"Miss Kai, those rouges are entirely due to the incompetence of my subordinates, and that's why things went wrong in front of the prince and concubine. You see, we got these things from the northwest border, and they are the best from the Dayan River area.
Rouge, even the Xinyan family in the palace agreed after seeing it!"
In front of the Sixth Prince's Mansion, the merchant Qi Jiu and two maids were talking to Kai with a flattering look on his face.
Putting honey on your mouth is one thing, and passing things up in your hands is another thing.
As a businessman, you always have a lot of Dayan items in your hands. Besides rouge and gouache, don’t you also have gold, silver, jewelry, and jadeite? You can always make this female steward happy.
After carefully checking the new rouge delivered today and the things the three people in front of him had given to him, Kai finally had a smile on his face.
"That's right. Don't make those mistakes next time. Otherwise, don't blame our family for being rude to you."
"What the girl said is, we don't dare. We don't dare anymore."
Qi Jiu bowed, his posture unusually low. Seeing that Kai was about to close the door and send them away, Qi Jiu quickly blocked the door and said in a flattering voice:
"Miss Kai, a batch of new products arrived in our store yesterday. They are Dayan's best lip balm and perfume. The nobles in the royal city are rushing to get them. Look..."
Glancing at Qi Jiu clearly, Kai secretly thought that this businessman was quite shrewd, and he actually came to sell things to his door.
But what Qi Jiu said next made her heart move.
"Aren't we here to apologize? So in order to please the prince and concubine, we have prepared a lot of good things. But there is a rule in our industry that when we give good things, we always have to meet the host in person. To be honest,
, I just entered the palace two days ago and met the Dalan family and the Xinlan family."
Obviously, this is the little idea of these businessmen again.
The merchants sell things from Dayan, and Dayan and Beiyi are old enemies. Not to mention trade routes, even envoys only meet once every few decades.
Therefore, if merchants want to buy goods from Dayan, they must communicate with officials at the border of Dayan and send generous enough gifts.
Among them, Beiliang's rule was very strict, and presumably there was no room for merchants to take advantage of it, so merchants had to go to the Tegel Desert to trade with the four northwest continents.
Although there are Xuanjia troops stationed in the four northwest continents, their management still relies on local officials. Where there are officials, there are more or less loopholes, let alone Dayan, which has been decaying for many years.
Therefore, there are actually many merchants in the Four Continents doing business with Beiyi. After all, Beiyi has a yearning for Dayan's items, but Dayan has no desire for Beiyi.
Therefore, for Dayan merchants, trading with Beiyi merchants is simply huge profits!
As a result, if Beiyi merchants want to obtain items from Dayan, they must first bribe officials and then contact merchants. Not to mention that the cost of the goods has doubled, it is definitely not something that ordinary Beiyi people can afford.
Therefore, once a merchant obtains goods, his destination must be Beiyi Royal City. If he wants to gain a foothold in the royal city and not be exploited by other officials in the royal city, he must make friends with some noble people.
This kind of friendship cannot be accomplished by giving things to the noble's followers, or by having the followers sell things to the master.
If you really want to be taken care of, you have to make friends with the noble person himself, or with people around the noble person who you can really talk to.
Therefore, in Kai's view, Qi Jiu's move was not just to seek shelter in the royal city and to take advantage of the power of their prince and concubine?
And he also knew to talk about the Dalan clan and the Xinlan clan first, indicating that he had already met more noble nobles, so he should be qualified to meet their princes and concubines, right?
"As a businessman, you are a good person. You must have just started in this business, right?"
Kai took a closer look at Qi Jiu and saw that this person was indeed an ordinary middle-aged man, with the shrewdness and philistinism of a businessman from the corners of his brows and eyes.
"Girl, it's because I just started this business, so I have to work hard..."
Qi Jiu smiled shyly, as if he couldn't help but want to offer a treasure to Kai.
Although he looked down on the businessman who nodded and bowed like this, Kai felt that he was an informed person after all, and he also knew that the Sixth Prince's Mansion was not as lonely as it seemed, but was worthy of the favor of all the businessmen.
Looking at Qi Jiu, and then thinking about the group of businessmen who looked down upon others and never walked into their house, Kai finally relaxed.
"Okay, everyone come in."
In the backyard of the mansion, the girl was collecting medicinal materials as usual, with no expression on her cold white face until she saw Kai walking from outside the courtyard.
Who are the three people following Kai?
She looked at them with some doubts, but found that the two maids who were following behind and holding several brocade boxes in their arms were raising their heads slightly and looking at her in a daze.
Even though she had noticed their gazes, they still hesitated for several seconds before realizing her gaffe, and then hurriedly buried their heads.
This move can be interpreted as their admiration for the host, or it can be said to be a moment of rudeness. It has no other special meaning...
But in her mind, there was an unspeakable sense of trance. Because she always felt that she had seen those two pairs of clear eyes somewhere.
It was a feeling of familiarity and kindness. There was no aggression in their eyes, but a trace of unspeakable sadness...
So she knows them, right?
But why doesn't she remember anything?
"Prince and Concubine, this is Qi Jiu, a businessman. Today I have come to apologize to you for what happened to Rouge yesterday. Qi Jiu, this is our Prince and Concubine."
Kai also saw the girl's gaze and immediately introduced the two parties with a smile.
Qi Jiu knew how to deal with things, so while Kai was speaking, he had already brought two maids to salute the noble man in front of him, and a bunch of auspicious words came out of his mouth.
However, this apology is obviously secondary. It is the main thing to come up with new things to please the nobles.
So Qi Jiu quickly asked two maids to deliver lip balm and perfume, and quickly served the nobleman to try it out, for fear that his own things would not be delivered.
Kai and others originally wanted to help, but looking at the pile of Dayan people's things, they didn't know that much about it. It would not look good if they rushed forward forcefully.
So they stood there and looked at the contents of the box, and at the same time asked Qi Jiu, who was smiling, for advice.
However, Qi Jiu was not only understanding, but also very generous with his actions, so soon there were only two maids from the merchants around the noble man, serving him to apply makeup and powder.
However, what they didn't know was that the two maids were not only good at makeup, but also very fast with their hands.
For example, at a certain moment when Kai and others didn't notice, he quietly thrust a note and a pill into the noble's hand, and gave the other person a sincere and sincere look.