Chapter 418: The Dust Settles
With Cui'er's hint, Rao is Mrs. Shizi, who is used to her son going out to fight, and she also began to worry about General Wude in the northwest. Not for anything else, just for the bitter cold in the northwest winter, thinking that her son almost died there, Mrs. Shizi's heart was high.
There is something in her heart, Mrs. Shizi can't sleep peacefully at night, Rao has a chrysanthemum pillow sent by Cui'er to calm her nerves, and Mrs. Shizi is still tossing and turning this night. Sleeping until midnight, Mrs. Shizi dreamed that her martial arts were climbing ice and snow in the bitter cold land of the northwest, and she woke up from crying in her sleep, lying in the arms of the prince of Dingguo, crying because her liver and intestines were broken.
Mrs. Shizi was originally an extremely tough woman, and when General Wude returned from being seriously injured in the northwest, the prince of Dingguo did not see his wife crying so gaffe. Now seeing that his wife is so lost, and thinking that his father even used the grain and grass raised by Wude as a bargaining chip in order to fight with General Xiao, he can't help but feel a little indignant in his heart.
Mrs. Shizi didn't know about the court's increase in military rations, but the prince of Dingguo knew it very clearly. Although the prince of Dingguo agreed with his father's desire to remove Xiao Shou's arm, he was very unacceptable, and the military rations on the front line of Wude were also mixed into these things.
After appeasing the old wife, seeing that the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were already wrinkled, and her hair was shining with silver light, the prince of Dingguo felt a little uncomfortable. I didn't sleep for half a night, and the prince of Dingguo thought about how to fight with General Xiao Shouxiao several times, and felt that there was no mistake, so he closed his eyes slightly for a while.
Early the next morning, the prince of Dingguo went to his father's study, and the two talked secretly for several hours behind closed doors. After coming out, it was lightning fast. caught the newly appointed household official a mistake, and coerced him to quickly raise military rations in the northwest, and escorted Lian Qingshan to the northwest.
Seeing Lian Qingshan's vigorous figure leave, Cui'er had mixed feelings in her heart, and she used the power of the back house to help Lian Qingshan get rid of the general's food, but she wanted to watch him go to the northwest again, was her move right or wrong?
As a woman in the inner house. Although Cui'er can analyze some of the situation in the DPRK from Lian Qingshan's words and the rumors in the market. But it's only a small glimpse of it.
Because of the mutual conflict between the two factions caused by Cui'er's assassination, it is naturally impossible to end so quickly, but those are all with Cui'er. and Lian Qingshan, who has gone to the northwest, has nothing to do with it.
Where Cui'er didn't know, Dingguo Gong took advantage of this assassination incident to deal a severe blow to General Xiao's forces. actually took the man in black as an opportunity to impeach a general of the Xiao faction into the wilderness. And General Xiao, who was pressed by Dingguo Gong step by step. It's not easy to mess with, and under the counterattack again and again, he got rid of several nepotistic civil officials under the hands of Dingguo Gong.
Such a result is not what the emperor wants to see. After all, the great world is not the king's land, and the coast of the king's land is not the king's ministers, since they are all my courtiers. Why are you still fighting and annoying?
On the one hand, the emperor was reluctant to give up his brother-in-law, and on the other hand, it was not good to really suppress the courtiers of the elders of the three dynasties. Watching Dingguo Gong and General Xiao Shouxiao fighting with each other, his heart also rose and fell.
For a while, the brother-in-law beat the old minister, and the emperor felt that he was too fond of his relatives, and for a while, the old minister beat the brother-in-law, and the emperor felt that his family had suffered a loss. Such a situation where both sides are not good, and this matter is getting more and more fierce in the court, and it is faintly involved in the war in the northwest, the emperor feels that he can no longer indulge them so much, and with a wave of his hand, he hit fifty boards each, and this matter will stop.
Of course, you have to be careful that the courtiers hold a grudge when they play fifty boards, right? slapped and didn't forget to rub it to a sweet date, and all kinds of rewards poured into the two families from the head of the palace, so that the Manchu civil and military forces were a little confused about what was going on.
For a while, the emperor felt that he was very aggrieved to appease the courtiers, and the courtiers felt that the sacred heart was unpredictable and disappeared, and the dust on the court settled, and it entered an unprecedented quiet time.
Of course, being quiet on the surface does not mean being really quiet, Ding Guogong and General Xiao are waiting, waiting for the next opportunity to knock the opponent down, waiting for the next opportunity to raise their eyebrows.
Of course, although these two bigwigs didn't deal with each other, they didn't have any mercy on the little minions who made trouble. Dingguo Gong hated the Jin family for buying murder, and after Jin Yuman's crime was confirmed, the criminals involved in the case were sentenced to beheading, because it was almost autumn, and it didn't take long for them to be beheaded.
The remaining miscellaneous soldiers were also sentenced to exile on the border, and their family property was confiscated. After such a move, the Huxi Jin family withered almost overnight and never disappeared again.
And the Qian family, who was embarrassed by the Jin family, did not end well, although they did not directly come forward to harm others, but they still couldn't run away from the cooperation and cheating in the selection of the imperial merchants. The head of the family, the direct sons and nephews of the family were all arrested and put in prison, and after most of the family property was confiscated, they were released on Zheng Guogong's thin face.
However, because the Qian family is no longer an imperial businessman, the loss of this business that can bring a lot of income, the Qian family is also seriously injured, and the whole family is hiding in their own house for a long time, and they no longer dare to be arrogant.
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When the dust settled on the court, from the turbulent waves on the bright side to the undercurrent, Cui'er sat at home, still waiting for the news of Lian Qingshan, who went on the expedition again.
Although she knew that the task assigned by General Wude to Lian Qingshan was a military supply in the rear, and it was almost impossible to involve the battle at the border pass, Cui'er couldn't help but worry about her husband in front of her.
Fortunately, there is still a tea shop at home that occupies part of Cui'er's mind, so that although Cui'er is worried about Lian Qingshan, she does not devote all her body and mind to it.
Because the Ye family has officially taken over the affairs of the imperial merchants, the tea supply in the spring of next year will be implemented by the Ye family, and the supply and allocation of thousands of catties of tea is not something that can be done overnight. Because the Ye family won the position of the imperial businessman, the reputation of this Biye Piaoxiang Building has risen sharply, and there is a faint tendency to overpower the original Yingbin Building, the first teahouse in Beijing.
The more powerful the Biye Piaoxiang Building, the more hot the business will be, originally a lot of tea can be sold every day, this time after winning the name of the imperial businessman, the sales of this tea have doubled in just a few days, and there is a faint trend of continuous rise.
In addition to the tea supply of the imperial merchants and the tea supply of her own Biye Piaoxiang Building, Cui'er will naturally not forget the important role played by the Dingguo Mansion in the selection of the imperial merchants. In order to express gratitude, Biye Piaoxianglou covered all the tea consumption of the Dingguo Mansion throughout the year, and even the tea gift box in the table was enough to supply.
Mrs. Wen Xiu refused to take advantage of Cui'er's big advantage, and had to buy tea at the market price.
With such a large demand for tea, supply has become a matter of concern. Every morning, Cui'er, together with her father and eldest brother, are making production plans for the spring of the coming year.
"The imperial merchants have to supply 1,000 catties of high-grade tea, 2,000 catties of medium tea, and 3,000 catties of low-grade tea every month, which is a total of 6,000 catties of tea. High-grade tea and medium-grade tea must be supplied from our own tea garden, and low-grade tea can be bought from other people's homes. "Master Ye carefully counted the supply list provided by the palace, good guy, you will consume six thousand catties of tea a month, this amount is really amazing.
"Well, Biye Piaoxianglou will open three new shops next year, and if each shop sells 30 catties of tea every day, it will sell 120 catties of tea a day, so it will be 3,600 catties a month......"
"The Dingguo Mansion needs to supply 100 catties of high-grade tea, 100 catties of medium tea, and 50 tea gift boxes every month......"
Counting this one by one, the Ye family can sell at least 10,000 catties of tea every month, even if this 10,000 catties of tea only earns one or two taels of silver per catty, it is also a full income of 10,000 taels of silver. In a year, it is more than 100,000 taels, and this income is really considerable!
"Our tea garden, not to mention the production of 10,000 catties of tea every month, even 5,000 catties is a little difficult...... Ye Qing carefully calculated the output of his own tea garden, "Even if you add the tea garden in the capital and Cui'er in the backing mountain, it can guarantee 5,000 catties at most." ”
"Fortunately, the Jin family and the Qian family have failed, and their tea gardens are being auctioned by the government.
"There are also many small families in Huxi, who want to take refuge in our family, after all, it is also a supreme honor to be able to catch the ride of the imperial merchants and pay tribute to their tea to the Great Interior!"
After ten days of discussion, the tea production plan for the coming year was finally formulated. In addition to their own tea garden, the Ye family also generously pulled the Zhao family in Huxi and several small families in Huxi into their chariots, responsible for supplying low-grade tea to their families.
Of course, this supply is not just a nice thing to say, after all, it is a tribute to the palace, if the quality is too poor and someone returns the goods or even drinks something, this is not a matter that can be done by losing money.
Therefore, when cooperating, the terms of reward and punishment were signed in black and white, in addition to the routine very strict inspection, once there was a problem with the tea produced by several companies, it was the same as the Ye family to be held accountable.
When the snow fell quietly in the first game, the dust settled on the court and the things that the Ye family needed to be busy with. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and it's time for the family to reunite. (To be continued)
ps: I oath that I have a bad fever today, and I barely coded it for a while, and forgive me for the unsatisfactory writing~
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