The atmosphere was heightened by this, and Father Lai naturally proposed a solution in a considerate way.
Labourers can recruit slaves snatched from Nanyang or Tianzhu. This part only requires transportation fees and food. There will be no servitude of the people.
All that's left are the materials. Because this part is based on the mountain, no stone is needed. The main needs are tools, iron tools and livestock.
Now that coke iron is being smelted in the south, the ironware is quite cheap. You can just let the craftsmen from Nanzhili or Nanzhen Fusi in Hangzhou make it and then transfer it over. Anyway, both the Weaving Bureau and the Jin Yiwei are royal properties. The meat rots in the pot and does not interfere with foreign affairs. The court could not say anything.
Livestock is a bit more troublesome. Cattle, especially cattle, are still in short supply now. Since Liaodong started transporting fur products and ginseng, the price of scalpers has basically increased by more than three times. As for horses, there are not many good horses in Ming Dynasty at the moment, they are all thin and weak.
This can only be replaced by rail carriages, rail ox carts and the like.
After careful calculation, even Concubine Li felt that it seemed to be okay.
It’s just that it’s not easy to agree to this thing directly. I just said that I will seriously consider it later, and it’s basically time to send people away.
As soon as the missionaries went out, even though it was night, they could see at a glance the abbot of Longquan Temple who had been standing outside for a long time through the glazed light. Both parties understood each other tacitly, and each bowed and left. .
The "Princess" monk saw Concubine Li coming out and quickly stepped forward to salute and ask.
"It's late, Master, please go back first, and I'll ask Master to give lectures another day."
Concubine Li did not give the great monk a chance to speak, and almost directly issued an order to expel him. When she discovered that there was no conflict between Western religion and Buddhism, there was no need to mix the two together and create artificial conflicts. Watching a monkey show was something that the emperor and Prince Yu could do, but her daughter-in-law could not do it. If he did, he would be suspected of being the next Wu Zetian.
Now Jiajing is building momentum to rival Chengzu and reach far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties. It is indeed the most appropriate time to offer such a gift at this time. These believers reported to Prince Yu's Mansion instead of going directly to Jinyiwei or Dongchang. They did not even offer gifts to Jiajing in person on the day of the Luotian Festival. It was obvious that they came here deliberately to curry favor with Prince Yu's Mansion.
Although he looks like a Westerner, he behaves like a Ming Dynasty man in mainland China. It is obvious that he has put in a lot of effort.
This is good news, at least it can confirm that what was said is definitely not a blind promise.
Now we need to find a suitable time.
The next day, Concubine Li did not summon the great monk again, but went to Wanshou Palace to see her eldest son with a large stack of various painting manuals. I just accidentally included the sketch of Emperor Mountain presented by the priest.
Just as the sedan was walking on the road, Concubine Li almost suddenly thought of a missed issue, that is, food.
Food is somethingThe West cannot be solved by having money and power. If the grain merchants near Gyeonggi Province do not have much food, even if they bring in slaves to work as coolies, the price of food will rise.
This made Concubine Li quietly take out the drawing. He also asked the bearer to walk slower and detoured to a few rice and grain merchants to listen to the market situation.
When we arrived at Chongwenmen, we found no one at the door of a rice shop. Instead, there was a boy who was shouting back and forth. He even came up to the sedan chair to flatter Concubine Li and shout. The price of rice was on sale.
Immediately afterwards, a man who called himself shopkeeper Zhou came over to apologize.
Taking this opportunity, Concubine Li simply asked the maid to ask about the current price of rice and bought two liters.
It turned out that the maid was also obedient. She actually bought two liters of polished rice when asked to buy some and came back without asking any unnecessary questions.
If the maid didn’t take the initiative to ask, Concubine Li would have no way to let her ask again. Smart women can do it in the story books, such as A'Zhu from The Legend of the Condor Heroes and Huang Rong from The Legend of the Condor Heroes, but this princess herself cannot.
But at least I know the price. Knowing that food prices have halved from April to now, you can already understand a lot of things. After all, now is the time when traditional grain prices are at their most expensive. And the current food prices are only about the same as last winter. This abnormality is already obvious. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft