Speaking of the capital, no one has had a good year, no matter whether it is the current sage or a family of officials.
In previous years, it was not until the fifteenth day that the seal was opened. This year, due to the war in the north, the defenders of Dafeng lost their defenses one after another, and the Holy One became a lot older overnight. Saying that the Ministry of Household would not give money, the Ministry of Household was crying again, crying and making trouble every day in the Shang's study, which caused the sage to attack, and even sent several unlucky little eunuchs and little palace maids.
"Recently, the northern border has been lost again and again, and the Sage is upset. You guys are careless to serve, and you are obstructing the Sage's eyes. If you don't let me down, who will you let me down?" Eunuch Lin, the chief eunuch of Qingyang Palace, squinted at the two kneeling on the ground. The palace maid, who was trembling but did not dare to make a sound: "Go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and receive the punishment yourself." Now is the first month, and the saint does not want to see blood in the first month, so these ant-like minions can survive. Here, I'm already out of breath.
The two palace maids heard that they were only accepting the punishment, and their hearts had already mentioned their throats before they fell back to their original place.
Eunuch Lin didn't bother to look at them either, so he waved his hand to send the guards to drag them down, and he hurried back to the sage to serve him. The battle in the northern Xinjiang was tense, and the sage's face became more ugly day by day, not to mention others, even the old man who was serving as a sage or a prince by his side tightened his skin to serve, not to mention others.
"One or two are crying poor with the widow!" Eunuch Lin just entered the gate of Qingyang Palace, and was hit by the zhezi who was angry with the saint.
Eunuch Lin ignored the pain on his body, knelt down and picked up the scattered books one by one and put them away, then brought a cup of hot tea to the sage: "Sage, calm down, no matter how big or important this is. It's not as important as the Son of Heaven, isn't it?"
"How can the widow not be angry? When fighting for merits, one or two ran faster than rabbits. Now that the northern border has fallen, that young general is not saying that he is old and can't bring troops, or that he is injured and can't go far! It's even more extreme, the widow has not even spoken, so I came to cry with the widow first!" The saint is over fifty this year, and he has a bad temper. Now he is so angry that his eyes are black and he almost fainted.
"Sacred Lord! Don't be angry, Lord!" Eunuch Lin hurriedly stepped forward to support the crumbling Lord.
There is no peace in the palace, and there are many things outside.
In the Xiao Mansion in the capital, Uncle Xiao and Erye Xiao are secretly talking in the study room.
"Now the war in the northern Xinjiang is getting more and more intense, and the Ministry of Household is crying and running out of money. I look at the meaning of the saint, and I'm afraid that he is going to come out of the family of a hundred officials." Second Master Xiao looks quite similar to Uncle Xiao, but he is more like him. Uncle Xiao became a little more popular, and the two brothers talked face to face, and the faces that were 70% similar were all heavy expressions.
After listening to his brother's words, Uncle Xiao frowned even more: "Again? Two years ago, the Luohezhou Canal was only given out for 200,000 taels. Now it's wartime, so I'm afraid it will cost more money?" The foundation in the capital is not very deep. Although Erye Xiao has a bit of face in front of the saint, it is precisely this that makes the Xiao family always become the first bird to be beaten.
Second Master Xiao sighed and said, "If I take the initiative to mention this to the Sage, I will naturally have more face in front of the Sage, but my colleagues and the aristocratic family will be more hostile to our family. Divided." In fact, the sage had already hinted at him, asking him to take the initiative to ask for money from those wealthy families.
The Xiao family is just the wealth accumulated by two or three generations, how can it be compared with the people of the aristocratic family? The goal of the sage is naturally not the Xiao family. He pinned his hopes on the people of the aristocratic family. The Xiao family is just a pretext for opening his mouth.
"The situation is getting more and more chaotic now, and the Sage is more and more suspicious. If I don't take the initiative to mention it, I'm afraid I'll be suspicious of me." Second Master Xiao sighed. The obsession with imperial power has also become more and more stubborn. Although Erye Xiao has never stood in line with any prince, and has no heart to disobey his ministers, the sage is suspicious, and many old ministers have been thrown off by the sage on the grounds of trivial matters. With hundreds of lives up and down, he had to show his loyalty again and again.
The brothers talked about the late night in the study room and then dispersed. Xiao Hairu took some heavy steps back to the main courtyard and fell asleep. But with all the things in his heart, he tossed and turned, and he couldn't fall asleep.
"Master, what's the matter today? But what happened ahead?" Yu slept not long ago, and noticed that the person beside his pillow was a little different today, so he turned over and leaned beside him, and asked softly.
Xiao Hairu sighed slightly and said, "It's just a small business matter, you should go to bed earlier." He stretched his arms around his wife and patted them lightly. Some low, hoarse and heavy voices rang out in the silent night. It seemed very deep.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Yu thought it was a small business issue, so he didn't ask any more questions. I wanted to tell him about the marriage of my eldest son, but seeing his frowning expression, Yu was speechless for a while. The couple was speechless for a while, and went to sleep separately, but they had different dreams in the same bed.
Besides, Xiao Linyu, since he had a candid conversation with his father that time, he also deliberately restrained himself, forbeared his thoughts, and stopped writing letters to Luohe Prefecture. I was only busy with my family’s business every day. After getting drunk, I woke up like a dream, and I stopped talking about the past in Luohe Prefecture. Everyone thought that people and things in Luohe Prefecture were scattered with the wind, only Xiao Linyu Knowing that, in countless sleepless nights, he read the letter the girl wrote to him over and over again, and then locked it back into the box as if he was holding a treasure in the world, as if he had locked all his feelings and thoughts.
Fenghua still has a playful and troublesome temperament. When he is free, he likes to invite Xiao Linyu to drink and drink tea. In all likelihood, Xiao Linyu will also attend banquets.
"I heard that the girl from the Bai family came to look for you?" Fenghua heard the big gossip today, and hurriedly came to Xiao Linyu to confirm it: "How is it, isn't the beauty's tears particularly moving?"
Xiao Linyu didn't lift his eyelids, but his subordinates poured a cup of mellow tea from the new tea from the tea town to Fenghua: "Beauty weeps, what's the matter with me?" In his eyes, he has a marriage contract with him. Bai Ya'er was just a suitable mistress, but she didn't have a marriage contract, so in his eyes, she was nothing more than an irrelevant person. He has so many things every day. Even forty-eight hours were not enough for him.
"Young Master Xiao is really cruel!" Fenghua took a cup of tea, took a sip, and sighed, "If the girl from the Bai family knows that she can tie the knot with her sweetheart, there is also the credit of you as a matchmaker. Aren't I even more grateful to you?" Last year, Xiao Linyu had a lot of work behind her back in order to take off the green hat that Bai Ya'er had put on before she got married, including Fenghua's help!
Thinking of this, Fenghua couldn't help but sigh: "It's said that she was taught by a century-old scholarly family. Thinking about those things, I'm really embarrassed for the old man of the Bai family!" It's all about disgusting Bai Ya'er.
"Just drink tea, you won't be able to stop your mouth!" Xiao Linyu gave him a sullen look, he really shouldn't let him spoil the good tea that You Jin gave him: "Men man, learn from a long-tongued woman. ?"
Fenghua laughed a little embarrassedly "hehe" and said, "Drink tea, drink tea." The two of them exposed the topic: "By the way, Young Master Xiao, where did you get this tea, it's the same as you usually taste. Does it taste different?"
The tea village sent two varieties of newly-made osmanthus oolong tea and jasmine green tea, as well as the local tea unique to the tea village. This is what Xiao Linyu had discussed with You Jin long ago, and when the tea village produced good tea To be delivered to the capital as soon as possible, Xiao Linyu is responsible for opening the market. This tea left in Youjin's own hands can only be sold at a price that is a little more expensive than ordinary tea leaves, but Xiao Linyu has a wide range of people and a lot of means. This tea is in his hands, and the price of selling the best tea is also high. It's not difficult.
However, Youjin mentioned in the cooperation between the two that the tea of the Su family should still use the signature "Su family tea" of the Su family. As for profit distribution, Youjin accounted for 60% and Xiao Linyu accounted for 40%. Xiao Linyu also had the intention of not wanting to rely on his family to buy some business. Naturally, he hit it off with You Jin. As for the profit sharing, Xiao Linyu only needed 30%: "After all, you are responsible for the manpower and material resources. I'm just opening up sales, and 30% profit is enough."
Thinking of the situation when he signed a cooperation agreement with Youjin last year, Xiao Linyu couldn't help showing a faint smile on his face, and said, "If it's delicious, how about you buy some and go back?" Today, the two of them are in the capital where Xiao Linyu used "Su The wing room on the second floor of the first tea shop opened with the "Home Tea" sign. Xiao Linyu opened a shop in the name of the Su family. Only the shopkeeper knew that he was the owner of the shop. The shopkeeper was a loyal servant brought back by Xiao Linyu from abroad, so he was not worried that he was the owner of the "Su family tea" in the capital. things leaked out.
"I saw that this shop is newly opened, but you are very interested, and you have found this novel tea." Fenghua tasted the tea and the cakes made from a few pieces of tea, but felt that it was novel and delicious. , nodded again and again: "I have been feeling that I don't have much appetite in the spring, but this electric snack is novel and quite appetizing." After that, I ate another piece, but I couldn't see any bad appetite.
"Su Family Tea" has only been open for half a month. Although it is expensive, there is no shortage of rich people in the capital. In the early days, Xiao Linyu sent a lot of tea to customers who had business dealings with the Xiao family. Small portions of tea were packed in white porcelain jars with the words "Sujiacha" engraved on them. The recently opened "Sujia Tea" has attracted many guests. Now, 50 to 60% of the wing rooms on the second floor have guests sitting and making tea and enjoying the view. The business is really good.
"I'm a businessman, so I'm naturally more informed." Xiao Linyu didn't plan to tell the story of the shop, but just smiled and poured him a cup of fragrant tea, changing the subject: "I heard that the North Korean government recently The hall is not very calm?" He also knew about Beijiang, and he was anxious when he wanted to come to Shengshang. In the early years, Dafeng's Shenwei general, General Han Guanghong, led the Han family's army to fight Beidi in the northern border. But four years ago, General Han was accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason. Hundreds of people in the Han family were killed overnight. Now, in Dafeng, where can we find a second Shenwei General
"I don't know, but I see that the old man in our family is so worried that he can't even speak, and the situation is not optimistic." Fenghua's father was an official in the court, and the official worshipped the servant of the four-rank household department. Silver, can Master Feng not worry about it!