Chapter 466 The Empress is Short of Money
The female official reported to the empress of the grassland: There are three other ways to find money: One is to do business with the southerners freely and earn money from the New Song Dynasty to subsidize the royal court.
Second, there will be no more restrictions on the use of the New Song Coin. We can even collect their New Song Coin as taxes. In this way, those merchants will be more willing to do business with the Grassland Empire.
The third method is to sell official positions. Wang Ting also learned to sell official positions like the southerners. In the future, all vacancies will be sold at a fixed price. We will hire whoever pays more money. This way, we will have money to spend.
The "Southerners" mentioned by the empress and the female official are the Song people under the rule of the New Song Kingdom. The grassland empire divided its subjects into four classes. They called the people of this last unconquered land Southerners, the lowest-ranking people in the empire. They wanted to enslave and squeeze out this group of undisciplined inferiors .
However, ideals are full, but reality is very skinny.
The third young master will not give them a chance.
At this moment, our third young master is carefully making banknotes in Cuiping Mountain.
Zhao Yulin took over Ma Linger's order to manufacture 500 million new coins, and set off back to Xuzhou early the next morning.
Lu Youpeng was happy to know that he was back, so he took him to Jiuzhouba for a drink. He smiled and said that he had not yet done what his wife had asked him to do.
Lao Lu laughed at him and said it was just a drink and it wouldn't interfere with his work.
The two went to Wang Dehui's Lychee Green Wine House and sat down. Lao Lu told him that he was old and couldn't touch the strong and sweet Wu Gu Feng, so he could only accompany his brother to drink some Lychee Green Wine.
He laughed out loud as he listened.
As they were talking, Wang Dehui had personally brought over the wine and food. The woman sat down next to him with a smile and said, "Brother Yulin, you are such a rare guest. You haven't been back to Yibin for a long time."
He said that's right, and now he comes back to the girl's pub to drink as soon as he has time.
Wang Dehui was delighted, a faint blush quickly appeared on her face. After having a drink with him, she walked away tactfully.
He told Lao Lu: Let's stay in the mountains for a few days first and then go to Xinshi to take a hot spring bath.
Lao Lu naturally knew that he had something to do, so he told him not to talk about anything else but to drink. He told him: Brother Yuqing is back, and his personality has changed a lot.
He said it's okay as long as he gets better, don't let him become more weird and harder to watch over.
Lao Lu told Zhao Yulin not to worry, everything would be fine with him guarding her.
He said: Don't be careless. There is a saying that goes, "A tall tree attracts the wind." He doesn't want his family to break the rules and the law and be criticized by the people.
After the two of them had finished their meal, Lao Lu sent him directly to the coin making office to work.
Ma Ling'er and Yangjin had already arrived at Dujiangyan in Daojiang County. They took Hulan to visit Dujiangyan and were about to leave after inspecting the Daojiang County government office. Hulan was reluctant to see them leave.
Ma Linger said that she was very happy and she should prepare well for her New Year's Eve dinner in Linshui Street, because Yulin Ge'er would come to Dujiangyan to spend the New Year with her.
The little woman was stunned and a blush quickly appeared on her face.
Yangjin said with a smile, "My little sister is so happy. You have to take good care of our yard because it will be left for her father to live in in the future." Don't even think about leading the little friends to make money. During the New Year, you can learn financial management from Sister Ma Ling. There are many things to do in the court, so I won't say more.
Ma Ling pulled Yangjin onto the carriage, and the two of them stretched their hands out of the window to wave goodbye to Hulan...
Hu Lan was so happy. He was skipping and jumping when he saw the two sisters off and went back.
When Wu Jing saw her, she asked in surprise: "Mom, you are so happy. Are you going to take us to open a new street again?"
Hu Lan smiled and shook his head and said no.
Wu Jing asked again: What is that? Is our dad coming to see stepmother?
Hu Lan's little face was already red. She said, "It's too early" and quickly went into the house.
Later, the little ones were happy. Chen Liu said that our Xinjie was selling so well, and their dad would definitely be happy to see it.
Zhu Fugui smiled and said: It's just that my brother Liu didn't keep up with his studies in the academy, and Daddy knows about it...
He dragged out a long note, and before he could finish the next sentence, Wu Jing told him to shut up. She glared at Zhu Fugui and said that Chen Liu's poor academic performance did not mean he did not work hard. The so-called teaching in accordance with students' aptitude must be due to the teacher's poor teaching. Our Chen Liu is very smart, so it's better not to learn those messy things.
Chen Liu didn't study well and his grades were poor. He felt embarrassed and walked away with slow steps.
Wu Jing continued to nag Zhu Fugui outside. He was really an honest man, but why did he keep talking about things that were not related to the topic? He couldn't even say anything happy.
In fact, the girl likes him very much because he is rich, honest and kind.
Zhu Fugui is the son of a military advisor. His father was killed by his own mother. Shunfengsi secretly executed his mother, and Fugui became an orphan. Zhao Yulin raised him as his own son, and he and Wu Jing became close brothers and sisters of the opposite sex.
Fugui realized that he was in trouble at this time, and followed Wu Jing along the path like a follower in a panic.
Cuiping Mountain, Zhao Yulin is discussing the production of new coins with the masters in Guigu.
He saw that the master at the banknote office had aged even more, and he lamented that time passed so quickly and that time was unforgiving.
Director Dai told him that Zhenba's paper was good, and Yibin also had good stuff. He took Zhao Yulin to the storehouse and took out a large piece of white paper for him to see. This was made by a papermaking workshop in Yibin and had been stored for three years, so it was not afraid of getting damp and deteriorating.
Moreover, this kind of paper is made entirely of carbon mud from the pulp tailings, and it feels delicate and smooth, and is very flat and smooth.
Zhao Yulin felt that Old Dai had praised the paper too much, but the feel was indeed better than Zhenba paper.
He said let's try it, find a papermaking workshop with enough carbon mud to buy it as the base paper production workshop for the next new version of banknotes. When the next new currency is replaced, our economic scale will definitely be much larger, and we may have to produce 1 billion at a time.
Old Dai was excited and said happily that he would do it right away. He would also buy carbon mud from nearby paper mills and add Chinese herbal medicine to prevent insects and moths, and he would definitely be able to make high-quality base paper.
After the two men came out, Zhao Yulin continued to tinker with his coding machine.
The improvement to the machine this time is not big. He thinks it is enough from the perspective of confidentiality. The coding machine needs to be fixed and positioned for coding.
After this improvement, it is much more convenient for the master to operate, and the coded banknotes look neat, uniform, and more beautiful.
While Zhao Yulin was busy on Cuiping Mountain, there was a quarrel in the Zhao family's old house in Xuzhou City.
When his aunt saw that her eldest son Zhao Yuqing did not go anywhere after returning home and just sat in the yard in a daze, she suspected that her son had become stupid after being exiled to Lingnan for so many years. When she heard that Zhao Yulin did not go home after returning to Yibin, she thought that San'er must be disgusted with his elder brother who was in prison.
His aunt kept nagging the third room in the yard, then the fourth and fifth rooms, and even Zhao Yulin's father, an old scholar, was fed up with it.
The old scholar yelled, "Aren't you thinking your home is noisy enough?"
If you make trouble again, I will live at San'er's house and never come back.
His aunt was a person who would never dare to escape from the trap. When she heard that the old scholar was going to run away, she scolded him for being snobbish. Now that San'er had become successful, he had abandoned her and her son. Let's go. Only when they leave can the yard be peaceful.
This really pissed off the old scholar.
Anyway, the kids in the yard were very unfamiliar with Uncle Zhao Yuqing, and after the two old men made such a noise, they were so scared that they shrank in their houses and dared not go out. The old scholar went up to greet them, and the good grandchildren ran out of the gate like little rabbits out of a cage to wait for their grandfather.
The old scholar called Zhao Yulin's mother to go out. Seeing a large group of adorable grandchildren around him, he felt very proud. He paced proudly and led his adorable grandchildren to the pier. After a short while, they crossed the river and arrived at Zhao Yulin's home in Cuiping Mountain. He asked where San'er was.
Why don’t you come out to greet me?
The housekeeper quickly told him that the third young master had not returned home at all, and Master Lu had taken him directly to Guigu to handle official business.
So that's how it is. It's not that his son has become disrespectful of etiquette after becoming a high-ranking official.
The old scholar was even happier and said to his third wife, "San'er is right. Let's stay here and wait for San'er to come back after he finishes his work."
Zhao Yulin's mother had wanted to return to Cuiping Mountain for a long time, not because of the family reunion and harmony. When she heard the old scholar say that he would stay here, she was of course happy, and immediately asked the housekeeper to settle her grandson. The housekeeper smiled and said that the young masters and young ladies were occupying the rooms, and she would go to take a look.
The old scholar had just settled down and hadn't had a couple of days of soothing hot tea when his first wife and daughter-in-law came over the river. The first daughter-in-law shouted as soon as she entered the house, "Third brother, where is third brother? Please help your eldest brother."
The old scholar went out and yelled: "Why are you howling? Stop howling, San'er is not at home at all, he is busy with official business."
His first wife sat down and continued to cry, insisting that San'er help her eldest son Zhao Yuqing, otherwise Yuqing would be finished, wuwu.
The old scholar was extremely upset. He had only been in office for two days, and he didn't know when Zhao Yulin would come out. Zhao Yulin's mother hurried to persuade the eldest wife, saying that she should not worry, and that she would not let go when San'er came back, and would definitely make arrangements for the eldest young master.
The old scholar had no hope at all, and shouted to his first wife and the first wife to cross the river quickly so as not to cause unrest in Cuiping Mountain.
After driving away the eldest wife, the old scholar sighed and sat in the yard to bask in the sun. Zhao Yulin's mother went over and sat next to him and said that they were all family, so why did the master have to be so angry?
The old scholar said angrily that all the troubles in recent years were caused by the eldest wife. Just thinking about it made him so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. He regretted it so much that she had the nerve to cross the river to make trouble.
Then he thought that Zhao Yulin's mother was always causing trouble for San'er. What should San'er do about Yuqing's situation?
His mother said that they were a family after all, and for San'er to be such a high-ranking official in the imperial court, he should be able to find a job begging for food.
The old scholar said disdainfully that if the eldest son was satisfied with just a job of begging for food, why would the eldest son's family cross the river to cause trouble?
He thinks the eldest brother is a tough guy, so he doesn't want to implicate the third brother.
Zhao Yulin's mother was speechless and asked the maid to bring a new cup of tea.
In the Dali Kingdom Palace, the young emperor is gathering all his ministers to celebrate.
