Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a few days have passed, and the Dengzhou Thorn Envoy Mansion has welcomed its first wave of guests, salt merchants from Chang'an City.

Thinking that as long as he nodded, the salt in those warehouses would be transported away by these unscrupulous profiteers at seventy percent of the normal price, and Du Wei in his depression had an urge to drive them out.

However, Du He's movements were much faster than his eldest brother's, and without waiting for him to speak, he first said to the old butler: "Uncle Du, let them in!" ”

"Whoa!" The old housekeeper was brought over by Du Gou from home, and the two Du brothers grew up with his own eyes, so he naturally would not discount Du He's order, and seeing that Du Gou had no intention of stopping him, he agreed and turned away.

There was not much time, and the four half-grown old men with big bellies walked into Du Gou's mansion from the outside under the leadership of the old housekeeper of the Du family, and came to the front hall specially used for meeting guests.

"A few of you sit down for a while, and the old man will go and invite my family to send Lord Jun over." After arranging for the next person to serve tea, the old housekeeper said lightly.

"Old butler, please!" Several salt merchants got up one after another and said politely.

As the so-called Prime Minister's Concierge Seven Rank Officials, although the old butler Du is no longer in the Du Mansion, the Assassin's Mansion is not a good place, compared to Chang'an, the local Assassin's Mansion is not much worse than the Prime Minister's Mansion in the capital.

Therefore, those salt merchants, despite their status as noble agents, still did not dare to hold on to them.

The old butler seemed to be familiar with such a scene, nodded silently and turned his head away, heading towards the back house.

And after Old Butler Du left, those big salt merchants began to look around at the living room they were in.

I saw that the layout of this living room was extremely simple, a few coffee tables and chairs, a few potted plants, and then there were some calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls around it.

But even so, those big salt merchants seemed even more restrained, not for anything else, just because the inscriptions on those calligraphy and paintings were too amazing.

Needless to say, Du Ruhui's words, as Du Thorn's envoy, it is not uncommon to hang a picture, but what about the others? Yu Zhining, Kong Yingda, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling .......

Oh, by the way, there is also a word, the number of words on it is very small, only the four words "Zhengda Guangming", the font is like a chicken planer can be anti-counterfeiting, and there is no payment.

It is not asked whose handwriting this character comes from, but the theory that Li Chengqian's character can be counterfeited has been spread far from the north and south of the country, and if he still can't recognize it after reading it, then this person must be illiterate.

However, this anti-counterfeiting character was hung in the middle of the living room, which occupied a large area.

It can be seen from this that if this Du Gou assassin is not a man who slaps horses, he must be a law-abiding and strict self-disciplined person.

……

"Du Envoy has arrived." Just when a few salt merchants were pondering Du Gou's personality, there were reports outside.

This is not because the status of several people in the room is high enough, and Du Wei needs to report it before he can see them.

It's to avoid something, if a few people are saying bad things about Du Wei, such a report can serve as a reminder, saving the embarrassment of being bumped into both sides when they get it.

But fortunately, generally speaking, no one will be so blind and run to the people's land to say bad things about the master, so this reminder can also be understood as 'The people you want to see are coming, stand up and prepare well, don't lose your courtesy.' ’

In fact, several people in the room had already made preparations, and when they heard the announcement, they immediately stood up, stared directly at the door, and waited for Du Gou, who was dressed in official uniform, to appear with Du He, and bowed down in unison: "I've seen Lord Envoy!" I've seen Du Ergongzi. ”

"Sit down!" Du Gou waved his hand, led Du He through the middle of several people, and sat down on the main seat in the middle.

As for Duhe, he had come in his private capacity, so he had just found an inconspicuous place to sit down.

"Thank you, Lord Envoy!" Several salt merchants waited until the Du brothers were seated, and then Shi Li sat down, and one of them spoke under the encouragement of the other eyes: "Lord Envoy, we are here this time ......."

"I already know your intentions, and the price can be according to the price you negotiated in Chang'an." Du Wei interrupted the man and went straight to the point.

"......" several salt merchants were all stunned, this was the first time they had encountered such a business discussion.

In the past, dealing with these officials always had to be tangled up for a long time, and then they would get into the topic, and even in some special cases, they had to change the 'place' to talk about it.

But this Du Thorn envoy was so good at talking, and even gave them the lowest price without even talking, which made them a little uneasy.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Du Wei couldn't help frowning: "What? What else do you want? ”

Request? What's the situation? Aren't all the requirements made by the government lord? When did it come to the point where businessmen could make requests? What does this Du family's eldest young master mean?

The salt merchants in the circle looked at each other, and only after a while did one of them say: "Envoy, envoy, I don't have any requirements, but I just want to ask, do you really promise to sell salt to me at a price of seventy percent?" No, no strings attached? ”

"What's the strings attached?" Du Wei was also a little stunned when asked by several businessmen, and turned his head to look at the second brother Du He on the side, meaning: What do you mean by these people you brought? I said yes, but they still won't leave.

And what about Du He, Du He also didn't understand his eldest brother at this time, and said in his heart what was going on with his eldest brother? Are you really angry? How could it be possible to just nod and agree to the demands of those businessmen without talking?

Thinking of this, Du He got up from his chair, made a calm gesture to a few salt merchants, and then lowered his voice and said to Du Wei: "Brother, what do you mean, these people are here because of Gao Ming's big plan, if you mess things up, it will be a big trouble." ”

"What do I mean? They come to buy something, I sell it to them, what else does it mean? Du Wei looked at the second brother inexplicably, he didn't want to care about Li Chengqian's plan, and he didn't want to know what the plan was, anyway, Chang'an asked him to sell the salt at this price, and he just sold it.

Du He looked at his eldest brother's confused eyes, and his heart moved: "Brother, you don't want any benefit, do you?" ”

"I want benefits?" Du Gouleng paused, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he raised his hand to point to the ugliest character on his head and said, "These are the four words given to me by His Royal Highness King Qin, what do you think?" ”

Yes, it seems that there is a special misunderstanding, Du He looked up at the four ugly words of 'Zhengda Guangming' above his head, shook his head with a wry smile, and then said: "Yes, I understand, I'll take them to the salt pan to have a look in a while, and when the others arrive in a few days, we'll finalize the matter, okay?" ”

(End of chapter)