"Move them?" Pan Yu's eyes went wide. "How do we move them?"
Pan Yun flashed him a grin. "You just move them with your hands, don't you?"
Pan Yu was rendered speechless. At last, he understood why those two artificial mountains had been sold so cheaply.
Taihu stones were considered the finest among artificial mountains, but at their place of origin, they were not worth much.
What was truly expensive was transportation!
Some artificial mountains were worth only a thousand or ten thousand taels when excavated, but once transported to the Capital City, they could be worth several hundred thousand, even a million.
What made them so expensive?
Transportation!
Yet Pan Yun had moved the artificial mountains from the palace straight into the buyers' homes with a single palm strike. Naturally, the price had fallen.
Pan Yu felt endlessly aggrieved and deeply unconvinced, feeling that Younger Sister had been taken advantage of by Prince Qin and Hu San.
But seeing Younger Sister so delighted, he could not bring himself to say anything, lest he spoil her mood.
He could only vent his anger on the soil, hoeing away with loud thuds.
Sitting beside him, Pan Yun brought up his border inspection and asked, "Along the way, did you discover anyone who could be put to use?"
Pan Yu asked, "Put to use?"
Pan Yun nodded. "At present, military authority is monopolized by noble families. The Grand Secretariat is urging the Emperor to appoint civil officials as military supervisors. Taking one example and applying it to three, the Emperor thinks that since there must be supervisors anyway, civil officials are inferior to eunuchs he personally trusts."
Pan Yu was startled. "Eunuchs? Wouldn't that bring forth another Wang Zhen?"
Pan Yun smiled. "I think this treats the symptoms but not the root