bookrebus Chapter 421: Smashed into Hands
Chapter 421: Smashed into Hands
"Master Qiao, I heard that you are going to collect medicinal herbs recently. Why haven't I seen you go to the medicinal herb market?"
Lu Jingyuan, the manager of the pharmaceutical workshop, came to Qiao Yuan's house with a smile on his face.
"Can't you see I'm busy cutting wedding clothes? I'm getting married at the end of the month, so I don't have time to take care of medicinal materials."
Qiao Yuan was standing in the small hall, with two tailors measuring him.
He was an impatient man. In order to marry Gu Wan'er as soon as possible, he went through all the marriage procedures, but the time was very tight.
"Sir, we don't have many medicinal herbs in the warehouse. If we don't get more, I'm afraid the construction period will be delayed."
"There is still a lot of stock in the medicine warehouse. I have seen the account book. It is okay even if we don't buy any medicine for half a month. You don't have to worry. I will go to buy medicine as soon as I get married."
"Nothing is more important than me getting married now."
As soon as Lu Jingyuan opened his mouth, Qiao Yuan knew that he might have taken benefits from the medicinal materials dealer and came to inquire about information.
It's only been a few days and the medicinal herb merchants are already getting anxious. What about half a month later, when they have so much medicinal herbs in stock and can't sell them, they will be crying their eyes out.
They deserved it. The Princess of Qin originally wanted them to share in the profits, but they were greedy and wanted to deliberately raise the price to make huge profits.
Well, I'm sorry, their princess is not a soft persimmon who can be easily bullied.
"Master Qiao."
Lu Jingyuan smiled and wanted to say something nice to ask Qiao Yuan to go collect the herbs earlier, but Qiao Yuan ignored him.
As soon as he had measured himself, a manager came over and said that the furniture for his new house had been ready and asked if he wanted to go over and take a look.
Naturally, Qiao Yuan went to look at the furniture first, and he didn't even ask about the medicinal herbs.
So Lu Jingyuan could only leave in shame.
Just as Qiao Yuan expected, Lu Jingyuan was bribed by the medicinal herb merchants, and he told the medicinal herb merchants the information he had obtained.
The medicinal herb merchants all frowned and looked like they were about to mourn. Who could have thought that Qiao Yuan, who was already in his thirties, would make such a big fuss about marrying a widow.
Seeing how concerned Qiao Yuan was, if they went to find Qiao Yuan at this time, they would delay his marriage and might even make enemies.
So the medicinal material merchants could only wait. It was only half a month, and they could still hold on if they gritted their teeth.
The whole month of July was extremely busy. All the wheat was harvested, dried and stored in the granary. Ye Jintang and Xiao Mo could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"Jintang, you have to make all the calculations here. How will the harvest be this year? Can I have an army of 20?"
Xiao Mo had already walked around Ye Jintang's study several times. The specific wheat yields were sent in from various places one after another, and Ye Jintang was asking people to calculate the total yield in detail.
"Your Majesty, you are too impatient. All the account books have only been delivered less than an hour ago. How can you calculate it so quickly?"
"If you have nothing to do, go to the pavilion and have a cup of tea to calm your nerves."
Ye Jintang pushed Xiao Mo out of the study in a bad mood. He kept nagging and it was really annoying.
"Why don't you come too? It would be boring for me to enjoy the cool alone."
Xiao Mo glanced at the bustling study. Ye Jintang couldn't really help much, as the main work still had to be done by the accountant.
There was no electric fan in the room, and it was quite stuffy in the summer. Ye Jintang thought it would be better to go out and enjoy the cool air while waiting.
"Well, I hope that the wheat seeds I threw out can give me a good return."
The two of them came to the pavilion in the lotus pond together.
Lu Zhu brought a few maids and quickly brought fruits, scented tea, and a fan. They stood behind Ye Jintang and fanned her.
Xiao Mo carefully helped Ye Jintang sit down.
"It's amazing to say the least. For many years, there wasn't even a single lotus plant growing in the entire Ningchuan City, but the lotus pond in our palace was able to harvest a full pond of colorful lotus flowers in the first year of planting."
"Well, I always feel that a summer without lotus flowers is not a complete summer, so I planted a pond of lotus flowers."
Ye Jintang was embarrassed to say that when she was planting lotus flowers, she didn't know that there were no lotus flowers in the entire Ningchuan City. If she had known, she would not have been so prominent.
The weather was hot, so Ye Jintang asked Lu Zhu to make some cooling tea. He took a sip of the tea, threw a handful of fish food into the pond, admired the lotus flowers and watched the koi playing. It was such a comfortable day.
"You all get out."
Xiao Mo took a fan from Lu Zhu and drove all the maids serving in the pavilion out. He personally took the fan and gently fanned Ye Jintang to cool him down.
"After the wheat harvest, I want to take people to inspect Ningchuan Prefecture. It will take about half a month."
"You've been out for so long? It shouldn't be just a simple inspection."
Xiao Mo smiled calmly, "I can't hide anything from you."
"There are several bandit dens in Ningchuan Prefecture. I plan to destroy them all and then recruit some more people."
"Your Majesty, are you so sure that our wheat harvest will be good enough to support 20 soldiers?"
"Of course, if it were someone else, I wouldn't dare to make any deployment before the detailed results came out. But you are different. The wheat seeds are from you. I believe the wheat yield will definitely not be too low."
"So I made arrangements in advance. Besides, I can't put all these 20 soldiers out in the open. I want to place some of them in various places in Tianqin."
Xiao Mo said it lightly, but Ye Jintang saw countless white silver flowing out of her warehouse.
Whether it was moving the treasury of Imperial Consort Dehui or confiscating the treasury of the Hua family, even if Xiao Mo used all the gold and silver he obtained to recruit soldiers and buy horses, he would not be able to support many people.
In the future, his ability to continue to expand the scale of his military would depend entirely on the income from Ye Jintang's business.
Thinking of this, Ye Jintang felt a lot of pressure. She had to form a virtuous circle in a short period of time, otherwise there would be problems when Xiao Mo attacked the capital later.
"The prince wants to place people in other places. I don't know how many people will be sent out."
"Shi Bin and I have discussed dispersing all the people, which will require about 50,000 people."
“That’s a lot of people.”
"You will still need to worry about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of so many people."
Xiao Mo's eyes fell on Ye Jintang's huge belly.
He always told her to rest and take care of her pregnancy, but there were always various things in the palace that required her to make decisions.
Seeing that Ye Jintang was about to give birth, he felt full of guilt for causing so much trouble.
"It's not difficult to provide food, clothing, housing and transportation for 5 people, but we have to be careful when so many people are out there, so as not to be discovered by those with ulterior motives."
"I see."
"Jintang, I'm going to be away for such a long time this time, and I'm most worried about you. If you feel unwell, you must send me a pigeon as soon as possible. No matter where I am, I will come back to you as soon as possible."
"I'm only 7 months pregnant, and I still have 2 months to give birth."
"That's true, but who can say for sure about having a baby? What if it happens early and I'm not by your side? What will I do then?"
Xiao Mo's voice was a little low, and he gently held Ye Jintang in his arms. Now the only people he was concerned about were her and the child. If anything happened to them, he was afraid that he would not be able to survive.