As expected, when he first met Empress Zhangsun, she was still concerned about his well-being, but very soon, she said casually,""Chongyi, the perfume you gave me last time was not bad, but it was a little lacking.”
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. The Hu who sold me the perfume promised me that he would bring a few more bottles from a western country in half a year. This bottle is enough for half a year. When Your Majesty finishes using it, there will be a new one.”Li Chongyi said.
"Then what should we do? You also know that there are many women in the palace. Today, you use a little, and tomorrow, she uses a little. Now, there's no more. Don't tell me you have to wait for half a year?”She had been using the perfume for a while, but when she did not use it yesterday, she felt weak all over. She could not lift her spirits to do anything, and she kept feeling that something was missing.
" This…" After hesitating for a moment, Li Chongyi said,""Empress, I won't hide it from you. When I bought this perfume from that Hu, I was careful and managed to get the secret recipe out of him. Recently, I've been planning to set up a perfume workshop.”
When Empress Zhangsun heard this, she narrowed her eyes and suddenly sighed.""Let's forget about this matter. His Majesty has been worrying about money all day. As the empress, I can't share his worries. I can only take out the palace treasury to replenish the national treasury. Ai, now the palace treasury is as empty as my heart.”
If Li Chongyi believed her words, he would be a retard. Empress Zhangsun was clearly asking for the perfume without paying. It was rare for an empress to be so stingy.
However, he did not show it. Instead, he was first shocked, then hesitated. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said,"Alright, after the perfume is made, I'll send twenty bottles to the Empress.”
"Only twenty bottles! Chongyi, I watched you grow up. When you were young, I played with you a lot.”Empress Zhangsun felt that it was too little and played the emotional card again.
That was true. Back then, when Li Chongyi's mother was alive, she had a very good relationship with Empress Zhangsun. However, since Li Chongyi's mother passed away, Li Chongyi basically had no chance to enter the palace. Naturally, he had no chance to see Empress Zhangsun.
"Thirty bottles, absolutely no more. Your Majesty, you don't know that this perfume is extremely complicated to make, and the raw materials are extremely expensive.”
"Chongyi, you're making things difficult for me. Think about it, there are so many women in the palace, but there are only thirty bottles. 10,000 bottles. He had to give each of the women in the palace a bottle!”
Ten thousand bottles? Li Chongyi really did not expect Empress Zhangsun to demand such an exorbitant price." Empress, I'm not opening this perfume workshop anymore." Even if I put all my money into it, it wouldn't be enough for your ten thousand bottles!”
"Child, don't try to bluff me. How much can such a small thing cost?”As Empress Zhangsun was speaking, suddenly, two light coughs came from behind the screen." Sit down first. I'll go and take a look at Si Zi. I'm afraid this child has caught a cold."”
Li Chongyi was speechless. This cough was deliberately made by someone. It was a young woman. How could it be the five-year-old Princess of Jin Yang, Li Mingda? Empress Zhangsun was talking nonsense.
The person inside was most likely Gao Yang? She probably couldn't stand seeing Empress Zhangsun 'oppress' him like this and wanted to stand up for him. What a good girl.
After a while, Empress Zhangsun walked out from behind the screen with a happy expression.
"Chongyi, I thought about it just now. As the empress, it's really embarrassing for me to ask for something from a junior. Also, I remember that you've already moved out of the Hejian King's mansion. You must be having a hard time outside.”
"Thank you for your consideration, Empress. You don't know, but I haven't even gathered the money to open a perfume workshop. Sigh, if I don't take charge of the household, I don't know how expensive rice is!”Li Chongyi sighed.
"Chongyi, you're really something. You didn't come to me when you were short of money. When you leave later, I'll get someone to prepare 50 strings for you.”Empress Zhangsun said with a smile.
Li Chongyi's expression changed. Empress Zhangsun was famous for being stingy. She had given out 50 strings of strings in one go. This was not right!
As expected, Empress Zhangsun said,""I want 60% of this perfume workshop. 50 strings will be my capital.”
"There's a problem, of course there's a problem. 60%! Your Majesty, this is robbery! You are the Empress, how can you bear to snatch a commoner like me?”Li Chongyi's tone was filled with grief and indignation, as if he had suffered a great grievance.
"Oh? You seem to be right. In that case, I'll tell His Majesty to set up a perfume supervisor in the Ministry of Works and recruit you as a supervisor. What do you think?”What he meant was, if you don't agree to let me invest in it, I'll snatch it openly! Not only do you want to rob me, but you also have to work for me for free. As for the seventh grade? Ordinary people might be overjoyed when they got a Rank-7. They would even set off firecrackers to celebrate. Some even paid their respects to their ancestors.
The so-called perfume supervisor was similar to a bureau. The supervisor was the director, and there was also a deputy director called the junior supervisor.
However, for Li Chongyi's family, being a seventh-grade director was no different from finding a job to move bricks at a construction site.
"Good, just nice. I want to be an official. Then this commoner will thank the Empress in advance for putting in a good word for me in front of His Majesty!”Li Chongyi was planning to fight to the death. Didn't you threaten me? Then I might as well go to that non-existent perfume supervisor. At that time, the money I earn will go to the national treasury and have nothing to do with you, the empress.
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