After several years of development, although Di Xin will not deliberately reveal his true identity, he does not need to hide it as much as before.
He has gained enough strength and no longer worries about the secret calculations of those competitors for the position of World Lord.
The think tank is just a temporary department. Although the members have great power, they have no formal official positions.
Now Di Xin no longer needs them for cover and disbanded them a few months ago.
It's not about burning bridges across rivers.
The think tank was composed of carefully selected scholars at that time, and most of the new policies in Northern Xinjiang in recent years were produced by them, so they were considered the group of people who were most familiar with Northern Xinjiang.
Disbanding the think tank can also allow them to enter the real official career as soon as possible.
The abilities and character of these scholars have been tested. After Shen Qianhua took over, he could immediately start making arrangements.
Xizi, on the other hand, took some time off after the think tank was disbanded and moved back to his house.
Half a quarter of an hour later, Laifu, who followed Emperor Xin's order, brought Xizi to the study.
Xizi knelt down and said, "I have met Your Highness."
There was a hint of apology in Di Xin's eyes, and he replied softly: "After the think tank was disbanded, I originally thought that you could take this opportunity to rest for a while, but now there is indeed an urgent matter that you need to do."
Xizi lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, and said with a touch of coquettishness in the corner of his eyes: "It is my duty to take care of Your Highness's worries."
"Your Highness hurriedly called me over. I wonder what it was about?"
Di Xin waved and asked Xizi to take two steps closer, hugging her into his arms and holding her petite, tender and tender breasts in his broad palms.
"Yue'er and Qianwei came over just now."
He pointed to the two glazed products on the table and said, "These are the things they brought."
Xizi followed Di Xin's line of sight, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Although glass products are rare, they still have to be divided among different people. As the side princess, she also has a few glass products in the house given by the princess Wang Ruoqing. She just keeps them away because she is worried about them being broken.
In Xizi's eyes, the glass products on the table were not as exquisite as those in her collection.
Di Xin continued: "They purchased these two glazed products from Western merchants."
Xizi frowned slightly and said thoughtfully, "I remember that the year before last, the imperial court had opened the sale of glass products to the private sector."
Unlike Zhao Yue'er and Song Qianwei, she has been responsible for the affairs of the think tank in recent years. Although she is responsible for formulating and revising the people's livelihood policies in northern Xinjiang, she also needs to understand the policies of the entire Dali.
But she reacted immediately.
"A Western caravan appeared in Yanque Pass?"
Seeing Di Xin nod, a touch of excitement appeared on her face.
Di Xin could see the significance of the arrival of the Western caravan, and so did Xizi.
Northern Xinjiang has gone from being barren in the past to being lush now, even attracting Western caravans here. She and the think tank have not only been responsible for the changes in the past few years, but they have also contributed a lot.
Now that her hard work has paid off, how can she not be excited?
Xizi said with a smile in his eyes: "Is your highness planning to reward me with something?"
There was a hint of playfulness in his tone.
She is not someone who likes to take credit, and her words were more of a joke because of her mood.
Di Xin also knew Xizi's character, but he still had a smile on his face. He looked at Xizi and said more gently: "My beloved concubine has indeed contributed a lot to the development of Northern Xinjiang, and she deserves to be rewarded."
"Then I will thank Your Highness first."
Xizi smiled at the corners of his eyes and shrank back into Di Xin's arms.
Although she has been married for several years, she still misses Di Xin's arms and has never felt tired of it.
After the two warmed up for a while, Di Xin returned to the topic.
"There are Western caravans appearing in Northern Xinjiang, which is a good thing. But..."
Di Xin pointed to the glazed products on the table again and asked, "My beloved, do you know how much Yue'er and Qianwei spent on buying these?"
"Could it be that His Highness is taking the exam to become a school concubine?"
Xizi carefully looked at the glazed products on the table and said with a smile: "These two glazed products are small in size, ordinary in style and of average workmanship. Logically speaking, the price should be lower."
"but!"
She changed her subject and said: "After all, this is a rare item from the West. It is rare in quantity and has a long journey. Even if the price is lower, it won't be much lower."
"In addition, Western caravans usually disembark from Dali in southern Xinjiang, and most of the goods will be dumped in the capital, and there is also a long journey from the capital to northern Xinjiang."
“It’s subject to addition and subtraction, so the price should be higher.”
Xizi said with confidence in his tone: "If I guess correctly, the total price of these two glass products should be around twenty taels of silver."
Don't look at the fact that some novels are often worth a thousand and twenty thousand taels, and the reward given to the waiter when eating at the inn is often a piece of silver or something, but these are all exaggerations.
In this era of underdeveloped productivity, the purchasing power of gold and silver is very strong. A few copper coins may be enough for a day's meals, and two coins of silver may be a month's living expenses for an ordinary family.
One tael of silver is equivalent to ten coins, and twenty taels of silver is equivalent to two hundred coins.
In other words, thirty taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family to spend more than ten years.
Excluding food and drink, if an ordinary family wants to save twenty taels of silver, it may take half a lifetime.
Even in some poor families, after living for a lifetime, all their savings are only worth a few pieces of silver.
Therefore, for ordinary people, no matter how rare glass products are, it is impossible to spend half their life savings on such a fragile decoration. It is obviously reluctant to part with it.
And even some people with better family backgrounds will not waste money like this.
And for twenty taels, you can only buy products with mediocre workmanship such as those on the desk. If you change them to those gleaming glass products, you can even put them at auction, and the final price can reach the level that most people can buy.
The degree to which a person's breathing becomes short.
Even if the imperial court opened the sale of glass products, it was already a luxury that only a small group of people could enjoy.
After coming to the conclusion, Xizi said with some surprise: "Your Highness, I remember that Yue'er and Sister Qianwei's monthly money is not that much."
"Did the two of them spend all their savings?"
She glanced at Di Xin angrily and said, "The two of them don't understand. His Highness should also know that there is no shortage of this in the house. Why not let them retreat quickly while the Western caravan has not left?"
"Although the family is not short of money, it is not so wasteful!"
