Chapter 661: Blood
Xia Zihan's expression changed, "What, you gave him two hundred thousand taels of silver for free."
God, her heart was bleeding.
Before, she had worked hard to buy food for him for more than a year, but she could not earn 200,000 taels of silver from him. Qi Mei gave away the 200,000 taels of silver they had earned with just one word. The two pieces of silver were given to the evil wolf in vain.
Ouch, I feel so bad for her
Qi Mei saw that her master looked wrong and said hurriedly, "Princess, the emperor has said that all our shops will be tax-free for five years. The official documents have come down and are in Qi Lan's hands."
Five years of tax revenue, based on the total income from their dozens of shops, is more than two hundred thousand taels of silver, so they still make a profit, and it sounds good in name.
She had already settled this matter, and they had done well.
"He lied to you." Xia Zihan said heartily, "He promised me in private that he would give me tax exemption for five years." However, the official document had to wait until the Japanese conquered the country.
The fact that she helped the emperor raise food was a secret. In order to thank her, the emperor wanted to give her shop, Zhuangzi, a five-year tax exemption, which could be considered a favor to her.
But this tax exemption cannot be waived casually even by the emperor. He has to find an upright reason.
The emperor promised her that after Chu Xuanyu and Chu Jingqi conquered the Japanese country, he would find a legitimate reason to reward her.
At that time, her shop Zhuangzi will be tax-free for five years.
Qi Mei was completely stunned when she heard this, "Why didn't I know when it happened?"
"It's my fault. I didn't mention it to you before the official document came out." Xia Zihan said very depressed.
Two hundred thousand taels of silver were lost in vain.
Two hundred thousand taels of silver is not a small amount.
She only earned two or three two hundred thousand taels a year, and she was defrauded of half of it in one fell swoop. Moreover, her business was bleak now, and she didn't know when she would be able to earn back the two hundred thousand taels.
Xia Zihan thought for a while, then made a decision and said, "Qi Mei, let's buy another batch of medium-sized gemstones. Before the end of the year, we will make a batch of medium-sized jewelry to sell, and we will start the business of the shop first."< br>
Since high-quality jewelry and clothes cannot be sold, they must downgrade the goods in their shop before the storm clears. Otherwise, the business in the shop will be over this year.
Next year, we still don’t know what tricks the sinister wolf will come up with to punish his people.
She looked at it, it must be the dark wolf who secretly spent all his money to buy food in the past two years, so he tried every means to raise money.
Huh, to put it nicely, it was to reorganize the Japanese country. Maybe he had already turned the money into his own private money.
If not all, half of it was transferred by him.
Xia Zihan thought hard.
What she didn't expect was that her guess was accurate.
In the past two years, the emperor gave all the private money he could get to Xia Zihan and asked her to raise food for him.
The treasury was already empty because of the wars in the past years.
Only then did the emperor rack his brains and work hard, not only filling several treasuries, but also filling his own wallet.
Of course, what the emperor didn't expect was that because of his money-making scheme, the business in Xia Zihan's shop was so cold that even a fly was unwilling to fly in, and Xia Zihan completely hated him.
Two years later, Dasheng ushered in a drought that was rare in a thousand years. In the entire south, the earth felt like it was being baked by a furnace. The fields were so parched that a person could fall into them. There was no harvest in the fields. It was difficult for people to even drink water, and many people died of thirst and starvation.
The emperor sent all his private grain to the south, but it was not enough. Xia Zihan took the opportunity to sell all the grain she had accumulated for several years to the emperor. Of course, it was sold at a uniquely high price.
The treasury did not have enough money to pay, so Xia Zihan asked the emperor to sign an IOU.
This is a later story...
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Taking advantage of these three days, Xia Zihan and Qi Mei went to Gemstone Street to buy a large number of medium-sized gems, spending two hundred thousand taels of silver. Of course, all the money was paid by Chu Jingqi.
Chu Fei arrived at Sun City on the afternoon of the second day.
After seeing Xia Zihan, Chu Fei's eyes turned red, "Master, I thought...I thought you were in the snowy mountains and would never come out again, wuwu..."
She, who has always been cold-faced and cold-tempered, unexpectedly threw herself into Xia Zihan's arms with excitement, tears streaming down her face, and burst into tears, "I've been waiting for you at the foot of the mountain for many days. I'm thinking, wait." If you don’t come out after August, I will go into the snowy mountains to look for you.”
At the end of August, on the day she was about to enter the snow-capped mountains, a man came and gave her a letter.
After seeing Ma Bao's letter, she realized that her master and the prince had left the mountain a long time ago, but they were lost and took a sidetrack.
"Master, we have agreed that from now on, you will take your slave with you wherever you go, but you cannot leave your slave alone again," she said twitchingly.
Xia Zihan stroked her waist-length black hair and agreed, "Okay, I will take you with me wherever I go from now on. But, Chu Fei, you will get married sooner or later, right? Silk grass, vanilla and warm jade are all Married, it’s your turn next.”
"If you don't marry, this slave will not marry for the rest of your life. You will just follow and serve your master." Chu Fei said.
That's not certain.
I remember that at the beginning, Qi Mei and Qi Lan also kept saying that they would not marry. In the end, after they met the destined person, didn't they get married obediently?
Because they bought another batch of goods and needed to be counted, repacked, and repacked, Xia Zihan and Chu Jingqi postponed their departure for two days.
Xia Zihan said, "If we don't go, it will be difficult to walk on the snowy road. Besides, the closer the New Year is, the more unsafe the road from the northwest to the capital will be. There are many bandits, so we'd better start early."
Qi Mei said, "Then I will go to the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau tomorrow. There is a lot of goods this time, so we will hire more escorts."
"It doesn't take too much. Thirty people are enough." With just ten cars and thirty escorts, we can also drive them.
If she didn't want to use the name of Zhenyuan Escort Bureau to fight off the endless bandits on the road so as not to waste time on the road, she wouldn't want to go on the road with a group of strangers.
With thirty secret guards around Chu Jingqi, the goods can be safely escorted back to Beijing.
"Thirty people are too few. I need 200 people anyway. I have a few people around me. Master, please take them with me." Qi Mei looked worried.
"That's enough. There are secret guards around Aqi, as well as a few of us. Don't worry, nothing will happen."
Qi Mei said clearly and did not insist.
In the afternoon, Chu Jingqi went to Desheng Bank to handle matters, while Xia Zihan and Qi Mei Dongyi went to Zhenyuan Escort Bureau.
(End of chapter)