Because he planned to return to Huaizhou at the end of this month, Tang Ji thought of preparing the manuscripts of the books that the bookstore would sell in advance, so he worked all night and did not fall asleep until late at night. Unexpectedly, he was called after a few hours of sleep.
After waking up, he simply washed up and walked out of the room with a look of resentment. He looked at Tianxuan and asked with some dissatisfaction: "Master Tianxuan, you can just send someone to say hello when you have something to do. There is no need to go there in person so early in the morning."
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"It's not me, it's His Majesty who is looking for you." Tianxuan Yun replied calmly.
Dog Emperor?
He really knows how to choose the day!
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many officials are taking a break and do not hold court in the morning. It is not easy to find anyone, but they have to sacrifice their rest time.
But you can't disobey your orders, so Tang Ji nodded helplessly: "Okay, wait for me, I'll go have breakfast first."
Tianxuan folded her hands on her chest and replied: "You really have to eat, maybe this is the last meal."
"The last, last meal?" Tang Ji stopped immediately, gathered some energy, turned around to look at her, and said with a smile: "Hey, Master Tianxuan, what are you talking about? I'm still young, how could it be possible?"
It’s the last meal.”
Tianxuan sneered: "In front of the law, it doesn't matter what age you are."
Hearing this, Tang Ji became serious, frowned slightly, and asked: "Why is Your Majesty so angry?"
Tianxuan glanced at him: "Let me ask you, where do you get the seasonings used in Jiran Snack Street?"
"Seasoning? You made it yourself!" Tang Ji replied without thinking. Basically every store has an exclusive set of secret recipes. In order to study different flavors, he and Huang Anzhi endured a lot of hardships, and basically they have been able to do it.
I have found all the things in the world that can be used for seasoning. Could this be... Halfway through the thought, he suddenly realized something, raised his eyes and said, "Could it be that you are talking about salt?"
"Your salt is much finer than the official salt!" Tianxuan said coldly.
Tang Ji knew that selling illegal salt was a serious crime in ancient times. He raised his hand and raised three fingers: "Conscience of heaven and earth, I bought this salt from the official family. It has only been processed twice. I don't sell salt."
, they only sell food.”
Are you kidding? He is also a science student from the 21st century. He already knew the knowledge of refining coarse salt into fine salt as early as junior high school!
"You have to explain this to His Majesty!" Tianxuan spread his hands and replied, and added: "By the way, His Majesty is very unhappy today. If you can't explain clearly, you can spend this Mid-Autumn Festival in the Star Division Prison.
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When Tang Ji heard about the "Xingchen Division" prison, he couldn't help but trembled. Without thinking much, he walked straight towards the front yard.
"What are you doing? No breakfast?" Tianxuan looked at his back and shouted loudly.
"If you eat your shit, you'll die if you eat it again!"
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After a long time, Tang Ji was taken into the imperial city by Tianxuan and walked all the way to the imperial study room.
"Master Tang, you can go in."
After the little eunuch in brown-red official uniform made the announcement, he walked out of the imperial study and bowed to Tang Ji.
Tang Ji nodded in response, then took a deep breath, straightened his sleeves, and walked into the palace.
As soon as he entered the Imperial Study Room, he lowered his head and observed Emperor Ning with his peripheral vision, but found that the latter's face was gloomy, as if someone owed money and had not paid it back. The atmosphere in the palace was also a bit strange, which made him shudder.
Trembling, but now, he could only bite the bullet and go up, kneel down in the palace and salute: "The humble minister Tang Ji is here to see your majesty, long live my emperor!"
Emperor Ning looked at him coldly and said seriously: "Long live? You wish you could piss me off to death as soon as possible!"
"I don't dare. My loyalty to Your Majesty can be seen from the sun and the moon!" Tang Ji kowtowed and replied, then straightened up, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to report!"
Ning Huang originally planned to reprimand him first, and then ask him about the method of making fine salt. Unexpectedly, he was interrupted by this kid. He raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows: "That's right!"
Tang Ji coughed lightly, organized his words, and said: "Your Majesty, during the process of building Jiran Snack Street, Weichen accidentally discovered that some of the production processes of the grain industry can be improved, including the salt-drying method and sugar making.
New methods and improvements in oil extraction methods, etc.”
After hearing this, Emperor Ning became a little interested. He sat up straight, stared at him and asked, "Salt-drying method?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the current processing of salt is basically mining salt mines, and then using the cooking method to obtain the salt. In comparison, the output and quality of the sun-dried salt method are much higher. Our Ningguo is also close to the sea, and the sea water is sun-dried.
Once the salt method is introduced and used, there will be an inexhaustible supply of salt..." Since the Dog Emperor knew about it, Tang Ji had nothing to hold back, so he told all the knowledge he knew.
The other party may not understand it anyway.
"As for the fine salt used in Jiran snack street, it is a bit troublesome. It has to be dissolved, filtered, and evaporated..."
Sure enough, after listening for a while, Emperor Ning raised his hand to cover his forehead and interrupted him: "So, since you have found these methods, why don't you write to me as soon as possible?"
Tang Ji was speechless, blinked, and after thinking for a while, he cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, although I discovered it a long time ago, I only summarized these methods a few days ago and thought of trying them first.
I’ll report back to you after making sure nothing goes wrong.”
"Nonsense, give it a try? Your snack street is for the people in the city. Do you want to test it on the people? Can you afford it if something happens?" Emperor Ning patted the table and said angrily.
Tang Ji immediately bowed: "I don't dare. I know I was wrong. Please punish me."
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Emperor Ning waved his hand and said loudly: "Okay, then I will satisfy you. Someone, come here, pull Tang Ji down for me, and fight first!"
Hearing this, Tang Ji looked bitter, raised his head slightly, and said softly: "Your Majesty, let's discuss it again?"
"Huh?" Emperor Ning closed his eyes slightly and glared at him.
Seeing this, Tang Ji had no choice but to keep his mouth shut. If he had known he was going to get slapped, he shouldn't have said so much. In the end, he got himself into trouble. He lowered his head and sighed heavily.
Seeing Tang Ji being dragged away by the Imperial Guards, Emperor Ning showed a satisfied smile: "I will feel bad if I don't give this slippery-tongued boy a good beating!"
Bai Chang, who was standing behind him, also nodded: "I also feel that I need to train Mr. Tang properly to prevent him from doing stupid things again. Your Majesty, I will go and see for myself."
"Go." Emperor Ning glanced sideways at him, and the master and servant instantly reached a certain consensus.