After a while, someone came in slowly.

The person who came was Su Fang, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.

Su Fang has a very ordinary square face, and is usually taciturn. In terms of appearance, it is so ordinary that it can be skipped by a glance. In fact, in the cabinet, many people regard him as a transparent person. His excessive caution is even secretly called a paper bachelor.

However, he has always been serious and Chen Kaizhi has not had much contact with him, so he has not had a deep impression of him.

Seeing Su Fang coming in steadily, Chen Kaizhi did not neglect and quickly got up and saluted him.

"I've met Mr. Su."

Su Fang glanced at Chen Kaizhi, nodded slightly, showing a humble look, but asked with a little concern: "Have you eaten?"

"Ah..." Chen Kaizhi was a little surprised. The beginning of the topic was really speechless. Naturally, there was no food at this time, so he shook his head at Su Fang: "I haven't eaten it yet."

Su Fang sighed and said with some concern: "When you are young, you must not lose sleep or have empty stomach because of your blood. When you are old, you will feel sick and fallen. At that time, you will be too late to regret it. Did you come from Feiyu Peak?"

Chen Kaizhi nodded: "That's right."

Su Fang had already sat down slowly, picked up the teacup that had been prepared on the table and took a sip of the tea before she said slowly.

"From Feiyu Peak to the palace, there is a Wuma Street, there is a pastry shop, and everything else is average, but the osmanthus cake is awesome. If you eat it with their tea, it is still a little worse. You need to go forward thirty steps. There is a tea stall called Liu Ji. The tea is also a time-honored brand for decades. The water they make tea is taken from Longhu Ridge outside the city. Although it is a small tea stall, the tea available is still quite good. The most important thing is that if you eat it with this osmanthus cake, although it is not a delicious food in the world, it is also a rare and good product. When you go back, try it and make you satisfied."

Well……

Chen Kaizhi felt that he couldn't figure out this Master Su.

When I opened my head, I said food very well. Could it be that I called him here today to talk about food?

Or are they relatives of Ge Lao Su and those who sell tea and cakes?

Chen Kai was ashamed.

But when Su Fang saw Chen Kaizhi's expression, she seemed to see through Chen Kaizhi's thoughts, and then smiled and said, "You don't know these two things, right?"

Chen Kaizhi shook his head straightforwardly and said, "I don't know."

Chen Kaizhi was a little confused, so what if he knew? So what if he didn’t know, would it really have something to do with asking him here today?

Su Fang looked at Chen Kaiyi, continued to take a sip of tea, and then said with a humble look: "It's understandable that you are not from Luoyang after all. After all, you are not from Luoyang, either in the temple or in the academy. How can you know the various market conditions? Now, not to mention the royal family, or the lowest-class official in the capital, you don't know much about the various market conditions, and you are not down-to-earth."

Su Fang sighed, as if there was a lot to say.

"Actually, I look down on this very much. Of course, I don't mean to blame you. I am just afraid that all the officials in the court will become rootless duckweed. Okay, I think you are tired of hearing these words. Early this morning, I came up with a few memorials from the bottom of my head, intentionally asking you to counsel the Ministry of Rites to welcome guests. You are a royal family and should share the worries of the court..."

While he said, he kowtowed the desk with his fingers, and looked like he was smiling. Obviously, he knew very well what Chen Kaizhi understood.

At present, the counselor of the Ministry of Rites is still responsible for welcomeing guests. This is simply a matter that cannot be cheated. When this matter was exposed to him, Chen Kaizhi knew that it must have been intentionally arranged by someone.

Chen Kaizhi pursed his lips and didn't speak for a long time. Even though he was a little dissatisfied, Su Fang just told him about his job and could not refute him at all.

He thought about it in his heart, but finally nodded and said, "The officials understand that the current situation of welcoming guests is difficult, and the court has great concerns. This matter is caused by me. If they want to shirk responsibility on me, I cannot avoid it."

"That's good." Su Fang was surprised. Unexpectedly, Chen Kaizhi had no intention of shirking responsibility, so he nodded to Chen Kaizhi with admiration and said, "It's rare that you are like this, so I'll be relaxed. Let's do this. I'll write a note to send it to the Ministry of Etiquette. Then someone will inform you of the Ministry of Etiquette Welcome Office. OK, it's not too early. You go back early and have breakfast. Don't be hungry. People are iron and rice are steel. You can't miss it. Next time, I'll ask."

Chen Kaizhi was speechless, but said, "Yes."

Then he said goodbye.

His impression of this Su Gong was indeed very vague. No wonder everyone called him a paper-filled master. Except for a few serious matters, everything else was just a bit nonsense.

Chen Kaizhi shook his head and smiled bitterly. There are really everyone in the cabinet.

But he couldn't help but have a question again. Since this Master Su was so stupid, why could he become a Master?

You should know that this cabinet master is not just a decree in the palace, but requires the election of all officials.

To a certain extent, behind every cabinet grandson is often the product of the compromise between the people of the temple and countless fierce struggles.

Apart from qualifications, you cannot offend others, and often have a group of basic stalks running for you.

Master Su Ge, can he be promoted to the top after eating tea and cakes every day?

Of course, Chen Kaizhi never believed that there was such a simple thing.

He thought in a mess, and then thought of the so-called counselor welcomes guests...

This means that Chen Kaizhi has the right to negotiate directly with envoys from various countries. Of course, with rights, there is an obligation. If all countries are harmonious, it is naturally your credit, but if something happens, you will be blamed.

Obviously, this should be what King Zhao means.

King Zhao now has many followers. He only needs one hint, and I don’t know how many people wave flags and shout for him. Even the cabinet is afraid that it can’t stop it.

Chen Kaizhi left the palace with a complicated mood. On the way, he suddenly remembered the tea stall and pastry house that Su Fang mentioned.

Since Mr. Su has already said that he has to check in the future and he still has to go.

Chen Kaizhi thought so, since he was hungry, he would just go and have a walk.

So he rode his horse and hurried to Wuma Street with a few guards waiting outside the palace.

It was already midday at this time, and it was back to the East City, so there were crowds of people and the streets were very lively, with hawkers, peddlers, and tourists from all kinds of people.

As I feel relieved and wandered around like today, Chen Kai suddenly feels like he is a different life.

Although I can be self-sufficient on Feiyu Peak, as Master Su said, I am a little unearthed.

Chen Kaizhi rode on the horse, strangled the horse slowly, and looked around with his eyes.

People come and go, and the crowds are endless. Luoyang City is really lively.

His eyes were turned to the crowd, and they were walking leisurely.

Chen Kaizhi couldn't help but think that he was walking in the bustling streets and feeling the lives of the people. It seemed quite comfortable.

Chen Kaizhi smiled and then simply dismounted and walked away.

At this moment, I heard shouts coming from a distance.

"Serious salt, fine salt, fine salt from Jinling...the last some are in stock."

In the distance, there were many silk shops, but they all made signs or hung flags, with mostly signs of Jinling cloth on them. The price of Jinling cloth was affordable and began to quickly occupy the market.

Chen Kaizhi just realized that what he told the Xun family about it caused such a big trend.

Think about it, salt merchants need to buy salt, and this fine salt can only be bought from the salt shops of Chen Kaizhi and Xun's family. The taste of fine salt and coarse salt is very different. Under such circumstances, many salt merchants have to get fine salt if they want to survive.

Although the salt merchants were reluctant to accept the distribution strategy adopted by the Xun family, they had to pinch their noses and accept it. If they wanted to buy ten kilograms of salt, they had to buy another piece of cloth. This is the rule. If the salt comes in, they will definitely not have to worry about selling it. It is profitable, but the cloth is different.

There are many cloth making workshops in Jiangnan, and the competition is fierce, but salt merchants can't leave the cloth at home. They have no choice but to use all channels to buy cloth.

There is fierce competition in Jinling, so I find a way to sell the cloth to Luoyang, or to Guanzhong and Guandong. The price is too high and I can't compete, so I will sell it at a lower price. If someone else sells a piece of cloth for three taels of silver, I will only sell it at two taels of liang of one piece of cloth by myself. It's nothing more than a price war.

Anyway, they have already made a lot of money from fine salt. As long as these cloths can be recovered, or even lower than the cost, they are acceptable. Anyway, they can be exchanged for as much as they can.

Therefore, now countless shops on the market like to enter the cloth from Chen Kaizhi and Xun's family. They purchase goods from salt merchants. The price is cheap and the texture is actually not bad. Even if the price is lower, it is profitable. On the other hand, they don't like to enter the cloth from Songjiang, Nanchu, Shu, and other cloth from Jinling.

It is said that this has led to a wave of bankruptcy in many cloth shops in Jinling and Songjiang, and it is impossible to compete with this dumped cloth.

Chen Kaizhi looked at it and couldn't help but smile, and asked someone to inquire, and then he found the cake house.

This place is actually just a tea stall, and it looks like an old shop, but the stall is already crowded. There are banners hanging on the stall and the eight characters are written: "Welcome guests from all directions and invite guests from all over the world."

There was an inscription on it, but this inscription surprised Chen Kaizhi. It was mentioned by Zeng Chengwen, the Minister of Rites of the current dynasty.

Chen Kaizhi finally waited for a seat and asked several guards to sit down together, and asked someone to go to a tea stall thirty steps away to buy tea.

After ordering the osmanthus cake, I admired the abortion here.

The shop quickly came up with pastries. Chen Kaizhi was about to eat, but at this time, he heard someone shouting and scolding: "Are you blind? I obviously came first..."
Chapter completed!