The subsequent development of things went smoothly beyond Luo Yong's expectations.

The emperor has sold cement and Eucommia ulmoides in the past two years. He has made a lot of money, especially the Eucommia ulmoides. He found a group of craftsmen who were specially responsible for making gorgeous and exquisite leather boots, and sold them to foreign nobles. The price is so high that it can kill people. But the sales are still very good, and they are always in short supply.

This time, the emperor heard a parent of a student from the Imperial Academy mention this matter. Then he stroked his pen and not only did the problem in the Imperial Academy solve it, but also the schools of Imperial Academy, Four Schools, Books, Mathematics, and Law School also benefited from it, and Hongwenguan did not fall behind.

His Majesty the Emperor spoke, and he must be rewarded if he gets a full mark in the arithmetic exam. He will not be rewarded at a time. As long as he is a student who is diligent in his studies and has good grades, he can give appropriate rewards depending on the situation.

After the news spread, many students in Chang'an City were very happy. Especially the students in the four schools, namely the Four Schools, Books, Mathematics and Law School, although not everyone has the ability to get this reward, it is still a hope.

In addition, there are many people in Chang'an City that the emperor's move should also have the intention to lift the status of high officials and schools.

Just a while ago, a new private academy was opened in Maoling, not far from Chang'an City. The dean of the academy was quite prestigious among the gentry and literati. Not long after this academy was opened, many people sent their children there to study. Now there are more than 50 students.

I heard that they have high requirements for students' qualifications. If they have poor qualifications, they don't want them no matter how good their backgrounds are. If they have extraordinary qualifications, they are willing to accept them no matter how ordinary their backgrounds are.

Speaking of Maoling, we have to mention Wuling near Chang'an City.

In the hinterland of Guanzhong, there are nine imperial tombs of the Western Han Dynasty distributed in the Xianyang Plain at the intersection of Jing and Wei. Among them are: the Changling of Emperor Gaozu, the Anling of Emperor Hui, the Yangling of Emperor Jing, the Maoling of Emperor Wu, and the Pingling of Emperor Zhao. These five tombs are the most prosperous and are the place where many wealthy families and royal relatives live together. Therefore, people at that time called the Xianyang Plain Wuling Plain.

Bai Juyi wrote in "Pipa Xing": "Wuling the Five Tombs compete for their heads when they are young, and I don't know how to count the red gauze." Li Bai also wrote: "Wulings are young, Jingdong City, and the silver saddle and white horses are passing the spring breeze." This Wulings' youth refers to the Wulings on the Wulings.

At this time, Bai Juyi and Li Bai were not born yet, but Wuling originally had counties and towns since the Han Dynasty. The first ones moved here were the 2,000-stone officials in the Kanto region, the rich people of Gaozi, and the heroes. Overall, the style was very high.

This time, the newly opened academy in Maoling was called Huaili Academy, because the location of Maoling was Mao Township, Huaili County, during the Han Dynasty.

I heard that not only do not pick on students’ origins, they also need very little. There are free school buildings and canteens in the college, and the treatment is comparable to that of official schools. The official schools in Chang'an City also have canteens. Luo Yong them eat in the school canteen every day at noon, and there are also school buildings. Some foreign students and a few international students live in the school building.

In this situation, even Luo Yong couldn't help but think about whether those aristocratic families were planning to recruit talents and strengthen their family strength, let alone be in the position of the emperor.

Therefore, many people in Chang'an City say that the reason why the emperor was so generous this time was to demonstrate the superiority of official schools. Luo Yong thought this speculation was quite reasonable.

On the morning of that day, an official from the Imperial College went to the Sister's Food Store and asked Aunt Luo to discuss the price of the bamboo sticks in her house. It was not only purchased by the court, but also the quantity was relatively large. The price must be discussed again.

Aunt Luo asked him to ask Luo Yong, and as long as they agreed with Luo Yong, she had no objection.

Then that afternoon, Luo Yong was called to the Imperial College to talk to him.

"Sanlang thought, how much does this bamboo stick cost appropriate?"

The person who discussed this matter with Luo Yong was Yang Zhubu of the Imperial College. At this time in the Tang Dynasty, the Imperial College was an educational administrative institution that supervised the Six Schools, so this time the matter was also under their control.

When Mr. Yang asked this, he had a vague intention of suppressing Luo Yong with his identity as the chief. When Mr. Luo Yong heard this, he kicked the ball back with a raised foot: "Mr. Yang thought that the price of twenty-eight-word is not appropriate?"

No matter what his chief is, Luo Yong doesn't want to be promoted, so he is afraid that he will do whatever he is. Besides, in addition to the chief clerk, there is also an Imperial College, and an Imperial College Chief Secretary, and his official position is greater than that of the Yang Lord. The two of them don't want to come forward for bargaining.

"How can hundreds of bamboo sticks be the same as the price of previous scattered transactions every month?" said the Yang Zhuan.

"That's true." Luo Yong smiled and asked him, "Then the chief clerk thinks, how much does a bamboo stick cost?" Bargaining is very important. On the one hand, we should not let the other party guess the psychological price of one party too early, and on the other hand, we should try to understand where the other party's bottom line is.

"..." Yang Zhubu was also from a good family and was a pampered person since childhood. He didn't know which bargaining method to do so. At this time, he thought about it in his mind and said, "In my opinion, twenty cents are suitable."

When Luo Yong heard this price, his brow frowned: "Twenty cents? How does this make it? The students in these six schools are all at the age of being able to eat, so it's hard to ask my sister to do a loss-making business."

Yang Zhubu also went to the sister's food shop and knew that the shop had to be sold for five cents for just a bowl of canned fruit. Those young people in their teens and twenties could eat four or five bowls casually, which was not like playing.

However, this time, this task was explained by the superiors. According to the above meaning, it cannot exceed twenty-four cents at most. It is best to mention the price to about twenty-cent.

Yang Zhubu felt that the price of 20 cents was a bit difficult. At this time, he heard Luo Yong say this again and felt that it was inappropriate, so he said, "The loss is always not the case. Not all students eat so much. It is better to do this. That bamboo stick is priced at 22 cents. What do you think?"

Luo Yong heard him say that he added two cents to a bamboo stick, and he felt a little funny. A bamboo stick costs two cents, and one hundred is only two hundred cents. The combined price of these six schools is a thousand cents a month.

As the saying goes, he stops when he sees it is good. Luo Yong no longer gets more and bows to Master Yang and bows to Master Yang, "Thank you for your kindness!"

Yang Zhubu nodded, very satisfied with Luo Yong's sensation. After all, he was serving breakfast to the students of Liu Xuexi, and was rewarded. If he had changed to other merchants, even if it was a loss of money, they would be willing to do it.

However, in this Chang'an city, no food shop has a good reputation than the A-Sister Food Shop and is suitable for serving breakfast to students. After all, it is students of the Sixth School. Those too extravagant places are not suitable for them. They cannot show their identity. After thinking about it, it is the most suitable food shop, not to mention that this matter was the first of Luo Sanlang. The prize was the breakfast of the A-Sister Food Shop, and the students seemed to like it very much.

On November 19th, Dr. Chen came to Luo Yong early to get the test paper.

"Why are you here to get it in person? I still want to send it to you at noon." Luo Yong smiled and handed over a stack of test papers to him.

"I'm so relieved to prepare earlier." Dr. Chen was also a little nervous when he arranged such an exam for the first time.

"It's just one exam, what's the difference?" For those who have experienced various simulation tests, big and small, weekly and monthly tests, Luo Yong thinks that this ten-day test is pediatrics. As a teacher, he has a positive attitude, but if you want to be nervous, it's really not at all.

"Just just in case, I'll ask my family to print more copies for you." Luo Yong said to him again when he sent Dr. Chen out.

"If you don't say it, I can't remember this." Dr. Chen was very grateful: "When the exam is over today, I will treat you to dinner tonight."

"Forget it tonight, just bring me some good dishes at noon the next day." Luo Yong had other arrangements tonight. Besides, he didn't like going out for social engagements, so he just gave up on the matter of treating to dinner.

However, the canteen of their school is really not very good. Many students and teachers from good families will ask their servants to bring some hot rice and hot dishes. Luo Yong has that condition. He and Qiao Junlin both eat in the canteen honestly. It would be great if they could add a few dishes occasionally.

"Okay, at noon the next day, I will ask my family to send some good food here." Dr. Chen said, trotting on his carriage.

On the morning of this day, the gentlemen from each class were examining the students' recitation and understanding of classics, history, and the collections of classics, history, and the classics were also routine.

But the atmosphere this time is better. For some students who perform well, gentlemen will appropriately use bamboo sticks as rewards. However, there are not many, one less, and three more, and there are quite a lot of people who get bamboo sticks.

In the afternoon, students in several classes started taking math.

I heard that after the last math exam, some students were beaten after going home. This time, in order not to make their scores too ugly, Luo Yong adjusted the difficulty as a whole, got a lot of free points, and set a few more difficult points. For a paper like this, it is relatively easy to get a random test of 60 or 70. It is more difficult to get above 90 or 90 points, and it is very difficult to get full marks.

However, this time, the rewards are not given according to the full mark, but relying on rankings. In the Taixue side, there are ten bamboo sticks in one to three places, the fourth to tenth places are five bamboo sticks, and the eleventh to twenty places are two bamboo sticks.

At this time, there were many guests in the hall on the second floor of the Ma Family Guest House, some of which were residents in this restaurant, some were not, and they would have a rest tomorrow. Many people would have to come out for some leisure tonight and have fun. They could not go back after a curfew, so they would just stay in the guest house for one night. Even if the closed doors outside kept ringing, it would have no effect on them.

Luo Yong took some eggs from the food shop, took a can of soybean oil, and then took a small egg whisk, and went to the backyard with Qiao Junlin.

There is a row of houses in the backyard of the Ma Family House, mainly used as a workhouse and a warehouse. Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin went to the workhouse where the aunt and the others had lived before and started making the salad sauce that they would use tomorrow.

A few days ago, when Luo used it to Sister’s Food Shop, Aunt Luo told him that the vegetables and vegetables that were recently cheaper. Every day, many farmers outside the city picked vegetables and came to the city to sell them. In this cold winter, the price of vegetables and vegetables is even cheaper every day.

Some farmers told her that if the current situation continues to develop, they may not even be able to make money from buying oil paper and firewood.

Chang'an City has a relatively strong consumption capacity. A few years ago, when the kang was just released, someone else sold some onions, garlic seedlings on the kang, and made some money.

The price of oil paper has been lowered in the past two years. Some people have planted it in low houses covered with oil paper. The house has built a large area of ​​fire kang, planted the vegetables and vegetables on the kang surface, and then picked them and sold them in the city. The price is very high.

I heard that those who first started selling vegetables would carry a load of vegetables and sell them in Chang'an City, and then they could get a batch of silk back.

In the past two years, more and more people have grown vegetables in winter, so the price is naturally becoming cheaper. This year, for some reason, the price has almost fallen below the cost line.

Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin opened the eggs one by one, separated the eggs from the egg yolks, put the eggs in a pottery pot on the table, poured the egg yolks into the egg beating bucket, and then turned the handle to start stirring.

Speaking of this egg-beating bucket, Aunt Luo and his friends brought two egg-beating buckets when they came from Lishi County. Later, they heard that their business was getting bigger, and the Heng family and his son took off the Ma family's business and sent several of them all over the place. Chonghuafang brought a few large and small ones, and there were several shops.

"You add some oil to it." Luo said to Qiao Junlin while turning the handle on the egg whisk.

"How many?" Qiao Junlin asked him.

"I don't know, just look at it." This is the first time Luo Yong has done this. I heard that it is quite simple and shouldn't be impossible.

Qiao Junlin scooped two spoons of soybean oil into the bucket with a spoon, looked inside, it was pitch black and could not see clearly. At this time, the sky was already dark, and an oil lamp was lit in the room, but it was still a little dim.

"There are grapefruits in the pottery jar over there, you can take one out and peel it." Luo Yong said to him again.

Qiao Junlin didn't say anything, walked to the front of the pottery jar in the corner of the wall, lifted up a basket covered with golden grapefruits, piled up with sharp tips.

Pomelos are not produced near Chang'an City. They have to be transported from the Jiangnan region. The journey is very long. In addition, the grapefruits grown on the truly delicious old pomelo trees are already very limited in quantity.

So in Chang'an City, the price of grapefruit is very expensive, and it costs dozens of cents at a glance. Qiao Junlin had eaten it several times when he went out to socialize with others. Now he was a little surprised to see so many grapefruits being placed in this workhouse casually.

"How much did you buy these grapefruits?" Qiao Junlin took one grapefruit to the kang, and asked Luo Yong while peeling the grapefruit skin.

"Not many, these grapefruits are not very good, and the price is cheaper." Luo Yong said.

"Why don't you buy some good ones?" Why do you buy so many bad grapefruits? Qiao Junlin is puzzled.

"It's not just for eating it." Luo Yong said: "The yolks in this bucket are too thick. You should peel the grapefruit soon and squeeze some grapefruit juice into it."

Qiao Junlin squeezed some grapefruit juice into the bucket as he said. After a while, Luo Yong asked him to add soybean oil to it. He added it again. He repeated this several times, and finally put some fine salt in it. When the stirring was almost done, Luo Yong stopped the movement in his hand and looked at the oil lamp to see the results in the mixing bucket.

It seemed pretty good, so he dipped a little chopsticks and put them in his mouth to taste it, and the taste was still good. Luo Yong asked Qiao Junlin to wait in the house. He ran to the shop in front to fry two slightly tender pancakes, then cut some vegetables, put them on a plate and brought them over.

The two of them wrapped vegetables in the pancakes and applied some thick sauce from the stirring bucket.

Before Luo Yong could finish his mouth, Qiao Junlin bit him down. Luo Yong saw it and couldn't help laughing. Is this kid a little confident in his skills?

"How does it taste?" Luo Yong asked him.

"Not bad." Qiao Junlin slowly chewed the food in his mouth, which was a bit rich in refreshing and similar to cheese, but it was not as sticky and sweet as cheese. If he hadn't seen the production process with his own eyes, he would have imagined that this thing was made of egg yolks and soybean oil.

After eating the pancakes, the two carefully packed the bucket of salad sauce, and then went to bed early. The next morning, around three or four o'clock, they got up to work.

The second floor hall of the Ma Family Guest House was completely empty last night until the second half of the night. Luo Yong went there at this time and collected the down products, and then placed some high-legged tables around the hall.

What Luo Yong wanted to do this time was a buffet breakfast. In order to decorate the atmosphere of the buffet restaurant, he started planning early in the morning, but this is the first time he really started to decorate.

"Do you want me to help?" The boy Ma Feiyang got up early this day, which was rare.

"Put these tablecloths for me." Luo Yong hoped that many people would help him, and put everything on the table early, so he could have more time to make detailed adjustments later.

These tablecloths were also bought from the cloth shop in advance. There were two layers inside and outside. The layer inside was beige silk cloth, hanging all the way to the base of the table. The outside was dark ochre-colored fine linen cloth, and there were some white porcelain plates of smooth color on the table, which looked particularly clean.

The table where food is placed cannot be placed too neatly and rigidly. How can it be placed in an orderly manner without appearing messy? This is also a more technical and aesthetic concern...

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"Hey, do you want to call me so early? The gate has not opened yet, and it has not yet dawn..."

"Go away quickly, don't whisper."

"You are so hungry? Do you have to come out for breakfast at this time?"
To be continued...