The back garden of the palace is completely different from before. Large areas of flowers, plants and trees have been dug up, and various crops have been planted on the land. If you didn't know better, you would have thought you were in a melon and fruit plantation.
Qin Mumu had this strange feeling. After walking through a potato field, she arrived in front of Guanjia Hall. Lan Jizong looked at Qin Mumu helplessly and coughed: "Old slave can only send
You’re here.”
"Thank you, Mr. Lan. Don't worry. If the empress really doesn't want to see me, she won't summon me alone. After all, it's just Ye An who is young and energetic and can't hold back the anger in his heart."
Lan Jizong smiled bitterly: "You girl, you are open-minded, go in! The empress is waiting for you in the palace!"
Qin Mumu bowed slightly and then climbed up the stairs. Looking at her deft back, Lan Jizong frowned and said to himself: "This family... is too smart. They can see everything clearly but they don't know how to be confused!"
Corresponding to the Guanjia Palace is the Silkworm Palace. As their names suggest, these two palaces were built to show the importance that the old Zhao family attached to farming and mulberry farming. They were built under the decree of Taizu.
The official family planted rice in front of the palace every year and harvested it after autumn. As the mother of a country, the queen held a silkworm-raising ceremony every spring in the Silkworm Palace and completed the entire process of raising silkworms. This is "plowing and raising silkworms".
Qin Mumu, who had just entered the palace, was led to the side hall by the palace servants. Liu E was actually dressed like a woman. She was rubbing something with her hands. When Qin Mumu got closer, she suddenly discovered that in her hand was a more delicate
The iron drill was made of iron, and under the iron drill was actually snow-white cotton...
Cotton can be said to be the real trump card of Pratt & Whitney Company. The sales volume of this product in Tokyo is astonishingly high, almost all the cotton that was previously stored was sold out.
But Liu E was able to use the most primitive method, using an iron drill to rub a ball of cotton into a thin cotton thread.
"How did the cotton of your Puhui store become cotton thread? Could it be that you used a clumsy method like this?" Liu E wiped the sweat from his head and carefully pulled out the cotton thread that he had just removed.
Qin Mumu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, there are many ways to spin thread, and the number of spinning wheels is countless. If your Majesty wants to know how this cotton is turned into cotton thread and then into clothing, my name is Puhui Trading Co., Ltd.
The entire process can be restored.”
"Do you think what I want to know is this process?" Liu E looked at Qin Mumu with teasing eyes. She casually put the cotton thread she had just made into the frame and said: "Cotton is different from other things.
The stakes are at stake in many affairs of the country, and your company, Puhui, now has a monopoly on cotton in the entire city of Tokyo, which is really too much."
Qin Mumu was suddenly startled, and then suddenly realized that Liu E was waiting for her home here!
Ye An's contribution is not small. The new tea tea law compiled since last year has been basically completed. Although it has shaken the interests of the four major tea merchants in the southeast tea field, it has protected the small tea merchants and tea farmers to a large extent, and even more
It met the imperial court’s need for tea tax.
Except for Sun Shi and other people who represented the interests of the four major tea merchants in the southeast tea field, everyone in the court praised Ye An's clever methods.
The new tea tea law was obviously a great achievement, but Liu E did not intend to use it to justify Ye An's murder and injury. Qin Mumu never expected that she actually planned to interfere in Puhui Company's cotton business.
At this time, she imagined herself as Ye An, thinking about how he would respond in this situation: "The sage clearly knows that the cotton matter was promoted by our Puhui Company, and it was deeply involved. Now it suddenly stopped.
,I am afraid……"
"The cotton belongs to your Puhui Company. The spinning wheels, looms, and labor all belong to your Puhui Company. I am not trying to embezzle your family's industry!"
Qin Mumu was stunned for a moment. She really couldn't feel Liu E's pulse now. She originally thought that Liu E was asking her family to hand over the cotton business, but now it seemed that she had other plans.
"I wonder what your Majesty would like for my Puhui store?"
Although she couldn't make the decision, Qin Mumu still wanted to know Liu E's true thoughts. Compared with the past when she knew Liu E's intentions, Qin Mumu suddenly realized that because she was close to Liu E, she
We have overlooked the fact that she has never been a simple existence.
Women are emotional. After long-term contact and understanding, they will subjectively think that they understand the other person. But in fact, she has never really understood Liu E. Ye An has warned her countless times before: "Never underestimate him."
A woman who rules an entire empire."
Liu E slowly walked up to the Guanjia Hall. At this time, the door of the hall was already wide open. The cold wind of early spring mixed with the smell of earth floated in, making people unable to help but flap their nostrils in an effort to capture the smell of spring.
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"Pu Hui Company is responsible for purchasing cotton, expanding the amount purchased every year, and at the same time finding ways to plant it in places suitable for growing cotton. As for the farmers who grow cotton, you can figure it out on your own, but the land is allocated by the court, and the cotton harvested every year is divided between the court and the government.
Puhui Company shares a 30-70 share, and Puhui Company is responsible for turning the cotton into cotton clothes, cotton thread, or quilts to offset the taxes and fees of the country."
Qin Mumu stood there dumbfounded. She didn't expect that Liu E actually planned to participate in the brand-new cotton business. Once the cotton business got involved with the imperial court, the nature would be completely different.
Squatting down gently, Qin Mumu said after doing a thousand blessings: "Your Majesty, this is such a big matter, how can Mumu alone make the decision? It is better to go back and discuss it with Ye Lang, oh, by the way, there is also Cao Li.
The families of the two generals also participated in the shares..."
Liu E waved her hand casually, looked at Qin Mumu and said: "I don't let you make the decision. Not to mention you, even your Ye An can't make the decision. He beat An Youguo in front of Chui Gong Hall.
, how can the suffering owner give up?"
Threats were such fair and aboveboard threats. Qin Mumu knew that Liu E was using An Youguo's affairs to make things difficult for Ye An.
But Qin Mumu couldn't back down. He sighed helplessly, looked at Liu E firmly and said: "Since it is an important matter of the country and it is your will, please send someone to the head office of Puhui Company.
With an imperial edict, all Puhui merchants are here to serve!"
"You're a very stubborn girl. I'm not plotting your family's business name. You have to know that cotton must be brought under the imperial court no matter what. There is no other place for it!"
"I know this, so I will go home and tell my husband. The saint can summon Ye An to the palace. Why should I take the concubine's route?"
Liu E smiled softly and looked at Qin Mumu with a hint of cunning in her eyes: "I don't want others to say that I am taking advantage of others. There is no reason for the Tian family to invade people's property, let alone your Yunzhong County Marquis Mansion has contributed to the country.
, if people who don’t know hear the news, there will be a lot of discord, but the cotton matter is related to the country, and I cannot give up!"
Liu E's attitude was already obvious. Qin Mumu could only sigh slightly. She didn't expect Liu E to value cotton so much and see its future.
There are many people in Tokyo who know about cotton, but no one has the vision like Liu E.
Of course Ye An and himself knew the importance of cotton, but unlike Liu E, they knew from the beginning that cotton would become the main force of the future textile industry and would bring epoch-making changes to the warmth of this era, even affecting a country.
of national strength.
This kind of vision alone is enough to show that Liu E has a far-sighted and far-sighted view of the overall situation.