Gao Zhao's beard trembled slightly, and the flesh behind his cheeks kept twitching.
Li Chengzhi just sent a piece of ice, but His Majesty dared to stop in the palace and have hundreds of officials present the ice?
That’s tens of thousands of square meters, why can’t it be sold?
"You'll know after you try it!" Gao Ying chuckled, "Uncle, don't blame Zicheng. He was kept in the dark about this from beginning to end, and I woke him up only when he left the palace.
Don’t blame Li Chengzhi either. This matter is too far-reaching and involves hundreds of officials. He also has good intentions..."
Yes, you are really kind-hearted, so good that you picked me off completely...
"I understand!" Gao Zhao was filled with disappointment and bowed before leaving.
Looking at Gao Zhao's slightly lonely back, Gao Ying sighed quietly: When His Majesty used you, you were afraid of offending all the officials and were afraid of all kinds of difficulties. Your Majesty is kind and considerate of you, but you are worried about gains and losses, and are desolate?
Sure enough, people’s hearts are not enough and everything is unpredictable...
Shaking his head, Gao Ying went to the front hall again.
Liu Fang and Cui Guang had left long ago, and several palace ladies had already made smoothies according to the method Gao Zhan said. Yuan Ke tasted it, but shook his head:
"As soon as I took my mouth, I just felt a sweet and rich aroma. But when I tasted the ice, it was simply tasteless, and there was a hint of fishy smell... In the end, it was not as good as the smoothie made by Li Chengzhi using pure ice..." p>
"Not bad!" Gao Yingjiao said with a smile, "Not to mention the common people, even the court officials below the fifth rank, how many of them have seen such rare things in the hot summer? Even if there is a hint of fishy smell, it is definitely...
Don’t worry about selling..."
"Yeah, that's right!" Yuan Ke put down the silver soup, took the silk towel from Liu Teng and wiped his hands, and then said: "Let me know: once the Zhang Bing Division goes on sale, the inner court, the Shaofu, the palace, etc.
When picking up ice, the director must also pay for the goods... he must not be short of the price, and he must not deliberately lower the price. The accounts must be clear..."
Gao Ying was slightly surprised: "It doesn't need to be like this, right?"
The hidden ice comes from the palace, so the money earned by the ice manager from selling the ice must first go to the Shaofu, and then be transferred to various ministries in the court. The emperor's explanation is no different from using money to buy his own things.
Why bother?
"Just do it!" Yuan Ke smiled, but did not explain.
If you want to do something, you must first establish yourself!
It has been more than a hundred years since the founding of our country, the Yuan clan. Why did I come here alone? It seems that I can’t live without copper and money?
What a joke!
In the past, we cut our own expenses and banned slaughtering. Now we have reduced the amount of ice awarded in the palace, etc. Is it really just for the tens of thousands of gold?
It’s just a way to seize the righteousness.
……
"I always feel that Your Majesty is in a hurry, very, very anxious, as if he wants to finish a year's worth of work in one day... He is so exhausted from all the work, and his body is getting worse every day..."
Gao Zhan looked sad, and even the smoothie in his hand no longer smelled good.
Not only is he anxious, but he is also shameless, and he is not just ruthless... But in Li Chengzhi's opinion, this is a qualified emperor...
In a deep conversation last night, Gao Zhan talked about the emperor, and Li Chengzhi was shocked: not only did the eunuchs in the palace farm, but even the queen led the concubines to raise silkworms and weave cloth?
How could the Wei Dynasty be so poor?
But Wang Yuanyong of Yingchuan and Wang Yuanshen of Hejian each set up a gold mountain to fight for wealth by the Luoshui River. It seems like it was only last year?
Li Chengzhi suspected that the emperor was holding back some big move, but he couldn't guess who he was dealing with.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Gao Zhan suddenly realized that the sound was hard to find, and sighed with great desolation: "Forget it, you don't understand even if I tell you!"
Li Chengzhi sneered: "Yes, I don't understand, but you do!"
He closed the lid of the box, wrapped himself in a quilt, and pushed it in front of Gao Zhan: "Remember, the small box is for your third sister..."
Gao Zhan asked him to bring a large box of freshly made pure ice, saying that he wanted to take it back to give Gao Zhao and Princess Gaoping (Gao Zhan's mother) a taste.
Li Chengzhi thought it would be easy anyway, so he made an extra box of cream ice cream.
It's just a little expensive. Yoghurt cubes only cost 20 yuan per catty, and butter (cream) costs more than a catty per catty?
I can buy a sheep...
Gao Zhan sneered coldly: "Are you really... good at finding excuses?"
To please the third sister, please please the third sister. If you insist on saying something like "please ask the third sister to write music, arrange music, train musicians, help prepare for the 'opening ceremony', etc."
I’ve never heard that you, Li Chengzhi, know music theory?
Li Chengzhi sneered repeatedly: "What if I really understand?"
"So what if you understand?" Gao Zhan squinted his eyes, "Do you think I don't know? Your cousin Li Chengxian also studied under Gongsun Chong. Why don't you ask him for help?"
That's right, I forgot that my cousin is also a musician. It's much more convenient than finding Gao Wenjun?
Li Chengzhi clapped his hands and said happily: "I will go look for him in the afternoon. First, I will ask my cousin to help me pick some musicians from the music market..."
Gao Zhan was stunned: "You really want to hold this...this...ceremony?"
"Of course we have to do it... Do you know that if you put up a tree at the gate, you will see an immediate effect?"
No matter how fragrant the wine is, the alley is too deep. As a time traveler, how can you not understand the importance of spreading the word?
But when he thought of composing music, Li Chengzhi remembered the days when Gao Wenjun could pop it up as long as he hummed two verses. It seemed that he had selective amnesia, so he forgot about Li Chengxian...
"Wait for me to get two pieces of ice and bring them to uncle in your car!" Li Chengzhi warned again.
As a result, Li Rui came to find him before he even stepped out of the threshold.
"Someone came to look for me. He claimed that his surname was Geng. He said he was a member of Langjun's staff. He was ordered by the superior officer to send him back to the Yamen?"
Send me a message back to the Yamen?
Li Chengzhi was extremely reluctant: If you didn’t say it well yesterday, wouldn’t it be enough to just show up when you leave the office early in the evening?
Could it be that the two old men have changed their minds?
But can you still go?
He said helplessly: "Get your horses ready first!"
The two of them entered the central hall together. Li Chengzhi greeted Geng Chang, and Gao Zhan, who was half a step behind, couldn't help but be startled.
Geng Chang became Li Chengzhi’s official?
It must be a coincidence, right?
Geng Chang's father, Geng Yan, was in dire straits after being dismissed from office by Empress Dowager Feng. He was taken in by Gao Zhao, so he did not starve to death. Based on this argument, there is no doubt that Geng Chang had already been with the Gao family's retainers...
Geng Chang was very indifferent. After greeting Li Chengzhi, he saluted Gao Zhan: "I have met Gao Yulin..."
After greeting Gao Zhan, he explained his purpose of coming again: He said that he was ordered by Taishi Ling Zhao Sheng to send Li Chengzhi back to the Yamen, but he didn't know what it was about.
Neither of them paid attention to it, just thinking it was an ordinary thing. Gao Zhan went home in a carriage, and Li Chengzhi rode back to Taichang Temple.
After entering Guocheng, the two of them divided their things. Gao Zhan wanted to enter the palace to see if Gao Zhao had returned home. Li Chengzhi and Geng Chang rode south to Taichang Temple.
Bypassing the Imperial City is Yi Jingli, less than a hundred steps away from the Meridian Gate, and it is also the most expensive neighborhood in the entire capital.
When Li Chengzhi passed by, two groups of strong men dressed as servants stood at the door, seemingly confronting each other.
I didn't know how big the official was until he arrived in the capital. Li Chengzhi didn't pay much attention, he just thought it was a conflict with some high-ranking official who lived there, so he glanced at it and passed by with Geng Chang.
"Is that the Li family who beat His Highness?"
"Who else can be so eye-catching?"
"Quickly report to Your Highness..."
This side only recognized Li Chengzhi, while the other side seemed to be following Li Chengzhi.
Two men on horseback followed Li Chengzhi about ten feet behind. One continued to follow, and the other suddenly urged his horse into the well.
In a house with three entrances, Yuan Yue and Yuan Yong sat across the table.
Yuan Yue was grinning, gnashing his back molars with a big hole in them, and couldn't help but smile at Yuan Yong: "Thank you, fourth uncle... My nephew is worried that he has no place to stay in the city, and he can't listen to the emperor brother all the time.
Teaching, isn’t this already there?”
The flesh on Yuan Yong's face twitched, his heart hurt like a knife stabbing him, and he had to squeeze out a smile: "It doesn't matter. Fourth uncle, I don't have much else, I just have a lot of money, land, mountains, houses, and I can afford to lose...
…”
"Fourth uncle is awesome!" Yuan Yue laughed wildly and raised his thumb exaggeratedly, "But my nephew is short of everything, even more money. But he has no way to make money, so he can only hope that fourth uncle can help him from time to time.
..."
Yuan Yue wants to win for the second time. What kind of dream does she have?
This is Yijing, and a house in Sanjin is worth a million gold. The million Yuan Yue lost to him several times is not even worth a fraction!
The more arrogant Yuanyue became, the more resentful Yuan Yong became, and he almost broke his guard. Just as he was gritting his teeth and trying to figure out why he was so angry, the attendant suddenly whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, Li Chengzhi has entered the city, it seems.
Went too often!"
Yuan Yongteng stood up immediately: If I can’t deal with Yuan Yue, how can I deal with Li Chengzhi?
He waved his hand and shouted coldly: "Let's go!"
Thinking that he was angry, Yuan Yuele fell down and shouted loudly: "Fourth uncle, don't forget to understand the talisman... Three days, my nephew will wait for you for up to three days..."
Answer your mother?
Yuan Yong almost couldn't help but turn around and punch him...
They were riding horses, but Yuan Yue's bodyguard was riding on two legs, so he was a step too slow, and Yuan Yong had already left when he arrived.
"Ha...fourth uncle actually sent someone to follow Li Chengzhi?"
Yuan Yue was surprised and happy, her eyes shining brightly.
No wonder Yuan Yong left in such a hurry, he was clearly going to seek revenge on Li Chengzhi.
Revenge is good... The fourth uncle must not know about Li Chengzhi and the third wife of the Gao family, otherwise he would have pretended to be deaf and dumb.
Fourth uncle is miserable, what a great opportunity...
"Prepare a car and go to Gaofu... Well, wait... It doesn't seem appropriate to go alone?"
Yuan Yue pondered for a moment, then said with a wicked smile: "Ride on horseback to report the news, go directly to Gao Zhan..."