ATPnovel Chapter 2350: Shu suddenly left
Chapter 2350: Shu suddenly left
When Arthur and his companions arrived, they didn't expect King Ji to be so difficult and unyielding.
They thought that there was absolutely no problem in buying two looms with 5,000 strings of cash.
But now it seems that the situation is not that simple, or it is too difficult.
It seemed as if Prince Ji didn't want to sell it to them at all.
"Do you think I'm joking with you?" Li Shen said in a frivolous tone with a smile on his face.
"I am not joking with you. Do you know that this workshop of mine earns me at least one million strings of cash every year?
Now do you think one million is too much for me?"
"So much?" Everyone was dumbfounded. Could a workshop in this area earn a million guan a year? Impossible, right?
"Nothing is impossible. There are tens of thousands of craftsmen, dozens of workshops, and hundreds of warehouses here.
The investment alone is astronomical, so it's not surprising that such a large workshop area can generate millions of guan per year."
Wang Xuance, who was standing by, spoke up. Li Shen didn't even bother to pay attention to them; they were just a bunch of frogs in a well.
Li Shen thought he had met a big client, but he didn't expect that they were just a group of poor people who had never seen the world.
He had lost interest in these people.
"Okay, let's stop here. I'm tired." Li Shen waved his hand.
"Your Highness Prince Ji, we can discuss this further."
Seeing King Ji ordering him to leave, Arthur quickly stood up. Stone immediately blocked his way.
"Please come in. My master is doing you a favor by allowing me to see you. Now that we have finished discussing this, you may leave."
"This..." Arthur wanted to say something else, but when he saw Li Shen's guards coming up, he immediately shut up.
He looked at the lazy young man, bowed and walked out.
There was no way, the shining sword had been unsheathed, and the person in front of him was the prince of the Tang Dynasty.
"Sir, please tell His Royal Highness Prince Ji that we come here with sincerity. Please consider our kindness in coming all the way here."
On the way out, Arthur pleaded with the stone and took out a bag of money from his pocket and stuffed it into the stone's hand.
Since he can follow Prince Ji, his identity must be extraordinary. He must be a close confidant.
Stone frowned, weighed it for a moment, and then threw it back to Arthur.
"Are you trying to bribe me? There's no need for that. I can tell you that few people in this world can change the decisions made by our Prince Ji.
I am just a servant of His Royal Highness Prince Ji and I cannot change anything.
I advise you to give up this idea."
Stone said coldly.
Along the way, Arthur was looking at the workshop area that could earn one million yuan a year.
Only when I got closer did I realize that it was really huge, not just ordinary huge.
There was no workshop area of this scale in their tribe, not even in the Arab, Persian, and Byzantine regions.
After reuniting with his own team and watching the guards from Prince Ji's Mansion leave, Arthur couldn't help but sigh:
"Rumors about Prince Ji's Mansion are indeed forbidden."
"Damn it! Prince Ji actually rejected us. He actually asked us for one million strings of cash. That's a lot of gold."
Yitan pounded the saddle with his hand, feeling a little resentful.
“In my opinion, Prince Ji just doesn’t want to sell it to us, so he offered a price of one million.
How could a loom be worth a million strings of cash?"
"Yes, he just doesn't want to sell it to us."
Nathan and Gad, who had been silent the whole time, echoed this.
If they had one million strings of cash, they would have gone back to enjoy themselves long ago. Why would they have to run around in the Tang Dynasty?
"Arthur, what should we do next? Are we just going back like this?" Etan looked at Arthur and asked.
"Let's go to Xizhou City first and make plans, and then think of other ways."
Arthur thought about it and decided.
After hearing this, several people mounted their horses and headed towards Xizhou City with their servants.
"Arthur, it seems that this won't work with King Ji. How about we see if we can steal one?"
Once on his horse, Etan expressed his thoughts.
"Are you crazy? Don't you see how many guards are there? Just over a hundred of us are not enough to defeat them."
Etan's words immediately drew the scolding of the crowd.
"I didn't say I was going to rob, I said I was going to steal," Yitan defended.
"Steal? Look at us, we have no chance. How can we get such a large machine out? Look at how high the walls of that workshop are.
There are thousands of people guarding here, do you think you have a chance?"
Arthur rejected it after hearing it. He thought that Etan was a fool. If there were no interests involved, he really would not be with such a person. It would be easy to lose his life.
"Arthur, I heard that King Ji is not on good terms with some families in the Tang Dynasty. Do you think we can take advantage of this?
How about asking those families to help build two looms?" Gad thought for a moment and suggested.
"Using the Tang Dynasty families? That's possible, but we haven't had any contact with them.
I heard that these Tang Dynasty families are very arrogant, especially to foreigners like us, whom they call a barbaric race.
I wonder if they will help?" Arthur thought for a moment and nodded.
"Humph, they are barbarians with dirty souls. Sooner or later, we will become stronger."
Yitan snorted. Indeed, he had often heard the word "barbarian" in the past year in Chang'an City.
If they wanted to dine at some high-end places, they had to wear Tang Dynasty clothing, otherwise they would not be allowed in.
"Let's go. Let's discuss this again when we get back. Let's see if there's any solution."
Go ahead and spur your horse on.
After they left, Stone popped his head out from the distance, looked around with a telescope in his hand, and then turned and left.
"Your Majesty, they went to Xizhou City."
Shitou came back and whispered to Li Shen's ear.
"Xizhou City? It seems they are unwilling to give up."
Li Shen touched his chin.
"Your Highness, do you think these people have other tricks up their sleeves?"
Wang Xuance asked.
"I don't know either, but it doesn't matter. Rengui, go tell Zhang Zhiguan and the other two to increase patrols and defenses, especially at night.
If anything goes wrong, let them bring their heads to me.”
Li Shen thought about it and immediately ordered Xue Rengui to make arrangements.
"Yes." Xue Rengui accepted the order.
"Also, let Zhao Tiejun send someone to keep an eye on them." Li Shen added.
After hearing this, Xue Rengui bowed and accepted the order.
“I have indeed overlooked some things.
Xuan Ce wrote a letter to Wang Hongfu, asking him to keep an eye on the movements of merchants from the Western Regions.
The news spread in Chang'an City that Prince Ji's Mansion sold a machine to people from the Western Regions for 500,000 strings of cash, and that the barbarians lacked the ability to manufacture machines.
They wanted to buy the products, imitate them themselves, and then ship them back to Datang to sell them, disrupting the market environment within Datang.
You also need to tell them the importance of technology. Selling it would be treasonous and self-serving. You should let the newspaper publish it in this way."
(August has ended and September has arrived. I wish you all great success and success in these months.)