Grandmaster Koi Daily [Red Mansion]

Jia Amnesty and Situ Chen had been away for more than two months. When the governor and governor of Kunming finally returned, the prefect of Kunming hurriedly presented various ledgers to them.

During this period of time, I have been conscientious and conscientious, for fear that if something goes wrong, the head on my neck will be lost.

"I will ask my father for your credit." Situ Chen glanced at the account book and said.

Only when the rewards and punishments are clearly defined can the officials below be more attentive in handling their errands.

In the past two months or so, the prefect of Kunming has really worked hard, and Jia Amnesty is not stingy with his compliments. Words such as the pillars of the country are all piled up on the prefect of Kunming, and the prefect of Kunming is flushed with praise. .

Situ Chen took the ledger and nodded Jia She's head, thinking that Jia She had praised the Kunming prefect a little too much, and it would be counterproductive if he made the Kunming prefect feel proud.

Without raising his head, Jia Amnesty continued to flip through the ledger, touched the spot that Situ Chen had pointed to and said, "Don't worry, Zhifu Zhao will calm down after going back to sleep."

I just made big cakes for others, but I didn't get any actual rewards, so there's nothing to be proud of.

Situ Chen didn't think like Jia Amnesty, but he didn't refute Jia Amnesty.

Now that they have all returned to Kunming, even if Zhifu Zhao is really proud and not serious about his work, they can pour cold water on the prefect Zhao who has been praised for a while.

The two of them worked out the accounts together, and in less than three days, they calculated all the accounts for the past two months.The overall trend is good, and the total number of transactions has steadily increased, but Situ Chen and Jia She have been prepared for danger in times of peace, and have not been dazzled by the prosperity in front of them.

Nowadays, under the banner of building Yunnan, some ordinary things have been selling at high prices. After a while, the steam boiler of 30 taels of silver will definitely not be sold.

Because the rich people have sold out, and ordinary people can't afford it.

If you don't start thinking about changes as soon as possible, there will be big troubles by then.Jia She had thought about this problem as early as when he was planning to sell the steam boiler, but he never expected that he could raise almost the same amount of money for road construction in such a short period of time.

"Now that the price of sugar roses has dropped significantly, Enhou thinks when will it be more reasonable for the price of steam boilers to start to drop?"

Situ Chen wrote the three months of October, November, and December on the paper.Jia Amnesty glanced at the three months written by Situ Chen and shook his head, then took a pen and wrote a nine.

The earlier this change is made, the smoother it will be.

Otherwise, if the price is suddenly lowered, wouldn't the person who spent 30 taels of silver on the steam boiler be "fried"?After all, no one's silver is blown by the wind, no matter how rich you are, you will feel sorry for the silver.

"Before I left Jinling, I went around. Those merchants also felt that steam boilers were not as easy to sell as before, so they didn't replenish too much recently. I was thinking that the price here will be reduced to 15 taels of silver first. Ask the Xue family to sell one piece for 20 taels of silver, and let the merchants know something about it..."

Anyway, the merchants have earned so much money before, and there are not many goods left in their hands. Even if the "cost price" is sold out, there is no loss.

And people who spent 30 taels of silver to buy a steam boiler before would not say much.

After all, "buy early and enjoy early, buy late and get a discount".

First drop from 30 taels of silver to 20 taels of silver, then from 20 taels of silver to 15 taels of silver, and from 15 taels of silver to ten taels of silver, and gradually reduce the price a little bit.

When everyone buys new year's goods, there will be a promotion, and the price of the boiler will be maintained at around five taels of silver.

At that time, imitation steam pots will be almost manufactured in various places, and this steam pot will be popular among the common people.

Jia Amnesty recorded while talking, and let Situ Chen take a look after writing.Situ Chen thought there was nothing wrong with it, and then sent it to Jinling for Xue Qian to have a look.

If there is something wrong, there is still time to modify it.

After passing on the letter, Jia Amnesty talked about the fact that the rice planted in the terraced fields was about to be harvested.

"The sky is big and the earth is big, and the food is the biggest. The people saw the ears of rice in the terraced fields. They were so happy that they seemed to have gained a lot of strength when building roads."

After the harvest of these rice, not to mention that it will allow the king of Nan'an County to buy less grain from the Annan Kingdom, at least it will allow the local people to eat with open stomachs, and they basically don't have to worry about what to do when they are not harvested in the future.

The big deal is to spend some more money to buy food. Now everyone has more money in their hands.

"I think we should be the first to ask the father for the honor of Enhou..." Situ Chen was thinking about the scene of prosperity in the future, and he was already thinking about how to write an excerpt to ask his father for the credit for Jia Amnesty.

Jia Amnesty raised his hand and patted Situ Chen on the shoulder, which meant to make Situ Chen wake up.He is the governor of Yunnan, and what he should do is to feed the people.If the common people were pale and skinny, he should have wiped his neck with the Shang Fang Sword bestowed upon him by His Majesty the Emperor.

"Let's forget about asking for credit. Let's talk about it, so as not to be said to be asking for credit."

The achievements they have made are all real, without any exaggeration in it, and they are not afraid of others coming to check.At that time, His Majesty the Emperor will be happy, and any credit will come sooner or later.

"Well, after the rice is harvested and the data is collected, I will write a note to the emperor."

However, before Situ Chen began to write the book, and even the rice in the terraced fields hadn't been harvested yet, the King of Nan'an rushed to Kunming with a serious expression.

The king of Nan'an was rarely so serious. Even Situ Chen sat up straight after seeing such a king of Nan'an, and heard the king of Nan'an talk about the affairs of An Nanguo.

In the past, the king of Nan'an County bought a large amount of grain grown in Annan Country as military rations, which made Annan Country pay more and more attention to this extremely stable income from the King of Annan County.However, the news that Yunnan began to cultivate terraced fields to grow rice reached the ears of the little emperor of Nan'an, and the little emperor, who had just taken power and was not yet married, panicked.

At the beginning, the little emperor promised that the king of Nan'an County would only need to buy food from Annan Kingdom, and Annan Kingdom allowed Daqi's caravans to enter Annan Kingdom, and travel from the port of Annan Kingdom to Daqi's destination by water.

"The little emperor is worried that Da Qi will deceive them and won't buy their food." Nan'an County King told the true thoughts of the little emperor of An Nanguo.

Now that Daqi is strong and strong, An Nanguo, a country that is not as big as Yunnan, does not have the courage to stand up in front of Daqi.

The king of Nan'an County was very polite at first, and even greeted the little emperor of An Nanguo.Even if he didn't say hello to the little emperor of Annanguo, the king of Nan'an ordered his subordinates to directly take the merchants to borrow roads from Annanguo, and the little emperor of Annanguo would dare to express his dissatisfaction in private.

"Continue to buy what should be bought this year. Da Qi is not a rascal. It's just that we should buy it in the future. It's best to ask the emperor's opinion." Situ Chen rubbed his chin and expressed his opinion first.

After all, no matter how small An Nanguo is, it is still a country, and these matters should be decided by his father.If they overstep their authority and act on their behalf, those censors will teach the truth, and their crimes will be serious...

King Nan'an nodded, he thought so too.

"If you want me to say, just include Annan Kingdom in Daqi. The little emperor is weak and incompetent. Even if he doesn't submit to Daqi, he will be annexed by other countries sooner or later. And I heard that the little emperor had this intention long ago, but Annan The queen mother of the southern country has always disagreed."

Although Situ Chen also had such an idea, he never said it out loudly like Nan'an County King.Looking at Jia She, who had been listening by his side, did not express any opinion, and asked Jia She if he had any ideas.

What Jia Amnesty was thinking was a bit complicated, so he picked up his pen and began to write about various possibilities and the possibility of subsequent development.

"If the little emperor really wants to bring Annan Kingdom into Daqi, I guess it's too late for His Majesty the Emperor to be happy." The emperor's civil governance can be said to be excellent, but his martial arts are still lacking.After all, Daqi has been peaceful for decades now, and there is no major war.

If An Nanguo was brought into Daqi by Daqi, it would be equivalent to opening up a territory.

"As for the peace and stability of the little emperor of the Southern Kingdom, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely choose to choose a daughter from the clan to marry the little emperor of the Southern Kingdom by bestowing a marriage."

None of the three people in the house had daughters, and the King of Nan'an laughed dryly and said, "I don't know whose daughter will be cheaper..."

Situ Chen thought for a while, but thought of a few candidates.

"However, that is also the emperor of the southern country. The status of the person chosen by the father must not be too low. But the southern country is located in a remote place, so the status is probably not too high. I guess it is the concubine daughter of one of our brothers. Well, the identity is appropriate."

Jia Amnesty patted the table and pulled back the two people who were thinking further and further away.

It is better to write a note first to inform His Majesty of the matter, as for how to deal with it, it is His Majesty's business.Even if the daughter of His Highness the Crown Prince is selected, it has nothing to do with them.

"Let's buy the Annan Kingdom's grain first, and don't tell them anything else. After His Majesty's imperial decree comes down, we can do anything in time."

The king of Nan'an County thought it was reasonable, and after Jia She and Situ Chen had written and circulated the excerpts, he dragged Jia She to watch Jia Lian practice kung fu.

Jia Amnesty and Situ Chen returned to Kunming from Jinling, while Jia Lian stayed and practiced kung fu with Nan'an County King.During this period of time, Jia Lian has worked hard, his military strength has improved a lot, and the art of war has not fallen behind. The most important thing is to learn a special "weapon".

Because Jia Lian was not yet old enough to learn swordsmanship, the king of Nan'an didn't want to spoil the seedlings, so he taught Jia Lian to use a whip. Unexpectedly, Jia Lian played the whip so well that the king of Nan'an couldn't help but bring Jia Lian over to show his father voila.

"Lian'er's whip is really good, I'll take you to see it!"

Jia Amnesty was startled when he saw Jia Lian rolling up a short wooden stake with a whip, and Jia Lian became a "little overlord" immediately in his mind.

Seeing his father and master coming, Jia Lian put away his whip and ran to Jia She to ask Jia She to hug him.Now Jia Lian is much stronger, and Jia Amnesty's arms become sore after holding him for a while.

"You're good at playing with the whip, but don't mess around with it." Jia Amnesty was worried that Jia Lian would act recklessly after learning the whip.

auzw.com estimated the time, Jia Lian had enough time for practice today, Nan'an County King asked Jia Lian to take a break, and wait a while to listen to some new stories about the art of war.

When Situ Chen and Jia Amnesty were free, they followed Jia Lian as auditors.Originally, Situ Chen was thinking about teaching Jia Lian some more in-depth things when he had the time.He felt that Jia Lian should know what he had taught Jia Hu before.

However, after listening to what the king of Nan'an County explained to Jia Lian, Situ Chen felt that he didn't seem to need to "add things to the snake".

The king of Nan'an County really taught Jia Lian as if he was his own son. Maybe he didn't explain it to his children in such detail back then.After all, some things will accumulate with time and add a lot of new insights.

For example, recalling some of the actions when he entered the court at the beginning of the year, he will definitely not do that again now.

Situ Chen really hoped that Jia Lian would grow up like Nan'an County King, who looks simple and honest but ordinary people can't handle it.

Xue Qian received the brochure about the price reduction of the steam boiler very quickly. After reading the contents of the letter, Xue Qian immediately sent his people to invite the merchants in Jinling to have a small meeting together.

Even Xue Qian from Zhen's house was invited.

"The issue of unsalable steam boilers must have been discovered by everyone. Now the governor of Yunnan, Mr. Jia, has also raised this issue with me."

Xue Qian unhurriedly told Jia Amnesty's ideas to the merchants, if you don't understand the twists and turns, you don't need to do business.Anyway, Jia Amnesty didn't want everyone to lose money, and many merchants were aware of it.Otherwise, he wouldn't have called them over and told them such a confidential matter.

Even if the selling price is lowered, the purchase price will also be lowered, and they will not lose money.It doesn't matter if they sell the steam boilers in the shop for 20 taels, after all, they made a lot of money before.

The governor of Yunnan is already very interesting.

"I would like to cooperate..."

"Then let's lower the price together..."

The merchants present here have everything to say, but everyone’s opinions are very unified. Everyone agrees to reduce the price of the boiler, and will cooperate with it when the price is lowered again.

During this period of time, I will not go to Yunnan to buy goods, but sell the stock in the shop first.

Mrs. Wang is raising a baby in Jia's mansion, so the news is not so well-informed.Hearing that all the steam pots in Jinling were almost sold out, she took out the steam pot in her hand to sell. She originally thought that she would have a conscience if she didn’t raise the price, and it should be sold out soon. Before they sold a few, Zhou Rui's family ran in in a panic and said that the price of steam boilers in the entire Jinling City had been reduced.

"Not only the Xue family lowered their prices, but the shops of the Zhen family, Xia family, Wang family, Li family, Zhao family, and Sun family all only sell 20 taels of silver each..."

"Why did Hao Duan Duan drop so much all of a sudden!"

It costs 20 taels of silver to go to Yunnan to buy the goods. If you ask for an escort on the way, you need to add more money. Isn’t it a loss of money if you only sell it for 20 taels of silver?Even if it is sold at the cost price without making a penny, it is a waste of time and shouting, which is equivalent to losing money.

All these people did this, and Mrs. Wang felt that someone deliberately messed with him again.

"No, the steam boiler in our hand is also sold for 20 taels, otherwise it will be in your hand in the end." Mrs. Wang, who believed that someone was messing with her behind her back, ordered Zhou Rui's family to go to the shop and tell the staff to lower the price accordingly. She began to wonder who was going against her.

Was it done by Da Fang?Probably not.Da Fang doesn't care about Er Fang at all now, he thinks it's a waste of time to make any moves.

Who could it be?The Zhen family?

Mrs. Wang went to a house next to Zhen's family, and the wife of that family was also pregnant. Mrs. Wang thought about talking about the child to find out why the price of the boiler suddenly dropped?

However, when Mrs. Wang chatted for a while and finally asked why the price of the steam boiler had been reduced, she was held back by the rhetorical question "Don't you know?"On the way back to Jia's mansion, Mrs. Wang was thinking that it was impossible for Xue's family not to tell him about this, Zhou Rui's family must have been lazy at that time!

Seeing Mrs. Wang's unhappy face, Zhou Rui's family didn't dare to argue with her on the way.Only when Mrs. Wang returned to the mansion did Zhou Rui's family dare to speak, saying that next time they would make more money, they would be able to make up for the loss this time.

"Let me ask you, what did you do on September 21?"

Mrs. Wang accurately stated the days when Xue's family invited many merchants to have a meeting in the past. The more Zhou Rui's family faltered, the more Mrs. Wang was sure that it was Zhou Rui's laziness that ruined his good deed.

"You don't need to say anything, Madam Ben's loss this time will be deducted from your monthly money. If you dare to be lazy in the future, be careful that I will break your leg!"

After losing more than 20 taels of silver and being slapped by Mrs. Wang, Zhou Rui's family left the house with a bitter face, wondering how to get the money back...

After the emperor saw Situ Chen's booklet about the bumper harvest in the terraced fields in Yunnan, Longyan was delighted, and asked Feng Kaishun to give the booklet to the prince, then stroked his beard and said, "The fourth son has done really well in Yunnan in the past two years, although he said no Rewards, but I must reward them well."

The crown prince read Situ Chen's memorial together with the eldest son, thinking that his father was asking him what should be rewarded.

"Jing'er, what do you think?"

The prince also wanted to train his eldest son, so he asked the eldest son beside him to answer this question.Situ Jing thought to himself that as a junior, he shouldn't be the one picking rewards for his fourth uncle.

"Fourth Uncle has contributed to the construction of Yunnan and should be rewarded..."

A look of disappointment flashed across the eyes of the emperor sitting on the dragon chair, feeling that his grandson still had to hone his skills, it would be impossible to be so uninitiated.

Rewards to Situ Chen are secondary, the most important thing is what Situ Chen mentioned in the scriptures about the young emperor of Annan Kingdom wanting to submit to Daqi.

This is a big deal.

Although the emperor wished that An Nanguo would submit to Daqi tonight, Daqi's food should look better.Although the young emperor of An Nanguo had this idea, didn't the empress dowager of An Nanguo still disagree?

If you don't agree, it's easy to say, let King Annan not want Annan's food.In less than three months, Nan'an Kingdom will start to be in chaos, and then they may cry and beg Daqi to help clean up the mess.

But this is not good after all, it is the people of An Nan who suffer.

The emperor already had several ideas in his mind, but he first talked about which girl to choose if he would marry the young emperor of An Nanguo.

It would be great if there were suitable women in Nan'an County King, Jia Amnesty and Situ Chen's residence.However, the first two people didn't have daughters, and Situ Chen did have a daughter, but the difference in age was too great, so they couldn't let them wait for a few more years.

After thinking for a while, the emperor decided to choose one of the prince's concubines.The crown prince felt that although Yunnan was a bit remote, he could imagine from his fourth brother's notes that Yunnan would definitely be good in the future.

Away from the hustle and bustle, it might not be a good place.

The emperor replied a letter to Situ Chen and ordered people to send it to Yunnan urgently at eight hundred miles.

After receiving the letter, Situ Chen was not in a hurry to open it, but asked Liu Yu to fetch three hams and hand them over to the postman.Although these hams look ordinary, they are hams made from pigs that Situ Chen personally fed when he was free.

Except for one for Cheng Engong who is not far away, the remaining three are for the emperor, prince and concubine Shun.

After delivering the gift, Situ Chen opened the reply letter from his father.

"Father asked us to send some of the surplus food to the second brother first. The second brother is just starting out, and there must be something attractive to develop. As for the matter of An Nanguo, this is the plan of the father..."

Situ Chen felt that the king of Nan'an should be called over to listen to this matter, so he asked Liu Yu to invite the king of Nan'an.

Jia Amnesty was impatient, so he took the letter and read it first.

"His Majesty's move is too..." Looking at the emperor's thoughts in the letter, Jia She felt that the image of His Majesty in his letter began to crack.

Situ Chen didn't think there was anything wrong with his father's move.

"Enhou didn't know that the empress dowager of Annan Kingdom is the aunt of the little emperor, but not the biological mother..." Seeing Jia She's expression, Situ Chen knew that it was the first time he knew it, and then continued: "Don't look at the little emperor who is in charge now. , is no different from a puppet..."

Jia Amnesty summed it up as follows: the empress dowager killed the little emperor's biological mother, and the little emperor has been enduring all kinds of behaviors of his aunt, and now his wings are hardened and he wants to resist.

"In this way, His Majesty's idea is very feasible."

The king of Nan'an came over and nodded after reading the letter. This matter is not difficult at all.

The little emperor ran away from home, leaving behind a letter saying that he was going to Daqi, and when he left, he just took Yuxi with him...

"This matter is not as complicated as you think, Jia She. If the little emperor finds out that His Majesty is willing to take him in, he will be happy before it's too late. Even the queen mother may be a little troublesome, but it's nothing."

After the food was sent back to Xinjiang to help the second prince, the king of Nan'an County began to quietly contact the little emperor of An Nanguo, and then Situ Chen took the little emperor north to the capital to discuss surrender with His Majesty Da Qi.

The empress dowager of An Nanguo had been kept in the dark until the palace officials found the letter left by the little emperor and found out what was going on.

"He has lost all the meetings with the ancestors of the Nong clan! No way, Aijia wants to abolish the emperor!"

The empress dowager spoke domineeringly, but she searched all over the palace but couldn't find the jade seal.

Finally found the King of Nan'an and Jia Amnesty.