Zhao Chen nodded: "My maid (the queen) was pregnant before. I remembered that she likes to eat mutton soup, so I asked Li Jing to find out where there was a sheep seller outside the palace."

"Also, I heard that the Empress (the Empress Dowager) also wanted to eat mutton. I thought the palace had not seen mutton for a long time, so I asked Li Jing to pay attention."

Zhao Ning said: "Li Jing bought thousands of sheep, do you know?"

Zhao Chen was slightly surprised, but he didn't think anything was wrong. When he was six or seven years old, mutton could be seen everywhere in the palace's food.

Is this weird?

"I don't know how much he bought."

"Do you know how much a sheep costs now?"

Zhao Chen shook his head.

At this moment, Zhao Ning was somewhat disappointed with him.

Thirteen years old is not too old, but in ancient times, it was not too young to be young.

"A sheep has ninety strings."

Seeing Zhao Chen's reaction and still not knowing, I knew that he didn't have much idea about money.

"And these sheep were bought from the Kingdom of Jin."

Zhao Chen still didn't have much reaction, because according to his understanding, the Song Dynasty often turned to the Liao Kingdom to import large quantities of sheep, but now that the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty had negotiated peace, it was reasonable to have trade.

Zhao Ning added: "The imperial court has explicitly prohibited private sales at the border. These sheep are smuggled."
Chapter completed!