Traveling through ancient times, the empress insisted on having a child with me

Ling Chuan tossed and turned and couldn't sleep well that night. The change in his identity forced him to readjust his original plan.

He had originally planned to go to the county government to file a complaint, but now he had to postpone it. Just as he had just prepared a batch of sugar, Ling Chuan took advantage of this opportunity to deliver the goods.

In Guangfenghao, Liu Quan was still behind the counter, using an abacus in one hand and a brush to keep accounts in the other. Ling Chuan sometimes wondered if this guy was just pretending. He was just counting accounts all day long, and what the hell were he doing this early in the morning?

"Shopkeeper Liu, business is booming."

When Liu Quan heard the voice, he looked up and saw that it was Ling Chuan. He threw the brush in his hand away and came out of the shop with a smile on his face. This was the God of Wealth.

Many of Guangfenghao’s regular customers were wealthy families in the capital. They were people with plenty of money, and when they heard that the sugar came from the palace, they rushed to buy it.

At the beginning, Liu Quan sold one catty for eight taels of silver, and people bought five catties at once. Later, he gritted his teeth and raised the price to ten taels, and the other party bought five catties at once without blinking an eye.

In order to implement what the prince said and make the sugar known to everyone, Liu Quan could only release the remaining sugar one pound at a time. In this way, more customers would know about the sugar. In the past few days, there were people coming to ask every day when the sugar would arrive.

So in Liu Quan's eyes, the truckload of sugar shipped from Lingchuan was like a truckload of silver, which could be doubled in value after a short sale.

"Shopkeeper Liu, how is the sugar selling?"

"It's selling well! The demand is far exceeding the supply." Liu Quan said with a smile, "Mr. Ling, how much sugar is there in this cart?"

"Not much, only two hundred kilograms. I want to ask, what is the price for it, Manager Liu?"

There is nothing to hide about this matter, and it cannot be hidden. Liu Quan crossed his index fingers and said, "Ten taels."

This price shocked Ling Chuan. There were many rich people in the capital, but he didn't expect that there were so many rich people that ten taels of silver per pound of sugar could still be in short supply?

"Manager Liu is amazing." Ling Chuan chuckled, "I knew I was right at the beginning. Manager Liu is indeed a big businessman."

"Mr. Ling, thank you for your compliment, but Mr. Ling, the price of this sugar... won't go up, right?"

"How could that be? We have signed a contract." Ling Chuan patted Liu Quan on the shoulder and said, "Manager Liu, please relax. The price will not be raised by a penny within the agreed time in the contract."

"Okay, okay, Master Ling is generous."

"Manager Liu, I won't say more. Please inspect these two hundred kilograms of goods and give me a receipt. We will settle the bill at the end of the month."

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll settle the bill at the end of the month." Liu Quan smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits. It was such a good thing where you could find goods that were so easy to sell and still have a payment period.

Ling Chuan added: "Since this product is selling well, I will send more at the end of the month."

Liu Quan's eyes lit up: "How much?"

Ling Chuan raised his eyebrows: "How much does Manager Liu want?"

Liu Quan held up three fingers: "Three hundred kilograms, no no no, five hundred kilograms."

Ling Chuan was stunned for a moment. Is Guangfeng's business so good? Ten taels of silver per pound of sugar, and they want 500 pounds?

"No problem, but Shopkeeper Liu, the bill will be settled at the end of the month. I might as well send it to you at the beginning of next month so that you have a month to pay. Two thousand five hundred taels of silver is not a small amount."

"Mr. Ling is really considerate. I would like to thank you very much."

"Okay, okay, we have a long way to go, so we should just take it slow." Ling Chuan was not going to let him take advantage of him for no reason. If it was before last night, he would have delivered the goods before the end of the month. But now it was different, he was a member of the East Factory.

He always felt that there was something wrong with the Guangfeng, and Cao Huanchun was unable to find out the other party's background, so Lingchuan laid a bait here.

"But Manager Liu, can you give me a total amount of sugar you will need next month so I can make preparations in advance?"

Liu Quan was also cautious about such obvious clichés: "I can't say the specifics, except for the 500 kilograms, another 1,800 kilograms should be no problem."

He said this number just to test Lingchuan. The prince said that the sugar came from the palace, and the palace couldn't have so much sugar stored.

Ling Chuan replied without hesitation: "Okay, then I'll prepare two thousand kilograms of goods for you, and I'll charge you as much as you take."

Two thousand kilograms? Liu Quan was stunned for a moment, and his heart skipped a beat. If Ling Chuan could get so much sugar, it might not be from the palace. He had to report this to the prince immediately.

But he still agreed: "Okay, two thousand pounds is two thousand pounds."

Ling Chuan saw him hesitate for a moment and thought he thought it was too little: "Manager Liu, if you think it's too little, I will try my best to get you more."

"Oh, that's not what I meant. I meant..."

Ling Chuan patted Liu Quan on the shoulder and interrupted him: "Don't worry, Shopkeeper Liu, I won't lose your goods even if someone else's goods are missing."

Liu Quan could only shut up. After Ling Chuan left, he went to Prince Ning's Mansion as soon as possible.

"Two thousand pounds?"

Prince Ning's face suddenly turned gloomy, which scared Liu Quan to death.

"He asked me how much goods I needed next month, so I tried to test him and asked for 1,500 kilograms. He then asked me to prepare 2,000 kilograms first."

Prince Ning's eyebrows were almost twisted into knots: "The foreign countries stopped paying tribute to our dynasty three years ago. How could there be so much sugar in the palace?"

Seeing that the prince looked unhappy, Liu Quan analyzed: "Prince, is it possible that this sugar was purchased from foreign countries?"

King Ning looked at Liu Quan and said, "Ever since Yue and our dynasty fell out three years ago, both sides have blocked the border. How could he pass through Yue and get sugar from foreign countries?"

"Your Highness, this is a bit difficult, but it is not impossible. There are countless people who are willing to take risks at the border... As long as you are willing to spend money, there is nothing you can't get."

King Ning's frown suddenly relaxed: "So, this Ling might be secretly communicating with foreign countries, or even colluding with the Yue garrison commander to smuggle goods?"

Liu Quan was stunned. The hat was a bit too big for him and he didn't dare to respond.

But King Ning laughed and patted his shoulder and said, "You'd better find out whether his sugar was smuggled from foreign countries. If you find out, I will remember your great merit."

Liu Quan bowed quickly: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

On the other side, Lingchuan had just returned to the shop when he met a yamen runner, who said that he was sent by Magistrate Lu to summon Lingchuan to court.

After asking in surprise, Ling Chuan learned that it was Xu Heng who personally tied Xu Ping up and took him to the county government to surrender. As the victim, Ling Chuan naturally had to go to court for a confrontation.

Cao Huanchun and Ling Chuan exchanged glances, both revealing the same meaning: the Xu family is quite decisive, directly sacrificing pawns to save the rook?