Chapter 383: Is there a way?
In the capital, everyone knows that Fan Guanlou, Liu Xianshui, and Guo Shouxiang have the best relationship.
Guo Shouxiang can make jokes about Fan Guanlou in public, and Fan Guanlou also dares to make jokes about Guo Shouxiang in public.
Fan Guanlou said with a smile: "Yo, Guo Sishao, don't you never buy wine or cigars, why do you buy wine and cigars today?" However, if you give these two things to Lao Wu, I'm afraid that the gift is really a bit thin. ”
He paused for a moment, and then said: "You must know that the smoke that Lao Wu invited us to drink today is a special three-grade smoking, and even the entourage is a special four-grade smoking." With your ability, what good goods can you buy, shouldn't it be a special five or six products. Hehe, someone is going to lose his face today. ”
Guo Shouxiang said: "If you are not blind, take a closer look and see how many products I have for special products." ”
Fan Guan stepped forward to take a look, and couldn't help but stutter a little when he spoke, and said, "Special product!" Guo Sishao, you kid tell me honestly, where did you get such a good wine and such a good cigar. ”
It's no wonder that his reaction was so big. Although his father is a product, the number of special products he can buy every month is really limited, and even his father is not enough to drink and smoke, so how can he get it.
As for knocking on the bamboo poles of his father's subordinates, he didn't even have to think about it. Those who are up to the fourth grade are his father's old subordinates, and ninety percent of them are still watching him grow up, and they can't knock if they want to.
There are only five or six grades that can be beaten, and most of them are sixth.
Guo Shouxiang's situation is similar to him, or not as good as him.
Guo Shouxiang's father is bigger than his father, but he is the eldest in the family, and he will be able to succeed his father in the future. Guo Shouxiang is the fourth in the family, and it is impossible to inherit the marquis in this life, Guo Shouxiang and his father's old subordinates will not take Guo Shouxiang in their eyes.
Therefore, he felt that the cigarettes and alcohol that Guo Shouxiang could get were at most five or six grades, and it was likely that they were only seven or even eight grades, but he didn't expect it to be one grade.
The other ones were also like Fan Guanlou's thoughts, with a look of horror on their faces, and Wu Jinghe was even more so.
Wu Jinghe tried his best to hold this hero's banquet.
He knew in his heart that if he wanted to gain a firm foothold in the capital, it was not whether you were a colt or not, but whether you could make a name for yourself in the inner circle.
What if you're a colt? If the yamen look down on you, you are nothing, and it will be difficult for you to move forward in the capital. The yamen can afford you, you are a veritable attached horse, and you will have a smooth ride in the capital.
The inner circle of the yamen is also divided into grades, and the top ones are, of course, the children of the first-class officials, as long as they agree with you, all the yamen will agree.
For this reason, he held this hero's banquet, and the meals were the best meals, and the best tobacco and alcohol naturally had to be used.
Taibai liquor and cigar smoke are in-demand commodities, and he left the relationship of the queen mother. Of course, he didn't go directly to the Queen Mother, so that the Queen Mother would scold him for messing around, but to follow the path of the people around the Queen Mother, and it took a lot of effort to get the old nose, but he got a few boxes of special three-grade products and more than a dozen boxes of special four-grade products, so he naturally knew how rare the special tobacco and alcohol were for one product.
Even if he followed the path of the people around the Queen Mother, in the end, he didn't get a bottle of wine for a special product or a box of cigars for a special product, which shows how difficult it is.
Guo Shouxiang actually brought a special wine and a cigar. Not a bottle and a box, but a box, a whole big box.
Wu Jinghe sighed: "This gift is too precious! "Call two attendants and take it.
Fan Guanlou loves wine! As soon as you come here, you should first look at the wine on the table to see what you will drink tonight. Seeing that it was a special three-tasting wine, he immediately made a grand wish, and he must not get drunk at night.
At this time, seeing that there was still a special wine, how could he let it go, licked his lips, and said: "Wu Shao, it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, can you let everyone also taste the special wine tonight, and smoke a special cigar." ”
Wu Jinghe immediately said: "Sure!" He said boldly, and he didn't feel a little pain in his heart.
A special wine and a special cigar are too difficult to get, and if you give these two things away, it is definitely the best gift. Even if you don't give it away, you will soon marry the emperor's third sister, and those who can come to the wedding at that time are not people who have a place in the Ming Dynasty, if they still use special three products to entertain, it will be too face-saving.
But Fan Guanlou has already said it, if he can't respond, he will be too petty. Besides, only a case of wine and a case of cigars will not be enough.
The Yanai in the capital is not the same as the Yanai outside, and it is divided into two factions: civil and military.
The internal situation of the two factions is the same as fire and water, and there is a tendency that the old and the dead will not get along. Wen Yanei looked down on Wu Yanei, thinking that they were all rude and reckless. Similarly, Wu Yanei also looked down on Wen Yanei, and felt that they were all innocent moaning and elegant goods.
The Bunya will never participate in the meetings of the Martial Arts, and the Warriors will not attend the meetings of the Bunya.
The gathering in the Wenya is inevitably opposed to poetry, and the gathering in the Wuyai is dancing with guns and sticks.
Lu Bing hasn't come yet!
can eat and live with the emperor, dare to call the emperor brothers, this is definitely the government in the ya, the distinguished guest among the distinguished guests.
Before Lu Bing arrived, the hero's banquet could not be held.
Wu Jinghe invited the big guy to test his archery, and when he walked to the school shooting range not far away, he deliberately slowed down, and when Guo Shouxiang walked to his side, he walked side by side with him, and asked very casually: "Xiao Guo, do you have a way, and get more special wine and cigars." The price is open casually, and I want as much as I want! ”
Following the two of them, the yamen who were casually talking and laughing stopped talking for a while, and quietly listened to Guo Shouxiang's answer.
Is the special wine expensive? Not expensive! It's only ninety taels of silver, and the problem is that you can't buy it at all. Not to mention that it is at the price of ninety taels, even the price of nine hundred taels cannot be bought. That's a limited supply!
You must know that according to the rules of the tobacco and alcohol industry, a first-class official is limited to one bottle a month, and a box of 24 bottles, which means that it takes two years to make up a box.
But Guo Shouxiang can move a box all at once! If there is no way, how can it!
Now it depends on what Guo Shouxiang says, if he admits that there is a way, they will also ask him to make a box and a half box and give it to his old man, and he will not be happy for the old man!
The biggest and most important reason why the Guo family has been able to stand tall for more than 100 years is the marriage with the royal family. This royal family, of course, also includes the horse family. Therefore, the Guo family has always attached great importance to the relationship with the colt.
Now, the prospective horses have something to ask for, Guo Shouxiang thought for a while, and estimated that his father would agree, and said, "I don't know how much you want, Lao Wu!" ”
Wu Jinghe thought for a moment and said, "Cigars and wine, at least eighty or ninety cases each!" ”
Guo Shouxiang's back tooth socket couldn't help hurting, I'm afraid that he doesn't have so many special products at home! But since Wu Jinghe opened his mouth, he couldn't refuse in one bite, so he had to spin around first, and then find a way to see what to do, and said, "What do you want so much wine for?" ”
Before Wu Jinghe could speak, Fan Guanlou had already said: "Guo Sishao, you are a very smart person, why are you confused today?" What can Wu Shao do with such wine, it's not for the wedding! ”
Woke up the dreamer with a word, Guo Shouxiang suddenly realized, and said: "Lao Wu, if you want to get married, and marry a princess, how can you have the heart to drink and smoke cigars." At that time, the emperor will give you a batch of royal pens and give you eighty or ninety boxes of special supplies for the royal family, so you will have everything! ”