Emperor Kangxi sent me to marry

Horses cost eight taels, and sheep cost seven cents.

This is the price determined by Kangxi himself. However, the price must be affected by changes in supply and demand and cannot remain unchanged.Late summer and early autumn are the peak seasons for livestock trading, and supply exceeds demand. Haifeng directly bought another thousand sheep. The herdsmen were delighted and lowered the price. In the end, the price was rounded to 600 taels.

She had asked General Feyangou to find a storefront for a bank long before she set out from the capital.And with the help of people from Jishengtang, the opening required almost no effort.

The reason why Haifeng decided to open in five days was just for one thing:

Preparing for the opening ceremony, Thousand Sheep Banquet.

God was benevolent, and five days later, the wind was calm and the sun was beautiful.

Twenty special pressure cookers were neatly placed in a large open space that was specially circled.

The coals, which are burned until they are red, maintain the temperature of the pot just right.

Large chunks of fresh mutton were washed with blood and placed in a large copper basin as deep as the elbow, covered with snow-white gauze. After the first wave of distribution was completed, they were placed in the pot and served again.

In the back kitchen, three hundred bowls were filled with mutton that had been stewed last night.

Haifeng put on his favorite, the bright yellow phoenix and peony robe, with court beads, and combed his hair in a bun. He put more effort into dressing up than when he met Kangxi.

After all, in Guihua City, everyone who could walk was crowded in front of the bank, waiting for her to appear.

A simple bowl of mutton stew with no fuss may not be considered a good thing in modern times, but here, it is a luxury that ordinary people are reluctant to eat every few months.

Today, as long as he is willing to walk into the bank door and deposit only a penny, Haifeng will treat this customer who takes care of business to a bowl of real meat dishes.

This crude and direct promotional method spread throughout Guihua City and beyond in just half a day.

Even some people living in Youwei and Shahukou came to join in the fun for this advantage.

"Master, General Feiyanggu has arrived!"

Aunt Sai Lun called out from the window, causing Haifeng's hand speed to pierce the earrings to suddenly increase.

"Didn't you say that it's best not to move the general?"

"I don't know. I just heard Zhang Shun say a few words. If you want to know the details, master has to ask him."

Haifeng hurriedly walked out of the door. Zhang Shun was already waiting outside the hospital and asked him to kneel down neatly.

"Master, Chen Tai, the general's eldest son, came from the capital. He just arrived at the Tiger Killing Pass yesterday. He went with General Zhaowu Masika and brought the emperor's imperial edict. General Fei Yanggu returned to the capital to recuperate. His affairs, Let General Maska take over. The emperor knows that you are here, which means that if the master can take over the large and small affairs of Guihua City, General Feiyanggu does not need to stay to take over, and the master can help. "

"It's just a simple task for me. Where are the two generals now?"

"They are all waiting for the master in the front hall. It was my slave's idea to have tea and snacks served."

"Well done, I will be there immediately. How long is it until the scheduled opening time?"

"A little less than half an hour."

The two elderly generals saw the fourth princess dressed up and elegantly walking into the front hall to meet them. They did not dare to neglect and knelt on the ground.

"Greetings to Her Majesty the Princess."

"No courtesy. You two generals have worked hard all the way. Please take a seat."

Zhang Shun stepped forward to help the frail Fei Yanggu. Although Masika was 60 years old, his spirit and body were still in good condition. He stood up quickly without sitting down.

"As soon as I entered the tiger's mouth, I heard many rumors. What, the emperor's princess knows magic and can cook food in the blink of an eye without lighting a fire. She can turn stones into gold, so she can use silver like running water without blinking her eyelids. . Looking at it now, although it is ridiculous, it is not groundless."

Masika's determined eyes looked at the spacious and bright front hall with interest.Haifeng is still a little regretful about the final effect of this shop.She drew a drawing based on the layout of a modern bank, but many details were impossible to do in this era, so she had to give them up.

There are smooth and bright mahogany counters in one row on the left and right, thick fences reaching up to the roof, and heavy cash cabinets buried in the ground. The shop of about three to four hundred square meters is cut into roughly three spaces.

The east side is the counter for handling Mongolian business, and the west side is the counter for handling Chinese business. Let's make a rough separation first.

In the front hall is the consultation service, which distributes number plates to guests and guides them to queue up; then there are five rows of eight chairs, which can accommodate forty guests to sit and wait comfortably at the same time.

The layout was novel enough and the style was unprecedented, but nothing could compare to the 5 taels of white silver ingots that were placed directly in the store for visitors to look at.

One ounce of ingots, 50 ounces of plates, a thousand plates in total, neatly stacked and placed on the cabinets against the walls on both sides.Under the scorching sunlight, it emits a dizzying light.

"Your Highness, Fourth Princess, do you want the entire Guihua City to know that you are as rich as the country?"

"You are so rich that you can't take it for granted. But since Khan Amma is determined to build a city in Uriyasutai, if you throw this little money away, you won't even see a drop of water. If I don't show some confidence, how can there be merchants?" , Laborers, dare to follow me and travel thousands of miles away?"

General Fei Yanggu sat on the chair, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart when he saw the four princesses' confident expressions.

More than ten years ago, when she was a little girl no taller than her chest, she was able to force the two powerful officials Tong Guowei and Suo'etu into confusion.In the Qingcheng palace, he was like a fish in water, and even compared with the prince.

When it comes to other women planning to build a city on the grassland, Fei Yanggu will say that it is a story only found in books, and it is just a pleasure for Bosch people, how can it be taken seriously?

But if the fourth princess is to preside over this matter, he believes it.

The Third Lady can build the Guihua City, isn't the Fourth Princess more valuable and resourceful than her?
She will succeed immediately.

"Brother Fucha, I was apologetic at first. It would have been too much to just walk away and leave Guihua City to you. Now that I see the array set up by the fourth princess, what should I worry about? Just like this shop. Back then. I stared at what they built. To the outside world, they only said it was a warehouse to store some cotton clothes for use in the army. Some people asked me privately if it was too big. Now when I looked again, there were at least 5000 to [-] people gathered outside the door. , I’m not sure if we can take turns to come in before dark. Come on, let’s go out together with His Highness, the two of us!”

The old and new generals followed the fourth princess with their hands down and stood at the gate of the bank.

"Princess, a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"

The crowd knelt down one by one and bowed in salute.

Layer after layer.

Duobu, who was guarding the outermost perimeter and leading the troops to maintain order, stood on his horse and looked at his wife from a distance.

Just to see this rare scenery, he deliberately did not stay in the shop.

The woman standing in the center of thousands of people, receiving kneeling worship, was his princess, his queen, the source of all joy, happiness, and happiness in his life.

Their daughter, on the other hand, was excitedly sitting in the carriage with her grandmother, looking at her majestic mother in the distance.

Balezhong was accompanying him, but he couldn't help but asked the question that was lingering in his mind.

"Why doesn't the prince take Lian Gege to accompany the princess?"

"I always look at her from a distance, and occasionally look at her from a distance. It has a unique flavor. Besides, I don't know anything about banks or insurance, so it's boring to be around. Is everything in Cullen City ready?"

"Yes, all according to the prince's instructions."

"Okay, that's where I should hold the princess's hand and accept the kneeling greetings of my subjects. I am the master of the Tuxie Tuhan tribe. In Guihua City, I am only a guest. Guests do as they please. Don't do it again The princess wants to speak now."

1. Prices of sheep and horses, from "The Strategy of Personally Conquering Shuomo"

2. Zhaowu General Masika herself is not well-known, but her niece is Empress Xiaoxian Chun, yes, she is Qianlong’s original wife.