When Hua Mulan Met Zhu Yingtai

Favor is something that has to be repaid.Looking at the greeting stickers sent by An's family, Hua Mulan knew that it was time for her to return the favor.

Sure enough, it is an imperial merchant inherited from generation to generation, and there is absolutely no reason to do business at a loss.It is indeed a good deal to exchange the identity document of a direct descendant of the An family for the sugar monopoly rights of the Yanxi City Market.More importantly, this proposal is based on the mutual benefit of both parties. The details of the discussion are the degree of profit distribution and who will get the most of the benefits.

Thanks to Empress Xiaosu for her great invention, she proposed a series of concepts such as contracting rights, distribution agency, contract stamp duty, time limit and profit sharing.As a result, the commercial level of the Yan Dynasty has reached a new height, and it is handy to deal with the surrounding nomads.If it weren't for the strict defense of the Southern Dynasty, which was divided by the river, the small court in the south would have been infiltrated to the same level as a sieve, although it is not far away from the sieve now.

Through Empress Xiaosu's so-called commercial colonization, the four imperial merchants have built their own spheres of influence by virtue of their good relationship with the court.The Lu family is in charge of salt and tea, the An family is in charge of sugar, the Wei family is in charge of grain, and the Deng family is in charge of animal husbandry.Beneath the complexity is order.

Hua Mulan is very clear about the pain in building a team capable of fighting without the support of powerful forces.Even people like Zhu Yingtai, who know how to use resources, complained all day long, urging Hua Mulan to increase income and reduce expenditure.

And since Zhu Yingtai left Rouran, everything in Yanxi City is still running according to the old plan, but it's just running without too many bright spots.Hua Mulan, who lacks economic talents, barely supports the framework, and the inside is already corrupted. It is only a matter of time before foreign aid is introduced.

Facing the olive branches thrown over and over again by several imperial merchants, Hua Mulan did not dare to offend too much, and after a few times of refusals, she finally chose Anjia's invitation.

This is the result of Hua Mulan's careful consideration.Unlike the strategic basic industries controlled by Lu, Wei, and Deng, the sugar industry controlled by An's family is a luxury industry through and through.To use an analogy, people must be in a state of fullness before they can further pursue sweetness.It stands to reason that it would be safer for Hua Mulan to choose several other imperial merchants to cooperate with, but Hua Mulan did the opposite and chose Anjia.

Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty and five flavors, people are most persistent and fascinated by the pursuit of sweetness.Hua Mulan came from a poor background, so she is well aware of ordinary people's pursuit of that sip of sweetness.For that sweet taste, adults are willing to take risks, climbing high branches to dig out honeycombs.If there is a safer way to obtain sweetness, but the price is slightly higher, then the sales prospect is also very worth looking forward to.

Earning high foreign profits with non-essentials, propping up military spending, and destroying Rouran's economic system is also the best way for Hua Mulan, an unsupported general, to avoid impeachment by officials.What's more, the market in Mobei City is mainly engaged in the grain and tea business, and needs to trade bulk commodities with its own characteristics.

Still too weak to bargain.Hua Mulan sighed, and pulled out the contract from the greeting card.The contract stipulated that both parties would share [-]% of the profits from the sugar franchise in Yanxi City, while if Hua Mulan remembers correctly, the Lu family and the Wei family's profit share in Mobei City was only [-]%.

Stop, stop, people have to bow their heads under the eaves.

Putting her seal of Habayashi Eiro on the gap in the contract, Hua Mulan summoned Zhou Xing to return the letter to An Jia, and at the same time missed Zhu Yingtai again.

It would be great if Xiaojun was here, this kind of thing will definitely get more benefits.

But where is Xiao Canjun?When are you coming back?Mulan knows nothing.The five emergency pigeons have all flown back, and the most recent one arrived three days ago, and only the words "Ping An Don't Worry" were written on the note.Estimating the date, the caravan returning from Zheluo City should arrive in a few days, and I hope to bring back some good news by then.

With no beautiful woman by her side, Hua Mulan, who was depressed, simply came to the courtyard with a knife, and practiced the knife technique.At this time, only the continuous shadow of the knife can express the depression in her heart.

So what exactly is Zhu Yingtai doing to delay her return?There is only one answer. She has become one of Rouran's consort candidates and is preparing to pass Rouran Khan's test.

Before the test, Zhu Yingtai successfully presented the refined iron to Rou Ranhan and got permission to attend the silent wedding.

On the day of the wedding banquet, Mo Chuan rode an eight-foot tall maroon horse to pick up his new wife.

When the eldest son of Rouran Khan, the lord of the grassland, got married, people from tribes with a radius of thousands of miles all sent people to attend the wedding. The old and young, women and children, and the slaves who were gathered together to help work, these people add up to tens of thousands.

The tribal chiefs brought animals for gifts and drove the slaves to camp on the vast grasslands.Long red ribbons were also tied on the top of the tents, turning the place as far as the eye could see into a sea of ​​red, and the whole grassland was filled with a festive atmosphere.

According to Rouran's custom, the wedding ceremony is held under the sky. Under the witness of the sky, Mo Chuo and his newlywed wife will accept the congratulations from their father and the worship of the tribe to establish their adult status.

This is a feast that the whole people participates in. Both men and women wear Hu clothes and paint their faces with oil paint that symbolizes joy and blessing.The etiquette of the chiefs of each tribe is even more complicated. They not only have to smear oil paint on their faces, but also draw specific patterns according to the customs and legends of different tribes, and wear gold and silver to show their superior status. The braids were glossy black.

Then, the well-organized young men began to slaughter the cattle and sheep brought by the various tribes, and then the grand celebration ceremony would kick off. The hormones overflowing from the chest were consumed in the wine and meat.

From the very beginning, everything about the wedding went smoothly.

A businessman from the west sent an unusually handsome BMW, a bit taller than those under Mo Chuu's crotch, and the Yuezhi Kingdom in the north, which surrendered to Rouran, sent a gorgeous longbow, wishing Mo Chuo a As for the eagle shooter, from Zhu Yingtai's point of view, apart from being good-looking, the strength of that longbow would not be less than five stones.

Then there was a pure gold horsewhip inlaid with precious stones, a round east bead the size of a chicken egg, and even Zhu Yingtai gave three hundred catties of caramel as a congratulatory gift.

But after the delivery of these precious and unusual congratulatory gifts, Zhu Yingtai found that Yiqi's complexion became more and more solemn, and even Mo Chuan, who was sitting on the horseback and receiving congratulations from everyone, began to stiffen.

"Yiqi, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?"

"Father Khan's congratulatory gift hasn't arrived yet."