Although His Majesty the Emperor couldn't believe it, the next moment, the sound of the morning drum being beaten came in from afar.
His Majesty, who was still in good spirits after tossing all night, seemed to suddenly feel sleepy at this moment, his eyelids drooped, and the whole person looked listless.
Yao Yanyan didn't expect time to pass so fast. Seeing her majesty rushing to wash with cold water, she felt a little distressed. After hesitating for a while, she said to her majesty: "Or, postpone the early time, your majesty first Lie down for a while?"
Before the change, your Majesty must have jumped into bed with excitement after hearing this. But now... He shook his head, patted his face with cold water, and regained some energy before saying, "You can't let the courtiers wait long."
Yao Yanyan was taken aback. She looked at your majesty's straight back after changing into the court clothes, the subtle feeling before finally fell to the real place, your majesty is really different! Although when he was with her, he would still be as naive and innocent as before, but as soon as he encountered business, he became a reliable and trustworthy monarch.
Her eyes gradually softened, and she said to him: "Your Majesty has been in the early morning, so I will rest for a while. After you rest, you will have the energy to deal with government affairs."
The emperor nodded, touched her hair, turned and left.
Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, two months have passed.
The weather is getting hotter day by day. An old man pushing a cart is sitting in a pavilion on the side of the road, taking off his straw hat and fanning himself again and again. He is only wearing a gray linen blouse and sweat. The clothes have been soaked, and the color of the clothes has become a bit darker. Under the pavilion, he parked his pallet with a bundle of firewood and a pile of hay. It looked like an ordinary old man, nothing worth mentioning.
There are intermittent people passing by the avenue in front of the pavilion, some carrying a load, some carrying a donkey to deliver goods, some riding a carriage... Sometimes people will glance at the pavilion, but they just want to go there to rest. Stopped, not many people paid too much attention to this old man.
I don’t know how long it has been. When the sun was about to reach midday, a hawker driving a donkey cart seemed unbearable. He took the donkey and walked down the avenue quickly and came here to be shaded by a few big trees. Gazebo.
"Huh, it's really cool here, how long has my brother been sitting here?"
The old man with a straw hat smiled and said, "It won't take long, about three quarters!" He glanced at the cart being pushed by the young peddler, and glanced at a small mark on the armrest of the cart. He smiled and asked, "What big business is this little brother doing?"
The peddler sat down opposite the old man and said with a smile: "I can't talk about big business, it's just selling some fabric powder and earning money for food."
Hearing this, the old man's eyes lit up and he smiled and said, "There is a niece in my family who is about to get married. Ask me to buy her some fashionable fabric powder. It is too far into the city. I think you can sell it to me, my brother! Both of us are lighthearted."
The vendor hurriedly congratulated him, and then asked, "I don't know where the niece is going to get married?"
The old man flashed his eyes and said with a smile: "Chen Guo."
"Chen Guo?" Hearing this, the hawker obviously hesitated.
The old man stretched out his hand and compared it with a "two", and said, "A 20% increase? If it is done this time, I will only ask the younger brother to buy the goods in the future, do you think it is not a success?"
Perhaps moved by the number of "20%", the hawker flashed his eyes, gritted his teeth and nodded, "Yes!"
As the sun gradually rises, fewer people pass through this highway. The hawker comforted the donkey, then led the cart and walked to a few big trees. With the shadow of the trees, he lifted the layer of rags covering it, revealing a few rough wooden boxes underneath.
At this time, the sun shines through the branches and leaves, mottled and cast on the two rough wooden boxes.
The hawker opened the first box, and the old man quickly looked up, but he felt that there were countless brilliance coming out of the box, which was very dazzling. He squinted his eyes, and then took a closer look, only to find that it was the brilliance reflected by the sunlight on the cloth.
The hawker glanced left and right, and saw that there was no one nearby, so he blocked it with his body, and then picked up a small piece of red cloth from the box and showed him.
Seeing the red silk gleaming in the sun, the old man looked straight. He once saw them wearing silkworm silk when they were traveling. At that time, he only felt that they were very gorgeous. Now, when he looks closely, he knows that this silkworm silk is extraordinary. This kind of silk does not need to be embroidered, and it is cut directly into clothes, which is also gorgeous. If you bring it to Chen Country, I don't know how many times it can benefit. Thinking of the huge profits, the old man's breathing became heavier.
The hawker then opened another box. This box was smaller and contained a lot of palm-sized square boxes. He opened one of the boxes and showed it to the old man. It was a full set of rouge gouache and balm. The stuff here is more elaborate than the most expensive one on the market. Each small porcelain jar is painted with a different pattern, but there is a small "week" in the center.
The old man breathed harder, "This is Zhou’s beauty incense?" The beauty incense was something that suddenly appeared in Daqi’s capital two months ago. It is said to be made by a concubine surnamed Zhou in the harem. Within the month, it was popular in Beijing. Except for Kyoto, there are not many beauty fragrances circulating in other places, but most of them are very expensive. The old man did not expect this vendor to have so many beauty fragrances in his hands! This is more valuable than silkworm silk.
Leaning slightly, his expression reveals a bit of suspicion, "Is this thing...Is it coming from the right path?"
The peddler snorted, "Brother, you heard me from other places! Since I dare to do this kind of business, I naturally have someone on it! This is produced by the court. Don't you know if the origin is correct? "
The old man was relieved and said, "How many goods are there in your place? I have eaten them all."
The hawker smiled, and the two negotiated a deal, changed cars, and went in the opposite direction.
The young peddler pushed the pallet into the city along the newly built avenue. While waiting to enter the city, he heard the father and son chattering behind him.
"At the beginning I said this road can be taken, dad, don't you believe it?"
The old man said, "Dad, didn't you expect that? I have never heard that people with flat heads can also take official roads." He said, he sighed, "This road is really good, spacious and flat. , Don’t be afraid to jump out of thieves, since we have this way, we no longer have to sell the goods in our village to those merchants, and sell them in the city on their own, which can make a lot of money! Where did you want to have it before? Live such a good life!"
The peddler heard the words and glanced back, and saw that the father and son were carrying two medicine baskets on their backs. Although they were tightly wrapped inside, he could still smell a faint fragrance of medicinal herbs with his sense of smell.
It turns out that these two people are medicine farmers.
The hawker turned his head, and when he entered the city, he suddenly remembered that there is indeed a medicine village nearby. The people in the village have the craftsmanship of planting medicinal materials handed down from generation to generation. Traveling is not easy, so it can only be sold at a low price to merchants who enter the mountain to choose goods. The pockets of the drug dealers have been fattened, but these skilled farmers are impoverished in their homes.
Coincidentally, their mountain village happened to be near the road to be built by the imperial court. The villagers heard that the avenue was to be built outside the village, and the whole village gritted their teeth and worked hard to dig out a road connecting the avenue outside the village. Only then did the villagers see the world, and then they knew that the original medicinal materials were sold at a low price.
Hearing the father and son praising His Majesty’s order to make a good life for them, the hawker smiled slightly. Although the opportunity is rare, the people in this medicine village have the foresight, and they have spent a lot of effort to dig out the road, otherwise No matter how many roads are repaired outside, it is no use.
He remembered the teachings of Mr. Li in the past, and said in his heart: Although your Majesty has ordered roads and bridges to be pavement and bridges, tax reductions and exemptions, it is necessary for these people to move forward! Thinking of the counterexample in the next county town, the vendor pursed his lower lip, his face showing a bit of childishness, he pushed the cart into the city.
Two words-Wucheng are engraved above the city gate.
Here, it is the border of Great Qi State.
Because of its geographical location, Qi's border is not a bitter and cold place with yellow sands, but when it comes to prosperity, it is naturally far inferior to the mainland.
The hawker pushed the cart into the city, and hurriedly turned into the back door of an inn in the south of the city.
He knocked on the door regularly with his fingers twice, and the wooden door was opened. A young man with a childish face opened the door. When he saw him, he immediately said with joy: "The second front cover, it's done?"
This hawker is on the inside front cover. He nodded and pushed the cart into the door.
A month ago, he was sent to the border town to secretly trade in smuggling silk powder. This kind of silk fragrant powder is an extravagant item for the nobles. It would be great to send it to Chen Guo to earn their money, and then use the money for military training. As for why it should be sold secretly instead of openly opening trade routes, the second back cover still does not understand why.
After those few months of good food and drink training and training, the children in Anbu are tall and tall, like the inside back cover. Although they are not yet twelve years old, they seem to be as old as fourteen or five. At this age, people who are more alert can do a lot of things, but because they are young and thin, they are unlikely to arouse others' vigilance. There were also several younger children who were sent to the border along with the front cover. They had been in the market since they were young. They knew how to look at people's faces. They were more clever and mature earlier than ordinary children. After training, they used Yu sniffing out the news couldn't be more appropriate, being older would only be defensive.
The second front cover entered the door and asked, "Is the master here today?" The master in his mouth was Ge Xiuwu, who taught them martial arts. A month ago, Ge Xiuwu was named the fourth-rank Xuanwei general and was sent to Wucheng to garrison the border. .
The child who let him in said: "Come and go, but the master said that he will organize the profit this month into accounts and send it to the capital, saying that the palace will be checked."
Daqi, Feiluan Palace.
Yao Yanyan's flat abdomen has slightly bulged.
On this day, she was sitting under a round window in the dormitory, looking down slightly at the account book on the table.
It's already July, and the weather is getting hotter. The precious flowers and plants in the garden were moved to the gallery by the palace staff. People watered them carefully every day, and there was no sun exposure. They seemed very energetic. Yao Yanyan looked up from the round window. , Just to be able to see a colorful piece, which is pleasing to the eye.
Lan Mengshi came in and paid a salute before placing a small vase with flowers beside the round window, and smilingly said to Yao Yanyan: "Niang, Zhou Xiuyi and Gu Zhaorong, please see me."
Qinghu was standing next to Yao Yanyan playing a fan, and said with a smile: "Manny, Zhou Xiuyi and Gu Zhaorong are a rare visit these days, I think there is good news again!"
Yao Yanyan nodded, and a maid immediately invited the two in.
Yao Yanyan waved her hand to save the two of them and listened to Zhou Xiuyi beamingly said: "Manny, this month I sold a lot of balsam powder in the Beijing store, and made a full 20,000 taels! This is the account book!" As he said, he held up an account book.
Yao Yanyan was a little surprised. Since the show was held at the birthday banquet, there have been several Zhou's powder shops in the capital, and Beauty Fragrance is just one of them. The price is high, but the people who buy it are in an endless stream. Two thousand two are the income of those shops in the capital. As for the profits of other places, Yao Yanyan hasn't read the account books yet.
After Zhou Xiuyi handed in her account book, she said: "These days, several sisters have said that they want to worship me as a teacher, and they are now learning perfume with their concubines!" Because Zhou Xiuyi is so good, she wanted to go out for fun. , Yao Yanyan simply asked her to hide her identity and go outside to be the boss's wife. Zhou Xiuyi was really messed up outside. Every time she came back, her mental outlook seemed to change. Now she looked more charming and charming, and she changed a lot from the original.
Zhou Xiuyi’s changes were naturally seen by other concubines in the palace, and some people came forward one after another, but these people were a little cowardly at first, and they had already gathered a lot of courage to stand up, so Yao Yanyan After asking Zhou Xiuyi, I asked those who took the lead to follow Zhou Xiuyi to learn how to make rouge powder. After all, Zhou Xiuyi is now in charge of the shops, so naturally he doesn't have so much energy to make powder by himself.
Now Zhou Xiuyi regards himself as a master. Whenever he mentions those apprentices, he feels disgusted and happy. With these people as role models in the harem, there are fewer people who hurt the spring and the autumn, and there are no more people who are struggling and striving for beauty, but harmony is not there. less.
After Zhou Xiuyi crackled and talked about the harvest outside this month, Gu Zhaorong slowly raised his head and said with firm eyes: "Manny, I want to go to the border."
Yao Yanyan: Huh eh
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Good card these two days! Then I think the progress of the first few chapters seems to be slow, this chapter pulls the progress, fast forward two months. In the next few chapters, probably fast forward to Yanyan giving birth!
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