cultivated by this guy was not as good as the Heavenly Mystery Technique, it was definitely an existence beyond this world.
"Yes!" Qi Hai has been with Yu Shanshan for a long time, so he naturally understands how to get along.
"The patriarch said that the first batch of melons has been shipped, and you and Kangcheng are responsible for picking them up and sending them to Zhuangzi, and let people divide the first batch of potatoes and sweet potatoes in Zhuangzi into one-fifth for Lao Zhou to bring back with them, and Lao Zhou went over to guide them to sow seeds.
The yield of these two things is so high, and there is no need to occupy fertile land, if it is promoted in the future, there will be no one in the Great Wei Kingdom who will not be hungry......" Yu Shanshan said lightly, but Qi Hai's heart turned up a huge wave, the crops that can make the people of a country not hungry will be a merit that will go down in history!
"Yes! Miss, don't worry! The admiration in Qi Hai's heart has reached a new height.
"You arrange it first, come and get my reply before you go." Yu Shanshan waved him out, picked up his pen and began to reply to the patriarch.
The letter is nothing more than an explanation of the need to keep these two crops secret, as well as the yield and characteristics of the crops, and so on.
Yu Shanshan asked Xue Zhihai to take it away and send it to the palace, and then set up a shop next to Jin Juxiang and sold watermelons, not melons here, hahaha......
Divide and sell in two ways, sell the whole, ten taels of silver a catty, a melon is basically about ten catties, a melon is basically in the role of a hundred taels of silver, you can also sell after cutting, cut fifteen taels of silver a catty, such a melon is basically sold for about one hundred and fifty taels......
It can be described as a huge profit, an absolute profiteering, not that scarce things are expensive!
But the most important thing in Kyoto is the rich people, in the eyes of these people, a hundred or ten taels of silver is nothing, and all Yu Shanshan's melons are not worried about selling at all......
Transported from Jiangnan, the cost is not low, but that's it, Yu Shanshan's batch of melons also earned more than 10,000 taels of silver......
Jin Juxiang Restaurant quickly withdrew from a series of new appetizers, shredded potatoes, potato roasted pork, sour and hot shredded potatoes, and spicy potatoes, so the store selling melons next to it was divided into a place dedicated to selling potatoes......
Yu Shanshan demanded that everyone who bought potatoes must be informed of the taboos of eating potatoes, such as potatoes must be cooked before they can be eaten, for example, potatoes should not be left in the sun, green potatoes should not be eaten, sprouted potatoes should not be eaten, and so on......
After melons, potatoes have become a rarity in Kyoto, and everyone is proud to have eaten potatoes, and the Jin Ju Xiang Restaurant has also become popular because of the potato series of dishes.
Yu Shanshan directly sent the cooking method of potatoes to the Women's Academy, and taught all the students in the cooking class, so the first batch of students who learned to cook happily made a table of dishes for their families after returning home, which naturally received high praise......
This group of parents naturally felt that they had more face, and they felt that their daughter's decision to send them to the women's home was right.
The potatoes were soon on the emperor's table, naturally Yu Shanshan asked Xue Zhihai to send them over, and there was also a planting record that Yu Shanshan asked people to make, which recorded the planting method, precautions in planting, and yield and so on.
When the emperor saw the yield of potatoes, his hands couldn't help but tremble, so he immediately sent the potatoes to the imperial dining room, and left Xue Zhihai to eat together......
After the master of the imperial dining room got the potatoes, he was directly dumbfounded, they had never seen it, and how did they know how to do it, fortunately, Yu Shanshan had expected it, and asked someone to send a recipe over, which could be regarded as a favor to someone.
After the emperor ate a bite of potatoes, he fell in love, so he issued an order on the spot, rewarded Xue Huai with 1,000 taels of gold, and arranged for the Ministry of Agriculture to be responsible for promoting potatoes......
After Yu Shanshan received the holy decree, she just asked the person in charge of recording to be responsible for technical guidance together with the Ministry of Agriculture.
The potatoes hoarded on the Zhuangzi are also enough for 10,000 catties, and in the market, Yu Shanshan sold three taels of silver for a catty, but since she wanted to do a good deed, Yu Shanshan simply sold it directly to the Ministry of Agriculture for one tael of silver and one catty, and the income was 10,000 taels, plus the reward of 1,000 taels of gold, she made a lot of money.
This can be regarded as fame and fortune, Xue Qi has now fallen into a dead circle, she is jealous of Xue Huai to death, but she doesn't dare to do anything to him.
Because Xue Zhihai warned them more than once that the greater Xue Huaidu's merits, it will help the Xue family and Xue Qi's future, and we must not cut off our arms.