I am a ruler in troubled times
Chapter 97
If Zhao Guo wants to sell grain in Xiliang and paper in Dongliang, he will not only sell grain or paper, but also sell other things.
Because of the existence of the strange goods city and the cement road, more and more traveling merchants come and go to Zhao State, and the prices of various commodities in Zhao State are generally lower than those in Liangzhou.
In addition to Song Peiyu's people who went to Liangzhou to manage the property under the name of Donggong, there were also many Zhao country businessmen who found a good opportunity and took the initiative to go to Liangzhou to do some small business.
In this way, the merchants in Zhao State made money, and the price of goods in Liangzhou fell, and both parties could benefit.
Three months later, the prince of Liangzhou came to Zhao country again, and it was still Song Peiyu who received him.
At this time, Song Peiyu had changed from the young minister of Honghe Temple to the minister of Honghe Temple.
Prince Liang's son first congratulated Song Peiyu on his promotion, and then presented him with a great gift. He flattered Song Peiyu for a while before explaining his intention.
Liang Wang wanted to follow the example of Zhao Guo and build cement roads in Xiliang.
Prince Liang's son is here to buy enough cement powder from Zhao.
When Song Peiyu heard this, the smile on his face gradually stagnated, and he suddenly turned around and picked up the wooden box that Prince Liang had just given him, and wanted to return it to Prince Liang.
Prince Liang's son naturally would not take back the gift he sent out, and immediately extended his hand to reject it.
Song Peiyu's martial arts practice of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, how could it be compared to Prince Liang, who is already a veteran in the battlefield even though he is young.
The wooden box was sandwiched between the two, and Song Peiyu couldn't let go even if he wanted to.
If he lets go, the jade carving in the wooden box will break.
Prince Liang's son was sweating all over his head anxiously, but he could only beg Song Peiyu, "I am here sincerely, and please Master Song to fulfill my request."
"Fulfill what?" Chong Yi suddenly appeared at the door, leaning on the door frame, crossing his arms and looking at Prince Liang and Song Peiyu, who were almost stacked together from his perspective.
Prince Liang's son suddenly felt a chill rising from his back, and the sweat on his head doubled in an instant.
Taking advantage of Prince Liang's dazed time, Song Peiyu stuffed the wooden box into Prince Liang's hands with all his strength, and deftly turned around to bypass Prince Liang and went to Chong Yi.
With his back to Prince Liang, he stopped at a position three steps away from Chongyi, under Chongyi's gaze, he said in embarrassment, "This..."
Prince Liang's son turned around while holding the wooden box, feeling a little moved.
He didn't expect Song Peiyu to be willing to cover up for him in front of Prince Zhao when he knew that his request was too much and had firmly refused.
Master Song is really a good person.
It's a pity that Prince Liang could only see Song Peiyu's tangled back, but he couldn't see Song Peiyu blinking madly at Chongyi.
Chong Yi moved his fingers, and with difficulty moved his eyes away from Song Peiyu's face and landed on the face of Prince Liang's son. In an instant, there was vague dislike in his eyes.
Although Prince Liang's son was very moved by Song Peiyu's thoughtfulness, Xiliang was determined to win the cement road.
With the cement road, more businessmen from other countries may appear in Xiliang, which will bring greater changes to Xiliang.
Most importantly, the process of transporting supplies from Xiliang to the border can save a lot of manpower and material resources.
For Xiliang, this affected not only the huge cost, but also the huge pressure during the war.
So after being repeatedly rejected by Song Peiyu, Prince Liang directly handed the box that had just been returned to Chong Yi.
"My father occasionally got a rare ornament made of extraordinary materials. After I saw the ornament, I felt that only you, Your Highness, are worthy of this ornament. After begging my father, I brought the ornament to Zhao Guo." Speaking of this, Liang Wang Shizi lowered his head in embarrassment, "I was afraid His Highness would not accept it, so I wanted to ask Mr. Song to pass it on for me."
Song Peiyu, who had already walked to Chongyi's side, glanced at the honest and honest son of Liang Wang, secretly said that people should not be judged by appearance, on the surface they look rough and straightforward, but they have a lot of small things in their hearts.
Chong Yi lowered his eyelids to look at the box that Prince Liang had opened.
It is an emerald tree that can be placed on the table.
Not only the trunks and branches have clear textures, but even the leaves, which are as thin as cicada wings, seem to be blown down from the trees by the wind, have obvious traces of veins.
The material used is even better than the imperial green longevity peach that Song Peiyu spent 500 taels of gold to bring back from Qing County.
It is indeed a rare treasure.
It's a pity that no matter in his previous life or in this life, what Chong Yi sees the most are all kinds of treasures.He casually glanced at the contents of the wooden box, then turned his gaze back to Prince Liang's face, and said in a firm tone, "You have something to ask me."
The prince of Liang generously admitted that he wanted to ask Chong Yi, and mentioned to Chong Yi that he wanted to buy Zhao Guo's cement powder.
"Regardless of whether it can be completed or not, this emerald tree is given to His Highness to enjoy. Only such a treasure can be worthy of His Highness." Prince Liang looked at Chong Yi sincerely, and at the same time, he did not forget to send an apology to Song Peiyu look.
Chong Yi, who had already received Song Peiyu's hint, let out a casual 'hmm', and signaled Prince Liang to put the wooden box on the table with his eyes, "I will go to ask Father about this matter."
Prince Liang's son was overjoyed when he heard the words, and Chong Yi had only promised to ask Emperor Yonghe for instructions, but Prince Liang's son acted as excited as if Chong Yi had already agreed to him.
It has to be said that after staying in Xianyang with Prince Rui for a few months, Prince Liang's eloquence has been improved qualitatively.
Song Peiyu stood up at the right time to remind Prince Liang that since King Liang planned to buy cement powder from Zhao Guo, he must have a rough estimate in mind, and asked Prince Liang to tell Chong Yi the estimate of King Liang.
In this way, Chong Yi can talk about this matter with Emperor Yonghe.
Prince Liang's face was slightly stiff with the naked eye.
Before he left Liangzhou, Liang Wang did give him a price, but in his idea, it should be after the matter of buying and selling cement powder was thoroughly finalized, and then he would slowly grind the price issue with Zhao Guo.
If you tell the price now, you will hand over the initiative to Zhao Guo.
No matter how unwilling, the heir son of Liang Wang, who is in need of others, can only offer Chong Yi a price that is only a little lower than Xi Liang's bottom line price.
It's not that Prince Liang didn't want to talk about a lower price, and then slowly bargain with Zhao Guo.
He was afraid that if Zhao Guo disliked the price he offered was too low, he would directly reject him and no longer consider selling it to Xiliang cement powder.
Poor Prince Liang didn't know yet, this was just his first setback when he came to buy cement powder on behalf of Xiliang.
There are still many things that will not go on according to his hope.
After the news that Xiliang wanted to buy cement powder spread to the ears of some people in Zhao Guo, the bosses once again insisted on their opinions and started a fierce quarrel.
The changes that cement and red bricks brought to Zhao are obvious.
Ordinary people can only see the majestic and majestic palace after repairs, but the first thing the elders think of is the city of strange goods.
Without cement and red bricks, Zhao Guo would never have been able to build a city in the three-way zone.
There would be no strange goods city, and there would be no Zhao country that is as prosperous as Jiangnan today.
In any case, the specific information of cement and red bricks must not be disclosed to other countries.
Song Peiyu can understand the worries and worries of the elders, he has a better way than selling cement powder.
"What?" After hearing Song Peiyu's words, Prince Liang's face was dull, "Contract?"
Song Peiyu smiled very kindly, fearing that the Prince of Liang would not understand, he specially asked Eunuch An to bring in a small blackboard, and while writing on the small blackboard, explained it carefully to the Prince of Liang.
"Your Majesty does not agree to sell Xiliang cement powder, but is willing to help Xiliang build cement roads." Song Peiyu saw Liang Wang Shizi nodded, and then continued, "Xiliang doesn't care about the process of road construction. The cement powder goes to the location designated by Xiliang to build roads, and Xiliang only needs to provide food and accommodation for these people, and pay for materials and labor.”
This time Prince Liang looked at the key words on the small blackboard and pondered for a long time before he nodded hesitantly.
When he set off from Xiliang, he knew that Zhao Guo would never give Xiliang easily such things as cement powder, which could easily reveal the cement formula.
As Xiliang recruited Zhao Guo's civilian husband, the most was to spend more money.
This is also a good thing. Xiliang already has a heavy military service, and the people are overwhelmed, and labor service is required again... The people can't see the benefits of the future before the cement road is completed, and they will only complain.
Song Peiyu gave Prince Liang some time to respond before continuing, "Xiliang can choose who will contract the Xiliang cement road, and the price will be different."
Prince Liang cheered up and asked, "Why is it different?"
While quoting the price, Song Peiyu wrote the price in the middle of the small blackboard.
Zhao Guoren who went to Xiliang to build roads had only two choices, one was Zhao Jun, and the other was Zhao Guomin's husband.Prince Liang looked at the specific number in the middle of the small blackboard and gasped, his speech was not as smooth as usual, "You... did you make a mistake?"
Zhao Guofu's price is ten times that of Zhao Jun's!
"Although Zhao's military service is not as heavy as that of Xiliang, it is definitely not easy. Moreover, the journey from Zhao to Xiliang is far away. The folks who went to Xiliang to build roads will not come back for many years. The land at home is very likely to be abandoned. There are too many issues to consider, so I can only..." Song Peiyu smiled apologetically.
Prince Liang still stared straight at the specific value on the small blackboard, and his eyes gradually shifted from the two prices back and forth to the price for hiring Zhao Jun.
The price that Zhao Guo offered to hire Zhao Jun to build roads in Xiliang happened to be higher than the bottom line price Xiliang had expected.
As the heir of King Liang, the son of King Liang was not only heroic on the battlefield, but also had a good understanding of the general affairs and financial situation of Liangzhou. He made a rough calculation in his mind, and the price was barely acceptable without expropriating local civilians. .
But in this way, not only will Zhao Jun enter Xiliang openly and aboveboard, which will pose a great threat to Xiliang, but will also empty out the Xiliang warehouse at one time.
For Xiliang, it was a double blow.
At this moment, Chong Yi, who was quietly drinking tea as a mascot, suddenly received Song Peiyu's gaze.
Chong Yi put down the teacup, looked at the prince of Liang and said, "I am alone with my father and all the elders to get the installment payment for Xiliang. Every time Zhao Guo builds a section of road in Xiliang, Xiliang will pay Zhao Guo this part." expenses."
Hearing the word 'expendable', Prince Liang's son came back to his senses immediately, and looked at Chong Yi with burning eyes.
He didn't understand again.
Song Peiyu patted her head as if suddenly realized, and said with a smile, "It was my negligence that I forgot to tell the prince about this matter, please don't blame me."
Chong Yi snorted softly, and looked at Song Peiyu with a sneer, as if blaming or pampering.
Prince Liang didn't care about blaming him or not, let alone the strangeness between Song Peiyu and Chong Yi, he only cared about the "installment payment" that Chong Yi said.
Song Peiyu turned over the small blackboard that was already full of handwriting, and carefully introduced the 'payment by installments' to Prince Liang's son.
To put it simply, after Zhao Jun arrived in Xiliang, Xiliang told Zhao Jun where to build cement roads. Zhao Jun estimated the cost and reported it to Xiliang.
If Xiliang did not agree to the offer, Zhao Jun would rush back to Zhao State immediately, and as long as the project did not start, Xiliang would not be charged a copper plate.
If Xiliang agrees to the quotation, he only needs to pay half of the price first, and then pay the remaining half of the price after the road is completely repaired and Xiliang verifies that it is correct.
This is a section of the road that has been completely repaired.
After a section of road is completely repaired, Zhao Jun will go to the next place to repair the next section of road, repeat the process of Zhao Jun's quotation, Xiliang pays the first payment, Zhao Jun repairs the road, and Xiliang verifies that it is correct and pays the final payment.
After listening to Song Peiyu's detailed introduction to "Instalment Payment", Prince Liang's eyes became more and more complicated.
He was very moved, but still worried about letting Zhao Jun enter Xiliang.
In the end, when Prince Liang's son left with a small blackboard full of handwriting on both sides, he didn't make up his mind. He wanted to go back to Xiliang to discuss with King Liang before returning to Zhao.
Although Xiliang has not yet made up his mind, Song Peiyu has already determined that Xiliang will eventually agree to let Zhao Jun go to Xiliang to build roads.
He wrote a suggestion on how to calculate wages and materials overnight and sent it to the Lu Mansion.
Not long after Song Peiyu was promoted to the Minister of Honghe Temple, Lu Jihe was transferred to the household department to be a doctor.
It seems that the grade is not rising but falling, but it is because the right servant of the household department is old and will retire completely in a few years.
Lu Jihe has already reserved this vacancy.
Not long after Prince Liang's son left, Prince Rui's son also came to Zhao country from Dongliang.
Compared with Prince Liang who came to Zhao country and only wanted to complete the goal quickly, and immediately came to Song Peiyu to give gifts openly and honestly, Prince Rui was much dishonest.
After he arrived in Xianyang, Song Peiyu also went to receive him.
Prince Rui did not immediately tell Song Peiyu the purpose of his trip like Prince Liang did, he only said that he liked the lively and bustling atmosphere of Xianyang, and he would be fine in Liangzhou anyway, so he came to Xianyang to stay for a while.
How could Song Peiyu believe Prince Rui's nonsense.
On the surface, he complied with Prince Rui's words, and recommended many places for him to visit.
After leaving the place where Prince Rui was temporarily staying, Song Peiyu immediately ordered people to keep an eye on Prince Rui, and reported in detail what Prince Rui had done in Xianyang.
Facts have proved that Song Peiyu is very prescient.
Since Prince Rui's son arrived in Xianyang, there have been cases of people exchanging large quantities of silver for copper coins in many shops in Xianyang.
At the beginning, no merchants noticed something was wrong.
They open the door to do business, and the fastest circulation is yellow and white things.
It's not that I haven't encountered a happy event in a noble family before, and I want to distribute some copper coins to share the joy with the people, and exchange silver for copper coins.
Merchants generally will not refuse such requests. Why not do it if you can form a good relationship with the nobleman and enjoy the happiness of the nobleman?
But they have never met before. Within two or three days, there will be strangers one after another, happy events at home, and the copper coins in the warehouse are almost empty...
After Song Peiyu heard about this incident, she immediately felt abnormal.
Let people follow the clues to check carefully, these 'nobles' are all Prince Rui's sons.
Lu Jihe, who had been in the household department for several months, heard about this and said without raising his head, "In Xianyang, one tael of silver can be exchanged for [-] copper plates, and in Dongliang, one tael of silver can be exchanged for a thousand copper plates." Copper plate."
Luo Yong was stunned, "Is it much worse?"
Song Peiyu fiddled with the jade beads on the gold plate nimbly, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, "Not much, these days, Prince Rui's son only earned 2000 taels of silver in Xianyang."
"2000 taels is not much?" Luo Yong was in disbelief, wishing he could wake Song Peiyu up.
His one-month salary is only 50 taels of silver, and the mansion gives him another 20 taels of silver, so the total is only 70 taels of silver.
Prince Liang's son came to Xianyang and got 2000 taels of silver for almost nothing!
Chong Yi, who was fiddling with Jiulianhuan, took time out of his busy schedule and gave Luo Yong a look full of disgust.
Most of the other people also looked indifferent, not paying much attention to the 2000 taels of silver.
That is to say, Luo Yong couldn't save money, and he had to spend as much as he had, so Luo Sancai only gave him a fixed 20 taels of silver every month.
Even so, every new year, Chong Yi would reward them with something, and each time it was accompanied by real gold and silver, which added up to not a small sum every year, and if it was counted as silver, it would cost at least a few thousand taels of silver.
Song Peiyu patted Luo Yong's shoulder, and said in a relaxed tone, "It's really not much. If you can earn 5000 taels at most, Prince Rui will stop."
Because if you don't stop, there will be a risk of being noticed by Xianyang.
"Could it be that Prince Rui's son can earn the 5000 taels of silver for nothing?" Luo Yong beat his chest and stamped his feet, his eyes kept moving on Song Peiyu and Lu Jihe.
In his impression, neither Song Peiyu nor Lu Jihe had the character of letting others take advantage of them.
Lu Jihe lifted himself up from the document, looked at Luo Yong's incompetent and furious appearance with a smile, and said unceremoniously, "Which one is 5000 taels of silver? If you were Prince Rui's son, would you be willing to take 5000 taels and leave?"
Although he didn't want to admit it, Luo Yong honestly shook his head after hesitating for a while.
When Lu Jihe saw Luo Yong's reaction, the smile on the corner of his mouth became more flamboyant and annoying, "After Prince Rui's son returns to Dongliang with 5000 taels of silver, there will be a large number of silver-for-copper plates in various parts of Zhao State. "
Prince Rui's son was just taking the lead, testing whether this approach was feasible.
The exchange of silver for copper plates in Zhao State was something that Dongliang had long thought of. The method of plundering wealth from Zhao State was by no means a temporary idea.
Luo Yong's fists hardened when he heard this, he stopped looking at Lu Jihe and Song Peiyu, clenched the saber around his waist, and looked at Chongyi with burning eyes.
With Chong Yi's order, he immediately took people to overturn the residence of Prince Rui's son.
But Chong Yi is full of the newly acquired Jiu Lianhuan.
"Your Highness!" Luo courageously stopped calling his cousin, and finally got Chong Yi's eyes.
Luo Yong saw two large characters in Chong Yi's eyes.
'don't make noise'
So angry!
If he didn't know that he couldn't beat him, he would beat Chong Yi first!
The bullying Luo Yong could only focus on Song Peiyu and Lu Jihe again, and deliberately turned his back to Chongyi and walked to Chongyi, shouting loudly, "Then what do you think?!"
Chong Yi had nothing to say to Luo Yong's childish behavior, and chose to turn his back on Luo Yong.
Song Peiyu also felt that Luo Yong was noisy, but he was much more kind than Chong Yi. He waved to Luo Yong and asked Luo Yong to sit beside him.
Then he pushed the gold and jade abacus in front of him to Luo Yong's side, and said a few numbers for Luo Yong to calculate.
Luo Yong immediately stiffened.
In the end, he still couldn't bear Dongliang's desire to plunder Zhao's wealth to gain the upper hand, Luo Yong finally stretched out his hand to the abacus, fiddling with the emerald green beads on it clumsily.
Soong Peiyu regretted not reporting a few numbers.
He couldn't help having doubts, asking Luo Yong to decide whether he was punishing Luo Yong or punishing himself.
Just a few simple numbers, is it so difficult to calculate?
If it wasn't for Luo Yong's entangled appearance of scratching his ears and cheeks, Song Peiyu would have wondered whether Luo Yong deliberately made trouble with him.
Song Peiyu covered her eyes with her hands amidst the increasingly irritable crackling, "Don't forget it, I'll tell you directly."
Zhao Guo is almost the country with the most copper mines in Kyushu.
It is a general trend to replace copper with iron, which is easier to purify than copper, and can also take into account hardness and toughness.
At present, the biggest use of copper ore is to make currency.
Even in ancient times, there was no economics, and people in this era understood that money cannot be made without scruples.
Therefore, most of the copper mines in Zhao State are in a state of desertion.
Zhao Guo has a lot of copper mines, which is one of the reasons why the same silver can be exchanged for more copper plates in Zhao Guo.
Song Peiyu reported the number to Luo Yong just now.
They are the cost of mining copper mines, the cost of turning copper mines into currency, and the price at which copper mines can be sold to other countries.
For Dongliang, exchanging silver for copper coins may be very profitable.
But for Zhao Guo, exchanging copper coins for silver is not a loss at all.
Especially since the Qihuo city was built and started to operate, not only the number of traveling merchants in Zhao country has increased, but also many people in Zhao country have started to do business.
In laymen, most of them carry gold and silver. Who would carry copper plates?
There are very few gold and silver mines in the country of Zhao. For a long time, the gold and silver reserves in Qihuo City can account for half or more of the entire country of Zhao.
The gold mines obtained in Zeng Town were more than the original reserves of Zhao Guo.
Hearing this, Luo Yong unconsciously put down the handle of the knife, the expression on his face changed from anger to bewilderment.
He watched Song Peiyu's expression carefully, and said nana, "So?"
Tell him too much and he won't understand, just tell him the conclusion.
Song Peiyu smiled gently, "So I was thinking, how can I empty out Dongliang's silver with copper plates before Dongliang realizes something is wrong."
As for the sudden influx of a large number of copper plates in Dongliang, will it lead to a decline in the purchasing power of copper plates in Dongliang, causing invisible inflation, so that prices in Dongliang will soar.
At least until Dongliang was completely included in Zhao's territory, it was Song Peiyu's turn to worry.
Luo Yong scratched his head, and silently got up from Song Peiyu's side.
Excuse me, he probably doesn't deserve to sit here.
Although he still didn't understand much, he suddenly felt that Dongliang was a bit pitiful.
Also not quite understanding, Wei Zhiyuan and Bo Yang, who were sitting in a row to report to the group to keep warm, stretched out their little hands of friendship to Luo Yong.
Luo Yong immediately walked over and sat down, suddenly missing Pingzhang who was far away in Wei County.
Shouldn't he have thought about going back to Xianyang at the beginning, and staying in Wei County as an 'imperial envoy', wouldn't it be good?
Prince Rui's son stayed in Xianyang for more than half a month, as Song Peiyu guessed, after earning 5000 taels of copper coins, he said goodbye to Emperor Yonghe as if nothing had happened, and returned to Dongliang with several large carts of copper coins mixed in the goods.
In the next few months, people from Dongliang successively brought a large amount of gold and silver into several more and more prosperous counties in Zhao State, specifically exchanging the silver for copper plates.
Prince Rui really regarded Zhao Guo as a place to make a fortune.
In order to let Dongliang's people exchange more copper coins, Song Peiyu also took great pains.
Since the opening of the Rare Cargo City, Song Peiyu has finally raised a few caravans of his own as he had imagined at the beginning.
Some of them are active in other countries in the name of merchants from Zhao State, and some are active in the name of merchants in other countries.
Song Peiyu carefully selected and selected the caravan disguised as a businessman from the Li Kingdom.After Zhao Guo officially announced the alliance with Xiliang and Dongliang, Wei County no longer deliberately prevented businessmen from other countries in the territory from going to Dongliang like Dongliang treated Xiliang.
But there is no cement road in Dongliang, but Zhao Guo and Wei County, which are more closely related to Qihuo City, have them.
Therefore, after the merchants from the east arrive at Qihuo City, if they still have spare energy, most of them will go north to go deep into Zhao State, or go south to Weijun. Willing to continue west to Dongliang.
This 'Li Country Caravan' is naturally not among most merchants because of its special mission.
After they sold a large amount of goods in the strange goods city, they bought some goods and temporarily stayed in the strange goods city, while the caravan continued westward and entered Liangzhou King Rui's territory.
The 'Li Country Caravan' soon became well-known in Prince Rui's territory of Liangzhou.
There are no other reasons, people are stupid, and there is a lot of money.
It is rumored that the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' is very fond of gold ornaments, especially pure gold ornaments, and bought a large number of pure gold ornaments along the way, just because he thinks that the Dongliang pure gold ornaments are special and different from the ones he saw in other places. Gold ornaments are not all alike.
However, the so-called "special style" that the leader of the "Li Guo Caravan" likes is really not flattering in terms of craftsmanship.
If you insist on boasting about the money that the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' sprinkled in Dongliang, you can only say that the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' likes things that are big and ingenious.
The leader of the 'Li Country Caravan' is not an idiot to lead such a large caravan.
For the gold ornaments he bought, in addition to the value of the gold itself, he was only willing to pay some handwork fees, but he would never give more handwork fees just because he liked the ingenious and clumsy style.
It can make people who sell him gold ornaments a small profit, and it is not impossible to make a fortune with this... After all, the accumulation of small amounts of money, but the gold needed is too much, not to mention whether the "Li Guo Caravan" can After eating, there are not many people in Dongliang who can produce so much gold in a short period of time.
When the 'Li Guo Caravan' was about to leave Dongliang, suddenly a mysterious person approached the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' and straight to the point asked if the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' was short of gold.
The leader of the "Li Guo Caravan" suddenly changed his face. At the beginning, he refused to admit anything. He heard the mysterious person say that he has a lot of gold, as long as the "Li Guo Caravan" brings enough silver In other words, after the face of the leader of the 'Li Guo Merchants' changed several times, he admitted that he was short of gold.
The 'Li Country Merchant' claimed that his backer was a certain family in the Li Country. This family lost in the contest with other families, and urgently needed a lot of gold to buy up the relationships of all parties to preserve the family heritage.
He brought a large amount of goods to the strange goods city, and most of them were sold to the strange goods city and the merchants in the strange goods city in exchange for gold, and he bought some goods to deceive others.
But the gold exchanged from the strange goods city is not enough.
Because there is a discount for trading gold in the Odd Goods City, the 'Li Guo Caravan' cannot exchange silver for gold in the Odd Goods City at all, so they can only lead the team to Dongliang to try their luck.
The 'Li Guo Caravan' stayed in Dongliang for another month, and finally reached a consensus with the mysterious person.
One month later, at the price higher than the current price of one tael of gold for eight taels of silver in other countries, at the border between Dongliang and Weijun, silver was exchanged for 7 taels of gold.
A "Li Guo merchant" reminded Dongliang that in addition to exchanging silver for copper plates, you can also exchange gold for silver first and then for copper plates.
When Dong Liang felt that the silver was not enough, he would naturally think of gold again.
At this time, there will be a "taken advantage" arranged by Song Peiyu in time, because of various reasons, he is willing to exchange silver for gold at a price higher than one tael of gold for eight taels of silver.
In order to avoid Dongliang's lack of motivation, Song Peiyu also specially asked the merchants in the strange goods city to collect copper coins at a high price in the surrounding areas of the strange goods city, so that Dongliang could also make a small profit.
In this way, gold, silver, and copper plates were completely circulated between Dongliang and Zhao.
Several copper mines that had been abandoned for a long time in Zhao State were operating again after many years, and many civilians were hired from the surrounding area as miners, which gave the civilians more sources of income.
The number of workshops making copper coins is also increasing day by day. Under the guidance of Mr. Song, they also found that adding tin, which is easier to refine, into copper coins can not only reduce the cost of making copper coins, but also keep the copper coins shiny and rust-free for a longer period of time. long.
Dongliang is troubled all day long by the fact that there are too many rich fools, and he is about to be overwhelmed.Think about how much wealth you have obtained from the State of Zhao, and how to get more wealth from the State of Zhao.
For a while, both parties were satisfied.
Liang Wangshizi came to Xianyang again soon.
Xiliang is determined to win the cement road, and he really can't afford the price of hiring civilians in Zhao State to build roads in Xiliang.
The most important thing is that Xiliang is very clear that Zhao Guo is definitely not an existence that can make Xiliang renege on his debts.
No matter how many worries there were, Xiliang still gritted his teeth and chose to hire Zhao Jun to repair the cement road.
In order to express his sincerity, without Song Peiyu's prior request, Xiliang Shizi took the initiative to bring 3 taels of gold to Xianyang, as Zhao Guo prepared to build roads for Xiliang, prepare materials and mobilize Zhao Jun's start-up funds.
For the 3 taels of gold, Song Peiyu decided to avoid pitting Xiliang a few times during the road construction in Xiliang.
Except for Xiliang and Dongliang's frequent actions that fit Zhao Guo's wishes and make Zhao Guo's elders feel at ease, most of their thoughts are on Su Wang's mansion.
The prince was already in his twenties, but not only did he not get married, he didn't even have a wife or concubine.
In addition, about two years ago, there was a sudden rumor in the palace that the prince was extremely expensive, and it was easy not to allow a mortal woman to contaminate the prince before he was established, otherwise the prince might return to the sky.
When this rumor first spread, many ministers laughed it off and didn't believe a word of it.
Now they can't tolerate their disbelief.
Only recently did they discover that this rumor suddenly appeared after Zhao State rejected Chu State's marriage.
Emperor Yonghe, who had already expressed his intention to choose a concubine for the prince, seemed to have completely put this matter behind him. Now that the prince has returned from Wei County for more than a year, Emperor Yonghe never thought of giving him a concubine. The eldest son of the family married a wife and took a concubine.
Could it be that he wanted the crown prince to be filial to Mu Wan?
They don't believe it.
In contrast, the rumors that were not considered by them at the beginning were more credible.
The state of Zhao cannot live without a prince, especially the prince who has the support of the Song family and the Lu family and can hold military power for Emperor Yonghe.
But there is no grandson.
Judging from the current situation, if Zhao Guo resumes war, the crown prince will probably take command in person, or at least go to the front line to hold the battle.
In case there is something good or bad... Xianyang has the little emperor and grandson, so that people will not be panicked.
Just when the court was dark and turbulent, and Emperor Yonghe, who planned to tacitly agree with each other, asked the prince to marry a wife and take a concubine, good news suddenly came out from Su Wang's mansion.
Not only Qinzheng Hall and Princess Chang's Mansion sent things to Su Wang's Mansion like flowing water, but the rewards from the East Palace were also extremely generous.
The courtiers thought of Zhongzong who died early, and most of them stopped thinking about it.
That's all, let's see if the concubine of King Su's mansion will give birth to the little princess or the little princess.
Unexpectedly, what makes His Royal Highness the most like His Majesty is his heart.
This is a good thing.
How can a person who has no heart for his own uncles expect him to have heart for his courtiers?
Just when the courtiers have their own thoughts, they have already hoped that the adults who let Chongyi marry a wife and take concubines will get a man in one fell swoop, but they have not given up on letting Chongyi marry a wife and take concubines, and the adults who have daughters of the right age at home are looking forward to Su Wangfu was still a girl this time.
In just three months, there were frequent pregnancy letters from the Su Palace.
There were five concubines who were pregnant at the same time in King Su's Mansion, and the longest difference in pregnancy was less than five months.
Not only did the courtiers not expect King Su to be so fierce, even King Su himself didn't expect it.
He privately told Emperor Yonghe that no matter whether the five concubines gave birth to boys or not, he would dismiss the concubines who did not have children.
Emperor Yonghe immediately understood King Su's unfinished words.
He was tired and couldn't keep trying.
Unable to provide any help, Emperor Yonghe could only pat King Su on the shoulder to express his support for King Su's decision. He was afraid that King Su would not be able to support his family, so he moved half of his private treasury to King Su's mansion.
There is no need to worry about the dowry of the eldest princess, and the dowry of the remaining princesses should not be much worse than that of the eldest sisters, after all, they are all the biological daughters of King Su.
Now that we have added five more babies, we need to take care of them even before they are born, so as not to be born with deficiencies in the future.
When disbanding concubines, they should also be rich and worry-free for the rest of their lives, so that they will not be manipulated by others.
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Emperor Yonghe, who had already started taking filial piety to the East Palace every month, suddenly felt that his younger brother was so poor, and as an older brother, he couldn't just sit idly by.
Not only did Emperor Yonghe feel that King Su was poor, Chong Yi, who was indifferent when he first heard that the concubine of King Su's mansion was pregnant, suddenly had the same idea as Emperor Yonghe after hearing the news for the fifth time.
Chong Yi is richer than Emperor Yonghe. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the richest person in the Zhao Kingdom, but Song Peiyu is in charge of the accounts of the Eastern Palace, so he has no idea how rich he is.
He only knew that Song Peiyu would give him 100 taels of gold for pocket expenses every month, no matter whether the flowers were spent or not, there would be another 100 taels of gold next month.
Let Laifu figure out the remaining change, even though Chongyi is used to spending money lavishly, he still saved nearly 2000 taels of gold.
Chong Yi thought for a while, and only kept 100 taels for himself, and asked someone to send the rest to Su Wang's mansion.
Chong Yi didn't want to hide this matter from Song Peiyu on purpose.
When Song Peiyu returned to the East Palace in the afternoon, he heard about Chong Yi's actions, but it was only after Eunuch An reminded him that he suddenly thought of why Chong Yi wanted to send money to King Su.
He decided to increase Chongyi's pocket money from 100 taels of gold to 200 taels of gold.
He also specifically asked Eunuch An to add more 'practical' things when preparing gifts for King Su's mansion.
After the news of the high-profile alliance between Zhao Guo and Shuangliang gradually subsided, a big news suddenly came out from Chen Guo in the east.
Emperor Chen Guorui died, but it was not said that he was the prince.
Before his death, Emperor Rui held his last breath, saying in front of all the courtiers that he would abolish the crown prince, but died before he could say who the new emperor he preferred was.
Fortunately, the sixth prince took out Emperor Rui's will on the spot, which stated that he wanted the sixth prince to inherit the throne.
Chen Guo was in turmoil for nearly two months before calming down.
In the end, Prince Chen Guoxian became the abolished prince, and the sixth prince successfully succeeded to the throne, and his reign was revealed.
Emperor Xiankai succeeded in succeeding to the throne, but the farce of Chen Guo did not stop there.
Emperor Xiankai's concubine failed to become a queen, but was only named a noble concubine, and her children also lost their status as heirs for no reason.
The side concubine who had no place in the palace became the queen instead.
Emperor Xiankai's seventh prince was recorded under the empress's name, became the first son, and was named the crown prince.
When Song Peiyu heard this, she suddenly choked and coughed desperately while leaning on the table.
Ruidi's sixth prince, isn't this the father of the hero of "The King's Landing"?
Isn't the seventh prince of Emperor Xiankai the male lead?
According to the timeline in the book, after Emperor Rui's death, the crown prince should succeed him.
It's just that the prince didn't secure the throne, and was assassinated to death during the autumn hunt, and even the prince's sons were killed.
Because of the existence of the strange goods city and the cement road, more and more traveling merchants come and go to Zhao State, and the prices of various commodities in Zhao State are generally lower than those in Liangzhou.
In addition to Song Peiyu's people who went to Liangzhou to manage the property under the name of Donggong, there were also many Zhao country businessmen who found a good opportunity and took the initiative to go to Liangzhou to do some small business.
In this way, the merchants in Zhao State made money, and the price of goods in Liangzhou fell, and both parties could benefit.
Three months later, the prince of Liangzhou came to Zhao country again, and it was still Song Peiyu who received him.
At this time, Song Peiyu had changed from the young minister of Honghe Temple to the minister of Honghe Temple.
Prince Liang's son first congratulated Song Peiyu on his promotion, and then presented him with a great gift. He flattered Song Peiyu for a while before explaining his intention.
Liang Wang wanted to follow the example of Zhao Guo and build cement roads in Xiliang.
Prince Liang's son is here to buy enough cement powder from Zhao.
When Song Peiyu heard this, the smile on his face gradually stagnated, and he suddenly turned around and picked up the wooden box that Prince Liang had just given him, and wanted to return it to Prince Liang.
Prince Liang's son naturally would not take back the gift he sent out, and immediately extended his hand to reject it.
Song Peiyu's martial arts practice of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, how could it be compared to Prince Liang, who is already a veteran in the battlefield even though he is young.
The wooden box was sandwiched between the two, and Song Peiyu couldn't let go even if he wanted to.
If he lets go, the jade carving in the wooden box will break.
Prince Liang's son was sweating all over his head anxiously, but he could only beg Song Peiyu, "I am here sincerely, and please Master Song to fulfill my request."
"Fulfill what?" Chong Yi suddenly appeared at the door, leaning on the door frame, crossing his arms and looking at Prince Liang and Song Peiyu, who were almost stacked together from his perspective.
Prince Liang's son suddenly felt a chill rising from his back, and the sweat on his head doubled in an instant.
Taking advantage of Prince Liang's dazed time, Song Peiyu stuffed the wooden box into Prince Liang's hands with all his strength, and deftly turned around to bypass Prince Liang and went to Chong Yi.
With his back to Prince Liang, he stopped at a position three steps away from Chongyi, under Chongyi's gaze, he said in embarrassment, "This..."
Prince Liang's son turned around while holding the wooden box, feeling a little moved.
He didn't expect Song Peiyu to be willing to cover up for him in front of Prince Zhao when he knew that his request was too much and had firmly refused.
Master Song is really a good person.
It's a pity that Prince Liang could only see Song Peiyu's tangled back, but he couldn't see Song Peiyu blinking madly at Chongyi.
Chong Yi moved his fingers, and with difficulty moved his eyes away from Song Peiyu's face and landed on the face of Prince Liang's son. In an instant, there was vague dislike in his eyes.
Although Prince Liang's son was very moved by Song Peiyu's thoughtfulness, Xiliang was determined to win the cement road.
With the cement road, more businessmen from other countries may appear in Xiliang, which will bring greater changes to Xiliang.
Most importantly, the process of transporting supplies from Xiliang to the border can save a lot of manpower and material resources.
For Xiliang, this affected not only the huge cost, but also the huge pressure during the war.
So after being repeatedly rejected by Song Peiyu, Prince Liang directly handed the box that had just been returned to Chong Yi.
"My father occasionally got a rare ornament made of extraordinary materials. After I saw the ornament, I felt that only you, Your Highness, are worthy of this ornament. After begging my father, I brought the ornament to Zhao Guo." Speaking of this, Liang Wang Shizi lowered his head in embarrassment, "I was afraid His Highness would not accept it, so I wanted to ask Mr. Song to pass it on for me."
Song Peiyu, who had already walked to Chongyi's side, glanced at the honest and honest son of Liang Wang, secretly said that people should not be judged by appearance, on the surface they look rough and straightforward, but they have a lot of small things in their hearts.
Chong Yi lowered his eyelids to look at the box that Prince Liang had opened.
It is an emerald tree that can be placed on the table.
Not only the trunks and branches have clear textures, but even the leaves, which are as thin as cicada wings, seem to be blown down from the trees by the wind, have obvious traces of veins.
The material used is even better than the imperial green longevity peach that Song Peiyu spent 500 taels of gold to bring back from Qing County.
It is indeed a rare treasure.
It's a pity that no matter in his previous life or in this life, what Chong Yi sees the most are all kinds of treasures.He casually glanced at the contents of the wooden box, then turned his gaze back to Prince Liang's face, and said in a firm tone, "You have something to ask me."
The prince of Liang generously admitted that he wanted to ask Chong Yi, and mentioned to Chong Yi that he wanted to buy Zhao Guo's cement powder.
"Regardless of whether it can be completed or not, this emerald tree is given to His Highness to enjoy. Only such a treasure can be worthy of His Highness." Prince Liang looked at Chong Yi sincerely, and at the same time, he did not forget to send an apology to Song Peiyu look.
Chong Yi, who had already received Song Peiyu's hint, let out a casual 'hmm', and signaled Prince Liang to put the wooden box on the table with his eyes, "I will go to ask Father about this matter."
Prince Liang's son was overjoyed when he heard the words, and Chong Yi had only promised to ask Emperor Yonghe for instructions, but Prince Liang's son acted as excited as if Chong Yi had already agreed to him.
It has to be said that after staying in Xianyang with Prince Rui for a few months, Prince Liang's eloquence has been improved qualitatively.
Song Peiyu stood up at the right time to remind Prince Liang that since King Liang planned to buy cement powder from Zhao Guo, he must have a rough estimate in mind, and asked Prince Liang to tell Chong Yi the estimate of King Liang.
In this way, Chong Yi can talk about this matter with Emperor Yonghe.
Prince Liang's face was slightly stiff with the naked eye.
Before he left Liangzhou, Liang Wang did give him a price, but in his idea, it should be after the matter of buying and selling cement powder was thoroughly finalized, and then he would slowly grind the price issue with Zhao Guo.
If you tell the price now, you will hand over the initiative to Zhao Guo.
No matter how unwilling, the heir son of Liang Wang, who is in need of others, can only offer Chong Yi a price that is only a little lower than Xi Liang's bottom line price.
It's not that Prince Liang didn't want to talk about a lower price, and then slowly bargain with Zhao Guo.
He was afraid that if Zhao Guo disliked the price he offered was too low, he would directly reject him and no longer consider selling it to Xiliang cement powder.
Poor Prince Liang didn't know yet, this was just his first setback when he came to buy cement powder on behalf of Xiliang.
There are still many things that will not go on according to his hope.
After the news that Xiliang wanted to buy cement powder spread to the ears of some people in Zhao Guo, the bosses once again insisted on their opinions and started a fierce quarrel.
The changes that cement and red bricks brought to Zhao are obvious.
Ordinary people can only see the majestic and majestic palace after repairs, but the first thing the elders think of is the city of strange goods.
Without cement and red bricks, Zhao Guo would never have been able to build a city in the three-way zone.
There would be no strange goods city, and there would be no Zhao country that is as prosperous as Jiangnan today.
In any case, the specific information of cement and red bricks must not be disclosed to other countries.
Song Peiyu can understand the worries and worries of the elders, he has a better way than selling cement powder.
"What?" After hearing Song Peiyu's words, Prince Liang's face was dull, "Contract?"
Song Peiyu smiled very kindly, fearing that the Prince of Liang would not understand, he specially asked Eunuch An to bring in a small blackboard, and while writing on the small blackboard, explained it carefully to the Prince of Liang.
"Your Majesty does not agree to sell Xiliang cement powder, but is willing to help Xiliang build cement roads." Song Peiyu saw Liang Wang Shizi nodded, and then continued, "Xiliang doesn't care about the process of road construction. The cement powder goes to the location designated by Xiliang to build roads, and Xiliang only needs to provide food and accommodation for these people, and pay for materials and labor.”
This time Prince Liang looked at the key words on the small blackboard and pondered for a long time before he nodded hesitantly.
When he set off from Xiliang, he knew that Zhao Guo would never give Xiliang easily such things as cement powder, which could easily reveal the cement formula.
As Xiliang recruited Zhao Guo's civilian husband, the most was to spend more money.
This is also a good thing. Xiliang already has a heavy military service, and the people are overwhelmed, and labor service is required again... The people can't see the benefits of the future before the cement road is completed, and they will only complain.
Song Peiyu gave Prince Liang some time to respond before continuing, "Xiliang can choose who will contract the Xiliang cement road, and the price will be different."
Prince Liang cheered up and asked, "Why is it different?"
While quoting the price, Song Peiyu wrote the price in the middle of the small blackboard.
Zhao Guoren who went to Xiliang to build roads had only two choices, one was Zhao Jun, and the other was Zhao Guomin's husband.Prince Liang looked at the specific number in the middle of the small blackboard and gasped, his speech was not as smooth as usual, "You... did you make a mistake?"
Zhao Guofu's price is ten times that of Zhao Jun's!
"Although Zhao's military service is not as heavy as that of Xiliang, it is definitely not easy. Moreover, the journey from Zhao to Xiliang is far away. The folks who went to Xiliang to build roads will not come back for many years. The land at home is very likely to be abandoned. There are too many issues to consider, so I can only..." Song Peiyu smiled apologetically.
Prince Liang still stared straight at the specific value on the small blackboard, and his eyes gradually shifted from the two prices back and forth to the price for hiring Zhao Jun.
The price that Zhao Guo offered to hire Zhao Jun to build roads in Xiliang happened to be higher than the bottom line price Xiliang had expected.
As the heir of King Liang, the son of King Liang was not only heroic on the battlefield, but also had a good understanding of the general affairs and financial situation of Liangzhou. He made a rough calculation in his mind, and the price was barely acceptable without expropriating local civilians. .
But in this way, not only will Zhao Jun enter Xiliang openly and aboveboard, which will pose a great threat to Xiliang, but will also empty out the Xiliang warehouse at one time.
For Xiliang, it was a double blow.
At this moment, Chong Yi, who was quietly drinking tea as a mascot, suddenly received Song Peiyu's gaze.
Chong Yi put down the teacup, looked at the prince of Liang and said, "I am alone with my father and all the elders to get the installment payment for Xiliang. Every time Zhao Guo builds a section of road in Xiliang, Xiliang will pay Zhao Guo this part." expenses."
Hearing the word 'expendable', Prince Liang's son came back to his senses immediately, and looked at Chong Yi with burning eyes.
He didn't understand again.
Song Peiyu patted her head as if suddenly realized, and said with a smile, "It was my negligence that I forgot to tell the prince about this matter, please don't blame me."
Chong Yi snorted softly, and looked at Song Peiyu with a sneer, as if blaming or pampering.
Prince Liang didn't care about blaming him or not, let alone the strangeness between Song Peiyu and Chong Yi, he only cared about the "installment payment" that Chong Yi said.
Song Peiyu turned over the small blackboard that was already full of handwriting, and carefully introduced the 'payment by installments' to Prince Liang's son.
To put it simply, after Zhao Jun arrived in Xiliang, Xiliang told Zhao Jun where to build cement roads. Zhao Jun estimated the cost and reported it to Xiliang.
If Xiliang did not agree to the offer, Zhao Jun would rush back to Zhao State immediately, and as long as the project did not start, Xiliang would not be charged a copper plate.
If Xiliang agrees to the quotation, he only needs to pay half of the price first, and then pay the remaining half of the price after the road is completely repaired and Xiliang verifies that it is correct.
This is a section of the road that has been completely repaired.
After a section of road is completely repaired, Zhao Jun will go to the next place to repair the next section of road, repeat the process of Zhao Jun's quotation, Xiliang pays the first payment, Zhao Jun repairs the road, and Xiliang verifies that it is correct and pays the final payment.
After listening to Song Peiyu's detailed introduction to "Instalment Payment", Prince Liang's eyes became more and more complicated.
He was very moved, but still worried about letting Zhao Jun enter Xiliang.
In the end, when Prince Liang's son left with a small blackboard full of handwriting on both sides, he didn't make up his mind. He wanted to go back to Xiliang to discuss with King Liang before returning to Zhao.
Although Xiliang has not yet made up his mind, Song Peiyu has already determined that Xiliang will eventually agree to let Zhao Jun go to Xiliang to build roads.
He wrote a suggestion on how to calculate wages and materials overnight and sent it to the Lu Mansion.
Not long after Song Peiyu was promoted to the Minister of Honghe Temple, Lu Jihe was transferred to the household department to be a doctor.
It seems that the grade is not rising but falling, but it is because the right servant of the household department is old and will retire completely in a few years.
Lu Jihe has already reserved this vacancy.
Not long after Prince Liang's son left, Prince Rui's son also came to Zhao country from Dongliang.
Compared with Prince Liang who came to Zhao country and only wanted to complete the goal quickly, and immediately came to Song Peiyu to give gifts openly and honestly, Prince Rui was much dishonest.
After he arrived in Xianyang, Song Peiyu also went to receive him.
Prince Rui did not immediately tell Song Peiyu the purpose of his trip like Prince Liang did, he only said that he liked the lively and bustling atmosphere of Xianyang, and he would be fine in Liangzhou anyway, so he came to Xianyang to stay for a while.
How could Song Peiyu believe Prince Rui's nonsense.
On the surface, he complied with Prince Rui's words, and recommended many places for him to visit.
After leaving the place where Prince Rui was temporarily staying, Song Peiyu immediately ordered people to keep an eye on Prince Rui, and reported in detail what Prince Rui had done in Xianyang.
Facts have proved that Song Peiyu is very prescient.
Since Prince Rui's son arrived in Xianyang, there have been cases of people exchanging large quantities of silver for copper coins in many shops in Xianyang.
At the beginning, no merchants noticed something was wrong.
They open the door to do business, and the fastest circulation is yellow and white things.
It's not that I haven't encountered a happy event in a noble family before, and I want to distribute some copper coins to share the joy with the people, and exchange silver for copper coins.
Merchants generally will not refuse such requests. Why not do it if you can form a good relationship with the nobleman and enjoy the happiness of the nobleman?
But they have never met before. Within two or three days, there will be strangers one after another, happy events at home, and the copper coins in the warehouse are almost empty...
After Song Peiyu heard about this incident, she immediately felt abnormal.
Let people follow the clues to check carefully, these 'nobles' are all Prince Rui's sons.
Lu Jihe, who had been in the household department for several months, heard about this and said without raising his head, "In Xianyang, one tael of silver can be exchanged for [-] copper plates, and in Dongliang, one tael of silver can be exchanged for a thousand copper plates." Copper plate."
Luo Yong was stunned, "Is it much worse?"
Song Peiyu fiddled with the jade beads on the gold plate nimbly, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, "Not much, these days, Prince Rui's son only earned 2000 taels of silver in Xianyang."
"2000 taels is not much?" Luo Yong was in disbelief, wishing he could wake Song Peiyu up.
His one-month salary is only 50 taels of silver, and the mansion gives him another 20 taels of silver, so the total is only 70 taels of silver.
Prince Liang's son came to Xianyang and got 2000 taels of silver for almost nothing!
Chong Yi, who was fiddling with Jiulianhuan, took time out of his busy schedule and gave Luo Yong a look full of disgust.
Most of the other people also looked indifferent, not paying much attention to the 2000 taels of silver.
That is to say, Luo Yong couldn't save money, and he had to spend as much as he had, so Luo Sancai only gave him a fixed 20 taels of silver every month.
Even so, every new year, Chong Yi would reward them with something, and each time it was accompanied by real gold and silver, which added up to not a small sum every year, and if it was counted as silver, it would cost at least a few thousand taels of silver.
Song Peiyu patted Luo Yong's shoulder, and said in a relaxed tone, "It's really not much. If you can earn 5000 taels at most, Prince Rui will stop."
Because if you don't stop, there will be a risk of being noticed by Xianyang.
"Could it be that Prince Rui's son can earn the 5000 taels of silver for nothing?" Luo Yong beat his chest and stamped his feet, his eyes kept moving on Song Peiyu and Lu Jihe.
In his impression, neither Song Peiyu nor Lu Jihe had the character of letting others take advantage of them.
Lu Jihe lifted himself up from the document, looked at Luo Yong's incompetent and furious appearance with a smile, and said unceremoniously, "Which one is 5000 taels of silver? If you were Prince Rui's son, would you be willing to take 5000 taels and leave?"
Although he didn't want to admit it, Luo Yong honestly shook his head after hesitating for a while.
When Lu Jihe saw Luo Yong's reaction, the smile on the corner of his mouth became more flamboyant and annoying, "After Prince Rui's son returns to Dongliang with 5000 taels of silver, there will be a large number of silver-for-copper plates in various parts of Zhao State. "
Prince Rui's son was just taking the lead, testing whether this approach was feasible.
The exchange of silver for copper plates in Zhao State was something that Dongliang had long thought of. The method of plundering wealth from Zhao State was by no means a temporary idea.
Luo Yong's fists hardened when he heard this, he stopped looking at Lu Jihe and Song Peiyu, clenched the saber around his waist, and looked at Chongyi with burning eyes.
With Chong Yi's order, he immediately took people to overturn the residence of Prince Rui's son.
But Chong Yi is full of the newly acquired Jiu Lianhuan.
"Your Highness!" Luo courageously stopped calling his cousin, and finally got Chong Yi's eyes.
Luo Yong saw two large characters in Chong Yi's eyes.
'don't make noise'
So angry!
If he didn't know that he couldn't beat him, he would beat Chong Yi first!
The bullying Luo Yong could only focus on Song Peiyu and Lu Jihe again, and deliberately turned his back to Chongyi and walked to Chongyi, shouting loudly, "Then what do you think?!"
Chong Yi had nothing to say to Luo Yong's childish behavior, and chose to turn his back on Luo Yong.
Song Peiyu also felt that Luo Yong was noisy, but he was much more kind than Chong Yi. He waved to Luo Yong and asked Luo Yong to sit beside him.
Then he pushed the gold and jade abacus in front of him to Luo Yong's side, and said a few numbers for Luo Yong to calculate.
Luo Yong immediately stiffened.
In the end, he still couldn't bear Dongliang's desire to plunder Zhao's wealth to gain the upper hand, Luo Yong finally stretched out his hand to the abacus, fiddling with the emerald green beads on it clumsily.
Soong Peiyu regretted not reporting a few numbers.
He couldn't help having doubts, asking Luo Yong to decide whether he was punishing Luo Yong or punishing himself.
Just a few simple numbers, is it so difficult to calculate?
If it wasn't for Luo Yong's entangled appearance of scratching his ears and cheeks, Song Peiyu would have wondered whether Luo Yong deliberately made trouble with him.
Song Peiyu covered her eyes with her hands amidst the increasingly irritable crackling, "Don't forget it, I'll tell you directly."
Zhao Guo is almost the country with the most copper mines in Kyushu.
It is a general trend to replace copper with iron, which is easier to purify than copper, and can also take into account hardness and toughness.
At present, the biggest use of copper ore is to make currency.
Even in ancient times, there was no economics, and people in this era understood that money cannot be made without scruples.
Therefore, most of the copper mines in Zhao State are in a state of desertion.
Zhao Guo has a lot of copper mines, which is one of the reasons why the same silver can be exchanged for more copper plates in Zhao Guo.
Song Peiyu reported the number to Luo Yong just now.
They are the cost of mining copper mines, the cost of turning copper mines into currency, and the price at which copper mines can be sold to other countries.
For Dongliang, exchanging silver for copper coins may be very profitable.
But for Zhao Guo, exchanging copper coins for silver is not a loss at all.
Especially since the Qihuo city was built and started to operate, not only the number of traveling merchants in Zhao country has increased, but also many people in Zhao country have started to do business.
In laymen, most of them carry gold and silver. Who would carry copper plates?
There are very few gold and silver mines in the country of Zhao. For a long time, the gold and silver reserves in Qihuo City can account for half or more of the entire country of Zhao.
The gold mines obtained in Zeng Town were more than the original reserves of Zhao Guo.
Hearing this, Luo Yong unconsciously put down the handle of the knife, the expression on his face changed from anger to bewilderment.
He watched Song Peiyu's expression carefully, and said nana, "So?"
Tell him too much and he won't understand, just tell him the conclusion.
Song Peiyu smiled gently, "So I was thinking, how can I empty out Dongliang's silver with copper plates before Dongliang realizes something is wrong."
As for the sudden influx of a large number of copper plates in Dongliang, will it lead to a decline in the purchasing power of copper plates in Dongliang, causing invisible inflation, so that prices in Dongliang will soar.
At least until Dongliang was completely included in Zhao's territory, it was Song Peiyu's turn to worry.
Luo Yong scratched his head, and silently got up from Song Peiyu's side.
Excuse me, he probably doesn't deserve to sit here.
Although he still didn't understand much, he suddenly felt that Dongliang was a bit pitiful.
Also not quite understanding, Wei Zhiyuan and Bo Yang, who were sitting in a row to report to the group to keep warm, stretched out their little hands of friendship to Luo Yong.
Luo Yong immediately walked over and sat down, suddenly missing Pingzhang who was far away in Wei County.
Shouldn't he have thought about going back to Xianyang at the beginning, and staying in Wei County as an 'imperial envoy', wouldn't it be good?
Prince Rui's son stayed in Xianyang for more than half a month, as Song Peiyu guessed, after earning 5000 taels of copper coins, he said goodbye to Emperor Yonghe as if nothing had happened, and returned to Dongliang with several large carts of copper coins mixed in the goods.
In the next few months, people from Dongliang successively brought a large amount of gold and silver into several more and more prosperous counties in Zhao State, specifically exchanging the silver for copper plates.
Prince Rui really regarded Zhao Guo as a place to make a fortune.
In order to let Dongliang's people exchange more copper coins, Song Peiyu also took great pains.
Since the opening of the Rare Cargo City, Song Peiyu has finally raised a few caravans of his own as he had imagined at the beginning.
Some of them are active in other countries in the name of merchants from Zhao State, and some are active in the name of merchants in other countries.
Song Peiyu carefully selected and selected the caravan disguised as a businessman from the Li Kingdom.After Zhao Guo officially announced the alliance with Xiliang and Dongliang, Wei County no longer deliberately prevented businessmen from other countries in the territory from going to Dongliang like Dongliang treated Xiliang.
But there is no cement road in Dongliang, but Zhao Guo and Wei County, which are more closely related to Qihuo City, have them.
Therefore, after the merchants from the east arrive at Qihuo City, if they still have spare energy, most of them will go north to go deep into Zhao State, or go south to Weijun. Willing to continue west to Dongliang.
This 'Li Country Caravan' is naturally not among most merchants because of its special mission.
After they sold a large amount of goods in the strange goods city, they bought some goods and temporarily stayed in the strange goods city, while the caravan continued westward and entered Liangzhou King Rui's territory.
The 'Li Country Caravan' soon became well-known in Prince Rui's territory of Liangzhou.
There are no other reasons, people are stupid, and there is a lot of money.
It is rumored that the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' is very fond of gold ornaments, especially pure gold ornaments, and bought a large number of pure gold ornaments along the way, just because he thinks that the Dongliang pure gold ornaments are special and different from the ones he saw in other places. Gold ornaments are not all alike.
However, the so-called "special style" that the leader of the "Li Guo Caravan" likes is really not flattering in terms of craftsmanship.
If you insist on boasting about the money that the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' sprinkled in Dongliang, you can only say that the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' likes things that are big and ingenious.
The leader of the 'Li Country Caravan' is not an idiot to lead such a large caravan.
For the gold ornaments he bought, in addition to the value of the gold itself, he was only willing to pay some handwork fees, but he would never give more handwork fees just because he liked the ingenious and clumsy style.
It can make people who sell him gold ornaments a small profit, and it is not impossible to make a fortune with this... After all, the accumulation of small amounts of money, but the gold needed is too much, not to mention whether the "Li Guo Caravan" can After eating, there are not many people in Dongliang who can produce so much gold in a short period of time.
When the 'Li Guo Caravan' was about to leave Dongliang, suddenly a mysterious person approached the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' and straight to the point asked if the leader of the 'Li Guo Caravan' was short of gold.
The leader of the "Li Guo Caravan" suddenly changed his face. At the beginning, he refused to admit anything. He heard the mysterious person say that he has a lot of gold, as long as the "Li Guo Caravan" brings enough silver In other words, after the face of the leader of the 'Li Guo Merchants' changed several times, he admitted that he was short of gold.
The 'Li Country Merchant' claimed that his backer was a certain family in the Li Country. This family lost in the contest with other families, and urgently needed a lot of gold to buy up the relationships of all parties to preserve the family heritage.
He brought a large amount of goods to the strange goods city, and most of them were sold to the strange goods city and the merchants in the strange goods city in exchange for gold, and he bought some goods to deceive others.
But the gold exchanged from the strange goods city is not enough.
Because there is a discount for trading gold in the Odd Goods City, the 'Li Guo Caravan' cannot exchange silver for gold in the Odd Goods City at all, so they can only lead the team to Dongliang to try their luck.
The 'Li Guo Caravan' stayed in Dongliang for another month, and finally reached a consensus with the mysterious person.
One month later, at the price higher than the current price of one tael of gold for eight taels of silver in other countries, at the border between Dongliang and Weijun, silver was exchanged for 7 taels of gold.
A "Li Guo merchant" reminded Dongliang that in addition to exchanging silver for copper plates, you can also exchange gold for silver first and then for copper plates.
When Dong Liang felt that the silver was not enough, he would naturally think of gold again.
At this time, there will be a "taken advantage" arranged by Song Peiyu in time, because of various reasons, he is willing to exchange silver for gold at a price higher than one tael of gold for eight taels of silver.
In order to avoid Dongliang's lack of motivation, Song Peiyu also specially asked the merchants in the strange goods city to collect copper coins at a high price in the surrounding areas of the strange goods city, so that Dongliang could also make a small profit.
In this way, gold, silver, and copper plates were completely circulated between Dongliang and Zhao.
Several copper mines that had been abandoned for a long time in Zhao State were operating again after many years, and many civilians were hired from the surrounding area as miners, which gave the civilians more sources of income.
The number of workshops making copper coins is also increasing day by day. Under the guidance of Mr. Song, they also found that adding tin, which is easier to refine, into copper coins can not only reduce the cost of making copper coins, but also keep the copper coins shiny and rust-free for a longer period of time. long.
Dongliang is troubled all day long by the fact that there are too many rich fools, and he is about to be overwhelmed.Think about how much wealth you have obtained from the State of Zhao, and how to get more wealth from the State of Zhao.
For a while, both parties were satisfied.
Liang Wangshizi came to Xianyang again soon.
Xiliang is determined to win the cement road, and he really can't afford the price of hiring civilians in Zhao State to build roads in Xiliang.
The most important thing is that Xiliang is very clear that Zhao Guo is definitely not an existence that can make Xiliang renege on his debts.
No matter how many worries there were, Xiliang still gritted his teeth and chose to hire Zhao Jun to repair the cement road.
In order to express his sincerity, without Song Peiyu's prior request, Xiliang Shizi took the initiative to bring 3 taels of gold to Xianyang, as Zhao Guo prepared to build roads for Xiliang, prepare materials and mobilize Zhao Jun's start-up funds.
For the 3 taels of gold, Song Peiyu decided to avoid pitting Xiliang a few times during the road construction in Xiliang.
Except for Xiliang and Dongliang's frequent actions that fit Zhao Guo's wishes and make Zhao Guo's elders feel at ease, most of their thoughts are on Su Wang's mansion.
The prince was already in his twenties, but not only did he not get married, he didn't even have a wife or concubine.
In addition, about two years ago, there was a sudden rumor in the palace that the prince was extremely expensive, and it was easy not to allow a mortal woman to contaminate the prince before he was established, otherwise the prince might return to the sky.
When this rumor first spread, many ministers laughed it off and didn't believe a word of it.
Now they can't tolerate their disbelief.
Only recently did they discover that this rumor suddenly appeared after Zhao State rejected Chu State's marriage.
Emperor Yonghe, who had already expressed his intention to choose a concubine for the prince, seemed to have completely put this matter behind him. Now that the prince has returned from Wei County for more than a year, Emperor Yonghe never thought of giving him a concubine. The eldest son of the family married a wife and took a concubine.
Could it be that he wanted the crown prince to be filial to Mu Wan?
They don't believe it.
In contrast, the rumors that were not considered by them at the beginning were more credible.
The state of Zhao cannot live without a prince, especially the prince who has the support of the Song family and the Lu family and can hold military power for Emperor Yonghe.
But there is no grandson.
Judging from the current situation, if Zhao Guo resumes war, the crown prince will probably take command in person, or at least go to the front line to hold the battle.
In case there is something good or bad... Xianyang has the little emperor and grandson, so that people will not be panicked.
Just when the court was dark and turbulent, and Emperor Yonghe, who planned to tacitly agree with each other, asked the prince to marry a wife and take a concubine, good news suddenly came out from Su Wang's mansion.
Not only Qinzheng Hall and Princess Chang's Mansion sent things to Su Wang's Mansion like flowing water, but the rewards from the East Palace were also extremely generous.
The courtiers thought of Zhongzong who died early, and most of them stopped thinking about it.
That's all, let's see if the concubine of King Su's mansion will give birth to the little princess or the little princess.
Unexpectedly, what makes His Royal Highness the most like His Majesty is his heart.
This is a good thing.
How can a person who has no heart for his own uncles expect him to have heart for his courtiers?
Just when the courtiers have their own thoughts, they have already hoped that the adults who let Chongyi marry a wife and take concubines will get a man in one fell swoop, but they have not given up on letting Chongyi marry a wife and take concubines, and the adults who have daughters of the right age at home are looking forward to Su Wangfu was still a girl this time.
In just three months, there were frequent pregnancy letters from the Su Palace.
There were five concubines who were pregnant at the same time in King Su's Mansion, and the longest difference in pregnancy was less than five months.
Not only did the courtiers not expect King Su to be so fierce, even King Su himself didn't expect it.
He privately told Emperor Yonghe that no matter whether the five concubines gave birth to boys or not, he would dismiss the concubines who did not have children.
Emperor Yonghe immediately understood King Su's unfinished words.
He was tired and couldn't keep trying.
Unable to provide any help, Emperor Yonghe could only pat King Su on the shoulder to express his support for King Su's decision. He was afraid that King Su would not be able to support his family, so he moved half of his private treasury to King Su's mansion.
There is no need to worry about the dowry of the eldest princess, and the dowry of the remaining princesses should not be much worse than that of the eldest sisters, after all, they are all the biological daughters of King Su.
Now that we have added five more babies, we need to take care of them even before they are born, so as not to be born with deficiencies in the future.
When disbanding concubines, they should also be rich and worry-free for the rest of their lives, so that they will not be manipulated by others.
……
Emperor Yonghe, who had already started taking filial piety to the East Palace every month, suddenly felt that his younger brother was so poor, and as an older brother, he couldn't just sit idly by.
Not only did Emperor Yonghe feel that King Su was poor, Chong Yi, who was indifferent when he first heard that the concubine of King Su's mansion was pregnant, suddenly had the same idea as Emperor Yonghe after hearing the news for the fifth time.
Chong Yi is richer than Emperor Yonghe. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the richest person in the Zhao Kingdom, but Song Peiyu is in charge of the accounts of the Eastern Palace, so he has no idea how rich he is.
He only knew that Song Peiyu would give him 100 taels of gold for pocket expenses every month, no matter whether the flowers were spent or not, there would be another 100 taels of gold next month.
Let Laifu figure out the remaining change, even though Chongyi is used to spending money lavishly, he still saved nearly 2000 taels of gold.
Chong Yi thought for a while, and only kept 100 taels for himself, and asked someone to send the rest to Su Wang's mansion.
Chong Yi didn't want to hide this matter from Song Peiyu on purpose.
When Song Peiyu returned to the East Palace in the afternoon, he heard about Chong Yi's actions, but it was only after Eunuch An reminded him that he suddenly thought of why Chong Yi wanted to send money to King Su.
He decided to increase Chongyi's pocket money from 100 taels of gold to 200 taels of gold.
He also specifically asked Eunuch An to add more 'practical' things when preparing gifts for King Su's mansion.
After the news of the high-profile alliance between Zhao Guo and Shuangliang gradually subsided, a big news suddenly came out from Chen Guo in the east.
Emperor Chen Guorui died, but it was not said that he was the prince.
Before his death, Emperor Rui held his last breath, saying in front of all the courtiers that he would abolish the crown prince, but died before he could say who the new emperor he preferred was.
Fortunately, the sixth prince took out Emperor Rui's will on the spot, which stated that he wanted the sixth prince to inherit the throne.
Chen Guo was in turmoil for nearly two months before calming down.
In the end, Prince Chen Guoxian became the abolished prince, and the sixth prince successfully succeeded to the throne, and his reign was revealed.
Emperor Xiankai succeeded in succeeding to the throne, but the farce of Chen Guo did not stop there.
Emperor Xiankai's concubine failed to become a queen, but was only named a noble concubine, and her children also lost their status as heirs for no reason.
The side concubine who had no place in the palace became the queen instead.
Emperor Xiankai's seventh prince was recorded under the empress's name, became the first son, and was named the crown prince.
When Song Peiyu heard this, she suddenly choked and coughed desperately while leaning on the table.
Ruidi's sixth prince, isn't this the father of the hero of "The King's Landing"?
Isn't the seventh prince of Emperor Xiankai the male lead?
According to the timeline in the book, after Emperor Rui's death, the crown prince should succeed him.
It's just that the prince didn't secure the throne, and was assassinated to death during the autumn hunt, and even the prince's sons were killed.
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