When he opened it, he found a gold bracelet inlaid with turquoise.
Deng Zhiqiu's eyes lit up: "Ah, so beautiful."
She took it out and put it on her hand, and asked Zhu Ping, "Does it look good?"
The bracelet was exquisitely crafted, made of sunshine-like pure gold paired with aquamarine turquoise, which made Deng Zhiqiu's wrists even more white and slender.
Zhu Xi nodded sincerely: "It looks good."
Seeing that Deng Zhiqiu was so happy, Zhu Fang was in a good mood and said to the concierge: "Then bring the Xifan man in and see what he wants to do."
The concierge was busy going out to fetch someone.
Deng Zhiqiu walked to the inner room to avoid it.
The waiter in Xifan wore a Chu-colored cotton robe common among Tibetans, and also had a turquoise and gold-buckled belt around his waist.
Zhu Cang thought to himself: I heard that Xifan produces gold and precious stones, and sure enough, even the waiters are wearing gold and jade.
The waiter came up and saluted and said: "Your Highness, I am here this time to do business with your Highness on the orders of several tribal leaders."
The old troops of the Yuan Dynasty are hidden in the grasslands of Saibei, and they cannot cause any trouble for the time being. But if Yunnan, Xifan, and Saibei unite, the western and northern parts of the Ming Dynasty will be in danger.
That's why Lao Zhu asked Zhu Ping, Zhu Fan and Zhu Di, the three most skilled princes in the Ming Dynasty, to station in Shaanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei respectively, keeping an eye on Xifan and Saibei.
Xifan seemed to be submissive to the Ming Dynasty, but in fact he had been secretly in contact with the old Yuan Dynasty.
Seeing the end of autumn and the winter solstice, I guess Wang Baobao and the others were out of food, so they called Xifan to come and do some activities.
Zhu Xi remained calm and asked calmly: "Oh, what business?"
The envoy said: "We want to buy tea from His Highness."
For pigeons that mainly eat meat, they rely on tea to relieve fatigue and digestion. "If you don't have tea, you will be sick."
Tea is a necessity of life, but Xifan's tea has always been supplied by the Central Plains. Because Xifan produces BMWs, and the court needs horses for war and transportation, all dynasties and generations traded tea for horses to solve the needs of both parties.
In order to ensure that less tea leaves can be exchanged for more and better war horses, the tea trade at the border is strictly controlled.
In order to obtain more war horses, Lao Zhu also wanted to "limit tea from the border areas to control them" and "use tea to control the surrounding areas".
Official tea is very expensive and the quantity is strictly limited.
Xifan thought it was not worth it.
When buying tea from other private tea sellers, the quality is not guaranteed and the risks are high.
Those who traded in these two days were caught and killed in two days.
So they came to find Zhu Xi.
Because Zhu Feng is Lao Zhu's son and the vassal king here.
And there is also a younger brother Zhu Bai who is engaged in officialdom.
Zhu Xi shook his head: "It's useless for me to ask for so many horses."
He has a limited number of personal soldiers, how many horses can he use?
It will not be a cheap health center at that time.
The envoy smiled: "We don't need horses to exchange tea with His Highness."
After waving to him, the person accompanying him opened the small box he brought with him. It was full of gold and gems, and the gold was very dazzling.
Their calculations are very precise, raising horses is time-consuming and laborious, and the price is not fixed.
Besides, the more horses the Ming Dynasty had, the stronger their fighting power was, and the more they suppressed Xifan.
In exchange for gold and precious stones, it is most suitable for them.
Deng Zhiqiu coughed slightly inside.
Zhu Xi knew she liked these.
Thinking about it, although I had the Suilu Farm, it was just enough to support such a large palace and support the soldiers.
If this road could be opened, Deng Zhiqiu would not have to hesitate to buy anything he wanted to buy in the future.
Zhu Xi said calmly: "I, the king, will think about it."
The envoy said: "We are all here, so why not make a deal first? Come back next time, and your Highness will tell us the results of our consideration."
Zhu Xiang frowned: "The tea leaves I keep here are only enough for the people in the mansion. There are only forty or fifty tubes and three hundred cakes."
The envoy said: "That's enough. That's enough. We should have come to see His Highness a long time ago, but now we can bring tea with us, which is already good."
Zhu Xi thought for a moment: It seems that I, too, have not suffered a loss.
Let’s talk about whether we want to trade with them next time or not.
Zhu Xi asked the butler to take out the tea leaves.
The messenger collected the tea and was about to leave. He turned back and saluted Zhu Ping: "Your Highness, could you please write me a guide. Otherwise, I won't be able to get out."
The vassal king has this privilege. As long as people do not leave the vassal country, there is no need to report the transportation of things in and out, and local officials cannot control it.
Zhu Fang narrowed his eyes and stared at him: You bastard, you are waiting for me here.
It turns out that you want more than just tea to honor me.
What if you put some weapons or something in the tea and go out, wouldn't I just hand the knife into the enemy's hand?
This king is not that stupid.
He lowered his face and said: "I can't open this. Leave the tea and take your things away. Guard."
When the guards of the palace heard this, they immediately came up to drive them away.
The envoy hurriedly said: "No, no. If your highness finds it troublesome, forget it. We will find a way ourselves."
Then he didn't dare to say anything, took the tea and left.
After leaving the palace, the envoy looked back and said: It is said that this King of Qin looks careless, but in fact he is both greedy, treacherous and cruel.
After a short negotiation today, he felt that the rumors were true.
As soon as Deng Zhiqiu and others left, he couldn't wait to come out of the next room, looked at the box of gold jewelry again and again, and said with a smile: "This gold is so profitable. Forty or fifty barrels."
Zhu Ming said: "Although this gold is easy to earn, it cannot be earned much. They have taken too much tea from me, so they are unwilling to exchange horses for official tea."
Deng Zhiqiu blinked: "I don't understand. With gold, isn't it easy to get a horse? Just buy it with gold."
Zhu Fang sighed: "You think too simply. When you want to buy war horses from them, it will be them who have the final say. Then they will raise the price. Compared with asking us to exchange tea for war horses now, we will lose more."
It is much bigger. If they refused to sell it at that time, then the Ming Dynasty would have no war horses, and it would become meat on the chopping block in the war. So we must not covet the small profit in front of us and miss the important event."
Deng Zhiqiu herself is also the daughter of a military commander, so she naturally understands the pros and cons.
If the horse is not good enough, it will not be able to catch up when attacking, and it will not be able to escape when fleeing. I don't know how many Ming soldiers will be killed in vain.
She nodded hurriedly: "Then change it once and ignore them again."
Zhu Ming held Deng Zhiqiu in his arms: "My Zhiqiu is quite reasonable."
Hongyuan didn't know when he came, but he actually heard the whole process. He clasped his hands at Zhu Xi and said, "Your Highness, there are three things that cannot be earned: wealth from national disasters, profits from natural disasters, and food for the poor and weak. Your Highness must not be confused."
Zhu Xi rolled his eyes: "I know, you old monk is really verbose."
Hongyuan: "Your Highness, quickly chase those people back and get rid of these yellow and white things."
Zhu Feng waved to others: "Pull him down quickly, don't let him hang around in front of my eyes."
