I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

The life in Chang'an is really painful and happy, because there is really everything here, such as food, drink and entertainment.

Now that Liu Tan has moved out of the palace, he is more free. He even went to the downtown area to check out the shops himself, and then prepared to buy a shop.

In the process of scouting the spots, he passed by his own sugar store, and found that the business of the sugar store was much better than he imagined, and he was actually queuing.

Liu Tan was a little surprised. Have the people in Chang'an lived so well?

You must know that sugar is really a luxury these days, and the price/performance ratio is very low, and the average well-off family may not be willing to buy it to eat.

Even Liu Tan can't help this matter. After all, the basic material for making sugar is stone honey, which has to be shipped from other countries, and the cost is there. He can't lower the price even if he wants to.

As for planting

Liu Tan is sitting on the second floor of the largest restaurant in Chang'an, opposite to his sugar shop, the location can be said to be the best, and this shop mainly sells limited gift boxes and candies with special flavors, anyway, it sells whatever is expensive.

In this way, there was still a long queue at the sugar store, and the chicken legs in Liu Tan's hands were about to be scared away.

He turned to look at the shopkeeper of the sugar shop and asked, "Is it like this every day?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly said with a smile: "It's not like this every day. It's not that Zhengdan is coming soon, so everyone buys more gifts and so on."

Only then did Liu Tan feel relieved. He thought he had made a mistake in judging the spending power of the Han people.

Hey, to be honest, seeing the sugar shop like this, he hates that his fief cannot grow sugar cane, and the places where sugar cane can be grown now...are all wild lands in various senses.

Liu Tan sighed, making the shopkeeper tremble with fright.

After scouting, he chose a shop with a relatively ordinary location. He turned to Miao Rui and said, "Look for someone to see if there is anyone selling it nearby."

Miao Rui said very carefully: "Your Highness, the location here...doesn't seem very good, do you want to change it?"

Liu Tan waved his hand: "This place exists as a sales office, it doesn't need to be too good."

He intends to use this shop to register coal sales, that is, to let people come here to buy, and then give him a voucher, or let him record it, and start delivering coal to each household at a fixed time, or let each household sell it by themselves. Use the voucher to pick up the coal.

It's just that the reputation of briquette has not yet been established, and Liu Tan is still thinking about how to promote it.

However, in fact, he basically doesn't need to worry about this kind of thing, or at least the promotion among the nobles doesn't need him to worry at all.

How could Chen Ajiao not show off her beautiful new jewelry?

So what if the gem is the latest discovery?Do queens need a luxury title to boost their worth?

On the contrary, such gemstones are worth double because they are worn by the queen.

What's more, the Broken Evil Gold is really beautiful, colorful and eye-catching.

Because it is not a particularly formal occasion, Chen Ajiao does not wear all the jewelry on her head every time as a jewelry display cabinet, but chooses one or two pieces to match her clothes.

The most popular one is the red Broken Evil Gold. After all, it is close to Zhengdan, so it looks festive, while the blue looks a bit cold in winter, so it is more suitable in summer.

As the only woman in the empire who owns the Broken Evil Gold Jewelry, Chen Ajiao is very proud. No one doesn't like to be unique, but with Chen Ajiao's status, it becomes very difficult to be unique.

The noble ladies praised Chen Ajiao and praised Wang Xiaoshun of the Northern Territory, and Chen Ajiao was doubly happy.

Of course, she didn't just show off her jewelry, she even brought out some briquettes, although it was just a casual sentence: "The child was afraid that His Majesty and I would be frozen, so he didn't know where to dig up a bunch of black briquettes. Stone, what kind of coal is it called to burn for us, not to mention, the earth dragon in this palace really warms up a lot."

The speaker has no intention, the listener has the heart.

Now almost everyone in Chang'an City knows that the products produced by the King of the Northern Realm must be high-quality products, especially if he first gave them to the emperor and empress. Could there be any harm?

So everyone turned around and asked what this coal was. At first, it was not necessary to buy it, but they were just curious. The emperor and empress were using it, so they were itchy, chasing fashion, everyone was like this.

It's just that Liu Tan is still making the most basic preparations at this time, and naturally there is no publicity. In the end, it was Li Buyan and Wei Buyi who publicized it among a group of cronies before everyone knew about honeycomb briquettes.

After learning that Li Xi's house and Wei's house had been replaced with briquettes, everyone was moved.

What is especially exciting is that honeycomb is cheaper than firewood!

Although the nobles were extravagant, it wasn't that they didn't care about money, not to mention that there was a lot of firewood in the winter.

Wouldn't this money be used for food, drink and entertainment?

But even if they wanted to save money, they had no way out, and they didn't dare to go to the northern palace to ask for it.

The main reason is that the kings of the northern border do not have concubines, and their wives cannot go to Mrs. Gao for diplomacy. It is not appropriate for them to come to the door on their own initiative.

What's more, it is said that the King of the Northern Realm is not in good health. He has been ill since he entered the capital. Heaping things, everyone is guessing whether the King of the North is doing well.

Some people even connected this with the emperor's special permission of the king of the northern border to enter Beijing, wondering if it was because the king of the northern border was seriously ill that he was allowed to come back to recuperate.

After all, the climate in the northern border country is too bad to be suitable for recuperation.

A group of people gossiped for a long time, but they went to Li Xi's house in desperation, and the more well-connected one went to Princess Yang Xinchang.

In any case, these two are much easier to visit than the King of the North.

Little did Liu Tan know that staying at home to enjoy himself was considered a disease. Except for the first few days when he rested and had nothing to do every day, he began to make plans for Shuofang City in the rest of the day.

He found that he just couldn't take time off, and he started to think about his mess again after eating, drinking and having fun every day.

Today he thinks about whether Jiang Chong can handle those people, and tomorrow he thinks about when the tax revenue will increase. He is investing in the early stage, and the income has not yet appeared. There may not be much tax to go up.

Liu Tan had no choice but to start with the planning of Shuofang City first. After all, the capital is also his face, and many of his previous ideas can be realized in the capital, so he is very excited to think about it.

It's just that many things can only be his ideas, and they may not necessarily work.

Things like flush toilets are actually just a toilet, but if you want to use them, you must have supporting underground sewage facilities.

Liu Tan didn't know much about the underground sewage facilities at the level of the capital. Before that, the Golden City was a very simple and simple version. It could be used, but it was not easy to use.

He thought about it for a while, so he might as well ask someone to bring the underground sewage discharge direction of Chang'an for a reference.

Then he discovered that Chang'an's sewage was discharged into nearby water systems, such as the Wei River.

If all the sewage in such a city is discharged into the river, can the drinking water not be polluted?

Liu Tan frowned, and found that Chang'an's sewage system, except for the direction of the sewage system, was useless.

He scribbled on the paper for a while, pondered for a while, and finally suddenly thought: There is no need to worry about the drainage facilities, he can get out the toilet first, at least it can improve his life happiness index when he is in Chang'an!