Uncle Guo, your heart thief has been promoted again

Chapter 319
Zheng Siyi finally started talking about serious business with Jiang Baoyu.

It turns out that a kind of satin silk that the nobles in Shendu like very much has always been purchased from Yue Kingdom.

But for some reason, in the past few months, Yue State has suddenly raised the price of satin and flower silk on the grounds of bad weather and reduced silk production.

For a while, the price of satin flower silk soared, and it was hard to buy it with a thousand dollars, and there was even a situation where there was a price but no market.

If this satin and flower silk is only used for ordinary clothes, it's fine. If there is a big family in Shendu, who doesn't have some stock in it?

This satin flower silk was the most favorite thing of the Yuanzu, and he even issued an order that all those who make sacrificial clothing should use it as a material.

Sacrifice is a big event in Dayan. Worshiping ancestors, gods, and heaven and earth is done every year and festival, and even when the solar terms change. The big sacrifice is almost once every five years, and the small sacrifice is every three days.

Every time there is a sacrifice, as a show of respect, the whole family must wear sacrificial clothes made of the best fabrics and take it seriously.

Now the satin silk used to make sacrificial clothes is suddenly sold out. The common people have no fabric to make sacrificial clothes, and they are disrespectful to their ancestors, gods, and heaven and earth. This is a big event that no one in Dayan can afford.

Therefore, the emperor issued a death order to Shangfu Bureau.

If others don't sell it to them, they make it themselves!

In any case, before the next national sacrificial ceremony, we must study the method of making satin and flower silk, and we must not be restrained by others.

"Um, when is the next national sacrificial ceremony?"

Zheng Siyi sighed, "Naturally, it's the emperor's gift for farming and the empress' gift for silkworms."

Jiang Baoyu counted the days with his fingers, he was dumbfounded, and immediately looked at Zheng Siyi and said, "Isn't that just about next month?"

Zheng Siyi nodded sternly.

Jiang Baoyu was completely stunned.

It is said that it will be next month, but in fact it will only be more than half a month.

Moreover, sacrificial clothes are not ordinary clothes that can be made in one go. Only the best tailors can make one without sleep for three days and three nights.

Moreover, the imperial court has promoted many officials in the past two years, with different positions and levels, and the embroidery patterns on the sacrificial uniforms worn in the grand ceremony are also different. I am afraid that many people have to make new sacrificial uniforms.

At the beginning, the Yuanzu wanted to use satin silk as sacrificial clothing, because it was exquisite and noble, suitable for worshiping the gods of heaven and earth.

The second reason is that this kind of fabric itself has gorgeous patterns, and patterns can be customized, so there is no need to ask an embroiderer to embroider them separately.

Therefore, in such a short period of time, they not only have to research a loom that can weave satin and flower damask, but also have to study how to use a set of machines to weave satin and flower damask with different patterns.

Isn't this really a fantasy?

"What if we can't do it by then?"

Although Jiang Baoyu already had the answer in his heart, he blurted it out.

Zheng Siyi shook his head and said: "If it can't be done, it will delay the ceremony of the first farming and silkworms.

The people regard food as their heaven, angering the heaven and the earth, and sending down the punishment of the heaven, that is a serious crime that shakes the community.

The queen's sachet was poisoned earlier, and all the sisters of the Harem Shangfu Bureau's clothing department suffered, let alone this time? "

Jiang Baoyu was stupid again.

Although when she was reading idle books when she was a child, she knew that rain, snow, wind and thunder were all natural phenomena, not related to gods.

But she understands what the royal family is doing very well.

If some things are not dealt with with ghosts and gods, no one will be convinced.

Just like the founding kings of all dynasties before they became emperors, they would all say auspiciousness from heaven in the future to show that they are the real dragon emperor, and being an emperor is a destiny that cannot be violated.

Only in this way can the people of the world be convinced, and the world can be stabilized more quickly.

This is a necessary means to ensure the authority of the emperor, and everyone plays like this.

Therefore, even the emperor knew that it was going to rain and the land would dry up, maybe it had nothing to do with ghosts and gods, but he would still jump into the hole he dug himself if his teeth were broken.

Not only does he want to dance himself, but he also has to kidnap all the people in his country to dance with him, making everyone think that there are ghosts and gods in this world. Only in this way can he maintain his position in the hearts of the people for a long time.

Therefore, if the Shangfu Bureau really didn't complete the task before the first agricultural ceremony, the shit pot that hindered the sacrificial ceremony would be pinned to the Shangfu Bureau no matter what.

"That's why Mu Shangfu has been missing. Are you researching this?"

Jiang Baoyu looked back at the pile of wood, no wonder she felt familiar just now, but now looking carefully, it turned out that they were all modified looms.

It's just that looking at it in a mess, it must have been unsuccessful.

"But if we try one by one like this, we should never be able to find out before the ceremony of farming and silkworms."

Zheng Siyi didn't have time to talk to Jiang Baoyu about Mu Gui, but led her aside, and whispered, "That's why I called you in, I want to ask you for a favor."

"help?"

Jiang Baoyu was puzzled, although she thought she was smart enough, she was not so arrogant that she thought she was better than experienced officials.

What's more, it's not a comparison with one person, but with the entire think tank of Shangfu Bureau.

"Ah."

Zheng Siyi nodded, and continued to lower his voice: "Doesn't your family have a lot of business with Yue? Can you ask someone to steal someone back from there?"

"Steal someone?"

Jiang Baoyu was shocked.

Zheng Siyi, who is usually serious, wants to steal someone without saying anything, isn't this too crazy?
But Zheng Siyi didn't seem to have thought of going to that floor at all, but immediately took out a portrait from his sleeve pocket, pointed to Jiang Baoyu and said, "This is Fang Yu, the founder of the satin and flower silk of the Yue Kingdom."

"Since you know this person exists, why do you want to steal him? Isn't it more difficult to steal the blueprint of the satin and damask loom directly from her?"

Jiang Baoyu frowned.

Zheng Siyi patiently explained to her: "Ms. Fang is a vigilant person. In order not to let the technology of satin and flower silk go out, the blueprint was burned as soon as the loom was made. After that, every time she recruited apprentices, she taught people how to operate it by hand. , never drew a blueprint again."

Jiang Baoyu nodded, but there was still something unclear.

"I know that the country of Yue doesn't have much wealth. It only earns a lot of money by selling satin and silk to neighboring countries. If you want to come to such an important national treasure as Mrs. Fang, there must be an expert guarding you. With my family alone, It is very difficult to steal people out."

"So, we don't steal Mrs. Fang."

As Zheng Siyi said, he took out a long series of portraits from his sleeve pocket, almost blinding Jiang Baoyu's eyes.

Zheng Siyi pulled out a portrait of a delicate girl from the confusion and said, "This is Fang's closed disciple, and he is inseparable from Fang on weekdays. He must know many secrets about Duan Hua Ling. It is also possible to steal her. the same."

Jiang Baoyu: "..."

Wouldn't it be better if you took it out earlier?
Why collect so many portraits?
Do you want to deceive your own people too?

"But--"

Jiang Baoyu struggled for a while, but decided to let Zheng Siyi understand the reality as soon as possible.

"It takes at least half a month to travel from the capital of the gods to the capital of the Yue country. Even if you can really steal someone back, it's too late."

(End of this chapter)