Fang Jun said as a matter of course: "Naturally, it is handed over to your Lu family, such a good thing, how can you not take care of your friends?" ”

Lu Xiaoyu automatically filtered the word "good friend" in Fang Jun's words, and asked, "What about those ordinary papers?" "Although the quality of those bamboo papers is poor, the output is large! Now it is just this workshop, it is conceivable that as long as the process is determined, Fang Jun will definitely increase the output, and the profit here is not worse than the high-grade bamboo paper!

Moreover, the large-scale manufacturing of paper has risen significantly for the status of the Lu family!

Fang Jun shook his head and said: "Don't be greedy, those bamboo papers of average quality will be handed over to the rest of the scholars, your Lu family can't eat it yourself......"

It is certainly enjoyable to put all the money in your own pocket, but if you eat too ugly, it will inevitably cause envy and jealousy. The Lu family doesn't have to go in the past now, even if they can sell these bamboo papers to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River after the strength is greatly damaged, it is inevitable that they will arouse the hostility of the rest of the scholars.

Moreover, Lu Xiaoyu also understood that Fang Jun planned to use huge profits to gradually disintegrate the alliance of the Jiangjiang Nanshi clan, not only to dismantle the hostility and constraints of various families against him, but also to subdue them one by one and use them for his own use.

This is a big game of chess to divide and win over, which largely determines whether Fang Jun's strategy in Jiangnan can be achieved, and he naturally doesn't look at it at all for his monetary interests.

Lu Xiaoyu sincerely admired.

How old is Fang Juncai? is such a gentleman, but he has gone beyond the category of money pleasure and began to climb to the highest level of life, and he has already walked in front of most of his peers, and has a bright future.

And what about yourself?

Lu Xiaoyu was sad, and his originally excited expression quickly withered, and his spirit was sluggish......

*****

"The Book of Songs, Daya, Juan" has a saying: "The phoenix is singing, and it is in the high post." The sycamore is born, and the sun rises in the other place", with the phoenix and the song, the song flies to the hills; The sycamore grows wildly, and the bright morning sun is draped to symbolize the noble and beautiful character. A few years ago, the great Confucian Yongxing County Gongyu Shinan had a poem "Cicada" in the early years, which said, "Drink the dew, and the sound of the dredging is dredged." Raising the voice from afar, not by the autumn wind", this small poem with the meaning of the object, with the tall and straight, green leaves of the sycamore as the habitat of the cicada, wrote the nobility of the cicada, a metaphor for the beauty of their character.

It can be seen that since ancient times, the sycamore is a symbol of nobility, that is, later generations also have the saying of "planting the sycamore tree, attracting the golden phoenix", which is based on the fact that the Gu family planted the sycamore all over the mansion built on the street of Suzhou Mansion ten years ago, which means 'planting the plane to attract the phoenix', so that the Gu family can have more talents and restore the glory of the ancestors......

Gu Xuan knelt in the flower pavilion, looking at the invitation on the coffee table in front of him, frowning and worried.

Gu Yong, the representative of the Jiangdong clan who first followed Sun Quan, has been assisting Sun Quan when he was the chief inspector of the Huiji. At that time, although Sun Quan was too guarded by the Huiji, he was not a county, but only took Gu Yong as the leader, acted too guarded, and pacified the thieves, the county boundary was quiet, and the officials and people were submissive. Since then, the Gu family's ancestral home has been in Huiji County, and it has not changed for hundreds of years.

However, with the founding of the Tang Dynasty and the gradual rise of national strength, the rear status of Huiji County in the south of the Yangtze River still no longer exists, but the prosperity of sea trade and sea salt has made Suzhou, the first of the land of Wu County, increasingly prosperous. Therefore, the Gu family used a lot of manpower and material resources to gradually lay out in Suzhou, which faintly made the strength of the family gradually stronger.

This mansion located on the Ya Street in Suzhou cost countless manpower and material resources to show the prosperity of the Gu family and the momentum of faintly catching up with the Xiao family, the head of the Jiangnan Shi clan.

But the Gu family knows in their hearts that even if the Gu family's strength rises to a higher level, it will not be able to shake the status of the Xiao family for the time being. There is no other reason, it is just because the Gu family's strength in the DPRK is too weak and there is no Austrian aid......

Outside the window, the breeze is light, and the leaves are waving.

For more than ten years, the sycamore planted in that year are all made of wood, the lush branches and leaves cover the sky and the sun, the straight trunk of seven or eight zhang high, the leaves are thick and deep, and in summer it can already be connected into a stretch of green shade, which can shade the clansmen who play horses and cranes and fight crickets under the tree.

However, the descendants of the Gu family failed to become mature like the plane tree......

Gu Xuan sighed gloomily.

The rise of officialdom is by no means achieved by chance by producing an amazing talent, it requires the accumulation of connections from generation to generation of a family and the efforts of countless clansmen.

It's a pity that since Cao Wei, the Gu family has been in a state of decline, and even had the misfortune of exterminating the clan several times during the two Jin Dynasty. Fortunately, since the time of the Southern Dynasty, the Gu family gradually rose, and when it came to the Deben Dynasty, the family business flourished again. It's just that although the wealth is easy to obtain, the fame is really rare, and over the years, the Gu family has successively produced a few officials, but they are just small officials in the state government, and they have never been able to get on the stage.

If you can't make a voice above the court, you can't be regarded as a prominent gatekeeper, and there is a danger that someone will replace you at any time, and the richer you are, the more likely you are to cause disaster......

Therefore, the Gu family would rather risk the extinction of the clan and push Yang Hao, the grandson of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, to the throne. At that time, the Gu family, as the minister of the dragon, will become the most powerful family in the world, as long as they operate with their hearts for decades, they will lay a family heritage that has been passed down for thousands of years!

In the face of such a great achievement, any danger is worth it!

Opposite Gu Xuan, sat an old man in a sackcloth shirt.

This old man is over the age of old, but he has a childish face, and a pair of long white eyebrows have a bit of fairy wind and bones. At this time, he sat firmly, sipping the tea in the white jade teacup, with a leisurely attitude, and he was completely outside.

Gu Xuan tapped the invitation card on the coffee table with his finger and asked in a deep voice, "Elder Dong, what do you think about this matter?" ”

That Dong Lao's white eyebrows moved, his eyes opened, he glanced at Gu Xuan lightly, and said abruptly: "Do you still need to ask?" It's obvious! Fang Jun'er is the best at money, not only knows how to make money, but also knows how to use money to invite people's hearts. Everyone in the world loves money, and this trick is directed at people's hearts and has been tried and tested. ”

Gu Xuan smiled bitterly: "I naturally know that Fang Jun's intention is to throw out a so-called salt field to break up the alliance of the Jiangnan Shi clan. But as Dong Lao said, everyone loves money, and in the face of such benefits promised by Fang Jun, who can not be tempted? Please teach me how to deal with it? ”

The invitation on the coffee table was that Fang Jun invited the Jiangnan Shi clan to discuss the matter of salt farm shares. In the invitation, Fang Jun explained the profits that can be obtained from the salt farms one by one, and each salt farm earns more than 100,000 yuan a year, and even Gu Xuan looks at it, let alone other scholars?

There is no doubt that as long as Fang Jun's strategy succeeds, when the Jiangnan Shi clan becomes a shareholder one by one, the alliance of the Jiangnan Shi clan will definitely collapse and cease to exist.

How can Gu Xuan not be in a hurry?

Changing the dynasty is a big thing, even if there are countless former ministers in the court who think about the Great Sui, if they want to make a move in Jiangnan to let those people see the hope of the restoration of the Great Sui, they have to unite the Jiangnan Shi clan!

Relying on the power of one family and one surname alone is really alone, and it can't be a big thing......

Hearing this, Dong Lao gently put the teacup on the coffee table and sighed lightly: "Fang Jun's move is a yang scheme. Tell all the Jiangnan clans openly that if you want development and benefits, then follow me! On the contrary, even if he is against me, not only will he completely cut off the sea trade, but he will also have to intervene in the industry of boiling salt, which he relied on very heavily in the past. Unless Gu Langjun can come up with greater benefits to win back people's hearts, otherwise, it is unthinkable. ”

Gu Xuan seemed to be very dependent on this Dong Lao, and said anxiously when he heard this: "Then watch Fang Jun's family divide and collapse the Jiangnan Shi clan one by one?" If this is the case, then our great things will be dealt a heavy blow, and when will our wishes be fulfilled? ”

In fact, there was a sentence that Gu Xuan didn't say.

The reason why the Gu family was able to accumulate capital so quickly and sprung up was because of the two huge profits of sea trade and sea salt.

Fang Jun came to Jiangnan to prepare for the construction of the city has been put on the agenda, the land west of the Wusong River Estuary is being leveled, brick kilns are everywhere, and there are new "cement factories" along the river that do not know what, which are flourishing and the process is rapid. When the city is established, all the maritime trade will be under its jurisdiction, and most of the profits will be siphoned off by the imperial court, and the Gu family will be regarded as breaking a leg.

Smuggle?

Then you have to face the strong combat power of the Royal Sailors......