Chapter seven hundred and eighty sixth plan a few years ago
In the back garden of the Yunzhong Junhou Mansion, Ye An and Qin Mumu were sitting in the pavilion. After the weather gradually warmed up, they ate less hot pot, and of course they were reluctant to eat it. After all, the hot pot base is not cheap and contains a lot of spices.
And butter is considered a top luxury product in this era.
The other people at the table had already left when they saw that the atmosphere was not right. Only the three members of the Hou family were still eating. Qin Mumu and Xuan'er were not busy undressing Ye An, but just feasting like him.
She is a smart woman.
Xuan'er kept eating vegetables and put the cooked mutton into Ye An's bowl, but Qin Mumu would soon eat it. Ye An liked to do it himself.
"You're just going to accept it like this?"
Finally, Qin Mumu spoke. Ye An paused with his chopsticks for a moment, then put the cooked mutton into his mouth, wiped his mouth and said, "Yes! What else can you do but accept me?"
This is not like Ye An's style. He will never compromise so easily. What's more, this time he completely accepted his fate without even resisting. This is all very unusual.
Qin Mumu looked at Ye An strangely and frowned slightly: "We still have a chance to fight back. Lan Kwai Fong and Puhui Company have a lot of intelligence that has not been used at all."
Ye An picked up the sour soup drink on the table and shook his head: "It's useless, or I don't want to try it. Believe it or not, as long as I continue to fight against them, there will be more and more rumors that slander me and the new tea method."
, if it continues, the tea business in the southeast will be out of control, and there will be life-threatening lawsuits in the future, and some people will be forced to death because of the new tea law... Don't look so surprised, they do this kind of thing.
Gotta come out.”
Qin Mumu nodded silently: "It seems that in order to stop your new tea tea method, they will do anything they can."
Ye An nodded helplessly: "Yes, I found out from the data of Southeast Tea before that the gross profit of the four major tea merchants in Southeast every year is astonishingly high, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is a huge amount of money."
The profits that people are jealous of are enough for them to cultivate their own power in the court, and it is also enough for them to fight against the laws of the country and even the court."
"Don't you think this is very similar to the beautiful country of later generations?"
Qin Mumu's words made Ye An chuckle: "It is true that the huge economic complex interferes with the operation of the country and controls the laws related to it to achieve the purpose of manipulating politics. Well... Now the case has been solved. It turns out that the beautiful country is all about playing tricks.
It's the leftovers from our ancestors' fun..."
"Then why are later dynasties not like this?"
Qin Mumu took a piece of tofu, covered it with red oil, put it in her mouth and asked strange questions.
Ye An stretched out his hand to wipe the corner of her mouth and said with a smile: "Who said no? It's just that you don't know. Look at those so-called imperial merchants. Do you really think they are just tools for the emperor to make money? In fact, the emperor was also tied up in his own house by them.
On the carriage, the imperial power was just more powerful and could overturn the table and take all, but the looted people's fat and anointing eventually flowed into the emperor's pocket."
Qin Mumu took a deep breath and said with a lonely expression: "It's really hard to prosper the people and it's hard to die!"
Ye An nodded slightly, looked at the frightened Xuan'er beside him and smiled: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand what we are talking about, but you can't spread it out!"
"Xuan'er knows. Marquis Xuan'er feels that the new tea law will not work among the people, because you are an official and cannot control the state government, not even the county government. You will be manipulated no matter what others do, and you can only rely on
The officials below are working hard, but they live in the southeast all year round. Naturally they don't dare to offend the four major tea merchants, and even the state government yamen don't want to offend them. How can they succeed? Your reform...can't be changed!"
Qin Mumu and Ye An looked at Xuan'er in surprise. They didn't expect that she hit the nail on the head. The girl had already understood the answer that they both thought about for a while.
Qin Mumu poured a cup of sour soup and handed it to the panicked Xuan'er: "Then how do you think it can be done?"
Xuan'er laughed happily: "Sister, I'm afraid I won't be able to part with you!" Seeing Ye An and Qin Mumu's confusion, she said again: "Of course our Marquis has become the prefect of a state, or the prefect.
, In this way, all government affairs of the state government will be decided by the Marquis, and then he will go to the imperial court..."
Ye An laughed for a moment and turned to look at Qin Mumu and said: "That's true. Many reforms are carried out by officials in the local state capital. After Shang Shuchaotang got the support of the officials, he tried it in the state capital.
After it is successful, it will be promoted to various places instead of directly promoting it through official documents in the court, so it is naturally different!"
Qin Mumu pursed her lips and said, "How come? Are you really planning to leave Tokyo and go to the state capital?"
"Do you think you can understand the entire Song Dynasty just by staying in Tokyo? It's simply impossible."
"Then why are potatoes and sweet potatoes so successful?!"
Ye An covered his face helplessly, and Qin Mumu quickly understood how stupid his question was. The promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes is beneficial to everyone, whether it is the court, the common people or merchants, for them
All good things.
He coughed dryly and then said: "Then you can't leave the city of Tokyo. I know what you are thinking. If you go to the southeast to become an official, you will be trapped in a tight siege. You are a lonely minister in the court, and this is also your greatest capital and
Rely on, the Tian family can support you, but if you go to the southeast, you will have nothing. I am afraid that even the officials in the government office can't be dispatched, so why do you fight with others?!"
Ye An smiled: "The south is not bad! There is a lot of uncultivated land there, and there is also a lot of untapped value. I don't necessarily want to go to the southeast, but Puhui can. Since people have trouble occupying the court, then
We will use our strengths to make up for our weaknesses, and Puhui Store should start to expand."
Qin Mumu frowned and said: "Expanding to the south? Isn't it a little too fast? We are based in Tokyo City, focusing on Kaifeng Prefecture, gradually establishing ourselves in the north, and finally going south. This is our plan. Now we will expand to the southeast, span
It’s too big.”
Xuan'er got up and called Mrs. Zhang to clean the table together, and put some food on the table. Of course, the milk tea that Qin Mumu loved to drink was also indispensable.
Sweets were a luxury item in this era, but they were nothing to the Hou family. Hou San's sugar shop sent various candied dried fruits every once in a while, along with several jars of frosting sugar and honey.
Xuan'er made several cups of milk tea. In addition to Qin Mumu, she also made some for herself, Zhang and several children in her family, but Ye An didn't like milk tea.
"It's not good for you to drink such sweet milk tea, it will make you gain weight..."
Qin Mumu raised her eyebrows, looked at Ye An and said, "Do you dare to dislike me?"
"I don't dare... I'm just thinking about your health and figure, hehe..."
Ye An smiled awkwardly. He knew that Qin Mumu really didn't have any other hobbies in the Song Dynasty, except that he loved food as much as he did.
The delicacies of later generations are eaten by the food industry. The two people whose tastes have been cultivated must not be satisfied with the food of this era.
"Milk tea in this era is the real thing, not some blended drink. It's safe and healthy!"
"I want to go to the two states of Gansu and Liang. It is an important place and where the Song Dynasty controlled party items."
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"Don't even think about leaving me again!" Qin Mumu stared at Ye An closely and screamed after a brief "downtime"!
Only then did she realize that Ye An was making excuses: "Okay! I thought you were going to leave Tokyo City and go to the state capital in the southeast, but I didn't expect you were going to the Ganliang Prefecture in the northwest. This ladder effect
Isn’t it a little too obvious?”
Ye An said with a cheeky flattery: "How dare you do everything in front of your wife?"
"How long have you been planning this?"
"Well, it started after returning from the Battle of Huanzhou."