Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 451 Wirebound Books

"Men, it's normal to be greedy for women, as long as you don't delay your business, I'm not here to persuade the sage, I have other things to do."

When he heard Qin Tian say such a sentence, Li Shimin wished he could get up and beat him immediately.

I didn't come to persuade myself about this matter, but you didn't persuade me in the end?
Otherwise, with Wei Zheng's brain, he wouldn't have to release so many court ladies.

But the matter has come to this point, Li Shimin is not easy to pursue, so he can only say coldly: "What are you going to say?"

Qin Tian smiled, then handed over the book he had been holding, and said, "My lord, I'm here to show you a sample book. This is a book that our Datang Bookstore will sell soon."

Datang Bookstore was the name Qin Tian gave his own bookstore. Li Shimin was very satisfied with the name, but he was taken aback when he got the book.

"What's going on here?" The book is not a scroll, but a book bound from one side. Li Shimin said something, but then he tried to flip through it. , which is much more convenient.

"Wonderful, really wonderful, why didn't I think of it before, Qin Aiqing, what is the name of this book?"

"My lord, this is called a thread-bound book. After printing these books, bind them with thread. This kind of book looks convenient and more elegant."

Li Shimin felt that Qin Tian's description was just right.

"Not bad, not bad." Li Shimin kept the book, and then inquired about the situation of some bookstores. After learning that although this kind of thread-bound book is more beautiful and convenient than the previous scroll, the price is much cheaper than the scroll, Li Shimin also Don't worry.

"Qin Aiqing, in your opinion, there are still a few days before Datang Bookstore can open?"

"Your Majesty, it will take another four or five days. Now Chen's printing factory has printed a lot of books and is transporting them to the bookstore. When the bookstore is almost packed, it can open for business."

Li Shimin nodded: "Okay, okay!"

After the monarchs and ministers finished speaking, Qin Tian finally left. At this time, Wei Zheng also walked out of the palace.

"Master Wei, the bookstore will open in a few days, you must go to join us."

Wei Zhengdao: "Master Qin Hou helped a lot today, so it's not a problem to go to cheer, but I don't know if it will be cheaper to buy books."

"This... is all priced at the same price, no one can deceive anyone."

Wei Zheng rolled his eyes and said, "Let's talk about it later, and leave."

Wei Zheng wiped his sweat, then threw off his arms and left. Qin Tian stood behind and looked at him, but couldn't laugh or cry.

Opening a bookstore by yourself doesn't make much money anymore, so Wei Zheng wouldn't want to give it to him for nothing, right?

There are so many good things in the world.
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At dusk, it suddenly rained in Chang'an City.

The heavy rain hit, and the whole of Chang'an became a bit cooler.

The Ninth Princess sat on the attic and looked at the rain, and from time to time she would use her clairvoyance to look at Qin Tian's mansion. With her clairvoyance, the Ninth Princess could almost see clearly the situation in the courtyard of the Marquis Qin's Mansion.

Of course, there are also blind spots.

Through clairvoyance, Princess Jiu saw cooking smoke rising from the kitchen of Marquis Qin's Mansion, but after the smoke rose, it was quickly dispersed by Xia Yu.

Outside the kitchen, servants kept running towards the kitchen carrying beans, and one of the servants walked too fast and almost fell down.

When seeing this, Princess Jiu couldn't help being a little curious. At this time, what is the Qinhou Mansion doing with so many beans in the kitchen?
If you are making tofu, you should also go to the tofu workshop, not the kitchen.

Princess Jiu was puzzled. At this time, he asked the maid next to him, "Has anything happened in Qinhou's Mansion in the past few days?"

The maid shook her head: "No."

"What about Qin Tian, ​​did he do anything else?"

The maid thought for a while, and said: "I heard that yesterday he entered the palace, and then the Holy Majesty released a group of maids. In a few days, the Datang Bookstore will open. Apart from that, there is nothing to do with Lord Qin. "

Princess Jiu didn't care much about the release of the palace lady. She likes to read when the bookstore opened, so she ordered: "After the bookstore opens, go and buy some books for this princess."

The maid hurriedly wrote it down, the doubts in the heart of the nine princesses still have no answer, what is Qin Tian doing to get beans in the mansion?
The rain was pouring down, and the kitchen in the Marquis of Qin's mansion was a bit busy.

Beans were being boiled in several large pots in the kitchen, bundle after bundle of firewood was used up, and the servants kept busy.

"These beans are all cooked for me. After they are cooked, they will be stuffed in the pot overnight..."

After giving orders to the servants in the mansion, Qin Tian turned and left.

Back in the bedroom, Tang Rong asked, "Master, why did you ask your servants to cook so many beans? Could it be that you are afraid that Chen beans will go bad?"

This year's beans have been planted, leftovers from last year's eating.

Qin Tian smiled: "Chen Dou is perishable, this is for making soy beans."

"Soy bean, what is this?"

"A kind of sauce made through fermentation, not only can be used as a seasoning, but it is also very delicious when eaten at ordinary times."

Hearing that Qin Tian was cooking delicious food again, Tang Rong couldn't help but salivate.

"When can I eat it?"

"It will take at least a month."

Hearing that it would take at least a month, Tang Rong couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

The rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the sun came out the next day, and the city of Chang'an became scorching again, the heat was unbearable.

The beans in the kitchen were already cooked. After Qin Tian fished out these beans, he mixed them with flour. After each bean was coated with flour, Qin Tian put these beans in a room for fermentation.

These beans can only be made into soy milk when they are fermented a little green. Of course, before making it, you need to rub off the surface of the beans. There is no green pepper in Datang today, but Qin Tian and his family grow watermelons, so you can Make watermelon sauce.

In addition to watermelon, like Drunk Beauty, some salt and so on, all need to be added.

After being placed in the jar like this, it will have to be exposed to the sun for half a month to a month before it can be eaten.

Qin Tian is now waiting for the beans to ferment.

When Qin Tian was busy in the mansion like this, Princess Jiu also saw a little bit of the situation at her own home. When she saw Qin Tian mixing the beans and flour, and putting one into the spread, she was very impressed. Qin Tian became more and more curious about what he was going to do.

This curiosity made him couldn't help but want to go to Qinhou's mansion to find out.

But because of the Xuanwumen incident, she was embarrassed to go. After all, the two were still in the cold war, at least in her opinion.

This situation made her feel uncomfortable, especially uncomfortable.

Without Qin Tian, ​​life would be much more boring.

(End of this chapter)