After eating a few skewers of meat, Emperor Wende suddenly realized that the barbecue skills that the stall owner just mentioned were actually taught by Xie Yiyao, and he immediately became curious.

It just so happened that the stall owner had already grilled the fish and was walking towards them happily with the grilled fish in his hand, so they wanted to ask what was going on.

As a result, when the stall owner approached, the overbearing aroma of grilled fish instantly made Emperor Wende shut up. He decided to eat the grilled fish and then ask after he was full!

In this way, every time Emperor Wende wanted to ask something, the stall owner would come over with a smile, carrying the freshly baked food.

Emperor Wende can't help but start eating mode!

The last few people stopped only when their bellies were full!

It was already dark at this moment, and all the vendors had already turned on their night lights.

Wang Maolin stared at the kerosene lamp with curiosity. It was very different from the candles they used.

"Haha, you guys are from other places, right? This is a kerosene lamp, made in a coal mine. It's much cheaper than a candle! Look, isn't it brighter than a candle?"

When the stall owner saw Wang Maolin looking at his lamp, he hurried to explain to him their new invention from Yanjing!

The Crown Princess said that outsiders should be made to feel the care and warmth of the Yanjing people as if they were their family!

Let them not want to leave once they come, and stay to build a beautiful Yanjing together!

"This is a real rarity!"

Wang Maolin couldn't help but pick up a kerosene lamp and handed it to Emperor Wende with great tact.

Emperor Wende observed for a long time before putting down the kerosene lamp and asking the stall owner:

"You just said that your cooking skills were taught by the Crown Princess?"

The stall owner smiled happily:

"Yes! The Crown Princess has conducted three days of training for all the food vendors in Yanjing, teaching us how to process ingredients and make them taste better. In the past, we in Yanjing could only boil vegetables, and the rice we cooked tasted like pig food! Now with the guidance of the Crown Princess, isn't the food in Yanjing delicious?"

Emperor Wende listened and got angry in his heart. Damn it! What I am eating now is the boiled vegetable pig food you mentioned!

He even began to think about how to bring Xie Yiyao back to the capital and train the chefs there!

"Gentlemen, would you consider coming to our Yanjing? There are already a number of houses and shops for sale in our new city of Yanjing. Gentlemen, please hurry up and buy them! It will be too late if you are late!"

The stall owner was working hard to promote the new city area that his princess had just planned. Then he looked around and said mysteriously:

"I'm telling you this because we're destined to be together. I heard that the Crown Princess's family bought almost half of the new city! I even bought a shop there. I tell you, although the new city is far from here, it's much more beautiful than the old city! I'm going to live in the new city when I save enough money!"

"Our Crown Princess said that this is our once-in-a-millennium opportunity to get rich! If we miss this opportunity, there will be no such opportunity anymore!"

"How about it? Do you want to buy it?"

After the stall owner finished speaking, he took out a stack of papers from somewhere and gave one to Emperor Wende and the others. He continued cheerfully:

"Look at this house, isn't it nice? Is this street wide? I tell you, I have an acquaintance at the house-selling office, and you can get a good deal by buying from me!"

Emperor Wende: ………

Ministers: ………

"Aren't you a food seller? How did you become a veterinarian?"

Jiang Debao also looked at the stall owner in shock!

Is this person a little too greedy for money?

"You are being superficial. People need to develop in an all-round way and be good at using their own strengths! People come and go here. After selling food, I can sell a few houses. How convenient is that for development!"

The stall owner had an expression that said, "You outsiders don't understand!"

Jiang Debao was even more shocked. It was the first time he heard that people could develop in this way!

"This paper?!"

Lord Zhou was the first to recover from his shock. He walked to the kerosene lamp with the paper in his hand, overjoyed!

Emperor Wende also noticed the paper in Lord Zhou's hand at this moment, and he was equally ecstatic!

He had received more surprises today than in his entire life!

Emperor Wende was shocked and said excitedly that he would abdicate and let Feng Junyi ascend the throne to become emperor!

He couldn't wait to see the Great Deng spread its wings like an eagle and be remembered forever under Feng Junyi's governance!

I looked up to the sky and laughed out loud, how could I be considered a hermit?

"No! No! Your Majesty, this matter needs further discussion! Please discuss it again!"

The diners nearby all looked at Emperor Wende and his companions as if they were crazy. They must have read too many picture books!

He thought he was the emperor!

Why would the emperor come to their Yanjing? I heard that the house where the emperor lives is made of gold and the bowls he eats from are made of jade!

Wow, it’s really rich!

Emperor Wende was held back by a group of ministers and calmed down.

He held the paper in his hand and fell into deep thought. He had a premonition that the situation in which the aristocratic families controlled the government would no longer exist under his son's governance.

Could it be that he doesn't want common people to take part in the imperial examinations?

In fact, it was not just him. Emperors of all dynasties had made a lot of efforts to get more commoners to take part in the imperial examinations. But how many common people could actually take part in the examinations and become officials in the court?

Even if the common people could afford the tuition, they were still hindered by the expensive books, paper, pens, ink, and inkstones.

Almost every common people is illiterate, ignorant, slow-witted, and unable to read and write, they cannot gain experience through reading, nor can they think effectively. They have only a superficial understanding of national affairs. Even if he wants to use the common people, he dare not!

So even though he knew that the aristocratic families monopolized the court, he still had to use talents from the aristocratic families. If he didn't use talents from the aristocratic families, where else would he find people to use?

The cost of reading and learning calligraphy is too high, and only wealthy families can afford it, and only wealthy families have large collections of books.

But now it’s different. With this cheap and easy-to-use paper, books will sooner or later flow into ordinary people’s homes, and people will sooner or later flock to the court!

A strange light flashed in Emperor Wende's eyes. The situation in which the aristocratic families monopolized the court, which had worried his ancestors and fathers, would be wiped out in his hands!

hahaha~

Even if he went down, his ancestors wouldn't dare to put on airs when they saw him!

After all, he gave birth to a great son!

From now on, his name is destined to be recorded forever in the honor roll for the world to praise!

It was obvious that Lord Zhou and his companions also thought of this after their excitement.

They felt very complicated at the moment. Was the foundation created for them by their ancestors and generations going to perish in their hands?

Thinking of this, the good mood of several ministers suddenly disappeared. They knew that the emperor had been suffering from the aristocratic family for a long time, and they felt that it was they who maintained the order of the court.

But the emperor didn't think about it. What was wrong with their aristocratic family? Their aristocratic family didn't appear out of thin air. It was all obtained through the hard work of their ancestors!

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