Chapter 93: A female mate chooses to farm (42)

They didn’t know at this time that the Jinnan Palace was not only building a cement road from Weishan Mountain to Qin County, but also the entire southern barbarian transportation artery was being built.

Until a few market entrances with relatively high traffic in Qin County, a recruitment notice was posted. The notice said that the Jinnan Palace wanted to build a fleet of ocean-going merchant ships, and those who were good at swimming would be given priority. I immediately understood:

 No wonder King Jinnan is in Qin County, because he wants to form a caravan to go to sea.

Not to mention, the treatment offered by the palace was quite attractive, and for a while, people signed up very enthusiastically.

However, not everyone who can swim will be admitted after signing up, and they will have to live on the ship for a period of time to see if they can adapt to life on the ship.

At the same time, members of the Yanzi Team will secretly observe the characters and morals of the applicants, and the final recruitment list will be announced only after the on-board assessment.

 This news spread back to the capital as the officers escorting the exiled prisoners returned to the capital.

"Hum! What does my good second brother want to do? Is it possible for him to become a lowly businessman if the noble prince doesn't do it?"

After Yan Keheng heard about it, the breath coming out of his nose was full of contempt.

 The Crown Princess was a little confused and uneasy.

 The direction of the Jinnan Palace is very different from that in the previous life.

In his previous life, after Yan Kejin arrived in the Nanman fiefdom, he was infected with miasma and stayed in bed for several years. He never left the capital of Baigui County until his death, let alone formed a caravan to go to sea.

There is also Miss Xu Si who ran back as soon as she left the capital in her previous life. In this life, she has not escaped from marriage for a long time.

If she doesn’t run away from the marriage, how can the Holy Father use her hair to kill Xu Bainian?

If Xu Bainian is not defeated, how can he help people from the prince's camp to become prime ministers?

 At present, there are still too few people in the Prince's group...

 The Crown Princess paced back and forth, feeling confused and uneasy.

 I thought that after rebirth, everything would be under her control.

 It was true at first, but why has it changed in the past two years? What went wrong?

“Sir, I don’t think King Jinnan is a man willing to engage in business. Is there any other intention behind doing this?”

 “You know again?” Yan Keheng lazily raised his eyelids, “Then Princess, tell me, what is the intention of my good second brother?”

"Sir, you may not have noticed that you are busy with official duties. When I was shopping on the street, I found that the variety of products from Nanman was increasing day by day, especially the new soy sauce, which is delicious and affordable, and is very popular among the people. I sent someone to check it out. However, there was the shadow of King Jinnan's Mansion behind him. I guessed that King Jinnan might want to use this method to make his father pay attention to him.

You know how poor the Southern Barbarians were in the past, but within two years of King Jinnan's departure, the people there have lived a life of prosperity that is no different from that of the Central Plains. What will your father think when you find out? Do you think that King Jinnan has outstanding abilities and is worthy of a big job? By then…”

 “Bah!” Yan Keheng crushed the tea cup, and what the Crown Princess said really touched his heart.

The old man himself has little ability and enjoys the legacy of his ancestors, but he hopes that his descendants will prosper and that the Yan family's legacy will last for generations to come.

Once the old man found out that the second son was causing various disturbances and disturbances in Nanman, he recalled him to the capital if he could not protect him.

It’s true that the prince will not be replaced immediately, but he will definitely be reused. Now, won’t the people below follow suit and re-align?

 “That guy, the second one! He knows how to win people’s hearts all day long!”

He gritted his teeth and almost squeezed out these words from the roots of his teeth.

“But don’t you think this method is indeed effective?”

"In the opinion of the Crown Princess, what about being alone?" "The news about the Southern Barbarians must be hidden from the emperor. Besides..." The Crown Princess approached the Crown Prince and Fu'er came up with an idea.

 “This…doesn’t it mean that the second brother has gained military power?” Yan Keheng felt that it was inappropriate.

"This is only temporary. As long as he can't return to the capital and is stationed in the impoverished northern Xinjiang, what's the use of the little military power he holds? Wait until I ascend to the throne and inherit the rule, then take back the military power and find any excuse to lose it. Isn’t he done?”

Yan Keheng narrowed his slender eyebrows and sneered, as if he had been persuaded.

 …

 Xu Yin and Yan Kejin stayed in Qin County for three months.

It took half a month to recruit and select crew members who met the requirements. Yan Kejin personally went into battle and led them to conduct on-board combat training.

In name, they were dealing with pirates, but Yan Kejin did not forget to increase the intensity of training, striving to train them to the point where if a foreign enemy invaded Yanhua through the coastline one day, they could go into battle to kill the enemy at any time.

During this period, Xu Yin went to the sugar shop managed by Dongxue. In addition to brown sugar and white sugar, she also taught Dongxue how to make rock sugar.

 In the new year, two new products, white crystal rock sugar and earth rock sugar, have been added to the sugar shop.

I learned that there are many wild hawthorn fruits growing wild in the mountains of Qindong. Because the taste is too sour, even if they are harvested, they are dried and sold to medicinal gardens for use in medicine.

Xu Yin had an idea and taught Dongxue how to make candied haws.

However, the temperature in Nanman is high, with temperatures reaching ten degrees in the coldest month, and it is even warmer in the Qinbei area. The candied haws cannot be stored for long, so the owner of the sugar shop is asked to select a few clever guys to bring the candies and hawthorns. Go to the Central Plains or even the North to open a small sugar shop. In addition to selling sugar, you can also sell freshly made candied haws.

This business is designated to be easy to do. If sugar and hawthorn are not enough, you can send them through the **** agency when delivering goods. Hawthorn can also be purchased locally.

 A penny is worth several kilograms of wild fruits, and the local people must be happy to earn some pocket money.

In addition to hawthorn, kumquats, orange pulp and other fruits can also be used to make it. It depends on what fruits are produced locally.

It doesn't matter if the production skills are stolen and learned by others. After all, the key raw material - sugar, is in our own hands. If there is a price war, others will definitely lose first.

 Besides, after occupying the market, as long as the craftsmanship does not deteriorate and the varieties are constantly updated, why worry about losing business? She doesn't intend to have a monopoly.

Since the Crown Princess learned that canned fruits and soy sauce are produced in workshops owned by Jinnan Palace, she has been secretly sending people to pay attention to Jinnan Palace.

Now that I know that King Jinnan is still recruiting soldiers and horses to form a caravan to go to sea, I pay special attention to all information related to the Nanman.

On this day, she went to the street to check out the shop under her name, and suddenly discovered that there was a sugar shop on the street. As she passed by, a sweet fragrance that made people want to stop and taste lingered on the tip of her nose.

 “What does this shop sell?”

 She asked the people below to find out.

When the servant came back, he said that he was a candy seller, specializing in snowflake white, ruby ​​red, white crystal rock candy and citrine rock candy produced in Nanman. He also sold a new product called fruit candied haws, which was especially popular with children.

Hearing that the Nanman people opened a shop here to sell sugar, the Princess Shop stopped patrolling the shop. She frowned and immediately gave the order:

"Go! Find out who the master behind the sugar shop is. If it's irrelevant, find some excuse to evict him! All the shops on this street that are idle will be bought. From now on, anything from the Southern Barbarians will not be allowed here. For sale on the street.”

This street is the commercial street closest to the imperial palace. The emperor would come here to walk and look around when he left the palace on a whim, but he must not be allowed to hear or see anything related to the Nanman.

 (End of this chapter)