"You really don't want to say that you have never drunk this tea." Pei Shaoqing said, "and I'm brewing this tea, not cooking it."

“Is there any difference?”

Liu Yizhi said: "Aren't it all tea?"

Pei Shaoqing said: "You will know later."

While speaking, Cui Erlang had already made tea and served it.

"Is this tea?" Liu Yizhi said, "Isn't it just tea juice?"

"I said it wrong, this is not called tea juice." Pei Shaoqing corrected, "It is called tea soup."

Half a month ago, because Princess Taiping was uncomfortable, Pei Shaoqing went to the medicine shop to prescribe her medicine, but found that there was a Chinese medicinal material called Ming, which was actually tea, and it was not tea that fermented into tea cakes, but bulk tea that was dried after baking.

It was almost the tea that came later.

Pei Shaoqing bought several large bags and went home at that time.

Through time and space, Pei Shaoqing finally drank serious tea again.

"Please, Lao Liu." Pei Shaoqing said that, he picked up another cup.

"Can this thing be drunk?" Liu Yizhi said he couldn't drink it, but he picked up the teacup in his hand.

However, after drinking a few sips, Liu Yizhi found that it was unexpectedly delicious. He immediately exclaimed: "Hey, I really didn't realize that this tea juice is actually quite delicious?"

“It’s a little bitter when you first enter.”

"But the aftertaste is sweet."

"Can you actually refresh your mind?"

"The key is quite clear, not as good as cooking tea."

Pei Shaoqing smiled and said, "Is it delicious? I'm not wrong?"

"It's really delicious. I'll go to the pharmacy to buy a few bags to drink." Liu Yizhi nodded repeatedly.

"But it's too late." Pei Shaoqing smiled, "I have bought all the Mingyes from medicine shops in Chang'an City. If you want to drink them, you can only buy them from me."

"You are a profiteer."

Liu Yizhi laughed and scolded: "I really won't miss any opportunity to make money."

"That's necessary." Pei Shaoqing smiled, "Otherwise, how can you support your wife, children, and young people, and how can you support dozens of people, hundreds of thousands of women and children guarding the city?"

Liu Yizhi said: "When it comes to this, I have to ask how much the cost of classics, history, and collections?"

"Old Liu, why did you suddenly ask about this?" Pei Shaoqing said, "Aren't you always unwilling to care about these things?"

"But I am now the Imperial College Priest." Liu Yizhi said angrily, "If it really takes 400 coins to publish a set of classics, history, and literature, I have to preserve it."

"Stop selling it secretly."

"As the saying goes, wealth is a touching heart, but this is a total of four hundred stakes of money."

Pei Shaoqing thought to himself, if you really look at it too tightly, how can I make money?

I pointed out that I would sell this thousand volumes of classics, history, and literature to a high-priced family through your Imperial College. It seems that some of the words must be explained clearly to Liu Yizhi.

But before that, one thing has to be determined.

Pei Shaoqing asked: "Old Liu, tell me the truth. Do you hope that the children of aristocratic families will monopolize the officialdom, or do you hope that more poor children can enter the officialdom?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Liu Yizhi said angrily, "Of course I hope more poor children can enter the officialdom, otherwise the entire officialdom will be controlled by the children of aristocratic families. How can this be done?"

Pei Shaoqing said again: "But aren't you also from a noble family? Why do you support poor families instead?"

"I came from a noble family," said Liu Yizhi. "But because I came from a noble family, I know more about what kind of things the children of aristocratic families are. It is like looking for fish by relying on them to manage the entire country well."

"Didn't you scold yourself?" Pei Shaoqing said, "How could you say that to yourself?"

Liu Yizhi waved his hand and said, "Although our Liu family is considered a descendant of Emperor Guangwu, the family background of this generation has long been different from the past, so it is considered a half-poor family and cannot be considered a high-ranking family."

"So that's it, then I'll feel relieved." Pei Shaoqing whispered, "Let me tell you the truth. The cost price of a set of classics, history, and texts is only about ten cents."

"Ah?" Liu Yizhi said in a silence, "More than a dozen stakes?"

"Yes, it won't exceed fifteen strings." Pei Shaoqing nodded.

"Shaoqing, are you right?" Liu Yizhi said disbelief, "I'm talking about the whole set, more than one hundred volumes!"

"Not as many as more than a hundred volumes." Pei Shaoqing waved his hand and said, "There are many collections of scriptures with only tens of thousands of words, and they are all sorted into one volume, so there are only more than twenty volumes in total."

"Even more than twenty volumes cannot be so cheap, right?"

Liu Yizhi said: "Didn't you say that the font molds are easy to be damaged, and the inks must be specially made?"

"It's all fooling Pei Yan and the others." Pei Shaoqing said, "The characters are not that easy to break, and the ink has found cheap alternatives, unlike before that, which requires the highest-end pine smoke ink."

Liu Yizhi said: "Even if the problem of font molds and ink is solved, what about paper? You must get tribute paper from Shuzhong to publish classics, history, and tribute paper is not cheap."

Pei Shaoqing didn't talk much nonsense and just handed a bamboo paper.

"Old Liu, look at this paper." Pei Shaoqing said, "How about tribute paper?"
Chapter completed!