Ren Baqian naturally did not know what was happening in other places. From that day onwards, he started to get busy.
He could not even care about the air coolers anymore.
After Tong Jia made the outer shell, he threw it to Caretaker Shi.
As for the price, it was 15 taels of silver each. Anyway, the people who bought it weren't ordinary people. It didn't matter if it was expensive.
The production method of this thing was too simple. It could only earn a sum of money. As long as it was sold, there would definitely be imitations.
Although Dayao people weren't good at doing business, they weren't stupid. They just needed to find someone to make this thing. Almost all the money was under their feet. They would at least know how to bend their backs.
Even if Dayao people were really stupid, there were still merchants from other countries.
Ren Baqian's mind wasn't on this. Although a few hundred taels of silver wasn't a small amount, it wasn't very important to him.
What he didn't know was that when Caretaker Shi placed this thing in the newly renovated shop on Jingyang Avenue, it immediately attracted the interest of many people.
Especially after it was demonstrated that it could produce cold air with ice cubes. Out of a total of 20 air coolers, seven were sold on the first day. The remaining 13 were completely sold the next day.
It was much faster than what Ren Baqian initially expected.
In fact, there was one thing that he didn't know. Ever since the empress gave the air coolers to the empress, she often used them even during court sessions. The other officials had long been envious of them.
When the air coolers were placed in the shop, they were immediately sold out after being discovered.
Twenty air coolers earned more than 200 taels of silver. Caretaker Shi's eyes immediately turned red and he hurriedly looked for Ren Baqian.
Upon hearing this news, Ren Baqian was somewhat surprised. He already knew that the air coolers would definitely be sold. However, he didn't expect them to be sold out so quickly.
He asked Caretaker Shi to go to the previous shop and order another 100 air coolers. He reckoned that they would still be able to catch up with the sales.
After leaving the matter to Caretaker Shi, Ren Baqian continued to deal with the affairs of the Honglu Bureau.
As the day of the empress's birthday approached, more and more people arrived in Lan City.
Many of them were originally from families with businesses in Dayao. As their own caravans frequently came and went, they were very accurate with their timing. Usually, they would arrive about a week in advance.
At this point in time, there were already more than 70 batches of people arriving in Lan City. Most of them came in convoy after convoy. Other than the gifts and people that were to celebrate the empress's birthday, there were also a large number of goods.
The empress's birthday celebration was in a week's time. Ren Baqian reckoned that there would be a lot of people coming during these last few days. After a while, he would be able to get rid of this stall.
Ren Baqian put down his brush, stretched himself, and yawned.
These days, he was indeed a little busy. After all, things were different from before. Nowadays, he had to make decisions on many matters, arrange personnel, and even mediate disputes.
Just as he had thought, none of the people who could come here were ordinary people, and none of them were kind. They were all used to being domineering in their own homes.
"What are you looking at?"
"What's wrong with looking at you?"
"What do you think? Cut you up! Charge! "
Almost nine out of ten disputes started with something like this.
There were many powerful people in this world, and Ren Baqian had met a few of them recently. However, all kinds of arrogant and despotic young masters who were originally at home fighting chickens and walking dogs couldn't change their behavior when they came here.
Even in China, a place with advanced information technology, there were many of such people, let alone in a feudal society. Basically, they only wandered around within a hundred miles of their homes.
Even though they had learned a lesson from the mistakes of others, they couldn't care less when they were hot-blooded.
These few days, Ren Baqian hanged three people to death. They were hanged alive.
Xiong Pi wrapped a rope around their necks and lifted them up. The three people started to struggle continuously until they finally breathed their last.
Such a way of handling things gave many hot-blooded young masters a huge shock.
It made them feel like they had seen a ghost when they saw Ren Baqian.
Ren Baqian's methods were really too ruthless, but he still had a good-natured look on his face at all times. Even when he was ordering people to kill, his expression didn't change at all.
It was not uncommon for them to kill people, and some of them had even done it with their own hands. However, Ren Baqian's behavior still made them feel a chill in their hearts, especially when there was a monster-like Xiong Pi behind him.
After a few times of this, no matter what happened, as long as Ren Baqian and Xiong Pi stood there, everyone would immediately scatter like birds and beasts.
What had happened in the past few days had spread throughout Lan City.
Many people knew that the Honglu Bureau had an additional deputy who looked gentle but was actually cruel and merciless.
As for those young masters from the other three countries, they hated Ren Baqian to death and wished they could slice him to death with a knife. They had thought about how they would deal with Ren Baqian if he fell into their hands.
If it was really as they thought, it would be hard for Ren Baqian to die if he fell into their hands.
However, they had no choice but to lower their heads now that they were under the eaves. At this moment, these young masters knew that Ren Baqian was at least more powerful than them in Lan City. They couldn't help but be convinced.
In the past, during the empress's birthday celebrations, there would always be people who caused a lot of trouble. However, this year, there were much fewer. Even the public order bureau was very surprised.
In a village on a mountain that was a day's journey away from Lan City, Qi Zhi was carving a puppet with a small knife. Not long after, he heard a commotion at the entrance. A burly man rode a horse into the village and jumped off. He strode toward Qi Zhi and said, "Rascal, you are very carefree here."
Qi Zhi immediately laughed and said, "It's much more comfortable than dealing with those bastards. I finally don't have to see those bastards this year. In my opinion, Her Majesty might as well throw me into the army. I will be more comfortable there. "
"Who asked you to lose that time?" Qi Zhi's face immediately turned black when he heard that burly man's words.
"How's the Honglu Bureau? That rascal hasn't been tormented to death by those people, right? "Qi Zhi changed the topic.
That burly man's expression immediately became a little strange when he heard this.
"What's wrong?" Qi Zhi asked curiously when he saw his expression.
"Hehe, that bunch of fellows are like mice seeing a cat when they see that rascal now."
Qi Zhi's curiosity was immediately piqued when he heard this. "What's going on? When I was around, those bastards never behaved themselves. They gave me trouble every day and couldn't wait to strangle each and every one of them to death. "
That burly man laughed and told him some of the things he knew.
"Those bastards are all scared to death. Every one of them is scared to death when they see him. As long as he stands there, they don't even need to say a word. No matter what dispute there is, they will just turn around and leave."
Qi Zhi touched his short stubble and scolded, "Damn it, I broke four people's legs last year, but that bunch of fellows didn't even take it seriously. They really think that I am easy to bully. Next year, if there is any more trouble, I will just kill them. If not for the fact that they were gifts to Her Majesty, do you think I won't kill them? "
That burly man laughed again and then shook his head. "You can't scare them. You are just a little unreasonable and tyrannical, and you kill people cleanly. But that rascal is different. He is like a snake. I didn't see it live, but I heard them say that the rascal had a smile on his face and asked Xiong Pi to put a rope around the necks of the people and hang them to death. He just used a big knife to chop them. There is nothing scary about that. He's smiling at you, asking about your well-being, and stabbing you with a knife. That's how scary it is. "
Qi Zhi threw the knife in his hand forward and stabbed it into a wooden board. He seemed to feel aggrieved that he was actually not as good as that weak rascal.
"Damn it, I originally thought that the rascal would be tortured badly and wondered why Her Majesty didn't send someone more powerful. I didn't expect him to be so powerful." Qi Zhi scolded and then slapped the burly man's leg. "But who did you learn this from?"
"The people from the Chen Nation said it. I learned it from them," the burly man said with a smile.
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