hsntnovel Chapter 2349: 1 Coins
Chapter 2349: 1 Coins
“My master’s clothes are made of natural silk, which is impervious to water and fire.
Silk from the wild silkworm is extremely rare, and high-quality silk is even rarer. In order to make this dress, our Prince Ji's Mansion spent a lot of manpower and resources, purchasing it at high prices from all over the Tang Dynasty.
A large number of personnel were also dispatched into the mountains to search for the places where the silkworms appeared.
It took more than three years to collect all of them, and then the skilled craftsmen in the palace spent more than a year to make them.
More than a dozen painters, more than 300 embroiderers, and hundreds of craftsmen from the palace were mobilized.
Let alone ten thousand, if it were you, you wouldn’t even be able to make a hundred thousand.”
Shi Tou turned his nose up and looked at Arthur and his companions as if they were a group of country bumpkins.
He was the witness of this dress, which was personally given by the Empress and made together with the dragon robe of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
It’s just that the prince’s dragon robe is more complicated and takes longer to wear.
"Ahem~ Keep a low profile, keep a low profile." Li Shen coughed lightly. He was a little inflated by the flattery of his little follower.
This dress of mine was indeed made in the palace and was made of natural silk, but it didn't take several years to get it.
The key point is that not so many people were used. Shi Tou said that it took hundreds of people to make the prince's dragon robe.
It took the painter more than three months to finalize the pattern, but that was a dragon robe.
I just did this by following someone else's advice, and it only took me a year.
I don’t know where this little stone learned this bad habit and speaks so hypocritically.
No matter what Li Shen thought, Arthur and others were shocked after hearing what Shi Tou said.
I didn’t expect that making a piece of clothing would be so troublesome and took five years. Are people in the Tang Dynasty so idle?
Or is it that the Tang Dynasty was so rich that it took five whole years to buy a piece of clothing, and one would only wear a few pieces of clothing in his lifetime?
They weren't surprised to learn that Prince Ji's clothes came from the palace, but they were shocked that it took hundreds of people.
Hundreds of embroiderers, hundreds of craftsmen, almost a thousand people, just to make a piece of clothing for Prince Ji?
It was widely rumored in Chang'an that Prince Ji owned half of the world's wealth and was rich enough to rival a country. Now it seems that what was said was true.
A piece of clothing costs tens of thousands of strings of cash, a thousand taels of gold, which is as much as a business trip for them.
Several people looked at Shi Tou in shock and found that Shi Tou looked serious and didn't seem to be bragging.
Moreover, several people did not think that a servant would dare to brag like this in this situation.
Just look at the clothes this servant is wearing. You can tell at a glance that they are not ordinary linen or silk.
Judging from the texture, it should be made of silk, which was the standard equipment for Tang Dynasty nobles and was very valuable.
Looking at the style, which fits perfectly, you can tell it is custom-made.
And there are accessories that shouldn't appear on a servant.
Prince Ji was so rich that even his servants were dressed like this.
They didn't know that all the accessories on Shitou's body were those that Li Shen no longer wanted and were just given to Shitou as a reward. Each one of them was worth hundreds or thousands of strings of cash.
Li Shen felt that Shi Tou was inseparable from him every day, so his actions must be worthy of his status.
Otherwise, he could not show his nobleness, so he specially ordered people to make several sets of clothes for Shi Tou.
"Your Highness Prince Ji is as wealthy as a country and worthy of admiration." Arthur saluted and praised him first.
Then he said:
“Your Highness Prince Ji, we have come from afar to purchase textile machines with sincerity.
Although we are doing this for wealth, it is also for our millions of people.
I hope they can wear cotton clothes and no longer suffer from hunger and cold.
We also hope that His Royal Highness Prince Ji can agree to sell us two machines.
We can guarantee that it will not affect His Royal Highness Prince Ji's business, and the cloth we produce will never appear in the Tang Dynasty."
Arthur requested that they come all the way here just for the machine, if this machine is really the same as the legend.
Then they can produce in large quantities and sell the cloth to various countries.
By then you will earn a steady stream of wealth.
"I've already said that you can forget about the textile machines. I'm not even planning to sell cotton to foreigners right now.
However, we can cooperate in other areas. I am very interested in the rare treasures you have.
There are also flowers and plants that we don’t have here.
This king has a manor outside the city of Chang'an, where he grows exotic flowers and plants. He also has an area on the mountain where he raises many rare and exotic animals.
If you have something like this, I will definitely buy it at a high price to satisfy you."
Li Shen looked at a few people and said, if it were someone else, they might have sold it for 5,000 strings of cash long ago, but Li Shen is not someone else.
He proposed another method of cooperation because Li Shen did not know if there were any animals or plants that were native to West Asia.
He didn't know much about this, so he planned to buy a large number of exotic flowers and fruits.
What if it turns out to be a good thing?
Arthur and his companions were still unwilling to give up after hearing King Ji's words. If they gave up just like that, it would have been a waste of their trip.
"Your Highness, Prince Ji, if the price isn't right, we can still add more. I wonder what price Your Highness would like to sell me two."
Arthur asked directly.
"Hmm..." Li Shen pretended to think for a while, then stretched out a finger.
"One hundred thousand strings of cash?" Arthur and the others were shocked when they saw this, and Etan even screamed in surprise.
But Li Shen shook his head:
"It's not 100,000 strings of cash. How can a mere 100,000 strings of cash be enough? I want 1 million strings of cash.
If you really want to buy it, just pay one million strings of cash and I will sell you the production method as well."
"One million strings of cash~!" Arthur stood up suddenly, and everyone else almost fell off their stools.
Prince Ji must have gone crazy due to poverty. He asked for a huge sum of money, even one million strings of cash.
Not to mention that they don’t have it, even if they did, they wouldn’t buy two machines.
With this one million strings of cash, they could live a life of luxury in their hometown for several lifetimes. Why would they still want to go into business?
"Your Highness Prince Ji, isn't one million guan a bit too high? Our entire fortune doesn't even reach one million guan.
It seems His Royal Highness Prince Ji doesn't want to sell it to us."
Arthur's attitude changed. He felt that King Ji was playing tricks on them.
How could it cost one million strings of cash to buy two looms?
"Haha, one million strings of cash is too much? You should know that what I'm selling you is not just two looms, but the production method.
If you go back and copy it, you will gain far more than a million strings of cash."
Li Shen smiled lightly and looked at Arthur. If they could really come up with one million strings of cash, Li Shen wouldn't mind selling it to them.
Anyway, the research institute has been studying and upgrading textile machines.
"Your Highness Prince Ji, please don't joke. It will take us many years to earn back one million strings of cash.
And we really can't come up with that much money.
I also hope that His Royal Highness Prince Ji will treat me with sincerity."
Arthur stood up and bowed solemnly.