Xu Songtao, the ethics officer of Dingnan Fort, raised the glass of wine in his hand high.

The wine glass was immersed in the sunlight from the window, shining with dazzling light, and it was indescribable.

Xu Songtao poured the soju into the glass again and looked at the glass again. He saw that the transparent soju and the transparent glass were connected into one, fluorescent and transparent, like a piece of crystal.

Xu Songtao praised: "It's so beautiful! It's so beautiful!"

He carefully wrapped the wine glass in paper, put it in the gift box, and said, "It is really decent and elegant to use this glass wine glass as the highlight of this year's gift gift. Such a small wine glass used to be sold for twenty taels per one, right? How can anyone use it? Now Qin Shoujie only sells four taels of silver, which is only 20% of the original price at once."

"We use Qin Shoujie's glass wine cup as the highlight of this year's gift list, and we will definitely win a lot of money!"

Xu Songtao goes out to give a gift every August.

There is no other reason, just because Xu Songtao was appointed as an ethics officer in August five years ago. On the first day of his tenure, Xu Songtao brought thick gifts to honor his superiors everywhere. Not only was the guard of the Nanhai Guard, but also the ups of the Commander Command, and even the magistrate of Nanhai County, Xu Songtao had to take care of the situation everywhere.

Because the first year was to go out to give gifts in August, and he had to respect his superiors once every year, Xu Songtao developed the following rules, and he had to give gifts once every August and gave gifts everywhere.

The main content of gifts is of course giving away silver, and nothing is really good. But that cannot be all silver, and other gifts are needed. Xu Songtao has to match the silver every year with some expensive and distinctive gifts.

This is really a brain-consuming thing. Sometimes, for this "main" gift from that time, Xu Songtao had to rack his brains and go hundreds of miles away to purchase.

But this year, Xu Songtao didn't need to run far. Qin Zhao's glass was spread out, and not many people knew about it, but Xu Songtao knew it as soon as possible.

Xu Songtao is now very concerned about Qin Zhao's every move.

The things Qin Zhao sold must be fine. When Xu Songtao went to the glass shop, he found that the Qin family's glass products were of high quality and low price.

Xu Songtao bought ten sets of glass wine cups and added them to ten gift lists.

Xu Songtao's official wife Yue Niang said, "Officials! What kind of world is this now? Beijing City has been broken, Nanjing City has been broken, and people are panic. You are giving this thin and fragile glass as a gift?"

Xu Songtao smiled and said, "Madam! You don't understand this."

"If you have rich and noble officials nowadays, you will also have rich and noble officials in the future. You should know that although the Qing Dynasty is cruel, it is also reasonable. For the Ming Dynasty officials who sincerely surrendered, the Qing Dynasty will always come and be granted all officials."

"If you don't look at the Minister of Rites Qian Qianyi of Nanjing, he shaves his head and surrenders to the Qing Dynasty, he is appointed as the Minister of Rites in charge of the affairs of the Secretariat, and is only demoted to one level. There is also the General of Xuzhou Li Chengdong, who was conquered everywhere after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, and is now promoted to the Governor of Jiangnan of the Qing Dynasty. Not to mention the matter of Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou."

"In short, as long as you have high titles and high salaries in the Ming Dynasty, you will still have a bright future when the Qing Dynasty went south. As long as you don't be proud of your head and scold the Qing Dynasty, don't organize troops to resist the Tartar Qing Dynasty, you will still have officials if you change the monarch."

"Now all officials in Guangdong know this, and they all think the same thing. So the life of the chaotic world you are worried about will not come. Today there are officials and tomorrow there are officials. Even those rich merchants know that the official households they surrender to will still become officials after they join the Tartars, and their relationship will always be useful."

"Which family is rich, which family still has the ability to sing and dance, and has wine, meat, silk and silk?"

Yue Niang bit her lip and thought for a while, and sighed.

Xu Songtao asked, "Why did your wife sigh?"

Yue Niang shook her head and said, "I won't sigh!"

Xu Songtao did not let his wife go and asked, "What did Yue Niang sigh? Tell me!"

Yue Niang took a breath and said, "I sigh! I hate you, the officials of the imperial court, and none of them are men. The Qing Dynasty was only tens of thousands of people outside the pass, and the Mongolian Tartars were only 100,000. They were actually rolling bigger and bigger like snowballs. Now that Beijing is broken, Nanjing is broken, and the family and country are gone!"

"And none of you court officials and brave warriors stood up in this crisis and called for a large army to fight with the Qing Dynasty. At this time, you were actually calculating your future position after you shave your head, and you all thought that the Tartars would shave their heads and beg for mercy as soon as they came!"

"Continue to be an official? I think you are not an official, but a dog!"

Xu Songtao knew that Yue Niang had always been a tough person. When she heard that her wife was angry and scolding, Xu Songtao laughed.

"Yue Niang, what nonsense are you talking about? Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your son and daughter? If I don't care about life and death and fight to the Tartars, who will raise your son and your daughter in the future? Do you know the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, but do you know whether the sword is ruthless?"

Xu Songtao drank the soju in the glass of wine in one sip and said with a smile: "I never consider so much as an official, just following the crowd. Now I know that all officials are singing and dancing as usual, so this glass of the Qin family is an excellent gift. I don't want so many national and national affairs, I just consider preparing for this year's gifts."

"Yue Niang, please take care of your children at home and wait for the good news to give your husband a gift!"

Yue Niang was stumbled by Xu Songtao. Looking at her six-year-old son playing with a Trojan in the room, Yue Niang sighed.

She stood up and said, "Shitouer, come on, stop playing with Trojan horses, take a shower and change into new clothes!"

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Lu Yixuan looked at the glass of wine placed on the table, his face turned a little dark.

Lu Zihong stood up in anger and said, "Uncle! This is a gift from a chaotic guy. Doesn't this chaotic guy know that my family has a grudge against the Renhou Qin family, and does not want to see the Qin family?"

Lu Yixuan shook his head helplessly.

Lu Yixuan's master sat aside, smiled, and raised the wine glass.

"Crystal and beautiful!"

The master smiled and said, "Duke! This is a good gift! Why is the Duke unhappy when he received this gift?"

Lu Yixuan sneered and said, "I don't want the things made by the Qin family!"

The master smiled and said, "Guess, how much does this flashing and transparent glass wine glass cost?"

Lu Yixuan looked at his master and said, "In the past, the Fanhai Merchants also gave me such wine glasses, saying that it was a specialty of the Fan Kingdom's Yidali, one for twenty taels of silver."

The master smiled and said, "In the past, only Westerners sold this glass, they cost twenty taels of silver."

"But now the Qin family sells this wine glass for only four taels."

"Duke, think about it, what is the difference here?"

Hearing the master's words, Lu Yixuan and Lu Zihong were both silent.

Selling the same things as others is not a skill. But selling the same things as others only makes the price one-fifth of the original one. This is a great skill. This basically means that other people's business does not need to be done anymore, and all business will belong to this newcomer's family in the future.

Lu Yixuan took a breath and said nothing.
Chapter completed!