Chapter 24 The small people are not profitable
The moment the bun cage drawer in the Yun family's camp was opened, the rest of the people in the camp looked at each other in unison.
Seeing that the hot, white and fat buns exuding a strong fragrance were taken out of the cage by the cooks, it was not only the children who sucked the saliva.
Xungui still has some dignity, so naturally it is impossible to lick his face and beg for it, so he can only cover the eyes of his children and take them back to the tent.
So, the child's cry resumed.
The little servants of the Yun family, the maids are diligent with their hands and feet, and they each carry a plate of steamed buns and send them to each household quickly, and they can't wait to send a few more by themselves.
The Yun family's buns don't cost money, and a few buns are not worth a return gift, but the reward for the little maid and the maid can't be less, so it doesn't take much effort for the maid to quickly bulge up the money bag hanging on the belt, and it clanges when she runs.
The palace maid beside Li Si carried two huge food boxes, and Yunjin's maid held two rectangular boxes, followed Li Siyunjin to the entrance of the palace where the emperor was stationed, waiting for the queen to summon him.
After a while, Mama Chun came out, just glanced at the rectangular box in the maid's hand, and immediately sniffled and said, "Buns? Why is it so fragrant? ”
Yun Jin smiled: "I heard that some ...... were added to it"
Mama Chun didn't wait for Yun Jin to finish speaking, and immediately said: "The secret recipe at home is better not to talk nonsense." ”
Yun Jin looked at Mama Chun's eyes and immediately became very strange.
Li Si pointed to the two food boxes and said, "This is the meal that the Yun family respects." ”
Mama Chun said: "Take the bun and salute it?" ”
Li Si pouted and said, "It's much better than any vegetarian food, I ate six alone in the morning!" ”
Mama Chun looked left and right and found that the rest of the guards were far away, so she whispered to Li Si, "You don't smile at me anymore." ”
Li Si said angrily: "You know the reason yourself. ”
After that, he took Yunjin to the palace, and Mama Chun followed: "That's all nonsense." ”
Li Si snorted, ignored Mama Chun, and continued to walk forward.
The emperor lived in the middle hall, and the queen lived in the palace on the left, and both palaces had no names, and the lintels were bare, but there was a place for hanging plaques, which had been removed since the emperor moved in.
Li Si, Yun Jin knelt in the front hall of the queen's bedroom, Yun Jin looked bored at a little girl who was placed in the cradle, this child was lying on the edge of the cradle and drooling and looking at the two of them, very cute.
However, Li Si's eyes were on Li Xian, who was sitting behind a low table and writing, and since Li Si came in, Li Xian's writing attitude was extraordinarily correct.
On a low table next to Li Xian, there was an even younger boy, who was painting red, but his two eyes were always peeking at Li Si and Yun Jin.
Li Si came to Li Xian's back and found that the hairs on the back of this guy's neck were standing up, so he leaned down and grabbed Li Xian's head and said, "Emperor Taizong's handwritten "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is not something you can copy half-heartedly now. ”
Li Xian broke free of Li Si's clamps, blocked in front of him with both hands and said, "I can't write well, and you can't beat me." ”
Li Si slapped his hand away and said, "I brought you some delicious food, don't always say that I beat you." ”
As he spoke, he took out a hot bun from the food box and stuffed it directly into Li Xian's hand and said, "Eat it quickly, it's not delicious if it's cold." ”
Li Xian looked at the bun in his hand and swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "You didn't put poison in it, did you?" ”
Li Si snatched the bun and took a hard bite, then returned the rest to Li Xian, chewing and saying, "Now don't worry, right?" ”
Li Xian took a bite with confidence, and then his eyes lit up, and he ate it in three or two bites.
Li Si turned his head to look at the young Li Dan and said, "Are you afraid of poison?" ”
Li Dan shook his head again and again, so Li Dan got a bun that was just warm, and at this time, Li Xian had already begun to eat the second one.
After Yun Jin looked at the two brothers, he refocused his eyes on the box in front of him, and it was obvious that the two brothers opposite were two stupid ones, and they were not worth her second glance.
When Wu Mei came in, she found that Li Xian and Li Dan were eating around the food box, and Taiping was held in Li Si's arms, and he was also biting a huge bun with his toothless mouth.
glanced at Mama Chun and found that she was holding a bun in both hands, eating like a marmot, so she didn't say anything.
When Li Si saw his mother coming, he hurriedly hugged Taiping and said, "The child brought delicious food to the queen mother." ”
Wu Mei glanced at the buns in the food box and said indifferently: "Don't eat the delicious food, talk about things." ”
Li Si turned around and gave the Taiping to Mama Chun, holding the wooden box in front of Yun Jin and said, "I want to ask my mother to see how the Yun family's female celebrity is." ”
Wu Mei smiled: "This is your filial piety?" ”
Li Si pointed at Yun Jin and said, "It's Yun Jin's heart." ”
Wu Mei looked at Yun Jin and beckoned, and when the child passed, she picked up Yun Jin's jaw with her fingers, looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "A little less heroic than your brother, more charming, is this your female celebrity?" ”
Yun Jin's throat thumped and nodded.
Wu Mei said with a smile: "It is said that the Yun family children are all brilliant, but today I want to see where you are." ”
As Wu Mei waved her hand, someone from the palace immediately stepped forward to open the box and showed the embroidery inside in front of Wu Mei.
Just by glancing at it, Wu Mei immediately asked, "How many colors are used?" ”
Yun Jin said: "Back to the queen, twenty-seven colors were used, and each color was divided into eight colors. ”
Li Si immediately answered: "Two hundred and sixteen kinds." ”
Wu Mei said: "Where is the silk thread?" ”
Yun Jin opened the second box and let the palace people hold it so that the queen could see it clearly.
Wu Mei grabbed some silk threads and put them in front of her and looked at them carefully for a while and said, "How can there be so many colors?" ”
Yun Jin said: "Blue and red are purple, blue and yellow are green, blue and black are gray, and so on, you will always get many colors." ”
Wu Mei saw that Yunjin was reluctant to say more, so she looked at the colorful dragon and phoenix Chengxiang tent and said, "Yes, give ten times of money." ”
Li Si said on the side: "Such a good thing, it took three hundred embroiderers to be busy for two months, and then give ten pieces of money?" ”
Wu Mei sneered and said to Yun Jin: "I won't give you the opportunity for the Yun clan to make huge profits, the last time your father presented the Pearl of the East China Sea, the palace didn't notice it for a while, and made some jewelry with beads, and as a result, in an instant, the price of Chang'an Dongzhu skyrocketed a hundred times."
Didn't your father tell you that this kind of thing is indispensable? ”
Yun Jin showed disappointment, tears were rolling in her eyes, but she still said bravely: "As long as the queen likes it, the courtiers will be infinitely happy, but this thing is related to the livelihood of countless embroidery girls in the future, and Yun Jin does not dare to receive the reward." ”
Wu Mei laughed and said: "It's really your Yun family's faction, opening your mouth to the people, and closing your mouth to the world, it's a pity, even if you cry, this palace will not be soft-hearted, you want to sell silk threads, even if you have the ability to sell it, you just can't use this palace as a raft."
In this way, it will seem that Hongu is a fool. ”
When Yun Jin heard this, Shi Li retreated and knelt down in his original position again, although tears flowed down, his back was straight, and his swan-like beautiful neck supported the head of a little beauty, not hiding his disappointment and sadness, but her stubborn side was undoubtedly revealed.
Li Xian couldn't bear to watch it on the side, so he said to his mother: "Queen Mother......"
Without waiting for Wu Mei to react, Yun Jin took the first step to glare at Li Xian, and let Li Xian's words swallow hard.
This scene was seen by Wu Mei, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, except for the crown prince Li Hong, the rest of the children didn't seem to be able to handle it.
The children of the Yun family saw Yun Jin, Yun Jin, a pair of twins, Yun Jin didn't say anything, as the eldest son of the scholar clan who will be the top of the family in the future, he is definitely qualified.
The eldest daughter of the Yun family in front of her does not seem to be a good stubble, and the woman next to her, even those knighted women, do not dare to speak loudly in front of her queen, but this little woman can clearly express her request clearly, clearly, after getting an answer that does not meet her requirements, she can still insist on her own opinion, but it is somewhat similar to Yu Xiurong, she is a strong woman.
Li Si saw that the queen mother looked at Yunjin thoughtfully, and knew that today's good thing might not be done, with her mother's temperament, if she couldn't say it, then it would definitely not work, and there was no room for turnaround.
Just when Li Siwei was about to take Yun Jin to say goodbye, she accidentally saw a giant bear with a thief head and a thief brain, and then her eyes lit up, and she immediately shouted: "The queen mother is unreasonable, and the child goes to find the father and the emperor to theorize." ”
Immediately, Li Si heard the emperor's clear voice coming from behind the curtain: "If you want to find my theory, this can't be done, what your mother doesn't agree to you is, you still can't agree to your father's place." ”
As Li Zhi spoke, he walked in with the giant bear, who had already smelled the food, and naturally came to the side of the food box and looked back at Li Zhi.
Li Zhi looked at Yun Jin who bowed to him and said, "Whose little lady are you?" ”
Wu Mei smiled and said, "Yun Jin, the eldest daughter of the Yun family." ”
Li Zhi glanced at Yun Jin again and said: "Oh, it's his family, no wonder the queen didn't agree to her request, the Yun family is a nest of people, but if you ask for something, you have to refuse, and after refusing, you have to consider whether you are not refusing thoroughly enough."
What did she ask for this time? ”
Wu Mei pointed to the tent spread out by the palace maid and said, "I plan to sell this account to the palace at a high price, and then go back to brag to all the ladies about how good her Yun embroidery is, and finally make a lot of money." ”
Li Zhi came to the tent and squinted his eyes for a while and said: "The colors are gorgeous, not to mention the embroidery work that is more vivid than before, it seems to be more agile."
How much is she going to sell? ”
Yun Jin hurriedly said: "It's dedicated to the queen." Don't dare to say sell. ”
Wu Mei couldn't help but smile and said, "This palace gave ten pieces of money. ”
Li Zhi looked at Yun Jin with a smile and said, "Give less?" ”
Yun Jin said: "It's not that there are fewer courtiers, it's less for those embroidery girls who need to rely on embroiderers to survive, if such an account is told to others that it is only worth ten times, their lives will be more difficult." ”
Hearing this, Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei and said: "It's rare to think about embroidery girls in the world, she is a good child, the queen might as well add a little more." ”
Wu Mei nodded solemnly and said: "Okay, Your Majesty has spoken, and the palace will naturally comply, so add consistent money, a total of ten consistent." ”
Li Si, who was originally full of expectations, suddenly said: "This is not enough, the queen mother is the world, and you can't compare the baht." ”
Wu Mei sneered and said: "Chang'an opens a yarn factory, women all over the world have tears rippling, Chang'an yarn factory has one more spindle, and women in other places have to spin one less spindle."
Chang'an yarn factory weaves a four-zhang cotton linen cloth, it takes one day, sells fifty wen, you can get five buckets of corn, and it takes half a month for peasant women to weave the same linen, but because it is not produced in Chang'an, it can only be sold for forty wen, and four buckets of grain.
You must know that in the past, a peasant woman could spin a piece of linen cloth for 70 wen and get 6 buckets of grain.
Yunjin, tell me, in addition to the female textile workers in Chang'an, the more textile women in the world have benefited, or have they suffered? ”
(End of chapter)