The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 37 Centaur Stone
Zongze got the answer.

People, on the surface, are Qiang, Tubo, etc., but in fact they refer to suppressing Xixia. If the strategy is good, the northwest frontier of the Song Dynasty can be peaceful.

Horses, if you take Hehuang, you will have a place to raise horses, and there will also be routes for horse trading.

Finally, the stone.

If Zongze hadn't seen the edict at Liang Shicheng's home, he wouldn't have understood it.

The stone represents making the emperor happy so that the court can continue to support him.

After asking two things clearly, Zongze felt at ease.

You can go to the northwest.

There is a lot to be done in the northwest.

As for Liang Xin, she returned to Cao Mansion and found Cao Yang and said, "Let's go have a drink."

"drink wine?"

"It's your last night alone, and someone will take care of it tomorrow, so I'm going to drink today and call ten bartenders."

Cao Yang looked puzzled: "I've heard of wives being strict at home, but I've never heard of concubines being strict. You just married a concubine, and there's no reason for a concubine to dare to control you. If she dares to control you, she's treating you badly. She wouldn’t dare to disrespect the principal wife.”

Liang Xin was stunned.

He still thought that before he time traveled, before getting married, he would have a bachelor party or something.

After doing this for a long time, this is not called marriage.

Liang Xin smiled awkwardly: "Brother, you didn't say we were kissing?"

"Alas..." Cao Yang sighed.

"What's going on?" The gossip fire in Liang Xin's heart began to burn.

Cao Yang said: "About half a year ago, Emperor Daxing mentioned it to my father. Now, I don't know if the palace still remembers it."

"Who, who?" Liang Xin was very excited.

"Princess Xu!"

After Liang Xin listened, she sat there in a daze for five minutes. Cao Yang stared at Liang Xin: "Speak!"

Liang Xin shook her head: "Impossible."

"What's impossible?"

Liang Xin began to calculate: "Let me calculate for you. According to the current generation, I have heard of this eldest princess. She is 16 years old, but she is your aunt."

"Nonsense, peer, let me calculate it for you." Cao Yang began to calculate.

Counting down from great-great-grandfather.

Cao Yang: "Look, today's eldest lady happens to be my grandmother's junior, the same generation as my father. The eldest princess is the same generation as the official family, and she happens to be the same generation as me."

Well, Cao Yang’s calculation was correct.

Liang Xin asked again: "Isn't it bad to marry a princess?"

Cao Yang only said: "See for yourself, look at my Cao family."

Liang Xin had nothing to say. For ordinary people, marrying a princess was a step to success.But for the Cao family, it was a tragedy. Cao Yang's second uncle, Cao Shi, suffered from injustice all his life.

"Forget it, just have a couple of drinks and go to the wedding before dawn tomorrow."

"Come here, prepare wine." Cao Yang ordered, and someone immediately went to do it.

Before the wine was ready, Cao Tan arrived.

An ordinary maid placed a small box on the table and opened it.

Inside the box, two books.

Cao Tan said: "The book printed for you by my classic book shop is not signed."

Cao Yang grabbed it first, flipped through a few pages, and said with a sad look on his face: "Brother, why don't you ask me about printing books?" Liang Xin immediately explained: "No, this is the situation. Some time ago, we were talking about Tan Tan. I was talking to a housekeeper of your Cao family about the shop, and I happened to meet your eldest daughter. How can you doubt it, you and I are the best in the world."

"Really, really?"

The expression on Cao Yang's face was full of doubt: "Tanpu, why didn't I know? The Cao family's charcoal shop is the second in Bianjing City. The charcoal shop in Jingbian City is divided into three, and my Cao family occupies one of them. This is not a house. industry, this is a family property.”

Damn it, how do you explain it next?
Cao Tan was sitting there like a wooden sculpture. Why did she come over? It was because Liang Xin said just now that she wanted to have a drink and would call ten bartenders.From the time Liang Xin moved into Cao Yang's house, Cao Tan had set up an informant. When he heard this, he immediately spread the word back.

Therefore, Cao Tan came over in person.

Now, all the charcoal shops in Bianjing City have actually become one.

Cao Yang doesn’t know yet.

how to explain.

Cao Tan sat there like a wooden sculpture, obviously not intending to explain.

Liang Xin felt like her brain was almost drained.

Got it!

"Brother, it's not convenient for me to talk to you about this matter. I didn't come forward myself. It was Zhao Youfu's father-in-law in the palace who arranged for him to talk to your family steward. As for the palace, they need to use some charcoal..."

"Nonsense, all the charcoal used in the palace is fragrant charcoal, and it is purchased in the palace, not from outside. My shop specializes in charcoal, and there is a small amount of charcoal, but it is not fragrant charcoal."

Liang Xin pointed at Cao Yang and said, "In this way, five days, five days at most. If you have the ability to enter the palace, I can let you see it with your own eyes."

"Entering the palace?" Cao Yang turned his head and looked at Cao Tan.

Cao Tan then spoke: "I will go into the palace to verify it."

Cao Yang asked Liang Xin again: "It is really necessary to use charcoal in the palace. Charcoal is poisonous when burned."

"That's because you don't understand. These are all trivial matters. I said that we are the best in the world. Really, more real than gold. If there is any good thing, I will give it to you first, but this time I am the biggest in the palace. The palace will fix it for you." Liang Xin said this, Cao Tan endured it very hard, she didn't want to laugh out loud.

"really."

"Very true."

After many confirmations, Cao Yang's expression became relaxed: "Do you think this charcoal is really useful?"

"Well, I'll prove it to you now."

After Liang Xin finished speaking, Cao Yang didn't notice, but Cao Tan clapped his hands gently, and the maid next to her went to make arrangements.

The charcoal shop has already made many fresh items according to Liang Xin's instructions.

What was carried this time was too ordinary for the time traveler Liang Xin.

It's just an iron drum briquette stove.

There was a round table with a hole dug in the middle and a copper pot placed on it.

Hot pot originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and became popular in the Mongolian, Yuan and Braid Dynasties.

In the Song Dynasty, the eating method of the Tang Dynasty was inherited, which was more like a stew pot. It was famously called Gudong pot.

The way to eat Liang Xin is very simple, thinly sliced ​​lamb, served with sesame sauce, coriander, green onions, a little sauce, and some fish sauce...

"This way of eating is quite novel." Cao Yang ate quickly without even looking up.

Liang Xin said: "How to eat is one thing. The key point is that this stove, if you don't need heating, just cook and boil water every day, six coal cakes are enough. You are a noble, have you ever seen ordinary people?" How do poor people eat?"

Cao Yang shook his head.

Liang Xin: "Porridge is very thick porridge. When the weather is cold, you boil a lot of it at once. When you eat it, you don't boil it completely again. People who are richer boil water, cut the porridge into pieces and soak it in hot water. People who are poorer just boil it. Use a little firewood, or cut the porridge into pieces, put it in cold water, and cook it until it's a little warm."

Liang Xin put down her chopsticks: "Going to a restaurant every day to order a few dishes and throwing them away when you are not used to them is just the life of a very small number of people in Bianjing City. Bianjing City has a population of one million. I believe that it is impossible for 95 people to eat it every day." I went to the restaurant to order some dishes."

Cao Yang said: "I also understand. Every time it snows in winter, my Cao family will apply charcoal. Last year, we applied [-] kilograms of charcoal."

Liang Xin: "Drink a drink for brother Yang who is kind and charitable."

(End of this chapter)