Chapter 50: "Father" and Son Join Forces (1)
Chen Di was about to burn the letter paper, but found that the paper seemed to be a little sticky. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
Could it be the glutinous rice soup letter recorded in the wild history? This glutinous rice soup letter is written on rice paper with glutinous rice soup, and the handwriting will be hidden when the rice soup is dry. As soon as it is roasted over a fire, the handwriting will be revealed.
Chen Di hurriedly brought a candle and lit it, and carefully placed the letter paper on top of the candle to smoke it.
After a while, the handwriting actually appeared on the letterhead!
"My son Chen Di, wait at the Moon Tower in the south of Taizhou at noon tomorrow. Father Kezhen. β
Chen Di patted his brain: My God, it's really a letter written by my "father" Chen Kezhen!
According to Chen Di's inference, Chen Kezhen's current identity should be the intermediary of the trade between the Japanese and the Zhejiang merchants. That's a real problem! She is the prefect of Taizhou and is here to fight against the Japanese, but her father is the number one Han girl in Taizhou City. If this matter is known by the people of Shoufu Zhai Luan and his party, then he will really be ruined!
To see him tomorrow or not to see him?
Forget it, the ugly daughter-in-law will eventually see her in-laws, and the son of the anti-Japanese will see the Han girl's godfather sooner or later. It's better to see late than early.
Chen Di made up his mind and went back to his room to sleep.
At noon the next day, Chen Di changed into civilian clothes and quietly came to the Moon Tower in the south of the city alone.
As soon as he entered the Moon Tower, a junior said to Chen Di: "But Chen Xiaogongzi? β
Chen Di nodded: "Exactly." β
The little boy smiled and said, "The little boy really looks exactly like our shopkeeper." β
Chen Di was suspicious. Exactly like their shopkeeper? Could it be that the shopkeeper of this Moon Tower is his "father" Chen Kezhen?
Chen Di looked at the first floor of the Moon Tower, where more than a dozen tables of people dressed in silk and rich people were sitting and discussing something.
God, these people are all businessmen who trade with the Japanese Bandits, right?
Could this Moon Tower be the tooth shop of Zhejiang merchants trading with the Japanese Invaders?
Xiao Er said to Chen Di: "Don't be stunned, little boy, our shopkeeper is waiting for you in the private room on the second floor!" β
Chen Di followed Xiao Er upstairs, and Xiao Er pushed open the door of the private room.
As soon as Chen Di entered, he was hugged by a middle-aged man in his forties.
"Haha, my good son, I want to kill your father and me!" Chen Kezhen laughed.
Chen Di thought that this should be his "father" Chen Kezhen.
Chen Di looked at Chen Kezhen, and only after a while did he squeeze out the word "father" from between his teeth.
Chen Kezhen took Chen Di's hand and sat down. "Haha, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, my son Chen Kezhen became a prefect at the age of fourteen, and he is also the prefect of Taizhou! The ancestral tomb of my old Chen family is really smoking, no, it's breathing fire! β
Chen Di pretended to be confused and said, "Dad, why are you here, aren't you martyred?" β
Chen Kezhen laughed and said: "Martyrdom? Yan Cifu's gang said it, right? Haha, if I don't 'martyr', Yan Cifu's gang will have to take responsibility. β
Chen Di said: "Dad, tell your son quickly, where have you gone in the past year?" β
Chen Kezhen drank a glass of wine and sighed: "It's a long storyγγγγγγ β
At the beginning, Chen Kezhen inspected the defense of Taizhou as the head of the military department, and happened to encounter the Japanese invaders attacking Taizhou Mansion. The city of Taizhou was broken, and the prefect of Taizhou was killed. Chen Kezhen also became a prisoner of the Japanese Kou. The leader of the group of Japanese robbers who attacked Taizhou Mansion was called Inoue Shishilang, and Inoue Shishiro gave Chen Kezhen, the head of the Ming Army, two ways, one was to follow him and help him do things. The second is the difference between the body and the head. Chen Kezhen naturally chose the second path.
When Chen Di heard this, he interrupted Chen Kezhen's words: "Dad, since you have taken refuge in Inoue Shishilang, why did you appear in Taizhou City again?" β
Chen Kezhen said with a smile: "The people of Dongying are all brainless barbarians! There is an opportunity to make a lot of money, but you don't know it! You know what? The tea and porcelain they looted were transported back to Dongying and sold for one-tenth of them! Your father and I are the head of the military department of the Ming Dynasty, and I have more brains than those Dongying people in terms of business. I suggested that Inoue Shishiro might as well sell the looted goods directly in Zhejiang to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. β
Chen Di said: "Dad, then Taizhou has become a commercial port for trade with the Japanese and the Dongying people?" β
Chen Kezhen laughed: "That's right, it's worthy of being my son, just smart!" Shishiro Inoue really appreciated my suggestion. The Dongying people who robbed the Ming Dynasty had three strongest shares. These three shareholders have their own turf. It was Inoue Shishiro who attacked Zhejiang, Koizumi Turtle Kang who attacked Fujian, and Inu-Raising Cattle Road who attacked Shandong. Inoue Shiro first accepted my suggestion and sold the goods he had looted in Taizhou for my father. Later, I suggested that he use silver to buy the goods looted by Xiaoquan Turtle Kang and the dog cattle road, and sell them to Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants in Taizhou together! β
Chen Di said: "Presumably, the amount of goods sold must be very large. β
Chen Kezhen patted Chen Di's head: "Good son, do you know how much cash I have in a month now?" That's 800,000 taels! It was all sent by businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang! β
Chen Di asked: "Then the government doesn't care?" β
Chen Kezhen smiled: "The government? Let me tell you, from Su Maocai, the commander of Taizhou Wei, to Wang Yongji, the acting governor of Taizhou, to the officials below, all of them have to share the fat with me! Of the 800,000 taels, 200,000 taels will be distributed among these people! β
Chen Di nodded: "I see." β
Chen Kezhen laughed and said: "Son, what I never expected was that you turned out to be the new prefect of Taizhou!" You kid, why didn't your father and I see that you had this ability before? β
Chen Di said perfunctorily: "Dad, you don't know, when our family was beheaded all over the house, I was frightened and had a serious illness. After a serious illness, it seems that my brain has become much smarter! Everything is handy, and luck is scary. This is the prefect of Taizhou. β
Chen Kezhen laughed and said: "Ha, it is said that people who are rich and noble in the destiny of heaven only come to their senses after a serious illness. It seems that son, you are really destined to be rich! β
Chen Di asked: "Dad, are you the shopkeeper of this Moon Tower?" β
Chen Kezhen said: "My son has indeed become smarter! Mochizuki Tower is my property! Now the businessmen of the whole Zhejiang are doing business with the Dongying people in the Moon Tower. β
Chen Di nodded: "Dad, you just said that all the officials in Taizhou want to share the fertilizer from the trade with the Japanese Kou?" β
Chen Kezhen smiled: "This is nature! If you don't give them money, can they turn a blind eye? But, son, remember, these people took our money, and they are our grandsons! It's better now, you are the prefect of Taizhou, we can make a fortune together with father and son! β
Chen Di asked: "It has always been businessmen who send money to officials, how did the officials in Taizhou become our grandsons?" β
Chen Kezhen said with a smile: "Think about it, the silver they took was, in the final analysis, given by the people of Dongying!" Taking this silver according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty is a treason, that is! If I am not happy one day and write a letter to the Criminal Department, they will all be cut by a thousand cuts! β
Chen Di said: "Dad, after I came to Taizhou, Su Maocai, the commander of Taizhou Guard, treated me with a nose that was not a nose or an eye, so I had a hard time for my son." β
Chen Kezhen laughed and said, "Su Maocai? If I ask that guy to lick my shoes, he'll have to lick my shoes! Every month, he takes 10,000 taels of snowflake silver from me, and he doesn't have to do anything! Your father and I are his God of Wealth! Don't worry, he will make things difficult for you, and Dad will give you anger! I'm going to send someone to call him to the Moon Tower!" β