Chapter 73 Something's Not Right Full Month 92/116
After Fan Hu left, Liu Mingqi called Tian Rong over.
Although Tian Rong was the butler of Prince Yu’s Mansion, he was actually in charge of Prince De’s Mansion.
After all, Chi Saner, the butler of the Dewang Mansion, spent all day long and busy, so he naturally had no time to take care of the family's affairs.
Tian Rong is different. He took the overall situation before because there was no suitable candidate.
Now Chi Saner has grown up, and the future Princess Xiao Suqin is helping, as well as two girls Qiao Lian and Lu Ling are in charge, which has greatly relieved the pressure.
Then Tian Rong naturally returned to his daily life in the mansion.
In his opinion, whether he is a supervisor of the workshop will not affect his status in the two royal palaces.
Sometimes a person's authority is too great, which is actually a kind of trouble.
Of course, Tian Rong just didn't take care of the matter in detail. He still knew all the big and small things in the mansion clearly, and often he had to coordinate and deal with them.
"Old Tian, how much disinfectant alcohol has you bought in the palace to leave at our disinfectant alcohol workshop?" Liu Mingqi asked him.
Tian Rong nodded: "They bought 13,000 bottles."
"so much?"
Liu Mingqi was surprised.
This time, there seemed to be more than a dozen missions from various countries, but in fact, those who are truly capable and willing to buy are only six or seven countries and tribes.
In terms of conversion, wouldn’t each company buy about 2,000 bottles?
Tian Rong replied: "Yes, according to Eunuch Qian, they originally wanted more, but His Majesty did not allow it, so they only sold it this time."
The boy said, "How much did they sell?"
"It is said that a bottle of five taels of silver will not be bargained."
"So cruel!"
Liu Mingqi was convinced.
My bottle of disinfectant alcohol, which is half a pound, is only five cents per bottle, but you sold it ten times the price!?
Although a total of 65,000 taels of silver was nothing to the emperor, these small foreign countries spent a lot of money.
However, in this way, Liu Mingqi was even less worried about their use on the soldiers.
For the great men in the grasslands, Nanzhao and Dongying countries, these soldiers at the bottom are like livestock and are not worth cherishing at all. They can just recruit them after they are used up.
To put it bluntly, their status is not as good as a horse.
Liu Mingqi asked again, "They have been in Beijing for a month. Have we ever sold a lot of other products?"
Tian Rong nodded, "Yes, soap is sold very well. Although it was sold to them for five taels of silver, they still sold tens of thousands of yuan one after another. Toilet paper was sold very much, and hundreds of thousands of rolls were sold.
They also want to buy honeycomb coal in large quantities, but unfortunately it is too troublesome to transport it back. They are still considering transportation issues. However, flower essential oil, white sugar and big white rabbit milk candy are not sold enough."
"Hey, this group of people is quite real." Liu Mingqi was a little stunned, "Shouldn't they buy more luxury goods? You didn't follow my instructions and give them some to taste the taste?"
"Why didn't there?"
Tian Rong quickly defended, "I have taken hundreds of bags of white rabbit milk candy in one inn, and there are 100 or 200 kilograms of white sugar. Not only for food, but after I sent this flower essential oil, I also invited some old girls from the flower building to give them massages!"
Liu Mingqi was stunned and said, "The effect feedback is not good?"
"It's great! They hope we can give you a little more." Tian Rong said seriously.
"Get out!"
Liu Mingqi couldn't help but curse, and then laughed, "This group of people... are interesting! It's so interesting!"
After saying this, Liu Mingqi hurried into the palace.
After waiting for a while, when he saw the emperor, his first sentence was: "Your Majesty, I think this group of missions is a bit bad!"
Emperor Jing Hedi handled the official business for a long time and was exhausted. He was stunned when he heard this, "What's wrong?"
Liu Mingqi said their performance in purchasing goods and said, "Do you see that there is any problem with their performance?"
"Well... it's very practical." Jing Hedi thought for a while and gave a pertinent answer.
"right!"
Liu Mingqi said, "For us, the grasslands and nobles who are becoming more and more luxurious and more greedy for enjoyment are the best for us. After they are greedy for enjoyment, their enterprising spirit will be very small, so that they can corrupt from top to bottom.
As long as we can maintain this state, they will become unthreatening in 20 or 30 years. By then, we will have become stronger and we will not be afraid of them. My great prosperity will inevitably become more stable!"
Jing Hedi nodded, "That's the reason."
The boy continued: "So now they have become so practical, so frugal, and so realistic, which proves that they have no intention of enjoying their happiness at all. They must be looking for an opportunity to fight us."
Jing Hedi: "!?"
He frowned and asked, "Why are they so sensitive? They are taking care of their people very practically. Do they have to fight with us because they want to fight?"
"Otherwise, why do you have to buy so many practical things?" Liu Mingqi said, "Isn't it just to use it to win people's hearts and strengthen their strength and be ready to fight at any time?"
"This is too far-fetched." Jing Hedi still shook his head.
"No matter what, please get someone to take back the disinfectant alcohol." Liu Mingqi said, "If disinfectant alcohol is used on the battlefield, it would be amazing."
"Not to, not to." Jing Hedi laughed silently, "What's more, how can the things sold be taken back?"
"So that's it!"
Liu Mingqi immediately changed her statement: "You go and tell them that we will take back the price twice. Do you think they are willing?"
Jing Hedi said in confusion: "What do you mean? I'm so burning when I have too much money?"
"No." Liu Mingqi explained: "If they are willing to make money, they will sell the wine back to us and buy other things they need. If they don't sell it until they are killed, it proves that they want to use it in the army! Because after they are sold back, they will be useless! And their actions must be in the past two years, at the earliest, or even next year!"
Jing Hedi smiled, "You were the ones who asked me to sell a little more before, but you were the ones I asked me to take back now... Mingqi, don't be too nervous! How much do they buy for each family? Can they use an army of more than 10,000 people?"
"Anyway, it's not bad for you to give it a try, right?" Liu Mingqi said, "I'll pay at most this money, okay?"
"Don't mess around, is this a matter of money? This is a matter of my face!" Jing Hedi glared at him, "I can't afford to lose this person!"
"But……"
"It shouldn't be, Mingqi, you don't understand these things about dealing with grassland people, you're just too sensitive." Jing Hedi stopped him, "By the way, Xiong Bozhen has cleaned up all the things on the Gate of Hell. When will you pass?"
Seeing that the emperor was unwilling to talk, Liu Mingqi could only give up temporarily, "After the Spring Festival! The materials are not fully prepared yet. There is the least water in the first lunar month, and it is also the most suitable for doing things calmly."
"Yeah, okay!" Jing Hedi raised his hand, "You go down first, I understand this."
"Why don't you let Governor Gao and others pay more attention to the collection of intelligence..."
"knew!"
Jing Hedi said funnyly, "Go home and you, remember to prepare more pork for the palace next month, and use it during the Chinese New Year."
"All right."
The boy had to leave in disappointment.
He also hoped that he was thinking too much, but for such a good thing that was obviously prepared for any trouble, the emperor should listen to his opinions!
It is not that appropriate to be a good person!
...
What the boy didn't know was that he didn't have a pot of tea after he left. Zhou Ming, one of the three chief executives in the palace, hurried to the imperial study room.
"Your Majesty, are you looking for me?" He looked hurried, obviously jogging over.
"Um."
Jing Hedi closed his eyes and said lightly: "What are Mingqi doing recently?"
"His Highness De usually stays at home, and Zhong Xiang's son Zhong Bin often goes there. What are they doing with tires? It seems to be like the previous springs, used on the carriage." Zhou Ming said, "Our people did not notice any abnormality, they just made things simply."
The emperor smiled and opened his eyes and said, "Last time he said that he wanted to take the Queen Mother out for fun. These things must be sitting in order to improve the bumps of the carriage... This child is still very filial."
Zhou Ming did not dare to answer the conversation.
The next moment, the emperor told him everything Liu Mingqi said just now, "I don't believe this, but I'm still a little worried about what Mingqi said... You can check it closely and be more serious."
"Abide by the order!"
Zhou Ming nodded.
"By the way, I haven't asked you what you think?" Jing Hedi said, "Do you think they are malicious about coming this time?"
"Old Nu thinks that it's not the first day that they have bad intentions towards us. When will they not want to enter the Central Plains?" Zhou Ming said: "But it is not realistic to say that this time they have some crazy purpose, or they will attack Dakang in the past two years! Because although our Dakang has suffered a lot in recent years, its basic strength has not been damaged. The major border troops, garrisons, and the imperial guards have not suffered any losses. Are they willing to come and have a bloody blow?"
"Um……"
Emperor Jing He said with appreciation, "I am the same as you think... Zhao Shou, where are you?"
He was asking the old eunuch who had been standing behind him without saying anything.
Zhao Shou hesitated for a moment, and gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, Lao Nu thinks that King De is not only a lucky person, but also very lucky. We should be more cautious about this matter, such as buying alcohol back. Although being cautious will cause a false alarm, it is better than something that happened in the end, right?"
Chapter completed!