Chapter 107: Salt Introduction
An Rong thought of Xiao Qi and Xiao Jiu, the pigeons were so cute, he actually gnawed them down, it was too cruel.
How did she not know in her previous life?
The county lord of Yiyang sat down, picked up the fruit and nibbled on it, and said with a smile, "Actually, Brother Lian Xuan knows a lot of things, and they all learned from General Xiao. ā
The county lord of Anyang trembled his brows, "Shouldn't General Xiao teach them to learn the art of war and strategy?" ā
The county lord of Yiyang crunched the fruit and nodded, "I was also so curious at that time, but Brother Lian Xuan said that on the battlefield, the sword and gun have no eyes, and the kung fu to save your life is very important, and you will march thousands of miles at every turn, there is not enough food and grass, and many soldiers are starving to death." ā
"So you have to learn how not to starve to death without food, he also knows a lot of edible wild grasses and wild fruits, and he has climbed the mountain to find them before, but it is delicious, General Xiao taught them not only the art of war and strategy, but also how to survive in a desperate situation where there is no one."
"It's just that he is the only son of the Marquis of Jingbei and won't let him get involved in danger, so he is lazy and not good at learning, and General Xiao scolded him twice and gave up on him."
After hearing this, the county lord of Qinghe was still a little incredulous, "I really didn't expect him to be able to cook, or let's add a cooking skill, with a small pitcher, maybe you can meet one or two who are good at cooking." ā
The county lord of Anyang sneered, "You are not afraid of those ministers in the court, after seeing your son lose face, they will say that the plum blossom banquet held by the princess's mansion is nondescript, maybe they will talk about 'gentleman and kitchen'." ā
The county lord of Yiyang bared his teeth, "What's there to be afraid of, the cooking skills of the Chinese are not high, and their sons are not good at pitching pots, and they are not good at learning and falling behind others, so they will not be invited in the future, besides, even General Xiao can cook, Xiao Lao Guogong will definitely too, who dares to laugh at them?" ā
In the end, the result of the discussion was to add a cooking skill, and as for washing clothes or something, everyone automatically ignored it.
And in order to increase the mystery, the men's competition does not use the form of throwing pots, but shoots slingshots, using things like nine-square grids, and pasting the test items on the back, which one is the one that is shot.
This mention yƬ was mentioned by the lord of Anyang County, and everyone unanimously agreed.
It took half a time to decide what to write behind the nine squares, and let the maid do it, while they played in the house.
After a while, a little maid came in with a smile and said, "County Lord, the princess just got a good piece of cloth for you to go to the main house." ā
The county lord of Yiyang snorted, opened a pair of curved eyes, and asked curiously, "I haven't seen any good fabrics in Qinghe, is it so exaggerated?" ā
The little maid secretly covered her mouth, shook her head and said she didn't know.
But then it's obvious that you know.
With curiosity, a group of several people all went to the main hall.
In the main hall, the eldest princess Minghui, who was dressed luxuriously, was sipping tea lightly, her posture was elegant and graceful, and her appearance was gentle and watery.
The county lord of Qinghe stepped forward to bless his body, and said with a smile, "Mother, what good fabric did you get, so mysterious and mysterious?" ā
The eldest princess of Minghui and the others all saluted, and then waved their hands, and a maid approached with a tray.
Lord Qinghe opened it curiously, and saw that it was an inconspicuous piece of fabric, and his mouth pouted, "I don't see what's wrong." ā
The eldest princess of Minghui shook her head lightly, and two little maids walked over and opened the piece of silk.
At first glance, it is inconspicuous, but when it is moved to a sunny place, it suddenly shines brightly, and on the satin, there are pieces of gold leaves flashing.
"Jin Ye Jin!" The county lord of Yiyang exclaimed, "Didn't you say that the weaving method of gold leaf brocade was lost, why is it there again?" ā
Golden Leaf Brocade, since the date of birth, it is famous all over the world, it is rumored that the manufacture of Golden Leaf Brocade and its difficulties, a year at most only three horses.
The former imperial concubine loved the gold leaf brocade, the emperor ordered several times to urge the tribute, and even for the weaving secret recipe of the gold leaf brocade, the Jin family was raided, and later the war, the secret recipe of the gold leaf brocade was also lost, this is a well-known thing, and the world is all sorry and lamented.
The county lord of Qinghe reluctantly touched the golden leaf brocade and looked at the eldest princess Minghui curiously.
Princess Minghui said with a smile, "The mother concubine doesn't know where your father got it, there are two horses in total, one has been sent to the palace to give your imperial grandmother, and the rest of this horse will make clothes for you, and there is a surplus, a few of you make an embroidered handkerchief, what style do you like, tell the embroidery lady." ā
The county lords of Anyang were overjoyed, and they couldn't take their eyes off when they looked at the golden leaf brocade, and thanked them again and again.
Shen Anyu was even more happy.
Only An Rong has a sad look on his face.
They don't know the Golden Leaf Brocade, but An Rong knows it clearly, and now the secret recipe for the weaving of the Golden Leaf Brocade is pinched in the Feng family in Hengzhou.
The Feng family is a famous silk and satin weaver in the Great Zhou, although it is not a weaving family, but it is also rich, but the Feng family is famous, but in the next two years, from the weaver to the largest salt merchant in the Great Zhou, the accumulated wealth is even more than those big families who have accumulated generations.
Later, there was a salt brine poisoning incident in the army, at that time, it coincided with a rebellion, the soldiers were poisoned, and how to defend the city, so inexplicably lost a city, the emperor was furious and sent someone to investigate the salt brine case.
After several months of investigation, the salt case was involved in the salt brine case.
Salt citation, take salt vouchers, salt citation each piece of salt 116 catties, the price is five taels.
Without salt, salt merchants would not be able to buy salt, let alone sell it.
In the previous life, when the salt introduction case occurred, An Rong thought that he had nothing to do with her, but he saw Su Junze sitting still, and An Rong learned after asking that part of the income of the Dongqin Marquis Mansion was to ask for salt from the Salt Affairs Department and sell it to salt merchants to make a profit.
It is not the case that the Dongqin Marquis Mansion is like this, and so are other mansions, including the current Wu'an Marquis Mansion.
This is almost a matter in which the powerful people in the DPRK and China are involved, but because of the size of their power, the amount of participation is different.
The emperor also knows about this, but he just turns a blind eye, more precisely, the emperor has no problem, he gave an order, and it touched the entire Kyoto magnates, the so-called public anger is difficult to offend.
However, the nobles begged for salt citation, which caused a great loss to the treasury, and the emperor could not sit idly by, and the salt quotation case was an opportunity to solve this matter.
At that time, everyone in Kyoto was in danger, and the eldest princess was the worst.
The reason why the Feng family in Hengzhou was able to grow big in just two years was because of the eldest princess's mansion as the backstage.
While bribing the horses, he also colluded with the salt mine, one salt led to two parts of salt, and used nearly one million taels of silver to bribe layer by layer, and later the account books were exposed, and the eldest princess's mansion had as many as 160,000 taels.
At that time, the emperor was furious and almost killed the eldest concubine, and the eldest princess knelt in front of the imperial study for a day and a night, when it was cold and snowy.
In the end, the emperor relented and demoted the concubine to a concubine, the eldest princess's mansion was reduced to the county lord's mansion, and most of the fertile land rewarded by the emperor was also recovered.
The emperor took his sister and eldest princess under the knife, which shows how determined he was to rectify the salt introduction incident, which suddenly shocked those powerful people in Kyoto, and the salt introduction incident stopped a lot.
At this time, seeing the Feng family's Jin Yejin appear in front of him, and then looking at the favorite appearance of the eldest princess and the county lord of Qinghe, An Rong seemed to foresee the scene of the eldest princess kneeling in the wind and snow.
In her previous life, the Queen Mother loved her, and An Rong couldn't bear to bear the hardships of her beloved eldest princess.
So An Rong stood up and said, "An Rong thanks the eldest princess for her kindness, but An Rong can't ask for this gold leaf brocade." ā
The county lord of Qinghe turned his head to look at her, thinking that An Rong was embarrassed to accept it, so he smiled and said, "Why not, what is polite to me, this Jin Yejin can only be used to make a set of clothes, and more can only be used to make a handkerchief." ā
An Rong shook his head and said with a smile, "It's not polite, but this gold leaf brocade really can't be wanted, I remember my father said that the Feng family in Hengzhou found the weaving method of gold leaf brocade, but they were unwilling to be only a weaver and wanted to be a salt merchant." ā
"The emperor wanted to solve the phenomenon of 'occupying the nest', but he couldn't find a good reason for a while, his father was afraid of becoming a spearhead bird, and under the persuasion of his grandmother, he had already stopped doing it, a few days ago, his father also guessed that the Feng family entered Beijing this time, just to open the door, I don't know who will not be able to resist the temptation, sooner or later will get into trouble."
Zhanwo refers to the phenomenon of nobles begging for salt and reselling it to salt merchants to make a profit.
After An Rong finished speaking in one breath, Shen Anyu twisted her eyebrows and looked at her, "When did my father sue you, why didn't I know?" ā
An Rong raised his eyebrows, "On the day you taught the poems, my father called me, and I listened to what my father and Mr. Fu said outside the study, if the Feng family came to the door, they pushed this matter." ā
The eldest princess sat there, her gentle face became a little ugly, the concubine only said that this gold leaf brocade was given by someone, she asked, he only shook his head, if it is really related to the salt introduction, it is a big deal, the imperial brother mentioned the salt introduction in front of the queen mother several times, how could she not know?
"Go and fetch the horse, and say that I have something urgent to find him," the eldest princess's face was rare and solemn.
The county lord of Qinghe let go, although she is the county lord, she also knows some things in the court, everything the emperor wants to solve, whoever touches his brow, who is unlucky.
Soon, the colt arrived.
The horse was about thirty-five or sixteen years old, and he looked elegant and handsome, and when he saw that the eldest princess hurriedly called him, he asked curiously, "What's wrong?" ā
The eldest princess looked gentle and asked with a silent smile, "I heard that this gold leaf brocade was given to you by the Feng family in Hengzhou?" ā
The concubine bowed slightly, then sat down with a smile and said, "I really can't hide anything from you, princess, it was indeed sent by the Feng family in Hengzhou, and asked me to do a trivial matter." ā
The eldest princess glanced at An Rong, then looked at the colt and said, "I asked you to get the salt, right?" ā
The colt was stunned for a while, and nodded yes.
The county lord of Qinghe pouted and instructed the maid to roll up the gold leaf brocade, "I don't want it." ā
"Why don't you want to, Daddy only took it because he thought you liked it," the colt frowned lightly and smiled.
The eldest princess looked at the concubine and said, "The imperial brother has been trying to solve the problem of the powerful people in the court taking salt for profit for a long time, you are a concubine, why don't you want to help the imperial brother solve problems, and add fuel to the fire, our mother and son are not short of so many clothes." ā
"If the emperor really makes up his mind, do you think he will spare you for the sake of me as a princess, on the contrary, you are a concubine, as a relative of the emperor, the imperial brother will take you under the knife!"
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