When Princess Xian hid the wine tightly, King Xian was able to find it by following the smell of the wine that escaped.
Xu Qing thought for a moment and said, "My lord, don't you only have one concubine?"
The wise king said with a proud look on his face: "Of course, is it like you to do this behind your wife's back?"
Xu Qing asked: "Then why can the prince so clearly distinguish the scent of four women on my body?"
When the wise king heard this, his expression suddenly froze, and then he suddenly smiled and said: "Come on, come on, sit down, let's continue to discuss how to solve the problem of a shortfall of 500,000 yuan in military expenses. Do you have any good ideas?"
Xu Qing couldn't help but roll his eyes, but he still sat down, then looked around and wondered: "Why don't you ask the Minister of the Ministry of Finance to come over? He is the one in charge of money."
The wise king said: "The fact that the emperor came to my place proves that the court has no idea. Five hundred thousand taels is not fifty taels. How can you get it casually? You have the smartest brain among all the civil and military officials in the court. Hurry up and give it to me."
Wang Xiangxiang, is there any good idea? Where can we get another 500,000 taels?"
Xu Qing thought for a moment and said, "Can we issue national bonds?"
The wise king wondered: "What is a national debt?"
Xu Qingdao: "In the name of the country, the imperial court borrowed silver from domestic civil and military officials and wealthy businessmen, and then returned it with interest when the national treasury was sufficient."
Emperor Chu sat on a chair and played with a piece of ice he grabbed from the plate on the table. He shook his head and said, "The idea is a good idea, but it's a pity that it won't work."
Xu Qing asked in confusion: "Why did your Majesty say that?"
Emperor Chu said: "The imperial court has always suppressed businessmen. Rich businessmen are afraid of resenting the imperial court, so they will not lend money easily and look down upon the interest. However, on the surface, the officials are interested in the court, but in reality they all have ulterior motives. They are afraid of borrowing money from them."
I will immediately complain to the court about my poverty, let alone them, I am asking you to borrow it, are you willing to borrow it?"
Xu Qing immediately said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, they are all crying about being poor. I am really poor! Besides, I can't even get 500,000 taels to buy Uncle Anding's Mansion by myself!"
Emperor Chu looked at Xu Qing's appearance and was not surprised at all: "So, if you count on all the officials to collect military supplies for the imperial court, they will not do this unless your brother is so quick and violent as to force them to submit."
Xu Qing thought for a moment and asked, "How about the wealthy businessmen who lent money to the imperial court were granted some false official positions by the imperial court?"
Emperor Chu shook his head and said: "No! If this happens, it will make other countries and people feel that the imperial court is taking the lead in selling officials to collect money, and local officials will probably also do this in private to make money.
Although it may relieve my great Chu's temporary emergency, it will cause endless troubles in the future!"
The wise king also felt that it was a bit difficult to make things difficult for others. This is not good and that is not good. Xu Qing is also a human being, so he cannot be used as the God of Wealth!
You can't do what Xu Qing wrote in the "Beijing Xunbao" last time: throw 500,000 taels of iron into the river, pray for a dumb river god to run out of the river, and say: What you dropped is
Are these five hundred thousand taels of gold or these five hundred thousand taels of silver?
If this can be changed, I will definitely throw the Shadow Guards in, get a Golden Shadow Guard and a Silver Shadow Guard, and then repeat this many times, throw out five million Shadow Guards, and unify the Central Plains.
Just as the wise king sighed, Xu Qing suddenly said: "How about we do business again?"
When Emperor Chu heard what Xu Qing said, he immediately asked: "What business?"
The wise king immediately pulled away the Emperor of Chu: "Come on, don't listen to the emperor, just tell me."
As we all know, Xu Qing usually does not do business, but once he does business, he may make a lot of money!
Emperor Chu sat on the chair and stretched out his hands to resist the wise king's pull: "You have a share in seeing me!"
But it was obvious that the Emperor of Chu could not defeat the Xian Wang and could not resist the Xian Wang's pull.
In the end, the victorious King Xian looked at Xu Qing and said, "Come on, let's talk about it in detail. What kind of business is it?"
Xu Qing put the ring around his waist on the table and said, "I wonder how much the prince and your majesty think this ring is worth?"
King Xian and Emperor Chu, who had just been pulled aside and approached with a look on his face, carefully looked at the pendant Xu Qing placed on the table.
Emperor Chu was the first to speak: "Crystal clear, translucent and smooth, it is the top grade among colored glazes. I never thought that you have such a treasure. Where did you get it? But with this piece of colored glaze ring, I can't sell it for five dollars no matter what."
One hundred thousand taels, right?"
Glaze is rare, and top-grade glaze is even harder to find.
Among the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains, colored glaze was once considered to be more valuable than jade.
Glazed utensils are highly sought after in the world.
Price but no market!
Xu Qing said: "What if we take out a few more boxes of colored glaze like this or larger?"
Emperor Chu was immediately surprised and said: "How many boxes of such colored glaze do you have?!"
Xu Qing shook his head and said: "Now...no..."
Emperor Chu: "It's nothing to say without you!"
Xu Qing: "If we don't have one, we can make it now..."
"Make it now?" Emperor Chu frowned and said, "The method of making colored glaze costs a lot of money, how can you find the time?"
Glaze is indeed made by hand, but not only is the production cost high, the materials used are very demanding, and the time cycle is also long.
Although colored glaze is artificial, it consumes a lot of money and energy.
Da Chu was short of money and had no time to make colored glaze to sell for money, so naturally it would not allocate funds for Xu Qing to make colored glaze.
Xu Qing smiled and said: "Real colored glaze is difficult to make, but what about fake colored glaze?"
The Xian Wang frowned and said, "Can Liuli still make fakes?"
Xu Qing said: "The ring that I wear is fake colored glaze. Didn't Your Majesty also say that it is the top grade of colored glaze?"
Emperor Chu was surprised and said: "You said your piece of glass is fake?"
Xu Qing nodded: "You can't fake anymore."
Emperor Chu said with a look of disbelief: "This thing is much clearer and clearer than most colored glazes. How can it be fake? If this thing is fake, then is there any real colored glaze in the world?"
Xu Qing said: "This is something made from a pile of burned sand. Does Your Majesty think this thing is real or fake?"
Emperor Chu swallowed involuntarily: "A pile of...sand?"
Xu Qing nodded: "Yes, this kind of fake colored glaze is not only much cheaper to fake than the real colored glaze, but the consumption time is also greatly shortened compared to the real colored glaze, and it can be produced in large quantities."
Emperor Chu continued to confirm: "You really didn't lie to me?"
Xu Qing said: "Didn't I commit the crime of deceiving the emperor?"
The wise king also looked at the jade pendant and said: "If such exquisite colored glaze can be made from a pile of sand, then by buying colored glaze, won't we, the great Chu, become the richest country in the world?"
Xu Qing said quickly: "Your Majesty, please put away your bold idea. Things are expensive. The reason why colored glaze is expensive is not because of its exquisiteness, but because of its scarcity. If our Da Chu really produces an annual output
If you pay tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of kilograms of colored glaze for takeout, I’m afraid that the colored glaze will be the price of sand in the future.”
Emperor Chu on the side came over and said: "That's right, Brother Huang really doesn't understand anything. Leaving this business to him will sooner or later ruin the business. Xu Qing, I heard that Brother Huang and you have always been on a 30-70 basis.
It's too much. How about I give you four or six? This price is much more sincere than the imperial brother's, right?"