"Dad, Xiao Shibo is gone?" Li Yonglin and Li Xingxiao came up and asked.
"Yes." Li Taiyuan agreed with a thoughtful expression, paused, and said to Li Xingxiao: "You go back first, I have something to tell your sister."
"Dad!" Li Xingxiao shouted in surprise. Li Taiyuan suddenly kicked him out in the middle of the conversation with Xiao Zhuo. He was very confused. That's okay, maybe there are things that Xiao Zhuo cannot let him know. But
Why can his sister know things that he can't know?
"Go back." Li Taiyuan said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Seeing his father say this, Li Xingxiao knew that he could not change his father's mind, so he could only turn around and leave.
"Yong Lin, are the Dan family members of the White Lotus cult?" Li Taiyuan asked immediately after he left.
"Your Majesty actually told Xiao Zhuo about this?" Li Yonglin looked shocked. Only the royal family and those responsible for investigating the Dan family should know about such an important matter. Why did Your Majesty tell Xiao Zhuo about this?
"Xiao Zhuo doesn't know. He brought a letter, and I don't know if it was written by His Majesty. But even if it wasn't written by His Majesty, it was with His Majesty's permission. There are only a few sentences on it, to the effect that the Dan family is a White Lotus sect, and the Jin Yiwei
The investigation of this matter requires the cooperation of our family. So, the Dan family is indeed a White Lotus sect?" Li Taiyuan said.
"The Dan family is indeed a White Lotus sect. I accidentally found out about this matter the year before last. Even Dan Qingsheng probably didn't know about it. Because the matter was so important, I never dared to tell anyone. This time, in order to help our family get away with it, we decided to
Tell Her Royal Highness the matter." Li Yonglin said.
"You did the right thing." Li Taiyuan said immediately. He was not dissatisfied at all because his daughter did not tell him about the matter. For such an important matter, the fewer people who know about it, the better. Besides, he can also understand his daughter's selfishness.
"You must not tell others about this. Not anyone." Li Taiyuan ordered. Although Li Yonglin was cautious before, the possibility of telling others was very small, but he couldn't help but give the instruction.
"After that, it will be up to you to assist Jin Yiwei in investigating the Dan family. No, if you want to go to the capital, it will be up to me to make the arrangements myself. Your eldest brother can't let him know either," he added.
"Yes, my daughter knows." Li Yonglin agreed.
At this point, a northwest wind suddenly came up. Li Yonglin hurriedly picked up a coat and put it on Li Taiyuan and said: "Dad, it's windy. It's better to wear more clothes. And since the guests have left, let's go back first and wait until we arrive."
Let’s talk in a warm room.”
"That's fine." Li Taiyuan agreed, and the father and daughter walked toward the backyard surrounded by their servants. After a while, they arrived at the courtyard where they lived. Li Taiyuan took a glance and saw that the lights in his son's room were still on, and ordered
The servant said, "Go and talk to Xingxiao and let him rest immediately." He then thought for a moment and went to Li Yonglin's house in order not to disturb his wife's rest.
"Yong Lin, there is only so much about the fact that the Dan family is a White Lotus cultist. There is nothing else to say. When Jin Yiwei asked our family to help, just listen to them and help. But there is another thing he said, let your father
I don’t know what to do either.”
"What's the matter?" Li Yonglin asked, thinking: 'Why do you tell me about business matters first?'
"Xiao Zhuo said that our family should cooperate with his Xiao family to explore the west." Li Taiyuan said.
"Our Li family cooperates with the Xiao family to explore the West?" After hearing this, Li Yonglin was stunned, and then said: "Dad, our family has never sent anyone to do business overseas. They are all businessmen from the Ming Dynasty or other countries.
Take our family's goods and sell them. The Xiao family has been doing business at sea for many years, what can our family do to cooperate with the Xiao family?"
"There isn't much we need to do at home, which is to distinguish the colors of the silks and satins sold to Daming from those sold to outside Daming."
"What he means is that the best silks and satins should be kept in the Ming Dynasty, and those sold to the foreign countries will be of the same quality?" Li Yonglin understood this.
"No, that's not what Xiao Zhuo meant. He just wanted the silks and satins sold in the Ming Dynasty to be different in color from those sold outside the Ming Dynasty, not the grade. What grade we sold in the past will be different in the future.
Or some grade. He also said that it would be better if we could distinguish which batch was produced in which year."
"This can be done. But what's the use of it? What does it have to do with exploring the West?" Li Yonglin couldn't understand.
"Dad doesn't understand either, but since it was Xiao Zhuo who said it, it was probably the emperor or the princess's intention. Since it can be done, I thought it wouldn't be too troublesome, so I agreed without going into details about the use.
"Li Taiyuan said.
"How strange." Li Yonglin thought for a while, but still couldn't figure it out, so she muttered.
"Since you don't understand, don't think about it. Dad will tell you the next thing." Li Taiyuan said: "This matter is not mentioned by Xiao Zhuo, but what dad thought of when talking to him."
"Didn't Her Royal Highness Princess Huainan say that if you want new jewelry every year, you should let our silversmiths make jewelry? Dad wants you to bring all our jewelry craftsmen to the capital and open a larger silver shop. This way
Come, when the princess gives the order, all the craftsmen in our family can immediately make jewelry for the princess and prepare it for her to choose. As for the antique shop, there is no need to open it. Everything will be sent back."
"Then our family wants jewelry," before Li Yonglin finished speaking, Li Taiyuan answered: "Then I will send someone to the capital to tell you, and you will let the craftsmen make it. Sooner or later, our family will have one
It doesn’t matter if you wear jewelry for daily use, it must satisfy the princess.”
"Yes, Dad."
After talking about this, Li Taiyuan said again: "He also said a third thing, which made me feel very strange. He said that in a few days, several officials from the capital would come to Suzhou and go to our home.
We have to look around the fields and take some silkworm seeds, the best raw silk, the worst raw silk, and mulberry leaves to take back, and see how to reel the silk. Before they come to Suzhou from the capital, they will meet with you and your brother.
Contact them, and then ask them what their purpose is."
Li Taiyuan was very curious about these officials who were going to be sent to Suzhou. As an official, even if his family was in the raw silk business, he would not come to learn from them personally.
"They are probably officials of Gezhi Prison. People in this yamen established by His Majesty are always studying strange things." Li Yonglin didn't care much. She had lived in the capital for these days and was already familiar with Gezhi Prison.
.Civil officials have slandered this yamen on different occasions for wasting money and should be revoked. The clan, nobles and generals will not slander it, but they don’t think it is of any use. She thinks the same as them. She feels that what Gezhijian studies is
It's useless. But His Majesty cares about this yamen very much. This time it should be someone from this yamen who wants to study something, so he came to their house to have a look.
"No matter what they want to do, our family's secrets can't be seen away, and they can do whatever else they want," Li Taiyuan said.
After finishing this matter, it was already very late. Li Yonglin yawned and said, "Dad, is there anything else? My daughter is a little sleepy. Dad, you have been busy all day today, it's time to rest."
"There's one last thing, that's all. The princess will tell you this in person after you go back." Li Taiyuan suddenly stopped in the middle of his words and just said this.
"Dad, what's going on? Is it related to my daughter?" Li Yonglin asked.
"After you go back, just listen to Her Royal Highness the Princess's instructions." Li Taiyuan just said again. At the same time, he said in his heart: "It's really a great thing that Her Royal Highness the Princess is willing to arrange a husband for you. But I won't say more. I'll wait for Yong Lin to kiss her."
Hearing this from the princess's mouth, Her Royal Highness should be even more happy.' (To be continued)