sbdcsierra Chapter 399: Invitation
Chapter 399: Invitation
Friendship between women is very strange, especially among women in this era.
Once you make friends, then you'll line up seats like Little Sister.
And one thing that makes Xu Qing feel strange is, is his wife really that old?
Everywhere is a sister.
It's fine for Xiao Ruxue to call his wife elder sister, but now Long Bing'er and Li Mingyue also call his wife elder sister.
My own wife will naturally call them Little Sister.
Fortunately, only women call it that.
Men can't do it, at best they are Brother Zhang, Brother Li, Brother Xu, and Brother Xiao.
Anyway, apart from "Water Margin", he has never seen a man call each other "big brother".
There is no man who calls someone younger than him directly Little Brother.
These two titles more or less reveal an ambiguity that is unclear.
No matter how bad it is, it is absolutely impossible to call them "Big Brother Little Brother" or "Big Brother Little Brother" in Chu State.
Long Bing'er became more and more lazy, lying on the table all day long, like a lazy cat.
Every day, except for eating, I lie on my stomach.
That's it, what about the generals?
I really don't know if she will be able to hold a weapon after returning to China.
After eating, Li Mingyue went back to her room to rest. Long Binger didn't have an own room in Andingbo's mansion, so she went to the kitchen to bring a basin of crushed ice as usual, and then cheekily went to squeeze with Li Mingyue.
After Xu Qing and Su Qian returned to the bedroom, they looked at Su Qian who was empty-handed and said, "Didn't the lady take the glass?"
Su Qian shook her head and said, "The last one is for Xuan'er, and I don't like those."
Xu Qing nodded with a not wanting face and said: "That's right, I definitely like being a husband more than Lady Liuli."
Just when Su Qian blushed and stretched out her hand to hit the poor-mouthed husband, Xu Qing suddenly thought of something and opened the door and went out, "Lady, wait a while for your husband, go get something for your husband."
Not long after, Xu Qing came back with a small box in her arms.
Then Xu Qing opened the box and found a pair of colored glaze rings with exactly the same shape, only the difference in color, one glazed accessory is cyan, and the other glazed accessory is transparent and colorless.
The workmanship and carving of this pair of pendants are more exquisite than those glazed objects just now.
Xu Qing put the colorless pendant on Su Qian's waist. The colorless and translucent pendant looked white to outsiders against the contrast of Su Qian's white dress. As for the blue pendant, Xu Qing wore it on Su Qian's waist. own waist.
In the state of Chu, although the ring pendant worn by women is the same as that worn by men, they are called differently. Men can call it jade pendant, but women wear it as a ban.
Stepping is also something that women use to regulate their own behavior. If the rhythm of the adornment is scattered, the woman realizes that her behavior and walking posture are a little out of order, and she can adjust it immediately.
But now there are two ornaments on Su Qian's waist, one is a glass pendant from Xu Qing, and the other is a white jade pendant from Xiao Ruxue.
Su Qian smiled and said: "The woman next to me only wears one ring to stop walking, but the concubine wears two rings at the same time, which is a bit out of etiquette."
Xu Qing looked at Su Qian innocently: "The lady won't have the heart to take off the adornment given to her by her husband and wear the jade pendant from Xue'er, right?"
Su Qian gave Xu Qing a helpless look, then took off the mutton fat jade pendant Xiao Ruxue gave her and put it away, leaving only a glazed pendant around her waist: "Is your husband satisfied now?"
Satisfied, Xu Qing took out the blue pendant and put it on her waist.
Just now, when Su Qian was hesitant, he was ready to bring up the question of who should save first when he and Xiao Ruxue fell into the water at the same time.
Unexpectedly, the lady took off Xiao Ruxue's jade pendant without hesitation at all, so that she couldn't even ask if she wanted to.
Sure enough, the lady still loves own.
At noon, after Xu Qing slept soundly with Su Qian in her arms, she went to the study to draw up invitations.
There are many people to be invited to this colored glaze exhibition, and protective measures must be taken well, otherwise it will be a big loss if one of these colored glazes is stolen.
Today's colored glaze is like the banknotes currently circulating in the Central Plains.
The manufacturing cost is very cheap, but it cannot be manufactured casually just because the manufacturing cost is cheap.
Once there are more colored glazes, their value will drop rapidly.
After drawing up the invitations, Xu Qing ordered them to be handed over to the Emperor Chu, who then distributed them through the court.
Another part of the invitations flowed into the hands of wealthy private businessmen under the arrangement of Xu Qing.
Of course, it's not a free gift, but the price will be raised first, and the one with the highest price will get it in the end.
three days later
Residence of Envoys of the State of Zhou
Vice-envoy Zhou Guo looked at the invitation card in his hand, and it clearly read: Great Chu had a lot of disasters last year, the treasury was empty, and it was impossible to make ends meet. His Majesty is deeply saddened to part with it, and will take out all the colored glaze hidden by the royal family to hold an exhibition. At that time, the price of colored glaze will be displayed. The highest one wins, and all the silver he gets goes to the national treasury, which is used to relieve disasters and help the poor, and benefit the people.
Seeing this, Zhou Guo's deputy envoy smiled and said, "Okay, the state treasury of Chu State is so empty that it needs to pawn the royal family's treasures. Hahaha, God bless me! God bless me!"
Deputy envoy Zhou Guo has been in a bad mood for the past few days. The concubine princes he had never looked down on had already climbed onto his head. Let this concubine prince take up the righteousness.
What's even more damning is that even though he was suppressed by this concubine prince on the surface, he was able to deal with the tricks behind the scenes with ease.
After several secret operations, not only did they get nothing, but they also lost troops and generals.
It really annoyed him to the extreme.
The envoy surnamed Wang at the side said cautiously: "My lord deputy, if the colored glaze exhibition is held in Chu State, if they sell the colored glaze, won't their treasury be full? Why does your lord deputy say it's good news?"
Deputy Zhou Guo said with a smile: "Liu Li has been a rare thing since ancient times. How much Liu Li can the royal family save? If he doubled the state of Chu, it would be 600,000 taels."
"Even if 600,000 taels of silver are collected, Chu State still needs to keep a part of the silver to maintain the court. How many soldiers and horses can the remaining silver mobilize? At that time, I will have an army of one million (million is an imaginary number, purely expressing momentum) ), this envoy would like to see how long the state of Chu can resist with these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. State of Chu? From now on, I am afraid that he is only worthy of bowing his head to my state of Zhou!"
Xianwang Mansion
Chu Huang said: "Brother Emperor, all the invitations have been sent out, and the quantity of colored glaze that Xu Qing has produced is very large. It is estimated that it can sell at least 600,000 taels or even more."
The virtuous king laughed and said: "As long as there are these five hundred thousand taels, the military salary will be enough. At that time, the king can do whatever he wants. The little Zhou country dares to bark and bark in front of our Chu country. It's really life and death! This time we send troops , as long as Zhao Guo does not intervene, this king will be able to take down his two cities of Zhou State!"