Chapter 609: The Late Emperor's Blessing
Chen Dinghuai and others were still in shock and had not yet come to their senses.
Lu Desheng had already offered three sticks of incense to Emperor Kang Cheng, muttering to himself, "Your Majesty, Prince Cheng is gone, and Prince Jin went to Fusang. My daughter helped find a way."
"Don't blame us when we reach Chang'an. At least we've left some roots for you."
"Prince Jin is relatively speaking a good bamboo shoot. As for the bad ones, we'll just root them out."
People present: Not only have you eradicated the evildoers of the Song family, you have also taken over their kingdom.
"No, you built a cenotaph for the late emperor?" Cui Chunhua couldn't believe it.
"Yeah."
"Aren't you afraid that if you do this, the late emperor will die with regret?"
"Why did you die with your eyes open? Isn't this tomb grand enough?"
"This isn't a question of grandeur or not! It's about how a traitor like you, like me, can afford to build a cenotaph for the late emperor?"
"What's the matter? The late emperor was buried well in the imperial mausoleum. Can't I build a cenotaph for him?" Lu Desheng said, "Song Mo worships his, and I worship mine." He offered incense to the late emperor!
Cui Chunhua was speechless.
"What do you think?" Chen Dinghuai asked Lu Desheng curiously.
"What do you want? I just want the late emperor to bless me."
Chen Dinghuai thought to himself, you are forcing a person to do something against his will, no, you are forcing a ghost to do something against his will.
Cui Chunhua screamed, "If the late emperor knew about this, he would be lucky not to kill you. How could he even bless you?"
"Who the late emperor blesses depends on his mood! I'm just giving him another option." Lu Desheng was stubborn. The people remain unchanged, but dynasties change with time. He felt the late emperor would be more open-minded.
Chen Dinghuai and the others were speechless. The late emperor was from the Song family, so he would definitely bless his descendants. How could he bless you, a traitor?
"Lü Desheng, does your daughter know you're doing this?"
When Lu Desheng mentioned this, he started to show off. "My daughter knows about it. She said it's up to me. She'll take care of everything if anything happens."
Everyone present: Envy and jealous!
Chen Dinghuai thought to himself that Lü Desheng was indeed entitled to be proud. The two greatest joys in life are success and fame, and having someone to carry on the family legacy. Lü Desheng had both.
As soon as Lu Desheng came out of Xilin Cemetery, someone came to find him.
"Lord Lu, a letter from the governor."
Lu Desheng took the letter and after reading it, he looked at Chen Dinghuai, Cui Chunhua and the others, "Shall I have someone take you to Liaodong Academy later?"
He is going back to Changli!
His daughter called him back and gave him some work to do. He liked this kind of work, it was easy and exciting!
It’s because my daughter understands him and knows what kind of work he likes to do.
"What are you going to do?" Cui Chunhua asked.
Lu Desheng: "Want to know? Join Pingzhou." After looking at his old face for a few days, he got annoyed.
With just one word, Cui Chunhua was stopped. Lu Desheng said goodbye to Chen Dinghuai and others, and left in a carriage.
The salt dumping plan against Dali is about to begin.
The three chambers of commerce headed by Ji Wuyin, Gu Huaisheng and representatives of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce successively obtained the general distribution rights of Pingzhou's plan to dump salt from Dali.
The meeting was chaired by three parties.
The representative of Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is Lv Desheng.
The Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is currently chaired by Lü Songli and headed by Wu Ren. With Wu Ren away, Lü Songli is too busy to handle the event, so she asked her father to attend in her place.
Anyway, when it comes to the planning, with Ji Wuyin and Gu Huaisheng around, her father is like a mascot.
Then, Ji Wuyin and Gu Huaisheng used their connections to bring in all the related partners to join them.
The Liaodong Chamber of Commerce called on the local natives of Pingzhou to participate.
The Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is rooted in Pingzhou and has a group of followers in Pingzhou.
Lan Bingcheng, Geng Yuan and others received an invitation from the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce and arrived as scheduled on the day of the meeting.
When the two arrived at the first floor of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce building, they found each other. Their eyes lit up. This familiar smell, is the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce going to help them make money again?
When they went up to the second floor, they found that the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce had invited many people, but those who attended were all well-known businessmen from various counties in Pingzhou and Youzhou.
The two looked at each other. These were all competitors.
Pingzhou is no longer what it used to be. As Pingzhou has grown, they've benefited and followed suit, but so have others. And over the past year or two, Pingzhou has seen an influx of talented individuals.
Pingzhou is developing better and better, and they are happy and melancholy.
The two secretly made up their minds that they must work hard to keep up with the governor and the pace of development of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce! Otherwise, they will be eliminated.
The meeting was chaired by Ji Wuyin.
Gu Huaisheng has only been in Pingzhou for a short time and has little experience.
Lu Desheng is not proficient in business, he is here just to be a mascot,
Ji Wuyin is an old man with great experience and qualifications, and can be regarded as one of the veterans under Lu Songli.
After the opening, Ji Wuyin went straight to the point, "...the people of Dali have suffered from the high price of salt for a long time."
At this time, the price of Dali's official salt had reached 300 wen per catty.
The price of salt in Pingzhou has always been lower than that in Dali, but there are purchase restrictions.
Now, because of the salt dumping plan, they will directly cancel the purchase restrictions later and fill up the local quota first to avoid backflow when the dumping plan is implemented.
"The governor has compassion for the people, so he plans to sell a batch of salt to Dali at a low price."
As soon as Ji Wuyin finished speaking, someone asked a question.
"How many are there in a batch?"
“How affordable is affordable salt?”
Ji Wuyin replied, "Our batch of Pingzhou official salt is 70 million catties." In fact, they prepared 120 million catties of salt.
This number was calculated by them together. Currently, the population of Dali is around 13 million. Based on an average of six people per household, there are about two to three million households.
Unlike Pingzhou, where the idea of a large tree with many branches is encouraged, Dali encourages the division of households. Many families in Dali are large, with more than 10 or 20 people. Therefore, this number of households is sufficient to cover them.
There are 70 million jin of salt, and every household in Dali can buy about 30 jin.
"Then Ji Daxiu, how affordable is the affordable salt you mentioned?" the person below asked again.
Ji Wuyin said, "The governor has already set the shipping price for salt. Pingzhou's wholesale price to us is eighty wen per jin."
Lan Bingcheng, Geng Yuan and others present gasped when they heard this.
Eighty cents a pound?! Is the governor crazy or did they hear wrong?
Someone asked hesitantly, "Ji Daxiu, can we check the quality of the salt?"
"Sure." At this price, some people doubted the quality of the salt. Ji Wuyin quickly asked someone to bring up a sample of salt.
The salt sample weighed about two kilograms. Gu Huaisheng took the tray from the visitor, walked around, and there was very little salt left on the tray.
Lan Bingcheng, Geng Yuan, and the others had observed and tasted the salt closely, confirming its excellent quality: snow-white, uniformly sized grains, and devoid of any odor. Visible to the naked eye, it was a truly premium salt.
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