Chapter 38: The Economic Crisis of the Princess's Mansion (2nd Update)

The princess's mansion has suffered an economic crisis, which is a big novelty.

Zi'er's narrative is like this.

Li Shuang'er originally promised to purchase a batch of high-quality fabrics from Hangzhou for the concubines of **, but who would have thought that they were in trouble and the funds could not be returned, so the batch of fabrics was temporarily stranded, but the people in the palace were still waiting to ask for it, which was to turn Li Shuang'er anxiously.

This sounds a bit ridiculous, Xu Chen couldn't help asking, isn't there an enshrinement official in the palace, how can this princess buy it, and go all the way to Hangzhou to buy it?

Zi'er said that you don't know this, when the princess was in the palace in the past, she was in charge of the fabric procurement, the princess was careful and serious, and the fabrics she chose were all the best of the best, and she naturally won the trust of the best beauties.

Most of the summer fabrics are used to make skirts and underwear, the quality of the fabric is known at a try, the top-grade fabric feels soft, silky and delicate, and the wearing feels refreshing, and the medium-grade fabric feels slightly worse, but it is difficult for laymen to distinguish, of course, those worshippers are naturally insiders, but they are much more shrewd, even if the royal oil and water dare to fish, so those concubines will make up the money and let Shuang'er buy it for them.

Everyone didn't buy much, but there were many people, and this was the money of more than 200 people, including the princesses who got married, the concubines of the prince's family, etc., mainly because Li Shuang'er had done a good job in the palace before, and her reputation was very good, even if she got married, she still had to handle these things.

Li Shuang'er can not shirk, the purchase of cloth for several years, it is also quite experienced, at first just in the palace idle boring, then the cloth has a study, she is talented, soon mastered the skills, of course, she will not personally go to Hangzhou to buy cloth, is to order someone to send a few samples, and then let their cronies go to Hangzhou to purchase, this cloth is sent to the palace, and the bid is higher, those businessmen no matter how black-hearted they dare not pit the royal money.

Without the participation of those offerings, the purchase of fabrics has become much simpler, but this time there is a problem, the funds are not enough, Hangzhou only paid a deposit, and the cloth will not be shipped here if you don't see the money after the cloth is produced.

But why is the money not enough, you must know that this princess has two thousand taels of food, and Li San also gave one hundred taels of gold at the wedding, plus those women pooled money to buy cloth, why is there a shortage of funds? The fact is that the liquidity of this princess's mansion is very small, and it is still very short of money.

The princess's mansion has to feed hundreds of people every day, and it takes a lot of liquidity to lend usury, which will not reach the harvest before the crops, and the two thousand quintals of Yulu will not be able to be collected.

Loan sharking is the money-making choice of most princesses of the Tang Dynasty, and there are many people who do some business, after all, to feed these many people, that dead salary is not enough, Li San also gave Li Shuang'er dozens of acres of land, and there is no time to use it now.

Things are as simple as that, Hangzhou's cloth money is not delivered, and the palace is urgent, and Li Shuang'er has no funds to fill the vacancy, so she is in a hurry.

If the money is not enough, ask Li San for it, but the princess is a person who wants to die to save face, and she borrowed money from her family soon after she got married, which is still rare in princesses in previous dynasties, she doesn't want others to laugh at her, affecting her shrewd and capable image.

How much money is missing? Zi'er said that the princess had borrowed a little, but she was still short of more than a thousand taels.

Xu Chen was startled in his heart, grandma's, he just earned more than a thousand taels yesterday, if he can't do it, he has to go back to the room and hide it quickly, this person can do anything in a hurry, in case Yiyan Honghong snatches away my hard-earned money, it will be a bad thing.

Xu Chen and Zi'er chatted for a while, and then left in a hurry, although he and the princess are nominal husband and wife, but in fact they have nothing to do with each other, just close the window and sleep well, it's none of your business......

When he was about to have dinner, Zi'er ran to him and told him that the princess had invited him to come over for dinner.

Damn, what tricks do you want to play? No, are you trying to borrow money from me? This is impossible, usually this Nizi never asks about her own affairs, she may not know the money she made yesterday, even if she knows, with her surname, she will definitely not borrow money from herself, and now the only reasonable explanation is that she wants to discuss the plan after the showdown with herself, so she can't help but go, Xu Chen thought to himself.

Li Shuang'er was sitting in the pavilion in the courtyard at the moment, frowning alone in front of a large table of dishes.

The purpose of her meal is very clear, that is, she wants Xu Chen to borrow money, she really can't help it, and now she received the urging from the palace again, she dragged it on for too long, so that the people in the palace thought that the princess had swallowed the money privately, and the worship officer no longer participated in the purchase of cloth, which completely became Shuang'er's business, and she hadn't taken out the cloth until now, so how could people live in the summer, how could she not wear new clothes.

It's not that I haven't explained, but it's been too long, at first people thought you were a princess, and remembered the previous credit, but now you're not delaying, the fabric is Hangzhou's good, Hangzhou has been back and forth for nearly a month, you can't buy it, even if you let the worship official go, you have to process and produce, and when you return to Chang'an, it will be autumn long ago.

So Li Shuang'er was in a daze, why did she get things to this field? She thought that it would be easy to lend usury, so when Fu Cheng mentioned it to her, she agreed without hesitation, and she didn't ask these days, but she didn't expect that this usury would go and never return, it was a bottomless pit, which was completely her negligence.

It's really desperate, today I heard that Xu Chen sold the book to make a thousand taels, and actually defeated Chen Wenxuan, she didn't feel too shocked after hearing this, maybe this colt always surprised her and was numb, if something strange happened to the pony, she would not hesitate to believe it.

After hearing that Xu Chen had a thousand taels, Li Shuang'er seemed to see a life-saving straw, and for a moment she felt that it was natural to borrow money from the concubine, and at that moment she mistook this concubine for her real husband, in fact, it is very good to have such a husband, who can make money and write poetry, and will do right, completely forgetting how she treated Xu Chen in the first place, hey, woman, woman.

So she decided to be cheeky and borrow a thousand taels of this colt to save the emergency.

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