When he opened it, he found a gold bracelet inlaid with turquoise stones.
Deng Zhiqiu's eyes lit up: "Ah, so beautiful."
She took it out and put it on her hand, and asked Zhu Ping, "Does it look good?"
The bracelet was exquisitely crafted, made of sunshine-like pure gold and turquoise blue, which made Deng Zhiqiu's wrists even more white and slender.
Zhu Xi nodded sincerely: "It looks good."
Seeing that Deng Zhiqiu was so happy, Zhu Fang was in a good mood and said to the porter: "Then bring the Xifan man in and see what he wants to do."
The concierge was busy going out to fetch someone.
Deng Zhiqiu walked to the inner room to avoid it.
The waiter in Xifan wore a Chu-colored cotton robe common among Tibetans, and also had a turquoise and gold-buckled belt around his waist.
Zhu Cang thought to himself: I heard that Xifan produces gold and precious stones, and sure enough, even the waiters are wearing gold and jade.
The waiter came up and saluted and said: "Your Highness, this villain is here to do business with your Highness on the orders of several tribal leaders."
The old troops of the Yuan Dynasty are hidden in the Saibei grassland and cannot make any waves for the time being. However, if Yunnan, Xifan, and Saibei unite, the western and northern parts of the Ming Dynasty will be in danger.
That's why Lao Zhu asked Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan and Zhu Di, the three most skilled princes in the Ming Dynasty, to station in Shaanxi and Hebei respectively, keeping an eye on Xifan and Saibei.
Xifan seemed to be submissive to the Ming Dynasty, but in fact he had been secretly in contact with the old Yuan Dynasty.
Seeing the end of autumn and the winter solstice, I guess it was Wang Baobao and the others who were out of food, so they called Xifan to come and do some activities.
Zhu Xi remained calm and asked calmly: "Oh, what business?"
The envoy said: "We want to buy tea from His Highness."
For pigeons who mainly eat meat, they rely on tea to relieve fatigue and digestion. "If you don't have tea, you will be sick."
Tea is a necessity of life, but Xifan has always relied on the supply of tea from the Central Plains. Because Xifan produced BMWs, and the court needed horses for war and transportation, all dynasties and generations traded tea for horses to solve the needs of both parties. In order to ensure that less tea could be exchanged for more and better war horses, border officials The tea trade was tightly controlled.
In order to obtain more war horses, Lao Zhu also wanted to "restrict the border tea to control it" and "use tea to control the outside world".
Official tea is very expensive and the quantity is strictly limited.
Xifan thought it was not worth it.
When buying tea from other private tea sellers, the quality is not guaranteed and the risks are high.
Those who traded in these two days were caught and killed in two days.
So they came to find Zhu Ping.
Because Zhu Feng is Lao Zhu's son and the vassal king here.
And there is also a younger brother Zhu Bai who is engaged in officialdom.
Zhu Xi shook his head: "It's useless for me to ask for so many horses."
He has a limited number of his own soldiers, how many horses can he use?
It will not be a cheap health center at that time.
The messenger smiled: "We don't need to exchange horses for tea with His Highness."
After waving to him, the person accompanying him opened the small box he brought with him. It was full of gold and gems, and the gold was very dazzling.
Their calculations are very precise, raising horses is time-consuming and laborious, and the price is not fixed.
Besides, the more horses the Ming Dynasty had, the stronger their fighting power was, and the more they suppressed Xifan.
In exchange for gold and precious stones, it is most suitable for them.
Deng Zhiqiu coughed slightly inside.
Zhu Xi knew she liked these.
Thinking about it, although I have the Sui Lu Grange, it is just enough to support such a large palace and support the soldiers.
If this road could be opened, Deng Zhiqiu would not have to hesitate to buy anything he wanted to buy in the future.
Zhu Xi said calmly: "I, the king, will think about it."
The envoy said: "We are all here, so why not make a deal first? Come back next time, and your Highness will tell us the results of our consideration."
Zhu Xi frowned: "The tea leaves I keep here are only enough for the people in the mansion. That's only forty or fifty tubes and three hundred cakes."
The envoy said: "That's enough. That's enough. We should have come to see His Highness a long time ago, but now we can bring tea with us, which is already good."
Zhu Xi thought for a while: It seems that I have not suffered a loss either.
Let’s talk about whether we want to trade with them next time or not.
Zhu Xi asked the butler to take out the tea leaves.
The envoy collected the tea leaves and was about to leave, then turned back and saluted Zhu Ping: "Your Highness, could you please write me a guide. Otherwise, I won't be able to get out."
The feudal king has this privilege. As long as people do not leave the vassal country, there is no need to report the transportation of things in and out, and local officials cannot control it.
Zhu Fang narrowed his eyes and stared at him: You bastard, you are waiting for me here.
It turns out that you want something more than tea to honor me.
If you put some weapons or something in the tea leaves, wouldn't I hand the knife into the enemy's hand?
This king is not that stupid.
He lowered his face and said: "I can't open this. Leave the tea and take your things away. Guard."
When the guards of the palace heard this, they immediately came up to drive them away.
The messenger hurriedly said: "No. No. If His Highness finds it troublesome, forget it. We will find a way ourselves."
Then he didn't dare to say anything, took the tea and left.
After leaving the palace, the envoy looked back and said: It is said that this King of Qin looks careless, but in fact he is both greedy, treacherous and cruel.
After a short negotiation today, he felt that the rumors were true.
As soon as Deng Zhiqiu and others left, he couldn't wait to come out of the next room, looked at the box of gold jewelry again and again, and said with a smile: "This gold is so profitable. Forty or fifty tubes."
Zhu Ping said: "Although this gold is easy to earn, you cannot earn more. They have taken too much tea from me, so they are unwilling to exchange horses for official tea."
Deng Zhiqiu blinked: "I don't understand. With gold, isn't it easy to get a horse? Just buy it with gold."
Zhu Ming sighed: "You think too simply. When you want to buy war horses from them, they will have the final say. Then they will raise the price. Compared with asking us to exchange tea for war horses now, we will lose more." It is much bigger. If they refused to sell it at that time, then Ming Dynasty would have no war horses and it would become meat on the chopping block in the war. So we must not miss the big deal by coveting the small profit in front of us. "
Deng Zhiqiu herself is also the daughter of a military commander, so she naturally understands the pros and cons.
If the horse is not good enough, it cannot catch up when attacking and cannot escape when fleeing. I don’t know how many Ming soldiers will be killed in vain.
She nodded hurriedly: "Then change it once and ignore them again."
Zhu Ming held Deng Zhiqiu in his arms: "My Zhiqiu is quite reasonable."
Hongyuan didn't know when he came, but he actually heard the whole process. He clasped his hands at Zhu Xi and said, "Your Highness, there are three things that cannot be earned: wealth from national disasters, profits from natural disasters, and food for the poor and weak. Your Highness, please don't be confused."
Zhu Xi rolled his eyes: "I know, you old monk is really verbose."
Hongyuan: "Your Highness, quickly chase those people back and get rid of these yellow and white things."
Zhu Xi waved to others: "Pull him down quickly, don't let him hang around in front of my eyes."
