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Chapter 187 Market Opening

In July, the approval document for the trade between Liangzhou and the small tribes in the border areas was released. Qin Xin specially set up a place in Liangzhou City as a market and announced the way to charge taxes. When the merchant saw that the tax was only 30% of the previous one, he couldn't believe it. He even sent a representative to give gifts to Qin Xin while the night was dark and windy. Qin Xin was also an old fry. He knew that if the gift was not collected, these merchants would not be at ease, and were afraid that he would dispose of profits elsewhere. After he accepted the things, he put some really valuables into the official treasury and took only a few of them.

The news of the mutual exchange between Liangzhou and the Gentiles soon spread to Xihai Prefecture, which is not far away. Xihai Prefecture is the newly established state. His manager is the Prince of Xihai Prefecture on the surface. He is the governor of Xihai Prefecture, but the governor here is the Wu Family Army. In fact, Bohar has many important government orders that require his consent. Fortunately, although this Jinghui governor likes to put on airs, he does not interfere in Bohar's affairs. The two have been in peace and irrelevant for many years.

Bohar had the idea of ​​opening the market in Xihaizhou a few years ago, but unfortunately there was no further comment from the letter he handed to Yang Chengjian, so he did not mention it. Now that he heard that Liangzhou opened, he became more interested in finding Governor Jing and mentioned it, but Governor Jing did not agree.

"A new market has been opened next to you, and it's not far away. Why don't we open another one here to compete for business with others?"

Bohar couldn't say anything when he heard this. After returning to the back house, he sighed deeply. After sitting for a while, he saw Xu Qingqing and his servants come to deliver soup to him personally.

"Prince, let's drink a bowl of mung bean and lily soup."

Bohar never drank these sweet soups before, and it was only after Xu Qingqing got married that he realized that the Han people were so particular about their diet. He drank the mung bean soup with a bowl and breathed a long sigh.

"I heard that this soup can reduce heat." He has been drinking it for so many years and even knows the effects of many soups.

"Yes." Xu Qingqing nodded gently.

Now Xu Qingqing is the mother of three children, with a little less girlish delicateness and a little more womanly charming, which makes Bohar like it more and more. He held her smooth and soft hand and patted her lightly.

"You have the intention."

"This is my duty." Xu Qingqing said with a smile.

She knew about what Bohar went to Governor Jing for something. She thought that what Bohar asked would not be done, so she asked people to prepare sweet soup. Fortunately, Bohar was mentally prepared for this matter, but he was not angry, but was a little helpless. He was determined to let the people in the state live a good life, whether it was Han, Di or others.

In recent years, he has developed agriculture and animal husbandry in Xihai and opened schools, which has made the lives of the people gradually stable. Other tribes have heard the news and are willing to surrender. After asking Governor Jing, he agreed. The face-to-face positions in Xihai Prefecture may not be much larger than Liangzhou on the map, but in fact its boundaries are not very clear. Governor Jing's generals guarding the border often change camps, but their camps will only expand outward and will not be collected inward. The area of ​​Xihai Prefecture is much larger than when it was first established.

The Kang Dynasty's territory could be expanded, which Yang Chengjian was happy to see, but he had to guard against Bohar's unfaithful intentions. After all, he was not a Han Chinese, nor did he grow up in the Kang Dynasty since childhood, but only came after being captured.

"Do you recognize the eldest lady of the Marquis of Zhongguo Mansion?" he asked after thinking for a moment.

"I have met a few times, so I'm a good match for you." Xu Qingqing said.

In fact, she had greeted Jinhua a few times, but she was familiar with Zhuhua, and her two sisters were also pieced together from several impressions and Zhuhua's words. Moreover, before Jinhua's family arrived in Liangzhou, Zhuhua's letter came to her. In addition to telling this, the letter also told her that if there was anything in the future, she could go to her sister. She and Jinhua had already talked to her. She still missed her friendship with Zhuhua, and she never thought that she would meet such a close friend who was thinking about her in the last time in Chang'an.

"I have also met the Qin governor," said Bohar.

Thinking of the past, Bohar couldn't help but sigh. He remembered that he was often squeezed by Qin San when he was captured. However, after arriving in Chang'an, he realized that Qin San's temperament was not bad, and he and Cheng Dashan could even be called good people.

"The Chief Qin is smart and capable, and he is a person who cannot be underestimated." Xu Qingqing said.

"He is as cunning as a fox." Bohar added.

"It's a bit like it." Xu Qingqing echoed and smiled at Bohar.

Xu Qingqing imagined that Bohar would have had a hard time as a prisoner in Chang'an, but the two had never talked about this, as if he had never asked about her family. Although Bohar now has two lateral rooms with great status, he did not have a concubine. In Xu Qingqing's opinion, he was a good man, who made her surname Xu instead of Cheng?

Although Xihai Prefecture failed to open the city in the end, Bohar set up an official caravan to purchase local specialties to Liangzhou and sell them to past merchants. Xihai Prefecture has a relatively developed pastoral industry. Some herders would make wool felts from wool felts. Many dolls from Zhuhua were made of wool felts. Later, Zhuhua found that there was a kind of Gentile wool blanket that was extremely exquisite, so she gave Xu Qingqing one. After receiving it, Xu Qingqing studied it for a long time and achieved some results. Now some women in Xihai Prefecture can also weave some blankets with simpler colors, which are one of the most important goods in Xihai Prefecture.

Xu Qingqing didn't know if these things could be sold at high prices. She had never done business, but Zhuhua had done them. The two often had correspondence, but Zhuhua thought that there was a market for this thing, so Xu Qingqing was bold enough to make people do a lot. Fortunately, Zhuhua's vision was not wrong. Now the nobles in Chang'an City all felt that using some Gentile things would be of awesomeness. If the upper class was like this, the people below would follow suit. However, Gentile things were expensive and small, and not everyone could afford them. If Xu Qingqing could research affordable alternatives, she believed that there would definitely be a market.

However, during the Chinese New Year, when Zhuhua received many blankets from Xu Qingqing, Jinhua and others, she was a little helpless, let alone she bought some and prepared to give them to others.

"I think I'd either pick a few pieces and hide them as dowry for Tuantuan," she said with a wave of her hand.

Ping Wang, who was originally studying for Tuantuan, immediately raised his head, "There are a few Persians in Brother Six, which are better than this, so it must be like that. If you like it, I will talk to him, and my sister-in-law doesn't like it anyway."

"Maybe Erge likes it." Zhuhua joked. Erge's aesthetic is obviously different from Princess Ji's aesthetic. She probably likes it more with such rich colors.

I don’t know where Princess Ji heard something. When the two palaces gave gifts at the end of the year, she actually sent two Persian carpets. After receiving it, Zhuhua took a deep breath and complained that she wanted so many carpets at home for what she wanted! However, this thing was quite expensive, so she would collect it. When she received the Persian carpets sent by Wu Wei, she had already received all the blankets in camphor wood boxes and decided to give them out in the future as dowry.

Laba was the crown prince's day. During the day, the princes of each family went to worship the crown prince and would go to the palace to spend dinner with Yang Chengjian at night. Because the prince passed away, the gatherings in the palace were cancelled this year. Although she and Princess Ji would still come to the palace to pay their respects to Concubine Shu on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, they never met Yuan Heng when they entered the palace, so that Zhuhua almost recognized him when she saw him again.

After hearing that Yuan Heng was raised by Concubine Xian, Concubine Xian also tried to discipline him, but he didn't know that Yuan Heng was a person who didn't listen to him. Concubine Xian had been angry with him several times. After that, she didn't care much about him. But she didn't care, and uncle Zhang outside the palace wanted to take care of him. After that, uncle Zhang invited a very powerful Mr. Zhu to teach Yuan Heng. Yuan Heng was not willing to listen to Mr. Zhu at first, but when he made a mistake, Mr. Zhu blamed the eunuch beside him in front of him, and after he beaten two of them to death, Yuan Heng became much more honest. Be honest, Zhuhua looked at him and felt that he was a little depressed, and even lost weight, even like a teenager.

It happened that there was a gust of wind on the way down the mountain when the Xiang Mountain was up. Yuan Tai had a leaf stain on his head. Zhuhua pulled him to his side to pick the leaves for him, then wiped his hair with a veil, and then let Yuan Tai continue to leave after he was sure to clean it. Zhuhua turned his head and met Yuan Heng's gaze. Yuan Heng immediately turned his head and pretended to look at him, which made Zhuhua feel moved.

He had a mother, but his mother was sick now and he couldn't see her, Yuan Heng thought. He firmly believed that he would meet his mother one day. As long as he was a little more obedient and could please the emperor's grandfather, he could go to see his mother.

The dinner in the palace was very simple. In addition to the Laba porridge as usual, there were several plates of vegetarian dishes. On such days, no one dared to say anything. However, Yang Chengjian waved his hand on a whim and asked Yuan Heng to sit next to him. He asked him about his academic matters. Seeing that he answered decently, he couldn't help but nod in relief.

"You are as smart as your father."

Although Yuan Heng raised the corner of his mouth, he still said, "Boy is foolish, not as good as the father and the emperor."

"It's indeed the child taught by Mr. Zhu."

Mr. Zhu, who was invited to teach Yuan Heng, was a famous scholar in the world in the previous dynasty. I have to say that Mr. Zhang had tried his best to be invited. Mr. Hong, who taught Yuan Tai, was a sour scholar from the countryside. In the previous dynasty, he was demoted to the officialdom because he offended the powerful and noble. After the establishment of the Kang Dynasty, he did not think about seeking fame, but kept teaching his children and nephews at home and said that he would not enter the officialdom, as if the officialdom was a place he could step on.

Everyone first felt that Zhang Guojiu was too high-profile in his consideration of Yuan Heng everywhere, which was not like his style. Later, after thinking about it, if it weren't for a person who might be the crown prince standing here, the people under him would have dispersed long ago. Thinking of this, they put their minds on Yuan Heng. Of course, they would not forget Yuan Tai, but the Ping Prince's Mansion, which has always been idle, is it not difficult to start. If they all have this idea, just a governor of Liangzhou and the Zhongguo Marquis Mansion would not scare them. As for Wu Wei, no matter how good her relationship with Princess Ping is, can this relationship be able to defeat the emperor's life?

To be honest, in their opinion, Zhuhua and Wu Weigong's friendship was just a friendship between the disciples and the master. Zhuhua and Wu Weigong were of age, and maybe Wu Weigong would often entertain her to the Weigong Mansion to play when she liked her sweet-mouthed ones. The two had no friendships that were long-lasting, but just some scenes of interactions, how good can the relationship be? It is probably Yang Chengjian who knew about Wu Weigong and Zhu Hua. If the two continued to do so well, Tuantuan would definitely become the most noble princess of the Kang Dynasty.
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