Chapter 659 - Show Loyalty (1/2)
Chapter 659: Show Loyalty
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The dinner at the Sun Residence wasn’t too extravagant since only Yan Liqiang and Sun Bingchen were dining together tonight There was a pot of duck soup, winter bamboo shoots, a plate of stir-fried capsicuo with the wine Yan Liqiang’s welcoo with a jar of finely aged wine that Sun Bingchen brought back from Yue Province
Compared to other wealthy clans in the Imperial Capital, a banquet like this was considered to be extre didn’t chen had always lived a si this on purpose He never needed any extravagance to show anything to anyone Having two non-vegetarian dishes and a jar of fine wine for tonight’s dinner was already considered a ‘rare exception’ for Sun Bingchen…
Sun Bingchen appeared to be very happy during dinner Both of them were able to connect on a deep level They didn’t talk about work on the dining table, just so escorted him from Gan Province to the Imperial Capital The atchen’s study after dinner While sipping on sochen slowly steered the conversation toork by asking Yan Liqiang about the situation on the Gulang Plains Yan Liqiang replied truthfully without concealing any facts
Sun Bingchen swiped the cover on his teacup as he casually asked, “I heard you started so wool fro the a monthly profit of tens of taels of silver Is that true?”
“Haha, I didn’t expect you would hear about this too…”
“How can I possiblynews like this? No one even expected that you would be able to ain a trade monopoly over wool Did you know that because of this incident, the Grand Secretariat received so h officials of the Ministries of War and Revenue? Everyone was talking about it!”
“Oh? What did they say in the report?” Although Yan Liqiang could pretty uess the content, he pretended to be curious
“You’re acting du, but he wasn’t angry “You’re a suessed it The report fro easy profit from the wool trade monopoly at White Stone Pass, so that money should be transferred to the Plains instead of you hoarding it
“ThePlains this tie, and the iled to bear the burden The report from the Ministry of War said that the Monopoly Bureau should be ed by the Ministry of Revenue and shouldn’t be preceded by the local Protectorate Office So they are thinking of sending people to White Stone Pass to set up a Trade Monopoly Unit to take over the wool trade The other local authorities alsofrom the Shatu Seven Tribes is cheap, around ten copper coins for a jin Since they are collected at a low price, you should not sell theher price and should instead resell it to the other workshops operated by the bureaucracy…”