Allure of a Country Maiden

After hearing this, Xiaoer smiled and said: "From now on, the princess will be the proprietress of the grocery store!"

"Grocery store? That's fine. From now on I will be the grocery store proprietress! Let's all call me the grocery store proprietress." The fifth princess also thought it was a good idea.

"Grocery store proprietress!" the three of them said in unison.

Then everyone laughed!

After everyone finished laughing, Xiaoer spoke again: "But these shops are all making small profits, and the ones that are making a lot of money are the big workshops."

After hearing this, the three people straightened up unconsciously and asked expectantly:

Zhu Yan: "Xiao'er, do you have any good ideas?"

Fifth Princess: "What kind of workshop does the Sixth Emperor's Wife plan to open?"

Du Yijin: "Xiao'er, no matter what workshop you open, count me in!"

In the cosmetics workshop, Xiaoer has already cooperated with Jing Hao.

As for the papermaking workshop, Jing Hao can just do it by himself. This is not a difficult workshop, and he has opened many study rooms, and he plans to open academies all over the country in the future. There are many places to use paper, so he is the most suitable one.

Xiaoer suggested that while Jing Hao was building a paper workshop, he should also set up a printing workshop. Although printing at this time was not as convenient as modern printers and copiers, it was much faster than simply copying by hand.

In addition to cosmetics, papermaking, and ceramics.

"Jing Hao plans to build a ceramics city in a certain area of ​​Nangong Kingdom. It just needs investment, so let's work together. Let's call Jingya. Because Zhongyong Houfu has its own ceramics workshop and is familiar with this aspect, so The five of us are working together to open a ceramics workshop, what do you think?"

"As long as you feel good about it, I believe you!" The fifth princess quickly expressed her stance.

"Yes, I believe you too!" Ceramics, this is a very profitable thing, how could Zhu Yan disagree.

"I believe you too, I have no objection!" Du Yijin is the most experienced in doing business behind Xiaoer! If Xiaoer says it can make money, it will definitely make money!

Xiaoer was speechless after listening to their words: "Well, I have been working on specific plans recently, and I need to ask the Zhongyong Hou Mansion for advice in many places. When the plan is ready, I will discuss with you how to cooperate. Bar."

"Okay." Several people nodded in agreement.

A few people discussed how this ceramic city should be run, and then did not leave until lunch.

In the palace

When Shangguan Xuanyi came to see the emperor, the emperor happened to leave several ministers to discuss matters in the imperial study.

After Shangguan Xuanyi told the contents of the letter, the emperor pondered for a moment and then asked: "What do you think?"

Prime Minister Zuo immediately became angry: "This Zezhou businessman is simply unreasonable. Someone is clearly making trouble behind his back, a bunch of rabble. Do they really think we are afraid of them!"

"This must be someone from the Nangong Kingdom's court who is secretly causing trouble. We have captured Zezhou and the people have been pacified. We must not cause chaos again because of these profit-seeking businessmen. In my opinion, Just kill him as a warning to others!" said the Minister of War.

"Yes, if the people have no place to sell food or get medical treatment for a long time, they will definitely complain. The power of the people cannot be ignored. If the people rebel and cooperate with the Nangong Kingdom's imperial troops, then our soldiers will We have to be attacked from both inside and outside!" said the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue.

Several important officials in the imperial court expressed their opinions one after another.

"What you all said is correct, so what do you think is the solution?" The emperor waited until everyone had finished speaking, then threw out another question for everyone to discuss.

"Isn't it just a few shops? We, Min Zeguo, have many merchants who open grain stores, grocery stores, cloth shops, and medical clinics. We can send people there to open a few such shops soon."

"It takes time to open a shop. Now that General Di has written to say so, it means that the matter is a bit urgent now. In order to appease the people there as soon as possible, Wei Chen suggested that some of the soldiers' rations be divided and given to the people there. The people there eat it, and then let the military doctors treat the people there. As for the medicinal materials, we can only use the medicinal materials prepared for the soldiers first." said the official secretary.

"Wei Chen thinks this is absolutely impossible! Soldiers are fighting bravely on the front lines. If there is not enough food and medicine, and the soldiers are hungry and sick, will they still have the strength to fight? If they don't have the strength to fight, how can they win! In the end, The gains outweigh the losses, what if we lose all the cities we conquered before?" After hearing this, the Minister of War immediately protested!

Using military rations and military medicinal materials isn't this going to cause trouble for him!

If the soldiers don't have enough food to eat, they won't have the strength to fight. If they don't have the strength to fight, they will be easily defeated! If a soldier is injured or sick, and there is no medicine available, it will also affect the success or failure of the war! Then he, the Minister of War, will be the unlucky one! Due to insufficient preparation of food and wound medicine, the attack on Nangong Kingdom accidentally failed. The first person to be held accountable would be him, the Minister of War!

In short, he would not agree to use the soldiers' rations and wound medicine to save and appease the people of Nangong Kingdom no matter what!

A city has been captured, and those people should have slaughtered the city! Then there will be no more trouble!

"Your Majesty, the ministers also think that this matter is absolutely impossible. Maybe this matter is a trick created by the cooperation between the Emperor of Nangong Kingdom and those wealthy businessmen. Their purpose is to force us to use military rations and medicinal materials! If our general's rations Take it out to help the people of Nangong Kingdom, and maybe turn around and those people will give the food to the soldiers and horses of the Nangong Kingdom." The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue also objected.

Food and medicine are all taken out from the Ministry of Household Affairs! It’s strange that the Minister of Household Affairs would agree!

"Now that we have captured Zezhou, the people in Zezhou are the people of the former Nangong Kingdom who surrendered to our country. In other words, the people of Zezhou are now also the people of our country, not the people of Nangong Kingdom! If we don't call The people of Zezhou could not bear to suffer from hunger and rebelled. What should we do if riots broke out in the newly captured Zezhou? Wouldn't that be a big trouble?" Shen Chengyao asked.

After hearing these words, the emperor glanced at Shen Chengyao. Yes, the people of Zezhou are already the people of our dynasty. Finally, there is someone who understands!

Therefore, he always believed that only officials who really have the people in their hearts are the best officials! All his starting points are from the perspective of the people first and then for the court!

"We can find a way to appease the people first! In a month, we can send food to Zezhou from other places!" said the Minister of War.

Although they are now considered citizens of our dynasty, who knows whether they are really surrendering or fake! Of course, the emperor will never like to hear this, and the Minister of War will naturally not say it out loud!

"Oh? What good ideas does the Minister of War have?" the emperor said at the right moment.

The title of the last chapter was wrong. When I posted it, it was already too late to react. I will contact the editor to change it tomorrow.