The corner of Zhao Kang's mouth curved into a dangerous arc: "I, Zhao Kang, have never been afraid of another fight with your Qi State and Zhou State. You want me to take action?"
"You have too few chips. If there is nothing else, Zhao Kang will resign. Thank you for your hospitality."
Zhao Kang stood up, and Princess Mingzhu panicked and said quickly: "Master, wait a moment!"
"Is there anything else your Highness can do?"
Sighing in her heart, Princess Mingzhu took a deep breath to calm down and said to Zhao Kang: "I heard that the Imperial Preceptor likes to do business. Before becoming the Daqian Imperial Preceptor, he was just a small seventh-grade county magistrate, but he did a lot of business. big."
Zhao Kang narrowed his eyes: "Your Highness investigated me very carefully."
Princess Mingzhu said: "National Master, why don't we make a deal?"
"Come to think of it, I'm still very interested in business matters." Zhao Kang said with a smile.
Princess Mingzhu said: "The Imperial Preceptor comes to rescue Yanran once. Yanran can provide a large amount of medicine to the Imperial Preceptor."
Zhao Kang's heart skipped a beat. The yellow medicine Princess Mingzhu mentioned was actually sulfur, an essential raw material for making gunpowder.
When Zhao Kang wanted to make black powder, he asked Zhang Long and his group to look for these three materials, but for a long time they found nothing.
Only later did I learn that sulfur in this world is not called sulfur, but yellow medicine.
This thing was used as a medicinal primer in Qian and Jing countries, and the output was not large.
Take the Qian Kingdom as an example. Since the black gunpowder was produced, both Zhao Kang and Her Majesty the Empress have sent people everywhere to buy sulfur and earth salt.
After more than a year, all the sulfur, soil, and saltpeter in the country had been plundered. For this reason, Her Majesty the Empress even dispatched geologist from the Department of Geography.
This group of people spend their days wandering around in the deep mountains and old forests, looking for sulfur deposits.
Unfortunately, I didn't bring back any good news.
Gunpowder cannot be made without sulfur.
Therefore, during this period, Her Majesty the Empress sent people to other countries to purchase sulfur.
There is not much sulfur left in Jingguo.
In the future, Zhao Kang will build cannons and bombs, and sulfur will definitely be indispensable. I have to say that this matter is quite troublesome.
And now Princess Pearl actually said that she could provide sulfur, which really attracted Zhao Kang.
But this also made him wary. He looked at Princess Mingzhu and said calmly: "Yaohuang? What do I want with this thing?"
Princess Pearl smiled, and I have to say that her smile was indeed beautiful, giving people a pleasing feeling.
"The Imperial Master is a smart man, so why should he pretend to be stupid?"
Princess Mingzhu chuckled and said: "Recently, many businessmen from Qian Kingdom have come to Qi Kingdom to buy medicinal yellow, and the demand is very high. Yanran only paid a little attention to know that this thing is needed by the national master."
"Yaohuang is just a medicine, but the demand in Qian Country is so huge. This has to make Yanran think of something."
Zhao Kang's eyes darkened.
Princess Mingzhu said meaningfully: "I heard that the national division led troops to personally guard Jinlin Pass and used a very powerful weapon called black gunpowder on the battlefield, which caused heavy casualties to our Qi and Zhou coalition forces."
"Can Yanran think that this yellow medicine is an indispensable material for making black gunpowder?"
Sure enough, he is not an easy guy to deal with.
Looking at the Pearl Princess opposite, Zhao Kang's evaluation of her rose to a higher level. This girl is indeed very smart.
Information about gunpowder can be inferred from brimstone.
Not only that, the other party is obviously very concerned about various changes in the country of Qi, and a royal princess is actually concerned about the sale of a kind of medicine.
No wonder the second emperor of Qi would say that he hated his nine sons for not being born as boys.
Seeing Zhao Kang's silence, Princess Mingzhu smiled slightly, with a hint of pride in her tone.
"By the way, let me tell the Imperial Master one more thing. Yanran also likes doing business. She founded a Pearl Chamber of Commerce in Qi State, just before coming to Qi State."
"Yanran issued an order that all medicinal herbs in Qi are classified as contraband and cannot be sold to other countries. Unfortunately."
Princess Mingzhu smiled like a fox: "There are three medicinal yellow mines in Qi State with huge yields. Imperial Master, does Yanran have enough chips now?"
Zhao Kang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Her Royal Highness, it seems that she is determined to eat."
"I'm just looking for a way out for myself."
Princess Mingzhu said softly: "If the Imperial Master can save Yanran once, the Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce can cooperate with the Imperial Master and transport no less than a thousand stones of medicine to Qian Kingdom every month. Yanran will do what he says!"
One thousand shi per month, which is 60,000 catties!
Zhao Kang was suddenly moved. At present, the Ministry of Thunder and Fire has stopped production of gunpowder due to the shortage of sulfur. This matter must be resolved!
Thinking about it, Zhao Kang couldn't help but have some doubts. He looked at Princess Mingzhu with strange eyes and said leisurely: "Since Her Royal Highness knows about gunpowder, she gave me the yellow medicine. You are not afraid that one day I will use gunpowder to blow up your country of Qi." National gate?"
Princess Mingzhu said calmly: "If that day comes, then we can only blame the people of Qi for not having the ability to make weapons that can compete with gunpowder. In the end, Yanran is just a daughter. It is not the turn of women to interfere in national affairs."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk..."
Zhao Kang laughed. It seemed that this girl was very resentful about Qi Guo asking her to come and get married.
It can be said to be completely ruthless.
"Tell me how you want me to help you." Zhao Kang leaned back and changed into a more comfortable position.
Princess Mingzhu said in surprise; "The Imperial Master agreed!"
"Your bargaining chip makes it difficult for me to refuse." Zhao Kang said.
"Thank you, Imperial Master!"
Princess Mingzhu finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhao Kang: "As far as Yan Ran knows, this Four Kingdoms Cultural Conference was originally organized to target the imperial masters. In addition to regaining the false name of the world's first scholar, the Zhou people want to regain their reputation."
"We still need to use the literary conference to achieve some goals, maybe it's about Qian Guo."
Zhao Kang said with a smile: "And Her Royal Highness the Princess will naturally turn towards Zhou Guo this time, so when they make things difficult for me, Zhao Kang can take advantage of the situation and take action?"
Princess Pearl nodded.
Zhao Kang stood up: "This way I understand, the princess is waiting for the good news."
"What should the Imperial Master do?" Princess Mingzhu asked hurriedly.
Zhao Kang smiled playfully: "Your Highness will know when the time comes. Don't worry, I guarantee that I will definitely disturb the good things between His Highness and the second prince of Zhou Dynasty."
"And the State of Zhou will never blame His Highness, they will only hate me, Zhao Kang, for not causing trouble for the State of Qi."
Hearing what he said, Princess Mingzhu nodded: "Thank you so much, Imperial Master."
Zhao Kang walked towards the door, turned around and said with a smile: "Just don't regret it when the time comes. Don't blame Zhao Kang again later."
Princess Mingzhu chuckled: "Don't worry, Imperial Master, as long as you don't marry the second prince, Yanran will not blame the Imperial Master no matter what happens!"
