Seeing this young wealthy businessman, Sun Hui couldn't help but be surprised, he asked some officials about Zhu Guojin's situation, and only then did he know how big this person's business was.

Zhu Guojin established his foundation in Lin'an Mansion. He made alliances with other large merchants in Zhang, Quan, Fu, and Guangzhou prefectures in the south, shared waterways, wharves and trade routes, and the business quickly spread throughout the country, and even the palace in Lin'an used silverware with the "Zhu" mark, and he only used it for ten years, and he became a wealthy merchant who did not dare to be a guest of honor.

Zhu Guojin's origin has always been a mystery, some people say that he is a descendant of Zhu Mian, one of the "six thieves", after Zhu Mian was killed and the Zhu family declined, he knew from the ancestors where Zhu hid gold, so he actually used the merchant as a cover, quietly dug out the heavy gold collar, carried it out in the goods, and later made a fortune. However, I am afraid that this is a false rumor, whether Zhu Guojin's first principal came from the ancient secret treasure is impossible to verify, but when he dominated the business world, he controlled more than 10,000 hectares of woodland, many gold, silver and iron mines, and also controlled the sales of many famous kiln porcelain. How can these assets be measured in terms of a mere amount of gold? To dig up a treasury of gold under the cover of such a large foundation, it is too stingy for people to think so.

Some people close to Zhu Guojin said that he was indeed a genius in business, and he was extremely hardworking. Ordinary businessmen just buy cheaply and sell expensively, following the trend, but Zhu Guojin has established a huge archive museum. The Doctor of the House of Men calculated the various goods consumed by the various states and counties each year, as well as the transportation capacity of the waterways and trade routes, and drew these information into maps for reference, and his library of archives was no less than 100,000 files at its largest. Those complicated and obscure charts are undoubtedly heavenly books in the eyes of others, Zhu Guojin studied them, but he forgot to sleep and eat, and sometimes found a business opportunity, so he shouted wine in the scroll hall and drank with the guests.

Zhu Guojin also has a lot of gambling nature, and he does not hesitate to take risks in order to win.

One of the big businesses he made famous for that year was the competition for timber in the forest farms at that time. At that time, Zhu Guojin himself already had the Linglong Mountain woodland in Lin'an, but compared with the timber production of the Lingnan forest area, he still couldn't help but bow down. At that time, Mao Ye, a big businessman in Quanzhou, and he had a fierce competition in the timber market, and Mao Ye thought of opening up the access to Lingnan timber, so as to bring in a large amount of timber from Lingnan, and lower the price, as long as it took a year to defeat Zhu Guojin's forest farm, so as to dominate the timber market in Lin'an. When Zhu Guojin got the news, Mao Ye's envoy had already set off for Yongzhou with a cart of gold for more than a month.

Mao Ye is indeed a wizard of business, and this move has made a huge bet, and it really hit the key point of Zhu Guojin. Zhu Guojin was shocked, closed the door for three days, and three days later, he suddenly ordered all his shops in Lin'an to be suppressed. Imagine that with Zhu Guojin's family business, even if the Cui family of the wealthy merchant clan in Lin'an tried his best, he had no money to buy his property, and how could an ordinary pawn shop dare to let him pawn the shop? However, Zhu Guojin has his own way, he presses all the stores to retail investors in Lin'an at half price. Although the scattered merchants are not in the climate, they gather together, and the principal is staggering. With Zhu Guojin's bold reputation, coupled with the good price code of half price pressure, retail investors are tempted. So in just ten days, Zhu Guojin pressed out all the property canons and agreed to redeem them at three cents of interest in the coming year. At the same time, all the cash and gold and jade in Lin'an City were gathered into Zhu Guojin's hands, and he personally took the cash and pearl jade and hired a team of fast boats to go south along the coast.

As we all know, the sea routes are high and rough, and I don't know how many fleets have been buried at the bottom of the sea. But Zhu insisted on heading south from the sea, because that route was faster when the wind was good. He only needs to seize the forest farm in Yongzhou, and he doesn't care about anything else.

The journey was extremely difficult, and when the fleet of seven large ships arrived in Yongzhou, only three remained, and Jin Yu also lost as much as thirty percent. It is said that when he encountered a storm at sea, Zhu Guojin was shirtless, and personally led the doormen and sailors to sail and sail against the storm together, and did not get off the deck for two days and three nights. The seemingly weak son had a wild temperament in him, which amazed the sailors, so the entire fleet obeyed his orders, and it only took twenty-three days to dock in Yongzhou. Zhu Guojin never sleeped, and took boxes of gold and jade to buy wood for the coming year in the city. Where have you seen this kind of merchant in Yongzhou, Zhu Guojin's reputation was shocked, and in just three days, the gold and jade he brought were turned into boxes of documents, and the merchants who came to sell timber were still endless. Zhu Guojin has no cash, but he has established credibility in Yongzhou, his handwritten IOUs are as valid, and the delivery documents are still collected in his hands like snowflakes.

Seven days later, when Mao Ye's envoy landed on the land of Yongzhou with a cart, they were horrified to find that all the timber in Yongzhou for the coming year was already Zhu Guojin's. At that time, Zhu Guojin was sitting in a newly bought mansion drinking, and calmly said that this big gamble would recover the profits within a year.

Indeed, as he expected, when he mastered the wood of Lingnan. Mao Ye completely fell behind, this idea was originally thought up by him, but it was like a double-edged sword, which could hurt Zhu Guojin and himself. Mao Ye's forest farm could not low-grade timber from Lingnan, and in just one year, Mao Ye, who was once rich in Jiangnan, had to sell all the forest farms to Zhu Guojin, and he was also burdened with countless debts.

Zhu Guojin saw him handing over the title deed of the forest farm, and also sighed, as if this sigh had been suppressed for a whole year.

"It's just a line away," Zhu Guojin said, "and it's me and not you who are presenting the title deed here." ”

Zhu Guojin was not embarrassed by Mao Ye, he transferred 20% of the assets of the forest farm to Mao Ye's name, and asked Mao Ye to take care of it for him, and Mao Ye has since become the chief steward of Zhu Guojin's forest farm. At that time, someone persuaded Zhu Guojin that Mao Ye was smart and deceitful, let him hold the power, and he might secretly make trouble in the future. However, Zhu Guojin just laughed, saying that Mao Ye had already lost his heart in that battle, and a person who had broken his edge would no longer be the previous Mao Ye. As he expected, until Zhu Guojin left Lin'an, Mao Ye just quietly took care of the forest farm for him, and Mao Ye, a wealthy businessman who was as cunning as a fox and as fierce as a tiger, was no longer in the world.

Zhu Guojin's reputation is also quite good. Speaking of wealth alone, when he is at his peak, he may not be able to surpass the Lin'an Cui family of "the emperor has tens of millions of gold, and Lin'an has a Cui", but if it is said to be heroic, the owner of the Cui family is far inferior to him.