308 Caged Sparrow?
"Miss Kayi, those rouges are completely ineffective in their subordinates, so they went on a business in front of the prince and princess. You see, these things are all exchanged by us from the northwest border, and they are the best rouge in the middle of the Dayan River, and even the new Yan clan in the palace said that it was good! ”
In front of the Sixth Prince's Mansion, the merchant Qi Jiu and two maids were talking to Kayi with a flattering face.
It's one thing to put honey on your mouth, and it's another thing to pass things up in your hand.
Merchants, there are always a lot of big swallow objects in their hands, in addition to rouge gouache, there are no gold and silver jewelry, jade and jade? I can always make this housekeeper happy.
After carefully examining the new rouge that had been sent today, as well as the things that the three people in front of him had given him, Kay finally had a smile on his face.
"Yes, we can't make those mistakes next time, or don't blame our government for being unkind to you."
"What the girl said is, don't dare, we don't dare anymore."
Qi Jiu bowed his body, and his posture was not ordinarily low. Seeing that Kay was about to close the door and send them away, Qi Jiu hurriedly blocked the door of the house, and his voice was still flattering:
"Miss Kayi, we came to the store yesterday with a batch of new goods, which are the best lipsticks and fragrances of Dayan, and the nobles in this royal city are rushing to ask for it, you see......"
Glancing at Qi Jiu clearly, Kayi secretly said that this businessman was shrewd, and he actually came to the door to sell things.
But Qi Jiu's next words made her heart move.
"Aren't we here to make amends? So in order to please the princess, I prepared a lot of good things. It's just that we have a rule in our industry, and when we send good things, we always have to see the host himself. It's not a secret, I only entered the palace two days ago to see the big and new clans. ”
Obviously, this is the careful thinking of these traders again.
The merchants sell things from Dayan, and Dayan and Beiyi are old enemies, not to mention trade routes, and even envoys are once in a few decades.
Therefore, if the merchants want to buy Dayan's goods, they must deal with the officials on the Dayan border and give them rich enough gifts.
Among them, the rule of Beiliang was very strict, and there was no hole for the merchants to drill, so the merchants had to go to the Tegel Desert to trade with the four continents in the northwest.
Although the four continents in the northwest are garrisoned by the Xuanjia Army, they still rely on local officials in terms of management. Where there are officials, there are more or less loopholes, let alone Dayan, which has been rotten for many years?
Therefore, there are actually many merchants in the four continents who trade with Beiyi merchants, after all, Beiyi has a yearning for Dayan's objects, but Dayan does not have anything for Beiyi.
Therefore, for the Dayan merchants, trading with the Beiyi merchants is simply a huge profit!
In this way, if the Beiyi merchants want to obtain Dayan's goods, they must first buy the officials and then contact the merchants, and the cost of goods will not increase exponentially, and it is definitely not something that ordinary Beiyi people can afford.
Therefore, once the merchant gets the goods, the destination must be Beiyi Wangcheng, and if you want to gain a firm foothold in the royal city and not be exploited by other officials in the royal city, you must make some nobles.
This kind of friendship is not something that can be done by giving things to the nobleman's retinue, or by selling things to the master through the retinue.
If you really want to get care, you have to make friends with the noble person himself, or someone who can really talk to the noble person.
So in Kayi's opinion, didn't Qi Jiu's move just want to seek refuge in the royal city, and planned to borrow the power of their prince and concubine?
And he also knew that he would talk about the Great Clan and the New Clan first, indicating that he had already met more noble nobles, so he should be qualified to meet their prince and concubine, right?
"You're a good businessman, so you should have just started this business, right?"
Kay looked at Qi Jiu a few more times, and saw that this person was indeed an ordinary middle-aged man, and the corners of his eyebrows and eyes were full of the shrewdness and philistine of a businessman.
"Back to the girl, this is because I just did this business, so I have to do my best......"
Qi Jiu smiled shyly, and seemed to want to offer treasure to Kay again.
Although he looked down on the businessman who nodded like this, Kay felt that this was an informed and knowledgeable person, and he also knew that their Sixth Prince's Mansion was not so lonely on the surface, but worthy of being flattered by a group of merchants.
Looking at Qi Jiu, and thinking about the group of merchants who looked down on people and never walked around their mansions before, Kay finally relented.
"Alright, let's all come in."
In the backyard of the mansion, the girl collected the medicinal herbs as usual, and there was no expression on her cold and fair face until she saw Kay coming from outside the courtyard.
Who were the three men behind Kay?
She looked at them with some confusion, but found that the two maids who were at the back and holding several brocade boxes in their arms were looking up slightly and looking at her with some distraction.
Even though she had noticed their gaze, they hesitated for several seconds before realizing their gaffe, and then hurriedly buried their heads in them.
This move can be interpreted as their amazement at the master's family, or it can be said to be a momentary faux pas, without any other special meaning......
But in her opinion, there is an indescribable sense of trance. Because she always felt that she seemed to have seen those two pairs of clear eyes somewhere.
It was a familiar and intimate feeling, and there was no aggression in their eyes, but a trace of unspeakable sadness......
So she knows them, doesn't she?
But why doesn't she remember anything?
"The prince and concubine, this is the businessman Qi Jiu, and today I specially apologized to you for yesterday's rouge. Qi Jiu, this is our princess. ”
Kay also saw the girl's gaze, and immediately smiled and introduced the two parties.
Qi Jiu would have come to something, so while Kay was speaking, he had already taken two maids to salute the nobles in front of him, and a bunch of auspicious words came as soon as he opened his mouth.
However, this apology is obviously secondary, and it is the right thing to come up with something new to please the nobles.
Therefore, Qi Jiu quickly asked the two maids to send saliva and incense, and served the nobles with their hands and feet to try it out, for fear that their things would not be able to be delivered.
Kay and the others wanted to help, but looking at this bunch of things from the Great Yan people, they didn't know that much about it, and it didn't look good to rush up forcibly.
So they also stood in place and looked at the contents of the box, and at the same time asked Qi Jiu, who was smiling, for advice.
It's just that this Qi Jiu is not only an understanding, but also very generous, so after a while, there are only two maids left by the nobleman's side, serving the nobleman and smearing the powder.
What they didn't know, however, was that the two maids were not only good at makeup, but also very fast in their hands.
For example, at a certain moment when Kay and the others didn't notice, he quietly stuffed a note and a pill into the nobleman's hand, and gave the other party a sincere and earnest look.