delicious little cook

Chapter 1103

Hua Qingyu received a reply from Bai Kou. The letter contained her schedule for the past few days without too many details, that is, where she would go on a certain day. Please ask Hua Wuye to suggest that Jiang Yueyi should go to Xiafang if she wants to meet her. No time for those time-wasting ladies' tea parties.

It's almost the beginning of winter now, the newly built greenhouse is making various preparations before use, and a bunch of things are waiting for her to follow up one by one, so there is no time to care if other women sincerely want to share with Gu Yun.

Divide her grandma's eggs!

It has always been a man's business to take a concubine for a man, and the women in the family can't stop it, otherwise he will be divorced if he commits seven crimes. Bai Kou, who is a bachelor, scoffs at this and doesn't care at all. She will not object to Gu Yun taking a concubine and taking over the house Raising a beauty, but she will not compromise her own dignity.

Hua Qingyu polished up the schedule written by Bai Kou and copied it to Jiang Yueyi, pretending to look like her subordinates inquired about it. Mr. Bai now has to take care of a factory, two construction sites and a joint farm. When she was going out to do errands one day, she could get some news.

Jiang Yueyi and Ma Hao didn't have the slightest doubt when they received the reply. After the previous failures and lessons, they knew that Gu Yun was an official and it was not easy to check his whereabouts. Bai Kou was a commoner, so it was much easier to start with her.

The beginning of winter is approaching, and the chill will be heavier in the morning and evening. The autumn wind brings autumn rain, and the road is dry from morning to night.

Because of the rain, Jiang Yueyi couldn't go out, holding information and hating that the rain came at an untimely time, Bai Kou knew that Miss Qianjin would not come out in such a stormy weather, so she left her behind and was busy negotiating a big deal .

When King Qing left Beijing a while ago, the prince's soldiers took two magnesium rods from Bai Kou's hands. Now the Ministry of War came to do business, and wanted to make a full set of technical standards for magnesium rods without hindering Bai Kou from doing civilian business.

Bai Kou is determined not to sell a complete set of technical standards, unless the Ministry of War agrees to recognize her as the patentee of magnesium rods and pay her [-]% of the annual patent fee.

The Ministry of Military Affairs had never seen such a businessman, so he got angry and turned to Gu Yun. After all, he was the imperial merchant registered in the imperial court, and Bai Kou was just the head shopkeeper.

Unprepared, Gu Yun was stunned and spit on his face by the officer in charge of ordnance production of the Ministry of War. Although he didn't know the previous situation, he could piece together what happened from the other party's words. It must be the Ministry of War and Bai Kou talking about it. The business suffered a setback, but he firmly supported all of Bai Kou's decisions. As a patent owner, [-]% of the annual patent fee was his due interest.

The Ministry of War wants to buy a complete set of technical standards just to let its own ordnance craftsmen do it, so the quality will definitely be better than that produced by pyrotechnic craftsmen. Gu Yun, who is not stupid, insists on protecting his own interests. Who calls him an imperial merchant? Speech quotient, there is no discount in front of him.

The other party was so angry that his nose was crooked. It hurts to say that the Ministry of War is short of public funds, and it really can't agree to too many demands. The money of the Ministry of War mainly comes from the Ministry of Households. At most, the generals of each army set up a small treasury to give some benefits to their subordinates. , there is no extra money to pay such patent fees.

Gu Yun didn't know how to proceed with the conversation, the main reason was that he and Bai Kou hadn't communicated before, who knew that the Ministry of War would turn around and come to him, so he could only smile and persuade people to go back and talk to Bai Kou again.

The military department took a fancy to the magnesium rod and knew it was a good thing. It can be ignited in the wild in wind and rain. It is an excellent military product, but it hit a wall in front of Bai Kou and Gu Yun. The imperial court did not have a sense of sympathy in doing business, and even a penny of profit would not work.

Putting it on other imperial merchants would never dare to be so hard-headed, and the masters of the military department are notoriously bad-tempered, but they have to put down their airs and have something to say in front of Gu Yun and Bai Kou.

The magnesium rod was recommended by the prince to the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War wanted the technical standards and the entire court knew it. Seeing that the business was not negotiated, the prince threw Wei Qian out and asked him to persuade him. At worst, he would spend more money to buy it. For technical standards, let’s forget about the annual patent fee.

Wei Qian braved the rain and ran to the workshop of Xilefang to look for Bai Kou. There was only time for a pot of tea, so Wei Qian went back to report to the prince in the rain with a happy face.

Bai Kou gave the Ministry of War a suggestion to make money. Magnesium sticks are tools for making fire in the wild. They do not involve military secrets. They can be sold for sale because the materials are of high quality and can be sold at high prices. Ordinary people can’t afford them, but they can sell them. For foreign businessmen and foreign missions, they live and sleep, and travel long distances, and they need this kind of practical tool. A mission or foreign caravan, ranging from thousands of people to tens of thousands of people, think about how big a deal this is. volume.

Wei Qian took out a piece of paper and handed it to the prince, with Bai Kou's advertisement written on it.

Military quality, trustworthy, accompany for a lifetime, inherit the future.

The prince burst into laughter, stroked his chin and admitted that he was a little moved, Wei Qian watched the words and expressions from the side, knowing that this business deal was worthwhile, he secretly smiled and did not say a word.

Now the business has been transferred back to the Crown Prince and the Ministry of Military Affairs to negotiate on their own, and the Ministry of Finance was also brought in to negotiate. Bai Kou knew that the high-level level was not so quick to make a balanced decision for all parties, so she threw the business into the Go to the back of your head.

Two or three days later, the rain stopped and the sun came out again. Jiang Yueyi, who had been prepared for a long time, was driven by Ma Hao's son Ma Hong, and went to the construction site of Fenglinfang, a match factory, according to the information. .

A fence was erected on the site of the factory, and the side of the wall facing the street was painted with many safety production slogans and paintings, as well as various poems and songs. , the people in the square unknowingly followed and recognized a lot of characters, and even some people came to the wall to pick out good-sounding characters when they named their children.

Ma Hong drove the carriage around the wall, it was his first time here, he found it very novel, Jiang Yueyi in the carriage read the poems and poems on the wall, and found that she couldn't comprehend that Bai Kou Bai was always there What do you think, spend all this extra money on this wall decoration, how many literate people are there?Isn't this a blind man lighting a lamp in vain?
"Miss, what this President Bai does is really puzzling. The walls are painted in such colorful colors. How many of them can understand these poems and songs?"

"As for her territory, let her do as she likes. Maybe there is some deep intention, but we didn't realize it."

"What other profound intentions can there be? So much paint is spent on so many walls, so it can't just be for people to learn how to read?" Nan Yan covered her mouth with a chuckle, "Does anyone really learn how to read from this?"

"Who knows."

Jiang Yueyi pursed her lips and was about to say something when Ma Hong's voice came from outside the car.

"Miss, we are almost at the gate of the construction site."

Jiang Yueyi responded, straightened her sleeves, and Nanyan helped her smooth out the wrinkles on her back.

"Nan Yan, don't let the people on the construction site hear what you said just now, they are all facing Bai Kou, be careful if you talk nonsense."

Nan Yan stuck out her tongue and nodded honestly.

According to the plan, Jiang Yueyi will get off the car at the gate of the factory, pretending to be curious about the interesting things on the cultural wall, and create a scene of encountering Bai Kou.

(End of this chapter)