When Zhou Jingxian returned to the Princess' Mansion full of worries, she saw the housekeeper Jinzhong and a group of servants moving the potted plants she had specially moved from the wing where Mr. Ning lived to another place.
"What is this doing?"
She was a little annoyed all of a sudden.
"Mr. Ning needs these flowers and plants where he lives. If you move them away, it will affect Mr. Ning's daily rest mood!"
It’s okay if Grandpa Huang doesn’t take Mr. Ning’s conditions seriously.
Why do these slaves in her house dare to neglect Mr. Ning like this?
It’s so deceiving!
The scolded servants all looked at the butler Jin Zhong who was directing them to do things.
When the housekeeper Jinzhong saw this, he hurriedly ran up to Zhou Jingxian. Before he could speak, he touched the eyes of the most favored person now and saw the anger of Princess Xian. He quickly explained to Jiang Huo: "Princess, it is not our decision. What needs to be moved is that Ning Shixian wants to vacate that area of the garden, saying that he wants to build a shed, and later put a boiler in there and forge objects."
Forged objects?
Zhou Jingxian immediately thought of firing colored glaze.
She knew that this matter should not be publicized, but she did not expect that Mr. Ning would choose the location of the firing of colored glaze in her princess mansion and make it so secretive.
Thinking about it this way, if the matter of firing colored glaze is really controlled by the Ning family, just keeping it secret may cause unrest in the Ning family.
It seems that the conditions offered by Grandpa Huang are also very reasonable.
ah!
Really annoying!
Zhou Jingxian feels that the conditions proposed by Mr. Ning are to protect her own proper interests and should be supported.
But considering the overall situation and safety, it seems that Grandpa Huang is right.
The most important thing is that Grandpa Huang did not say what the reward was, and she didn't know how to reply to Mr. Ning.
"Why didn't the princess come to see me when she returned to the palace?"
While Zhou Jingxian was struggling, she heard Ning Wuyan's voice, which made her tremble and the red gold sword in her hand fell to the ground.
"Ning, Mr. Ning..."
Zhou Jingxian looked at Ning Wuchang with a guilty conscience.
Seeing him with Mr. Ning, holding a small and large flower pot in his hands, thinking that Mr. Ning was injured, he hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the small flower pot from his hand.
"Mr. Ning, you can leave these rough jobs to your servants to avoid stretching your buttocks again."
"It doesn't matter, this flowerpot only weighs a few kilograms."
"You have to pay attention even if you don't have a few pounds. By the way, I just sent someone to ask for a doctor, but that doctor is very famous. He went to Qiao's house for consultation first. I don't know if he is free at the moment. I will send him again soon. Go and invite someone.”
When Ning Wuyan saw Zhou Jingxian, who was always neat and tidy in doing things, and saw that he didn't talk about business first, but instead talked about other things, he had a suspicion in his heart.
It must be that the old emperor did not agree to the conditions he proposed.
In fact, this was what he expected.
After all, the model of safe wine presentation and close cooperation with the Royal Ministry of Industry has already been formed.
In the old emperor's view, although today's Liuli is not as popular as Ping'an wine, it still earns tens of millions of dollars in revenue every year.
In his opinion, this number will double with the expansion of glass craftsmanship.
It was actually unrealistic for him to snatch such a large amount of profit from the old emperor who had already tasted the benefits of the Ning family's offerings, so when he first proposed it, he never thought it would succeed.
Unless the old emperor was confused for a moment, but later discovered that the benefits of Liuli were greater than imagined and the popularity rate was higher, he would probably covet the Ning family's income, which would sooner or later bring disaster to the Ning family.
Don't say that the emperor is rich and not greedy.
Anyone who becomes an emperor needs money, and no one wants their treasury to be stretched when spending money abroad.
Just from Zhou Jingxian's gold book and gold seal, which were immediately distributed by the old emperor after a large donation, it can be seen that Daxing's treasury situation is not optimistic.
Although Ning Wuyang expected this result, he still deliberately put forward an unrealistic condition in order to remind the old emperor.
Another example is the Ping'an Wine Offering, which only rewards a few imperial wives, which means little to the Ning family.
If the old emperor doesn't show his sincerity and gives some tangible benefits, then the Ning family might be confused and do stupid things for a while.
"Princess, you seem to have something on your mind, but Your Majesty doesn't believe that I can make colored glaze. Don't you want to ask the Ministry of Works to borrow five hundred kilograms of refined iron?"
Ning Wuyang guessed the result, but didn't reveal it.
Nothing else.
During this Tai Chi match with the old emperor, Zhou Jingxian acted as a buffer.
to be honest.
He was actually taking advantage of Zhou Jingxian's trust in him, and the old emperor was also taking advantage of Zhou Jingxian's sense of responsibility for the Zhou royal family and his maintenance of the royal family.
It was not his original intention to make it difficult for Zhou Jingxian to be caught in the middle.
But without this buffer, he was allowed to negotiate terms directly with the old emperor, only talking about interests but not feelings. It lacked some human touch, and it was impossible for the old emperor to truly sympathize with the Ning family's experience.
As the old saying goes, children who cry get candy.
The Ning family's work in Jinling Mansion is too pure and kind. If they don't ask for anything, they will be criticized sooner or later.
Bargaining with the old emperor can not only obtain benefits, but also prove that the Ning family is a secular person and only seeks some small benefits, which will reassure the old emperor.
no way.
Whoever makes him like Miss Shen will definitely get close to the Shen family in the future.
In the past, in Jinling, it didn't matter if the mountains were high and the emperor was far away. The old emperor at most thought it was young men and women fooling around.
Now under the old emperor's nose, he always had to show his grievances and shortcomings, and even the city government had to dissect them in front of the old emperor so that the old emperor could figure it out.
Otherwise, the dragon's power is unpredictable, and he may be killed by the dragon guard any day he walks on the road.
Ning Wuyan stared at Zhou Jingxian with a faint look, asking her to speak clearly, so as not to hold all the words in her heart and make her suffer.
"I...forget it, I won't hide it from you anymore, Mr. Ning, Grandpa Huang didn't agree to your conditions."
As soon as Zhou Jingxian said these words.
Everyone present was silent.
Especially Qin Shi's face became a little embarrassed.
He didn't expect His Majesty to refuse, but he didn't expect His Majesty to refuse directly without even meeting Mr. Ning in person.
So... can this colored glaze be burned now?
Qin Shi was very confused and worried that Mr. Ning would not give up the method of making colored glaze if the conditions were not suitable for him.
In his opinion, the successful firing of colored glaze was more important than Mr. Ning's victory in the competition.
"well!"
Ning Wuyan was happy that his guess had been verified, but on the surface he still had to pretend to be melancholy and question Zhou Jingxian.
"Your Majesty directly rejected my conditions. Are you angry?"
"No, no!"
Zhou Jingxian was afraid that he would misunderstand Grandpa Huang as being too stingy, so she refused this condition.
After conveying Grandpa Huang's words intact, he also expressed his worries about the Ning family's current status and Liuli's high income, which would attract others to covet him.
In the end, she did not forget to turn over the most important words of Grandpa Huang.
"Grandpa Huang said that as long as the Ning family presents the recipe for firing glazed glaze, it will definitely bring better benefits to the Ning family than having the recipe for firing glazed glaze. Although Grandpa Huang didn't say what the benefit is, I believe that Grandpa Huang will give you a thousand pieces of gold. , please Mr. Ning, please take a step back for my sake!"
Zhou Jingxian cupped her fists and bowed, closing her eyes and not daring to look at Ning Wuyan's expression at this time.
