The recipes for brewing were already organized into a booklet. The few servants he had purchased were all literate, which meant they cost a few extra taels of silver than ordinary servants, but Zhao Yan felt the money was well spent.
He didn't even need to train them; he just gave each of them a booklet to study, which saved him a great deal of work.
When the time for the morning court session arrived, Zhao Yan stood behind Vice Minister Huang, lost in thought. Matters of the court rarely required his input; the Grand Secretaries and Ministers had mouths like machine guns, rattling off endless arguments.
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