Chapter 159 New Candle
Li Heng didn't understand what Ye Qing meant when he said that the situation was much better than he imagined, while Ye Qing looked at Bai Chun and Jin Se, ignoring the two of them and walking over, before he sighed and said, "The candle itself is a consumable, overnight, how much do the candles in the palace have to use?" Not to mention how much the palace alone has to consume in a month! And who has thought about this question? That stupid guy in Yan Chengcheng never thought that I was afraid that such a situation would occur when I asked her to increase her efforts. But that loser doesn't listen to me, what can I do? ”
"Don't talk about the past, what's the use of complaining now? Let's talk about what your original worries were and what Miss Yan should do next. Li Heng interrupted Ye Qing's words, and at this moment, he felt as if he was the head of the Yan Mansion, urging Ye Qing.
Ye Qing gave him a middle finger dissatisfied, but in his heart he figured out why Bai Chun would ignore himself and Li Heng just now, and walked straight over!
This is...... This is a sign of jealousy! This is the performance of eating swallow alluring vinegar!
Bai Chun must have known that Li Heng came to find him at this time, and he must have come because there was something on Yan Chengcheng's side, so she ...... Only...... That one...... Naturally, he knew that Li Heng was sent by Yan Chengcheng, so he was cold to himself?
Someone felt a little too good about himself, but it was indeed as Ye Qing guessed, Bai Chun knew in her heart that Li Heng's arrival was because of Yan Chengcheng, but she and Jin Se didn't pay attention to Ye Qing and Li Heng because they didn't want to disturb their conversation, and it had nothing to do with eating Yan Qingcheng's vinegar at all.
Ye Qing, who came back to his senses, thought for a while and said: "With the current scale of the Yan family, the output is naturally in short supply for the palace, and the palace just asked them to increase their efforts, and did not let her take out the recipe for the new candle and distribute it to other imperial merchants, so as to alleviate the demand for new candles in the palace, which is already the benevolence and righteousness of the palace." If the Imperial Palace asks the Yan family to come up with a recipe to share with other imperial merchants, have you thought about the consequences? ”
"This ...... This must be the Yan family's going to be hit hard, isn't it? Li Heng was startled, and almost stood up and ran towards Yan Mansion, intending to tell Yan Chengcheng the news.
Ye Qing grabbed him and sat down and said: "The top priority is how to let Yan Chengcheng come forward, or a powerful figure to come forward, to be able to deter those who have already thought of this method, and block their mouths, and then the Yan family immediately increased their efforts to make new candles, and strive to meet the temporary needs of the palace in a short time." Perhaps, in this way, you can keep your profits from being snatched away by others. ”
"Anyone who can think of this? It must be someone in the palace, who can you find to block the mouths of those who think of a way? You can't let the saints ...... today. Li Heng was stunned for a moment, feeling that what Ye Qing said was reasonable.
"Are you stupid? Is it related to the wool in the palace? This is industry competition, and peers are naturally doing everything for profit, so how can the palace have time to ponder the strategies of these villains? Ye Qing glanced at Li Heng dissatisfied, if the palace wanted to do this, it would have started to do it a long time ago, and as for leaving such a long time for the Yan family to deal with it.
"Who could that be?" Li Heng asked.
Liu Yungu never thought that Fan Niande would take the initiative to find himself, and as soon as he returned to his door from Lingyin Temple, he saw Fan Niande and two subordinates, standing at the foot of the steps of his house, next to the two stone lions that were not too big and small, looking back and forth there.
"Yo...... Rare guest, what kind of wind blew Fan Gong over? Why don't you go into the house? Why are you waiting here? It's really a faux pas, a small family, really snubbing Fan Gong. Liu Yungu suddenly saw Fan Niande's stunned expression on his face, and instantly changed to an enthusiastic demeanor, and walked quickly towards Fan Niande and said.
"Lord Liu, Fan is here today, there is something to ask for, this matter is very important to Fan, and even to you, Lord Liu, I hope Lord Liu will not refuse." Fan Niande's expression was slightly anxious, and his tone was also solemn.
"That'...... Why don't you go into the house and talk about it? Liu Yungu didn't want to let others enter his mansion from the bottom of his heart, but he had no choice but to stand at the door, and it seemed a little unusual and strange to talk about going elsewhere to discuss at this time.
But what Liu Yungu didn't expect was that Fan Niande was obviously in a hurry, and he didn't think about entering Liu Yungu's house, but pointed to a secluded place not far in front of the alley, and said: "Please also ask Lord Liu to take a step to speak, as for the visit to your mansion, I was in a hurry to come down today, and I didn't prepare, wouldn't it be too rude to enter the mansion like this, how about Fan Mou come to visit next time with a little courtesy?" Fan Niande said in his heart, you have to get a lot of money to go out when you enter your house, it is better to talk at the mouth of the alley, after the matter is done, it is easy to say, if it doesn't work out, won't you give away a sum of money in vain?
What's more, in the past two years, he has dealt with Liu Yungu, often with his money and efforts, and he also sent a lot of things, just to make a little friendship with Liu Yungu, hoping to bring him some benefits one day.
But Liu Yungu has not done a single major thing for himself until now, and in small things, he can only occasionally stand on his feet and cheer for himself, so that his vanity high in front of others can be satisfied.
But the tangible benefits and other aspects, in Fan Niande's view, are not worth the value brought by spending so much on antiques.
Liu Yungu saw that Fan Niande frowned, obviously not in his mansion, so he immediately pretended to be very embarrassed and rude, and at the same time wondered in his heart what Fan Niande wanted to help him with if he was so serious?
So he pretended to be embarrassed: "How can Duke Fan go to the gate of the mansion and not enter?" Isn't this to say that I, Liu, don't understand hospitality and snub you? In this case, if you are in a hurry, Liu will be rude, and Fan Gong will please. ”
Liu Yungu looked at Fan Niande when he was halfway through his words, and his intention moved, so he immediately hurriedly said, and then stretched out his hand to ask Fan Niande to go forward, and motioned to his subordinates to go back to the house first.
Fan Niande sneered a few times in his heart, a trace of disdain and sorrow flashed between his expressions, how could he not see that Liu Yungu was about to visit when he heard that he had not brought any gifts, and he suddenly lost a lot of careful thoughts in his heart.
However, it is not easy to deal with Liu Yungu at the moment, after all, he has a request for others now, so after the two walked a few steps side by side, Fan Niande went straight to the point and said in a deep voice: "Lord Liu, I don't know if there is anyone familiar with the procurement party in the palace?" ”
"Taifu Temple?" Liu Yungu's eyelids jumped a few times involuntarily, Taifu Temple has always been in charge of various uses and utensils in the palace, and the imperial merchant is the most closely related to Taifu Temple, Liu Yungu is not an imperial merchant, he asked what happened to Taifu Temple?
"I don't know what is the matter with Fan Gongke? Can you inform me first, and then reply to Fan Gong after some consideration? Liu Yungu bowed his hand and said: "It's not that I don't want to agree immediately, but Taifu Temple has always only been in charge of the palace, and I am the general of the imperial city under it, and when it comes to the palace, because of my duties, I don't dare to say it carelessly." ”
Fan Niande couldn't imagine that this Liu Yungu would be so ruthless, he had been friends with him for a few years, and he was still so careful to guard against him at this time, so he held back the unhappiness in his heart at the moment, and slowly exhaled a breath and said: "This matter is related to whether you can obtain the imperial merchant this year, if you can obtain the imperial merchant this year, Lord Liu must also know, in this way, it will be much more convenient when you help Lord Liu." ”
Fan Niande said quietly, and then looked at Liu Yungu silently, so he had no choice but to continue: "I went to Yanfu that day, and in Yan Hongyuan's study, I saw a new candle, and this kind of candle, even if you come to it, you won't smell a strange smell. What's even more commendable is that this candle does not need to be cut repeatedly, and the wick can burn out as the candle burns! ”
"And what's next?" Liu Yungu's expression moved obviously, and he asked involuntarily.
But in my heart, I was wondering, since Fan Niande saw this kind of candle last time, but he didn't mention it to himself, what did he want to do now? Why does it have anything to do with his acquisition of the Imperial Merchant?
"As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and I have heard today that the palace has ordered the Yan family to increase efforts to make this new candle in order to meet the palace's demand for new candles. But Lord Liu must also know that there are thousands of candles in the palace every day, and the Yan Mansion has just started to make new candles, so how can this family meet the needs of the palace? Fan Niande and Liu Yungu stated the stakes, as well as the channels and conditions for obtaining the imperial business.
So Liu Yungu answered: "So as long as Fan Gong contacts the people of Taifu Temple, Taifu Temple will put pressure on Yan Mansion and ask him to take out the recipe of the new candle to distribute to Fan Gong, so that Fan Gong can also be regarded as running an errand for ......the palace." ”
"Help the palace make new candles, so that as long as there is a relationship with new candles, this year's imperial businessman Fan should be able to find one, right? In this way, when Fan helps Lord Liu again, won't he be able to get twice the result with half the effort? Fan Niande interrupted Liu Yungu's words and corrected and explained.
For him, running errands is like a humiliation, insulting his status as a lecturer at Fengshan Academy and Jiankang Academy, so even though he is actually running an errand for Liu Yungu now, he would rather deceive himself into understanding that he is just helping Liu Yungu. The contradictions and entanglements of wanting to be a bitch and wanting to set up an archway are vividly reflected in Fan Niande at this moment.
While Liu Yungu and Fan Niande were calculating with each other, in Yan Hongsheng's mansion, Yan Honghu was also sitting, and their two sons Yan Qingqing and Yan Qingfu, as well as Yan Tianyun and Yan Tianyu were also present at the same time.
Yan Hongsheng habitually knocked on the table with his index finger, and then looked at Yan Honghu, who was all focused on him, and pondered: "Now it seems that the boss already had a countermeasure before we split up, but he just refused to tell us two brothers, so it's no wonder why he hid in the house and didn't come out, but let the girl from Allure come over to talk about the separation." ”
"Second brother, do you mean that the eldest brother has already thought about what he will do after the separation? The secret recipe for this new candle, he refused to take it out, and even when our three brothers split up, he repeatedly gave in, just to prevent us from playing the idea of the new candle? Yan Honghu looked at the second child Yan Hongsheng who was frowning and said.
"Now it seems that this is the case, we thought that the boss cared about brotherhood, so when we separated the family, we made generous concessions. Now it seems, huh...... Boss, this is the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind, and it has already been prepared! It's no wonder he doesn't care about this little profit when the family is separated. Yan Hongsheng shook his head and sighed.