Fu Xi looked at Hua Ronghua in surprise and then looked at the Tsing Yi people beside him, and smiled: "Mrs. Hua, this is the head of Lu from the household department, who is responsible for the accounts of Fanwutang; Director Lu, this is the wife of the newly canonized general of the three-rank chariot cavalry of the imperial court. ”

The household department is mainly responsible for the country's financial and tax revenues, and the main business is from the six products. It is said that after listening to Fuxi's words, Director Lu should salute Hua Ronghua, after all, the rank is there. To the surprise of Fuxi and Mr. Xiao, neither Mrs. Hua nor Director Lu spoke, and the atmosphere between the two was quite strange.

Mrs. Hua was more surprised, but Director Lu was embarrassed and uncomfortable, and the two of them glanced at each other and turned their heads at the same time.

Mr. Xiao looked at the two of them and asked tentatively, "Are the two of you old acquaintances?" ”

Director Lu perfunctorily arched his hand at Fuxi and Mr. Xiao, "I have taken a step in advance." Without waiting for them to speak, he hurried away, looking at his appearance as if he had fled in the wilderness.

Fuxi and Mr. Xiao looked at Hua Ronghua in puzzlement.

"Huh." Hua Ronghua laughed dryly, but did not explain anything, but in her heart she felt that there was a burst of blood, and she didn't expect to meet Lu Wenping in the capital!

In order to prevent these two people from continuing to ask, Hua Ronghua directly asked about the sea ship, "Do you know what the Fanbang goods transported back from Nanzhou are?" ”

Fuki nodded, "There's a list." It's just that we haven't seen some of the goods in it, and we don't know what those things do! ”

"Show it to me." Hua Ronghua thought to himself that there were some things they didn't recognize, maybe he knew what they were.

When a few people entered the house, Fuxi handed one or two pieces of paper to Hua Ronghua and explained, "This is an excerpt from the recital behind Hai Daren. ”

"Hai-sama?"

Mr. Xiao explained on the side: "Haida is the commander of the Nanzhou Navy Army, and the two sea ships were built by him. ”

"Oh." Hua Ronghua replied and looked down at the two pieces of paper. I saw that it was written, 60,000 catties of agarwood, 60,000 catties of incense, 20,000 catties of Jialan incense, and 10,000 catties of gold and silver incense......

Seeing this, she couldn't help but ask, "Are there so many spices on those two ships?" ”

"Haida said that he specially bought a boat at a low price in the local area and shipped it back." Obviously, Mr. Xiao knows a lot about the content of the recital.

Hua Ronghua sighed and looked down, in addition to spices, there were 30,000 catties of sumu, 20,000 catties of pepper, two boxes of rubies, one box of sapphires, one box of emeralds and chrysoberyls, etc., what surprised her the most was the last two, one divine beast and seven holy slaves.

What kind of mythical beast is a mythical beast? Is a holy slave a slave?

Faced with Hua Ronghua's question, Mr. Xiao and Fuxi also shook their heads. Fuxi said: "I just don't know what these two things are, it's not easy to arrange!" He smiled again: "I thought Mrs. Hua could know a little bit!" ”

Hua Ronghua wondered, "Why don't you all know that I can know?" ”

Fuxi said as a matter of course: "Mrs. Hua even speaks so well that no one knows how to speak, so naturally she should know everything about Fanbang." ”

The speaker has no intention of listening, Hua Ronghua was excited in his heart, and said secretly, did he show too much? If you are burned to death as an alien, it will be miserable, and it seems that you will have to hide it in the future! Thinking of this, he smiled and said: "I know a lot because I have a good memory, and I remember it when I heard my father's friend talk about Fanbang, so I remember it a little, as for this divine beast and holy slave, I have never heard of it and have never seen it, so naturally I don't know." If you know, wouldn't you be a prophet of the unknown? ”

"Alas, this is so miserable, if those two things are transported back, we are not even ready to arrange a place, Your Highness will not be angry and punish us?" Fuxi looks like he has nothing to love.

Hua Ronghua endured it and finally spoke: "Although I don't know what they are, they should be living creatures, right?" It's just that I don't know what they eat and how big they are, so it's better for us to choose a few places first, and then send someone to ask them before deciding where to put them. ”

Mr. Xiao nodded, "Exactly, I'll arrange for someone to ask for clarification." ”

Looking at the spices written on the previous piece of paper, Hua Ronghua frowned, "If this spice is not put in well, it will taste good, right?" I don't know what to do. ”

"Mrs. Hua can rest assured that the spices, sumac wood and pepper will all be received by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and we don't need to store them." Mr. Xiao said with a smile.

"Then we don't have anything to arrange for the rest! Gems or something just find a warehouse and lock it, the divine beast and the holy slave have to wait for news, oh, and those sailors who go to sea, they have to arrange a place to stay. Hua Ronghua looked up at the two of them, and felt that if it was just these, they should be able to arrange it, right? Why do you have to do it yourself?

It was Mr. Xiao who said the reason, "Your Highness thinks that the things of Fanbang will definitely arouse the interest of the major magnates and tycoons, so he has released the news that an exhibition will be held in the capital at the beginning of next month, because the time is relatively tight, and he wants Mrs. Hua to be in charge of the exhibition." ”

"Early next month?" Hua Ronghua said in surprise: "This time is too tight, doesn't it mean that the people and goods in the fleet will take half a month to arrive?" When they arrived, it was almost the end of the month, and they had to order the goods to inspect and present them to the emperor for inspection, how could the exhibition be held at the beginning of next month? ”

Mr. Xiao was a little embarrassed, he couldn't say that the prince was too proud of the summons, right? When he found out that something was wrong, the emperor's list was already out, so he brought Mrs. Hua back for emergency.

Hua Ronghua sighed, "Forget it, Mr. Xiao, when you send someone to meet the fleet, tell the sea master a few things, one is to take care of the divine beast, and find a few people who can speak well, and prepare to talk about their going to sea, and there will be a bonus for talking about it." ”

"Mrs. Hua wants to ......" Mr. Xiao's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands, "Wonderful, let those who come to the exhibition go to watch the divine beasts first, so that we also have plenty of time to prepare, Mrs. Hua is really resourceful." ”

"Hehe, just a little bit of caution." Speaking of the trade fair, even if she wants to hide it, she can't hide it in this case, if it is messed up, then she will lose her sacred heart, not to mention, even the three grades of money will be gone!

"Also, once the Fanbang items arrive this time, we will not hold an exhibition, but an auction."

"Auction?" Mr. Xiao and Fuxi were both stunned.

Mr. Xiao frowned, thought about it carefully and asked, "Did Mrs. Hua talk about auctions before?" ”

"I said I said it, but then it was an exhibition. But this time, it won't work, not to mention anything else, it's those spices, if they are really on display outside, won't they get wet in case of rain? So we can't sell these things out there. ”

Mr. Xiao thought for a moment, "This is also the case, but if it is in the house, there is not such a big space!" He thought about it for a while, and found that he wanted to find a place as big as the square in front of Yongning Gate unless it was on the Jinluan Palace, heh, who would dare!

Hua Ronghua smiled, "We organize auctions in different venues, each auction of several commodities, the number of items is different, let those who want to participate in the auction sign up for which one, then we set the reserve price, the highest price wins." ”

Next, Hua Ronghua briefly explained the auction process she knew, and Mr. Xiao and the others also added it, and it was simply decided.

"Tell the prince about this, and see if there is anything else that needs to be added. I'll go back first, and I'll come back tomorrow. ”

Seeing Hua Ronghua get up to leave, Mr. Xiao was a little surprised, shouldn't she wait until the prince came back to explain in person and then get a commendation?

Seeing the surprised eyes of the two people, Hua Ronghua said: "If I leave for too long, the two children will make trouble, if not, then I will go back later." Finally, he asked with some concern, "I don't know when the prince will come back?" ”

Mr. Xiao hurriedly said: "Your Highness will not return to the house until dinner time these days, if Mrs. Hua is worried about the two sons, she will leave first." ”

Hua Ronghua thought about it and decided to go back, to be honest, she was really afraid that the old lady would steal the two children away! I rushed home with a lot of worries all the way and urged the coachman several times, but fortunately, when I got home, the two children were still playing crazy at home!

On the other side, Mr. Hua Xiao sent away Hua Rong and asked Fuxi, "Mrs. Hua has met Master Lu before?" ”

Fuxi thought for a moment and shook his head, "No, Mrs. Hua's return this is the first time to come to Fanwutang." ”

Mr. Xiao thought thoughtfully, "That's weird, they don't look like they're meeting for the first time." ”

"Maybe they've seen it somewhere else." Fuxi said casually.

Mr. Xiao's eyes lit up and asked, "Which adult's side branch is that Master Lu?" From which county did you transfer to Beijing? ”

Fuxi scratched his head and shook his head, "It is said that after the lord is not an official eunuch, his family is a very ordinary farmer, and he did not get good results in the scientific examination. ”

"Where did that prefectural magistrate serve?" Seeing Fuxi shaking his head, Mr. Xiao urged him, "Hurry up and ask." ”

When Fuxi took the information of Director Lu to Mr. Xiao, the corners of Mr. Xiao's mouth couldn't help twitching, and he finally knew why Mrs. Hua and the principal were so embarrassed.

Today, the prince came back later, and it is said that the emperor left the prince to eat before coming back.

Mr. Xiao showed the plan of the auction to the prince, and told him everything about the day.

The prince smiled, "Mrs. Hua really has some magical powers in business, and this form of auction has never been heard of by those merchants in Jiangnan who have been passed down for generations. There is no need to change it, just do what Mrs. Hua wants. ”

"Yes." Mr. Xiao responded, and also took out the information of Director Lu, "I'm afraid there is something wrong with this Director Lu." ”

"Wrong? Whose man is he? The prince frowned.

"It's not." Mr. Xiao suddenly wanted to laugh, "Your Highness, let's take a look at the information of this Lu Chief." ”

The prince glanced at it casually, "Lu Wenping, who used to be an official of Anping County......" suddenly raised his head and looked at Mr. Xiao, who was looking down, "Anping County is not ......"

Mr. Xiao explained: "Mrs. Hua is also from Anping County, and she is also the divorced wife of the head of Lu! The subordinates felt that if the two of them were together, they would be extremely uncomfortable, and it would be easy to cause General Gongxi to misunderstand, so it was best to change people. ”

To change people, Mrs. Hua is going to hold an auction, and she can't change it, and if she wants to change it, she can only change the head of Lu.

The crown prince frowned, "But at this time, doesn't the re-election of the tent room of the Fanwu Hall give those people in the court a reason to stuff people here?" That's it, you go and ask Mrs. Xia Hua tomorrow, if she doesn't like it, she will remove Master Lu, and then you will be in charge of the accounting. ”

"Yes."