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Gou Xi thought she was acquiescing, and snorted coldly: "Chief Zhao is quite generous. Everyone knows that Zhao's army is the best in weapons. I asked you several times to buy weapons, but you didn't agree. Zu Tiyi Just buy it, he is the first outsider to buy weapons from you, right?"

You are disappointed. Zu Ti is not an outsider. How could she sell the weapons developed by Fu Tinghan and many craftsmen to outsiders?

In fact, it's not impossible, but this outsider must not be Gou Xi.

Now even three-year-old children in Yuzhou and Yanzhou know that she and Gou Xi will eventually fight. If they sell weapons to him, won't they kill themselves in the future?

Why is she so obsessed with it?

His thoughts suddenly changed, Zhao Hanzhang smiled at Gou Xi and said, "That's because he paid enough and didn't buy much, so I sold it."

"The general also knows that the weapons of our Zhao Jiajun are extremely sharp. The iron ore used must be of high quality and must be refined to make them. It costs a lot of money. Even our Zhao Jiajun cannot afford to use our weapons workshop to refine weapons. How many people, so the general wants to buy it, but the price he offered before is not good."

Zhao Hanzhang decided to quote a high price and kill him directly.

She had already thought about the price in her mind, but Gou Xi didn't even ask how much it was, leaving her to prepare it in vain.

Although they talked about many things later, all of which were important matters, testing each other, the price was always on her mind.

Until she left the General's Mansion, Gou Xi never mentioned the weapons trade again, and Zhao Hanzhang couldn't let it go.

Back at Zhao's house, she couldn't help but talk to Ming Yu, "Why didn't he mention it?"

Ming Yu poured her a cup of tea and asked her to sober up. "Wouldn't it be better if he didn't mention it? Shijun didn't want to sell it to him."

"I only said that the price is a bit high. Does the general seem to be a man who gives up in spite of difficulties? If he doesn't mention it now, he will send someone to mention it later." Zhao Hanzhang sighed and said: "I just want to finish today's matter today. Tell him to give up his idea in person. If this matter is not resolved today, I will feel unhappy."

Ming Yu smiled and said: "Why are you so impatient? Don't worry. Even if Gou Daojiang wants to buy Zhao Jiajun's weapons, he won't be able to do so for a while. When you leave Yuncheng, if they bring it up again, they will talk to Mr. Ji." Go ahead, you don’t have to worry about it.”

Zhao Hanzhang: "The general is very powerful. I thought that if he wanted to buy weapons, it would be a matter of just one sentence. The people below would do the rest."

Ming Yu shook his head and said: "It would have been possible before, because he had money. Whatever he bought was just a matter of his words, and the rest of the matter would be discussed by his subordinates and advisers. But he has no money now."

Ming Yu said: "I went to see some friends yesterday. He has spent a lot of money in the past six months. The palace has begun to restrict his spending. He can get very little money from the palace. His previous savings have been wiped out." I have spent all my money, and there are even signs of embezzlement of soldiers’ pay and food. Now I want to buy weapons from you, where does the money come from?”

"After they have figured out where to get the money and how to divide the weapons they bought, it will be difficult for him to succeed if they go back and forth and with the resistance from Mr. Ji."

Zhao Hanzhang sighed: "A penny really stumps a heroic man. The general used to be a heroic figure, but now he is tied up because of money."

Is this a thing?

Ming Yu was about to warn her with Gou Xi, when she heard her say: "So Mr. Ming, we have to make more money and save money! As long as we have enough savings, we won't be so hesitant when we want to do things in the future."

Ming Yu swallowed his words and nodded: "What you said is right, but I'm not very good at increasing revenue. I can leave this matter to Mr. Ji, but I have a lot of ideas for reducing expenditure."

Zhao Hanzhang sat up straight and leaned forward to listen, "Say."

"Your Majesty, your expenses have been a bit high these past two days. I took a look and found that you are here for a banquet. Some ministers in the court need to contact and maintain relationships. But this banquet is either expensive or good," Ming Yu said. : "You are frugal enough to yourself, but too generous to outsiders."

Zhao Hanzhang humbly asked for advice: "For example, if I invite people like Xia Houjun and Cao Fu to a banquet, how should I invite them?"

Ming Yu: "Simple, you like to drink tea. I remember that you received the tea sent from the manor in Shangcai."

Zhao Hanzhang nodded, "That's wild tea picked from the mountains. A farmer on Shangcai knew that I loved tea, so he transplanted some. Every year, Uncle Cheng asked people to fry them and bring them to me. I harvested the tinghe." Still waiting."

She felt tasteless in her mouth after only drinking boiled water. The wine was good, but drinking was a waste, and the wine was made from grain. She has ordered Yuzhou to tighten the issuance of wine-making licenses for three consecutive years, stipulating the amount of grain that can be used for wine-making every year. .

She was able to lead by example, so she didn't drink if she could.

Their Zhao family already has an alcoholic, and she, the leader, can no longer follow the alcoholic side.

In addition, she always has to work overtime and stay up late, and drinking tea can refresh her, so she drinks tea often.

Thanks to Zhao Hu’s unremitting efforts, Yuzhou now has not only salt-boiled tea, clear tea, milk tea, but also matcha.

Zhao Hanzhang could swear that she and Fu Tinghan never mentioned any other ways to drink tea other than pure tea, but it was so magical. After seeing the pure tea they brewed, Zhao Hu seemed to have opened up the Ren and Du channels at once. When we see each other again, he will be able to figure out a new way to have tea.

In his words, “Although wine is delicious, when eating wine, we can only work on the side dishes and cannot change the form. But drinking tea is different. It turns out that tea leaves can be dried, fried, pressed, boiled, or soaked. , and can also be ground into powder.”

"Since you can add salt to it, can you also add vinegar, onions, and garlic?"

Zhao Hu never came back from pondering the eighteen ways to eat tea, and Zhao Hanzhang also got a lot of credit. Her manor planted tea leaves in mountainous and dry lands that were not suitable for growing crops, and sold them to Zhao Hu and others. Not only can the businessman make money, but she is no longer short of tea.

Zhao Hanzhang: "They are all very ordinary tea leaves."

"As long as it is for your Majesty to drink, it is not ordinary tea." Ming Yu said: "You can take a small can of tea and ask the kitchen to prepare some snacks. It doesn't have to be too complicated, something like osmanthus cake will do."

"As for the tea sets, Zhao Shangshu should have a lot of glazed tea sets here given by you, right?" He said: "Choose the most gorgeous set and prepare it. When the time comes, someone will bring back some peach blossoms from the wild and put them in the vase. You can While discussing the matter, drink tea and eat snacks.”

"Don't worry, they will only praise you after leaving, and they really think you entertained them well. You spend a lot of money to invite people to a restaurant for a banquet, but they just treat it as normal, and even think that you don't value them very much. Not thoughtful."

Zhao Hanzhang glared, "I ordered so many delicious foods for them..."