Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty National Treasures
Shi Miyuan's mind flashed from time to time in his mind, and greeted him and handed him inviting invitations when Li Heng passed by the gate of the inn, even the situation where Ye Qing was assassinated that day, the Imperial City Division, the Imperial Guard and Lin'an Prefecture searched the inn where the Romans lived.
Facing Ye Qing who was talking about it at this time, Shi Miyuan had to wonder if Ye Qing had found detailed information about Poli from the inn? Could it be that he had seen Poli, who was as transparent as water spirit, just like him.
Shi Miyuan loves money as his life, and his four trees and three evil spirits under his command are also increasing their efforts to collect the greatest wealth for him as much as possible.
When the soap from Ye Qing's hand rose in Lin'an City and even began to spread around, Shi Miyuan, who regarded money as his fate. He had thought of money and thought of it, and had thought of it and took it for himself.
But even though Ye Qing was not in Lin'an for two years, he had never found any good opportunity to find the secret recipe for the soap. With the secret recipe of Xinguan being obtained by him within half a month, the candle workshops in Lin'an City had already used new secret recipes to make candles.
This made Shi Miyuan, who had worked hard to get a new secret recipe, instantly felt like he was in vain and was even plotted against by someone.
But as the saying goes, there is no way for the world to go. Just when Shi Miyuan was resentful and angry, the Maritime Affairs Office brought him great news, that is, the Poli in the hands of several Romans, like a priceless treasure, can definitely become a new thing that is not inferior to the profit of soap.
While this great good news made Shi Miyuan ecstatic, it also forced Shi Miyuan to strictly protect the Romans when he brought them to Lin'an, so as not to be copied by others before presenting this thing to the palace.
But what made him feel helpless was that, except that the verbal communication between the tongue and the Romans was not very smooth, these Romans were unwilling to hand over the secret recipe of Poli, no matter how they threatened and tempted them, they just said that they were willing to cooperate with him and provide him with as much Poli as possible, but the price was naturally very expensive.
Ye Qing looked at Shi Miyuan who was asking questions and smiled and said, "Shishen kept the guards of the inn where the Romans were airtight. Even if I wanted to get close to the Imperial City Division, it would be difficult for me to get close to him, so how could I know what Poli looked like? It was just that I saw the records in the book and I was not aware of the real thing."
Shi Miyuan, who was considering the true or false of Ye Qing's words, looked at Ye Qing who was relaxed and smiling quietly. After a while, he felt relieved and said, "Since Shaoqing knows that this is the name of a treasure in the Western country, can you know the Roman-speaking people? Today, these Romans were taken to the Gushan Garden. If Shaoqing knows the tongue, it might as well let them translate it in the Supreme Emperor, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, and how about it?"
"I don't know this, I'm just reading the records in the book. As for those who are proficient in the Romans' words... Didn't the Minister of the Minister of Rites find Wei Zhao to translate it? If he cannot translate all the Romans' words, the Minister of the Minister might as well find monks, etc. After all, they travel around the world, maybe they will understand it." Ye Qing replied without saying a word.
Han Cheng and Xin Wang looked at Ye Qing and Shi Miyuan silently. Although the conversation between the two was very ordinary, Han Cheng and Xin Wang could hear a sense of tit-for-tat and temptation from each other in their words.
The queen and Princess Xin on the side were talking to the empress dowager in a low voice. From time to time, you could hear the empress dowager's low laughter, or say a few words to Li Fengniang who had been keeping a distance from them.
Li Fengniang's expression was obviously impatient. Even if the queen gave her eyes and warned her, Li Fengniang still did her own thing and her attitude when talking to the Empress Dowager seemed quite impatient.
Ye Qing and Shi Miyuan smiled tacitly. When they were talking just now, no one believed what anyone said.
Ye Qing didn't believe that Shi Miyuan couldn't find a tongue man who was proficient in Roman language, and Shi Miyuan didn't believe that Ye Qing had never seen the real thing of Poli. The two gradually began to confront each other.
Shi Miyuan wanted to keep his absolute control over Poli in the hands of the Romans, just like Ye Qing's absolute control over the soap, so he would never hope that Lin'an City, or the entire Song Dynasty, in addition to the Romans and him, there would be the transparent Poli in the hands of others.
Ye Qing naturally would never let Shi Miyuan control Poli by himself, but before he saw Poli in the hands of the Romans, he would never tell the truth to Shi Miyuan, let alone tell Shi Miyuan that he might be able to understand the words of those Romans.
In Europe during this period, it was obvious that the Venetians were still a powerful existence. The Venetian economy not only made the Venetian merchants famous all over the world. Similarly, the Venetian navy was also extremely powerful. With the exploration spirit in the bones of Europeans, Ye Qing was not surprised that the Venetian merchants were able to come to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course, Ye Qing was not surprised by Poli who appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty during this period. After all, Poli was invented by the Italians and was installed on the window by them in the fourth century. Now, as time goes by, Poli is comparable to gold, and is also regarded as a national treasure by the Romans.
Those Poli craftsmen were placed on an isolated island to make Poli and were not allowed to leave the island for life.
Wang Lun and the prince Zhao Dun appeared in front of everyone, and then everyone followed the Empress Dowager, Queen, Princess Xin, and others, and walked along the long corridor pavilion to the royal palace deep in Gushan.
The six ministers and ministers of the ministers of the temple had gathered in the hall, including the left prime minister Wang Huai, the right prime minister Wei Qi and others were also standing in the hall at this moment.
Liang Kejia, the Minister of Justice who had not seen for a long time, was not embarrassed at all when he saw Ye Qing. It was as if Peng Guinian, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, impeached Ye Qing as the murderer of Fan Niande a few days ago, and he had nothing to do with him, the Minister of Justice. He still nodded and greeted Ye Qing with a smile.
Ye Qing also smiled casually and nodded at Liang Ke's family, just like saying hello.
Ye Qing, who had not attended court for a long time, today saw all the big bosses in the palace in this Gushan Garden.
As the prefect of Lin'an, Xiao Zhen also appeared in the court today and secretly pointed to Ye Qing behind the hall, meaning that the Romans were right behind, and they would appear in front of everyone after a while with the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Lord.
The Minister of Works is still Li Dao. Compared to his somewhat hostile relationship with Ye Qing, I don’t know if it was because Li Fengniang said something to him. In short, when Li Dao saw Ye Qing greeting, his attitude was much more friendly than that of others.
Zhou Bida, the Minister of Rites, Ye Qing only heard of his name and never met him. He met here today, and he just nodded as saying hello.
Xin Qiji's tall and thin figure, wearing a gray round neck robe, made him look a little dark. He looked not tall next to Liu Zheng, the minister of the Ministry of War, who was not tall, and was chubby, just like a small tomb.
Ye Qing didn't know what role Xin Qiji played in impeaching him for murdering Fan Niande, but Ye Qing believed that judging from Xin Qiji's admiration for Zhu Xi, Xin Qiji obviously would not speak for him in the court.
The people in the hall saluted the Empress Dowager and the Empress after they sat down, and then saluted the Crown Prince Zhao Dun and the Crown Princess Li Fengniang. Only at this time can a trace of glory be seen from Li Fengniang's face.
This woman is like a woman who is born to be passionate about high positions, and she has never hidden her ultimate goal, which is to become the queen of the mother's mother. Therefore, compared to the prince Zhao Dun's willingness to continue waiting for the current emperor to abdicate, she is probably the only one who is most anxious to hope that the emperor can abdicate as soon as possible.
Princess Xin Zhong Qing and King Xin sat on the other side. Zhong Qing, a woman, always gives people a feeling that she is not concerned about her own affairs, as if nothing can arouse her interest. Her calm and desireless personality makes her more like an orchid in the valley, just quietly blooming her beauty.
"There are at least two treasures, one is called Poli, and the other is indeed called Polizhu, or Yunbaizhu." Li Dao, the Minister of Works, stood beside Ye Qing at some point, looked straight ahead, and said to Ye Qing in a low voice.
"What does Li Shangshu mean?" Ye Qing also looked ahead with eyes fixedly, and then asked in a low voice.
"I am old and my son is not qualified to enter the court. If I want to maintain my current status, I can only rely on His Royal Highness Princess. I am not deaf or blind. In the past two years, I know that Shaoqing has helped make money for His Royal Highness Princess. Moreover, if you hadn't stood up, how could the Crown Princess successfully marry into the Crown Prince's Mansion? This time, I have never spoken out from the beginning to the court, but even so, I have offended many people." Li Dao was a little bit like he was seeking credit in front of Ye Qing, and said with a slanting look at Ye Qing.
"According to the words of Lord Shangshu, wouldn't I, Ye Qing, have to be grateful to me? Lord Shangshu might as well say it straight, there is no need to beat around the bush." Ye Qing's eyes slowly moved towards the direction of the sitting prince and the princess.
Standing in front of Li Dao, Ye Qing felt a little guilty. After all, Li Fengniang was Li Dao's daughter, and between herself and Li Fengniang... she was not sure now. Who knows if that stupid girl would steal some things to her father?
"The Gushan Garden was supervised by me, and even the newly built Gushan corridor was personally supervised by me. Although the money was made by the Maritime Bureau, it is precisely because of this that I also realized that the Gushan corridor is expensive, and I am afraid that your eyes will fall to the ground, which will surprise you." Li Dao looked serious and continued to look ahead and whispered.
(ps: Don't be clichéd, haha, it's not true that I caught up with this period of the Southern Song Dynasty, haha.)
Chapter completed!