Chapter 73: Chat with the Emperor
When Tai Kangdi heard her answer, he was obviously stunned for a moment, but then he burst out laughing.
"I really didn't expect that the third child would one day choose a little girl like you, I had already chosen a princess for her, but now it was all disrupted by you." Tai Kangdi sat down behind the imperial case, as if he was extremely helpless.
Lou Zheng's eyes shook, a pair of clear eyes became more transparent and bright, she smiled slightly, as if mockingly: "If the little girl doesn't appear, I'm afraid that the princess of His Royal Highness King Rui will probably be much inferior!" ”
Tai Kangdi was stunned again, and his originally smiling eyes instantly turned cold, like an eagle falcon waiting for an opportunity to hunt in the dark, and the cold glow was shining.
"Bold! You know who you're talking to! ”
Lou Zheng was not afraid, and even his already straight back straightened a little.
"The little girl is neither deaf nor blind, and the one who talks to the little girl is His Majesty the Emperor who stands at the peak of the Great Wu Dynasty."
Emperor Taikang snorted coldly, "You still know that I am the emperor of the Great Wu Dynasty!" ”
Lou Zheng gave a squatting salute to Emperor Taikang, "Of course the little girl knows, but everything the little girl said is just the truth." ”
Tai Kangdi is an old fox, how can he not understand the meaning of Lou Zheng's words.
His Royal Highness King Rui was not favored, otherwise he would not have been driven to the fiefdom before he was a minor, and he was not allowed to enter Beijing to marry until the weak crown, or by virtue of the naval battle in the East China Sea, if there was no such thing, I am afraid that Emperor Taikang would not remember this third son until the end of the year.
doesn't pay attention to it, there is no holy family, and the family of His Royal Highness King Rui's mother and concubine is very small, even if it is a princess. How good the birth and good conduct can be, it is not to see the emperor happy.
Now, Xiao Zhe is under his blue eye, and Tai Kangdi only sees his usefulness.
Tai Kangdi was a little faceless by a little woman who had just passed the curtain, his face instantly turned a little red, and standing behind the screen speechlessly heard these words, he glared at Lou Zheng's back fiercely with his eyes, but unfortunately Lou Zheng couldn't see it.
However, what Lou Zheng said was indeed the truth, if it weren't for the several princes favored by Emperor Taikang, none of them would be useful. It won't come out after Xiao Zhe behaves a little. It was immediately reused and made him impressed.
Lou Zheng glanced up at Tai Kangdi again, and felt strange when he saw his somewhat strange face. This time she didn't bow her head. Instead, he noticed the change in Tai Kangdi's face.
"You're so bold!"
Lou Zheng smiled slightly. "If the little girl is not very courageous, she will not have the opportunity to stand here and talk to the emperor at this time."
After speaking, Lou Zheng tilted his head slightly. showed a little little girl's coquettishness, "Your Majesty, is that glass still easy to use?" ”
Tai Kangdi didn't expect this little girl to change her face faster than turning a book, one moment she was still neither humble nor arrogant, and the next moment she was like a little daughter who was spoiled to her father.
Although Emperor Taikang has many children, but because he has a lot of power on weekdays, few daughters dare to be close to him, and now when he sees Lou Zheng's delicate and inviting appearance, his heart is also a little soft, and he thinks that this is the girl that his third son has a crush on, and it will not be long before he becomes the daughter-in-law of the royal family, and he is also half a daughter, and his mood immediately improved.
He feigned anger, "I still think this glass is a good thing, it was just made of sand, and it wasn't you who stumbled into it by mistake." ”
Lou Zheng shook his head helplessly in his heart, this Taikang Emperor is too face-saving, if he can find the secret recipe for the production of glaze by mistake, then can a large number of glaze wait until now to appear?
However, at this time, Lou Zheng didn't want to dismantle Emperor Taikang's platform, "But the little girl still has something to remind the emperor." ”
Emperor Tai Kangdi frowned, and a shrewd brilliance popped up in his eyes, "Do you regret giving this recipe?" ”
Lou Zheng put away the joke on his face and shook his head, "The little girl's title was exchanged for this glass, how could the little girl take it back, a promise, even if the little girl is a weak woman, she also remembers her promise." But I want to remind the emperor that although the glass is profitable, it is just because the scarcity is expensive, the emperor thinks about it, once the glass is mass-produced, there are wealthy businessmen who will lose money......"
Speechless twitched the corners of her mouth behind the screen, seeing her for a moment beating a group of strong servants, she didn't believe that this delicate and weak girl was a weak woman.
Tai Kangdi is a smart person, Lou Zheng doesn't need to talk full, half of it is enough.
After listening to Lou Zheng's words, Emperor Taikang really changed color, but he quickly calmed down again, and he deserved to be the monarch who controlled the world.
Tai Kangdi suddenly laughed, "I have some sympathy for Lou Xinhou now, if you are a man, then the Lou family is expected to succeed, but unfortunately it is a female baby, and in the end she will marry the royal family." ”
The corners of Lou Zheng's mouth twitched, "Didn't the emperor pick up a bargain?" ”
Speechless, he didn't expect Lou Zheng to return to the emperor like this, and he almost couldn't help it and laughed out loud.
But I sighed in my heart, I'm afraid that I can't find such a little woman in the whole world who dares to say that the emperor picked up a bargain.
Sure enough, after a moment of silence inside, I also heard a hearty laugh from Tai Kangdi.
"Don't think you're amused me and it's all over, tell me about your horseshoe, your weapons and leather armor! Hmph, if I am unhappy, don't do this business, and obediently go back to the county lord's mansion to embroider and get married. ”
Lou Zheng knew early on that these spies who would definitely not be able to fool the secret spy department, and he leaked all these secrets to Tai Kangdi without reservation.
In the end, it was finally negotiated, so that the royal family accounted for forty percent of the revenue, Lou Zheng accounted for thirty percent, and the remaining three components were with the Liangzhou border army and officials.
Sitting on the ground and collecting money, of course Emperor Taikang is not dissatisfied, after all, these things involve armaments, and even if they are far away from the emperor in Liangzhou, they can be put under the nose of the emperor of this imperial city, and everything must be done in front of the emperor's eyes.
Tai Kangdi did not monopolize these businesses, nor did he hand them over to the ordnance supervisor to take over, which was already to give General Lou and Lou Zheng face.
General Lou is now an idle official in Shengjing, and he does not lead troops and does not hold power, which is also one of the reasons why Emperor Taikang let go of Lou Zheng.
However, although these businesses make money quickly, Lou Zheng does not plan to do it for a long time, at most two years, these technologies will be gradually handed over to the ordnance superintendent under the imperial court, and then her people will slowly turn to be responsible for providing raw materials and developing new weapons.
In the final analysis, the trade route between Liangzhou and the barbarians is fundamental, once the trade route is formally formed, the merchants gather in all directions, and even if there is no such business, Liangzhou can compare with Tianjinggang in terms of commercial tax alone.
Emperor Tai Kang was still very satisfied with Lou Zheng's acquaintance, and these brought by Lou Zheng gave the East China Sea naval battle a chance to reverse, but when he thought of one thing, the depths of Tai Kangdi's originally shrewd eyes instantly dimmed.
Xu was temporarily blocked in his chest, and the cough that Taikang had suppressed for a long time broke out instantly. (To be continued.) )