While Chu Qing was arguing with others about prices, Xiaobao sent a message to the princes, inviting them to experience the "Juwantang Game Center".

This move gave the princes a lot of peace of mind. After all, the Blue House used them to advertise, which really made them feel uncomfortable for a long time.

Xiaobao graciously didn't charge them any money and let them play as they pleased - anyway, the game hall is still very deserted at the moment, and people would rather go to gambling houses and brothels than go to the game hall to see what new things are there.

The princes didn't know that Xiaobao was being used for advertising again, and they just thought that Xiaobao was trying to please them out of guilt.

After the princes came, the game hall began to attract people's attention, especially the princes from Beijing.

Compared with gambling houses and brothels, game halls look much more respectable; and compared with painting appreciation parties and poetry clubs, game halls are much more interesting.

Not only are there all kinds of new things that are not available elsewhere, but you can also connect with the younger generations of each family by playing here.

Because writing poetry, appreciating paintings, etc., are things that educated people do. Dandies can’t do it, and they don’t want to do it. Drinking and gambling are too vulgar and are looked down upon by others.

It is said that a dandy is a dandy, and the original meaning is a wealthy young man. What is the difference between elegance and vulgarity? Therefore, the existence of the game center suddenly blurred the boundaries between dandies.

Ladies from wealthy families can also buy "Monopoly", "Xiao Xiao Le", "Puzzles" and other things that are suitable for them to play here through their brothers.

Parents of young chickens with extra money can also buy "educational" checkers, military chess, and animal chess.

Those who really like gambling and have a lot of money can go to a private room to "hang up the pole" behind closed doors and discuss how much a shot will cost, or how much a ball will cost.

In short, the game center opened the door to a new world for the young generation in Kyoto, and also contributed to enriching Xiaobao's pocket.

Not only was the Chu family's business not suppressed by them, but it became increasingly frustrated, and a wave of "game industry" emerged.

As traditional card games such as leaf cards, chess, and Go, although they are classics, they also have their limitations - no one studies new gameplay; and if a card is played for a long time, it loses its freshness.

The playing cards in the game hall are firstly of good quality, secondly there are many types, thirdly they have new pictures, and they can also be customized into different qualities. For example, the "Monopoly" that girls love to play can be customized into silver or gold cards.

It can be either surfaced or inlaid with gemstones, but the construction period is long.

Chu's store has ushered in a new round of hot sales. The prices of used goods have not been reduced, and all new products are on sale at half price.

Even half price is still profitable. Who makes the raw materials cheap? They are delivered to your doorstep by people in Kyoto.

The transportation cost in this world is too high. If goods such as grain and minerals are difficult to transport by land, the transportation cost will be dozens or hundreds of times higher than the goods themselves.

Traveling by water is relatively convenient, but it is also subject to climate effects and high tolls, which is also extremely costly.

Unless, like the Chu family, they connect water and land transportation lines into a network and set up stores at each outlet, they can allocate goods nearby, shorten transportation time, and reduce costs.

Before the end of the year, prices in Kyoto were successfully suppressed, ensuring the supply of materials for the people of Kyoto during the Spring Festival, and also boosting individual transportation business in surrounding areas.

This is no longer a perfect completion of the task assigned by the emperor, but an excess.

However, Chu Qing's "conspiracy" scandal caused another major loss - the reduction of jade mine production.

Ordinarily, Chu Qing sent another 3,000 people to Voss in May. Together with the workers who had already mined jade in Voss, the total was more than 6,000 people. They should have brought back more jade mines before the end of the year. In fact, they did not.

Not only are there no large jade stones like last year’s, which cost ten thousand kilograms of mountain material, but even ordinary jade stones can barely maintain the level of last year.

The reason is simple. Chu's shop has been blocked for too long, and various materials cannot be transported to Voss normally. These workers have to suspend mining and scatter in search of ways to survive.

To put it simply, the blockade of Chu's shop is equivalent to freezing assets, leaving no money to buy grain, let alone transport grain, let alone the maintenance and replacement of various mining tools.

How much food do six thousand people consume in a day just for eating? Without food, they have to find a way to survive on their own?

In addition, a large number of Daxuan people entered the Voss country, and they were not allowed to strictly supervise and control them? It was not easy for them to survive.

Autumn is the best time to fish for jade, and every second counts when mining mountain jade. However, if there is no food and no tools, how can we still mine jade?

Therefore, even though the existing Shililaoyu Riverbank was extended by another fifteen miles, the mine was also expanded to the same large area eastward along the snow line, and the height was not capped, and the number of people was increased by three thousand, it was still a complete waste.

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This result was caused by Chu Qing and Xiaobao's coincident behavior of "showing off".

Chu Qing was the shopkeeper who made money for the emperor. What was a shopkeeper? Chu Qing didn't know the definition of shopkeeper, but she only knew that she was in charge of the emperor's money chest.

If you freeze my assets, I will naturally freeze your cash box.

"Frozen assets" is a double-edged sword. When one edge is pointed at Chuqing, it is equivalent to pointing the other edge at the value Chuqing is about to create.

After the emperor saw that the prices in Kyoto and surrounding areas were stable and the courtiers were no longer talkative, he was just happy for a few days when he was showered with such a vat of cold water.

Chu Qing was sent there to discipline him, and it was really a discipline, and he was short of punishment.

Chu Qing, with his mouth full of tears, sincerely apologized: "I beg the emperor to punish me!".

The emperor was really helpless - look, Chu Qing was so anxious that his mouth was filled with tears.

(Chu Qing ate too many unripe mangoes that the boys brought back from Xiaobao’s island last night and became allergic!)

The emperor knew that he was "destroying his own fault", so no wonder Chu Qing, but his original thought was that Chu Qing had "turned the tide" this year, and there should be a good harvest?

Too much expectation, too much disappointment.

Seriously speaking, Chu Qing was only responsible for the emperor's private treasury income. The amount of money handed over to the emperor this year was not less than last year, it just did not increase.

But why was the emperor so angry? Because transportation was not smooth in the second half of the year, prices in various places from Kyoto to the local areas were unstable, tax revenues were reduced, and the national treasury received less money.

If there is less money in the private treasury, at most some rewards should be given to the wives and children. What is the concept of a decrease in the revenue of the national treasury? That is because the country will run into a fiscal deficit if there is any situation!

For example, there is another locust plague.

The emperor's anger could not be vented in the court, because as soon as he started, he was pushed back by the officials with a lot of excuses and reasons.

Poor transportation is the biggest excuse, and not allowing price increases is the biggest reason. If prices are not raised, business taxes cannot be guaranteed under unfavorable transportation conditions, and the state treasury will have less revenue!

The fire that cannot be thrown in the court can only be thrown at Chu Qing.

Even if all the people in the court are laid off immediately, they will still have enough food and clothing when they go back. It is a dynasty with an iron-clad aristocratic family. Let's see who can outlast the other.

From the time of the previous emperor, the childbirth test was brought forward to the age of twelve, and in this dynasty, it was even brought up to the age of ten. Why?

The purpose is to weaken the power in the hands of the aristocratic family, put the power back into the hands of the royal family, and replace all the officials related to the aristocratic family in the court.

However, cultivating enough talents cannot be achieved in just a few decades.

Relying on their own economic strength and monopoly on cultural and educational resources, aristocratic families are still the mainstream talents selected by the imperial examination system.

Moreover, they support each other through marriage and blood relations, and to a large extent, they still maintain an airtight monopoly on officialdom.

You can't vent your anger on these people, but it's different with Chu Qing. Chu Qing has no foundation and is a complete "tool man". If you are asked to go east, you can't go west.

Therefore, the emperor's original intention in calling Chu Qing to spread the flames was to discuss how to reopen the jade mine.

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