Chapter 45 Fine Wine

"Are you telling the truth?" Zhao Heng asked. Read М

Liang Cheng told him that the Prince of Yan had recently taken control of Yan County and recruited 20,000 personal troops.

"This is what the servants of His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan said." Liang Cheng said carefully.

Zhao Heng was in doubt.

In this case, he was a little surprised.

"It is absolutely true. The hot ice sold in Jinling recently comes from the Prince of Yan's business."

"Oh? Interesting." Zhao Heng nodded and continued to walk forward, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

Liang Cheng was stunned.

Did he guess the emperor's thoughts wrong?

Or has the emperor really been completely addicted to wine and sex and lost interest in government affairs?

Looking at Zhao Heng's back, he murmured: "Ninth Prince, it's not that we took the money and didn't do anything, it's really that you are not in the emperor's eyes."

Shaking his head, he ordered a little eunuch to deliver the letter to Concubine Mi and turned back.

Zhao Heng, who was heading to the harem, stopped in front of a rockery.

He whispered to himself: "The Yuan family in Yanzhou is a tiger and a wolf! We can't pay attention to the King of Yan now, otherwise the Yuan family will regard him as a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh, and want to get rid of him as soon as possible."

Among the many princes, he did not pay much attention to the ninth son.

But he was still secretly happy that Zhao Xu could take root in Yan County.

After all, Zhao Xu was a prince, representing the royal family of Dasong. With him in Yanzhou, it was equivalent to the royal power going deep into Yanzhou.

He understood Liang Cheng's meaning, but he still didn't have much hope for the King of Yan to contain the Yuan family. The Yuan family was not a small noble family in Yan County.

The only thing he could do about this matter was to continue to maintain his indifference to the King of Yan, so as to save the King of Yan's life.

"Life or death depends on your own ability." Zhao Heng looked to the north.

To him, the King of Yan was more like the willow he accidentally planted in Yanzhou, and now it has sprouted.

If it flourishes in the future, it will become his tentacles in Yanzhou. If it withers, it will be fine.

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Yancheng.

Since the dismantling of the Huang and Du families, the palace has been crowded with guests almost every day.

In addition to the nobles from various counties in Yanjun who came to visit with gifts, there were also merchants who came to buy wine.

In the days when Zhao Xu was fighting with the nobles, the merchants did not stop.

They have sold the wine of the palace to every corner of Yanzhou.

Once the pure and sweet wine of the palace was launched, it immediately defeated the famous local wine and dominated the local area.

And this attracted more merchants to come to the palace to purchase.

The influence of the palace wine in Yanzhou dispelled their last doubts.

Some merchants even borrowed money to buy wine and sell it elsewhere to compete for the first pot of gold.

"Disperse, disperse, today's wine is sold out."

Standing in front of the door, Zhou Yi dispersed the merchants who blocked the door.

"Oh, I've been waiting for a whole day and still haven't gotten it. I'm so angry."

"Me too, I won't go back tonight. I'll sleep at the gate of the palace and wait."

"..."

The merchants who didn't get the wine shouldn't be so enthusiastic.

These days, it's rare to make a profit without losing money, and the wine from the palace is one of them.

It is said that a merchant took a thousand jars of wine and exchanged them for a thousand horses.

A thousand jars of wine is only 15,000 taels of silver.

A horse can be sold for 30 taels, so this transaction can get 30,000 taels of silver, a net profit of 15,000 taels.

Once this matter spread, the merchants were red-eyed and wanted to sell the wine to farther places to make a fortune.

"Let's go, let's go." Zhou Yi frowned and shouted again.

Seeing that the merchants refused to leave, he ignored them and closed the gate of the middle courtyard.

Entering the east courtyard from the side door of the middle courtyard, he found the King of Yan in the pavilion of the east courtyard.

At this time, the King of Yan was writing something, and Feng'er and Luan'er were standing by and watching.

"Your Highness, we should make a few more distillers. There are too many merchants who order wine." Zhou Yi said.

Zhao Xu stopped writing, "Don't worry, wait until the yard behind the palace is ready, the wine shop can be expanded, there are fifty distillers in it."

These days, he naturally realized how popular the wine was.

So he bought a house behind the palace.

These houses are being renovated. In the future, in addition to the wine shop, there will be other things produced.

Zhou Yi nodded, "Your Highness, I will set off with Wang Yanzhong tomorrow. The affairs of the palace..."

Zhou Yi only temporarily took charge of the palace's sundries. His main task was to go to various states with Wang Yanzhong to recruit people.

Moreover, he himself did not like these trivial matters.

These two days, Wang Yanzhong told him that everything was ready, and he was so excited that he didn't sleep last night.

Zhao Xu frowned. He took over the power of the government office. Now Liu Fu is a prospective royal tutor and is very busy.

Zhou Yi also has his role.

But in this way, no one would take care of the miscellaneous matters of the palace.

Other servants were either clumsy or dull, and he didn't like them.

"What's the difficulty? Your Highness, why don't you hand over the miscellaneous matters of the palace to me?" Feng'er rolled her eyes and volunteered generously.

Zhao Xu suddenly realized that Feng'er's hot temper was indeed suitable for management.

And she was close to him, which was perfect. The most important thing was to rest assured.

"That's right, how could I forget you." Zhao Xu looked up at Feng'er, "In that case, you should take up the post now."

Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief and felt relaxed all over.

He said goodbye and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Come on, Feng'er, let's do this first." There were only three people left, and Zhao Xu pointed to the paper.

The wine in the palace had not yet been named.

It was fine before when it was not famous.

Now it is so popular in Yan County that it would be too cheap if it didn't even have a name.

Nowadays, even if the goods are rotten, they still need to be packaged.

After all, whether in ancient times or modern times, people with money care about appearance.

At the same time, based on the reactions of merchants.

He decided to price the distilled liquor at 15 taels per jar, and the name was "Shilixiang".

"Yes, Your Highness." Feng'er took the paper and went happily.

She loved to be in charge, and she was very happy to get this job.

Luan'er was a little envious, she could also play with the King of Yan openly like Feng'er.

But her gentle temperament made her unable to let go.

He was looking at Feng'er, and suddenly felt a little itchy in his ears.

It turned out that Zhao Xu was blowing in her ears.

Luan'er's face suddenly turned red with shyness.

Zhao Xu smiled and said, "Don't be envious, this king treats you and Feng'er equally."

Since Zhao Xu woke up, Luan'er has been accustomed to the King of Yan's flowery mouth.

He and Feng'er had also wondered why the King of Yan was much more frivolous than three years ago.

But there was no answer.

Zhao Xu's smile became more evil.

After being reborn, he did not hide his manly nature.

The beauty of the country is life, why should he watch two delicate beauties pretending to be Liu Xiahui.

However, just as he was about to continue teasing Luan'er, he suddenly saw Feng'er turn around and return with a panicked look.

When she arrived in front of Zhao Xu, she handed Zhao Xu a name card, "Your Highness, it's bad, someone from the Yuan family is coming."

Everyone's face changed when they heard this.