Chapter 291: Gao Ming and Agarwood

In Gao Ming's impression, the price of agarwood has never been cheaper, ranging from thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and the most expensive has even reached an astonishing hundreds of thousands of yuan, and it is not a catty, but a gram!

It may be that the economic conditions of later generations are good, although the price of agarwood is outrageously expensive, but there are still many rich people who rush to it, which is also one of the reasons why the price of agarwood soars year after year.

People often say that the price of agarwood is comparable to gold, in fact, the price of high-grade agarwood is incomparable to gold.

Gao Ming has seen a lot of people who buy gold, and even when the price is low, some people rush to buy it, which he can understand, because gold is a hard currency, whether it is a collection or a display.

But those who buy agarwood, many of them buy agarwood back not for show, but to take it back and burn it, just to smell it, which makes Gao Ming very surprised.

Isn't this burning money?

However, in Gao Ming's view, it is an act of burning money, but those who burn agarwood give it a lofty name - incense!

In short, no matter what it is, as long as it is stained with this word "Dao", basically the artistic conception will change, even if it is burning money, it will be burned a lot more elegant.

Of course, no matter how elegant he is, in Gao Ming's eyes, burning money is burning money, so he feels that something like agarwood will never intersect with him.

But now, the waiter told him that Su Wan'er actually took two catties of agarwood to give to Wu Mei, which made Gao Ming's eyes green.

"Two catties is one kilogram, and the agarwood used by the royal family must be high-grade, just according to one gram of 10,000 yuan, one kilogram is counted as 10 million ......"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming felt that his heart hurt.

"Lao Tzu's agarwood, this ruined aunt took it away and gave it away, my heart hurts so much, oops......"

Speaking of this, Gao Ming suddenly thought of something, and he immediately grabbed the hand of the servant.

"By the way, how many agarwoods do we have in the East Palace?"

Seeing Gao Ming's startled appearance, the waiter was suddenly a little dumbfounded, and now when she heard Gao Ming ask her, she immediately reacted, and hurriedly bowed to Gao Ming.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, at the beginning of the year, the Holy Lord gave ten catties of fine agarwood, and last time His Highness fainted, he gave another five catties, in addition to the two catties that the Crown Princess gave to Miss Wu today, there are about three catties left."

"Uh......"

Could it be that your Datang agarwood has always been based on catties?

Hearing the waiter's words, Gao Ming fell into a stupor again, but he quickly reacted and immediately frowned.

"No, you just said that I have a total of fifteen catties of agarwood, and now I have given Wu Mei two catties, shouldn't there be thirteen catties left, and only three catties left for Mao? Where did the ten pounds go? ”

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, the waiter suddenly blinked his big eyes in confusion.

"It's burning!"

“……”

It's burned...... Ah...... Yes......

Looking at the waiter with a natural face, Gao Ming didn't know what kind of expression he should show at this time, he frowned, then bit his lip again, and after a while, he spread his hands towards the waiter with a tangled face.

"That...... Waiter, this is ten catties of agarwood, not ten catties of rotten wood, I didn't even smell the smell of agarwood, you just told me that ten catties of agarwood is gone? ”

"Won't it?"

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, the waiter suddenly frowned.

"His Royal Highness's clothes were smoked by the servant himself, it can't be tasteless!"

As she spoke, the waiter moved closer to Gao Ming, and then poked her head over and sniffed Gao Ming's body twice, and after smelling it, she laughed again.

"Hehe, the servant understands, His Highness is joking with the servant, isn't this smell still there, I don't believe Your Highness, you smell it."

Hearing the waiter's words, Gao Ming frowned again.

"I said agarwood, what are you smelling on me?"

"What the maid said is also agarwood, didn't Your Highness smell the smell on your clothes?"

"The smell of clothes?"

At this time, Gao Ming suddenly reacted, he suddenly turned his head and sniffed his clothes, and suddenly, a faint fragrance like Chinese medicine penetrated into his nostrils, making him feel refreshed.

This smell is very familiar, because since the first day he came to Datang, he has stabilized this smell, his study and bedroom have this smell every day, even the clothes he wears, it is this smell.

People are very adaptable animals, and when Gao Ming became familiar with this taste, he didn't pay much attention to it, but now after listening to the words of the servant, he suddenly realized that this thing does not seem to be ordinary incense, but agarwood!

Thinking of this, Gao Ming was a little stunned.

"Lao Tzu, is this now using agarwood as mosquito coil?"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately frowned.

"What a luxury!"

The waiter didn't know what Gao Ming was thinking, and when he saw him frowning, he immediately asked him a little eagerly.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks the taste is too light, that servant smokes the clothes that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will wear tomorrow for a while......"

"Huh?"

Hearing the waiter's words, Gao Ming was immediately startled, and then he quickly raised his right hand.

"Don't, don't! In the future, my clothes don't need to be smoked, and my study, don't burn agarwood when no one is usually around, it's too wasteful, it's better to save a little or save a little. ”

Although the waiter didn't know why Gao Ming suddenly became so thrifty, since he had told him so, the waiter could only nod and agree.

"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince, the servant knows!"

Seeing that the waiter agreed, Gao Ming immediately nodded with satisfaction.

"Well, it's good to know, go back and send the rest of the agarwood to my house, and this prince will keep it personally."

“……”

Looking at the waiter and stunned again, Gao Ming's eyes suddenly widened, and then he slapped her with a "snap".

"Why are you still stunned? Go, if I don't like this thing anymore, Su Wan'er's ruined aunt will have to give away all the treasures at the bottom of my box. ”

Hearing Gao Ming's words, the waiter finally couldn't help but speak.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, please forgive the servant for talking too much, now the entire palace province is up to you, how much agarwood to use, isn't it a matter of your Highness?"

"Uh......"

At this time, Gao Ming realized that in addition to being used as a spice, agarwood is also a medicinal material.

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately stood up.

"That's right, I'm going to Shang Pharmacy!"

After speaking, Gao Ming walked out directly, and when he saw this scene, the waiter could only follow.

Soon, the two came to the Shang Pharmacy, and when they saw Gao Ming coming, several imperial doctors hurriedly came up to greet him.

"Wechen has seen His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Looking at the few imperial doctors in front of him, Gao Ming nodded suddenly, and then went straight to the point.

"Okay, excuse me, let me ask you, how many agarwoods are there in Shang Pharmacy?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, several imperial doctors immediately looked at each other, and soon, an imperial doctor in a green robe suddenly stepped forward, and then saluted Gao Ming.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Weichen is in charge of the medicine storehouse, this year Lingnan Road sent a total of more than 100 stones of agarwood, including more than 60 stones of inferior agarwood, more than 20 stones of medium agarwood, and more than 10 stones of high-grade agarwood."

“……”

Hearing the number reported by the imperial doctor, Gao Ming immediately opened his mouth wide.

This doesn't matter what the pound is, it's changed to a stone?

One stone, converted into catties, is one hundred and twenty catties, that is to say, the number of agarwood here in Shang Pharmacy has reached tens of thousands of catties!

Nima, is this agarwood or fennel?

Now Gao Ming is even more skeptical, is the agarwood of the Tang Dynasty different from that of later generations?

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately waved his hand towards the imperial doctors.

"Go and get me some agarwood, I'll take a look."

"Yes!"

Hearing Gao Ming's order, the imperial doctors did not dare to slack off, and quickly took out three bags of agarwood and put them in front of Gao Ming.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is the agarwood sent by Lingnan Road this year, Weichen has already seen it, and it is even better than last year's."

Speaking of which, the imperial doctor also secretly glanced at Gao Ming, as if he was worried that he would suddenly get angry.

Gao Ming didn't realize how much pressure his sudden arrival had brought to the imperial doctors, and his attention was all attracted by the three cloth bags in front of him.

"Are these agarwoods?"

At this time, Gao Ming was a little excited, after all, agarwood was something he didn't dare to hope for before, but now it was in front of him, as long as he wanted, he could take it at any time.

Gao Ming began to congratulate himself that he was the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and he suddenly felt that even if he became the emperor in the future, he needed to go to court every day, which was not too difficult to accept.

"The intoxicating beauty of power is here."

As he thought, he opened one of the cloth bags, and as soon as he opened it, a medicinal fragrance that was stronger than before rushed into his nostrils, and his spirits were also lifted.

"It's so fragrant before it is heated, it seems that it should be a good agarwood!"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming reached out and grabbed a few pieces of agarwood from the cloth bag, and looked at the few pieces of dark green agarwood in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh.

"It's really a high-quality agarwood, good, it's really good, it's not easy to have more than a dozen stones of such agarwood a year, I decided to ......"

Gao Ming originally planned to say that he had decided to take all these agarwoods away, but when he raised his head, he found that several imperial doctors were looking at him in surprise, and even the face of the servant was full of astonishment.

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming immediately frowned.

"What's that look on your face? Well? ”

Hearing a hint of unhappiness in Gao Ming's tone, several imperial doctors hurriedly lowered their heads, and the imperial doctor who took out the agarwood just now immediately gritted his teeth, and then bowed to Gao Ming.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince Qiqi, what you are holding in your hand now is ...... It is low-grade agarwood, and there are more than a hundred stones in such an agarwood medicine storehouse, and the high-grade agarwood is the bag on your left. ”

"Uh......"