They didn't know at this time that the Jinnan Palace was not only building a cement road from Weishan Mountain to Qinxian County, but also the entire southern barbarian transportation artery.
Until a recruitment notice was posted at several market entrances in Qin County with relatively large flow of people. The notice said that the Jinnan Palace wanted to build an ocean-going merchant ship, and those who were good at swimming would be given priority. I immediately understood:
No wonder King Jinnan is in Qin County because he wants to form a caravan to go to sea.
Not to mention, the treatment offered by the palace was quite attractive, and for a while, people signed up very enthusiastically.
However, not everyone who can swim will be admitted after signing up. They will also have to live on the ship for a period of time to see if they can adapt to life on the ship.
At the same time, members of the Yanzi Team will secretly observe the characters and morals of the applicants. The final recruitment list will be announced after the on-board assessment.
This news spread back to the capital as the officers escorting the exiled prisoners returned to the capital.
"Tsk! What does my good second brother want to do? Is it possible for me to become a lowly businessman if I leave the noble prince alone?"
After Yan Keheng heard about it, the breath coming out of his nose was full of contempt.
The princess was a little confused and uneasy.
The direction of Jinnan Palace is very different from that in the previous life.
In the previous life, after Yan Kejin arrived in the southern barbarian fiefdom, he contracted the miasma and stayed in bed for several years. He never left the capital of Baigui County until his death, let alone formed a caravan to go to sea.
There is also Miss Xu Si who ran back as soon as she left the capital in her previous life. In this life, she has not escaped from marriage for a long time.
If she didn't run away from the marriage, how could the Holy Father use her hair to marry Xu Bainian?
If Xu Bainian does not fall, how can he help the people in the prince's camp to become prime ministers?
At present, there are still too few people in the Prince's faction...
The princess paced back and forth, feeling confused and uneasy.
She thought that after rebirth, everything would be under her control.
It was true at first, but why has it changed in the past two years? What went wrong?
"Sir, I don't think King Jinnan is a man willing to engage in business. Is there any other intention behind doing this?"
"You know again?" Yan Kejin lazily raised his eyelids, "Then Princess, tell me, what is the intention of my good second brother?"
"Sir, you may not have noticed that you are busy with official duties. When I was shopping on the street, I found that the variety of products from Nanman was increasing day by day, especially the new soy sauce, which is delicious and affordable, and is very popular among the people. I sent someone to check it out. However, there was the shadow of King Jinnan's Mansion behind him. I guessed that King Jinnan might want to use this method to make his father pay attention to him.
You know how poor the Southern Barbarians used to be, but within two years of King Jinnan's departure, the people there have lived a life of prosperity that is no different from that of the Central Plains. What will your father think after knowing this? Do you think that King Jinnan has outstanding abilities and is worthy of a big job? By then..."
"Bah!" Yan Keheng crushed the tea cup, and the Crown Princess's words really touched his heart.
The old man himself has no ability and enjoys the wealth built by his ancestors, but he looks forward to the future success of his descendants and the foundation of the Yan family for generations to come.
Once the old man found out that the second son was making all sorts of noises and was in trouble in Nanman, he would be summoned back to the capital if he could not protect him.
The prince will not be replaced immediately, but he will definitely be reused. If this happens, why won’t the people below follow suit again?
"That second guy! He knows how to win people's hearts all day long!"
He gritted his teeth and almost squeezed out these words from the roots of his teeth.
"But don't you think this method is really effective?"
"Then in the opinion of the Crown Princess, how about being alone?"
"The news about the Nanman must be hidden from the emperor. Also..." The princess approached the prince and Fu Er came up with an idea.
"This...doesn't it mean that the second child has gained military power?" Yan Keheng felt that it was inappropriate.
"This is only temporary. As long as he can't return to the capital and is stationed in the poor northern Xinjiang, what's the use of the little military power he holds? Wait until I ascend to the throne and inherit the rule, then take back the military power and find any excuse to lose it. Isn’t he done?”
Yan Keheng narrowed his slender eyebrows and sneered, as if he had been persuaded.
…
Xu Yin and Yan Kejin stayed in Qin County for three months.
It took half a month to recruit and select crew members who met the requirements. Yan Kejin personally went into battle and led them to conduct training on shipboard operations.
In name, they were dealing with pirates, but Yan Kejin did not forget to increase the intensity of training, striving to train them to the point where they could go into battle to kill the enemy at any time if a foreign enemy invaded Yanhua through the coastline one day.
During this period, Xu Yin went to the sugar shop run by Dongxue. In addition to brown sugar and white sugar, she also taught Dongxue how to make rock sugar.
In the new year, two new products, white crystal rock sugar and earth rock sugar, have been added to the sugar shop.
I learned that there are a lot of wild hawthorn fruits growing wild in the mountains of Qindong. Because the taste is too sour, even if they are picked, they are dried and sold to medicine gardens for use in medicine.
Xu Yin had an idea and taught Dongxue how to make candied haws.
However, the temperature in Nanman is high, with temperatures reaching ten degrees in the coldest month, and the Qinbei area is even warmer. The candied haws cannot be stored for long, so the owner of the sugar shop is asked to select a few clever guys to bring the candies and hawthorns. Go to the Central Plains or even the North to open a small sugar shop. In addition to selling sugar, you can also sell freshly made candied haws.
This is a designated business. If you don’t have enough sugar and hawthorns, you can send them through the escort agency when delivering goods. Hawthorns can also be purchased locally.
The local people must be happy to earn a few kilograms of wild fruits for a penny.
In addition to hawthorn, kumquats, orange pulp and other fruits can also be used to make it. It depends on what fruits are produced locally.
It doesn't matter if the production skills are stolen and learned by others. After all, the key raw material - sugar, is in our own hands. If there is a price war, others will definitely lose first.
Besides, after occupying the market, as long as the craftsmanship does not deteriorate and the varieties are constantly updated, why worry about losing business? She doesn't intend to have a monopoly.
Ever since the Crown Princess learned that canned fruits and soy sauce were produced in workshops owned by Jinnan Palace, she has been secretly sending people to pay attention to Jinnan Palace.
Now that I know that King Jinnan is still recruiting soldiers and horses to form a caravan to go to sea, I pay special attention to all information related to the Nanman.
On this day, she went to the street to check out the shop under her name, and suddenly found that there was a sugar shop on the street. When she passed by, a sweet fragrance that made people want to stop and taste lingered on the tip of her nose.
"What does this shop sell?"
She asked the people below to inquire.
When the servant came back, he said that he was a candy seller, specializing in snowflake white, ruby red, white crystal rock candy and citrine rock candy produced in Nanman. He also had a new product called fruit candied haws, which was especially popular with children.
Upon hearing that the Nanman people opened a shop here to sell sugar, the Princess Shop stopped patrolling the shop. She frowned and immediately ordered:
"Go! Find out who the master behind the sugar shop is. If it's irrelevant, find some excuse to evict him! All the shops on this street that are idle will be bought. From now on, anything from the Southern Barbarians will not be allowed here. For sale on the street.”
This street is the commercial street closest to the palace. The emperor would come here to walk and look around when he left the palace on a whim, but he must not be allowed to hear or see anything related to the Nanman.
