In the end, Father-in-law Wei didn't hold back, and sent someone to spread the word and asked Wei Bao to go to his outer house to see him tonight.

When Wei Bao got the news, he breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the list of champions, Bangyan and Tanhualang had not yet been officially determined, but he was also a little difficult, and he was embarrassed about how much silver should be given to Wei Zhongxian!

Wei Bao has silver, but compared to the career he wants to develop, his current silver deposit is only more than 20 million taels, and there are more than 3 million taels of gold, and then there are some antiques that can't see the light for the time being.

As far as the basic development funds of Weijiazhuang and southern Liaoning are not enough, this basic development mainly refers to the construction of public facilities.

Not to mention the modern standard, but the main traffic arteries, as well as reservoirs, river embankments, seawalls, bridges, these are all indispensable, and none of them can be omitted.

Just the road, Wei Bao has calculated before, just Weijiazhuang, it will cost more than one billion silver!

Now there are only more than 20 million taels left, what is enough?

The infrastructure was put aside, and the Tiandihui issued banknotes and implemented monetary policy under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society.

If there is currency, there needs to be enough reserves for stability, and the amount of silver and gold must be sufficient.

Therefore, President Wei still has more than 20 million taels of silver left in his hand, which seems to be a lot, and for his personal use, even if he spends 1,000 taels a day, he can't spend it in a lifetime.

But a lot of this is all at his personal expense, and under his rule, it can already be regarded as an independent kingdom, which is the need of national development.

Therefore, President Wei will spend every penny of money on the blade, except for personal expenses, he will not save, food, clothing, housing and transportation, all of which must be of the highest standard.

For external spending, President Wei has always been careful about budgeting.

"Are you worried about how much silver you should send to Wei Zhongxian?" Wu Xuexia is simply a roundworm in President Wei's belly.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, "You can guess anything, my mind can't hide anything from you." ”

"What's so hard to guess about this, you just received the word from Wei Zhongxian, and you started to make trouble, except for worrying about how much silver you packed, what else can you do?" Wu Xuexia said with a smile.

"Then how much do you think it's good to pack," Wei Bao smiled slightly.

"It cost 100,000 taels to get into the Jinshi, and now it is in the top three. Wei Zhongxian also did not explicitly guarantee that he would win the champion. "Wu Xuexia said: 'It's really hard to say.'

"It's impossible to be the champion and the leader, if you want to have a little hope, it's to explore the flowers." Wei Bao sees this very clearly.

"If that's the case, two hundred thousand taels of silver. He shouldn't be too little. Wu Xuexia said.

Wei Bao snorted, "It's about the same as I thought!" ”

"It's not interesting to give too much, people like Wei Zhongxian, when dealing with him in the future, they will have to give silver every time, which will raise his appetite, which is not good for us. In fact, I think that this trip is enough for 100,000 taels of silver! Because if he hadn't had no way, he wouldn't have looked for Gongzi, and he would definitely let Wu Kongjia go up. Wu Xuexia said: "I'm afraid that he will be angry, and I think we will be admitted to the Jinshi and Diantan for a price." ”

"Then give 120,000 taels of silver! It's enough to give 20,000 taels more than Jinshi. Wei Bao said.

Wu Xuexia was a little surprised that Wei Bao would make this decision, because she knew that Wei Bao was not a stingy person, "Then the boy has to think about it?" Will 120,000 taels be less? Don't make him angry. ”

"No, no matter how much I give, I don't have a head, give 120,000 taels of silver, I can say that I don't have enough money, and I can also point a little to the side, I know Wei Zhongxian's situation, and I also know that he didn't want to protect me from the beginning! Now it's just a matter of going with the flow! Wei Bao laughed.

"Yes." Wu Xuexia smiled: "Dealing with these people is the most testing thing. My dad used to say that these people are the best at drawing cakes, and they are the ones who want to give them all your wealth. But the best way is to deduct and search, they pick a little bit, and we squeeze a little bit out. ”

Originally, he was going to give 200,000 taels of silver, but after discussing it with Wu Xuexia, Wei Bao changed his mind again.

When he was approaching, Wei Bao quietly went to Wei Zhongxian's outer house.

Wei Bao was reluctant to go to Wei Zhongxian's initiative to summon himself, although he handed over a letter to Wei Zhongxian, and he was considered Wei Zhongxian's disciple, but Wei Bao extremely didn't want the outside world to know what he had to do with Wei Zhongxian.

On the way, Wei Bao took out the brocade box containing 120,000 taels of silver and silver tickets, counted the silver tickets, and sighed slightly.

Since he ruled the Heaven and Earth Society, except for the stage when he personally did a little business before, he has been constantly making money, and when the business becomes bigger, it is handed over to the people below to take care of, and it seems that he has been taking out money, and the entire Heaven and Earth Society has actually been in a situation where he cannot make ends meet.

The only time I ever entered a large amount was to rob the general number of the Jin merchant ticket number and get a large amount of gold and antique treasures.

But you can't always develop in this way, in that case, what kind of entity, so much land, what do so many people do, and just pull up people to occupy the mountain as the king, isn't it over?

Sighing, President Wei closed the brocade box and closed his eyes to recuperate.

In modern times, President Wei's life is not so regular, and now he has developed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early every day, and it is rare to stay up all night, and now at this hour, he is very sleepy.

Soon arrived at Wei Zhongxian's outer house, and Wei Zhongxian was already waiting for Wei Bao.

Wei Zhongxian is much busier than Wei Bao every day, he is a big master in and out of the palace, and Wei Zhongxian's desire for power is extremely heavy, almost everything has to be personally asked and decided, and a group of big eunuchs under him just help him run errands, and no one can help him make the decision, including the eunuch Wang Tiqian, the second-ranked celebrant and eunuch!

Originally, according to the logic, the eunuch who held the seal of the eunuch was above the eunuch who was the eunuch who was the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch who was the eunuch of the pen, but because of the relationship between Wei Zhongxian and Kebaba and Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian became above Wang Tiqian.

In order to protect himself, Wang Tiqian has always done a good job, and he is willing to lead the horse for Wei Zhongxian. Only two people can get along.

Otherwise, Wei Zhongxian's ability to control the court and the world may be thirty percent, but for the inner court, he joined forces with Ke Baba, and it can be said that he has reached more than eighty percent of the control, and no one has the strength to wrestle with them.

After Wei Bao saw Wei Zhongxian, he was not polite after saluting, and hurriedly got on the brocade box.

"Wei Gongzi can be a man, if you don't ask anything, just give a gift first, and make our family look like you're asking for silver." Wei Zhongxian opened the brocade box, and when Wei Bao checked the number of silver tickets, he said slowly.

"No matter what it's for, when the nine thousand years old look for me, they are all to lift me up, and besides, I am a nine thousand years old, and it is human nature to give nine thousand years old some gifts." Wei Bao replied.

Wei Zhongxian was a little unhappy when he saw that there were only 120,000 taels of silver tickets, and said coldly: "Wei Gongzi is a smart person, he should know what our family is looking for you for, you keep saying that you are from our family, but our family can get a Tanhualang and give 120,000 taels of silver?" Does Wei Gongzi think that this Tanhualang should be yours? ”

Wei Bao was secretly shocked, he didn't expect Wei Zhongxian to be so murderous, he actually said such things to his face, what did he mean? Still begging for money?

"Don't be angry at the nine-thousand-year-old, it's really that you don't have enough money lately, and you can't move the money. In addition, I only guessed that it was a matter of exploring flowers, and I was not sure that the nine thousand years old had wronged me. If I weren't a nine-thousand-year-old person, I wouldn't be like this Meng Lang, I know that nine-thousand-year-old is very good to my subordinates, and I will definitely tolerate the kid. Wei Bao replied flatly.

"I know what you think, you beat the poems that day, and you won everyone present, knowing that if I don't help you up, I can only look at the top three in Donglin, right?" Wei Zhongxian said coldly. He tried his best to restrain his anger, if it weren't for Wei Bao, but if it were for his other subordinates, Wei Zhongxian would have already been unable to help but scold.

Although he now has a good demeanor and temperament, Wei Zhongxian was born as a scoundrel in the countryside after all, and he only entered the palace after he became an adult! He also retains the breath of a social person, unlike the vast majority of eunuchs who have entered the palace since childhood, and their temperament and temperament are like carved out of a mold, which is exactly the same as being created by the people in the palace, like a bunch of products produced by the assembly line.

Grandpa Wei still has a lot of personality.

"I'm not going to hide it, I kind of think so, but I don't mean to be ungrateful for nine thousand years old! I know that I, Wei Bao, can come to this day step by step, and I can enter the Ming officialdom by virtue of being 9,000 years old! Wei Bao said.

"That's a nice thing to say." Wei Zhongxian narrowed his eyes, "Thank me so much, just take out 120,000 taels of silver?" I don't look at what people say, I just look at how people do it. ”

Wei Bao almost didn't faint, secretly wondering why don't you go to rob it, it's really good that the entire Ming Dynasty covers the sky with one hand, and the people above 10,000 people under one person are so obviously forcing people to pay for it, is it really good?

"I'll try to scrape together another 10,000 taels of silver in three days." Wei Bao looked embarrassed. Of course, Wei Bao can take out millions of taels of silver at any time, how many Tiandihui businesses are there in the capital city? However, Wei Bao just doesn't eat this set!

It is impossible for him to be in contact with Wei Zhongxian for a day or two, if he is forced to come out in the future, what will he fill this bottomless pit?

Wei Zhongxian didn't expect Wei Bao to be so difficult, secretly annoyed, originally thought that Wei Bao was a young man and an old man, and people who did business were a little slippery, but at his age, it was no problem to manipulate a child, but now it seems that it is not so simple, this child seems to be not afraid of himself at all.

"Are you born so bold, or are you not taking your career to heart? Believe it or not, I can not only make you unable to become an official, but also make your world disappear in the snap of a finger! Wei Zhongxian glared at Wei Bao threateningly.

Wei Bao said indifferently: "I believe it!" But I really can't get the silver right now, nine thousand years old, otherwise, I don't want this Tanhualang! ”

"Yo hoo, boy, I've seen it, but I haven't seen anyone who dares to play so aggressively with our family." Wei Zhongxian was laughed at by Wei Bao, "Who are you threatening?" Without you, is there no one to be this Tanhualang? ”

Wei Bao knew that he was not an opponent if he was playing such a bachelor with Wei Zhongxian, so he simply didn't speak, and looked at Wei Zhongxian without showing any timidity!

If it was placed before the rebirth crossing, Wei Bao would never have this kind of guts, who is Wei Zhongxian? One person is below ten thousand people! Confronting Wei Zhongxian is equivalent to confronting the sky!

But now that Wei Bao's courage has been trained, he can do anything, but he can't threaten, it doesn't matter if you are Wei Zhongxian or the emperor.

Wei Zhongxian saw that Wei Bao was not frightened, and nodded: "Okay, the little monkey cub is quite bold!" But don't take less silver if you have the guts, a tanhualang, less to say 200,000 taels of silver! To tell you honestly, if I sell it openly, at least thirty percent of the more than 50 Jinshi in the second class are willing to take this silver, and they can also take this silver! ”

"Two hundred thousand taels of silver?" Wei Bao sighed and said, "Okay, but I have to slow down for a while, my business is a small business, and I can't turn it into silver." ”

"Small business? You won Liaonan, and now there are three or four million people under you, right? You are more powerful than any prince, this is called a small business? Fooling the hell, right? Let's just talk about the capital, how many Tiandi merchants are there? Let's not say 300, right? One will get you three hundred taels, which adds up to more than 100,000 taels! You won't be able to take it out? Wei Zhongxian said dissatisfiedly: "I told you the number clearly, this has already given you enough face, don't live up to our family's appreciation of you!" ”

"Nine thousand years old, you are a big man, you have a lot of opportunities, and you have a lot of knowledge, but you may not know about our small business, a big business, it is not that you can take a few hundred taels of silver to get out, a business with a dozen or so guys is no longer a small business, right? But it takes a lot of effort to take out a hundred taels of silver at once, not to mention that many businesses only have two or three guys. Also, it depends on what kind of business is done, and my business name is all small business in the world, which is similar to setting up a stall. Those grains and oils, salt, ironware, tea and horses, these big trades were all monopolized by Jin merchants, where do I have silver? Wei Bao had a bitter face, in short, he just didn't take the money immediately, and he didn't take the money happily! It's to cry poor.

Wei Zhongxian tapped his finger twice, "Little monkey cub, don't cry with me!" Okay, if you refuse to take the silver, I will let you use the grain to offset the account, and it is the same, I know that your Weijiazhuang has just entered tens of millions of stone grain! You send me 1 million stone of grain, and it's the same, you can't say that you don't have it, right? ”

Wei Bao Waterfall Khan, "Nine thousand years old, it's not so forceful, is it?" ”

"I won't force you to do it, who let your little monkey cub pick like this? Withheld and searched, like an old Shanxi wealthy. Wei Zhongxian was quite proud, "Also, don't forget, but no one allowed you to build a Weijiazhuang in Liaoxi, and you also surrounded such a large piece of land on the city wall, what do you want to do?" Build your own city and come out? People occupy the mountain as the king, and you occupy the land as the king? If I say a word, your Weijiazhuang will be handed over to Yongping Mansion immediately, and I believe that those big families in Liaoxi will rush to take over the territory! ”

Wei Bao didn't faint this time: "Nine thousand years old, you can't be so forced, I do a little business, I really can't make ends meet, I lose a lot of silver every month, and I can't make money at all." I get land and raise people, all of them are losing money, you think I am to develop my own power? I pity the local people and starve to death one by one! If no one cares about them, within five years, the people of Liaoxi and Liaodong will either starve to death or be taken captive by Jiannu! ”

"Hehe, according to what you said, you are the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva," Wei Zhongxian sneered: "If everyone in the world is like you, and a little silver is used to enclose a piece of land with the city wall, wouldn't the world have been in chaos a long time ago?" ”

"Here are 120,000 taels of silver, and I'll try to collect 80,000 taels of silver in ten days to make up for it!" Wei Bao sighed and said, "Then, can the nine thousand years old manage to reward Wei Jiazhuang to me?" ”

"Hehe, now you're soft? Wasn't it very horizontal just now? forced you, you only squeezed out 10,000 taels of silver, and now you happily agree to make up 80,000 taels of silver? Wei Zhongxian sat proudly on the back of the chair, squinted at Wei Bao, and regained his usual calmness: "Weijiazhuang is a place where there is no place at all!" What shall I give you? This precedent must not be set! ”

"Liaoxi is located in a remote area, and it has always been managed by the local border army, and it is not canonized to me, just when I am the general of the border army in Tuntian, right?" Wei Bao Road.

"But aren't you, are you a border general? Was your ancestor a frontier general? Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "If you want to get Weijiazhuang justifiably, it's not impossible, I can let Your Majesty make an order, and in the future, Weijiazhuang will be taken care of by your Wei family for generations, which is not a difficult thing." However, this amount! ”

Wei Zhongxian said, stretching out two fingers.

Wei Bao sweated, "Nine thousand years old, and another 200,000 taels?" It was a remote place in western Liaoning, where several grand dukes of the celebrant had been, and the birds didn't poop, and there was no grass! ”

"Hehe, two million taels of silver!" Wei Zhongxian said: "I don't care if you are a wild place, unless you don't want it!" No matter how remote it is, it is always such a large piece of land, tens of thousands of acres of land! If it is really given to you, from now on, your Wei family is this one in Liaoxi and Liaodong, which is better than the ancestral Wu family, isn't it worth this number? ”

"Two million silver?" Wei Bao almost spurted blood, secretly thinking that your old man is really good at trading, if you follow your business experience, how much silver will you have to earn this year?

"Hehe, I'm already taking care of you, if it's a rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, such a big piece of land, not to mention two million taels of silver, even two hundred million taels of silver, it's not good! Don't look at the surface of Da Ming There is no silver, but in whose eyes, in my eyes, Da Ming is silver everywhere! Wei Zhongxian shook his legs with a smile.

Wei Bao was choked by Wei Zhongxian and had nothing to say, secretly thinking that you are really an old fritter, an ancestor of business! You have the power in the world, and you are so good at trading, how much silver do you have to loot this year?

"These 80,000 taels of silver, I'll give it to you as soon as possible, and I estimate that I will have to wait for another twenty or thirty years for the two million taels of silver." Wei Bao said with a bitter face: "Nine thousand years old, I haven't been an official yet, so I owe a lot of money." ”

Wei Zhongxian was amused by Wei Bao and laughed: "There is a rumor that the gold and antique treasures of the Jin merchant ticket number were all robbed by your people?" After this matter, I won't ask, but don't play tricks with your little monkey cub here in our house, you can develop like this in such a short period of time, you can independently fight against Jiannu, which shows that your little monkey cub is a capable person, a capable person, you should know how to give up this truth! If you are willing to give up, you will get if you are willing to give up. ”

"The lesson of nine thousand years old is that the kid wrote it down." Wei Bao humbly saluted.

"Weijiazhuang's silver, give it whenever you want, anyway, I said hello to you, your movement is not small, and now there are many people staring at your little fat meat! Without the permission of Qin, you Weijiazhuang, you can't hold it steadily! Not to mention Liaonan! If you can get me two million taels of silver this time, I will not only give you Weijiazhuang, but also guarantee that as long as I am in one day, I will never mention the matter of Weijiazhuang and Liaonan to you again, and you little monkey cub will toss it alone! I know that it is barren over there, and I take millions of people to eat, and it is impossible to get the silver in a few years, and someone takes care of it for the imperial court, and if you can not let the Jiannu occupy it, how to say it, it will be good for our imperial court. Wei Zhongxian said.

Wei Bao hurriedly exclaimed: "It's still nine thousand years old who understands the most righteous and has a magnificent vision!" Da Ming is only 9,000 years old and has such insight! I have a hard life, I have earned a little silver, I can go to Jiangnan to buy a house, why bother to lose a large amount of silver, take a large number of poor people to eat, and fight to the end with the Jiannu who drank blood? I'm really thinking about the place, for the sake of the court. ”

"Okay, I don't care what you're thinking about, I've already told you what you need to say, you can do it yourself." Wei Zhongxian closed his eyes and said, "Our family is a little tired. ”

"Yes, boy, retire." Wei Bao originally wanted to talk to Wei Zhongxian about the assignment of work in the future after Tanhualang, it was best to get himself to Shandong to be an official! Now it seems that there is no chance.

"Well, by the way, don't think that you can do anything if you become a student of Sun Chengzong, I can give you a thorough explanation, Sun Chengzong's good days are numbered! If you like it, you can pass on my words to Sun Chengzong. Wei Zhongxian's eyes were still closed.

"No, I'm not going to talk nonsense! I'm nine thousand years old, and I dare not forget. Although I am nominally a disciple of Inspector Sun, he is mostly out of reward for my sponsorship of officers and soldiers to fight against Jiannu, but in fact, I do not have a deep friendship with Master Inspector, and Master Inspector is busy with things, so it is impossible for him to really teach us. Which one is lighter and which one is heavier, I have my own sense of proportion. Wei Bao hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

Wei Zhongxian opened his eyes and glanced at Wei Bao, and said with a smile: "That's your own business." ”

"I can't wait to take out my heart and show it to the nine thousand years old." Wei Bao knelt down and said: "In terms of silver, I am really getting tighter and tighter, otherwise, I Wei Bao is by no means a stingy person, not an ungrateful person, nine thousand years old allow me to do some business in Liaoxi, and allow me to do some small business in Beizhili, in Beijing, and now help me get the fame of Jinshi, and also help me to explore flowers, this pen, I have a number in my heart, nine thousand years old, I Wei Bao is by no means an ungrateful white-eyed wolf!" Wait and see! Wei Bao said, lying on the ground, bang, bang, bang, bang, kowtowing his head.

Wei Bao's forehead was about to burst, and every time he hit it, he really screamed his head, very loud.

Really use your brain against the marble floor.

"That's it. Our family has said that our family never likes to hear what people say, but likes to see how people do it! Wei Zhongxian stopped Wei Bao after kowtowing more than a dozen times.

"Yes, the kid is gone." Wei Bao got up and bowed deeply to Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Bao himself felt that he was very depraved, and what about kneeling to the sky and kneeling to his parents? Now he kneels too numbly, and he kowtows to Wei Zhongxian, every time he comes back to Wei Zhongxian, it's like acting.

Out of Wei Zhongxian's mansion, Wei Bao still felt dizzy, it really costs 200,000 taels of silver to buy a Tanhualang, and it was originally said that 120,000 taels of silver was a problem.

The more I thought about it, the more I lost, and at the same time, a strong psychological pressure that needed to spend 2 million taels of silver to protect Weijiazhuang appeared.

Wei Bao was angry and envious, he really envied the power in Wei Zhongxian's hands, that was the supreme imperial power.

If he gets this kind of power, will he be the same as Wei Zhongxian? Wei Bao didn't know.

After going back, Wei Bao told Wu Xuexia about being blackmailed by Wei Zhongxian, and he didn't hide anything from Wu Xuexia now.

There is only one thing, Wei Bao did not say to anyone that he had sent a worship post to Wei Zhongxian, mainly because he felt ashamed and didn't want anyone to know that he had worshiped under Wei Zhongxian.

"It's too dark!" Wu Xuexia complained softly, "Forget it, people are powerful and powerful, and the matter of two million taels of silver, if you can delay it, wait until he urges you to ask for it in the future." The 80,000 taels of silver will be paid to him when the ten-day deadline is up. ”

Wei Bao nodded: "You are responsible for this matter, don't forget it when the time comes." ”

"Well, don't worry, Childe." Wu Xuexia smiled: "Wei Zhongxian's appetite is big, maybe it's not a bad thing. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Wei Bao looked at Wu Xuexia in surprise, he was forced to be like this by Wei Zhongxian, is it still a good thing?

"With Wei Zhongxian's power, he is willing to force you so clearly, and he can be regarded as half of his own, isn't it a good thing? Also, if he is willing not to show it to everyone, your relationship with him is also very good to you, so that when you get promoted in the future, it will be easier and there will be a lot less resistance from the Donglin Party! Also, he can force you, can't you force him in turn? If he asks you for money openly, you ask him for power and officials. Wu Xuexia helped Wei Bao analyze.

After Wu Xuexia said this, Wei Bao suddenly realized, "The truth is like this, but I was a little stunned when I saw Wei Zhongxian, I wanted to say a lot of things but couldn't say them, don't look at his age, the reaction is really fast!" I didn't even say I could win him. ”

Wu Xuexia smiled, "It's normal for you to be afraid of him, he is in a high position, don't say it's you, I'm afraid my father will be scared to death when he sees him, you have to practice slowly, don't think about it." ”

Wei Bao snorted, and when he communicated with Wu Xuexia like this, he felt a lot better.

The good news really comes when it comes when it comes to it.

The next day, before President Wei woke up, the good news came.

"President, President. I was overjoyed. Lin Wenbiao's voice came from outside Wei Bao's bedroom.

Wei Bao opened his eyes in a daze.