Chapter 55: Concubine Shi's Distant Relatives
At night, during the "beating" time, Bu Bo calmly looked at everyone. Zheng Sheng and Zheng Shangzhan in front of him were in a mess. Bubo had old injuries, and every winter, his body always became very weak. Therefore, the original special training of Bubo became a sparring training for everyone at this time.
Of course, it's impossible to be lazy, Bu Bo is watching from the side, and if the two people who do it don't go all out, the stick in his hand will still hit him hard.
However, the "battle" between peers is always better than being beaten. Zheng Sheng thinks it's good to practice like this!
The next day, Zheng Sheng got up listening to the bells of the western camp, and then joined the array of running exercises, and the Huwei Battalion and the Wenwu Battalion all started their morning training.
A new day has officially begun.
Today, their main task is to clear the snow, and the villagers incident has indeed had a great impact, so they can only seize the time to finish the unfinished work yesterday.
It's just that the things that disturbed Zheng Sheng came one after another, and he didn't sweat yet. Today, the first person stationed in the other courtyard came to report: "Shizi, someone has come to make trouble again!" ”
"Trouble again?" Zheng Sheng was taken aback, "Those villagers are back?" ”
"Not the villagers. It's a gang that came to make trouble, and it's very arrogant! ”
Zheng Sheng stood up: "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”
Behind him, Wan Yun and Wang Jun glanced at each other and began to gather people.
Zheng Sheng saw from a distance that more than a dozen people in their twenties wearing various clothes were gathering in front of the small courtyard, talking and laughing, with an arrogant and arrogant attitude.
Ren is talking to the other party.
Seeing Zheng Sheng, Ren Ji came to his side and whispered: "Shizi, he is a relative of King Shunyang." ”
"A relative of the King of Shunyang?"
"The person who came claimed to be the younger brother of the Shunyang Queen Mother, Concubine Shi."
"Relatives of the emperor!" Zheng Sheng took a deep breath, it seems that this is Zheng Ming's backhand! The royal relatives are really not small.
Shi Man is very happy now, and when he comes to a small place like Shunyang, he Shi Lao Wu can also tremble!
Shi Man is from the capital Luoyang, his ancestral home is Huainan, and his identity is the younger brother of Sima Chang's mother, the king of Shunyang, although he is not his own brother, but he is also a younger brother after all.
In Luoyang City, Shi Man is not a person with energy, he is a younger brother and a poor person. He was not looked down upon, and even the people of the Shi clan looked down on him. Because he is a native of Huainan, he is not a native of Jizhou like Situ and Jungong Shibao.
Shi Man hated the gaze that others looked at him with contempt. He had long planned to leave Luoyang and show his ambitions. So with the help of his nephew Sima Chang's change of Jingzhou, he took the lead in looking for opportunities.
The first stop is Nanyang. Shi Man knew that the best restaurant in Luoyang today, Yongheli Dubuju's signature dishes, came from Nanyang. In order to poach people, Dubu reached a very secret agreement with a small family in Nanyang.
He was curious.
So, Shi entered the drunken fragrance house with great expectations, and he really feasted on it, even better than the food in the solitary house!
Young Master Shi Man, who was full of food and in a happy mood, went to pay the bill, only to find that he was trapped! Your sister's! Nanyang has a meal, he can't afford to pay for the whole body's belongings, and his Uncle Shi came to Nanyang to make a fortune, not to be slaughtered as a fat sheep!
Immediately, Shi Man became entangled with the running hall of Drunken Xiangju. Listening to the sound of nearby diners pointing and pointing, Shi Man became more and more depressed, and immediately reported his identity, Lao Tzu is the uncle of King Shunyang, who dares to pit me!
Then someone came to him.
He doesn't owe any money, because someone has already paid for him. Shi Man didn't need to find a place to live, because someone had already arranged the best place to live in Nanyang for him.
Shi Man finally felt what it was like to be a superior person.
This Mr. Huangfu personally accompanied, invited banquets every day, and sang flutes every night, and Shi Man lived nearly ten days like a fairy.
The day before yesterday, Shi Man was invited again.
At the banquet, he heard that the richest person in Nanyang is not this Huangfu gentleman, but Zheng Xiaoshizi of Shunyang. Mr. Huangfu vividly described the wealth of Zheng Shizi.
Shi Man couldn't help but blush when he heard that a small pavilion marquis was so rich.
"Actually, Xiao Shizi is not only rich, but also able to compose, and he wrote a thousand-character essay!"
Shi Man's eyes widened, "It turns out that Zheng Xiaoshizi is Zheng Kewu!" Shi Man was not only red, but also jealous. This Zheng Kewu seems to be somewhat famous in Luoyang's literati circle, but he is not very clear. He just hated the guys who despised his literati appreciation.
"The son of the world can not only gather well, but also be kind and charitable!" Mr. Huangfu also told Shi Man about the fact that the Zheng family had shared a lot of the business in their hands with many people and many families.
Shi Man was shocked when he heard it, and the meaning behind these names was also well known to him, who was in the circle of Luoyang. The Zheng family has made so many family members silently?
"Actually, Young Master Shi can also go and make friends with Zheng Shizi! After all, you are a member of the Bohai Shi clan, the uncle of the King of Shunyang, and the younger brother of Concubine Shi, and you can also ask Zheng Xiaoshizi for some power. ”
Shi Man suddenly became vigilant, he was a bastard and a fool, but his brain was not stupid. I'm afraid that this surnamed Huangfu doesn't have an enmity with the surname Zheng!
However, this is really a mouthful of fat that you have to swallow. In the face of huge interests, Shi Man is also willing to be someone's murder knife.
So, Shi Man took the Nanyang City hooligans he hired with money to make a fortune in Shunyang!
Zheng Sheng listened to Ren Zhi's description and greeted Shi Man indifferently.
Shi Man looked at Zheng Sheng arrogantly.
Zheng Sheng invited him into the middle hall, and he was thinking about the relationship between Shi Man and Zheng Ming.
Shi Man was also dry, and directly stated his purpose: "I am from Huainan, I heard that Zheng Shizi is not going to sell Zheng Zi paper?" Huainan alone, I want 500 per month! Shi Man's heart was pounding, five hundred pieces of Zhengzi paper per month, according to the sky-high price of more than 100 yuan for a piece of Zhengzi paper in Luoyang City, he would get hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year!
Zheng Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that someone would open his mouth and extort too much. Five hundred pieces of Zhengzi paper a month, is it much? Not much.
"Brother Shi is from Huainan?" Zheng Sheng thought for a moment, "Now the Zheng Zi paper sold to Huainan in Yangzhou is being done by Hefei and Lu'an counties. Brother Shi is interested, the one hundred and twenty copies numbered Renzi and Gui Chou will be handed over to you to sell, of course. As for the remaining three hundred and eighty sheets, I still have some unnumbered ones in my hand, so I can give them to Brother Shi! ”
Shi Man laughed happily, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." ”
Zheng Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, this guy is not too greedy.
Now the Zhengzi paper business has formed a complete system, each piece of paper is numbered by the sexagenary branch, sixty sheets are a bundle, and each bundle is numbered by the sexagenary branch, so that it is 3,600 pieces of Zhengzi paper.
And these 60 bundles of Zhengzi paper are the Zhengzi paper that Zheng sells to local families every month by selling on behalf of others.
The remaining 2,000 pieces of Zheng Zi paper exchanged every month became Zheng's self-retained paper, and Zheng Yuan used them as gifts to open up human relations in various places.
Zhengzi paper business is extremely profitable. In particular, since Sima Yan, the Son of Heaven in the eighth year of Taikang, praised Zheng Zi paper, Zheng Yuan discussed with Zheng Sheng and Qiu Fuzi, and presented 10,000 pieces of Zheng Zi paper to the emperor every year.
Sima Yan was a good emperor, although he brought about a bad social atmosphere, which made the Jin state advocate showing off wealth, extravagance, and the pursuit of pleasure. But he also knew the value of these papers, and as the Son of Heaven directly asked for other people's things, he felt bad, so he decided to buy these 10,000 pieces of Zhengzi paper at the "market price" to prevent the Zheng family from suffering.
In fact, Zheng Zizhi did not lose money, but made more money. The praise of Sima Yan, the son of heaven, made Zheng Zi paper more in demand. Its price has also risen.
Since the seventh year of Taikang, the price of each bundle of Zhengzi paper sold by the Zheng family has risen from 500 yuan, to 800 yuan, to 1,000 yuan, and finally to 1,800 yuan per bundle.
Now, Zheng Sheng gave 500 pieces of Zhengzi paper to Shi Man, which is indeed a great favor.
Shi Man was also satisfied, so he walked with his younger brothers. After getting into the carriage, Shi Man wrapped himself in a robe and sat down peacefully.
The little guy who never got out of the carriage - the one who paid for him. Mr. Huangfu saw that Mr. Shi Man didn't even have a servant, so he let this little guy named Qiu Zhi serve Shi Man all the time.
Qiu Zhi was surprised that Shi Man came out like this, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, why did you come out so quickly?" Zheng ...... Has the prince rejected you? ”
"No, he agreed. The business of 500 pieces of Zheng Zi paper, Shi someone sent it! Shi Man looked satisfied.
Qiu Zhi, the person who left here in embarrassment a few years ago, has now grown to ten years old, he has experienced a lot of things in the past few years and has learned more truths.
But hearing Shi Man's words, Qiu Shuzhi's smiling face still froze, and he seriously doubted whether it was worth it for them to spend so much effort.
He is not afraid of Shi Man's greed and lust, he is not afraid of his insidious cunning, as a knife, it is better to have these qualities. But this guy is stupid and unsightly, and it seems hopeless!
Qiu Shuzhi explained Zheng Sheng's wealth to Shi Man in detail, Zheng Sheng can sell thousands of Zheng Zi papers every month, and you are satisfied when you get five hundred?
You're too down, aren't you?
Shi Man's face flushed, he knew his identity as a knife, Huangfu and the Zheng family had a grudge, he contributed to his friends, and it was his duty to teach the Zheng family a lesson.
Like him, it is really a shame to be coaxed away by Zheng Sheng with tens of thousands of dollars per month! Tens of thousands, tens of thousands of dollars is much? The former Taifu He only gets money for a few meals a month? It's really too little!
Shi Man ordered the carriage to turn around and go back again.
When Zheng Sheng heard that Shi Man had gone and returned, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, Shi Man stepped in and immediately said, "Give me two thousand Zheng Zi paper every month, and I won't come again." ”
Zheng Sheng thought to himself that this was the case, he was wrong. It's not that this guy isn't greedy, but he was just a little greedy before, and it was his forbearance that made Shi Man's appetite increase and become more greedy!
He shouldn't have agreed to Shi Man's request, even if it was only a little bit of profit.
Zheng Sheng was silent.
Shi Man was also silent, he felt a little weak in his heart, after all, it was the first time to do such a tricky and robbing thing, and being a bad guy also needs to grow. Undoubtedly, Shi Man is still very immature.
Zheng Sheng raised his head and said, "Brother Shi, what you said is not right. ”