Mu Qinxue hesitated for a moment and hesitated: "Although you should consider making profits when doing business and you also have privileges, but now that the national treasury is empty, making and selling salt is equivalent to competing with the country for profit..."
"I hope I won't get involved in this business. Is it you or your parents?" Liang Xiao asked again.
Mu Qinxue felt a little nervous and replied: "It's my own intention, and my mother agrees with it. She asked me to persuade you that Dingguohou Mansion can increase cooperation with you in other aspects, but only in the salt industry.
Please think twice..."
Liang Xiao couldn't help laughing.
Mu Qinxue lowered her head and whispered: "We are just suggesting, if you must..."
Liang Xiao sighed: "Dingguo Hou Mansion is worthy of being a home of loyal ministers who can win the trust of the royal family! Indeed, if I am hungry, I make and sell salt, and sell it at a reduced price, even if I only take 40% of the profit and give the rest to Your Majesty, it will be enough
Impact the national salt policy."
Mu Qinxue looked at Liang Xiao weakly and nodded.
This is what her family is worried about, and even her brother knows this.
Liang Xiao comforted him: "Don't worry, His Majesty has his own plans regarding salt and iron. I will not interfere in the salt industry, let alone say this."
Mu Qinxue was overjoyed and said: "However, if you only rely on the sugar industry, it will be difficult to do business across the country, and the rich people in the capital have an upper limit on their demand for sugar..."
"Miss Mu, don't worry, the sugar industry is just the first step in my business." Liang Xiao said with a smile.
Mu Qinxue felt relieved, but soon realized something, and her heart was in confusion.
When I faced him just now, I was nervous for a moment and seemed to be exposed!
Didn't what you said just now mean that you were worried that he wouldn't be able to make a fortune?
Liang Xiao said: "Miss Mu, I will give priority to cooperating with your Dingguo Marquis Mansion in the future, but I may not be the one dealing with you in the future."
Mu Qinxue asked curiously: "What does Mr. Liang mean by this?"
Liang Xiao looked towards the north, his eyes almost ready to spit fire.
"My father's head has been hanging at the gate of Beihu's lord's tent from seventeen years ago to now. In the future, I, Liang Xiaoding, will lead the troops north to slay the enemy!"
Mu Qinxue looked at Liang Xiao blankly, her heart beating fast.
So he has been enduring the humiliation?
"Eh? But now there are only you and Xue'er in your family. Xue'er is still young. Who will be responsible for dealing with business partners in the future?" Mu Qinxue finally realized something and couldn't help but ask.
"Of course she is my wife." Liang Xiao said without thinking.
Mu Qinxue's beautiful eyes lit up, and she looked at Liang Xiao with waves in her eyes.
"As a princess, Sister Yunxiu, of course, can't do business. Then... I have to do it!"
Unknowingly, Mu Qinxue completely regarded herself as Liang Xiao's wife.
Liang Xiao suddenly remembered something and asked again: "Miss Mu, does your family still sell book paper?"
"Book paper? You want to enter the book industry? That is the lifeblood of several big families..." Mu Qinxue was a little worried.
Liang Xiao smiled and said: "What I want to cut off is their lifeblood! I have just started in intelligence collection. I wonder who is doing the paper industry in Beijing?"
Mu Qinxue replied: "My family sells some paper, but the Gongsun family is still the largest in the paper industry in the capital."
"The Gongsun family?" Liang Xiao frowned and sighed, "It seems that we need to find a way to take over the paper industry from them. Such a key industry must not be in the hands of a family that threatens the imperial court."
Mu Qinxue felt the same and said: "If Mr. Liang really needs writing paper, as a result of Mr. Liang's patriotism, our Dingguo Marquis Mansion can give it to you first."
"I want a lot. I will consume at least 50,000 pieces every two days. Is that okay?" Liang Xiao asked.
"You want that much? No problem!" Mu Qinxue said bravely.
Liang Xiao requested: "Then I'll help you Dingguo Hou Mansion to accumulate 200,000 pieces in advance, preferably ones longer than seven inches."
"The price of that kind of paper will be relatively high? Well, it's no problem if the price is reduced appropriately!"
Liang Xiao was overjoyed and said: "Miss Mu, you can wait for my good news. I can buy 200,000 pieces within a month at the earliest!"
Mu Qinxue happily agreed and went home to tell her mother.
Mrs. Mu was shocked: "You promised him everything??"
"I agreed..." Mu Qinxue said bitterly.
"Two hundred thousand, we have to prepare so much. His ten thousand taels of silver have obviously been used to expand the sugar industry. If he can't eat it, how will you explain it to your father?"
Mu Qinxue curled her lips and said, "I still have a lot of private money..."
Mrs. Mu was stunned, walked up to Mu Qinxue, touched her face and neck, and then checked her clothes.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Mu Qinxue looked suspicious.
Mrs. Mu said with a serious look on her face as she checked: "Let me see if you have lost your virginity to him and are so willing to risk your life for him!"
Hearing this, Mu Qinxue blushed and said angrily: "No way! He is a gentleman..."
"Until your father changes his view of him, you can't do this again!" Mrs. Mu warned.
Mu Qinxue was overjoyed to find that her mother no longer opposed her and supported Liang Xiao, and she agreed.
The next day, Liang Xiao entrusted Gu Pingxiu to send a deposit of five hundred taels of silver for the book paper, finally dispelling Mrs. Mu's worries.
The Duke of Dingguo's Mansion began to secretly prepare writing paper. According to Liang Xiao's requirements, the quality could be slightly worse than the usual writing paper, as long as it was not easily damaged or moldy.
Liang Xiao visited several workshops at home and personally taught the workers how to make them.
He is waiting for the next batch of sugar cane to arrive in Beijing.
According to the agreement, he needed to spend five thousand taels to purchase these sugar canes.
Completely different from Liang Xiao who was calm and composed, Bai He was restless at home.
"Why does this little beast get the title of a first-class imperial merchant? My Bai family has been running business in the capital for three generations. I have never done any loss-making business, and I have never even been an ordinary imperial merchant!"
Bai He couldn't figure it out.
A shopkeeper reminded: "If he can become an imperial merchant, it means that he has the support of the emperor, and he must have five thousand taels of silver in his hands! Head of the family, it is impossible for us to seize his sugar industry..."
Bai He said angrily: "If it doesn't work once, then twice! Anyway, the contract is effective for a long time!"
Another shopkeeper reminded: "Master, the problem is that Dingguo Hou's Mansion seems to be very close to him. Mu's pastry shop seems to have endless sugar, and it has recently suppressed the business of several other pastry shops!
Do you think it is possible for Dingguo Houfu to cooperate with Liang Xiao to deceive us?"
Bai He's heart sank, and he suddenly remembered the rumors about Liang Xiao in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Mu Qinxue is Zhuge Hui's favorite disciple, which is one of the reasons why she is famous all over the world.
I heard that Zhuge Hui admired Liang Xiao very much?
A sense of crisis emerged in Bai He's heart.
"Master, the sugar cane has arrived outside the capital!"