"Your Majesty, you still have one in your stomach. Drinking alcohol doesn't affect you, but it does affect the child." Ren Baqian hurried back to the palace and saw that the Empress was drinking again, and couldn't help but said.
"Oh!" The empress responded lightly, but she didn't intend to put down the wine glass at all.
Ren Baqian was angry, anyway, that was my son too.
Ren Baqian rushed up.
Ren Baqian made a move.
Ren Baqian snatched the empress' wine glass.
Ren Baqian played GG.
"Oh, Your Majesty, it hurts, hurts!" Ren Baqian twitched in pain. "Sire, when did you learn to pull your ears?"
"Heh!" The Empress sneered.
Ren Baqian was furious: "I want to fight you one-on-one."
The Empress rolled her eyes, with a half-smile on her face: "Come here!"
The voice is full of encouragement!
Ren Baqian: "...you wait until my waist is healed!"
"Ah!"
"One-on-one!" No matter how angry Ren Baqian was, no man could bear this matter.
Even if I do my best today, even if the iron pestle is ground into a needle, I will fight with you!
"Oh, come on!" The Empress stretched lazily, lightly. "Seeing that you've been busy recently, I'll let you go!"
Ren Baqian snorted, he has been very busy recently, and it would take three days at a time, or five days at a time, which would be too much of a delay.
And my waist... hurts...
"And I'm also afraid that your waist is really broken..." the empress said provocatively again.
Ren Baqian said with a dark face, "One-on-one!"
"Then you come!" The empress wrinkled her nose slightly, leaned on the back of the sofa, squinted at him, and hooked her fingers.
"Forget it, I've been very busy recently! Bookstores and department stores will open tomorrow!" Ren Baqian felt that the sea and the sky would be brighter, and he could endure the calm for a while.
"Hmph!" The empress twitched her lips.
However, he also knew that Ren Baqian had been busy with some things in the past two months and kept his feet on the ground all day, so he let him go first.
The next day, next to the Royal Spice Shop and the Royal Glass Shop, two brand new shops opened.
One is the Royal Department Store, which has many types of goods, but the storefront is still empty, and almost all the shelves are filled with the same goods.
As for the goods, they include toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, sanitary napkins, clocks, needles, threads, perfume, sunglasses, Glauber's salt and a kind of flour. These flours are a kind of miscellaneous grain flour from Tianjingzhi's real estate. Although they can be used for eating, they are more useful for tanning furs together with Glauber's salt.
Toothbrushes are made from the mane hair of beasts, and toothpaste is calcium carbonate plus glycerin, a by-product of making soap.
The remaining toilet paper, clocks, needles and threads, which seem to be commonplace for modern people, are of great value in this world.
The price of the iron needle is even similar to that of silver of the same volume, but compared to the iron needles of Izumo and Daxia, the price is more than half cheaper.
The same is true for toilet paper. Although the price is already very low, it is still a luxury for ordinary people in this world.
Although Ren Baqian positioned this department store as a grocery store, at this time, only those officials could afford it.
Next door to the department store is the Royal Bookstore. Compared to the department store that was crowded with people as soon as it opened, there were very few customers in this large bookstore.
Lin Mengsheng walked into the bookstore and looked around. It was somewhat similar to a library in a school. One part of the bookstore was bookshelves, while the other part were tables and chairs for people to read books.
Next to the tables and chairs is a window made of floor-to-ceiling glass, and bright sunlight is pouring in from the outside. It would be a good feeling to sit by the window with a book in hand.
The clerk is from the Jing family, and he was a little at a loss when he saw Lin Mengsheng. Although he had gone through a few days of training before, books are precious items that most people cannot touch, and those who can come to buy books and read books can't do anything. They are all of unusual status.
Although there was an Izumo person in front of him, but there were very few Izumo people wandering around in Lancheng, he almost immediately thought of a gentleman from Zizhu Academy. Because there is a student from Zizhu Academy next door to him, and he has heard it from the other party.
Although the status of the other party is not high, he always has a considerable awe of learned people, which is a common problem of ordinary people in this era.
"Don't worry about me, I'll just take a look." Lin Mengsheng seemed to see the clerk's embarrassment, and smiled slightly.
I have to say that Lin Mengsheng is very friendly, and his faint smile made the other party relax a little.
"Can these tables and chairs be used to read books here?" Lin Mengsheng pointed to the tables and chairs by the window and asked. Izumo also has a bookstore, but there are no such things.
The owner of any bookstore does not welcome people who only read books but do not buy them.
"Yes, as long as the book is not dirty or damaged, all guests can sit here and read it." The clerk said nervously. "And if the sun is too bright, there are bamboo curtains that can be pulled down to block the sun."
Lin Mengsheng nodded, and then wandered around in front of the bookshelves in the bookstore.
"Bilingual Contrasting Dictionary", "Bilingual Three-Character Classic", "Bilingual Elementary Mathematics", "Bilingual Summer Court Computing", "Three-year Simulation Exercise Collection", "Looking at Pictures to Learn Simplified Chinese", "Bilingual Jin Ping Mei"...
There are about dozens of books, some of which are bilingual, and some that are not marked are all simplified characters that I have learned.
Randomly took out a copy of "Six Secret Codex" and looked it up, and found that the opening chapter was to introduce a sect called "Six Sects". Most of the records in the book were some herbs and insect beasts, and there were some insect beasts in the back. Feed control methods.
Lin Mengsheng was a little surprised. He didn't expect this kind of book to appear in this bookstore.
Holding the "Six Secret Codex", he found a long chair and sat for a while, Lin Mengsheng closed the book, thinking slowly in his heart.
Books are not cheap in Izumo.
But here, people can look through it at will, and it doesn’t even matter if they just look at it or not.
The purpose of that Highness is to make books available to everyone, and everyone can learn, no matter if they are dignitaries, merchants, or even mountain people, the goal of that Highness is to open up the wisdom of the people!
The ancients said: The people can't be made to know, but they can seek to get rid of it, which is the purpose of deification.
It means: when the superior guides the people, sometimes they can only make the people follow my guidance, but they cannot let the people fully understand the purpose of my guidance.
Reading has always been the business of scholars, as long as the common people know what to ask them to do, if they have their own ideas, they will cause trouble. There are not many people who hold this idea.
However, His Highness wants to break this point.
If the people all read books and have their own thoughts, is it good or bad
…
Ren Baqian looked at the report in his hand and frowned.
After the department store opened for a few days, the fastest sellers were sunglasses and toothpaste.
Sunglasses are easy to understand. After all, the six books of history all have such a pair of sunglasses, and they wear them everywhere every day. Others have been coveting them for a long time.
And the toothpaste sold faster than the sunglasses... The feedback was - it tastes good!
Did these guys eat toothpaste as a snack
Then he put down the report, picked up another report, and frowned.
Can't find a job!
In the past two months, I have built a lot of factories and recruited a lot of workers.
However, the population of Lancheng is not large, and there are even fewer idlers. The latest recruitment information has been released for three days, and only six people have been recruited.
It seems that the population will be relocated from other cities.