Liu Mingzhi was about to get out of the way to let the Queen in, when a familiar yet unfamiliar voice behind him stopped the two of them.
The two turned around and saw Hu Yanyu, the prince of Huyan. He should be called Prince Huyan now. After all, it would be inappropriate to call Huyanyu a prince after his eldest brother Huyanzhuo succeeded to the throne.
Holding a gift box in her right hand, Hu Yanyu stood next to Princess Yan Yu of the Kingdom of Jin, looking at Liu Mingzhi with a faint smile.
"Brother Liu, long time no see!"
The queen looked at Yan Yu with a cold face: "Why are you here?"
Yan Yu looked at the Queen without hesitation, and her pretty eyes looked at the Queen without fear: "What? On Fei Xiong's birthday, you, the eldest sister, can come to congratulate the little sister, but the second sister can't come to congratulate Fei Xiong?"
The Queen looked stunned and did not answer. Sheng Yan looked at the street beside her in trance.
"Sister, Hu Yanyu is polite!"
The Queen nodded gently: "No need to be polite, you and I are just ordinary people when we go out, and we are all guests in Dalong, so we just need to treat each other as equals!"
"Hu Yanyu is rude, eldest sister!"
"Uh-huh, then you are here as a guest. You are all distinguished guests. Please come in and invite us!"
"Thank you! Brother Liu doesn't look very good, does he seem to have just recovered from a serious illness?"
Hu Yanyu walked next to Liu Mingzhi and saw that Young Master Liu's face was still a little pale, and he immediately saw that Young Master Liu had just recovered from his serious illness.
The Queen's steps immediately returned to normal, and she seemed not to care about Young Master Liu's illness. However, looking at the way she held her breath and restrained her voice, it was clear that her cold expression and calm heart had caused some waves.
"Brother Huyan has good eyesight. Unfortunately, I was infected with cold some time ago, but now I'm almost in good health!"
"Brother, you can finally leave the room. I miss you so much!"
The four people who had just stepped into the door stopped again and turned around to look around. They saw Guannei Hou Zhu Run and his wife Zhou Yuhe standing outside the door holding a gift box. Zhu Run looked at Young Master Liu with an excited face: "Brother, since you have been infected
Plague, my little brother has visited you more than a dozen times and you have been cultivating. Today I finally see you!"
"Uh-huh, what a plague, I just got a bit cold, don't curse me."
Zhu Run looked at the three queens beside Liu Mingzhi and patted their heads: "That's right, that's right, look at my memory, it's just the cold!"
Liu Mingzhi shook his head helplessly and looked at the somewhat reserved Zhou Yuhe: "Yuhe, my eldest brother did not attend your wedding banquet because of official duties. Please don't blame me!"
Zhou Yuhe nodded lightly: "Brother is joking. My husband has already told Yuhe. How dare Yuhe blame eldest brother!"
"That's good, that's good, come in quickly, it's a lively day today!"
Zhu Run put his arm around Liu Mingzhi's shoulders without any pretense: "Brother, our mines outside the city have begun to produce coal. This year's coal business is better than in previous years. After Your Majesty opened the trade route, the coal stoves and coals that are now shipped to Shanhaiguan are the same.
The supply exceeds the demand, so it won’t be a problem to make ten or twenty million!”
"Then what, don't talk about these today, don't talk about these!"
Liu Mingzhi hurriedly winked at Zhu Run, but it was too late.
The three people who were about to enter the house looked at Liu Mingzhi in shock, and the queen's cold face showed a hint of surprise: "Is briquettes your business?"
"Um" Liu Mingzhi touched his nose strangely: "It's just a small fight, it's nothing!"
Hu Yanyu sighed deeply: "Brother Liu, you are not honest. This is just a small matter. The coal briquettes shipped to the five coal furnaces in Turks are worth a cow for one hundred briquettes! But if you don't use it after you get used to it,
If you are not used to it, it is easy to go from being frugal to being extravagant, but it is difficult to go from being extravagant to being frugal!”
Yan Yu also looked at Liu Mingzhi with an unkind expression. Apparently coal was too expensive.
Liu Mingzhi looked at Zhu Run blankly: "Why is it so expensive? That's not how the Ministry of Household Tariffs are set! The price is more than three times higher!"
Even Liu Mingzhi himself felt that the price of selling a cow for three taels of silver was a bit outrageous.
Although including the cost of transportation, all kinds of expenses can be sold for twenty taels of silver, which is a huge profit, but the value of a bullock is sixty or seventy taels of silver, which is simply a huge profit!
The Marquis of Guan Nei looked at Liu Mingzhi with the same astonishment: "Brother, when I reported it to the Ministry of Household Affairs, it was thirty-two batches, ten stoves and five hundred balls. I don't know the rest. They are all left to purchase.
The merchants and Shanhaiguan exchange officials are managing it!"
Liu Mingzhi's face turned cold and he hammered the door fiercely: "You bastard, you are maliciously raising prices. The border trade market that was finally built will be destroyed by these guys who are stupid and stupid!"
"Brother, it shouldn't be possible!"
"Brother Huyan? Is the quantity of briquettes ordered by your Turks gradually decreasing?"
"Yes, briquettes have become a luxury item in Turks now, and not many people can afford them!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the somewhat stunned Queen: "Brother Wan, is the usage of Jin Guo also being reduced?"
The Queen nodded slightly: "Dozens of households with big expenses can't afford to buy a batch even if they scrape together enough money!"
Liu Mingzhi pondered for a while: "Brother Huyan, Brother Wan, the agreement signed on the border trade was very clear, and the price was clearly marked. Even if you make a lot of money, you can make a huge profit for a while, but it will damage your credibility. The border trade needs a steady stream of water to help improve the Three Kingdoms."
People's lives, in the mutual market, there are supervisory officials sent by the three countries to supervise each other, and they can still sell such high prices. Needless to say, not only Dalong, but also the officials of the Turkic Jin Kingdom must have manipulated the prices, colluding with each other to enrich their own pockets, and the border trade market continues like this
It will be in name only, and no more merchants will go to the border to trade!”
Hu Yanyu nodded gently: "Brother Liu, don't worry, I will thoroughly investigate this matter when I go back and find out the black sheep!"
Although the Queen did not express her position, the cold eyes filled with murderous intent said everything.
"Oh, let's go in, you are so interested in profit. I won't mention that today!"
"Brother, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have ruined your mood by mentioning these things!"
Zhu Run's face looked a little ugly, thinking that his supposed happy day was ruined by his own words.
Liu Mingzhi shook his head in fear: "Not only are you not wrong, but you have also made great achievements. We must know this matter in advance. Otherwise, there will be war between the three countries, and the peace that was finally won will be destroyed. Like this
If the officials are not killed, it will not be enough to thank the world!"
"That's good, that's good. Brother, I thought we made a lot of money, but I didn't expect that these people below made more than us!"
"People's hearts are separated from each other. Don't be careless when looking at others in the future!"
"I know, I will thoroughly investigate the merchants below when I get back!"
Liu Mingzhi gently closed the door and prepared to lead a few people to the backyard. The door behind him rang again. Liu Mingzhi was stunned. What happened today?
Liu Mingzhi looked at the strange looks of several people and laughed twice: "He is a good person and has many friends! Who is it?"
"Senior brother, I heard that you are ready to go out. Junior brother is here to have a drink with you!"
"Hu Jun? It's your junior brother!"
Liu Mingzhi opened the door and looked at Huyan Yunyao who was standing outside the door carrying two jars of wine: "The new top scholar is really high-spirited!"
"Senior brother is joking. My younger brother only got a job in the Hanlin Academy. It's not like senior brother who has been awarded the title of general!"