The next morning, Pei Qing got up to see the newly made soap, and after a night, the soap blocks had been demolded, because it was still a little cold at night, and there were still some cold hands when he held the soap in his hand in the morning.

Ah Ji asked her with an excited look: "Princess Niangniang, is this done?" ”

Pei Qing stuffed the soap into her hand and said, "Won't you take a dirty piece of clothes and try it?" ”

Ah Ji suddenly realized: it turned out that this white piece of melted grass ash and lard was not for eating, but for washing clothes!

Poor families don't need to wash their clothes with bath beans and honey locusts, they are all put in running water and beaten hard, because poor families don't eat oil, and there is no oil in the sweat, so as long as they are beaten in place when washing, the general clothes can be roughly washed to less dirty.

But it's just not so dirty, like blood stains, yellow mud marks, grass juice...... It can't be washed off.

And the dirty clothes that the princess brought over had traces of grass juice and yellow muddy water.

Ah Ji soaked the dirty clothes with suspicious water, rubbed the soap to the dirty place under Pei Qing's guidance, and then began to scrub it with his hands.

At first, there was only white foam, which looked like some new stain, but after scrubbing for a while, I put it in clean water and rubbed it, and when I picked it up, I could clearly see that the clothes were clean.

It's a much cleaner than "not so dirty".

Not only the yellow mud prints, the green grass marks, but also the stained grass and wood ashes were all washed clean, and the clothes completely showed their original color!

Ah Ji was surprised and delighted, looking at the clean clothes he was carrying in his hand, he could hardly take his eyes off: "This soap is also so easy to use!" ”

When she rinsed her clothes thoroughly and took them to the sun to look at them again, she felt that the clothes seemed to be shining on them, and she couldn't get enough of them.

It turns out that what they have worked so hard to make for so many days is such an amazing thing.

Pei Qing bowed slightly, and patted her shoulder encouragingly: "It's successful." ”

Aji smirked relaxedly.

Pei Qing told her: "The soap will be shipped outside and sold for five taels of silver a piece, and if our own people in the town want to buy it, we will price it for one tael of silver a piece." ”

Aji choked with laughter.

"So expensive?!" She asked, gasping.

A tael of silver! In previous years, it was half a year for the family of the former county! Who would use half a year's savings to buy a piece of soap for laundry? Could it be that someone doesn't eat or drink for more than half a year in order to be clean?

This soap can't be sold when it's put out, right? The county used to be all poor, who would buy it?

Pei Qing comforted her and gave her a smile: "Don't worry, as long as the breeding industry and oil crops are developed, it will not be so expensive soon." ”

She was going to open a grocery store in Xixian County, and it would be filled with all these things from the palace, including soap.

In the future, when there are more and more goods, the grocery store can be converted into a supermarket.

Coming out of the soap workshop, Pei Qing summoned the palace steward.

"You take someone to personally measure the street near the palace, and I need to know the situation of all the households in the two miles near the palace, including the size of the house, the number of people in the family, and the source of income." She commanded.

Steward Zhang asked in astonishment: "The villain is bold, can the princess tell the villain why he is like this?" ”

Pei Qing spit out two words: "Demolition." ”

Steward Zhang was even more confused.

What is demolition?

Pei Qing smiled and said: "I want to push and rebuild all the buildings in the neighborhood within two miles, and build a commercial street after opening up, and before that, I will first resettle those who have been expropriated from the house, which is called demolition." ”

Steward Zhang: ???

Completely...... Didn't understand!

*

Wang Ergou has been in high spirits recently, since his parents passed away, he and his grandfather depended on each other, after his grandfather passed away, he could only find a job everywhere to make a living, and also helped people to plant and run errands, often hungry and full of food always hovering on the verge of starvation, and he couldn't even manage himself, let alone start a family.

The last time I took the errand of Rui Wangfu to follow Ah Yue's steward to the river beach to open up the wasteland, Wang Ergou wanted to earn those wages well and did his work very seriously, so he didn't notice the big insect that came to the river beach to drink water.

When he was taken away by the tiger, not only did his companions cry out in fear, but he himself was so frightened that he lost his soul and did not dare to move in the tiger's mouth.

He kept shouting in his heart: It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over!

As a result, the tiger seemed to have just eaten, and was not in a hurry to bite him to death, but only dragged him into a cave, dragging him two steps and resting, but the king and the second dog still did not dare to move when they were put on the ground.

All he had on his mind was despair and waiting for death.

However, when the voices and gongs and drums sounded all over the mountains, the villagers who came to save him appeared like divine soldiers descending from the sky, and when the dense crowd came up all around, Wang Ergou suddenly had a strong desire to survive, and he found that he didn't want to die at all.

When the tiger was about to bite someone, he ran away, and he ran straight to a nearby tree, and everyone was busy fighting the tiger with stones and nets, and no one noticed him.

Miraculously, the tiger finally died at the hands of the villagers in Xixian County, who had a lot of strength, and no one was injured, everyone was surprised and began to look for Wang Ergou, and at that time Wang Ergou had fainted in the tree, and the people who were looking for him were missing.

Later, after he returned to Xixian County, he realized that when everyone thought that he was buried in the tiger's mouth, it was the princess Niangniang who insisted on searching for him, and instructed everyone in Xixian County to work together to fight the tiger and be sure to get rid of the tiger near Xixian County, so that he could escape from the tiger's mouth.

Everyone envies Wang Ergou's luck in escaping death, only he knows who gave his life.

- Without the princess, he would have become a tiger's mouth!

Therefore, when Steward Zhang found him and wanted to persuade him to dedicate the broken wooden house left at home to the princess, he signed it without saying a word.

Not to mention that now he is leading the errand of finding herbs and leading people to cultivate medicinal fields, and his income is rich and stable, just say that the person who wants the house is the princess, and he will definitely not refuse.

"Don't say it's a house, even if my mother wants my life, I will never be ambiguous." Wang Ergou said categorically to Steward Zhang.

Steward Zhang scolded with a smile: "Who wants your rotten life?" Signing honestly, the princess said that she would give you a new house. ”

What?

Demolished the old house and returned it to the new one?

Which vassal palace in the world is so generous?

Don't talk about the vassal palace, let's just say that the old parents Zeng County ordered that if he did less labor every year, then the board would have to fall on him without saying a word - compassion? Where does compassion come from!

Not to mention your house, it is your life and the life of your whole family, don't those adults want it? Who ever cared about your way of life?

The intense emotions made Wang Ergou's eyes red, he wiped his nose viciously, and swore in his heart that the order of the princess Niangniang in the future was the meaning of his existence.

"Steward Zhang, when I went to the mountains to look for medicinal herbs, I picked a basket of wildflowers...... It smells good. Wang Ergou rubbed his hands nervously and asked Steward Zhang, "Can you send it over to the princess?" ”

Steward Zhang, who had a lot of affairs, replied impatiently: "You send it over yourself, you are also a steward now, can you still see your mother?" ”

Wang Ergou breathed a sigh of relief, so he took the basket of wildflowers to the Rui Wang's Mansion.

Now the medicine field has opened 10 acres of land, on the mountain of Angelica, is a continuous hillside, that hillside is mainly planted with Angelica, and other herbs are still increasing.

Wang Ergou is indeed in charge of a few people Chen, some of them are given to the medicine field to loosen the soil, some are to water the medicine field, and there are those who help him transplant medicinal materials, in the past, he was just working hard for the princess Niangniang, and when Manager Zhang said this, he seems to be indeed a small head? He smiled sheepishly.

With this simple smile, Wang Ergou presented the wildflowers he picked to the princess.

As soon as Pei Qing saw the basket full of flowers, he immediately reacted: "It's a rose." ”

She picked up a flower and sniffed it gently, the fragrance of the flower was rich and fragrant, full of the smell of spring.

"I didn't expect that there are roses around Xixian County, Wang Ergou, you have made meritorious contributions," she encouraged her subordinates first, and said in the excited eyes of the other party, "I will assign two more people for you to pick roses, and Ah Ji will use it to make soap." ”

With that, she asked people to find Aji.

Ah Ji has been collecting grass and wood ashes all day today, and the success of soap making has brought her a great sense of achievement, and even with the errand that she was originally confused about, she has become full of confidence and enthusiasm.

When she was called away by the princess, her hands were covered with ashes, and then she saw Wang Ergou.

As soon as Pei Qing saw Ah Ji coming, he beckoned to her: "Ah Ji, in the future, our products will be soap in addition to soap, soap you know how to make soap, that soap is to add fragrance on the basis of soap, for example, flower dew from the rose." ”

Ah Ji tried hard to digest the princess's words, kept nodding, and the Wang Ergou next to him secretly glanced at her dusty hands with his eyes.

"In the future, I will also leave the extraction of the rose dew to you, and as for how to extract the dew, I will give you a manual. And Wang Ergou is in charge of the source of the roses," Pei Qing looked at them and said, "Wang Ergou, this is Ah Ji, one of my personal maids, she is the person in charge of the soap factory, you two will have more contact in the future, and you and your subordinates will give her the roses they pick, the more the better." ”

Wang Ergou hurriedly bowed his hand to Ah Ji respectfully.

Ah Ji had heard of Wang Ergou, the lucky man between a teenager and a young man, and hurriedly returned the salute.

Both were very polite to each other.

Pei Qing looked at the interaction between the two of them with a light smile and squinted his eyes slightly.

If the soap priced at five taels of silver is added to it and becomes a fragrant soap, the added value will be even higher.

With the addition of new products, what could be more pleasing than that?

*

As soon as Li Yi, who went out to run errands, returned to the palace, he received the news that the princess wanted to see him.

He asked the people behind him to follow him directly to the garden building.

Behind him were 20 large boxes that had been carried to the palace, each heavy with the sound of metal colliding.

Pei Qing was still a little strange when he saw these 20 big boxes: "What is this?" ”

Li Yi replied succinctly: "Ten million dollars." ”

Pei Qing's eyelashes jumped, and then he came to his senses: "This is Huang Gongzi's second 10,000 taels of silver?" ”

Li Yi nodded.

"I think the princess may need loose copper coins, so this time I didn't collect the silver directly, but the Dayan Tongbao that has always run through." He opened a box in front of her, and inside it was unpretentious but with a faint metallic smell of coins.

Pei Qing couldn't help but admire: "You are really thoughtful." ”

He is too meticulous in doing things, he is so thorough, he even thinks of this trivial matter?

Of course, there is a great shortage of copper coins in Xixian County, because the silver that is paid in wages is actually not as convenient to use as copper coins, not to mention that some fragmentary short-term workers need to pay copper coins directly.

Pei Qing bent down and gently pulled out a string of money from the box, listened to the rattling sound, and said thoughtfully: "Can our feudal town mint coins by itself?" ”

Li Yi quickly glanced around, and found that only Chen guards were guarding the surroundings, and the others had already retreated outside the wall, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"The princess is cautious!" He warned her in a low voice, "Dayan is clear towards Haiyan River, singing and dancing, but it is different from the troubled times, and there will definitely be no possibility of separating the princes to mint their own coins!" ”

Seeing Pei Qing's beautiful eyes looking at him innocently, he couldn't help but step forward and leaned into her ear and said: "The imperial court is very strict with private coins, and the light is to raid the house, and the heavy is to connect the nine clans, if the princess wants to make money safely and steadily, don't fight this idea!" ”

It was rare for Pei Qing to see him so serious and dignified, so he couldn't help but glance at him a few more times, and finally reluctantly bowed slightly: "Okay, this princess knows." ”

Li Yi didn't let down his guard because of her words, because he knew very well that the girl in front of him was not the kind of worry-free master, and he was very worried that after he left Xixian, she would be a big bad person.

"Princess, take a step to speak." Saying this, Li Yi raised his hand and gently held Pei Qing's arm, and led her into the small building strongly.

"What?" Pei Qing asked with a squeamish smile.

Li Yi closed the door casually, helped her all the way to the table, pressed her to the chair, and sat next to her close to her, then lowered his voice and said, "Promise me not to mint coins, how many copper coins do you need...... Huang Gongzi can raise it for you, you will definitely not be short of money, but definitely don't mint coins yourself! ”

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly felt a heat in the corners of his forehead, and two more slender fingers.

I only heard Pei Qing say softly: "Guard Li, you are sweating, are you so worried?" ”

Li Yi's words suddenly turned dumb, and he stared at her sweet smile speechlessly, really wanting to ......

"I'm not the kind of person who is willing to risk the world's disapproval," Pei Qing said with a light smile, "Don't worry, currency issues are trivial matters and will be solved." ”

Li Yi: ...... I'm even more worried!