Li Lusheng came to Lao Zaifu Feng Quan's mansion and told Lao Zaifu Feng Quan, who was appreciating chrysanthemums in the backyard garden, about the plan to increase the price of firewood.

Now it is the beginning of winter, due to the early cold, the autumn chrysanthemum has all withered.

The chrysanthemums outside the bamboo pavilion are all winter chrysanthemums.

It will only open when the weather is cold.

Li Lusheng's words sounded to Lao Zaifu Feng Quan, but the weather was colder than the weather in the beginning of winter.

An understatement to raise the price of firewood, I don't know how many ordinary people will become dry bones on Li Lusheng's career.

Lao Zaifu Feng Quan looked at Li Lusheng standing at the foot of the steps outside the bamboo pavilion, and had an idea in his heart, no matter whether this matter is successful or not, he will support Li Lusheng to sit in the position of a waiter.

Li Lusheng's scheming city government is far from being comparable to ordinary Donglin Party officials, and more importantly, he has no bottom line, what bottom line can a person who can pave the way for his career with the lives of the common people.

The scheming city government is far beyond ordinary people, there is no bottom line, as long as he can enter the court, he must definitely become a very tricky and headache for Zhu Shun.

Lao Zaifu Feng Quan beckoned, signaling Li Lusheng to come to the bamboo pavilion to roast the fire, but still did not speak.

Li Lusheng smiled, there are very few protégés who can stand on the same roof as Lao Zaifu Feng Quan, and there are only five people besides Zheng Yuan in the past, and from today onwards, he is also one of them.

Regarding the increase in the price of firewood, although Lao Zaifu Feng Quan did not make a clear statement, letting him enter the bamboo pavilion was the biggest statement.

It not only means that Li Lusheng has become one of the five most relied on henchmen of Lao Zaifu Feng Quan, but also that he fully supports Li Lusheng to do it.

With the support of Lao Zaifu Feng Quan, Li Lusheng is completely relieved, and with the banner of Lao Zaifu Feng Quan, the connections and rights that can be used in his hands will enter another level.

Next, it will be much easier to persuade the elites of the Donglin Party to contribute, and it has become a matter of course to persuade the Jin merchants to participate in this matter.

Li Lusheng is not like other Donglin Party officials, he can't pull his face to beg the military leader, after all, they are civilian officials, and the other party is just a low-level military attaché.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Li Lusheng will also go to the mansions of the military leaders in the capital and get the support of the military leaders.

The Donglin Party, the Jin merchants, and the military leaders all supported him Li Lusheng.

The price of firewood is stable.

Li Lusheng stood in the bamboo pavilion and accompanied Lao Zaifu Feng Quan to appreciate the winter chrysanthemum of a cup of tea, turned around and left here, ready to visit the magnates of the three parties one by one.

At the same time that Li Lusheng visited the dignitaries of the Donglin Party, Zhu Shun had also arrived at the mansion of a nobleman.

Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion.

The mansion of the Marquis of Zhenyuan is located on Wangfu Street in Donghuamen, which is named after the construction of ten palaces, and is also called Shiwangfu Street.

The streets and alleys are very prosperous, gathering the most in the capital of the world's first things, such as inner wine, Duan inkstone, Goryeo secret color, Xinghua Junzi fish and so on.

This Marquis of Zhenyuan has a high prestige in Xunguili, and he is also a resolute marquis, who once guarded Deshengmen in the second year of Chongzhen.

Inside the Hou Mansion.

The chief manager of the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion is receiving a squire with a high prestige in the capital, this squire seems to have no entanglement with the Donglin Party, but in fact he is one of the squires who participated in raising the price of firewood, and he is also a friend of Li Lusheng for many years.

It stands to reason that the average squire should make a cautious gesture when he sees the chief manager of the Hou Ye's Mansion, but this squire whose family background is in the top ten in the state capital is drinking tea leisurely.

There is no other reason, just because the Marquis of Zhenyuan has asked him.

Over the years, the Marquis of Zhenyuan has been using silver higher than the market price of 30% to buy the Liaodong horses captured by the Shanhaiguan General Mangui, and in disguised support for the Liaodong soldiers who carried the Qing.

Just a month ago, Kong Youde, the general of Shanhaiguan, suddenly said that there was a big deal, and he hoped that the Marquis of Zhenyuan would bring more silver.

Liaodong Malaysia is in demand in the Central Plains, as long as someone is willing to sell it will often be robbed, Zhenyuan Marquis supports the Liaodong soldiers at the same time, but also earns some silver from it.

Kong Youde was also a border general in Shanhaiguan, and the Marquis of Zhenyuan trusted these Liaodong generals very much, so he took out all the silver taels in stock and ordered people to go to Liaodong to buy Liaodong Malaysia.

This branch of Zhenyuan Hou has a full 300 loyal family members, equipped with the flintlock torches of the Ming Arms Company, and has plenty of lead bullets, so as long as you don't encounter more than 5,000 rogues, there is basically no danger.

The way to Shanhaiguan is another official road, along the way there are not only a large number of officers and soldiers of the inspection department, but also many guards stationed with heavy troops.

Not to mention the more than 5,000 rogues, even if there are more than 1,000 rogues, they have long been wiped out by the officers and soldiers of the various guards, after all, the population of the rogues is worth a lot of silver.

But who would have thought that just when they were about to arrive at Shanhaiguan, a gang that had used more than 300 family members and still held the sophisticated firearms produced by the Daming Arms Company all died.

The family wealth that the Marquis of Zhenyuan had worked hard to manage over the years was also gone, and the Marquis of Zhenyuan's mansion soon fell into a crisis of lack of silver.

First of all, the pension silver of the three hundred family members and the caravan stewards is a big shortfall, and secondly, there are as many as a thousand maids and servants in the Zhenyuan Marquis' Mansion, and the silver consumed every month is a large amount.

The Marquis of Zhenyuan is a very good-looking person, so he can't pull his face down and go to the richest people in Xungui, Xing'anbo, Xin Ningbo, and Huaiyuanhou to borrow, so he can only find another way.

Seeing that the Marquis of Zhenyuan's Mansion couldn't pay the monthly money of the maids and servants, Li Lusheng's friend came to the door and was willing to buy the abandoned coal kiln of the Marquis of Zhenyuan in western Beijing.

The Marquis of Zhenyuan had occupied Sancheng coal kilns in western Beijing, and at first he made a lot of money, but later the coal kilns gradually fell into disuse due to the difficulty of removing the water in the pit and the time-consuming and laborious sorting process.

Unexpectedly, there were squires who were willing to buy these waste mines, and the Zhenyuan Hou Mansion was very short of silver, so the chief manager of the Hou Ye Mansion personally received the squire.

It is also useless for the squire to buy the waste mine, first, there is no steam engine to solve the problem of stagnant water, and second, there is no way to recruit long-term and short-term workers, and it is impossible to sort the raw coal that is abandoned outside the coal kiln.

There is only one reason to buy these waste mines, Li Lusheng can't use these coal mines, and he would rather abandon them in Jingxi than let Zhu Shun get them.

The chief manager looked at the stack list in his hand, which was the squire's purchase price of silver for each coal kiln, and the price of silver was indeed very high, but the Marquis of Zhenyuan was too short of silver now, so he couldn't help but want to raise the price again: "Can you add another percent." ”

After the chief manager finished speaking, he felt that this requirement was a bit excessive, after all, it was an additional one percent on the basis of the total silver price of all coal kilns.

Just when the chief steward was about to sign the deed at the original price, the squire readily agreed.

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