"Your Highness, Ma San has returned to Kunyang from Youzhou and is outside asking to see Your Highness."
A young eunuch stood outside the study door, asking in a low voice.
But after Li Ke heard what the other party said, the expression of surprise on his face became even greater, and he quickly shouted: "Let Ma San in quickly!"
A month ago, after producing a large batch of soap, Ma San informed Li Ke that he was going to take this batch of soap to sell near Youzhou to see the market response.
Youzhou is the largest state capital in the land of Yanyun. With more than 400,000 residents, it is considered one of the most important towns in the northern part of the Wei Dynasty.
As soon as Ma San proposed the idea, Li Ke immediately agreed.
Sure enough, half a month ago, Ma San heard news from Youzhou that the soap was sold out in Youzhou, and urged Li Ke to send another batch to sell quickly.
After that, Li Ke forgot about Ma San because he was busy with other things, and just told the soap workshop that as long as Ma San needed it, he would immediately deliver the goods.
Unexpectedly, a month has passed in a flash. Li Ke just wanted to ask Ma San how much money he made this time and how popular the soap was in Youzhou.
Just as Li Ke was thinking about it, Ma San had already entered, and then knelt down directly in front of Li Ke: "Ma San pays homage to His Highness!"
Li Ke quickly asked the other party to get up, and then he couldn't wait to ask: "Ma San, what are you doing with Youzhou and the others? Do you still remember that you promised Gu that you would give Gu a thousand taels of silver every month?" .”
When Ma San heard this, there was no trace of nervousness on his face. On the contrary, he became more and more excited. Then he said quickly: "Of course I don't dare to forget the promise. Return to Your Highness. This time, I came back specially to give you money."
As he spoke, Ma San clapped his hands, and then a dozen young men who looked like gangsters walked in from the outside carrying two large wooden boxes.
The wooden box was placed directly in the center of Li Ke's study. Then Ma Sanyi waved his hand, and the two guys immediately opened the lid of the wooden box.
Suddenly, a vast white color came into the eyes of everyone present.
"This...what?" Seeing the contents of the box, Li Ke was stunned for a moment subconsciously, and then the entire expression on his face was replaced by shock.
Because Li Ke suddenly saw that the two large wooden boxes were filled with white silver ingots.
When Qi Rushong and Su Xun on the side saw this scene, they immediately stood up from their seats and looked at the silver in disbelief.
"Isn't this... I'm afraid it has to be four to five thousand taels of silver?" Su Xun muttered in astonishment.
"Sir, it's exactly five thousand taels!" Ma San responded with a smile.
Su Xun's scalp was almost numb, and he asked in a distorted voice: "You... you made all this from selling soap? You made so much in one month?"
Ma San still nodded: "Sir, it is indeed a villain who earns money from selling soap, and he earns it in a month."
Su Xun was speechless, and Li Ke on the side didn't know what to say.
In fact, he thought about making money selling soap, but he didn't expect to make so much money.
Isn't this just like robbing money?
Earning 5,000 taels in a month, 60,000 taels in a year?
Then wouldn’t he have made a fortune?
Just as Li Ke was thinking about it, he heard Ma San continue: "Your Highness, in fact, these are not all the income. The villain learned that Your Highness wanted to purchase grain, so he directly purchased 100,000 kilograms of grain from Youzhou."
Then he knelt down directly and said: "Your Highness, please punish the villain for misusing silver."
Hearing Ma San's words, Li Ke grinned almost to his ears.
This guy not only brought back five thousand taels of silver for himself, he even bought one hundred thousand catties of grain?
These are things that I urgently need now. Are you going to punish him? It's too late for me to reward him now.
And through this incident, Li Ke also discovered that this Ma San was very smart, even extremely smart.
You must know that you never told him that you wanted to buy grain, but he still knew it, and he dared to buy one hundred thousand catties in one go.
This shows that this guy is not simple, he really didn’t make a mistake at the beginning!
Li Ke hurriedly helped Ma San up from the ground, patted him on the shoulder and laughed: "Punish you? What are you guilty of? Not only did you earn so much money for Gu, you were also keenly aware of what Gu was doing. Not only are you innocent, I will even reward you greatly."
"Tell me what reward you want!" Li Ke said generously, "As long as I have it, as long as it's not excessive, I can immediately agree to it!"
However, Ma San just smiled slightly, then shook his head and said: "Go back to Your Highness, Ma San does not want any reward."
Li Ke was stunned: "Are you being reserved? Or do you want a big reward and dare not speak?"
Ma San still shook his head: "No, the villain really doesn't want any reward."
After a pause, he smiled and said: "Your Highness, to be honest, the reason why I was willing to work for Your Highness was never for any reward. I just wanted a chance to prove myself."
"And now His Highness has given me this opportunity. In my opinion, it is already better than any reward."
Ma San's words really surprised Li Ke.
He does things for himself and just wants a chance to prove himself?
Li Ke obviously didn't fully understand the meaning of Ma San's words, and when he was about to continue asking Ma San, he saw that the other party had already bowed to him again: "Your Highness, the silver has been brought back, and the villain has resigned."
After saying that, Ma San slowly retreated.
Li Ke could see that Ma San didn't want him to ask too much about him.
That being the case, since they didn't want to talk about it, Li Ke stopped asking further.
Soon, the day passed.
On this day, Li Ke first ordered Su Xun to gather the carpenters in the city and build a large number of carriages and horse plows.
Then he summoned Ma San again to discuss the idea of subsequent sales of soap.
According to Ma San's idea, simply open a store specializing in soap sales in the Yanyun Prefecture. As long as Kunyang continues to produce and transport, the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture will be able to easily digest these soaps. .
Even, the soap can be sold to further places in the future...
Immediately afterwards, the people sent by Su Xun to survey the coal mine also came back, and this time, they brought back good news to Li Ke.
