Chapter Thirteen Hongyan
Ye Tao, Min Yue and Peng Detian came out of Xunfeng Pavilion together, and it was already a little late. Min Yue and Peng Detian were a little reluctant to say that Ye Tao was so partial to the princess but was favored by the princess, and looked like he had to figure it out.
"Let's go to Nongcuilou, and get this matter clear while drinking." Min Yue said generously after touching his stomach, which had already started to rumbling.
"...Mr. Min, Ye Tao is here too. Are you still going to go to Nongcui Building?" Peng Detian said astonished. The food in Nongcui Building is indeed very distinctive, but taking a child to a brothel to drink and eat? Wouldn't it be a bit too much?
"Ye Tao has built the garden in Nongcuilou. He has gone there much more than me." Min Yue said indifferently, and decided so. "Today, let Ye Tao treat him, and he actually made this happen."
Ye Tao said dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Min, what's the matter? I don't know that it's Princess Zhaohua."
"It is because you don't know that it is Princess Zhaohua that you prefer sex over friends. If you know it is a princess, there is nothing you can do." Although they are polite in front of the princess, Min Yue and Ye Tao have a very good relationship in private and often invite them to eat and drink together. If there is anything new, they will share with each other often.
The boss of Nongcuilou is obviously familiar with this kind of situation where he comes to eat and is not interested in girls. This is also the only place in the dozen or so brothels in Yicheng where such a thing happens. It is hard to say whether the boss is proud or amused or laughed.
After setting up a table of dishes, Min Yue drank a cup first and said, "Ye Tao, tell me, it's all the way. Princess Zhaohua has known you for a long time? What about you? I'll let her go to your workshop after I met Miss Zhuo for an hour. What's that?"
Ye Tao said awkwardly: "I talked with the princess about the tricks of Yi Zhan Tower before, and I talked very well. I talked about some of the other words casually. When the princess said she wanted to go and see, I agreed casually."
Min Yue laughed and looked at the cup in his hand carefully, saying, "I'm as old as new as new as old as before... I'm as old as new as new as old as old as old as..." Another cup was finished, Min Yue said, "I was originally worried that you would expand the Ye family's business to Beijing. My Min family would not be able to protect you, and that bunny will be beaten by Qiufeng all day long. Now, Princess Zhaohua is better than anything else."
"Even if it's a princess, these things are hard to deal with, right? The pool in the capital is so deep, and Princess Zhaohua's words are so effective?" Ye Tao said strangely.
Min Yue looked at Ye Tao and said, "I'm afraid Princess Zhaohua's words work better than the prince's words." Min Yue's judgment surprised Peng Detian. Min Yue asked back, "Ye Tao, do you know more about Princess Zhaohua? Let's talk about what do you know?"
Ye Tao lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "The other small things are not sure, but the two things are so widely spread, so it is true. One is that three years ago, when the king was assassinated, Princess Zhaohua used her body to make her younger brother. The current prince blocked the assassin and saved her younger brother, but since then she was sick, she was stung by the princess. The other is that the princess hates the corrupt scholar who is not right, and she has pissed off more than a dozen great scholars whom the king has invited."
Min Yue nodded and said, "Those great scholars can say nothing except saying something. If one or two are not angry, they will show mercy. As for the princess' sickbed, it did not start three years ago. Princess Zhaohua has been in poor health since she was a child and has to use a lot of medicine to regulate her body, but she still often gets sick. She was assassinated three years ago, but was not a palm, but was rubbed by the palm force. Otherwise, with the princess' physique, she would never be spared. But this courage to sacrifice herself to save her brother is true. But these are all character. The reason why the princess speaks is because of her talent and what she can interfere now."
"Oh?" Ye Tao was interested in being said and asked intriguedly: "The princess is only 14 years old?"
"Are you only 14 years old? Why are you pretending to be garlic?" Min Yueheng glanced at Ye Tao and said, "Do you know what the princess is in charge of now?"
"I don't know!" Ye Tao answered simply. If he knew the answer to this kind of question, there would be a ghost.
"Since two years ago, the princess has taken over the royal currency. All the purchase costs in the palace, the construction and repair of the palace, and even the expenses of the imperial guards, have to go through her hands. The queen has long ignored the entire harem. Now the one who controls the harem of the king is Princess Zhaohua."
"What?!" Such things sounded like a fantasy, and Peng Detian almost jumped up.
"At the beginning, I also found it incredible. It was not until the king of the country gradually revealed something and praised this daughter that everyone gradually believed in it. This princess is not simple. The king of the country often sighed that if Princess Zhaohua was a healthy man, she would definitely become a hero of the generation." Min Yue shook his head and sighed.
Such an evaluation is even more incredible than saying that Princess Zhaohua is in charge of internal coins and harem. But Ye Tao was silent and pretended to be so surprised that he couldn't speak. He believed that he really believed that talent and knowledge needed to be cultivated by time. Princess from the same era as him obviously had sufficient qualifications. She also showed her talents in various ways.
"I'll tell you something," Min Yue finished another glass and slapped the wine glass on the table. "That should be the first time when the princess showed their financial management skills. You should know that although our country is rich and the expenses in the palace have always been abundant, the expenses are very strict for all princes and princesses. About 4 years ago, the king once summoned the princes and princesses to ask them about their usual expenses and asked them to tell them how much money they had. As a result, Princess Zhaohua calculated for a long time in front of the king and said that she had 40,000 taels of money.
The capital was 2,300 taels of silver. The king was shocked at that time. According to Princess Zhaohua's monthly silver, from the age of 3 to the age of 10, all the money was only 11,000 taels. The king asked where her money came from. The princess said that she had no other hobbies, just liked reading, writing, and playing the piano. Reading books, there were tens of thousands of books in the large interior and liked to write, and the expense was nothing but paper, ink, pen and inkstone. There were piles of money in the small warehouse next to the study room, but I was afraid that these princes and princesses would not
Go and play the piano? It only takes a quiet room and a few volumes of piano scores. The money you usually can't use. When she was seven years old, a guard's family wanted to do business but had no capital. Just let her know, so she took out her own deposit and borrowed it to the guard. Three months later, the merchant made a lot of profits, such as a contract to return the loan. Including the interest, she made a profit of 30%. Although she couldn't use the money, it was not harmful to have more money. She thought that she was rich in business, so she simply set up an inn by herself, which is the most proudest in Beijing now.
Huashu's Hongyun Tower. Of course, it was built by someone else's name, and the identity of the royal family was not revealed. After a little tidying and defining more detailed documents, the Hongyun Tower alone made tens of thousands of taels per year. It is more appropriate to calculate the value of the Hongyun Tower based on three times the annual profit. Since then, the princess has successively bought a carriage and a garment store. Although the profit was not so generous, she definitely did not lose money. When the princess was 10 years old, the princess probably said a lot of the 40,000 taels of property he had said."
Chapter completed!