Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 456 Divide
Outside the curtain, the rain is murmuring.

Princess Jiu stayed in the house and looked at the rain outside, a little lost in thought.

Now she seems to be like this from time to time.

And whenever she was in a trance, all she thought about was actually Qin Tian.

"your Highness……"

At this moment, the maid walked in from outside with a small jar in her arms. Princess Jiu came back to her senses, and then saw the small jar. He was a little curious and asked, "What are you holding?"

The maid said: "Miss Xiaodie from the Marquis of Qin's Mansion sent it just now, she said it was soy beans."

"Soy bean?" Princess Jiu was a little curious, but then, she remembered Qin Tian cooking beans a month ago. Could it be that he was cooking soy beans at that time?

It seems that this is another delicacy invented by Qin Tian.

"Did Xiaodie tell me how to eat?"

"Say it, he said he wanted to stir fry it in the pot."

Ninth Princess nodded: "Give it to the cook and let them do it."

"Here!"

The maid retreated, and after a short while, brought a small plate over.

The food in the Ninth Princess Mansion is still very delicate. The fried soy beans look very appetizing. The Ninth Princess picks up a hot steamed bun, but she doesn’t eat it like Hu Shiba and others sandwich it in the steamed bun. She uses Putting the chopsticks a little on the steamed bun, I took a light bite.

After taking this sip, the rich taste made her almost float up.

"This thing...is so delicious. I can't believe it's made of beans. It tastes so unique."

As the Ninth Princess said, she couldn't help but started to eat again. The Ninth Princess's appetite was originally very small, but today he ate two steamed buns because of the soy beans.

After eating two steamed buns, she still wanted to eat, but her stomach couldn't hold them.

At dusk, the rain gradually stopped.

Chang'an City is surrounded by mist and rain, it is as beautiful as a painting.

And in the midst of this misty rain, suddenly a fast horse came towards Qinhou's mansion.

The fast horse galloped, and when the fast horse stopped, there were already several fast horses coming from other directions.

They arrived almost at the same time.

"Hei Yuchi, why are you here?" Cheng Yaojin sat on the horse and asked haha, Yuchi respectfully said: "Why, you are allowed to come, but I am not allowed?"

Cheng Yaojin curled his lips: "I didn't say that."

"Okay, okay, stop bickering and go in quickly." Niu Jinda said something, and got off his horse first. Seeing this, the others quickly got off their horses and followed without hesitation.

A group of people entered Qinhou's mansion carelessly. After the servants of Qinhou's mansion saw it, they ran in without saying hello to them.

"Master Hou, it's not good, it's not good, Duke Lu and the others are here."

Now the servants of the Qin Mansion are basically familiar with the temperament of people like Cheng Yaojin. Once there is something good in the Qin Hou Mansion, they will definitely come.

When Qin Tian heard that Cheng Yaojin and the others were coming, he had no choice but to smile bitterly.

To be honest, soy beans are not very valuable, but if you give them, you are worried that they will not be satisfied, so if you don't give them, it is unreasonable.

Now that they're here, I'm afraid they won't be able to keep much of their soy beans.

"Why do the princes come to my place when you have time?" Qin Tian greeted him with a smile, Cheng Yaojin laughed, and slapped Qin Tian on the shoulder: "You have a heart, the food is cooked immediately." It was sent to us, not bad, not bad.”

"It should be, it should be."

Cheng Yaojin nodded, and suddenly said: "But a small altar is too little, not enough for our family, you can get me some more."

As soon as Cheng Yaojin opened his mouth, Yu Chigong, Niu Jinda and the others became less polite.

"We also want some. You don't know, my big family, a dozen or so people, can finish it in one meal."

"My family is the same, Xiaotian, you can't be stingy..."

"That's right, that's right, let us pay for it..."

Everyone was talking, when Qin Shubao suddenly said such a sentence, everyone turned their heads to look at him, Qin Shubao's cheeks twitched slightly, did he say something wrong?

Buy it, is it normal?

Cheng Yaojin and others rolled their eyes, and immediately ignored Qin Shubao's words.

Then he woke up again.

Qin Tian smiled wryly, and said: "Everyone, don't worry, listen to me, because it's the first year to do it, so I didn't make too much. There are so many of you, there must be enough food, but I will still give it to you, but only This time, if you want to eat, wait until next year, and make more next year, so that you can eat enough."

This has been said very generously, and Cheng Yaojin was a little unhappy when he heard that it was not enough to eat, because he liked the taste of soy beans so much, but Li Ji who was next to him took a look at him.

"Everyone understands, just let us try again."

Qin Tian gave them this thing for free, which is already very good. If they want to make more progress, Qin Tian must ask for money, and it will be embarrassing at that time.

After agreeing in this way, Qin Tian ordered people to move the four altars, and divided them among them. This time, they shared more than what Qin Tian gave before, so they were quite satisfied. He left happily.

Qin Shubao's here, because it was Qin Tian's adoptive father, after the others left, Qin Tian sent another altar to Qin Shubao, there is no way, among so many people, his adoptive father is still thinking about himself.

Ten altars of soy beans went to five or six altars in one go, and the remaining amount may not be enough for so many people in the Marquis of Qin's Mansion to eat for a long time.

But now that the weather has passed, it is difficult to ferment the beans again, so naturally it cannot be done, and we can only wait for midsummer next year.

In the evening, Hubu was still in a mess.

Tang Jian waited for news from the Yaren at the Ministry of Household Affairs.

If the Ministry of Households wants to purchase grain and grass, they must not be too busy themselves, so at this time, they will hire some Yamen to buy the grain and grass, and either earn some commission or a little price difference.

This naturally adds a little cost to the Ministry of Households, but it can only be done for the sake of efficiency. After all, Yaren knows this kind of market better.

At dusk, the person who communicated with Yaren finally came back.

"Master Tang, the situation is not good."

"What's the situation?" Tang Jian was a little uneasy. Now that the Tang Dynasty has just had a bumper harvest, and some local people have been exempted from taxes, many people should have food in their hands.

"The price of grain in the market is a bit high now, and you can buy it, but with the little money from our household department, I'm afraid it's not enough for Lingzhou's needs."

"How high is it?"

"One stone of grain costs five hundred Wen, which is three to four hundred Wen higher than before."

Hearing that a stone of grain costs five hundred Wen, Tang Jian frowned immediately. The price of grain has risen too much. Although the disaster in the Yellow River Basin caused the price of grain to rise a little, but in a few days Before, it was only more than 100 articles.

Could it be that because of the lack of food in Lingzhou, those people immediately raised the price of food?
(End of this chapter)