Chapter 115 puzzled
?On the floor, Yuwen Wen crawled humiliatedly on all sides. A man rode on his neck, pulling his hair and laughing wildly, regardless of the person under his crotch walking like a horse, and he even scattered after a while.
As the saying goes, it is unbearable. Yu Wenwen, who has never given up, actually endured his anger.
Well, in fact, this is Yuwen Wen pretending to be a horse and letting his son ride it. In an era where there are only traditional diapers, the little guy's urine is prone to leak out, and as a result, a pure boy's urine spilled on his shoulder.
"Hurry, get the clothes!" Yang Lihua, who was holding Brother Que, shouted. She quickly picked up her son and handed it to the wet nurse for care. Seeing Yu Wen Wen, who was covered in urine, got up from the ground, took out a scarf and went forward to wipe it.
"It's okay, the boy's urine wards to ward off evil spirits." Yuwen Wen smiled, "I'm cursed by many people all day long. Brother Que is eliminating disasters for Aye."
Yang Lihua was a little dull when she heard this. She knew that her husband had said it was unintentional, but those who cursed her husband might include her parents. Of course, she knew that her parents would not do such boring things, but she was afraid that there would be some curses every day.
"I thought about it again, don't worry, I didn't say those two for my husband." Yuwen Wen took the scarf and wiped his neck, took off his clothes and replaced it with new ones. The smell of urine was not heavy, so he was too lazy to go take a shower.
Yang Lihua smiled awkwardly. Seeing her son who had changed his diapers, she was snatching him again. Just as she was about to go over, Yuwen Wen snatched him first. Seeing her husband sitting on the couch teasing her son, she sat aside.
"Good Brother, Jilang is the same. He will draw lots and choose bows and arrows." Yuwen Wen said with a smile. His legitimate son Jilang grabbed lots when he was one year old, and he also caught small bows and arrows. Although it was just a good start, he was very helpful for this good start.
In this era, if you don’t worship martial arts, you will be promoted to others!
"What's wrong there?" Yuwen Wen asked. Yang Lihua knew what her husband was saying, and she said everything was fine without hiding it. The offensive of the Turkic army was curbed, and her mother told her not to worry.
"Turkish, all the Khans are guarding against each other. Where can you win intrigues..." Yuwen Wen shook his head, "If you drag it down, it will snow heavily. When the food and supplies are insufficient, you will have to withdraw your troops."
"If something happens on the way to retreat, it will be wonderful, hehe...?????????????????????"
Yang Lihua received a letter from Chang'an yesterday. The letter was written by her mother Dugu and sent by Zheng Yi, Duke of Pei, from afar. According to the days, the letter was at least a month ago.
Looking at the weather outside, Yang Lihua thought that it should have snowed in Chang'an now. If it were as his husband said, the Turkic army attacking Chang'an would almost be forced to retreat. The Sui army, who breathed a sigh of relief, was probably coming east.
"Don't worry, your father wouldn't know the reason for beating the dogs in the water. If you don't beat the Turkic Khan, they will come back next year." Yuwen Wen had already put aside his position and said from an outsider's perspective.
Yang Lihua was a little confused when she heard this. She knew that after her father solved the problem of the northern troubles, she would sooner or later gather a large army to advance eastward. The direction of the attack at that time was likely to be the states in Shannan. At that time, her husband would naturally lead the army to resist, and she didn't know what would happen at that time.
She hopes that the situation will continue like this, the Zhou army will not attack Chang'an, and the Sui army will not attack Shannan. If she continues like this, her relatives on both sides will not be injured.
"Don't think about those unhappy things. Did the soap sent by Manager Li use? How did you feel?" Yu Wenwen changed the topic and handed Brother Que to the wet nurse to take it away. The original topic made both sides of the side room embarrassed, so he decided to say something happy.
Yang Lihua said that the soap she sent had been used, and the fragrance was stronger than last time. It felt good and was not as soft as last time. She just cared about why she didn't make this soap at home.
Since her wife Yuchi recovered from her postpartum, she took back her financial power again, but Yang Lihua was not idle either. Yuwen Wen asked her to be responsible for the design of glass crafts. The former empress dowager was knowledgeable and had countless experiences in jewelry. Being a "designer" was just a big show.
Especially the glass screen of "Hundred Birds Looking to the Phoenix" has condensed a lot of Yang Lihua's efforts.
In addition, after a period of financial management, Yang Lihua has learned about the source of income of the mansion, so she is very worried about the current situation: Glass mirrors are the big part of income, followed by glazed jewelry or handicrafts, and there is no profitable transaction.
If it is usually more than enough, but my husband still supports five thousand soldiers with his own strength, which is a bit difficult. Although the income and expenditure are balanced now, it will not be good for the long run.?·
There is no land under the name of the mansion. I have only made a Wuweizhai but it has not been a loss recently. Once there is a problem with the glass mirror or glass jewelry, there is no way to tear down the east wall and repair the west wall.
Glass mirrors can be sold at high prices, because things are rare and expensive. After a year of accumulated mirrors every month, the price will drop sooner or later. Although it will not fall sharply, the income will definitely decrease, and the same is true for glass jewelry.
If you have less income and no other business can make up for it, it is okay to raise hundreds of people in the mansion, but it will be difficult to raise soldiers. Yang Lihua feels that her husband is not like the kind of person who deducts military pay and drinks blood from soldiers, so she should find a way to "create income" in advance.
You should find more ways to make money, and that soap is one of them. Because there are no branches in the world, it is natural to sell well. As a result, Yuwen Wen asked the shopkeeper Li Fang and Li to take over this business, and Yang Lihua was surprised.
She knew that the soap was actually made first in the workshop in the mansion, and she also knew that the reason why her husband did this was to buy local big-name households with sweetness, but Yang Lihua felt that the friendship she bought with money was unreliable.
From the crown princess to the queen and then to the empress, she has seen more intrigues, and even in-laws may not be reliable. The princesses of Yuwen married so many powerful and powerful sons to become official families, and in the end, few sons-in-law stood on Yuwen's side, let alone the friendship they bought with money.
It’s not that these people are not moral. When a critical moment, the family’s interests are the greatest. This sweetness is not as important as standing in a good team. For the sake of the family, you can ignore any covenant or any kindness.
Thoughts were repeated, and Yang Lihua couldn't help but think of herself when she thought of this.
The ex-husband died suddenly, and she turned from the queen to the empress dowager. If she wanted to keep herself and her concubine's son, she could only rely on her parents' support. Otherwise, if she was not careful, she would be taken advantage of by other powerful people.
If a powerful minister wants to control the little emperor, he must first get rid of her, the empress dowager, and then the Yang family, as a relative of the foreign country, will have to be wiped out.
If you want to protect the Yang family, you have to take power, so your father seized the power regardless of everything. However, the only powerful minister who assisted the little emperor was the only one who was killed by the whole family like King Yuwen Hu of Jin.
Then her father walked on that path step by step. In order to protect the Yang family, he simply ascended the throne and became emperor, and even killed her concubine's son. When she thought that the young child would not die well after abdicating, she hated her father so much that she was so heartless.
But so what? Should her younger brothers and sisters, and fathers and mothers die? What happened to be like this, who should she hate?
So when it comes to a critical moment, it involves family interests, what is the profit of a mere soap?!
"Cough cough..." Yu Wen Wen coughed several times. When he saw the side room distracted, he looked sad and sad. He quickly interrupted the other party's thoughts to avoid being obsessed.
Yang Lihua knew that she had lost her composure and quickly provoked the topic to hide her anxiety: "Why do you want to lure him to profit by sharing profits with Zhanggui Li and others in this way? But this businessman is pursuing profits and can ignore anything in order to make money."
"You are right. Merchants can ignore anything to make money." Yuwen Wen agreed with this sentence, but there is a saying about how to understand this sentence. "For profit, merchants can even sell knives that can kill him."
Yang Lihua knew it when she heard this. Since her husband knew it was a vain, she didn't have to talk much. A smart woman should know that she could stop at the right time. However, she wanted to stop at the right time, but Yuwen Wen became interested.
He turned into a black-hearted "beast" and wanted to persuade Yang Lihua, who was preparing to "protect and graduate school", to conduct a transaction: "You have to change your conservative moral thinking, and let go..."
Yuwen's "Just" said that merchants are naturally pursuing profits, but merchants can actually be divided into two categories. The first category is merchants familiar to the world. They buy goods at low prices and sell at high prices. All grain merchants and timber merchants are in this category, and he calls them middlemen.
This type of merchant can make a lot of money if he is done well, but it is not beneficial to others. Take grain merchants as an example. When they go to grain production land to purchase goods at low prices, transport them to grain-deficient land at high prices. In addition to farmers selling rice, boatmen hired by grain merchants to row boats, and coolies carrying packaging and unloading, and shopkeepers of rice shops, no one will make money from such business activities.
By analogy, timber merchants and other merchants were similar, so the rulers of all dynasties suppressed the merchants because in their opinion, these merchants did not work in production, but "easy" to make a lot of profits.
The country is based on people and food is the most important thing. National stability depends on food. Only with food can the people live and work in peace and contentment, and only with food can the army start wars, while food depends on farmers' farming.
As a result, farmers who are busy all year round are only enough to have enough food and clothing, while those merchants who are not engaged in production easily make a lot of money and live a life of living a life of living. In sharp contrast, the court naturally believes that this will ruin the social atmosphere.
Scholars, farmers, businessmen, businessmen have the lowest status, and even stipulate that merchants can only wear white clothes and not brocade clothes and silk to avoid stimulating the weak hearts of the general public. This is the attitude of the rulers of the farming society towards merchants.
"But there is another type of businessman, which belongs to another type..." Yuwen 'Jiu Beast' said. He looked at Yang Lihua with a smile and asked: "How is it? Are you thinking about it?"
Yang Lihua blinked her eyes, thought for a while, and asked if it was the owner of the fish pond who raised fish, or the owner of the blacksmith shop. Seeing that his thoughts were loose and he thought about it, Yuwen continued to induce things: "You are right, but we need to go deeper..."
He said that another type of merchant is the one who makes products and sells them by themselves. The concept of "making products" is very wide. The breeding industry, mining industry, and handicraft industry all fall into this range. In other words, it is called a manufacturer, which is different from the previous intermediary who resells goods.
This kind of manufacturer needs to hire many people and even drive surrounding industries, which means that it can benefit more people relatively, and this kind of manufacturer is what he needs.
"But if you raise chickens, you can't hire many people?" Yang Lihua asked. She actually wanted to take her own industry as an example. There weren't many people who made glass mirrors. Of course, she wouldn't be stupid enough to refute her husband's face in person.
"What if it is a chicken farm with a scale of thousands of chickens?" Yuwen's "Jiaoshou" asked, "The pig farm in the eastern suburbs of the city has a scale of thousands of pigs, and there are quite a few pigherds."
Yang Lihua thought in her mind what this had to do with soap. According to what her husband said, Li Fang and others should open chicken farms, pig farms, or mining quarries. Anyway, if you need stones to build river embankments, let them make this money, wouldn't it be enough.
Giving soap transactions to win people's hearts, did you forget the old saying of "Shengmien" and "Fight Mie"?
Although she thought so, she still didn't say it. Her husband was extremely independent and could not be told. Anyway, Liulijing is still making a lot of money now. If she says too much, it will make her misunderstand, thinking that she encouraged her husband to buy a property, and then take the opportunity to make a fortune.
What she wondered was why her husband was so confident that he actually felt that he could tame a profit-seeking businessman. No one had ever been able to do it since ancient times.
Yang Lihua planned to say it perfunctorily in the future, but Yuwen's "Beast" saw that she was insincere. Seeing that the other party was so ignorant, he began to 'coerce and tempt': "In this way, let's change our posture..."
Chapter completed!