The days in Chang'an were really painful and happy. I was happy because there was really everything here, including food, drinks and entertainment.
Liu Tan is now freer after moving out of the palace. He even went to the downtown area to scout out the area himself and then prepared to buy a shop.
While scouting the area, he passed by his own candy shop and found that the business was much better than he had imagined, with a queue actually forming.
Liu Tan was a little surprised. Has the living standard of the people in Chang'an become so rich?
You have to know that sugar is really a luxury these days, with a very low cost-effectiveness. Most well-off families may not be willing to buy it.
Even Liu Tan couldn't do anything about this matter. After all, the basic material for making sugar is rock sugar, which has to be shipped from other countries. The cost is there, and he can't lower the price much even if he wants to.
As for planting
Liu Tan sat on the second floor of the largest restaurant in Chang'an, opposite his candy shop. The location could be said to be the best, and this shop mainly sold limited edition gift boxes and candies with special flavors, and they sold them at the highest possible price.
Even so, there was still a long queue at the candy shop, and Liu Tan was so scared that he almost dropped the chicken leg in his hand.
He turned to the owner of the candy shop and asked, "Is it like this every day?"
The shopkeeper quickly smiled and said, "It's not like this every day. It's almost New Year's Day, so people are buying more for gifts."
Liu Tan finally felt relieved. He had thought that he had misjudged the consumption capacity of the Han people.
Well, to be honest, seeing the sugar shop in this state, he hated that he couldn't grow sugarcane on his own fiefdom, and the places where sugarcane could be grown now... were still barren lands in various senses.
Liu Tan sighed, which frightened the shopkeeper so much that he trembled.
After scouting the area, he chose a shop with a relatively common location. He turned to Miao Rui and said, "Ask someone to see if there's anyone selling it nearby."
Miao Rui said very carefully, "Your Highness, this location... doesn't seem very good. Do you want to change it?"
Liu Tan waved his hand: "This is just a sales office, it doesn't need to be too good."
He planned to use this shop to register the sale of coal, that is, to have people come here to buy, and then give him a voucher, or have someone record it, and then start delivering coal to each household at a fixed time, or let each household pick up the coal themselves with the voucher.
However, honeycomb coal has not yet become famous, and Liu Tan is still thinking about how to promote it.
However, in fact, he basically did not need to worry about such things, or at least he did not need to worry about the promotion among the nobles.
How could A-Jiao Chen not show off her beautiful new jewelry?
So what if the gems were newly discovered? Did the queen need the name of a luxury item to enhance her status?
On the contrary, the value of such gems doubled because the queen wore them.
What's more, the broken evil gold is really beautiful, colorful and dazzling, attracting people's attention.
Because they are not particularly formal occasions, Chen Ajiao does not wear all the jewelry on her head as a jewelry display cabinet, but chooses one or two pieces to match her clothes.
The most popular ones are red broken gold, after all, it is close to New Year's Day, which looks festive, while blue looks a bit cold in winter and is more suitable for summer.
As the only woman in the empire who owns Broken Evil Gold jewelry, Chen Ajiao is very proud of it. No one doesn't like to be unique, but with Chen Ajiao's status, it becomes very difficult to be unique.
The noble ladies praised Chen Ajiao and praised the King of the North for his filial piety, which made Chen Ajiao doubly happy.
Of course, she wasn't just showing off her jewelry; she even brought out some honeycomb coal, though it was just a casual remark: "That kid was worried that Your Majesty and I would be cold, so he dug up a bunch of black rocks from somewhere and asked someone to make coal for us. It turns out the floor heating in this palace is a lot warmer now."
The speaker may not intend it, but the listener may take it seriously.
Now almost the entire Chang'an City knows that anything produced by the King of the North must be of the highest quality, especially since he gave it to the Emperor and Empress first. How could it be bad?
So everyone started asking what this coal was. At first, they didn't necessarily want to buy it, they were just curious. Since the emperor and empress were using it, they were tempted to try it. They were just following the trend, and everyone was like that.
However, Liu Tan was still making the most basic preparations at that time, so naturally he did not publicize it. In the end, it was Li Buyan and Wei Buyi who promoted it among a group of friends, and then everyone knew about honeycomb coal.
After learning that both Li Xi's family and the Wei family had switched to honeycomb coal, everyone was excited.
What is particularly attractive is that honeycomb coal is more economical than firewood!
Although the nobles were extravagant, they did not care about money. Moreover, the cost of firewood in a winter was not small.
Wouldn’t it be better to use this money on food, drink and entertainment?
But even if they wanted to save money, they had no way to do so, and they didn't dare to go to the Northern Border Palace to beg.
The main reason is that the King of the North has no queen, and their wife cannot go to Madam Gao for diplomacy. It is not appropriate for them to take the initiative to visit her. What do the important officials of the court want to do by making friends with the princes?
What's more, it is said that the King of the North is in poor health. He has been ill since he entered the capital and has rarely gone out. Many people have not seen him, but everyone knows that the Pepper Room and Palace of Weiyang Palace and even the Prince's Palace are eager to send a bunch of things every few days. Everyone is wondering if the King of the North is ill.
Some people even linked this to the fact that the emperor specially allowed the King of the North to enter the capital, wondering if it was because the King of the North was seriously ill that he was allowed to come back to recuperate.
After all, the climate in the Northern Territory is too harsh and not suitable for recuperation.
The group of people gossiped for a long time, and then had no choice but to go to Li Xi's house. Those with more connections went to find Princess Yangxin.
In any case, both of these places are much easier to visit than the King of the North.
Liu Tan had no idea that his staying at home and enjoying himself was considered a sign of illness. Apart from a few days of rest at the beginning when he had nothing to do every day, he spent the rest of his time planning for Shuofang City.
He found that he just couldn't sit still. After eating, drinking and having fun every day, he began to worry about his own mess again.
Today he is thinking about whether Jiang Chong can deal with those people, and tomorrow he is thinking about when tax revenue can increase. He has been investing in the early stage and the income has not yet appeared. It is even conceivable that he will be in a state of investment for a period of time in the future. Even if there is income, the tax paid may not be much.
Liu Tan had no choice but to start planning Shuofang City. After all, the royal capital was his face, and many of his previous ideas could be realized in the royal capital, which made him excited.
But many things are just his ideas and may not be useful.
Something like a flush toilet is actually just a toilet, but if you want to use it, you must have matching underground sewage facilities.
Liu Tan didn't know much about the underground sewage facilities at the royal capital level. The one in Golden City was just a very crude and simplified version. It was usable, but not very convenient.
After thinking about it, he decided to ask someone to bring the underground sewage direction of Chang'an for reference.
Then he discovered that Chang'an's sewage was discharged into nearby water systems, such as the Wei River.
If the sewage of such a city is discharged into the river, how can the drinking water not be polluted?
Liu Tan frowned, realizing that Changan's sewage system was useless except for its direction.
He scribbled on the paper for a while, pondered for a while, and finally suddenly thought: there is no need to rush the drainage facilities, he can get the toilet out first, at least it will improve his life happiness index when he is in Chang'an!
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