Chapter 341: The princess is missing
Seeing Wang Benyu so enthusiastically retaining, we are embarrassed to shirk it again, if we don't go, we won't give him face, which makes the originally festive banquet turn sour
"Now that the king's treasurer is ready, let's go."
Wang Benyu saw that we agreed to go to the banquet, and happily said to the grain merchants below: "Colleagues, Lord Lan and Lord Liu are going to our banquet together, now we are ready to go."
The banquet was set up in the private room on the second floor of the largest Jun Zailai Restaurant in the capital, and Wang Benyu was chartered, and the two of us and the three of them were in a private room, and even Lao Liu, who followed us, and several of them were arranged in the private room
The dishes are also very particular, I don't know how other private rooms are, just look at our table to know that this table is no less than ten taels of silver, mushrooms, "fat", "chicken", three fresh ducks, five locks, "chicken", shredded stewed "meat", stewed belly lungs, yellow stewed sheep, "meat", "cherry", "meat", "yams", "donkey", "meat", stewed cabbage, sheep, "meat", "slices, Sichuan small radish, duck strips, sea cucumbers, duck dices, fried Gexian rice, roasted mushrooms", "meat", stewed "jade", "orchid slices, fried", "spring", curled light, these dishes are usually difficult for me to eat
The wine is also an excellent liquor, there is a bowl of 'spring' rice wine, and the 'female' is red, but Liu Taoran and I don't drink much, and the three of them can't drink either, so they sit there and eat mainly vegetables, eating and chatting
"The two adults, just now, a few of us discussed, and wanted to raise funds to go to Xuanfu to run a grain business, and then we would need the help of two adults," Wang Benyu knew that I had been in Xuanfu for many days, and I must be familiar with the government over there, so I said so
"Is this, a few shopkeepers, as long as you want to go to Xuanfu, I have a few acquaintances over there, if you need any help, you can find me, I will write you a letter to Xuanda, Lord Fang, and I have a little 'friendship', our silver house is arranged by Lord Fang, you can send someone to see how you need to operate, the officials over there will explain it to you, so to speak, go early, make money, and go late, you won't get anything."
"Lord Lan, we still have another doubt, that is, what if the 'Mongolian' ancients didn't have money to 'trade' with materials."
"Is this the king's shopkeeper's 'Meng' ancients used cattle, sheep and horses to have 'wool' skins, these things are in demand in our Central Plains, and a few people are still worried about whether they want it?"
"That's not what Landan people mean, we think that we haven't run this, and I'm afraid we won't be able to run it when the time comes, so we asked Landan people to consult you."
"You don't have to worry about this matter, as long as you have something, someone will come to contact you, Xuanfu is not far from the capital, you transport these things back, the profit is estimated to be much higher, it depends on how you '' the official, and I am not very familiar with doing business, but if you have any difficulties, you can find the official, if the official is not there, Lord Liu can also mediate for you."
Although there was not much to eat at the banquet, there was a lot of talking, and at the end of the day, Han Jianqun found an opportunity to say to me: "Lord Lan, our side has been completed, my brother-in-law still needs Lord Lan to take care of it, and their association also needs Lord Lan to guide it."
I just remembered that Zhang Jingxuan, who was going to set up the Silk Association, was also too busy during this period of time, and people helped me and couldn't help but take a look
"Shopkeeper Han, you tell your brother-in-law to go to our ya'men tomorrow afternoon to find me, I don't know where your brother-in-law's mansion is, let him send someone to pick me up."
"Thank you, Lord Lan, the little one knows that Lord Lan is righteous, and he won't leave me alone and go back to inform him."
In the farewell of hundreds of people, it was not easy to leave the restaurant, Liu Taoran said: "Lan people are too tired to 'deal' with these businessmen, and their mouths are full of money, alas, I will fall into the copper smell in the future."
"Haha, Lord Liu, this is a good thing, no business, no rich, this truth, you will slowly understand, if there are no merchants, the grain of the peasants can not be sold, if there are no merchants, the goods can only be placed there, the role of the merchants is to play the role of circulation, do not discriminate against them, they also want to survive, it is okay to make some profits, I have to say that there are some businessmen, the morality is not very good, but most of them are still good, we still have to support the businessmen in the future, so that our country will be strong, so that it will not be bullied by foreign races, although the scholars look down on the merchants, but you look at the one we eat and wear, it is not bought from the merchants, if we go to Jiangnan to buy silk and satin, come back to make clothes, and go to the farmersHow much effort does it take to buy food?"
"What Landa said is true, but most scholars still look down on businessmen, which is also a drawback left by history, and there is no way to change it all at once."
"Yes, but you don't know how many of our officials have their own business at home, although they are entrusted to others to operate, but behind them are still collecting benefits and profits, scolding businessmen in their mouths, but doing businessmen's behavior, do you say that such hypocrites deserve our respect, you Lord Liu is a good official, without the hypocrisy of those hypocrites, this is also one of the reasons why this official insists that you come to me, but if we want to do a good job in the emperor's 'handover' errand, we must 'deal' with businessmen, and we can't escape this reality."
"After Lord Lan understands, I will also tell the people below not to look down on businessmen."
The two of us talked and chatted, and we arrived at the intersection, the winter days were relatively short, and the kung fu of a meal was about to get dark this day, and I broke up with Liu Taoran, so I returned to the 'jade' horse lane
As soon as I arrived at the mouth of the alley, I saw a eunuch waiting for me there, and when I came back, he hurriedly greeted me and said, "Lord Lan can wait for you to come back, and the emperor urgently summoned your lordship."
When I heard that the emperor summoned me, I was stunned, what is going on, could it be that there is another big incident in the imperial court, I asked: "My father-in-law doesn't know what the emperor summoned me?"
"Lord Lan, I don't know, I just sent the letter, and it was Gonggong Su who asked me to come over."
followed the little eunuch to the Donghua 'gate', this time it was not so troublesome, there was no need to go in to report, just checked whether there were weapons on the body, and let him go
When I arrived at the Qianqing Palace, the little eunuch went in first to report, and soon came out to say that the emperor summoned him, and when he came to the main hall, he saw that Su Si, who was pretending to be dead, was there, and the emperor's face was not very good, and the two eunuchs were kneeling on the ground, looking like they had received a lot of instructions just now, and there were things on the ground that the emperor fell to the ground in anger
"Lan Yunjie knocks on long live, long live, long live, long live"
"Come on, Lan Yunjie, do you know where the princess went?"
"The emperor hasn't seen the princess for a long time, I don't know why the emperor asked."
"Alas, these two minions don't even know where the princess went"
"Don't you know the eunuchs, 'servants' and 'women' in the emperor's princess's palace?"
"I've all been asked and said that the princess went out of the palace, I thought the princess would go to you, and I sent someone to ask, but there was no Lord Wei, and I didn't know that they would go there, so I asked you to ask, I know that the princess will tell you anything, so I called you to ask."
"The emperor doesn't know when the princess left, who followed in that direction"
"Chen Jiu, you two get up and tell Lord Lan everything you asked."
Chen Jiu and Su Si stood up with relief, Chen Jiu said: "Lord Lan, I went to ask, the princess left the palace early in the morning, and there were the chief eunuchs in their palace, as well as the 'female' official, and the eunuch who guarded the palace 'gate' with three people, and said that the princess went to the west, and they haven't come back yet, and we don't know where they went, and they started to think that they went to you, and now I know that I didn't go, it's not that the long-lived lord is in a hurry."
"Didn't the princess go out without a 'guard'?"
"I don't know why I left in such a hurry this time, now the security is so bad, I'm afraid that something will happen to her, Lan Yunjie, think about it, the princess will go there"
"The last time the emperor Weichen entered the palace, I heard the princess say that they were going to Xiangshan to play, and said that she would wait for Weichen to accompany her, wouldn't she wait for Princess Weichen to go first?"
"It's really not close to Xiangshan, Chen Jiu immediately mobilized the 'fine' people of your East Factory, go to Xiangshan to have a look."
Chen Jiu agreed, and when he left the main hall, the emperor was still walking around the main hall, looking uneasy
"The emperor and his ministers also want to go together, I am familiar with the princess, maybe I can find some clues"
"Okay, you go with Chen Jiu and them, remember that safety comes first, you just came back and haven't had a good rest, and I want you to go out again, I really can't bear it."
"The emperor Weichen is the princess's teacher, and now the princess is gone, and Weichen is also responsible, in order to find the princess, Weichen is to go to the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire."
Out of the main hall, I came to Donghua's 'gate', pulled Lao Liu aside and asked, "Brother Liu, are you familiar with Xiangshan?"
"The young master has been there once, and if you want to say that it is familiar, it is not very familiar, but I know the road, I don't know, why is the young master asking this?"
"Brother Liu, the princess left the palace in the morning, and she hasn't come back until now, maybe she went to Xiangshan, you take the three tiger brothers, they go over to see me first, and then I will come, remember not to spread the news of the princess's disappearance, you also have to pay attention to safety, pretend to be a pedestrian who goes the wrong way, you can notify me in time if there is something, Liu Lianjiang will follow me later"
Lao Liu knew that the disappearance of the princess was a big deal, so he didn't hesitate to take the three tigers directly to the west 'gate' and went to see them, Liu Lianjiang came over and asked, "Young master, where did my father go?"
"They will go to Xiangshan to do some business, and we will go there in a while, they will go to the front station first"
Liu Lianjiang saw that I didn't say anything, so he didn't ask me anymore, and the two of us waited for Chen Jiu to come out at the Donghua 'gate' and go to Xiangshan together