When Guo Dan came to the door, he saw a man in his early thirties, but a little hunchbacked standing in front of the door, he saw Guo Dan coming, so he said: "The prince has already reported it, we can go over now." ”

This man's name was Gao Shang, and he was one of the eunuchs of the celebrant.

Because Guo Dan's identity is very special, he has an inextricable relationship with the eunuch, because Wanli can only arrange the eunuch to help him, and it is impossible for officials to be willing to assist him as a businessman.

In fact, the status of eunuchs is also much higher than him, but eunuchs are also a special group, they are just an extension of the emperor's power.

It can be seen that although the contractor is Guo Dan, the power is still controlled by Wanli, Guo Dan does not have the slightest power in his hands, whether it is military or administrative, the controller is not Guo Dan, Guo Dan is responsible for the economy.

Guo Dan arched his hand and smiled: "There is Father-in-law Lao!" ”

Gao Shang waved his hand and said: "I'm nothing, it's just that you're a little too anxious, we have just arrived here, you can rest for a night and then go over." ”

Guo Dan smiled bitterly: "There is no way, I am in a hurry, because I promised my wife to go back early." ”

Gao Shang was stunned, and sighed: "I can't see that you are still an amorous businessman." ”

"What amorous." Guo Dan laughed and said: "Father-in-law, don't you forget, I'm just a door-to-door son-in-law." ”

"A son-in-law like yours is really unheard of." Noble waved his hand.

While the two were talking, they got out of the mansion, got into the carriage, and galloped east along the street.

After a stick of incense, Gao Shang suddenly opened the curtains, pointed out the window and said, "Guo Dan, have you seen this street?" ”

Guo Dan nodded, and looked at Gao Shang suspiciously.

Gao Shang said: "The street is full of King Zhou's family business. ”

Guo Dan gestured with his hand: "All of them?" ”

"Yes, nearly half of the industries in the entire Fucheng are inextricably linked with King Zhou."

“......！”

Guo Dan was speechless for a while, and said, "Didn't you say that the vassal king was not allowed to participate in Shinong Industry and Commerce?" ”

Gao Shang said: "How can the prince go out to do business, but at the beginning, the salt tax and house tax were allocated to him, you are a businessman, and you should also know that there are profits and losses in this business, and when the market is bad, what should the businessman do if he can't pay the rent, so he can only mortgage it to the palace, and over time it will become his family, and those businessmen will also become those who help him." ”

Guo Dan asked again: "How many acres of land are there in King Zhou's Mansion?" ”

Gao Shang said: "This is really not clear, I guess even the former prefect is not clear, because nominally, this vassal king cannot own land, they only take the tax of land, but they actually have land."

Their farmland is so much that it can't be counted, there is a piece of land in the Daimyo Mansion on the side, which is fifty years ago, when the Kaifeng Mansion really can't draw the land, and can only divide the land from the Daimyo Mansion to the Zhou Wangfu, but at that time, it was the tax of the land to him, but in the past few decades, but in the past few decades, there have been many natural disasters, and the people can't pay the taxes, so they can only mortgage the land to the Zhou Wangfu, and the land will become his. ”

Guo nodded with a smile and said, "It should be, it should be." ”

After another meal, they finally came to the Zhou Palace.

Guo Dan, who once thought that Luwangfu was the most vassal king, once again realized how naïve he was, compared to Zhou Wangfu, Nalu Wangfu was scum.

Before entering the door, I saw a number of hundred-year-old trees, which are covering the sky and the sun, and the whole Zhou Wangfu is hidden in it, as if discovering a paradise, and the outside is two worlds, from the stone statue at the door, to the vermilion beams and pillars, the whole Zhou Wangfu is full of an ancient atmosphere.

Entering the gate, it is not like the Luwang Mansion, the rockeries are numerous, the carved beams and painted buildings, the Zhou Wangfu is full of some big trees, strange flowers and plants, occasionally see some rockeries, you can see the traces left by the years on it.

What art is put aside first, light is more valuable than value, Zhou Wangfu is absolutely going to kill Lu Wangfu in seconds, no matter how luxurious it is, and then carving beams and paintings, it can also be piled up with money, just these ancient trees, exotic flowers and plants in Zhou Wangfu, but they are all the precipitation of time.

The first generation of the Ming Dynasty Zhou King named Zhu Hu, is the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, in 1381 came to Kaifeng to the domain, and then passed down from generation to generation, now two hundred years have passed, when a small tree was planted, and now it is already a towering tree.

At this glance, you can't see a single room, but you can see many servants taking care of flowers and plants, pruning branches and leaves, and the picture is very harmonious.

After walking for a while, they came across a very old mansion where some people were drying herbs on the roof.

Guo Dan couldn't help but be surprised: "Such a good house is actually used to dry herbs?" ”

Gao Shang hi: "You don't even know this." ”

Guo Dan hurriedly asked, "What do you know?" ”

Gao Shang whispered: "This Zhou Wangfu can also be called a family of medicine, in terms of medicine, the whole world, but no one can match, sometimes His Majesty has to send someone here to ask for medicine, so many people rumored that any servant of Zhou Wangfu can go to the palace as a royal doctor." Why are there so many vassal kings, the incense in the Zhou Wangfu is particularly prosperous, and most of them live long, but this is because of this. ”

Guo Dan was shocked when he heard this, because whether it was he knew or heard that most of the vassal kings he heard were waste, and they were useless at all, and a great god suddenly appeared, could he not be surprised.

In fact, this Zhou Wangfu is far more bullish than he imagined, and that generation of Zhou Wang Zhu Hu is a very bullish character, and the "Materia Medica" he compiled is still being studied in the 21st century, and many Japanese prescriptions are also from this book.

After waiting outside the house for a while, they finally entered the house, the decoration of the house is very simple, there is a way, things must be reversed, simple to the extreme, that is luxury.

There is a random painting on the wall, but it is the real work of the famous man, and any piece of furniture is made of golden silk nanmu, but there are some years, so it looks relatively old, but the Chinese style, as long as it is well maintained, the older the more it feels.

I saw a man as big as Wanli sitting in the hall, twenty-five or sixteen years old, dressed in a jade-white robe, with red lips and white teeth, a ruddy complexion, and an elegant temperament.

This person is Zhu Suqin, who only attacked the king of Zhou the year before last.

Guo Dan and Gao Shang immediately stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

Zhu Su just glanced at Guo Dan, then moved his gaze to the side of Gao Shang, and said to Gao Shang with a smile: "Gao Gonggong, please take a seat." ”

"Many... Thank you for the seat. ”

Gao Shang looked a little surprised, and walked to the side and sat down.

This is because Guo Dan is still standing, and it is obvious that Zhu Suqin is full of hostility towards Guo Dan.

That's fine, don't waste time, let's get straight to the point. Guo Dan put down his hand, straightened up, looked directly at Zhu Suqin and said with a smile: "The prince seems to have some misunderstanding of the grass people. ”

Zhu Suqin couldn't help frowning slightly at Guo Dan's rudeness, squinting at him, and sneering: "What businessman do you think in this world can be qualified to stand here." ”

The implication is that it is already your honor to be able to stand here today.

Of course, he is full of hostility towards Guo Dan, under the original system, he is like a fish in water, you come here, all of them are broken, and they are not those ignorant people, he knows that Guo Dan is here to collect taxes, how can he give Guo Dan a good face.

"It doesn't matter if you stand or sit, the grass people." Guo Dan's words changed sharply and said: "But the grass people hope that the prince will not distinguish between friend and foe." ”

"Presumptuous!"

Zhu Suqin was furious, pointed at Guo Dan and said, "You can't wait for a humble businessman, dare to teach this king a lesson." ”

Gao Shang was also anxious, and hurried to say loudly: "Guo Dan, how did you speak, quickly apologize to the prince." ”

Guo Danquan didn't hear it, and he was not afraid at all, but opened his eyes, looked directly at Zhu Suqin and said: "Does the prince think that the prince can sit on such a big business today, is it given by those landlords, or by those officials?" Neither, it's all because of Your Majesty.

If His Majesty hadn't supported the prince in the court, would the prince still be able to sit here leisurely today? I'm afraid that I have long been deprived of nothing by those ministers. However, the prince treats those gentry and officials with courtesy on weekdays, and the grass people come thousands of miles with the emperor's order, but the prince treats the grass people like this, this is not a friend or foe. ”

"It's over!"

Gao Shang suddenly collapsed on the chair as if he was deflated, he originally thought that this was a beautiful difference, after all, that Xiaogui had a very nourishing life in Weihui Mansion, how did he know that this was a fatal job.

Zhu Suqin was young after all, and he was immediately stunned by Guo Dan's training, he really didn't expect Guo Dan to be so fierce, so he looked at Guo Dan blankly.

Guo Dan's momentum was restricted, and he said: "Lord Wang, the grass people just want to remind the prince that in the entire Kaifeng Mansion, only the grass people and Gao Gonggong are on the side of the prince, because we are His Majesty's people, and those people outside are standing opposite the prince, and the grass people came this time to support the prince, not to oppose the prince." ”

Zhu Suqin came back to his senses, his face was flushed, embarrassed, and snorted: "You say yes, what evidence do you have." ”

The momentum is obviously not as good as Guo Dan, and he was indeed shocked by Guo Dan; The second is because Guo Dan moved out of Wanli, and it is also true that the emperor is the biggest supporter of the clan, and without the emperor, where is there any clan.

Guo Dan looked at Gao Shang again and said, "Father-in-law Gao." ”

Gao Shang suddenly came to his senses, hurriedly took out a secret letter, and respectfully handed it to Zhu Suqin, "Lord Wang, this is a letter from Your Majesty to you." ”

Zhu Suqin took the letter, opened it and looked at it carefully, then took the fire fold from the table, lit the secret letter, threw it into the brazier under the table, and said to Guo Dan: "Sit down." ”

The tone was still quite reluctant.

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

Guo Dan sat down and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Actually, the grass people have long expected that the prince must have misunderstood the grass people, but the truth is just the opposite. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "Actually, the grass people should have come here a long time ago, but the grass people still stayed in the capital for a few more days, and the prince knows the reason." ”

Zhu Suqin shook his head.

Guo smiled lightly: "It's very simple, the reason why the grass people have delayed until today is actually to give those landlords the opportunity to transfer their land, and the grass people know that those landlords and officials have put some land in the name of the prince to avoid taxes." ”

The vassal kings were nominally taxed and did not own land, so their collusion with the landlord was very simple, and when they registered with the government, they said that the tax on the land was allocated to the Zhou king's mansion.

He said it so directly, this Zhu Suqin's face was a little unbearable, didn't you say that this king broke the law? Shen Mei said: "What do you mean by this, why can't this king understand." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "The grass people just want to tell the prince that the first thing the grass people have to do when they come to Kaifeng Mansion is to help the prince swallow the taxes of these nominal lands, and we will divide the profits in half." ”