These words made the ministers tremble with fear. His Majesty agreeing to split the profits 50 - 50 was already a great favor. Qin Feng still wanted to ask His Majesty to provide manpower and resources. Many people had already begun to gloat.
Since Li Er was able to kill the Crown Prince from the position of a prince and force his father to abdicate, he was naturally unwilling to suffer a loss.
He thought for a moment and said,"Qi Siyong!”
"The guilty subject is here."
"I wanted to punish you for failing to supervise the ice cellar, but considering your contributions to the Great Tang in the past and Qin Feng's creation of ice, I can spare you the death penalty, but you can't escape the punishment.”
Qi Siyong heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this. As long as he could survive, suffering a little was nothing.
After waiting for a moment, Li Er still didn't say anything.
As an old fox who had been in the officialdom for more than ten years, to be able to sit on this fat job was naturally not easy to deal with.
Qi Siyong's brain was working quickly at this moment. He thought of what Li Er had said earlier and immediately replied,
"Your Majesty, the matter of making ice started because of me. Therefore, all the expenses of Qin Feng's ice-making business will be taken care of by me. I beg Your Majesty to allow me to atone for my sins.”
Li Er nodded and said,"Since you have this intention, then I will allow you to report. As for your crime, I will remember it for you first."”
Qi Siyong felt as if he had been granted amnesty and said gratefully,""Thank you, Your Majesty."
The people present were not fools. When Li Er said that he would be punished, they would remember it first. The unspoken meaning was that he would be exempted.
The other ministers were also extremely envious of Qi Siyong's dogshit luck. The crime of beheading and even implicating nine families had turned into a matter of spending money to resolve.
At the same time, he had a deeper understanding of this new Emperor Li.
Li Er's approach could be said to be killing three birds with one stone. One was to cooperate with Qin Feng in the ice-making business. The second was to punish Qi Siyong for his poor supervision. The third was that he did not have to pay for this ice-making business at all. It was a business that had no cost and no profit.
After settling the matter of making ice, Li Er said,"Qin Feng, your contribution of horseshoes saves military expenses, and you have this ice making method to benefit the millions of people of the Lantian County Tang.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Qin Feng was still very happy that Li Erfeng had become a Baron. Although he was a duke, a marquis, and an uncle, he was only of the lowest rank.
However, as the saying goes, the road has to be taken step by step, and the rice has to be eaten one bite at a time. Qin Feng has many new things in his hands. It is only a matter of time before he wants to be conferred the title of Marquis.
Although he was only a small baron, the ministers were still jealous. After all, the official position was temporary, but the title could be passed down to future generations.
Now that the war had ended, in a relatively peaceful era, unless one made a huge contribution, one would not be able to obtain a title of nobility.
You, Qin Feng, are only 15 or 16 years old, yet you have already obtained the title of Lantian County Male. How can you not make others jealous?
But then again, it was useless for them to be jealous. Neither the wear and tear of horseshoes nor the making of ice could be solved by them.
He had solved the problem that had plagued him for thousands of years in two days, especially the ice-making technique that could be called a divine method today. It really shocked Li Eryi.
Li Eryi was very happy. He gave Qin Feng the title of a noble in Lantian County, but from the looks of it, he didn't show much joy.
Li Er himself was not even 30 years old. Seeing the calm and composed Qin Feng, he could not help but feel a sense of comparison.
"Qin Feng, you can eat with me today.”
Li Er thought to himself,'Aren't you calm and collected? What good food can a landlord's son eat? Isn't giving you a meal of imperial food enough to shock a country boy like you?'
Cheng Yaojin pulled Qin Feng's sleeve and thanked Li Er.
The entire court was already filled with jealousy. On the first day of entering the palace to meet the emperor, not only did they get the title of Baron, which was difficult for ordinary people to reach, but they were also rewarded with an imperial meal.
Qin Feng pointed at Sun Muyu who was not far away and said,"Your Majesty, just now, this Vice Minister Sun made a bet with me. Vice Minister Sun said that I couldn't make ice and even said that if he lost, he would give me ten restaurants.”
Sun Muyu, who thought he had managed to get away with it, immediately defended himself,"Your Majesty, this subject is doing this for the sake of the Great Tang. I am sincerely afraid that he will deceive Your Majesty.”
"Just now, the bet was made in front of His Majesty, and Assistant Minister Sun wants to turn his back on it so quickly. Could it be that he wants to deceive the Emperor?”
Qin Feng also had a noble title now. Moreover, he had Cheng Yaojin and Li Er's two big legs. He was not inferior to Sun Muyu, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works.
Since the other party wanted to go back on his words, Qin Feng would put a big hat on him.
"Your Majesty, this subject has worked so hard for the Great Tang and is loyal to Your Majesty. The crime of deceiving the sovereign is simply nonsense!”
"Assistant Minister Sun, I heard it clearly just now. You insisted on making a bet with him. Does your Sun family still care about these mere ten restaurants?”
Li Er spoke. His words indicated that he was on Qin Feng's side.
As soon as Li Erjin opened his mouth, Sun Muyu had no choice but to agree. He promised to send someone to deliver the contract for the ten restaurants after he returned today.
The more Sun Muyu listened, the more shocked he became. What did His Majesty mean by " your Sun Family still cares about these mere ten restaurants "?
Could it be that His Majesty had long been dissatisfied with the Sun family's power and deliberately used this opportunity to suppress their arrogance?
Being an official in the imperial court was different from other places. If one was careless or did not think about it, they might fall into eternal damnation.
The more Sun Muyu thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was not that simple. Little did he know that Li Er only said it casually because he was happy.
The officials had nothing to report, so they naturally had to leave. The ice made from 100 wooden barrels was placed in the ice cellar by Li Er's men for future use.
The officials of all sizes left Ming De Hall one after another. The eunuch led Qin Feng to the imperial kitchen.
Cheng Yaojin, Qin Shubao, Yuchi Jingde, and other founding heroes who had fought with Li Er were also rewarded with imperial food.
"Hehe, Nephew, you really were sent by the heavens to help me. Today, thanks to you, this old man can also eat imperial food.”
There were no outsiders around, so Cheng Yaojin grinned. This sentence was also echoed by the others.
Qin Feng looked at Cheng Yaojin as if he was looking at a fool. It was just a meal, was there a need to be so excited?
Moreover, how delicious could cooking methods based on Tang Dynasty steaming be?
Excluding the ingredients, the taste of an ordinary restaurant in the future would be better than the dishes made by the imperial chef.
Not to mention chicken essence, thirteen spices and other condiments, just salt alone was far inferior.
During the Tang Dynasty, salt production techniques were extremely backward. Even the refined salt that people often talked about was still unacceptable to Qin Feng, who was used to salt in the 21st century.
When he first transmigrated, Qin Feng couldn't accept the salt here. He found the salt-making process in the library in his mind and purified the coarse salt into snow-white refined salt.
Due to the influence of equipment, it could not compare to the salt of later generations, but it had far surpassed the salt of this era.
Early in the morning, he was dragged over by Cheng Yaojin to meet Li Er without eating. Qin Feng's stomach had long protested. Not long after, the eunuchs came in with dishes.
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