met free Chapter 515 This old man is acting strangely
Chapter 515 This old man is acting strangely
Emperor Zhu went to the border market.
It took almost half an hour to walk from the medical school in the west of the city to the border market in the east of the city.
However, the long journey could not extinguish the anger in Emperor Zhu's heart.
I just got two big blisters on the soles of my feet.
Finally, unable to bear it any longer, Emperor Zhu simply ordered Yang Shaofeng to walk in front, while he himself followed behind Yang Shaofeng with his hands behind his back, occasionally kicking him.
To be honest, every kick made him feel a little better. After kicking it a few times along the way, Emperor Zhu's mood improved.
Only Yang Shaofeng's official robe had a faint footprint on the back.
Upon arriving at the market, Emperor Zhu stopped kicking people with considerable regret. He then smacked his lips and said, "You lot are just asking for trouble. Damn it, not one of you is easy to deal with."
Yang Shaofeng was slightly taken aback and asked, "Make? Who?"
Emperor Zhu glared at Yang Shaofeng and retorted, "Aren't you all being unreasonable enough?"
"You bastard, you're always causing us trouble. That little beast Zhu Biao is making up stories about his dad stealing chickens and cows. The second, third, and fourth brothers are always up to no good. Aren't you all enough trouble?"
"Damn it, what terrible luck did we have to end up with a bunch of bastards like you?"
Upon hearing Emperor Zhu's words, Yang Shaofeng immediately became furious.
Judging from what Lao Deng was implying, only Zhu Laowu was a good person, while I, Zhu Biao, Zhu Shuang, Zhu Gang, and Zhu Di were all bad people.
No, if you're saying they're not good people, I wholeheartedly agree. But if you're saying I'm not a good person...
Yang Shaofeng grunted twice and pointed at the border market: "The national treasury isn't empty this year, is it?"
"Many states and counties must have made money too, right?"
"Great... Are those vassal states like Goryeo and Annam all behaving themselves?"
Seeing Emperor Zhu's increasingly dark face, Yang Shaofeng's voice gradually lowered: "After all, your son-in-law has done some things."
Emperor Zhu gave a cold laugh and simply led Empress Ma and the others into the market, leaving Yang Shaofeng behind with a dark face.
Something doesn't seem right today.
No, it's not accurate to say that something's wrong with today.
It should be said that Old Deng has been acting strangely ever since he came to Dengzhou.
First, they are not so easy to fool anymore.
Another point is that it's not good to cause trouble for Old Deng under his nose; if you're not careful, you might get kicked a few times.
We still need to think of another way.
Or we could write a letter to Zhu Biao first, and then find some amusement for Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen, and have them call Lao Deng back.
As long as Lao Deng leaves Dengzhou Prefecture, hmph.
I am not a scholar like Li Shanchang or Liu Bowen; I have plenty of strength and means!
As Yang Shaofeng pondered this in his mind, he quickly followed in the footsteps of Emperor Zhu.
Just as he walked a short distance into the market, Emperor Zhu's attention was drawn to a shop that was packed with people.
After beckoning Yang Shaofeng over, Emperor Zhu asked directly, "What's the deal with this shop?"
Yang Shaofeng glanced at the signboard hanging outside the shop and replied with a smile, "Father-in-law, this shop is newly opened. It mainly helps landlords, merchants, and minor officials in various vassal states improve their quality of life."
Emperor Zhu, with drooping eyelids, snorted coldly and said, "Speak like a human being."
Yang Shaofeng chuckled and said, "Back then, I haphazardly came up with a thing called a toilet, but later I found that the poor couldn't afford it, and the rich didn't care for it either, so I had to have it sold at the market."
"What I never expected was that the junk that couldn't be sold in our Great Ming Dynasty became hot commodities at the border market, with merchants from various vassal states scrambling to buy it back."
Emperor Zhu said "Oh," and Yang Shaofeng explained in a low voice, "A toilet is actually similar to a chamber pot, the difference being that it has a water tank, and you can flush it by pulling a rope."
"With this, when building a house, we can build a separate outhouse next to the bedroom, which will be convenient for using the toilet in winter."
Emperor Zhu glanced directly at Yang Shaofeng.
Was the toilet invented to make it easier to use the toilet in winter?
They found that they couldn't sell them in the Ming Dynasty, so they brought them to the border market to fool the barbarians?
That bastard still doesn't treat barbarians like human beings, just like always.
Emperor Zhu snorted and asked, "Then tell me, why can't they be sold in the Ming Dynasty, but merchants from various vassal states are scrambling to buy them?"
Yang Shaofeng replied confidently, "Because I set up public toilets in the market and donated several toilets to the public toilets and clubhouse in the name of the Prince Consort's Mansion."
"To put it bluntly, the merchants in each vassal state have a little money, and the landlords and minor officials in each vassal state also have a little money."
"They dreamed of enjoying life like the wealthy merchants and high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, but the life that the real high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants could enjoy was something they could never afford, even if they risked their lives."
The true life of an aristocrat was something that not only the barbarians from those foreign lands could not imagine, but even Yang Shaofeng, the prince consort, could not have imagined it before he became a prince consort.
Just like those few sentences on the internet in later generations.
Chinese food isn't devoid of plating; it's just that the plating is so elaborate that most people can't afford it.
Western luxury goods are affordable if you grit your teeth and buy them, but Chinese luxury goods are something you have to swallow even if you grit your teeth and break them.
Putting aside everything else, just the dowries that Jin'er and Yu'er wore when they got married included "a crown with nine pearl tassels and four phoenixes, a phoenix-patterned robe, pearl and jade pendants, a gold and leather belt, a jade dragon crown, a jade ribbon ring, a crown with a northern pearl and a flower hairpin, a crown with a seven-treasure flower hairpin, a pearl coat and vest, and a four-season dress with a pearl and jade collar".
If it is Empress Ma's Nine Dragons and Nine Phoenixes Crown, it not only has nine gold dragons made with filigree and nine phoenixes made with kingfisher feather inlay, but also more than one hundred rubies and sapphires and more than four thousand pearls of various sizes for decoration.
purchase?
If you're not destined to have this, you can't buy it even if you go bankrupt.
Yang Shaofeng pursed his lips and continued, "The barbarians can't afford a real aristocratic life, so they settle for second best."
"The toilet needs to be installed in a water tank on the roof, and people need to fill the water tank with water every day."
"Ordinary families definitely can't afford to buy or use it."
"In this way, they will feel superior to ordinary people, and thus be distinguished from ordinary people."
Emperor Zhu nodded as if he understood, but then frowned: "What about the merchants of our Great Ming? After all, our Great Ming also has many small merchants and small landowners. Will they also be interested in this?"
Yang Shaofeng chuckled and said, "Father-in-law, don't worry. Merchants from our Great Ming Dynasty who come to the border market don't care about this stuff, and those who care about this stuff don't come to the border market."
"Besides, this piece of junk has no technological content at all."
"If word gets out, any merchant in our Great Ming Dynasty can easily find a few craftsmen to make it."
"But the barbarians don't know how to make porcelain, so they can't imitate it even if they wanted to."
At this point, Yang Shaofeng chuckled again, mockingly saying, "Besides, they're hoping this thing will elevate their status and make money from it, so how could they possibly sit idly by and watch others copy it?"