When Shi Qingluo brought Qingqing into the private room, she saw that not only Concubine Hua was already sitting inside, but Prince Jin was also there.

There was also a young man and an old Taoist priest.

Shi Qing bowed and said, "Greetings to Prince Jin and Concubine Hua!"

Prince Jin smiled and said, "Madam Shi, come and sit down."

Shi Qingluo walked over and sat opposite Prince Jin.

Then Prince Jin introduced the old Taoist to Shi Qingluo, "This is Taoist Changqing."

"This is my son Liang Mingyu." He introduced the young man again.

Shi Qingluo smiled at the two of them, "Hello, Taoist Changqing! Hello, Prince!"

The old Taoist priest looked at Shi Qingluo and said with a smile: "I took the initiative to tell the prince today that I want to meet Madam Shi."

He didn't beat around the bush, "Did your master teach you Taoism?"

Shi Qingluo shook his head apologetically, "Master didn't teach me Taoism, he only taught me how to read and some prescriptions that are not available outside."

She didn't understand anything about Taoism, so she didn't pretend to understand.

The old Taoist priest was a little disappointed. He originally wanted to talk about Taoism with Shi Qingluo, the disciple of the old immortal, but he never thought that she didn't learn it.

He then asked, "Did your master leave behind any books related to Taoism?"

Shi Qingluo thought about it and realized that there were indeed some books about Taoism in the wooden box left by the old Taoist.

She had read it before, but couldn't quite understand it.

Because it was something the original body cherished very much, and she often let the old immortal take the blame, so she did not throw it away, but kept it in the space.

"My master did leave behind some books of this kind, but I placed them in Heyang County."

She naturally couldn't take it out now, otherwise it would be unacceptable. "Master, if you want to see it, how about I wait until I return to Heyang County and have someone send it to you?"

She saw that the old Taoist priest had kind eyes and a benevolent demeanor, which gave her a sense of Taoist immortality.

It seems that he really likes Taoism, so it’s better to make full use of those books.

The old Taoist was delighted. "I'm planning to travel recently. Why don't you tell Madam Shi when she leaves North City that I will go to Heyang County with you guys?"

Shi Qingluo did not refuse, "Okay!"

Judging from Prince Jin's appearance, he was quite respectful to the Taoist priest, which showed that the Taoist priest must be very capable.

It would be nice to be able to establish a good relationship with such a person.

The Taoist priest smiled and said, "Thank you very much!"

He knew that Prince Jin and Shi Qingluo must have something to talk about, and he didn't want to get involved.

So he made an appointment with Shi Qingluo to set off together in a few days, and then he proposed to leave first.

Although Prince Jin was somewhat disappointed that the Taoist priest no longer helped him, he had no choice but to accept it.

After the old Taoist left, he looked at Shi Qingluo with a smile and said, "Madam Shi gave my concubine a way to make money yesterday. What do you want?"

Shi Qingluo knew that Prince Jin was a smart man. "After Your Majesty obtains the recipe for the transformation paper and the recipe for the food, and tries them successfully, can you build a cement road from Beicheng to Heyang County?"

To get rich, you must first build roads. Now the road to Heyang County is not only remote but also difficult to travel.

Once canning and other workshops are opened, transportation will become a problem.

But now the money in the county government can only barely build a workshop, and there is no money left to repair the road.

She had seen some of her husband's plans for Heyang County, and found that there was a lack of money everywhere.

The cost of building roads is extremely high, so it would be best if the county government doesn’t have to spend money.

And in this way, the couple will have no handle for people to talk about.

They were thinking about the people of Heyang County, so they presented the recipe to Prince Jin in exchange for him building a cement road. This cannot be considered as abusing power for personal gain.

Instead, it benefits the people.

It can't be considered as surrendering to Prince Jin. If anyone finds fault with him, my husband can scold them back in the future.

"Don't you want to say anything for yourself?"

Shi Qingluo smiled and said, "I am not short of money now, and it seems that I won't need anything else in the Northern Frontier."

"I see that Heyang County is very cold and the people there have a hard time, so I hope to do something for them."

"Your Highness, do you think this is okay? I'll trade you a cement road for the recipe."

Once the cement road from Beicheng to Heyang County is built, it will attract merchants to buy things from the workshop. After making money, we can continue to build roads to other places.

That is to say, use a road to support a county town first. She and her husband both have a bigger goal.

We hope to develop Heyang County into a large commodity distribution and trading center in northern Xinjiang.

However, due to various poor conditions, it is not easy to achieve and it will take time.

Prince Jin originally wanted to use the recipe that Shi Qingluo gave him as a concubine to come up with a way to make money, in order to drag her into the water and pull her onto his own boat.

I didn't expect this girl to be such a loach, always so slippery.

Only she could think of using a prescription to exchange for a cement road.

This way, there would be no evidence for people in the capital to catch.

He couldn't say he was unhappy, but he couldn't be happy either.

But on second thought, at least Shi Qingluo is willing to give advice to Prince Jin's Mansion, which means there is room for winning him over.

If he came to Beicheng, he would have the evidence in his hands, or the people in Beijing would have caught him.

He probably wouldn't think so highly of Shi Qingluo and his wife anymore.

The more this happened, the more determined Prince Jin became to pull the two of them onto his boat.

He thought for a while and said with a smile: "It's just building a road, but you still seem to be at a disadvantage."

"How about I give you another 50,000 taels of silver as compensation?"

Shi Qingluo thought, haha, if she took the compensation money, wouldn’t she be the same as her scumbag father?

She smiled and shook her head. "My husband and I are not short of money right now, so there is no need for compensation."

"My husband wants to open a school in Heyang County, so he should use this recipe to make paper to provide for the students in the school."

"This recipe was given to the prince, but I hope we can use it ourselves."

"Your Majesty, please use this to compensate me."

"Of course, apart from using it myself, I will definitely not give the recipe to anyone else."

She added, "We will not open a papermaking workshop to compete with concubines for business."

In this way, they had a bright future for papermaking.

She really didn't want to compete with Prince Jin for business, otherwise she would have to help him share the hatred from those big families.

But paper is not only used for writing. If they make paper for other purposes, such as toilet paper, the profits will definitely be very good.

Prince Jin found that Shi Qingluo was really difficult to deal with and refused to fall into his trap.

The key is that the request she put forward did not sound excessive.

If I refuse, she will probably feel uncomfortable, and it will be troublesome if she doesn't offer prescriptions or advice in the future.

So King Jin had no choice but to accept it, "What's the big deal? No problem."

Then he changed the subject and said, "But we have to sign a contract."

He was afraid that Shi Qingluo would take advantage of him and give the recipe to someone else or to the capital not long after giving it to him. Then, why would he bother with that?

Shi Qingluo chuckled and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. Of course there is no problem signing the contract."

Even if Prince Jin didn't mention this, she would still bring it up.

Continue at 16:00~ 　　 　 (End of this chapter)