The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 234: Zhang Zibu speaks out for justice, and the porcelain in front of Wu Hou is arrogant

As he spoke, Zhang Zhao's mind became clearer and clearer. He felt that he was right. He immediately looked up at Sun Quan and said, "I am planning for the future of Jiangdong. Why is the lord angry? If the lord does not agree, I will just wait for Cao Cao to kill me!"

Be confident!

I'm not doing this for my own benefit, I'm doing this for your Sun family.

Zhang Zhao said, "Cao Cao is very generous to his subordinates. If he comes to visit us tomorrow, we can still survive. How about your family?"

Sun Quan was speechless. Wu Guotai had said the same thing.

He began to wonder if he was wrong.

Sun Quan was unwilling to admit it and said: "I have made my own decision. You don't need to discuss it. You go and tell the ministers that anyone who dares to discuss porcelain will be severely punished."

Zhang Zhao felt that this was totally useless. He looked at Sun Quan, who just bowed and turned away. He warned the ministers, and many of them immediately looked dissatisfied.

They are not allowed to discuss anything.

Is Sun Quan so domineering?

Everyone stopped talking about it on the surface, but they didn't care about it when they got home.

"It's just porcelain. You can't even talk about it? How can this be absurd? You and Luo Yuan are at odds. What does it have to do with us?"

"Mr. Luo wants to share the secrets of porcelain, how can we miss it!"

"Yes, if it doesn't work, then let your disciples go to Jiangling to serve as officials."

Betting left and right and speculating are all normal practices of the nobles.

The Jiangdong gentry were very dissatisfied with Sun Quan. Everyone lost their enthusiasm for work, which even affected Zhou Yu's military operations.

The military rations sent from Chaisang to Zhou Yu's destination were slow in arriving.

Zhou Yu cursed angrily and quickly wrote back, asking Sun Quan to hurry up, because he was fighting a fierce battle with Han Xuan and there was no point in fighting without food.

Sun Quan had to capture them himself, which had a better effect, but the war was extremely costly and the warehouses in Jiangdong were spending money like water.

Zhang Zhao found Sun Quan one day and said, "My Lord, the treasury is almost empty and there is not enough food. We have used our money to purchase food, but it is not enough now."

Sun Quan's face suddenly turned dark.

I have no money?

How could I be out of money?

He still didn't believe it, so he went to check the treasury himself, and found that it was almost empty.

"Luo Yuan..." Sun Quan gritted his teeth. If it weren't for Luo Yuan, how could he have consumed so much energy?

Sun Quan asked Zhang Zhao what to do. Zhang Zhao said, "Now we can either make peace with Han Xuan or borrow food from the nobles. But when winter comes, we need to buy winter clothes for the army, which will cost a lot of money..."

In short, as long as the war continues, Jiangdong’s finances will definitely be in trouble.

Sun Quan knew that Zhang Zhao wanted to talk about the porcelain again. He didn't want to mention it. After thinking about it, he said, "Then I'll borrow the food and winter clothes later!"

He and Zhang Zhao turned around and walked towards the mansion, and saw that a new shop had opened near Wuhou's mansion. The storefront was very large, and a group of people gathered at the door. Sun Quan and Zhang Zhao were also hiding in the crowd.

Then the shop assistants came out carrying boxes, opened them and took out stacks of bowls. The outside of the boxes were glowing with light, something no one had ever seen before.

The waiter saluted and said, "This is a specialty of Jiangling, porcelain. This is coarse-mouthed porcelain. Here are bowls for eating, tea sets, and stationery. If you are interested, you can come into the store and take a look. The goods in my store are cheap. A porcelain bowl only costs two copper coins." "Porcelain!

Sun Quan was furious. Luo Yuan’s porcelain was sold in front of his Wuhou Mansion?

Bullying!

But he still couldn't help but enter the shop. He didn't like the things outside. When the clerk saw that Sun Quan was dressed differently from others, he quickly took out the best porcelain.

Some are all green like lake water, but some are colorful.

"This is jade porcelain, the finest of porcelains. My shop only has three sets, one set costs one hundred gold coins. You can trade it for cloth or grain."

Sun Quan looked at the emerald green porcelain and reached out to touch it, but the waiter quickly stopped him: "Dear guest, please just look at it, but please don't touch it. This kind of porcelain is very valuable. There are only a few sets of it among thousands of porcelains. It is not easy to produce them in Jiangling. If you like it, buy it and take it back. You can look at it however you want!"

"A hundred gold coins?" Sun Quan exclaimed. How much food could this buy?

The waiter smiled and said, "That's the price. This is a fine product. It's good enough to be offered to the emperor. You can tell your status is noble at a glance. A hundred gold coins is not too much, right?"

Sun Quan looked at the waiter and asked, "Are you Luo Yuan's man?"

"Haha, you have misunderstood. I am a member of the Yingchuan Zhong family. It is true that my family is related to Lord Luo, but I am not Lord Luo's man. I came to Chaisang to do business for my master. Does Jiangdong not allow outsiders to do business?"

Sun Quan was shocked. It turned out that the person was from Yingchuan clan. He thought he was Luo Yuan's man.

The waiter looked at Sun Quan and thought he must be very rich, so he said quickly: "If you don't like these, but you have a pattern you like, my family can make it for you. To be honest with you, my family can make porcelain!"

The guy looked at Sun Quan proudly. He didn't dare to think about it.

It’s awesome to be able to make porcelain!
Zhang Zhao's mind moved: "It seems that only Luo Yuan knows the secret art of porcelain!"

"Hehe, that's because you guys don't know. The Yingchuan clan has an agreement with the prince that each family can pay money to learn the secret technique of firing porcelain. My family has opened two kilns in Jiangling. As long as you pay taxes, you can fire porcelain. Those crude porcelains outside are for the common people, and these are for the nobles, so they are naturally different." The waiter said: "No one in Jiangdong has sold porcelain yet. My family is the first one, so we can do business."

"I heard that Marquis Wu and Marquis Luo are at odds and are definitely unwilling to make porcelain. In the future, Jiangdong will have to buy a lot of porcelain from me. I hope that Marquis Wu will not make peace with Marquis Luo and just keep fighting. That way, we won't have to worry about people from Jiangdong learning how to make porcelain and stealing our business!"

Sun Quan looked unhappy, but he could still hold back and wanted to ask about business, but just as he was about to ask, the waiter got busy.
It turned out that countless people had already chosen porcelain bowls and kitchen utensils and were waiting to pay, and the waiters were simply too busy to handle it.

It's really great to have a pot that can boil water for only ten copper coins.

At that time, few people had iron tools, so they still used pottery for cooking. However, pottery was not durable, while porcelain was beautiful and looked very sturdy, and it was also very cheap.

They need bowls, spoons, and pots are indispensable.

If you don’t have enough money, exchange it for food or cloth!

In just a short while, there was already a huge crowd of people outside the shop, and many scholars were standing at the door but were unable to come in.

Sun Quan and Zhang Zhao hurried out from the back door and returned to the front door, where they saw several young nobles walking out of the shop carrying boxes!
The box looked familiar to him; it was the box that contained porcelain worth hundreds of gold coins.

Someone actually bought it!
Sun Quan was unhappy because the porcelain was really beautiful.

Sun Quan's mind was moved. This porcelain shop must have made a lot of money today. That was all Jiangdong's money. "Why not have someone rob this shop tonight!"

Zhang Zhao looked at Sun Quan speechlessly, "Do you still want to be the lord like this?"

If you dare to touch the business of the nobles, people all over the world will curse you to death.

"My Lord, are you serious?"

(End of this chapter)