Chapter 54: The Incident
It is estimated that when he used the small kitchen in the inner study hall last night, he happened to be seen by the emperor, otherwise how would the emperor know that he used the small kitchen last night, or steamed fish, the emperor must also be greedy, but he was embarrassed to grab food with a little eunuch, so he had to hold back until today to ask for the guilt, otherwise why did he just take his own fish away, and did not punish the crime, and let himself give him steamed fish!
At noon, the emperor sandwiched the steamed tender white fish, and enjoyed eating it very much, it was really fragrant, this is the smell I smelled last night!
The emperor ate deliciously, and Tianling stood aside, expressionless, secretly scolding the brazen in his heart! Not to mention robbing other people's fish, but also letting people serve it to him to eat, is this a distortion of human nature or a moral degradation!
After the emperor finished eating, he wiped his mouth with satisfaction, and Tianling hurriedly stepped forward, wanting to take the opportunity to clean up the dishes and chopsticks and retire.
As a result, as soon as his hand touched the chopsticks, he was stopped by the emperor. "Did you take it?"
Tian Ling looked at a plate of fish bones and thought to himself, what's the matter? That's all there are leftover bones, don't let you take them and want to keep them for the next meal?
"You did the work?" The emperor said to the Heavenly Spirit, "Come here." ”
Tianling walked up to the emperor in a daze, a little confused, isn't he a eunuch? Aren't eunuchs the emperor's minions? Aren't minions doing this kind of work?
"My fellow scholars say they have something important to do, so you can stay and listen." The Emperor continued.
Tianling was shocked in his heart, when the court scholar performed a thing, let him let a little eunuch observe?
There must be something strange in this, and if nothing else, it should be related to the active bookshelf.
Sure enough, the scholars came for the bookshelves, saying that the new shelves in the major bookstores in the capital are very different from the previous shelves for storing books, which is not only convenient for reference, but also more conducive to the maintenance of books, which is particularly suitable for the Son of Heaven Library, and hopes that the emperor can introduce this new shelf into the library.
The Emperor glanced at the Heavenly Spirit thoughtfully, and then asked, "What is its price?" ”
"The price of a shelf is ten taels of silver." A university scholar immediately said.
"So expensive?" The emperor directly refused, "All the people in my library know very well that there are five floors, how much can a shelf fit?" All replaced, not a single seven or eight hundred can work? Now the treasury is empty, there are often riots on the border, and silver is needed everywhere. ”
"Besides, the shelves in the library building are still usable, so I am not in a hurry to replace them at this time."
"Your Majesty, this kind of shelf is very easy to handle, and there is no paper damage, and it can even play a role in reducing the mold and insect damage of books······" The scholar tried to convince the emperor.
"After taking it for so many years, it's suddenly inconvenient?" The emperor asked rhetorically, "With this shelf, you don't report the loss every year?" ”
"It's not that you don't report it, it's that it will reduce a lot of unnecessary losses······ The scholar is still holding on.
"It's okay to change." The emperor relented.
The scholars were overjoyed and were about to thank him, when the emperor said, "The money for the recruitment and distribution of soldiers by the Ministry of War has stopped, and if I promise you now, those people from the Ministry of War will not come to me to talk to me?" This is seven or eight thousand taels of silver! If the Aiqing can solve the problem of the money by themselves, they will change it. ”
The academics were ossified on the spot, where do they have the money to change?!
"You don't have any money, I'm not the same? We all know the difficulty of not having money, why bother to make it difficult for Aiqing? The emperor's tone lowered, as if he had been greatly wronged.
Fellow Scholars: ······
Celestial Spirit: ······
The scholars left with regret, leaving the Heavenly Spirit alone to face the emperor.
Tianling was also a little surprised, the price of the active bookshelf was actually sold for ten taels of silver! He has been staying in the palace and has little concept of silver, but he has been out of the palace several times, bought some food, and knows that one penny copper coin can buy a string of sugar gourds, which is probably equivalent to two yuan in his previous life, and one or two silver here can be exchanged for five hundred copper coins, that is to say, this activity bookshelf is now sold for as many as 10,000 yuan on one side!
Tianling knew that this bookshelf would be highly sought after as soon as it came out, so before that, he asked Zuo Wen to set the price as high as possible, and if he has money, he will not make a bastard, although he has nowhere to spend the money now, but it is not wrong to have money in his pocket.
But Tianling didn't expect it to be sold at such a high price!
He made thousands of calculations, but he only missed that the emperor had no money!
Today, the emperor specially left him to listen to the scholars, and it is estimated that he also knows that he is the one who sells the active bookshelf, and now the emperor's attitude towards the bookshelves in the library building is very clear, and he can change it, but he doesn't pay for it, and he clearly wants to break the white scoop (note: the last four characters are pinyin)!
If the emperor really didn't want to change the bookshelves, he wouldn't have left him, a bookshelf seller, to listen to the scholars!
Tianling can understand why those books always love to give armor the name of dragon scale armor, because dragon skin is really thick! It's simply invulnerable, who uses who knows! Just look at the emperor.
From the time the scholars entered the temple to the time they went out, the heavenly spirits have always maintained a state of concern with their eyes, noses, noses, mouths, and mouths. He had already made up his mind that if the emperor did not speak, he would not know anything, and see who could beat whom.
"Now that the west of the city is open, and the merchants are all open, what do you do with the shop I rewarded you?" In the end, the emperor couldn't hold back and spoke first.
"Back to Your Majesty, the small one is in the palace, naturally he can't take care of the shop, and he doesn't know anyone, the Ministry of Industry Lord Song is kind-hearted, and he pities the small one, so he recommended the person who rented his shop to me, and the small one also wanted to rent the shop to him at the beginning, but the man said that he didn't rent it, and said that the things to be sold were very expensive, and the shop of Lord Song was exhausted, and he was raising money to open it, if he couldn't raise it, I am afraid that even Lord Song's shop would not be rented." When Tian Ling said this, he showed a shy smile and said,
Then the little one asked the man what kind of business he was doing and what he was selling, and the man said that he was selling things for scholars, and it happened that the little one had saved a little silver in his hand, so he said to him, Give him the shop for free, and give him the silver for the opening of the business, as long as he gives a small profit."
"He was already exhausted at that time, so he agreed to partner with him with silver and shops, and converted the silver money he put in, and divided the small thirty percent of the dividends."
These are all the words that Tianling had discussed with Lord Song and Zuo Wen before, and when Tianling did this, he took this situation into account and made such a preparation just in case.
After all, the shop was rewarded by the emperor, and it was easy to find his head, he originally wanted to find a partnership with Lord Song, but he was an official and did not do business, and this thing was blown, and now it seems that this is a good thing, just to be able to take out Lord Song and him!
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