Pick up a female emperor as a wife

Seeing Qin Chuan's angry expression, Qingyue asked again: "Can the cactus really make you money?"

"It's not just about making money. Whether I, Brother Chuan, can earn thirty thousand taels within five months depends on it! Take me there quickly!" Qin Chuan urged.

Although Qingyue didn't believe Qin Chuan, the emperor ordered her to help Qin Chuan, so she ordered the servants in the mansion to bring a fast horse.

"Everyone go together. If you can find it, you will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver!" Qin Chuan ordered.

Qingyue thought Qin Chuan was crazy.

That’s one hundred taels!

The servants and maids all had expressions of ecstasy in their eyes.

Even in the imperial capital, maids and servants like them, even if they sold themselves as slaves, were only worth a dozen taels of silver.

One hundred taels are enough for them to redeem themselves and leave this place, living a life without worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

With the incentive of money, they were all in high spirits.

All the people, about twenty in total, rode fast horses out of the mansion and headed out of the city.

After wandering around outside the city for two hours, Niu Dali suddenly shouted, "Hey, boss, boss, I found it, I found it!"

Perhaps it is because Qian Kingdom is located in the south and the temperature is suitable for the growth of cactus. Two years ago, Queen Mother Chunyuan ordered people to throw away the cactus tribute from the southern barbarians. Now, within a radius of 500 meters, there are full of cacti.

And they are all cacti with large leaves.

What made Qin Chuan even more ecstatic was that there were already cochineal insects attached to the leaves of many cacti!

Originally Qin Chuan was cursing the Queen Mother Chun Yuan!

But now it seems!

This Chun Yuan backstage person whom he had never met before was simply his benefactor and his noble person.

If she had been willing to place the tribute from the southern barbarians in the palace at that time, he would not have been able to find these foreign creatures in the territory of Qian Kingdom, nor would they have grown in so many numbers.

Now that he has discovered it, Qin Chuan needs to find a way to make all the cacti here his own.

"Sister Qingyue, do you know who this place belongs to?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Of course the barren mountains and wilderness belong to His Majesty the Emperor. However, if you want to take these cacti for yourself, I don't think the Emperor will let you take them away." Qingyue replied.

"Haha, in that case, I, Qin Chuan, will gladly accept it!" Qin Chuan laughed and ordered his servants to go to the imperial capital to rent a carriage, shovel and other things, and transplant all the cacti here into the mansion today.

Cactus has extremely strong vitality, and as long as the root system is not damaged, the survival rate after transplantation is still very high.

Only by controlling all these in his own hands can he monopolize the lipstick manufacturing.

Only with a monopoly can the product be sold at a continuously high price, giving him the opportunity to make a fortune from it.

In order to increase the enthusiasm of his subordinates, Qin Chuan once again said with great ambition: "If you can transplant all the cacti here back to the mansion before the city gates are closed, I will reward you with 100 taels of gold, and you can share it equally!"

Qingyue was really speechless!

Qin Chuan spent two hundred taels of silver on these cacti that no one wanted.

Even if you have money you can’t spend it like this, can’t you?

What's more, Qin Chuan only has a few hundred taels of silver in his net worth. At this rate, it won't be long before he becomes a pauper again.

It was just that the emperor ordered her to assist Qin Chuan, and she did not stop him.

As Qin Chuan offered a reward of silver, the servants became excited.

Five large carriages were rented, and all the cacti in the area were brought into the mansion before the city gates were closed.

Qin Chuan did not break his promise and gave the maids and servants one hundred taels of silver on the spot. Niu Dali was given another one hundred taels for his contribution in finding the cactus.

After delivering the cactus, Qin Chuan transplanted it into the flowerpot he had prepared in advance.

He didn’t just make lipstick.

Although Ningyan has already spread the word as agreed, if she were to make the lipstick and sell it now, she wouldn't be able to get much money at all.

They had to wait until they tried every possible way to find it, only to find that there was no lipstick on the market.

By then, when he takes it out again, they will surely flock to it!

What's more, if he wants to last a long time, he will definitely need a large number of cochineal. He needs to use the current cochineal to cultivate more cochineal.

For the next three days, Qin Chuan did not go out of the main door or the second door, and was busy in the backyard of the mansion.

In three days, Qin Chuan had placed cochineal eggs on two-thirds of the cactus leaves.

As soon as the eggs hatch, two-thirds of the cactus leaves will be covered with cochineal.

According to his previous experience, cochineal eggs can hatch into adults thirty minutes after they are born, and it takes one and a half months for them to grow to a usable size, by which time lipstick can be produced on a large scale.

However, Qin Chuan still reserved some cochineal insects, as he needed to make at least ten lipsticks to sell.

To make lipstick, in addition to cochineal, you also need beeswax, olive oil, and a filtering device.

There is definitely no olive oil, so you can use lard instead for the time being. You can also buy some honey and make beeswax.

As for the filtering device, it was certainly a piece of cake for him as a chemistry student to make.

With this thought in mind, Qin Chuan went to the street to buy some honey and started to get busy in the mansion.

Five days passed quickly.

Qin Chuan looked at the eleven lipsticks in front of him and was quite satisfied.

Although it took some time to air-dry and set, the process was very smooth.

During this period, Fang Yu sent people to pass on information to Qin Chuan every day, informing him how much the prices of lipsticks in the market had increased.

Now there are people willing to bid one thousand taels to buy a lipstick!

It has to be said that those who are fanatical about Ningyan are really fanatical enough. They are willing to spend a thousand taels of silver just to have a long conversation with Ningyan, even if they can't even touch her.

There are eleven lipsticks, Qin Chuan plans to sell ten and give the other one to Nangong Wan.

If I could sell ten lipsticks to different people, wouldn't I be able to make a fortune? ? ?

Qin Chuan swallowed hard. Why did it seem so easy to make money?

He even had a feeling it wasn't real.

He pinched himself and the pain felt very real. It seemed that all this was true.

After thinking about it carefully, the reason for the opportunity to make money quickly is not because the lipstick is so valuable, but because everything is based on Ningyan's charm.

If there was no Ningyan, even if the lipstick was extremely effective and popular among women, it would be a blessing if one lipstick could be sold for one or two taels of silver.

Qin Chuan was not in a hurry to sell it. He needed to raise the price again until it could not be raised any further, and then he would sell it.

After all, they are making money by taking advantage of their obsession with Ningyan. Once the lipstick is sold and available on the market, the price will not be able to remain high and will inevitably fall rapidly.

After putting away the lipstick, Qin Chuan stayed in the mansion, eating and drinking, and from time to time he asked the maids to dance to entertain him. He had no intention of preparing for the poetry conference on the 15th of next month.

In a blink of an eye, there are only three days left until the poetry conference begins.

Qin Chuan still stayed in the mansion, getting up only at noon, and then eating and drinking. Qingyue was extremely disappointed with Qin Chuan's every move. If the emperor had not been busy raising military funds and had not come here, she would have been so angry that she would have died.

In the afternoon, Qingyue, who was sitting cross-legged on the roof, suddenly saw someone from Yanzhi Tower coming again to talk with Qin Chuan.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Chuan's face showed an expression of ecstasy.

Seeing this, Qingyue became furious. These days, people from Yanzhi Tower came to whisper with Qin Chuan every day. In her opinion, Qin Chuan was indeed bewitched by Ningyan and forgot about the emperor. Otherwise, how could he not care about the poetry conference at all?

She floated down from the roof in front of Qin Chuan, and just when she wanted to teach Qin Chuan a lesson.

Qin Chuan shook his head and said with a smile: "Sister Qingyue, tonight I will have a shocking deal, and I hope you can protect me! If it succeeds, I will make a lot of money, and it won't be long before I can get the betrothal gift required by my father-in-law!"