563, you did it
A few days later, when Yanran held up the Kyoto Daily and read it out loud, Xiaoxiao was still sick in a drowsy manner.
"The special envoy of Nepal is coming to Beijing! The special envoy of Zhenla is coming to Beijing! The special envoy of Siam is coming to Beijing! The special envoy of Boni is coming to Beijing! The special envoy of Sulu is coming to Beijing! The special envoy of Ceylon is coming to Beijing!" Yanran's voice became louder and louder, and he looked straight at the tympanic membrane of a smile, "The special envoy of North Korea is coming to Beijing!"
In the hazy darkness, Xiaoxiao seemed to dream of a garden where strange flowers and plants grew in it that they had never seen before, emitting a fresh fragrance that they had never smelled. Wen Xixiu was still wearing a white dress and stood on the other end of the garden, smiling at himself.
Xiaoxiao acted to run towards him, but was awakened by the "North Korean special envoy coming to Beijing" in the distance.
Xiaoxiao sat up from the sickbed and was about to ask about the specific news content, but she saw Keju rushing in like a gust of wind: "Newly bought newspaper! Today's newspaper is here! Use this as the correct way!"
For a moment, everyone gathered around to read the new newspaper, and exclaimed in surprise after reading a few words. After a few exclamations, they cried with joy.
"What did the superior say?" Xiaoxiao asked anxiously.
Yanran said with tears in her eyes: "The North Korean envoy came to Beijing to testify. My father did not sell the glassware to the North Korean emperor, but to the Yuanlong shop run by the North Korean nobles!" As he was reciting, he couldn't help sobbing, "Fortunately, we haven't convicted our family, otherwise it would be difficult to overturn the case!"
Xiaoxiao also felt relieved. She was about to ask what other envoys were doing, but she heard it again-"Actually, it was not difficult to overturn the case. You guys should take a look at this big-word news!"
The following words came to Xiaoxiao's ears, like the sound of heavenly gospel: "Envoys from all countries came to Beijing to testify, proving that the old master Qinzhuling did not communicate with the enemy country back then! Twenty years of unjust prison was able to overturn the verdict!"
When everyone heard this, they were talking: "This is a big unjust case that has been nearly twenty years! The emperor has turned over the case for the Qin family!"
Zhan Yan pointed to the content below and said, "Look at the back! There is still big news! - The emperor posthumously named Qin Shunhua, the legitimate daughter of the Qin family, as Empress Xiaoshan, and wanted to choose an auspicious day to move his tomb to the imperial tomb!"
The girls from the Tang family were shocked by the news: "Oh my God, what kind of story does the emperor have with Qin Shunhua?!"
...
Xiaoxiao leaned against the big pillow, and felt that the whole room and the whole world had become clear and transparent, and her whole heart was light and bright, and tears flowed down involuntarily.
Wen Xixiu, you did it.
You did it.
Xiaoxiao closed her eyes, hoping that the dream that just now could be continued.
...
The women of the Tang family were sitting around the old lady's house wearing coarse cloth cotton jackets. Faced with the good news that fell from the sky, everyone was so happy that they didn't know what to say.
Xiaoxiao's spirit was much better, but she was still forced to sit on the kang to keep warm.
Zhen took out all the inventory from the warehouse and piled it all on the kang table very generously - peanuts, red dates, walnuts, fried melon seeds, persimmon cakes like hills...
Smiling was so happy that she forgot to eat dates and walnuts. She shook her mother's arm and said, "Can my father and the others come back too?"
Zhen didn't know the answer to this question, so he looked at the Ruan class beside him.
Ruan Shi said: "The old man and the others have a tolerance. Even if the case of our Tang family is revealed, their sea route will still be completed."
Zhen sighed: "Tang Laowu, that inexpensive person, might have to hug the foreign lady and have a few more bastard children!"
One sentence made everyone happy.
Keju hurriedly comforted his mother: "The old man and uncle are watching their father, but their father dare not."
Shan Niang also said: "It is not decided that our Tang family will take the Maritime Silk Road. The old man and the others are now going to the east to quell the trade chaos. If it is fast, they will be able to come back in less than half a year."
Xiaoxiao nodded, but her mother was still clear about her brain.
The old lady's eyes seemed to look into the vast distance: "I don't know where your grandfather and the others have gone..."
Shan Niang held the two children and comforted the old lady, "Now our Tang family is no longer guilty. As an envoy sent by the court, the old man is a respected identity and will definitely receive good care and hospitality."
Everyone nodded, feeling that what Shanniang said made sense.
The old lady grabbed a handful of peanuts and gave them to several children: "This trip was not in vain. At least our Tang family recognized some people," she said, looking at their granddaughters, "The Wen family is good, and the Meng family is good, and they are all worthy of entrusting. And the Ruicai of the Wei family is even a good child with sincerity."
Smile asked Yanran: "When we return to the old house, will my sister be about to kiss Meng Jiu?"
Yanran's face turned red: "Bah, I have two sisters on my head!"
Zhan Yan hurriedly smiled and said, "Don't wait for me, my fate has not yet come, don't delay your good things!"
Several people went to see Xiaoxiao again, but saw Xiaoxiao seemingly in a daze. After a while, they asked: "Can we meet freely?"
Smiling, he said, "On the day when the fifth sister came back from the palace, we could go in and out freely. Although we couldn't enter the city, we could still go to the market to buy things near the suburbs of Beijing."
Yanran then remembered something: "Although the Wen family came to us a few days ago and also contributed to our family, why have you never seen Wen Xixiu? Where has that person been going these days?"
When Xiaoxiao heard the name Wen Xixiu, he felt a warm feeling in his heart. At this moment, under the gaze of everyone, he couldn't help feeling shy: "He has been there all the time."
Swaner said in discomfortably: "He has been there all the time? Why haven't I seen him come once? Did he come secretly every time?"
The old lady cleared her throat and interrupted her stupid granddaughter's crazy words: "If it weren't for Mr. Wen, how could your father's confused cases be revealed!"
"My father...is obviously a North Korean special envoy..." Smile was still puzzled.
Yanran hurriedly asked, "Is it because of Brother Wen who went to North Korea to plead for my father?! This... Brother Wen knows the North Korean royal family?"
The old lady said, "What kind of onion is your father? It is worth mercy with the royal family for him. It is just that he has done Mr. Qin's business, and he also helped your father."
The more the girls heard it, the more surprised: "A man who is usually silent, can have such great ability! I used to think that he would be able to bury his head in the fragrance..."
Xiaoxiao couldn't hide his smile. At this moment, he felt deeply proud and felt a little sad: Siam, Zhenla, Sulu, Nepal... In just half a year, he had traveled so many countries across the ocean... Especially North Korea and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), which were 108,000 miles apart. How did he do it?
Xiaoxiao was depicting the geographical location of these countries on the world map in his mind, and suddenly heard officers and soldiers in the yard shouting: "Come here!"
Xiaoxiao's first reaction was Wen Xixiu. He didn't feel sick for a while, and he put his shoes on his knees and ran out without thinking. Unexpectedly, the first scene in his eyes was that Meng Qi squatted at the gate of the yard and fed the sheep with a handful of hay.
Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, waved to Meng Qi: "Brother Qi, come in quickly, there are not so many rules now!"
Meng Qixian complained to the veteran around him: "I didn't say it earlier, I made me squat at the door for a long time."
The veteran had already gone back to the outer courtyard with his sleeves in his arms to play cards - now the Tang family has different identities, but the soldiers have not yet retreated. They don’t look like guards at this moment, but like a group of bodyguards.
Xiaoxiao lifted the cotton door curtain in the east wing: "Come in, it's warm inside."
Meng Qida Malaysia entered the east wing with a golden sword: "Our money house probably has something to do."
"What?" Xiaoxiao, who was adding charcoal to the tea stove, asked unconsciously.
"I'd listened to you if I had known it, and I'd all be given management fees." Meng Qi sighed and sat at the Eight Immortals table in the main hall. "I just found out from the top that the court actually wanted to open a money shop! Not only did there be no management fees, but I also had to pay interest to the guests! Now the people across the country have to save money to the court's money shop!"
Xiaoxiao felt guilty and looked at Meng Qi: "I think the situation in Qi Ge is very good now. If Qi Ge has the so-called foresight and is ahead of the court, it would not be a good thing."
Meng Qi thought about it and felt it made sense: "Then I will follow the court's pace?"
"Yes, when the imperial bank opened, Brother Qi will follow the general direction and keep the interest close to the bank. This is always impossible to make a mistake!" As he said with a smile, he said the exclusive term bank.
Meng Qidao did not look at it carefully, and at this moment he just said, "I guess it's not only me, but other money houses will definitely follow the trend. If you don't follow, you will have no way to survive. The people are not stupid. Who is willing to save money in the money house with management fees?"
Xiaoxiao had already made plans for Meng Qi: "Brother Qi is not just a money shop. Brother Qi's main business is actually express delivery and the Minxin Bureau. Express savings are generated by relying on these two things. Many people who save money are sellers in mail order stores. In order to make it easier to settle accounts, they deposit money into express savings. In addition, the Minxin Bureau is responsible for helping the people deliver letters and parcels, which naturally includes remittance, so it is inseparable from savings."
Meng Qi then nodded slightly: "Speaking of this, the business of the Minsheng Bureau has been good recently. Last month, it also merged two small escort agencies, added a shop that specialized in urgent communications, and bought a batch of eagles, pigeons and peregrine falcons. These are all good players who make quick communications."
Xiaoxiao didn't expect that Meng Qi actually made express mail so successful, so he borrowed some previous mail knowledge in his heart - after all, this is an ancient time without electricity and Internet, and mail order is only a small part of the mail industry. If you want to make this industry bigger, you should follow the mail from earlier years...
"Actually, I think sending letters can be easier and more convenient," Xiaoxiao said his thoughts. "After all, these letters are different from those packages. Apart from a very small number of perverts, I'm afraid no one is willing to steal other people's letters."
Peeping pervert? Meng Qi automatically understood this term as a person who peeked at other people's letters.
"Fifth sister is right. We have really received a lot of businesses from Xin, especially those that are not far away, and they don't charge more money. Some even charge a few cents, which is really not cost-effective."
Xiaoxiao cooked black ginger tea, and soon a warm and spicy aroma filled the house: "I think so. In order to send a letter of a few cents, people have to go to the Minxin Bureau specifically. It is really not cost-effective, especially those who live far away from the Minxin Bureau."
Meng Qi had a premonition that Xiaoxiao might have a big brain outburst, so he simply squatted down and cooked tea with Xiaoxiao.
"Can we set up some special mailboxes on various streets in Kyoto? Since it is mailboxes, it can also be called mailboxes." Xiaoxiao couldn't believe that the mailboxes of the Yuanlong Dynasty could be completely private. What a blatant and profitable business.
"What you mean is that people can put the letters they want to send into the mailbox. At that time, the people from our Civil and Information Bureau will open the mailbox and take the letters back and deliver them in batches?" Meng Qi was very puzzled, "You can follow those letters from the battlefield and write the address and name on the envelope... But how do you collect the money?"
"We can invent something that replaces postage, divided into various denominations and pasted on a corner of the envelope," Xiaoxiao was excited and almost got burned by a teapot. "This thing can be called a stamp!"
"Stamps? Posted in a corner of the envelope?" Meng Qi imagined the future of a letter, "This idea is good. Then our Civil and Information Bureau will sell stamps uniformly. People just need to buy a lot of them and post them when writing the letter."
"Not only that, stamps can be set up very exquisitely and sold according to series, such as the Yuanlong Dynasty Great River and Mountain Series, the Rare Birds and Beasts Series, the Beauty Series, etc. These stamps can not only be used as postage, but also have very precious collection value!"
Meng Qiyi never understood the collecting world, nor did he understand why a small stamp suddenly had collection value, but he felt that Xin Xiaoxiao was always right: "Okay, just like those letters, please hide all the paintings and famous calligraphers and painters, and you can sell them for a good price in a few days."
"Yes, that's what it means!"
The tea was finally cooked, and Xiaoxiao still used a coarse porcelain bowl, each with a bowl of fragrant tea. Xiaoxiao reminded Meng Qi again: "I heard some news when I entered the palace this time that the National Bank not only needs to build a money house, but also has to issue some bonds, and the interest rate of those bonds is higher."
Meng Qi was a little impatient when he heard this: "I don't want to give other businessmen a way out."
"These bonds are temporary and will not be sold all year round. I just want to remind Brother Qi that the interest you usually save money can be imitated by the State Bank, but don't follow the bond matter for the time being, otherwise there will be suspicion of robbing the country's business."
Meng Qi nodded: "I was tired of the lending business. Now there are post offices and express delivery. I also have our exclusive stamps. Where can I get free to lend!"
Xiaoxiao blew a mouthful of ginger black tea and nodded with a smile.
"By the way, Wen Xixiu is back." Meng Qi drank the hot tea ceremony.
When Xiaoxiao heard this name, he felt a little trembling in his heart: "Brother Qi saw him?"
"I also heard that he had just returned to Beijing this morning, so I took the opportunity to come and have a look," Meng Qi said while holding the tea, "I'm afraid I won't have a chance to see you when he comes."
Xiaoxiao didn't have time to blush, and she was only excited. She had previously guessed whether he would come to Beijing with foreign envoys, so she had been looking forward to his letter. Now—
Chapter completed!