General, you should rest now; the lady is even more ruthless.

Chapter 275 Jade Pendant Acquisition Plan

"You mean, General Sixteen left last night and hasn't returned yet?" Nineteen felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

"Yes."

"Twelve, help me up." He was a little unsteady on his feet.

He should have thought of that sooner!

The lady has never been one to listen to advice. She always smiles and seems to accept your suggestions on the surface, but then turns around and continues to do things her own way.

"By the way, what about Beiming? Any news from them?"

If the lady were to cause a ruckus in the enemy camp, there would surely be some commotion.

"Reporting to the General, everything is normal in Northern Ming."

"That's alright." What a load of rubbish! This is far from optimistic news.

If Madam didn't go to Beiming, where would she go?

......

Jiang Qiqi had already removed her disguise as Sixteen and changed her face to enter the Northern Ming Kingdom along the main trade route.

As mentioned earlier, the Southern Yue Kingdom and the Northern Ming Kingdom were divided by Chu Wang Mountain and Huangchuan.

The border town on the south side of Mount Heng is Huangchuan City, while those on the north side of Mount Beiming are Chu City and Cha City.

Although separated by only one mountain, the other side of the mountain is very suitable for tea growth due to geographical factors such as monsoons, climate, and sunlight. People live off the mountain, grow and sell tea, and settle together to form a tea city.

There is also a city called Chu, where most of the people make a living by transporting various products from the Northern Ming Dynasty to trade with the Southern Yue.

In previous years, the two countries were constantly at war, which greatly affected trade between them, and at one point the city was in a state of near-death.

So when the ceasefire agreement was signed two years ago, Shen Luo specifically added a clause at the end:

A separate main trade route was established for merchants to use, so that no matter what the future relationship between the two countries might be, the people of several cities would not be left destitute.

This is the case now.

Jiang Qiqi also managed to sneak into Chu City through this trade route.

"Chestnuts, freshly roasted chestnuts."

"Candied hawthorn, sweet and sour candied hawthorn."

"Oh, sir, it's been a long time since you've been here. The girls have been missing you. Come in and have a look."

The shouts from vendors in the streets and alleys give people a sense of economic prosperity, which is completely different from the tense atmosphere of the two armies facing off outside.

She didn't linger and went straight to the pawnshop.

"Shopkeeper, how many pieces of jade do you have here?"

"Young master, it's two hundred and thirty-one yuan."

"I want to buy them all. How much silver do I need?"

The abacus clicked excitedly: "Young master, it will cost 11,400 taels in total."

Take less? !

Jiang Qiqi touched the silver notes in her pocket, closed her eyes, and made a firm decision.

"I have eleven bills here, and four hundred taels. Can you round it down to zero?"

"Oh, sir, we're just a small business, how could we possibly make such a big profit?"

"Never mind then, I don't want it." She turned and left.

three, two, one

"Hey, sir, come back! Oh well, round it down, I'll just consider this a chance to make a friend."

......

More than two hundred jade pendants, heavy and jingling.

Jiang Qiqi then visited other pawnshops and jade shops, eventually spending all 50,000 taels of silver from her private treasury to buy all the jade pendants in Chu City and Tea City.

They came on horseback and left by horseback.

The horse was carrying nothing but jade pendants.

Then, he was spotted by the guards checking people at the city gate.

"You, stop right there! What's that bulging thing on the horse's back?!"

Jiang Qiqi curled her fingers and put on a fawning smile: "Sir, I'm just a gofer, I don't know anything about this. There's someone in Nanyue who's buying jade pendants at a high price, and I'm thinking of transporting them there to make a profit."

She secretly slipped a small silver ingot to the guard.

"Sir, please do me a favor."

"Buying and selling for profit? Forget it, forget it. Bringing so much at once, aren't you afraid of crushing the horse?"

"Thank you, Master Guan."

Jiang Qiqi led her horse away quickly, but before she reached the city gate, a voice behind her shouted, "Stop that person!"

"Yes, General!"

Oh no, it's Qi Ji!