Miao Yan is not a stingy person.

Although the children of the Legal family are strict, they will never be stingy when doing things.

In order to show that he kept his word, Shang Jun asked someone to carry a piece of wood to another very close place, and directly offered a reward chip of a thousand gold, and finally gave it to him.

Of course, the idiom "one promise to a thousand gold" does not come from this.

It comes from Ji Bu, a famous general in the early Han Dynasty, who said that "it is better to get Ji Bu Yi Nuo than to get a hundred kilograms of gold."

Having said that.

If you make a lot of money in business, and others will make some money with their partners, that's also very good.

But why did Miao Yan find it very troublesome and even handed this problem to Liu Mingqi to deal with?

The smart men naturally came up with it all at once.

That's right.

The price offered by these tung oil merchants is too high.

Last year, because Sichuan, Lianghu and Jingji areas did not suffer military disasters and achieved good harvests, the price of tung oil was not expensive, probably like a pound of tung oil twenty cents of copper coins.

This year's annual birth is better, and the yield of tung oil is as high as that of rice, but before, the price was 18 cents per kilogram. When Miao Yan wanted to buy 30 million kilograms, they raised the price to 50 cents per kilogram.

First of all, you need to understand that brushing this tung oil is not just about brushing it once.

It takes a long time to brush it repeatedly to finally prevent corrosion, water, frost, etc. Otherwise, it can be done by just brushing it once. Do you think it is Zhanshibang... No, do you think it is Nippon advertising?

And when you are still cutting into parts of each plate, you have to brush it. After you have to piece it together and riveted it into a ship, you have to brush it.

Basically, more than half of the time spent on brushing tung oil in the shipbuilding process.

So in this way, the consumption of tung oil is particularly large.

Thirty million kilograms of tung oil are not an exaggeration for a shipyard that dares to produce four-masted sailboats.

Besides, the canal shipyards do not only produce this kind of four-masted sailboat. They also have to build thousands of canal ships from the canal government office every year, take them for maintenance and paint, and then prepare to start creating more ship types.

According to the daily price, even if it is twenty cents per catty or thirty million pounds, it is only six hundred thousand taels of silver, and the price is not too expensive.

But the price of 1.5 million taels of silver with a total of 100 million taels of silver is also increased too much.

By this calculation, the canal shipyard needs to build twenty four-masted sailboats a year to make money to smooth out the cost of the tung oil.

Of course, it is not right to remember this way. You cannot put other uses on this four-masted sailboat for it to bear.

But after all, the price is too expensive, and the canal shipyard cannot afford it.

It is not just a canal shipyard. According to news from other places, Xiushan Tung Oil Chamber of Commerce has raised prices for all shipyards that need to use Tung Oil.

Miao Yan has never been a business dealer.

After several times when he sent someone to negotiate ineffective, he lost his patience and told Liu Mingqi directly about this matter and asked him for help.

...

The boy is not a fool.

Everyone knows that people with official identities go out to investigate cases and those without official identities are different.

One is called Master Weiming, and the other is called acting privately.

If you are an official, it would be better if you are a clan of the royal family...haha.

So he took Miao Yan's help letter and went to the palace, specifically choosing the emperor and the prime ministers to work in the imperial study room.

As a result, the emperor did not see him.

An hour later, Zhao Shou gave him a handwritten warrant issued by Cao Yi, the prime minister of Wenyuan Pavilion, and agreed to Liu Mingqi go to discuss with the people of Xiushan Tung Oil Chamber of Commerce.

By the way, there was another person who followed him.

View from the third-grade embroidered wardrobe guard seat.

Xi Kan is not a good guy. He is the first expert in interrogation of the embroidered yarn guards.

It is said that as long as he enters the interrogation room, the prisoner will either want to die sooner or live a life worse than death.

Anyway, there is no secret that he can't ask.

Of course, the last time when facing Yang Tao, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he was tortured by Liu Mingqi's "fatigue interrogation". Xi Kan, who further understood the magic of fatigue interrogation, admired Liu Mingqi very much.

"Your Highness, the emperor said, this time when you go to Xiushan Mansion, the Captain Xi will follow you and listen to your orders." Zhao Shou said with a smile.

These old ministers are all old silver coins!

The documents taken out by the Wenyuan Pavilion Prime Ministers did not prove that they authorized Liu Mingqi to deal with this matter, nor did they ask Liu Mingqi to suppress these merchants and cause them to lower the price.

But the emperor also sent Xi Kan to follow Liu Mingqi, and Xi Kan was another expert in interrogation. What does this mean? Isn’t it obvious?

Liu Mingqi is not the one who suffers a secret loss. He said to Zhao Shou: "Old Zhao, do you think I am trying to do something for myself? It is obviously Miao Yan's business, and it has nothing to do with me? As a result, I have to help first, but they are still shy. What kind of future can such a person have?"

Xi Kan quickly lowered her head when she heard this.

He is a cold interrogator, not a fool.

This prince complained to all the courtesy men in front of the palace eunuch, and it would be better if he didn't participate in this matter.

Zhao Shou was used to Liu Mingqi's way of speaking.

He smiled wryly and said, "Your Highness, please be content! This is what Your Majesty has won you for you, otherwise you won't even get this official document from Cao Cao... Besides, when you arrive at the local area, can't you do it? At most, don't you send someone yourself... Isn't this lieutenant sent by Your Majesty to you for use?"

OK!

This is the first time Xi Kan has seen someone tell such a secret matter so bluntly.

But he didn't find it strange either.

I had known for a long time that His Highness De was particularly favored by the emperor, just like his own son, so it is not surprising that Zhao Shou has this attitude.

Liu Mingqi is still a little dissatisfied.

He was ready to give himself the identity of an imperial envoy, so that he could make trouble with justice if he continued on his own.

Now it's OK.

It's just a negotiated identity, nothing is useless.

Of course, there are no restrictions in Wenyuan Pavilion's documents, which means that Liu Mingqi can do it according to her own wishes.

After thinking about it carefully, I had said before that I would never leave the capital again, but in the blink of an eye, I went out again.

This way, the imperial court officials could still allow it, which was good for them.

It is better not to ask for too much in life.

...

After packing up, Liu Mingqi set out from the capital and headed south.

According to the previous practice, he went to Xiangyang to take a boat, but not to Sichuan, but along the Han River, arrived at Yueyang, Hunan, and then transferred to Yuanjiang through Dongting Lake.

Walking southwest through Yuanjiang River, we will reach Xiushan Prefecture City, which is at the junction of the three provinces.

It sounds very far, but in fact, because there is no baggage, only a group of six hundred guards can accommodate them if they only have ten ships.

Because in Dakang, if you take a boat again, you don’t need a horse, but wooden grenades, steel knives, and hell cocktails are still necessary.

Liu Mingjing has already gone to Sichuan and Guizhou to train special forces, as well as Xiong Dabao and Zhang Qin. Therefore, this time, another captain of Qianniuwei, Jiang Hu, led 100,000 Niuwei to follow him.

Jiang Hu is very honest and doesn't like to talk much, but he is very cheerful.

Within a few days, he and Dazhu and the others became a clique.

Especially the Xidan Dunzhu, it is even more in line with Jiang Hu's appetite.

When the two were not on duty, they drank two consecutive games and killed eight jars of wine in one breath.

This time, the guards who came out with Liu Mingqi, three hundred of them were Tubo heroes, and the remaining two hundred were the guards who retired from Qianniu Guard.

That's right.

Another 500 Qianniu Guards retired from the imperial guards, which was also a kind of compensation from Emperor Jinghe to Liu Mingqi.

In the two major battles in Jiangnan and Northeast China, almost all the 400 guards brought out by Liu Mingqi were killed or injured, leaving only fifty who were not missing.

Then these fifty or so even participated in Chen Xiaowei's team fighting pirates.

So Emperor Jinghe gave Liu Mingqi another five hundred men to enrich his nephew's protective power. The emperor could not trust the 500 Tubo people who followed Liu Mingqi back.

But Liu Mingqi trusted Xidan Dunzhu and others very much. These men on the plateau are all stubborn and have no genius. They are much simpler than those of Dakang people.

This time, except for 300 people accompanying him, the other 200 people followed the Leopard Cavalry Guard and went back to the border with Tubo, where they picked up their families of their brothers.

It also includes the families of Tubo people who died in battle for Liu Mingqi.

Then more than 3,000 Tubo men, women, young and old will live in more than ten villages outside the capital, and even allocated them land and houses, etc., when they took the time to see it.

They cannot be allowed to live together, they can only live in scattered areas. Otherwise, if they grow up in a hundred years, if they have not been assimilated, it will easily cause some trouble to Dakang.

Of course, the villages are not too far away, they are all within a radius of fifty miles, which will reduce their sense of strangeness and fear.

But Liu Mingqi obviously thought too much.

Being able to live next to the capital of the Great Conservancy of the Heavenly Kingdom is something they have never dreamed of. How could they still complain?

Because of this factor, Xidan Dunzhu and others became more loyal to Liu Mingqi.

If Liu Mingqi hadn't stopped them, they would have been in a row even if Liu Mingqi went to the toilet.

Say something inappropriate.

If Liu Mingqi led them to the palace at this time, they would follow him without saying a word.

These Tubo people did not receive much education, but they knew who gave their happy life now.

They had nothing, they could only give everything to Liu Mingqi.

At this time, Liu Mingqi led such a group of loyal subordinates to get off the ship at the port of Xiushan Mansion.

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Chapter completed!