General Li sweated more on his forehead: "I don't dare, I'm just a little girl who is not suitable for doing business. She is a widow and is not suitable for being exposed like this."
Feng Qingge asked: "What does General Li think Mengxue is suitable for?"
"This...women shouldn't work at home and respect their parents."
"General Li, does he know how much money Li Mengxue can earn for me every day?"
"It's hard for me to say. I heard that Qingfeng Building is not profitable, but Qingfeng Building has been open for almost a year. I think Qingfeng Building has always been a prosperous business. It is not what outsiders say." General Li answered truthfully.
"Well, that's right. If I don't make money when I open my door to do business, I will definitely not open it any bigger. I basically account for more than half of the entire street's business." Feng Qingge nodded.
"I think I should be able to earn a thousand taels this day." General Li boldly speculated.
"One thousand taels? From Qingfeng Tower alone, Li Mengxue can earn me 20,000 taels of silver in one day. Including other businesses, it will be as much as 150,000 taels of silver. This number is only a lot more, not counting other industries. , only counting the properties under Mengxue’s jurisdiction, it would cost us forty-five thousand taels per day to pay taxes for Zhongzhou.”
"Forty-five thousand taels?" General Li was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect so much tax money to be paid.
"Now, General Li, do you still think that Mengxue is just trying to imitate others?"
General Li was silent. He never expected that his daughter could make such achievements in business.
"General Li, according to the laws of Zhongzhou, women cannot serve as officials in the court or fight in the army. It does not say that women cannot engage in business. Shouldn't your parents be proud of your wife's behavior in business? Besides, Li General, your wife is actually in my Qingfeng Building and has been the shopkeeper for almost a year. Is General Li going to come to visit you now?"
"To be honest, I am not against my daughter doing this. It's just..."
Hearing that General Li had not finished the second half of his words, Feng Qingge said, "General Li, who asked you to come to Qingfeng Tower?"
General Li's old face turned red: "Actually, my daughter is doing business with the Crown Princess. I don't know about it. I always wanted to turn a blind eye and just fooled her. Who knew that today I would receive a secret letter with such words?" There are also occasional threats. They want me to come to Qingfeng Tower to ask for someone. I am also a face-saving person. If this matter about the little girl must be known to everyone, it will be even more difficult for the little girl to marry again in the future. .
Feng Qingge said: "Why did General Li say this? If the general is afraid of something, how about I help General Li ask for grace and let General Li's daughter become a model for women in the world?"
After hearing this, General Li was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Prince!"
"Dad, please go back." Li Mengxue pushed open the door and entered.
General Li looked at Li Mengxue and said helplessly: "It's been so long and you don't even know how to go home. Do you blame dad?"
When Li Mengxue heard what General Li said, she was immediately moved and said: "Dad, there is no daughter."
Feng Qingge looked at Li Mengxue and his daughter, feeling a little sour in her heart.
It seems that she has more than one penny in Feng Nantian's heart since she was a child.
She can only envy other people's loving fathers and filial sons.
Waiting to see off General Li, Feng Qingge immediately told Qingshu: "Find out the person who sent the secret letter to General Li!"
"yes!"
After finishing all this, Feng Qingge, still thinking about the favor she had promised General Li, prepared to enter the palace.
She had a special status, and not long after entering the palace, Emperor Song Ming expressed his willingness to see her.
This was her second time meeting Emperor Song Ming alone before she was crowned Crown Princess.
When she crossed the threshold of the imperial study, Feng Qingge still felt a little uneasy. She looked at Emperor Song Ming and immediately saluted, "Father."
Emperor Song Ming glanced at Feng Qingge casually and said, "I heard that you and Rong'er are having a quarrel?"
Feng Qingge immediately said: "I don't dare, but the business in Beijing cannot be done without me, so I don't dare to have any conflict with the third prince."
Sure enough, her every move was under the surveillance of Emperor Song Ming.
Although Emperor Song Ming knew about her marriage better than anyone else, it was just a relationship between the monarch and his ministers.
But Feng Qingge knew better that the emperor's heart was unpredictable. Who knew whether Emperor Song Ming would change his mind later.
"Why, you said you wanted to see me for something, but what do you mean?"
"I would like to ask for grace for the women in the world." Feng Qingge lowered her head.
"What kind of grace? Tell me about it."
"I hope that my father can encourage women all over the world to do business, so I specifically asked my father to give me a plaque for Li Mengxue, the daughter of General Li."
"Give her a memorial arch for a chaste and martyr woman over there." Emperor Song Ming said nonchalantly.
"No! My father, I hope that my father can give me a plaque as a model for the world!" This time Feng Qingge raised her head and looked directly into Emperor Song Ming's eyes.
Emperor Song Ming really didn't expect that Feng Qingge in front of him would dare to bargain with him.
This is obviously not the temperament of an ordinary woman.
In fact, Emperor Song Ming said that he was giving Feng Qingge protection so that the feudal king would not dare to understand her openly. In fact, he had selfish motives in letting Song Jingrong marry Feng Qingge.
Whether it is the financial resources behind the Liu family or Tianji Pavilion, they will be Song Jingrong's powerful arms.
If he handed over such a woman to others, Emperor Song Ming could not imagine the consequences.
"Are you asking me to encourage women to do business?" Emperor Song Ming asked.
"Yes, Father, I feel that the women of Zhongzhou have been restrained for a long time. If we encourage women to do business, it will not only drive business, but also make all the women of Zhongzhou grateful to my father."
"If you ask me to encourage women all over the world to do business, aren't you afraid that those Confucian scholars will drown me in spittle?" Emperor Ming of Song Dynasty sneered.
"Father, I feel that my father is not a person who follows the rules. If so, he would not have chosen me as the crown princess. Since my father has chosen a businesswoman as his daughter-in-law, it is even more important that he should be given to all the women in the world. Go into business and rectify your name, otherwise, it would be better to abolish Erchen as the crown princess."
"Are you threatening me?"
"I don't dare. I just want to use actions to prove that my father's vision is correct. What do you think, father?"
Unexpectedly, after listening to Feng Qingge's words, Emperor Song Ming smiled instead of being angry: "Okay, okay, then I will fulfill this grace -" He turned to the eunuch beside him and said: "Take the pen Come."
The eunuch took the pen and waved it with a big stroke: "A model for women in the world" and stamped a jade seal next to it.
When Feng Qingge saw this, she was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, father."
It was already late at night when Feng Qingge returned to the East Palace with the pen and ink given by the emperor.
As soon as she walked into her villa, she saw Song Jingrong waiting for her.
Song Jingrong looked at Feng Qingge and said in surprise, "You are back."
"Yes, Your Highness, Third Prince." Feng Qingge nodded calmly.
