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Although it is an ulterior motive, Zhao Junchen's proposal is indeed tempting, and the owners of several famous gardens in Suzhou are not saints, so they are naturally excited.

After the heartbeat, you don't expect them to have any bottom line when they fight for it.

Next, they either boasted about the advantages of their own garden, or satirized the defects of the other party's garden, or expressed their loyalty to Emperor Deqing, or exposed the damage to others' private morality.

Even Hui Bao, who looks like a great monk, and Wan Changling, who looks like a Taoist gentleman, are all inevitably vulgar - in fact, among all people, the two of them are the most active and the most ugly.

For example, Wan Changling publicly satirized Liu Bolai, the owner of the Lotus Garden, who had an affair with his daughter-in-law, ignoring the generational friendship between the Wan and Liu families; Huibao's performance was a little more subtle, but he also complained to Zhao Junchen about the believers of Nanchan Temple being exploited and oppressed by the local wealthy clans, and his words implied Niu Jinyan, the owner of Wanbai Villa.

Under the instigation of Wan Changling and Huibao, everyone was not willing to be humiliated, and fought back, what stories that the monks and female believers of Nanchan Temple had to tell, what Wan Changling liked to raise male pets, what Wang Longzhi opened a green building to force good prostitution, and so on.

In this way, the banquet held by Zhao Junchen turned into a conference for Suzhou wealthy families to expose each other, which made Zhao Junchen know a lot of scandals and inside stories.

If Zhao Junchen is asked to sum it up in one sentence, it is - "These people in front of me are not good things"!

Almost all garden owners have been denounced or slandered by others. On the contrary, Xu Manhua, the western master of the Humble Administrator's Garden, who looks down, is not attacked, after all, in the eyes of everyone. The Xu family has been in decline for many years, and the western part of the Humble Administrator's Garden has also become a mess. Therefore, Xu Manhua is not qualified to compete at all, so there is no need to waste energy to deal with him.

When the garden owners were fighting, although Zhao Junchen was disdainful in his heart, he had no intention of stopping it, let alone being interested in participating in it, just listening with a smile, neither commenting on anything nor showing any tendencies.

On the other side, after a long battle, the garden owners finally discovered Zhao Junchen's abnormality.

And then. They suddenly discovered that the previous battles were actually of little use, and which garden Emperor Deqing wanted to live in temporarily depended on Zhao Junchen's attitude after all.

Among them, Hui Bao felt that he was a monk and had the fewest black spots, so he asked tentatively: "Lord Zhao, since you have summoned us, you must have an idea. Which garden do you think is the most suitable place for Your Majesty to move to? ”

After a pause, Huibao subconsciously said: "I heard that Your Majesty has always believed in Buddhism, and Nanchan Temple is one of the largest temples in Nanzhili, and Canglang Pavilion is not only the oldest garden in Suzhou. After many years of operation of Nanchan Temple, it is also a sacred place of Buddhism, which His Majesty will definitely like. According to the poor monk's shallow view. Your Majesty is still the most suitable to settle in the Canglang Pavilion. ”

On the side, Wang Longzhi snorted lightly. Said: "In the Daxiong Hall in the Canglang Pavilion, countless believers go there every day to burn incense and worship the Buddha. The personnel are inevitably mixed, so how can the safety of His Majesty be guaranteed? What if a believer accidentally collides with His Majesty? Could it be that when His Majesty came to the Canglang Pavilion, Master Huibao wanted to turn away all ordinary believers? This is a solution, but if Master Huibao does this, it will inevitably violate the purpose of Buddhism where all beings are equal, and once this matter falls into the ears of others, I am afraid it will also affect the reputation of Master Huibao, a great Buddhist master. ”

"Amitabha!" After Huibao recited the Buddha's name, he lowered his eyes and said: "If Your Majesty comes to the Canglang Pavilion, it can not only boost the reputation of Buddhism, but also benefit countless believers of Buddhism. ”

Wang Longzhi sneered and said: "I admire Master Huibao the most for your high-sounding ability, but it's a pity that your Nanchan Temple receives so much incense money every year, and I haven't seen you do any good deeds, but your Master Huibao's body is getting richer and richer, and the robe is more and more luxurious." ”

Seeing that everyone was about to fall into a battle again, Zhao Junchen finally spoke slowly.

"I hope you will forgive me, this official suddenly thought of something just now, and he was in a trance, and he neglected everyone, I'm really sorry." After speaking, without waiting for everyone to ask, Zhao Junchen had already explained: "This official just thought that after His Majesty moved to the Jiangnan Garden, it is different from the official residence of the palace, all preparations must be rearranged, whether it is the honor guard, the guard or the daily use, it is all expensive, and now the silver in the court is not rich, and the degree of His Majesty's southern tour is also tight, how this silver should be moved out, but the official needs to consider it carefully...... In addition, if you occupy your residence, the court should also compensate you for it. ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen's words, where did everyone not understand?

Wan Changling took the lead and said, "Lord Zhao, where are these words?" If Your Majesty moves to the Lion Forest of my family, it will be a great honor for my family, and how can my family dare to ask for compensation from the imperial court? Lord Zhao was really worried. ”

Wang Longzhi has been in business for many years, and he is the most wealthy, and then said: "If Your Majesty is willing to move to my Humble Administrator's Garden, my Wang family will not only never ask for compensation, but will also fund 10,000 taels of silver for Your Majesty's southern tour to show your heart." ”

"I don't dare to ask for compensation from the Zhao family of the Even-Siyuan, and I will also fund 13,000 taels of silver for His Majesty's southern tour."

"I'm willing to give fifteen thousand taels of silver."

"My Wanbai Villa Niu family is willing to fund 18,000 taels of silver!"

It's inconceivable that someone else lives in their own garden, but they still need to pay a lot of money from their own family.

However, driven by profits, any strange and inexplicable will have its reasonable reasons.

Many times, many things, the superiors will always make some surprising, seemingly stupid decisions, there are obviously better ways, better directions, but the superiors just turn a blind eye, this is not because of the short-sightedness, lack of wisdom of the superiors, in fact, any extremely stupid, short-sighted decision, is often the result of a group of smart people after the interests of the competition.

At this point, for example!

Watching the garden owners compete to throw out large sums of silver, just to let Emperor Deqing live in his garden for a few days, Zhao Junchen secretly sighed.

Being in the temple, Zhao Junchen was particularly deeply touched by this.

And just when Zhao Junchen secretly sighed, Wang Longzhi saw that others had raised their prices, snorted lightly, and said again: "I, Wang Longzhi, am willing to fund Your Majesty's southern tour of 30,000 taels of silver!" ”

Wang Longzhi is worthy of being a giant who has been a businessman for many years, and he has nearly doubled the amount of silver in one go, which is not only Wang Longzhi's courage and wealth, but also Wang Longzhi's determination to win.

After hearing Wang Longzhi's bid, most of the others fell silent, after all, although the family property of these garden owners is abundant, most of them are real estate saved for generations, and this is not Yangzhou, where Hui merchants gather, not everyone can spend thousands of dollars like Wang Longzhi.

And just when Wang Longzhi thought that he was bound to win, Huibao on the side suddenly spoke after a moment of silence: "Amitabha, my Nanchan Temple is willing to fund 60,000 taels of silver as the capital of His Majesty's southern tour." ”

With Huibao's words, the hall was full of surprise.

Everyone knows that Nanchan Temple, as a large temple that has been operating for hundreds of years, is incense every day, has countless believers, and even from time to time there will be believers who donate all their family property to Nanchan Temple, so Nanchan Temple must be very rich, but no one thought that Nanchan Temple would be so rich that it could throw out 60,000 taels of silver in one go, which was twice as high as Wang Longzhi's bid!

For a while, even Wang Longzhi was difficult to quote a higher price, after all, although Wang Longzhi was a famous businessman in Suzhou, he was only running an ordinary business, not a member of the Salt Merchants Association, and he had not reached the level of being rich enough to rival the country.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Junchen smiled lightly.

In fact, such a result was also expected by Zhao Junchen.

For Zhao Junchen's next step, letting Emperor Deqing live in Canglang Pavilion is indeed the best choice.

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…… (To be continued.) )