Chapter 12 The Government Makes Trouble
After a long journey, we finally arrived at the northern town of Biansai and got off the carriage. Yun Xi saw a field full of cotton. Very excited, suddenly a gust of wind blew, Yun Xi felt a little cold, and went back to the carriage to add a coat. A few people first found an inn to settle down, and then Yun Xi asked a senior brother to go out with him to inquire about the cotton situation here.
Originally, in addition to making cotton clothes and clothes, most of the cotton farmers here were sold to the neighboring North Han Kingdom, which had many mountains and little land, and the cotton they wore mainly relied on imports from their own countries. The price offered by neighboring countries is five dollars per pound of cotton, and if you want to buy it here, you must be higher than that.
Back at the inn, Yun Xi asked the shopkeeper in the store to call, after the shopkeeper came in, Yun Xi gave up his seat, first introduced himself, and then explained his intentions, and ordered someone to bring ten taels of silver to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper didn't understand what had been pushing, Yun Xi signaled the shopkeeper to take it first, the shopkeeper was not a fool, at a glance, he knew that the little girl among these people had the final say, the little girl had something to ask herself, and hurriedly said: "Girl, if you have anything to ask, just ask?" I must know everything, I can't say anything."
Yun Xi said: "After the good thing is done, I will give you another hundred taels of silver tickets, and if you invite them to the inn, you will say that someone has a treat."
The shopkeeper said, "All right! β
The shopkeeper invited seven big landlords to Yun Xi, and when these landlords heard that Yun Xi was going to buy cotton, they immediately became interested, and shouted one after another: "As long as you pay a higher price than the neighboring countries, we will sell it to you." We don't want to sell to foreigners, who not only offer low prices, but sometimes make things difficult for us. Several people negotiated the price, six yuan per catty. After a few people left, Yun Xi called out to the shopkeeper again, took out three hundred taels of silver to the shopkeeper, and asked the shopkeeper to help ask for a dart game, as well as contact the carriage and so on.
The next day, several landlords pulled a cart of cotton to the front of the inn, and some of the officials were busy, weighing the scales and unloading the trucks. After a busy day, he purchased 100,000 catties of cotton, all of which were loaded into the car, and the dart board was also booked, and Yunxi decided to leave tomorrow.
In the evening, Yun Xi was eating, and the shopkeeper hurriedly ran in and said, "Oh no, Miss Yun Xi, the people from the government surrounded the inn and threatened to pull the cotton away." Yun Xi didn't understand what kind of trick he had committed by buying cotton, his cotton was bought, not stolen, why should he confiscate it.
When Yun Xi went out and saw many people dressed as soldiers and were about to catch the car, Yun Xi hurriedly stopped in front of the car and shouted, "Why did the military masters pull my cotton away?" When several soldiers saw that it was a child, they all said, "Get out of the way and let the adults of your family go to the palace to find our prince and say go." β
Seeing Yun Xi's unknown appearance, the shopkeeper said; "Little girl, you don't know, we are here on the side, afraid that the enemy country will attack, so the emperor sent his younger brother Eleven Princes to guard again, Yun Xi was happy when he heard that it was the emperor's own brother, and thought that with his friendship with the emperor, this should not be a problem! So he said to the officers and soldiers: 'Okay, I'll go to the palace to find the prince and say, Yun Xi and his party and a few carts of cotton came to the palace under the leadership of the officers and soldiers, and what caught his eye was the magnificent building of the palace, and the decoration inside was no less than that of the palace. This is like a small palace, after the officers and soldiers reported, the eleventh prince let them in, Yun Xi went in and saw a person who looked very similar to the emperor sitting on it, thinking that this was the eleventh prince.
Several people saluted the eleventh prince, and the eleventh prince saw Yun Xi busy and said, "Who asked you to bring the child in, pull it out quickly, how can you talk about things." Hearing this, Yun Xi glared, and Li Tou in the official hurriedly said: "The prince doesn't know, this little girl is our master, and we are protecting the master." After speaking, he hurriedly presented the prefect's letter of introduction, and the eleventh prince looked at the letter twice and then looked at it again.
Yun Xi said: "Interesting, if you want to buy cotton, you can just have to pay half of the tax." Yun Xi twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard this, thinking that he would kill you with half of the beauty, and let you watch it for a few days first," so he said: "Don't hide it from the prince, we didn't bring so much money, I'll go back and write a letter to ask my family to bring the money." In the past few days, the prince has bothered, Yun Xi returned to the inn and ordered someone to inform the landlord, the cotton is still harvested these days, and the cotton harvested the next day is still pulled to the palace, and it has been like this for several days in a row, seeing that the backyard of the eleventh prince is almost full. The eleven princes finally couldn't hold their breath anymore. Ordered someone to call Yun Xi to go to the palace.
As soon as Yun Xi entered the door, the eleventh prince shouted: "Who asked you to pull all the cotton to me here, you go to the backyard to see, it has become a cotton mountain." My princess wanted to go to breathe and look at the flowers, and all she saw was cotton, Yun Xi hurriedly smiled and said, "Cotton is good!" Cotton represents purity. The eleventh prince said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, pay the money immediately, and pull the cotton away." β
Yun Xi said aggrievedly; "I can't hide that I have no money, so I bought cotton."
The eleventh prince shouted; 'You're trying to me off!' It's not that you're a child, I'm going to kill you. β
Yun Xi said: "I can paint a portrait of the princess to atone for your offense, okay?" I promise the princess will be happy. β
I heard the prince say: "Okay, as long as you can make the princess of this king happy, this king will not let you take away the cotton with a single money." β
Yun Xi hurriedly said: "What I want is the words of the prince,"
Yun Xi and the princess came to the backyard and saw the mountains of cotton, and suddenly had an inspiration, so the princess drew two pictures of the cotton in her hand. Then let the princess smile and take a picture with the prince. After the painting was finished, Yun Xi took the portrait and showed it to the prince. The prince said while watching: "Don't say that this little girl's painting is still quite similar."
Yun Xi said: "Can I pull the cotton away this time?" You see the princess laughing happily."
The prince quit. He shouted, 'You deceive.'"
At this time, the princess said: "The princess and concubine just feel too bored, and they are not unhappy, so don't embarrass the little girl!" β
The eleventh prince smiled and said, "Since the princess has spoken, why don't you pull it away quickly."
Yun Xi said: "I will immediately notify the dart bureau to pull it away quickly."
The next day, the cotton was almost harvested, Yun Xi asked the dart board to press the cotton cart to take a step ahead, and he called a few landlords to drink. The next day, several landlords happily sent Yunxi out of the city.
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Continued tomorrow.
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