"Business? Pei Xiang was joking. What else do you need to do?" Li Xiu couldn't help but smile and said, not believing Pei Ji at all, because Pei Ji is not a short of money at all. Not to mention anything else, the things Li Yuan rewarded him alone are enough for him to spend ten lives, and even generations of children and grandchildren can't be defeated.

"Mr. Prince Consort, I am not joking, but really want to do some business with you, not for money, but for something to do for myself!" Pei Ji said seriously at this time.

"Really, what business is Pei Xiang going to do with me?" Seeing the expression on Pei Ji's face, Li Xiu couldn't help but ask in surprise. Pei Ji's appearance didn't look like a joke.

"That's that!" Pei Ji said as he pointed to the hill in front. Li Xiu immediately turned his head to look at it. Only then did he find that the hill in front was covered with green. Although he couldn't see what he was planted from afar, it was not the first time Li Xiu had seen such a scene. So based on his experience, he could guess something. He couldn't help but say to Pei Ji in surprise, "Did Pei Xiang grow tea?"

"Yes, it's tea. And this place was once a famous Nanshan tea in Chang'an, but unfortunately it was defeated by your Huangqu Tea. The nobles in Chang'an were proud of drinking Huangqu Tea, and Nanshan tea could hardly be sold." Pei Ji replied with a smile. The so-called Nanshan tea is actually a famous tea in the past tea cakes. It was named because it was produced in Nanshan. Li Xiu's fried tea is produced by the Huangqu Tea. The packaging of the tea also has the pattern of Huangqu, so it is named Huangqu Tea.

"So that's it, I just don't know how Pei Xiang planned to do this business?" Li Xiu said with a smile. The tea-fried business is indeed getting better and better. Moreover, this trend has begun to spread from the aristocratic class in Chang'an to the entire Tang Dynasty's aristocratic class, and even spread to Turks, Gaochang and other countries. This has also caused the price of tea-fried soaring. The tea-fried workshops under Yuechan have been expanded several times, and the female workers recruited have increased several times. Almost all women of the right age nearby work in the workshop.

"Hehe, your Huangqu tea tastes bitter, but it has a hint of sweetness. The production method is completely different from traditional tea cakes. In addition, I also know that your tea is actually fried and the cost is very low. However, because there is not much production, the price has soared. This also makes Huangqu tea in short supply in the market. This tea alone is enough to make your house make a fortune every day!" Pei Ji said with a smile again.

"Hey, Pei Xiang, how do you know that this tea is fried?" Li Xiu was very surprised when he heard this. After the fried tea started selling, Yue Chan was worried that the method of stir-frying tea would be leaked, so she changed the tea to Huangqu Tea. In addition, the tea workshop also implemented a confidentiality system and strictly prohibited any process of stir-frying tea. Therefore, few people in the outside world knew that Huangqu Tea was fried.

"Haha~, you underestimate the abilities of the nobles too much. To be honest, your tea-frying technique has long been leaked, but no one dares to steal your business!" Seeing Li Xiu's surprised look, Pei Ji couldn't help laughing. For those nobles, although it was a bit troublesome to get the method of making tea, it was not impossible.

"What? This..." Li Xiu did not expect that the tea-frying process had already spread. Kuai Yuechan repeatedly assured Yi Niang that she absolutely did not know. It seemed that she was still much worse in business. Fortunately, she was still a little famous. In addition to Princess Pingyang, those people did not dare to imitate the method of making tea when they got it. However, this is only temporary. With the huge profits of tea, other tea workshops will probably be opened soon.

"I understand, does Pei Xiang want to set up a tea workshop here too?" After a while, Li Xiu realized and spoke to Pei Ji.

"Yes, let's start another tea workshop together. The tea produced is still called Huangqu Tea. As for the specific details, I will leave it to the people below to discuss. What do you think?" Pei Ji replied with a smile. He was also very optimistic about the tea stir-frying industry, especially he knew that many Hu people like to transport tea to the Western Regions for sale, and the price was extremely high, so he wanted to cooperate with Li Xiu. Although he was not short of money, he also wanted to leave a way for his children and grandchildren to avoid being in vain.

Hearing Pei Ji's proposal, Li Xiu also showed a contemplative expression. To be honest, the tea workshop at home has expanded to its limit. It is difficult to expand in terms of scale and manpower, but the demand for tea is huge, so it is inevitable to open some tea workshops. Moreover, since the method of making tea has been spread, it is the most suitable choice to cooperate with Pei Ji now.

"Okay, since Pei Xiang spoke, then this matter is settled. I'll ask someone to come to you in two days to discuss the specific matters!" Li Xiu finally nodded.

"Haha, I knew you would agree with the prince consort. Speaking of which, if we cooperate, I think we can do something bigger. For example, we cannot be limited to Chang'an, or even to the Central Plains. There are also many tea-producing places in the Yangtze River. If all of them can be produced, then this fried tea may become the favorite goods of Hu merchants like silk and porcelain in the future!" Pei Ji laughed loudly at first, and then said ambitiously.

Li Xiu couldn't help but admire Pei Ji's words. He was truly a person who was known as the first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. His courage alone was not compared with ordinary people. The tea cakes were made in the past, with limited output, and inconvenient to drink. As a result, Hu Shang's interest in tea cakes was limited. However, if they were all made into fried tea, the yield of tea would definitely skyrocket. Thinking about the scene in Europe that had been eaten as gold for a while in the future, we can understand the value of tea, such as tea.

"Pei Xiang is really courageous. I think this business is OK. After I go back, I will discuss it with Uncle Ma and I will come to talk to you in person!" Li Xiu also paid attention to it at this time. He just opened a tea workshop just for a small fuss, but now he treats tea as an industry. This is not just for his own selfish interests. Not to mention anything else, this industry alone can support countless people, and the court can also extract a lot of taxes from it. It can be said that it benefits the country and the people.

Pei Ji was also very happy about Li Xiu's praise. He took Li Xiu to the tea garden on the mountain with great enthusiasm. Although it was also tea, the quality of the tea produced was different due to soil, light, variety and other reasons. Although Li Xiu didn't know much about these, he also found that the tea grows better in Pei Ji's place than Princess Pingyang. No wonder Nanshan tea was so famous before.

After visiting the tea garden, Pei Ji invited Li Xiu to hunt. There was a wide valley to the east of his house, which was stocked with a lot of wild animals, most of which were pheasants and hares. As for ferocious animals such as tigers and wolves, they had long been cleaned up by the Pei family.

When Li Xiu first came to the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't even ride a horse. Later, he learned how to ride a horse with Master Ma. Later, after spending a long time with Princess Pingyang, he practiced riding and archery. Although it was still very bad, he could barely deal with hunting. After all, there were too many wild animals in this valley. As long as your archery skills were not bad, you could hit a few even if you closed your eyes.

After playing until noon, Li Xiu and Pei Ji brought their prey to the stream, cleaned the prey themselves, applied seasonings, then raised the fire and started barbecuing wild game, feeding on the prey they had caught with their own hands, which was also a unique flavor.

"Mr. Concubine, do you have any plans in the future?" Pei Ji flipped the pheasant in his hand and suddenly raised his eyes and asked him.

"Plan?" Li Xiu thought seriously when he heard this, and then smiled, "I don't know if it's a plan. If the world is united for a long time, it will be divided, and if it's a long time, it will be united. In the future, with the prince's ascension, the Central Plains will surely usher in a prosperous era. I don't have much ambitions, just want to be a commoner in a prosperous era, have children with his wife, and watch them grow up, get married, etc. in the future, and there will be no other plans." Li Xiu told the truth, these ideas were almost the same as what he thought after he first came to the Tang Dynasty. In summary, it was to live his life safely.

Pei Ji couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Li Xiu's words. After all, he really didn't expect Li Xiu's plan to be like this. After a while, he realized and smiled and said, "The prince-consort's plan is really special. In fact, with your current fame, talent and status, even if you don't enter the court, you can do a lot of things. Not to mention anything else, it's okay to build a family!"

"The world... the aristocratic family?" Li Xiu was stunned when he heard this. He had no good feelings for the aristocratic family, but he didn't expect that Pei Ji actually asked him to build a a aristocratic family.

"Yes, although the aristocratic families have been passed down for many years, looking at the history books, many old aristocratic families have disappeared into history, and many new aristocratic families have risen. You are talented and famous in Chang'an, and you are the husband of Princess Pingyang, and you have a reputation and status. If you are willing to teach your disciples publicly, there will definitely be many people willing to vote for your disciples."

When he said this, Pei Ji paused for a moment and then said: "Especially when the imperial examination is in the imperial examination, you only need to connect with the examiner and recommend your subordinates to enter the court as an official. Perhaps it will take not many years for the prince consort to become an important figure outside the court. When the prince consort's children grow up, they will win over talents and aristocratic families through marriage, and the family will pass on the family's talent and knowledge. In this way, a hundred years later, the prince consort's Li family will become an emerging aristocratic family!"

Pei Ji was born in the Pei family in Hedong and is also one of the famous families. It is worth mentioning that Li Xiu's cheap husband Pei Ju is also a Pei family in Hedong. However, they did not have much kinship between them, and Pei Ji used to disdain with Pei Ju, so their relationship has always been very distant.

"This... forget it. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. There is no need to plan too deliberately for them. Moreover, I am too lazy and really don't want to recruit disciples!" Li Xiu hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and finally shook his head and said.

In fact, Pei Ji's proposal was also a moment of temptation, but he soon realized that aristocratic families were destined to be eliminated by history. The Tang Dynasty might be the last dynasty for the existence of aristocratic families. After Huang Chao devoted the people of various aristocratic families to the Rolling Yellow River, no decent aristocratic families would appear in later generations.

In addition, neither Li Shimin nor Wu Zetian allowed the aristocratic family to affect their rule, so in the next hundred years, the aristocratic family life would not be easy, and it would be even more difficult for Li Xiu to establish a new aristocratic family.

"Don't rush to refuse the prince-consort first. With your conditions, it is very suitable for the foundation of creating a noble family. As long as you educate one or two excellent offspring, a noble family will appear within a few generations. The influence of the noble family is by no means comparable to that of ordinary people. Even emerging nobles like Changsun Wuji will be difficult to compare with the noble family in the future." Pei Ji persuaded again that he was really optimistic about Li Xiu's knowledge and talent, so he had such suggestions.

"This... I'll think about it again!" Li Xiu couldn't refuse Pei Ji's kindness anymore, and in the end he could only do it for the time being. However, from his original intention, he was actually unwilling to accept this suggestion. First, establishing a noble family does not meet his life ideals, and second, establishing a noble family is not that easy. Even if he invested a lot of energy, he might be defeated by an unfilial descendant in the future, and maybe it would cause a big disaster. The risk was too great!

When Pei Ji heard Li Xiu say he wanted to consider it, he didn't say anything else. The two of them chatted about it. However, after a few words, Pei Ji suddenly laughed and said, "Mr. Concubine, I have received the invitation to the 100th birthday party for your eldest son. Speaking of which, your Mrs. Pei is also the daughter of our Pei family, and I am also her elder. Of course, I will give you a heavy gift this time, so I would like to ask the Princess to say it to Mrs. Pei!"

"Pei Xiang is polite. If the nanny in the air knew about the heavy gift Pei Xiang gave her, she would definitely be very happy!" Li Xiu immediately smiled when he heard this. The family had already started preparing for the 100th birthday party in the past few days.

"But Pei Ju is really lucky. He actually hired such a good son-in-law as you. Unfortunately, my daughter was not suitable at that time. However, I have two granddaughters, which are about the same age as your eldest son. Is the prince-consort interested in marrying him?" Pei Ji suddenly suggested again at last.

When Li Xiu heard this, he sighed inwardly, not understanding why the ancients like to marry dolls so much. It is probably one of the generation gap between him and the ancients, so Li Xiu finally declined Pei Ji's proposal.

Just as Li Xiu was chatting with Pei Ji, he suddenly saw a servant running over and reported to Pei Ji: "Master, two girls came outside, saying that they were here to find the prince consort!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!