In the end, the empress took Ren Baqian and left quickly from the beam of the house. The emperor of a country came out for a private visit in microservices, but ran away as if fleeing for his life.
Of course, she didn't take advantage of Tong Zhenye, and kicked Tong Zhenye out of the street.
Tong Zhenye crashed into a house and fell to another street. He lay there pondering for a long time before he clapped his hands and suddenly realized what the Empress was referring to.
"Ren Baqian... You tricked me!"
The empress heard Tong Zhenye's shout in the distance and asked Ren Baqian: "What did you trick him?"
"Forget!" Ren Baqian said.
"Oh!" The empress nodded and stopped asking.
The two of them wandered around Baishi District for a long time. When other areas of Lancheng were gradually sluggish, this place selling all kinds of weapons, farming tools, and ironware was much more lively.
Thanks to the weapons left by the Daxia army last year and the iron ore brought back from Yunguo by the auxiliary army some time ago, the price of iron ore in Lancheng has dropped, making the ironware market much more prosperous than before.
Ren Baqian also saw an imitation manual fan here! It is the kind of soil fan that I made the first time. I pull it with a rope and the fan spins for a while.
The fan blades of this kind of fan are all made of wood, one tael of silver each, and the sales are actually pretty good.
The two then walked around the stone pot area, which used to be the largest animal skin trading place, but now almost all of them are closed.
"Have you ever thought about taking something out? The treasury revenue is too low, and Tuwan complained many times." The empress asked as she walked.
"Although the well salt in charge of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households can enrich the national treasury, the silver has been used to make up for the previous deficit. Moreover, the price of salt in Dayao is too high, which is too much a burden on the people. Especially what you just said , The animal skins of the mountain people are all rotting, so naturally they have no income, so I want to lower the price of salt to about half, so that the common people can afford it.”
"Someone told His Majesty, right?" Ren Baqian said with a smile.
"I know what they think, but their ideas are also right. This country belongs to me, and you have to share some of my worries, so I come to ask you. Others can have their own little ideas, and leave good things in the I can do it myself, but I can't, I am the emperor. And you are my chosen husband, so you can't either!" The empress said slowly.
"Of course, what Your Majesty wants to do is what I should do!" Ren Baqian laughed.
Then the two found a place to sit down on the side of the street, Ren Baqian thought for a long time before saying: "We should collect some furs!"
"Why?" The empress was a little puzzled.
"Since the start of the war, the merchants in the three countries have disappeared. The furs of the mountain people cannot be sold, and all of them are rotten. Naturally, the mountain people have no income. They have no income, and naturally they have no spending power.
Collecting fur now can give the mountain people some income. With the income, they can spend in the city and purchase the materials they need to survive.
Second, tanning fur requires manpower, and it can increase the income of these people, and it can also improve the situation of some people.
The money is just a number in the warehouse, but it can stimulate the entire market and change the lives of many people when it is circulated.
Finally, the current price of fur is extremely low. As long as you find a market and sell the fur to Daxia, you can actually make a fortune. "
The empress was a little confused when she heard her words. Dayao's business model was very primitive, and there were few types of taxes, so she didn't pay much attention to business.
When Ren Baqian was talking, she just listened. Anyway, Ren Baqian was better at this than her.
But she was a little happy that the animal skins of the mountain people would no longer rot. As Ren Baqian said, at least this can solve some problems.
"This matter can only be done by you. If you want to withdraw money from the treasury, Tuwan will go crazy." The empress said.
"Naturally." Ren Baqian nodded. If he wanted to marry the empress, he would naturally be responsible for Dayao's mess. He didn't have any conflicts in his heart.
"What they want are spices, right?" Ren Baqian said to himself.
"This thing is in the hands of His Majesty, and others dare not touch it lightly. But if it is given to them, it will be planted by every family.
With the current price of spices, anyone who has access to this stuff will not let it go, and those ministers who want to get spice seeds from the Ministry of Industry couldn't be easier.
What is most likely to happen at that time is that all the farmland around Lancheng will be full of spices, not to mention the price will drop sharply, and it will also affect the planting of food crops. Let them wait for a few years to stabilize before handing over to them. "
"I can come up with other things, such as daily necessities such as soap, as well as cotton and textile technology."
"It's fine if you think you can." The Empress put one hand on Ren Baqian's shoulder, rested her chin on the back of her hand, and blew into Ren Baqian's ear mischievously.
She still remembered that every time Ren Baqian spoke close to her ear, she would itch from her ear to her heart, so she wanted to see how Ren Baqian would react.
"Ah!" Ren Baqian yelled exaggeratedly, and bumped his head on the empress' forehead.
"Hmph!" The empress snorted softly and sat upright. Ren Baqian's screams were too exaggerated, and she didn't put herself into acting, without any sincerity.
"Go back!" the empress said.
"good."
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The next day, Ren Baqian went to the Ministry of Industry, taught Tong Zhenye how to make soap, and helped Tong Zhenye plan and build Dayao's first soap factory.
Then he started busy recruiting people, opening a shop, and enclosing a piece of wasteland outside the city to build a leather processing factory.
After a while, a shop on Jingyang Street in Lancheng put up a sign for buying furs.
A few days after the shop opened, it was crowded with mountain people who came after hearing the news.
Those furs that had been piled up for a long time and even started to rot were transported into Lancheng in large quantities, and then weighed in the yard behind the shop!
Yes, overweight!
Ordinary fur is calculated by catty, just like collecting waste paper.
The price was a little lower than the purchase price of the merchants from those three countries, but it was enough to make the mountain people ecstatic.
After knowing that this shop was from the royal family, many people regarded it as a good deed done by the Empress to show compassion for the common people. After all, Dayao did not have the means to tan the fur, and now there was still a war outside, and all trade routes were cut off.
The only reason His Majesty did this was to show pity for the common people.
For a while, the empress's reputation rose to a higher level.
An emperor who can be considerate and kind to the people is enough to make the emperor be loved by the people.
What's more, the female emperor is the strongest of the ancient clan, who can win battles outside and treat the people well, then she is the best emperor in the hearts of the people.
During this period of time, the war in the Izumo Kingdom has undergone some changes.
First of all, those elephant soldiers appeared on the battlefield. This kind of thick-skinned and thick-skinned behemoth reaped great results from the very beginning.
Zi Donglai used the elephant soldiers as the vanguard to attack the enemy, and wiped out nearly 100,000 troops of the Izumo Kingdom in the first battle.
Of course, more than half of these elephant soldiers were lost in this battle. It can be said that they became consumables, and they were disabled in the first battle.
However, Zi Donglai's goal was also achieved, and this battle directly wiped out half of Izumo's available troops.
Then, Baihu and Tiqi, who were mobilized from Tianjing Land, also entered the cities of Izumo with the help of the Zhang family, and continuously passed on the news to Zi Donglai.