Chapter 499: [Fireworks]
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A fireworks bucket was soon put out.
Li Chengqian took a fragrant piece to Lao Li and said, "Please ask the father and mother to light new fireworks!"
Old Li and the queen smiled and looked at each other, then took Li Chengqian's incense, walked to a bucket of new fireworks, and formed a common ground.
The fireworks flew up again, and beautiful sparks bloomed in the air.
Yuan Tiangang came over and said with a sage: "This is auspiciousness from heaven!"
In the evening, Li Chengqian knew that this charlatan was actually the one who calculated that Wu Zetian was the female emperor. He was a little convinced by his physiognomy. Although he still called him a charlatan, he already thought that he was a charlatan who could believe.
Of course, this Xiangrui was praising the fireworks he made, and of course Li Chengqian would not care about him showing off his charlatan again.
As a successful big house, the queen does not lie in how tightly she can tie the man, but in how she knows how to stock men.
For example, after the queen lit the fireworks, she asked Lao Li to go with Concubine Yang. Concubine Yin and the others to lit the fireworks at one time. For a moment, there were more happiness factors in the square in front of Hanliang Hall.
After Lao Li and the adults played, they talked about the children. The little tiger and the others rushed up and divided the remaining fireworks. Then, extremely brilliant fireworks flew out from the night sky!
When the fireworks were blooming, Li Chengqian saw Maitreya Buddha in his eyes, and he was guarding the queen.
Didn’t I hear Xiao Chen say that Maitreya Buddha was transferred to the palace by the queen? Why is he still here in this public occasion?
Although 0 don’t understand the dynamics of Maitreya Buddha, it seems that Maitreya Buddha is obviously a celebrity around the queen.
Perhaps the queen asked him to follow her and wanted to reveal this meaning.
Seeing the prince's concubines show goodwill to Maitreya Buddha intentionally or unintentionally, it can be seen that the queen's actions were successful.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, I had enough food, dance, and watched it. It ended at around 10 o'clock.
After the grand festival, I also had some worries.
For example, after Li Chengqian woke up the next morning, he saw the peonies placed in the Xichi Courtyard. After more than a dozen chrysanthemums began to wilt, he couldn't help but worry. There were always times when the flowers were wilted. Of course, it was not appropriate to continue to put them here after they wilted. Where should I throw them away?
After thinking about it, I immediately got an idea. After a few days, Fatty Zhu would come and move the flowers back to plant them in the woods, and then you can move them out again next year.
At noon, I heard the eunuch say that Chen Qiuming had entered the palace and asked for a meeting.
After asking the eunuch to go down and bring Chen Qiuming in, Li Chengqian said enthusiastically:
"Brother-in-law, sit down and have tea."
After Chen Qiuming gave his full greeting, he sat down. He got straight to the point and said, "Your Highness, General Manager Li in the palace has gone to find Chen today. He said he would cooperate with us."
"General Manager Li?" Li Chengqian didn't know who General Manager Li was for a moment.
"He said his name is Li Guanyu, and he claimed that he had done things under His Highness." Chen Qiuming said.
He did not suspect that Li Guanyu was pretending to be from the palace because Li Chengqian didn't know. It seemed that Li Guanyu had already provided enough evidence to make Chen Qiuming believe his identity.
"Maitreya Buddha." Li Chengqian nodded and said, "That's right, he has been the director of the hospital, and he has done it under my hands. Has he gone to talk to you about cooperation?"
"Yes, let's talk about Hualu Water Cooperation." Chen Qiuming said.
Li Chengqian remembered the way he saw Maitreya Buddha following the queen last night. He also said that Maitreya Buddha was going to leave the palace to do business, but now he went to Chen Qiuming to discuss cooperation with Hualushui. In this way, Maitreya Buddha was transferred by the queen to do business.
The queen is doing business, so it is related to what Li Chengqian told the queen and Lao Li a month ago. Lao Li has always lacked money to use it. Li Chengqian said why don’t you make money if you don’t have money to use it? Can the emperor not make money when doing business?
The matter of Maitreya Buddha now shows that the empress and Lao Li were convinced by Li Chengqian that the imperial merchant was about to emerge.
But this first stop is to draw your own flower dew. Is it a little bit of kindness to repay your grudges?
Although the queen is Li Chengqian's current mother, isn't the son's money the same as the mother's money? But isn't there any other layer of Lao Li? So it's still important to distinguish it here. Lao Li's money is Lao Li's money, and my money is my money. Now Hualu is making a lot of money. Maitreya Buddha is coming to cooperate. Isn't that the market for Hualu? Dividing the market means dividing Li Chengqian's money. Of course, Li Chengqian disagreed.
"How big is our business now?" Li Chengqian asked, knocking on his finger joints.
Chen Qiuming took out a account book and showed it to Li Chengqian, and said, "Your Highness, we have now spread the business of Hualu River to many areas around Chang'an, and the farthest one has arrived in Xiangzhou!"
Li Chengqian asked where Xiangzhou was. After explaining it in detail, he realized that it was very close to the Yangtze River.
Unexpectedly, the Hualushui business has gone to the Yangtze River, so the Hualushui business is about to fill the north.
No wonder when I went to Hualushui yesterday, few shopkeepers were in the store, and it seemed that they all worked as business expansionists.
"At our current speed, in just one year, our flower dew shop will be available in Chang'an!" Chen Qiuming said confidently.
Li Chengqian nodded. This city only has a flower water shop, so it is not difficult to open the entire Chang'an.
So in this way, Maitreya Buddha did not let this market be divided, right?
"You are here to ask me to refuse Li Guanyu!" Li Chengqian asked.
"No, Your Highness." Chen Qiuming said.
Under Li Chengqian's unexpected gaze, he said: "Your Highness, General Manager Li does not want to do a flower water business in the Tang Dynasty."
Hearing this sentence, Li Chengqian immediately became interested.
This is not done in the Tang Dynasty, but it seems that it is going to do international business. Of course, this international business is done in foreign countries.
When he thought of foreign countries, Li Chengqian thought of the United States and Japan... Oh no, it was Tubo and Japan.
"When General Manager Li talked to Chen at first, Chen was a little embarrassed, but General Manager Li said first that he would sell the flower dew to Goguryeo and would never do any business in the Tang Dynasty and would not compete with us for profit." Chen Qiuming said.
Li Chengqian raised his eyebrows and asked, "Goguryeo? What about Tubo? Baekje, Silla?"
"He heard of Goguryeo, but he didn't say anything else!" Chen Qiuming said, "But Chen guessed that Mr. Li looked down on Tubo, a poor and troublesome place. Goguryeo is even richer. If you sell there, you can earn more!"
Only then did Li Chengqian remember that, indeed, the poor place in Tubo is far less wealthy than that of the superpower Goguryeo. Going there to sell flower dew is definitely more profitable than anywhere else!
Chapter completed!