Chapter 18 Corruption
Everyone didn't know what Qin Siyu wanted to do, and they had no bottom in their hearts, and they all stared at the place where Jin'er disappeared.
Soon, Jin'er brought a few men and women dressed as ordinary people, some of them carried melons and fruits, some had to hold silk cloth, some had to hold rouge, and only one of them carried a white hosta in his hand.
Everyone began to feel uneasy in their hearts, and only one person had a dead face.
"Tell me what you know, and you will be rewarded for speaking well."
When the men and women heard the majestic female voice, they did not dare to look up at it, but only stared at her delicate handmade Shu brocade shoes, which were inlaid with pearls of uniform and bright color.
Although I don't know why the nobles are asking these things, when they hear that there is a reward, their hearts are also excited.
A cloth merchant said: "In the Shang country, a horse of good silk is fifty taels, Shu brocade is thirty taels, Hangzhou brocade is forty taels, and ordinary linen cloth is one tael." This price is basically the same for each cloth village, and the difference will not be very large. β
After the cloth merchant finished speaking, the others also began to speak, and everyone was sweating profusely.
The palace has the backyard of the Ling family, and there is an exclusive royal comprador, but each backyard has its own monthly money, and it also has its own small courtyard comprador who specializes in buying some things that the master likes.
"What about you? A good silk is one hundred taels, Shu brocade is sixty taels, Hangzhou brocade is eighty taels, linen cloth is five taels, and even watermelons are two taels a piece, I am curious where you went to buy it? β
Embezzlement, taking money out of her pocket, Nima, the more she thinks about it, the more angry she becomes.
"Princess, we just want to buy the best things for the princess, phew, it's all to blame on those merchants of the Great Zhou Kingdom, they must have seen that we are from the palace, and raised the price, we are wronged, please find out the truth from the princess."
It's really not that the heart of the Yellow River will not die, then good, let them die.
Jin'er very obediently brought two more people in, and after seeing the faces of these two people clearly, several compradors almost fainted.
"Can you sue Princess SΓΉben, what are you two doing?"
The two of them are from the Great Zhou, and they know that the princess on the top is also from the Great Zhou, and they are really fellow villagers when they see their fellow villagers, and their eyes are full of tears. Compradors are the most prone to corruption, look at the compradors who are trembling together, the two of them are already clear in their hearts
"Tell the princess, we are from the Great Zhou Kingdom, and we run a cloth village in the Shang Kingdom."
"And do you know anyone there?"
The two quickly singled out a few compradors.
"Do you know what you should be guilty of raising prices in the merchant country? You are the people of the Great Zhou, you should maintain the reputation of the Great Zhou Kingdom, how can you do such a foolish thing. β
With a snap, everyone's hearts trembled, and the two cloth merchants only knew that the nobleman was angry, so they immediately knelt down and shouted in their voices: "Princess, wronged, we are just small businessmen, how dare we know the law and break the law?" There is no price gouging in our business, so please let the princess know about it. β
Qin Siyu put on a worried look, covered his forehead, and asked, "What did those compradors say?" β
Thinking that the cloth merchant had no evidence to prove it, he boldly said: "Princess, it is indeed they who raise prices, so the fabric we have enough to come back will be twice as expensive, but unfortunately the slave has no evidence to prove it, but the princess wants to believe us, we are from the palace, how can we do something ashamed of the palace?" β
"And what if it did?"
"Then we will dispose of it with the princess, without complaint."
Qin Siyu shook his head, his face full of pity, "The opportunity has been given to the princess, but it's a pity, it's a waste of my thoughts." β
"Jin'er, take out the deeds of sale of several compradors and sell them to Yiguo."
Yiguo, that is a barbarian place, I heard that they ate raw meat and drank raw blood in animal skins, and when they went, they still had their lives to come back.
Several compradors were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, and their voices were very high, "Princess, you have wronged us like this, the concubine will not do whatever you want, we want to see the concubine." β
"Okay, you can bring all of this over and see what the two concubines have to say."
Qin Siyu threw a stack of papers on the ground, and several compradors knelt and moved, this was a stack of receipts, which said what fabric was bought, how much money was spent, and their signatures, but how was this different from theirs?
A few people were stunned, every time they bought fabric, they would ask the cloth merchant to write a receipt and raise the number, but this one was not the same as the amount they handed over to the palace?
The two cloth merchants were also angry, how could anyone do this business, they were greedy for money, and they wronged them, but fortunately they usually have the habit of returning to the archives.
"Tell the princess that we have a habit of returning to the archives in our business, and every time several compradors ask us to write a receipt for the price increase, we will ask them to sign the receipt for our return to the archives."
In fact, the two real and false receipts, they both put the one with the higher price on it, and the compradors usually look at the first one, and don't look at the later ones, so they have this evidence.
"That's right, princess, when we opened the door to do business, we were talking about a letter, and now several compradors have trapped us like this and don't believe it, if it spreads, how can we do business in the future in the merchant country." Another cloth merchant said.
Several other businessmen who were brought over by Jin'er were very disgusted by the shameful behavior of several compradors, and they were most afraid of meeting such people when they were doing business, so they shouted one after another: "Princess, if such a person cannot be punished accordingly, how can we dare to do business in the merchant country in the future?" β
The merchants brought by Jin'er were quite prestigious in their circles, and if they were angry, it would not be good for the Shang country, and most of the tax revenue of the Shang capital, Shang Chi, depended on this group of merchants.
A few compradors knew that they were not good, and they knew that the status of the merchant in the merchant country was second only to the scholar.
Looking at Qin Siyu on the throne who was entangled and didn't know what to do, they felt that they had been trapped, if the princess took out these receipts from the beginning, they would not admit their guilt and rely all their faults on these businessmen.
If they confessed their sins at the beginning, I believe that the two concubines would also see that they had served in the palace for many years, and with a little punishment, they would not have been sold to the country of Yi like they are now.
With the support of the merchants, the two concubines will not chill the hearts of the businessmen for them, and all they can ask for now is Qin Siyu, who is sitting on the top.
"Princess, spare your life, beg the princess to spare your life, the kind of place in Yiguo is our life."
Several compradors cried and begged, and kept kowtowing, until their foreheads were damaged, bloody, and quite scary.
After a while, Qin Siyu said softly: "What's wrong with the compradors?" Although Yiguo is heroic, it is not a place to eat people, but since you don't like it, then barbarianism. β
Although the people of the barbarian country are barbaric, they are much stronger than the Yi country that eats raw meat and drinks raw blood.
Several compradors kowtowed a few more times to express their gratitude.
Jin'er led the merchants to get the reward, and the merchants turned their heads to look at the high, seemingly weak woman.
This Princess Zhao is really not simple.