Chapter 669: The Prince's Scheming
The double-layer appliance mentioned by Xihuan is a hollow copper tile cylinder, which is similar to a thermos flask, but it is relatively large.
It has two layers of metal walls, the middle is empty, and the inner and outer two layers of tire walls are as thick as one centimeter.
There are a plurality of round holes pre-opened on the tire wall to empty the cast sand in it, and after emptying, the copper block is first inserted into the round hole to suffocate to make it airtight, leaving only one. Then use a hand-cranked air pump to pump out the air, and then put in iron powder to eliminate the humidity and residual air, and seal the last hole.
After evacuation, the outer layer is silver-plated with carbon disulfide, and the silver film can refract the heat source and play a thermal insulation effect, and the hot water bottle is exactly this principle.
Finally, sit in a square wooden box with a layer of gypsum and a thick wooden board, cover it with a wooden lid, and wrap it in several layers of quilt to ensure that the ice cubes in the copper tile pot will not melt for a few days.
At this time, Xihuan only cared about talking to Ji Jun, and completely left her husband Jiang Yu aside, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing.
The brother and sister talked for a while, and Ji Jinsheng asked people to bring a copper bowl with a diameter of more than two feet, which was filled with snow-white and huge ice cubes.
"By the way, Brother Wang, this is my sister's husband, the current prince, the future king of Xianguo, Brother Wang should have never seen it."
"Oh, what Sister Wang said is that the widow has never seen it, and I don't want my brother-in-law to be so dignified and extraordinary."
King Jin's eyes swept back and forth on Jiang Zhen's face several times, and he said that he was dignified and extraordinary, but in fact, Jiang Zhen was indeed handsome and chic, and he was also an outstanding quasi-handsome guy in the crowd.
But politics has nothing to do with handsome guys, just like there is no connection between the diamond king and driving a BMW, if it is a straw bag, it has something to do with politics, even if it grows like a pig, there is still a princess willing to marry, this is the charm of the diamond king.
King Jin's verbal appreciation did not make Jiang Yu feel the slightest respect, on the contrary, it was an unacceptable humiliation, but his face was still full of smiles, or with some kind of immature and childish smirk, and then bowed down to King Jin and made a standard salute:
"Jiang Yu pays a visit to King Jin."
King Jin was also taken aback, looked at Xihuan from the corner of his eyes, and couldn't help but think, it's better to train Wang Mei.
"Hehaha...... Prince Xian is exempt. ”
"King Xie Jin."
Jiang Yuli is very respectful, giving people a feeling of not being ashamed, but proud. At this time, the king of Jin smiled, but said with bad intentions:
"Prince Jiang, how is King Xian?"
"My father is slightly ill, so I can't come to meet him, and I hope King Jin will forgive me."
"King Xian is over half a hundred years old, how can a widow not be close to people. But what the widow doesn't understand is why the proton of Qiguo said goodbye in the widow country, but he ran to the Xianguo and became the Marquis of Yongxing, the widow came today, shouldn't the Marquis of Yongxing explain to the widow in person. ”
"This ......" Jiang Yu was speechless, not knowing how to deal with it.
At this time, Xihuan said:
"Brother Wang, this Baili Yan is very slippery, and the prince has nothing to do with him."
"Oh, yes. Prince Jiang, go back and tell King Xian in the future, he said that the widow misses Gongzi Yan very much, and asked him not to care about the past suspicions, and the widow looks forward to turning the war into jade silk with him, and trying to dominate the Central Plains together, and King Xian can also share the world. ”
"What the King of Jin said is extremely true, only by allied with the Jin State can he try to dominate the Central Plains, and it was the Marquis of Yongxing who deceived his father with his own personal grudges."
"Hehaha...... Prince Jiang really knows the current affairs, and if he has Xianguo to help the widow and try to dominate, he will definitely not treat the prince badly in the future. Go, the widow took Prince Jiang to see King Song. ”
After speaking, the King of Jin grabbed Jiang Gan's right hand, like an eagle grabbing a chicken, and came to the front of the King of Song under the front and back embrace, the people of the Song Kingdom thought that the King of Song had no backbone, and the depth of the Xianguo was still at the level of the image of Bailiyan's tough bones.
The trade between the Song State and the Jin State is not profitable at all, only the trade with the Xian State is the most profitable, and now the prince of the Xian State is so submissive, after ascending the throne, Xihuan interferes in the government, and the interests of the trade between the Song State and the Xian State will be completely embezzled by the Jin State, this result is obviously what the Song State does not want to see.
In the afternoon, the king of Jin and Xihuan sat in the chariot of the king of Jin, Jiang Yu sat alone in the car, and the chariot of the king of Song followed closely behind the Jin army, and tens of thousands of people continued to march towards the Lingling.
In the chariot, the king of Jin asked Xihuan:
"Sister Wang, you have been in Xianguo for more than ten years, and Jiang Yu was so obedient at your mercy, but the widow just doesn't understand why Sister Wang hasn't gotten anything decent back from Yongxing City for the widow so far."
Xihuan was angry when he heard this:
"How can you blame me, King Xian's old immortal thing is very close, and Bailiyan has set up a net in Yongxing City, and people only enter but can't leave, how can you let me get it."
"There's nothing you can do?"
"Even if there is, you have to wait for the immortal return of King Xian to heaven before you can start. It's all to blame for the damn Bailiyan, why didn't his father just kill him with a knife, and he wanted to regret his mistakes. ”
"It's a shame to kill it."
King Jin said in a strange voice, and Xihuan looked strange:
"What does Brother Wang mean?"
"Baili Yan is a genius that has not been encountered in a hundred years, wouldn't it be a pity to kill it, if I were my father, I would not follow Uncle Kuo's strategy, what crossed the sea to gain a firm foothold, and then the east and west went forward, and now it is not a mess. The country has been squeezed out of its place, and it still has to transport grain from the north every year.
According to the widow's heart, Baili Yan is really much more useful than Jiang Ting's straw bag, I really should marry you to Bai Li Yan and tie him up, otherwise everything about him will be the widow's Jin Kingdom today. ”
"Phew, it's a shame for what you said!" Xihuan scolded: "I'm your own sister, what do you think of me." ”
"Huh...... The widow just said it casually, Wang Mei and the widow's daughter are the same, they are both meat in their hearts, where can the widow be willing to do it. ”
"Hmph, you men, never take us women seriously, and kick them away when you're done using them, phew!"
"Okay, okay, you still have to be unforgiving. The widow asked you, have you found out the treasure brought back by Bailiyan back then? ”
"Nope!" Xihuan was angry and said casually.
"The widow asked you seriously, did you find out at the end?"
"You still know I'm useful."
"Eh, when did the widow say that Wang Mei was useless. Let's talk quickly, how much treasure did Baili Yan bring back? ”
"According to Ji Jinsheng's secret investigation, only the southern goods sold by the Xianwang Inner Mansion, the Tax Division, the Tax Undertaking Division, the Salt Owl, and the Department Store are sold at a total price of 8.9 million inches of silver, and I don't know how many goods are hidden."
"What about gold, silver, and jewelry?" King Jin asked.
"Bai Liyan personally said that Xianguo can't spend a hundred years on it, even if there are no four or five million inches of silver, two million are available, plus the discount of those goods, three million must be there."
"Shhh...... Only three million! ”
King Jin was suspicious, and Xihuan was surprised:
"Three million inches of silver, that's not too little!"
"Definitely not. According to the secret agent, after Gongliangwen returned to Yucheng, the total price of gold, silver, jewelry and goods obtained by King Zhi reached more than 4 million inches of silver.
And it is rumored that the Gongliang clan has a lot of gold and silver in private, according to this calculation, the more than one million missing in the middle must have been swallowed by Baili Yan, and the other gold and silver that I don't know how much is not known. ”
Hearing this, Xihuan was stunned:
"He's crazy, is he going to rebel too!"
"It's hard to say, but Baili Yan is not small. It's strange that King Xian can pretend to be deaf and dumb? ”
"Is it possible that King Xian will kill him and cut off his own arm?" Xihuan Road.
"That's not all." King Jin denied: "Zhiguo has two veins of humerus of Tao and Gongliang, with large roots and deep roots, and there are many outstanding people in the younger generations.
And the only one who can take on the great task of the Xian Kingdom is Baili Yan, and the King of Xian will not be so bastard that he will cut off his arm. But the widow always felt that there was something strange in it, how could Bailiyan secretly hide such a huge amount of gold and silver! Or are you mistaken, Sister Wang? ”
"What's the use of talking about these now, only let Jiang Yu inherit the throne, check the inner government and the tax department, and know how much there is."
"Didn't you say that King Xian will only be in these two or three years, and it will all be clear in two or three years."
"It's easy to say, the money shop of the Department of Taxation has newly minted gold and silver treasures over the years, and the total amount of gold and silver treasures has reached tens of millions. In a few years, the Inner Mansion does not know how much silver will be left. ”
"This widow knows, Sister Wang doesn't say it, and the widow is also having a headache about this matter. I don't know what the salty people have added to the gold and silver treasures, but they can't practice gold and silver, which is really hateful. Now the gold and silver treasures of Xianguo have rushed to the Jin market, which is extremely strong. The widow is also considering minting gold and silver treasures to offset the threat of gold and silver treasures in the Xian Kingdom. ”
In 637 of the Sheng Dynasty, after the king of Jin blackmailed 1.3 million Singapore dollars from Xianguo, these money had to be spent, so it directly caused 1.3 million new coins to quickly flow into the border city of Jin in Song, Zhiguo and Xianguo, and from Yu City into the Jin State.
The war caused the copper money in various countries to be issued indiscriminately, the bad currency was in a collapse situation, the gold and silver Tongbao of the Xianguo country once came out, its extremely high casting quality, exquisite appearance and the style of the square hole copper coin, soon became the hedging currency, coupled with a certain amount of gold and silver, soon won the favor of the trading market.
The Jin state's own currency could not compete with it, and the exchange rate rose with it, with increasing effects on taxes and commodity transactions.
On the sixth day of the fourth month, the king of Jin arrived at the city of Chenling, and the king suspended ten miles outside the east gate, and sent Fan Tao to the city with the prince Jiang Stung and others to see the king of Xian to test the truth.
"Shangbang Xiangguo Fan Tao has seen King Xian."
"Fan Xiangguo is exempt."
"King Xie Xian."
Fan Tao looked around the court left and right, and saw that Baili Yan was among them, and continued to say:
"My king heard that King Xian was in slightly ill health, so he specially ordered King Xian to enter a thousand-year-old cold ginseng plant, in the hope that King Xian would recover as soon as possible."
"King Jin is really bothered......" King Xian's wording is neither humble nor arrogant, but the word "bothered" bites very hard.
King Xian motioned to Chang Shi Gaoxun to take the wooden box containing the old cold ginseng, and then Fan Tao suddenly turned straight and said righteously:
"This time the Central Plains Alliance, the princes of the world are working together to crusade against the black scarf, although my Jin Kingdom is out of the East China Sea, but as the princes of the Central Plains, my king can't bear to suffer from the misery of the people of the world, so the king of Xing is tyrannical and unreasonable, but I don't know why Xianguo is my country's lower state, I don't know how to work together with my upper state, fight against violence, but are willing to steal peace in a corner. King Xian, what is the reason? ”
As soon as the words came out, the court immediately exploded, and the ministers talked about it.