How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

"Madam, you are joking. You don't need martial arts skills to play this. Men, women, and children can all play it." The soldier laughed, "Madam, don't underestimate yourself. Maybe you will be better than men in the end!"

"Really?" After hearing this, the lady couldn't help but become restless and looked at her husband beside her.

Just as the rich businessman was about to say something, the soldier cleared his throat and blurted out the words "A happy wife makes a prosperous husband", "Sir, as the saying goes..."

"Wait wait wait!" The rich businessman didn't want to hear it a second time. Businessmen know taboos best. If Liaozhou doesn't like people who treat his wife badly, he will naturally not touch this bad luck. So he took out the silver bag and threw it to his wife. "Go and play whatever you want. When you are tired, wait for me in the carriage."

The lady immediately smiled happily, took out ten taels of silver and handed them to the soldier, saying, "Then choose the best ice skating teacher for me, and the other two taels of silver are my reward to you."

Apparently, the sentence "maybe the lady can have more fun than the men" pleased her.

"Okay!" the soldier said happily. His Highness was right. There would always be generous businessmen who would give tips, and at this time -

"Line up! Line up! Madam will give you two taels of silver. Welcome to come in!" he shouted.

The soldiers who were maintaining order and waiting to be rented and taught skating all stood at attention and shouted in unison to the lady, "Welcome, Madam! Have fun!"

The show is quite grand! The main focus is on providing emotional value!

The sound directly attracted many people, who came over to see what the ice skating was all about.

Emperor Jian walked into the Yazun passage, where someone was already waiting and handed him a pair of supreme edition ice skates that fit his feet.

Many officials followed suit and received their own teaching teachers. After basic training, they began to try to skate on the ice rink on their own with shaky hands.

Jiandi had a background in martial arts and good balance, so he quickly mastered the trick and skated on the ice rink with his hands behind his back.

He would occasionally yell at the officials who were studying, "Hey, Liu Aiqing, you can't do it! Your legs are shaking so much that they are almost as trembling as the 60-year-old grandmother in the village!"

"Lord Jiang, be brave. Why are you so cowardly like a mouse? How can you assist my son in the future?"

"Lord Wang, how many times have you fallen on your butt? How come your career as an official is just like this, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down—"

Liu Aiqing, Jiang Aiqing, Wang Aiqing: Are you cheap?

After skating, Jiandi went to the children's area to visit the ice spinning tops, learned how to swing the top with a whip, and competed with a group of children to see whose top could spin faster and longer. Whoever won, he would reward the other with a few copper coins and go to the stalls to buy ice lanterns to play with.

After this trip, several hours passed, and as a bunch of fireworks bloomed again, it indicated that everyone could go home and rest. The soldiers began to take over and inform the people who were leaving that there would be an ice hockey game in the afternoon of the New Year's Day, and they were welcome to watch the game.

It's something I haven't heard of.

In the Yazun channel, there were special explainers explaining the rules of ice hockey games to the businessmen, and the businessmen were very excited, especially when they heard that they could bet on the game.

At the end of the day, Sheng Yiren calculated that she had earned a total of 7,000 taels, and this was just for one night, not even including the rental of the stalls on the sidelines.

Only half of the business tycoons and common people have arrived, and more are on the way.

Xie Chengze touched his chin. These were just small parts. The real big parts were the football betting and auction in the afternoon. By then, the wealthy businessmen would surely spend a lot of money, compete with each other, and slam the money hard on his little face.

It was worth it that he asked Sheng Yiren to send invitation letters to the richest businessmen in the name of the royal family.

Although the imperial court was poor, the wealthy merchants were not. Back then, the previous emperor relied on the advantage of being close to the capital to enter the capital and get rid of the tyrant. He was the first to occupy the imperial palace in the capital. Then, with the help of the Su and Cao families, he proclaimed himself emperor and began to clear out the rebels in various places. The military expenses were all paid from the treasury of the previous dynasty.

As for the silver in the hands of the wealthy businessmen, it has always been in the hands of the wealthy businessmen. They are cunning and know how to make and protect money. Relying on the fact that the emperor is far away, they collude with local officials to evade taxes privately and become rich.

They held on to the gold and silver tightly and were unwilling to release them into the market, resulting in a huge gap between the rich and the poor between local merchants and merchants from other places, which was not conducive to the financial and economic development of Jian'an.

Since they are unwilling to send the money to the court, Xie Chengze can only find ways to cheat them, oh no, find ways to make them spend money willingly.

The rich will help the poor to get richer. By flowing the money from the southeast coast to the north, and then using this money to develop the coal mining industry, the people in the north can gradually become rich.

However, we also have to consider the problem of insufficient agricultural productivity caused by this. It is hoped that after the promotion of arithmetic, some inventive geniuses can be found to create more advanced farming tools, thereby freeing the hands of farmers and allowing them to engage in industrial activities while ensuring farming.

Alas, if he wants to prevent the people of Jian'an from rebelling and ensure that he can have a stable life as the second generation of a salted fish emperor in the future, it is really a long and arduous journey!

Xie Chengze sighed deeply, two of his eyebrows fell out due to worry. He turned around and saw that Emperor Jian was still having fun. He sighed even more and felt heartbroken. "Play, play, play. All he does is play! Look at other people's fathers, they work so hard to make a living for their children, but he's the opposite! He's obsessed with toys all day long and doesn't understand the hard work of his children at all!"

Xie Zimiao, who was licking a candy ball nearby, nodded his head like a chick pecking at rice and agreed, "That's right! I cook dung balls every day to make money, but he just wants to play!"

The playful and disillusioned Emperor Jian sneezed four times violently.

Ok?

First he thought, then he cursed, and then he muttered. Who was muttering to him?

It must be Xie Chengze's little chatterbox again. Hey, I don't want to listen. Just keep playing~

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On the day of the New Year's Day, every family hung lanterns and decorations, and the children all put on new clothes and ran to the ice rink to play. The adults gathered together to make dumplings, adding a few copper coins to the dumplings as a lucky charm. After eating, they went to the ice rink to see the ice sculptures and the rich people setting off firecrackers.

Yes, that's right, watch the rich people set off firecrackers.

I heard that these firecrackers were a rare item that once scared away the fierce and violent Xiongnu at the border! So during the New Year's Day, as long as these firecrackers were set off, the Xiongnu would be frightened and dare not invade Jian'an again.

This string of firecrackers actually cost thirty taels of silver, and they said that the more firecrackers you set off, the more prosperous your business will be this year and the more money you will make. In order to have a good start, many wealthy businessmen would buy a few strings and set off firecrackers outside the ice rink to listen to the sound.

The Jiang family alone bought twenty strings of firecrackers at once.