Poor family mother and son

Chapter 993 Bathtub Meeting ([-])

Indeed, there is no road on the mountain anymore, and the ropes have been laid. At the key sharp turns, steps have been specially chiseled, and a warehouse for temporary storage of grain and jade has been opened up on the mountain.

On that kind of mountain full of rocks, no one knows how hard it is to hammer and chisel. It takes dozens of hundreds of people to risk their lives for more than half a month to complete the seemingly simple facilities.

In the current situation, the foundation has been laid. It can be said that if someone changes to mine the jade mine, it will be "picking up ready-made".

Zheng Chunqiu was still half dead, weak and listless: "So what? Your Majesty..."

Suddenly Zheng Chunqiu opened his eyes: "Fourth Highness, what do you think?"

Seeing that Zheng Chunqiu was willing to use his brain, the fourth prince said: "Whether jade is three carts or thirty carts, it is not counted according to the quantity, but should be counted according to how much it sells, do you think so?"

The fourth prince told Zheng Chunqiu what he had said to the emperor about the "Guanpu method", and even added a lot of details that came to his mind.

This time, Zheng Chunqiu kept up with the rhythm of the fourth prince: "If you do this, isn't it a fake?"

The fourth prince: "What is fake? Where is it fake? Are those stones chiseled from Yujing Mountain? Many stones do have some jade meat on them, right? How can it be considered fake!"

Zheng Chunqiu: "However, if we do this, others will know that we did it if they think about it for a while. Who would have thought that if the jade caravan entered the city with the front foot, and the jade stone would be used as the back foot?"

The fourth prince: "So what if you think about it? The emperor has been controlling Linyang Hou's batch of jade and has not released it. How many merchants are thinking about it!
I discussed this method with my father just now, and my father didn't disagree. "

Zheng Chunqiu understood the meaning of the fourth prince all at once: the merchant has a strong desire to buy; the emperor did not deny it.

"But..." Zheng Chunqiu was indeed a little tempted, but he hesitated: "The emperor didn't say he disagreed, so it doesn't mean he will allow it, right?"

The fourth prince straightened up from the bathtub, and leaned towards Zheng Chunqiu's direction: "Do you think father can directly express his opinion on this kind of matter?
The jade has just been shipped back and has not yet been put into storage, so we still have room for manipulation;

You also heard and saw it along the way. At the end of the year, there was a big publicity disaster, and the disaster was still serious. Money was needed everywhere, and the treasury must be tight;

If you and I can quickly turn those ores into silver... I think Father also has the intention of using jade. "

The jade returned by Chu Qing is a resource that the emperor can directly control, just like those cotton fields.

Although it is said that "Under the sky is the land of the king", for any dynasty, it only has ownership, and the control right must be shared with the "co-governance" family.

The reason why the emperor was willing to appoint Chu Qing was because Chu Qing could develop resources that the emperor could directly control.

In the past, the jade brought back by Chu Qing was not put into the market by the emperor, because the Voss jade was harder and finer in texture and richer in color than Daxuan jade, so the price was higher.

In the hearts of Daxuan people, jade is something that preserves value more than gold, and it has a mysterious psychic meaning. Even choosing a family heirloom is "passing jade but not gold".

The emperor had the intention of using jade, and he was going to use the jade handed in by Chu Qing as an "emergency reserve fund", which would be used to get the money back from the merchants when the treasury was in trouble.

Thinking of this, Zheng Chunqiu also felt that what the fourth prince said was feasible, and the jade brought back had not been put into storage, so whether it was three carts of jade or thirty carts worth of jade, he had a chance to manipulate it.

"It's just..." Zheng Chunqiu wanted to ask, even if the emperor felt that three carts of jade were scarce, based on the emperor's control attitude towards jade, would it be safe to sell the jade without the emperor's explicit instructions?

The fourth prince was annoyed by this kind of indecisive person, and directly interrupted his words: "But what's the matter! What's the matter!

Do you think you can commit crimes and make meritorious service without taking any risk?Think beautifully!Not to mention you, His Highness doesn't even dare to expect so much!

To tell you the truth, I am really unwilling to hand over the foundation that you and I have worked so hard to lay down this year;
Yes, we don't have as many jades as Marquis Linyang brought back, but then again, maybe all the stones that are ready to be picked have been picked by her. Even if she is allowed to go now, she may not be better than you and me!

The reason why I told you about selling the jade is because when I go back to the palace this time, my father will definitely not let me go out of the palace in anger. I really don't have a chance to do this, so I will discuss it with you;

Otherwise, my highness must do this alone, so that my father can see my real ability. I will never be willing to admit that my highness's ability is only worth three carts of jade!
However, His Highness can't find anyone else to help me with this. If you don't want to, His Highness can't do anything;
At that time, at most, I will be grounded by my father, and then I will leave this job to others to take advantage of it; but you, I am afraid that we will say goodbye today... Humph, we will never see each other again! "

The latter words were indeed the fourth prince's sincerity. If he wanted to sell the jade, he could only sell it through Zheng Chunqiu. Otherwise, he would have no chance to run away if he made his father angry when he returned to the palace this time.

Moreover, he didn't dare to entrust this matter to his mother's family for help, that would be too conspicuous, the princes were on the surface harmonious, but inside they were fighting like black-eyed chickens, staring at each other's movements.

Not to mention anything else, when entering the city today, the imperial brothers and imperial brothers have all been taken ten miles outside the city. Is there really such a deep brotherhood?Go to hell!
Also, the second child's eyes keep looking at the convoy, who can't see it?
With suffocation in his heart, coupled with Zheng Chunqiu's hesitant and stupid look, the fourth prince's words were said angrily and threateningly.

However, this made Zheng Chunqiu make up his mind: do it!
What else?They are father and son, the fourth prince can't suffer much, but what about himself?Are you really relegated to a corner?Is there still a chance for me to return to Beijing?
The Yue family has already collapsed, if he is not tied to the same rope with the fourth prince, who else can he rely on?
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An unremarkable small village in Ji County is very lively these days.

Small farms like this are usually bought by those in Kyoto who are not high-ranking and powerful. They are considered to be reluctant to buy property, but anyone with some skills will buy the farm in the suburbs of Beijing.

For such an inconspicuous little Zhuangzi, the front gate and the courtyard are full of carriages.

The coachmen tacitly parked the carriages very closely, so as to block the wind, and people gathered together to chat——

"Hey, brother, is your family also here to buy stones?"

"Ahem, how can I, a groom, know about the master's affairs!"

"Cut! Is it interesting to hide it? Look, we people are all sending stones to the Lord's house. By the way, we don't know what kind of stones they are, and we still want to buy them. Aren't those stones everywhere!"

"You don't understand this, do you? I heard from our master that it is jade!"

"You can't buy jade at jade shops? What are you doing here?"

(End of this chapter)