Satisfied, happy, relieved... Zhao Jiaren was in various eyes. His eyes swept across the clan members and saw sympathy on the faces of a few people. This surprised Zhao Jiaren.

After looking carefully, Zhao Jiaren noticed something. He was the youngest among all people, and the highest official position among all the people in the house. Recognizing this fact, Zhao Jiaren's heart instantly returned to peace. In the Song Dynasty, officials had a very high status, so high that they could ignore the clan at all. In other words, clans had no binding force on officials.

The clan elder smiled, but when he saw Zhao Jiaren sitting calmly in his seat, he showed an expression of an official. The so-called official expression was "waiting for you to speak", and now, the elder's smile disappeared on his face. The real clan leader of the Zhao clan relative was in the official family in Lin'an, and the elders were only responsible for actual operations. If Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but say something, the clan elder would be able to continue to say something. If Zhao Jiaren didn't say anything, the clan elders would really have nothing to say.

It is obvious that there are also people who don’t think so. A certain Zhao Jiaren thought he had met him, but he had no idea what the origin of this elder said, “This time the official family wants Zhao to pay tribute, Jiaren needs to come forward!”

Hearing this, several other elders followed him. Zhao Jiaren was still an official expression and calmly responded. The elders who did not know the candle and the fragrant elbows at all talked for a moment, and then asked Zhao Jiaren, "Jiaren, why don't you speak?"

"There are all the Zhao clans here, and I am just one of them. Why do I want to speak?" Zhao Jiaren asked calmly.

When these clan elders were nonsense, Zhao Jiaren again corrected the reality he faced. At least Zhao Jiaren did not find any reason that he had to bear alone. If Zhao Jiaren gave tribute to the official family, there would be no need to alarm the royal family. Since it alarmed the royal family, unless the official family issued the imperial edict had special ideas, this matter would have a huge relationship with the royal family. If this matter was only related to the royal family, it would be a very unwise choice for Zhao Jiaren to jump out.

But there are obviously some people who have different opinions from Zhao Jiaren. The elder who obviously has a difficult heart replied: "Jiaren, since you have made the best candles and incense pills, the government needs tribute, so you have to do your best. We have no room for effort at all."

Zhao Jiaren was too lazy to get entangled with this person anymore. He said straightforwardly: "The official family will never treat us and other royal families with a difficult heart. If he only wants tribute and issue an edict to me, of course I have to pay tribute obediently. It can be seen that the official family is thinking about the royal family, not me, Zhao Jiaren. If you can't even understand this, you should not be an elder."

After saying this, Zhao Jiaren was a little excited. Unexpectedly, he suddenly heard someone speak, "Jiaren is right. This is the matter of my Zhao clan relative, and there is no reason to let Jiaren take it. With the intelligence of the official family, he could not have known this."

Some people took the lead in supporting Zhao Jiaren, and other supporters also expressed their opinions. Zhao Jiaren was surprised to find that at least 30% of the elders of the Zhao family agreed with him.

The elder who spoke at first did not expect so many opponents to pop up suddenly. His initial idea was to ask Zhao Jiaren to take out the tribute and end the matter quickly. At this time, there were opponents, and the elder asked in confusion: "Then what do you think you should do when you wait."

"There will be rewards for tribute. There are two ways. Let's first discuss how to divide the rewards, or figure out what the officials want to do." The person who supported Zhao Jiaren expressed his opinion. After saying that, he asked Zhao Jiaren, "Jiaren, what do you think?"

Now Zhao Jiaren feels that this person is less popular than the one who tried to solve the problem simply and roughly. The one who was initially easy to solve, and the view raised by this person is more reasonable and will be easier to get support from others. Zhao Jiaren can ignore the advice of fools, but he cannot really offend so many people because of some small money.

"Don't say so many reasons, what do you think you should do?" The elder who spoke at first asked impatiently.

"It always costs money to buy tributes. Who will pay for this money?" asked the elder who supported Zhao Jiaren.

"Those who are capable work harder, so naturally they are Jiaren." The first one replied.

"If the official family gives the reward, how do you divide the Zhao clan?" The elder who supported Zhao Jiaren continued to ask.

Faced with uninterrupted questions, the man initially said in disappointment: "It is still a matter of whether there is a reward or not."

The elder who supported Zhao Jiaren did not relax at all. He continued to ask, "What if there is a reward? What if there is a lot of rewards?"

When talking about possible rewards, the elders of the clan were silent. Zhao Jiaren also fell silent. He did not think that the rewards would be too much to satisfy the Zhao clan. In order to deal with the southern invasion of Mongolia, the Lin'an court spent a huge amount of money and issued a large amount of new money. The officials would not suck blood from the Zhao clan, but they would not try to satisfy the Zhao clan's bottomless pit desire. If they want to understand the thoughts of the officials, they would have to inquire from Lin'an.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren had already considered asking his father to help. In addition, he asked Bu Ruyan to ask her to help him find out. Many officials started to show off after getting on the pleasure boat and said all kinds of things. Although what they said was not credible, it might be a way of thinking.

Zhao Jiaren calmly considered the solution, while the Zhao clan members debated the distribution of tributes. Later, they came up with a plan that was based on the sales price in Hangzhou, Zhao Jiaren paid 60% and the other 50% shared by each company. This plan was taken out by experts, and the profit of luxury goods such as high-quality candles and fragrant pancreas is more than 100%. Zhao Jiaren took 60% but told him not to make the 60% of the money. The other companies took 40% of the money, which means that Zhao Jiaren could not lose money.

This result was satisfied by most of the Zhao clan relatives, and Zhao Jiaren did not refuse. After the meeting, Zhao Jiaren immediately sent someone to send a message to ask Jeju Island to determine the yield of candles and incense pills.

Stearic acid candles require animal fat, while Xiangpanzi saponification reactions soybean oil and sodium hydroxide to obtain high-grade fatty acid sodium. In other words, animal fat is needed to make candles, and soda ash is needed to make Xiangpanzi sapon, and supply is subject to various restrictions. Both the Song Dynasty officials and the Japanese shogunate have such a great demand for these luxury goods, and Zhao Jiaren dares not neglect them.

After writing the letter to Liu Meng, it was his turn to Bu Ruyan. Zhao Jiaren wrote it quickly. He talked about the official's request for Zhao's tribute, hoping that Bu Ruyan could provide her hearing. In the letter, Zhao Jiaren clearly stated that hearing was unreliable, and he just wanted more information. Even if the hearing was fake, Zhao Jiaren would only thank Bu Ruyan for his help.
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