Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 287 Gao Ming and Chen Xiang

In Gao Ming's impression, the price of agarwood has never been cheap, ranging from a few thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and the most expensive one even reached an astonishing 10 yuan. gram!
It may be that the economic conditions of later generations are good. Although the price of agarwood is outrageously expensive, there are still many rich people flocking to it. This is one of the reasons why the price of agarwood is soaring every year.

People often say that the price of agarwood is comparable to gold. In fact, the price of high-grade agarwood is unmatched by gold.

Gao Ming has seen many people who buy gold, and even when the price is low, there are people rushing to buy it. He can understand this, because gold is a hard currency, whether it is for collection or display.

But those who bought agarwood, many of them did not buy agarwood to show off, but took it back and burned it for the purpose of smelling it, which surprised Gao Ming very much.

Isn't this burning money?

However, in Gao Ming's view, it was an act of burning money, but those who burned agarwood gave it a noble name - Xiangdao!
In short, no matter what, as long as the word "Tao" is attached to it, the artistic conception will basically change. Even if it is burning money, it will be more elegant.

Of course, no matter how elegant it is, in Gao Ming's eyes, burning money is burning money, so he feels that things like agarwood will never have anything to do with him.

But now, Shi Shu told him that Su Wan'er actually took two catties of agarwood to give to Wu Mei, which made Gao Ming's eyes turn green.

"Two catties is one kilogram. The agarwood used by the royal family must be high-grade. If one gram is 1 yuan, one kilogram is 1000 million..."

Thinking of this, Gao Ming felt his heart ache.

"My agarwood, this prodigal aunt gave it away, my heart hurts so much, alas..."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming suddenly thought of something, and he immediately grabbed the servant's hand.

"By the way, how many agarwood do we have in the East Palace?"

Seeing Gao Ming's startled look, Shi Shu was a little dumbfounded. Now that Gao Ming asked her something, she immediately reacted, and quickly saluted Gao Ming.

"Reporting to His Royal Highness, at the beginning of the year, the Holy Lord gave ten catties of high-quality agarwood. When you fainted last time, Your Highness, you gave another five catties. In addition to the two catties that the Crown Princess gave to Miss Wu today, there is probably left About three catties."

"Uh……"

Is it true that the agarwood of your Datang has always been counted on the catty?

Hearing Shi Shu's words, Gao Ming once again fell into a daze, but he reacted quickly and frowned immediately.

"No, you just said that I have [-] catties of agarwood, and now I gave Wu Mei [-] catties, shouldn't there be [-] catties left, why is there only [-] catties left? Where did the ten catties go?"

As soon as Gao Ming finished speaking, Shi Shu blinked his big eyes in confusion.

"It's burning!"

"..."

Burned... ah... ah...

Looking at the waiter with a natural face, Gao Ming didn't know what kind of expression he should show at this time. He frowned, then bit his lips, and after a long while, he looked at the waiter with a tangled face. The book spread out its hands.

"That... waiter, this is ten catties of agarwood, not ten catties of rotten wood. I haven't even smelled the scent of agarwood, so you tell me that ten catties of agarwood is gone?"

"No way?"

As soon as Gao Ming finished speaking, Shi Shu frowned.

"His Royal Highness's clothes were smoked by the maid himself, so it's impossible for them to be smelly!"

After saying that, Shi Shu moved closer to Gao Ming, then leaned her head over to smell Gao Ming's body twice, after smelling it, she laughed again.

"Hee hee, maidservant understands, His Highness is joking with maidservant, isn't the smell still there, if you don't believe His Highness, you should hear it."

Hearing Shi Shu's words, Gao Ming frowned again.

"I said Chen Xiang, what do you smell on me?"

"The servant girl is also talking about agarwood. Didn't Your Highness smell the smell on the clothes?"

"The smell on the clothes?"

At this time, Gao Ming suddenly realized that he turned his head and sniffed his clothes. Immediately, a faint scent like traditional Chinese medicine penetrated into his nostrils, making him feel refreshed.

Gao Ming is very familiar with this smell, because since the first day he came to Datang, he has had this smell. His study and bedroom have this smell every day, and even the clothes he wears have this smell.

Humans are very adaptable animals. After Gao Ming was familiar with the smell, he didn't pay much attention to it. But now after listening to Shi Shu's words, he suddenly realized that this thing seems to be not ordinary incense, but It's agarwood!

Thinking of this, Gao Ming was a little dazed.

"Is this my current use of agarwood as a mosquito-repellent incense?"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming frowned immediately.

"What a luxury!"

Shi Shu didn't know what Gao Ming was thinking, seeing his frown, he asked him eagerly.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince thinks the smell is too mild, so the maid will smoke the clothes that His Highness the Crown Prince will wear tomorrow..."

"what?"

Hearing Shi Shu's words, Gao Ming was startled immediately, and then he quickly raised his right hand.

"No, please don't! From now on, I don't need to smoke my clothes anymore, and don't burn agarwood when there is no one in my study. It's too wasteful. It's better to save some."

Although Shi Shu didn't know why Gao Ming suddenly became so frugal, but since he had ordered so, Shi Shu could only nod in agreement.

"Yes, His Royal Highness, the servant girl knows!"

Seeing that the waiter agreed, Gao Ming immediately nodded in satisfaction.

"Well, it's good to know. Send the rest of the agarwood to my house later, and the prince will keep it close to me."

"..."

Looking at Shi Shu and being dazed again, Gao Ming stared at her immediately, and then slapped her buttocks with a "slap".

"Why are you still standing there? Go, if I don't like this thing any more, that prodigal aunt Su Wan'er will definitely give away all my treasures at the bottom of the box."

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Shi Shu finally couldn't help but speak.

"His Royal Highness, please forgive me for talking too much, now the entire palace is in your hands, how much agarwood you want to use, isn't it just a matter of your highness?"

"Uh……"

At this time, Gao Ming realized that besides being used as a spice, agarwood is also a medicinal material.

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately stood up.

"That's right, I'm going to Shangyao Bureau!"

After finishing speaking, Gao Ming went out directly. Seeing this scene, Shi Shu had no choice but to follow.

Soon, the two arrived at Shangyao Bureau, seeing Gao Ming coming, several imperial doctors rushed up to greet him.

"My minister has met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Looking at the few imperial doctors in front of him, Gao Ming nodded immediately, and then went straight to the point.

"Okay, excuse me, let me ask you, how much agarwood is there in Shangyao Bureau?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, several imperial doctors immediately looked at each other, and soon, an imperial doctor in a green robe took a step forward, and then bowed to Gao Ming.

"Returning to His Royal Highness, the minister is in charge of the medicine storehouse. This year Lingnan Road sent a total of more than [-] stones of agarwood, including more than [-] stones of low-grade agarwood, more than [-] stones of medium-grade agarwood, and more than ten stones of high-grade agarwood."

"..."

Hearing the number reported by the imperial doctor, Gao Ming immediately opened his mouth.

It doesn't matter how heavy it is, is it a matter of stone?
One stone, converted into catties, is 120 catties, that is to say, the amount of agarwood in Shangyao Bureau has reached tens of thousands of catties!
Nima, is this agarwood or fennel?

Now Gao Ming became even more skeptical. Could it be that the agarwood of the Tang Dynasty is different from the agarwood of later generations?

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately waved his hand towards the imperial doctors.

"Go and bring me some agarwood, I want to have a look."

"Yes!"

Hearing Gao Ming's order, the imperial doctors did not dare to neglect, and quickly took out three bags of agarwood and put them in front of Gao Ming.

"His Royal Highness, this is the agarwood sent by Lingnan Road this year. I have already seen it, and it is better than last year."

Speaking of this, the imperial doctor secretly glanced at Gao Ming, as if worried that he would suddenly get angry.

Gao Ming didn't realize how much pressure his sudden arrival had brought to the imperial doctors. At this moment, his attention was all attracted by the three cloth bags in front of him.

"Are these all agarwood?"

At this time Gao Ming was a little excited, after all Chen Xiang was something he didn't dare to expect before, but now it was placed in front of him, as long as he wanted, he could take it away at any time.

Gao Ming began to rejoice that he was the prince of the Tang Dynasty. He suddenly felt that even if he became emperor in the future, it would not be too difficult to accept that he would have to go to court every day.

"The intoxication of power lies here."

As he thought about it, he opened one of the cloth bags. As soon as he opened it, a more intense medicinal fragrance than before rushed into his nostrils, which lifted his spirits.

"It's so fragrant without heating, it seems to be a good agarwood!"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming stretched out his hand and grabbed a few pieces of agarwood from the cloth bag. Looking at the few pieces of dark green agarwood in his hand, he couldn't help sighing.

"It's really a high-quality agarwood. Well, it's really good. It's really not easy to have more than a dozen stones of agarwood a year. I decided..."

Gao Ming originally planned to say that he decided to take all the aloes away, but when he raised his head, he found that several imperial doctors were all looking at him in surprise, even the servant's face was full of astonishment .

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming frowned immediately.

"What's your expression? Huh?"

Hearing a hint of displeasure in Gao Ming's tone, several imperial physicians quickly lowered their heads, and the imperial physician who brought out Chen Xiang just now gritted his teeth, and then bowed to Gao Ming.

"His Royal Highness, what you are holding in your hand is... low-grade agarwood. There are more than 100 stones of such agarwood medicine storehouse, and the bag of high-grade agarwood is on your left."

"Uh……"

(End of this chapter)