In all fairness, if it weren't for Yuan Yang's ability to profit from Bolangsha's river port, Zhao Hongrun didn't feel that there was anything to lose by buying Bolangsha with one million silver, after all, in his estimates, Bolangsha's geographical location was far more than that.

But the problem is that it is clear that Yuan Yangguo can also profit from the river port of Bolangsha, in this case, pay the other party another million silver, is he Zhao Hongrun a fool?

Of course, the main reason is that Zhao Hongrun does not have much money on hand at present.

You must know that the 300,000 taels he once had in his hands had already been spent on successively renovating the Suwang Mansion, renovating the Smelting Bureau, and building furnaces and warehouses for the Smelting Bureau outside the city, and only about 50,000 taels were left.

And if you want to build a river port in the barren land of Bolangsha, how much will it cost millions of taels of silver? I'm afraid it's possible to have tens of millions of taels!

Who called Zhao Hongrun was very ambitious in this regard, not only wanted to build the largest giant port in the Great Wei in one step, but also hoped that this port would be used for at least a hundred years, otherwise, he would not have spent a huge amount of copper pillars to replace the perishable wooden pillars for piling in the swamps of Bolangsha.

In addition, it is necessary to renovate and expand the port on the south side of Daliang, that is, Xiangfu Port, it is not difficult to guess how much money Zhao Hongrun will invest in these two ports in the next few years.

To be precise, these two river ports belong to the state property of the Great Wei, and Zhao Hongrun did not mean to take them as his own, and the reason why he paid out of his own pocket to build these two river ports is not because he is a Wei person and is the prince of the Wei people?

But it was obviously beneficial to the whole country, but Zhao Chengxiu in front of him tried to profit from it, which made Zhao Hongrun very unhappy.

Yes, that unpleasant mood. It came from Zhao Chengxiu's asking price, not the number.

His face gradually sank, and his tone was a little lower: "The prince is joking, right?" ”

However, Zhao Chengxiu was mistaken and snorted lightly. Rolling his eyes, he pondered.

To be honest, because he didn't know much about this kind of thing, he couldn't make an accurate valuation of Bolangsha like Zhao Hongrun, he just casually shouted a number.

He didn't know that Zhao Hongrun's gloomy face was not because he said the amount of one million, but purely because he used it to blackmail.

"And how much do you say?" Zhao Chengxiu asked rhetorically.

『……』

Zhao Hongrun was stunned, and a hint of surprise vaguely flashed on his gloomy face.

At this time, he suddenly realized that it seemed that Zhao Chengxiu did not know the valuation of the land in Bolangsha, which made his heart move slightly.

You must know that if it is only approved by the father and son of the original Yang Wang. To build a river port on the land of Bolangsha, then, although Zhao Hongrun's previous purpose was achieved, this river port will still belong to the Yuanyang Kingdom after it is completed.

That's a golden place for the future!

"Why don't you take this opportunity to take it into your own hands?"

Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but hesitate, after all, he knew very well what kind of gold Bolangsha had.

The river port will be completed in the future. It is believed that the value of this land will increase substantially, and there will inevitably be a large number of domestic and foreign merchants living there. After that day, it will be an inch of land and an inch of gold. If the operation goes smoothly, Zhao Hongrun will probably be able to feed the entire smelting bureau just by collecting rent in the future.

No, it should be said that there is a surplus to feed two or three smelting bureaus.

"The prince intends to sell that piece of land to this king?"

Zhao Hongrun asked in a low voice.

Huge potential benefits at your fingertips. Prompting his heart to beat a little faster.

To be honest, he really didn't expect Zhao Chengxiu to say such stupidity as selling Bolangsha to him, no, no, no, it's a cute suggestion.

Zhao Chengxiu obviously didn't guess what Zhao Hongrun was thinking, and self-righteously opened his eyes and said nonsense: "Although it is barren there. But after all, it is my fiefdom of Yuanyang, and if King Su really builds a river port in this place, he will occupy the land of my Yuanyang Kingdom...... King Su doesn't want to get a piece of land for nothing, right? ”

"That's a ......."

Although Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhao Chengxiu expressionlessly, he wanted to laugh in his heart.

Although he didn't have this idea originally, but when he heard Zhao Chengxiu say this, he suddenly felt that if he didn't take advantage of such a big advantage, then he would really become a bastard.

"One million taels is too much!"

Zhao Hongrun deliberately pretended to have a serious expression and shook his head slowly.

"And how much do you say?" Zhao Chengxiu frowned and asked.

"Then it depends on how much land the prince is willing to sell in Bolangsha." Glancing at Zhao Chengxiu, Zhao Hongrun said in a deep voice: "If the prince is willing to sell all the land along the river of Bolangshana for about ten miles to this king, this king is willing to buy it with 100,000 taels." ”

Zhao Hongrun thought about it and said in a deep voice.

I believe that if there is a far-sighted person present at this moment, he will definitely admire the "ruthlessness" of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and plan to buy Bolangsha, which will definitely increase in value in the future, with only 120,000 yuan.

"100,000 ......"

Zhao Chengxiu was taken aback slightly, after all, 100,000 taels is also a lot of money for this prince.

Moreover, buying more than ten miles of wasteland with 100,000 taels is relatively "expensive".

Of course, this is only for Bolangsa, which is still only a wasteland.

But no matter what, the greed of the people's hearts prompted Zhao Chengxiu to still want to raise the price.

I saw that he looked deeply at Zhao Hongrun's expression and put forward a high price that he thought he had: "200,000!" ”

"It's too high!" Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but smile in his heart, but he pretended to show an angry look on his face, and shook his head categorically: "One hundred thousand!" ”

"One hundred and eighty thousand!"

"One hundred thousand!"

"One hundred and sixty thousand!"

"One hundred thousand!"

“……”

The two of them calculated for a while, and finally came to the result: 150,000!

Among them, 100,000 yuan is the cost of buying Bolangsha, and 50,000 yuan is privately given to Zhao Chengxiu.

I have to say that after achieving this tacit understanding, both Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Chengxiu couldn't stop laughing in their hearts.

The difference is only that Zhao Hongrun laughed that Zhao Chengxiu was really "cute", and he actually sold him a piece of Bolangsha worth tens of millions of dollars in the future for a mere 150,000 taels of silver, Zhao Hongrun; As for Zhao Chengxiu's smile, most likely he finally took advantage of Zhao Hongrun's side and saved face.

As for who is more advantageous, it is up to the benevolent and the wise.

However, I believe that those who are far-sighted will definitely shake their heads at the stupid idea of Zhao Chengxiu, the son of the prince of Yuanyang.

"There is no basis for words, so let's make a note." Zhao Hongrun said to Zhao Chengxiu with a straight face: "Make a written agreement, this king doesn't want anything to go wrong when Bolangsha's project is halfway completed. ”

"What could go wrong?" Zhao Chengxiu glanced at Zhao Hongrun dissatisfied, after all, in this matter, he could still hear that Zhao Hongrun was talking about him.

So, Zhao Chengxiu immediately ordered someone to take pen, ink and paper, and he wrote it, according to Zhao Hongrun's dictation, one by one, clearly listed on the paper.

Because the land of the feudal country is not allowed to be bought and sold privately, therefore, Zhao Hongrun did not leave any handle on this note, he changed the word "buy" to "rent", to the effect that it is to rent Bolangsha with 150,000 taels, as for the number of years, Zhao Hongrun said a frenzied year, 99,999 years!

People can't live for this period of time at all, and Dawei is probably difficult to maintain for so long, to put it bluntly, renting for such a period of time is actually no different from selling.

If there is the only difference, it is only that this document makes people unable to catch Zhao Hongrun's handle, after all, the Great Wei criminal law strictly prohibits the private sale of fiefdoms, but in terms of renting, the corresponding law has not yet been promulgated, so it can be said that Zhao Hongrun is exploiting the loophole of the Great Wei criminal law.

After writing the note, Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Chengxiu wrote their names on the number of words and stamped their handprints.

In order to make this contract more convincing, Zhao Hongrun also pretended to mention the credibility of this contract to Zhao Chengxiu.

Zhao Chengxiu did not doubt him, and personally went to find the seal of his father, King Yuanyang, and stamped the seal on the contract.

"That's a ...... What an unexpected harvest!'

Blowing the ink on the contract, Zhao Hongrun handed it to Zongwei Shen Yu and told him to keep it properly, if the Yuanyang King repented in the future, this would be the most powerful counterattack.

Of course, this move will most likely make Zhao Hongrun and the Yuanyang Wang family become enemies, if Zhao Hongrun does not try to give the Yuanyang Wang family some benefits in the future.

But either way, it's worth it.

"Don't worry, the king of Ming Japan will let the 150,000 taels of silver be transported to Yuanyang!"

Zhao Hongrun swore to Zhao Chengxiu.

It is undeniable that he now only has about 50,000 taels of silver in his hands, but it is believed that with the profits of his smelting bureau in the distribution of candles, it is not a problem for the household department to lend him 150,000 taels of silver.

Hearing this, Zhao Chengxiu suddenly smiled, and for a while seemed to have resolved all the contradictions with Zhao Hongrun.

However, Zhao Hongrun was not in the mood to have any feelings with Zhao Chengxiu, because he was very weak at the moment and desperate to leave.

At the very least, keep the title deed in good hands.

After all, if Zhao Wenkai, the former king of Yang, comes out, then things will be troublesome.

It's also a little funny to say, Zhao Hongrun, who obviously hoped that Zhao Wenkai, the king of Yuanyang, would show up as soon as possible, but now he is worried that this prince will appear when he shouldn't have appeared.

But the result was not bad, until Zhao Hongrun took Zongwei Shen Yu and others to leave Yuanyang in a carriage, and he still didn't see anything unusual.

The next day, Zhao Hongrun really did not lose his trust, took out his only remaining 50,000 taels of silver from the household department, borrowed another 100,000 taels from him, and collected 150,000 taels of silver, and entrusted the guards to transport the money to Yuanyang.

On the same day, there was still stunned and funny news from the palace of the king of Yuanyang: the face of Zhao Chengxiu, the son of the prince of the king of Yuanyang, was swollen.

And after that, Zhao Hongrun was suddenly summoned by the Zongfu, and his serious, stubborn and old-fashioned second uncle Zhao Yuanyan, invited him to the Zongfu and his party.

As for the reason, Zhao Hongrun can somewhat guess the title deed of Bolangsha in his hand. (To be continued.) )