travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 108 Spices
If you want to ask what Zhao Fei is most afraid of now, Zhao Fei will definitely say two words: asking for money.

To be more precise, he was afraid of being asked for money by his subordinates.

When he was a younger brother, Zhao Fei was actually very envious of the leader who signed the bill today with a swipe of his imperial pen.

It is also because of this that when Zhao Fei first became the emperor, he took great pleasure in approving money. He watched those people who were high officials in front of the world carefully put the slips in front of him. , the feeling of waiting for myself to sign is actually very cool.

When he had money, Zhao Fei was naturally very happy, but when he had no money, Zhao Fei scratched his head and was anxious.

No, as soon as Lin Wanrong was sent away, Qin Hui held the document along the pole, and looked at Zhao Fei with a low eyebrow: "Your Majesty, this matter is very urgent. Look, do you have to order the Ministry of Households to let them transfer the money as soon as possible?" Dial it out."

"..." Zhao Fei looked at Qin Hui helplessly, then took the document and said, "I will take a look and make a decision."

When Zhao Fei left the military plane, there were people who were happy and others who were worried. For example, Zhao Zilong looked at the crowd with a bitter expression and said, "My lords, my brother, my little brother's household department is really out of money."

"We don't care whether the household department has money or not. Your majesty has approved this article. You can't ruin your majesty's reputation as a joker."

"But..." Zhao Zilong looked at the crowd helplessly, there was nothing he could do, these people were not easy to mess with, and no one was inferior to him, so he couldn't make them understand him with the prestige of a leader.

It's just that the adults in the Military Aircraft Department don't know that Zhao Fei and Anping are also discussing the same thing as them.

Zhao Fei smiled teasingly and said: "Anping, do you think my Zhao Zilong will be very crazy now, I think the money from the household department is almost spent."

"Yeah." Anping said with a laugh: "Lord Zhao is a famous rich man in Chang'an, but he is still struggling now, but master, are there really so many things in the world that need to be dealt with urgently?"

Looking at Anping's puzzled expression, Zhao Fei shook his head and said, "Anping, my question is, how big is my world?"

"I don't know, it's just that our Great Song Dynasty must be very big." Anping thought about it, but unfortunately there is no satellite remote sensing mapping technology in this era, and Anping can't figure out the exact area under the jurisdiction of the court.

Of course, Zhao Fei didn't know what Anping didn't know, but as the emperor, Zhao Fei still knew many things that Anping didn't know.

"Anping, my world is huge, with many people. To give a simple example, you have three people under your command and three hundred people under your command. The problems you need to consider and solve are not of the same order of magnitude." Zhao Fei said.

"The master understands what the slave is saying." Anping said: "In the past, when the slave was only the master of the palace, he only needed to order his subordinates to clean the hall. Manager, the number of people under his management has increased greatly, and there are more and more things. Sometimes the slaves think, a deputy manager like the slave takes care of so many things, but a manager like Eunuch Yue has to manage How many things."

"What, you want to be the manager?" Zhao Fei smiled. "

"Master, don't make fun of the slave. The slave knows exactly how much the slave has. It is absolutely impossible to be the manager."

"Don't underestimate yourself, how do you know you can't do it if you didn't take that position."

"This... the slave still feels that he is not talented enough to be a manager."

"You are really a slave..." Zhao Fei looked at Anping with a ridiculous face and said with a smile: "Have you been told to do it now? If you can't do it now, you won't do it in the future if you don't wear a watch. Eunuch Yue is not young, wait a minute." If he retreats, there must be someone in the palace to take the position of the chief steward."

"What's the virtue and the ability of this slave, to be treated so favorably by the master." An Ping was praised by Zhao Fei, and immediately knelt down in front of Zhao Fei excitedly, and said loudly: "The slave will always be loyal to the master in this life, if anything, he will not be the master at all Thinking about it, let God punish this servant to never be a human being, and suffer from the hell of Avici forever."

Looking at such a loyal Anping, Zhao Fei finally understood that he was a capable person in his previous life, but why he didn't have his own share in the promotion many times. It took a long time, but it was because his integrity hadn't been completely wiped out.

After interrupting Anping, Zhao Fei didn't want to continue to educate Anping, so he took small steps and went home to report to his wife.

As soon as he entered the room, Zhao Fei felt that there was something wrong with the smell in the room. There was a nice smell in the room, but it smelled refreshing and pleasant.

"Zi Yan, where did you get this spice, it smells good." Zhao Fei laughed

"Spice?" Zi Yan looked at Zhao Fei with a confused face, that expression looked like a natural, cute girl.

"Yeah, where did your spice come from? I've never seen it before." Zhao Fei nodded.

"Your Majesty, the concubine really doesn't know what spices His Majesty is talking about?" Zi Yan still looked confused, but she didn't seem to be fake.

Looking at Ziyan's expression, Zhao Fei remembered that this era is a bit different from his own. Maybe this spice has a different name in this era.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fei stepped forward and took the beauty's hand, and said with a smile: "My spices are what make this room full of fragrance."

Zi Yan suddenly said: "It turns out that His Majesty was talking about that, but is that thing called spices?"

"Huh?" Zhao Fei was a little surprised by Zi Yan's reaction. No matter how you look at it, Zi Yan seemed to not know the name of the spice, which was a strange thing.

Ziyan broke away from the hand held by Zhao Fei, then went to the back room, took out a box made of sandalwood from the room, and said: "This is something sent by the father of the country today, and it is said to be placed in the room. , can make people refreshed."

Zhao Fei blinked, but it was the first time he saw this sandalwood in the palace, but what made Zhao Fei more interested was what was in the box.

Opening the box, it turned out to be exactly what I thought, and the box contained the spices I was familiar with.

"Your Majesty, what exactly is this?" Zi Yan came up and asked with interest.

"You don't know?" Zhao Fei asked.

"The concubine doesn't know." Zi Yan said.

"This thing is called spice, and it's an extremely rare thing." Zhao Fei thought that it was something that even the empress of a country had never seen, and it was indeed a rare thing.

"Spice?" Zi Yan muttered a few words, then said with a smile: "The name is quite appropriate, this thing really smells very fragrant."

"Uh……"

Seeing Ziyan's reaction, Zhao Fei finally understood that Ziyan really didn't know the origin of this thing.

Why is it that no one knows what spices are in this era?
But where did the prepared spices in this box come from?
Zhao Fei immediately said: "Zi Yan said that this thing was sent by the head of the country?"

"Yeah." Zi Yan nodded and said: "This was brought in by the head of the country in the morning. The concubine saw that the box was quite exquisite, and it exuded a calming fragrance, so he asked people to put it on the box. In the house, I think it is a pretty good decoration."

"A display?" Zhao Fei opened his mouth wide, then closed his mouth instantly and said, "When the king sent this thing, did he mention the origin of this thing."

"I seem to have said that, but I don't remember clearly." Zi Yan frowned slightly, and then said loudly: "Xiao Jing, come in."

Zhao Fei knew that Xiao Jing entered the palace with Zi Yan, but her appearance was not stunning, and Zi Yan knew that she had high vision, so she didn't sell it to herself.

"Xiao Jing, when the head of the country sent this box, did he mention the origin of this box?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, empress, the head of the country said that this was a gift from the envoy of the island country in the East China Sea. It is said that it has the effect of exorcising evil spirits and avoiding insects, so I specially sent it to my empress."

"Island country in the East China Sea?"

Zhao Fei was taken aback at the time, but he clearly remembered that not long ago, Lin Wanrong seemed to have just reported to himself that an envoy from an island country in the East China Sea wanted to see him but he did not agree.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fei frowned and became thoughtful.

Zhao Fei knew that this spice was a very important thing in the era when he came, and its extension products spread all over the world, from dollar stores in the low-end market to private customization in the high-end market, there are spices.

And Zhao Fei also knew that in ancient times, spices were also a kind of thing that sold well all over the world, attracting countless heroes.

Of course, the heroes have little interest in the spices themselves, but they are interested in the interests that the spices represent.

For example, Zhao Fei knew about the Age of Discovery, which prompted Westerners at that time to take risks and enter the sea without knowing the direction. There was a very important reason that the commercial roads between the East and the West were cut off, which led to the shortage of spices that were very popular in the Western market.

Most of the things that people can get at risk are good things.

But now, there is no doubt that this thing is still unknown to most people, but Zhao Fei has already grasped a corner of this thing.

The first person to send roses to his sister is called romantic, and the hundredth person to send roses to his sister is called a waste of money. I can send money to others.

spices.

This kind of thing that will definitely sell well in the future is still unknown in this era. Thinking of this, Zhao Fei almost laughed out loud.

Dare to invest, half a step ahead of others is called high profit, and one step ahead of others is a monopoly, and the profit of monopoly is irresistible to anyone.

Zhao Fei laughed, hugged sister Ziyan, kissed her on the lips fiercely, and laughed loudly: "Ziyan, Ziyan, you are really my lucky star!"

"Your Majesty... there are still people in the room." Zi Yan blushed, but her heart was full of sweetness.

"I'm not afraid of anyone," Zhao Fei said with a laugh, "Just let people see how loving I and my queen are, and let them envy and hate!"

"Your Majesty..." Zi Yan leaned into Zhao Fei's arms with her face flushed.

Zhao Fei naturally pushed the boat along the way and hugged the beauty tightly in his arms, but he just thought in his heart: "The envoys of the island countries in the East China Sea, I really need to meet them."

(End of this chapter)