To put it bluntly, this filial piety wood incense is a product that Zhou Yu specially "made up" in order to allow everyone to cut their hair, and it itself is made of unique wood and flowers from a small hill near the capital, and it will have a smell different from ordinary incense when burned. And the box, too, was made of wood from the mountains and milled by carpenters, and nothing was specifically pointed out. As for the small bronze square tripod, it is just an ordinary bronze product.

But the great thing about these seemingly ordinary things that can sell well in Beijing is that Zhou Yu exaggerates their marketing.

First of all, this filial piety wood incense, Zhou Yu's description of it is that after burning three incense sticks, the shaved hair will accumulate for the merits of the parents, and if the parents are still alive, it will increase their longevity in the yang world, and bless the two elders to be safe and secure and live a long life; If the parents have passed away, add their underworld creation, and pray for the two elders to have more blessings and good luck and health in the next life. Next is this filial piety wooden box, all those who cut off their hair in other places need to collect the incense ashes of filial piety wood incense in this box, and then bring back to their hometown every year in person or ask someone to bury the land, in order to play a role in accumulating merit for their parents. As for the use of this filial piety hall Fangding, it is very simple, people who have not left their hometown can directly insert incense in the ding, and bury the incense ash in the ding into the soil every year on Chinese New Year's Eve.

In this era, the market potential of this commodity is very huge, but in fact, it is just making money. Zhou Yu also thought about this kind of thing carefully, so he divided the level of filial piety wood incense into three categories: first, second and third. The first grade of incense is very expensive, and a set of three pieces of incense costs thirty taels of silver; The third-grade incense is very cheap, and it only sells for ten cents a group; As for the second-grade ones, there are some special ones, which are specially sold to candidates taking the imperial examination. Some people will cut their inventions before the exam, so they also need this product. Its sales model is also very special, the second grade of incense sells for 20 Wen in a group, with the candidate's identity certificate to buy, who is in the follow-up examination of high school, the small shop will give a group of a grade of incense; If it's unfortunate, it doesn't matter if Sun Shan is famous. When you come to the capital again in the next year, the small shop will also give a set of second-grade incense. To put it bluntly, this is a preferential policy for imperial examination talents, and Zhou Yu named it: student discount.

The price difference is so huge, the effect of Zhou Yu's external claim is naturally different. It is necessary to burn the first grade of incense to accumulate merit, and the second and third grade of incense can only pray to God for forgiving the incense burner's shaving, and the effect of accumulating merit will be much weaker.

But even so, it is still not easy to sell something that touches on such a sensitive topic. For this reason, two days ago, Zhou Yu deliberately took Chen Jin into the palace to meet Emperor Wen.

"Your Majesty, Weichen found a strange wood near the capital, this wood is a local exclusive product, with a book left by a master recorded, according to legend, this wood is the treasure nourished by the tears left by the god Qi Chi because he misses his parents, so it is called filial piety wood, also known as the acacia tear tree......

Zhou Yu gave Emperor Wen a full call, and the central idea was probably that this thing was very good, which could make people shave their hair reasonably without committing filial piety, and on the contrary, cutting more hair could also send more blessings to their parents. As for the crime of bullying the king, let's talk nonsense, there is no record of this kind of tree in this era, and Emperor Wen can know what the name of the tree is!

Despite this, this is a business after all, and if he doesn't come up with some attractive conditions, Emperor Wen will not easily approve Zhou Yu to do this kind of business. So Zhou Yu began to write on the second-grade incense: "Your Majesty, this second-grade incense is specially designed for imperial examination talents, and these students can be given preferential treatment when they are sold, encouraging them to be loyal to His Majesty and serve the country, which is conducive to laying a foreshadowing in the hearts of these people, so that they are more emotionally inclined to His Majesty rather than used by gangsters."

After hearing this, Emperor Wen felt that this method was feasible, so he asked Zhou Yu to have slogans and words such as serving the emperor and serving the court when promoting the second level of filial piety incense. Zhou Yu agreed in one bite, and then after being forced to hand over fifty percent of the profits to the palace treasury, Emperor Wen also nodded. The incense-making workshop purchased by Zhou Yu immediately started to make this batch of new incense.

After the product was launched, Emperor Wen and Chen Jin personally promoted this small shop in the palace and among the powerful ministers, and praised the role of filial piety and wood. With these two heavyweights taking the lead, the business of the small shop immediately boomed, and the princes and ministers were all in contention

phase purchase. Later, when the news of the DPRK and China reached the people, everyone also went to find out the situation, and some people who had long hair were still willing to spend a little money to shave off their hair and beard.

Of course, from beginning to end, Zhou Yu never appeared in the store, but completely handed over the store to his subordinates to take care of, and at most he only checked the account books and the situation in the warehouse.

In less than a month, the fame of Xiaotang Muxiang spread from the capital to other parts of the country, and some people who settled in other towns asked people to buy some incense and wooden boxes from the capital. Because the price of Xiaotang wooden boxes is relatively high, a box has to be sold for twenty taels of silver, so some people from the same place will pool money to buy one and use it together.

At the same time, there was another major event in the DPRK, that is, Chen Ruolan, the princess of Changle, was designated as the final candidate for peace with Qianguo. Although this news is different from the previous holy decree of Emperor Wen to canonize the granddaughter of the king, the officials and the people can also understand, after all, you can't send a sick seedling to make peace, right? In this way, Wang Xiangke picked up a bargain for nothing, paid nothing, and his granddaughter also lost the title of princess.

Although the candidates for marrying Qianguo have been decided, it is still necessary to select the people who will escort and kiss the mission, and this matter has become a major topic of discussion in today's early dynasty.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the matter of harmony is related to the general situation of the country, and he must not be negligent and slack, so he should send important ministers of the court. According to the minister's view, one of the competent people should be chosen from among the officials of the Ministry of Rites to be the ambassador of peace." An official of the household department admonished.

This official's suggestion was approved by the majority of the people in the DPRK and China, after all, this kind of matter should have been the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites.

At this time, Wang Cheng, the head of the civil officials, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister will definitely be able to take on this position!"

"Oh? Who did the king recommend?" Emperor Wen asked.

"Yushitai, Zhou Yu!" Wang Cheng said.

When the hundred officials were still surprised, Fang Huai, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, immediately followed up and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen also thinks that Zhou Yushi is worthy of this position!"

Now the ministers can see that this is Wang Cheng taking the opportunity to take revenge on Zhou Yu.

Just when everyone was still thinking about how Zhou Yu would deal with it, the generals also spoke.

"Your Majesty, Weichen and Wang Xiang have the same opinion, Zhou Yushi can be a peace ambassador and escort the princess to Qianguo!" Ma Zhong, the general of Zhengxi, stood up and said.

This is a little strange, on weekdays, these generals and civil officials often disagree, but today they have become surprisingly unanimous!

"This ......" Emperor Wen was a little unsure, he instinctively thought that Zhou Yu was indeed reliable, but Zhou Yu was too young after all, and Wang Cheng wanted to take this opportunity to retaliate, if he really sent Zhou Yu to go, I was afraid that something would happen, so he named Zhou Yu and asked, "Zhou Aiqing, the military generals of Wenchen have all recommended you to go, what do you think?"

Emperor Wen originally wanted him to say that it was difficult for him to take this position, and then Emperor Wen immediately got off the donkey and changed the candidate, but Zhou Yu didn't play according to the routine: "Back to Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty appoints you, the ministers will do their best!"

Well, I can't change it now.

The wood was already completed, and Emperor Wen had no choice but to say, "Okay, Zhou Yu will be promoted to the ambassador of the Ministry of Rites, and he will be removed from his post as imperial history; Wailang Kuaiqing, a member of the Ministry of Rites, was appointed as the deputy envoy of Heqin, and with Zhou Yu, the holy decree was issued immediately!"

Zhou Yu and Kuai Qing received the order to thank him, knelt down and kowtowed.

After retiring from the dynasty, Emperor Wen called Zhou Yu to the palace alone to talk.

"Did you anticipate today's events?" Emperor Wen asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's true, since the Dawei minister pushed out the granddaughter of the king, I expected that there should be such a day." Zhou Yu replied.

"In that case, you should know what those people will use against you." Emperor Wen said with his back to Zhou Yu.

"Don't hide it from Your Majesty, according to their plan, when the princess arrives in Jinguan City, I'm afraid that Weichen won't have two days to live." Zhou Yu said this lightly, as if death was not terrible to him.

"Then why did you agree so happily?" Emperor Wen turned around and asked.

"Because the minister wanted to go and have a look at Qianguo. Weichen is a Beijing official, and he can't leave Beijing casually, and the last retreat was already His Majesty's extrajudicial grace

Now, if Weichen still has the act of secretly infiltrating the country, I am afraid that those people will immediately sue Weichen to Lintai, and they may even add a crime of plotting against the sky." Zhou Yu replied with a smile.

"Oh? Why did you want to go and see Qianguo?" Emperor Wen asked puzzled.

"Because if you want to conquer the Qianguo, you must first understand the situation of the Qianguo. Only in this way can Weichen know what the national conditions of Qianguo are, can he know the situation of the Qianguo court, and how our Dawen army should arrange troops after they arrive in Qianguo." Zhou Yu replied.

"The army? Do you mean to let me take this opportunity to go to war against the Qianguo?" Emperor Wen said with some surprise.

"Never! Now that the civil strife in my country has not been settled, and I rush to war, I am afraid that there will be people who steal the country and divide from it, and my country will be defeated!" Zhou Yu dissuaded.

"My Dawen has fought against Qianguo no less than dozens of times, although I have never achieved a comprehensive victory, but I have rarely been defeated, why do you say that my Dawen will be defeated?"

"Because what I said in the pen is completely different from the scale of the war that Wechen said, what Your Majesty said is just the friction between the two armies on the southern border, and what Wechen said is a decisive battle to destroy the Qianguo!" Zhou Yu's words were extremely firm.

"The decisive battle?" Emperor Wen was shocked by Zhou Yu's statement, and even Emperor Wen himself had never thought of fighting with Qianguo to the point of breaking the net.

"These are some strategies written by Wei Chen, please take a look at them!" Zhou Yu handed over a huge paper sheet, and Lin Chun handed it to Emperor Wen again.

As soon as Emperor Wen opened the scroll, his eyes were firmly attracted by the title: The policy of unifying the world!