Chapter 169: Sugar is selling well in Bingzhou, and the Han Emperor’s palace changes color
As long as one person speaks up, others will naturally follow suit. With such good sugar, they will naturally want to buy it. Of course, they must ask the price in advance!
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. Our white sugar is divided into five types, ordinary white sugar, coarse white sugar, fine white sugar, refined white sugar, and ultimate white sugar. What everyone drank just now was just ordinary white sugar water!" Wang Hai's words,
Directly arouse everyone's hearts and make everyone instantly uproar.
"Ordinary white sugar is five guan per pound, coarse white sugar is 10 guan, fine white sugar is 20 guan, refined white sugar is 30 guan, and ultimate white sugar is 40 guan!" After mobilizing everyone's hearts, Wang Hai immediately revealed the price. p>
"What, it's so expensive? Even the cheapest one costs five guan!" One of them said extremely dissatisfied, but due to the power of the Wang family, he did not dare to say too harshly.
"Is five guan per kilogram expensive? If you just listen to some songs and drink tea, you will spend more than this!"
"Besides, this sugar is as white as jade. It is a noble and luxurious thing. Most people should not think about it." Wang Hai waved his hand and sneered immediately.
Hearing Wang Hai's words, everyone who was originally clamoring fell silent. The people who came here were not all wealthy people, most of them were ordinary people watching the excitement. They always thought that a pound of black brown sugar was very expensive, and even more
Not to mention the minimum price of five pounds per kilogram of white sugar, it is simply unimaginable.
However, there are also some stewards from powerful families here. As Wang Hai said, five guans of money is not enough for them to listen to music and drink tea in the restaurant!
What's more, after drinking this sugar water, they became more and more aware of the preciousness of this sugar, but for five bahts, they would buy it no matter what.
"A mere five guan doesn't mean anything. It's not enough for my master to listen to the music. If you can't afford it, stand aside and don't get in my way. Mr. Wang, please give me a pound of five guan sugar." The manager of the Zhou family.
Then he opened his mouth and said.
"Haha, these words are all reasonable. This white sugar can only be enjoyed by noble people. Those who can't afford it should step aside and don't stand in the way. Mr. Wang, please give me a pound of refined white sugar!
"The manager of the Zhao family said quickly.
"Steward Zhao, you have chosen to fight with me!" Steward Zhou snorted coldly and quickly changed his words: "I don't want ordinary white sugar. Give it to refined white sugar. I want three kilograms."
"Give me a pound of ultimate sugar!"
"Two pounds of exquisite white sugar!"
If one person wants to buy, others will naturally not wait here. You must know that this is the late Han Dynasty. The wealthy and powerful families say more or less, and they always pay attention to the word "respect".
After the birth of sugar, a rare thing, other people had it in their homes, but there was none in my own home. If this was revealed, it would damage our reputation.
As for such a rare thing as sugar, you can only buy it from Wang Yu!
Therefore, starting from the next day, all the wealthy families in Jinyang City came to Wang Yu's Huaxia Chamber of Commerce to buy sugar.
Moreover, due to the profound background of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce, its influence is naturally very great. Coupled with Wang Yu's powerful advertising campaign, within a few days, a sugar trend blew up in Bingzhou.
If you don’t have sugar at home, you are poor!
Only if you have white sugar as holy as snow in your home, you will be a noble and wealthy person.
For a time, all wealthy and powerful families had to buy some sugar to take home!
Just imagine, if there are guests coming to your door, you can treat them with sugar, turn it into sugar water and drink it, it will be a great pleasure, and you will be honored.
Although Bingzhou is located in the northern part of Dahan Point, it does not mean that it is poor. On the contrary, the southern region of Bingzhou is very wealthy!
For example, Taiyuan County, Shangdang County and Shangjun!
Under the leadership of the Wang family, this place has become the political, economic and cultural center of Bingzhou. To the south of Taiyuan County is Hanoi County, and it is close to Luoyang!
Although information spread very slowly in ancient times, it was only for ordinary people. For powerful families, they had complete channels to learn about it.
Wang Yu could clearly feel that within a few days, the city of Jinyang was busy with traffic, and there was an endless stream of people rushing to buy.
"Haha Yuer, I have been trying my best to overestimate the sales of sugar, but in the end I found that I still underestimated it!" Wang Hai laughed immediately after seeing the sales account books of the past few days, and then said meaningfully: "Did you know
, in just five days, how many kilograms of sugar we produced sold!"
"Three to five thousand catties!" Wang Yu gave a rough idea!
But when he said these words, Wang Hai shook his head directly, but he did not continue to be dumbfounded, but got straight to the point: "In the past few days, I have sold a total of more than 7,500 kilograms, and earned 20 kilograms."
More than 46,000 strings."
When Wang Hai said this, his face and body were full of excitement. He has been in charge of the Wang family's business for more than ten years, and he has brought so much wealth to the Wang family!
But he also knew that it was absolutely impossible for him to amass so much wealth in just a few days.
One gold is equivalent to twenty guan, and 240,000 guan is equivalent to ten thousand gold. This price can buy a seat for a third official.
Wang Hai was extremely excited and Wang Yu was even more excited after hearing this!
"Two hundred and forty thousand guan, is the purchasing power of Jinyang City so great?" Wang Yudao's eyes were full of shock. Although he guessed that sugar sales would be very popular, he never expected that it would be so popular.
"Yu'er, don't underestimate Jinyang City. Under the guidance of the Wang family, Jinyang is undoubtedly a gathering place for merchants from all over the world. In terms of commercial influence alone, it is not weaker than Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty!" p>
"Moreover, our businessmen in Jinyang City are smart. They will buy large quantities of refined white sugar and then sell it in Luoyang, Yecheng and other places. The price will be much higher than the selling price in Jinyang, just the price difference.
, it’s enough for them to earn." Wang Hai explained to Wang Yu.
However, Wang Yu always felt that there was something in Wang Hai's words.
However, Wang Yu is not worried. If Wang Hai wants to say something, he will naturally tell him!
"Uncle, could you please communicate with the Li family, Xu family and other families? We should also open the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce in Yuzhou, Jingzhou and other places to support the 30,000 people." Wang Yu said to Wang Hai!
Wang Hai nodded, but his mouth moved, obviously wanting to say something, but he stopped in the end.
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Luoyang Beigong, Xiyuan.
The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty was located in Luoyang. The imperial palace was divided into the South Palace and the North Palace, located in the north and south of Luoyang City respectively, with a distance of seven miles in between. The two palaces were connected by a complex road.
During the restoration of the road, the emperor walked on the middle road, guarding the left and right sides with his guards, guarding him every ten steps.
The main hall of Luoyang Nangong is the Deyang Hall. The hall is three feet high and the majesty is one foot high. The hall can accommodate more than ten thousand people. The hall is surrounded by a pool of water, with jade steps and red beams. The altar is made of patterned stone, and the walls are decorated with colorful paintings and carved gold pillars.
With beauty graphics.
Deyang Palace is tall and majestic. It is said that from Yanshi City, which is 43 miles away from Luoyang, you can see Deyang Palace and Zhuque Tower connected to the sky.
Outside Luoyang City, there are numerous gardens and sights for the emperor to enjoy.
The gardens include Xiyuan, Xianyang Garden, Xianming Garden, Lingkun Garden, etc.
Among them, Xiyuan is the largest and has the most complete recreational facilities.
However, all this was also due to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, who was addicted to lewd pleasures. He built ten nude swimming pavilions in Xiyuan. The steps in front of the pavilions were covered with green moss, and the pavilions were surrounded by canals.
Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, ordered his people to select beauties over the age of fourteen and under the age of eighteen to have a banquet at the Naked Tour Director's Night.
During the day, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty took a small boat and wandered in the canal surrounding the palace, choosing the fair-skinned and light-bodied maids to paddle for him. It was midsummer, and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty deliberately overturned the boat. The maids fell into the water one after another, and he was laughing on the side.
Stand and watch the jade-colored skin of the palace ladies in the water.
Moreover, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty had endless entertainment options in Xiyuan. He even wanted to ride donkeys for fun at one time, so he drove four white donkeys into a cart. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty drove the four donkey carts around by himself.
, I was overjoyed in the car.
It can be said that it is as absurd as you want!
However, Emperor Han Ling is now in a very unhappy mood, so even if he is in such an environment now, he has no intention of having fun and is only full of complaints.
Ever since Yang Qiu became the Sili Xiaowei, those scholars have not stopped. Every day they write letters to punish some corrupt officials. Due to the situation, Liu Hong also ordered the punishment of typical figures.
However, the real purpose of those scholars is to serve as permanent servants, and corrupt officials are just one of their excuses.
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"Your Majesty, Cao Changshi is here." Zhao Zhong, the Zhongchang Shi next to Liu Hong, said, and the Cao Changshi he was talking about was Cao Teng, Cao Cao's grandfather!
Cao Teng's father is Cao Jie. During the reign of Emperor An of the Han Dynasty, Cao Teng served as an official in Huangmen.
In the first year of Yongning (120 years), Liu Bao was established as the crown prince. Empress Dowager Deng ordered that young and gentle people from Huangmen be selected to serve the crown prince in his studies. Cao Teng was therefore selected.
The prince Liu Bao was particularly dear to him, and he was given food and drink rewards that were different from others. When Liu Bao came to the throne, Cao Teng moved from Xiaohuangmen to serve as a regular servant.
In the first year of Benchu (146), Cao Teng, Changle Taipu Zhoufu and other seven people made a plan to welcome Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty and made him a marquis. Cao Teng was named Feitinghou, moved to Changqiu, and was granted the title of Tejin .
Cao Teng has been in the court for more than thirty years, serving the four emperors without exception.
He was fond of advancing talents, so he recommended Chen Liu, Yu Fang, Bian Shao, Nanyang Yangu, Zhang Wen, Hongnong, Zhang Huan, Yingchuan Tangxidian, etc., all of whom were promoted to ministers without boasting about their merits.
The prefect of Shu County passed the plan and compiled a book for Cao Teng, but was found out by Zhong Hao, the governor of Yizhou. He impeached Cao Teng for being an internal minister and making friends with foreign officials. He had done something improper and asked to be removed from office and punished.
Emperor Huan believed that the book came from outside and it was not Cao Teng's fault, so he did not punish him. After this incident, Cao Teng not only did not take it seriously, but instead praised Zhong Hao as a capable minister.
However, since Cao Teng had no sons, he adopted Cao Song, a member of the same clan, as his adopted son. After Cao Song's grandson Cao Pi succeeded the Han Dynasty and established the Wei Dynasty, Cao Pi's son Cao Rui honored Cao Teng as the "Gao Emperor" in the third year of Taihe (229).
In the history of China, he is the only eunuch who was officially awarded the title of emperor of the orthodox dynasty by the emperor.
Moreover, it is worth mentioning that there were two types of eunuchs during the Eastern Han Dynasty, one was the purified eunuch, and the other was the unclean eunuch!
The eunuchs who serve the harem must all be purified eunuchs.
It can be said that most of the eunuchs at this time were people who had some ink. Later, they could no longer survive, so they chose to be close to the emperor in order to achieve glory and wealth.
It can be said that most of the people who could become eunuchs at this time were highly educated people. Otherwise, you would really think that they could compete with aristocratic families!
Just like Wei Zhongxian, he can fight against the Donglin Party. Unless the emperor reuses him, doesn't he have his own abilities?
If he was really a fake, he would have been eaten by those Donglin Party members long ago.
The same is true for the Ten Constant Attendants!
Who can survive in the palace and is an ordinary person?
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"Ji Xing is here, do you have anything to report?" Liu Hong gently rubbed Yintang with his thumbs and said weakly.
"Your Majesty, maybe you need to take a look at this yourself." Cao Teng didn't say anything more, and just handed a battle report to Liu Hong. After Liu Hong took it and opened it, his expression... changed instantly. p>
Time passed slowly like this, and Liu Hong also came around from the gloom, and then said feebly: "Ji Xing, Zhao Gongqing will meet at court."
"No." Cao Teng handed over his hands and left. Seeing Liu Hong's ugly face, he sighed in his heart.
If I had known today, why bother in the beginning!
If Liu Hong had not chosen to listen to Zhang Rang and attack the Wang family, he would not be so isolated and helpless now, and the achievements of the Wang family would belong to him!
It's a pity that Liu Hong chose to attack the Wang family, resulting in today's situation.
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Nangong, above the Golden Palace!
After Cao Teng conveyed the emperor's will, in less than an hour, all the ministers of the dynasty were already standing on the Golden Palace and talking about it!
I don’t know why, but they always have a bad premonition. Otherwise, why would the emperor suddenly issue an edict?
"Lord Sikong, what do you think His Majesty is calling us for?" an official asked!
The person the official asked was none other than Yang Ci, who served as Sikong.
Yang Ci was born in the Yang family of Hongnong, and was the father of the later Taiwei Yang Biao. If you include his grandfather Yang Zhen, father Yang Bing, and son Yang Biao, their family can be regarded as the fourth generation and the third prince!
However, the current Yang Biao is not so powerful as to hold the position of Taiwei, so the Yang family of Hongnong can only be regarded as the third generation and the third prince, but even so, he is still a first-class noble family in the world!
More importantly, Yang Ci was still the teacher of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, so everyone rushed to ask him, but Yang Ci himself didn't know what happened, so he could only choose to shake his head to express ignorance.
"Your Majesty has arrived..." Just as everyone was whispering in the golden palace, Liu Hong slowly walked into the main hall under the guidance of Huben and Yulin's elite.
"I will bow before your Majesty." As everyone cheered in unison, there was a roar, and everyone in the hall knelt down and worshiped, and then everyone took their places.
However, it is worth mentioning that during the Han Dynasty, the emperor and his ministers governed the country together. In addition to kneeling at the beginning, the ministers would sit on the ground and stand up only when reports were needed!
The practice of kneeling all the time was only possible during the Qing Dynasty, a money-losing country.